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Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
FLORIDA AGAIN THREATENED BY HURRICANE
ew Fire Equipment Passes Severe Underwriters Test
Property Law
Faces New Test
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.-Cali-
fornia s community property law
faced new legal test today follow
ing decree handed down here by
superior Judge Albert Lee stephens
n the ease of Mrs. Fannie Lee
Stewart against Ernest A. Stewart.
If the judgment rendered by
Judge Stephens is affirmed by the
supreme court il may mean AN an
nual saving Of NOR" than 81 .oDo.-
OO0 and the rcfunding Of $lOO,0OO,-
OO0 to California income tax pay
eis, according to Miss Ida Nav
Adams, attorney for Mrs. Stewart.
Judg" Stephens held that wife
was entitled to file Il separate in
come tax return on half the prop
ertv held jointly by herself and
husband, and that the recent ruling
Of the supreme court constituted an
unqualified Judgment from which a
new trial may result from motion
by either party.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
POLICE SEEKING
THIRD MAN OF
BAY CITY GANG
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. W
While police continued to search for
the third member of the terror hold
up gang which killed five victims
here 10 days ago, the district at
torney's office today was prepar-
ing to obtain speedy trial for the
two under arrest.
Lawrence Weeks, confessed ban
dit, continued to supply police with
information regarding his activities
in which he has implicated Clar-
cnce "Buck" Kelly, who lies prob
ably fatally wounded in a hospital
here.
Kelly maintained firmly that he
was innocent and was being " franz
ed" by Weeks, the "squealer.
Before the preliminary hearing of
Weeks, postponed YESTERDAY for n
week, District Attorney Matthew
Brady expects to put the matter be
fore the grand jury for an immedi-
ate indictment.
~ will make every effort to
hiring a speedy trial and will ask
for Il hanging sentence,' Brady
said a.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
CHINESE GENERAL
PLANS SWEEPING
MILITARY DRIVE
American Party Hurries
TO Shanghai to Avoid
Radical Forces.
BY RANDALL GOULD
L. +. staff Correspondent


fEKING, oct. 2C-Carmi Thomp-
son, President Coolidge 8 personal
representative, has departed hur-
ricdly for Shanghai to avoid a gi-
gantic circllng movement of radical
forces designed to sweep the conn-
II clean Of rcactionarv mllitar-
ists.
Fcng Yu IIsiang, Christian ma
tionahst, is coming down from the
north to join the Cantonese armies
of the Yangtse in a drive to consol-
idate the China coast from the great
wall to the Indo China border.
Thompson and his party, fearing
disruption of railroad service, de
cided to leave, despite the possibil-
ity that Shanghai may be under
siege when he arrives.
Wa Pei Fu,L once idol of young
China, to whom Chang Tso Lin en-
trusted the task of stopping the
Cantonese advance at Hankow and
Wa Chang has been vanqushed.
sun Chuan Fang, ruler of the Shane
hal area, appears to be losing his
grip. thaug $50 LIN, ""o it'tht'E
defeated the radicals north of Pc
king, appears powerless in the face
Of the Christian general s return
from the mountains whence he was
recently driven.
Once more Chang Tso Lin appears
To he preparing for withdrawal into
Manchuria where he Will be hem
med in by the Soviets on the north.
Ecng Yu Hsiang on the south and
west, and japanese in Korea on the
east.
The United Press was informed
authoritativclv that the alliance of
north and south radical forces has
been accomplished and that the
drive is to begin at once.
They aim to capture Peking, Tien
Tsin and Shanghai, then sweep on
east ward through Shantung until
Using Tau, the German-huilt sea
port, capitnlatcs.
Leaders expect to take Peking in
two months and complete the en-
tire campaign by spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
SUMNER CHARGES
ROTTEN POLITICS
IN WASHINGT
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Oct. Ex-senator
James A. Reed chairman of the
senate campaign fund committee,
today ordered an investigation of
the politics in the state of Washing
ton.
On receipt of q telegram from
Samuel II. Sumner, chairman of the
Republican state central committee
of Washington state, Reed an
nounced that he would wire Senator
McNary of Oregon, who is in Port
land, asking him to hold the Wash
ington investigation in Portland.
Sumner = telegram charged huge
expenditures had been made in the
Washington primary campaigns and
asked for an immediate senate in
vest igation.
Sumner said he had information
that the Democratic campaign in
Washington had already cost $780,
00G.
The Democratic senatorial nomi-
nee in Washington was \. Scott
Bullitt and sumner said he was GER
tain that Bullitt s total cXpendi-
lures would reach 100000.
Sumner 5 telegram included the
following charges:
!. That to defeat the Republican
candidate, Senator Wesley Jones,
the Democrats were running full
page ads for Bullitt in 10 daily and
% weekly newspapers at tremend-
Gus cost
>. That Neither Bullitt, brother
of the Democratic candidate who
was an attorney for big moving
picture combine, had arranged with
movie houses to run special Bsllitt
pictures.
3. That C.. y. Stimson, Seattle,
millionaire lumber man, had said he
was ready to spend 100000 of his
own money to get Bullitt elected.
"The situation here is the worst
[ ever saw Sumner said.
SEATTLE. Wash, Oct. 90
Charges that expenditures made in
behalf of A. Scott Bullitt, Demo
cratic candidate for the senate
"'Would make the Pennsylvania and
Illinois senatorial primaries look
Ike thirty cents, have been made
by Wesley L. Jones, Republican
who is seeking his fourth term as
senator
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
COURT REFUSES
TESTIMONY OF
DOUGLAS MAN
Witness for Evangelist
Ordered from Stand at
Mcpherson Trial.
BY LINCOLN QUARBERG
Ct. =. staff Correspondent


Los ANGELES, Oct. 2O.-James
Prown, station agent Of Douglas,
AriZ.. was ordered from the witness
stand by Judge Samuel Il. Blake
at the Aimee Sempie Mcpherson
hearing today on grounds his tes-
tmonv would be immatcrial to the
case.
Brown was to have testified for
the defense concerning what Attor-
ney w. |. Gilbert characterized was
"a lie told under oath by Alonzo
b. Murchison, ssate's witness
from Douglas.
The asserted untruth which the
was the testimony that Brown had
identified a picture of IL. Il. Hallen-
beck, Arizona rancher and friend
Of Mrs. Mcpherson, as the man who
bought one-way ticket from Doug,
las to Los Angeles on the day that
the evangelist re-appeared at Aqua
Prieta, Mexico.
The prosecution objected to
Brown s testimony on grounds
Murchison s testimony did not per
tain to anything admitted i'll evi.
dence, and was therefore not i'm
peachable.
at appears from the records, :
ruled the court, THAT Mr.. Murchi-
son testified to the liallenbeck in
cident upon the insistence of the
defense, and anything he testified
under cross-eXamination is not i'm
peachable. y
G. Il. Cross, Douglas, Ariz., po
liceman and cowboy, was the first
defense witness. He began his
testimony late yesterday and was
recalled to the stand as the hearing
was resumed today for cross-eNam-
ination.
Cross contradicted testimony ot
state s witness from Douglas re-
garding the effects of long walks
in the desert country. He testified
he had once walked 30 miles with
out water and that in his opinion
"any ordinary person could waIk
Continued on page three
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
DELEGATIONS To-
SACRAMENTO ARE
READY TO FIGHT
Valley Civic Bodies Unit
ed in UphOlding Finney
Resolution.

Thoroughly aroused over the last
minute efforts of Governor Friend
Richardson to befog the issues so
that the Swing johnson bill will be
exposed to the whims of upper basin
states, Imperial Valley is going on
record through all of its public and
civic organizations az q unit i'll ia
vor of retaining the Finney Reso-
lution to the Colorado River com
pact.
AS delegations left today for the
state capital they carried with them
resolutions from the county board
of supervisors, city councils of FL
Centre and Brawley. Imperial Coun-
tv Farm Bureau, the FL Centre
Chamber of Commerce and the I'M
perial Irrigation District, all en-
dorsing uncquivocallv the Finney
Resolution and all asking the state
legislature to re-affirm that reso-
luton in the special meeting on Fri
dav.
The Chamber of Commerce here
last night met in special session at
the call of w. w. McEucn, presi-
dent. and the directors adopted 4
resolution similar to those passed
earlier this week by the city trus-
tees and county supervisors. The
board of directors of the Imperial
Irrigation District passed its reso
mtion endorsing the Finney reserva-
tion at the meeting yesterday aft
ernoon. The language of the docu
ment explains clearly the position
of this valley and California.
Immediately after the meeting OF
the district board, Charles l.. Child
ers. attorney for the district, Mark
Rose, W. O. Blair, directors, and +
II. McIver, secretary and treasurer
prepared to leave for Sacramento
to appear before the legislature as
part of the Imperial Valley dele
CATION. NJ. w. Witter, Brawlcy
publisher, and assemblyman elect
is also leaving today for the state
capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
BY the
MYSTERIOUS COWBOY

If YOU have anything to say
against the Imperial Valley don t
say it to Henry Loud. Don't say
il anywhere near him. In the first
place, he won't believe it, and in
the second place, he nights get fus
sy about it.
You see, Henry Loud is genuine,
dyed -the-wool booster for the
valley and all that it contains. He
just can't see anything but good in
FL Centre and its back country. And
if he can't il is surprising if anyone
could because Mr.. Loud has been
here II years which is altogether
long enough to discover anything
that NAV be wrong with the city or
the valley.
Mr.. Loud is real estate man
one of those kind who study real
estate in scientific way. He deals
mostly in farm lands, and it is that
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
CONTINUED on page 3
0UEZON RESENTS
LABOR SURVEY
OF PHILIPPINES
BY w. r. KUHNS

CT. u. Staff correspondent
MANILA, Oct. 20.-Dcsire of the
United States labor department Ia
conduct survey of labor conditions
in the Philippines is merely one
more indication of the imperiallst'
ic plan to exploit the islands, SAM
uel Ouezon, independence leader
told the insular sepate.
Ouezon was commenting on q
United Press dispatch telling of the
labor department s plan to conduct
such survey il an appropriation
can be obtained.
Quezon warned the senate that
unless the Filipinos are awakened
to the danger they will soon find
American capitalists in complete
possession of the islands with then
rich natural resources.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
Young Brother of
"Tuffy" Read Is
Held For Trial
by United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, Oct 2O.-TriaI
of Milton Reade, brother of Clar-
cncc "Tuffy" Reade, Los Angeles
newsboy hanged last year at San
Quentin, has been set for Nov. %.
He and three other youths are charg
ed with two counts of grand larceny
and one Of burglary.
Reade also faces trial on two ad-
ditional counts of robbery and date
for this proceeding was set for
Nov. 26.
The four youths are alleged to
have entered the Cray and Gray
eompmy's warehouse here and made
way with a safe containing nearly
&33 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
,Oast Guard Boat
Routs Smuggler

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 0.-Fir
AZ more than 100 rounds of ANN"
tion at fleeing rum runner off
an Diego, the coast guard cutter
Ip. 255 emerged successfully TODAY
|pm its first clash with what
0mises to be the largest fleet of
luor vessels ever assembled off the
asst of Southern California.
+The advance boat of the rum
pet was chased more than 40 miles
II the cutter commanded by j.
POISON Brown responsible f0r
Ae seizure here recently of the
kckie and two other alleged rum
BATS.
EThc rum fleet, loaded TO the pilot
buses with fresh cargoes from
titish Columbia for holiday trade
fgan its march into San Diego
aters in the wake of the Malahat
hich is now being joined by six
ore vessels, crowded out of the
prth by the larger number of cut
Irs there.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20

8 act that has made him leader
among the boosters of the valley.
He Knows about the farm lands. and
consequently he knows that nothing
but Il cataclysm can keep Imperial
Valley from being exactly what its
most ardent boosters say it will pe.
More diversified farming is great
ly benefiting the valley, Mr.. Loud
thinks. He sees the time rapidly
approaching when farming will be
done on an industrial basis that will
stabilize land values by reducing to
the minimum the uncertainty i'll
crop production. In the meantime
he is settled in FL Centre with his
wife and daughter and is doing ev-
erything he can to prove to others
that independence and wealth are
more readily acquired here than any
where else and that as the years
pass the number of people seeking
to make their homes in the Imperial
Valley will steadily increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
LOCAL MASONS TO
HAVE CHARGE OF
FULLER FUNERAL

Fl Centre lodge No. SS4 +. and
A. NJ. will have charge of the fu-
neral services for F.. b. Fuller, for
merly of FL Centre, who died in
San Diego yesterday morning.
The services will be held at 3
clock Thursday afternoon at the
funeral parlors of Bradley and Woll-
man, Seventh and C streets. San
Diego. Burial will be in Green
wood cemetery, San Diego.
Walter ID. Carey, master of FL
Centre lodge, will be in charge of
The Masonic services.
Announcement was made today
that the home coming celebration
scheduled BY the lodge for tomor-
row night will be postponed until
a later date, and all members of
the lodge who can do so are request
ed bv the master to attend the
Fuller funeral.
In addition to being a Mason,
Mr.. Fuller also held membership in
FL Centre lodoe of Elks, the Odd
Fellows and Knights of Pythias,
aIl members of these organizations
alt also planning to attend the flu
neral.
The Southern Trust and Com.
merce bank, of which Mr.. Fuller
was vice president, will be repre-
scented by r. Y, Watson, manager
of the FL Centre branch and Walter
Havekorst, manager of the Brawlcy
branch, and other officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
Farrand Talks at
Chamber Lunch

George II. Farrand, representative
of "Nation $ Business official
organ of the United States chamber
of commerce, was the speaker at the
weekly luncheon of the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce today.
Mr.. Farrand declared that the
chamber of commerce is the stand
ard by which Il city is judged, and
that it is, to a large extent, re-
sponsible for the city's reputation in
business and industrial circles.
Neither the officers or directors
alone can make n chamber success
full the speaker said, but they must
have the complete coperation of ev-
cry member, and every businessman
in the-eity should be enrolled in the
chamber.
He stated the valley has one big
object on which all parties should
be united, and that is passage of
the Swing Johnson bill at the earl
lest possible moment.
President McEuen announced that
at special meeting of the directors
last night, a memorial resolution to
the late +. b. Fuller was adopted
and the secretary was instructed to
send a floral wreath to the funeral
tomorrow. All members who can do
so, he said, should attend the fu,
neral. Mr.. Fuller was for several
years director of the chamber.
The regular meeting of the direc'
tors will be held tonight, when fl
nal plans will be adopted for the
celebration on October 27, to marx
the completion OF the new route
through the sandhills between +
Centre and Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
s 0RM IS
SWEEPING
I D COAST
Miami Preparing to Care
For Citizens Who Are
Homeless.
HAVANA SMITTEN
Hundreds of Houses Said
to Be Destroyed in Cuba
Capital.
BY United Press Leased. Wire

MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 20.-Lifting it's
head from the rains of the recent
tropical hurricane which took a toll
of 400 lives, the storm swept area
today was feverishlv making plans
to battle the new gale expected to-
night.
All available police have been or
dered for continuous duty and MANY
reserve ambulances are being held
in readiness.
City Manager +. H. Wharton to-
day ordered all schools closed at
noon and released married prisoners
from Jail to enable them to protect
their homes.
The Florida East Coast Rail
Railway offices We're besieged for
! information about trains and scores
learned that egress by rail was i'm
possible, the first northbound train
heing scheduled to reach West Palm
Beach at p. m. when the storm is
expected here.
County officials are making prep
arations to shelter citizens in the
sturdy court house.
Red Cross officials and wOrkery
on the scene of the recent disaster
have organized their forces and are
prepared to combat the storm, il
was said.
Storm warnings have been hoist.
ed. A slight wind at noon brought
scores to the streets despite the
driving drain which was believed
I 10 ha harnlI.nrr ha % tha
third hurricane the state will have
experienced this year.
Low barometer readings of 29.52
inches at Key West, drop of 1i
points in two hours. and 29.7S at
| Miami were reported to the weather
bureau in the noon reports. Winds
at Miami, Fort Myers, Titusville and
| other points were reported still light
although a 50 mile velocity was
reached at noon at Key West.
The Western Union Telegraph
company reported it had lost direct
| communication with Havana via
| keywest.
There was nothing to change the
morning hurricane warning for
southern Florida, bureau observers
said. The storm now is sweeping
across the Florida Straights, they
said.
HAVANA, Oct. 20.-(1:20 p. n.y.
"A hurricane wrecked between 200
and 800 houses in Havana today
and passed beyond the city at ii a.
m. The houses were of the cheaper
type.
More than half the trees in town
were blown over or partially uproot-
ed; telephone, telegraph and power
lines were paralyzed and streets
were strewn with plate glass and
building material by the wind.
! 1t is not known that any were
killed, but the United Press cores
pondent saw the side of small
house collapse, exposing three per
sons huddled in a room. The roof
| of the house collapsed Immediately
afterward but the correspondent did
not know the fate of the three.
Judging from the force of the wind
here, the damage 20 crops must have
! been enormous.
KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 20.--A no
mile per hour gale was blowing to-
day in Havana, Cuba, reports
reaching here said.
The advices said that street ear
traffic had been stopped and no
automobiles could venture on the
streets.
Radio towers were reported TO
have been blown over.
. Rain, the reports said, had fan"n
in torrents since 7 ?. m. yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
Expert To Give
DemOnStra ton
On\ Grapefruit

r. Nj. Wathen, grapefruit cx-
pert from Los Angeles, will give a
frost protection demonstration Fri
day night at the Grogan ranch n
half mile west of the city limits ON
the San Diego highway.
The demonstration will start at
7 clock and will be in cooperation
with the farm advisor s office, and
under the auspices of the Imperial
Valley Grapefruit Growers associa-
ton.
All grapefruit growers, whether
members of the association of not,
are cordially invited to attend the
demonstration.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
ADEQUATE
PROTECTION
| IS ASSURED
Report Will BE Submitted
Tonight to City Council
on Test Results.
EXPERT IN CHARGE
thief Ferguson Express:
es Pleasure at PerfOr-
nance of Apparatus.

After successfully completing the
evcre underwater : test Yesterday
be new American La France city
|rvice fire truck, just installed in
BE- fire department equipment Is
hing overhaulcd today and put into
|adiness for work. A ladder drill
to be held at the fire station to-
ght between ) and e @ clock.
In describing the tests placed ON
g new truck yesterday, Chief
harles Ferguson stated that the
tw addition to the equipment Of
/ e department makes fire fighting
this city a matter of relatively
[mple proportions. I'VE now have
g most complete department in
hpcrial Valley he declared.
|rhc tests yesterday met with the
tire approval of the experts in
argc and showed the machine just
|irchased to be perfect in every
Etail.
Severe Tests
The tests included two hour
|lmping test at a l25 pound pump
essurc with Gl7 gallons per min
|e passing through the nozzle Of
G hose. One Is minute test was
|adc with 3lS gallons per minute
|pving the hose and pump pressure
EOS pounds and 22j gallons of
|htcr leaving the hose. Still an
|her test WAS made in which all
fZzlcs were turned off and the
hmp was run at full capacity.
|'orge =. krnlcv, demonstration for
@ American La France Co., was
charge of the tests yesterday and
J II direct the ladder drill today.
EThe new equipment includes Il
fe net, six salvage blankets, 80
Jet of ladder in which is one 80
|ot section and 81 foot section.
supplements the other equipment
the department, a 159 gallon
(nerican La France pump truck
wing two 40 gallon chemicals, and
Moreland truck outfittcd with Il
10 gallon pump.
PThe new city service truck was
|dered by the former city council
I'm last April, shortly before the
Pw council took office. Its arriv-
here about two weeks ago at
acted considerable interest on the
Ert of city residents who are unan-
Gus in their verdict that fire haz-
bis in FL Centre will be consider
ply reduced once the big machine
ITS into active operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
Another Arrest
In Jersey Murder
Nv United Press Leased Wire

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. Oct.
20.-Mrs Minna Clark was arrest
ed late today charged as an aces
sorry to the murder of Mrs. Eleanor
Mills and the Rev. Edward w. Hall.
in the Protestant Episcopal church
of st. John the Divine, whose pas
tor, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, was
found murdered four years ago with
Mrs. Eleanor X. Mills, choir sing
or
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
MIDDJES PERFORM
DURING RAIN FOR
QUEEN M ARIE
Royal Family Reviews
Future Admirals Ii.
Heavy Storm.
By United Press Leased Wire

ANAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 20-Rain
which falls on queens and plebians
alike, dripped through a royal can
opv on Marie of Rumania AT the
United states naval academy here
'oday.
Carrying orchids, tie queen en-
livcned the last few hours of her
"official' visit TO the United
States by talking about the weather
with Admiral Lewis Mutton, aead-
envy commandant. as the royal party
witnessed IA review of the mid-ship-
men on rainy field.
"Thc weather is unjustifiahlc, y
was Maric's comment.
cone would hardly expect such
a miserable dIlv after the beautiful
day yesterday
Attaining Il 80 mile an hour speed
at times, the motor conValcadc curry
ing the queen 5 party reached mere
shortly before II n, m. after a jour
ney of an hour and half from
Washington. Rain fell throughout
the journey but the queen in a
closed car did not feel its effect un-
til the cloth canopy over the re-
viewing stand began to leak.
After the review the royal visitors
were guests at a reception III Ad'
miral Mutton $ office, to the office
crs and families of the academy. The
Il,lt !
distant. 10y motor. There they Will
board the Pennsylvania train pro-
vidcd bv the state department for
the last leg of the official visit,
which ends in New York.
Leave For Baltimore
The naval academy, on the broad
Severn river, elicted enthusiastic
praise from the queen, despite the
rainy weather which dampened spr-
its somewhat.
Prince Nicholas stood stiffly ut
attention and executed an enthuslas
tie salute as the even ranks or mld-
shipmen came past.
Himself an officer of the Rouman-
ian navy. and trained in the British
sea service. he hurried to the rerep'
tion to talk navy affairs with i"e
academy leaders.
The full salute of 81 guns re
served only for royalty and preSi'
dents, was given as the motor pro-
cession rolled into the academy
grounds. The academy band played
/Cor%;uuo1 on poue 3
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-20
BOY SCOUT TROOP WILL
ATTEND BRUNK s SHOW

Members of Boy Scout Troop No.
Z. sponsored by FL Centre lodge Of
Flks, will be guests Of Manager
Glen Bruni: at this evenings per-
Torrance Of "Why Men Leave
Home, at Brunk : tent theater,
The invitation was extended 70
Scoutmaster Earl J. Bodinc who viii
be in charge of the Scouts.