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Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Fall
Off During 1924

WASHINGTON, June 17-Forty-
five communities prevented lynch
ings in 1924 according to report to
be issued shortly by the commission
on Race Relations of the Federal
Council of Churches.
Prevention played big part in
the reduction of the number of
lvnch;ngs in the United States to l6
last year, the lowest figure since
records have been kept.
"In 1914 there were % persons
reported lynched and i reported
preventions of lvnching. : says the
report. "That is, there We're more
than three times as many lynchings
rs there were instances of lvnching
being prevented.
''In 1924. ten years later, the
opposite is true. There were re-
ported - instances of the prcven-
ton Of lvnching and 16 reported
cases of lynching.' This means
that in 1914 there We're 6S attempts
al lvnching. 40 of which were pre-
vented by the foresight, energy and
courage of public officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
FARM BUREAU IN
VOTE OF THANKS
TO RAY ELLIS

The Farm Bnreau directors recent
! " drew up resolutions expressing
| in emphatic terms their apprecia-
tion of the splendid work done here
Ibv Assistant Farm Advisor Ray FL
Ills during the past five years. Mr..
Ellis is being transferred to Or
/ iange county the First of the month
/ TO take up similar duties in that
j iseciion.
| In all IS different achievements
; Of Assistant Farm Advisor Ellis
, IRE cited in detail, running the
gamnt of all things agricultural.
| In the five years lie has been as
| sociaied with the extension service
J here Ellis has Travelled 67,653 miles,
! has attended SOC meetings. had
made 1856 farm visits, had 361o
office and 1923 telephone calls and
written 9S4 letters.
=, In closing, the resolutions set
forth the regret of the community
in losing such q valued counselor
| in the following words:
.Therefore be it resolved that
we. the directors of the Imperial
County Farm Bureau. do hereby
express our appreciation of the eff
forts of Nh Ellis in behalf of the
! farmers of Imperial Valley and of
his constructive work in upbuild-
ing and broa len.ng thc scope of
our bureau organization.
"We feel that Che cXscrsion ser
vice is losing tried and faithful
assistant. the farmers not only an
expert advisor and counselor, but
q friend rs well.
"We wish to express in this poor
manner our regrets of his leaving
and offer him our best wishes for
full measure of success in his new
, location.
"And be It further resolved that
copy of this resolution be spread
upon the lninutes cf this Nrganiza-
! ton and copy furnished to the
-
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Fine Results In
Culling of Hens
Will Be Shown

Mrs. Ben Christian who lives near
Meloland believes that it pays to
get rid of low producing mprofitable
hens via the culling route. Last
year Mrs. Christian was shown how
to Gull her flock by University of
California specialist and from the
results she obtained she is convinc-
ed that the method shown was cor
rect.
For 10 days before culling Mr.
Christian kept production records
on her 336 hens and found that they
laid 1916 eggs, or 80 per cent. OF
these LOG hens were culled out ON
June %. and these hens laid only
10 eggs in 10 days after culliug or
90 per cent. While the 250 good
hens laid 7S0 eggs or 81 per cent.
In other words, the cull hens only
la,d one egg for every 80 eggs her
good hens laid. Bat, according to
Mrs. Christian the culls cost just
rs much no feed and look after as
the good hens. Since eggs average
about - cents per dozen the year
round, poultry producers have to fig
ure the costs pretty closely in or
der to make money.
In order that poultry producers
can have an opportunity of learning
the system of cullirg out unlrofit-
able hens arrangements have been
made by the farm advisor for two
poultry culling and parasite control
demonstrations to be held on Thurs
day, June IL.
Thursday, 9 a. m, at the Frank
Dowden ranch, one mile west of the
Mulberry school, which is four miles
north and four miles east of Braw-
ley.
Thursday, 1:30 p. m., at the home
of Mrs. W. \. McFaddep, two and
one-thid miles due east of Wcstmor-
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
IMPERIAL
By Press staff Correspondent

by Press stair Correspondent
IMPERIAL, June 17.-Mrs. j. F.
Itucklebridge of Granite City, ILL.,,
who has been here visiting her
father.
w. VI. Harris, and brothers Hom-
err and I. j. Harris, left recently by
wav of San Diego for San Gabriel
and Covina.
Miss Ella Harris and several
friends spent Sunday in the noun
tains.
Paul II. Mackey has returned
from Los Angeles where he has
been attending University of South
ern California.
Mrs. Augustus Seeley of Alham-
bra is here for 4 few days looking
after her property ON south +
street.
Mrs. s. D. Walton and little
grand SON. Bennie McMorran, have
gone to Santa Ana where they plan
to remain for the summer.
Miss Ashera Hunga and Joe
Wright were quietly united in
marriage recently.
Mrs. n. 0. Young visited her
daughter. Mrs. Myrtle Pascoe, in Ell
Centre recently.
Mrs. Jessie Hoyt Hatch was dim
ner guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Jones last evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Mrs. Ellsworth Is
Loser In Supreme
Court Verdict t
By United Press Leased Wire

WHITE PLAINS. \. Y. June i.
Mrs. Kathryn Ellsworth of Folly
wood, Cal, movie actress and the
"one day wife of the wealthy Al
fred d. Ellsworth, was refused in
supreme court here today the $10,-
GOO counsel fees for which she had
asked 10 defend q divorce action
brought by her husband.
The court decided that 1920
would be enough for counsel fees.
IN his suit Ellsworth said he
married the screen actress on May
s, 1924, in New York.
''She lived with me only one
day" he said. "and then became
dissatisfied and threatened to EEK
pose me if I wouldn t paw her q
large sum of money. 7 paid her $13.-
600 cash and agreed to pay her $75
a month for life and $500 4 year
from my estate after my death. She
appeared satisfied ard left me to
90 west. =
On November o, 1924. Ellsworth
said, private detectives whom he
had employed trailed Mrs. Ellsworth
"a the Mountain View Inn at Holly
wood, where she dined with Young
man. Later that evening she accom-
panied this man to an apartment
at 1865 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles.
Ellsworth said. and the detectives
raided the apartment and found
her in a compromising situation.
The man said he was r. II. Gibson,
real estate salesman of Los Angeles,
Ellsworth said. Letters written by
his wife TO a moving picture actor,
whose name did not appear. refer
led to the plaintiff as 'moron "
and said he was employing "blood
hounds to watch her, according to
Ellsworth 5 affidavit.
Mrs. Ellsworth denied all her hus-
band : charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Liberty Statue
Reached Z. s.
40 Years Ago

Forty years ago today, the fa-
nous Statue Of Liberty. which
stands like n sentinel in New
York harbor, arrived in this
country from France aboard the
French frigatc lsere, the occas7
ion being followed by cele-
bration which set a new stand
ard for patriotic celebrations in
the country'S 5 metropolis.
The Statue of Liberty, the
gift of the people of France to
the people of the United States,
was made possible by popular
subscriptions throughout the
French republic. 1t was con
ccivcd, designed and executed
by Frederick Bartholdi, the ia
nous French sculptor. and was
set up first in France, where it
was presented to Levi p. Nor
ION, minister to France, ronrc-
scnting the American people, ON
July 4, 1884.
The pedestal for the statue
on Bedloc 5 Island in New York
harbor, was built by popular
subscription in this country
and when the Iserc steamed up
New York harbor with the
Statue of Liberty in 2l0 eases
slowed in the hold, the pedestal
was ready for it.
Several months were requir-
cd to set up the gigantic statue,-
and at last it was in place, Civ
ing visual expression to the
friendship existing between the
French and American peoples,
rs we'll as extending 4 welcome
to the millions of immigrants
who have come to this country
since 1884.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
NAVAL NURSE IS
FREED ON CHARGE
SMUGGLING BOOZE
By United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, june II. = 4
court martial board of naval offic-
ers today acquitted Mrs. Ruth NJ.
Anderson, naval nurse. charged with
attempting to smuggle liquor into
the United States.
The nurse pleaded that the pack
age containing a gallon demiiohn of
Bacardi rum, a quart of gin and
fancy bottle of Scotch was given to
her sealed by a civilian friend in
Cuba and that she did not know
what it contained.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
ANTI LEAGUE
MAN ELECTED IN N. j.

TRENTON, y. J., June 17-After
a primary campaign in which prohi-
bition and religion played a con
trolling part. Arthur Whitney, en-
dorsed by the anti-saloon league,
won the three cornered fight for the
New Jersey Republican guberna-
torial nomination.
According 10 the count Of votes
nearing completion today. his plural
ity will reach close to 100000
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
MAN ACCIDENTALLY
SHOT MAY DIE

LOS ANGELES, June 17-Jim
Deluca, 45, was in a critical condi-
tion today from an accidental bull
let wound in the chest. Deluca was
shot when a revolver which ditto
Patenza was playing with went off
unintended.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Sec. Kellogg's
Visit to New
York a Surprise
BY United Press Leased Wire
SEC KELLOGG-Either

BY United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK. June 17.-Secretarv
Of State Kellogg made an unan-
nounced visit to New York today
the purpose Of which could not be
ascertained Immediately but which
caused considerable discussion in
the financial district.
One report was that he had come
to attend a meeting of the board of
directors Of large company bnt
officials Of the company could not
be located to throw light on his mis-
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
Fruit Crops Will
Be Smaller This
Year is Prospect

Onlyifair crops of apples, peaches
and pears are now expected in the
United States this year, department.
Of agriculture crop officials declar-
cd today. Frosts in late May reduc-
cd prospects in many scattered see
tions, particularly in some of the
central states, Virginia, Michigan,
and portions of New York.
The condition of apples on Junh
I was nearly 10 per cent below thd
usual average on that date. Thf
northwestern states expect more ap,
pies than were picked last year, bu1
for the country rs a whole the croR
seems likely to be lighter, although
much depends on the rainfall during
the next few months. I
Peach production shows q large
increase in California where mos6
of the crop is canned or dried, buf
in practically all other important
states the crop is expected to be sub;
stantially smaller than last year.
The pear crop also is reported only
fair this year, California alone
among the important producing
state expecting materially largef
crop than in the preceding season.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
One Seriously
Stabbed in Jail
Rumpus In L. A.

LOS ANGELES, June 17.-Pedro
Esquebal, 2l, was seriously stabbed
today when rioting broke out in the
kitchen of the Lincoln Heights jail.
:. Esquebal and Il dozen other pris-
oners were involved in the melee
y which was finally quelled by Il
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

CLIFFORD Lideen Of Burlington, Ia.
Is the first radio graduate of the
University of Iowa. Crippled by
illness when a freshman, he STAYED
at home and took instruction by.
radio. He lay in bed the other day,
heard his final examination aues.
aons come over the air. and wrote
the answers.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17
TELEPHONE co.
OF POMONA VALLEY
REPORTS A LOSS

SAN FRANCISCO, June IL
Gross corporate income of the Pomo-
na Valley Telephone and Telegraph
Union for 1924 was $19,196, it re-
ported to the state railroad commits
sion today. This was slight loss
from the 1928 total of $19,S57. Ope-
rating revenue for 1924, it was re-
ported. was $144,O45 and for 1923,
@l34, ,393.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

There will be gold ut the end OF
the rainbow if you save it while on,
your way.
There are tlose who work becausd
they are too lazy TO loaf.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

A girl friend tells us she refused
q man s heart because his face went
with it..
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

squad Of Officers. Several other
prisoners received fist bruises.
Esquebal was shot in the chest
and abdomen, and an operation was
performed Immediately in an effort
10 save his life.
Authorities started an invcStiga-
tion to determine the cause of the
outbreak.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

Saw an auto so old 1T must be
nearly paid for.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

Movie star is wearing Il snakeskin
muffler. It's all right, but what 5
the snake wearing!
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

\ truck driver failed to beat {
train in Cairo, Ill.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-17

You can t always believe what
yoU see. Henry never makes more
than 1900 flivvers Il dav.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
UNION FOE
Urges a Fixed Wage Stand
ard

Philadelphia.-The anti-union street
car company of this city wants wages
based on fluctuations in the purchas-
ing power of the dollar The COM
pany has presented the plan to the
state public service commission
Present rates are based on wages
in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit
three unionized systems. True to the
anti-union creed, the local street car
company and its company union"
have agreed that organized street car
men in the three cities can make the
fight, and take all the risk, for higher
living standards If the uniohists win.
Philadelphia wages and work stand
ards will increase If the unionists
lose local standards decrease.
The unionists are winning their
battles and the local company wants
a new deal. Under its latest proposal,
living standards of employees would
be fixed. As the purchasing power of
the dollar varied, rates would be in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
CONVICT LABOR
Goods Menace Free Indus
try, Declares Kate
O'Hare

New York. - No law-respecting
manufacturer can meet the tax-sub-
sidized competition of convict labor,
says Kate Richards O'Hare, in a
statement released by the United
Garment Workers of America.
This union is associated with the
Union Made Garment Manufacturers
Association in joint attack on the
convict labor evil that is strangling
the garment industry.
with his overhead paid by the tax
payers, and paying one-sixth of the
ordinary labor cost of free workers,
the prison labor contractor has an ad
vantage that no legitimate producer
can meet" according to the union
statement.
"One great advantage that few ever
consider is advertising. The prison
labor contractor can spend enormous
sums advertising in and subsidizing
unscrupulous publications. Because of
the tremendous power of the prison
labor contractors advertising budget
there has been no widespread disuc-
sion of this great social evil. From
1919 to the present time the Reliance
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

Manufacturing Company, particular
ly, has flooded the pages of farm,
and, we blush to say, trade union and
religious papers, with their advertise
ments of prison-made goods. In most
instances the editors did not know the
truth, and certainly the readers did
not, for the average normal person
will not knowingly use prison prod
uctS.
Because the prison labor contrac-
tors are tax-subsidized and protected
IN their robberies, they can, and do,
make prices and terms to deluded
greedy merchants that legitimate
manufacturers can not meet. 1t is
not strange that with their many un-
fair advantages they have beeen able
to hold the trade gained during the
war and have increased their business
800 per cent in three years.
"The question we are facing TODAY
is: What will the social effects be if
the prison labor contractor drives all
legitimate garment manufacturers out
of business ?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
EVEN THE AIR
Used By Anthracite Miners
Costs Money, Charges
Mayor Durkin

Scranton, Pa.-Anthracite coal own
ers in some instances charge en-
ployes for compressed air needed to
work their jackhammers, according to
Mayor Durkin, of this city, in an open
letter to William w. Inglis, chairman
of the anthracite operators negotiat-
ing committee.
The mayor and Major Inglis have
been writing public letters on the min
ers' wage demands The mayor sup
ports the miners.
In one of his previous letters, the
coal owners representative charged
the mayor with making misstate-
ments.
"My statements" the mayor re-
piled, ''are based squarely upon the
findings of the United States coal
commission appointed by the presi-
dent to conduct an exhaustive study
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

By international Labor News Service.
Montreal.-Democracy is on the
march, but in the ranks of labor in
Britain, at any rate, there is solid
front against communism and it's rev.
olutionary short cut to new era,
declared Arthur Henderson, chairman
of the British labor party, in an ad-
dress here.
Nations and classes are at the
crossroads, he added. One road would
lead to disorder and violence, possibly
to chaos and a painful close of west
ern civilization; the other to a new
social order wherein the common will
to peace will be the guiding principle,
and the improvement of economic and
cultural well-being of the masses will
be the ideal.
Dictatorship Condemned
Continuing, he said that the steady
progress of labor democracy has up
rooted the old idea that the masses
have not the capacity to realize their
aims and aspirations. British labor
does not believe in revolutionary up
heavals or short cuts. A dictatorship
Of the proletariat would be tyranny,
as fatal to liberty as any other form
of tyranny.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
TEAPOT DOME
Oil Mess Will Be Uncovered
BY Senate

Washington.-The navy oil leases
will be revived in the senate, at the
forthcoming session of congress, and
those who expected to hush this scan
dal by turning it over to the courts,
where it would lose its public inter
est, will be disappointed.
The next inquiry will show what
connection the Continental Trading
Company, of Canada, had with the oil
leases. At the Teapot Dome trial in
Cheyenne the government asked for
time to investigate this concern, but
Federal Judge Kennedy refused. Pro-
ceedings were started in Toronto,
where Judge Riddell referred to the
Continental to fake" company 1t
is claimed that $230,000 in Liberty
bonds, purchased for the company, can
be traced to former Secretary of the
Interior Falls bank account. The gov
ernment attempted to show that the
company was merely a "go-between
for Fall and powerful interests.
Frenzied efforts were made to block
the governments trail Judge Ken
nedy refused to grant postponement
of the trial, and leading oil men,
whom the government intended to use
as witnesses, left the country. Osler,
former head of the Continental, went
to Africa on hunting expedition;
Robert w. Stewart, of the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana, went to
South America; H. M. Blackmer, of
the Midwest Oil Company, went to
France, and James O'Neill, former
head of the Prairie Oil and Gas Com
pany. also went to Europe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
Don Chafin Must Serve Two
Years in Federal Prison,
U.S. Supreme Court Rules

BY international Labor News Service.
Charleston, W. Va.-Don Chain,
the notorious union batter and politi-
cal boss of Logan county, must serve
two years in the Atlanta federal pri-
son for conspiracy to violate the pro-
hibition law.
Chain was indicted over year ago
by federal grand jury at Hunting
ton on a charge of conspiring to vio-
late the United States prohibition
laws. He was tried at that term of
the federal court and a verdict of
guilty was returned and Judge G. w.
McClintic imposed a fine of $4,000
and a two-year sentence in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga.
The case was appealed to the United
States circuit court at Richmond, Va,
and that court upheld McClintic's de-
cision but allowed an appeal to the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
WOMAN UNION
PICKET
Has Case Against Her in
CAPITAL Court Dismissed

BY International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C.-Dorothy Fergu,
son, charged with enticing and inter-
fering with patrons of local unfair
lunch room, was declared not guilty
in police court because the evidence,
the Judge said, did not show the de-
fendant had violated any regulation,
for although she was in front of the
eating place announcing that "this
house is unfair to organized labor" "
no proof was presented to show she
actually deferred anyone from enter
ing
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

Strike of sailors and longshoremen
at Havre. France, ends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

of the coal situation, taking into con-
sideration also the 1923 wage adjust
ment. The commissions figures thus
modified show average earnings of
contract miners, the most highly paid
Of the mine workers, to be $3.50
gross year, based on an average of
248 actual working days year, or
approximately $3.50 per day gross.
From this gross figures, however,
must be deducted heavy expenses for
machinery and supplies The opera
tors in some instances even charge
employees for the compressed air need
ed to work their jackhammers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

United States supreme court, the
highest tribunal
The case was reviewed by the SUI
preme court now in session and the
appeal was denied with the result that
Chafin will spend two years in the
southern penal institution.
Chafin has waged bitter warfare
upon the United Mine Workers Union
for many years and has kept the or
ganization out of Logan county with
an armed force of so-called deputy
sheriffs, during which time many
union men and sympathizers have
been brutally assaulted and chased
out of the county.
AS sheriff of Logan county anil in
other public offices he reigned as
little czar over that domain until the
United States government look hand
and put an end to his career
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30
GOVERNMENT
Workers in Canada Are to
Get Days Rest in Seven

BY International Labor News Service
Montreal.-The dominion govern
ment has at last adopted an order in
council ordaining that all its civil
service employees shall have one days
rest in seven. Where, as in the case
of postal workers, the special nature
of their duties require work on Sun
day, employees shall be allowed during
the next six days, compensatory rest
period of "a hours
This belated government action was
the direct result of organized labor's
insistence on the obligation of the fed
eral authority to recognize the recon-
nendations of the International Labor
Conference
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-30

creased or lowered to rigidly maintain
that standard
Trade unionists oppose this check
of any advance or development of the
workers.