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Both Extremes.
 Tom: "So she froze you with an Icy stare, eh?' Jerry: 'Yes, and I'll say it made me boil ing mad"
 -Gertrude Marie Heller.
 Forestalled. Mrs. Miller: How is it you're back so soon from the barber's"
 Miller: No use going there until tomor- row. There were three women ahead Of me-
 -J. L. Huffman. Meade: Football is a fine game for young man. It teaches him to fear nothing" Jack: Yes, and also that push is better than pull
 Dr. Walter B. Meanwell. A fool is a man who thinks woman can't make fool out of him. Apartment Hunting In The Wilds Of The Residential Section.
 "No. that doesn't include maid service" "It's only one more flight after tbke." s. "Yes, this is the kitchenette." 's"N6, there isn't, but you could i've one installed" "of course, I'm very particular to whom I'd rent it." :. "On bright day the sun just pours in. .' "No, they're all nice, quiet people" "Oh, yes It's a real fireplace"
 "No, but there's an awfully good restaurant just around the corner"
 "Yes, it's quite a climb, but you soon get used to it." "No, you have to furnish your own linen" "Of course, it's all unused up now" "No, that's another apartment" "And it's just as warm as anything on the coldest days"
 q really can't afford to, but I'll let you have it for $200" Spelling The Feast. >.. Roy: Alfred doesn't seem to be. very enthusiastic over the prospect of Thanksglv- ing this month";
 Leonard: That's because his wife always invites her relatives to dine with them" His Prayer.
 While visiting a friends home recently, overheard his little girl saying her prayers before going to bed. This is what she said in part: T thank God gave some of my candies to my little brother. | q thank God gave some of my candies to my mamma and daddy.
 And thank God there was some left. Jack Franks. When the presidential election is over, we shall be ready for Thanksgiving. | Copyright 1924. Reproduction FOrbidden''
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If the choice were left to me- "herhei S
 sa. nr... ar free government. would choose a free press-Thomas Jefferson
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Plenty of Room.

-- The only highway having no traffic con gestion is the straight and narrow pathS-To- Iedo Times.
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Campaign Fund

The Age-Herald is receiving contriouuons for the Democratic presidential campaign fund from it's readers. The fund stood yes-
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Forum Of The People
AMERICA. GA To Ranuhlican Party "

AMERICA.
 "A La Republican Party" My Country 'tis of thee, Land of small liberty,
 With Coolidge king; With Mellon the rich mans pride, Stone, who would incomes hide, Daugherty, who made nation wide, A grafters' ring. Party of Lincoln, thee, Who sets bonded liquor free,
 Thy name why love? Why love thy tariff bills, Which tax the man who tills, While Wall Streets coffer fills
 The top above?
 .'. As music swells the breeze, Let's praise monopolies, A doleful song: Let Doheney of oil partake, Forbes, the veterans money rake, Rise, price of ham and steak,
 Oh Lord, how long? Our Coolidge, now to thee, --- -., - Friend of Plutocracy, -~> --.. With thee we sing: ''Two-fifty and expenses, right To talk to those who fight, Protect me with thy might
 DOLLAR, MY KING" ..
 PERCY M. PENTECOST.
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Getting a square deal isn't all that's nec- essary; you must know how to play your hand-Boston Transcript.
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NEW YORK LABOR FOR DAVIS.
 The reported swing of seven hundred thousand labor v6tes to MT. Davis IS a
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The time is growing short in which to com plete the swing of votes to the Democratic ticket. What is done must be done :s,,st at once. Those who expect to contribute !e to the can paign fund should do so now II they want sheir money to do the utmost good
 A dollar counts more in this campaign than it has in previous campaigns, for 1t has to offset fewer privilege dollars on the other side.
 Contribute to the Democratic effort and to the success of John W. Davis.
 Party loyalty has thus an additional man. ner in which it may serve the party.
 If many will give moderately, the total will be sufficient,
 But in this community many are not gfv- ing even moderately.
 Is the cause not a worthy one?
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Spelling The Feast. >.. Roy: Alfred doesn't seem to be, very enthusiastic over the prospect of Thanksgiv- ing this month."
 Leonard: "That's because his wife always invites her relatives to dine with them"
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A fool is a man who thinks woman can make a fool out of him.
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Lessons. Meade Football is a fine game for a young man. It teaches him to fear nothing" Jack: Yes, and also that push is better than pull.'
 -Dr. Walter B. Meanwell.
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Both Extremes. Tom: "So she froze you with an Icy stare, eh?" Jerry: "Yes, and I'll say it made me boil ing mad" -Gertrude Marie Heller.
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Mrs. Miller: How is it you're back so soon from the barber's"
 Miller: No use going there until tomor- row. There were three women ahead of me. {" J. l.. Huffman.
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zlT 5HE AIABA ANA asSaE2RAsIPRESS

A Challenge To Shelby County.A Walker county man claims to have found talking snake. It said Hello" It is up to Shelby county to beat it.-Blocton Enterprise.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Gill Chooses to
Leave ElCentrO
on Judges Order

One of the most severe penalties
inflicted by Judge Thompson dur
ing his term in police court, was
handed to Henry Gill, proprietor of
the pool hall at 447 Main street,
who was found guilty of a viola
tion of the Wright Act in his trial
yesterday morning. The sentence
was given this morning and ordered
that Gill pay fine of $500 or spend
500 days in jail. The judge ordered
that Che sentence be suspended on
condition That Gill leave town at
once.
In handing down the sentence,
Judge Thompson told the prisoner
that he had appeared in police
court on other occasions in connec-
tion with charges of violation of
liquor laws, and that he had been
implicated in number of viola
tions. ---'
Police court records show that ON
October 3, 1929, Gill was fined 800
for gambling and liquor law viola
ton. His nama appears no tho roc
ords again on February 6, 1924,
when he was fined $40 on a charge
of violation of the liquor laws. He
told the court this morning that he
would arrange to leave El Centre
at once.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10

Automobiles-Three per cent on
trucks over $1,000; five per cent on
pleasure automobiles and two and
one half per cent on tires and tubes.
Killed the tax of 21a per cent on
parts and accessories freeing them
from tax.
Nah Jongg sets-10 per cent.
PublicityAProvides free inspec-
ton of all tax returns, disputes,
claims and appeals.
Taxes killed included: The tax of
two cents per 500 on drafts and
checks not payable on demand. The
tax on telephone and telegraph mes
sages, the proposed ten per cent tax
ON radio and the 81 per 81 900 capi-
tai stock tax.
A twenty five per cent reduction
in income taxes payable this year
,on 1923 income is provided.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Mo theirs to Be
HOnOred On
Sunday

Tomorrow will be Mothers
Day. Across the continent moth
ers in calico or in satin will be
, equally honored by their sons and
daughters. In the churches there
will be special sermons preach
cd in memory Of the devotion Of
mothera everywhere, the noble
women who give the most, but
ask the least-Our Mothers.
Ell Centro will observe the day
fully tomorrow. In every church
one, and in scme cases both, Of
the services will be dedicated to
Mother. Songs which Mother
loved VIII be sung, anu other ap-
propriate music will honor her.
The Mems Bible Glass has invit-
ed the women of the city to
gather with them at the Palace
theater tomorrow morning in
recognition Of the day. Flowers
will be worn in honor of our
mothers.
f.. If you can be with your moth
er tomorrow, by all means do so,
and remind her by action and
word of your love. If your
mother is far away and you have
not already written her, tele-
phone or telegraph. Don't you
be the one to forget and make
her heart sad. And If your
mother Las gone on the long
journey from which there is no
return, be kind to someone else's
mother, for mothers a mother,
the wide world over.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
judge Takes Alien Land Law Case Under Amusement
VALUABLE CACHE
OF DOPE FOUND
IN POLICE RAID
Mexicans Arrested in
Eastside Cottage,
One Woman

Morphine tablets and cocaine val
ued at more than 500 was con
fiscated by Assistant Chief of Po-
lice Sam Griffin and Officer jim
mie Applegate this morning in a
raid on a cottage in the Mexican
section on the east side. Waldo
Ramirez, "a, Victor Rodriguez, %,
and Mercedes Rodrigue l9, all
Mexicans, who were found i'll the
cottage, were arrested.
The narcotics were found in some
tobacco tins. One tin had the cubes
of morphine unwrapped, while
others had a large number of pack
ages already wrapped ready for sale.
The cubes in one tin were valued at
about $4OO, and the smaller pack
ages already wrapped were said to
have sold for $l.00 each.
The Officers had made certain
that the house they entered was the
source of a large quantity of mar
cotics which have been circulated in
this vicinity recently. They had no
difficulty in finding the cans of
drugs this morning when they enter
ed the house about o clock. They
were accompanied by Federal Mar
cotic Agent Roberts of San Fran
cisco, who happened to be III FL
Centre at the time.
In the search for drugs, the Off
GERS found three wrist watches and
a lavalier, all believed to have been
stolen.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
SENATE PASSES TAX REDUCTION Bill
Democrats Win,
No Resemblance
TOFirst Measure

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-The
Senate today passed the tax bill and
sent it to conference with the house.
As passed the measure has vir-
tually no resemblance to the bill
as reported by the senate finance
committee three weeks ago.
All the important rate schedules
in the Mellon plan were wiped out
by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS coali-
ton and the Democratic rates sub
stituted for them.
The bill caeIies ort completely
the Democratic theory of big tax
reductions on small incomes with
lesser reductions on larger incomes.
The DemOdrasc,ProgrGssve cOah-
ton secured adoption of their nor-
NAL surtax, inheritance, corporation
and big gifts rates.
The vote was SO TO Is.
On every point where the Repub-
licans resisted the Democratic pro-
gram they were defeated
The action Of the senate ends the
long battle that began last Novem-
: 4ber when Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon sent 4 letter TO congress an.
nouncing that there was a 1926, ,000,-
Geo suplus in the treasury and Of
fered plan for reducing taxes.
Mellon Plan Lost
The Mellon plan of rate reduc-
'ion was easily defeated in both
houses.
The house adopted the Longworth
compromise plan, which represented
Il medium between the Mellon rates
and Il Democratic proposal.
But the senate went further and
adopted outright the Simmons Dem
ocratic plan.
The measure carried provision
for twenty five per cent reduc-
tion in taxes payable this year on
1923 incomes.
The bill is expected to produce a
deficit of about 500, 100000 in fed
cral revenues. Senator Reed, Penn
sylvania, estimates the deficit will
reach 100000. Little alarm is
felt, however, because the last tax
bill WAS cut from $300,000,000 to
$500,0O0,0C0 more than Secretary
Mellon thought safe and vet it pro-
duces the treasury surplus which
makes the present. reduction pos
sible.
Increased business prosperity be-
cause of the lower surtaXes and
tightening of the administrative
features to prevent tax evasions are
expected tc make up the deficit
easily.
The bill as reported by the fin,
Continued on Page Eight
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Cantaloupe Men
Meet on Monday
At Local Hotel

The annual meeting OF cantaloupe
growers of Imperial Valley which
always precedes the opening cf the
cantaloupe shipping season is to be
held on Monday at 10 a. M. at tn"
Hotel Barbara Worth, by the call
of State Director of Agriculture
George II. Hecke.
Two members of Director Heeke s
staff are expected to be present ac-
cording to Horticultural Commits
sioner B./A. Harrigan, William
Allewelt and S. S. Rogers planning
to come down from Sacramento to
attend. Allewelt is chief Of the
bureau of Standardization and Rog-
ers is assistant chief.
Discussion of various problems of
the industry will be held. 1t is
believed that the first shipments
will move between the 18th and 18th
of the month, and shippers hle al
ready cup ON their toes,' to be
started. 1t lis estimated that
around $50 growers and shippers
from all parts of the valley will
be present.
Following the meeting, there will
be luncheon at the hotel to which
the Southern Pacific Railway has
invited number of the cantaloupe
men. This affair is an annual one
and is always enjoyed by the buests
of the road.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Chamber Elects
1924 Directors,
Casts 80 Votes

Ninety ballots wEe cast in the
election of directors of the FL Cen
tro Chamber oHCommerce yester-
day afternoon.f The following II
candidates werA chosen:
John S. DufS-r&4rv Steam
Laundry; ]. II. Edgar, Pres. Edgar
Bros, Co..; j. d. Foss, b. Salomon
and company; F. b. Fuller, South
ern Trust and Commerce. bank; w.
i. Garrett, Pacific Southwest bank;
Tom. M. Gill, Gill Tire company; M.
O. King, King-Johnson company;
l.. G. Lee, American Fruit Grow
ers; Howard p. Meyer, Imperial
Valley Hardware company; X. z.
Moore, Imperial Ice and Develop
ment company; Allen p. Nuffer,
Nuffer Land company; Charles b.
Paris, l. V. Milk Producers asso'
ciation; Charles r. Scott, attorney;
Frank w. Slocum, jcweler; Charles
Z. Sones, Sones Lumber company;
Percie c. Thacker, Pioneer Truck
and Transfer company w. A. Ton
dro, Valley Auto Supply.
The new board of directors viii
meet in its first regular session
next Wednesday night at which time
matters of business for the coming
year will be taken up and new OF
ficers considered. }.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Judge Sustains
Demurrer Given
In School Case

Although the attorney for the Ell
Centre families who filed writs of
mandate against trustees and prin-
cipals of the El Centre elementary
schools to force them to permit
children names in the writs to at
tend school without waiting to be
examined by health officials zap
peared before Judge Cole again
yesterday afternoon i'll an effort to
have the. hearing of the writs con-
tinued in the court, the request for
q demurrer was sustained.
The Judge held that the writs did
not sufficiently name the defen-
dants in the case and he gave three
days time for the plaintiffs to file
amended writs and fixed the date
of the new hearing for next Friday.
The complaint of the six guar
dians of school children said to have
been restrained from attending
school has aroused considerable in
terest in Imperial County, where a
large number of similar cases are
eXistant.
The writs of mandate were filed
by j. f. Nichols, guardian of John
Nichols; Don w. Wells, guardian of
Anna Wells; +. w. Waite for Will
liam Waite; j. w. Cass, for Lo-
rena, Halbert, James and Marjorie
Cass; j. b. Hocket, for
Mary Louise and Delno Hocket; and
e. IL. Morton for Lucille Morton.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
STATE DECISION
IS SUPERIOR TO
FEDERAL COURT
Calf. Rules Cropping
Contracts Are
Legal

Because of the number of ques-
tions involved and the conflicting
opinions relative to the scope Of the
term, "cropping contract" as used
in legal cases, Judge Conkling told
the court yesterday afternoon that
he would require several weeks to
decide in the case of X. Nogi, Jap
anese, who has petitioned for u
writ of habeas corpus following his
arrest on a charge of violation of
the alien land law.
"In commenting on the case
today, Judge Gonkling said that one
of the questions involved was the
conflict which apparently exists be-
tween the opinions handed down
by the United States Supreme court
and the California Supreme court
on this same question.
He said that the United States
Supreme Court had held that the
cropping contracts with aliens were
illegal by the dictates of the alien
land law, but that the California
Supreme court in another case had
held that the cropping contracts
were legal. On the surface of the
decisions, it would appear, the Judge
said, that they We're in opposition.
He pointed out that an investiga-
tion into the nature of the contracts
in question might, however, show
that they were not as directly op-
posed as they seemed.
cit is one of the eccentricities of
American jurisprudence Judge
Conkling said, "that it makes the,
state supreme court u higher auth
ority on the construction and in
depreciation of state law than the
United States Supreme Court. Time
and again, in its decisions, the Unit
ed States Supreme Court has made
declarations to that effect and has
repeatedly changed its own decisions
to conform to state supreme court
opinions that have been established
a sufficient number of times.
English on Stand
In the arguments made by Depu
ty Attorney General Fred English
yesterday, he held that the cash
bonus contract clause in the en-
ployment contract in question was
simply an attempted evasion of the
cropping contract, which was vio-
lation of section 10 amended of the
alien land law.
cit does not make any differ
ence whether the alien is paid his
bonus in 4 share of the crops or in
cash based on the amount of crops
produced, the deputy attorney
general declared. "The section of
the alien land laws is violated in
either case.''
Continued IN Page Eight
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
WIFE OF HUBERT
WORK SUDDENLY
DIES In CAPITAL
White House Offered
For Burial Services
Monday
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, May 10.-Fun.
cral services for Mrs. Hubert Work
wife Of the Secretary of the Inter
;or who died suddenly yesterday
will be held at the White House at
II a. m. Monday, it was announced
today.
Secretary Slemp, on behalf of the
President, today offered the White
House for the services to Secretary
Work, who accepted. Many prece-
dents are said to exist for the burial
of cabinet officers and members of
their families from the executive
mansion.
Mrs. Work died of heart failure
while on an automobile ride. She
was taken i'll suddenly and death
came almost instantly.
Her chauffeur drove to. the War
deman Park Hotel where the Works
lived and efforts were made to re-
vive her, but they proved futile.
Mrs. Work recently sustained q
broken ankle and was for q long
time confined to a hospital. She
returned to the hotel about month
ago.
She had lived very quietly in
Washington, with few social acti-
sities. Beyond entertaining at of
ficial dinners and attending White
House functions. her name appeared
very infrequently in the society
columns.
The Works youngest son, Robert,
was to have been married in Denver,
June 81.
The Works were married at Mad
ison Ind, in 1887. - =
Shortly afterward they went to
Pueblo, Colo, where they lived un-
til Work was given q post in the
Harding cabinet.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
CANADIAN WOMAN
BIGAMIST IN |. A.
MAY BE- DEP0RTED
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, May 10-Admit-
ting that she has married three
times, and failing to convince local
authorities that she is legally free
from the trio, Mrs. C. V. Stodgell,
26, was arrested here today. She
may be deported to Canada to face
bigamy charges, after she has sat
isfied the law here on the complaint
of contributing to the delinquency
of her S-year-old sister, Oriole Carr.
Mrs. Stodgell, strikingly beauti
full Titan haired woman told detec-
tives she marred first in Spokane,
Wash, taking Ray Smiley as her
mate, August 80, 1917. They went
to Canada, she said, and parted af-
ter she became angered at her hus-
band. tt rf. ~f
Smiley told her, according to her
story, that he had secured a di-
Vorce. Ht
Then she married J. d. Hendy, in
Calgary, in. 1919, Mrs. Stogdell said,
adding that he was killed i'll action
at Arras after enlisting in the Ca
madam army. The fact that the last
Arras engagement was fought in
1918 was not explained in her con-
fession.
She and Stodgell were wed Oeto-
Der 9, 1922, in Vancouver, B. c.,
later coming to California, bringing
the young sister with them.
Stodgell is also held, and will be
charged with contributing to the
DELINQUENCY of the little Carr girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
Grills Officials
Manhattan Beach
On Election Case
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, May l0.--Mayol
George Dcvalan and City Trustee
Cassius L. Robbins, of Manhattan
Beach, were questioned by District
Attorney Asa Keyes early today as
a result of conspiracy charges in
volving city officials and prominent
citizens of the village.
Former Myaor Carl ". Bull of
Manhattan Beach is also scheduled
to be grilled, according to word
from the district attorneys office
The plot upon which the beach
city residents were held grew out
of recent election there, it was
said. One faction, including the
mayor and two other officials, are
said to have "planted' liquor ii
automobiles Of members of the op
posing faction, and then made ar
rests, while posing as federal Off
GERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-10
ST. ENGINEER IS
FOUND KILLED,
UNKNOWN CAUSE
H0wling Cat Reveals
Crime When
Released

SAN FRANCISCO, May To-
No progress had been made up to
an early hour today. by detectives
seeking the slayer of Harry Beech
wood, "a, mining engineer, slain in
an apartment house Thursday night
presumably in bootleggers quar-
rel.
Beechwood body was not dis
covered until late yesterday. 1t was
living face downward in the kitchen
with his straw hat carefully plac-
ed in the middle of his back to con
ceal three bullet holes.
The bowling of cat brought
dwellers in other apartments to the
door of the apartment in which
BeechwoOd lay, and when a lock
smith had forced his way in the
body was found.
According to Il story pieced to-
gether by the police, Beechwood
was called from the side of his wife,
who lay in an apartment on an
upper floor of the building, by a
man ".with very gruff voice.
The trained nurse attending Mrs.
Beechwood said the mining engineer
was intoxicated when he arrived in
his wife s room. The call of the
man believed by police to be the
murderer brought Beechwood from
his knees beside his wife's bed. He
had been weeping but regained his
composure when the unseen man
called him, blew kiss to his wife
and disappeared.
Four shots were fired, apparently
few moments after Beechwood
reached the apartment.