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Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

scouting fleets took part in the spec
tacular force firing exercises 70
miles off shore recently.
"The practice was conducted ac-
cording to schedule, without casual.
ties, and with satisfactory results, -
Admiral Samuel s. Robson report
ed.
Official results of the tests will
be sent to the navy department at
Washington, and will not be reveal
ed to the public.
Eleven dreadnaughts hurting tons
of steel at moving targets miles
away registered with almost perfect
precision for period of six min
utes, indicating Uncle Sam 5 capita
ships have lost none of their eff
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
March 27, 1896

Mrs. Fred Waters has returned
from her visit in northern CaIitor-
MIA.
c. W. Fernald this morning re
ceived a carload of furniture and
now IS confronted with a serious
problem in finding room for it.
J. II. McKim left this morning
for his home in Pomona after spend
ing two weeks on his ranch.
Mrs. Frank Hays, SISTER of Mrs.
Paul Maull and Miss Margaret Ne
Girk. who has been visiting here
during the past two weeks, has re-
turned TO her home at FL Monte.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
Legionaires Are
Urged to Attend
Church Services

Rev. Arthur P. Craven, PASTOR of
the State Street Christian Church,
has issued an invitation to the
members of the American Legion,
to attend services q: his church
tonight at go.
AS Mr.. Craven has resigned his
pastorate, and will leave the city
within short time, he desires to
leave parting message with the
Legion members, in whom he has
been greatly interested.
Commander Ellis and Adiutant
Mitchell of Bovce Aten Post, urge
all members of the post who can
dc SO, to attend the Christian
Church services tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

cheney.
TsJ anti-aircraft guns of the
dreadnaughts were less successful,
however, according to Lieut.. Com
mander James II. Strong of the air
craft squadrons of the battle fleet.
Nearly Hits Planes
"They failed to score "a single
hit in the six minutes of firing,
he said. "They missed the tar
gets, but nearly hit a couple Of the
planes that were towing them
Navy men replied however that
this was not fair test of the abil-
ity of the anti-aircraft weapons be-
cause the targets were smaller than
the planes. The aircraft itself, in
times of war, would be much
easier object to hit, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
KILLING INDIANS

W. F. Dodge, director of the American Indian bu-
reau at New York, says some very uncompllmentary
things about Uncle Sans administration of Indian al
fairs especially the medical service He would rather
place himself under the of an old Indian medl-
cine man. he says, than under the average physician
employed by the government.
He charges that there have been 200 deaths in
Pueblo tribe, 10 per cent Of the tribe from an epl,
demic of whooping cough caused by lack of medical
attention. A Navajo tribe he says, has lost "a per
cent of its people through tuberculosis. Infant NOR
aty is appalling. The death rate for the indians IS
three times higher than for any other except the
Chinese"
He does not blame the government physicians so
much as the governmental system and congressional
neglect The average doctor caring for Indians re-
ceves less pay than the average street cleaner civil
service, he declares, is badly needed
The Golden Gate Magazine and other western
publications have been making similar criticisms for
long time Something ought to be done about It, to pre-
serve the race which owned this continent and to
save its conquerors IRON lasting shame.
HAVING foI1r hls sbands adrif+ one Of orr lead
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
u. S. JACKIES
WORLDS BEST,
TESTS REVEAL

SAN PEDRO, Mar. 27.-The bat
tloship may be grov -ng obsolete, but
American seamen are still the most
accurate marksmen of the world, ac-
furding to unofficial reports today
of the annual gunnery tests of the
United States navy.
Forty thousand jack;es of the
combined United States battle and
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
March 27. 1910

R. \. Holt was in town from
Holtville today.
Or. Fulton, the Brawley druggist
who underwent an operation at the
Central hospital few days ago, is
reported to be doing nicely.
George Gunderson, who has been
with the Whitman Maxwell Plumb
ing company is busy getting land
ready for cotton.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
THE WEATHER

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Unsettled weather this afternoon
followed by fair, moderately warm
weather tonight and Saturday.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; Lo-
cal rains this afternoon. Partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

The Placer County farm bureau
is makinS plum pollinatiom tests
under gauze tents with hives of
of bees.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

At least three new cotton gins
Will be built in Kern County this
summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

Merced has a new industry known
as the Yosemite Portland Cement
Corporation.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27

Having set four husbands adrift, one Of our lead
ing movie ladies starts in appropriately by marrying
her fifth in mid-ocean.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
Looking Backw ard

What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley fer This Date
In Past Years
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-27
The bulLd0s gante5Taa1
was glad to Sell heru8S

very much. = thought the bunny to
himself. - m glad [ bought
them. Then Nurse Jane began
TO speak, but, instead of saying how
much she liked the new rugs she
called out:
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los ANGELES =
ARRIVES At
HHMHH
BERMUDA
Radio Message of Welcome
From Tanker Picked Up by
Naval Station

LAKEHURST, N. j., Fet. GA
radio message from the tanker
Patoka to the dirigibIe Los Angeles,
intercepted by the naval air station
at Lakehurst, from which the air
liner took off at 1926 yesterday
afternoon, heralded her arrival over
Bermuda early today.
The Patoka asked that the Los
Angeles wait until after dawn to
moor.
The tanker was sent to Hamilton,
Bermuda, to await the coming of
the dirigible and act as a mooring
station for her.
The last dispatch from the Los
Angeles was sent at 8 o'clock last
night, and at that time the big ship
was 420 miles from her destination,
and sailing along at a 65-mile gait.
AT that hour, the officers and
passengers aboard, including AS
sistant Secretary Of the Navy Rob
inson, and Rear Admiral Moffett,
chief of naval air service, were sit.
ting down to a dinner consisting OF
roast beef, spaghetti, beans, bread,
butter, coffee, cake and fruit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21

Corporation Counsel Files OBJ
lection to $44, 900 Payment
in p. E.<P. Co. Case

Dismissal Of the petition of Con-
rad H. Syme for an attorneys fee
Of $4,000 out of the public's 3d.
100000 share of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company impounded
fund is asked in a petition filed
with the District Supreme Court
today by Frank H. Stephens, Dis
.trict corporation counsel.
The pesition Tor Dismissed reads
"Said petitioner has not in his
said petition set forth any con-
tract or agreement made with
the numerous consumers of cleo
trical energy who are entitled to
the refund mentioned in said petit
ton, other than the $50 consumers
mentioned, and that no contract OF
employment as attorney is alleged
or shown which entities the inter
veneer to compensation from said
impounded fund.-"
Claims Made By Syme.
THAT the said interviewer has not
in and by his said intervening pc
ton given the names of the $50
other consumers of electrical energy
in The District who. he alleges, re-
tanned tie said interviewer to pro-
tect Their rights, nor has he stated
what his contract for employment
was; nor are they parties hereto;
and that the said consumers with
whom the said contract of employ
ment was made are necessary and
proper parties herein
Mr.. SWINE, in a petition filed sew.
eral days ago asks the court to
direct the electric company to pay
him $4,000 cut IF the impounded
fund. He claimed he was retained
by the electric consumers Of Wash
ingtcn to protect their interests in
the disposition of the impoun1ed
fund.
Early action by the court is ex-
pected.
Meanwhile, the electric company
is going ahead with it's work of
distributing the peoples share of
the fund. A corps OF clerks are
working night AMI day. D:stribu.
ton of the fund begins July 1.
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h D
At CAPITOL
NETS 5
Three Women Among Those
HeId-Accused Demand
Jury Trial

Congressional bootleg circles
were given a severe jolt last
night when revenue agents, under
Chief Harry Luckett and police
from the First, Second and
Eleventh precincts, arrested five
persons on charges Of distributing
liquor in the offices of members
of both Houses at the Capitol.
The arrests followed several
weeks of investigation by Revenue
Agent Daniel A. Ford and a COM
plant by Congressman John G..
Cooper, of Ohio, who has an
nounced that he will demand Con-
gressional action to stop the boot
legsing at the Capitol.
Those Arrested.
Those arrested last night were
Mrs. Mabel Hawkins, twenty-three,
1882 Fourteenth street northwest.
selling and illegal possession; Mcs:
ESIellG III. w nue. Till ~ -OA6A|' ~~A'N
Miss Rose Trackenberg, twenty
three. both of 439 K street north
west, selling and illegal possession;
Edward Marks. at 500 Fourteenth
street northwest, illegal possession
and TRANSPORTATION, and Eli George
Wright, 100 Thirteenth street north
west, a doorman at the Capitol
charged with selling and illegal pos
session.
Wright was arrested at his apart
ment after complaint had been
made that he had appeared intox'
tcated at his door at the Capitol.
Arrested With Wine.
Doctor Marks was arrested in his
automobile as he is said to have
been delivering wine to an address
near Fifth and l. streets northeast.
His car and three cases Of alleged
wine were seized. The others were
arrested at their homes.
The arrests, according to Chief
Luckett, are the first of big
cleanup among bootleggers who
are selling to Government officials
and are known for their exclusive
clientele.
In consideration of the fact that
Wright was private secretary to
Chauncey Depew and Vice Presi-
dent Sherman, Judge Schuldt in
Police Court today fixed his bond
at only $500.
Mrs. White, Miss Trackenberg,
and Marks pleaded not guilty in
police court today and demanded
a jury trial. They were each re-
leased in $500 bond.
Mrs. Hawkins demanded imme-
date trial in Police Court. The
prosecution asked that trial be de-
ferred until a warrant had been
served on her husband, Jack
Hawkins, charging him with viola
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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81 SMALLPOX
ARRESTS ARE
EXPECTED
%1A @~ @N
Or. Fowler Will Enforce
Drastic Law in Chiropractic
University Dispute

The thirty-two students of the
Research Chiropractic University
must submit to vaccination against
smallpox or face arrest and de-
tention for sixteen days at the
District quarantine station.
Doctor John T. Sprague, chief
of the contagious disease bureau,
District Health Department, is
visiting the students at their
homes, offering them vaccinations.
Their refusals will result in war
rants being sworn out at Police
Court charging them with VIOLA
ton of the smallpox. law.
Two students have refused vac
cination. Warrants will be sought
today or Monday and the police
department asked to arrest them.
When taken into custody they will
be sent to the quarantine station
to join five others taken there
yesterday.
Will Fight Isolation.
Legal action to prevent Doctor
William c. Fowler, District Health
Officer, from removing smallpox
contacts" to the quarantine sta
ton will be taken probably some
time today. Andrew Wilson, local
attorney, representing those now
isolated, is expected to sue for a
writ of habeaus corpus in the
District Supreme Court.
Doctor Fowler, however, will
vigorously oppose any move to
free those quarantined. Frank H.
Stephens, District Corporation
Counsel, will present Doctor Fowl
er's side of any legal battle over
quarantine.
1T is reported here today that
one case of smallpox has been
discovered in Philadelphia. Quaker
City authorities took drastic action
to prevent the spread of the
malady, quarantining 1000 persons
living in the neighborhood of the
smallpox patient.
Forty physicians are now visit
ing every home in the section,
vaccinating everyone.
Not Necessary Here.
Doctor Fowler, after reading ac-
counts Of the action Of Philadelphia
health authorities, declared he did
not believe such drastic action was
necessary here.
This department is doing every
thing within It's power To stop the
spread of smallpox" he said. I'VE
are vaccinating or quarantining
every person who has come in con-
tact with a smallpox case"
The Health Department today is
seeking a list Of the persons who
recently have received chiropractic
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
Both Bathing Beaches Doomed
HALTS MINE RESCUE
Baby Airplanes' VIII
Be Made to Sell
at $500

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb.
21.-Plans to build a plant to
make airplanes costing from
$500 to $4,000 at Hammonton,
N. J., were announced here by
the Anderson Aeroplane Corpor-
alton of America, headed by
William s. Anderson, of this
city. The plant, with a landing
field and aviation school, will
fill twenty-five acres on the
White Horse Pike near Ply
mouth road.
Baby monoplanes, measuring
twelve to sixteen feet between
wing tips, with a fuselage of
nine to twelve feet, win be
made. They will use a 40
horsepower motor and be
capable of making seventy-six
miles an hour. They will carry
one person. Duraluminum in
stead of fabric wings will be
built, with special devices to
insure safety. The company
says army engineers have en-
dorsed the design as suitable
for private, police and forest
supervising work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
GONE
F0RBOTH
BEACHES
Colonel Sheriff. Advised to
Seek Fund for New Loca-
tons in Deficiency Bill

The elimination of the white and
colored bathing beaches in the
Tidal Basin was finally agreed
upon by the Senate and House
conferees on the District appro-
priation bill at q meeting held
today.
It was decided, however, to sug-
CAST to Colonel G. 9. Sheriff. that
new sites be obtained for the bath
ing beaches and that appropria-
tions for them be inserted in the
deficiency appropriation bill, which
will be taken up within a few
days.
Beach TO BE DismantIed.
Colonel Sheriff., officer in charge
of public buildings and grounds,
appeared before the conferees to-
day in an eleventh-hour attempt
to save the bathing beaches, but
he appeared satisfied to let the
matter go as the conferees have
decided. AS the matter now stands,
there is nothing to do but to dis
mantle the white bathing beach
and halt work on the construction
Of the colored beach.
Rather than permit an increase
Of the 100000 lump sum in the
District appropriation bill, House
conferees on the measure will allow
the bill to die in conference, it was
indicated today.
With three items still under dis
agreement by the Senate and House
conferees, 1t was decided that the
House conferees should report back
for further instructions. The items
upon which, no agreement has been
reached during the several ses-
sions held by the conferees follow:
Lump Sum At Issue.
1. The proposed increase of the
lump sum appropriation from 3d.
100000 to $11,OOO.OOO inserted by
the Senate.
2. The striking out by the SEN
ate of the appropriation for two
additional police court judges,
which was inserted in the bill by
the House.
3. The striking out Of the section
of the appropriation bill by the
Senate by which the House desired
to insure that appropriations for
the next fiscal year should be made
on the same 100000 lump sum
plan as this year.
Senator Lawrence Phipps, of
Colorado, chairman Of the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee, said
today that if the traffic bill passes
the House, the Senate will agree
to restore appropriations for the
two additional judges.
May Be Compromise.
AS far as the dispute over the
$4,000. 900 lump sum increase Is con-
cerned, it is pointed out that this
is a sore spot with the House. and
they will prNbably either insist on
a compromise of 10000 900 or that
their original 100000 stand.
Practically every item of the
$4,000 added by the Senate to
the House bill, which carried $751;
150,267, has been approved by the
conferees.
Notable among these increases Is
the one of 100000 for the Stuart
Junior High School Building, one Of
$18,500 for additional street improve
ments, and one of $4,000 for a
main interceptor on the upper Po-
tomac.
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GIVEN GAVEL
FROM LINCOLN HOME

A historic gavel made from a sill
removed from the old home of
Abraham Lincoln in Illinois was
presented to President Coolidge to-
day by Celinda r. Mccullough, OF
Urbana, Ill.
The gaVel was used once before
during ceremonies at Urbana, when
marker was placed designating
Champaign, ILL.,, a member of the
old Eighth judicial circuit when
Lincoln practiced law In his early
manhood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
By ALBERT F. BAENZ1NGER,

SULLIVAN, Ind, Feb. 21.-A
big cave-in in the main entry of
the City Coal Company's mine
occurred just before 8 o'clock
today, further impeding the get
ting out bodies Of those trapped
by an explosion in the mine yes
terday.
Sixteen. identified dead have
been removed from the pit. Thirty
five bodies are yet to Be re-
covered.
Wild rumors of fire having
started were circulated freely at
this time, but mine officials
denied that any such horror has
been added.
Autos Block Rescue.
With daylight came an amending
stream Of, automobiles pouring into
Sullivan from all points Of the
compass, headed for the mine and
seriously interfering with rescue
work.
The sheriff of the county was in
communication with Governor Jack
son regarding the ACCESSIBILITY of
sending troops to the scene to take
charge.
Descending to a level Of fifty-five
feet in the main shaft, at q. m.
today, rescuers were forced to re-
turn to the surface by the deadly
black damp fumes. Though 1t was
expected that several bodies would
be removed today, it was said
shortly before noon that the last Of
the thirty-four would rot be taken
out before tomorrow night at the
earliest.
Work had to be abandoned yes
terday after sixteen bodies had been
removed. Gas fumes again and
again drove workers from the shaft
and four of them were brought out
unconscious.
Repair Ventilation.
Repairs on the ventilating ma
chinery and the retimbering Of Sec
tions badly torn by the explosion
took five hours and during that
period the rescue work was at a
standstill.
AS soon as the repairs had been
completed, two crews Of ten fnen
each went down into che shaft ard
started a new search Tor the dead.
These crews are working for three
hours each, then their places are
taken by others.
According to those who have been
down in the pit since the explosion,
all the men in that part Of the
mine effected by the explosion have
been killed. No stragglers have
come out of the wrecked part Of
the mine. The men had nothing
with which to protect themselves
from the deadly gases that formed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
POLICE ARREST FIFTY
CHARGED WITH GAMING

Third precinct police raided an
alleged gambling den at 1115
TWenty-second street northwest
last night and arrested between
forty and fifty men said to have
been engaged in a big poker game.
Three trips were made by the
patrol wagon in carrying those
arrested to the station house.
Only two men, James Andrew.
Fitzgerald, 5000 Connecticut avenue
northwest, and William Archibald
Nelson, of Pill p street northwest,
were held. They were charged
with setting up q gaming table.
The others were released to appear
In court Monday.
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w. Virginians to Banquet

The West Virginia Society will
hold its annual banquet tonight at
the Hamilton Hotel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
COL. SIMMONS, Ex-HEAD
OF KHAN, SERIOUSLY HURT

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Feb. 81
Colonel Joseph Simmons, of Atlanta,
founder and formerly imperial
wizard Of the Ku Klux Khan, was
injured seriously near here today
when the automobile in which. he
was riding with Captain Morris
Moore struck A sandy spot. skidded
and overturned. Colonel Simmons
was rushed to a hospital here, and
attending physicians said he was
suffering from serious internal in
juries."
Captain Moore, whose home is in
Texas, was said to have sustained
a broken spine, but physicians were
more optimistic over his chances of
recovery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
Her $1,000 Death
Awards Stretched
To $4,000

POTTSVILLE, Pa, Feb. 21.-
BY an award of the State COM
pensation board, Mrs. Steve
Bale, widow of a former work
man of this city, will get the
equivalent of $50, 900 in Ameri-
can money. She now lives in
Russia. She has been awarded
$4,000, and because Of the de-
basement Of Russian currency
the amount awarded means q
comfortable fortune.
Mrs. Bale has five children,
which accounts for the amount
awarded. The case was fought
with vigor by the employers of
her former husband.
The man worked for John
Richley at q furnace in this
city in 1907, when he was
killed. Had the woman lived
in America she would have re-
ceived $500 more than was.
awarded her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-21
GIRL ARRESTED AFTER
ATTEMPT TO END LIFE

Police today arrested Edna Miller,
colored, twenty-five, who attempted
to commit suicide yesterday by TAX
ing poison, on a charge of false
representation to obtain poison"
After taking bichloride Of mer-
curry, the woman was taken to
Freedman's Hospital where she was
treated. On her release, Detective
Saunders arrested her.
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Full Page Of Crossword
Puzzles on Page IL.
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MOVE To HALT
AIRCRAFT
REPORT
Administration Leaders in
Congress Would Smother
Mitchell Charges

Administrative leaders launched
a drive today to prevent a report
by the House Aircraft Committee.
Displeasure of the White House
and the War and Navy Depart
ments with the sensational testi-
mony concerning Americas lack Of
air defense, particularly that ad-
duced from Brigadier General
William Mitchell, assistant chief
of army air service, was given as
the reason.
The Administrators move will
come to the surface with the vote
on the resolution authorizing the
committee to draft it's report, but
hold no further hearings, after
adjournment.
Committee Has To Pay.
Cognizant Of this opposition COM
mittee members did not ask for per-
mission other than to write it's re-
port after March 4. Even this
must be done at the private ex-
pense Of the committee for the reso-
luton authorizes no additional
funds. Practically all members Of
the committee have agreed to re-
main in Washington for the work
Aside from attempting TO kill a
ronOrt some of the more Staunch
administration followers are even
considering the possibility of bring
ing in a resolution creating an en-
tirely new committee upon which
would be placed men more favor
able to the defense views OF the
general staff which Mitchell has
saVagely assailed.
This committee would take up the
reins after March 4 and conduct a
new inquiry for the next Congress.
Oppose Unified Service.
Practically all members of the
existing committee acquiesce in
MitcheHs suggestion for a unified
air service.
They have planned to recommend
this change as the first point OF
their report War and navy Off
Gals are vigorously opposed to d.
vorcing the air services from their
present berths.
If it becomes evident that Ad-
ministratiIn opposition to the resO-
luton authorizing delayed rep )rt
Is strong enough to kill 1t, COM
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