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Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
LOCAL BANK VOW MERGED
WITH BANK OF ITALY

The First NatioASl%Bank of FL
Centre, established here in 1909,
will be converted into branch of
the Bank of Italy, according to
announcement made today by James
A. Bacigalupi, president Of the lat
ter bank.
Concurrent with this merger, banks
in six other California cities will
be added to the Bank of Italy's or
ganization. The institutions includ-
ed in the consolidation are: Ameri-
can National Bank of Santa Ana,
State Bank of Venice, San Fernan-
do Valley Savings Bank of San Fer
nando with its branch at Newhall,
Arcadia Savings Bank Of Arcadia,
and the Santa Monica Boulevard
State Bank of Hollywood. Total re-
sources represented by these insti-
tutions aggregate nearly $4,000, 900.
The Bank of Italy is the largest
financial institution west Of Chi
cago, and in point of depositors---
over 550,000-ranks first in the
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
AUTO OFFICIAL
WILL TELL HOW
TAXES TO WORK

Just what will happen to the
average motorist in increased taxes
IN the event the proposed state leg
islation goes through, will be the
main theme of E. f. East, high
way engineer Of the Southern Cali
fornia Automobile Club, who will
speak at the chamber Of commerce
office tonight.
Mr.. East stated today that he had
been asked by one interested South
ern California motorist if it was
really true that 67 per cent of his
state taxes will go to highways that
he will seldom use, if ever In his
answer, Mr.. East stated that the
motorist came very near to sound
ing out the situation. He stated
that under the proposed tax laws,
the license fee will be increased 50
and an addition Of one cent made to
the present two cent gasoline tax.
This means that the average motor
list, instead Of paying approximately
$l3 n year to the state, will pay 500.
OF the $13 he is now paying, the
state gets half. Under the new law,
the entire proceeds of the addition
al one cent tax would go to the
state, and not half to the counties
for maintenance, as is now the
ease.
This is only one Of the many
bills, now before the legislature
which Mr.. East will explain at the
meeting tonight He has spent a
great amount Of time in studying
this legislation and is we'll prepared
to speak authoritatively upon the
subject.
This meeting should be Of great
interest to motorists Of Imperial
Valley, according to G. G. Tucker,
manager of the local auto club Of
flee, who is very desirous OF a
large number being present to dis
cuss the bills with Mr.. East.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
TEAPOT. DOME
CASE UNDER
AMUSEMENT 7
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CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 90
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy
took the Teapot Dome annulment
suit under advisement today. He
indicated he would not be able to
give n decision until after three
months.
Government attorneys were given
10 days to file their briefs whilo
attorneys for Harry F. Sinclair, de-
Tending the lease granted the Nam
moth Oil Company by former See
retary of the Interior Albert b.
Fall, were allowed 80 days.
After that time has elapsed, Judge
Kennedy indicated he would begin
work on his decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
WHAT'S DOING

Labor Alliance of Imperial
Valley meets tonight at Eagles
Hall, North Fifth street, 8 p. m.
1.-THE Storm Daughter" at
Theater Tulane tonight.
"Contraband' at Valley the
alter tonight.
"K, the Unknown Iat Pal
ace theater tonight.
Revival services at State
Street Christian church tonight.
E. E. East, highway engineer
auto club, at Chamber of Com
merce office tonight.
Catholic choir concert at Holt
vile tonight.
Troops 16 and 81 10y scouts
meet tonight.
Ell1s lodge meeting, supper at
Elks hall tonight.
FL Centre Chapter r. A. NJ.
100 meets tonight.
Pythian Sisters meet tonight.
Kiwanis club luncheon tomor-
row.
Wilson School art exhibit to-
morrow l to 5 p. III.
Northend-Calipatria home
demonstration meet1ng tomor-
row.
School trustees election here
tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Dry Enforcement
Up to Uncle Sam
ny United Press Lensed Wire

MADISON. Wis, March GO
Prohibition enforcement in Wiscon-
sin "is up to the federal authori-
ties, Herman Sachtien, state pro
hibition commissioner, declared TO-
day.
With members of the Wisconsin
legislature in open rebellion against
the Nolstead act, publicly defyipg
arrest for dry law violations, Sacht-
ien today ruled that possession of
intoxicating wine and beer in the
home cannot be prosecuted under
the Severson enforcement act, a
state law for prohibition enforce
ment.
Saehticn frankly admits the Vol
stead act caunot be enforced in
Wisconsin. He threw the matter
squarcly ~ to the federal autho-
rites.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
COAST PROMOTER FOUND
CONVICTED ON FOUR COUNTS

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 26.-Paul
B. Rabe, Long Beach promoter con
victed of fraud, will appear before
Superior Judge Arthur Keetch here
Monday to receive sentence.
A jury late yesterday found
Rabe guilty of obtaining money
under false pretenses in connection
with promotion of the Long Beach
Dock and Terminal Company.
He was convicted on four counts,
each carrying Il penalty of one to
ten years in the state penitentiary,
or a total Of to 40 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
FINNEY BILL
BEING HEARD
BY SENATORS

SACRAMENTO, Mar. &C.
The federal relations commit
tee of the senate today is hear
ing arguments in favor and in
opposition to the Finney reser-
walton to the proposed six state
Colorado River treaty.
Mark Requa, San Francisco,
Attorney General U. S. Webb
and others are opposing the re-
servation clause which provides
that the pact shall not go into
effect until congress shall have
made provisions Tor the con-
struction Of a high dam for wa
ter storage at Boulder Canyon.
Proponents of the reservation
including Asserblyman A. G.
Finney, Senator Ralph Swing,
representatives of the Imperial
county irrigationists and Los
Angeles city power bureau de-
clare that without the reserva-
ton California cannot protect
her rights to the waters of the
river.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
81 Pay Fines in
Police Court
Today

Automobile owners who arc
driving cars equipped with
headlights which do not con-
form to the law, are likely to
meet grief, according to J. G.
Reynolds, traffic officer Of the
FL Contro police department,
who is at the present time con-
Quoting q campaign 10 see that
the law in this respect is re-
spected.
In the police court this morn
ing, 81 traffic offenders, most
of whom h9d defective head
lights, paid fines totaliing S144
as a result of the officers ac-
tivities last night.
With a number of official
headlight testing stations in
this city, there is little excuse,
say the police, for owners to
have defective or Illegal lights
on their cars, and it is the in
tention to keep after this mat
ter until the law is observed by
all who drive cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26

United States. 1t maintains 94
banking offices in 65 California
cities and is owned by $4,000 Cali
fornians who are it's stockholders.
"More than anything else, the
Bank Of Italy seeks, through q state
wide organization, to extend metro
politan banking facilities to the in
terror communities of California, -
said Mr.. Bacigalupi. "In the ma
tural centers of agricultural and
industrial activity, the Bank of
Italy has established branches where
it offers complete banking facilities
on par with those obtainable in
the nation g greatest metropolis, -
Since 1914, the bank has enioved
a deposit growth of more than 1000
per cent. It has resources of more
than $360,000O0o and has capital
and surplus of 500, 100000.
During the past year, the Bank of
Italy has experienced a growth of
approximately $50,000,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Charges Against
Sonny" Willis
Are Dismissed

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 26.-Mur-
der charges against "Sonny" Will
is, Is, were stricken from juvenile
court records today.
"Sonny' was accused of Staying
DR.. Benjamin Baldwin, a crime for
which his mother is serving Il life
term in San Quentin prison.
The lad admitted under cross
examination that he confessed y
to the murder to save his mother
and authorities refused his own
request that he be prosecuted.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
SEMON'S DIRECTOR
MUST GO TO JAIL

SANTA ANA, Cal, Mar. 2G.-E.
T. Montgomery, director of motion
pictures for Larry Semon, must
spend five days in county Jail here
for speeding.
Montgomery and Semon were ar
rested on the San Diego highway on
complaint Of a motorcycle officer
they were speeding at rate of
SO miles an hour.
The director, who was driving,
drew o five-day sentence in Jail,
and Semon was released. Montgo,
merry is to start serving his SEN
tence on April IA, when he COM
pletes a picture he is directing for
Semon.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Man Killed in
DuelOver Woman

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 26.-Police
were looking for Dasllio Quintana
today following pistol duel in
which he is alleged to have killed
Odilon Silva.
Silva and Quintana were rivals
for the hand Of Mrs. Maria Are
llano, according to police.
They met last night on a street
corner, according to Mrs, Arellnno,
and agreed to Fight it out y The
woman later found Silva s body in
an alley, she reported to police.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Ranchers Have
Not Filed Suit
In Water Row

Up to the zine of going to press
this afternoon, no suit for an in
junction to restrain the Imperial
Irrigation District from removing
its water office at Calexico, had
been filed with the county clerk S
office, according to County Clerk
Mousseau.
Inquiry at the district office re-
vealcd the information that no no.
tice of such action had been rcceiv-
ed there. 1t was intimated that
such action is contemplated by Ca
lexico ranchers, and that such an
injunction would not be 4 surprise.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Warn Those Who
Would Take Up
Land ON Mojave
Ry United prcss Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26.-The
pioneering spirit, still alive in the
United States, is being misdirected
in many recent efforts to homestead
desort lands in the vast and barren
Moiavc desert in California, the in
terror department warned today.
The land office pointed out that
the sandy soil Will not grow crops
and that the water supply is so
doubtful in many places that "the
floo." Of applications for home
steads now pouring in, if taken,
can hardly result profitobly to the
settlers.
The desert is a part Of The pub
lie domain. Most Of it has never
been surveyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
First Step Taken
Toward Dam In
Gila River Area
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WASHINGTON, Mar. Go The
first step in the construction of the
new $5.500,000 Coolidge dam across
the canyon of the Gila river near
San Carlos, Arizona, was taken late
yesterday when the interior depart
ment authorized expenditure of
$4,000 out Of $450,000 appropria-
tion made this year for planning the
project.
The project will furnish irriga,
tion water for the lands Of the
Pirma Iidians on the Gila river res.
ervation and for other private and
public lands along the river.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
TODAY'S LETTUCE MARKET
BY U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
G. E. SCHULTZ, Local Representative

Shipping point information for
Wedn dnesday, March %: FL Centre
Hnd nearby points-max So, min
52', partly cloudy. Demand slow,
trading dragqv, market weak. Wide
range in quality and condition most
ly fair to ordinary. Carloads fob
cash tracks, and larger 1,25-135,
few higher. Most shipments rolled
unsold.
Carlot shipments reported in the
United States:
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
She's Her Own
Her Uncle
by United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
LAMAR, Colo, Mar. 23.-
Marie Ducille Robson is her
own cousin and her father is
her uncle-all because of di-
vorce laws.
After Mario's mother and
father We're separated by the
law, they married Mark and
Helen Yazel, brother and sister,
respectively.
Mrs. YaZel's former husband
becomes her brother in law.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Total Expenses
Z As Millions:
Gas Bill Falls
by United Press Leased Wire

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 20 The
biennial budget bill, bearing appro-
Spriations to keep the wheels of the
state government running another
sstwo years, was passed finally by the
fsenate today. The vote was unani-
nous.
Administration figures place the
/ budget total, exclusive of the high
way commission, at between $l45,-
100000 and $149, 600 while anti
administrationists claim it will
amount to approximately $l60,000,-
600.
When the measure was brought
up for consideration, Senator Herbert
c. Jones of san Jose addressed the
house, declaring the Richardson ad-
ministration would cost the state
$lOO,000,000 more than did the
stephens regime.
Optimism OF the increased gaso.
line tax proponents who yesterday
declared. all dissension had prac-
tically been ironed out, took n fall
today when Governor Richardson
put his foot down on any attempts
to budget the highway commission
and give the power Of allocating the
revenues to the Legislature.
Following a conference with the
governor, Senator Arthur II. Breed,
author of the gasoline tax. announc-
ed he had changed his mind and did
not believe the amendments pro
posed to his measure would produce
u favorable result.
Back Where Tt Was
Today's Developments placed the
gasoline tax increase back in the
position it was carly yesterday with
little doubt among the members of
the selate that the measure would
undoubtedly be defeated.
Governor Richardson, in his state
ment expressed full confidence in
the integrity, business ability and
judgment Of the highway commits
sion.
"Great progress has been made
~ ipiN bulliiuB anu INV - pt VI
construction has been much improv'
ed. The commission has been con
Quoted on n business basis, abso-
lutely free from any political influ-
encc.'
Possibility that allocating of the
highway commission $ revenues by
the legislature might lead to "dic-
tation' by the Legislature even as
to the type of construction and
other engineering and making it a
matter of political trades, was ex-
pressed by the chief executive.
"The commission reports that
money for new highway construc-
ton is practically exhausted and if
the road program is to be continued
during the next two years the legis-
lature must provide the funds. -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
Common Cause of Odors
Found in Empty Cans

Many creamery people are COM
planning of the large amount of cream
that they have been forced to con-
denim ON account of Objectionable
gasoline or kerosene flavors. Many
farmers, not realizing the impossibility
of removing gasoline odors from cans,
have been in the habit of using empty
cream cans to carry gasoline to trac-
tors In the field, or to threshing
outfits.
Sometimes disinterested persons will
appropriate empty cans left at the
depot for transporting gasoline or kerr
osene, and later return them to the
depot platform. In some instances the
shipper has used such cans, never
knowing that they had been used for
gasoline. AS it is almost impossible
to so treat can as to remove the
odor or flavor, it is much better to
adopt a rule of never using cream
cans for the handling of gasoline or
Kerosene.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
Soy Beans Rank High as
Feed for Dairy Animals

Soy beans make a valuable addition
to the feeds suitable for dairy cows,
finds C. II. Eckles, chief Of the dairy
division at the University of Mime
sofa. Feeding trials conducted at the
university farm last year showed
ground soy beans to be equal to lin
seed oil meal in feeding value. The
ration. for cows milking up to As
pounds daily, consisted of alfalfa hay,
corn silage, ground corn, barley, oats
and ground soy beans. Soy beans
carry 33 per cent protein compared
with 30 per cent in linseed oilmeal.
Soy bean hay proved a close second
to alfalfa. The ration, when soy bean
hay was used, consisted of soy bean
hay, silage, ground corn, barley and
oats. The beans were cut when slight
ly more mature than usual for hay pur-
poses. While the beans make good
silage, Eckles thinks it better to make
them into hay. When used for silage,
the general practice is to mix one load
of beans with two of corn.
Soy bean hay is very palatable and
carries a high percentage of mineral
matter; one pound having practically
the same amount as is found in 100
pounds of corn. Although the hay may
seem rather coarse, cows eat it with
relish and the coarse stems are usually
cleaned up. In chemical composition,
1t ranks fully equal to alfalfa and car
ries digestible protein in quantities al
most equal to wheat bran.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
INA IInN[T
Hi THE ny
U9AlUSU
COWS THAT FRESHEN
IN FALL PROFITABLE

One of the most important factors
In successful dairying according to c.
A. Hutton, dairy specialist for the
state agricultural extension service,
University of Tennessee, is to have
cows freshen in the fall.
Cows which freshen in the fall are
most profitable because they produce
their largest yield during the time
when MIX and butterfat bring the
highest prices. The average price of
butterfat is often from six to twelve
cents per pound higher during the
fall and winter than during the spring
and summer. When fall fresh cows
are turned on pasture in the spring
they are stimulated to larger produc-
ton, and therefore make larger year
~ records than those which freshen
in the spring and summer.
On farms where cows are properly
fed on good, homegrown feeds and
are comfortably housed, milk or cream
is produced about as cheaply in fall
and winter as in spring and summer.
DCsAdSs' the So"s HdNS ~ bS ASu AZ
winter anyway whether they are fresh
Of "strippers."
It is less expensive to care for milk
or cream in winter where ice is used,
for less ice is needed Milk or cream
can be delivered in better condition
and at less expense in fall and winter
than in spring and summer, and, too,
more time and labor are available in
fall and winter to care for cows and
calves, milk and cream.
Another advantage is that calves
dropped in the fall are easiest to
raise, less subject to calf disease, grow
out best and develop into the best
cows.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29

certain parts of the animal can be
used, remarks London Tit-Bits. This
reduces the number of genuine badger
hair brushes still more.
Pigs bristles are too hard to take
the place Of badger hair, while the
hair of other animals is mostly too
soft and not sufficiently resilient. It
is the opossum and the mongoose
which supply most of the badger
hah" used for brushes. Why the
badger should have to shoulder a re-
sponsbility which really belongs else
where is one of the mysteries of trade
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29

Who" But here are some of the high
spots, as the story is told:
The story begins with an Indian
maid, the daughter of Chief White
Plume Of the Kaws. She married a
French voyageur and her daughter
married an American pioneer of Eng
fish blood. When Charley Curtis was
ten years old a war party of Chey-
ennes swooped down at noon upon the
kaw camp. The Kaws held out till
night, when Charley slipped through
and made his way to Topeka on foot,
sending back help in time to save his
people.
Topeka was then a frontier cow
town much given to racing cow-ponies
Before he knew it the boy was pro-
fessional jockey, riding in Kansas Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Colorado and Indian
Territory. Those were the good old
days. At a race meeting in Kansas
City the James Boys raided the gate
and rode away with the admission
money. After five years in the saddle
gOunS NulliO put vi lOO lliuNlI NSlS III
and found himself in Topeka, pretty
much adrIft. There a party of Kaws
found him. There was great rejoicing
and the boy decided to go back to his
people.
In the party Of Kaws was Charles
grandmother-they give her the name
of Julie Poppin. In the stiffness of
the night of the first camp out of To
peka she came to her grandson, told
him she loved him, advised him to
follow the way of his fathers people
rather than become blanket Indian
on a reservation, gave him her best
pony and started him back to the
world of the white man-and the lead
ership of the United States senate.
In Topeka young Curtis went to
school for a wear. Then his money
gave out and he took job as driver
of night hack. A lawyer friend adj
vised him to study law and loaned
him books, which he studied by his
hack light between fares. He was adj
mitted to the bar in 1881 and prac-
ticed in partnership with A. H. Case
until elected county attorney of Shaw
nee county in 1884. He was elected
to the Fifty-third congress and served
continuously to the Sixtieth. In 1907
he was elected to the senate.
In February, 1913, little group of
Republican senator's were sitting in
the Republican cloakroom of the SEN
ate gossiping in reminiscent vein. The
congress expired on March 4, and many
old-timers were being retired to pri-
vate life simultaneously with the be-
ginning of the first Woodrow Wilson
administration. Senator Curtis ex-
pressed his regrets that he was to
be sent back TO private life at that
particular juncture.
II would have been ranking Repub-
lican senator on several very impor-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
Calf Worth Keeping

mo calf should be kept for use later
as milk COW unless it comes from
pure-bred sire and a high-producing
DAM" say Iowa dairy experts. "Then,
If 1t is worth keeping, it is worth
keeping we'll" They recommend that
calf stay with its dam the first two
days after birth. Then it should be
taught to drink from a bucket that is
clean and frequently scalded From
six TO twelve pounds of whole milk
daily should he fed for three weeks
and then change made gradually to
skim milk and a little grain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
Cows Relish Sweet Glover

Dairy cows relish and thrive on
sweet clover. For instance, three large
cows may be maintained on one acre
of this kind of pasture without addl-
tional feed, except during the latter
portion of the grazing season. Then.
when the pasture has been eaten close
to the ground, hay should supplement
the diminishing clover. Ordinarily. the
spring seeding Of sweet clover has
yielded sufficient growth to be graze6
by the time the old pasture evidences
failure.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-29
Badger Brushes Rare

real badger hair sir--only three
shillings." This was said to the writer
by way of pushing the sale of a shaw
ing brush, but the description did not
deceive.
Badgers are very rare in Great
Britain, and are becoming rarer still
every year. ven on the continent they
are not numerous. Then, as those who
know how delightfully."- springy real
brush is can guess only the hair Of