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Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
CANTALOUPE
PRICES DROP

Warmer weather today and yes
terday caused an increase in canta-
loupe shipments, 173 cars being or
dcred for today while 173 were ship
ped out yesterday, bringing the sea-
sons total up to 2,272.
At Brawley, the shipments are
light, with an excellent demand, tho
market being reported steady. The
bnlk of shipments are consigned.
Prices for standards ranged from
$2.35 to S2.75, mostly around $3.50;
ponies $1.S5 to $2.25; flats S1.1O to
S1.25. Ripes for western shipment,
standards, S2.75 to $3.
The Chicago market is reported
slightly stronger though prices have
dropped, due to a plentiful supply,
standards bringing $3.75 to 81.
New York also has a plentiful
supply, causing tho price to drop
to s4.75 and IS. Thirty cars are re-
ported OH the track.
Heavy shipments are expected
next week though the peak of the
crop is not expected for some time
later.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
LAUNCH MOVE TO
BENEFIT INDIANS,
CONDITIONS BAD
by United Press Leased Wire

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, June 8
The attack on the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, launched decades ago by
Helen Hunt Jackson in Ramona, -
was taken up here today during the
closing sessions of the League of the
Southwest meeting.
Following a fearful arraignmcnt
Of the bureau by various prominent
speakers, the movement to transfer
lue care of the Indians to the de-
partment of agriculture was formal
ly launched during special session
last night. Today's final program
will b. entirely devoted to the In
dian subject.
Professor A. l.. Kroeber, head of
the department of anthology of the
University of California, and Mrs.
Mary Austin of New York, opened
the campaign by describing asserted
appalling conditions among the In
dian tribes at present.
John Collier, secretary of fhe
American Indian Association, re-
counted list of brutaities of the
Indian bureau system, emphasizing
that the bureau was but following
out the policy handed down through
the army rule of Indians.
Describing their conditions as ap-
paling, Mrs. II. A. Atwood, chair
man of the Indian Welfare Bureau
of the General Federation of Won
ems Clubs, gave a graphic account
of the ccSnomic state and health of
the Indians of the Southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
VETS TO START
DRIVES IN SIX
MORE STATES
by United Press Leased Wire

w WASHINGTON, June 81 Wet
drives will be started at once in six
additional states, in an effort to
force repeal of state enforcement
laws, officials of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
annouced today.
Rhode Island, Tennessee, Califor-
mia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Ohio will be the immediate obiec-
tives of the repeal campaign which
is preliminary to Il nation wide anti
prohibition movement in 1924, it
was stated in the office of Captain
w. II. Slayton, head of the associa
tion.
At the same time efforts will be
made to obtain membership that
will give the vets voice in poll
ties as strong as that of the anti
saloon league.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
TAX REDUCTIONS.
WORLD COURT ARE
PRINCIPAL POINTS
Prohibition Not Touched
as Party Officially
Dry
HARMONY SOUGHT
Chairman Adams Plang
to Begin Campaign
Very Soon
BY LAWRENCE MARTIN

Copyright 1923 by United Press)
WASHINGTON, June o. The
republican party is shaping
broad and definite program fot
President Harding 5 second term
and will offer it to the country as
the principal reason Mr. Harding
should be reelected.
1t will be embodied in the repub.
lican platform for the 1924 cam.
paign. Before that it will be out.
lined in a general way to republi.
can workers throughout the coun.
try to spur them to the effort
which republican leaders candidly
admit will be required to win.
There is no question of Mr.
Harding denomination. But
party chiefs are cautioning against
over-coDfidence as to his re-eIee-
tion and in his coming conferences
with state leaders, John r. Adams,
republican national chairman, will
stress the need of three things.
Stress Three Needs
l. Complete harmony within the
party. locally and nationally.
2. Immediate launching of cam
naign of organization in every po.
litical sub division in the country.
3. Close watching and appraised
of public sentiment, with reports
on the trends of public thought to
national leaders.
The republican campaign of 1924
will be concentrated. amC.ig far
mers. They must be kept from des-
erting to the democrats or to
third party, republican strate.
gists believe.
Here are some of the principal
items in the republican platform
program:
l. Railroad rate reductions, par.
ticularly as they affect the farmer.
These rate reductions already fore.
cast by high railroad earnings, pro.
badly will be withheld until nex
spring or summer, to make them
more effective in the campaign.
Promise Tax Reductions L.
2. Tax reductions. This will be
the appeal to business and to the
voter generally. 1t is to center on
the income tax
B. Revision of the immigration
law to insure continued protection
of American labor. This will be
the appeal to labor.
4. A second arms conference to
reduce still further the causes of
war by preventing q new armament
race in submarine and air craft.
5. A world court separate from
the league of nations in further
ance of the Harding association of
nations idea.
6. A prosperity program bas-
ed on united action of capital, labor
and the government III eliminating
causes of friction and in getting
foreign markets TO keep American
mills humming.
I. A government operated mer
chant marine that will develop
trade, particular attention being
paid to South American trade.
Prohibition and its enforcement
have no place in the program at
present. Republican leaders say
it is not question for them but
'he party lis on record as unitedlv
dry and will simply re-affirm ITS
position.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
G. 0. P. ANNOUNCES COMING platform
Don't Like /. Y.
Heat? Then
Try This

DAWSON, Y. r., June 9.-The
Yukon was hotter than Texas
Friday; where there was no
shade the mercury climbed to 100
degrees.
1he day was the hottest with
enc exception in the history of
thc' weather bureau which dates
back 23 years. The heat in the
shade was go. On July 10,
three years ago this. mark was
bettaced by two degrees.
just read the above again, and
you folks who were looking at
thermometers on Main street this
mori ing, be thankful that you
live in a cool country and not in
Dawson.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
OFFICIALS START
CLEAN UP OF WALL
STREET CONCERNS
State and Government
Act, Following
Crashes
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, June 9-Spurred on
by the collapse of two curb broker
age houses on successive days, Carl
Sherman, state attorney general to-
day announced he would drive the
underworld off Wall street into
the open and out of business.
Emphasis was given the Sherman
inquiry by the collapse yesterday of
l.. l.. kinkleman and company, and
of the NJ. S. Wolfe company today,
Sherman started a quiet investiga-
ton some weeks ago following the
crash of f. NJ. Fuller and company.
Ruskay and company, Jones and
Baker, Dyer and company, and a
number of others, nearly all of them
with nationwide connections and
offices in the principal cities.
Sherman is making his investiga-
ton under the Martin law which
gave him broad inquisitorial powers
but does not provide him with the
machinery for prosecution. He can,
however, put shady brokerage hous-
es out business by supplying proof
of his charges to the state supreme
court.
While Sherman is digging into
Wall Street an behalf of the state.
the government through federal
District Attorney Hayward is MAX
ing survey of Il situation.
The Winkelman case involves
nearly $10,000,000 it was estimated
today despite the fact that the re
ceivership petition estimated liabil-
tiles at 81, 100000 and assets at
81 100000.
The Wolfe failure probably will
not involve more than $4,000, it
was estimated. Assets were placed
at a few hundred dollars.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
|. V. DAIRY MEN
ENJOYING HIGHER
PRICES THAN 1922

Considerable increase is noted in
the market price for butter at Los
Angeles, according to the June bull
letin of the Imperial Valley Milk
Producers Association. On June l,
1922 the Los Angeles price was
$3.50 cents and on June / 1928,
AIS cents, an increase of G.5S
cents.
The average price paid to mem
bers of the association for butter
fat during the first five months of
the year was 1850 cents, compared
with 1920 cents for the same peri
cd last year, an increase of 9.39
cents. The average premium paid
to members in the same period for
1922 was 2.28 cents and for this
wear was 3.71 cents, an increase of
! 1.43 cents.
The month of May is the eighth
successive month that members of
the Imperial Valley Milk produc-
ers Association have obtained a
higher price for their butterfat
than the pr:ce received by other
dairymen.
June 5, the Los Angeles price
went up three cents, making the
wholesale quotation A cents, with
San Francisco 451a cents and New
York 39h cents.
The weekly bulletin of the United
States Bureau of Markets, dated
June :, states that owing to the
production on the Pacific coast hay-
ing passed the peak for the season,
continuance of good prices for
butter may be looked for.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
HOT CLASH AT
CONFERENCE ON
BOULDER DAM
Arizona Would Tax All
Energy Developed
In the State
by United Press Leased Wire

SANTA BARBARA, June 9. -
When an agreement recognizing
Arizona s exclusive right to all or
the Gila river flow is reached, Ari-
zona will agree to the Colorado riv
er pact,' declared Judge j. O.
B::ughn of Phoenix, addressing the
conference at the League of the
Southwest today.
The statement is the first given at
the conference for Arizona's real
reason for Withholding the pact en-
dOrsemeDt.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, June 8.
~ hot interstate clash developed
between Arizona and California at
the League of the Southwest con
ference late yesterday when Walter
V. Woehlke of San Francisco, de-
clared from the floor that "Ari-
zona s attitude toward the develop
ment Of the Colorado constitutes a
menace to the republic. -
Woehlke made plea for cooper
alton in developing the river. He
said that Arizona is holding out to
tax every particle OF electric ener-
gy developed in Arizona and dis
tributed outside the state.
George II. Maxwell, executive di-
rector of the national reclamation
replied to Woehlke by saying that a
large number of Arizona citizens
objected to having water allotments
made which would permanently
limit Arizona to irrigation of 200,-
600 acres of land, while under the
Hoover pact 200,000,000 in Lower
California would come under irri-
cation. He said Arizona could easi-
~ irrigate a million acres.
Favors Government Plan
The government s plan for the
big Boulder Canyon dam remained
in favor with delegates.
The plan of w. G. Clark, New
York engineer, envisages an i'm
mense scheme of private ownership
and development with government
aid. 1t is backed by II group of
New York capitalists. 1t calls for
construction Of a dam at Boulder
Canyon 1000 feet high, to generate
million horsepower.
To carry throuh the plan he would
have the government issue $780,,
100000 in bonds to finance the pro-
ject. Eventually the private capi-
talists would take over this issue
Of bonds.
The plan of George H. Maxwell Of
Phoenix, calls for low dam at To-
poe for Imperial Valley flood con-
troll and an 500 foot dam at Glen
Canyon. A huge canal eventually
would be split into two canals, one
of which would carry the water all
over western Arizona and the 9TH
er carrying water through a system
of tunnels to southern California.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
PROBE new CLUE
MYSTERY MURDER
WILLIAM TAYLOR
"6-FOOt Cow Boy" Says
Robbery Actuated
Crime
by United Press Leased Wire

SEATTLE, Wash, June o.
Search for man whose name i S
known and who is described as a
six foot cow boy from Texas
was launched today in one more at
tempt to solve the William Desmond
Taylor murder mystery.
This man. according to John Car
mody, deputy prosecutor, and Craw-
ford Is. White, attorney, told them
that he had been in possession of a
ring and $25 COO worth of bonds said
to have been the property of Taylor.
This story, officers said, assigned
robbery as the motive of the murder
of the Los Angeles movie director,
which stirred the country by its i'm
penetrablc mystery.
The man VINO was beng sought
was under felony charges here n
year ago but secured his release and
left the city.
Attorney White said the man
Offered him the ring and bond as a
retainer fee. White took him be-
fore Carmody and to them the man
described Il supposed cache where
the valuables, along with $4,000 in
securities were hidden.
The Officers, led by the "cow-
boy started in search of the sup
posed cache. They went south OH
the Tacoma highway to Des Moines
Junction; counted 4S8 poles on the
railroad track; saw white cottage
on the hillside; spotted a hole 10
the fence, walked 100 PAGES beyond
the hole; and there started to dig.
They found nothing although
there were plain evidences that some
one had dug there before them.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
ANOTHER SHIPPER
OF GREEN MELONS
HEAVILY FINED
Rigid 24-HOur Inspection
Being Maintained on
Highways

Another conviction for attempt
ing tc ship green cantaloupes was
obtained hy the Horticultural cosl-
missioner office when Frank ko-
ch,ki was fined 500 following a
hearing in the FL Centre town court
last night. Inspectors of the horti-
cultural commissioner s office testi-
fled that Kochiki had been warned
not TO ship the cantaloupes, and had
persisted in packing them.
Attempts of INSCRIPTIONS persons
to carry green melons from the I'M
perial Valley in trucks, to be sold in
coast cities have been frustrated, ac-
cording to 3. A. Harrigan, horticul
tural commissioner, who stated to
day that his office is maintaing q
q hour inspection service on the
Los Angeles and San Diego high
ways, as well as at Yuma bridge.
Several truckloads of green melons
have been cCnfiscated in this way;
and where the truckman did not
know the canta!oupes were not up
to standard. the seller has been com
PEELED to return the purchase price
and warned that repetition of the
offonse will be followed with prose.
cutiOn.
90 Inspectors at Work
At present there are 20 inspectors
working under the supervision OF
the horticultural! commissioner, lS OF
whom devote their time to the can
taioupe shipments and the other
The federad inspectors who are IL
Imperial Valley III connection will
cantaloupe shipments, have no pow
er to make arrests, according to Mr.
Harrigan, who states that then
work is confined to guaranteeing
the condition of carload shipments
leaving here. In ease the canta
loupes arrive in the market in al
unstable condition, the testimony
Of these inspectors as to the condi
t ion of the car when it leaves here
is taken in any suits that may de
velop from such an occurrence.
Yesterday the horticultural com
missioner office brought in S5t
date shoots which We're taken from
q ranch iii the lockwood district
after it had been found they were
infested with scale. These will be
5urned in order to prevent spread
of the pest.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
Find Aged Goat
Making
HOOch
By United Press

SAN JOSE, Cal, June 9. -
Prohibition officers have long
maintained that bootleggers
brew concoction equal to the
devils own, but rot until yes
terday war the cloven hoof actu-
ally discovered.
When officers raided the home
Of George Morocco and captured
his still, they discovered an aged
gc@t treading mash in a con-
crete tank in the cellar.
Aha chortied Chief of Po-
lice Black. Goat, you re pinch
ed as the capricornus cri1ninis.
Don't you know you re violating
the law?''
"Bla a. hiccoughed the
goat.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
Flood Menaces
in Kas. Rivers
by United Press Leased Wire

WICHITA, Kans., June "a
steady downpour of rain, draining
into the already swoi~a waters of
the Big and Little Arkansas rivers,
caused flood fears in Wichita to-
day,
Chisholm Creek has overflowed
its banks, flooding lowlands and
police on horses have carried many
families to higher ground.
A tornado which struck near
Wichita yesterday followed de-
luge of rain and caused consider
able property damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
British, Belgian
Troops in Ruhr
by United Press Leased Wire

BERLIN, June 9.-Britain and
Belgiais batteries entered Dussel
dorf on a peaceable mission today
and not for any occupational invas-
ion, it was stated in late reports
from the Ruhr industrial center.
The British and Belgian forces
are to participate in military ex-
hibitions in connection with a
horse show until Tuesday, it is
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
POINCARE WILLING
TO MAKE ANSWER
TO GERMAN NOTE
ny United Press Leased Wire

PARIS, June 9-Premier Poincare
notified Great Britain, Italy and
Belgium that she is willing to sign
common reply to the German rep
arations proposal, provided it is
simply demand that Berlin aban-
don her policy of passive resistance
in the Ruhr. The French premier
pointed oat to the allies that this
could constitute first step, which
he considers absolutely necessary
before discussing an answer to the
latest Cuneo note.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
400 DROWN
IN FLOODS
BY United Press Leased Wire

STOCKHOLM, June 9. - Four
hundred persons are reported drown
ed in recent Russian floods which
swept the lower Volga Valley. Sew
enty thousand were made homeless.
News of the disaster was contained
in dispatches from Moscow.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
Seek to Remove
Beggars in L. A.
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, June 9.-On ae-
count of the large number of beg
gars who infest the strrets of Los
Angeles, reminding travellers of the
mendicant situation in the poorer
countries of Europe, the Social Ser.
vice commission is making survey
with view to obtaining honest em-
ployment for all such persons.
Make Los Angeles beggarless
city is the slogan of the commits
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
SEA TRAGEDY
CLAIMS THREE,
by United Press Arased Wire

LISBON, June ga crazed
secor,1 officer on the United
States shipping board steamer
Bravecouer ran amuck while tho
ship was 40 miles at sea, killing
the captain, wireless operator and
wounding a seaman.
The killer committed suicide
when police boarded the boat up
on her arrival at Port Leixoes,
according to dispatches received
here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
MEXICAN BANDITS
ARE BUSY AGAIN
By United Press Leased Wire

MEXICO CITY, June 9-Mexican
bandits wrecked passenger train
near Pucbla last night, causing
deaths of number of passengers,
according to dispatch to the news
paper Excelsior today.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
JUNE 10 DATE FOR
KU KLUZ KHAN HEARING
by United Press Leased Wire

ATLANTA, Ca, June 9.--Hear-
ing on petition for receivers for
the KU KLUX KHAN was set for
June 10 today. The hearing was
postponed because of crowded court
docket.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
Zev Wins Handicap
BY United Press Leased Wire

BELMONT PARK, N. ", June 0.
zev won the Belmont Handicap to-
day with Chickvalc second ard Ri.
alto third.
Vigil, winner Of the prealmess,
was scratched.
zev jumped TO the front in tho
first quarter ara was never hesded.
Martingale trailed behind him for q
while, but he drew away fast. Tho
time was 2:19 SO for the mile and
three sixtecnths.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
Seal Up Wine
Aboard Ships
by United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, June 9.-Liquor
stores aboard all ships in New
York harbor, including rations of
the crews will be sealed up at 5
p. m. today and 10 seaman will be
permitted to carry his ration ashore,
the customs department announced.
No further releases will be signed
by the customs department after
that time it is said.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
AutOist Killed
in Train Race
By Un,tcd PRESS Leased Wir,

LONG BEACH, Cal, June 8. -
!" He tried to beat the train,'' was
the story told at the morgue today
when the body of George Pullman
was brought in. Pullman tried to
make grade crossing in his ma
chine ahead of speeding Pacific
Electric car and was instantly kill
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09
COTTON MARKET
closed steady.

Spots 2Y.UU, unchanged.
NEW YORK, June o. Cottor
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-09

Spots 2y.lO, up rs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-21
PROF FESS|ONA[S IN
 MARkET I ARE STILL ONLY REAL BUYERS
Public Remaining Outside Until Bull Movement Is
 Started, Observers Say
By WALTER B. BROWN Editor Of The New York Commercial Geased Wire To The Age-Herald.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 2o.-Thursday s stock market was another fight be- tween professionals, and was with out significance in relation to the general trend of affairs. It moved upward or downward according to the moments technical advantage, with the hear drive at the close carrying away what slight recovery there had been and forced standard issues down to new low levels for this decline.
 United States Steel closed at Sl l-S, Baldwin at IA 5-s, representing losses of 1 -5-S; Studebaker suffered d smilar net decline, closing at 1OS American Can closed at 90la, off 1 3-S, and New York Central at 10O12, off l. The two oil stocks which had been bearing the brunt of the attacks did not suffer so much, Sinclair closing at r 3-4, a loss of 14. and Cosden at 24 IA, loss of 3-4.
 It Is useless to attempt to analyze such market in relation to events of the day, because there is no re- lationship. The weakness of the present situation lies in the fact that the public is out of the market. It Is pretty much like travelling in circle t6 insist that the bull market cannot be started until the public comes back, because the public will not come back until after a bull mar ket has been started. It is for that reason that sporadic attempts have been made to organize the bull move ment by rallying around such stocks s New York Central. There are, in fact, & number of pools organized, but they do not get anywhere because there are other pools mean enough to sell their stocks,
 It Is generally conceded that the industrial outlook is sound with the exception of the oil industry. There are some who have doubts about the automobile trade holding out, but the doubters are not among the auto mobile manufacturers themselves, who are going right ahead in pre- paration for heavy business,
 The present decline in stocks re- ceived it's initiative from the break in the price of crude oil last March. It was accelerated when the high building costs caused 8 number of projects to be deferred, development which has seized upon in an endeavor to create the impression of an i'm pending buyers strike. The bear element seized upon this and made such good use of it that the public was frightened out of the market and has remained out practically ever since.