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Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-05
GEORGIA WATERMELONS
 ARE FREE FOR ASKING

STATESBORO, Ga., Sept. See orgia watermelons, the very best grown can be had in this section for the asking.
 If you are too lazy, or if it's too hot to go after them, just give some boy a nickel, and he will bring all you want right to your door Farm CTS will welcome you to their fields if you will carry a load of the mel ons away with you.
 This was the situation over this entire district as a result of low market prices for melons in he East. Farmers declared that by the time the freight is paid to the East ern markets they make absolutely no profit.
 The melon growers were unanim- ous in the opinion that Georgia will see a great decline in melon crops over the State next year.
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The assailants declared they came from the village of Opichen, where they had previously committed out rages. They sacked the hacienda and fled with 15O federal troops in pursuit.
 The band, comprised of Indians, is likewise charged with a recent attack upon the village of Kalkini. The special dispatch asserts there is no specific reason for the attacks which are attributed to the chaotic conditions following the recent oc- cupation of the territory by the rev. olut;onists.
 Official quarters here have no con- fration of the press reports.
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Kissing in Cars Is All Right;
 No More Harm Than in Parlor

BALTIMORE, Sept. 5.-"It is no more harm to kiss girl when in an automobile than it is to sit in her parlor with your arm around her and plant kiss on her lips"
 Thus spoke Chief Inspector George Henry, of the Police department when told that fully two score Amer ican cities are wrestling with the problem of automobile spooners" and parked betting parties and that Baltimore would like to find his views on the matter.
 The hot weather has brought this problem sharply to the fore and an effort is being made in other cities to determine whether or not kissing one's sweetheart in an automobile is a greater crime than kissing her when she is on a porch or park bench.
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But Chief Inspector Henry has ruled that it is not unlawful just so long as those couples do not disturb the peace, act morally or disorderly. And they must not stop the automobile where it will obstruct traffic. He said:
 If they go in the outlying dis trict and park their cars on the road it is not against the law"
 Henry also said that the matter of arrest lies entirely with the po- lice. He said:
 If he thinks they are acting dis orderly it is up to the patrolman to make an arrest, but if I were passing an automobile and saw a young man kissing his sweetheart I would look the other way and keep on going"
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White Persons Found Living
 as Slaves in African JungleS

{ LONDON, Sept. 5.-Out of the great African interior by way of Capetown comes pathetic story of a group of white men and women who are living in a state of subjec- tion to blacks, who exercise complete mastery over them.
 The tragic fate of these unfortun- ate whites has just been revealed in a report which officials of the South African governments locust expedi- .tion, now in the interior and of the great Kalahari desert, have sent to .Capetown.
 When they arrived at Molopolole they found the native chief, Sebele,
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VETERAN GETS HIS WISH
 T ODE WITH BOOTS ON

VANCOUVER, B., C., Sept. 5.- Fate gave Thoas Walters, 60, of Vancouver, B. C., his wish of sud- den death. A Canadian World War veteran, after twenty years service in the British army. Walters visit ed the postwar military doctor owing to slight indisposition. Af- ter examination he was informed that he would live to be eighty. "I don't want to-" he told friend af- terward. T want to die with my boots on."
 Five days later Walters, who was employed as a zoo attendant at Stanley Park Vancouver, was in a shed preparing his lunch. He had a teapot in his hand when a 17-lb. rock, dislodgod through a blast set off 156 feet away kurtled thru the air, striking the attendant and bring ing instant death.
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OLD TIMER ARRESTED
 ILLEGAL POSSESSION

Nick Bruins, an old timer of this section, was arrested yesterday for having in his possession two sea ot- ter skins. The statutes are somewhat mixed in the matter, one section making possession a felony and an- other section a misdemeanor. MT. 3ruhn may be taken before the grar1 jury.
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SEATTLE CITY JAIL
 DELIVERY BLOCKED

SEATTLE, Sept. 5.-Twelve prisoners who had reached court in the Seattle jail were discover ed early today as they were about to pry a grating from an air shaft leading to the roof. Entrance to the court was gained by prying bar with a cot leg. Earl Adams, arrested last night when he had a flashlight and some beads, was credited with being the leader of the attempt. Among his compan- ions were a man arrested in in- vestigation of a $14,000 holdup of departments store employees and three alleged deserters.
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CONF FESSES HE |S INTERNATIONALLY
 KNOWN BAD MAN

PASADENA, Cal, Sept. 5.-Rob- ert Considine, a member of a veal thy Virginia family, after admitting that he had robbed a score of Pas adena homes, confessed that he is an internationally known crook and was pardoned in 1922 in England, thru the efforts of Lady Aster.
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we'll educated and able to speak English fluently.
 The visitors discovered some fifty white men and women living near the chiefs kraal, where they act as servants. They are thought to be descendants of old Dutch pioneers who, treking in the interior, lost themselves in the desert and flung themselves on the mercy of the na- tives.
 These unfortunates have no pow CT to own land and no privileges of any kind They are virtually serfs to the natives, tilling the land of their black masters, who give them small quantities of grain as wages.
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ENGLISH MARRIAGE SLUMP
 LAID ID HOME SHORTAGE

LONDON, Sept. 5.-A big slump in marriage has set in in London and other large English cities. Fig ures recently issued indicate that the marriage rate in London for the first six months of 1924 was the low est for twenty-five years.
 Since 1920 the marriage rate has dropped P per cent while the birth rate has corespondingly decreased.
 The house shortage is given as the main contributory cause of the marriage rate decrease.
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GIRDWOOD RESIDENCE BURNS

The home of Joe Reno at Gird- wood burned last night. No particu- liars other than the loss have been received.
 The house and store were both burned, according to later informa- ton. A large part of the stock was stored in another building and es- cared the flames. The fire occurred at 7;30 this morning.
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SEVENTEEN KILLED BY
 OUTLAWS IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4.-seven- teen defenseless persons were killed and ten others wounded when a band of fifty armed outlaws attacked a hacienda near Opichen, state of Yuc- atan according to a special dispatch from Merida to Fl Universal today.
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ATTEMPTED MURDERER DRAWS LIFE TERMS
 IN CAL. PEN|TENT|ARY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5.-Harry J. Dunlap, convicted today, was sen tenced by Superior Judge Grail to two terms of life in prison and 21 years additional on seven counts of robbery and attempt to commit mur- der. The sentences are to run con- secutively.
 Dunlap was considered the second Stacy of the Pacific coast and for years terrorized California towns with his line which barred nothing.
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DAVIS DECLARED WORKERS WILL
 UPHOLD FLAG

WESTBROOK, Me, Sept. 5.-Sec- retary of Labor Davis in an address here last night declared that the workers of this country can be de- pended upon to follow the American flag no matter who may wave the Red banner of discontent.
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THREE ARE KILLED IN
 FIVE-CORNERED FIGHT

TEXARKANA, Ark, Sept. B. Three men, Walter Armstrong, 50; Charles Dixon, 26, and Jim Dixon, 29, were shot to death in fve-corner red gun fight in the main street of Pouk, near here, recently, according to a dispatch to the Texarkan. William and Stewart Armstrong, sons of the dead man, are alleged to have shot the Dixon brothers.
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WILL TRY BREAK
 UP RESURRECTION

SHANGHAI, Sept. 5.-Advices from Mukden, sources close to Chang the war lord of Manchuria, says that an emergency military conference is in session there and has decided to immediately check the oncoming in vasion. General Chang is said to have issued a manifesto denouncing Tsao Kun Chihli, governor, and is calling on all China to overthrow the Peking government.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 5.-Though a contingent of troops to the number of 10000 had battered throughout this sunshiny day, witness declared that neither side had made any material gain in the fighting which is steadily gaining momentum here.
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FLOATING CAFE" MYTH

NEW LONDON, Sept. 5.-"Some- body's brain child,' is term applied to the floating cafe" reported on Tuesday to have been anchored fif- teen miles off Fire island, by Cap tain Eugene Blake ,jr., master of the coast guard cutter Seneca, which has been searching for the vessel. The Seneca arrived here early today af- ter thorough search for such ves- sel.
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LABOR |S DEATH
 IN BOLSHEV|SM
 AYERS 4 BANKER

PULLEN, Eng, Sept. 5.-Address- ing the British trade unions here to- day, Peter J. Brady, president of the Federation Bank of New York said that American labor is against kali serism and bolshevism or any other form of bolshevism which seeks to overthrow democracy institutions
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FLYERS DELAYED AGAIN

PICTOU, Sept. 5.--Balked in their plans to get away for Boston today, the American army aviators are get ting ready for the take-off tomor- row morning, weather permitting.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF
 VANCOUVER GIRLS |s
 CAUSE DEMONSTRATION

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. B. Two thousand of whom 1,5OO were women, threatened to break into the court house where the second coron- CTS jury were impaneled at an in qusu into the death in this city last July of Janet Smith, was being con- ducted. The girl met a mysterious death in the home of Frank Baker, prominent citizens, where she was employed as a servant girl.
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SMALL BLAZE AT LIBERTY

The fire department made a short run last night, the fire being confined to the film room of the Liberty the ater. Damage was slight a pale of water extinguishing the small blaze.
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FISH PRICES

JUNEAU, Sept. .5.-Halibut 12 and ' cents. Salmon quoted here at 10 and 5.
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Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
3 NABBED BY
OFFICERS ON
DOPE CHARGES

AS q result Of visit TO El Cen
tro by Jack Dennison, federal mar
eotie agent and Inspectors Brown
and Smith, working in cooperation
with Officers Griffin and Applegate
of the FL Centre police department,
BensaladO Solorio, known as "Mara.
juana Slim -, Jose Nuno and Frank
Kinsel were arrested in this city
Saturday, charged with vio.a,ion OF
the Harrison narcotic act.
The trio was arraigned this morn
ing before r. B. Whitelaw, United
States commissioner, and was held
to answer in the federal court.
Bonds were set at $500 for Solorio
and Kinsel and $4,000 for Nuno. The
federal officers succeeded in pur-
chasing morphine from each OF the
offenders.
Kinsel has Just completed a sent
ence at McNeil's Island for the
same offense, having been arrested
here last year in company with Sadie
King and "Concrtre Slim both
known as dope peddlers and qddicts,
according to the police. Tn" TWO
latter are now serving terms in the
federal pen4tentiary.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
URGES ACTION OF
CO. SUPERVISORS
ON EYE TROUBLE

DR.. Gavin J. Teller, district health
officer of the state board of health,
appeared before the board of sup
ervisors today, - discuss with them,
the situation in Imperial county in
regard to trachoma infection, and
suggest means for controlling the
disease, which he states numbers
nearly 80 per cent Of the county s
school children among its victims.
The establishment Of 4 free eli
aic, supported by the county. where
children ctflic.ed with the disease
can be treated, was recommended
by Dr. Teller and Dr. L. G. House,
county health officer. who accom-.
panied him before the board. In
support of his arguments, Dr. Tel
fer brought a school boy afflicted
with the disease before the board,
IN order that they might see conli-
tions as they really are.
At one school visited this morn
ing by DR.. Teller, % eases Of the
disease in various stages, were
found in a total registration Of -
pupils. There are 2C9 cases III the
city of Fl Centre alone, among the
school children, and the situation
demands Immediate attention, he
said.
While he would not state the sit
uation is beyond control. DR.. Tel
fer told the supervisors tina: it IS
ometLing that must be faced
frankly and immediate steps taken
order to control and eradicate the
disease. He plans to make sur,
vey of conditions throughout the
county, an dwill make further re-
commentators to the super isors
when these have been completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
CORAL, PRIZE
BULL, GIVEN
A NEW NAME

Coral Master .Winetka, the prize
Guernsey bull which will be given
away at the second annual FL Cen
tro Dairy Day, has been re-christen
ed in honor of the occasion and is
now known as "lmperial Valley
Dairy Day Second. - That is rather
II long name for Young bull, but
Colonel Zinn, who is in charge
of this part of the program, insists
that the bull is husky .cnought to
stand up under it and indeed could
bear a much heavier name without
cracking under the strain. Mr.. Zinn
acted as the bull S godfather.
The 10 highest producing cows in
the valley are also to be exhibited
at the Dairy Day celebration on
January 26, and q guessing contest
On the four highest producing COWS
will be held. There will be three
prizes ranging from $3.50 to $3.50
for the lucky guessers.
With dairy day less than three
weeks away, the members Of the
committee from the El Centre Cham
Der of Commerce, i'll charge of the
affair, plan to keep things hum
ming during the coming weeks and
they hope to have the support of
every dairyman, businessman,
raneher and resident of Imperial
Valley. +, .# Is
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
Rehearsals Now
Under Way For
Coming Comedy

Get out that date book and
write down the dates. Take a red
pencil and draw big circle around
January "a and 25 on the calendar.
Don t make any other plans, for you
surely dom: want to miss "Are You
Il Mason.
With the new Valley theater en-
gagged for the presentation Of this
mirth- provoking comedy which is
being sponsored by the executive
board of the Woman 8 Ten Thou
sand club, everything is 'set y fol
Il record. d.breaking success. .r o..
Under the capable direction OF
Stanley Dodge, widely experienc
ed actor, nightly rehearsals are be
ing held by an enthusiastic cast Of
young people,
According to Mrs. James W
Glasford, business manager Of thu
production, the personnel OF thu
east will be announced in Il few
days.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
SCHULTZ HERE
TO OPEN u. S.
MARKET BUREAU

That the Bureau of Markets Of.
flee in this city which has been
waited for anXiously bv local let
tuce shippers will soon open was
learned today.
Arriving in FL Centre this morn
ing to take charge of the work, w.
d. Schultz who was head of the
office of the bureau at Brawlev
during the last cantaloupe season.
IS busily making arrangements to
open his office at the earliest pos
sible date.
headquarters will be in the Bar
bara Worth building rs formerly,
but will be in the corner room on
the main floor in the location for.
merly occupied by the Savage Tire
company, instead of downstairs as
formerly.
Daily meetings Of lettuce ship.
pers Will be held there in the fu.
ture, and daily market reports will
be given ont from that place.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
THE PLAN IN BRIEF

EoPoSts
l. That the United States shall i'm,
mediately enter the Permanent
Court of International Justice, un-
der the, conditions stated by Secre-
tarv Hughes and President Harding
in February, 1928.
II. That without becoming a mem
Der of the League of Nations as at
present constituted, the United
States shall offer to extend its pre-
sent cooperation with the League
and participate in the work of the
League as a body of mutual coun-
sci under conditions which.
!. Substitute moral force and pub
lie opinion for the military and eco
nomic force originally implied in
Articles Y and NNI.
>. Safeguard the Monroe Doctrine
3. Accept the fact that the Unit
ed States will assume no obligations
under the Treaty of Versailles eX-
cept by Act Of Congress.
q. Propose that membership in
the League should be opened to all
nations.
5. Provide for the continuing de-
velopment of international law.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
COVERED WAGON"
COMES HERE WITH
OWN ORCHESTRA

The famous "Covcred Wa agon "
which showed in Grammar S Egvp-
tian theatre in Hollywood for sew
eral months, is coming to FL Centre
9ext Monday, January IA, and will
remain Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings.
This road show organization car
ries the same l2-piece orchestra that
played for 20 weeks III Chicago aud
for eight weeks in San Francisco.
Two carloads. Of scenery arc. carried
and i'll every way, the production is
a master work that merits the ct
tendance of every man, woman and
child in Imperial Valley.
The Covered Wagon is con
ceded by artists and critics Of Ana
erica to be the climax in historical
productions that have found their
way to the screen. 1t treats of the
trials and adventures of the hardy
pioneers who blaZed their way from
the east over the famous Oregon
Trail and follows in faIthful Sc
Quence the historical facts of that
era.
There will be two shows daily
with matinees at 2:lJ p. IN. and the
evening performance at S:l5. All
seats for evening shows will be re-
served and the matinees will be un-
reserved with special admission
prices for school children.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
.BALFOUR GIRL
FOUND, VICTIM
OF BREAKDOWN

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.-Eveline
Balfour, 16, daughter of Nine. Con-
stance Balfour, promiritnt concert
singer, lies in quiet ward of q
private sanitarimm, victim. of an
adolcscent nervous breakdown.
Thursday afternoon Eveline dis
appeared. Saturday night She was
found, clad only in her undercloth-
ing and cape, hurrying up a dark
street in the cheaper section of the
city.
Wild and starry eyed, the girl
was forciblv taken to the Receiv-
ing Hospital, and later to the sani-
tarium. Physicians declare she had
not been attacked. Officers :r>
sure she was not kidnapped, and
have dropped the case.
Unable to recognize those about
her, the girl S condition was little
improved today.
The mind of genius was too
great strain for the body of the
child. This is the physician s be-
lief. A gifted composer and musi-
clan, the girl often played her
mother s difficult accomplishments.
Ever since she first entered her
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
''The Mail Man"
Coming Today

Emory johnson, in his latest pro-
duction. "Thc Mail Man, which
will be the attraction at the Palace
theater today and tomorrow and
Il: the Valley theatre on Wednes-
day has shown in prologue the en-
tire evolution of our present postal
system, including some of the latest
developments in the way of sea
and air service. In building up tho
present day efficiency of mail
delivery. Ralph Lewis, the star,
was called upon to drive shady,
rne-hoss delivery wagon, the meth
cd formerly typical pf maQy OF
our rural communities.
THE Mail Man will offer en-
:crtainment of no uncertain value,
20 every one interested in Uncle
Sam s big army of workers, as
there are thrills galore.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
OCEAN PARK IS
SWEPT BY THIRD
DISASTROUS FIRE
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smaller concessions located On thc
three piers, all total losses. An
apartment house, two novelty stores,
drug store and other businesses were
wiped out.
Despite the rapid spread Of Che
flames, no one was fatally injured.
Scores of firemen were slightly
burned and several fishermen Were
rescued from the end of one Of
the piers by speed boats.
There were many narrow escapes
as firemen and officers were forced
TO flee from collapsing structures.
Fire departments Of beverly
Hills, Venice, Santa Monica, Saw
telle, Hollywood and several com
panies from Los Angeles responded
10 the alarm and helped confiEc the
loss to the three piers preventing
the flames from spreading 10 tbs
business district across the wide
promenade.
Third Big Fire
Sunday S fire was the third big
loss Ocean Park has suffered. In
1912 and 1915 the amusement dis
trict was burned out, each time to
be rtbuilt "bigger and better
tAan before. In 1920 Venice lmuse'
ment center, less than mile away,
was similarly burned.
The Santa Monica Municipal
Auditorium, at the north end of the
Ocean Park piers, was damaged by
yesterdays fire. In front of it is
located the band stand, and there
last night the city's band rendered
It's weekly concert. Lights were
hardly necessary. The still flicker
ing tongues of flame cast L lurid
glow over the scene while the band
played with spirit, and visitors and
residents, refusing to be dishearten-
ed by their loss, applauded with ac-
customed vigor.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
SO Acre Field
Lettuce Eaten
By Ducks

That Imperial Valley Iceburg
lettuce makes a wonderful diet
must be the opinion of large
flock of ducks which decended
on a 60 acre field of the deli
cious salad vegetable belonging
to John Anderson of Calipatria.
The first sampling by the
feathered thieves, who never be-
fore in the history of the I'm
perial Valley lettuce industry
have been known to do any
damage, occurred three nights
ago.
They came, they looked, they
ate. And now after three nights
of successive attacks, this 60
acre field of lettuce is ruined,
the heart having been consum-
ed out of practically every
head in the entire field.
It would seem that a battal-
lion Of mechanical scarecrows
with directions to "shoot on
sight should be obtained to
guard fields in the north end of
he valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
Two Moves to
Kill Oil Lease
OF Teapot Dome

WASHINGTON, Jan. Lease OF
naval oil reserves to the Sinclaid
and Doheny oil interests would be
inyalidated under two resolutions in.
troduced in the senate today by Sen
ator Caraway, Arkansas, Democrat.
The first resolution charges "cor
ruption" i'm the lease of Teapot
Dome Naval oil lands to the Nam
moth Oil Co, owned by Harry T.
Sinclair. ..
The second charges the lease on
California oil reserves numbers one
and two were Illegally given to the
Pan American Petroleum Company
owned by Edwin l.. Doheny. The
resolutions were referred to the SEN
ate public lands committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-07
U. T. Council to
Have Ladies' Night

The United Commercial Travellers
council Of this city plans to enter
tain the ladies tonight at their
meeting in Davis Hall, and large,
enthusiastic attendance is looked
for. Several surprises are in store
in the way Of entertainment fea-
lures, and refreshments will be serv
ed. Every member is urged to at
tend and bring with him his wife,
or sweetheart, rs the object of the
affair, which is informal in nature,
is to get better acquainted and fost-
er a greater spirit of sociabiity.
Those in charge of the affair ure
Secretary w. Hixon, Clyde Hill and
Homer A. Clark.