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Evening star., 1923-06-07

several days ago to visit the various
rooms on the first floor of the famous
old mansion.
During the morning hours the
President received only two callers at
the executive office. They were Sec
retary Davis of the Department of
Labor, who conferred with the execu-
tive for a few minutes. and Senator
s. ID. Fess of Ohio. who has Just re-
turned to Washington after a several
weeks visit in half a dozen states.
Fee Gift of President.
Senator Fess was wearing a fez
Of which he was very proud. because
IL was gift from President Harding.
He is member of Antioch Temple
of Dayton, Ohio.
The people throughout the country
will be for the participation of this
country In the World Court but they
will never favor entrance into the
league of nations. the senator said.
After talking with many persons in
different sections he is convinced thai
when the Presidents plan for par
ticipation In the World Court is made
palmer to them. they will readily in
dorse 1t. 1t must be made plain, he
World Court the United States has
no intention Of taking on the league
idea. Politicians are endeavoring to
make an issue of this matter, he said,
but he believes that 1t will not be an
issue when the next national cam
paign rolls around.
There Is evidence Of great pros
perity throughout the land" Senator
Fess said. I'VE are on the high wave
now. and. in nv opinion. have reached
a point where we must proceed eau
tiou0ly."
Senator Fess said also that he does
not think prohibition will figure as
an issue in the coming campaign.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
Seaplane to Watt
Next Sunday Star
To the President

President Harding will receive his
Sunday Star as usual next Sunday
morning, but he will be aboard the
Mayfower in the Delaware river
when il arrives.
Upon the Presidents personal re-
quest. the bureau of naval aeronau-
tics has made arrangements for a
special trip by seaplane to the an
chorage place of the Presidential
yacht, starting from Anacostia at
80 o'clock. Lieut.. A. w. Gordon,
who will pilot an F5L plane. will
carry with him six copies of The
Star. the number suggested by the
chief executive. delivering the papers
when he alights alongside the yacht.
Lieut.. Gordon is one of the Nays
aces He recently won the Cur
tiss main trophy race for seaplanes
and he will REPRESENT the United
States in the next international
races in Europe.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
RIDDLED BODY OF NEGRO
FOUND HANGING ON TREE
Henry Simmons Suspected of Kill,
ing Policeman J. N. Smith
of Palm Beach.

PALM BEACH, Fla, June THE
body OF Henry Simmons, negro
riddled with bullets, was found to-
day hanging to a tree on Palm
Beach Island.
The negro was suspected of having
shot anu killed Policeman j. n
Smith, a native Of Staunton,- Va,
Sunday morning.
The negro was a native of the
Bahama Islands. The body was
found by a delivery man for a local
ice company where Simmons had
been employed. A coroner's Jury
returned a verdict that the negro
came to his death at the hands of
parties unknown. The body of 'Po-
liceman Smith will be shipped to
his former home at Staunton, Va,
for burial. ~.
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DR.. K0O MAY HEAD
CHINESE CABINET
Former Diplomat Here Likely
to Take Reins in Latest
Upheaval.
By the Associated Press.


PEKING, June DIR. w. W. Yen.
former foreign minister and once act
ing premier. probably will be asked to
form a cabinet in succession to that
of Premier Chang Shao Tseng, re-
signed. according to information en-
anating from the presidents office to-
Cay.
The choice lies between DR.. Yen.
DIR. Wellington Koo. the acting for
eign minister. whose appointment to
the portfolio never was questioned by
the senate. and DR.. c. T. Wang. promi-
nently identified with several govern
ments and former speaker of the Cam
tor house of representatives under
the Sun Yat-Sen regime.
President Lii Yuan Hung will send
an emissary to Tientsin to ask Chang
Shao-Tseng to continue as premier,
but the president has no hope that
Chang will accede.
There was further confirmation to-
day of the report that the under
lying cause of the cabinet resigna-
tion was the financial difficulty con-
fronting the government in the face
OF the approaching dragon festival,
the date upon which financial settle
ments must be made. The cabinets
plan for domestic loan failed.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
BARE SPY CONSPIRACY
AND ROUND UP 200
Czechoslovakian Authorities Nab
Communists Among Those Ex-
posed by Documents.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Prrss.
PRAGUE, June Two hundred
persons are under arrest, including
number of communists. following
the discovery at Pressburg of a vast
espionage conspiracy, according to
the newspaper Narodni Listy.
The authorities became aware Of the
plot when compromising documents
were found on Hungarian lieutenant
named Sa bates.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
HYLAN PLEDGES AID
TO ENFORCE DRY LAW
Warns Federal Officers at Same
Time to Watch Harbor and
Border.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June Mayor Hylan
today promised Federal Prohibition Di-
rector Garfield every possible co-opera-
ton by the city in the enforcement OF
the Volstead act.
The mayor asserted in his letter. how
ever, that II the federal authorities
properly supervised the Canadian border
and the Atlantic ports the state prohi-
hilton forces and the local authorities
would have less to do about enforce
ment in any locality. ....
The common sense way to enforce
prohibition. ne said, was to cut off the
supply at its source. The work at the
port of New York. he declared. was a
matter strictly under the Jurisdiction of
of the federal authorities.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
Imperial Council
Elects President
HonoraryMen1ber

President Harding today was
elected an honorary member for
life Of the Imperial Council, An
cient Arabic Order, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine for North America.
This action was taken, at the
morning session of the council, at
Keith's Theater today, in tribute to
the orders most distinguished
noble, the first President of the
United States to wear the red fez
of the Shrine.
The honor carries with 1t no
duties or responsibilities The
president, throughout the conven-
tion. has taken keen interest in all
phases Of tts activities, participat-
Ing many times.
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AGREE AT BRUSSELS.
French Show cop.ciliatory Spirit
at Conference.
BY the Associated Prest,.

BY the Associated Presf.
BRUSSELS. juno Tt is general
agreed that the conference of French
and Belgian mi histers was note
worthy in at least two respects. In
the first place. although Premier
Poincare insisted that no German
reparations. offEr could be considere
while passive, resistance was main
tanned in the Ruhr his attitude was
regarded as considerably more COM
promising than heretofore.
Furtherm0 'e the French gave
notice of VIeir Willingness to con-
slider In y conciliatory spirit any
reasonable offer from Berlin, al
though tht.y reiterated that the Ruhr
could be ENacuated only as Germany
paid. Og this they were supported
by Belgyun. =
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READY FOR FLIGHT.
Will Attempt to Cross United
States During Daylight.

mitchell FIELD. N, Y. June T.
Lieut.. Russell l.. Vaughan Of Nc
Cook Field. Dayton. Ohio, arrived at
noon today in an Army airplane in
which he had taken off from Boiling,
Field, Washington. At 1923 o'clock.
He expects to leave as soon a:
weather conditions permit on an at !
tempted daylight flight to San Fra1 {,
cisco, making four stops along ttt
rortp
Evening star., 1923-06-07
u. S. Giuen Copy
OF German Note
On Reparations

DIR. Otto Wiedfelt, the German am
bassador, called at the State De-
partment today and delivered copy
of the latest German offer on rep
arations. The document was trans
mitted as a matter of diplomatic
courtesy and for the information Of
the American government. but calls
for no action here.
The note was not made public at
the department, nor is any corre-
spondence expected with the German
embassy or with the allied govern
ments, in connection with it's receipt
Evening star., 1923-06-07
LABELS GOVERNOR
"CHIEF BULLIFIER"
Anti-saloon League Superintendent
Accepts Smiths Challenge on Be.
By the Associa ted Press.

BY The Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. June T.
Charging that Gov. Alfred E. Smith
of New York has elected him self
chief commander OF the bullifers
bootleggers and rum runners" DR..
Perley A. Baker. general superintend-
ent of the Antf-Saloon League of
America. today announced at his home
here that the league will accept the
challenge of the New York governor.
issued upon his signing the bill for
repeal of state prohibition enforce
ment act.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
= 100 SHRINE BANDS
.|NB|CCEST CONCERT
Sousa Directs History.
Breaking Event at Base
Ball Park.

The greatest concert by massed
bands in history was given today at
the American League Base Ball Park
when $500 players of 100 Shrine tenn
pie bands from all parts Of the United
States played before 10000 mobiles,
their families and friends.
Short, but sweet" describes the
program. which was begun promptly
at 10 o'clock and was ended exactly
half an hour later, when thousands
Of persons still were filing into the
ball park.
Even as the concert was given by
the largest number of musicians ever
grouped together in historic times,
far eclipsing the massed band con-
cert given at the Great Lakes naval
training station during the war. when
1857 players participated. SO it also
Is safe to say that the local ball park
never heard such volume of musical
sound before.
When the inspiring strains OF
MOBILES of the Mystic Shrine" led by
Noble John Phillip Sousa himself,
blared from hundreds Of cornets.
trombones and other band instru-
ments the great crowd which occu-
pied every seat In the grandstand and
pavilions broke into tumultuous an
pioase which almost drowned out the
music.
Leader Given Ovation.
Standing on lag-draped stand in
the center OF the park. around which
the members of the 100 bands, each
unit attired in its distinctive costume,
were grouped, Lieut.. Sousa received
an ovation when his tremendous band
finished. He then led the hosts of his
musicians for the morning in a rem
dition of his own "Thunderer March,
which received another ovation. Each
march was played through twice.
w. c. White, leader of AImas
Temple Band. then took the dais and
led the bands in his own new march.
"Saracen Guard" the martial strains
OF which reused the packed stands to
new frenzy of appreciation
The historic seventh inning" hay-
Ing arrived. in the course of the all
too short program, the music "fans''
standing while America" throbbed
throughout the park and it's entire
neighborhood.
The splendid ensemble then PLAYED
The Star Spangled Banner" and it
was all over. The different bands began
to leave the park at every gate. while
I,Onfipuad on DoCa D CoI,,r,n
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NICARAGUAN TROOPS
ON HONDURAN BORDER
Soldiers Gathered on Frontier to
Prevent Revolutionists
Crossing Line.

BY the Associated Press.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June =
The Nicaragua government is send
ing troops to the Honduran frontier,
fearing that the revolutionists re-
ported active there will cross the
border yE- s
Advices indicate there are grave
internal disturbances in Honduras.
The telegraph lines have been cut.
A dispatch from Tegucigalpa yes
terday denied the existence of the in
ternal disorders in that country
which have been, reported from sew
eral sources. The message added.
however. that the presidential CAM
paign was occasioning considerable
concern.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
! PERSONS KILLED
IN LE|PS|C R|OT|NG
Over Hundred Wounded When
Excited Crowds Attack
Police.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 7.-Seven persons
were killed and more than one hun
dred wounded in yesterdays disorders
at Leipsic, 1t is announced In special
| dispatches from that city today. The
dead include one policeman, the head
watchman. while there are fifteen po-
licemen among the wounded. thirty
seven of whom are in a serious con-
dition.
The demonstration was in protest
against the Ruhr occupation and the
! insufficiency of the unemployment
sons. it is said, took part. Order had
been completely restored at o'clock
last evening. The demonstrators
gathered under the auspices of the
trades unionists and the. socialists in
five huge assemblies in the central
part of the town. The demonstration
was the climax OF a number OF minor
parades and open-air meetings which
had occurred during the two days pre-
vious-
Police Fired On.
Toward the close of these gather
ings, it Is stated. crowds of the youth
full. unruly elements. suspected of in
cluding some communists began stir
ring up provocative agitation in the
neighboring streets against the police
and the trade union leaders who were
preserving order.
The police declare that when they
tried to suppress this counter demon
stration a shot was fired from the
crowd and the police then resorted
to the use of blackjacks.
This brought a shower. of stones
and bits OF glass from the disturbers,
who, in turn. began using black
jacks and knives. @l-
After vainly trying to disperse the
crowd by shooting into the air the
police shot directly at the rioters.
Mounted police and other reinforce
ments soon afterward succeeding In
restoring order.
Krupp Establfshments Occupied.
COBLENZ, June THE metallur-
gical establishments of the Krupps,
at Nieuwied and Engers, have been
occupied by the military and will be
retained as a pledge for the payment
of 2,0O0.0O0.000 marks representing
the amount of the coal tax owed to
the Ruhr allies by the krupp Com
pany.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
zITA AND CHILDREN
IN SPANISH PALACE
Home Presented to Ex-Empress of
Austria by Public Subscription
in Spain.
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. a~
BILBAO. Spain. June Former
Empress Zita of Austria. together
with her children and Archduchess
Marie Josefa, mother of the late En-
peror Charles, has taken possession
of the palace at Lequetio. formerly
owned by Count Toregrosa. which
was presented to her by public sub
scription. The local authorities of
the little fishing village organized a
reception in honor of the event. The
streets were hung with garlands and
a te deum was sung in the parish
church,
Evening star., 1923-06-07
WISCONSIN DRY ACT
REPEAL IS VOTED
lState Assembly on Record to
End Enforcement Law in
Close Result.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis. June THE Wis
consin assembly today voted, ~ to
4S. to, repeal the Severson law, the
state prohibition enforcement stat
ute.
This action followed an attempt to
kill the bill, which met defeat by the
same vote.
Evening star., 1923-06-07
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. June THE new German
reparations note which Ambassador
Sthaner will present to LEd Curzon
this afternoon is considers ID as offer
ing a distinct advance oy'jr the prev
ious note. but is expected to be dis
appointing to the Frsrch, as it is
understood not to men t1on a specific
amount of reparationS.
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WEATHER.

Local thundershowers tonight and to-
morrow: slightly lower temperature to-
night.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 81. at
noon today; lowest, "a, at s am. TO-DAY.
Full report on page IL.
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The Stars carrier system covers
every eity block ard the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-03

Ell Centre, as shown by the
maps aforesaid; thence souther-
ly along said northerly prolon-
cation and west line of said
alley to the point of beginning;
excepting therefrom any por-
tion of any public street or al
ley which may be included in
the above described district.
SECTION III. The City En-
gineer is directed to make a dia-
gram of the property affected or
benefited by the proposed work or
improvement and to be assessed to
pay the expenses thereof. Such
diagram shall show each separate
lot, piece or parcel of land, the
area in square feet of each of said
lots, pieces or parcels of land and
the relative location of the same to
the work proposed to be done, all
within the limits of the assess.
ment district.
SECTION w. The Board of
Trustees determines that serial
bonds shall be issued to be secured
by the assessments which shall
hereafter be made to pay the costs
of said work or Improvement, and
notice is hereby given that serial
bonds to represent unpaid assess
ments and to bear interest at the
rate of seven per cent per annum
will be issued hereunder IN the
manner provided in the Improve
ment Bond Act of 1915, the last
installment of which bonds shall
mature fourteen years from the
second day Of July, next, succeeding
nine months from their date.
SECTION V. All proposals or
bids shall be accompanied by a
check payable to the City of Ell
Centre, certified by responsible
bank for an amount which shall not
be less than ten per cent (10%) of
the aggregate of the proposal, or
by a bond for said amount and so
payable signed by the bidder and
two sureties who shan Jus..4y uv4o- .
any officer competent to administer
an oath in double the said amount
and over and above all statutory
exemptions.
Dated this 3rd day of May, 1923.
J. s. LOOFBOUROW,
City Clerk Of the City of FL Cen
tro, California, and ex-officio
Clerk of the Board of Trustees
of said City.
(sEAL) 3t2
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-03
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Imperial, California, that
sealed bids are hereby called for
and will be received at the office of
the County Clerk of said county at
the Court House in Ell Centre, Cali
fornia for the doing of the follow
ing described work and the furnish
ing of the following described ma
terials, and that at said place at the
hour of ten clock A. M. on the
25th day of May, 1923, the bids re-
ceived will be opened and contract
for the doing of said work and the
furnishing of said materials award
ed to the lowest responsible bidder,
provided that the Board reserves
the right to reject all bids. A Ger
titled check for ten per cent Of the
amount of the bid made must ac-
company the bid, which check shall
be held as a security that the bid
ders will enter into the contract for
said work if awarded the same; the
check to be retained by the county
if the bidder does not enter into
the contract.
Said work to be done and mater
ials furnished is as follows, towit;
That the west half (W12) of that
portion of the roadway of Ninth
Street in the City of Ell Centre, Cal
ifornia, extending from the easterly
prolongation of the south property
line of that part of Main Street ly-
ing west of the west property line
of said Ninth Street, as shown by
maps recorded in Book Of Maps,
page II, and Book 3 of Maps, page
38, Records of Imperial County, Cal
fornia, be graded and paved with
asphaltic concrete pavement (both
the wearing surface and the base
thereof to be of asphaltic concrete)
to the Official grade, in accordance
with plan and profile and cross sec.
tion for said work on file in the
office of the City Engineer of said
City. said plan and profile being
numbered 81 and said cross sections
being numbered 2033 and $40, and
in further accordance with specifi-
cations numbered % of the City of
FL Centre, for laying asphaltic con
crete pavement, on file in the office
of the City Clerk of said City,
which said plan and profile, cross
section and specification are here
by referred to for a more particular
description of said work and made
part hereof.
w. H. BROOKS,
Chairman of the Board of Super
visors.
G. G. MOUSSEAU,
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-03
AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF
TRANSACTING BUSINESS
UNDER FICTITIOUS
NAME

I, the undersigned, hereby certi-
fly that l am transacting general
automobile distributing business
consisting of selling of Chevrolet
and Cadillac automobiles, and such
other automobiles as are received
in the course of trade, together
with parts and accessories in TIE
Imperial County, State of CaIifor-
MIA, under the name and firm style
of McDearmon Motor Company;
that the principal place of bust
ness is the northeast corner of
Seventh and Main Street, City of
Ell Centre, County of Imperial,
State of California, and that the
name in full of all of the members
Of said business, and their respec-
tive residences are as follows, to-
wit:
T. II. McDearmon, $50 Sandal
wood Drive, Ell Centro, California.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has hereunto set his
hand and seal this 9th day of
March, 1928.
THOS. II. McDEARMON.
State of California;
County of ImperiaDss.
On this 10th day of March, 1923,
before me, Harry B. Ellison, q No
tary Public in and for the County
and State, residing therein, duly
commissioned and sworn, PERSONAL
ly appeared T. H. McDearmon,
known to me to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the
within instrument, and acknowledge
ed to me that he executed the
same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and af-
fixed my official seal the day and
year in this Certificate first above
written.
HARRY B. ELLISON.
Notary Public in and for said
County and State.
(SEAL) Ap 26 NJ 3 10 II
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-03
HOLTVILLE
BY Press Staff Correspondent

HOLTVILLE, May 3.--The Ala
mitos Chapter of the Eastern Star
has accepted an invitation OF at
tend the Imperial chapter, Friday
night. Mrs. Elmer Baxter will be
initiated there, in joint ceremony.
There officers will put on all Of the
work except the address of the
Worthy patron, ana one address of
the worthy matron.
Harvey McRoberts has left for
his new home in Utah. Mrs. Nc
Roberts will leave in few days
for San Diego where she will visit
with her brother and later join her
husband.
Dredging Canal
The Highline canal east of town
is being dredged for the first time
in that section. The seepage was
so bad i'll that section that the silt
was not removed. Now the big
drain ditch parallels it and it is be-
lHS uIeuSeu uoWH to IL proper uepth.
Joel Anderson and Sam Webb at
tended the grand jury in FL Centre
Wednesday.
Harry Brown has returned from
Los Angeles, driving down L new
truck to be used in his transfer
business.
Mrs. Bruce Stewart is teaching at
the grammer school now, taxing
the place of Mrs. Jack Sharp, who
recently resigned.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-03
No. SALT In Bankruptcy
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING
CREDITORS

In the District Court of the United
States for the Southern District
Of California, Southern
Division
In the Matter of Fred Bauchwitz,
Bankrupt.
To the Creditors Of Fred Bauch-
WITT, of FL Centre, in the County
of Imperial and district aforesaid,
u bankrupt:
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that on the 1st day of May, A. D.,
1923, the said Fred Bauchwitz was
duly adjudicated Bankrupt; and
that the first meeting of creditors
will be held at the office of the un.
dersigned Referee, 103 First Ma.
tional Bank Building, Sixth and
Maiu Streets, in the City of III
Centro, State of California, on the
l4th day Of May, a. D., 1923, at
the hour Of 900 q. ~, at which
time the said creditors may attend,
prove their claims, appoint q
Trustee, examine the Bankrupt,
consider petition Of the Trustee
to sell the property of said Bank
rupt and transact such other busi.
ness as may properly come before
said meeting.
Dated May 2, 1923.
WILBUR W. RANDALL,
81 Referee IN Bankruptcy,