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Evening star., 1926-10-30
An Ancient Ill

We read how Science has o'erthrown
a hundred ills that made men groan
and bore them to the tomb: she chased
foul microbes to their lair and put
the kiboSh on them there, and some
plague met its doom. Malaria is out
Of date, and yellow fever's pulled its
freight, the hookworm's graft is done;
the savants point with honest pride to
fell diseases that have died, to tri-
umphs nobly won. tuberculosis soon
must yield to stern explorers in the
ber's itch and housemaids knee their
melancholy weird must dree and
perish from the earth. But one
disease still holds the fort in hut and
mansion, camp and court, unhindered,
unimpressed, by all the microbe
hunters tricks: its countless victims
cross the Styx to gain a well earned
rest. 1t takes all pleasure from the
lives Of weeping legions and their
wives, 1t tortureS human knees; ana
Science says, while drilling by, when
I've no other fish to fry I'll conquer
that disease. Just now I'm making
league-long jumps to throw the har-
poon in the mumps, to find bunion
cure; until these chores are done, gee
whiZ, the sufferers from rheumatic
must suffer and endure" Through
all the ages this disease has prodded,
as with snickersnees, mems ligaments
and thews: has put the fantods in
their brains and filled them with a
million pains that burned holes
through their shoes. It's filled the
world with aching grief, and Science
offers no relief that's worth tinkers
hoot; Just wait" she says, until
I'm through with germs. that cause
the Spanish flu, then rheumatic must
scoot." All other ailments must be
slain before this carnival of pain abol-
ished is for good; the sufferers must
wall and weep until, worn out. they
go to sleep in overcoats of wood.
WALT MASON.
Copyright. 1926.)
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RISE TO FORTUNE
TRACED TOL|QUOR
Sportsman Indicted as Boot
logger Said to Have AmaSs-
ed $1,000, 900 in Traffic.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 30.-The story
OF Il man who five years ago walked
out of the Illinois penitentiary with
only a few dollars, to become known
~ a wealthy sportsman through boot
Logging operations, in which a fleet of
airpanes played a. major role, was
woven today about the Indictment Of
frank G.. Parker.
Control of string of illicit brew
cries liquor distribution by air and eX-
1cnsive activities in Canada were high
spots i'll the career outlined by Federal
agents, who said the Indictment would
matt the amaSslng of fortune which
already approximates $5,000,000.
Eight Others Accused.
Special Agent Pat Roche said the
charging OF Parker and eight other
men with violating the prohibition
law was a result of four years of try
Ing work by the Government against
one Of the biggest and "smoothest"
bootleg chiettains in the country.
Specifically. the indictment charged
1mpilcatlon in the operation of a brew
cry raided last June.
Parker broke into the front pages
III 1928 by flying 10 a band of log
gers marOoned on an island in Lake
MIcnlBdn ny tIlZZard with 1000
supplies, and two years ago he was
on" OF the hackers of the Carpenter.
GlliLons fight at Michigan City, Ind
In 1919 Parker was sent to Joliet
a. a. chief of an automobile theft ring
with headquarters in Minneapolis,
and at the END of two years was pa
roied, his case being mentioned in
connection with the prison inquiry
last Summer. Virtually pennileSS,
Federal men said, he came to Chicago
and began his successful operations.
Linked i'm Tragedy
The suicide of a member of the
Canadian Parliament in connection
with "a scheme charged to Parker was
one incident related by the agents,
and the operation of a large brewery
at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, was another.
The surprise Indictment Of Parker
came while detectives made their last
invasion of Cicero in connection with
the murder of Santo Cellebron, shot
down yesterday in the suburban seat
of bootleg warfare. recently supposed
TO have become quiet under a gang
Ster peace pact.
Cellebron was identified with the
"Alky racket when a deputy mar
shal, sent to serve a Federal bench
warrant involving bootlegging charges,
FOUND his man in the morgue.
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HITS BUILDING CODES.

Toronto Professor Says Many Have
Unreasonable Restrictions.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, October 30.-CP)-The unreason-
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lice on a cleanup campaign through
out the Rhineland.
home in the Rhineland exposed the
fraud to the police. Six roadhouse
keepers near Heidelberg, Frankfort
and Cologne have been arrested. They
are charged with collecting admission
fees ranging from 25 cents to 81 to
witness the duels. which tourists were
told were regularly fought in the road
house courtyards by members Of stu
dent fraternitieS.
Police found professional duelists.
posing as students, fighting in Jackets
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ALLIED CONTROL CUT.
Personnel Retrenchment Follows
German Cancellation.

BERLIN, October 80 CP).-The re
trenchment Of the Interallied Military
Control Commission is keeping pace
with the growing Cancellation between
Germany and her erstwhile enemies.
Today the commission comprises 80
officers. English and French officers
predominating.
At the beginning of the year there
were 100 officers. even then less than
half the staff that kept an eye on the
country in 1919. There also has been
q marked diIninution in the clerical
and technical StaffS.
There are some 5000 vessels in the
Japanese merchant marine.
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versity, told the American Institute
of Steel Construction in convention
here yesterday.
Complete realization of the possi-
bilities Of structural steel and other
structural materials, he said, Is pos
sible only where competent engineers
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able restrictions included in many mu-
nicipal building codes penaliZe the
competent structural engineer and re-
suit in unnecessarily high costs.
which must be borne by the public.
Prof. c. r. Young, Of the structural
engineering department, Toronto Uni
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ing flowed from wounds received in
Immediately previous encounters. The
blood was that of chickens. The po-
lice found also there was no surgical
reason why the heads of duelists were
swathed in bandages.
Evening star., 1926-10-30
FAKE STUDENT DUELS
EXPOSED IN GERMANY
Innkeepers Arrested for tSaging
Exhibitions to Deceive
Tourists.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. October 30.--Fake student
duels. staged for the benefit of tour
lists who want to see the real Ger
man university life, have sent the po-
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Proof Ample.

From the Boston Herald
$50 you want to marry my daugh-
ter? Have you any business judg-
ment?"
well, sir. I'm trying to get into
your family, SIR
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

his example, and upon one street of
which he was particularly proud,
caused to be placed a tablet calling
upon his people to traverse this
street in Joy" and wish him eternal
age and well-being."
Pompeii built sidewalks of asphalt,
and was the first to raise the center
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

is possible today, because of the con-
stantly increasing web of hard-sur-
faced roads, and such life is becom-
ing the envy of city folk.
Only a few years ago, there was
little or no state highway construc-
ton that is now proving an aid to
consolidation of rural schools.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

of her asphalt streets in order to
drain off the water.
Modern highways are transform
ing farm life in many states, reliev-
ing it of it's loneliness and placing it
in ready contact with all that is go
ing on in the world.
Good roads present more than
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

,ooro1v tourists tipping along the
biobwav or trucks moving from
town to town. The finer picture is
that Of rural homes linked together,
with tbe men, women and children
of tbo farms mbrought nearer one
another.
Social life in the farming sections
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

AS LONG as there have been cities
there have been paved streets, and
asphalt, which we think of usually
as a modern product, was used in
ancient Babylon by Nabopolassar
who was the first to use it for street
construction.
His son, Nebuchadnezzar; followed
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08


the Peace and could not, if they
wanted, stop fight, or start one tor
that matter. The people OF rural
Delaware thank God for the State
Highway Police, which is their only
safeguard for their homes, their
property or their bodily safety
Drown the fools, or knaves' who
would pull down the State Police
system to the level of political in
fuence, before they can accomplish
their purpose.
IN DELAWARE there is much the
same conditions prevailing as are
exnerienced in other states OF the
country. We have the same general
character of men and women with
aspirations similar to those OF other
states. or countries. There is gen
eral loyalty to law and the same per-
centage of those who would dlsre-
gard all laws which conflict with
their desires; much depends upon
environment in which the people
live If there is respect for law
and order. respect for the rights ana
privileges of others in equal snare
with their own, respect for improve
ment and improved methods theh
will a community progress and pros
ner. Those who know least ABOUT
facts of the past, are most frequent
in decrying progressive ideas, when
would bring larger business, OF
greater prosperity for all the people
If costs more to live now than forty
wars ago: but, we have many times
the amount of earnings to live on
These thoughts were brought up Dy
what an. editor out in Kentucky
nrinted some time back. 1t must not
bo forqotten that there is no teacher
like a clear-minded editor who drives
home fundamental facts in simple
worded editorials. He saw the point
of public interest in a small want
"ad" printed in a paper forty years
ago and comments as follows:
.oTimes have changed. In a Forty
Years Ago column in a Kentucky
newspaper, we find this 'ad' lifted
from it's old files for the instruction
of readers today:
'WANTED-A woman to COOK
wash and iron for a family of four;
50 per week
"Today in the same state, as else
where, a good ordinary COOK alone
costs such a family ten dollars a
week. The laundry work is extra,
and will cost on the average five dol
lars a week-or SIS for what in 1886
cost 50. This is an increase of 75O
per cent-seven and half times the
cost of household service in forty
years.
I'm 1886, the average price OF IRE
insurance in the United States was
S1.O2 per $1OO of fire risks alone. In
1924 the average price for fire anC
/ lightning insurance (now combinedJ
was 80 cents. Out of this, in 1886
the expense paid in conducting th'
business was 35 cents; in 1924 it was
SO cents.
1.-THE price of insurance has IL
forty years decreased 121s per cent
as against an increase OF 75O pc
cent in cooking and washing service
The cost of insurance service 9TH
labor involved) has increased exact
ly 11.4 per cent?"
We pay more taxes in these days
and we have greater earnings AM
property of greater value with whicl
to meet our obligations.
In Delaware the banks have larg
deposits of money, especially in tn
rural sections, far greater than eve
before, and it is the farmers VIII
own these checking accounts. Ye;
Delaware is going on with the bal
ance of the world and holding he
place well.
Se@
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

lent moments were high drama. A
home run might be winging it's way
to the right stands before the ma
chine could gather itself for the
message.
Such exercise for the imagination
the radio announcer provides in still
ampler measure. While the pitcher
is winding up he may snatch a mo-
ment to portray the background--the
field, the crowd, the atmospheric
electricity about him. For the poet
who needs but very little prodding of
the inner vision this may be perhaps
a loss. For the man of average imag-
ination it is a gain. Radio makes him
almost a spectator, but stops just
short enough to let the mind do
much of it's own weaving.
It is commonly charged that the
movies are destructive of mental
vision. The spoken drama on Broad
way leaves little to the imagination.
It is pleasant to have radio redress
the balance.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08
2oS

THIS WEEK millions Of men and
women have gratified a desire to lis
ten to and see through radio service
the greatest game played by Ameri-
cans in athletics, and sat for hours
as the reports came over the radio
of the worlds series games Of base
ball, as played by the two leading
ball clubs for the season of 1926;
which have for an object the World
Championship, with all the financial
trimmings that accompany these
splendid contests. The writer admits
to being a base ball fan, as well as
one who enjoys the use Of radio. We
see great help from radio for home
life as we'll as business and public
affairs. The editor of the New York
Times develops the angle Of useful
ness of radio from a broadening as
well as useful points, when he says:
For the radio, now engaged in dis
tributing play-by-play communicates
from the worlds series parks to an
audience of many millions, it may be
claimed that it is something more
than a broadcaster Of words and
events. It is a stimulus to the visual
imagination. In earlier pre-radio
worlds series, when strong men for
got duty and dignity to hang over the
ticker, there were those who truth
fully contended that they got more
excitement out Of the clicking tape
than when present in the body at
the game.
To the spectator in the park, the
intervals between plays were NOM
ents of comparative quiescence. To
the mind at the ticker these are cli-
makes of agonizing suspense. What
is happening out there on the field
while the tape-machine stands
hushed? It might be only the pitcher
inserting a wad Of Durham into his
cheek. It might be request from
the man at bat for a flick Of the UNI
pire's whiskbroom over the plate.
But for the unseen guest those ST.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08
DOS

IF PEOPLE living in rural COM
munity can not come to the library
the library will go to them. This is
the spirit that is impelling State
and county library authorities to
send into rural communities automo-
bile trucks equipped with shelves
containing books belonging to the
stacks of public libraries. Patrons
may borrow books from these eli
braries on wheels" and either return
them by parcel post or keep them
until future visits of the trucks.
According to the American Library
Association, the first. use of a wag-
on as a means of carrying books to
people in rural districts was made
by the Washington County Library
at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1905;
but it was not until the past few
years that the plan was used to any
considerable etxent. The Delaware
State Library Commission and the
public library department Of the
State Department Of Education Of
Vermont use automobiles equipped
with bookshelves as means Of dis
tributing books to people living in
rural communities.
The success of the plan depends,
largely, upon having a person in
charge of the truck who knows
books and is interested in children's
and adults reading. He must be able
to select books which will appeal to
the readers and be enthusiastic for
the work he is doing.
So@
AT PRESENT there has not been
any organized effort to have either
the Red Men, Firemen, or other or
ganized body to arrange for merry
local observation of Halloween, on
Saturday, October Both, in Milford.
Here is a chance to bring a great
host Of people to Milford for fine
celebration. Won't some one act
now?
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08


regions within a hundred miles OF
New York, was asked to state his
main impression of our countryside
With some hesitation and reluctance
he replied that he had found every
thing very untidy."
Many natives have been quite IN
different to this, and some have ac-
/ tually professed to like it. When W..
II. Prescott made his first visit to
England he wrote home that the
neat and trim aspect of the villages
and country highroads was reVela-
ton to him, yet he patriotically con-
fessed that he had, even there, a
sneaking fondness for his own "un-
tidy Yankee-land."
This was well enough for what
might be called the pioneer period
of the United States. We were then
so lavish and so busy that we could
throw everything away and not mind
it. We were not then conscious OF
our unpleasant likeness to the out
skirts of a Zulu kraal, or to the kit
chen-midden of the ancient lake
dwellers Of Switzerland. But now
with our wealth and leisure and
sounder esthetic ideas, we should get
busy in seeing to it that we present
to the world at least the external
aspects Of a highly civilized COM
nunity.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-08

CTYLES that will suit the
- most discriminating. Here
are boxed effects, raglans, tubular
models and Chester6eIds; single
or double-breasted modes; pre-
sented in all the color shades and
ner fabrics you seek for this fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-12
MARTIAL LAW IS
THREATENED FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
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where the criminals will strike next.
The orgy started last night with
the murder of Walter Swanson, 20,
taXicab driver. His body was
thrown from his ear on the Sixtccnth
street Viaduct after one of the slay.
crS had donncd his coat, cap and leg
gingS.
With the two bandits riding in the
front seat of the ear. they sped to
San Bruno and Mariposa avenues,
where they lcapcd from ear and shot
to death Michael Pctrovich, appar.
emily without provocation. They
drove away without robbing the
body.
At an oil filling station at Seventh
and Brannan streets, they ordered
three men, including the attendant.
TO get your hands up. = Jack
puanc. night watchman. started to
run and was KILLED in his tracks.
q. W. Johnson, attendant AT the
station and X. \. Hayden, who tried
to fight off the bauditS, were both
shot. The slaycrs coolly robbed
the cash register and sped away.
Louis Fcrnandcz, cook in Bran
nan street restaurant, was shot
, through the jaw when he laughed as
the bandits entered and ordered HIN.
to raise his hands.
Alvin Anderson, sailor on the mo-
torship Pagala, was robbed at pier
sc, and then knocked unconscious.
steve Walker was sluggct and rob
bed by the same pair.
As police telephones were cloggcd
with calls reporting the ravagrs Of
the bandit duo throughout the city,
radio appeals were sent out ordering
every officer off dutv to report.
Within few minutes 200 taNirahs
containing policemen and detectives
were combiug the city.
Sporting goods stores were called
on for special supplies of Shotgun1
and shells.
Two or three times during the
night, officers located the elusive
bandits. and tried to corner them,
bat the pair "Shot it out and IS.
capcd.
noundup Of suspects continued all
night, with several hundred taken
into custody and questioned.
Early today police found abandon
ca what i> believed to have been the
last stolen ear the Slaycgs u<cl last
night. 1t was Scatrrd by bullets,
but there were no traces Of blood.
and nothing which wouli ind cato
who its maniac occupants Were or
whore they had gone.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-12
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
State and County Taxes for 1852
Imperial. County, California

Notice is hereby given that the
taxes on all personal property scrnr.
ed by real property and onc-hait
Of the taxes Gn all real property,
will be due and payable on the
THIRD Monday in October, and val
viii De delinquent on the FIRST
Monday in December, next thcreat-
ter at six clock p. m. and that
unless paid prior thereto, fifteen
per cent will be added to the amount
thereof and that if said onc-half
be not paid before the last Monday
in April next, at six o clock p. m,
an additional five per cent VIII be
added thereto. That the remaining
nc-half Of taxes on all real proper
" will be payable on and after the
first Monday in January next, ana
will be delinqucnt on the last Mon
dav. in April, next thereafter at
six 0 clock p. m, and that unlcss
paid prior thereto, five per cent
will be added 10 the amount there
Of.
Both installments Of taxes may he
paid at the time the first Install
mcnt is due and PAYABLE. All taxes
must be paid at the office of the
Couutv Tax Collector, Court House,
Ell Centre, California.
MONT J. REID,
County Tax Collector
October 70, 1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-12

lLo nambcr of those having husi
n,>s interest in the continuance Of
an existing administration and will.
ny 10 work at rhp polls for il is
rapidly increasing. While the gen
cral aud impartial vote is decrcaS
ing. the controlled vote is steadily
increasing.
1T is to b. hoped that in most
localities there is Il Srrupul"us and
proper use of centralized power, but
II is not too much to say that in
some states and cities the power of
She administration is so cNertcd that
the domimaut ulrtv VII alw"vS
Present candidates at the election
selected hy those having a business
and personal interest in the contin-
iancc of the administration. Where
ihis is the case we have changed
f.om representative government
OF the people into an oligarchy dom
mated by Sclf-in;crcSt. As time
goes on The eva increases.
ts long rs our primary system
exists there is hut ono remedy for
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-12
Low PRICE FOR
COTTON CAUSES
FEDERAL ACTION
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e>t interest aud possibility, name.
lv, the growers, bankers and bust.
ness men of the south, as We'll as the
public officials of the southern
states, are attacking the problem in
4 vigorous way the committee
said. in an official statement.
To Make Survey
The committee decided to make a
| survey of cotton markets abroad to
determine if the large surplus could
/ be disposed of in foreign countries.
There is, and will be, no lack of
] financial resources in connection
with the orderly marketing of the
icrop, the committee statement
said
''Thc federal government is as.
; Sisting through the intermediate
credit banks Of the farm loan Svs.
tenn and through the federal reserve
system, working through its member
I banks. The department of agrieul-
ture and the department of com
imcrcc are giving their full coopera.
| tion.
''Our spinning industry can co
Iopcrate by long term purchases
which will take care of panicky
sales of cotton.
The fact that three of the
, leading consuming countries Eng.
land. Germany and Japan - have
stabilized their currencics permits
the making of long tim" contracts
/ for purchases.
The committee is making a sur
vcv to determine what, If any,
methods can be developed to inter.
est the cotton consuming countries
such as France. Belgium, CZceho
Slovakia. Poland and Austria, where
exchange risks are still q factor, to
undertake purchases for a consider
able period.
The question of the adjustment
of acreage next year is Il matter al
ready receiving the active attcutlon
Of local interests.
The agriculture department
through It's field forces in coopef1-
tion with state authorities has been
and is rendering all possible assist
auce to the south in = sound pro-
gram of divcrsification. The coin
mittce is taking steps to cooperate
with the movement now in course OF
organization throughout the south
where the responsibility Of leader
ship in handling the situation must
necessarily rest.
California has approximately 20
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-12
Husband Replaces
His Wife In Jail

VI. r. Ferguson. colorca ranchcr
liN ing west of town, could not bear
the thought of his wife occupying
quarters in the county Jail on
charges Of possession of liquor. so he
came forth from hiding yesterday,
reported to Sheriff Gillctt and Of
fcred to plead guilty TO possession of
the whiSkcy aud still found ON his
ranch Sunday if his wife would be
freed.
He was taken before Justice May.
field. allowed to enter the plea, and
was then fined 5000 with the alter