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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
SEC. WEEKS AND
PARTY IN L. A.
by United Press Lensed Wire

LOS ANGELES, May 2l.-Secre-
tary of War John w. Weeks and a
party including five senators and
22 representatives will arrive here
today from San Diego aboard the
army transport U. S. Grant,
Weeks will be accompanied by
nearly score of high army and
navy officers. The party will be
entertained here by a commmittee
from the chamber of commerce.
Weeks will speak tonight at a BAN
quet on the state militia and the
attitude of the government on the
recent appropriation for the main
tenanee of that body.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
Davis Expected
Back This Week

Although the state legislature
adjourned Saturday, inquiry at the
home Of Assemblyman George II.
Dvis today revealed the informa-
tion that he is not expected home
until the latter part of this week,
having been detained in Sacramen-
to to clear up several matters pend
ing when adjournment was taken.
Following his arrival here, Mr.. Da-
Wis plans to remain for q week or
two, and will then leave on an ex-
tensive automobile trip to the east.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
BON AR LAW
OUT rs, n E w
MAN SOUGHT
BY LLOYD ALLEN
., P, Staff CorrespordenJ

LONDON, May 21.-Marquis Cur
zon of Kedleston, secretary of state
for foreign affairs since 1919 is the
most likely successor to the pre-
miership from which Andrew Bonar
Law resigned last night.
Ill health, throat affliction
from which his physicians hold out
but lit5le hope OF immediate recov-
cry, forced the Scotch Canadian
who has been at the helm of British
affairs since October to forward his
resignation to King George by mes
senger. He was too i'll too even to
pay the customary personal visit.
Curzon has many political enc
mics, however. 1t is reported Lord
Derby, for one, would refuse to
serve in a cabinet under the pres
ent foreign secretary. There is al
so objection to having as premier
of Great Britain Il man entitled to
q seat in the house of lords. Conse-
quently Standley Baldwin, present
chancellor of the eXchequer, is men
toned as second choice.
Lord Derby Next
Lord Derby and the Earl of Bal
four are next in line while James
Pogge, prominent liberal, is men
toned.
1t is feared that discussion in the
conservative rank may lead to q
break in the party ranks which will
open the way for a government of
the left, labOrsocialist, or labor
liberal.
The Morning papers all pay re-
markable tribute to Bonar Law.
The latter's ILLNESS, which was
serious a couple of months ago,
forcing him to appoint Stanley Bal
dwin acting premier, and take Il
vacation, has grown rapidly worse
in the last ten days. Bonar Law is
secluded at his town house, scarce
ly able to speak. His doctors are
not optimistic.
A slight operation was perform
ed on the patient S throat lday, an
Official bulletin from the bedside of
the premier, who resigned last night
stated today.
"Otherwise Mr.. B.onar Law s
condition is unchanged the bulle-
tin said.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
BATTLE. RACES
NEAR CAMP OF
U. S. CAPTIVES,
Fear Outlaws Will Kill
Prisoners Tuesday
Night
BY RAY G. MARSTIkJ,L
United Press Staff Correspondent

PEKING, May 2l.-Fighting con.
times today around the mouh:"in in
top where the Chinese bandits haze
placed their foreign captives, in
Guiding Americans.
These white men have been pris.
oners for two weeks. The diploma
tie corps today, after reviewing tho
situation, decided to send new
note to the government asking why
fighting is permitted to go ON, with
increasing danger to the lives of the
hostages.
1t is feared that the outlaws wiz
execute their threat to kill two for
eigners Tuesday night unless the
troops cease their attacks. Th,
Chinese authorities have from the
beginning opposed yielding a II
Withdrawing the soldiers. They fav
or pressing the attacks, even at tht
cost of foreign lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
u. S. Women Get
Fatter Trying
to Get Thinner
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, May 2l.-American
women are getting fatter, trying to
get thinner.
More women-especially matrons
are dieting today than ever be.
fore, according to Nine. ALA Rip.
ley, modiste.
A dressmaker hears all WON.
ans troubles and, according to
Nine. Ripley, 99.9 per cent Of their
grief comprises surplus weight,
double chins and rolls about the
"The flapper figure is the mode
even among elderly matrons,' said
Mime. Ripley. "We are making
more garments for stout women
than we ever did. They are com.
bining scientific dieting with espe-
cially designed clothes in an effort
to retain the slender figure
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
j. s. DETERMINED
TO SEE SUGAR
ROW THROUGH
Will Test Out Every
Law Before Asking
New Ones
APPEAL HIGH COURT
Fear Buyers Strike
May Be Dangerous
Weapon
HIGH COURT
By LAWRENCE MARTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1928 by United Press)

Copyright 1928 by United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 2l.-War-
rants for the arrest of alleged sugar
spectators will be issued under in
dictments for conspiracy, if the gov
ernment is beaten in the supreme
court in its efforts to halt the sugar
gouge by injunction.
This step will be taken as part of
an effort to. demand, once and for
all, whether the government, with
its laws and powers, is helpless be-
fore a conspiracy to run up prices
Of the necessaries of life.
Every law that seems applicable
will be tried. If the gougers can
not be brought to justice under any
of them congress will be asked to
make new laws.
The government s motion, filed
today in the supreme court, to expe-
dite the sugar case there, was part
OF this 'show down. which Pres
ident Harding has instructed the
department of justice to bring
about.
Officials here know now what the
outcome will be. The government,
they are convinced, must have more
power before it can obtain legal
sanction of the position that it is a
crime or violation of law for specu-
lative traders to juggle prices of
fOOdstuffs.
New Laws Loom
a request from the administra-
tiOn for law covering this situa-
tion is certain to be made to the
neXV congress, no matter how sue
ccssful the government may be in
the sugar case.
All the constitutionalists in con-
gress and those who are opposed to
more government interference with
business will oppose such law. The
administration will use the sugar
boycott-the effective means thus
far of combating the profiteers-
as an example of the dangers Of
leaving the situation as it is.
Fear Buyers Strike
If a buyers strike can be organ
lied on sugar and it is right that
it should be, under the circum.
stances, Mr.. Harding feels it could
equally well be organized on other
things and for less laudable pur-
poses he believes.
Therefore while they are going to
fight it out with the sugar gougers
and try to make it impossible for
such conspiracies to succeed in the
future, they are aot going to en-
courage the boycott or buyers
strike as a principle of American
economies or politics.
The government carried its legal
fight against alleged sugar gougers
to the supreme court today when
motion was filed appealing from
the action of the district court in
New York refusing an injunction
against the New York Coffee and
Sugar Exchange.
simultaneously another motion
was entered asking that an early
date be set for arguments. There
seems little chance that the court
will hear arguments before the sum
mer adjournment is taken June IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
Poison HOOch Law
Goes Into Effect
By United Press Leased Wire

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 21.-
Ohio 8 poison hooch law went into
effect today. The sale or gift OF
liquor with sufficient "kick" that
it caused the death of the imbiber,
for the first time is punishable 40
second degree murder. In addition
to the murder penalty, the act also
provides a penitentiary sentence for
illicit operation of liquor still, a
$4,000 fine for soliciting orders for
intoxicants and prohibits trial
judges from modifying fines or sus.
pending sentences.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
SOUTHERN SIERRAS
WIN OVER /. A. IN
SUPRE NE COURT
Long, Fight Over Power
Site Ends in High
u. S. Court
L. A. Wanted 320 Acres
For Big Acqueduct
Project
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Ma 2l.- The
supreme court today refused TO re
view action Of the California cir
cult court of apepals dismissing the
suit of the City of Los Angeles,
brought in an effort to get a tract
of land held by the Southern Sier-
ras Power company. The land was
needed by the city tc complete the
S50,0G0,000 aqueduct project.
The trial court ordered the land
condemned and turned over to the
city for $525.000 but the circuit
court reversed and dismissed the
suit. The ,rac; contains 800 acres
and is near Long Valley reservoir.
When told Of the supreme court 8
decision by the Press today, 4. w.
Judy, manager of the Holton Pow
er company, which is a subsidiary
Of the Southern Sierras, expressed
his qualification at the action by
the highest court in the land.
The action of the city of Los An
geles in cndeavoring to compel the
power company to relinquish its
rights to the power site which it
owns at Owens River, was bitterly
protested by the Southern Sierras,
which held the right of municipal
ity to condemn property for its own
use, when it was already being util-
ized for the same purpose by pri,
vatc corporations, was unconstitu-
tional. The Southern Sierras Com
pany has a large power plant on
the site in question.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
MISS GOSS WINS
IN TENNIS MEET
OVER MILE. DEVE
by United Press Leased Wire

ST. CLOUD, France, May 2l.-
Miss Elinor Goss, American entry,
eliminated Nile Deve, France, to-
day in the singles competition of
the world 9 hard court tennis
championship by scores of 6-a and
Ga.
Miss Goss is to meet Mrs Ream-
ish, the British star, tomorrow and
if she wins she will meet Mile Len
glen, world s champion, the follow
ing day.
William M. Johnston, California,
eliminated the Dutch champion, Die
mcrkool 6-3, 6.2, as, 6-4.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
Tax Payers Joy
is Short Lived
BY United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 21.- The
treasury department today revoked
its decision of two weeks ago ex-
empting from income tax, distribu-
ton by corporations of earnings ac-
cumulated before March l, 1913.
The decision had opened the way
to refund millions of dollars to
corporations that had paid tax on
such distributions. Today s reversal
will keep this money in the treas
ury. No explanation accompanied
reversal of the ruling.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
II. S. WAGES NEW FIGHT ON SUGAR TRUS'
Colorado Melon
Crop Wrecked
By Storm!

PUEBLO, Colo, May 21.-
Wir,l, rain and hail were respon-
sible fer damages to crops in the
Rocky Ford di5trict, which may
amount to thousands of dollars
to farmers IN that vicinity, ac-
cording to reports reaching here
today.
The famous Rocky Ford canta
loupe crop is said to have been
a.mo3t completely destroyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
"a DIE, l60 HURT
CRUESOME TOLL
WEEKEND CRASH
Copyright 1928 United Press)

Copyright 1928 United Press)
Twenty four persons were killed
and 100 injured in automobile acct
dents in 20 cities throughout the
country over the weekend it was
shown in the weekly compilation of
the United Press today.
st. Paul, San Francisco and Buff
falo reported three deaths each; two
were killed in New York, Reading,
Pa, and Wilmington, Del, and one
each Of the following: Washington,
Detroit, Marshfield, Mass; Fort
Smith, Ark; Dallas, Macon, Ga. +;
Columbus, Ohio, Sandusky II d
Cleveland.
Thirty eight were injured in
Cleveland, Is in New York and 13
in Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
JUICE PARKED NAMED
TO SUCCEED DAY

WASHINGTON, May 21.-At the
request of Germany, President
Harding today named Judge Edwin
Parker as umpire of the mixed
claims commission, succeeding Judge
w. r. Day, who resigned.
Germany's request was regarded
by Secretary Hughes as high com
pliment, not only to the United
States but also to Judge Parker
personally. Judgs Parker is now a
member of the commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
Socialists Out
After Taft Scalp
by United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, May 2l.-"Justices
of the supreme court Of the United
States are either members of the
Ku Klux Klan dressed up in long
black night gowns or humpty dump
ties' Eugene V. Debs today deelar.
ed.
He said the socialists would
force Chief Justice Taft to resign
because he accepted a Carnegie an
nuity of $4,000. Debs is here to
attend the socialist convention.
Mass meetings will be held in
cities all over the United States and
all ioeas socialist organizations will
be asked to adopt resolutions ask
ing his impeachment.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
ENGLAND ISSUES
ULTIMATE NJ TO
The RUSSIANS
Diplomatic Relations to
Cease Unless Terms
Complied With

By United Press Leased Wire
LONDON, May 21.-Lord
Curzon has demanded the Rus
sian government to fulfill un-
conditionally terms of the re-
cent British note by Wednes-
day or submit to rupture Of
relations, the Daily Herald
states.
Preparations were said by the
newspapers to have been made
that the British light cruisers
and mine sweepers might be
rushed to Russian waters from
Portsmouth and Chatam.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
TO RETRENCH
JAPAN'S NAVY

TOXIC, May 21.--Minister of the
Navy Takarabe, on taking over his
new office today, issued a state
ment declaring that Japan is pre-
pared to cooperate fully with the
other powers of the world in the
limitation of naval armaments. He
declared that his department will
follow a policy of retrenchmont.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
i. S. Government
Wins in Land Suit
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The
supreme court today upheld the Cal
ifronia circuit court of appeals in
the big land fraud suit of the gov
ernment against Curtis, Collins and
Holbrook company. AS result the
federal government can now can
eel patents to 2l tracts, patents
which were secured Illegally under
the timber and stone act.
The government s suit was filed
in 1922 and originally named 70 do
PENDANTS.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
WRECK VAULT,
$1,000 BOOTY
ny United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, May 2l--Wreek-
ing built-in vault Of the Feather
stone Supply house, ycggs early to-
day obtained over $1,000 in cash.
The doors were broken down with
lacks and crowbars.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
$3.50
1000 Native Sons
Convene at Coast
ny United Press Leased Wire

SANTA BARBARA, May 2l. -
With more than 1000 delegates in
attendance the Native Sons of the
Golden West opened its forty sixth
annual convention here today. An
extensive program Of events and
pleasure trips for the visiting dele
gates and their families has been
arranged. A big Spanish entertain.
ment and grand ball will be the
features Of the social events.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
LEE SHE LOSES OUT
IN SUPREME COURT
By United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The
supreme court today refused to re-
view action of the San Francisco
port authorities who barred Lee She,
a Chinese woman, alleged to be suf-
feling from a dangerous contagious
disease.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
High School Boy
Shot by Mistake

CHARLES CITY, Iowa, May 81.
Melvin Stocker, high school boy,
shot by deputies who mistook him
and a companion. FOR rum runners,
died last night as result Of
wounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
Victim of Auto
Pays $40
Fine!
BY United Press

BUFFALO, N. Y. May 21. -
i've just killed man. chat
tered disheaveled motorist,
rushing into the police station.
Police trove to the spot where
he had left his car and found a
CT o wd G a thered bareheaded
around a motionless form.
Then the victim S eyes flutter-
ed open and he sat up and asked
what it was all about. Told he
had been in a bad accident, he
denied it enphatically, pleaded
guilty to intoxication and cheer
fully paid a $40 fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
EXCHANGE HIGHER

NEW YORK, May al.--Foreign
exchange closed higher. Sterling
4.63 3s; francs .0e67h; lire .o4s5 y I;
marks 49,333 to the dollar.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21
COTTON MARKET

NEW ORLEANS, May 2l.--cot-
ION olaanI at,.1.,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21

Couers the VALLEY
like the Sunshine
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-21

Bank Clearings
$59,977.51
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-03

care to store up the bitter and the
painful? We ought to evict such
things to make room for what heals
and blesses. Let us prolong, by think
ing of them, those times when SYM
pathy and affection made US happy.
In the recollection we may have what
peace and content we will. 1T we
store our minds with such reminisc
ence, we shall have no space to keep
the rest. Lives beautifully lived have
had to reject, as they went along,
much of the dross of every day-the
mere "drift and debris" For in these
is no pure treasure worth putting
away for the soul to take into eternity.
If memory may be trained to hold
such facts as the multiplication table
or a sequence of notes in music or the
words of printed page, it may also
hold love and truth, faith and hope.
It may take account of friendships
and be unforgetful of the need of
of others. Those who are busy re-
Numbering, and acting on the spur
Of that remembrance, will find them
selves usefully occupied in ways that
will put to flight the evils bred in
empty, idle minds.
It is men who have remembered
where they went and whom they saw
to whom affairs that matter are in
trusted. 1t is men who have thought
and listened who are fit to have re-
sponsibility. It is better to confide
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-03
Memories.

Memories are the picture-books of
the mind. If we cannot sleep or are
alone, we may turn over the pages as
we like and see again the things that
happened in "the long bygones." For
tunate are we if the scenes of the
past are pleasant to look upon-if 10
scorpions of the mind continue to
sting, no nettles rankle. One Of the
mercies in natures dispensation is
the gift that generally we recall from
what has happened the sweet and
pleasant things. The rest dies gradu-
ally away. The traveller forgets dis
comfort and remembers the friends
he made, the kindnesses he met, the
goodness of the world and the peo-
pie in it, showered on his journey.
Why, in a little lifetime, should we
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-03
Placing Your
Advertising.

"Do you remember back a year or
so when that travelling representative
for a sign painting company came
along and offered to erect sign board
along the highway for $500 or 5000
having nothing but local signs ?" gu
cries The Verndale Sun. He was will
ling to rent the space at certain am
cunt after the first erectional expense.
Well at that time it looked feasible
but with the highway department re-
moving these signs what would have
become of your investment? You
would have lost all the money you
put into the game. Sign boards are
not considered good advertising. When
you advertise there is only one good
medium, the newspapers. Remember
this and profit thereby.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-03
An Agricul-
tural Program.
Ru Theodore Christianson)

II Is not the purpose of this paper
to question the wisdom or challenge
the sincerity of the many men VINO
are engaged in the task OF Saving
the farmer" Agriculture needs to be
saved. and the gentlemen who have
assumed the job should have the best
wishes of everybody who has the
discernment to see that the general
prosperity is wholly dependent on the
prosperity of the men who till the
soil.
1t is to be deplored, however, that
those who lead the several movements
cannot agree upon a concerted policy
and press their demands for unified
program. 1t is unfortunate that they
are pulling in different directions,
each insisting that he has the only
dyed-iu- wool, honest-to-goodness
solution, Observation-Disclosures
doing his best to get the credit for
bringing salvation to the tiller of the
soil.
Just now, price fixing is the charm
ed word that will, some assert, open
the strong-boxes of the nations
wealth to the farmer. A few weeks
ago, it was cost-finding by the farm
ers themselves, coupled with an agree
ment not to sell below the cost as
certained plus certain agreed profit.
A year ago, every effort was exerted
to secure more credit, to keep the
farmer out of the clutches of his
creditors. Two years ago, an emer-
gency tariff bill was enacted, design
ed to relieve the agricultural industry
of the competition of cheap lands and
cheap labor in foreign countries.
Three years ago, the loud call was
for more equitable grades and for
prohibition of gambling in the buying
and selling of food products. In the
meantime, our Democratic friends
have been asserting that the real,
blown-in-the-bottle remedy was none
of these, but the League of Nations,
which would establish peace in Eu-
rope and restore Europe's capacity to
buy and pay for what she bought.
The Republican administration in
Minnesota has offered cooperative
marketing on the Sapiro plan; the
Nonpartisan League has urged state
owned elevators, mills and packing
plants; and the Minneapolis Tribune
- HAS pICdCIICu OlNCISlllcu
If we have omitted anything that
anybody has suggested to save us
from disaster, we humbly crave par
don and promise to add it to the cata-
logue of proposed panaceas in later
issue.
The truth is that nearly all of the
measures proposed have strong argu-
ments made in their favor. Some of
them have inertia few of them,
great merit. We are not finding fault
with the men who have proposed them
nor the organizations that are COM
mitted to them.
But
We believe that the time has come
for a frank recognition of the fact
that no one thing will save us, and
that we must not expect much relief
until. instead of pulling in twenty
different directions under as many diff
ferent leaders for as many different