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Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
w. G. II. i. Will
Promote Drive
By United Press Leased Wire

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. %.
The National Women Christian
Temperance union today adopted a
resolution designed to have bear
ing on the next presidential elect
ions.
Among other resolutions adopted
by the organization in convention ut
the First Baptist church here de
clared:
"We pledge the active support
Of our organization to an education
81 campaign to promote law obser
vance and special enforcement Off
cials and the nomination and elect
ion of officials who are undoubted
friends of prohibition and who really
care that America shall receive the
full benefit therefrom.'
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

Keep Healthy. Ur,nk Paul . Lem
made. IT'S pure. Pickwick Stages
sepot. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
Try Steve's Special Cold Plate.

Try Steve's Special Cold Plate.
adv
Alleged Violation Of Medical Law.
Remedia Salcida was arraigned be
ore Judge Cook, sitting for Judge
Griffin at Brawley Saturday, on a
harge of having practiced medical
treatment i'll Brawley without first
having obtained license. The case
vas set down for preliminary hear
ng before Judge Griffin on Wed
nesday, September 7. Complaint in
the case was filed by DR.. R. j,
Davidson of Brawley.
Meet Me at Park Hotel, 1859
Fifth St, San Diego; a good place
o stop-high class location. adv
City Attorney Moves.-Dorsey G..
Vhitelaw, city attorney and United
states commissioner, has moved his
ffices from the Bank Of italy
'uilding to the Rehkopf building
lie is now located in Room IL. With
he additional office of commission
II attached to his duties, the attor-
'ey decided that he needed more
.omodious quarters for his business.
Keep Healthy. UTlnk Paul 3 Lem
made. It's pure. Pickwick Stages
sepot. adv
Cases Are Dismissed. The case
against Maria Aquiree and Ignacia
Martinez, beth charged with vag
ancv has been dismissed by Judge
Perkins. The two women were ar
"ested some time ago by city police
and were released under bond Of
500 each. They were represented
II court by Frank Birkhauser
when the dismissal was made upon
recommendation Of Chief Oswalt.
Farmers Compensation Insurance.
Edgar Bros. Realty Co. COS Main st.
Phone 100. adv
Try steves Special Cold Plate.
adv
Two Get Building Permits.
minor building permits were issued
by the building inspector over tn"
week end. r. S. Walker of S33 Ell
Centre avenue was granted permis-
sion to make improvements at his
home. One room will be enlarged
at cost of $50. Mrs. H. &. Wat
son was granted permission to
eliminate some inferior partitions in
her residence at 755 Orange street
at cost Of 800.
$50 Lugs Peaches for sale at soc
per lug. Ferguson s Market. 1913
Main St. ad
Joiner Hearing Tcday.-A pre-
linainary hearing in the case of d.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

Try Steve's Special Cold Plate.
adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

pretended by Patrolman Tackett.
All were taken to Calexico. One
other motorist was ticketed over the
weekend for having glaring head
lights on his machine.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

will Bunch, a farmer near Glenn,
Glenn county, reports rattlesnakes
unusually common. Among many
he has killed of late one had IA
rattles.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

N. H. Crispin, Elks, Mendocino
county, sheared nine pound fleece
from Delaine Merino eve six
months old.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

j. Joiner, former Brawley patrol
man, on charges of being in posses
sion Of a revolver when placed un
der arrest was to be held before
Judge Bayfield, this afternoon. Join
cr was arrested at his home in
Brawley by attaches of the sher-
ifs office although he is alleged
to have declared that ''he would
never be taken alive
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

The fig cannery at Orland, Glenn
county. started Aug. 10 on run OF
100 tons of figs.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
SHIPS TO BE CONVERTED

The L. s. Shipping Board yesterday
awarded contracts to the Federal
Shipbuilding Company, the Norfolk
Navy Yard and the Bostson Navy
Yard for converting the steel cargo
steamships Courageous, Defiance and
Triumph. respectively, into Diesel
electric motor ships.
The Courageous will cost S1.S19 900;
the Defiance $1,192,000 and the
Triumph $1.315.0O0.
This is approximately 60 per cent
of the estimated cost of building new
vessels of this type. 1t was pointed
cut by the Shippn nS Board that with
the completion of the conversion.
there will be added to the merchant
marine three new motor ships suit.
able for competition with new
fore gn-built craft.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
State police detachment at Everetts-

State police detachment at Everetts-
vile.
The blast was set off by a contract
ing firm which, was building a road
near the school house. Information
reaching here said a large stone
thrown into the air by the explosive
fell through the roof of the one-room
schoolhouse, where about 80 children
were congregated.
Mary Russell. IL. was killed She
was the daughter of Harry Russell,
miner, who was killed in the Everetts.
vile mine explosion Of April 80, when
more than 100 men lost their lives.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

ceived the same consideration from
the Government in distribution of cat
tie and sheep land as has been given
The Klamaths, Modocks and other
tribes of Utah, Nevada, Idaho and
Wyoming, the advices said. The non
voting decision was signed by six sub
chiefs of the Piutes and Shoshones.
More than 1000 of the 10000 regis.
tered voters of Nevada were repre-
sented by the tribal chieftains at the
pow-wow, which was held yesterday.
Indians in Nevada have been en-
franchised since 1922. Some of their
leaders alleged after the last general
election that part of their ballots were
thrown out, but no action was ever
fled, the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
FALL HELD ACCIDENTAL.
Coroner Issues Certificate in Death
of Raymond T. Rafferty,.

A certificate of accidegtal death was
given by Coroner ]. Ramsay Neyitt in
the case of Raymond T. Raftery, Il
years old, who died early yesterday as
result of a fall from thirdstory
window of the Racquet Club. DIR.
hewitt reached the conclusion that the
young man, who was not well, opened
the window to get air and accidentally
toppled out.
The deceased was a son of Mrs.
Mary G. and the late Patrick Raftery.
Funeral will be from the home of the
young man, 1909 c street northeast,
tomorrow morning. followed by mass
at Holy Comforter Church, East Capi-
tol and Fourteenth streets. at 2 o'clock.
Interment will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

tunate inmates rat;ons OF bread and
meat which he disposed of to restau-
rants, hotels and supply houses
through a middlen1an. Stonescll's
predecessor had been convicted Of the
same practices.
The affair has caused an enormous
sensation here and the public demands
that Stonescu be forced to, share the
fate of his victims. @F 80
Evening star., 1927-10-14
CONvICTS STARVED,
PRISON HEAD HELD
Director Accused OF Selling Food
Intended for Inmates to
Restaurants.
Rv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Rumania, October IA.
Charged with Systematically starv-
ing prisoners in order to sell the food
intended for them, Gregory Stonescu,
director of the central prison, was ar
rested yesterday.
With the connivance of the princi-
pal warder of the prison. Stonescu is
said to have withheld from the unfor-
Evening star., 1927-10-14
Absolute Divorce Granted.

Justice Hoehling today granted an
interlocutory decree of absolute divorce
to Mrs. Gsrtrude f. Norcia. 1909
Florida avenue northeast, from Ralph
A. Norcia. They were married Sep.
tember 4, 1928. and have one child
The wife is awarded custody of the
child and alimony of $50 per month.
She was represented by Attorney Eta
L. TaGgart.
Evening star., 1927-10-14
Vegetarian Club Proposed.

Invitations have been issued for a
meeting preliminary to the organi-
zation Of a vegetarian club in Wash
ington. The meeting viii be held Sat
urday night at 7:3o O'Clock at the home
Of DR.. T. NJ. Schippell. 1929 Sixteenth
street. James P. Briggs, president of
The Humane Education Society, will
nresida
Evening star., 1927-10-14
FLEET RULE GIVEN
! TO SHIPPING BOARD
n. v. 0'Connor Appointed
Lone Executive at Head of
U. S. Corporation.

The Shipping Board will directly
manage the Fleet Corporation, accord
ing to an order made yesterday at q
special meeting Of the Shipping Board,
which also directed reorganization
which will place control OF the Gov
ernment-owned lines in the hands of
T. V. O'Connor. To put single execu.
tive at the head of the corporation the
board elected O'Connor president of
the Fleet Corporation and CHAIRMAN
of the board of directors.
. A. c. Dalton, who has been presi-
dent of the corporation. will become
its vice president and general man
Rger, being responsible to the board.
Ends Long Controversy.
Yesterdays reorganization appeared
to be the final step in a long and
controvert9l effort by the Shipping
Board to regain control of the corpo-
ration, since they were separated in
1921 by Albert d. Lasker, Chicag goan,
appointed by President Harding to
head the board. Considerable fric-
ton between successive heads of the
two organizations marked their re-
cent history, and officials declared
they saw in the new move an end of
the controversies.
The reorganization was approved
unanimously by the board. Chairman
. O'Connor declared that it would ell
able the corporation to carry on the
a administrative and operative improve
; ment of the past year. Dalton poiEtc:l
: out as one of these improvements the
: reduction of 81 per cent in the cost
: of operation per voyage for each ship
. during last August. as compared with
= the same month in 1926.
: O'COnnor LaUds Move.
A formal statement by Chairman
: OConnor stated that the reorraniza
~ tion was intended Ito place the busi-
ness operation of the Shipping Board
J. on a basis as nearly as possible ap.
proXimating the standard commercial!
: practice. and recognizing the necessity
: of placing in the hands of a single
: executive ample authority and con
. troll to propely conduct the affairs of
the merchant fleet corporation"
Evening star., 1927-10-14
Ordered to CAPITAL.

Lieut.. Col. Carl II. Muller, United
States Cavalry instructor of National
Guard, at Des Moines, Iowa, has been
ordered to this city for duty in the
historical section Of the Army War
College, Washington Barracks
Evening star., 1927-10-14
INDIANS OF NEVADA
PLAN BALLOT STRIKE
Piutes and Shoshones to Withhold
Vote in Protest in Land
Distribution.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. October
14.-Advices to the Salt Lake Tele-
gram from Winnemucca, New, yester-
day said more than 800 tribesmen Of
the Piute and Shoshone Indians in
solemn pow-wow had pledged deter.
mination TO withhold their votes at
the next general election.
The Indians claim they have not re-
Evening star., 1927-10-14

Bags in this style are daily gaining
in popularity, and here you'll find
fashionable selection of these real
leather bags in the best Fall colors.
Also fiat and pouch bags in leather.
Alligator calf, patent leather and plain
calf in all shades.
DOWN STAIRS STORE
Evening star., 1927-10-14
GIRL KILLED AS ROCK
FALLS INTO SCHOOL
Others Hurt When Blast Hurls
Stone Through Roof Of
Building.

BY the Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, October
14.-One child was killed and several
others were injured, some seriously,
when charge of explosive was set
off near the Everettsville Schoolhouse,
near the schoolhouse. Information
information received here from the
Evening star., 1927-10-14
O'COnnor Lauds Move.
Ends 80 Years Service,

Master Sergt William A. Merrill
Sd Cavalry, at Fort Myer. Va, has
been placed on the retired list of the
Army on his own application after
more than 80 years. active sel vice.
Evening star., 1927-10-14

Because the ancient Chinese used
wood instead of stone in their temples
and monuments. there are no great
ruins today comparable to the Egyp'
tian pyramids or the ParthenOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
JOURNEY TO PERSIA AND INDIA
DESCRIBED BY WORLD FLYERS
Encounter Little Difficulty in Flight Along
Desert Coast to Handicapped
by Turkish Orders.
By WILLIAM s. BROCK,
Pilot of the Pride of Detroit.


By Wireless to The Star and New York
Times.
KARACHI, India, September A.
On our journey down the Persian Gulf
we followed the coast to a large extent
rather than the less easily followed
telegraph line. and had no difficulty In
finding our way. The weather did
not really trouble us at any time. DC.
casionally head winds, as for instance
on leaving Bundar Abbas this morn
ing. reduced our speed, but the only
sandstone we encountered was TOO
slight to affect either flying or VISIBLE
itv to any extent. Rain and CLOUDS
which we encountered near karachi
did not hinder us, although low flying
was necessary.
The first stage of our flight from
Japan will be a distance of 2.4SO miles
to one of the Midway Islands, which,
in it's turn, is LAO miles from
Honolulu, whence the final transocean
flight to America will be made.
Schlee and l are very much pleased
with the performance of the machine
thus far. Apart from two gas tank
leaks, [ guess we have had no trouble.
and the single engine has behaved
splendidlY, Our desire now is to push
forward as rapidly as possible to make
UP for the one and half days lost
at Constantinople, and thus finish the
flight within schedule time.
Copyright. 1927. in the United States.
Canada, Mexico, Cuba. south - America.
he New York Times Co. All Rights Re-
served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
RUBBER BIG FACTOR
IN new SCIENCE ERA
100000 Economies Saved to
Users, Says Chemist, and U. S.
Product "Is Coming"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
DETROIT, September 5.-Science is
on the threshold of new era. in which
rubber will play a prominent part,
William c. Geer. research chemist Of
New Rochelle. N. Y. declared in a
report to be read at the annual meet
ing of the American Chemical Society
here today.
Rubber tubing, insoluble in gasoline
and oil; rubber paints to which water
and ice will not cling and lighter and
better tires are among the things
which will be produced. the report
given out last night said.
Economics running upward of
100000. 900 have been saved to au-
tomobile users by rubber chemistry.
Mr.. Geer estimated. and added that in
his opinion American-grOwn rubber
lis coming"
IAN extended new field for rubber
will be in the use of the product AZ
structural material" the report said.
adding:
Many parts Of automobiles not now
given consideration will be made of
some rubber mixture worked out by
the chemists for its particular use.
THE rubber chemist fears no rub
her nor reclaimed rubber shortage, for
l venture the prediction that re-
claimed rubber will be improved and
larger amounts used The present
producing capacity for reclaimed rub
Der is 227 900 tons per annum. and be-
cause Of the increasing amount Of
scrap available it will for long years
serve as an effective balance of power
in the contest between planter and
consumer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
CITY GOVERNMENT
IS FAMILY AFFAIR
Husband Is Mayor and Wife
Town Attorney for Ar
kansas Municipality.

By the Associated Press.
PIGGOTT, Ark. September s.
City government in Piggott Is almost
family affair.
Whenever Mayor w. 7. Adams
wants to consult the city attorney he
calls in his wife. who also happens to
be the only woman lawyer in north
east Arkansas. She did not even be-
come a candidate to get the position.
Friends wrote her name on the last
city election ballot, which also car
ried her husband into second term
as mayor, thereby adding another
partnership arrangement to the
Adams family
Mrs. Adams, who had achieved sue
cess as an instructor in the Pennsyl-
vania State Teachers College, began
studying law in her husbands office
in 1928. Before marriage they had
both taught school in Quincy, III.
She received her license to practice
in all Arkansas courts last year and
Immediately became her husband s
law partner. under the firm name of
Adams & Adams.
Mrs. Adams is president of the
Clay County Bar Association, vice
president of the Womens Civic Club
Of Piggott, parliamentarian of the Clay
County Federation of Women's Clubs
and leader of a course in the extern
sion study class of the University of
Arkansas. She also prides herself on
being good housekeeper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
HINDENBURG HAS DOUBLE.
Man in Minnesota Resembles Pres.
ident of Germany. 49,

BERLIN, September IS (R.-Presi-
dent Won Hindenburg has a double in
America, Ambassador Won Nathan in
formed a group of American cor
respondents.
In the course of my Western trip"
the Ambassador observed, II stopped
at st. Cloud. MINI. l was told that
there was an old German gentleman
in that city who looked exactly like
President Won Hindenburg, but that
he was not we'll enough to attend the
exercises IL. my honor.
80 I went to him instead. His
likeness to the head of our nation is
indeed striking. 7 am sure that If he
were to stroll down Inter den Linden
in Berlin everybody would acclaim
him as the President"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
LIBRARIANS OF VATICAN
ON TOUR OF INSPECTION
Will Include Washington in Max
ing Study of Methods Under
Carnegie Foundation Auspices.

Officials of the Congressional Lib
rary are awaiting the arrival of four
librarians from the Vatican Library
who are making tour Of this country
studying American library systems un-
der the auspices of the Carnegie
Foundation for international Peace.
The quartet now is at the Colum.
bia University. They are: Enrico Hen.
detti, librarian at the Vatican Library;
Carmelo Scala, assistant professor of
political economy of the faculty of law
in the Royal University of Rome;
Igion Giardani, professor Of literature
in the high school Of Rome; Gerardo
Bruni, newly appointed assistant Of
the Vatican Library.
On their return to Rome next
March the Vatican librarians will be
accompanied by staff members Of the
Library of Congress, who will study
the methods Of the Vatican Library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05

which ran so that one forgot them,
and the companionable effect of our
wireless. There was a long stretch
when we saw no boats, yet l felt less
lonely than I've often been on chan
mel crossing in bad weather.
I got a little tired after the first
four hours, but after that WEAKNESS
wore off I didn't notice it again. My
companions, Downer and Little, feel
the same way, and we are anxious to
go on if the weather will let us.
Difficulties Over Gas.
Little, the engineer, is busy with
the tanks, but the engines require no
attention.
At Corunna the British consul got
us through the official formalities in
quick time. Incidentally, it is inter
esting to me that we were treated
officially exactly as if we had been
ship and not an airplane.
Copyright. 1927. in all countries. but
Great Britain by the North American News
paper Alliance: in Great Britain by the west
minister GaZette.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
WIDE-TROUSERED YOUTH
OF JAPAN ARE ARRESTED
Wearing of Modern Pants Taken
as Proof of Evil Thoughts
in Toxic.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
Modern" Japanese youths,
who have adopted wide pants. skinny
coats and long hair as the regalia of
their modernity, are being pursued
relentlessly by the police throughout
the beer halls of Tokio's Broadway,
the Gina, because of the belief that
these wearers Of the "mother-hub-
bard" trousers certainly must be
guilty of dangerous thoughts"
Recently the guardians of the law
raided q dozen or more Gina cafes
and arrested $50 of the young mOderns,
most of whom were CARRIED in pants
of such widths as would have caused
sailor to hang his head in shame.
The police declare the "moderns"
have been suspected for some time
of everything from petty thievery to
blackmail. The majority of the
youths were released with a warning
to stay away from the Gina and dis
card the exaggerated trousers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
DISEASES COST $4,000, 600
London Has Big Bill Traced to In
fictitious Ailments.

LONDON, September 5 (P).-Scar-
let fever, diphtheria and kindred dis
eases cost London nearly $4,000 900
during 1926, according to the Metro
politan Asylums Board report.
The board maintains IA hospitals
for the treatment of 20 infectious dis
eases. It can mobilize $500 beds at
a moments notice, and in the event of
severe epidemic can prepare as many
more in few' days.
Research is an important factor in
the boards work. Great progress has
been made in the study of measles,
the infectious disease that kills more
children than any other. The report
indicates that Psychologists are already
far on the way to stamping out the
disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
D. C. RED CROSS CHAPTER
WANTS WOMAN HELPERS
Invites Volunteers in Work of Sup
plying Surgical Dressings
for Emergency Service.

Woman volunteers have been called
Tor by the surgical dressings unit of
the District of Columbia Chapter of
the American Red Cross in order to
complete the more than 200 900 surgi.
cal dressings and bandages the unit
is making this year for Emergency
and other local hospitals and the In.
structive Visiting Nurse Society.
The unit has been busy all Summer
completing an order of so, 900 dressings
for the Emergency Hospital and the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society.
Mrs. Albert c. Gleaves is in charge Of
the surgical work of the District Chap
ter. The volunteers need no previous
experience and should apply at the
chapter headquarters, S21 Sixteenth
street, when hours will be assigned
them in the workrooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
LEVINE MAY HOP TOMORROW.
Will Attempt Flight IL Weather
Changes, He Declares.

LONDON, September R).---
Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic
airplane passenger, may attempt a
westward crossing to America to-
morrow if weather conditions are ia
vorable. he said today.
Il may start the flight tomorrow
provided the weather changes" he
said.
Capt. Walter G. r. Hinchcliffe,
whom Levine chose to pilot the Co.
lumbia on it's westward flight, sent
word to Cranwell, where the plane is
stationed, that he was hopeful of a
weather change that would permit
the take-off But the weather reports
rclayed to Levine from Cranwell were
unfavorable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
U. S. HOTEL IN GERMANY.
American Methods Used at Duis.
burg Municipal Hostelry.

BERLIN, September (P. The
"Duisburger Hof," the new hotel just
opened in Duisburg, has a double in
terest. 1t is owned by the city Of
Duisburg, and American methods were
followed in designing it.
The rooms have built-in clothes
closets, instead of portable wardrobes
usual in Europe. Half of the rooms
have private baths. Since the hotel Is
designed chiefly to serve guests who
come to Duisburg on business, 80 per
cent of the rooms are single rooms.
Rooms without bath cost $1.44 to 1872:
with bath $2.40 to sass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05

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wind at Roosevelt Field, Long Island.
and the other after having been forced
down near Montreal by weather.
The sky was clear here early today,
with light northwest winds.
Wood and Schiller left their hotel
in Portland early in the forenoon for
the Scarboro airport, taking with
them a motor truck in which they
were to load their cargo for the trip
to Old Orchard 1t was thought this
would take about three hours. Then
they planned to fly the Royal Wind
sor to the beach here and take off
for the Atlantic flight Immediately
after the Old Glory.
Bertaud and Hill were up early
and went down to the beach to super
wise the loading Of the remainder of
the gasoline into their plane.