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Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07
Chinese Trains
Become Engaged
In Tug Of War
BY RANDALL GOULD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

PEKING, June IA locomotive
duel in which ''tne oest engine
won and reccivevd an armored
train as its prize!
This is the engagingly modern no
velty introduced into Chinese war
fare by contending factions in Hon
an province, according to the tale
brought to Pcking by officials of
the Ankuochun, Marshal Chang Tso-
J lin S united Northern force.
1t all happened on the fighting
front near Chengchow, where a
Cantonese armorcd train had been
making daily expeditions up and
down the Pcking ngHankow main track
and harrassing the Northeners with
its Krupp gun. The Northeners had
q train too, but its was under repair
in the Chengchow yards.
One misty morning, without the
knowledge of the Southerners, the
4 Ankuchun train was made ready and
it started slowly backing down to-
ward the Southern lines with intent
to give them dose OF threeinch
field guns. 1t CHANGED that at the
same moment the Southerncrs de-
ci4ed this would be Il fine morning
to straff' the Northcrners once
more, and they started backing their
| train northward.
Because of the mist. neither party
saw the other until the trains were
almost together. They were travel
ing slowly, and the rear-cnd bump
each received was just enough to
link the two together through con
tact of the American style automatic
couplers with which each rear car
was equipped.
Both engineers decided to depart
for homo. They opened their throt-
ties, but nothing happened. The
trains were locked together.
General Kao, in the Southcrn
tram, ordered his Krupp into ac-
iion. 1t could not be lowered
enough, aud its shells screamed out
over the Northern train and did no
damage.
The Northern commander rccipro,
Gated with his thrcc-inchcrs. Ono
shell struck the enemy Krupp. the
next passed through the whole
Southern train and damaged the en-
ginc, and another exploded in the
Southern headquarters car, killing
the commander and thirty other
men and wounding twenty more.
Another forty subsequently surren-
dcred.
Meanwhile the Northern locomo-
tive, apparently IN better shape and
undamaged by shell fire, got the
upper hand and began to drag both
trains uorthward. Within Il few
minutes the victory was complete.
The captured Cantonese train con
sisted of two supply cars. An
armarcd ear used as headquarters,
and three other armorcd cars, as
we'll as the armorcd locomotive. The
Northern train WAS captured from
Fcng Nu-hSiang when he retrcatcd
from Nankow pass last summer and
| il consisted Of five armorcd cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

wider than that of brief decade
ago.
Athletics, dancing and much walk
ing on pavcments are advanced as
the principal reasons for the increas-
ing size of the feminine foot.
Some accompanying information
on footwear includes the fact that
women IS feet show less variety in
size than formerly. Standardization
is apparently in process of evolu-
tion. a great industrialist asked
how he would apply modern methods
of mass production to shoes, replies
that he would make only one style
and only one sizc--thc average and
compel all persons with feet larger
or smaller than the average to 90
elsewhere and pay higher prices.
Women with the particularly daintF
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07
Manufacture OF
Castanets Dying
Out in Spain
Hy United Press Leased W ire


MADRID, June 7.-Good caSta
nets, the Indispensable accompani-
ment to almost every Spanish dance,
are getting scarce. 1t appears the
national industry of caStanct max
ing is going through Il crisis due
chiefly 10 lack OF proper hand
labor which has resulted in para
doX; the best caStaretS are uoW
made in Germany, by an emi9rateI
Spaniard.
! 1t would seem simple and easy to
/ fabricatr the pairs of little iuStrn-
mcnts which for numerous people
have all the same sound, but 1t IS
not. Castanets can produce any
kind of expression to suit musical
phrases ii made in the right way
and placed in the hands OF players
who know how to use them.
Although some of the expensive
hollow shells are made of silver ar
! ivory, accomplished artists generally
prefer those Of grauadillo - (rcd
ebony which render the finest cf-
fccts. However, other hard wood
such as guaiacum, juiubc-trcc, box
and black ebony serve currently
| too.
For long time, Seville, the capt
| tai Of AudaluSia, was the ccutcr of
th- castauct industry controlled by
renowned artisans called "palil'cr.
Us. ~ Their champion, Frauaciseo
4 Bonilla, made perfect caStanctS that
nobody ever cquallcd. Today, there
remains only one manufactures of
castuucts in Seville; the "macS-
tros' are dead and have left few
initiated pupils.
\ set of "'scrious " castancts, rc-
male for the right hand and prodnc
ing the high sounds, male for the
lett hand, and giving the lower
sounds, cost in wood from sin to
forty dollars, and in ivory from SIN.
. ty to two hundred dollars, both ar-
cordjug TO quality and engraving, In
the old days Il set of Swapping
( "grauadillo eastancts could be-
purchased for thirty ccuts.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07
Market Prices
POULTRY

Hens, Leghorny, 3 IL to 4 lbs,
lie.
Hens, colorcd, lbs and up, CSC.
Broilers, L IL lbs, and untler
IA, pc.
Fryers, Leghorns, 2 IA to lbs,
25c.
Fryers, colored, . 1-2 to 3 lbs,
32c.
Roastcrs, eoft bone, lbs. up, 34c.
Dueklings, Pekin, ; 1-2 ID. up, zoe.
Geese, 25c
Young Tom turkeys, 13 lbs, and
up, 40c.
Old Tom turkeys, 3ic.
Small hen turkeys, under s lbs,
ljc
lien turkeys, s lbs, up 4Oc.
Squads, light and heavy, 4Oc.
Capons, s lbs, up, soc.
LOS ANGELES, June 6. - Fol-
lowing are today market quota
tions:
BUTTER
Wholesale prices, 42c, retailers
4Jc to Ace.
Wholesale prices: Extras, 25c,
fresh firsts 24c; nlelum, 19c.
LIVESTOCK
Los ANGELES, June Cattle:
Receipts 100, steady. top 1900. bulk
steers 6.75'7.60. bulk She stock 5.25.
G.25.
Hogs. Receipts 500, top 1910.
Sheep. None. laW1s 400; ewes
4.O0-5.0 90.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

says the Research Department Of
the National Association Of Farm
Equipment Manufa cturcrs. over
100.O00.000 tons are put up annually
West of the Missouri river nearly
half the hay crop is alfalfa. Small
grain is cut for hay in large areas
on the Pacific slope. The annual
lcg;mcs have n big following in the
Southeast-cow peas, yetches, pea
nuts and field peas.
At tho barn, the harvest is
spceGcd by tracks in the top Of the
barn, which enable carriers to bring
the hay from the wagons to the diff
| ferent parts of the NOV via grapplc
hooks, shears, harpoons or sings.
| These have, all been greatly i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

NORTH DANVILLE, y. Il
-clen Ncrnahy. champion scythe
'icldcr, is whctting her trusty blade
} Uphold her honors against all
omorS in the hand cutting Of hay
T. the state Agricultural college
tnteSt to be staged at the univcr-
ity next month. With a crowd of
.000 cheering her on, the 19-ycar-
Id Maud Muller last year swung
er Scythc 10 victory over an even
Oxen StaiWart men. OF course, If
-as Il sporting event, as the entire
.roup of contestants could not begin
o cut as much hay in a day rs a
foot modern moving machine.
Hay harvest is one Of the most
scientific and important farm jobs,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

proved in recent years and now the
gas engine is used for hOiSting, one
man on the load of hay doing both
the sticking of hayfork and the hoist
ing and dumping from his place on
the load. Better mowers, pulled in
tandems in large fields. or with wide
cutting sickle bars, are also now
used, while wagons are pulled in
fleets by tractors TO cut down man
labor and increase quality of hay
put in NOW through cutting at the
proper stage. The work OF chem
lists and meta llurgists in developing
better Steels for sickle bars, where
four times the prctractor strain is
required. is one of the distinct ad-
yances in the new tractor-drawA
machines
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

cases but all minor eases will have
to be postponed until after July l.
when the new Appropriation becomes
effective.
The Justice department is short
nearly half a miifion dollars FER pro-
sccution work until July l. Attor-
nev General Sargent has instructed
all Judges. U. S. district attorneys,
marshals and other federal legal Of
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

ca $ federal judicial machinery is
slowing up noticeably due to the
shortage III funds caused by failure
of the last Congress to pass the Sec
ond Deficie 1cy bin.
Federal dgcs vino have been
working On kelcton appropriations
during April. arc reporting TO tht
Justice departacnt there would be
no scriou, delays in important legal
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

feet and men with particularly big
ones may therefore some day have
to 60 to t4c cusior,- bootmaker, and
as the in.!us.rip'ist waggIslly OBJ
serves, foot the bits IS er!'ciu!ly
as possible
On the other land, this survey of
femiaiac fcct @nG footwear shows
that hosiery is defying the standar-
dizer. One large company which i'll
1920 carried 480 varicties-stylcs,
colors and sizes--of stockings now
has to carry 6006, because fashion
has decrecd Il profusion of coIors.
4 raid on Il Kansas home yielded
10000 bottles of home brew. They
must have been expecting n few
ncighbors in for u friendly game
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07
vcy Reveals
Dnan' $ Feet
Fe(ting Larger
United Press Leased Mire

Nv YORK, June 7.-Women s
hre getting larger.
generations the average size
e foot of the American woman
been Alb. But the modern girl
this standard, accord
o figures published by the Wo-
$ Home Companion, and the
lgc size at present is nearly
an inch longer and n full size
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

\ Chicago department store has
established silcncc room for Wom-
en-. \ little place where the ladl2a
can 90 and get respite from those
garrulous husbands.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

Pick Saints to Win, said
LoadHuc in Il Kansas City news
paper. We started to read it, but it
was about the st. Paul ball team
and not story about Al Smith at
all.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07

The Atlantic and Pacific fleets
stopped at New York. Now, il the
ladies ere willing, probably wcH
hear of several naval engagements.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-07
Lack of Funds
Slows Federal
judicial Machine

WASIlINGTON, June 7.-rAmcri-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10
The Coliseum Project

Now that the board of managers has narrowed
the number of possible sites from thirty to ve they
can perform service by postponng any action
until there is reorganization of city government
and affairs are put basis.
The project will cost some millions of the peo-
pies money and should be spent with at least rea-
sonable care.
While the new coliseum may bring benefits of
many kinds to the city, the project so important
as to demand widespread popular discussion before
any decision is made. For the people, already bur-
dened with the cost of bad government will be called
upon to pay for it.
1t is unfortunate that more attention was paid
to what seemed to be a reasonable suggestion that
the present site of Tomlinson Hall which is city
erty. be utilized and million or more dollars thus
saved. That suggestion came from very important
civic committee but seems to have been forgotten
Perhaps it needs some State legislation to be
feasible, but that could be had.
Very many who have looked over the five remain
ing possible sites have called attention to the lack
OF accessible railway connections which have been
regarded as important and almost essential in other
cities in similar projects If the coliseum is to be
used for vast and huge displays of industrial and
agricultural products transportation is not mere
detail.
Prudence suggests that there be slowing up
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ShaW'S Verdict on Tunney

George Bernard Shaw would
find a better subject for his en-
PERTAINING sarcasm in this in
consistent attitude that quarrels
with fight films after having
seen or heard the fight than in
arguing about who wen.
Shaw is sure that Tunney won,
which is superf1uous, since the
referee decided that question
within minute after the fight
ended, and nothing has occurred
to prove that the referee was
wrong.
1t is a matter of no great con-
sequence who won, but this pic
ture dipsute discloses a situation
with regard to law and its ap-
plication that has become verit-
able plague in America and that
is gradually destroying public
confidence in the sense and JUS
tice Of such regulation.
We can actually see them fight
if we have the price, or listen to
description of how they are 60
ing it if we have not, but it is
forbidden to look at the filmed
performance.
In what age of the world could
you match that for trifing nom
sense?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10
Jesse James Memorial

Why should not Jesse James
have monument if his relatives
and friends are willing to pay
the bill, and whose business is it?
Suppose he was a bandit, and
did everything his imaginative
biographers claim, suppose Cap
tain Kidd, Robin Hood, Old
Thatch, the Renos and scores Of
other individuals who labored I'M
der an anti-social complex had
been obliged to do without i'm
pressive grave stones, and suppose
that some people do not believe
he is the kind of man whose
memory should be perpetuated
in a shaft of granite, marble or
bronze; what then?
There are lots of monuments in
the world that you and I did not
help build, and would not help
build, even if we were invited, and
that honor characters that did
not conform to our ideals.
Indeed, you can hardly think of
a monument but some one is
ready to sheer at it, or the indi-
vidual whom it was designed to
honor.
According to law, Jesse James
was a highwayman, but according
to tradition he was romantic
figure.
Most boys have read his exploits
with genuine enthusiasm at one
time or another, and if it were
appropriate to embalm his career
in so many thousands of books,
why is monument out of place?
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NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
Why Should Not Jesse
James Haze q Monument
If HIS Relatives and
Friends Are Willing to
Pay the Bill, and Whose
Business Is 1t?

Enter our old friend, Adolfo De
La Huerta, albeit through the
mouth of press agent and from
some place of safety on this side
of the border.
He will presently "cross" into
Mexico, we are told, at the head
of 1000 men. to be joined by no
less than 10000 more who are
ready and waiting to revolt.
Whether Gomez started this
rumpus, as the Mexican govern
ment declares, or whether he was
forced to flee with his follower
because of the intrigue of Obre-
gon, as he himself declares, De La
Huerta is quite prepared to step
in and take charge.
Mexico, just cannot seem to
have a revolution these days,
without De La Huerta placing
himself at the head Of it.
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Why Fight Movie Ban2

The same faulty logic that pro-
fesses to be astounded at the
thought of erecting monument
to Jesse James is to be found in
this dispute over the Dempsey
Tunney fight pictures.
If the show were all right to
stage, why is it not all right to
screen?
No one seems to have made
much of a fuss when tickets were
selling at $25 piece, when 140,-
900 assembled at Soldiers Field
and when a radio hook-up was
made that brought the per-
forInance directly into 100000
homes.
Now that it promises to get into
the movies, however, there is a
great hue and cry. We have a
law, it seems, that prevents show
ing on the screen what was shown
in the ring.
Sometimes, one finds it i'm
possible not to exclaim with a
certain great philosopher, 1.-THE
law is an ass"
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The Work of Emil JanningSin The Wayof Flesh
Pyoves He Is Greatest Actor Before Camera Today

The Life of Riley" is a fast NOV
ing, clean comedy of the little town.
Just a cross section of the lives of
two men who are friendly enemies"
Each tries his best to Guido the
other. Murray SUCCEEDS in marry
ing the widow, but you are not con-
WINGED that Sidney hasn't the best
of it after all. You'll have to figure
that out for yourself.
Connie and his band make their
initial appearance this week at the
Ohio and have Jimmie Hatton as a
soloiSt. Jimmie is an Indianapolis
boy and appeared at the Ohio sew
eral times when Charlie Davis was
holding forth there.
Joe Alexander is featured with
another of his organlogs. A news
reel and a comedy complete the
bill.
At the Ohio this week. (By the
Observer.
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Lac and Justice
By Dexter M. Keezer

man ordered 100 bales of cotton by telephone
He thought he was talking to one broker when, as
a matter of fact he talking to another. He sub
sequenty refused to pay for the cotton the ground
that he had made contract to buy it because he
had been mistaken in the identity of the broker to
whom he had been talking over the phone.
He said there was no contract to buy the cotton
because he had not understood with whom he was
dealing The broker who had received the order
commended that there was contract and sued to
enforce its terms. His contention that the mis-
take in identity the telephone did not prevent
the completion of a contract
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Texas Court of Civil APP
peals held that the mistake in identity resulting from
the of telephone did not prevent the existence
of contract. The reason seemed to be that in the
cotton brokerage business, where many transactions
are carried out by telephone, the buyer should be
presumed to know with whom he is talking
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by WALTER d. HICKMAN

Schiller is attacked in the dive
and one of Mayme's gang drags
Schiller onto the railroad tracks.
AS the gangster is taking all articles
of identification off the body of his
victim, Schiller comes to and puts
up a fight. AS the train whirls by,
it is the gangster who dies.
Schiller walks the streets for days
and finally runs onto newspaper
which tells the story of Schiller's
supposed death. Schiller then be-
comes the outcast, picking up papers
and rags in the parks in the sum-
mer and selling hot chestnuts in
the winter.
Here you have the powerful por-
trayal of man who is but the
ghost of his former self. Here is
cruel, but honest characterization.
Jannings is the master of human
makeup at all times. 1t is this
shading of human emotions as eX-
pressed in face and walk that makes
Jannings such great artist.
The picture has a sad ending and
1 am glad that the director has been
honest in giving us consistent and
logical ending.
1 admit that I must have cried for
fifteen minutes when Schiller goes
into the roost of a theater to hear
his son give a great violin recital.
1 was not the only one that cried
when 1 was in the Indiana. Here is
such powerful acting of defeat and
longing that I am sure that ninety
nine persons out of every hundred
will have at least moist eyes during
these scenes.
1.-The Way of All Flesh" easily
proves that JanningS is the greatest
dramatic actor on the screen today.
Joy Bells" is a pretty stage pre-
sentation. The winners this week
are Charlie Davis and his orchestra
and the Roma brothers, strong gym
nasts. Here is great team. Davis
and his orchestra are playing fine
melodies this week, and they have
several novelties, such as the bell
number. Numerous other entertain
ers are in this revue.
Bill includes Maurice at the Or
gan and a news reel.
At the Indiana.
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Movie Verdict

OHIO-Sidney and Murray
show what can be done in the
way Of fires in THE Life Of
Riley" which is a dramatiza-
ton of a cross section of life
in Elmdale Center. 1t is good,
clean, funny comedy and will
not 60 amiss.
APOLLO-Lon CLANCY is
handicapped in "Mockery" by
having a theme that does not
appeal to an American
audience.
CIRCLE - underworld" Is
marvously effective melodrama-
tic theater. Powerfully acted
by a great cast. A real thriller
and not to be missed by those
who enjoy action.
INDIANA-"The Way of All
Flesh" proves beyond any
doubt that Emil Jannings is
the greatest dramatic character
actor on the screen today. One
of the real emotional treats of
this season. Jannings Is as
powerful in this movie as the
late Richard Mansfield was on
the stage.
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off, for brief time, these chains
when the car is kicked off the
throne and the mob" goes into
riot. One will not recall with any
great degree of satisfaction, accord
in to my way of thinking, that
clancy appeared il, 'Mockery." The
story is really foreign to our way Of
thinking, and I doubt if any of us
are greatly interested in the sight
of peasant chasing a countess
around the house when the servants
go on a riot when the new order of
government is ushered in. The
sight of seeing a savage looking in
dividual actually brutal and wild is
not pleasant one.
What ever interest that "Mockery"
holds for me rests of course in the
makeup of CLANCY. He had learned
the trick of horrible makeup about
as well as any one in the business.
This time he is called upon to play
the role of sluggish and slow
thinking servant, who suddenly be-
comes as inflamed as the revolution.
Most of the time CLANCY attempts
to show this spiritual and mental
struggle, but the story is so foreign
from our sympathy and understand
ing that at no time did CLANCY
make me interested or sympathetic
toward the character.
The real Shortcomings of this
movie is to be found much more in
the story than in CLANCY. CLANCY
uses only one makeup and this be-
comes rather tedious at times.
CLANCY is supported by Ricardo
Cortez and Barbara Bedford. AS
usual, be your own judge, but
maintain that the story is weak and
does not contain subject matter in
which American audiences react to.
Ray Winnings is giving on organ
solQ this week. The bill includes
a news reel which has corking good
scenes Of play by play of the first
game of the worlds series.
Bill includes a cartoon comedy
and 1.-THE Mechanical Cow"
Other theaters today offer: Merton
of the Movies" at the Colonial; us
Your Daughter Safe?" at the
alias the Deacon" at
Keith's; Jack De Sylvia, at the
Lyric; Hello Paree" at the Mutu-
al; "Black Jack" at the Isis; movies
at the Rivoli, and the Tunney-
Dempsey fight movies at the Band
Box.