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Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
DEGREES EDITOR
MUST SERVE 1000
| DAYS IN PRISON
BY United Press Leased Wire

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 5.-Alfred
Lindsey, Eureka editor must serve
his sentence of 1000 days in jail
for contempt of court, the third dis
trict court of appeals ruled in eff
feet here today in DENYING Linds-
ley's application for writ of ha-
beas corpus.
Lindsley's attorneys alleged in
their application, filed yesterday
that Superior Judge Denver Sewer
of Humboldt county exceeded his
jurisdiction in sentencing the edi-
tor for contempt as the result of
articles appearing in his newspaper
during his trial on a charge of Grim
inal libel.
The appellate court held that
Judge Sewer acted within his jris-
diction.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
6 MORE GIRLS
VIE FOR ROLE
OF BARBARA

The names of six more pretty
girls have been added to the
list of Imperial Valley contes-
tants for the honor Of playing
the title role in the film YER
sion of 1.-THE Winning Of Bar
bara Worth
They are: Miss Grace John
son, FL Centre; Mrs. Carolyn
Bradshaw, El Centre; Mrs.
Mariella Webb Busenburg, Holt
vile; Miss Dorothy Taylor, Ell
Centre; Miss Anna Rumble, Fl
Centre, and Miss Louise Gen.
ieve Thompson, Holtville.
Imperial Valley entrants in
this contest, which is being con-
Quoted by the West Coast the
aters throughout Southern Cali
fornia, must have their entries
recorded by midnight Saturday.
Full particulars viii be given
at the Press office.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
PREPARE TO MAKE
FLIGHT IN QUEST
OF PYCMY TRIBES
Explorers Will Sail on
Trip to New Guinea
November 21
By HAROLD E. sWISHER

BY HAROLD E. SWISHER
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.-Five
men in working clothes today toll
ed over a new aeroplane at Crissy
Field here, dismantling and Grating
it for shipment to Dutch New Gu
inca. where "pin head pygmies
of that distant isle will see it. ter
rified, in flight over land where no
such machine has ever been.
Matthew w. Stirling, explorer,
and his crew are preparing the air
plane for the long ocean voyage
ahead. Unable to secure any ex-
pert packers for the task. Stirling
and his fellow adventures are do
ing the work themselves.
On November 2l the party will
sail from San Francisco aboard the
liner President Van Buren,.
Personnel of Party
Besides Stirling. who is n Uni
vcrsity of California graduate aud
was for four years assistant curator
at the Smithsonian institute, the eX
petition will include r. X. Peck, st.
Petersburg, Fla. motion picture
cameraman and second pilot; Stan
ley A. Hedburg, Chicago, historians;
II. II Hoyte, New York, pilot, and
A. f. Hamer, Colfax, Iowa, mcchan-
is and relief pilot
The all-metal plane was flown
here from Chicago to test its reli-
ability.
"She worked like a top Peek
told the United Press, breaking
away from the dismantling job long
enough to relate details of the ad-
venture. "'Fbrmer expeditions into
Dutch New Guinea have been forced
to turn back by disease and hostile
natives. But with an airplane we
expect to outspced the germs and
terrifv the savages.
He Likes to Travel
"Stirling and l are financing the
party. He is the only scientist in
the bunch. m going along because
| can take pictures and like to get
out and travel.
1--WE will reach Singapore in about
six weeks after we sail. Then we
will re-ship to Batavia, seat of the
Dutch New Guinea government,
Continued on pape three
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
CHEER SOLON WHO
WANTS TO MODIFY
PROHIBITION ACT

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3, -
Congressman John Phillip Hill,
MARYLAND, was chccred by 10000
San Franciseans here last night
when he presented his plan for sub
stitution of state s rights in place
of the Volstead act,
Hill with impartiality and equal
force assaied the Anti'Saloon
League and bootlcgecrs, He feeif
cd details Of the ease in Maryland
courts which decided through the
medium Of his arrest that il ~ legal
to manufacture wines and elder -
the home.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
french Artillery Fire Checks Ne1v Blo1v at Damascus
STREET LIGHTING
SYSTEM ADOPTED
BY CITY COUNCIL
Better Illumination To
Be Provided By New
Agreement

Better street lighting forfEl Qen-
tro is assured following actj06 tax
en- by the city council lastnight in
adopting for the city lighting sys-
TEN the bracket arrangement sug-
| gested by the Southern Sierras
Power company sample of which
has been in use for some time at
the corner of Seventh and Olive
streets with satisfactory results.
While the system is not all that
the trustees would like to have it
| the only money available at this
time for lighting made it necessary
| to adopt Il system that could be
covered by the money on hand. give
better lighting than the system now
| i'll use at n minimum expense
The system consists of 3O-foot
pole with l6-foot arm or bracket,
which places the light directly in
the center of the intersections.
Such lights will be installed at all
corners from Len Rev to Park
streets and from Fourth to Eighth
streets, making a total of 104. also
/ i'll Stone S addition This arrange
! ment will afford practically contin-
uous light along the blocks running
north am. south, 'and in thc~longer
| blocks running east and west the
dark spaces will be reduced to Il
! minimum.
/ Caused Much Complaint
| 1t will be a source of satisfaction
J to the residents Of the city to know
! that Improvement is to be made in
the lighting system, as the present
inadequate system has been the
cause of considerable dissatisflc-
tion for several years. Complaints
have been made to the city council
on various occasions but believing
! that other Improvements were more
necessary than the lighting system,
the council was forced to side track
the lighting matter.
The council last night also discus
sed the plan for lighting Main
street, matter that has been Wig
orously advocated for the past two
years. The difficulty in carving
out the plan recommended by the
Ell Centro Chamber of Commerce
several months ago, lies in the wide
variety of arcades in the business
section, making the selection of
standard and uniform bracket ar
rangement rather difficult.
School District Share
There is also the question of the
school district S share Of the ex-
pense for installing the system III
front of the courthouse. These two
the county snare for the lights in
front of the courthouse These two
matters require considerable inves-
tigation and have tended to delay
the work. The council has in
structed the city clerk to have one
bracket such as has been proposed,
set up on Main street in order that
citizens may see its advantages or
disadvantages and express their
desires accordingly.
The greater part of last night S
session of the council was taken up
with routine matters.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
P0pulace Flees
When TribeSmen
Commence Drive
Damascus Traffic Is Suspended As Cloud of Trouble
Looms, Railroad Communication Is Cut Off;
Reinforcements Are Rushed From Beirut
Dy United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
LONDON, Nov. 5.-French artil
lery, according to Jewish telegraph
agency reports, has checked the ad.
vance Of Syrian insurgents who
were aiming blow in the direction
Of Damascus.
AL traffic in Damascus was re.
ported suspended, with shops closed
and inhabitants fleeing as the
cloud of new trouble hovered in the
vicinity of the city which last
month was pounded by French
guns.
Railway service between Damas.
Gus and Ilaifa is interrupted.
The Druse tribesmen. il was in.
dicatcd by the destruction of rail
line south of Damascus. are aiming
at attacking Damascus.
In view of this threat to the city
apparently n measure of retalia-
tion for the recent French lombard
ment of the city-special defensive
moves are being made at Damascus
and rcinforcements are being hast
ened from Beirut.
Tribesmen Mobilize
Daily Mail advices from Damascus
supported the reports as to the
Druse' 5 intentions declaring that
1000 of the tribesmen are mobiliz-
ing only - miles south of Damas-
Gus. The French were reported so
lacking in troops that they tried to
conscript Kurds and others as de.
tenders of the city.
The Mail correspondent told of
going by train to Beirut under the
escort of a band of Brigands now in
government pay. ........
lie pictured an uncomfortable
spirit of rebellion throughout the
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
MOUNTAIN SHOWS BRING
JOY TO VALLEY GROWERS

! FRESNO, Calf, Nov. 4.-Heavy
SHOWS in the mountains have
brought JOY to valley growers, as
suring water for next year. Ten
incheas of snow has fallen at Hunt
ington Lake with about an average
of five inches in the mountains
Rain was falling in the San Joa-
quin Valley today.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
16 DEAD, MISSING
IN WELSH FLOODS

LONDON, Nov. 5.-Heavy rains
in Wales caused Il mountain at
Troedyrhwfunch TO move, breaking
water main and cutting off the
water supply of more than 1000
inhabitants of the Rhymnev valley.
Meantime, a check on the casual
ties of the flood in the Conway
valley shows that sixteen are dead
or missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
STEAMER AGROUND
OFF MISSISSIPPI

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 5.--(Via
Tropical Radio to United Press -
The steamship j. A. Bostwick has
gone aground off South Pass at the
mouth of the Mississippi river, ac-
cording to advice received here to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
See Another Wild
Day on Exchange
By United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Another
wild day on the stock market s lat
est boom saw 2,790,500 shares change
hands today.
From the moment the market OPP
encd it was one Of the most sensa-
ti0nal days on record with flood
of buying !, orders pouring into
brokerage houses from all parts of
the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
YUMA MAN Is SUICIDE

YUMA, Ariz., Nov. 5.--Gcorge F..
Smith, 60, prominent Yuma Valley
dairyman, shot and killed himself
at his home here today. I'll health
was attributed as the reason for
the suicide.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05
ANNOUNCE COMMANDMENT
LOSSES AS S2,5O0,O00

PARIS, Nov. 5.-Losscs caused
Gus last month We're semi afficially
estimated today as totalling 81
SOC, 600.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-05

Continued on page three
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
QUESTION WORLD
COURT ADHESION
IN SENATE TODAY

Washington. Dec. 16-(AP)-The
long pending proposal that the United
States adhere to the world court
comes before the senate tomorrow
under a special order.
The resolution of adherence is that
of Senator Swanson, of Virginia,
ranking Democrat ON the foreign re-
lations committee, and contains five
reservations. The two principal ones
are that adhesion shall not be taken
to involve any legal relations on the
part of the United States to the
league of nations and that the United
States shall be Gin no manner bound
by any advisory opinion of the court.
The court question will be consid-
cred in open executive" session and
viii be the subject of extended Ann
rlcan adhesion, the administration
must look to the Democrats for the
margin Of votes necessary for ratifi-
cation.
Chairman Borah, of the foreign re-
lations committee, as well as the
other irreconcilables in the league Of
nations fight, are opposed to adhesion
on the ground that the court is the
creator of the league. Proponents Of
the court dispute this, contending
that while organized under league
auspices, the tribunal is wholly sep
arate from the league.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
Collie Bess Leaves
Five Pups as She
Journeys to New York

Biddeford, Me-, Dec. 16.-(AP)-
A new and unsupported chapter in
the life of Bess. vagrant collie, whose
discovery on the Biddeford Pool
beach, $50 miles from her New York
home, as furnished a mystery as yet
unsolved, came to light today.
Coincident with the departure of
Bess by express to rejoin her owner,
Harry Fischer of New York, 1t was
discovered that she was having be-
hind five six-weeks-old puppies.
They were born at the home of
Fred Emmons of Beachmont, six
miles from the beach where Bess
was found by coastguards during a
storm on the night of December /.
Emmons said that the collie came
to his house last September and he
adopted her. Two weeks ago she
disappeared, after her puppies were
born.
Despite the absence Of their
mother. the puppies are thriving.
The coastguards who found Bess and
became attached to her while at
tempts were being made to find her
owner, will seek one of her offspring
to take her place at the station.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
Senate Passes Bill
Sen. Bingham on
Commercial Aviation

Washington, Dec. l6.-(AP)--
Conclusions reached by the presi-
dents air board came to early frui-
ton in the senate today, when 1t
passed without a record vote q bill
by Senator Bingham, Republican,
Connecticut, designed to affect the
boards findings with respect to COM
mercial aviation.
Senator Bingham was member
of the board and his bill was the
first passed at the present session of
the senate. 1t would authorize ap-
pointment of an additional secretary
of commerce. charged with general
supervision Of the governments ac-
tivities in connection with CONNER
cial aviation.
The measure also would provide
for. licensing of civilian pilots, in
spection of commercial airplanes,
weather bureau service for airplanes,
establishment of commercial air
routes lighted under direction of the
lighthouse service, and installation
of radio finding devices at frequent
intervals along the approved traffic
lanes. Only few minor amend
ments were made by the senate in
acting on the bill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
OPERATORS FAVOR,
MINERS REJECT PLAN
ENDING COAL STRIKE

Philadelphia, Dec. 16-(AP)-An.
thracite operators today accepted the
Luzerne county legislators plan for
ending the coal strike. Earlier in
the day John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, rejected it
as simply the operators plan
wrapped in new PACKAGE,
The operators were in session here
all afternoon while the mayors and
burgesses from the anthracite fields
were in conference at Harrisburg
with Governor Pinchot trying to de-
wise some scheme for bringing the
employers and workers together. The
miners did not meet but the latest
plan offered was rejected by Presi-
dent Lewis after consulting with
other leaders. The situation tonight
is that each side is on record as ready
to resume work on the basis of a plan
submitted by an outside party, but
the two proposals differ.
The mayors and bugresses adopted
resolution at the state capital in
viting the contending forces to meet
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17

Biddeford, Me-, Dec. 16.-(AP) -
Efforts of an impartial citizens COM
mittee headed by Mayor Edward H.
Drapeau to settle the strike of 1900
loomflxers and weavers at the Pen-
perell Manufacturing Company's
mills, were abandoned tonight when
the mayor announced that neither
side seemed disposed to- make COM
cessions and that it would be useless
to continue negotiations as present.
The employees left wok December
3 in protest over the installation OF
the multiple loom system. Several
conferences were conducted during
the last two days by the citizens
committee and representatives of the
mills and the workers without att
justing the dispute. Charles o. BeaM
state labor commissioner who has
been aiding in the Negotiations. rec
turned home tonight. ;coneurring WITH
the mayor that further conferences
would be of no avail.
Howard R. Whitehead, agent of the
mills, declared that the mills wouid
not reopen until the workers agfee
to adopt the multiple system. On Ahe
other hand, George E. Gendrorl.
spokesman for the weavers and
loomfixerS, said no consideration
would be- given to any settlement
other than the abandonment of the
multiple system plan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
See No Danger of
War in Awarding
MOSul to Great Britain

Geneva, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Neither the
League of Nations nor Great Britain
envisages war In the Near East be-
cause of the decision of the league
council in the Mosul conflict, said
Colonel L. c. M. Amery, the British
colonial secretary, commenting on the
councils findings, which give Mosul
virtually in its entirety to Great Bril-
tain in the form of mandate.
This decision was announced today
in the assembly hall packed with peo-
pie as the last act of the 3Sth session
of the council.
One point in the decision is the rec
ommendation that Great Britain accord
the Kurds desirable local administra-
ton rights. The Kurdish problem in
Mosul is regarded as important The
Turkish spokesman said tonight: 1.-THE
councils decision is bad: don't forget
that If half the Kurds in Mosul favor
England the other half are strongly
for Turkey"
The Mosul report was adopted unan-
imously by the council, which based
it's decision on the report of the spe-
cial Mosul commission and "other in
formation Of a political and legal ma
ture,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
Says Theft of Two
Fur Coats Outcome
OF Practical Joke

Northampton. Mass, Dec. 49,
(AP)-The arrest of two Amherst
students for the theft of two fur
coats came from a practical joke
carried too far" Head Coach G. E.
"Puss' McLaughry of the Amherst
football team said today after sup
plying bail for the two young men.
Paul w. Mohardt and his brother,
Michael T. Mohardt, both members
of this seasons football squad, were
arraigned today charged with steal
ing the coats, valued at $500 and
$3.50, during a fight between fresh
men and sophomores in a college
building December IL, and the bail,
supplied later by the coach, was set
at 5000 each. The Mohardts pleaded
not guilty and were held for hearing
January z.
Somebody planned practical
joke" McLaughry said, land it had
a bad ending. They are both clean
living, clear-thinking fellows: and
they hit the line hard. The coats
were taken as a practical joke and
that's all there is to it."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17

Washington, Dec. 16.-(AP)--A
storm of protest against the Italian
debt settlement broke in the Senate to-
day as Chairman Smoot of the finance
committee sought to obtain consider
alton of this and the other debt agree
ments negotiated during the congress
slonaI recess.
Finally Senator Reed, Democrat,
Missouri, objected to unanimous con-.
sent agreement to take UP the settles
ments and the bill OF ratification went
over. Meanwhile, notice had been serv-
ed by number of senators that cons
siderable discussion would precede q
vote
Mr.. Smoot, who was member or
the committee which negotiated the
agreement, bore the brunt of the Sem
ate fire, but Senator Reed, Republican,,
Pennsylvania, finally. came to his as
sistance. The Utah senator insisted
that the Italian agreement was the
best that could be obtained and that
he had doubt of the ability of Italy to
carry it out
That raised the question Of the
$100,000,000 loan which New York
bankers made to Italy Immediately
after the agreement negotiated here
was signed. senator harrison, Dem
ocrat, Mississippi, called attention
that the interest rate on this loan was
per cent.
Senator Howell, Republican, Nebras-
ka, asserted that Italy would pay mono
of the principal of its debt; that all it
agreed to pay is Is per cent. on the
principal over a period of S2 years,
and that this arrangement ultimately
would cost American taxpayers $5.000.-
100000
The italian settlement, as well as
the British settlement, was character
lied by Senator Reed of Missouri as
a process of embarrassing" to enable
international bankers to make loans
at and per cent.
The French debt was brought into
the discussion and Senator Smoot
warned that unless the French govern
ment settled with this country and
England the franc would follow the
same course that the German mark did.
He also disclosed that when the first
French commission came here 1t blunt
ly told the American commission that
France did not owe this country any
thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
PAUL DOUMER TO
ATTEMPT SOLUTION
OF FRANCES FINANCE

Paris. Dec. 16.-(AP)-Paul Dou-
mer, former president of the Cham
Der of Deputies and chairman of the
finance committee of the senate, ac-
cepted this evening the weighty re-
sponsibility of the finance ministry
in the cabinet of Premier BRAND.
M. Doumer was the premier's first
choice to succeed Louis Loucheur,
forced out because of the rejection
of his financial measures. but he was
not the candidate of the leaders of
the parliamentary majority on which
NJ. BRAND depends for the support
Of his government.
Hence difficulties arose which dur
ing the better part of the day SEEM
ed likely to prevent the premier
from putting the man he wanted in
this important post.
Delegations of the radical-social-
list coalition which were in confer
ence when M. Doumer called on the
premier at the Quay d'Orsay to re-
ceive the definite offer of the port
folio showed disposition to propose
impossible conditions to their APP
prevail of his nomination. This was
sufficient to explain the deep sigh
with which the new minister of fl
nance said when he left NJ. BRAND:
ALAS! Yet have accepted the task
and will do my best"
The fact that the premier fore
stalled final action by the Left coali-
ton by dominating M. Doumer over
their objections is taken to go ahead
uyh
orally recognized as possessing no
remarkable competence in financial
matters. is expected to resolutely
push sane measures prepared by
capable technical authorities for the
restoration of the nations finances.
M. Doumer's plans for the soIu-
ton of Frances financial difficulties
are based principally on increases
in indirect taxation rather than on
any form of capital levy or increases
in the income taxes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17
Senate Aroused
Over Foreign Debt
DEATH ENDS COURT
MOVES AGAINST MRS.
|L0TTIE FREEMAN COTE

Gorham. Me-, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Mrs.
Lottie Freeman Cote died today, end
ing the prosecution which followed
the murder of her second husband,
Alphonse Cote, and which had made
the AZ year old widow the principal
in one of the most important GRIM
inal trials in the history of Maine.
Pneumonia caused death.
Arguments were being prepared
for presentation before the court at
Augusta during the present term. in
case upon which Mrs. Cote STree-
dom hinged. This was the appeal
from the refusal of Judge Arthur
Chapman Of the superior court to
uphold a plea in abatement, attack
ing an indictment charging Mrs. Cote
with being an accessory after the
fact in the killing of her husband by
Charles Henry Fielding of Portland,
given a life sentence and now in the
state hospital at Augusta.
Alphonse Cote disappeared Novem-
Der Z, 1924. 1t was presumed by
fellow townsmen that he met with
an accident while hunting deer and
the woods in the vicinity were
searched without result.
After comforting with Deputy
Sheriff Eugene E. Norton of Cor
ham, County Attorney Ingalls, ques-
toned Mrs. Cote, her 20 year old son
by he first marriage, Ralph Barton
Sanborn and Fielding who was a
guest with his wife at the Cote place.
Fielding and Sanborn told conflict
ing stories, while Mrs. Cote insisted
that she knew nothing about her
husbands whereabouts.
The first to break down, according
to testimony, was Ralph, and he
guided the authorities to plowed land
II the rear of the Cote farmhouse.
from which the body of Cote was
disinterred. There was a bullet
wound in the back of the skull and
Ralph accused Fielding of murder,
while Cote and Fielding were hunt
ing. Mrs. Cote was freed on charge
of being an accessory before the fact.
Rumors concerning the disappear
ance of William Sanborn, first hus-
band of Mrs. Cote in 1910 were re-
vived and the farm was the scene OF
a fruitleSS search.