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The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
WraRgell Theatre
POKER FACES" A COMEDY
 DRAMA OF 1000 LAUGHS

A roaring riot of sparkling com edy in dress clothes directed by that neyer-fai1ing king of comedy drama, Harry Pollard. is announced on the program of the Wrangell Theatre next Saturday and Sunday evenings, when Poker Faces, ," starring Edward Everett Horton and Laura La Plante will be shown in the fastest, funniest farce of the year.
 They broke up housekeeping over a rug he wouldn't buy. They hat ed" each other until the little green god of jealousy poked it's head into the situation. Then followed com plications that ended in a wild scramble of husbands and wives which all went to prove the little moral-neyer bluff your wife un- less you have the cards!
 The brilliant cast includes Leon Holmes, George Siegmann. Dorothy Revier. Tom O'Brien and Tom Ricketts There are 1000 laughs. in the 90 joy packed minutes it takes to work out the delirious di- lemma of a nice young man with two wives, but no claim to either of themi
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
SURVEY BOAT WILL MAKE NEW HISTORY
 OF YUKON SECTION
Anchorage Times

(Anchorage I1meS)
 The United States government survey boat Beaver, which Capt. K c. Talmage, commander of the fleet of boats operated in the territory by the Alaska game commission, is en route to Fairbanks to launch, arrived at Seward on the freighter Denali last week and was shipped by train to Fairbanks on Monday
 Captain Talmage who has been in Anchorage visiting old friends and attending to official business since Monday, will leave on tomor- rows train for the interior to su- pervise the launching.
 The vessel was built at the ship yards of Schertzer Bros. on Lake Washington, Seattle, and was ehristened by Mrs. Leona Talmage, wife of Captain Talmage, assisted by her two sons, when the survey boat went down the ways into Lake Washington.
 The water used to christen the Beaver was brought to Seattle from the Yukon in the form of ice and melted there and then placed in the bottle which was broken on the bow.
 The Beaver is to be used on the Yukon river and it's tributaries to make a new history of the country.
 The Beaver is 43 feet long and 12 feet inches wide and is very light draft, only drawing ten inches of water. This is because it will often times go to places where there is very shallow water The craft will be driven by 50-60 Red Wing en- zine, which will give it a speed of eleven miles an hour. Anchorage Times.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
Danger

Watch for the daily programs.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
DISCUSS CAUSE MISSISSIPPI
 FLOOD

Why does each succeeding great flood in the Mississippi river break all records?
 Why does the menace to life and property on this stream grow greater each year?
 Perhaps the most important fac tor, according to a bulletin from the Washington, D. O., headquar- ters of the National Geographic society, is the usually laudable eff fort of the Americans to develop and build up their country.
 Fewer Forests
 Aside from the fact that several decades ago there were fewer peo- ed, the region subject to overflow in the lower Mississippi valley says the bulletin, "the flood stages were actually lower in those days They were lower, to consider one important fact, for the very good reason that then less water was fed into the Mississippi's 100. .000 tributaries in a given space of time. Forests and woodlawns that do not now exist held large part of the rainfall and fed it slowly into brooks and creeks and rivers. IT, regularities in the lie of the land formed puddles that later eYapOr- ated,- or sent rills in tortuous paths that slowed up the run-off.
 Tn late years a constantly in creasing population has been busy changing these conditions. Every tree cut, every roof built, every street paved, every drainage ditch dug, and every culvert constructed in the vast area drained by the Mississippi river system has done its bit toward pouring rainfall more quickly into the great river.
 Sometimes 40 Miles Wide
 Not only has man helped to put moe water into the Mississippi; his works have helped to confine il there. When De Soto and his fol- lowers first knew the Mississippi it spread out at each flood season over a wide area. Sometimes in it's low CT reaches it was 20, 30 and even 40 miles wide. It was truly the Father of Waters
 "The fact that the flood waters spilled away at numerous places into swamps and lowlands kept the flood crest down in the lower river. Tn TIT three-foot leyees protected New Orleans Now they rise 20 feet or more above the city. Even as late as 1882 the highest flood stage at New Orleans was 16 feet. In 1922 it was above 22 feet; and the present rise threatens to exceed that figure. One reason, at least, for this, is that more efficient levee maintenance for many hundreds of miles along the river has herded the flood waters past New Orleans as we'll as other lower river points in the regular channel.
 Leyees Affect Wide Area
 More intensive development of the lowlands has made this leveee
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26

most without exception have been selected for permanent settlements Columbus, Ky; Randolph .and Memphis, Tenn; Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, and Natehez, Miss, and Ba- ton Rouge, La, all lie on these in- frequent left-bank bluffs which, geologists say, represent the re- mains of coastal promontories about an ancient sea"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
INQUIRIES FOR BROTHER

Through the Salvation Army in quiry is made for Karl Oskar Eriks- son born in Lovanger, Sweden, Au- gust 10, 1866; slender and medium height; brown hair, blue eyes; missing since November, 1905, was last heard from in Seattle where he stated in a letter that he should marry and travel to Alaska. His brother is the enquirer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
OFF AND ON

You give your clerks two week vacation, don't your" asked a friend.
 "A month," grunted the eminent hardware dealer.
 "A month";"
 "'Yes. The two weeks when I go on my vacation and the two weeks when they go on theirs"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
MOTHER" LANG BRINGS
 VAUDEVILLE PERFORMERS

Starting Monday, Mother" Lang with her Juvenile Bostonians, as sisted by Beverly Robarts and oth- CTS, will furnish the principle en- tertainment at the Wrangell Thea tre. An entire change of program every night. Don't miss this chance to see some real good entertain ment.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
Press Notices of Beverly Robarts

Miss Robarts has an act that bewilders as well as entertains. She really headlines the show; hel 20 minutes appearance is all too brief to satisfy the audience. "-Se- tile Daily Times.
 How does she do 1t? That's what patrons of the Embassy Thea tre are asking each other after witnessing Beverly Robarts act on character analysis. Miss Robarts is the most skilled practitioner of character reading that local audi enees have seen in many months. :" Seattle P.-L.
 Watch for the daily programs.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26

square miles are dependent on the levees for protection. Breaks still occur, and when they do drain off some of the flood waters and so re- lieye in some measure the strain on the banks farther down the stream But it is not the inocuous affair that it was in the days of De Soto Now towns and plantations, rail- ways and industrial plants lie in the lowlands, and any relief that a levee break may occasion to down river points is at a cost of many lives and much valuable property
 '0n the whole considerable quantity of water finds it's way from the lower Mississippi through leYee breaks and bayous. The most important natural safety valve is the Atchafalaya river or bayou which flows away from the Mis- sissippi at the mouth of the Red river. and finds it's way directly to the Gulf of Mexico some 50 miles west of New Orleans. In flood times this outflowing stream takes from the swollen Father of Waters as much as 350,000 cubic feet of water each second-an amount equal to more than half the average flow of the Mississippi. It is be- cause, of such losses as this. coup led with the much greater depth of the channel in the lower I.yer, that the flood stage can be between 50 and 50 feet at Memphis Yicks- burg, and only a little more than 20 at New Orleans.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
ASK YOUR MA

"Pa," said Clarence. what is a peace offering?"
 Anything from a box of candy to a fur coat. son." replied his dad
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26

UtnRtI Troliey-'What are you doing with that red lantern?" Wire-"I found it. Some poor nut left it out in the road beside a hole. le.''-Powergrams.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
Levees Affect Wide Area

More intensive development of the lowlands has made this leveee system necessary. Now some 29,000
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-26
30 States Swell Its Waters

30 States Swell Its Waters
 "The Mississippi river system is truly a continental feature. drain ing a million and a quarter of the three million odd square miles of the United States. Thirty of the 4S states send a greater or less contri- button of water to this great stream. Even New York, Penn sylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, with frontages on the Atlantic, are tapped by it's tribu- taries. Of the inland states only fiye-Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Ari- drainage tribute to the Father of Waters
 ''The main Mississippi river is more than 2500 miles long, while the Mississippi-Misso is 4200 miles in length-the longest river system in the world. The great scale on which the Mississippi is built becomes evident when one considers the time required for floods to pass down its course About 30 days are required for the surging flood crest to pass from the mouth of the Ohio to New Or leans, and from 10 days to two weeks, from Greenyille. Miss, to New Orleans.
 Banks Undeveloped
 Most travellers, in trayersing the lower Mississippi river, are astounded at the deserted aspect of long stretches of the banks. It is almost as though one were on g stream running through an unin- habited land. In the case of such river. flowing through extensive lowlands, this must be true, save in lands of teeming population.
 ''The Mississippi is so treacher- ous, it's definite course is so tenta- tive, that in the lower regions next to the river little development has yet been possible. Tangled forests and stretches of sand follow in weary succession as the river makes its way in great bends and loops. The deserted aspect is par ticularly marked on the right bank, which is lowest. On the left, rocky bluffs aDuear at intervals and aI-
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
JORDAN EXPECTS
HOOVER WILL BE
FAVORED HERE
Nv United Press Leased Wire

FRESNO. Car, Aug. -9.-Cali-
fornia Republicans will choose be-
tween a Californian, Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover and
Frank Lowden, former governor of
Illinois, when they go to the polls
at the presidential primary next
May, Secretary of State Frank G..
Jordan preuicted during visit
here last night.
While it would be reasonable
to suppose. Jordan said, that
Secretary Hoover could carry his
state for his delegates to the con-
vention. Lowden has some strength
here. .--....#
Hoover is Californian and
probably the most able man in the
president s cabinet. He could fill
the bill as chief executive. The
secretary of commerce. however, Is
not campaigner. He has not yet
demonstrated his ability to get
votes. On the other hand Lowden
is a vote getter and has the svmpa-
thy of the farmers. 1t looks like
a fight between Hoover and Low
den.
Jordan predicted the selection of
san Francisco as the Republican
partv's convention city.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
THEATERS

The old axiom, hackneyed yet
still as true as ever, that the
criminal always returns to the scene
of the crime bears an important
part in the thrilling plot Of :" Held
bv the Law the Universal-Jewel
production directed by Edward La
emmle, which comes to the. Airdome
theater tomorrow night.
But one tiny bit OF evidence ex-
ists which can possibly connect the
real slayer with the murder for
whicn an innocent man has been
sentenced to die. The murderer
knows OF this evidence, and that
if he can return and destroy it, he
will be safe forever.
This is the situation on which
the denQuement of the plot OF
Held by the Law revolves, and
Edward Laemmle, director of the
picture, points out that the plausi-
bility OF it has been worked out in
scores of real crimes.
The means of discovering of
criminals by. police, which seems to
be so amazing are i'll reality often
very simple. In almost every ease
the criminal after having gotten
safely away is generally caught by
one of two ways. Either morbid
or fearful curiosity will force him
to 90 back TO the territory of the
crime, or, having once gotten safely
away, he will attempt TO communi-
cate with friends or relatives. Po-
lice declare that almost ever Grim
inal is caught either by the one or
the other, and it is this fact on
which the plot Of Held by the
Law is based.
Johnnie Walker and Marguerite
de la Motto play the principal roles
I'M Held by the Law" supported
by Robert Cher. Ralph Lewis, f. }.
Ratcliffe, Fred Kelsey, Maude
Wayne and others.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
COURT PLACES
THO MPSON ON
GOOD BEHAVIOR.

An interesting family tangle was
unrayeled before Judge X. r. Per
kins in city court this morning, the
court settling the matter by dis
missing charges against W. J.
Thompson of GAO Adams street for
the purpose of filing new com
plant. 1t was understood that as
long as Thompson behaves properly
no. new charges would be pressed
against him.
Mrs. Elsie Sinclair was the first
witness called in the ease. She told
of having cared for the Thompson
baby yesterday afternoon and last
night while the Thompsons went
out. She said that when they re.
turned they called for the baby and
that few minutes later she heard
= eommotion and Mrs. Thompson
calling for help. She knew they had
had trouble before, so she called her
brother, w. II. Rhodes, of 452 Olive
street and he summoned the police.
With this testimony it appeared
that Thompson had apparently
struck his wife, but the wife. and
Thompson both denied this. Thomp
son appeared to have been in a
fight when he was called to the
desk but he explained that his face
had been badly burned a few days
previous and that blood which was
spread over his clothing had come
from a cut on his finger which he
had suffered from a broken window
in an automobile.
|, Mrs, Thompson said that the baby
had fallen from the bed, which ae-
counted for the thump heard By
Mrs. Sinclair and that she had
tainted when she saw how badly
her husband had been cut by the
glass. Thompson admitted that he
had been drinking prior to the time
OF his arrest but denied having
abused or struck his wife. 1t was
| brought out that Thompson has fiji
eel suit for divorce against Mrs
Thompson.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
WHAT THEY TELL NQURING REPORTER
NEWS OF THE PUBLIC ON SERIOUS AND NEAR-sER1ous
TOPICS

The Inquiring Reporter was faced
with the usual problem of finding
enough people on the streets to in
terview Saturday, most of the fam-
iliar faces having disappeared for
the week end; so She decided to see
what the man who works with bis
hands had to say for himself. The
question was: ..,... lr
do you think the man who
holds down q so called white
collar job is more fortunate
than the man who does manual
labor?''
IF I did. Ia Il" laoking for tn"
other kind said Bill Morris. Civ
ing the belt that kept his trousers
and Shi-. from par ing company Il
hitch. II work ON the roads, for
the eoun V. | get my pay regularly,
and wh"a my day 5 work is through
m done. l don't have to worry
because something don't add UP
right, or ] have given somebody the
wrong change. | have one boss AMI
hc the ohIN person 1 nave 10 Try
to please. | IN satisfied to do what
IN DOING
Fred Grossman was looking at
some men : shoes in store window.
THE white collar man thinks
lie s more Fortunate he grinned-
but don think he j.. we been
blowing for the men who are get
ting ready to plant lettuce. l make
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
Hit and Run Car
Gets Two Victims
py united Press Leased wire

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. ~. -
Struck by hit and run driver. Tex
Roper, %, fruit grower of Penryn,
was found in dying condition near
his automobile today on the man
highway in north Sacramento.
A companion, y. Pigott, assistant
manager of the New Castle Fruit
Exchange. was also seriously iniur,
cd. and was in q dazed condition
when passing motorists discovered
The wreck. Pigott said the two were
on their. way. TO Sacramento, when
they were struck by another ear,
which drove on, 49,, .,lt e,s.,
Roper was taken to Sacramento
county hospital, where it was SAID
h!s injuries would prove fatal
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
City Profits in
Police Court

Judge X. B. Perkins forfeited
$500 in bail this morning when Y.
Kuma OF 42S Broadway and NJ.
Matsui Of 500 Broadway failed to
put in appearances in answer to
charges of unlawful possession of
Intoxicating liquor. Both had post
ed bail for appearance at g o clock
this morning. Kuma being. released
under $500 cash bond and Matsui
under 5000 cash bond.
Both were arrested late Friday
afternoon when visits were paid to
their respective places by city pa
,rolmen, led by federal agent. y
srau quantity of alleged liquor was
seized in Matsui's place while moth
ing was found in the hotel conduct
ed by Kuma but in shack at the
rear, facing Commercial street,
more than 80 bottles of saki Were
foun1
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
Officer Brings
Two Prisoners

Deputy Sheriff Ray Poole return
ed from trip to the northern part
of the state yesterday afternoon,
bringing two prisoners back to IL
Centre.
One is Jerry Wolfe, "a, Of Los
Angeles. wanted in Calexico on
charge of driving while under the
Influence Of intoxicating liquor and
reckless driving. He was arrested
on warrant issued by Judge Lo-
REM.
X. Ohama. 80, was the other prs
oner returned. Ohama is wanted
here on complaint of II. Matsuma on
a charge of failure to pay wages
when due. He was arrested IN
Oroya G,ande or = warrant issued
by Judge Nayt:e!d.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
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LOLA MuNTEz

We read with interest of the wo-
men of history such rs Pompadour
and DuBarry, but few know that
the last great adventures spent
several years in California. She
was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna
g Gilbert, daughter of British army
captain. However it was as. Lola
Montez, a yonng dancer of no par
ticular ability but of marvellous
beauty, that she became the favorite
of the King of Bavaria and for two
years practically ruled the country.
She was finally .banished and came
to America, settling in Grass Val
ley in 1858. Here she amused and
entertained the populace with her
dancing Especially the tarantula
dance,) lecturing, as the temper
amental wife of pioneer editor, as
the owner of odd pets, two of
which were full grown grizzly bears
chained on each side Of her door,
and because Of her eccentric and
fiery exposition.
Why did the stare take over the
printing of textbooks Ger schools!
Because of the existence of a
textbook publishers, combination
which charged exorbitant prices
aud induced frequent and unneces-
sary, changes in textbooks used.
n ho were some of the famous
riders of the. Pony Express'
Harry Rolf. Bill Cody, "Pony
Bob '(Robert Haslam,) and Kit
Carson.
Who named Kern River,
Col John c. Fremont named ,hc
river in December, lSa5, after Ed
Nard N. Kern. ,o;'o, rapher and ar.
list of that, his third expedition.
The Indian name for the river was
Po sun-co-la.
Questions For Tomorrow
Where is the Nooking bird found
in California!
How manv railr' "a tunnels on
;hc Southe;r Pacific railway be
tween Los Angeles end San Fran
ci:cos
Why are the California Indians
called Diggers''
(Scnd your California questions
to this Department.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
Three Poisoned
By Cyanide Gas
ny United Press Leased Wire

FULLERTON, Calf, Aug. 90
Three persons were recovering to-
day from cyanide gas poisoning,
sustained Saturday night near a
Placentia citrus funligation rig.
Gordon Wilson, fumigator, was
overcome by the lethal gas which
has was transferring from a drum
TO a pump.
Mrs. M. L. Slough, who had 'driv
en- her automobile to the yard of
her home nearby, was overcome
when she rushed to the aid Of Viii
son despite warnings of his fellow
workers, who rescued both of them.
Beverly johnson, eight, seated sin
Mrs. Slough S automobile, was over
come by the fumes which drifted
20 feet in a quantity sufficient to
render her insensible.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29

as good money as the fellows in tn,
offices and | don't have to spent
it all to keep my collars launderet
either 80
g But isn't it awful to work ii
the heatf" the reporter asked
"Sure it is,' he answered cheer
fully. "lt's hot to work. in an of
flee. too, but l think we men work
in the fields can stand the heat bet
ter because we get SO much eXer
else that we re in better, phvsiea
condition than the fellows with the
inside jobs. --....-
Terry McCann lit his pipe before
he answered.
"Sure and l do not he deelar
ed. when the tobacco was going
nicely. Il had an inside job once
oiling pumps in a sugar factory. 1t
WASH t what you'd call a white col,
lar job 1 suppose, but it was an in
side one anyway. l don't want any
more. With every body running
around and talking at once, and 10
or dozen bosses yelling different
things at you l almost went crazy.
l work on the section now and have
only the foreman to argue with and
my own crew to fight with. No
more inside jobs for me. -
- -
81 think it depends on the man,
said r. F. Faweett when the ques-
tion was put to him. "Some men.
even when they can hold down only
small office jobs haven't the health
to do hard manual labor, but if
man with only a limited education
and only an average mind is pi.ysi-
cally able to work with his hands
he will make more money than by
sticking to an office. I Went
through high school, but I'm not
trained in any profession and as m
not one of those fellows you read
about in the advertisements who
got to be president of the hank by
reading the Literary Digest AMI
using Iisterine, I think III keep
on driving truck for a while. There
are some fellows who, are doing
manual labor though, who I think
would be a lot happier clerking in
q store.'
"They certainly are moro for
tunate,' said o. L. Brown. "They
may not make as much money as
we laborers, but at least people con
slider them to be gentlemen. They
get little fun out of life anyway,
and we working fellows don't. !
never went to school much. but !
like nice. things-an dnicc girls-as
well as anybody. The good looking
girls won have a thing to 10 with
a fellow like me though-and J
don t seem to care much about the
other kind
II gness it 5 about fifty-fifty,
said "Red' Donovan. "The white
collar boys may make lite more
MONEY than We do. but tiey have
to spend io- more to hold their
Jobs. 1t looks like the more you
know and the longer it tool; YOU to
learn it, the less yea get paid for
it. / can make SO a da.i- anl be-
ter in the rantaloupe a16 lettuce
season and tE.u 5 as much rs some
office managers make-only | don I
have much to worry aicrt. And
what l make l can keep
All of which goes to prove that
"a man $ a man for a that.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-29
Radicals Blamed
for Mystery Fires
By United Press Leased Wire

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 29.-Mys-
terious fires that damaged four
fire houses and four other buildings
here and in Cambridge, were invcs
tigatcd by police today. .. .....
The fires appeared to have been
incendiary. In every case they
started soon after firemen had left
their stations in response to alarms.
One of the eight fires caused s2o,-
900 damage to the Brighton Street
freight house of the Boston and
Maine. railroad. 4.- ,s. .e,.
Kerosene soaked rags, chips and
paper were. found in nearly all the
damaged structures. Y.,
One man was arrested last night
but was released after questioning.