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Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-10
League Council Holds Secret Meet on German De1nan
FORGET FACTIONS
and UNITE EFFORT.
URGES RIVER CLUB
Support for Administra-
ton on Colorado Plans
Is Sought in Message.

An appeal to forget clubs, fac
tions and politics. and to unite I'm
perial Valley in support of the pre-
sent administration at Washington,
which has made evident its desire to
conserve the best interests of the
Colorado River basin, is made by
the Colorado River Control club.
The club states that it is now
using every proper influence it com
mands for the following constructive
measures:
|. The repeal of the Finney reso-
luton and the unconditional rati-
fication of the (Santa Fe) compact
by the state of California.
.. Negotiations with Mexico for
an equitable division of the water
in the river.
3. Appropriation by the present
congress for temporary flood pro-
lection.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-10
REPORT FAVORS
FORESTRY GUARD
FOR SOUTHL A N D
Ry United Pres. Leased w,r.

WASHINGTON, Mar. lO.-Thc
Johnson bill for the protection
against fire Of the watersheds of
the Santa Barbara, Angeles, San
Bernardno and Cleveland forests
of Southern California, was favor
ably reported today by the senate
agriculture committee.
tThe bill carries an appropriation
Of $1,000, 900 to be spent over. 4. per,
iod of five years, ...,...... ..,., 4. N,
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-10
Endorse Proposals

Recently the club tclegraphcd to
Secretaries Work and Hoover, en-
dorsing their proposals for develop
mcnt of the Colorado river and ex-
pressing the belief that their re-
concentrations or proposals will be
for the best interests of Imperial
Valley and the lower basin states.
and pledging the support of the club
in their efforts to bring about the
development work.
The club points out tina, as far
back as November Il, 1924, it re
commended to the directors of the
Imperial Irrigation district that
the Swing johnson bill should be
amended to provide that the all,
American canal should not be con
structed until after adequate stor-
age and flood control works had
been completed. or until such works
had progressed far enough to guar
antee n sufficient water supply for
Imperial Valley, and that all plans
for payment of the all-American
canal should be rejected unless they
were based on the consent in Writ
ing of 80 per cent of the owners of
land to be irrigated from the canal
This part of its program. the club
asserts, is substantially the same
as the recent recommendations of
Continued on page three
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-10
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Evangelistic service, First
Baptist church.
Special Methodist meet for
south end Of valley, Methodist
church, 1880.
State Street Christian
church, prayer meeting, 1880.
Lenten service, st. Paul's
Episcopal church, 1880.
Midweek service, Presbyter-
ian church, 7 o'clock.
Volley ball: Kiwanis VS.. Le-
gion; Rotary VS.. Southern Sier-
.ras, high school, $50 p. M.
DeMolay meeting, Masonic
hall.
Foreign night classes, Lin.
coin school.
mot Tonight, Dearie,' at
Brunk's tent theater.
I. o. o. F. meets, Davis hall.
City trustees meet.
Camille of the Barbary
Coast Palace theater.
why Women Love- and
Without Mercy Valley
theater.
TOMORROW -
Rotary Club luncheon, Hotel
Barbara Worth. Iod trot
Music section, Ten Thousand
Club, Mrs. e. M. Marrer g. 'H
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-10

The United States biological sur
vey is to continue it's work against.
ground squirrels over all the state
of Oregon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
\. Y. SH|VERS;
THE MIDWEST
IS SNELTER|NG
fBH Dispatch A. P. wirel

NEW YORK, May a.
New York awoke today,
shivered, and was convinced
that the As degrees the
thermometer r gist er ed
marked the coldest May "a
in history. The baseball
games were postponed, and
straw hat and overcoat
combinations were every
where in evidence.
The weather bureau, how
evr, came to the rescue of
the days reputation with
the announcement that last
May "a brought a tempera-
ture of 40 degrees.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
VEAL TIL OF NATION PLACED AT
353 BILLIONS WITH NATIONAL
INCOME OF SEVENTY Bill ions
lRv Dispateh a. Z. Yirel


WASHINGTON, May "a = National
wealth in 1922 was placed at $685.
600, 100000 and national income for
1923 at $500 100000 in a special re-
port by the federal trade commission
While the increase in wealth be
tween 1912 and 1922 measured in dol
lars amounted to 70 per cent, the
commission said the real increase
would be 16 per cent, allowing for
changes in purchasing power of the
dollar and would compare with about
Is per cent increase in population
Some 35 per cent of the total wealth
was in land values and the aggregate
of real estate, land and improve
ments, was 23O,OOO,OOO,OOO of which
$43, 600, 100000 was tax exempt as gov
ernment owned, federal, state or mu-
nicipal. More than one-fourth of the
total was in dwellings, "and other
goods for personal necessities and en-
ioyment," the summary added. Agrf-
culture accounted for IS per cent
mining. and manufacturing, IA pei
cent, and other public utilities, 12 pei
cent.
In estimating distribution of wealth
among individuals, the commission
examined $4,000 probate records in p
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
YOUTHFUL BANK
BANDITS TAKEN
IN BOLD THEFT
III, nicnatnh A p YrfreN


BOISE, Idaho, May 24.-Ed Johnson,
II, and Walter Wilson, 19, said to be
from Bingham, Utah, are in jail at
Caldwell, Idaho, tonight after robbing
the Middleton State bank at Middle
ton, near here, today. The youths
got away with $1,000 in cash and of
this $140O is still missing.
The youthful bandits entered the
bank at 10 o'clock this morning, held
up a director and two women tellers
and seized the money which was i'll
a vault and on the counter. They
started to put the three in the vault,
but F. A. watkins, the director, is
powerful, despite his 65 years. AL
though both bandits were armed,
watkins grappled with them, Mrs.
G C. Painter, assistant cashier, and
Miss Mabel Burke, clerk, ran to the
street for help. Men who rushed IN
to the bank were halted by shot.
One robber struck Watkins over the
head and with his confederate dashed
for their automobile half a block
away. Miss Burke followed them and
got the license of the car. AS the
bandits headed down the road a
farmer learning from shots that they
were runaways backed his load Of
wood across the highway and blocked
it, The robbers turned into a lane
but they abandoned the car when it
stalled in a creek The youths were
captured soon after by a posse.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
COLORADO OIL
FIRE REPORTED
UNDER CONTROL
lBy Dispatch A. ?. wisel

FLORENCE, Colo, May 24.-At 9
o'clock tonight the fire which broke
out in a 5O,OOO-b Darrell oil storage
tank of the United Oil company early
this afternoon, was confined to a
small fuel tank and the fire chief was
of the opinion that all danger of
further spreading of the blaze was
past.
Lines of hose were kept busy in
the vicinity of the fire burning in tile
fuel tank, wetting down all property
of the oil company in close proximity
to the burning oil, and firemen rX-
pressed the opinion that all that
could be done was to wait for thc
fuel supply in the tank to be COM
pletely consumed
Early this morning, fire was dis
covered in retorts through which gas
oline is run and this spread to such
an extent that firemen were engages
an hour in getting it under control
After an hours fight it was though!
the blaze was entirely extinguished
and the firemen left the scene. Ii
the afternoon the blaze broke out
anew. this time in the fuel tanH
which was still burning at 8 o'clock
The fire chief stated tonight that he
was at a loss to understand how the
fuel oil caught fire so long after the
other blaze had been extinguished.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
LIVESTOCK AND
OTHER R AT E S
DRAW ING FIRE
I'M nisnatch A P. Mirel


WASHINGTON, May "a. = Freight
rates in general and livestock charges
in particular drew the fire of those
appearing for oral arguments today
in the T. c. C.'s western rate inquiry.
involved in the livestock cases are
petitions by the railroads for ~
per cent increase in rates, and appll-
cations by the shippers for blanket
reduction.
S. H. Cowan of Texas, representing
the American National Livestock as
sociation, opened arguments for the
shippers in opposition to an increase
declaring the industry already was
overburdened with freight charges and
that the railroads should be made TO
reduce them.
r. A. Zwemer, representing the
Sioux ity livestock exchange ana
Missouri river markets, declared there
should be a reduction of Is per cent
in livestock short haul rates, and
that the fostering of long hauls mar
lxets by rate reductions without cor
respondingly cutting those for shorter
hauls was erroneous.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
HINTON, ,ELVEY,
JENNINGS AND
HIATT ELECTED
Franklin, Reay and Speer
Reelection Without OPP
position Monday.

Mayor A. E. Hinton was
overwhelmingly reelected
to office in the city election
Monday, receiving 815 votes
to but 296 for G. B. Fleming
who opposed him on the
non-partisan ticket.
Four of the present city
councilmen running for re-
election were returned to Of
flee while William Eich-
baum in ward 2 lost to Roy
Hiatt by nine votes and
Richard Jennings in ward 6
defeated James Barrett,
present councilman by 39
votes.
The council for the coming two
years will thus be composed of L. L.
0p0eT 1IOIn Wv dIQ l., 10Y I1NdII lIOIIl
Ward 2, w. C. Franklin from Ward 8,
w. ]. Reay from Ward 4, Henry Elvey
from Ward and Richard Jennings
from Ward 6.
The heaviest vote of the day was
caa1 in Ward 5, where Elvey, running
for reelection on the non-partisan
ticket, defeated A. A. Sperry, running
for the office on the democratic ticket,
by 200 to 16S votes. Jennings and
Barrett ran q good race in Ward 6,
where the former running as a demo
crat, defeated the latter, running on
the non-partisan ticket, by IA votes
to 1O5
Voters in Ward 2 took little inter-
est in the election, Hiatt winning over
Eiehbaum by 80 voses to %. This was
the smallest vote cast in any ward.
Speer sailed through to reelection
in the first ward with so votes to his
credit and no opposition while Frank,
lin got 107 votes in the third without
opposition and Reay received 234 in
the fourth ward without any opponent
Fleming two years ago ran only 50
votes behind the mayor. Ward 5 gave
Hinton his largest votes which was
266, while Ward 4 turned in the sec
ond highest for the mayor with 216
Hinton carried every ward without
difficulty, Fleming running best ir
Ward 5, where he received 1O5 votes
Interest in the election was only fair,
about half of the 1000 registered vot-
ers turning out to cast their ballots
There were Lii votes cast for mayor
ond 1-079 for the council members.
Vote by wards for mayor was as fol-
lows:
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
YET
BODY OF
L. A. EVANGELIST
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)


LOS ANGELES, May "a. = The
choppy waters of Santa Monica bay
tonight still held the center of teh
stage in the search for Aimee Sempte
Mcpherson. Putting theories of vio-
lence aside, new and concerted eff
fort was made late today to locate
the body of the noted evangelist who
disappeared while surf bathing at
Santa Monica last Tuesday.
Sheriff William l. Treager of Los
Angeles county, took personal charge
of new effort to locate the body at
the end of Lick pier where it is
known much tangled steel and piling
were thrown into the bay after the
Ocean Park fire two years ago. He
ordered a diver to search the bay 9
floor at the end of the pier.
The city chemist reported an analy-
sis of orange juice prepared for Mrs,
Mcpherson on the beach prior to her
Disappearance indicated no poisonous
content
Rumors stated the city council had
discussed in secret session an amend
ment to the cemetery ordinance which
would permit of Mrs. Mcpherson S
body, if found, being placed in a
crypt between a memorial window at
Angelus Temple founded by the evan
gelist.
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother OF
Mrs. Mcpherson, declared that her
daughters ambition was eternal sleep
in the shadow of her temple.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
Chicago Starts Fight
On Cafe Where Patrons
Pour Their Own Liquor
lRr nisnatch a P. Mirel


CHICAGO. May "A. For per-
MItting customers to use liquor
from their own flasl1S, three down
town night clubs were named in
temporary inJInctiOns granted to-
day at the instance of federal
prohibition agents, opening an an
mounced drive on "pOur your own"
liquor law violation.
Friar'S Inn, AL Tearney'S Town
club and the Moulin Rouge cafe
were the places affected by the
writs. which do not close the clubs
but pave the way for paddock ap-
IicatiOnS.
The writs were filed, it was
said, on the precedent of Il re-
cent ruling by Federal Judge
Geiger in Milwaukee that a cafe
may be padIocl1ed for a year as "a
public nuisance for permitting
liquor on the premises whether
or not it is brought i'm by patrons.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
LADY OF BATH
TO TAKE STAND
IN N. Y. TODAY
lBr Dispatch A. p. Wirel

NEW YORK, May 24.-Joyce Haw.
ley, reputed bath tub girl of Earl
CarrolFs birthday party, will take the
stand tomorrow at resumption of the
theatrical producers trial for perjury.
Carroll is charged with having ocm-
mitted perjury before two grand
juries which were Investigating the
party at his theatre at which it mad
been reported that men guests were
served liquor by Miss Hawley while
she was sitting, undraped, in bath
tub full of wine.
The producer told the grand jurors
that no liquor was served at the
party and that no one got in, fell in
or was pushed into bath tub.
witnesses since the trial started,
several of them newspaper men, have
testified that Miss Hawley sat in the
tub> without clothing and served
drinks from the liquor in which she
was immersed, after Carroll, himself,
had helped her in and announced
that "the line forms on this side"
1t has been testified that permission
was asked to use the incident in a
news story and that Carroll told the
managing editor of the Daily Mirrow
to "go as far as you like" Later
Carroll denied the newspaper story
and when questioned told the editor
that he made the denial because "the
story is getting me into trouble"
Among four witnesses to testify to-
day was Dorothy Gordon until re-
Gently a Carroll showgirl and the first
woman witness to take the stand.
She testified that she loaned her cape
to Carroll and saw him shield Miss
Hawley with it as the girl walked
across the stage and got into the
tub. Robert B. Coleman, dramatic
editor of the Mirror, today completed
testimony begun last week His pres
ence on the stand was marked by
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
.CULBERS SON is
ED WITH
SENATE ACTS
CBy Dispatch A. P. Wire1

WASHINGTON, May 24.-Conclud-
ing testimony today before the senate
tariff investigating committee, VIM. S,
Culbertson,' minister to Rumana and
former tariff commissioner, declared
he had been subjected to- attack be-
fore the committee because he refused
to support charges against Present
Coolidge.
He declared his personal letters ana
papers were inserted in the public rec
ord because he had declined to sub
scribe to the Norris contention that
the president attempted to influence
former Commissioner Lewis in his Off
cial acts by asking for an undated
resignation before appointing him.
'It was heralded to the country
that the theory (of Senator Norris)
was proved by my memoranda" Mr..
Culbertson added. '"Hhe public was
LED to believe that I had made a back
door handout to a senator to prove the
theory. MY memoranda advanced an
entirely different theory.
mo one apparently note the fact
that I stated in the memoranda that
the president desired to be free to
make appointments after the election
(of 1920 and that he desired to use
the appointment for trading purposes
if the democrats attempted to hold up
other appointments
Declaring he was summoned from
Rumania solely to prove Senator Nor
ris' theory, Mr. Culbertson eclared
that when he failed TO do so he was
attacked.
who attacked your asked Senator
Lafollette, republican, Wisconsin.
You did, senator" replied the wit
ness. you produced that affection
ately yours letter from Bucharest.
which wrote to Mr.. Costigan as Il
personal friend and it was never in
tended as public document"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
40 OUTLAWS OF
ISLANDS SLAIN
BY CONSTABL.ES
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel

MANILA, May 25.-Forty Moro out
laws were killed and several wounded
in a battle between the outlaws and
the Philippine constabulary at Tug
ava, Lanao district, Island of Min
danao, reports of which reached Ma
Mia today. One constabulary soldier
was killed and nine wounded
Two forts in which the outlaws had
taken refuge were destroyed.
The Moros had been carrying or
depredations throughout the country
around Lake Lanao and terrorizing
the peaceful inhabitants of the dis
trict.
Officers of the constabulary at
tempted to induce the outlaws to sur
render peacefully, but when they re.
fused the constabulary moved agains;
the Moro strongholds.
Machine guns were used by the
troops in the ensuing battle.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
FOUR CONVICTS
SLAIN AS THEY
TRY TO ESCAPE
lRu Disnatch A. P. Wirel

PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 24.-Four
prisoners at the state farm in Tucker
were shot and killed here late today
by two trusty guards in one of the
boldest breaks for liberty ever known
at the farm.
The convicts were Jack Wade, John
Birchfield, Benny Casey and Body
Jewell, two of whom were life term
ers.
working in a cotton field at the
farm, the quartet claimed sickness and
were turned over to the TRUSTEES to be
taken to a hospital. Reaching nearby
woods the men made a break and the
guards opened fire. Two shotguns and
two pistols were emptied by the truss
tiles. The men were dead when the
guards reached them.
superintendent Dee Horton of the
state farm tonight said the break foi
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
.BOOTLECCER'S
RECORD SALES
NOT REQUIRED
BY GOVERNMENT
Supreme Court Blasts Hops
OF Dry Officers OF Such
Prosecutions.
LAW PUZZLES COURT
Re-argument Ordered In
Cases Regarding Seized
Time Payment Autos.
LAW PUZZLES COURT
lRv nisnatch A. P. Mirel

(By DlSpatcn a. +. Wlrel
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Prohibition
enforcement officials hopes of basing
prosecutions ON bootleggers' records
of sales to customers were set back
today when the supreme court ruled
that bootleggers are not required to
furnish the government with sales
records.
In deciding two cases from Pen
nsylvania, the court, in a ruling
read by Justice Stone. ne1d that the
whisky sales records required by the
enforcement act apply only to those
persons holding government permits
to sell intoxicating liquors. The rul-
ing was in the cases of Jacob Katz,
George Sem and Herman Feuer-
stein and it was denied the right
of the government to prosecute boot
leggers and their customers for fail
ure to provide lists of illegal trans
actions.
Action of the trial court n quash-
ing indictments against the man
charging conspiracy to violate the
law in the sale of whisky for the
Stewart Distilling company without
making a permanent record was sus-
tanned in today's decision.
That the supreme court is having
difficulty in unravelling the many
cases coming to it as a result of the
prohibition law, was indicated today
when it ordered re-argument two
cases involving the right of the gov
ernment to confiscate automobiles be-
ing purchased on the deferred pay
ment plan and used in the Illegal
transportation of liquor.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
1000 JAPANESE
WHEN
VOLCANO FLOWS
fBz Dispatch A. P. wirel

TOKYO, May 25.-A dispatch from
Sapporo, Hokkaido, to the Tkyo Mich
inichi today reports that 1000 farm
ers are missing as the result of an
eruption of a long extinct volcano
in mountains of Tokachi province,
central Hokkaido.
The same dispatch reports that 2,OV0
farmers were driven to take refuge
in the hills by the overfloowing or
the river Kambetsu, owing to the
eruption. "
There were three explosions of the
volcano yesterday, each carrying huge
quantities of rocks and lava and
causing numerous landslides.
One village is reported to have
been wiped out by a flood of water
and lava, two hundred of the in
habitants being buried.
Verification of the details of the
eruption is extremely difficult owing
to the inacessibility of the locality,
mountainous interior district of
Hokkaido, the northernmost of the
four main islands of Japan.
Earlier dispatches to the Tokyo
press had reported fifty sulphur min
ers missing and the destruction OF
60 houses by the eruption. The
volcano had not been in eruption for
many years and was being mined ex-
tensively for sulphur.
Tokachi province is a region only
newly settled and recently penetrated
by a railway, but, although most of
it 20 years ago was practically wild
erness, it has been rapidly develop
ed for agriculture and cattle raising.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-25
VANITY LEADS
TO CAPTURE OF
A BOGUS LORD
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

PHILADELPHIA, May 24,-Vanity
led to the capture today of Robert
Whitman, described by the police as
the bogus Lord Beaverbrooll," and
known under a dozen aliases, on
charges of having married and
swindled New York woman out OF
jewelry valued at $125,0OO. The
authorities said the prisoner had left
a trail of broken hearts from the
Atlantic to the Pacific after having
swnding his victims out of jewelry
worth more than $1,000,O00. They
asserted that he had married women
in many parts of the country.
Four detectives who arrested him
alleged that whitman had offered
each of the ma bribe of $4,000 for
his freedom. His arrest ended a
years chase which led detectives to
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