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Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Suspect Globe Mills Man Of Pulling Off Fake Holdup
Vaughan Sets a
NeU Record In
History of Air

SAN FRANCISCO, June "a
Fleeter, almost than the sun itself,
Lieutenant Russell l.. Maughan flew
by daylight from New York to San
Francisco Monday and the dream
of American airmen of dawn-to
dusk transcontinental flight became
a reality.
A new era of aviation has been
opened up by the courageous and
successful adventure, army and
civilian flying men declared today
and congratulations were showered
upon the daring army officer who
left Mitchell Field, New York, at
1853 a. IN. eastern standard time and
arrived in San Francisco q hours
and 40 minutes later.
What army men visualize is 4
fleet of airplanes on one coast call
ed by wire or wireless to defense of
the other and spanning the entire
United States within a single day.
1t was past dusk when Maughan s
record flight came to an end at
Crissy Field, but airmen pointed out
he had delayed at dawn, that the
sun was up 81 minutes before the
little plane hummed off into the
west and that the flyer actually
arrived IS minutes ahead Of sche-
dule.
Vaughan was air sick y couple
Of dozen times during his flight. He
ate little, he said, between the time
he left New York and his arrival
here.
Face wind burnt, eyes flaming,
red trimmed, sunlsen and bloodshot,
hands trembling With sheer fatigue,
the airman was bundled off to bed
after he had sketched brief, unro-
mantle word picture of his epoch
making flight.
SIN the mountain country we
made 140 miles an hour. Over
level country, faster time, better
than $50 miles, l think.
''We,' someone asked.
"Me and my plane. y
Maughan flew alone in the first
flush of dav at Mineola. Before
he banked down out of the skies
here a new darkness had descended;
the sun still was the fleetest, but
Maughan had accomplished what no
airman before him had succeeded in
doing.
"'For the first 200 miles the
weather was fine, "the flyer went
on with his bald narrative. ''Then
for $50 miles we drove through
rain. Then. came 100 miles of fog.
After that we had low, hanging
cloudSsall the way.''
Reception Inspiring
''Records show your trip to have
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
L. A. Railways In
Conference On
Saving Of Power

LOS ANGELES, June 24.--Rep-
resentatives of the Pacific Flee
trie Railway and the Los Angeles
railway were in San Francisco to-
day for conference this afternoon
with state railroad commission Of
ficials concerning power eurtail-
ment during the present emergency.
"We are willing to enter into any
reasonable plan which will help in
the very necessary conservation of
power" said ID. w. Pontius vice
president of the Pacific Electric.
"This is almost certain to mean
temporary curtailment of service
which will be somewhat unpleasant
to our patrons.
p. f. Officials discussed the sit
uation with local railroad commits
sion representatives yesterday after
noon, the session adjourned after
deciding on the San Francisco con
ference today.
Motion picture theater owners
have pledged their support to the
conservation plan, agreeing 30 cnt
down oa display signs. s.a
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
TERRIFIC FLOOD
SWEEPS CHINA
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SHANGHAI, June 24.-The Min
river has overflowed its banks in
one of the most disastrous floods
in its history, according to reliable
reports reaching here from Foo
Chow. f
Foo Chow is three fourths inun-
dated, many people are missing and
are feared to be drowned, and mil-
lions of yen damage has been done,
according to the reports.
The warehouse and milling dis
tric of Foo Chow has suffered large
damage from the swift current,
bearing great quantities of logs and
debris among buildings, demolishing
those of lighter construction and
endangering shipping.
Heavy rains have ruined the rice
and tea crops, adding to the moneta-
ry damage of the flood.
Higher water is expected today
following reports from Yen Ping,
farther upstream, that the river
there has reached a level of GO feet,
eight feet above former highest
watr marks.
Rain continues to fall heavily
throughout the Min valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24

Cantaloupe shipping from Imper-
ial Valley June 80 amounted to 43S
carloads, making the total shipments
to date 9649 ears as compared with
Sl94 on same date last year. Cars
ordered today 4S7.
Imperial Valley shipping point in
formation for Monday, June 23: hot
demand good, market stronger. Car
loads cash track: standards 45s 1.60
LIS, mostly around LIS. Most ship
ments consigned or rolled joint ae,
count.
This mornings sales to jobbers m-
less otherwise stated:
Detroit: II Calf. arrived, 80 on
track. Demand, trading good, mar
ket firm, slightly stronger feeling.
Flats l2s l5s l.l5.-l,25, ponys 54s
2.25-2.50, standards SOS 45e 2.75-3.00
jumbos 45s 3.25.
Cleveland; 72', cloudy. 10 Calif.
arrived, 81 on track No prices re-
ceived,
Boston; 76o clear, 81 Calf arriv-
ed, 80 on track, Demand good, mar
kct slightly stronger. Standards SOS
2.75, standards 45s 800, jumbos 45s
3.00;325, ponys 45s obs 2.25-2.50,
flats l2s los l,l5-l.25.
Baltimore; 500 clear, s Calf. ar
rived, . diverted, 26 ON track. De-
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
More Roads In
Valley Will Be
Improved Soon

Word has been received form the
state highway commission that con-
tracts will be asked for at once
to improve the stretch of more than
a mile from Westmorland ito Braw
ley in the Los Angeles-Yuma high
way and the improvement of the
state highway through Westmor-
land. The roads are to be surfaced
and the road through town will be
widened. '
The two miles of desert road be-
tween Holtville and Yuma will be
surfaced in addition to the strip al,
ready contracted. This means that
the state highway from the High.
dine canal east to Yuma will be i'm.
proved and the descent made more
accessible to motorists. When the
work is finished Il good road win
greet tourists that will be of ade-
guate width and of graded and
surfaced construction.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
CONVENTION CALLS TOGETHER
C0LORFUL ARRAY OF NOTED
LEADERS FROM EVERYWHERE

MADISON SQUARE GARDENS,
NEW YORK, June 24.-The Demo
cratic convention battle of 1924 is
on.
In temperature around 80 degrees
and in an atmosphere of still higher
tension, Cornell Hull, chairman of
the Democratic national committee,
called the convention to order at
1874 o'clock and what promised to
be the most memorable session in
the party's history got under way.
1t required several moments for
Hull to get order and he then intro
duced Cardinal Hayes to give the
Invocation. "a
1t was good .natured throng in
merry mood that turned up to the
platform, solid row upon row of
faces from the delegation sections.
Not much in the smiling couAten-
ances of the young and old male dele
gates to indicate strife ahead. No
thing quarrelsome in the faces of
the women delegates-many of them
strikingly beautiful in a dress and
hat setting of gay clors-lavendars,
yellows, green's and whites.
Looking down upon the delegates
were packed galleries, also sparkling
with the colors of the feminine wear
and the selected broup who sat on
the speakers platform, most of
them were women. ..4s4
At noon, the hour set for calling
the convention to order, Chairman
Hull, who emerged from state of
near collapse as a result of his work
and worry appeared on the platform.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Don't Start to
Camp Till You've
Been Notified

In view of the complete quota of
young men for the Citizens Train
ing Camp at Del Monte being filled,
young men who may have applied
for admission are requested not to
report to camp, unless they have re-
ceived their orders from the war de
partment. This request was made
in letter received by Leroy Holt
of the First National Bank, who is
local representative of the Military
Training Camps Association of the
United States, from r. G. Ward, ci-
william aide to the Secretary of War
for the ninth corps area.
g., Young men of Imperial Valley
who have passed the physical test
and who have received smallpox
and typhoid innoculation from either
DR.. O. B. Dunham of Brawley or Dr.
w. F. Peterson of FL Centre are
eligible for camp. Only Is of the
% applicants can attend camp, how
ever, so all applicants are warned
to await definite orders to go, said
Mr.. Holt today.
Orders must be signed by Colonel
f. V. Smith, chief of staff, 9lst di-
vision, or by Lieutenant Colonel j.
p. Spur, commanding officer, Fort
Winfield Scott, to be authentic.
Anyone attending without these def
mite orders places the camp com
mander in an embarrassing position
because congress has only provided
for 5000 students and an excessive
number cannot be cared for at the
camps.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Three Prominent
Women Indicted
In Horsewhipping

II ALEXANDRA, La, June "a
Three prominent women were in
.dicted here today for the alleged
horsewhipping of Mrs. Lillian Bon
nette, mother of two children.
The flogging, authorities said,
grew out of alleged relations be-
tween Mrs Bonnette and Il hhs-
band of one of the women.
Those indicted: m
Mrs. John w. Ball, wealthy social
leader. ,tFtef
Mrs. Amelia Jordan, Mrs. Ball $
daughter.
Mrs, Leslie Il. Hatchette, friend
of the Ball family.
Mrs. Bonnette recently sued the
three women, charging they drag
ged her, undressed, from her home,
took her to an isolated spot and
whipped her. She asked $4,000
damages.
Mrs. Ball, police said, assumed
responsibility for the flogging
Her daughter and Mrs. Hatchette
were only onlookers, police sand she
told them.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
RECORD RUN
rs MADE WITH.
SNAKE SERUM

G. A. Morse, employed at the
Tatum ranch near Brawley, who
was bitten by a rattle snake recent
ly is improving rapidly at TIE FL
Centro hospital today as the result
of injection of serum especially
prepared for rattle snake bites and
rushed from San Diego ito sthe hos
pital lated Saturday night.
Morse was working in 1t field at
the time he was bitten, He had
been operating mower and when
the knives appeared to be clogged
with hay, he stopped and reached
down to clear them. AS he did so,
he was bitten in the hand by a
rattle snake which had been cut in
half. .@'
He was rushed to the hospital
here and DR.. l.. G.. House was sum
moned. After telephoning to DR..
Harry Wedgeforth, the only physi-
elan in Southern California said to
have the special snake serum, it
required about only two hours and
q half for c. F. Hammer, of the
navy to make the trip to El Cen
tro with the serum. The navy's
run established a record for speed.
DR.. House has already sent to
New York City for supply of the
serum, which is to be kept on hand
for emergencies that may occur in
the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Resolutions Paw
Much Tribute
to Wilson

!. by Bnfted Press LEASED Wire
MADISON SQUARE GAR
DEN, New York, June 24.-Fol-
lowing is the resolution prepar-
ed by Mrs. Frank Reeves of the
state of Washington, for pass
age in tribute to Woodrow Will
son. ## aas5ssE
1t will be presented and adopt
ed at the conclusion of the reg
ular program today:
Resolved, that the Democra-
tic party of the nation in con-
vention assembled profoundly
laments the death of that in
comparable American, Woodrow
Wilson, whose leadership and
achievements constitute, an epoch
in the world s history.
And now, as a further mark
Of respect for his memory, this
convention will stand recess
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
STORY in PRESS
FINDS A HOME
FOR YOUNG GIRL
So Many Offers That
Choosing Made
Difficult

That Rita Elenez, l6 year old
Mexican girl, who has been staying
at the county farm since last week
when her aunt refused to Keep her
longer, will have home, is assur
ed by the number of people who
have called Probation Officer Swan
son since the Press carried story
on Saturday telling how the girl
came to be ward of the county.
Probation Officer Swanson was at
a loss Saturday to know what to do
to find a home for the girl. Today
he is at loss to know whom to
give Rita to, so many calls have
been received.
Among those who have phoned to
the probation officer to inquire
whether they might take care of the
girl are Mrs. Margaret Cunningham,
76O Orange street; Mrs. John Rice,
l125 Main street; Mrs. j. w. War
rem of Campo. and Mrs. Gordon
Schneider of Holtville.
Rita fold the probation officer last
week that she had been an orphan
since she Was two years old and
that her aunt had allowed her to
make her home there until about a
week ago, wnen the girl had a dis
agreement with her aunt.
1t was the first time the girl had
ever disobeyed her guardian, she
said, and when her aunt found out
that her orders had been disregard
ed she refused to keep her niece, ac-
cording to the story told to Mr..
Swanson.
Rita was placed at the county
farm temporarily, and although she
promised to respect the commands
of her aunt in everything hereafter,
she was not allowed to return, Mr..
Swanson said. iH q
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
HELD In COUNTY
JAIL ON CHARGE
CHECK FORGERY
Handwriting Expert IS
Called on in Exhaus-
tive Probe

Robert L. Cummins, until short
time ago an employee of the Globe
Grain and Milling Company IN nj
Genfro, is being held at the county
Jaii on charges of forging two checks
amounting to $3.50, as the resnlt
OF an investigation by the district
attorney in which hand writing
expert was called upon to give N.
opinion.
offleers have also expressed their
suspicious that the holdup reported
by Cammins ON the morning 0f
April 10, when he told police thar
two Mexieans had gagged and bound
MN while they looted the money
drawer at the Globe Mills office.
was faked' by him in order to
cover up shortages which might
have been hard to explain otherwise.
The checks, one of which was
written on April 5, and signed by
George Green, were returned bv
the bank with the statement that
there were no accounts credited to
George Green or the signer of the
second check, NJ. NJ. Denton. =
After comparing the signatures Of
the two checks, the second of which
was dated April 80, District Attor-
ney Utley sent them to a hand writ.
ing expert at San Francisco, togeth-
er with the two sales slips recording
the alleged sales OF merchandise to
Green and Detnon.
Says Writing Same
A ftar rbo{nnronh., %t,o
and the sales slips and making en-
largements of them, the expert wir-
ed that the signatures were made
by the same person who wrote the
dates and amount of the checks and
that the person who wrote the dates
and amounts was the same one who
wrote the sales slips.
Cummins is said to have admitted
writing both checks, except for. the
making out the signatures. He also
admitted writing the sales slips, ac-
cording to those making the investi-
cations.
Among other reasons for the sus-
picion of officers that the holdup ON
April 10 may have been bogus one,
is the fact that on that day there
was considerable cash in the money
drawer, there usually being little h
money outside of checks kept IN the
office, according to the officials
The story of the holdup as~told
by Cummins at the time was that
shortly after Z O'Clock in the morn
ing the two bandits entered the trent
door of the office just as he md
opened the vault and brought the
cash out. The amount reported tax
en- was $4,000. ~
He said that they had ordered
him to put up his hands and had
bound and gagged him before talk
ing the money. A few minutes later
Cummins freed himself, he said, and
notified the police and sheriff's Of
flee. No trace was ever found 4of
the Mexicans.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
GREATEST DEM. CONVENTION BEGIN
Pau Tribute TO
Dead Leader In
Adjournment
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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York. June 24.--The Demo
cratic National Convention swung
through its firstgsession today, sway
ed by the skillful and forceful ora
tory of Senator Pat Harrison and
cleared the way for its first big
battle-that over the platform.
ss1Its was a. hot day and it was still
Hotter in the Garden. Harrison,
nevertheless, swept the delegates to
high pitches of enthusiasm and
once, at the conclusion of a long
demonstration for Woodrow Will
son, there was a moment when the
great throng struck revival note.
The band was playing, "Glory,
Glory Hallelujah.' -
A vision in white was Miss Anna
Case, star metropolitan opera So
prano, and she cast q momentary
spell over the convention, which
added to the striking tribute paid
the memory Of Wilson. In fact, the,
initial session was permeated with
: the atmosphere of respect for the
Democratic war president. Every
reference to his name brought
cheers and applause and on one oc-
casion demonstration lasted ap-
proximately 10 minutes.
The closing scene of the first
day found little woman--Mrs.
Reeves of the state of Washington
completing the tribute to the par
ty's dead leader.
Honor Dead Leader
Reading n resolution honoring
him as an incompatible American,
Mrs. Reeves moved that the con-
vention adjourn out of respect for
Ais memory until II o clock tOmor-
row. The motion carried. The ad-
iournment was taken and the ireso-N
luton committee went Immediately
TO the Waldorf Hotel to begin their
deliberations over the party plat
form.
Down to the concluding paragraph
of his speech, the.-crowd enjoyed
Harrison S speech and gave him a
rousing sendoff as he closed dra-
matically:
"We hear the mighty voice of
Woodrow Wilson wistfully calling
to us:
ITO you from failing hands,
we throw the torch. Hold it high!
Hold it high! Carry on! Carry on!
Keep the faith-Keep the faith!
The delegates stood for a seventh
inning stretch while the band play
ed and Harrison received the con-
gratulations of many who came to
shake his hand and on the platform.
Preliminary to ending the program
of the first session.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24

Mrs. Hull who has been with him
constantly since he broke down yes
terday, remained at his side. Hull
was quite pale.
Ranged about him on the platform
were party leaders and celebrities,
Josephus Daniels, former secretary
of the navy, mingling around be-
fore the convention was called to
order, shaking hands with old ac-
quaintances. He wore whiteSl linen
suit and his customary black string
/ tie. Jimmy Gallivan, Massachusetts
! congressman, appeared with the
brightest hat band in the convent
ton. Joe Tumulty, as usual, was tire
center of laughing group. Tex
Rickard, the famous fight promoter,
appeared just before the gavel fell
and looked out over his greatest
fight crowd.
az. He Got the "Show''
This is the browning show of the
famous promoter. 1t was his ante of
$4,000 which swung the convention
to New York. Now he is going to
tear down this famous old garden
and build a great recreation center
farther down town with the profits
of his bonanza career.
Soon the old garden, which be-
came known round the world when
Harry Thaw shot Stanford White
twenty years ago, will be only a
memory.
One of the last arrivals on the
floor was George E. Brennan, Illi-
nois boss. He appeared in the Hi
Continued on Page Four
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
GIRL TRIES TO
DIE AFTER SHE
REACHES JAIL

Los ANGELES, June 24.-Geral-
dine MCGOWAN, IL year old daugh-
ter of a retired Pasadena furniture
dealer was believed recovering at
the Genral Hospital today follow
ing an attempt to commit suicide
by poison in the Burbank jail.
Fearing the girl may make anoth-
er attempt to end her life, constant
guard is maintained at her bed
side.
The MCGOWAN girl was arrested
as an alleged "flapper bandit :"
member of a gang of robbers. A
few hours after she was lodged in
Jail she attempted suicide, and was
rushed to the hospital last night,
after her predicament was discov-
cred.
Norman MeRea, G. A. Wilson,
Charles Hinton and Arthur Arm
strong, all of Burbank, are alleged
to be other members ofs the band
All are under arrest. McRea is said
to have confessed Turing the girl
from San Fernando Valley con
vent school to join the gang.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
3 Day Vacation
Plan of Local
Firms

Tom M. Gill, chairman of the
merchants committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, states to-
day that practically all the mer-
chants and professional men in
Ell Centre have indicated their in
tention of closing their places of
business on Friday and Saturday,
July 4 and 5.
The movement is general in
the other valley cities and is in
allgurated to permit business
men and employees three-day
vacation and an opportunity for
them to get into the mountains or
go to the coast.
In checking up among the bus
mess houses of the city, the
Chamber Of Commerce has taken
into consideration the fact that
Independence Day rarely occurs
on Friday and that unless Satur-
urday is made a holiday by all
the business men, it will be i'm
possible for most Of the resi-
dents to leave town.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Mrs. Kepley Is
Hurt by Fall

Mrs. r. B. Kepley, 563 Hamilton
street, was injured yesterday when
she fell at her home and dislocated
one of the vertebrae in her spine.
She is reported much improved to-
day, though she is confined to her
bed.
Mrs. Kepley was standing in the
yard at the rear of her residence
when the accident occurred. She
said that she attempted to step
backwards suddenly, catching her
foot as she did so. She was bruis-
ed and shaken by the fall, in addi-
tion to the injury to her spine. She
is undergoing treatments which are
expected to bring about speedy
recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Sport Magazines
of Coast Merged


7 PASADENA, June 24.-Merger
of the Country Club magazine with
the Pacific golf and motor maga'
zine was announced here today by
Sherman A. Paddock, publisher of
the former. The combination will
issued under the name of the Coun-
try Club Magazine, Paddock said.
1t will be published in Pasadena.
The Pacific Golf and Motor Maga-
zine was published in San Francis
60 by the j. i. Neville Publishing
company.
The combination will make the
Country Club Magazine the only
sports journal of its kind on the
Pacific coast, Paddock said
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
MuSsOlini Firm
In Fascist Stand

ROME, June Pa Fascism has
been shaken, but il will only lose
it's miry dregs,' Premier Mussolini
tol dthe chamber of deputies this
afternoon in his first speech since
the murder of the Socialist Deputy
Matteoti.
His government must remain in
power, the premier said, and will
prove the efficacy of its policies.
u" We cannot consider any demobi'
lization of tn Fascist militia at
this time,' Mussoini added.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Trio Goes to
S. D. Convention

District Attorney Ernest r. Utley,
Deputy District Attorney j. +. Simp
son and Miss Clara Feustel will be in
San Diego to attend the annual
convention of district attorneys of
California on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of this week.
District Attorney Utley win bring
a number of the other district at
torneys and probably Attorney Gen
eral Webb back to the valley with
him on Saturday for the day. They
will be taken for a tour of the coun-
ty and in the evening will be given
a watermelon and cantaloupe feed.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
TODAYS DEMOCRATIC
PROGRAM

National Chairman Hull calls
convention to order at noon,
eastern daylight saving time.
Invocation by Cardinal Hayes
Singing of Star Spangled
Banner.
Reading of the convention
call.
Election of temporary officers.
Address of Senator Pat Har-
rison, temporary chairman.
Adoption of parliamentary
rules for convention.
Confirmation of various COM
mittees.
Optional speeches. i
4 Resolution of respect in mem
ory of Woodrow Wilson.
4 Adjournment.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Miss Wills Wins
Again at Tennis

WIMBLEDON, June 24.-Helen
Wills, returning to form and play
ing brilliant tennis, Won her first
match in the women's singles at
tho Wimbledon tennis championship
today.
Miss Wills victim was Lillian
Scharman of Brooklyn, who went
down to defeat in straight sets, TAX
ing only one game from the Amer
lean champion. Scores 81, 50.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-06-24
Seven Injured,
Two Missing in
Blast on Ship

By United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, June 24-Seven
men were injured and two 9th
ors are\missing as the result of
an explosion of naphtha aboard
tho steamship. Egremont Castle,
lying at Brooklyn pier today.
Fire followed the explosion.
Two men were believed trapped
in the hold.