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New Britain herald., 1923-10-10
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New Britain herald., 1923-10-10
VETS AND DRYS

w
 Bishop Schrembs. addressing the National Council of Catholic Women's Convention in Washington, referred to prohibition as "a law the people ad- init can't be enforced"
 Figures compiled by the United Press account for 2ooo known deaths from poison liquor thus far in 1923.
 Federal prohibition headquarters statistics show 4S0,000 Americans drinking whisky daily on doctors prescriptions, as medicine.
 The Federal Council of Churches has been called into conference Tn Washington, Oct. 14, on the subject of prohibition, the summons saying violations are increasing and that mob rule threatens the country
New Britain herald., 1923-10-10

Irs an q matter of experience womaa's fear fer mease deesaf seem 50 riaieuious sftsf eas has run ap you pants les.
 The reason we have more crisis thaa s'siinafiens' is because theTe len room in the headline for the wore fsituation,"
 The annoying thing about hssles . bunch of loafers watching the loh ls that they make ii so difieut 70 p''s out The foreman.
New Britain herald., 1923-10-10

ordered to be in court tomorrow morning by S:15 o'clock. The latter was arrested for assaulting Mrs. John Stolasia of Union street yesterday
New Britain herald., 1923-10-10

"The recent attempt Of the gov ernment to maA people good by statute has resulted In so much resistance not only of the lawless but also Of the law-abiding, as condemns the attempt as being fraught not only with difficulty but also with apparent impossi- biiity."
New Britain herald., 1923-10-10
And further:

"rhe resistance tto the attempt to make people good by statute). which at this writing is a steadily growing one. suggests that while the government has its business to mind, the individual has his own business to mind and Is the
 only one who can be wisely allow
 ed to mind it."
 
 We preach law enforcement becaus' the law must be enforced In order U protect our liberty--the wise law must be enforced and the less well considered laws must be enforced Il order to make law enforcement gener al. But we urge deeper consideration in the future of the details of laws t be presented, and we urge the correc ton of laws which aim to create vir fne in us by statute.
New Britain herald., 1923-10-10

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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
78 CARS OF
CANTALOUPES
LEFT MONDAY

Cantaloupe shipments are on the
move, having taken a big jump yes:
terday when 7S ears were shipped,
bringing the season total up to 124
ears. Of yesterdays carload ship
ments, II went out from Brawley,
five from Ell Centre and two from
Imperial. Indications today pointed
to shipment of better than 100
ears, with the possibility that it
might reach l25 ears.
The season is now on in full
swing and within the next few days
packing sheds and the railroad sta
tions will be the busiest spots in the
valley. The crop is reported as com
ing along in fine shape and despite
the fact that there is considerable
decrease i'll the acreage as compared
with last year, indications are that
more carloads will be shipped, due
to better distribution of the crop
and more efficiency in picking it.
Inquiry at the Southern Pacific
office revealed the information
that there are plenty of "reefers
or refrigerator cars on hand for the
cantaloupes, with a reserve supply
at nearby points that can be called
INTO action at short notice.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
I DROWNED, GREAT
DAMAGE DONE BY
OKLAHOMA FLOOD
Danger Increasing as
Heavy Rains Fall,
Famine Looms
by United Press Leased Wire

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, May
29.-One man was drowned, hun
dreds were made homeless and prop
erty damage totalling hundreds of
thousands of dollars resulted from
flood waters which swept suburban
sections here.
With heavy rains continuing
throughout northwestern Oklahoma
today danger increased hourly.
The North Canadian river has
splashed over its Danks, s"eep.n5
homes and inundating lowland crops
for miles about.
Oklahoma City, cut off from its
packing house district by sweeping
torrents and with bridges down,
faced a meat famine. Plans were
made to use airplanes to bring sup
plies from the packing district in
event the waters do not recede.
Hundreds of refugees, driven from
their homes by flood waters, We're
being cared for by emergency relief
organizations. The first death re-
suited when an unidentified rescue
worker was drowned beneath the
walls of falling house.
Hundreds of homes, with flooded
cellars were threatened as the water
continued to rise.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Capture Notorious
Western Ban dit

MCALESTER, Okla, May 20. -
Roy Sheriff., notorious fugitive gun
man, wanted for questioning in con
nection with the Denver mint rob
berry and other historic western
hOldups, was held under heavy
guard by Officers here today.
The picturesque bandit, last of
the famous Jones-Lewis gang, which
terrorized western communities for
years, was captured with two com
panions by a posse of officers near
Scipio.
Sheriff., son Of a Baptist minis
ter of Terre Haute, Indiana, was
sentenced in Kansas City in No
vember, 1918, to 25 years at Leaven-
worth after admitting he took part
in the holdup of train.
He has been the object of a ma
tion-wide search since his escape
from the federal prison two years
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
TO SIGN" OR mot
TO SICN'' DILEMMA
OF N. Y. GOVERNOR
He'll Make Enemies No
Matter Which Side
He Takes
BY LAWRENCE MARTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Copyright 1923 by United PreSs)

copyright 1878 ny united FreS3)
WASHINGTON, May 29.-Goy-
crnor Al Smith of New York, n
political Hamlet, holds the spot
light while politicians of both par
ties try to guess which horn of the
dilemma he will choose.
To sign or not to sign? Thas is
the question Smith must answer
with respect to the law repeating
the New York State prohibition en-
forcement code. The choice is not
simple. Smith will get in trouble
whatever he does.
1t would not matter so much if
Smith were an insignificant, one
term governor, somewhere, but he
is one of the principal democratic
presidential possibilities.
Here is the "pickle' he is in:
If he signs the repeater he will
fly in the face not only of all the
dry sentiment in New York state,
which might be negligible, but will
kill himself with all drys in the
democratic party elsewhere, will
flaunt defiance in the face of Pre-
sident Harding ,and worse than all
these, politically, will be in the
position of reviving the old dead
states rights issue. All this
would be fatal to presidential as
piratiOns.
If he does not sign he will prac
tically kill himself with his own
party in his own state. He will be
denounced as quitter and read out
of the party by angry partisans
who will accuse him of trucking to
the republican administration at
Washington and to the drys. He
will have hard time coming back
in New York politics and, if, after
flouting his own people, he should
run in the democratic national con
vention, he would be knitted.
Politicians here believe he will
sign. That way, they say, lies his
only hope of continuing as an i'm
portant political figure in his own
state.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Say Electrical
DetectOr Proves
Medium a Fraud
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, May 29.-An intri-
cate electrical detector proved the
false origin of spirit cOmmunica-
tions at a recent test seance before
aboard of jurors, the Scientific
American announced today.
The magazine, having offered a
reward of $4,000 to any spiritual
medium who could BATTLE this select
jury with special delivered messages
from the spirits, declared the first
medium had failed entirely.
Stenographers and an electric
light attachment to the medium S
chair revealed that every time the
medium moved about the room the
special messages came. By timing
the dictaphone and the elecrtic at
tachment, the special Investigators
traced every movement of the spir
itualist in the darkness.
BY the hidden device it was
proved that the medium left his
chair in the darkness Is times, CO.
incident with spirit displays.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Denver Officials
Seek Hiding Spot
of Phantom Twins
BY United Press Leased Wire

DENVER, May %. Denver's
"mystery twins may be "'phan-
tom children,' in the belief of in
vestigators today, who are trying
to locate twin babies whom Mrs.
Clinton Plantz says were born to
her May IL and who were taken
away by the attending physician
and have not been heard of since.
Mrs. Plantz declares the physi-
elan, a stranger, who was called in
by :. neighbor, took the babies i'm
mediately after their birth to place
them in an incubator. Neither the
physician, the neighbor who called
him nor the children can be found.
DR.. w. S. Orr who has attended
Mrs. Plantz on several occasions, is
said to have told authorities he
found no indications that Mrs.
Plantz was to become a mother
when he treated her several weeks
ago.
Clinton Plantz, husband of the
woman, said when he returned
home from work the day of the
b;. bies' birth, he was told he was
the father of twins but that they
had been taken away.
Plantz with the assistance of pO-
lice, has conducted vain search
for them since.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Big Interests Want to Buy All u S. Merchant Marine
Tomorrow We May Pay a Little
On Our Promises of 5 Years AGO

"Despte cold wind that blew clouds of dust
down Main street last night, the main thoroughfare
OF the city was crowded with people who willingly
endured all discomfOrts they listened to patriotic
speeches by leading citizens Of Imperial county, fol-
loving which, amid ringing cheers and waving of
flags, they escorted a small group of to the
Southern Pacific station and watched them board a
tram bound for the north. Though there many
In the crowd who had tears in their eyes, in the main
1t was a gathering that tried to be joyful and send
the boys away with smile. Then the train pulled
out amid cries Of'God Bless you, we'll be waiting for
you when you come back, and similar phrases to let
the boys know that Imperial county is back of them
100 per cent and will stick with them through thick
and thin
The foregoing is not wild dream, it is an
excerpt from the Imperial Valley Press of May 1918
just five short years ago, and shows the spirit that
existed among people at that time. small group
OF men was leaving Ell .Centro, bound for Camp
too good for them '"The boys" were going away and
if anyone in the town wasn't there to them off, it
was because he was sick and unable to go.
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. How many Ell
Centre citizens will gladly sidestep the opportuni-
y to go to the hills elsewhere long enough to pay
tribute to the buddies of those boys who marched
away five years ago?
How many will follow the American Legion
the Spanish War Veterans, the Elks, Rotary Club
and Boy Scouts to Evergreen cemetery tomorrow to
do their duty to those who suffered at Shiloh Gettys
burg or Fredericksburg in 61-65 at San Juan, Cuba
or Manila in 98 or at the Marne Beleau Woods in
'17-18?
Only few more years at best for the boys who
wore the blue and gray in the Civil War to be with
US on Memorial Day. Can we not give them couple
OF hours on one day in the year?
Those who have machines are earnestly asked
to turn out with them, the veterans Boy Scouts
and those who desire to attend the memorial services
may be taken to the cemetery. Remember the
thoughts you had and the promises you made that
night five ago, and keep at least one of those
promises tomorrow. Remember those who fought
and died Tor their country and your country.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
II MORE DEAD
in BLOODY RIOT
OF COMMUNISTS
Plan for Upheaval in
Berlin Tomorrow
Alarms
BY CARL D. GROAT

United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, May 29.-Communists
who have rioted in many Ruhr cities
and in saxony, plan a great up
heaval in Berlin tomorrow, accord
ing to unconfirmed rumors atloat
here.
Bloody fighting between reds and
police at Dresden at midnight re-
suited in IL deaths, according to re-
ports reaching here.
The French, who have withheld
from interference in the disturb
ances in most instances, today pro-
hibited public assemblies at Reck-
iinhausen and probably will extend
the prohibition to other parts of the
Ruhr.
The move, it is believed, may
mark the beginning of French inter.
vention to prevent serious conse-
qucnces of the rioting.
The possibility of a red disturb
ance in Berlin is alarming the au-
thorities as this, it is felt, would be
far more serious than those else
where.
Plumber Dresden Shop
AT Dresden during the night com
muniti"s plundered a shop where
arms were sold. Then they pressed
in upon little group of police as.
sailing the latter from both sides
Volleys were exchanged and many
fell.
Besides II dead, 60 are reported
to have been wounded. The battle
was terrible in that it was fought
in the darkness; it was impossible
for the police to disperse the com.
munists, who fired from conceal
ment.
A mob stoned the French patrol
at StOppenberg today and two Ger,
mans were wounded in the fighting
which followed. The chief officer
Of the French ordered his troops to
clear the streets.
A woman and worker were
killed near Solingen in communist
clash.
One was killed and two wounded
in an uprising at Dusseldorf.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Mr.. Auto Owner,
They Need Your
Help Tomorrow

The Elks committee cooperating
with other organizations in the OBJ
servance of Memorial Day, asks
every member of FL Centre lodge
who can possibly do so, to take
part in the memorial services. Elks
and all others who own automobiles,
are especially urged to join in the
parade which starts at Seventh and
Broadway at 9:30 a. m. and assist
in transporting the paraders and
all else vino wish to go to Ever
green cemetery for the Memorial
services, to get there. The parade
will disband at the Southern Pa
cific station, and it is hoped there
will be sufficient machines on hand
to accommodate all who desire TO
90 to the cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
A Queer Way to
Greet Ones
Mother.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 29.-
Mrs. G.. Burns was walking
along crowded street in the
business district at noon today
when young man rushed up to
her.
my mother, my mothcr,'
he cried.
Then throwing his arms around
her he almost bit off her nose.
At the emergency hospital,
where she was taken, Mrs. Burns
said the man was stranger to
her.
The man was arrested and
gave the name of G. c. Arnett.
He was held for observation as
to his sanity.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
CLARA PHILLIPS LANDED SAFELY IN u. S.
Clara Says She
Is Entirely
Innocent

NEW ORLEANS, La, May 29.
Mrs. Clara Phillips, Los An
geles hammer murderess, in
her frs. Use view given The
United Press on her return to
the United States from t1undu-
ras, protested her innocence to-
day.
Another woman killed Alber-
ia Meadows she protested.
II am not the awful woman
I have been painted, she said.
Mrs. Phillips declared she was
the victim Of poor unscrupu-
lous attorneys at her trial and
that she returned of her own
free will from Honduras to prove
her innocence.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
THOUSANDS DIE
IN EARTHQUAKE,
WRECKS VILLAGES
by United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
BOMBAY, May 20. =
Thousands are reported
to have perished in a
heavy earthquake which
shook the region about
Turbati-H -Haidari, Persia,
according to newspaper
advices received here to-
day from Allakabad.
Numerous Persian vii
lagos were wrecked by
the quake, dispatches to
the newspaper Pioneer
stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
CONSIDERING BID
OF BILLION FOR
MERCHANT FLEET
New Company Would Pay
so Million Yearly
On Debt
GUARANTEE SERVICE
Lasker Says Billion Is
Several Times
Inventory"
GUARANTEE SERVICE
BY VIM. J. Losh,
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Ship-
ping Board members leave for New
York today to confer with interests
who late yesterday submitted bid
approximating s 900. 100000 for the
American merchant fleet.
Chairman Lasker appointed Board
Members O'Connor and Lissner and
j. B. Smut head of the emergency
fleet corporation, to discuss the
offer with the interests that made
it. While in New York the commit
tee will also meet several other
bidders.
The offer was made by John s.
Slack: president of the company,
subject to acceptance any time up
to July y.
81 Million by October
Payment of $5l 100000 would be
made by October |, 1923, and $780,
100000 yearly thereafter in quarter
ly installmcnts until the entire sum
is paid. All deferred payments
would bear interest at Az per cent.
The offer was made "for all the
ships, active and inactive, and all
the ether property Of the United
States shipping board, real, personal
and Mixed
"We agree to operate present
lines with at least as good service
as that rendered by the United
States shipping board during the en-
tire life Of the agreement, the
offer stated.
"We are prepared to furnish a
bond of $1,000,000 guaranteeing
that we sign contract if awarded
same and discuss any or all other
details of such contract.
Lasker Issues Comment
Chairman Lasker issued this COM
ment on the offer:
"NOt one cent accompanied the
offer. The 81 100000 guarantee to
he paid down represents one tenth
of one per cent down payment and
it is asked we hold all property in
tact and do nothing until next Oct
ober, when $50,0OO,o00 or per cent
of the purchase price would be paid.
'While of course the board would
like to sell its fleet for 81 ,000,000,-
600, it should be said in passing
that $1,000,O 100000 is several times
the highest inventory value of the
fleet the government owns. based on
present world market prices.'
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
WHAT'S DOING

Bible study, Christian church
members, at L. w. Overholser
home, Sandalwood Drive.
I. v. Commandary No. 81 to-
night, Davis Hall.
Woman's Auxiliary of Boyce
Atcn Post desert party tonight.
Glass Day exercises, gradual
ing class, high school tonight.
Memorial Day parade starts
at $3.50 a. IN. tomorrow to be fol
lowed by exercises ut Evergreen
cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Urge All to
Display Flag

FL Centre citizens are asked by
the committee in charge of Mem
orial Day Services, to display the
national colors tomorrow in honor
Of the deceased soldiers and sailors
of the United States. Flags at
tached to n sail, where it is posi-
Bile, should be placed at half-staff
from sunrise until 12 o'clck noon,
and thereafter placed at full staff.
In raising the flag, it should first
be hoisted to the top of the staff,
and then brought down to half
staff, according to the government
regulations covering display of the
national colors.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Twelfth Italian
Grocer Murdered
in 2 Years Time
By United Press Leased Wire

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 90
Charles Graffee. Italian grocer, was
found dead in his store today, the
twelfth victim of an axe murderer
in the Latin colony.
Graffee's 8 store was looted. A
bloody, short-handled axe was found
near his body.
Police said he was the twelfth
victim in two years of what they
believe is the same muNer fiend.
All of the victims were Italian gro
GERS.
In addition, IA Italians have been
wounded during the past two years
in attacks by hatchet welded on
grocerymen or their families, police
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
SHOOTS WIFE AND
SELF WHEN DOWN
TO FINAL PENNY
by United Press Leased Wire

CINCINNATI, May 29.-"That s
my last cent, Mary!" j. w. Jones,
81, turned his pockets inside out
and a lone penny rolled on the
floor. He charged his wife with ex-
travagance.
Pointing to the penny with one
hand and drawing revolver with
the other he shot the little mother,
the children told police, and then
turned the gun on himself
When the Officers arrived Jones
was dead. Mrs. Jones was rushed
to a hospital where it was said she
would probably die.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
SECOND LOSS IN
FARM LOAN BONDS
BIG SUM INVOLVED
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 90 For
the second time in month FEEDER
al Farm Loan bonds have disap-
peared from the bureau of printing
and engraving here, it became
known today. The second "loss' -
amounts to $4,000. Some weeks ago
search was begun for 100000 in
bonds. Neither the first nor the
second set of bonds has been locat
ed.
The second disappearance became
known in connection with the sus-
pension of Fred Geisler of Cincin-
natl, superintendent of the surface
division of the bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Fiery Cr Osses
Blaze Through
Del. in Protest

WILMINGTON, De-, May 20
Delaware was ablaZe with fiery
crosses last night in protests staged
by the Ku Klux Khan against the
Walker law in New York, forbid
ding disguises in public and requir-
ing registration of secret society
members. AS in other instances Il
cross wrapped with cloth and soaked
with oil was blazing brightly.
Crosses of various heights were
set up throughout the state and the
torch applied, following in each ease
the explosion of two huge bombs.
The detonations attracted large
crowds of people.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
COUPLE HELD FOR
DEMOLISHING JAIL.

Henry Nehr and Margarita Ruiz
are being tried by a jury in the po-
lice court today, charged with lille
gal possession of liquor. UP to press
time, the ease had not gone to the
jury. The couple were arraigned
in Judge Mayfield 8 court yester-
day, charged with destruction of
Jail property, and were ordered held
for the superior court under bonds
of $400 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
DARING BANDIT
KILLS HIMSELF

LONG BEACH, May 29.-Seeing
his pursuers gaining on the machine
he had commandeered after holding
up the store of +. j. Hottenroth at
Hynes, Jack Hubbard, youthful
bandit, slumped down in the rear of
the machine and committed suicide.
He had obtained $45 in the robbery
and forced Fred Steiner to drive
him away from the scene of the
crime.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
l.. A. IHARBOR WILL
HAVE NEW WHARF,
COSTS 3 MILLION
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, May ga new
wharf at Los Angeles harbor capa
bic of handling three thousand tons
of coal day and which will cost
$3,000,000 is planned by group of
San Francisco, Utah and local cap
italists, according to Edgar Mckee,
president of the harbor commits
sioners.
LOS ANGELES, May 90 The
ministerial association has appoint
ed committee of twelve to investi-
gate the arrest and treatment ac-
corded the strikers during the re-
cent marine tie up.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
RENEW HOPE
FOR CAPTIVES

PEKING, May 29-Renewed hope
for the release of the whites held
captive by the Shantung bandits
was entertained today upon receipt
of a new offer from the brigands.
The bandits merely ask for their
readmission to the army in return
for the release of the captivcs.
Negotiations are scheduled to be-
gin Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
TURKS GIVEN
MORE TOWNS
by United Press Leased Wire

LAUSANNE, May 29-The Turks
were given a new slice of territory
in Europe today by the diplomats
devising Near East peace here.
Disregarding objections of the
Serbian delegation, the experts de-
cided that. the Karagateh frontier
should run north from the Arda
river to the Martha river, passing
westward to the Karagatch.
This action gives the Turk several
additional villages.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Harding to Call
Governors in Dry
Law Conference

WASHlNGIOI0 May 29.- A
conference of state governors on
the question of prohibition enforce
ment will be assembled here by
President Harding before he leaves
on his western trip, a white house
spokesman said today. No date
has yet been set.
The conference will endeavor to
work out closer cooperation be
tween federal and state authorities
in enforcing the dry law.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-29
Clements Is In
Local Hospital

William j. Clements, well known
local druggist, is resting comfort
ably this afternoon at the FL Centre
hospital, following an operation this
morning for appendicitis. He was
seized with an attack early this
morning and was Immediately taken
to the hospital. "Bill's many
friends hope that he will soon be re-
stored to health.