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Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Bread" Pitiful
Cry; Germany's
Stores Pillaged

3to Berlin s official mark quotation.
A week S wages averaged only be-
tween 250,0C0,G00 900 and 100000
100000 marks and the sudden jump
left many families unable even to
buy two loaves for whole week.
Bread was the sole cry in Berlin
and other large cities today, despite
the activities of the Illegal mobs
along the B,varian border
The federal government continued
to move secretly, however, to place
its troops on the Hungarian border.
If the march of the illegal military
organizations along Bavaria S north
frontier developed it was expected
the rush would be into Thingaria.
Crying "kill them crowds riot
ed in the Jewish quarter of Berlin
today. Furious men and women
tore clothes from residents of the
district, selling their foreign money.
A Jewish butcher stood his ground
with meat axe and severly in
iured several in mob that tried to
raid his shop for food and foreign
currency.
Squads of police called out to
protect the Jews fired point blank
into the crowd and drove them
away.
The crowds quickly gathered
again in the Alexanderplatz near
police headquarters, crying "kill
the Jewish stock exchange deal
!, ers. -
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
MANY VETERANS
WERE UNJUSTLY
TREATED, CLAIM

WASHINGTON, November .
An appalling number of discrepan-
cies in the ratings of compensation
due disabled veterans by officials
of the veterans bureau was charg
ed by DR.. David O. Smith, bureau
physician, testifying before the SEN
ate investigating committee today.
Smith said he had been with the
bureausfor five years and that re-
Gently he had been directed by Gen
eral Hines, present director of the
bureau, to make a special study of
the rating situation.
He testified that his review of
more than 600 eases during this
inspection, coupled with his long
experience in the bureau, forced
him to conclude there had been "a
lack of uniformity of rating due
to misapplication of the rating
schedule.
Irregularity in tracing service
connection in disability claims was
also charged by DR.. Smith.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Cripps is Back
For Short Stay

II. p. Cripps, formerly of the firm
of B. Salomon and Company, arriv-
ed in FL Centre this morning and
plans to visit here for several days.
He is now member of Cripps-
Hancock Company, wholesale impor-
ters of Los Angeles.
He expressed the opinion this
morning that FL Centre is looking
more prosperous at present than at
any time during the past three
years, and talks with business men
here have convinced him that this
city and the valley as whole has
recovered from the 1920 slump. Dur
ing their residence in this city, Mr.
and Mrs. Cripps Were prominent in
social circles and their departure
was an occasion for regret BY a
wide circle of friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
B0NAR LAW IS
LAID TO REST
AMONG KIN CS
BY LYLE o. WILSON

LONDON, Nov. 5.-Britain paid
her farewell tribute to Andrew
Bonar Law today,
The ashes of the prime minister
who sacrificed his life in the ma
tion's service were placed in a tomb
in Westminster Abbey, among the
empires kings and great men of
dead generations.
The British empire and most of
the world was represented at the
funeral Along the route Of the
procession tens of thousands of per-
sons thronged the streets.
The urn was borne to the hearse
by Il party of commissioned of
ficers from the royal air force and
from the Scottish Gorderers regi-
ment, in which organization Bonar
Laws two sons were killed in the
war.
AS the procession arrived at Buck
ingham Palace gate it halted while
the distinguished honorary pail
bearers took their places.
They included the Prince of
Wales, in his own behalf and rep
resenting the king, Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin, Austen Chamber
lain, ex-Prime Minister Herbert II.
Asquith, j. Ramsay Macdonald,
Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Carson,
Lord Fitz-Alan, Lord Balfour and
Speaker Whitley of the house of
commons.
The cortege arrived at the Abbey
to be received by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, head of the Church
of England and Dean Ryle of West
Minister.
Dean Ryle preached the sermon,
standing in the raised pulpit alcove
where the urn stood.
The mourners accompanied the
remains to the grave in the nave
between the organ screen and the
grave of the unknown warrior. 1t
was near the tombs of the great
scientist, Darwin, the great explor
er, Livingston; the dramatist, Ben
Jonson, the evangelist, Fox, and the
most notable of British prime min,
listers, Pitt. 4t"f
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
CHIEF BAR KER
DECLARES WAR
ON LOCAL HOBO

Reports of numerous "panhand-
lers' in FL Centre over the week
end led Chief Barker of the police
department to issue orders today
for his men to keep the undesirables
ON the move and arrest any who
are found begging on the streets.
With the arrival of cold weather in
the east, the hobo fraternity turns
to the south and southwest for the
winter months and each yearrat this
time many of them come to I'M
perial Valley. They have not been
permitted to stay here in former
years, nor will they be tolerated
this year, Chief Barker said.
The hobo will not work if it is
offered to him, preferring to sleep
wherever he can and trust to luck
in obtaining small sums of money
from the public to keep him sup
piled with food. Citizens are urged
by the police not to encourage the
hobo and to turn down requests for
money when they are made.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Tired of Shooing
Autos From
Hotel

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Nov. s.
For the sixth time in year L.
Arrest awoke during the small
hours this morning to shoe an
automobile out of his hotel.
This time is was George Cow
en- of Kenwood, Cal.
The hotel" Frisbie's Inn
sits on a sharp turn in the San
ia Rosa-Sebastopol highway.
Cowen was driving through a
heavy land fog and could not
see the turn. His car we,ft
through one wall of the Inn
and came to stop at the kit
chen door. Cowen was not hurt.
Arrest today applied to the
road authorities to install eth
er a concrete wall or proper
signal lights to protect his
building.
Five other autoists in tho
last year have hit my placs
and I'm getting tired of it,
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
MOTHER EARTH
DOES GENUINE
SHlMMY HERE

Old Mother Nature did her
annual shimmy' for Ell Gen.
tro at 2:10. this afternoon, when
several earthquake shocks rock
building in this city. The shocks
tasted a little less than one min
ute, starting off rather feebly,
then increasing in strength,
only to again become less vio-
lent. Folks in buildings sought
the open streets and watched
automobiles wobble back and
forth across their parking
spaces.
Doubtless an examination of
buildings about the city will
show a few cracks but up to the
time Of going to press no dam
age had been reported. Credit
for the quickest dash into the
street must be given to Tom
Clements, janitor at the Imper-
ial Irrigation District. He was
out in the middle Of State street
as soon as the first shock was
felt, and stayed there until he
was absolutely sure that the dis
turbance was over.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
MO0nshine Hunt
LIE a d s Officials
To Lonely Spots

Sheriff Gillett, accompanied by
Undersheriff Bert Underwood and
Deputies Oswalt and Leonard, took
an extensive trip yesterday into
the northwest section of the county
in hunt for moonshiners who were
supposed to be operating several
stills in that section. The officers
drove their automobiles as far into
the mountains as possible and later
SECURED the country on foot but
to no purpose. No moonshiners
were discovered, but Leonard and
Oswalt managed to get lost, turning
up later ut Oasis in time to help
the sheriff eat his dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Germany Must Pay Damages in Lusitania Sinking
WATER SYSTEM
HERE WILL Be
MUCH IMPROVED
Prominent Engineer Here
to Look Over
City Works

Irving c. Harris, of Cone and
Harris, consulting engineers, of Los
Angeles, has returned to that city
following several days investiga-
tiOn of the city water works. The
firm of Some and Harris was hired
by the city council for the purpose
of making an extensive survey of
the water system, with the idea of
making recommendation for its fu-
ture expansion.
"The city council, and in fact
anyone who has given the matter
thought, is aware that the water
supply here is entirely inadequate
for the present needs of the city,
and with the growth that may rea-
sonably be expected in the coming
years, the point has been reached
where a. satisfactory water system
must be installed,' said j. l..
Travers, water commissioner, to-
day.
After considerable discussion of
the matter, the city council engaged
Cone ana Harris, VINO nave the
reputation of being the leading con-
sulting engineers in Southern Cali
foria. The council submitted their
idea of what should be done in con
nection with FL Centro's water sys-
tenn, and with this rs n basis, Mr..
Harris went ahead to obtain detail
ed information and statistics as to
what in his belief, the city requires.
His report will be given to the
city council as soon as it is com
pleted and his recommendation will
then be considered by the council.
Mr.. Travers said it is the intention
of the city council to put the water
system in such shape that it will
take care of the city's needs for
the next Is or 90 years without any
additional changes being required.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
WEATHER VANE
IN POLITICS TO
TURN TOMORROW
Future Status of G. 0. p.
Will Be Decided
Many Places
By LAWRENCE MARTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The
personal political fortunes of Pres
ident Coolidge and, to a much
greater degree, the fortunes of the
republican party, are bound up i'll
the elections to be held in many
states tomorrow.
Separately, few of the election
contests are important beyond the
local confines of the districts or
state affected. Collectively they
are expected to give an indication
how the political current is running.
There are three contests that
stand out - Vermont s senatorial
election and the governorship con-
tests in Kentucky and Maryland. In
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvan-
in, Massachusetts,, Virginia, Rhode
Island, Illinois, Connecticut, Louis
lana, the contests are local.
President Coolidge's cousin, Park
II. Pollard, is democratic candidate
for senator in Vermont to succeed
the late Senator Dillingham;.
Vermont is Coolidge's native state
and its loss would be a tremendous
blow to his candidacy.
In Maryland the prohibition and
Ku Klux Klan questions figure
largely. Governor Ritchie, demo-
cratic nominee, is opposed for the
governorship by Alexander Arm
strong, republican. Ritehie is an
out and out beer and wine candi-
date. The khan, it is whispered, is
going to decide the Maryland elec'
tion law.
In Ohio the wet and dry issues
in many cities and county contests.
In New jersey there is a wet and
dry fight over control of the state
assembly which involves leadership
of the republican party in the
st9te.
In New York four congressional
seats are to be filled and these con-
tests are being watched as baro-
meters of the states political
weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
WHAT'S DOING

u. G. T. meets tonight TAT
Davis hall.
F. and A. M. meet tonight at
Masonic hall. ~ AG4.
Selma Lenhart, dramatic
reader at Christian church to-
night. as h
Ell Centre Y. w. G. A. board
meets, rest room tonight.
Scoutmasters training course,
Brawley, tonight.
Enemies of Women" Pal
ace theater tonight.
Methodist Ladies Aid lunch
con and meeting, A. P. SHIRLEY
home tomorrow
Home furnishing demonstra-
tions, EastslderSunset tomor-
row.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Revise French
Debt TO Il. S.
P0incare Says
By A. L. BRADFORD

WASHINGTON, -Sov. 5.-France
will agree to permit the proposed
conference of experts to discuss n
revision of the total German repair
ations figure only if, at the same
time, the commission can take up
the question of revision of the
French debt to the United States, it
was learned from q reliable source
here today.
This will be frances answer to-
day to Secretary of State Hughes
objections to Premier Poincare's in
sistence upon limiting the scope of
the proposed conference to investi-
gate Germany's capacity to pay
rcparations.
Secretary Hughes in his note to
the British government covering
: the did of the United States in set,
Ting the Preparations question
through an expert conference, plain
ly stated his opposition to any dis
cussion in the ,parley of the allied
war debts to America.
The French reply will be handed
to Hughes today by Ambassador
Jusserand, the French envoy here,
who has just returned from Europe,
in conference to be held at the
state department.
frances reply will make it def
initely clear that she absolutely
will refuse to have the French oc-
cupation of the Ruhr questioned in
any way in the discussions of the
proposed conference of experts.
Three Main Points
There afe three main points i'll
the French reply as follows:
]. The total figure of rep1ra-
tions proper due from Germany,
France absolutely will refuse to
have discussed in the suggested eX-
pert conference. France terms
reparations proper" the figure of
$4,000, 100000 gold marks that are
due from Germany i'll the A and Il
bonds.
France IS entitled to SO per cent
Of the reparations, or, of the 5O,OOO,-
100000 gold marks, 26,000,O00,OOO.
There is nothing that can swerve
France from her refusal to have
this figure touched in any way by
the experts.
However, of the total reparations
due from Germany, l32,0Oo,O 100000
gold marks, there remain $4,000
100000 gold marks represented IN
the so-called G. bonds. This re-
naming sum France is willing to
have discussed at the conference ON
condition that the French debt to
the United States can. be discussed
along with it.
=. France will not countenance
any discussion by the proposed eX-
pert conference of her occupation OF
3. Finally, France is willing
and agreeable to have the proposed
expert commission investigate thor
oughly the question of Germany
present capacity to pay reparations.
The whole fate of the present
American attempt to bring about
final settlement of the reparations
controversy is reported depending
on the French note handed to
Hughes today and the negotiations
that may grow out of the confer
ence between the secretary and
Jusserand at the state department.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Is Men Leisurely
Loot Warehouse
OF Booze Fortune
by United Pres. Leased Wire

CHICAGO, November Sew.
eral arrests were expected by police
today in the 100000 liqour ware
house raid here yesterday by
gang of Is men. Two weeks ago
"a similar raid was made on the
same place-thc Wakem and Me-
Laughlin Warehouse-and was ear
ried out in the same bold, leisurely
manner.
Fifteen men drove up to the
place yesterday and one of them,
gun in hand, took charge of Har.
ry Daugherty, night watehman.
For five hours the raiders wheeled
barrels of whiskey and carried
eases of brandy TO the three trucks.
During these iabors the watchman
was marched about the huge plant
and forced to turn in his regular
"all is we'll calls.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Seed Quarantine
Evader Is Fined
SIS by Mayfield

j. w. Jones, charged with bring
ing cotton seed into California
from Oklahoma, and neglccting to
report the importation to the
county horticultural commissioner,
was fined $75 by Judge Mayfield
this afternoon, with an alternative
sentence of IS days in Jail Alfred
Way, who was arrested with Jones,
will be tried tomorrow
Jones originally pleaded not
guilty but changed his plea to gull
ty when he appeared in court today
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
u. S. Officials
After Walton

by United Press Leased Wire
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 5.
Federal authorities today prob
ed the raising Of funds by Gov.
J. G. Walton, in his fight
4 agair,st the Ku Klux Klan.
Walton appealed for a nation
wide subscription before i'm
peachment proceedings , were
started against him by the Ok
lahoma Legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
25 Millions in
Suits Brought
by Relatives

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81
Germany today was held liable
for the loss Of life and prop
erty in the sinking Of the Lu-
sitania in a decision handed
down by the mixed claims COM
mittee adjudicating war claims
between the two countries. The
amount Of damages Germany
must pay will be fixed in later
decision.
Claims totalling about $25, ,00O,-
600 have been filled by rsla-
tives Of victims survivors and
others.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
u. S. Reclamation
To Have Shakeup

ny United Press Leased Wire
DENVER, Nov. 5.-A sweep
ing reorganization of the re-
clamation service, including the
dropping of % Washington
employees and probably affect
ing tho status of rs employees
here and 5000 others employed
on various projects, was D an
nounced here today by Secre-
tayy Of the Interior Hubert
Work.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Men In
One Bible
Class

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 5.
A worlds record for Bible class
attendance was made here Sun
day by the mems class of the
First Baptist church when 1883
jammed Convention Hall. The
Baptist church here is in con-
test with a business mems class
in Long Beach. The Long Beach
class, according to messages re-
ceived here, had 9,756 yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
Ale ged Pair
OF Murderers
Found in L. A,

William Hard and Randolph Er-
no, who were being sought in this
city last week for the alleged mur-
der of Fred Skeen to prevent the
latter divulging information it is
said that might connect them with
the Siskiyou tunnel holdup on Oc-
tobcr IL, were arrested in Los An
geles Saturday.
Both men denied the crime, stat
ing they did not even known Skeen
was dead as he was alive when they
left Siskiyou county. When ar
rested the men were in possession of
a Studebaker ear which they are
alleged to have stolen in the north
ern county. A.
LOS ANGELES, November O.
The pair, William Hard, 10, and
Randolph Emo, 30, arrested here for
implication in the murder of Fred
Skecn, Yreka rancher, have confes'
sed to the crime, according. to the
lccal detective department.
Each blamcs the. other, officers
say, for the killing which they de
clare was brought about by the
theft of Skeen's automobile in
which they were captured here.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05
20 Years in Pen
For Bribe Offer

LOS ANGELES, November 5.
Morris r. Crsatti prominent
business man, was sentenced to
20 years in the federal poni-
teatiary and. tined So, 100 here
today for Offering a bribe of
S1750 to Harold Dolley, prohibi-
tion agent. Crsatti was con-
convicted of 81 counts.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-05

NEW YoRK-Mrs. Mabel Kelly,
10, whispered in the ear Of her hqs-
band and he hurried her into the
Grasmere, Staten Island railway.
station. .-a.r,
Bouncing boy, and mother doing
nicely. ess
, 1923-06-10
:: Automobiles : Theaters :: Churches :: Class

no more fitting finish to a high school
the Master Scenic Highway of Amer
lea, which may now be lone in a
very reasonable time.
The National Park-to-Park High
way association has just completed
a survey of conditions on the Master
Scenic Highway of America which
connects all of the National parks of
the West and travels through or into
eleven western states. The map
made by the association from the
notes and observation of the field
representatives. covers the entire
5000 miles of highway n shows
plainly and ~conclusively that the
state highway departments have rec
ognized the routing of the master
circle as a very important road in
each state, because. while it may be
used by tourists desiring to visit the
National parks, 1t is not entirely n
tourist road, but in every section n
commercial highway Of greatest value
to each local community.
AS the map indicates each section
of the highway has its unfinished
parts, even California with its miles
of hard %surfacing has yet some work
to complete the entrances to its parks.
Oregon and Washington have some
work to do and Montana has some
sections. mostly west of Kalispell and
east Of Glacier Park through the
Blackfeet Indian reservation. which
is receiving the attention of Honor
able Scott Leavitt, NJ. c.. president
of the association. now at Washing
ton, d. c.. and in a zee bulletin
from the National Parks Service we
note the progress being made in the
road over Logan Pass in Glacier
Park. Until this o or the n be-
ing built by the state south of the
park is finished the travel over this
part of h Master Scent Highway of
, 1923-06-10

America will be obliged to ship from
Glacier on the east side to Bolton on
the West, which undertaking is not
n problem. as special arrangements
have been made with the Great
Northern railroad to ship any make
or size of car for s14.o7 each. This
is done in the night. IL SO desired.
causing no loss of time.
Wyoming besides improving the
most scenic 20 miles OF highway in
the world at the eastern entrance of.
the Yellowstone Park is making a
new scenic water grade road through
the Wind River Canyon between
Thermopolis and Shoshoni.
Colorado has improved the road
over the Poncho Pass. near Salida
and the wonderful Wolf Creek Pass
nearly IL 900 feet high so that 1t is
negotiated with safety and a most
wonderful scenic drive. The APP
proach to Mesa Verde National Park
is being shortened and grades re-
duced.
New Mexico has accepted the road
across the Navajo reservation is a
state road This is. now the poorest
section of the National Park-to-Park
Highway. however. it is safe though
slow and about 100 miles closer than
the nearest route that may be taken
to get around this DOR stretch. Be-
sides. this. there is a new attraction
that has been added to h many
reasons for the Master Scenic High
way of America which is the newly
created National Monument known
as the Aztec Ruins. worthy of any
ones time as 1t is the most striking
and one of the best preserved of the
many lost cities of an unknown peo-
pie. Arizona has through III good
people of Flagstaff and Williams con
cluded that 1t is easier to build and
maintain one road rather than two
leading to the Grand Canyon.
, 1923-06-10
WITH 500 NAIL
HOLES LEAK NO AIR

Mr.. X. X. MiIburn of Chicago has
Invented a new punctureproof inner
tube which, in actual test. was pune.
tured 500 times without the loss OF
any air. Increase your mileage from
10000 to 10000 without removing this
wonderful tube from the wheel and
the beauty OF 1t all is hat this new
puncture'proof tube costs no more
than h ordinary tube. and makes
riding a real pleasure. You can write
*. X. Milburn at $50 West 47th St.
Chicago. as he wants them introduced
everywhere. Wonderful opportunity
for agents. II Interested write him
Observation-Disclosures.
, 1923-06-10
AUTOS
in NOVEL RACE
AT Los ANGELES
1912 Buick Takes First Prize
With as Mile Average
In Speed Test

travelling on to three Cylinders
and frequently on their regulations
alone ranging in models from 1906 to
1916 fought for supremacy in a gruell-
track of he Southern California Fair
ing five-mile speed test on the dirt
grounds last week.
Curtiss Chamberlin. plotting a 1912
Buick touring car. completed the 10
laps at an average of as miles an
hour and captured first prize.
This novel event was the outstand.
ing feature of something unique
termed auto resurrection day." CON
ceived by some bright citizen of
Santa Ana 1t was preceded by a
two-mile street parade of both old
and new cars.
, 1923-06-10

PAa[to aiiu places OF MISC
torical interest between the parks.
Mr.. Stephen T. Mather, director Of
National parks. once said: "I hope
{ the time will come when a man, with
small means and a number of chill
dren. can equip his family car with
camp OUTFIT and visit all Of the
National parks and scenic attractions
on the way" That time has come,
and the National parks service is pre-
pared for a greater number of visitors
expected in the parks during the sea
, son OF 1928.
While Congress has not provided
for a speedy completion Of water sup
! ply In all National parks. auto camps
the service has made safe the public
health within the parks, by provid-
ing ample pure water me sanitary
disposition of waste, SO that visitors