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Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-08
Lettuce Crews
Work Nights to
Harvest Crop

Since the start of the peak load
of the lettuce crop on Monday, the
lettuce sheds of FL Centre have been
the busiest spots i'll this city, with
the crews working at top speed and
far into the night to ship the large
quantities of lettuce that is brought
in from the fields, where cutting is
going on from daylight until dark.
Though the lettuce is rolling in in
Unprecedented quantities, the crews,
through long experience, are able
to handle it without clogging the
steady work of packing, and shipp-
ing, and the mac1linelikc precision
with which heads of lettuce are
taken from the field crates to the
sorting table, thence to the packers,
crate makers and finally placed in
side the refrigcrating cars, is good
demonstration of efficiency and lack
of lost motion.
Rush Another Week
At most of the sheds it was stated
th"t lllV RUSH VIII cOHIlHue tHc rest
of this week and possibly into th.7
middle of next week, there still be,
ing plenty of uncut lettuce in the
fields, which will have to be
brought in without delay in order to
prevent spelling.
With all previous records made
each day, lettuce men are assured
of a successful season. Practically
5000 ears have been shipped so far
and it is believed the total ship
mcnt will be well over the 5000
mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-08

The Best of the Year "Too Much
Mother-in-Law," High School Au-
ditorium, Friday and Saturday
Nights. Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-08
LITTLE AHEAD,
SHE KILLS SELF
AT AGE OF 103

PARIS, March S.-Finding life
rather dreary and with little more
to look forward to, Elena Jovano-
witch, of Temesvar, Hungary, hang
ed herself at the age of 103. She
rose at six Il. m, dressed herself all
in white, ate a hearty breakfast,
carefully measured the required
height on q wall, drove a heavy
nail into it, adjusted a rope and
kicked Il chair from under her feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-08

Don Miss "Too Much Mother-in
Law High School Auditorium,
Friday and Saturday Nights. ADV.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
HEARING IS
ATTENDED
BY MANY
VN)AE n
Accused Director Calls Organ
Translation Of Post Card
Message a Revelation.
BY WILLIAM &. HUTcHENsoNl

by WILLIAM x. HUTCHINSON,
Internafional News serxlcs.
Absolute denial that he ever
was . party to any secret code
evolved to transmit messages be-
tween those interested in the LETT
ting Of Government contracts for
hospitals and supplies, was made
by Col Charles r. Forbes, former
director of the Veterans Bureau,
today when he resumed the wit.
ness stand to defend himself
against charges Of graft and in
competence.
Attracted by the prospects Of
further spicy and sensational tes-
timony involving familiar figures
in the life Of the Capital, the
committee room today was
jammed with spectators, women
predominating.
Post Card introduced.
The accused director again brand
ed as false the testimony Of Elias
H. Mortimer, his erstwhile friend
and chief accusers who told the
Senatorial investigators two weeks
ago of the code.
Gen. John F.. O'Ryan, the COM
mittee counsel, produced a post card
this morning that was alleged to
have been sent to Mortimer by
Charles Hurley Of the Hurley-Ma-
son Construction Company, a Pa
cific coast concern interested in
bidding on Government contracts.
This post card bore the mysterious
words "McAdoo, Pickles." ETC., which
according to Mortimer's testimony.
was a part Of the code arranged.
Forbes denied this morning he
had ever seen the post card, and
said the mysterious words Cn 1t
meant nothing to him.
O'Ryan DECIDES Message.
"I can't believe that Hurley would
enter into any dealings with Morti-
mer," he said. cit is a revelation
to me-"
The code messages as decoded by
General Organ gave the symbols,
Forbes, "McAdoo;" Sweet, private
secretary to Forbes, ''Pickles;" Nor
timer, 'Moxie;;" Hurley, "Ida," and
Black, Bristol"
Mysterious Document Explained.
General Organ created an excit-
ing situation when he suddenly in
troduced a mysterious document
upon which Forbes had written some
words. He sought to prove Forbes
handwriting without revealing the
documents contents.
subsequently,, the mystery was dis
sipated when it was shown Tile
document related to a South Amer
lean railroad project Forbes, after
reading it. readily admitted he had
written some engineering notes on
it at the request of the late James
Black, st. Louis contractor.
Forbes was next asked about the
presentation of a Harding medallion
to James F. Alexander, millionaire
ship owner Of Tacoma.
"Why did you make this presen-
tation?" asked Organ.
"I was at the White House and
there were six of those medallions
on the Presidents desk. I said to
him, You ought to give those to
your friends He said take four
of them and give them to your
friends who are also friends Of
Continued on Page 2. Column A.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
FORBES DENIES USING
M'ADO0-P -PICKI ESC0DE
Bandits Take $50, 900
In Furs And Gowns
On Fifth Ave.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-The
wave Of banditry that has
swept New York, resulting in
two murders during the week
was heightened today when
burglars smashed the window
Of . shop in the heart Of the
Fifth avenue shopping district.
They escaped with $2Os 900
worth Of wraps, furs and inn
ported gowns.
The store broken into was
HicksOn, Inc, feminine ap-
parelers.
The bandits left no clue ex-
cept an ash can which they
used 70 smash the plate glass
window.
While the search was under
way for the shop robbers, it
was extended to include two
bandits who last night held up
two messengers on Fifth ave
nue. and robbed them Of $74O.
Numerous robberies and
hold-pps have been reported
from al sections cf the city,
hut in practically every case
the bandits have escaped. y
The Washington times., 1923-11-16

Accompanying his declara-
ton was a brief pronounce
ment accentuating the out
standing issues on which he
will go into every State in the
Union in his fight for national
delegates.
Two Great Issues.
The two great issues, as he puts
them, are:
1. The age-old contest between the
forces OF reaction and progress in
democratic affairs.
z. The oVershadowing question as
to whether the United States shall
continue on the program laid down
by Washington and his associates or
whether the nation shall now embark
on a career of foreign intrigue and
entanglements that may mean it's
disintegration.
The Senator announced that he
would appeal to the electorate in
| every State in the Union.
he VIII leave for Washington to-
oay and return to Chicago on
november 81, to deliver his mes.
sage to the American people at
the Cook County Real Estate ban.
quet.
JOhnsOn's Statement.
Senator Johnson made his deci.
sion known i9 the following state
ment issued after conference with
Continued on Page 3. Column s.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
URGES CHURCH TO COPY
SPORTING NEWS STYLE

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Newspa.
pers give more space to accounts
of prize fights than to church news
merely because the church is pre-
sented in dry manner and the
fistic In a colorful manner, Church
mill H. Cutting, president of the
American Bible Society, today de
clared, in urging a group of reli.
gious editors to present church
news more attractively.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
DAVIS
ACCEPTED
G|F IS
Frazier Files Charges With
Probers Against Head Of
Reclamation.
BY TOM EVERRITT.

SNS0AAANE
Papers purporting to show that
ID. w. Davis, Commissioner Of
Reclamation, United States De-
partment of Interior, has in the
past accepted secret favors from
a private corporation and is,
therefore, unfit to have charge
of the vast reclamation projects
of the United States Government,
were today submitted ~ Secre-
tary Works 'fact-finding" COM
mittee for it's information by
United States Senator Lynn J.
Frazier, of North Dakota.
Forwarded to Barnes.
The papers in question have been
sent to Julius Barnes, president
United States Chamber Of Com
merce, chairman OF Works commit.
tee, which is investigating behind
closed doors in Washington the
conditions of the reclamation
projects.
Among the papers furnished to
the committee is a copy Of an al
legged report Of the auditor Of the
Idaho public utilities commission
showing that, in 1918, Davis, then a
candidate for governor Of idaho
was receiving free electric power
&rom the Idaho Power Company at
American Falls, that State.
An electric toaster, an electric
coffee percolator, an electric iron,
and an electric washing machine,
besides an electric water heater
and lights are enumerated in the
auditors report, which further says,
"the electrical energy used by the
Davis home Is now, and has been
for some time past, charged to
line loss"
Requested By Governor.
The report, which is dated Octo-
Der, 1918, addressed to A. l.. Free
hafer and George E. Erb, public
utility commissioners Of idaho, and
signed by F. w. Hanssan, auditor,
was made at the request Of Moses
Alexander, who was governor of
Idaho at the time.
In part, 1t says, "a careful inveS-
tlgat1on of the records Of the Idaho
Power Company at American Fails
indicates that no charge has been
made for the service indicated. 1t
has been acknowledged by the man.
ager, Anthony, and the district man.
ager, Neely. that this service has
been furnished to d. w. Davis for
some time past. Inasmuch as the
records prior to 1916 could not be
located, did not attempt to go any
further back than 1916"
After reciting these things, the re-
port then says, "the writer requested
or the district manager and the local
manager authority for furnishing
Davis with electrical energy without
charge; both gentlemen stating that
there was no authority, but that
these conditions existed prior to
their entering the employ of the
company and nothing further than
verbal instructions had ever been
given to either OF them"
Idaho Laws Quoted.
The papers submitted to the
'fact-finding" commission, allege
to show that at that time the laws
of Idaho made it criminal Of
Tense for a power company to fur
nish free service or for an in
dividual to accept free service from
Continued on Page 3. Column g.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
LET OUT At
PENSI0N
BUREAU
rs "FurIoughed, (" IS More q
Follow as Result Of
Probe hy Work.

More than seyenty-fiye men and
women employees Of the Bureau Of
Pensions, many Of them on the
verge Of retirement after years Of
Federal service, have been fur
loughed without pay during the
past week, it was learned today.
While this reduction viii stand
for some time, more workers are
to be given indefinite leave Of alb
sence, without pay, in the near
future, and the total cut in per-
sonnel probably viii reach 100.
Started by Secretary Work.
The force-chopping started as the
result of an investigation by per-
sonal representatives OF Secretary
of the Interior Hubert Work.
These probers went through the
rolls Of the Pension Office several
weeks ago and consulted with the
various division beads, rating the
employees on the basis of efficiency.
The fact that many employees
within a few years Of the retire.
ment age had been paying their
share to the retirement fund since
the law became operative ap-
parently was not taken into their
sideration.
Inv vnRP T11ouuw1,k uDr.m-n..k
The furloughed workers were told
they would remain off duty "tem-
porarily, at least" but the let-out Is
understood by the employees to be
tantamount to final dismissal In
practically all cases.
Pension Bureau workers, among
themselves, sharply condemn the
action of Secretary Work, on the
ground that discrimination against
the old workers has been prac-
tised. =
The bureau has the right to re-
call any of the furloughed employees
to June 80, If they are needed.
Those who were given the blue
slip, however, were reckoned as
superfluous by Secretary Works
investigators, and the activity of
the Pension Bureau is being gradu-
ally curtailed, due to the deaths of
veterans and widows of veterans
of wars before the late world con.
flict.
Sorry" Says Gardner.
The only increase evident in the
work of the bureau is In the mum.
ber Of applications for pensions
filed by veterans of the Spanish.
American war. This additional
work is offset by the decrease in
the number of pensions for earlier
wars.
Commissioner of Pensions Wash.
ington Gardner said today that the
curtailment of force was in line
with Secretary Works general pol.
icy of efficiency and the Admins.
tration's retrenchment program,
eve are, of course, very sorry to
lose any of our employees" said
Commissioner Gardner, land par
ticularly those who have been as.
sociated with the work Of this
office for so many years. I hope that
we can restore some of them, at
least, to the rolls.
"Our appropriation is holding out
satisfactorily, and we have plenty
of work to do. The fact was, as
the inquiry showed, that the Pen.
sion Office had too many en-
ployes,"
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
READ THIS FIRST.

Leo CIayering, welI-lmOwn dra-
matte critic, while at the open
ing night Of q new play observes
q woman In the audience who
attracts his interest to an un-
usual degree. He wonders who
she Is and whether when she
turns her full face she win be
as attractive as the SHAPE Of her
head and her pOise seem to prom
iao.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
OPPOSE
MORE Steps
BYFRANCE
Further Demands on Germany
Likely to Make Crown Prince
"HaIoed Martyr.

LONDON, Nov. 10.-Lord Crewe,
British ambassador to France, today
was instructed by London to inform
the French government that Great
Britain is opposed to any further
sanctions (penalties) upon Germany
either by occupation Of inland terri
tory or ports.
Great Britain does not wish to join
in any action which would make a
"haloed martyr" OF the former crown
prince, who has just returned to
Germany from his place of exile in
Holland.
The British government is also op-
posed to any movement which would
increase the economic confusion al
ready prevailing in Germany. The
government is willing, however, to
join in a strong protest to Germany,
France is demanding further
penalties upon Germany for the re.
fusal Of Berlin to accede to new
French requests.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Ex-Kaiser Would Not Return.
TEDnAM Nov III -

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 16. = The
former Kaiser, in denying any in
tention of returning to Germany,
was quoted in a dispatch from Doom
today as saying:
my honor as monarch wouin
not permit me to go to Germany.
cannot return as a private cltlzen'
which is contrary to the manner IN
which I ruled myself during thirty
years of good and bad times"
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Your OUn
S0LeSnlen!

When you place an ad in
the Classified Section of The
Washington Morning Herald.
The Washington vening
Times, and The Sunday Morn
ing Herald you have thou
sands of statesmen working
for you, night and day. Each
ad goes here, there and
everywhere, with the sole
purpose Of gratifying your
wants.
A three-time ad in this COM
bination gives you 100000
readers.
Call The Herald, Main $500
Call The Times, Main $500
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Novel Tells How
Beauty Returned
to Old Woman

This Serial = Presented by Ar
rangement with Associated First
National Pictures, Inc, In WhOsc
Film Version COrinne Griffith VIII
Appear as Countess Zattiany.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Johnson Throws Hat
Into Ring

CHICAGO, Nov 16.-United States Senator Hiram John
son. OF California last night announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for President
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Berlin, Fearing Chaos,
Continues Payments
to Ruhr Unemployed
BY 8. ID. WEYER,
international News Service

BERLIN, Nov. 16.-Contrary to
the urgent advice Of the ministry
CONTINUED on Page 20, Column g.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Time Tucked Then, d
Their Beds.

NHE magic cities Of Cibola,
whose fabulous boards
lured adventurers beyond seas,
through jungies- and mountain
and peril. weren't discovered
until man looked into the heart
Of the ranges, searched under
the sage and brushed away the
desert lands that hid them.
They lay within Niagara's
mists and behind Snoqualmie's
wells. They slept in verdant
valleys awaiting the thrust of
resurrecting plowshares.
Time drew prairies and hills
above them and tucked them
away when earth was a child
among the stars.
They're here and there
wherever rails cross vacant fer.
tility or nature has cached
Eainy-day resources.
They spEalig up in the wake
of OK teams to crowd Ohio.
and Indiana and Illinois with
marketplaces and smithies and
mills and counting houses.
They rose at the appointed
hour in Minnesota plains to
grind flour for the seven races.
Dry0ds Released BY Ak
and CrOss-S0uO.
THE Argonaut's pick brought
u them leaping to the banks
Of the Sacramento and invoked
Q metropolis beside the Golden
Gate.
At the snap of the fur
traders trap, they emerged
along the Columbia and the
Willamette.
Montana prospectors dug
Butte and Anaconda from the
rocks.
New England farmers sowed
idaho and eastern Washing
Ton barrens with grain and fruit
seed and reaped Lewiston, Walla
Walla, Pocatello and Pomeroy.
AK and cross-saw released
Tacoma from her dryad shell.
As soon as logging RATS
touched Spokane Falls a wild
water-nymph instantly became
o mother Of industries.
Hunger cries from Orient
fetched Seattle and Vancouver
out of the Pacific to construct
docks, erect terminals and gar
ner the yields Of a continent
for worldwide shipment.
Engines of Revolution.
ALL of which is sheer SYM
"A bolism; but miracles should
be clothed in the phrases of
fable.
Wizardry has become so COM
monplace to the twentieth CEN
tury that nothing now seems
astounding. History alone ap-
preciates the amazing achieve
ments wrapped in the last fifty
years and properly weighs the
significance of impending devel-
opments.
A supreme epoch is gathering
force in the clouds, in labora-
tory tubes and mountain tor
rents.
Steinmetz, Deforrest, Marconi
and Barling, have designed a
group of engines to eliminate
distance, cram the previous out
put of sixty minutes into one
TO revolutionize transportation,
manufacturing and society.
Where CibOLa Lies.
INVENTION has detected fer
i tilizer beds in the air, silks
in plant refuse, building mate
rails in sawdust piles and motor
fuels in agricultural waste.
Back countries are suddenly
back yards. Less than a decade
from now the farthest larder
will be separated by half a
dozen hours from centers of
consumption and fabrication.
There won't be a commercially
inaccessible spot between the two
coasts by 1888.
Millions Of acres have, by the
grace of science and necessity,
become Immediately available for
factory and city sites.
Fact oIroaIxV nH1& -oooIn~ IL -
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
SHINES Arrest Denied.

BERLIN, Nov. ia report that
General Degouette, commander OF
the French occupational forces in
the Ruhr, had issued an order to
arrest Hugo SHINES, the great Ger
man industrial magnate, was denied
at Herr Shines office today.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Re1te Marks Issued.

BERLIN, Nov. 16.-In an effort
to stabilize currency and reduce
deflation, the government today
ceased printing paper marks. 'Rente
marks" are now being issued,
backed by gold securities. Measures
are under contemplation to prevent
boarding.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
THE WEATHER.

Cloudy, probably rain to-
night. Moderate, shifting
to south and southwest
winds.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16
Wide
World

TT cost Spain q handful Of
Jewels (second-rate ones at
that to obtain possession
Of the Western Hemisphere.
Centuries later she sold her
equities in North America for
less than the purchase price
Of . Bowling Green block.
The gods make gold-mad
those whom they mean to Inn
poverish. Every nation that ex-
poets TO sustain itself without
creative effort goes broke. To
the prosperous belongs the toll.
Columbus, Pizarro, Cortez and
Balboa sailed in quest Of 81
Dorado, Golconda and Manhea.
They held huge empires in their
grasp, then, jackdaw-like, pecked
. few giittering baubles and
shining specks and sped home.
The entire takings Of the
conQuistadors- wouldn't pay q
days overhead of this Govern
ment.
Total loot from Inca temples
and Aztec palaces, wasn't COM
parable IN value TO six months
timber loadings at Seattle.
Pasts ate rinds of Oppcr-
tunity and cast the fruits aside.
Man is just beginning to
learn what . set of unthinking
asses his ancestors were.
The Washington times., 1923-11-16

TT cost Spain q handful Of
Jewels (second-rate ones at
= that to obtain possession
Catoctin clarion., 1923-01-04
UNABLE TO DEc!PHER DISK
ArcheoIogists Admit They Are Pux-
xled Over Interpretation Of Picto-
graphs Concerning Egypt.

What Is the PhaestOs disk? Ever
since 1908. when it was found on the
Site of the palace of Phaestos in south
ern Crete, 1t has puzzled psychologists
1t looks, says contributor to the
London Graphic, much like phOnO-
graph record; 1t Is from three-fifths
to four-fifths Of an inch thick and Is
six inches in diameter. 1t is made of
fine clay and Is supposed to have been
shaped during the Middle Mlnoan
period or approximately 1900 B. G.
The disk is stamped with 45 pictO-
graphs arranged in spiral form to be
read, apparently, from the outer edge
to the center. Four-fifths of the char
acters are entirely new. One that Is
exceptionally puzzling-the ,plumed
head Of warrior-appears not less
than 10 times.
At one time psychologists hoped
that the characters on the disk would
prove to be elementary forms of the
Phoenician alphabet. Then the thought
Of an alphabet was discarded, and
students sought to interpret the char
acters by regarding them as notes of
music. The results are encourag ging
Perhaps some day the disk may tel'
us OF the strains to which the beau
tiful Ariadne, daughter of King Minos
danced and prayed.
Catoctin clarion., 1923-01-04
SAVED BY intelligent DOG
How Animal In Australia Brought Re.
lief to Helpless Man Severely
Injured In Accident.

A remarkable instance of intelll-
gence In a dog, leading to the relief Of
an Injured man, is reported from the
neighborhood Of Grafton, Australia.
Riding horse ten miles from home
IN lonely spot, a man had his thigh
broken by the horse stumbling. falling
and then rolling on him.
The horse regained it's feet and gal.
loped away, leaving Its master on the
ground In great agony. His only hope
was his dog, which ran around in a
state Of great excitement, evidently
aware Of the gravity Of the accident.
The injured man thought out a
scheme for making his whereabouts
known. Calling the dog to him he
Catoctin clarion., 1923-01-04
The Creators Resp onsibiiity

Teddy and Bobby We're sitting out -op
: the front steps, eating some pie Bob
by's mother had been kind enough to
give to them.
"Do.t you just wish YOU had a mil
lion pies to eat?" Teddy asked of
Bobby.
"Um-m-m!" was all Bobby was able
to reply, owing to the fulness OF his
mouth. Teddy, however, felt talkatve.
"Bobby, suppose po;E, hungry
ragged boy came along the street out
there. Suppose he didn't have any
thing to eat Would you give him
some of your pie?"
NO" Bobby replied promptly. "You
give him some Of your own pie. You
supposed him !"-Kansas City Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1923-01-04
Honey and Honey Plants.

1t Is reported that the honey crop
Of the United States approXimates
250,000,000 pounds. 1t may be pointed
out in this connection that us the
nectar Of flowers does not become
honey until it is worked over and part
ly evapOrated by the bees, these in
sects must move fully 10000 tons Of
material during the season to make
the honey crop, not including the
honey consumed by the bees them
selves.
About half Of this honey is produced
from the nectar of white clover. Next
In Importance comes alfalfa, followed
closely by sweet clover. These are
all leguminous plants as Is l"gwood
which produces much honey In the
tropics.
Among the few plants yielding a
honey that can be recognized are cot
ton, Eastwood. tulip tree, buckwheat,
goldenrod and mountain 81, ,ge.-Wush-
ingtOn Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1923-01-04
Of the fashionable set.

of the fashionable set.
'In my day." said the old lady, "a
man with his table manners would
not have been considered a desirable
addition to any dinner company. Why,
he has no idea how to use his knife
and fork !"
"No-o," said the young man, slowly,
"that's perfectly true; but his ability
to cut coupons Is such that they over
look his awkwardness with steak,
fish and game. e."-Philadelphia Ledger.