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Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04

| mean merely that they have not
the intimate acquaintance with it
that their predecessors had, and it
takes thorough knowledge of the
wonderful possibilities of the Co.
dorado River to engcnder enthus-
iasm. Secretary Fall and Director
Davis understood our problems in
timatelv and were enthusiastic for
our whole project as shown by the
Fall-Davis report, and their favor
able recommendation ON the Swing
Johnson Bill. President Harding
had planned to come out strongly in
behalf of our project i'll his San
Diego speech. His untimelv death
was a great loss to our cause.
:" 1t will now take time to educate
the new officials to our needs and
necessities, but | am confident that
as soon as they have become as
familiar with our project as their
predecessors were, they will be
just as enthusiastically for it.
In the meantime we must carry on
and push our legislative program
ahead just as far as possible.
Called on President
While at Washington the Impe-
rial Valley representatives called
on President Coolidge, who talked
with them for Is minutes and ex-
pressed his desire to do whatever
may be possible in helping solve
the problems of Imperial Valley.
The committee withheld action
for the present on granting a
franchise to the Gerand interests
which have held temporary per
nit to develope a power site on the
Colorado, and will make known its
decision at Il later date.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
Fat Sheriff Is
lOutdOne By
Prisoner
by United Press Leased Wire

ny United Press Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, October 4.
-Slapstick movie tactics caus-
cd the escape Of w. B. Williams,
25, wanted in Visaia on a
charge to provide for his fam
lily. Sheriff Hill of Tulare
county found Williams working
on a fifty foot oil tank.
'Come down here said the
sheriff.
Come up and get me-" said
the fugitive.
The sheriff, who weighs 800
pounds, started climbing up the
tank. When the officer was
half way up Williams jumped
from the tank and fled amid a
voley Of bullets from the sher-
IFS revolver. 'e
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04

number of residents on Broadway
between Eighth and Twelfth streets
appeared before the board and pc.
titioned for a, sidewalk In that
district, the council granting the re-
quest.
George f. Kennedy submitted
proposition for renting the property
formerly occupied by the American
Legion and the Tulane theater ON
Sixth street to house the city
offices. The lease on the present
property across the street expired
on September 80, Ia order to give
j. S. Jones, owner of the present
hall location, an opportunity 10
make a proposition 10 the city
council, action WIS deferred until
the next meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
COLONEL HARVEY
WANTS TO QUIT
BY United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, October 4.-Col-
onel George Harvey, American am
bassador to London, has resigned,
it was announced at the state de-
partment today.
Harvey intends to return to the
United States probably some time
next month and it is the understand
ing of the state department that
his resignation will take effect near
the first of the year.
1t is understood that the prin-
eipal reasons for Harvey's s resigna-
tion are his desire to return to
private life and because he cannot
afford the great expense entailed
in tho post of American ambassa-
dor in London.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
Blows Out Brains
Over Casket When
Fortune Is Lost

LOS ANGELES, October 4.-John
S. Peasants, retired cotton mill
head of Laurel, Miss, entered an
undertaken s parlor where a funeral
was in progress and blew out his
brains, falling across the casket.
Financial losses resulting from the
failure of the brokerage firm of A.
w. Coote was the cause of his de-
spondencv according to the widow,
an active society woman here.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
By LINCOLN QUARBERG,
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

OKLAHOMA CITY, October A.
A strenuous campaign for funds to
finance Il "finish fight on the
Ku KluX Klan in Oklahoma was
lamched today by Governor j. c..
Walton.
Declaring that Tuesdays voting
which resulted in adoption of the
constitutional amendment designed
to permit his impeachment, was a
"kISl election and a klan vote, -
as well, was Illegal, the gover.<r
announced martial law would be
continued indefinitely in Oklahoma
Continued on page ~
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
40 PERSONS ARE
OVERCOME BY GAS
PHILADELPHIA. October

PHILADELPHIA, OctOber
4.-Forty persons were over
come by chlorine gas today
when a pipe connecting tanks
of the gas sprung leak in the
naper manufacturing plant of
Dill and Collins.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
OFFICERS TOOK
12 CASES WHISKEY
AS BRIBE, CLAIM
py United Press Leased Wire

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, October a..
Because they are alleged to have
accepted a bribe of ~ eases of
Scotch whiskey from the driver of
a truck they had halted on the road,
two motorcycle officers, r. M. Mat
thieson and r. M. Beagle, are held
without bail here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
LAUNCH APPEAL
FOR FUNDS IN
FIGHT ON KHAN
Walton Urges Every u.
S. Citizen to Aid by
Giving
BY United rress Leased Wire

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Octo-
Der A convention of victims of
tloggngs in Oklahoma was called
today by Governor j. c. Walton.
we are going to get the vic
TINS of the Ku Klux Klan together
and have n picture of them
taken the governor said.
My agents have promised to
bring 800 who were flogged from
Tulsa county alone
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
DIVIDING CITY
into SECTIONS
MEANS RESULTS
Every One From Bankers
to Errand Boys to
Do 'Bit"
Prominent Citizens in
Charge of Cleanup
Activities

Every man in Ell Centro Is to
be drafted for duty in the clean
up campaign scheduled for next
week, according to decision
reached last night at confer
ence between members Of tlla
fire department. and the direc-
tors Of the Chamber Of Com
merce. The city has been di-
vided into 10 districts, each dis
trict in charge of two or more
leaders. Commencing at once,
these leaders will make survey
of their particular districts and
enlist the aid of the citizens in
the district in cleaning it up.
1t is hoped to have this work done.
during the early part of the week.
so that on Friday, October 12, all
the rubbish and trash will have
been accumulated in piles, ready
for the fleet of trucks and workers
which will swoop down on the city
and gather up the results of the
week IS campaign.
The leaders job is not a sinecure.
1t means he must get out in his old
clothes and do active work in clean
ing up, as well as using his argn-
mentative ability on the other
fellows in his district to induce
them, to do their share. These lead
ers include members of the city
council, professional men, business
men, bankers, merchants, laborers
and even newspaper men.
No Mercy for Slackers
Anyone caught shirking the job
will be hailed before a drumhead
eourtmartial and made to wish he
had worked his head off. The lead
ers will set the example for others
in the district by starting the clean
up work on their own property and
then go to the other fellow and tell
him to fall in line. The meeting
last night showed that the men be-
hind this campaign mean business
and when it is over Ell Centre is GO
ing to be as clean as an admiral s
quarters on u battleship.
Following is "A list of the districts
with their boundaries and the lead
CONTINUED on page 4)
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
DEMPSEY GIBBONS FILM
INDICTMENT is SOUGHT

LOS ANGELES, October 4.--Fed-
eral indictments for the mon who
brought films of the Dempsey-Gib-
bons fight at Shelby to Hollywood
to be developed, will be asked to-
morrow by U. S. Attorney Burke,
he said here today ssgs
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
EARTHQUAKEIN
JAPAN ALARMS

by United Press Leased Wire
PEKIN, China, October A.
A strong earthquake shock in
Toxic yesterday threw the pop
ulation into a panic, dispatch
from Osaka said :oday.
The people rushed into the
streets IS soon as the earth
tremor began, fearing a repe-
tition of the disastrous earth
quakes of last month.
The shock also was felt dis
tinctly at Osaka.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04

Almond, Smyrna fig and prne
crops are being harvested in Te-
hama Couty, all giving big yields.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

TT was during this spring vacation
! that she began talking about
Capitol City. I'm just living to teach
tnSre next year. They send some
member of the board every spring to
the training school to choose the best
teachers, and ] must be one. l don't
want to go to any little two-by-four
burg. Capitol City for me! l ask an
interest In your prayers
To do Marcia justice, she really ap-
piled herself that spring. The stakes
were worth working for. On the last
Friday morning in April she had gone
from the college to town. on one OF
Lsr numerous unimportant-- -aErand1.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

thing that makes me maddest, she
informed them, tearfully, lis that /
stretched things just to hear him
laugh. I made myself out lots worse
than l am. He was the sternest-
looking man you ever saw. and
loved to see the corners of his mouth
pull up He laughed an awful lot"
she finished, forlornly.
Everyone looked sympathetic, kath-
crimes consolation was, Marcia, I
just can't imagine myself talking SO
glibly to a strange man.
Marcia's contrition was complete.
"I can't either, Kathie. 1 envy you
being so cool and sweet and courteous
to everybody. Only it seemed as
though I'd known him thousand
years." she added.
Eleanor's contribution was, Myself.
think 1t was terribly romantic"
Marcia's scorn was whitening. "Ro-
mantle? Tragic, you mean
Father began a dry. We'll, Marcia,
I've always told you you'd run up
against" But as Marcia dabbed
a moist roll Of handkerchief into her
eyes. he finished lamely, Never mind,
honey, think you can have the third
grade here"
a law about false pretenses. He
ought to be sued. II I was a man I'd
trounce the middle OF the road with
him."
Mother was furtively wipipE away 4
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Tides Predict Storms.

TT has been shown, in the opinion of
certain scientists, that West In
dian hurricanes and other great
storms at sea frequently produce
remarkable effect upon the tides
along neighboring coasts.
When tempest Is approaching, or
passing out on the ocean, the tides
are noticeably higher than usual, as
if the water had been driven in a
vast wave before the storm. The in
fuence extends to great distance
from the cyclonic storm center, so
that the possibility exists of fore
telling the approach of lany7erous
hurricane by means of indications
furnished by the tide cages situated
far away from the place then occu-
pied by the whirling winds.
The fact that the tidal wave out
strips the advancing storm shows
how extremely sensitive the surface
of the sea is to the changes of pres
sure brought to bear upon it by the
never-resting atmosphere.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

shoes you would think they was pre-
liminary fighters and speaking about
fighters. why the 1st- man l seen out
to the beach was Walter Monaghan
who the last time l seen him. he was
throwing a used towel in to the mid
die of a boxing ring at Toledo. 0.
Walter is running q physical cul-
ture school at the beach which is
more money then acting as Wizards
sparing partner but he has still got
faith in old Jess and he says he could
of kept on fighting that famous of
July only he could not get his eyes
open after the 1St. rd.
What made Jess SO sleepy was ly-
ing on his back and looking up at
the bright sun.
x X X
TN regards to the social life at Miami
Beach and Palm Beach. why about
the only differents is that the high
monkey monks at Miami don't seem
to carry so many servants along with
them Pretty near everybody at Palm
Beach has there secretary with them
vile most of the visitors to Miami can
read and write.
People changes there close 4 times
day at Miami vs. at Palm Beach
but l seen l costume at Miami Beach
that made Palm Beach look like
piker namely a man in a white linen
suit and black derby.
Palm Beach is probably a whole lot
more exclusive and personly We
wasent flooded with invitations the
yr we was at Palm Beach vile in
Miami they was never a day when
| the mail box did not yield cards from
chiropodists and etc.
The day after we reached Miami
they was a atmosphere of gloom in
| the air which it seems the reason for
same was a item of news in the Miami
| papers In regards to the weather i'll
California. 1t seems the thermometer
| at San Bernardino the day before
| had fell to 81 above zero and it looked
| like the southern California almond
crop would be spoiled. The Miami
papers tried to suppress this item by
putting it on top of the front page
but whole lot of Miami people seen
it and they was not dry eye in the
| town. RING w. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Long Island, March ..
Evening star., 1923-03-04

ness and sincerity form the keystone
of the teaching profession" He said
a great deal more than that. He said
1T with fire and enthusiasm. He said
he was there to choose teachers, high
grade teachers who had been faithful
in their work Carefulness, attention
to details. were things that would be
considered But over and above these
was the great fundamental question:
What was the spirit Of the teacher?
What gifts Of heart and soul as well
as of mind did she come bearing to
her task?
Marcia felt stunned, sick. She sat
with miserable hot eyes fixed upon her
lap. 1t was over at last. Chapel was
out. President Wells and other faculty
members had surrounded the speaker.
Marcia slipped away from the girls.
She attended two classes and got
through a noisy clearinghouse DIN
ner She wanted to go home. she
wanted to see the family. especially
mother-comfortable and comforting
mother. katherine would be home for
the week end She had written to that
effect and also that Keith was COM
ing for Sunday.
Marcia did not go to her afternoon
classes and she hung a frank Busy
| Keep Out" sign on her door. Then
she packed her grip and slipped down
| to the afternoon train.
AZ home the family WAS all excite
Evening star., 1923-03-04
"A MAN IN A WHITE LINEN
SUIT AND A BLACK DERBY"

out after some gun men and he found
them OK. and they shot him 4 times,
2 Of which was still inside him and he
had been sent down to- Florida in the
hopes that the bullets would want
to come out and enjoy the climate.
Though on his vacation. he had
been asked by a detective agency to
try and find a man that had stole
another mans wife and automobile.
The bereaved husband was anxious
to get the car back. Officer Moeller
had q picture Of 1t and of the wife
but said the thief had probably took
the precautions to have them both
repainted.
We arrived in Miami at 10:45 am.
and was whisksd by automobile to.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

which it says on the outside John G.
White. Jeweler. Shoes. hats, notions.
furniture and collins"
SAYS to the Mrs. that it looked to
me like Mr.. White was makeing
mistake to not branch out and get
couple side lines like musical instru-
ments and false teeth because the
town did not look like it was big
enough for a man to specialize.
I said this in jokeing way and
sure enough she laughed heartily.
We arrived at Jacksonville at pm.
and asked the man what time was
they a train for Miami and he says
they was a train leaveing at 9:4o and
another train leaveing at 10 o'clock
so I says which was the best train
and he says We'll the $40 is faster
but the other stays 20 minutes be-
hind it all the way down"
i thought this was kind of wonder
full at the time but all the more so
after we had spent the night on the
9:4O and realized what a trick ii must
of been for the 10 o'clock train to not
gain no ground.
Vile we was getting on the board
OF the $40 at Jacksonville man
come up and spoke to me and who
was it but Joe Moeller that use to be
a motor cycle cop in old Chi and l
night he arrested me for speeding on
the west side boulevards.
He got OH the $40 with US but had
no occasion to take the engineers 8
number.
X X y
OFFICER MOELLER said that
~ shortly after arresting me they
| had promoted him to the detective
| corpse and night they sent him
Evening star., 1923-03-04

the F1amingo for the nominal sum Of
$500 dollars.
Amongst the 1st people we met was
John Golden the play producer and
he asked how ] was and ] says i was
0. X. only that my dogs hurt, re-
ferring to my #. SO he says maybe
your kennels is to small. referring
to my shoes. I laughed heartily.
This was our st visit to Miami and
I suppose my admires Is wild to know
did I like it better than other points
in Florida. VIII state that Miami
Beach is / of the prettiest spots I
have ran acrost and the beach itself
is a, 100 per cent beach and as far
as the costumes and etc. is concerned
why the bathing suits wore by the
gals at Miami Beach makes the Palm
Beach gals look like eskimos.
If the Miami gals wore sox and
Evening star., 1923-03-04

ment over the unexpected arrival.
Mother hustled about with happy
moisture in her eyes, even while she
took in the fact that Marcia had
something on her mind. When they
had finished supper 1t came out, just
as mother knew it would. They were
still sitting about the table-all but
Junior, whose urgent business with
Runt Perkins and Shorty Marston al
ways found his swallowing his last
bites while on the way to the door.
Marcia told them all about 1t. She
spared herself not at all. She had
made a fool of herself. she said, and
they might as we'll know il. The
Evening star., 1923-03-04

Il scarlet tide. From the chaotic
tumble of her mind one naked, leering
truth stood out: He was the superin-
tendent of the Capital City schools.
n
r IKE Kaleidoscope. things she had
L. said to him tumbled about in her
brain, forming a nightmare Of COM
bnations. With dry lips she whisper
ed to the girl next to her, Who's the
big man-in gray"
"Supe at Mapleville--only has eight
teachers under him-acts like he was
President of the l.. S. A
The man on the platform was
speaking, easily. forcefully. Earnest
Evening star., 1923-03-04
: MARCIA MASON'S LUCKY STAR Be
BY
BESS STREETER
f.. ALDRICH.

flooded her slim, youthful figure In
its soft, clinging gown. Surrepti-
tiously, deftly. she slipped a large,
square envelope under her pillow.
Then she said. "Kathie, something
tells me I'm going to enjoy teaching
with John"
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Evening star., 1923-03-04

good old-fashioned Yankee shrewd-
ness" 80 they went to bed, arguing
amiably, quarreling peaceably. as they
had done for twenty-six years.
Across the hall, Marcia finished
braiding her hair. turned out the
light and snapped up the shades. Pale.
silvery. golden white. the moon
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Lardner Observes
Miami Mermaids
40 the editor: In response to
demands from Vulnerable

"O the editor: In response to
demands from Vulnerable
readers will devote my article
this wk. to a few more of my
ventures in sunny Florida. We left
Belleair at 1l:42 am. bound for sun
ny Miami via way of sunny Jackson
vile.
They's a shorter way Of going from
Belleair to Miami by cutting acrost
the state but you half to change
trains 3 or 4 times and vile a person
might think that every time you
change trains in sunny Florida it
could not help from being a improve
ment, still and all the shoe might be
on the other TT.
They was no incidence worth re-
cording en- route to Jacksonville ex-
cept when we past through city
name Newbury and seen a store there
Evening star., 1923-03-04

of hand weavers which has been in
continuous existence for more than
400 years.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
PITTSFIELD WILL
 ENTERTAIN TYPOS
 OF NEW ENGLAND
Gala Time Planned For Convention to Open Sunday For
 Three Days.

Pittsfeld, June Members of the New England Typographical
 Union will meet in this city for their
 annual convention Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of next week. More than 200 delegates will be present {! many coming from all over New England Plans for the various ses- sions were discussed Sunday after noon at a meeting which was attend ed by Mayor Charles w. Power.
 The regular sessions of the conven- ton do not begin until Monday morn 1 ing at 10 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, but a program of entertainment has been planned by the local committee for Sunday night which will be carried out either in the 1 Casino or Osceola Hall Motion pie lures showing the manufacture ot the | Intertype machine, musical selections and refreshments are on the program for the night
 Monday morning in the Chamber of Commerce rooms working cond1- tions, proposed legislation and rou- | tine business questions will be dis cussed. The variou committees will
 meet separately and will submit their resolutions in the afternoon.
 | An autOmOD1le tf1p ndS been pldu- I ned for Monday afternoon which in cludes tour through the eastern part ! of the county and over Jacobs Lad der. The party will return in time to drive over Lebanon Valley Mountain to witness the sunset over Lebanon Valley. In the evening an outdoor
 chicken dinner will be served at
 Bonny Ridge in Lebanon Springs. This dinner will be in the nature of
 an old-fashioned get-together. The entire town is expected to aid Mrs. | Margaret R. McEwan in serving. Headquarters for the convention del egates will be in the Wendall Hotel,
 The automobile club is supplying 50 cars for the various trips.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
'OPEN SHOP"
 NOW CLOSED UP
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service.
 San Francisco, June 22-The so- called American Plan,' under fire by the government here, is deader than the proverbial doornail throughout the Pacific Northwest This is the report of Joseph Clarke, vice-presi- dent of the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper hangers of America, who has returned from an official tour through Wash ington and Oregon
 Union shop agreements with wage increases have recently been negoti- ated by practically all building trades in Portland, according to Clarke. These agreements were negotiated di- rectly by the Portland Building Trades Council with the Building Contractors Association of that city.
 In Seattle, according to Clarke, the Building Trades Council is back on its feet" all unions back in the coun- Gil, the so-called American Plan" is wiped off the map, and the council has negotiated union shop agreements providing for wage increases for prac- tically every union in the council
 The same satisfactory conditions maintain in the building industry in Tacoma and throughout the entire Pacific Northwest, says Clarke.
 In Salt Lake City the so-called American Plan" has gone by the boards after a struggle of three years, which resulted in a complete victory for the unions, says Clarke
 All union painters in San Francisco are employed at union wages, Clarke reports.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22

done in other states Eli Brown of Kentucky, the agent of the prison la
 bor trust, is travelling throughout the United States to extend the system of private exploitation of prisoners. Milton Goodman, president of the Reliance company, IS backing him up in every ticklish negotiation. Their favoritee argument with the states is to say that the state use system has failed and that practical administra- tors must adopt a system of prison production that works Profits of the past certainly show that the system works for the trust Stock dividends have been necessary to distribute the profits without making the income tax
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22

Because of the extraordinary con centration of prison labor in the manufacture of garments, it is natural that the garment industry should be the first to make its objections heard Manufacturers of workshirts and overalls especially are being driven out of business and wages in some plants have been depreciated as re- suit. Complaints have been made in such numbers to the federal gov ernment that the Department of La bor has started an investigation of prison labor conditions.
 Study Shows Extent of Unfair
 Competition.
 In the meantime the National Committee on Prisons and Prison La bar has completed preliminary study of prison labor conditions, the re- suits of which have been turned oyer to the Department of Labor as the