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Evening star., 1927-05-30
MOTHER JOINS DAUGHTER,
ACCUSED OF INFANTIClDE
Lends Aid Against Charge on
Which. She Was Once
Convicted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WABASHA, Mimi, May 30-A muir
der charge, tragically similar to one
which caused their separation II years
ago, has reunited a mother and
daughter here.
Mrs. Gordon Cooper, who is being
tried on a charge Of Staying her in
FAINT son, has been Joined in her fight
for freedom by her mother. Mrs. Cath
crime Specht Omera, who pleaded
guilty at Dubuque, Iowa, II years
ago to the killing of her newborn
babe.
Mrs. Omera, who was then Mrs.
Specht, was sent to prison, but was
paroled year later. She found her
children had been taken away by their
father. She learned of her daughters
whereabouts when publicity was given
the infanticide charge.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
SOLDIERS ARE BURNED.
Eight Dead, ii Dying, so More
Hurt in Poland.

WARSAW, Poland, May 80 P).-
Eight soldiers lost their lives in a fire
at Kunow Saturday night, IA are be
lieved to be dying and so We're serious
ly burned. They were members of a
machine gun company of the 55th
Regiment which. returning from
maneuvers, billeted on the premises
of a wealthy farmer.
The men were sleeping in several
barns and in one of these ii cigarette,
it was learned, carelessly thrown in
the straw, started the fire.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
One Killed, IA Hurt on Bus.

NEW YORK, May 80 P.-One
woman was killed. another probably
fatally hurt, and 13 men. women and
children We're seriously injured when
the sightseeing bus in which they
were riding yesterday sideswiped a
steel stairway, leading to the elevated
line on Broadway at 23Sth street.
Evening star., 1927-05-30

or novels or the
South Seas his
wife is engaged in
trade in Chicago.
She keeps store
on nj i C h | E a II
avenue, selling
antiques t r o m
abroad. She di-
vides her time be-
tween this shop
and another in
ia shionable GroS-
VenOr S q u a r G
London.
Chicagoans who
pa t ron iZe her
shop have been
able, they say, ito
solve a literary
puzzle, for she
name to rhyme
Evening star., 1927-05-30

ER. MANTING carefully placed
M his spade against the rotting
V old picket fence and slowly
4 surveyed his garden. His
Evening star., 1927-05-30
HERBERT w. BOWEN DIES.
Former Minister to Venezuela Was
II Years Old.

WOODSTOCK, Conn, May 80 LP).-
Herbert w. Bowen, II. former United
States Minister to Venezuela and
prominent as a diplomat, died at his
home here yesterday after a long i'll
ness. lie was born in Brooklyn, n
Y, in 1856.
Evening star., 1927-05-30

The use of a special blue enameled
plate with a white cross on their au-
tomobiles by clergymen has been
sanctioned by the State of Massachu-
SGftS
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
Cans to Restore
Julian Funds

LOS ANGELES, Aug lz.- The
- restitution funds of the defunct
Julian Petroleum Corporation will
be increased in the near future TO
moro than half million dollars.
The return of *44, 100 in profits
made through activities in Julian
'Pete' has been Offered by Robert
Cans, local merchant, and authoriz-
ed by Federal Judge Mccormick.
Although admitting that he re-
ceived $124,s5 from Julian pools,
Cans claims that he lost heavily on
loans and stock transactions and
that his total earnings would not ex-
cced $4,000. In authorizing the az.
ton, Judge Mccormick dismissed
collection charges against Cans.
With the announcement of the
state corporation commission that
the status OF 100000 shares of pre-.
ferred and common stock was in
question new troubles doomed here
today for the wrecked oil comMny.
Due to a question concerning the
Legality Of the third stock permit
issued to the company, the shares
may be. declared invalid and the to-
tai overigsue increased to 5000, ,ooO
shares. .'.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
Magazines Give
Valley Publicity

Numerous magas. inca throughout
the state ani courtr lave recently
! carried articles outiiuihg the cantA.
loupe industry Of Imperial Valley.
The most recent to carry stories re.
garding the merits Of the valley in
the raising of melons are the Trans-
portatioR, a magazine devoted to
railroad news primarily. and the Cal
ifornia journal of Developement.
The latter magazine under the
head, Cantaloupes, an, epic Of the
d, sert, = has q well written article
IN which the progress Of melon grow.
ing in the valley is followed through
it's 25 years. 1t gives much credit
to the pioneers OF the industry in
the long fight they have waged to'
put the valley in its present state
of high production.
In the other article, headed
"When Cantaloupes 80 Eastward, y
the writer winds his. theme about
the speeding up OF the delivery Of
cantaloupes. The Southern Pacific
road is given much credit in this
article for cutting down time on
deliveries. The article goes into dc.
tail relative to the enormous amount
OF labor necessary to place an I'm.
perial Valley grown eantaloupe on
a breakfast table in New York
City.
Both stories comment on the rich
ness of the soil in the valley but
do not diversity from the canta.
loupc field to tell of the other pr9
duets grown in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

phrases be declared unconstitution-
al.
Section 10. The Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors of Imperial
county shall certify to the passage
of this Ordinance and cause the
same to be published in the manner
required by law, and same shall take
e1Iect ana be in force on and after
the 10th day of September, 1927.
Publication hereof to be made in
Imperial alley Press, a newspaper
published and circulated in the
county of Imperial, State of Cah.
fornia.
Passed and adopted and approved
this 10th day of August, 1927.
r. c. SMITH,
Chairman of the Board of Supervis-
ors of Imperial County, State of
California.
Attest:-
c. &. MOUSSEAU,
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of Imperial County, State of Cali
fOrnia
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
River Levee
To Be Raised

Preliminary plans for raising the
lower - miles of rivar from: ,cvec
along the Colorado River in Mexiro
have been worked out bv NJ. J,
Dowd, chief engineer ana general
superintendent OF yne Imperial Irri-
CATION District, it was announced
here today. The plans call for rails.
ing the top of the levee from one
to four feet above the present level
at cost to the American Imperial
Valley of approximately $4,000.
The work will be done during the
low water period of the river this
fall and early winter.
In order to make the improve
ments to the levees it is necessary
first TO secure permission Of the
federal government of Mexico at
Mexico City. All drawings and spe-
cifieations have TO be worked out in
metrical system and submitted to
departmental heads in the Mexican
capital. If permission is granted
the Imperial Irrigation District to
make the changes outlined, rock
trains will be pat in operation this
fall and heavy rock revetting will
be placed along the lcvees TO their
lower extremity.
In discussing the proposed i'm
provcment, DOwd stated it is deem
ed essential TO the future safety of
the American lands in the Imperial
Valley and that silt deposits of the
river in the past two years have
raised the bed of the stream so
that high water would under pres
ent conditions be likely to overtop
the levees. The lower Colorado
delta is estimated " engineers to
rise approximately a foot each year.
making it necessary to increase the
height of the levees periodically.
Over 100000 acres of lands in Mex
leo will be given additional safety
by the levec work, although the
American Imperial Valley is stand
ing the cost through the irrigation
district
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
Nazim0va Says
No More Movies

NEW YORK, Aug. l7.-tlla Naz-
imova SAYS she is through with
the movies.
Arriving last night from Europe
aboard the French liner lie DE
FIanec, the actress, who has been
appearing in a sketch AT the coils.
ctm in LONDON. and visiting Paris,
said She would give up her work
in motion pictures. She added, how.
ever, that she made no plans for
he. future.
.Iobyna Rowland, who has been
playing in the London Gold Dig
gers, productions; franeinc Larri.
more, Annie Croft Sharland, an
English actress, and Vida Bennett.
also returned on the liner.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL. ss:

/, Y. VI. hOuSSedu, 90 nereDV Ger
tify that I am the County Cler
Imperial County, state of Califor-
mia, and eX.officio Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors of Imperial
County, State of California, that on
the 18th day of August, 1927, at a
regular adjourned meeting of said
Board of Supervisors, held at the
office of said Board of Supervis-
ors in the courthouse in the City
of Ell Centric, County of Imperial,
State of California, the foregoing
Ordinance was passed, adopted and
approved by said Board; that the
full number of said Board of Sup
ervisors is five; and that there
were present on SAID date flve
members of said Board; that the
foregoing Ordinance was passed by
the following called vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Pulliam, Smith,
HulSe, jackson and Vencill.
Noes: None.
Absent and not voting: None.
WITH ESS my hand and seal OF
the Board Of Supervisors of Imper
ial County, this 18th day of August,
1927.
G. G. MOUSSEAU,
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of
Imperial County, State of Cali
fornia.
BY c. f. Williford, Deputy Clerk.
Aug 17t7
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
Store Loses Bout
To Automobile

The grocery store conducted by
II. a. Riehart at the corner OF
Fourth and Vine streets eame out
second best in an argument with 4
Dodge touring ear. last night. The
Dodge scoring SURPRISE blow re.
gistered to the solar plexus 80 hard
that the frame building was knock.
ed off it's foundation and is still
out--of place.
Police We're notified of the crash
by Roche r. Magyar and few
minutes later Frank Wright, Is, :,
farmer residing near Holtville, was
arrested by Patrolman McCashn at
the intersection of Fourth and Main
streets. He was decketed on a charge
cf reckless driving.
Wright at first denied that he
had run into. the building but invGs-
tigation showed that the ear he was
driving still bore marks of paint
Which compared with the paint on
the building at the point where 1t
had been struck. He later admitted
he hit the store and agreed to pay
damages.
Investigation showed that the ear
had left the Fourth street pavement
Just before reaching Vine street. 1t
had crashed over a service station
sign, ran over both eurbs Of Vine
street and then smashed into the
store. The entire south side of the
building on the north side was push
dation and the front part of the
building On the north side VISA push
ed awry. Canned goods, bottles and
other. stock stacked ON the shelves
was in mass. on the floor. The pro
prietor was unable to get the doors
open to enter to discover the exact
extent of the damage.
The case was put over for one
week when it came up for hearing
before Judge Perkins this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
ELM NOTES

ELM, Aug. l7-Mrs. +. o. Ros-
enbaum and family are cnjoving a
visit with Mrs. Roscnbaum : par.
ents and friends near Stockton.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. l.. Dawes and
children mOtOred TO the mountains
Sunday.
Lewis Boone, who has been at
Live Oaks, is now visiting with his
father in the valley.
Mr.. Ehmke metored to San Diego
and spent the week end
Margaret and Hazel Thomas werc
guests at the John LabruchcriG
home Sunday.
The home Of T. G.. Boone was the
scene of merry old fashioned
"Tackey party Saturday night.
Oat door games were played and
prizes were given the best costumes.
Delicious refreshments were served
to the following group: Elnor Ehm'
ke, James Coblcigh, Glen, Haskell,
Leroy Haskell, Hazel Frost, Mar
garet Tmomas. John La Rrucherie,
Mildred Ehmkc. Horace Bias, Rose
La.brncberie, Ruth Ebmke, Chester
Ehmke, Teddy and Jules Ebmkc,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Boone and
Ruth, Shirley, Melvin and Dick
Boone.
Esther Ehmke is home from San
Diego.
Vivian Haskell is the guest OF
Grace Perry at Lomita.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Henry Frost and
daughter enjoyed a visit at Jacum
la Sunday.
Mrs. o. A. Kirk spent Monday
visiting at the home Of Mrs Ernest
kilgore.
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. l.. Boone and
son Russell were Imperial visitors
Monday.
Il. H. Boone returned from ia
cumba Monday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
MONEY YOU LIKE TO
SPEND

ls when you get value received
and little more.
Marsh has many travelling Gus.
toners who save up their cleaning
for the Imperial valley trip.
And many Of his customers carry
work to him-"over the hill"-all
summer long.
Splendid help, highest grade
chemicals, modern machinery, and
really Interested Servicc.'
Let us prove it to YOU!
Phone 435,-Marsh.
(Be Sure It's Marsh.) adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17
Uses Plane To
!. Reach His Son
ny Unstea rre.s Leased wire.

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. lin a
desperate effort to reach the side of
his four year old son Matthew, re-
ported critically ia in San Fran
cisco hospital, Dr. NJ. +. O'keefe,
prominent Council Bluffs. Iowa
surgeon boarded an air mail plane
today here enroute to the coast
city. .
An operation is necessary for- the
boy, according to advices reaching
DR.. o 'keefe
The sirmail plane was nine hours
late when it left here this. morn
ing. 1t hoped off at 9:l5 A. N.
and. according to superintendent
Caldwell Of the local field, should
reach San Francisco at O'Clock
tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

A county library with nine
branches has just been instituted
in klamath county, Oregon.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

The wheat growers of Columbia,
county, Washington. viii poci their
wheat this var.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

It is estimated that the number
Of farm in Washington has inereas
ed 1900 since 1924.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

The Lompoc district Of Santa
Barbara eonuty viii harvest 10000
bags of beans this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-17

Corvallis, Oregon, complains of a
marked increase of the erwig pest
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
CONSERVE AND BUILD SOIL

The world will need fresh water no" was
tod for irrigation, and rich soil, now washeo
bv millions of tons into the Gulf and the ocean
;f Professor. A. E. Ross, of Wisconsin, learned
soco,ooist is accurate in his figures.
He saws the earth's population will multiply
itself bv thirty-two by the year 2027. That date
Is only 100 years away, and when II roiis
swiftly around-some children now living VIII
see 1.-THE population of the world VIII De
sixty billions. instead of one billion nine nun
dred millions, as at present
Those figures are based on the fact that lie
lasts longer, plaques and famines no longer
rage over the earth, even war is mllder, since
women. children and prisoners are no longer
massacred
The figures need not brighten us. God does
not let trees gro winto the heavens Texas
alone could feed the earth's present popula-
ton with intensive cultivation, and have much
left over.
But 60 billions, and later 100 billions, OF hu-
man beings will need plenty of fertile ground
and governments should begin to get it ready
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
sHhREszEa2zz tkSzzasza@s
SPOTIIGHTS
ON
PEOPLE =
Strenuous Parade
] Md: : {. Gselders

Any parade taxes the patience, IT
not the endurance of those participant
ing. 1t is pitiful that first aid prepa-
rations have always had to be made
for the care of old veterans marching
in the lines at reunions. Frequently
someone has died from the over-exer-
ton and excitement of emotions.
Mothers are always concerned at
their small children standing in line
for hours or marching through dusty
streets at times of city demonstra-
tions for distinguished visitors.
At a recent celebration in New
Zealand welcoming the British Duke
of York, there were 10000 children
assembled. Nearly hundred of these
tainted during the exercises. The
Duke of York was deeply moved at
this and went to the first aid station
to visit them and be assured of their
good treatment and recovery. While
little children can keep on their feet
all day apparently when moving
about at will, great difference is
seen in the restraint of motion and
continuous standing, or even in pro-
longed sitting. They are to be pltled
when so hampered. Though willing in
spirit the flesh is weak.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS

There is merit in the proposal of the traffic
division of the National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce that traffic laws, on highways
and steets in cities, should be made uniform.
Naturally physical conditions as to streets,
the angles of intersections and the congestion
in the trading areas, ETC., make it Impossible
to have all traffic laws including parking reg
uations uniform as to cities, but there are
number of outstanding problems, such as reck-
lessness, passing street cars, needing light sig
mails, huggingthe curbing, speeding drunken
drivers, and the like, that can be made uniform
and there can be worked out uniformity as
to rigid penalties for violations.
On the main highways the demand for uni
formity in laws, due to the enormous interstate
travel, is almost imperative.
1t is assured that the Hoover committee, al
ready committed to uniformity, will give at
tention to this-Atlanta Constitution.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
MAY LIST SPECIAL DAY

May ! has ever been festival day
to celebrate the lavishness of nature
In Europe it is labor day, and usu-
ally ushers in drastic changes or de-
mands. In America it is designated
child health or child welfare day,
and educational organizations OBJ
serve it in appropriate ways. May l
is also national egg day. We might
study the superior value of eggs
over meat as a food for children,
and the attractive and varied ways
that it is possible to offer them in
the daily menu. Many persons who
agree that eggs are fine food for
children and for weak adults need
to be enlightened on the energy Civ,
Il ing properties they have for men who
perform manual labor. One egg
gives the nourishment afforded by q
pound OF, beefsteak.. For this reason
| it is possible to overdo the measure
for a proper equivalent, reckoning by
bulk and by appetite rather than BY
food value.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
Lumberjacks Read.

The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany of Montana sends a travelling
library with the employees out into the
remote places that their work calls
them.
A box car has been fitted with open
book leases, tables and chairs and
comfortably heated and lighted and at
each stop the car is side-tracked to a
convenient place, steps lowered and
the library is opened for business.
One department is operated for SER
vice to the more remote and tempo
rary camps further out in the wilds,
where the railroad track has not pene-
trated. Other methods of transport
ing the books are used for these. Last
year 5000 loggers used 5000 books
and at leisure hours the library is all
ways filled with readers. The Mis-
soula county free library co-operates
with the company in providing the
books.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
ADVERTISING IN WEEKLY

recent issue of the Dry Goods Economist,
leading trade publication for manufacturers
iobbers and dry goods dealers, contained
leading article strongly urging more general
use of weekly newspapers as advertising me-
diurs. Extracts from the article follow:
whether your advertising appropriation IS
= few hundred dollars or hundred thousand,
there is one form of advertising which, II you
overlook. YOU will be many hundreds of dollars
ont of pocket This advertising is in the weekly
or country newspapers in the towns OF from
900 TO 5000 population in our trade territory.
COG into the home of the farmer any time IN
the week, and what paper do you ind consplc-
nous on the table, in the hands OF some
member of the family? 1t is not your daily IN
which you have page advertisement "nlch
cost YOU perhaps more than five vars OF ad-
vertising in the small sheet would cost.
at is the little country paper, which tells
about old man Clark dying, George and Mary
Brown having a new fiivver. 1t may have an &C.
count of barn dance at Henry Smiths, ana an
item about the new baby at Bill Wilson's, VINO
looks lust like daddy
.If Won will pardon personal illustration:
The writer was for number of years on
naper was read by a family named Lyman. 1t
was then passed on to Mrs. Lyman's sister, who
in turn gave it to niece and she sent it to
sister in Canada, who read it and again passed
if on to another sister in South America The
last sent back to the city of Burlington, Iowa,
three months after certain advertisement
was run, and inquired about a silk dress adver-
tised in this paper, giving the date. dress was
eventually shipped to South America, through
the ad in the small town paper.
"The writer has been in homes many times,
the day after the weekly publication day, to
find last weeks paper still being read by some
member of the family.
"This is not fiction-it is fact. No man can
plow or plant all day, take care OF his chores
and have time to read the dailies. Therefore
the farmers eliminate the expense, take theI
home paper for the news right around home
and read it Sunday. Would you like to have
your ad read, in the leisurely Sunday reading?
1t will not cost you as much for dozen small
town papers as the continuous large ads In the
city papers with which you aim to catch coun-
try trade" Walton Tribune.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
ERA OF WONDERS

There are many citizens here who lived in
the age that had neither, the automobile, the
radio, the movies nor the airplane. The first
two of these great inventions have been devel-
oped within the financial reach of average fam
lilies, and the latter has developed to a point
where thirteen postoffice lines fly more than
2OOO 900 miles each year AS for the movies,
they are in every neighborhood and millions
of dollars are expended in producing single
feature.
These four great factors in modern life have
come into being in the last quarter century.
What will happen by 1850? The question is
interesting and the answer possible.
The further development of aerial commerce
is certain and discounted. The most promising
field, in our opinion, is already apparent IN
the progress of television. Already news photo
graphs are sent by wire for instantaneous
transfer Last week the reproduction of hight
waves was utilized to demonstrate that an au-
dience in New York could see Secretary Hoo
yer, in Washington, at the same time that they
listened to his speech
The radio and the telephone have success
fully reproduced sound. When the scene it
self is also reproduced, distance is almost an
initiated. In time millions will be able to see
and hear what transpires at distant places
Think of going to little box, twisting few
dials and being able to watch and listen to a
presidential inauguration, an athletic contest
or some other great spectacle!
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
Mothers Vacation.

The department Of Agriculture
which directs the state service extern
sion sponsoring the All clubs, en-
dorses the club encampments that are
yearly held in some of the western
states and is showing pictures of
these in educational films. One of
these film stories is called Mother
Takes a Vacation" The home eco
Monies agents find these vacations
for mothers the finest work they do.
The tired housewives get the advan-
tage of seeing improved methods and
learning from experts the correct and
the economical ways Of. preparing
foods but they are not allowed to do
any work when on this week vacation
and are called to meals and excused
from the table as formally as visitors
which is a novel experience in the
life of the majority of them. These
encampments are not as widely pro-
NOTED as they probably will be, when
the pictures are more generally cir
culated and the idea of their value
takes hold of different communities.
Once begun, the plan for a Mothers
Vacation will not lose favor, and more
of them are being arranged every
year wherever the All clubs are do
ing effective work.