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Evening star., 1925-02-01
Clothes and Climate.

A gay magazine found its way
To Arctic surroundings one day.
An Eskimo belle heaved a sigh
Ger the pictures it brought to her eye.
She murmured, How fair I might be
II fashions so fine were for me.
Were 1 to don garments like these,
In short promenade 1 should freeze"
Evening star., 1925-02-01
Privileges

Privileges.
My fliv with chalk the copper marks.
His duty must be done.
For several hours a snowdrift parks
Where 1 may stand but one.
Evening star., 1925-02-01

The Evening Star with the Sunday morning
edition. is delivered by carriers within the
city at 80 cents per month; daily only, 45
cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per
month. Orders may be sent by mail or tele
phone Main 5000 Collection is made by
riers at the end of each month
Evening star., 1925-02-01

Jud Tunkins says when people
laugh at you cheer up and think of
the way they used to laugh at the
telephone and the f1ivver.
Evening star., 1925-02-01

"A good loser" said Uncle Eben, 'is
popular while de games goin' on. but
everybody loses interest in him next
day."
Evening star., 1925-02-01

The steamer Lady of the Lake. run
ming between Washington and Nor
Steamer folk, was burned to the
waters edge at her wharf
Burned. in the latter city on the
evening of January 20,
1875. The steamer was to have sailed
the next day for Washington. and had
on board a full cargo. which was
entirely lost. She was owned by
George H. Plant & Co., OF Wash
ington. and was valued at $4,000
She was built at Wilmington in 1865
at a cost of 1853, 900. Originally de-
trade she was transferred to the line
plying between Portsmouth, Va. and
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and in
1870, was put on the Washington Nor
folk line in place Of the steamer Colt.
Half a century ago art in Wash
ington was developing to the point
0roen;,o4;on when it's votaries were
organlzatlon suffcientIy numerous
of Artists. to form an organiza-
tion. In The Star of
January 80, 1875, is a paragraph in
column entitled "Overtones," which
was a regular feature of the Satur-
day issue at that time
1T Is pleasant to know that meas
ures have been set on foot looking
to the organization of an associa-
ton for the promotion OF art in
Washington. In times gone by such
an organization fiourished here, with
good results, and 1t is not to be
doubted that great good would be
accomplished through the efforts and
influence of a similar association at
the present time. There are enough
artists now living here to make up,
together with the more active and
enthusiastic lovers and patrons of
art, quite a society, and there are
talent and social qualities enough
among them to make it's meetings
not only beneficial in their effects
but pleasant and attractive in them
selves. There is no place in the coun-
try so well adapted, for a variety of
reasons, for its art center as Wash
ington, and it would be largely the
mission as well as the natural ef-
feet of such an association to make
that fact manifest to the public both
here and elsewhere"
1t has often been said that Wash
ington is one of the easiest cities in
AopSy osy to find ones way,
Street Sipns but so years ago.
to Judge from the
following in The Star of January 80,
1875, the most scrupulous care was
not taken in the labelling of the
streets:
I'm passing from the Capitol to the
junction of the Metropolitan line of
cars, corner of Ninth and F streets
one may count 13 lamps upon which
the little signs bearing the names OF
the streets are either upside down
or hind side afore' The same erratic
arrangement may be noticed in other
parts of the city. and the observer is
left in perplexing ignorance wheth-
Or the contractor who furnished the
Evening star., 1925-02-01
THEODORE w. MOVES. :. Editor

"e H*e"iHs Sthr NeWspAPcF Z Company
BUSINESS Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ase
New York ONCE: 110 East 42nd st.
Chicago once: Tower Building.
European ONCE: Is Regent st. London, England,
Evening star., 1925-02-01
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Complaints of discrimination against
Washington in the matter OF freight
Evening star., 1925-02-01

THE Old Oregon Trail" which re-
minds us at once of Bridger. Kit Car
son, Buffalo Bill, the Applegates and
Ezra Meeker, with its grave of "the
unknown dead" which traversed half
a continent and over which covered
wagons and OK teams went in 1S43
and saved the Oregon country to the
United States, and over which the
empire builders, 1000 of them. trav-
cling 1000 miles in daily battle, is
the worlds most historic highway"
Representative Addison T. Smith of
Idaho, one of the States carved from
the Oregon country" has just asked
Congress to provide for proper mark
ing of sthis historic route, and has
placed in the Congressional Record
an intensely interesting history of
this trail prepared by Walter E.
Meacham of Baker, Greg.
Evening star., 1925-02-01

1t has often been said that Wash
ington is one of the easiest cities in
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
Menacing Plans
Being Executed
For a New War
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warships with total tonnage of
$4,000. Japan decided to send sew
en- experts to France. five to the
United States, three each to Eng
land and Germany to investigate
new weapons.
Frunze, war commissioner of Rus
sa, announced to the congress Of
Soviets that the international situ-
alton will not permit Russia TO re-
duce the army below $4,000. He
said if reports that England was
leasing islands in the Baltic We're
true. Russia would regard it as Il
warlike act.
Mot Worth the Risk
Lord Jellicoe, famous British adj
miral. declared that naval disarma-
ment was not ''worth the risk. -
A. B. Swales. chairman of British
Trade Union congress, said: New
wars more inhuman and ghastlv
than ANY in history are approach
ing"
Tests of a new gas mask are be
ing carried out at the r.. "A. VI. c.
depot at Millbank, England.
.Jugo- -Slavia has bought an. .addi-
tionai $50 military airplaIes from
France. Russia is purchasing large
quantities of airpIanes in Holland.
The British war office an
nounced the largest infantry
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
MANY CHANGES IN
MOTOR LAWS ARE
IN EFFECT NOW
Ignorance of Law Excuses
No One, Points Out
Club

Various changes became effective
IN the California Motor Vehicle Act
yesterday. Some Of these are i'm
portant, particularly those relating
10 applicants for operator 5 licenses.
As ignorance Of the law excuses no
! one. the Automobile Club of South
"rn California advises that all per
/ sons operating motor vehicles fam
/ iIiarize themselves with the details
OF the changes in the motor vehicle
act. Digests of the new provisions
! have been made by the legal depart
. ment Of the Automobile Club Of
southern California.
Briefly, some of the more impor.
tant changes are as follows:
\ bicycle is deemed 4 vehicle.
making the rider subject 10 the rules
OF the road.
In applications for registrations,
] year built may be omitted.
Re-registration may be made on
white certificate rs Of January l.
Certificate of ownership (pink GER
rificate1 Is valid until transfer of
legal ownership. and need not he
renewed annually.
Existing operator licenses are
valid, but new applicants tor IL
censes may be subject to eyamina-
tiGn.
Licenses may be revoked for man
slaughter resulting from the opera
tion of motor vehicle. or any crime
constituting felony under the Cali
forHia Motor Vehicle Act
Weight limit is fixed at $4,000
pounds On any one axle. This ap-
plies to all vehicles having four or
siX wheels. Certain vehicles shall
have painted on both sides and rear.
Permissible gross weight 24000
pounds,
A business district is defined rs
one having so per cent or more OF
the property fronting on such high
way for a distance Of 500 feet or
more occupied by buildings in use
for Wholesale or retail business.
New Rules As Follows
Tie new rightof way rule reals
as follows: ''When two vehicles
approach an intersectin Of public
highways It approximately the same
time the vehicle approaching from
the right shall have the right ef way,
providing such vehicle IS travelling
al a lawful speed.
An amendment specifically de-
c,ares that it shall be unlawful for
any person to fail TO give rigAt-of-
way TO any person entitled thereto
unGer the provision of act.
The provision for five DAYS notice
upon arrest IS still in effect but by
an amendment the arresting officer
Is required 70 give such notice s5hat
70 accept the written pro1Hise q the
person arrested to appear IN court
"cnly up0n production. bat without
surrendered the operator 5 or -chauf-
feur 5 lise'rse Of the person arrested
or othet satisfactory evidence Of
tie latter 8 identity. suclr as. for
instance. membership card IN the
Automobile Club Of Southern Cali
forEia. -
Evidence based upon the use Of
speed traps may not be admitted in
court. The law SAYS: - Every Of
cicer when on duty for the purpose
of enforcing the provision or this
lrr shall be dressed in distinctive
Uniform and shall spend his hours
Of duty in patrolling or upon the
puElc highwys.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25

they gathered to do honor to the
lady whose presence tvpified the
memory to which thev cling, these
men who once wore the pro I'd uni
forms Of the ear and held the pow
er. of. life and death in their hands.
= Up from the stokehole, gr4my
faced and clad in nndershirts, dirty
dungarees and with Il sweat rag
about their necks, and from among
the dock laborers, rough handed and
ragged but with courtIy bearing
that could not be hidden, the form.
er noble leaders Of the "Little
Father's"n troops formed a little
group upon the deck.
Surrounded then by her little
court stood Madame Merkulof, re-
ceiving few Slavic words of fare
well MS each of her husbands erst-
while brothers in arms stepped for
ward and, with n graceful bow,
kissed her hand.
Then the gangplank came in, the
Empress of Asia slid slowly away
and the Russian mobiles droppea
back to the humble station which.
they will heneefOrth fill.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
Former Proud Soldiers Of Czar,
From Stoke Holes and Docks, Pay
Homage to One Time Court Beauty

VICTORIA, B. c., July 25.-A
strange piece of drama, costume
play without the costumes--was en-
acted at thd outer dock here last
night aboard the liner EmNgess Of
Asia, when, tire old days of the I'm
perial Rnssiif1 court came back
from among the ghosts of the past
and for a few brief minutes lived
again.
Among the ships pa&engers
bound for the Orient, was Madame
Merkulof whose husband. General
Merkulof, rode at the head Of his
wild Cossaek troops until they, the
last remnant of the White. army,
disbanded at Vladivostok and fled,
broken refugees, TO every corner of
the earth. i'a,
And, so it seemed fitting to the
little group of former Russian
mobiles ekeing out bare living here,
that Nine. Merkulof, once the toast
of the brilliant hued Officers mess,
should not be allowed to leave an
alien land without the expression of
n formal farewell
Shortly before the steamer sailed.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25

RecreatiOnal
Maps Are Being
Made, Auto Club

New recreational maps Of states
of Washington and Idaho AMI the
Province Of British Columbia are
10 be made by the Automobile club
'of Southern California. Ceph Sails
bury, manager Of the auto club out
ing bureau is starting oaral trip Of
several months duration throughout
the northwest territory.
AllNf the hunting. fishing, camp
ing and cational facilities Of
the three big regions win be charted
by Salisbury. who leaves this week
fer a tour of 1000 miles or more.
When the maps are made from his
data and charts. all three states
aId the province bordering the Pa
cific Ocean will have been mapped.
This means that detailed and accur-
ate maps showing roads. lakes,
streams, county and state lines and
other important points besides the
oriing information for the entire
Pacific Coast region viii be avail
able at any Of the 81 offices Of the
Automobile Club Of Southern Cali
fDrnia.
4 recreational map Of the state
Of Oregon was made early this year
and California. both as state and
sectionally. has been mapped by the
auto club for a number of years.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
No Third Body
Revealed After
Thorough Hunt
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ineE. while Kirk was telephoming to
his lawyer in Los Angeles, Truden
hovered near the telephone booth
and seemed TO be trying to overhear
the conversation in which Kirk was
engaged. The men had no trouble
about the matter however.
Kirk and Nacinek made n trip to
MeXicali on the Thursday night be.
fore the affair.
Shortly after 9 0 clock. both went
to their rooms, that being the last
timc that Nacinek saw him alive.
On tbs particular trip, Kirk told
}ayinek that he wanted TO gct
wanted 70 get square with Truden
and Harrv Riddle. before he left I'm
rerial. He did not state what his
trouble was with Truden. but he did
state that he and Riddle had trouble
over payment of wages and asserted
that Riddle owned him $l4.
Kirk a Crack Shot
Aside from stating that his son
wa sa crack shot, Kirk 5 father
could shed no light on the cause IF
the tragedy. He expressed the be-
licf that if his son stood up IN a
fair pistol fight with Truden, that
the latter would have no chance. -
Xix could flip dime into the air
and hit it nearly every time with
q bullet.
Ond statement made by Davis
Kirk. seems to bear out the state
mont made in Truden s etter that
he and Kirk had met before. Ac-
cord:ng to the brother. Kirk was
stationed for at time at Camp
Meade, Maryland, during the war.
IN Kirk s possessions was found n
slip of paper bearing Truden s name
and army number. with the address
| Camp IIolabird, Maryland.
The two camps were a considers
able distance apart, but il is prob
able that the men met back there
/ and had a quarrel over some matt
ter which ranked in Truden's mind
( That he did not at first recognize
Kirk when the latter came to the
Imperial hotel to live, is not strange
: as according TO the elder Kirk, his
son was greatly changed upon his
return from the war.
Kinks war record was unusually
good. and for several months. ac.
cording 10 the story told his father
by several Of his comrades, Kirk
was dispatch bearer, one of the
most difficult assignments in tho
army, and surprised his comrades
by the dash and daring he exhibited
The inquest yesterday returned D
verdict that Kirk had met his death
by gunshot wound inflicted by
one John Truden.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
|Striblings On
Way to Coast
by Ua,tea Pres. Leased Wire

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
July 25.-"Pa' Stribling, an" :"
Stribling and both the little Strib-
lings are here ready for fight.
This is especially true Of w. L.
(Young) Stribling, in training for
his match with Harvey Perkins of
Casper. WyO., July 2S.
The Stribling caravan arrived re-
Gently in "palaee' car bearing
the coat Of arms of the state of
Georgia and with California, here
we come painted over the wind
shield.
They drove here from Wichita.
Knnsas. where the Georgia fighter
stopped Harry Mattlock in three
rounds Of n scheduled 10 round bout.
The Striblings are On the way to
the coast and Young w. l.. Strib-
llng seems to be keeping the family
supplied with funds FOR the trip.
Redlands, San Bernardino county,
is building $4,000 orange pack.
ing house.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
NEWS BRIEFS
From City and County

r. r. Snow left for San Diego to.
day to spend Sunday with his wife
Dorothy Stanford will be in ia.
cumha over the week end.
Ray Edgar will return Monday
from 4 motor trip through Yosemite
with wife and daughter, who will
remain on tile coast.
Mrs. Elmo Loynd and son Jr..
have been in Long Beach for sev,
eral days Mrs. Loynd is expected
to return in a couple cf weeks.
" Goldie'' Allen viii spend the
weekend IN Jacumba.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
Be Impartial
In Flag Display
Ask Native Sons

Tourists motoring into British
Columbia with the American Flag
attached to their ear are urged to
affix British flag of the same size
TO keep it company. according to
the touring bureau of the Southern
California Automobile Club
International courtesy calls for
this double display on foreign cars
entering the province. reminds a
letter received by the automobile
club from the Native Sons of Brit
;sh Columbia and it is pointed out
that such courtesy is also expected
oi British autoists entering the Unit
ed States. The British flag should
be the same size as Old Glory when
the American ear is crossing the
northern border, but it Is not re-
que sted that a British flag be ear
rlcd when the ear carries no Ameri-
can flag.
Brea, Orange county, is building
n new hieh school.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
Valley Boy Takes
1850 Gopher Tails
To Commissioner

The campaign against goph-
ers has mounted to 10000 casu-
alties, thus far, according to B.
A. Harrigau, horticultural CON-
missioner. declaring that so per
cent of the tails turned in have
been from female gophers.
The offer of ten cents a tail
will be continued, says Harri-
gan, but the tails must be
brought in to his office in
bundles of a hundred. One val
ley boy walked off with the
honors when he was recently
paid $236.60 when he bought
1850 tails in neat little bundles
of hundred each. He COM
planned bitterly that he would
have had 700 more tails if some
one hadn't made off with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
RADIO CHANGING
WAY OF SAVING
SOULS OF MEN
Hy United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, July %
Radio is changing the system of
saving man 5 souls.
Dir. James L. Gordon, widely
known minister OF tthe First
Congregational church here, so
declared after n wear S expert
ence in putting his sermons and
church services ION the air.
"Only about 5000 people pass
through our doors each week. y
said DR.. Gorden. "All we
could do before the coming of
the radio into the pulpit, was to
work this crowd over and be-
gin again. v-cok after week, like
"a taffypulling machine in a
window. >/ldio reaches hum
dreds of miles.
"A 13-vear-old boy, 500
miles from here. wrote me let
ter the other day in response to
enc of nv Sunday morning SER
mons. This bov had just com
pleteG radio in his barn, and
WAS listening in. with his dog
tNellia, The boys Gather
was there, too. | happened to
mention my dog. Nellie. and
her death. Associated in this
boys mind with his own pet.
bitter memories were awakened
and boy and father wept-onlv
j few weeks before mother had
died. Right there. maybe for
the first time in their lives, that
hoy and his father confessed 70
each other spiritual understand
ing
\ chance remark over radio
may occasionally do much good,
SAYS DR.. Gordon.
If | should chance to re-
mark: What YOU are about to
do will be remembered, it
might have little effect on my
congregation in the church.
But how about a bootlegger
listening in, all ready to start
on q cruise in his bottle-laden
'flivver :; or maybe bank
clerk Matching up in his mind
$4,000 worth of sin and trouble
or Il man and his wife engaged
in 4 family row-would they
not be affected, hearing that
mysterious voice cut of some
where.
Smiling. DR.. Gordon contin-
ued: YOU'D think they'd
turn II off. Well. some of them
do. But most of them. I believe
just can { resist that mysterious
little box over in the corner,
telling them things.
Old tunes. played in an old
fashioned way on an old fash
ioned organ are helpful in stir
ring people to remember old
things. saws DIR. Gordon, who
has given much study to the new
psychology brought on By the
radio.
Dr.. Gordon has an interesting
record. He was a clerk, a Y.
n. c. A.. worker. an evangelist
and minister in the First
Congregational Church. Wash
ington, now the church of Presi-
dent Coolidge. He looks and
talks Ike Lloyd George.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
ZANE GREY PLANS TO
GET FISH IN OREGON
BY United Press Leased Wire

GRANTS PASS, Ore, July 25.-
Zane Grey, well known western au-
thor is coming to the Rogue river to
get some more wonderful steelhead
trout fishing, according to a letter
ne has written to Joe Wharton. a
friend here.
Wharton is arranging to tako
Grey down the Rogue river to Gold
Beach, on the Oregon coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25

maneuvers held since the war
T.. will occur In the south of Eng
land this summer.
The Birmingham Small Arms /
company announced profits Of
100000 pounds sterling last
year.
The Allied military commits
sion at Budapest acting upon
tip from the Hungarian govern
ment seized eight carloads of
military airplanes which they
allege Rumania was attempting
to smuggle through Hungary in
sealed cars under false declara-
tions. Il
The Versailles inter Allied mill
tary commission reported that Ger
many is constructing the frame
work of a new army by training hen
police organizations as non-commis
stoned officers; that secret cham
bers where are concealed machinery
for making guns were found in Ger.
tain factories.
ENuSitH H''
retary of England, said in n speech
at Birmingham, 90 fear broods over
Europe. Unless we can alter the
outlook, relieve these fears and
give security in the international
sphere, ii is brought home to me
every day that | pass at my work
that Europe is moving uneasily
slowly, it may be, but certainly, ia
a new catastrophe.
The Italian minister of marine
urged the passage of n naval budget
of one billion lire or fifty five mil
lions more than previously. Fokker
the famous Dutch designer has in
of 1000 horse power, carrying six
machine guns and a half ton of
bombs and travelling 700 miles an
hour.
Air Raids in London
London is recruiting an additional
800 men for air defense. To stimu.
late interest. mock air raids were
held over London at night. Search
lights played over the skies, seeking
the droning planes, in exact imita'
ton of the Gotha raids of wal
times.
Hadfields, the British munitions
works, announced the discovery of
l6 inch armor piercing shell which
will mortally damage any battle
ship afloat, according 10 their an
nouncement.
A British fleet is ordered to cruise
in the Baltic this summer. In re.
lation the Soviet government has
ordered Estate Of SIEGE ut the
Kronstadt naval base.
1t is reported Great Britain is
planning naval program that will
include five new ten thousand ton
cruisers costing nearly three million
sterling each. Says the Daily
News: "What in the name of pa.
triotism and common sense is the
reason for challenging the world
with n new and costly naval pro
gram?''
J. c. c. Davidson. parliamentary
secretary of the British admiralty
announced in commons that 345 war
vessels have been laid down since
the armistice and 200 more are pro.
jecteG.
France is establishing an air base
at Cherbourg, which is much com
mented upon in Britain. France de-
nies it was designed to menace
Britain.
The British combined fleet of l0l
vessels--the greatest array of nava
power gathered since the war-held
war games in the Mediterranean.
Since the war Great Britain has
completed several new roads. The
roads towards the coast on the con
tinentai side are extraordinarily
wide and graded so they can be
quickly widened in ease of neces
sity. The war office aided in de
signing them.
These and many other signs in
dicate that Europe is fast again be
coming an earned camp
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-25
BUNCH OF GRAPES IS
FOURTEEN INCHES LONG

IIOLTEILLE, July 25.-Mrs. NJ.
\. Kendall brought in to Holtville
yesterday a bunch of malaga grapes
measuring Il inches in length. She
SAYS these are from the first hear
ing year of the vines ut her vine
ward near here.