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Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
u. s. MARINES ARE
WOUNDED; CITY
PARTLY RUINED

WASHINGTON, Mar. A. Sew
eral American marines have been
wounded in Honduras and more
than nine square blocks of the city
of Ceiba are in ruins, according to
u report here today.
The report, while uneOnfirmed by
the state department, was said to
have been received by the navy de-
partment. There. it was said that
all statements must come from Sec
retary of State Hughes.
Burning of Ceiba was said to be
| the last move of the government
troops before abandoning the city.
| The battle between government
forces and the army of General
! Ferrara is said to have been in pro-
| gress before Tegueigalpa. No re-
i! ports, however, have been received
by the state department
American marines may be sent to
! Tegucigalpa, Honduran capital, to
| protect American interests, it was
Indicated today at the state depart
ment. Marines were landed last
week at Ceiba following an attack
On the American consulate.
The Bonsilla forces, under General
Ferrara, have surrounded the capital
and are now about to march on the
city, the statedepartment has been
informed.
In addition to its own people, the
American consulate at Tegucigalpa
IS reported to have taken almost the
entire foreign colony there under
its protection.
Thereaare now three AGietican yes
seis i'll Honduran waters.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04

G. w. Brockman presided while
Atcn presented his appeal, and i'm
mediately after the resolution was
read, threw. the meeting open for
discussion, but declared that in his
opinion it was illegal to take in
outsiders as commission to sit in
Judgment and probe the affairs of
the district as suggested by Aten.
Aten retored that he believed it did
not involve legal technicalities what.
ever, but was simply straight.
forward effort to have the people
themselves take hand in the con
i,ict Of affairs.
Earl G. Pound made motion that
The resolution be tabled, and Mark
Trentham seconded the motion. The
result was that Aten's effort came
TO naught and was effectively
souelched for the time being. -
b. Morgan of Heber, who had
come to hear @. G. Webster give the
report of his Washington trip to the
directors, was in the small audi
pnce that witnessed the entire af
fair and attempted to open dis
cussion on the whole matter. He
was promptly ruled out of order by
Brockman, who explained that it
was matter entirely up to the
board.
Wants Commission of 21
The resolution, which is self-ex'
planatory, contains suggestion
Continued on Page Eight)
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
5 KILLED IN
L. A. CRASHES
IN ONE NIGHT

Los ANGELES, March -Four
men and child were killed and
l number of other persons seriously
injured as the result of traffic ac-
cidents. in the Los Angeles district
last night.
Rev. C. S. Slower and his five.
year-old daughter, Ruth, were al
most instantly killed when the an
tomobile in which they were riding
was struck by & Southern Pacific
train Near Puente. Rev. Slower was
driving the car, which became stall
ed on the track just as the train
approached Mrs. Slowed and an.
other child escaped with minor in
juries.
John Lasson was killed whom his
automobile collided with u guard
rail at the Pacific Electric crossing
in the heart of Glendale.
Troy Conner was instantly killed
when the machine he was driving
struck truck at Downey. ''
Fred Miller, 50 died at the Hill.
side hospital, San Pedro, as the
result of being struck by ca,
driven by 1. M. Tranb, police
stated.
Chaplain A. X. Matthews Of Fort
Macarthur was seriously injured
when run down by an automobile
in san Pedro. q" Aft G"%t
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
WALSH SAYS HE
WOULDN'T JOIN
D0HENY DEAL
Burns Admits Suggesting
That Mclean Be
Tipped Off
By United Pres. Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Mar. 4.2-Swing-
ing through a wide range of drama
and thrills, the senate oil committee
today produced new sensations and
new insight into affairs of officials
and departments connected with the
government.
Witnesses ranged from Mrs. ycs-
Leans private secretary and the
first woman to appear in the inves-
tigation, who told of William j.
Burns giving her a department of
justice code, to dapper Burns him.
self and Francis II. McAdoo, son
of William G. McAdoo, Democratic
presidential aspirant.
But, first, Senator Walsh, chief
investigator, stating he knew eff
forts had been on foot for more
than q month to bring out testi-
mony damaging to him so -as to
hurt the investigation, himself re-
vealed correspondence with f. l..
Doheny regarding q suggestion that
they become associated in Montana
oil Separations.
Walsh's correspondence showed
that while he had passed the sug
gestion to Doheny he rejected over
lures from the oil magnate inviting
him or his brother John, TO join
Doheny in the proposed Montana
enterprise. Walsh explained that
! because of his position as a senator
he would not enter any business in
volving receipt of favors from the
government, such as oil leases. Thei
letters and kilograms concluded with
family greetings. @ 81
Pretty Woman Testifies 81
Then slight, pretty woman in a
blue poke bonnet, Mrs. Jessie Duck
stein, told how at the request of
William J. Burns, head of the gov
ernment s secret service, she had
notified her husband, secret2ry to
f. b Mclean that Mclean s con-
nection with the department of JUS
tice was being inYestigated~' Il
Burns then, TOOK. the stand and adj
mitted he had suggested to Mrs.
Duckstein that she send the tip to
Mclean through her husbanad. He
did so, Burns said, as q hint to Me-
Lean to resign and save Attorney
General Daugherty embarrass4
ment. Mclean however, is still on
the department s rolls as IL "dol-
lar a year man '>he said. Burns also
admitted the supposedly obsolete
code used in kilograms between Me-
Lean and his employees was still in
use by department of justice agents
'and that Mclean had a copy OF
! the code book.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
FRANC CONTINUES
WEAKER TODAY

PARIS, Mar. 4.-The French
frame continued to weaken today,
with the dollar at 24.l0 and the
pound sterling l05.50.
A government financial authority
told the United Press the continued
fall of the frame was due to world
wide speculation.
Many are selling short of francs.
They are likely to experience heavy
losses soon," he said
Other financiers claim the lat
est slump is due to the month-end
need of industrialists for foreign
currency,
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
SETTLE DOWN TO
D0CCED WAR ON
CATTLE PLAGUE
ny Uaited Press Leased Wire

OAKLAND, Cal., March 4.-The
fight against the hoof and mouth
disease in California today seemed
settling down to Il dogged fight
confident that the epidemic had
been controlled and confined with
IN the areas originally infected, of
flcials set themselves to she task
OF eradicating means of its further
spread. ...~
Guards were being stratcsically
placed over the roads leading ou'
Of the infected counties and fund
of $50,0c0 was made available BY
the state board Of control to fin.
ance the quarantine and inspection
work for fourth months.
During the last "a hours only
two new herds have been reported
infected, both within the original
areas of the epidemic.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
WHAT'S DOING

BLACK Oxen,' Valley tho
ater tonight.
Flaming Barriers,' tonight
at Palace theater.
Hunting Big Game in Afri-
ca with Camera" free mo-
tion picture, a: high school
tonight.
Night classes at high school
tonight.
Imperial Valley Commandery
No. 81 meets at Masonic hall
tonight.
Knights Of Pythias meet to.
night at x. p. hall.
Official board monthly meet
ing and niid-week service,
Christian church tonight. ia
Chamber of Commerce lunch
con tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
ATEN SEEKS BOARDS COOPERATE
Appeal Asking
For Action rs
Quickly Tabled

of dof of
ton District threw bombse into the board meeting this morning
he introduced resolution calling quick
full
affairs of the district action in the
effectively Immediately
ton.
comprehensive referred back his
pledges the platform which received his election
cad that notwithstanding tho efficiency pledged
boldly the board
directors
their resorted back
would be the
func
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
cOLONS'TS WILL
REACH VALLEY
TOMORROW A. M.

The first carload of colonists
from Kansas city ia scheduled to
arrive in Brawleyt tomorrow morn,
ing. They feached Los Angeles to-
day.
Abor. 25t or sc people nrc in
this first group, which will be
followed by others shortly, accord
ing to present plans Of Smith and
Rogers, colonization men of Kan
sas City who are in charge Of the
project. az
There will probably be about two
trainloads of 2honieseekers brought
to Imperial each month until the
available land recently signed up
has been taken y &s
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
COOLIDGE STILLF,,
! BACKS ORIGINAL
TAX REDUCTION

WASHINGTON, Mar, 4.--Presi.
dnet Coolidge still stands sqlareIy
behind the administration tax bill
and he will not commit himself in
advance whether he will veto or sign
any other tax measure that may be
passed by congress, II was drelar-
ed at the white house today.
The statement was designed 10 dis
pose of recent rumors that the rres-
ident had Informed administration
leaders in eongress that he approved
of the compromise bin passed by
the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
Skies Are Blue
Again In
So. Cal.
ny United -'--s. Leased Wire

ny United -'-~ss Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Mar. A.
Clear skies and prediction of
fair weather today gave un-
wanted assurance that South
crn California IS rain is over, all
too soon after it started.
There is no indication of adj
ditional precipitation, accord
ing to Col. II. b. Hersey, local
observer, admitting that the
downfall of the weekend was so
slight as to be of little benefit
to the parched crops.
Additional rainfall during the
past "a hours was reported from
some stations, but clear weather
prevails at all points today.
Precipitation recorded during
the "a hours ending at ) a. M.
today was as follows;
Corona, .05; III Cajon. %;
Eseondido, .06; Mt. Wilson,
10; Pomona, .05; San Ber-
nardino, A.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
Local Chamber
to Hear Speaker
From The Coast

The weekly luncheon of the
Chamber Of Commerce will be held
ut the Barbara Worth hotel Wed.
nesday noon. w. T. Morris, assis-
tant manager of the organization
service department of the Los An
gcles Chamber of Commerce, is to
be the speaker, according to plans
as announced today by J. r. Coyle,
secretary Of the I'll Centre chamber.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
PROBING OF US.
SHIPPING BOARD

WASHINGTON, Mar. 4.-Investi-
cation of the United States shipping
board was ordered today by the
house. The resolution by Represen-
tative Davis, Tennessee, for an in
quiry into all activities of the board
was adopted with only one dissent
ing vote, Representative Blanton,
Texas, opposing it. The Texan said
the authority granted was too
broad. M sf tsa.
A special committee of seven
members will be named by Speaker
Gillett to conduct the inquiry
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
Heald Says Hardest
Fight is to Get Bill
O.Kd. by Committee

In n very interesting letter receiv
ed from Elmer w. 1ieald by Judge
Vaughn Thompson of this city, some
very interesting new data is reveal
ed regarding the Boulder Dam sit
uation in theNeapital.
Heald, who was sent 20 Wash
ington to fight for the proposed
legislation, went as the official del
egate of the Interpost Council of
Imperial yallev.
He refutes the rumors that the
Southern California delegation is
divided and that the Los Angeles
contingent is working only half
heartedly for the full passage of
the project in its present form.
"'The delegation here is united
and working together as a unit
Heald writes. ''There is no secret
trade on, Los Angeles is with us
100 per cent, as are all the CtheI
cities here.
"1n the second place there is nc
opposition to the ll-American Cana
feature of the bin before the com
mittee. All opposition to the bill
from that standpoint is coming from
Imperial Valley itself and not from
here. Furthermore, the All-Ameri
can Canal feature of the bill is not
as commended by many in the val
ley, a dist net help 10 the bill as
the COMMITTEE itself is almost un.
animous for the canal.
paol opI np,
worst 5enemy is Power and Power
influences here in Washington and
in ~ Congress. The man who. will
lead the fight against us viii be
Senator Phipps of Colorado. For
/ the past two years, Power has max
ing Il determined fight to kill the
bill.
Power Interests Fighting
"The power interests alone will
not be able to keep this bill from
| being reported out of the commit
tee, but very unfortunately for, us
they have been greatly: helped in
.heir fight by the, socalled 'nppei
| basin states. $50
| ""The upper basin states sent {
| man by the name OF Bamster back
here to testify before the commit
| tee. Banister is lawyer of con
! siderable ability and attacked oul
bill from the legal standpoint only
| He tried to show the committee that
the construction of the dam a
| this time, before the compact i;
ratified, would deprive the uppel
| states of valuable future rights il
the waters of the Colorado. We
| answered this argument by stating
i willingness to insert in the bill 8
! clause which would protect tn,
rights of the upper states. Mr.
i Banister stated he would not op
pose our bin if such clause were
! inserted.
u do not believe there is any
alliance between power and 'uppel
! basin states but that power inter
csts are using the upper basin ar
| gpment to delay the game. All ar,
saying the pact should be rati
fled, first before this bill is. rasse(
at this session of Congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
DAUGHERTY DENIES
SENDING STATEMENT

MIAMI, Fla, Mar0 4.--Attorney
General Daugherty today branded
as without any foundation in fact
whatever a rumor circulated yester.
day that lie was sending n statement
to President Coolidge which might
be regarded as important. He said
he was making no statements and
sending none to anyone. 1A&4
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
JACK PICKFORD AND
WIFE AT HOLLYWOOD

\ HOLLYWOOD, March 3.-Jack
Tckford and his actress wife, Mari,
lyn Miller, arrived here late yester.
day afternoon, where Pickford will
be featured in Il series of films
made on the Piekford- Fairbanks
{" lot. . Miss Miller may ao.star
with her young husband in one of
the films.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-04
DECIDE CHAMPIONSHIP

! OAKLAND, Mar. 4.-University
of Washington and University of
California basketball teams meet
here tonight in the. first of series
of three games to decide the coast
title. croAv
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12
Textile Workers Find
 Organization Pays

Plainheld, Jan. 1.-The different or ganizations of textile workers are grad ually closing up an dicerences that they may have had and January 1, 1924, finds more textile employees (both cotton and wooD in the unions than ever before in the history of the business. Those who have not before joined some kind of a union are compelled to acknowledge that the living saving wages they receive today, the short hours, weekly pay and other improved working conditions are due directly to union influence.
 The operator of this article operated eight looms i'll mill in this town twelve and onehalf hours a day, five days in the week. and ten hours Saturdays for $8 per week.
 The eight loom weaver on the same kind of work today works twenty hours less a week and reives $50 i'll his en- velope. The writer of this article paid $3.50 per week for board, leaving him $4,5O; the same man today pays $o per week for board, leaving him $21.
 The dicerence is dus almost entirely to union activity and those who have held back are seeing it and 1924 opens
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12
Waterbury Continues
 Sunday Law Case
Brass Shop Foreman Put On Good
 Behavior for the Future.

Waterbury, Jan. 12-A truce for Go days is guaranteed the residents of Watertown avenue on whose com plaint Stephen Conway, superinten- dent of the Connecticut Brass Mill company, was arrested and arraigned here on three counts: performing se- cular work, requiring secular work on the part of employees, and keeping open on Sunday manufacturing plant for the performance of said work, which necessity or mercy did not require" An old time act was re- vived to arraign Conway. He pleaded guilty to the charge but claimed that necessity compelled him to operate the machines to save the loss of metal. The noise was responsible for residents registering complaint. Judge Abner P. Hayes continued the case for Go days A repetition of the incident will result in fine being imposed, he intimated.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12
Passed By The Censor ;
 But That Important Fact is Never Announced

News from Russia the soviet before mitted to leave Russia.
 News from Russia in American is passed by the soviet
 Soviet rigid They only what they don like but they have been known of their consulting the of the dispatch.
 During the from the fighting fort to conceal the fact
 war spahes were printed under the words Passed by the Censor Censored There deception And there a
 Press and do the words Pass ed by the Censor their dispatches from Russia They allow those dispatches bona hde the
  ica and that they transmitted as written.
 Why do and Passed by the dispatches from Russian Why do they their readers know the dispatches from Russia tell only what the have told that from Russia nothing than propaganda, Why s this?
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12

Addresses by prominent labor leaders and politicians proved an attraction at Sundays meeting of the members of Newton City Employees Union, Local 175, ill Bay State Hall The speakers included Luke Shields, representing Ma yor Curley of Boston; Alderman George M Heathcock and Daniel O'Connell of Newton International President Francis J. Dowd of Boston and International Vice President John Corcoran of Cam bridge. The locals newly elected officers were installed.
 Frank Walker, president of Boston Lodge 97, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the othef newly elected and installed officers of the lodge. as stunned office at Sundays meeting at 5 Boylston place.
 More than 200 members of Old Colony Lodge 143, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, participated i'll the installation of the newly elected officers of the organi- zation, yesterday afternoon at 3 Boyl- ston place General Chairman R. C. Stearns and Past President James w. Fitzgerald conducting the installation.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12
FRENCH WAR
 ON LABOR OFF

Paris, Jan. 12-The Government to- day is considered in legal circles virtually to have abandoned its efforts to dissoly the French Federation of Labor, as the result of it asking postponement of the case before the Court of Appeal. The hearing, which normally would have come in six months. already had been delayed three years and a half.
 Dissolution of the federation was pro- nounced by the lower Criminal Court immediately after the attempt to bring about a general strike on May Day, 1920, which failed when the Government call ed out troops and arrested many extre- mist labor leaders. The Governments action and failure of the strike was fol- lowed by dirninution of the labor body's prestige and the breaking off of the ex- trernists into a separate body, closer to the Moscow International.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12
SHOE UNIONS IN
 LYNN TURN DOWN MERGER PROPOSAL
Amalgamated Declines Invitation oi United to Combine After
 Latter Wins Suits.

Lynn, Mass, Jan. I2.-The Amalga- mated Shoe Workers of America, in public statement issued this week an nounced that it's general executive council, which met here last week, had unanimously rejected the propo- sition to merge with the Shoe Work ers' Protective Union of Haverhill, which has partially completed con- solidation with the United Shoe | Workers of America. Coincidentally blow was given the Arnalgamated | by an adverse court ruling in suits brought by the United several months ago.
 F. Redwood of Boston, master in the various equity cases, which were referred to him by the Supreme Court submitted his report in which he sus- tains every allegation made by the United which include charges of con | spiracy secreting funds, and inhuenc- | ing the Lynn Shoe Manufacturers Association, Inc, to break its agree ment with the United, which was or dered into effect by the Mayors Ar bitration Board last year, and sustain ed en toto by the Supreme Judicial Court
 The suits are the outgrowth of the action of the II locals of the United in Lynn affiliating themselves with the Amalgamated last year, after the United, which originally was a party to the proposed one big union plan, had turned about face and ordered it's members to remain loyal.
 Approximately $25,ooo is said to be involved in the matter of funds of shoe locals, which the master finds belong to the United States Ill the event that there are now no local unions of the United i'll Lynn for the various craft. before Master Hall probably on next Saturday, and counsel will apear be- fore the Supreme Judicial Court for arguments, before 1t becomes final.
 In rejecting the merger plan of the Shoe Workers Protective Union the Amalgamated general executive council contends that the Amalgamated has a constitution as good as any that could be devised to meet the needs of the shoe workers and that a consolidation would be of no advantage to Amalga- mated members.
 It Is also contended that the Amalga- mated offered the Shoe Workers Protec- tive Union an invitation to consolidate with the Analgamated last September an that this offer was spurned.
 The shoe workers are urged not to take any action on plans which mi ght serve to divide the ranks of the Anal ga1nated and probably break down all union organization in Lynn and have even worse results in cities now affilia- ted with the Ama1gamated.
 Confidence in Lynn as a manufac- turing center must be restored among shoe buyers" the Ama1gamated officials point in their appeal. "Confdence can only come with peace in the city and no stumbling block should be placed in the way of the plan now being carried out by vote of the Lynn Shoe Work ers''
 The plan referred to is the adjust ment by the state board of arbitration and conciliation of the shoe situation which is now going forward.