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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-23
WIDOW APPLIES
FOR A PENSION
Mrs. Miraglia's Plea Held
Under Aduisement BY
Judge

Al plea entered by Frances Mira
glia of Pleasantville, widow of Seb-
astian Miraglia, who was killed at
his home in Cardiff March 81, is
being held under advisement by
Judge VILLAIN H. Smathers of the
Atlantic City Widows Court.
Miraglia's estate, totalling $4,000
was left to his sister-inlaw, Jennie
Miraglia, and since her husbands
death, Mrs. Miraglia has decided
some OF her own property to her
sister-in-law. For this reason Judge
Smathers questions her right to a
pension.
Miraglia was shot down by an
unknown assailant as he entered
his garage, after a trip to vineland.
Three months later the Miraglia
home was burned to the ground.
The fire was believed to have been
OF incendiary origin. No one has
been brought to trial for either the
murder or the fire.
80
10 you expect to remain the idol
OF the popuiace?" Il don't feel Sc
cure,D answered Senator Sorghum.
n campaigned with a jazz band and
learned some steps of the Charles
4on. But If our hero worshippers
refuse to look at anybody except an
expert aviator. guess iii have to
aalt. (
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-23

All Studebaker models have more
than 500 worth of extra equipment,
including front and rear bumpers; shock
shsorbers; engine thermometer and
hydrostatic gasoline gauge on the dash;
AND coincidental lock to ignition and
steering. Equipment also includes
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-23
Art Club to Meet.

The Abseeon Art Club will be en-
tertained Wednesday afternoon by
Mrs. A. l.. Hammell.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-23

4-wheel brakes; disc wheels; full-size
balloon tires; no-draft ventilating wind
shield Exclusively Studebaker); oil filter;
automatic windshield cleaner; rear.vi-
sion mirror; rear traffic signal light; cowl
lights and two-beam acorn headlights,
controlled from steering wheel. a.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-23

No one except a born Frenchman
speaks really good English.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Raid Reveals
Liquor Caches

Staging raid on n roOming
house at the corner of Fourth and
Broadway Saturday, city police col
lected more than 100 quarts of al
!oged saki and one japanese named
J. Fountone. Fountone is proprietor
Of the establishment and after be-
iDg taken to headquarters he was
released under bail of $500 for ap-
pearance tomorrow morning in an
Swer to charge OF unlawful pos
session of intoxicating liquor.
The police thoroughly ransacked
the house. Tearing up carpet Gov
cring in a sitting room they uncor-
cled trap door which led into one
ache where a quantity of the liquid
was found. More of it was found
under the floor in the room where
the first haul was made.
A woman seated in the room, nurs-
ing baby which seemed to have
been overfed, gave the officers the
first evidence that there was some
reason for her position. 1nvestiga-
tion revealed the trap door directly
beneath the chair upon which she
was seated.
The haul was one of the biggest
made by the police this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

for the purpose of trying to reach
settlement in the ALLEGATION OF Col
orado River waters.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Swiss Concert
Well Attended

More than 1000 Imperial Valley
residents, including large part of
the Swiss colony and representative
groups of business men and their
families from the valleys different
cities gathered at the Swiss Club :
headquarters northwest of Holtville
last night. The occasion was the
grand concert given under the aus
pices of the club.
From every standpoint, the occaS-
ion was n great success. The pro-
gram, which included music by the
Edclweiss Swiss Band and a mum
Ter of yodeling selections, was a
particularly high class amateur per
formancc. Songs by the Alpenrosc
Sing VERNE, directed by John
Schultz, were decidedly popular.
Due to the large crowd, it was i'm
rass;h:o t&r am wn2 attended to find
Accommodations in the club house.
Five acres of ground surrounding
the clubs new headquarters WAS
literally packed with automobiles.
4 large sum was nctted the club
treasury, and further improvements
will be possible as result of The
success Of the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
MOVIE STARS WIFE SPEEDS

Mrs. Buck Jones, wife of the
noted movie star of western drama,
of Los Angeles was showing "too
much speed' Saturday night, ae-
cording to Patrolman Frank Van
Bezel, and as result she was given
a ticket for doing 81 miles an hour
in 20 mile zone. "Buck' immed-
lately came to her rescue and going
to headquarters with Mrs Jones
and other members of the party, he
posted $50 bail to guarantee her ap-
pearance before Judge Perkins at a
later date,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Wedding Bells
End Troubles

Frank Gonzales, 19, of Selma was
happy this morning. He was not
only happy but bridegroom as well,
Judge Mayfield tying the knot
which made Lola Menandez of San
Diego his lawfully welded wife.
Gonzales was arrested a short
time ago on complaint of the girl,
who charged that he had caused her
to leave her home and go away with
him and then had not kept his prom
Use to marry her. He was held in
Jail pending disposition of the case,
the charge being withdrawn this
morning when the couple was united
in marriage.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
KOENlC CHANGES
FROM GOAT TO
SERIES HER @
Credited With Losing '26
Contest, Mark Becomes
the Slugger this Year.
BY PAUL w. WHITE
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Mark Koe-
mig, the % year old shortstop of the
New York Yankees, once more has
bserved the old copy book maxim,
''if at first you don succeed, get
mad and show EN-
Now that the Yanks have shown
themselves a real group of cham,
pions by trimming the Pittsburgh
Pirates in four straight games, the
ease and name of Mark Koenig
arises for conscientious applause.
For he was one of the outstanding
heroes of the series-a star both at
bat and in the field-and his feats
were all the more remarkable be-
cause he was the flop of 1926.
Mark Koenig is constituted pc
cularlv. He hides his grievances
until they pop out all over him and
then he runs wild and woollv.
In his first year with the Yankees,
the fans remember, he stepped up
and swung at Babe Ruth because he
fancied the team $ star slugger was
razzing him. That uprising made
him solid with the Babe and with
the rest of the team.
Mark proved he could not and
would not be prodded too far. AS a
matter of fact his stand against
Ruth probably made permanent his
position as a Yankee regular.
Then came the series between the
fanks and Cardinals last year. Mark
was dreadful
In the seven games he was at bat
81 times and he made four hits
an average of .l25. He had forty
chances in the field and muffed four
of them-an average of 900.
1t was pointed out that the diff
ferences between the play of Koe.
mig for the Yanks and Tommy Thev-
enow for the Cards gave the st.
Louis team the edge in that close
series.
Fooled the Scribes
And thus, when it became GER
tain that the Ianks and Pirates
would meet this year, there was
scarcely sports writer that did not
compare Koenig unfavorably to
Glenn Wright, the Pittsburgh short
stop.
Mark must have read those barbs
and they must have punctured his
skin, for as early as last Tuesday
when the Yanks worked out at
Forbes Field, he was the life of the
party. He was making, as the ten
mis- experts say, impossible gets. He
shortened by some 20 feet the dis
tance between second and third
And before the cage in batting prac-
tice, he was driving viciously to
right and left.
The composite box score shows
that during the series Koenig hit
safely nine times in IS trips to the
place, an averag eof 800. He hand
led IA chances afield without an err
ror. He made three more hits than
any other player on either club and
,nly Babe Ruth had more total
bases.
Wright, on the other hand, batted
1t a .l54 pace and fielded at .947.
Thus the San Francisco boy who
mas only just completed his second
year in the majors has reason to be
proud.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Denver Report to
Be Given Tonight

Much interest is being evidenced
in the meeting of the Conservation
Club which win be held in the rooms
adjacent to the Imperial Irrigation
District offices at 1880 O'Clock to-
night. Members. of the district,
who recently returned from Denver,
viii give snort addresses on the
trip.
The principal address will be Civ
en- by Earl c. Pound, president of
the district, who attended the con
ference as a member of the Califor
MIA Colorado River commission.
Others to talk are NJ. j. Dowd, chief
engineer; c. l.. Childcrs, attorney
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

Married men are more inventive
than single men, a professor tells
us. To be sure, of necessity.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Advisory Staff
Back From Coast

Members of the farm advisor 3
staff are back in the city today, fol
lowing trip to Santa Ana, where
they attended the regional farm ad-
visors conference held there this
weekend. About % advisors and
assistant advisors of the state s
southern counties were present.
Methods of improving the stand
ard of work were discussed. Con
siderable emphasis was placed ON
boys and girls club work, and
plans were made fer securing more
and better leaders in the different
communities and bringing about
general increase in the scope of
the junior activities.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
"Ben-Hur" Has No.
Equal in History

General Lew Wallace s "Rcn.
Hur: A Tale of the Christ that
was stage spectacle % years, and
ss "a book enjoyed circulation as
iarge as the Bible, win be seen to-
morrow as piAurc in FL Centre at
the Palace 'heater. II comes here
affer long runs and crowded houses
~ New York, Chicago, Boston and
Ihiiadeiphia. 1t boasts a east of
$4,000.
fTd Nihlo directed the produc
'f"n which begins with the Wise
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
No Battles At
Arena This Week

There will be no show at the
arena this Friday night, the promot-
crs of the fistic battles returning to
the two week program carried out
in the spring. Although the arena
has staged some good attractions
throughout the summer the attend
anee has failed to merit running a
weekly program.
In the main attraction for the
program in two weeks Matchmaker
Frank Richmond has booked a re-
turn engagement between Johnnie
Torres of Ocean Park and Irish
Mickey Cone of Los Angeles.
These two boys battled eight
rounds last Friday night. Referee
Tackett returned draw decision
and there is considerable argument
as to just who won the battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

ID. l.. zINN & F. W. zINN Auctioneer
EARL SHAW, Clerk, Holtvile Bank. Hotville
j. j. VOSBOURG, owner B. L. Roberts Ma
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

Men and the Star of Bethlehem, pic
lures Jerusalem under the Roman
tyranny and the condemnation of
the Prince of Hur to the galleys.
The battle 'twixt the Roman fleet
and the Greek pirates was filmed
with a great Ben-H navy of an
tique modelled craft off the coasts
of Italy.
Thrills and Romance
The celebrated Antioch chariot
race, in which Ben Hur and Mesa
la contest for the palm, occupied
three months in the making Twelve
quadrigas are driven seven laps over
course facing a Circus Maximms
that holds nearly hundred thous
and spectators. The exquisite love
story of BenHur and Esther is in
tertwined with the thrilling action.
The final scenes deal with Ben
Hur's assembling of legions in the
plan to establish a kingdom of Ju-
dea, the discovery of his long lost
mother and sister in the Vale of
Hinnom, the procession of Palm Sun
day, and the healing of the sick
ones by the Saviour. whereby Ben
Hur and his beloved Esther and
kinsfolk are reunited.
A World Epic
In grandiose epic that has taken
three wears for its completion and
included as many real.life adventur-
ings as an historic odyssey of the
Old and New Worlds. Ramon No
varro Gin the title role), Betty
Bronson. May McAvoy, Francis X
Bushman. Carmel Myers, Claire Ne
Dosell, Kathleen Key, Nigel de
Brulier, Mitchell Lewis and Frank
Currier have prominent parts. The
music for the production was writ
ten by David Mendoza and William
Axt, the composers of 1.-The Big
Parade. - The offering is Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer picture made by
special arrangement with A. l.. Err
LANCER, c. B. Dillingham; and F.
Ziegfeld, Jr., and it cost $4,000,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
COLORADO GAGE

YUMA. Ariz., Oct. 1o.-Mean
daily gage heights in feet and mean
discharge in second-feet of the Colo
rado River at Yuma, Ariz., for the
week ending Oct. I. 1927.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

You can feel sure that winter is
at hand. The girls are trying to
outstrip one another in the matter
of clothes.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10
Ordered To Support wife-Ray F

Griffith of Calexico was ordered to
pay $40 a week for the support of
his wife. Goldie, by Judge A. c.
Finney this morning following a
hearing on an order to show cause.
These payments are to be made
weekly until such times as the di-
voree action now pending before the
court is settled. The order of the
Judge also instructed Griffith to pay
court costs of $40 and $50 on ac-
count in attorneys fee.
Most of the geese fly north these
days, but a few remain behind to
make weather predictions.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-10

and Mark Rose, director.
These men represented the valley
in the conference which was held
Evening star., 1927-08-25
TR0TSKY SAYS SOVIET
HAS PROVED WORKABLE &
American Delegation in Moscow
Told No War Against Bourgeois
Countries Is Aimed.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Russia, August 25.-
Leon Trotsky, interviewed by an
American labor economic delegation,
yesterday praised the Soviet govern.
ment as the first successful attempt to
prove that a world Socialist society is
workable.
He denied that the opposition in So
Wet Russia, of which he Is one of the
leaders, wants the Soviets to declare
war against the bourgeois countries .
and said that the opposition "sits with
folded hands awaiting the world revo-
luton which inevitably will follow the
coming world war"
He predicted that freedom of speech
in Russia would come when enemies
would cease their attempts to over
throw the Soviet government.
Pravda, commenting on the inter
view, said that Trotsky's statements
proved that he was only a lukewarm
Communist.
Evening star., 1927-08-25
HOOVER BUSINESS
SURVEY ACCURATE
Prediction of "Very Fair
Conditions Follows Care
full Study.

Herbert Hoover every now and
then analyses business conditions.
AS Secretary of Commerce he has
extraordinary facilities for gathering
information, some of which is public
and some confidential. He has
charts made. on nearly every impor.
tant commodity. He watches the ups
and downs of the essential business
indicators all the time and gathers
impressions from his bureau chiefs,
who are in constant correspondence
with business men.
So when Mr.. Hoover says the out
look for the remainder of 1927 is
very fair he can be relied upon to
have chosen his words carefully.
From a statistical viewpoint, it can
be argued that the early months of
this year in some respects were bet
ter than the corresponding period of
the preceding year, but Government
officials do not hesitate to admit that
the adjustments which have been &C.
ing on in business have caused a
slackening in some lines, due to dimin-
ished purchasing power.
Stimulation Expected.
Mr.. Hoover points out, however,
that money rates are low and that
this usually precedes O period of busi-
ness stimulation. The latest word on
crops. he adds, points to a mainte-
nance of the general buying power.
Certainly some of the Western States.
which have not been buying as heavi-
ly, due to low prices for their crops,
will offset some Of the declines in
those States where factory employ
ment has been curtailed.
The tendency here is to look at
business conditions from a national
and general viewpoint rather than the
situation in a given industry or To-
cality. In other words, the sum total
Of income and outgo indicates the
real prosperity of the country. And
on this basis Government officials re-
gard business conditions as favorable.
Rosy Predictions Barred.
On no subject can there be more
controversy than that of business con-
ditions. Mr.. Hoover does not, as
rule, issue predictions of rosy char
acter. but adopts a conservative view.
His surveys have in the past been
found to coincide in the main with
developments in the business world.
In this instance, he reflects a rather
general view in Washington that the
next six months should be better in
many respects than the preceding
months, and that when the facts and
figures are all tabulated it will be
found that while 1927 may not be as
good a year as 1926, nevertheless. it
will stack up well with any other
year since 1921.
If the American business man would
not get into the habit of regarding
every peak year as a normal year and
allow his expenditures to grow accord
ingly, but would strike an average
over a period as a goal, he would
more nearly approximate the view.
point that Government officials have
developed in analyzing so complicated
a subject as the business condition of
the country. D. L.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-08-25
MATHIS ESTATE INVOLVED.

Los ANGELES. August 25 (P.-
Legal entanglements may face the
administrators of the estate of the
late June Mathis, scenario writer. be-
cause of her practice Of purchasing
and holding property in names other
than her own. Property in the $780,
600 estate was purchased under six
different names, attorneys told the
court yesterday in presenting a petit
ton for appointment of DR.. Tullio
NJ. Balboni, Miss Mathis brother-in.
law, as administrator of the estate.
The Photographic will of the writer,
who died recently in New York
Theater, was declared invalid when
offered for probate because 1t failed
to include the year 1927 in the date.
It had left the estate to the writer's
husband, Sylvano Balboni. after a life
interest of a grandmother, Mrs. Emily
Hawks. With the will invalid Mrs.
Hawks would inherit the estate.
Evening star., 1927-08-25
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

Nati0nal-"The Donovan Affair.""
mystery play, at $50 pm.
Keith's-Fra Fay-Blossom Seeley.
vaudeville. at 2:15 and S:15 pm.
Earle-'The Acid Test" vaudeville.
continuous 1870 to II pm.
Gayety-"Bozo" Snyder. burlesque.
at 2:15 and SIS pm.
Colnmbia--'The Way Of All Flesh ''
at 11:l0 am, 1:10. $50. $50. 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Lone Ladies. "
at 1855 am; 155, 1855. 5:45, 1855 and
$50 pm.
RiaIto-"Back to Gods Country" at
II am, 1895, 2:15. AIS. 5:55. 1855 and
$50 pm.
Palace-"After Midnight" at 1855
am. 1920, 2:25, 4:30. $50, 1855 and
10 pm.
Little Theater-"Passion." continu.
Gus TO IL pm.
Tivoli-"Is Eat So" at 2:2O, 41o,
$50, 7:4o and $50 pm.
Ambassador-'The Tender Hour.
at 6:10, 1855 and 9:45 pm.
Central-'Naushty But Nice" at
1890, ., $780, 5, $50, s and 9:40 pm.
Wardman Park-"Shattered," Car
men," I and 8 pm.
Evening star., 1927-08-25
TACOMA-TOKiO FLIGHT
OF 4,4O0 MILES PLANNED
Gerald Smith Will Attempt to
Break All Nonstop Dis
tance Records.

| BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 25.-A nonstop
solo flight from Tacoma, Wash, to
Toxic, Japan, distance of 4,400 miles,
which would shatter all existing dis.
tance records if successful, was dis
closed here yesterday by Gerald j..
Smith. aviator of Tacoma, Wash.
Smith. EN- route to Denver from New
York by air. said the feat would be
attempted next June. financed by Ia
coma business men, in plane that will
cost $4,000.
The object of the fight" Smith
said. lis to prove that it is safe and
practical. 1t will be made in an am
phibian biplane, motored with three
engines He will fly, he said. over
the great circle route which will put
the plane within 800 miles of land for
the greater part of the fight.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-29
Editorial Comment

New York Timesl


Not all of the nations expenditure on to-
bacco goes up in smoke. A considerable por-
ton goes to the United States treasury. For
the budget-makers at Washington, tobacco is q
beneficent weed. Of total internal revenue
of close to three billion dollars for the fiscal
year ended last June, the tobacco tax contrib
uted IL per cent. Of all internal revenue ex-
Guiding the income tax, the smokers contrib
uted So per cent. The sum Of $376, Zoo, 900
thus paid in is almost exactly the entire in.
ternal revenue for the year 1914 and is one and
two-thirds the amount derived in 1914 from
the tax on alcoholic contents Of pleasant or
iniquitous memory. Tobacco is by far the
most heavily burdened of the luxuries. In
1923 the value of tobacco manufactures was
estimated at $500, 1000, 900 and the tobacco rev.
enue accruing to the government was $780,
per cent of the solace derived from tobacco
goes to the consumer; nearly 40 per cent goes
to Secretary Mellon.
Where there is so much smoke there is the
fire of myriads of cigarettes; 65 1000 600, 900 in
1923, II 600, OOO 900 in 1924, $4,000, O0O, 900 in
1925. Twenty years ago, it is stated, the
American people smoked two cigars for every
cigarette. Now it would be twelve cigarettes
for every cigar. The temple of internal reve-
nue. rests not on the bulky Sumatra-wrapped
column but on the slender paper-wrapped
flag" Of last years tobacco revenue of
1870, 900, just two-thirds came from the
cigarettes of the plain people, or nearly seven
times as much as from what was once badge
of plutocracy. One Of the things which the
war did make safe was the world for the ciga.
rette. It's spread has been universal, though
proportionately the growth has been most rap
id in this country. Presumably the short,
swift smoke fits in with the jazz age. To 81
noticeable extent it parallels the onward march
Of woman. Whether the doctors have bowed
to the spirit of the age or really know more
than they used to, they are much more friend
ly to smoking than they once were That the
spread Of the cigarette habit has not sapped
the nations productive energies or conquered
disproportionate place in the national life is
attested by the fact that as late as 1919 tobac-
co manufacture stood sixteenth among Ameri-
can industries and in 1926 stood twenty first.
If we smoke more, we also seem to be working
harder.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-29

agency discovered him and his
needs She encouraged in him an
artistic ability which had been DOR
mant for years, and with his remark
able determination and what failing
eyesight he still was able to COM
mand he became q manufacturer Of
beautiful bird .cages-on q small
scale, Of course.
There's tho story Of Joe Jones,
too, although his name may be the
Count Of Monte Cristo for al !
know. For II years Joe worked in
the Old Mems Toy Shop, run by .
Welfare Council agency.
Joe sat there with toys day after
day and he came to love their mak-
iu9. They meant to him life inde-
pendent, and besides they brought
him pleasant dreams.
Then, one day, Joe quietly dreamed
away from his playthings-like =
tired boy falling asleep over his
little blocks and castles. He WAS
still smiling when they came to his
chair and found hs had left them.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service. Inc.)