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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Newspaper Men
Jai led Rather
Than Apologize

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May TO-
Three members of the Birmingham
Post editorial staff, who went to
jail rather than apologize for publ
cation of matters of legal record in
u recent news story were to- be re-
leased at $3.50 this afternoon.
The men, adjudged guilty of con-
tempt of court by Circuit Judge P.
p. Heflin and sentenced to "a hours
confinement, are f. T. Leech, edi-
tor; Jack Bethea, managing editor,
and Lewey Robinson, reporter.
Telegrams of congratulations
poured i nto them. from all parts of
the United States today.
Three times in making his final
statement from the bench Judge
Heflin offered the men freedom
in return for an apology. The de
PENDANTS, holding that they had
done nothing to apologize for, re-
fused and chose to accept whatever
sentence the court might impose.
A last minute request by the de-
fense for a stay of sentence until
the supreme court of Alabama could
be appealed to, was refused by
Judge Heflin.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
MARINE STRIKE IS
CAUSE OF CRISIS
IN |. A. SHIPPING
1000 Strike Breakers
Due Today From
North
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN PEDRO, Nav IL With
shipping here practically at a stand
still owing to the marine strike,
plans were being made today 10
house 1000 strike. breakers from
San Francisco who will land this
afternoon. More than 100 extra
police were Diet" led to San Pedro
today
Four of the largest steamship
lines have placed an embargo on the
port and will accept 10 shipments
for it. lnter-soastt.l vessels are be
ing regularly diverted to San Diego
and San Francisco. The lines are
the Lnckenbafk, the Isthmian. the
Hawaiian American and the Pacific
Mail.
Congestion is so heavy that boats
'@irr~ the -harbor cannot get naar Il
wharf to unload, and would have
no one to unload them if they did.
About l,20O longshormen arr still
at work, but about $500 are reeded
to keep traffic moving. 4
Shipping Suffers
Shipping will fall off nearly l50,-
600 tons month if the strike con-
tinues and the reputation of the
harbor severely injured, authorities
say.
The strikers have shown no sign
vet of returning to work despite
several p&rleys.
A fire, believed to have been
started, by l. w. W., was reported
in the Kerchoff Gunner Lumber
yard carly today. Quick work by
the five department smothercd the
flames before they gained great
headway.
An attempt was also made dur
ing the night to fire a Pacific Flee
Dor district. A fire built up by loose
tric trcstle in the heart OF the har-
boards, was found burning around
the base of several supports. 1t was
extinguished by the fire depart
ment with small damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
TO USE MACHINE
GUNS TO RELEASE
CLARA" IS THREAT
Powerful Under w Orld
Plot Uncovered to
Free Woman
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, May l0.--A well
defined underworld plot to free
a woman believed to be Clara
Phillips, convicted hammer mur
dress, from her hotel, in Tegu-
cigalpa, Honduras, is believed to be
under way, according to information
received at the sheriff S office to-
day.
information that the woman S
associates contemplated the move
was Intercepted, il was said.
AT the same time ii was learned
that this group of frincds had
rented two rooms in hotel near
the county jail on the night of
Clara s escape.
Jess Carson, the woman S t'avel-
Ing companion, has made threats
that friends would that the at
tempts of the extradition party or
Houduran police with machine
guns if necessary according to
word reaching the sheriff's office,
Carson s statements are not taken
seriously, as he is believed to be a
4ittle unbalanced.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Masons Dedicate
Monument on Spot
First Cal. Lodge
by United Press Leased Wire

REDDING, Cal, May 10.-Ma-
sons of the Northern part of tho
s'ate joined today with the Western
Star lodge of Shasta in dedyating
q monument ON the spot where
Peter Lassen instituted the first
Masonic bdge in the state, May 10,
lS4S-75 years ago.
Two thousand people gathered
with theMasons at "Benton City,
where the lodge was instituted, to
observe the occasion fittingly.
Benton City" is town forgot
ten so long ago the site was located
positively only a month ago, on
Deer creek, on the state highway, 10
miles north of Chico. The lodge was
moved to Shasta soon after its or
ganization.
Peter Lassen brought the charter
from Missouri on his pathfinding
trip. 1t was dated October 80, lS4,.
The monument dedicated today
marks the historic spot and its
bronze tablet briefly reviews the
Masonic event.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
i. s. MAJORS ARE
STILL BEING HELD
FOR HIGH RANSOM
Bandit Bands Ravage
Country Outside Of
Pekin
RUSH VISTIMS AID
Extrome Caution Needed
in Dealing With
Outlaws
By RAY G.. MARSHALL
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
OF Major Roland Pinger and Maior
Allen, American army Officers TAX
en- with their families in the bandit
raid that followed the wreeking Of
the ShaDghai-Pekin express have
just been released.
The fathers are held.
All the. captives held for ransom
in the Shantung Hills by the dar-
ing brigands. who kidnapped n
score of foreigners and many
Chinese after running China's
crack express into ditch not far
from Lin Cheng are well, the boys
reported.
A false report which was at no
time carried by the United Press to
the effect that the two Officers and
their sons had been freed yester-
day, probabaly was due to the ar
rival at Tientsin of Mrs. Pinger
and her smaller son. w -. -. --..-..
Many Bandit Bands
Many bandit bands similar to
those who have scattered into the
hills with their hostages are operat-
ing just outside the walls Of Pekin.
A number of Chinese merchants
who have their shops along the out
side Of the walls are barricadtng
their esta bishments III fear Of
looters... On. Wednesday bandits
looted two shops and, invading tho
city, killed man in the street.
The situation is growing de3per-
ate with the authorities unable to
cheek the dAprrs' cations. The mill.
4tary governor appears losing con-
troll and it is reliably reported that
the foreign legations are consider
ing forcing. China. to permit the
powers to organize and supervise
the police. .. w ........ .........-.-.-.,,-.
Protection for the railroads also
u-n"ld be carried out by such "a
force which would be extended for
duty wherever a number of for
eigners resided.
Fears expressed for the safety
of the hostages were enhanced when
it was reported from Tientsin that
the brigands evaded Chinese gov
ernment troops who had partially
surrounded them and had carried
their captives elsewhere. 1t is now
believed that thirteen foreigners
remain prisoners in the hands of
the bandits. Strong International
action by powers represented here
is considered certain. ~
Rush Aid to Victims
.. The Peki4A government has in
formed American authorities there
that supplies and food are being
rushed to Shantung for relief of
the foreign captives. Presumably
the supplies consist of clothing and
other necessaries and are to be
held awaiting release of the pris-
Cners.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
First Wife Waits
Quarter Century
for King David

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, May TO-
A dramatic story of how she wal ed
25 years for king Benjamin Pur-
nell, 'abdicated ruler of the
House of David, to return to their
humble home in Greenup, KY, was
related here today by Mrs. Angelina
Stephens, Purnell's former wife.
Purnell divorced Mrs. Stephens in
Indiana nearly 80 years ago after
he had become enamored of Mary
Stallard, Mrs. Stephens charged.
81 always thought Ben would
come back to me-" she said today,
81 waited twenty five years. Then
two years ago l married again." "
Mary Stalard, according to Mrs,
stephens, is king Benjamin S
present wife, Queen Mary of the
Benton Harbor colony. Mrs. Ste
Phens asid she had not heard from
Benjamin for almost ten years
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Something More
To Make Us
Famous!

Secretary Coyle has received
a clipping from Tacoma paper,
telling of the finding Of gold in
Imperial Valley lettuce by a Ia
coma housewife. The story re-
lates that in clearing the let
tuce, the woman noted 3eve-a!
shining particles, which she col
lected ard took to a mesauurgis5,
who pronounced it gold. The
woman visited tho market where
the IL tuce was purchased and IN
quired where it was grown, and
was informed that it wac I'm
porial Valley lettuce. The clip
ping states she secured a thin
ploful of gold from the lettuce
and adds further that Imperial
Valley is a rich mining district
ir California.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
AIR IS IN A
TRAFFIC JAM,
SAY EXPE.R IS
Stagnation of Currents
Causes Freakish
Wea\er
One Pacific Storm
Chases Tail for
Weeks

WASHINGTON, May 10. - A
strange traffic jam of Gir currents
in the northern hemisphere threat
ems an immediate recurrence Of Tho
unreasonable cold wave, weather bu-
Tc@u officials stated TO-DAY.
Polar air currents similar t. the
one which has just spread a May
winter over eastern and mid-wes-
tern states, blocked from travelling
their usual paths across northern
Canada, are sweeping far to the
south over the United States, skirt
ing the outside edges of the jam.
The jan is caused by virtual stag
nation of the areas of high and low
pressure which cause the changes
in weather.
Out in the Pacific ocean, one
storm has been chasing its tail for
weeks without moving its center
because it is blockaded.
Whether the jam can be blamed
on the strike of the sun, which has
laid off for the rest it takes every
II years, depriving the earth of
about four per cent Of its accustom-
ed heat, weather bureau officials
refused to say.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
EX-SERVICE MAN
BRINGS SPLENDID
FUND DONATION
Succeeds in Rounding
Up S32.75 Toward
Worthy Cause

Just before going to press this af-
ternoon, an eX-service man, who did
not wish his named to be used, but
who thinks enough of his dead bud
dies in France to do something
toward helping to pay lasting
tribute to them, brought III the fol-
lowing list of Ell Centro people who
have contributed to the American
Legion Overseas Graves Endowment
fund. 1t is hoped the good example
set by this ex-serviee man, and the
citizens who contributed, will be
followed by others.
Margaret Bradbury, S1.o0; DR..
Sem Bacon, $1.0O; King Johnson
Company, $500; R. E. Couch, S1.oo;
Rev. George A. Hartman, $1.00;
James T. Coyle, S1.00; j. G. Penr.,y,
$1.00; H. B. Berger, $1.00; Mrs.
Martin, soc; Albert Durham, S1.oo;
J. A. Coca, $1.OO; A. j. DeLozier,
$1.O0; Art. Conkey, S1.00; r. Lini-
ken, S1.Oo; Richmond Bros, S1.0o;
George Campbell, S1.00; D. B. Allen,
SOC; F. A. Markley, $1.O0; B. D.
Bibbins, S1.00; Van B. Anspach,
S1.00; Mccormick Bros, 75c; G. E.
Coggins, $1.0O; John Kuhn, S4.00;
Frey Auto Top Shop, S1.oo; Erskirs
& Preble, $1.00; Elmo Loynd, S1.o0;
Tom Gill, S10O; Francis Drug Store,
S1.00; Leo Hetzel, S1.O0; w. H.
Tyler, S1.0o; Total S32.75. AclSnowl-
edged elscwhere S49.75. Grand total
$3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
DEMAND THAT u. S.
HANDLE BUILDING
OF BOULDER DAM
ny United Press Leased Wire

FULLERTON, May 10.-An or
ganized demand that the govern
ment handle CONSTITUTIONAL work on
the proposed Boulder dam, will be
formulated here today at meeting
of officials of Soathern California
cities.
This was the statement of Mayor
John l.. Bacon of San Diego, chair
man of the meeting and other dele
gates prior to the opening session.
"The fight on the dam by corpor-
alton interests is threatening the
entire project, Mayor Bacon stat
ed. 1--WE intend to make an ag.
gressive stand for government con-
struction, management and con.
troll. -
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Uniform Marriage
Law Is Urged by
U. S. Club Women
by United Press Leassh Wire

ATLANTA, Ga, May 10.-Gov-
ernment regulation of marriage and
divorce VIII reduce hasty marriage
and cut the national divorce rate
in half Mrs. Edward Franklin White
Indianapolis, author of the uniform
marriage and divorce bill present
ed to the last congress, declared here
today.
ga drastic decline in the number
of divorees--at least so per cent
VIII follow passage of the unlfrom
marriage law by congress-, said
Mrs. White, who is chairman of the
legislative committee of the Fedora
tion of Womens clubs, in biennial
session here.
Delegates to the council session
today expected to endorse President
Harding s world court proposal.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Eight Bodies
Recovered in
Oil Explo 81 on
by United Press Leased Wire

CORsICANA, Texas, May TO-
Eight bodies had been recovered to-
day from the burning oil we'll OF
the }. X. Hughes Development Com
pany near here. The fire which fol
lowed an explosion in the huge der.
rick last night, was still raging.
Three other men were believed to
have perished, but the heat of the
burning oil and gas was so intense
it was impossible to remove their
bodies. The site of the well was a
mass of ruins today. 1t still burned
fiercely, throwing flames high in
the air and filling the sky for
miles around with gas and smoke.
The identified dead:
Emmet Byrd, w. A. DAM Phil
lips, Fred Craig, l.. p. Sheek, w. A.
Hicks, Travis Owens, Jack Cooper
and one unidentified.
Reported missing: l.. C. Cook, S.
P. Allen, James Phillips, NJ. O.
Turner, Max Meisner.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
LAWLESS BANDITRY SWEEPING CHINk
Home Town Fails
Piggly Wiggly
Head

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May TO-
The home town folks failed 10
support Clarence Saunders, form
c. $4 weak grocery clerk, in
the biggest financial battle of
his sensational career and Mem
phis has lost Piggy Wiggiy.
Memphis has failed me, -
Saunde-s declared in q point
blank announcement. ''There is
no way to save my stock holders
and myself but to accept f.ra1-
cial help from other places
Tho announcement wa mads
when results Of campaign to
dispose Of $4,000 shares OF Pig
ely Wiggily sock locally showed
The goal had not been reached.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Youthful Hero
Rescues Four
ny United Press Leased Wire

SANTA BARBARA, May lo.--
Bernard Coare. Santa Barbara
youth, is being hailed as hero
here today because of his daring
rescue of girl and three
companions when their skiff turned
over before a 80 mile gale In rag
ing sea.
Coane fought his way through
the waves to shore, carrying one Of
the other boys with him and then
used his remaining strength to
sprint for the nearest boat avail
able. After three hour search the
girl and two remaining boys were
found elinging to the overturned
boat and were brought safely
ashore.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Russia Replies
to Great Britain

TOXIC, May TO- Russia has
agreed to japanese contentious as
to the fishing rights of Japan along
the Siberian coast, which have been
in controversy.
This action by Russia was regard
ed as greatly increasing the prospect
for the proposed Russo-Japanese
diplomatic and trade conference
which has been requested by Rus
sia. The final decision of Japan
as to whether she will enter such n
conference, however, remains uneer
tain.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10

editorial, today:
By Robert P. Scripp3.
Copyright Washington Daily News,
1929
PEKTN, May 9.--lt has just been
published in Pekin that the Aineri-
can legation has been advised from
Washington that the government
will support in Il military way the
efforts to release the foreign pris
oners held by the Shaku bandits.
This has created Il good impress
sion among foreigners here, where
it is felt that the United States is
not inclined to take a strong stand
in such matters.
But the American minister was
not in Pckin Tuesday, when the
diplomatic council met TO discuss
the outrage. He is not in Pekin
now
Minister Schurman is enroute to
Shanghai, escorting his wife, who
is bound for America, in accordance
with previous plans,
No Consuls There
The writer was N Shaku, the
scene of the outrage, "a hours after
the event. No consular representa-
tive Of any country was at any sta
tion near Shaku that day, although
consular representatives of Ameri-
ca and other countries are station
ed at Marking, to the south, and
Tsinan Flu, to the north, neither
more than five hours away, and re-
pair trains from both points had ar
rived the previous day.
Neither doctors nor food nor med
ical supplies were sent to the scene.
The only foreigners on the job
were an Australian official of the
Chinese railway from Pukow, from
Marking and Naill, an American
engineer from Tsinan Flu, who arriv-
ed on repair train.
They came voluntarily and brought
the first refugees aboard the Pekin
train.
Finds Miss Aldrich
NALL was also the first to find
Miss Lucy Aldrich, who did hot get
out with the first refugees, and was
also first to wire the Pekin embas-
sy of the purpose of the bandits to
secure hostages and of their threat
to kill them if the soldiers did not
cease firing.
The latest word is that there still
are 90 Foreigners, including four ~v O.
men and several Americans, held by
the bandits.
Under the pressure of the diplo-
mats, the Pekin government has or
dered the Shantung governor to
! make all concessions necessary to
i secure the release of the prisoners,
But, unless, and as soon as this af-
| fair is settled, q strong positive po-
sition is taken with regard to the
| bandits, a price will be on the head
of every travelling foreigner. be
cause China is full of bandits. Prob
ably the Pekin government, which
is admittedly weak, would welcome
police help from forc.gners.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
WORK TURNS DOWN
CONTRACT ON OIL
ny United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 10.-Secre-
tary of the Interior Work today re-
iected bids for n five year contract
to buy government royalty oils pro-
duced in Wyoming outside the Tea
pot Dome and Salt Greek fields. The
bids were at the current field mar
ket price and Work decided it
would be inadvisable to tie up gov
ernment oil for five years at price
obtainable any time.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
WHAT'S DOING

Ell Contro Chapter r. A. M. TO-
night.
Ell Ccntro Lodge of Elks meet
ing-no dinner tonight.
Pyt,.ian Sisters initiation, to-
night.
"Rich Mems wives Police
Airdomo-Grand Opening.
Cantaloupe growers meeting to-
morrow-Barbara Worth Hotel.
P. T. A. Meeting tomorrow-Wil-
son school
Spruce-Trifolium Home Depart
moat all day tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Signal Hill Oil
Fields Menaced

LONG BEACH, May 10,-Fire
imperilled the Signal Hill oil field
last night when gas main sudden
ly was ignited from flaming torch
misplaced by workmen. Two driflers
on adjoining property were slightly
burned by the flames which at
tracted huge crowd The fire was
checked by the timely action of en-
ployes of oil companies in vicinity.
who shut off the gas from the main,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Cold Bath Costs
Woman $4,000
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, May 10.-The
hot wave cost Miss Lucy Parker
just $4,000. While she was trying
to escape. the heat by a brief So
iourn in her bathtub, burglars ran
sacked her apartment and made
away with jewelry and heirloooms
valued at. that amount.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
Crew of Steamer
Wrecked in Wash.
Escape in Boats
by United Press Leased Wire

SEATTLE, Wash, May l0-With
q heavy sea running and the wind
rapidly rising. the 80 memberN of
the steel steamer Lake Gebhart,
wrecked on the reefs south of UNI
atilla on the coast of Washington
Yesterday, took to the life boats
and abandoned the vessel at a. m.
today according to radio advices
received at the harbor station this
morning,
The men were picked up without
accident by the tug Humaconna and
are being brought to Seattle.
Both the steamer and her cargo
win probably be a total loss, it was
announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
CHAMBER HEADS
HOLD NEE TING
FULL OF ACTION
Will Ask Indio to
Make Correction on
Maps
Many Plan 70 Attend
IndiO's Big Road
Celebration

Directors Of tho Chamber Of Com
mcrcc at last night s meeting APP
pointed Ray Edgar, II. Snuff and
Roger Sumner to act as an election
board for the annual election of di-
rcctors which will be held tomorrow
at chamber headquarters from l2
O'Clock noon until 5 p. M lmmed-
lately following the canvass of the
ballots, the directors will hold their
annual meeting. The new directors
will take office ut the regular meet
ing next Wednesday.
a resolution asking that the Yu-
ma Holtville road through the In
dian reservation be routed to the
north Sc as to include the Bard dis
trict, was passed and referred to
the chairman Of the good roads com
.nttee for action.
A letter from the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce advised that
the recent Travel Show in New
York City, afforded opportunity for
the chamber to distribute 10000
pieces of literature descriptive of
Southern California, including views
and desert ptive matter on Imperial
Valley and FL Centro. The letter
further states that the ma jority Of
these 10000 people expressed their
intention to come TO Southern Cal
if0rnia in the near future, either as
tourists or to make permanent
homes here. The Los Angeles Cham
der asks for additional descriptive
literature on the valley and Secre-
tary Coyle is forwarding supply
(which will be used in answering in
qtiries. ...s=#==
Map Is Incorrect
a map published by the Indio
Chamber OF Commerce, showing the
Sunkist Route from FL Paso to Los
Angeles, routed via Phoenix and
Blythe was shown to be misleading,
as it claims Il paved highway for
practically the entire distance. The
directors decided that the attention
of the Indio Chamber should be call
ed to the fact that $50 miles be
tween Blythe and Arlington is prac-
tically u trackless desert and the
route to Los Angeles through Yuma,
FL Centro, Brawley and Imperial
Valley is in much better condition
than the northern route. The Indio
Chamber of Commerce will be asked
to correct the map, when the dele
CATION from the local Chamber CT
Commerce visits there Saturday to
celebrate the opening fthe Los An
gcles Highway. r
Thanks for Data
A letter of thanks was read from
the Cutler Selected Directory Ser
vice Company Of Los Angeles, for
data furnished on FL Centre. Z This
company complies a complete direc-
tory of cities, showing 1athe. city of
fieers, a short sketch of the city,
public buildings, churches, school
facilities, industries and general in
formation in Il most compact form.
The information was supplied by
Secretady Coyie and will be the
means of considerable favorable
publicity for this city, D
Directors present were II. w.
Brewer, r. H. Cary, c. X. Cooper,
J. H. Ford, Ross T. Hiskeox, o. G.
Horne, A. II. Keller, Howard Meyer,
r. p. Moore and C. w. Runge.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
"a HOURS IN
SACRAMENTO
BY United Press Leased Wire
SENATE

Passed bills totalling more than
100000, the largest being u
So, 900, 900 item for the Mother Lode
highway.
Placed Il five minute limit on all
speeches on bills with the,e%c"ption
Of opening addresses.
Approved Jones bill strengthen
ing Law requiring report of all cam
paign expenditures.
ASSEMBLY
Defeated Williams bill, placing
Bible in public schools.
Received report of Carter commit
tee n;,lned to investigate charge
that civil service employees had been
forced to contribute to campaign
funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-10
20 KILLED IN
GERMA NWREC
Nv United Press Leased Wire

By United Press Leased Wire
BERLIN, may 10.-Bodies of 20
persons killed when a French man
ned train plunged into the Rhine
near st. Goar, hav., been recovered
according to stories told the
Deutsche Algemeire's Weisbadea
correspondent by travellers.
The travellers al,ege that the
French have cut off communica-
tion with the scene.