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Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
STATE OFFICERS
SPEAK TONIGHT
AT LOCAL RALLY

Plans are all ready for rousing
meeting at the Wilson school to-
night, when Nate Coombs, state
commander of the American Legion.
Jim Fisk, state adjutant, and
''Snapper'' Ingram, grand chef de
gare of the Forty and Eight will
be speakers at a patriotic rally.
Rev. George \. Hartman, past
state chaplain of the legion will pre-
side, and class of recently ad-
mittrd citizens will take the oath OF
allegiance to the United States and
boy scout troops viii pledge their
allegiance OF the flag.
The legion Officers were guests Of
the Interpost Council of Imperial
Valley at Il banquet in the Bar
bara Worth hotel Saturday night,
and yesterday were taken as' guests
Of the Imperial Irrigation district
for 4 trip to Hanlon's Heading, to
inspect the flood protective system
Of the district in Mexico.
AS leaders of the American LIE
giun in this state, the Officers are
committed TO the support of the
Swing g-Johnson bill, which has been
endorsed by state and national con
ventions of the legion, and it was to
familiarizc them with the necessity
of this bill that they made the trip
Yesterday. The party, which includ-
ed in addition to the legion officials,
local lcgionaires and district Off
GERS. remained at Andrade over
night and returned this morning to
Calcxico.
To-day they are being taken for
trip about Imperial Valley, and
will leave tonight after the meeting
at the Wilson school for San Diego.
The public is urged to attend to-
night 5 meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
Congress Won't
Do Much This
Week, Is Plan

WASHINGTON. Dee. %. Con-
eress came back from its Christmas
holiday today but under Il : urle-
man S agreement 10 business will
be transacted this week if it can
be avoided. The big fights over
Muscle Shoals and postal pay rates
will 20 over until next Monday.
The house plans to so immedi-
sicily into the appropriation meas
ures that are awaiting action. The
senate may spend u few days con
sidering minor bills on the calendar
before adiourning for New Years
day and the week end.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
Rancher Dies On
HOltville Ranch

Antoine Guidotti, well known
rancher of the Holtville district,
died at the family home Yesterday
after an illness of several weeks.
The deceased was 76 years old and
was born in Switzerland. He operat-
ed Il ranch two and one-half miles
north of Holtville for several years
and was one of the most highly re-
spected ranchers in that section.
Besides his wife he is survived by
two daughters, Emma, chief operator
in the telephone office at Holtville,
and Helena, also employed by the
telephone company,
Funeral services viii be held We'd
nesday morning at 10 O'Clock from
st. Mary's Catholic church in this
city, with burial in Evergreen Gene
terry.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
Battle Looming
For Control of
Cal. Legislature

SACRAMENTO, Dee. ga heat
ed contest between the administra-
ton and "anti' forces for the con
troll of both houses of the legisla-
ture. will mark the opening of the
biennial session of that body next
Monday.
Asscmblyman Frank Merriam of
Long Beach and Senator Arthur
Breed of Berkeley, are being sup
ported by the administration for
speaker of the assembly and presi-
dent pro tenn Of the senate, respec-
lively.
The opposing forces are focusing
their efforts on the election of As
semblyman Rosenshine of San Fran
cisco and Senator Herbert Jones of
San Jose.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
Local Migrants
Are Rounded Tn

Following q round up of idle men
by FL Centre police over the week
end, a number of vagrancy cases
were brought before Judge White
law in the police court this morning.
Those arrested and the sentence i'm
posed We're: John Roach. 80 DAYS:
Jim Loni, 30 days; John Rodgers, so
days; Frank Kamuf, 3j days; John
. Brien, 35 days; Jerry Sullivan, 35
days, and Jerome Goodman, 35 davs.
In several cases, the arresting of
flcers found "canned heat' in pos
session of the vagrants, the alcohol
from this preparation being used as
Il substitute for liquor.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
L. A. AND PASADENA
MAY FORM COUNTY

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29..Con-
solidation of Pasadena and Los An
geles into one county, the rest of
the county to be absorbed by adj
joining counties is advocated by
Boyle Workman, president of the
city council, in an interview printed
here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
Harrigan to Go
to Sacramento

The special meeting of the Grape
Growers at Sacramento which was
announced for January :, has been
changed to January II, it has just
been announced. b. A. Harrigan,
county horticulturist, will attend
the meeting with a special commit
teo from the valley, and viii also
attend the horticultural legislative
committee conference on January
1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
RESUME BILLS
CONSIDERATION

by United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90
Consideration Of the Swing
johnson Boulder dam ILL in
executive session will be resum-
ed Wednesday by the house irri-
cation committee, Chairman
Smith, Idaho, announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
100 DEADIN
TOXIC BLAST
By United Press Leased Wire

TOXIC, Dee. 29.--With more
than 100 dead, 200 injured and
several thousand homeless, the port
city of Otaru, in northern Japan,
noted for its salmon industries, was
recovering today from II trcmend-
Gus explosion of gun powder which
leveled the water front Saturday
night. Fire followed the explosion
during transfer of munitions and
for time destruction of the en-.
tire city was feared.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
$125,OOO FIRE
IN ARIZONA
By United Press Leased Wire

STAFFORD, Ariz., Dec. 29.-Half
of the business section Of this town
of 1000 population was in ashes to-
day as the result of fire which
burned throughout the day yester-
day. Four buildings We're totally
destroyed and several other partial,
ly burned. Damage was estimated
at $125,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
FRANCE MUST PAY HUGE u. s. DEBT
No Provision In
French Budget
Causes Alarm
BY LUDWELL DENNY
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Dee. % The
United States government will in
sist on full payment of the $4,000
10000 French debt, on easy terms,
a leading member of the debt fund
ing commission said today in ex-
pressing surprise over the omission
of the debt from the French budget
ana the statement of Finance Min.
lister Clcmentel that allied debts
must be pooled and reduced.
On the basis Of repeated assur-
ances from Franco that she recog-
nized the Legality and equality of
the debt and will pay in full, this
administration spokesman was reuc-
tant to accept the reported Clemen-
tel statement as the real French
policy.
The administration was facing Il
difficult situation as the feeling
grew in Washington that France
does not intend to pay in full.
Ommissiou of the debt from the
budget submitted TO the French par
liament Saturday and the statement
by Clementel that his government
will seek a reduction of this "po.
litical obligation made an extreme
ly bad impression in congressional
circles here.
George Harvey, editor of the
Washington Post and former ambas
sador 10 Great Britain, aroused un-
usual interest in official and diplo-
matte circles here by signed cdi-
torial Sunday, sharply criticising the
French debt policy.
1.-The plain truth is wrote Har.
vey, "that certain diplomatic cpl
sodes Of the past week have given
rise 10 painful doubts Of the SINGER
ity Of France in her dealings with
the United states.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 90 The
action Of France in emitting her
war debt TO the United States from
The budget statement Of her liabi-
lities sis Indicative that she is try
ing to have the debt cancelled,
Representative Crisp, Democrat of
Georgia, member of the United
States Debt Funding Commission
declared today. =
Something should be done TO
begin funding the French debt,
Crisp said, "becauSc France holds
tho key to settlement of other
European debts. don I believe
Italy or Belgium will come for
ward with any proposal for fund,
ing their obligations until France
has reached terms with the United
States "
France must meet her war time
debts, Senator Reed, Pennsylvania,
Republican, and close friend of See
retary Of the. Treasury Mellon, de
clared on the floor of the senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER
MAN DIES SUDDENLY
ny United Press Leased Wire

ST. LOUIS. Mo, Dee. 29.-Joseph
NJ. Adams, assistant managing edi-
tor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch,
died Mt his home here Sunday of
heart disease. He had been en-.
ployed on the local paper for more
than 25 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
TWO HURT IN l.. A.
AS CARS COLLIDE

LOS ANGELES, Dee. 29.--Two
women were hurt and other passen-
gers terrified when two st~eet cars
filled with workers collided at 18th
and San Pedro streets today.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
COLD CAUSES
MANY DEATHS
in NEW YORK
Fifteen Persons Dead
From Suffering Due
to Weather
by United Press Leased Wire

Hy United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-After
the coldest weekend in many
years for some sections of the
east and middle west, tempera-
trres were rising everywhere
today.
The latest cold wave was
broken in Atlantic coast states
before it was fairly under way.
Chicago and Kansas City re-
ported warmer weather.
Sundays cold took a toll of
dead, however, six dying in
Chicago ,one in New York and
one in Detroit. One dead was
reported in Philadelphia and
one at Hanover, N. H.
New records for cold were
set in the Mohawk Valley and
throughout western New York.
Ice Sloes jammed. the Niagra
river from the cataracts to lake
Ontario.
Twelve below zero at Con-
cord, N. H., 20 below in Chi
cago suburbs and so below at
Humboldt, Michigan, were
among the extreme tempera-
tures reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29
DIRECTORS HEAR
REPORTS ON FARM
BUREAU ACTIVITY
Much Interest Shown in
Drive for New
Members

! Samuel f.. Robinson, captain of
the Eastside district for the farm
| bureau drive, declared the Eastside
district was entirely organized for
| the new drive for membership and
would begin their activities at }
o clock this morning, during the
meeting of the farm bureau direc-
tors which was held Saturday after
noon. The meeting was particularly
well attended and u great dead of
enthusiasm was shown over the
plans for this week s drive Ac-
eording to the reports from the diff
ferent districts at the mectinA the
northcnd distric. was also fairly
wdl organized, and the southend
district was only partially organ
lied but plans Tor the campaign
were to be completed by today. The
general opinion of the districts in
dlcated that the farm bureau work
was in baxter condition than ever
before III the valley and that con
siderable amount of work had been
accomplished in the past two years.
There is much work yet to be
done. Charles Berkman of Seeley
stated at the meeting, "and each
farmer should realize that the work
Is for his benefit. If every farmer
would DO hls part, there would be
great results accomplished for the
whole industry
a resolution WAS unanimously
passed stating that the II per cent
sugar content of Imperial Valley
grapes was equal to the l9 per cent
sugar content of the San Joaquin
grapes. The resolution was intro
duced by b. \. Harrigan, county
horticulturist, who is opposing the
raising Of the sugar content of
grapes from II per cent to 10 per
cent IS advocated by san Joaquin
Valley growers.
Grow Alfalfa, Plea
Farmers o: the valley were re
commended to plant more alfalfa,
in a discussion given by Mr.. Berk
man, who stated that the only
means of increasing the dairy in.
tercsts here is by growing Il suffi
eient amount Of feed in advance.
Also the growing Of alfalfa will
increase the fertility of the soil,
according TO Mr.. Bcrkmm.
A complete program was adopted
by the directors outlining the work
to be taken up by the farm tenters
during this year, the program be
ing introduced by Clark Adair and
Charles Bcrkman. In. January, the
following subjects will be taken up
for discussion by the farm ceutcrs.
Radio. how and when to pillow, bet
ter marketing and the necessity for
large membership. Subjects for
February will be poultry, cotton,
fruit planting s,nd bee culture; for
March, dairyiug, forage crops, sum
mcr gardens, and our future Gevel-
opmcut, for April. hay livestock,
pasture and labor; May, taxes, farm
homes, home equipments. and can
ned foods; for June, summer fallow,
alfalfa seed and fertilization; Oc
tobcr, crop rotation, soil fertility,
winter gardens anC, flowcts and
grain planting, November, Labor,
library education and government; !;
December the review of the year s
work, election and basket social.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-29

NEW YORK, Dee. 29.-One man
was found frozen to death, scores
We're suffering from exposure and
institutions of refuge were crowded
with homeless persons as the city
shiTered in one of the coldest De-
! cembcr mornings on record here to-.
dav
Yesterday was the third coldest
December day New Y.rk City has
experienced in half century.
Threatened zero weather did not de-
velop but the thermometer dropped
as low as II above and stood at Is
above at Il. m. today.
Temperatures as low as 90 below
were registered in the Adirondacks.
Fifteen persons died within "a
hours from inhaling Illuminating gas
this week and five others were in
hospitals, their lives saved by
prompt action OF the police.
The cold wave was held respons-
ible i'll most instances, although in
vestigation of possible wholesale sui
cldes has been ordered in the fam
lily of John Herricks in Brooklyli.
Herricks wife, brother-in-law and
two daughters were found dead in
room which had been sealed her
metically. Gas was pouring from
open jets. Herricks himself died in
hospital Sunday.
CHICAGO, Dec. % - With six
deaths and huge property damage
as its toll, the latest sub-zero wave
was dispelled today.
Six persons, including an S0-year
old woman, died here over the week
end as Il direct result of the frigid
blasts. Scores were taken to hos
pitals suffering injuries.
The temperature fell to - below
zero in the city.
Chicago's fire department answer
ed 33S fire alarms in less than "a
hours, most of the blazes caused by
oVerheated stoves and furnaces. Sew,
eral firemen were injured in their
work and the property loss by fire
alone mounted into hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
TWO men were shot and slightly
wounded by an enraged janitor
lIontlnueo on Pare o.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Differentiated Breeds
and Winter Egg-Layers

After repeated trials with different
breeds poultryman has become con
WINGED that where person wishes to
cater almost exclusively to a meat
market, as well as a winter egg trade,
he will make no mistake in keeping
three varieties: Light Brahmas for
large-sized roasting fowls; Plymouth
Rocks for medium sized roasting
fowls and spring chickens; and White
WyandOttes for small sized roasting
fowls and broilers. Should a summer
egg trade also be desired, then the
Leghorns could be used principally on
account of their non-broody traits.
They will be laying when the Ameri-
can and Asiatic classes are thinking of
raising families. In case where the
market does lot call for large-sized
roasting fowls, it is advisable to cut
out the Brahams and keep the two
others mentioned. If the market is
not a good one for broilers, then either
the Plymouth Rocks or the Wyan-
dottes should fill the bill, and in that
case it would be best to keep only one
breed In mentioning these particular
breeds ii is not done to convey the
idea that they are the only ones fitted
for that class but rather to show what
class of fowl is needed The Rhode
Islands Reds or the Orpingtons, for in
stance, might suit the fancier better.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Efficiency of Flocks Is
Increased bv Standard

Poultry keepers are finding that the
efficiency of their flocks is Increased
by having a standard to guide the
monthly egg production A high pro
duction In early winter may result in
a heavy mortality and long rest
period during the last of winter, and a
very low production will produce a low
yearly average, resulting in small
profit.
An average of 100 eggs per bird per
year for the flock makes a good
standard. This is the yearly produc
tion most egg-laylng contests in the
country have averaged during the past
ten years. and records from successful
New Jersey poultry farms Indicate II
to be an average attainable where
good stock is kept and good practices
followed.
The average number of birds kept
each month should be known and
record kept of the daily egg produc-
ton. By dividing the number of eggs
laid during the month by the number
of birds kept, the number of eggs that
the flock averaged per bird for the
month will be obtained. If this Is done
for each month the yearly average can
be determined. Comparing the produc-
tion of the flock with the standard will
help in managing the flock to prevent
winter mott, thus inducing better
production.
The standard of eggs per month |
given by the State College of Agricul-
ture is: November, s; December, 10;
January, 10; February, 10; March, 10;
April, 81; May, 20; June, IS; July, 16;
August, 13; September, z; October, 9.
Total, 100.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Meat-Scrap Ration Safe
for Egg-Hatching Feed

Tests conducted at the Ohio expert
ment station show that the amount of
meat-scrap fed in rations to laying
hens does not materially influence the
hatchability of eggs.
In separate rations which contained
approximately 2, 10 and "a per cent
of meat-scrap, the hatchability Of
eggs averaged almost 20 per cent.
Even In the rations which contain
much more meat-scrap than was nee,
essary to produce the maximum num-
Der of eggs, the hatchability was high
er ON the average than from hens re-
ceiving minimum amount of meat
scrap.
Some poultrymen have held that the
eggs from hens fed heavily on meat
scrap would be inferior for Matching.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
SAYS HE SLEW
WIFE IN ITALY
II YEARS AGO
Man Charged With Cary
ing Concealed Weapons
Makes Confescion

White Plains, n. Y.-County Judge
William r. Bleakley and court attaches
were astounded the other day when
Natalie Zucco, forty-two years old. of
Mount Kisco, who had been arf'aigned
on the charge Of carrying a pistol ada
mitted that on August IS, 1908, hel
killed his wife, Carmela, in the town.
of Radicena, Province of Reggie, Cala-l
bria, and that he had never been AZ
rested for the crime. Zucco, ques-
toned by Judge Bleakley, appeared to
be proud that he had killed his wife,
because, he alleged, she had been uni
faithful to him.
Zucco, who has been arrested forty
times, ON charges ranging from ASSAULT
to murder, told Judge Bleakley tha3
while he was living in Chicago he re
ceived information from a friend in
Radicena that his wife had been I'M
faithful to him. He said he went to
Italy Immediately and confronted herl
"How did you kill her?" Judge BleaSs
ley asked
81 shot her five times" the prisoner
answered.
why did you do it2"
Because she no friend of NINE"
EIudes Italian Police.
zucco said he eluded the Italian POI +,
lice and fled across France. He en-
gagged passage from Marseilles and re-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
POULTRY NOTES

Thirteen eggs properly constitute a
setting, though many poultrymen pre-
fer fifteen.
Rather large comb and wattles for
the breed are considered another char
acteristic of good layer.
Expert poultrymen designate a male
bird over one year old as a cock and
have no place in their vocabulary for
the farmyard name, rooster" The
female bird of like age, of course
is called a hen.
To have good laying capacity, a hen
should have three fingers width be
tween the pin bones, but if the bird is
in good condition she Should in no
event have less than two fingers
width.
A male goose is called a gander,
male duck a drake and male turkey
a tom. A turkey in its first year is a
poult.
AS the weather becomes warm place
the drinking water In the shade as
cool water seems more appetizing to
the chicks
A bird weighing two pounds or less
and from six TO twelve weeks old is
called broiler When 1t weighs over
two pounds it is called a spring
chicken
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Pistol as Nut Cracker

Newcastle, Pa.-Looking about for
something with which to crack the
shell of a coconut William Kennedy,
twenty years old, spied a revolver in
drawer in the kitchen. With the
coconut firmly held between his knees
he battered away with the butt Of
the revolver TO get at the meat and
milk within. After several minutes he
struck the nut an exceptionally heavy,
blow and the revolver was discharged
the bullet entering his abdomen, kill
ing him.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04

turned to America, taking up his resi-
dence in Mount Kisco. Although ar
rested thirty-two times in this coun-
try he always has managed to escape
sentence.
The story of the murder of his wife
was brought out when Zucco pleaded
guilty to the pistol-carrying charge. He
was not sentenced, as efforts will be
made by Deputy Sheriff Frank Cherico
and Judge Bleakley to deport him.
According to report submitted by
the New York Police department to
Judge Bleakley, Zucco in 1909 boarded
the steamship Oceana at Hoboken and
kidnapped from a berth Francesca
Palladino who was being deported af-
ter conviction on several charges.
When the girl was arrested later she
alleged Zucco was the chief of one of
the most dangerous blackhand gangs
operating in this country. One of zuc-
cos lieutenants, Rocco Cassone, she
said, sailed on the same steamer with->
Lieutenant Petrosino and was the man
who shot and killed the New York
detective in Italy
She charged zucco shot her when
she threatened to bare Zucco's black
hand schemes to the police.
Zucco boosted before Judge Bleakley
that he had been arrested and Inn
prisoned eight times in Italy for as
sault conspiracy, resisting officers and
other charges. He denied,
boxpavar that hp was fmDIicatpd in
murder in Erie, Pa, for which he was
in 1913 and discharged on
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Tagging Dogs

Sixty-nine dogs have been tagged
to date. Dogs never were so plenti-
full in the Ferry as they are today,
but the population of the canine tribe
will soon decrease, for dogs without
tags will be rounded up very shortly
and either disposed of or put to
DEATH. AT least SO Bah says, and by
gosh, he knows.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Rltes on Mothers Nose.

Munich. Germany-When his moth
er planned to marry him to a sixty
-year-old woman, Franz Murn bit
off his mothers nose.
The sweetheart would have nothing
to do with her lover then That's inst
what Franz desired, he told police on
his way to Jail
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
PAST NATIONS MEET
WITH MRS. ANDERSON

A regular meeting of the Past Ma
irons Club was held Monday even
ing at the home of Mrs. A. F. Ander-
son. After the regular routine bust
ness social hour was enjoyed.
Dainty April Food refreshments
were served by the hostess.
The next meeting will be with Mrs.
Dick Bennett April 2S.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Start New Coal Chute

Machinery for the new sand and
coal chute has been installed ON top
of the building being erected in the
yards and the carpenters are busy
putting in forms to run the final con-
crete. This building will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 when COM
pleted.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-04
Big Four Meets

Friday meeting of the Big Four
railroad organizations and their aux
iliaries was held in the Gorby Thea
ire. 1t was a preliminary meeting
of the Progressive party and was
fairly well attended.