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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-14

games has ranged between 800 and 800.
The towns expected to be represented
at the meeting this week are Lewiston,
Augusta. Gardiner. South Paris, Nor
way. Dixfleld and Rumford. Portland
Is slated for the New England League
and will not be included in the State
league should it be adopted,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-14
3. A, A. 2; St. Paul !

st. Paul., MINI. March =
Boston Athletic Associa'ioa
won the first leg of the ioI
series for the L. S. Amateur,
Association championship oys
ing the st. Paul Athletic .ciua
here tonight. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-14
C. M. P. Wallops
Vickery Girls in.
Bowling Match

The Nickery & Hill bowling team
lost to the Central Maine Power Co.
quartette in bowling contest at the
"" alleys last night. Thompson of
c. NJ. p. got high string and Over
lock of V. q II. COPIED the high
total.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-14
Y. & II
Girls Club Takes
Bowling Match
from State House

The Girls Community club bowling
team snatched victory from the
State House girls at the "Y" alleys
last night. Crocker of the Girls
club and Lee Of the State House tied
for high single string, Folsom win
ming high total.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

riot OF carpentry. During his long
sojourn in Washington the Sage Of
Monticello made two chairs which
are yenerated objects in his Virginia
home. as well they may be. for they
are probably the only chairs in the
world made by President Of the
United States in the White House
during his official term OF ONCE. JET
ferson was probably the only execu-
tive with turn for this sort Of cabt-
net making, and he could WELD =
hammer and saw as agilely as a pen.
The Art Alliance for Handicraft Is
showing many specimens OF work
from men and women who are IA
nous in other lines.
Those boys and girls who have
that inbred love OF music which
makes a fine concert more acceptable
than treat Of a more material kind
are lucky indeed II they happen to
live In Philadelphia. Twice a year
DR.. Leo Strolowski, the leader of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, gives a per-
formance especially for the Juvenile
music lovers, entirely free, and the
audience Is selected with great pains
by music teachers In all the schools,
public and private. This season the
renowned master has selected the
Grieg compositions to interpret to
the musicians OF tomorrow. and the
breathless interest with which the
small boys and girls hung. on his
words must have inspired him to
higher efforts. After full explana-
ton of what Grieg intended to con-
vey. the great orchestra would pro-
duce weird sounds Of the Norwegian,
which are said to have charmed even
Evening star., 1923-03-04

during the late war, and since being
'demobbed," as the British call It, he
has become a member of a brokerage
firm of London which has New
York office. Gotham Hall. his splen-
did estate near GraVeSend, became a
radiatinE point for American social
activity during its long lease by Mrs.
Charles Frederick Hoffman OF New
York. It is one Of the more ancient
domains on the Thames. and was
once the property OF Sir Thomas
Boleyn, and the ghost Of his un-
happy daughter, Anne, second wife
OF Henry VIII. Is said to haunt the
park. Dickens lovers never fail to
visit the Leather Bottle Inn. which
il just beyond the co iues of Cob
ham and the scene OF 50 many of the
ludicrous exploits of Mr.. Pickwick
and his friends. It is III the Shake
speare country also. for it IS on the
highway IL Canterbury, where Fal-
staff so often loitered. Gotham is
not "a favorite residence OF the Earl
OF Darnley, and the hall and its
splendid rolling farmland, producing
fortune each year in hops. is in
traiian OF to some American who,
like Mrs Hoffman. wanted TO catch
"A glimpse Of English country life on
large scale.
Mr.. Henry Clark of Atlanta has
proved that 4 musician can accom-
plish more things with his clever fin-
gers than the making OF sweet sounds
from piano and organ. He has just
contributed to the Art Alliance ex-
hibition in handicraft, now in New
York city. desk in modified Sher-
atom style. all his own work. and so
eXquisitely designed and executed
that he was offered several thousand
dollars for it within the day OF the
exhibitors opening. He has mas
tered every detail OF cabinet making
for his own amusement and AS an
offset TO deep study Of musical scores.
Those who have read attentively the
life of Thomas jefferson will recall
that he had two outlets 10 His in
tense public work--one 70 play the
violin and the other to indulge in
Evening star., 1923-03-04

the wolves. The story Of Peter Gynt
occupied DIR. Strolowski at the last
concert given to the Juveniles. and
then the principal artas were render
ed, even to the employment ct well
known vocalist who makes a specialt!
Of Grieg. The Academy Of Music,
where these concerts are given, pre-
sents q very different aspect from the
usual afternoon concert Of the Phila-
delphia Symphony. Caps hung on the
back OF seats, and hats were piled
along the aisles. while bags OF school
books were everywhere. Not an inch
in the vast auditorium lacked a small
body crowded into It. and the ap-
plause, tumultuous at times. was. the
leader assured HIS young friends. the
best reward any Interpreter of music
could wish.
During the past week London hon
ored the memory Of the great ercht-
tect, Christopher Wren, and some
homage was paid him in various cities
OF the former British colonies. where
examples OF his work are among his
greatest ,egacies. Boston and Phtla-
deiphia have several buildings still In
excellent repair which were planned
by Wren, the customhouse Of the
former city and that most revered OF
all buildings in this country, Inde-
pendence Hall. in Philadelphia, being
examples. Along the James river are
three mansions, the plans for which
were brought from London by the
patentee of the minor grants. West
over, built by Sir Richard Byrd, and
where his lovely daughter Evelyn
Continued on Fourteenth Page)
Evening star., 1923-03-04

An unprecedented rush of Amer
leans to tour the world comes from
every part of the globe. and. while
news of their presence in the West
Indies or In Europe comes regularly,
e is not known that hundreds of
americans are in New Zealand and its
resorts enjoying n delightfully."- cool
summer while the United States is in
the grip OF winter. The consuls at
Auckland, Wellington and other cities
of New Zealand report ten times the
number of American citizens drop
ping by to pay their respects than is
usually registered at this time OF the
vear There arc charming little
cities on the New Zealand coast
where those who wish quiet can en-
Joy It, but inland are snow-coTered
mountains where those who prefer
more strenuous enjoyment can find
all that Is offered In Switzerland.
Canada and the mountainous regions
Of the United States, but with the
difference that an hour or two of
journey to the coast brings the soft
sir of summer and flowers rich and
varied whereas it is winter, hard.
cold and biting, IL all the ether
places. where Snow sports attract
large numbers.
Mt. Cook, according to Mr.. Karl &.
McTitty, Il former Washingtonlan
and now In consular service, resident
at Auckland, is gradually becoming
the Mecca Of mountain climbers who
are surfeited with Switzerland and
the beaten track of the Rockies. The
Hockstitter ice falls afford Il glorious
view In the inner mountains. Always
frozen, il presents many difficulties of
superb landscapes of the world.
Climbers from twenty-one of the
states have attempted this pass since
October, and some 1000 British Alpine
climbers are also living in Auckland
and making weekly trips into the
snow peaks.
For those who love amber, smoked
and clear, the Lithuanian legation IN
Washington can display some ex-
quisite specimens and give some en-
tertaining information, for Lithuanla
produces more than threefourths OF
all the amber used in the world, and
II may be seen deftly carved in small
articles either for utility like paper
weights. ink-wells or card trays, or
a3 beads, bracelets or belt clasps.
Amber in Lithuania is presumed to
hold magic powers TO ward off dis
ease and danger, and II is the good
luck stone par excellence in all OF
northern Europe. Every bride has
her bit Of amber, every new born
nhlld receives a piece. and its pres
ace IN many forms IN every mousse
lold. even the most humble, shows
he universal potency attached to it.
Tho carving OF amber is among the
:"lk trade of the Baltic countries and
n Luthiania has become a fine art.
lear amber IS more popular than the
clouded. which is So often seen here,
and which was known for centuries
n pipe stems and umbrella holders
before the present vogue of stringing
K into necklaces and girdles. a
wealth Of pretty legends clusters
about amber. and its carvers and
che good fairies enter the story
always bearing the yellow stone. SO
much interest attaches TO amber IN
Ibis country that some Of the folk
lore about Il is to be translated into
English.
Never has Florida enjoyed more
prolonged and brilliant season and
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
Hold Conference :
on New Road
to Riverside

CALIPATRIA, Jan. 19.-Reprc-
sentatives of two counties met at
Thermal Wednesday afternoon to
discuss ways and means of bringing
the Riverside county road to the
county line to meet the proposed
road from the north end of Imperial
county. 7. NJ Montgomery, P. n.
Myers, Elmer w. Heald and Harry
TSheppe were delegates from Cali
patria and O. j. Renfrew James
Burke and Edmund Welch from Nj.
land. A committee from the asso-
ciated chambers of Coachella Val
ley and from Imperial Valley was
appointed to meet with the River
side county supervisors to take the
matter mp. In view of the fact that
Riverside has already voted sl60, 900
IN bonds for roads. there will prob
ably be nothing doing in that diree-
ton. However. if aid from River.
side county cannot be obtained. the
matter will be taken up with Blythe.
and if the road is brought along the
old Butterfield trail it is possible
that the Sunkist trail will connect
with the road above the county line.
No further action will he ta..en
until after the meeting of the com.
mlttees With the Riverside super.
VisOrs
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
CALEXICO MAN
ARRESTED WITH
OPIUM PACKAGE
Postal Authorities at
Border Aid Arrest
of Johnston
Twelve Pounds of Opium
Alleged Worth Big
Sum Is Found

| Customs Inspectors Grover Kemp
and Tom Wallace, on information
Supplied by the postal authorities Of
Calexico, today arrested j. b. Johns
ton, an dfOund in his possession
parcel containing l2 pounds opium,
worth, when sold in legitimate
manner, about $4,000, but which,
when distributed by the methods
employed by peddlers Of drugs, will
reach a much higher value.
Johnston, who, it + said, has been
under suspicion for some time, came
to CalexicO about two months ago
from some point in the east, Texas
being one of the states in which he
has been located previously to COM
/ ing here, and his actions led the
officials to keep n close watch on
/ his movements.
! Advised that a parcel of drugs
had arrived at Calexico several days
f, ago for delivery to Johnston, Kemp
and Wallace kept the delivery place
under surveillance for the last three
days, and today, when Johnston
came to claim the parcel was taken
III SChoiSc.
! Johnston is alleged to be working
with one or two other persons in the
east, who, it is said, secure quanti-
ties of opium in that section, and re.
lay it to Calexico, where it is receiv.
! ed by Johnston, and by him distrub.
! uted in Los Angeles and other coast
cities.
Advices have been wired to the
point from which the parcel Of mar.
coties Was shipped, in the hope that
the party or parties working on the
i other end of the traffic might be
apprehended.
Johnston took his arrest quietly.
and made no attempt to give the
Officers any trouble, his only re.
quests being that some personal mat,
ters in which he was interested be
| taken care of, and an attorney adj
vised.
Following his arrest and a short
examination at the customs house,
Inspectors Kemp and Wallace
brought the prisoner to Ell Centre.
where he was taken before r. &.
Whitelaw. United States Commits
sioner, later in the afternoon. for
arraignment.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
TWO BIG PICTURES
FOR THE WEEKEND

Those who enjoy rattling good
out-of door picture will revel in the
picture showing at the Palace the
alter tomorrow night, "The Man
From Lost River,' here for one
showing only. House Peters, second
to none in outdoor roles, is featured
and is said to do the greatest work
of his entire career.
Sunday and Monday Rex Ingram s
big production "Trifling Women y
will be the attraction. Many favor
ties are included in the cast, num-
bering Lewis Stone, Ramon Navarro,
Barbara LAMAR, Edward Connolly,
Hugh Mack and others. 1t is said
nothing has been spared in the way
of lavish appointments or luxurious
background for this picture, which
has mreated sensation among crit
les wherever shcwn, and concerns
the story of a tickle woman who is
brought face to face with her real
self and forced to pay the price of
her folly.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
EDGAR BROTHERS
EMPLOYEES MAKE
FARM IN WINDOW
Miniature Dairy Farm
in FOrdsOn Window
on Main Street

: A window at Fordson salesroOms of
Edgar Brothers, Company contains
a miniature model farm, the handi-
work of the artists of the modelling
department of the company. The
exhibit shows dairy farm with
knee-high alfalfa and comfortable
hay stack with contented cows
busy at their jobs. There is reg
ular barn and silo and all of the
equipment of a 40 acre tract as it
should be- AS contrast there is
laid out just over the fence grape
fruit orchard of Imperial Valley
pattern. With artful suggestiveness
everything is being operated with
Edgar Brothers implements drawn
by Fordson tractors.
The design and executions of the
window is entirely the work of Ed
gar Brothers employees and not of
the Dairy Day decorations commit
tee as implied in yesterdays s report
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
FRENCH MASS GREAT ARMY FOR WAR
Border Officials Nab Man, II Pounds Opium
Welcome Dairymen

To y0u members and officers of the California Dahy
Council leaders in the dairy industry of this state ed
Hcators of the University of California and vstors at the
first Imperial Valley Dairy Day, all Imperial Valley
tends a hearty lUeLcOne.
You meeting today, talking of the industry hich
promises to be the greatest in Imperial Valley and on0r
you UiH only be the Uist0r at Imperial Valleys
first Dairy Day. but M be the guest of this Ualley and
,CeLc0ne you to every spot in this garden of America
The dairy industry in this UalIey is longer
liary 1t is today leading ndust'ynot leading in
gross returns yet but leading in growth and pe'anancy
The prosperity lUhich the dairy brings to eUery
community beginning to be eUiden here We hore that
you return to imperial Valley the number of dairy
H be doubled and then doubled again, and lcant
to kno that the inspiration of because OF
your knoledge of the industry Uhch is destined to be
leading here lo greatly help in bringing this a0ou
Welcome to Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
SENATE ASKS FOR
PROBE OF BOYDEN
PARIS ACTIVITIES
Declare He Overstepped
Authority AS
Observer
Rumor That He Openly
Favored England in
ReparatiOns

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-De,
manding a full investigation into ac-
tivitics of Roland Bovden, unoffi-
cial representative of the American
government on the reparations com
mittee, the senate. foreign relations
committee today instructed Senator
Lodge 10 secure all available data
concerning Bovden from the state
department. .;ss
The demand followed statements
made by Boyden at the conferences
in Paris which, some senators be-
lieve, were slightly partisan. The
committee will geek to determine
just how much authority the state
department vested in the unofficial
representative.
Boyden has been quoted as openly
favoring the side of Great Britain
in the hearings regarding German
reparations.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
Ortago Arraigned in Court on
Charge of Murder of Italian

to the hospital. Mendez' condition
is not thought to be fatal by The
doctors in charge.
Ortega, a well known rancher near
Holtville, is accused by Mendez of
being the instigator of the crime
which cost Mike Fornasero his life
and resulted in brutal attack on
his wife and three small children.
Outside of stating that the charges
are preposterous, Ortega has re
fused to talk since arrested.
District Attorney T.. r. Utley, aud
Sheriff Charles Gillett, declined to
say today just how strong case
they have against Ortega and are
content to "sit tight and hold
their evidence until the preliminary
hearing, In addition tai Vasquez,
Ortega, and Mende2, Ray Ramshaw,
an Indian, and Manuel Perez are al
so held for investigation in the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
C0RDIE ALLEN
CONVICTED FOR
SELLING LIQUOR
Sentence on Woman to
Be Imposed Early
Tomorrow

& After many delays and postpone
ments, the trial of COrdie Allen
charged with violation of the Liquor
law, came to a close yesterday af-
ternoon in the police court, when
the jury hearing the case brought
in verdict of guilty, after being
out only a short time, and Judge v
n. Thompson announced that he
would impose sentence Saturday
morning.
The defendant was charged with
selling half pint of whiskey- to
Billy Gamble on January ? and when
arraigned in the police court pleaded
not guilty and demanded a jury
trial Gamble, wanted as chief wit
ness in the ease returned to Algo.
dones after the arraignment, where
it is said he operates gambling
place. He promised the local police
he would return when needed to test
ify at the trial. When notified that
he was wanted here, Gamble refused
to come to FL Centre and it was nee.
essarv tor bring him back from Mex
leo with the help of Chief of Police
Hardwick of Calexico and the Mexi-
can authorities, and hold him in Gus
tody until it was time for him to
testify.
On the witness stand Yesterday.
Gamble swore he had purchased the
liquor from Cordie Allen and his
testimony was substantiated by Of
ficers of the local police department
who made the arrest.
The case was hard fought one
between Joseph +. Seymour, con
ducting the prosecution for the city
and Charles f. Scott and M. c. Atch-
ison representing the defendant,
with constant objections being en-
tered to testimony offered. Seymour
made a forceful address to the jury,
claiming the ease was not so much
a question of furnishing Cordie
Allen, but a test for the better ele-
ment in FL Centre to assist the ad-
ministration and the police officers
i'll enforcing the city, state and ma
tional laws against the sale of
liQuOr.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
WALLY WINS BIG
FIGHT AGAINST
DOPE IN DEATH
Funeral of Loved Star
Tomorrow in. L. A.;
ElkS Ritual

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19-Wallace
Reid, noted star of the films, won
his fight against the drug habit be-
fore his death yesterday at 1:10 p
m., he told his wife, Dorothy Dav-
enport Reid, shortly before he died
in her arms.
Funeral for the much loved star
will be held Saturday in Los An.
geles at an Episcopal church. After
that the Elks, of which Wallv was
a loyal member, will say their solemn
ritual over his body.
In accordance with one of the last
wishes of Reid, his body will be ere
mated, disposition of the ashes has
not yet. been determined.
Tell them, | have won my fight
that / have come back
This was Wally's message to the
millions of film fans who had loved
him in the films.
But he won in death. The mar
cotic and alcoholic habits which he
was fighting so hard to overcome,
had so weakened him that he was
never to smile. fer the camera again.
Going to sleep late Tuesday. Wally
never regained consciousness and
passed away in the arms of his wife,
the faithful mother of his boy,
Billie, Thursday afternoon.
Critical Since Monday
Shortly after the death of Reid,
DR.. G. S. Herbert, the actors phv-
sician, issued the following bulle-
tin:
"Wallace Reid died at lilo p. m.
at the Banksia Place Sanitarium.
g Since Monday night his condi-
tion has become more and more crit
zeal.
'Dcath was due to hvpostatic
congestion of the lungs and renal
suppression-a combination of con
ditions which filled the lungs with
fluid and made for a slow poisoning
because the kidneys ceased to func-
tion.'
Mrs. Reid, the faithful wife of the
tct0r, had been at his bedside for
more than As hours before his death.
Reid first began the use of NOR
phine two wears ago while making a
picture in New York City. Accord
ing to Mrs. Reid he had suffered
{. severe cash in his head at the base
of the skull which required several
stitches.
"He told me he felt like there
We're great big humps at the bottom
Of his head" his wife declared.
He began using the morphine to
ease the pain,
Last October Reid was taken 70
a hospital suffering from kleig
eyes. 1t was the first hint of the
morphine trouble. The condition of
his eyes became so bad that blind
ness almost ensued Then dental
trouble followed. For days, accord
ing to his wife, he sat in dentist s
chair while his gums were being
laneed in an effort to save his teeth.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19

j. ]. Ortega, charged with the
murder of Mike Fornascro ON com
plant signed by Pablo Mendez, was
arraigned this afternoon at lao in
Judge Mayfield cohrt, and date
for a preliminary hearing set on
Thursday, January 25. Ortega was
not represented by counsel, though
Attorney Wilbur Randall has been
retained to defend him, due to a
misunderstanding in the time for the
arraignment.
This was the oniy new develop
ment in the Fornasero case. Mendcz
is still confined at the county hos
pital where he is patient since at
tempting to cut bis throat Tuesday
night. His son-in-law, Antonia Vas
quez, though attempting to choke
himself by forcing spoon down his
throat last week, is still in he
county Jail and has not been taken
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
City Park is to
Be All DOlled Up
by Press Staff Correspondent

HOLTVILLE, Jan. 19.-Gartlener
Williams, who has charge of the city
park of Holtvile, has lust completed
an unique piece of landscaping. He
has made q row of seed beds on each
side of the walk leading in to the
main entrance of the civic center,
and the beds are in the shape of let
ters which spell out the words
Holtville,' and "Don't pick the
flowers. -
Sterling Kendrick was over from
Imperial Wednesday night calling
onsfriends and attending the Ma
sons dance.
Mrs. William Meyers was a bust
ness visitor in FL Centre Wednesday
afternoon.
Leo Wulff drove down from Los
Angeles Wednesday and is greeting
old friends here today.
Mrs. Gordon Schneider has return
ed from a business trip to Los An
geles, where she has been for the
past week.
Here From PortervilIe
Mrs. Arthur Steinberg and her
two lovely children are here from
Porterville visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. O. G. Harris on Olive street
Mrs. Steinberg expects to remain
about two weeks.
Eugene Hatfield, prosperous cattle
buyer of Holtville, was in Calipatria
on business Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Harris enter.
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fred Ewes
at dinner Thursday evening.
Modern Woodmen Meet
The Modern Woodmen of the I'm
pcrial Valley met in zone meeting
Wednesday night at Holtville and
conferred the degree work on eight
new members. The different towns
represented were Calipatrla, El Cen
tro. SeeIey and Holtville. After mi
tiation was over delicious refresh
ments were served. There will be
another zone meeting. here ON Jan
uary 81.
A large number of Holtvillc ladies
are planning to attend the meeting
of the College Club which will be
held in Imperial Saturday, January
4 81 Mrs. w, r. Beale of Holtville
is the president.