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Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
!. Y. PUBLICITY
AT CONVENTION
MEETING THEME

Just what form of publicity will
be given to Imperial Valley and
Boulder Canyon dam at the Ameri-
can Legion national convention in
San Francisco next week, the Inter
post Council of the American Leg
ion was unable to decide at last
night S meeting. Several members
objected to spending too much
money for a float, believing that
better results will be obtained by
using the money for printed data
which can be passed out among the
delegates. The question of float
will be thrashed out before the
delegates leave for the California
caucus which is to be held next
Friday. On one point were the
members of the councile agreed and
that is that Imperial Valley is to
be kept prominently before the
convention at all times.
Rev. George A. Hartman, state
I chaplain of the Legion, reported on
his trip to Washington as repre-
sentative of Imperial Valley at the
hearing on the Colorado river
power sites. Mr.. Hartman gave the
: council an account of his personal
experiences on the trip, which was
thoroughly enjoyed.
Vaughn Thompson reported that
the room in the new courthouse
which will be furnished for the
use of eX-service men, will be at
the disposal of the Legion for va
rious meetings and will provide an
adequate place for the Interpost
council to meet.
Discussion of the coming conven-
tion occupied the attention of the
Legionaiires and it seems likely that
good sized delegation from I'M
perial Valley will be on hand at
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
PRES. COOLIDGE ASKS ALL U.S..
TO help COMBAT FIRE DEMON

'the shape of rubbish piles and. in
flammable material careessly ex-
posed to fire. Every citizen in El
Centre is enlisted in this campaign
against dirt and rubbish.
Ministers to Help
The week will be given a good
start tomorrow by the ministers of
the city who will urge their congre-
cations to cooperate with the clean
up campaign committee. Through
out the early part of next week the
districts into which the city has
been divided will be visited by the
team leaders and property owners
urged to get busy on cleaning them
up so that next Friday, when the
final charge is made against King
Dirt, it will not be Il difficult
matter to gather up all the rubbish
and remove it.
Teachers in the public schools
have been asked to call the atten'
tion of their pupils to the necessity
of assisting in the cleanup cam
paign and the committee in charge
will be active throughout the week
in directing the work. Leaders in
the various civic organizations urge
the support of their members. There
is no reason why FL Centre will not
be truly clean city week from
today, and with the cooperation of
every man, woman and child it will
be.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Hundreds OF Shots
Fired i7l> Terrific
Fight in Streets

by United Press Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, October g.
More than 500 police were
thrown out in a Gordon about
the fashionable residence dis
trict of the city shortly after
noon today in an effort to in
tercept car containing group
Of desperate lbootleggers who
shot and probably wounded one
federa. prohibition officer and
engaged in a fifteen mile run
ming revolver battle with an
other.
The duel was still in progress
in the heart Of the city shortly
after noon, the federal agent
and the bootleggers having eX-
changed shots near Tenth ana
Hoover streets, after having
fired numerous shots at each
other all the way from Van
Nuys through the heart Of Hol-
lywood and into the congested
district Of Los Angeles.
The wounded man is George X
Christie, federal agent, who wa
shot when he and X. X. Woodsido
agent, stopped larg
Packard touring car on Ventur
near Universal City.
The gun battle started at Van
Nuys, according to meager report
1t police headquarters and then pro
ceeded through Cahuenga Pa
across Hollywood and down SAINT
Monica boulevard, the automobile
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
EVANS INDICTED
ON new CHARGE,
TRIAL ON MONDAY
Last Indictment Grows
Out of Fine For
Speeding

Another indictment has been re-
turned against Frank w. Evans,
formerly justice of the peace at
Heber, by the Imperial County
grand jury, which found a true bill
charging him with appropriating to
his own use, money collected as a
fine. The indictment was turned
over to Judge Franklin j. Cole and
the district attorney will issue a
warrant for Evans arrest.
The first Indictment against
Evans was returned last spring and
he was released on $1,000 bonds.
The date set for trial is Monday,
October 8.
The second indictment alleges
that Evans appropriated to his own
use a $40 check given him by Andy
Preble of this city in payment of a
fine for exceeding the speed limit.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
500 |. A. OFFICERS IN BOOZE BATH
LLOYD GEORGE ASKS
FOR NATIONS UNITY
TO AVERT COLLAPSE
By LAWRENCE MARTIN,

United Press staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, October 6.-After
less than "a hours in New York
most Of them very, strenuous hours
Lloyd George today started for
Montreal on the second lap Of his
tour of the United States and Can
ad..
The first lap ended last midnight
when the little Welsh dynamo retir-
ed after day crammed with Incl
dents, including two speeches, Il
triumphal procession through the
city. luncheon, two audiences with
the press and a musical play where
he attracted much more attention
than the actors.
Seven and Il Lalf hours sleep suf-
feed.
At 7:30 a. m. today Lloyd George
was up, eager to get on with his
trip. He breakfasted in his suite
at the Waldorf Hotel, then started
for the Grand Central station. The
train is due to reach Montreal at
$50 p. IN. a daylight trip was ar
ranged 50 the former British prem
ier could see the Hudson river Pali-
sades, West Point, the Adirondack
mountains and other points of in
terest enroute.
The keynote of Lloyd George S
speeches on the American continent
is believed to have been sounded i'll
his address at the luncheon tender
ed by the board of directors of the
United Press in the Hotel Biltmore.
Continued on page 4
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
fire in THE j. S.

Caused $4,000 deaths in 1922.
Destroyed property valued at
over S5OO,00O,0 1000.
Destroys every minute proper
ty worth $993.
Makes a per capita loss of
$4.75; England's is 72 cents.
Is the only thing that has ever
Clicked America.
Injuries over 1900 people an
nually.
Makes women and children it's
chief victims.
Has carelessness for its chief
ally.
May r,umber you among its
victims.
Loss in Ell Centre is this year
double that of 1922
Must not be fought by fire
men alone-everyone must help.
Observe Fire Prevention Week
October 7-13, clean up your prop
erty and KEEP 1T CLEAN.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
by United Press Leased Wire

EDDYNILLE, KY, Oct. 6.-Pris-
on authorities shortly after noon to-
day succeeded in laying a pipe into
the mess hall fortress Of the be-
leaguered convicts through Which
ammonia gas is to be sent in an at
tempt to drive the trio of gunmen
into the open.
John Chiffon, warden, ordered the
pipe run into the mess hall base
ment when almost continuous bonn
bardment by machine gun and rifles
failed to dislodge the prisoners.
An ammonia tank was being at
tached to the pipe. At the warden s
office it was thought the attack
would be around p. m.
Militiamen surrounding the mess
hall stopped their firing but kept
their rifles poised Those nearest
the north breach in the wall said
they could see some one moving
about inside.
The attackers went across the 80
yards of open space, exposed to the
fire of the convicts. They climbed
up the eight stairs leading to the
mess hall door and inserted the pipe.
The men who carried the pipe are
Arthur Lantz, life term convict
from Bowling Green; Charles How
ard, Paducah, III for ten years, and
National Guardsmen Kelly and
Hawkins, of Madisonville.
Hand Grenades, Too
After the gas is forced through
the pipe authorities plan to throw
few hand grenades into the mess
hall, then send attackers equipped
with gas masks into the interior to
see if the imprisoned men are still
alive.
Preparations for blasting the pris-
oners from their fortress with dyn-
amite were broken off last night un-
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Dies When Prison
Record Reviv ed
BY Blackmai Ter
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.-The
blaekmailer who appeared on the
scene when Frederick b. McElroy
was trying to live down Il prison
record after he had become post
master at Gold Roads, Arizona, was
being sought by federal authorities
today. McElroy committed suicide
here yesterday leaving a note charg-
ing the. blackmailer with mulcting
him of considerable funds and of
stealing his wife's affections. The
postmaster was to face trial short
ly on q charge of absconding with
money orders taken from the Ari-
IONA office.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Parsons Named as
Fees Succe S sOr

J. II. r. Parsons has been appoint
ed successor to the late Charles S.
Fee as passenger traffic manager
of the Southern Pacific Company
according to information received at
the district freight and passenger
agent IS office today Mr.. Parsons
was formerly assistant to Mr.. Fee.
He has had long experience in rail
road work and until 1917 was gen
eral passenger agent of the com
pany's lines in Louisiana, in which
position he did much to build up
the company's traffic between New
Orleans and Pacific coast points.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Gas rs
TO Disl0dge Trio
OF Desperad0es

, der orders from the state board of
charities.
Intermittent firing came from the
dining hall at dawn today. Prison
guards said they believed two of
the convicts were either dead or Sc
verely wounded.
Military rule was in force at the
prison this morning. The declara-
tion followed the visit of the char
tiles board last night.
Two Units of Guard
The ring of death surrounding
the small fortress into which Monte
Walters, Lawrence Griffith and
Continued on page six
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Pair Must Spend
Life in Prison
For L. A. Staying
by United.Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.-Calvin
Rowell and Jim Wheaton must serve
n life sentence for the murder of
Police Officers Brett and Glover on
the night of December 6. 1927, ac-
cordng to affirmation of the trial
court s decision handed down by
the appellate court Yesterday. Will
liam Bringhurst and Willard Thomp-
son, sentenced for the same murder,
are under stay of execution pend
! ing the decision of the supreme
court.
Jesse Wendell, fifth member of
the band, shot and killed himself
when cornered by officers. The men
were arrested by the officers while
out on confessed expedition of
robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
$4,000 ACRES SCHOOL
LANDS TO BE SOLD

Imperial Valley residents desir-
ing to purchase any of $4,000 acres
of state school land in Shasta coun-
ty which will be offered at public
auction, October 30, can obtain full
information by addressing the Sur
veyor General at Sacramento.
The sale commences at 10 a. m. at
the courthouse in the city of Red
ding, terms, 10 per cent cash, the
balance bearing six per cent inter
est. The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
Allister Really
Married This
Time!

PARIS, October 6.-Allister
Mccormick of Chicago was
married to Joan Stevens, an
English girl, at 8 p. m. today at
the church of the British en-
bassy.
The church ceremony follow
cd civil wedding in the city
hall at which the deputy mayor
officia'ed. Mccormick TO
nance with Mary Landon Baker,
the Chicago girl, who many
times left him waiting at the
church, ended some time ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
OCEAN POURS IN
ON II SAILORS,
MENACES LIVES
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Oct. 6.-An
improperly closed valve allowed the
ocean to gush through torpedo
tube on IA sailors imprisoned in a
watertight compartment below the
waterline on the super-dreadnaught
New Mexico, it was learned here
today. The men narrowly escaped
with their lives, being rescued after
the ocean water had reached a
hcight Of four feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
new CABINET TO
Ask REICHST AG
FOR MUCH POWER
Believe Move Forecasts
Dictatorship By
Chancellor
by United Press Leased wire

LONDON, October 6.-Chancellor
Stresemann appeared before the
Reichstag in Berlin this evening
and told the German parliament his
reorganized cabinet will ask for un-
precedented powers, according to
Central News dispatch.
Stresemann warned the reichstag
it will be asked to renounce its
rights as a lawmaking body for
long time.
The speech was interpreted as
paving the way for the long expect
ed Stresemann dictatorship of the
German reich.
Stresemann admitted the failure
of passive resistance to Franco-Bel.
gian occupation of the Ruhr.
The government could not have
continued resistance one day longer,
he said, explaining his decision to
give up the struggle.
The Chancellor was pessimistic
regarding Germany S future.
''We m&y expect additional op-
preston from the French he said.
BERLIN, October 6.-Formation
of the new cabinet of Chancellor
Gustav Stresemann was completed
this afternoon.
The portfolio of finance will be
filled by Herr Luther, who was
minister of foods in the old govern
ment. At first it was announced
that Director Schact would be min
lister of finance but later informa-
tion YVES given out declaring Luther
would fill the post.
Chancellor and foreign affairs.
Stresemann; Vice c han ell o r,
Schmidt; finance, Luther; economy,
Col. Kueth; occupied regions, Fuchs;
interior, S. Gilman; railways, Oeser;
posts, Hoefle; labor, Brauns; army,
Gessler, and justice, Radbruch.
The ministry of foods, formerly
held by Herr Luther, remains un-
occupied.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06

KINSTON, N. c., October 6.
Voters of the second North
Carolina congressional district
went to the polls today to select
successor to Representative
Gland Kitchen, former democra-
tic leader.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
BULLETINS

By United Press Leased Wire
KANSAS CITY, Mo, October
6.-Dance halls which allow
cheek to check dancing will be
closed, the city welfare board
announced today.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, October
6.-Only rs per cent of the
people of Kansas City attend
church regularly, q religious
census of the city showed to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06
WATCH KELS In
BELIEF HE MAY
Be UNBALANCED
BY United Press Leased Wire


STOCKTON, Col, October O.
"The law says A life for a life
and | am ready to pay Alex,
kels, who had pleaded guilty to
charge of murder today told Nor
gan Sanborn, deputy sheriff and
old friend of his.
Kels was discussing his appear
gnce in court yesterday when he
entered the formal plea which, III
the law S eyes made him legally
guilty of having murdered a work
man he hired. The victim 5 body
was then buried by Mrs. Kels in the
belief that it was the body of her
husband
Kels mind for hours after the
arraignment seemed to be dwelling
on the appearance he made in court.
But while Kels is anxious for
the court to pronounce sentence he
is not TO have his way. Superior
Judge d. NJ. Young, before whom
Kels made his plea, announced that
he will delay sentence perhaps for
weeks--at least until he is satis-
fled as to whether or not Kels is
sane. Experts have been directed
to observe him in Jail; the district
attorney has been called upon to
furnish the court with evidence NOT
only on the crime but on Kels men
tai condition; and Judge Young
said today that if the results then
fail to satisfy him he viii arbitrari-
ly order Il jury trial.
May Appoint Lawyer
Thus far Kels has refused an
attorney but Judge Young declared
he might direct lawyer to take
up Kels defense regardless of
Kels own attitude.
Those who have seen Kels declar-
ed today that plainly he was not
the Alex Kes who, a month ago,
/ was rated as the leading butcher
and a prominent citizen of Lodi,
hailed ut the chamber of commerce
meeting as Alex aud considered
one of the substantial men of Main
street.
Word from the home of Mrs. Kels
who still is ignqrant Of the fact
that her husband is alive and
charged with murder, instead Of as
leep in the cemetery, was that there
still is little hope for her recovery.
Identification of the victim as
! Ed. Meservey, a labor, has been
partially made, but the Officers ara
not satisfied.
Discoveries only date back q few
million years 20 first coal strike II
not among them.
If they bring these Mongolian
fossils into America the things may
run for Congress.
Had King Tut dresses last vim
ter. Found dinosaurs now. Dino.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06

SAN FRANCISCO, October 6.
General jose Haller, COM
mander of the Polish armies
during and since the world war,
will be one of the first dis
tinguishcd visitors to arrive
here for the annual convention
of the Loyal Legion which be-
gins its sessions October Is.
FORT SCOTT, Kansas, Octo-
ber 6.--Hearing was held today
on the application of state Of
ficials for an injunction pre-
venting the Ku Klrx Klan from
holding masked parades in any
city of Kansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06

Discoveries only date back q few
million years 70 first coal strike IL
not among them.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06

If they bring these Mongolian
fossils into America the things may
run for Congress
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-06

Had King Tut dresses last vim.
ter Found dinosaurs now. Dino
saurs went naked, Look Quit
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
They Insist Upon Spelling Infants and
Parents Pay Penalty in Mid
night Watches.

mother who must stand 81 ana
see an The standards 81 better
babies blastedl But what can
one squeek out 81 her sends
the ancient ancestors into q rage,
and they remind her that with
a1l their crude ideas 81 child cul-
ture they have provided cOupla
bank presidents and successful
business men, swell society
Iaatr0n and two speedy ste1iogs.
Bread and butter with sugar
on IL and cookies between meals
didn't turn out such bad results
as the more recent RESEARCHES
would indicate.
DAD PAYS THE PRICE.
But when you are maISing
! tyFet1ty-s0Ven laps an hour around
the living room with the yOWling
yOunkster showing signs 0f be-
coming b great baryt0ne, It's 3
cincIl You can't help being sore
and wishing YOu had courage to
say something TO those pelf-satne
afahduafents who come over ana
carry out their ideas Of entertain
LNA& yWuE AAAME4A E0441s NAhAp4AOt
The patient young Pop decides
% BIZ very emphatic when they
show mp again and straddle the
kid across grandpass number
twelve gfOundgTippers ana start
him galI0ping of like 4 bronco
buster on Star Buster.
It's going ID Be 3 mean thing
to put over, but something has
got TO be dOlAe..
He can't sit BY and see his
precious Junior j0lted into . state
Of d0tage ct the tender age Of
four months.
The young couple are thinking
seriously Of organizing 3 national
society for the suppression 81
grandparents!
The first rule and regulation
being that said fond grandparents
must keep safe distance from
their precious descendant and 40
their adOring from the side lines!
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Nv EAY KING

The irate young parent doing
mileage at night with the four
H1Onth-Old pOundase sure has b
grudge against the fond grand
parents who dropped iti hat
afternoon to daddle the dear ftktI6
descendant and spoil HIS after
noon nap!
GfandpOp, siifelltne strong 81
his old pipe, sinaclked The little
dutker right on his dInlples, and
grandma chuclked his chubby III
tie tuIiliiiy TIL the kid must have
felt like pin cushion!
It's tough to Try and ten grand
ma and grandpa that tIaey 0ltEllta
cut out that stuff, because they
launched eight husky citizens on
the world and would laugh at
wise cracks from the proud nos
SCISSORS Of 3 firsf-bor1a.
Junior Is being raised accord
ing to the rules and regulations
o. the better baby book, which is
dead against bouncing, tlcLIfnS,
kissing. cuddIing and catering.
Baby Is supposed 10 set or tO
sleep on schedule time ma sil0fH
ont his nap no matter who hap
pens To drop iii. D
But grandma ana grandpa
ca1iter III and oyer % babS's III
tie beddy and trab him Iil1 aIld
toss him about, with the result
that the baby'B pa has 10 make
the bases all night long with the
future President yelling like 4
fight FAINT
PATENTS m AGONY.
The young parents sIaudder
when they see grandma and
grandpa plant cOmbusti0us kisses
upon their precious baby's rose
bud mouth. Grandpa's kisses
being b Bit shot with home brew
and his smelly pipe!
Grandma lets the little un1pEfKs
chew her antiquated handbag
and gna;W &c her WeIl-wOrn gloves,
all 81 which sends shudders down
the spine Of the miserable little
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Deaths
Mrs. ANNE L. HOEILING.

MRS. ANNIE 4. HOEHLING.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
r. Hoehling, seventy-nil1e years old.
mother Of Justice q. A. Hoehling, Of
the District Supreme Court, were
held today from the home Of her
son-i1i-law, G. r.. r.. Ogilby. IL Prim-
rose street, chevy Chase. Inter
ment was In Arlington National
Cemetery.
Mrs. HoehIing died at the Ogilby
home, wednesday night. She was
the widow OF Rear Admiral A. A.
Hoehling. She was born In Phila-
delphiR In 1843. and was married
in 1851. Other than Justice Hpeh.
ling, she is survived by two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Joseph r. Wilmer, Of
Annapolis, Nd. and Mrs. Ogilby.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
NYE SPIRIT.
INVOKED IN
CONTEST
Thanksgiving Dinners Wers
Ever Deadly, Says Contributor
to Menu Competition.

The late Bill Nye, remarks one
entrant In the Thanksgiving menu
recipe contest Of The WASHINGTON
Times and The Washington Herald,
had some poignant words to say
about the institution OF this popular
holiday.
His quaint description Of the
first Thanksgiving Is appealing in
the extreme. Here the Pilgrim
fathers invited the poor Ieathssi
savages In out Of the wild to par
take at the festal hoard. The IN.
dams came, but they refused to
check their blunderbusses at the
door. much to the Pilgrim fathers
chagfin.
Prefer Open Dying.
Thereupon an INSCRIPTIONS young
Pilgrim father srteaked out into the
kitchen and quietly mixed 4 little
arsenic with the baked beans,
which he passed to the rudy
guests. One BY ono the children Of
nature got up quietly and wandered
off into the virgin forest, because
they had never got into the habit
of dying In the house.
Thanksgiving dinners, continues
this contributor, have since that
time often been as deadly. abso-
Iutely without assistance from
arsenic or other f,oisons, simply be-
cause Of their immensely, richness,
and indigestibility. It II only
within recent years that the build
ing Of q Thanksgiving dinner has
become the art 1t should be and has
become to It's partakers d matter Of
high satisfaction rather than deadly
peril.
Anybody, she says, can sling to-
gether d repast which will include
everything from blue points 70
turkey and back down the scale. It
takes science and art, she opines, to
combine the items IN q Harmonious
and artistic fashion.
A Tasty Selection.
One Of the methods of committing
h collection Of dishes 90 az to result
In d Thanksgiving dinner ID re-
vealed iii the following menu, So
lected at random from those sub
mitted In the contest:
Tomato Soup
Blue Points.
Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing
Cranberry Jelly
Fried Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Spaghetti and Cheese, Italian Style
Cold Slaw American Cheese
Hot Mine Pie Pumpkin Pie
MINIS Nuts Fruits
Coffee or Tea
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Death Notices

November Is, 1923, at his late resl-
dence, 116 East Capitol street, MADI-
SON A.. husband of the late Frances
Fazio Ballinger and father of Mrs.
Marian B. Hiddinger, of New York.
and Mr.. Philippe Fazio Ballinger, of
Savannah, Ga. Funeral private. Please
omit flowers.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
BIG CROWD WANTS TO SEE
BLACK MARIA, CUSTOMERS

The BLACK Maria,'' interesting to
those who watch others get In,
caused large crowd Of spectators
to gather in front OF the McLachien
building yesterday to catch q
glimpse Of the prisoners who were
being given q preliminary hearing
before United States Commissioners
Macdonald.
When John Royal Oak, 30 Four
and-a-haIf street southwest. ana
RAYMOND Thomas, S5 Fenton street
northwest. were brought out, they
were the cynosure of several hun.
dred eyes.
Both men were charged with
violating the narcotic laws. They
were ordered held IN $1,000 bond for
d, grand jury hearing.