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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
Dramatic Battle For
Life Of Californian
Lost AS Trap Sprung

FOLSOM PRISON, Calf, Feb. 4.-(A9
Edwin X. sayer son of prominent
Denver family, was hanged here this
morning, ending one of the most in
tensive and dramatic battles for life
in California criminal annals
Appeals from cabinet members, CON
gressmen, high state officials through
out the country and members of Say
er's family were climaxed by an elev-
enth hour message from Gov. William
H Adams of Colorado-but ALL failed
to move Gov. c. c. Young to extend
clemency.
At 1906 o'clock this morning, just
one week to the minute after his pal,
Ray Arnold, had died for the same
crime, the gallows trap was sprung,
plunging Sayer into eternity Physi-
clans pronounced him dead IL minutes
and IS seconds later.
Sayer came out of his! cell with
Father Michael A. Hogan, Repressa,
Calf, priest, and Warden J. J. Smith,
one minute before the execution. A
glance at the 76 spectators who had
been admitted to the dungeon brought
a kindly smile to his sallow counte-
nance with perfect composure to the
scaffold, glanced down to see that he
was properly located on the trap door.
He then signaled his readiness and
was dropped to his death
A short time before the execution,
Sayer was told that newspaper men
would like to interview him, but he
said he had promised his mother that
he would see no one during the morn
ing His last request to the press was
that it do all in it's power to attain
the abolition of capital punishment.
Saver was taken from the death cell
Is minutes before the execution, thus
creating an innovation for Folsom
prison. This was done, officials said.
to lessen the danger of collapse and to
save Sayer from the humiliation of
being paraded before a long line of
witnesses.
Soon after hanging, Sayer's body
was placed In hearse and taken to
San Francisco, where his parents had
gone this morning to make funeral
arrangements.
The crime for which Sayer and Ar
mold paid the death penalty was the
murder of Mrs. ]. Ninomiya, Penry,
Calf, Japanese woman, who refused
to open store safe containing $4,000
Arthur Muller, another member of the
gang of bandits, and who fired the
fatal shot, shortly afterward commit
ted suicide, leaving a note to his
father, in which he said he could not
stand the horror which the murder
had left him.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05

sive use of rouge and carmine, as
Mrs. Creel contends, it is up to the
parents and the children themselves
and not the teachers, or other school
executives. The thing was started
when Mrs. Creel sent a letter TO
President Alfred I. Esberg of this
board, saying that her daughter,
Frances Virginia Creel, age 13, had
asked for the right to use rouge
and other makeup because the
ether girls at Girls High, use
them
Mrs. CreeI said in the letter that
she was so astonished by the re,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
PRISON TERMS S
F OR SALACIOUS
PLAYERS URGED

NEW YORK, Feb. 4. - up - District
Attorney Banton may scrap the play
jury, as he announced today he would,
but when he steps in alone to take it's
place as the sole censor of the New
York stage, the committee of nine, it
was learned today, will be heard from.
"The committee" said the spokes-
man, Frank Gilmore, executive secre-
tary of the Actors Equity association,
"will continue it's discussions of the
plans now before it, and it is hoped
that the perfected aim will relieve Mr..
Banto1i of the necessity of enforcing
his drastic program"
The committee is composed of nine
authors, actors and producers who are
seeking to moderate New Yorll's en-
tertainment without outside assistance
in the form of state legislation. The
committee yesterday suggested that
the city appoint a local board of re-
view to pass on manuscripts for play
production permits, but this sugges-
tion was not acted on at the city hall,
where 1T was decided to await the re-
turn of Mayor Walker from Cuba.
While not opposed to censorship, the
committee of nine has announced that
it wishes voluntarily to censor the
stage, and it asked that the board of
review be appointed, if such plan
were adopted, from persons identified
with the theatrical world. Banton's S
statement today definitely eliminated
the play jury recourse as an expedient
because he said sit has not proved eff
fective" The district attorney added
that hereafter he personally will ap-
pear and urge prison sentences for
producers and others responsible for
Objectionable productions.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
Court Will Decide If
Writer Or Receiver OF
Letters Is Real Owner

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 P-The ques-
tion of whether a letter belongs to
the writer or the recipient forms the
basis of suit for 100000 damages
filed here by counsel for George
Bernard Shaw, British playwright.
Shaw who wrote four letters in
1902, to then youthful admirer, Will
A. Page, now a publicity man for
New York theatrical organization and
an author of White Way Inside Stuff,
seeks not only damages from Page
his published, Edward A. Miller and
Nathan Cohen, printing press owner,
but also an injunction against the
three prohibiting further use of the
letters.
The epistles were included by Page
in a volume of stage chat recetnly
issued and used under the heading,
"Addenda, teaching a grandmother to
milk ducks-several letters by Bern
ard Shaw, edited, with notes by Will
A. Page"
In his suit the dramatist says he
prohibited their use, after at first
agreeing TO read them and delete the
obviously improper for publication
pages" Mr.. Shaw's letter prohibiting
their publication was included by
Page in his book together with a
statement by Page that he believed
they should be published, regardless
as casting a new light on the great
playwright.
The phrase used for the title to the
letters was chosen from the body of
letter in which Shaw chided Page,
who desired to produce some of his
plays in America. Shaw said he
though one of the young American S
phrases was san attempt to teach
your grandmother to milk ducks"
Under the English laws, Page has
asserted, he understands the letters
belong to the writer but the opposite,
he believes is. the case in this coun-
try.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
Harvard Alumnus Raps
Football Rules; Says
They Cause Brutality

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 4 P)--
Responsibility for the recent break
between Harvard and Princeton rests
on the shoulders of the football rules
committee and not on students and
alumni of the two institutions
Arthur H. Beael, of Boston, former
Crimson quarterback, writes in the
Harvard alumni bulletin.
Charging that the rules now in
vogue in the gridiron game "put a
premium on brutality Mr.. Beale, who
is a lawyer in Boston, and who
teams 80 years ago. attaches some of
various college teams These he as
sertsy do not want, any changes in
rules, and exert "a strong sinfluence
with the rules committee"
"I assert that if the Princeton
games have been played brutally they
have been played within the rules"
the author adds. The article is en-
titled "a Cure For Football Brutal
ity,'' and the remedy proposed in
adoption of some of the rules gov
erning the English game of Rugby.
Mr. Beale, discussing the effect of
the present rules says:
THE system now in use makes it
as legitimate for one football player
to hit another with the intention of
wearing him out as for a prize
fighter to hit another with the in
tention of knocking him out"
In his opinion, the fear of fumbling
prevents open play, and he proposes
the following new rule covering this
phase of the game:
Each side shall retain possession
of the ball until it fails to gain
10 yards in any serious of four
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
noosTs BETrER ROADS

SALTILLO, Feb. 4.-(Special to- The
Dispatch) General Manuel Perez Tre-
vino, governor. of Coahuila, has prom
ised every possible assistance to the
Saltillo Automobile club in it's cam
paign for better motor highways, and
particularly for the Improvement of
the Saltillo- Monterey highway Gen
eral Trevino has personally inspected
the road
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05

"No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
F Frisco School Girls
Rouged Like Clowns,
Says Mrs. Bates Creel

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4,-R-
Charges by Mrs. B. Bates Creel
actress and wife of George Creel,
writer, that the rouge pot is be-
ing used too freely in the San
Francisco public schools, has given
the board of education something
to think about. The board takes a
swing at the rouge pot charge with
the white wash brush, maintaining
that if public school children 'have
the look of clowns" through excess
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
REVOLT IN PORTUGAL

LONDON, Feb. 4.-P)-A dispatch
to the Daily Mail from Vigo says
that the military revolt in Portugal
extends over the whole north Portu>
gal and that all the northern gar.
risons are involved except those at
Braga and Vienna. The dispatch
said that all communications through.
cut Portugal have been interrupted.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
HOuSE RuILDING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-P)--Ex-
penditure of $7,3OO,OOO for new
office building for house members
was approved today by the house
public buildings committee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
mo- TEsr OH sHALE

WASHINGTON, Feb 4N-(R)-Tho
sum of $4,000 would be appropriated
for the development o foil shale
mines and refineries under bill ins
troduced today by Senator Phipps,
Republican, Colorado.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05

quest that she had made a visit
to girls high.
"Of three dozen or more that
came directly under my eye" she
wrote to Esberg, "all of them
around the ages of 1S and IA, not
one had a clean, wholesome looks
ing face. These children, for that
is what they are, had their lips
daubed with carmine and their
cheeks touched up with rouge until
+hev had the look of Clowns.
"Nr. D~oo1,foet r-onnIata Without
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05

downs. Either side may advance the
ball on a recovered tumble, but on
the next play possession shall con-
tinue in the side having the series" "
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
FIRE DESTROYS
ANOTHER SCHOOL
in QUEBEC CITY
BY United Press Leased Wire

QUEBEC, Dee. 17.-Less than 4S
hours after the fire in the Hospice
st. Charles had claimed at least SO
lives, fire last night endangered 135
children in the St. John Berchmans
boarding school.
While bodies still were believed
to be buried in the ruins of the
H0Spice st. Charles the children in
the board school were removed to
safety. Several were reported in
inred.
Last nights fire was spectacular
with flames leaping high into the
sky and famed by a so mile an
hour wind.
Heavy snow fell while the young
sters were being led or carried out
of the building. They had to be
awakened from sound sleep. They
were taken to nearby fire stations
for temporary shelter. The fire
was said to have been caused by a
boiler explosion.
Guards were placed today around
all Catholic church property in
Quebec. Fear was openly expressed
that incendiaries were responsible
for the two fires which have occur
red this week-both in schools of
the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
a few years ago incendiaries
burned Catholic churches in many
parts of the province, destroying
numerous buildings.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
WOMAN BANK
BANDIT GIVEN
PRISON TERM
Conviction of Becky
Rogers Surprise To
Trial Followers.
ny United Press Leased Wire

COURT ROOM, La Grange, Tex,
Dee. 17.-Rebecca Bradley Rogers,
Texas University coed, was found
guilty of bank robbery by a jury
here today and her sentence placed
at II years in the penitentiary.
The jury returned the verdict
shortly after 1920 O'Clock after lit
tie more than two hours delibera,
ton.
The pretty defendant showed no
emotion when the II farmer jurors
filed into the courtroom and the
foreman announced the findings.
Defense counsel Immediately an
nOunced motions for new trial
would be filed and steps taken, ii
necessary, for appeal.
Mrs. Rogers was charged in con
rcction with the holding up Of the
Farmers National Pank at Buda,
Texas, year ago.
The verdict and sentence was a
great surprise to those who have
been following the trial, especially
defense counsel. The masterful and
pitiful plea made by Becky's tuber-
cularstricken husband yesterday
which brought tears to many in the
court room, seemed to convince
many, that suspended sentence would
at least be given.
The demeanor of Becky through
the trial was peculiar. Only once
did she seem to sense the gravity of
the charge being pressed against
her.
On hearing the verdict tears came
to the eyes of her husband, who
pulled together all the strength his
tubercular body could muster in a
final effort to save his wife from
prison. Even death would be more
satisfactory to him, he said, than
to place his "insane mate behind
prison bars.'
"Hang her to the highest tree"
he shouted at the close of his ar
gument Friday, "but don't place
her in prison to associate with COM
mon criminals and degenerates.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
MIDDLE WEST
JOBBERS TO BE
WELCOMED HERE

Plans for entertaining 600 west
ern produce jobbers, who will arrive
in Imperial Valley on January so
were started today at luncheon
meeting of shippers of the valley at
the Barbara Worth hotel, attended
by representatives of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce, representa-
tives from local chambers and lead
ing citizens of the valley.
The meeting was informed that
five special trains will bring the
visitors here from all parts of the
Middle West.
r. Y. Watson, president of the Ell
Centre Chamber of Commerce was
chosen general chairman. A fund
of from $4,000 to $4,000 will be
raised by shippers in the valley for
the entertainment of the visitors.
Tentative plans include breakfast
in Brawley, lunch in FL Centre and
dinner dance at Mexicali. Fred
Ncbel-Thau and Y. +. FriZzell were
named to the entertainment commit
tee. the latter also being chairman
of the transportation committee. Sc
lection of other committees will be
made by Chairman Watson next
week. Over 200 automobiles will be
required to take care of the visitors
during their stay here.
Plans are also being made for the
entertainment of the wives of the
iobbers, anu the women's clubs of
the valley will be asked to aid in
this connection.
The meeting gave every assur-
ance that Imperial Valley is going
to put forward its best foot for the
entertainment of the visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
GOSSIP" SAYS
GOVERNOR OF
CHARGES MADE

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dee
IL" Third rate quilting society
gossip.
Thus Governor Henry s. Johnston
Dc scribed today the "moral turpi
tude" testimony given in pubic
hearing before ar insurgent house
investigating committee and men.
tioning Mrs. o. O. Hammonds, his
confidential secretary, in connection
with the rharge.
The charge was written in as the
seventh article of impeachment a
eainst the governor ~ will not
dfnifv such stuff by DENYING it,
Governor Johnston said, in answer
to witnesses describing the governor
as addressing his secretary in en-
dcaring terms and meeting her in
a secret hotel tryst while she, they
alleged, dominated his office.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
Jewel Thieves
Get Big Haul
BY United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Dec. 17-Jewel thieves
working in broad daylight in des-
rerate effort to secure Christmas
money. obtained loot valued at more
than 100000 in a series of holdups
yesterday, a police check-up showed
today.
Emil Gindcr, New York iewelrv
salesman, was slugged and robbed of
$4,000 worth of gems by three men
as he attempted to board a street
car.
Knud Jacobson, 81, told police
$25 900 worth of jewelry Belonging
10 his sister in law, Mrs. Olga Steell
Matkins, an entertainer, was taken
from him by three men.
Mrs. Minnie Winner, wife of the
superintendent of the municipal Tu-
htrculosis hospital, was slugged and
robbed of approximately $4,000 in
,nwels and furs by two young men.
The home Of w. c.. Hudson, veal
thy real estate dealer, was entered
md looted of more than 5000
worth of jewels, clothing and rugs.
At least half a dozen other per
sons reported robberies ranging in
amounts from a few dollars to $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
THREE STATE CONFERENCE
UNABLE TO REACH TERMS

Hope that differences of the
three states can be ironed out
before the irrigation commit
tee of the house of representa-
tives was expressed today by
Malone. He said that the three
representatives would plan for
appearance of state delegations
before the house, committee,
probably shortly after Jan
uary |.
The dispute between the
commissions hinged on the
price southern California should
pay Arizona and Nevada for
hydro-electric power general
cd at the dam which would be
situated on the boundary line
between the two states.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
Threat To China
In Russian Note
BY United Press Leased Wire

MOSCOW, Dee. lin a temper"
atelyworded note that contained a
cryptic hint of "ensuing consequen-
ces,' Soviet Russia today protested
against the Chinese nationalist gov
ernment's severance of diplomatic
relations. 1t denied any completely
in a revolt of radicals who seized
Canton.
Strangely, one grophd for the
protest was that Russian cOnsuIs
were in nationalist territory under
agreement with the northern ana
bolshevik and conservative govern
ment at Peking.
''Russia never had recognized
the national or other local govern
ments,' the note said.
This plea meant that Russia re-
pudiated a government which Rus
sian communists had supported OPP
,nly against that of Peking and to
which the Russia government had
been most friendly.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
RECORDS FAIL
TO SHOW FUND
FROM MEXICO
Telegraph Official Tells
Committee No Record of
Money Sent to Senators.
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Dee. 17.--West-
ern Union Telegraph records prior
10 December, 1926, have been de
stroycd. the Reed. Pcnn) senate
Investigating committee found to-
day when it sought to examine tho
records to test the validity or fall
sity of alleged Mexican government
documents published by Hearst
newspapers.
The kilograms had been sought
after Consul General Elias of New
York characterized as "forgeries -
documents printed by Hearst papers,
purporting to show a plot of Presi
dent Gales Of Mexico to bribc four
United States senators.
James +. Eresnahan, representa-
tive OF the Western Union COMPANY,
subpoenacd by the committee, testi
fled he had been unable to find
copies of kilograms exchanged be
tween the Mexican government and
Elias in 1926.
Bresnahan, however, swore that
no money bad been transferred to
the Hearst documents charged 81,
100000 was to be paid Senators
torah, Republican, Idaho; La Fol-
lettc, Republican, Wisconsin; Hef-
lin, Democrat, Alabama and Norris,
Republican Nebraska.
Search Files
The senators have denied rcceiv-
ing any money and William Ran
dolph Hearst told the committee
earlier that he did not believe any
payments were made them.
'We find no messages to Elias
signed by the treasurer general Of
MeXico,' said Bresnahan. &" We
have searched the files of our Dal-
las, Washington and New York Of
ficCs.
"We keep special check of all
transfers of money of more than
$4,000 and we would have the req
ords if any large sums of money had
l'ccn transferred.
Bresnahan produced messages to
Elias from Mexico City signed
Gonzales'' : and "Pini. - They
were not in code but in simple Span
isl
Money was transferred to Elias
from the treasurer general of Mex
ioo, March 25, 26 and 81, 1927 -
dates which showed they had no re-
lation to the Hearst documents.
After this evidence the commit
ice adjourned subject to the call Of
Chairman Reed, Republican, (Pa.).
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
Hero Rum Runner
Goes To Prison

PORTLAND, Ore, Dee. 17.-Cap-
tain Robert Pamphlet, heroic rum
runner, who obeyed the call of the
sea to aid endangered sailors, must
Z, to prison, it was ruled in federal
court here today.
The commander of the small rum
runner Pescawha, who came inside
fine limit off the Washington coast
to save the crew of the sinking
steamer Caoha, appeared before Fed
eral Judge Robert S. Bean todH'
with II plea for n parole which was
denied.
Pamphlet then surrendered and
will go to Mcneil island in time to
start serving his two year sentence
hv Christmas. In addition he must
pay Il fine of $1,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
Gasoline Thieves
Sent To Jail

David Blue, q, of New Orleans
and a. h. Pierce, 40, of Brawley
were found guilty on charges of
petty theft following court trial
before Judge Griffin yesterday af
ternoon. Each of the defendants
was sentenced to spend 80 days in
the county Jail.
Blue and Pierce were picked up
by city police at Brawley late
Thursday night and are alleged to
have been caught stealing gasoline
from automobiles parked in the city
streets. The men were committed
to the custody of Sheriff Gillett late
yesterday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
EXTENSIVE
HUNT FOR
K|DNAPER|
School Children Will Aid
In Search For Victim of
AbductOr.
HAVE NO CLUES YET
Parents of Missing Girl
Ready TO Pay Ransom If
She Is Returned.

Los ANGELES, Dee. 16.-Two
hundred thousand Los Angeles
school children became cx-officio
members of the police detective
force today in the search for II
year.old Marion Parker, victim of
kidnapers.
A veritable army of juvenile
slcuths was set on the trail of the
sleek kidnaper who lured the girl
away from the Mount Vernon high
school with the false story that her
father, n Los Angeles bank official,
had been injured Thursday.
With the grammar and high
schools closing for two-week hol-
idav period, assemblies were held i'll
many of the schools yesterday after
noon, at which time the children
were warned never to accompany a
stranger and urged to aid police in
the search for the kidnaper of the
Parker girl
Herman Cline, chief Of city dctcc-
tives, is anxious to have the child
rem know that they can do more
toward capturing the kidnaper,
probably, than his whole staff of
trained detectives.
Ready To Pay
"The criminal is probably well
lidden in some out-of- -thcway place
in or near the city, Chief Cline
said. He must 90 out occasional
ly, however, and when he does, if
every child in the city is looking
for him, he will undoubtedly be
found My men will answer every
call that seems to point toward the
kidnapcr and his innocent victim. y
With the third day of the search
for the girl drawing to a close,
Perry NJ. Parker, the child s father
declared he was ready to pay any
sum to the kidnapers. Both the
father and mother were on the verge
of collapse today after having been
without sleep since Marion disap-
pcared Thursday.
More than 100 Los Angeles po-
liccmen have been assigned to the
case with orders to 'center every
effort on the finding of Marion
Parker. Find the girl the police
bulletin said, cit is more important
that we rescue her than we capture
the kidnapcr'
Police throughout Imperial Valley
have been asked to assist in the
statewide search being made for
Marion Parker, II year old Los An
gclcs girl, who was kidnapped from
school in Los Angeles two davs
ago. A careful check on all ears
coming into the valley is being
made by the police in connection
with the work.
1t is believed by many of the of
ficials working on the case in Los
Angeles that the girl might have
been brought into the valley by her
abductor. Anyone having any in
formation relative to the girl is
asked to notify police at once.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-17
State Official
Travels By Plane

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. IL
An airplane trip from Los Angeles
to San Diego was to be taken today
by A. R. Heron, director of the
State Department of Finance, to in
spect three sites offered for a new
location for San Diego State Teach
ers College.
Heron will meet State Architect
A. b. McDougall, who will reach
San Diego by train today, and Will
liam John Cooper, state director of
education, who is already at San
Diego. Heron left for Los Angeles
last night.