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Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

WANTED-Salesmen. A clean deal.
Plenty of leads. Plenty of money.
Room 10, ITO No. Sixth st. 25t3
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PRESS WANT AID SECTION

WILL c. NEWELL, buying hay
for Kenneth r. Simpson & Co. Is
at the Oregon Hotel this week.
Leave address or phone. 26tb
FOR RENT room modern house.
with garage, gas already con-
nected. 521 Hamilton Ave. See
Nuffer Land Co. 508 Main st.
Phone 45W. 26tf
FOR RENT-Two room furnished
apartment. Hot water. $3.50 pei
week. Apply Mrs. Land, Mission
Apartments. 26t2
apartment. 704 State. 26tt
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For Rent-Houses

FOR RENT-Small, furnished
house, reasonable. 1925 Ell Centre
Ave. 24t4
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FOR RENT-Furnished four room
house. 1881 w. Main. lStf
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

FOR RENT-Strictly modern apart
ments and rooms, hot and cold
water, attractive rates. Hotel FL
liott, Imperial. Phone 81. 29tf
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

ROOMS and apartments. Hollywood
Hotel. III
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

WANTED-Board and room for 4
people. Couple employed. See Mrs.
Barnes, NJ. o. Kings. 5tf
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For Rent-Farn1 Land

FOR RENT-For three years, 20
acres fine soil, all in alfalfa anG
barley, near Bonds Corner on new
Boulevard. Very reasonable rent.
Z. w. Macarthur q B. II. Lien,
Barbara Worth Bldg. 1Stf
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EX-MARINE wants immediate en-
ployment, any kind. d. NJ. Doug
lass, care Stevens Hotel. Phone
222. 26tc
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FOR RENT -5recp,ng rooms and
apartment. 643 Olive. 26tf
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Help Wanted

SALES PEOPLE. Call at Room 10,
ITO No. Sixth st. Real money
quick. 25t3
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Household Goods

CkENS-Dressed OF undressed
1882 Woodward. Phone 966. 25ti
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For Rent--Ro0nas

APARTMENTS and rooms for rent.
Close in. no Broadway. 20t6
Evening star., 1928-03-28
PROBE OF TRANSFER
OF DETECTIVES ENDS
Grand Jury Asks Courts Instruc-
ticn on Whether to Report to
Gibson Committee,

The District grand jury, today an
nounced to Chief Justice Waiter l.
Mccoy in Criminal Division l. that it
has completed its inquiry into the rea-
sons for the transfer of Precinct De
tective Arthur Fihelly and of Policeman
George Helmuth. because OF their al
legged activity in gambling cases Mar
TIN D. McQuade. foreman OF the grand
Jury. asked the court for instructions
as 10 how the matter should be re-
ported by the grand jurors. He told
the court that he had been directed
by the Gibson committee TO make this
inquiry and wished TO know whether
he should make his report To the court
alone or also to the committee,
Chief Justice Mccoy declared that the
grand Jury owes its duty TO the court
To which il presents indictments or
notices of cases ignored, and If It has
any other report TO make. it should
be MADE to the court and when filed
such reports becomes public property.
Out Of courtesy TO the Gibson COM
mittee, since 1t is known to be inter-
eSted in the contents of the report,
the chief justice suggested that the
United States Attorney be furnished
with a copy of the report and the pro-
ceedings which that official might
transmit to the Congressional COM
mittee
The foreman was not prepared today
to say when the report will be ready
for filing but as the life OF the present
grand jury expires next Monday, the
report must be in the hands Of the
court by the close Of that day.
Evening star., 1928-03-28

The governor has signed bill max
Ing complete codification Of the bank
ing laws.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
ROPER ASKS PARTY
TOBAN DRY ISSUE.
Democrats Urged to Drop
Prohibition for Campaign
on Corruption.

Shelving the prohibition issue by Dem
ocratic candidates for the presidency is
urged by Daniel c Roper, who was
Assistant Postmaster General and In
ernal Revenue Commissioner during the
Wilson administration.
But Mr. Roper also urges that the
issue be Shelved in the immediate in
tereSt of the drys His plea is that the
/ Democrats be given eight years TO en-
force the prohibition laws and then if
they have not been successful the dry
Democrats shall Join with the vets to
repeal the dry laws
he proposed To take the wet issue out
II the coming campaign and concentrate
on corruption" with which he charges
he Republican party,
Would Eliminate Three.
II Mr. Roper's plan should be carried
out neither Gov Smith OF New York or
Senator Reed Of Missouri nor Gov.
Ritchie OF Maryland would be the party
standard bearer this year Mr.. Roper
is strongly advocating the nomination
OF Senator Walsh of Montana dry and
Catholic. Mr. Roper during the cam
paign of 1924 was a strong supporter of
the nomination Of William G McAdoo.
Mr Roper'S views were set forth in
letters written 10 Democratic friends.
III one of these letters nc says there
is IN my opinion but one constructive
and satisfactory course for all Demo-
cratic candidates for the presidency this
year to follow on prohibition II is this.
State that they believe in law observ-
ance and law enforcement: that such
I If ~
Government. Let them say as Democrats
we are not willing to accept the Rcpub-
( lican failure in law enforcement for
our conclusion that the eighteenth
amendment cannot be enforced.
Urges Eight Year Test.
Let them ask that the people give
a constructive and tair-minded leader
ship of the Democratic party eight wears
IN which to test out Democratic meth
DDS and If We are not more successful
/ at enforcement than the Republicans
have been III the last eight years that
We VIII Join them IN seeking the amend
ment or repeal of the law"
In another letter Mr.. Roper called
Senator Walsh the present day Tilden"
and urged his nomination He says:
| THE man whose mental skill and un-
swerving honesty and courage have
done so much to expose the conditions
is Hon Thomas J. Walsh He is the
present day Tilden and has rendered
a service to his country that places
him in bold relief as the proper leader
for the Democratic ticket this year
where the issue is Shall the government
Of the people be destroyed by corrup-
tionists or shall the money changers
De driven from the temple and free
! government re-established in the
people"
Evening star., 1928-03-28
SOUTHERN TO REAR |
HUGE STRUCTURE.
Architect Says New Building
at 18th and K viii Match
Surroundings.

The Southern Railway Building to be
erected on the southwest corner OF
Fifteenth and K streets viii be smonu-
mental structure in keeping with the
dignity and character of the University
Club, Veterans Bureau and other build
ingS in the vicinity, according to Waddy
Is, Wood architect, who described the
plans for the structure a public hear
tne Of the 1ouing Commission today in
the hoardroom of the District Building
MI Wood, togethcr with Daniel
Oh snnogfue and w. l. JeffericS. repre-
SCI. atiye Of the railway company, APP
pcs I'd before the commission 10 Sup-
port petition for a change in the
height restriction on the site OF the
proposed building from 90 to 10 feet,
The building would actually be 100 feet
high under The plans. with set backs
above lie feet
ACrOpolis as Model.
The exterior design Of the new build
ting. Mr.. Wood explained. is based on
the AcIppoliS at Athens. Perspective
drawings we're exhibited to show the
artistic effect.
The increased height limit was re-
oueSted. Mr.. Jefferies and MIR. O'Don-
oShue explained, because the railway
company was unable to acquire sufl-
eient property 10 erect a building lares
enough under the present 90-foot height
restriction TO accommodate its en-
ployeS 10 be retained in Washington.
Mrs Joseph Dufrense who succeeded
In having the commission in January
reEone her property. at the southeast
corner Of Seventeenth and 0 streets,
from residential 70 first commercial.
come before the commission again to-
cay 10 fight a proposal 10 change the
property back to its former status, She
said she was unable TO understand the
reason for the proposal TO put her
property back in a residential claSSifi-
cation after she had gone to the eX-
penSe Of developing il for commercial
use
Proposal for Rezoning.
Col William B. Ladue. Engineer
Commissioner. and chairman of the
Commission, took the responsibility for
originating the proposal 70 again rezone
the property, explaining that there was
nothing obscure. underhauded or i'm
proper" in this procedure. Lieut. Col.
u, S Grant. 3Td. director Of public
buildings and public parks Of the Ma
tional Capital and a member Of the
commission. asked Mrs. Dufrene II she
had not originally asked for the change
in zoning for the purpose Of establish
ing a cafeteria. whereas now she is
planning to openostOreS. Mrs. Dufrense
replied that she told the commission IN
January that 1t was her intention 10 eS-
tsblish any type Of business that would
be profitable.
The commission has Il other pro-
posed changes in zoning in addition 10
. number of proposed amendments to
the zoning regulations on its calendar
for consideration
Evening star., 1928-03-28
FRANCE TO MEET DEBT.

No approaches have been made by the
French government officially for a re-
vision Of the l928-20 annuitics on war
debts as reported in Paris dispatches
1t was learned today at the Treasury
OfFCialS pointed out. however that
under the Mellon -Berenger agreement
which has not yet been ratified. France
is expected to pay annually $4,000 900
on its debt France paid $40, 900 900
last February and is expected to pay
another Sl0000,000 in June.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
CROPS "UNFAIR" CHARGE.

The Federal Trade Commission to-
day announced that two instances of
unfair competition in commerce on the
part Of correspondence schools we're
settled through stipulation agreements" ="
The announcement said that one
school was charged with representing 1t
could teach pupils to qualify as auto
mobile truck, tractor on stationary en-
gine operators, no matter what their
previous experience, and that thousands
Of its pupils were holding good Jobs.
While the other school was said to rep
resent itself as conducting coarse of
instruction in bricklaying. The COM
mission said both schools agreed TO
cease and desist from the unfair prac-
tices charged
Evening star., 1928-03-28
INF0RMER C0NFESSES
TO PERJURY CHARGE
Held on $4,000 Bond for Action
of Grand Jury on Police
Accusation.

John walker. alias John T. Waters
IS years old, 1850 Linden street north
cast. a colored police mtormcr employed
al the ninth and second precincts
pleaded guilty before Judge Isaac II.
Hitt in Police Court this morning to a
charge of perjury. He TaS held for the
grand jury under Sl00C1 bond.
Walker was arrested Monday night by
Detective A. r. Fihelly and Policeman
c. c. Stepp Of the ninth precinct. who
had become suspicious of his activities
and had set q trap for him. In the
meanwhile r. b. Carroll of the second
precinct, had observed similar irreg-
tllaritieS in Walkers operations and had
sworn out q warrant for his arrest.
Walker is accused OF falsely reporting
buy Of liquor
Evening star., 1928-03-28
STOCKMEN DIE IN WRECK.

BONNER SPRINGS. Kans.. March
Is 0Sl.-Three stockmen were killed
and FIVE stock attendants we're injured
when 6 Rock Island freight crashed
into the rear OF a stock train near
here early today
The dead are Charles A. Lass. Riley.
Kans.: r. E Maxwell, Smith Center,
Ksns-, and Walter II. Perry. Council
Grove. Kans.- All the men we're asleep
IN the csboose Of the stock train No
trsinri1eri were injured
Evening star., 1928-03-28
Navy Yard EmnloYe Dies.

SpccIaI Dlspatch 10 The Star.
COTTAGE CITY. Md. March 28.-
Albert Lewis Youmans, 48 years old
machnist at the Navy Yard. Washing
ton. died yesterday at his home, 10
Central avenue here. of aplopleXy He
is survived by his widow. Mrs Edith l..
Youmans. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 2 30 pm. at his late home.
fnterment will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery
Evening star., 1928-03-28
Walt Whitman. Actor. Dies.

SANTA MONICA. Calf, March 20
tPl.-Walt Whitman. SO. character az.
tor OF the old school in his stage days
and for the past Is years prominent III
film character circles. died here vesicr-
day In his younger days, Whitman vas
wen known in New York, Boston and
Chicago
Evening star., 1928-03-28
TO HEROES AND GUESTS
HAVE BANQUET TONIGHT

Thirteen Candidates will Be In
itiated by Organization After Din
ner Festivities.
One hundred members OF the Heroes
of '76 and their guests are expected to
be present at the meeting and banquet
of the organization at $50 o'clock this
evening at L'Aiglon Club, Eighteenth
street and Columbia road, The BAN
quot will be followed by the initiation
Of i3 candidates who were officers In
the World War,
Among those invited are: Mai Gen.
Amos A. Fries. Mai. Gen. Merritt w.
Ireland, Col B. J. LLOYD. Lieut.. Comdr.
Homer N. Wallin. Capt George +. TN
macht, Rear Admiral T. j. Cowie, re-
tired. Mai Gen. Greed c. Hammond,
Lieut.. William r. Hamburger. Maj. Gen.
John l.. Glen, Capt. Edwin S. Bettle-
helm Col John Thomas Taylor. Brig,
Gen Charles r. KrauthofT, Capt. John
Lewis Smith and Col. Harry l.. Gil
christ.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
MEMORIAL BILL SIGNED.
Virginia Commission Empowered to
Contract $25O,O0O Structure.

Special Dispatch to The star
RICHMOND, Va March 28.-GoV.
Byrd has signed the bill providing
SIS, 900 for a World War memorial to
the Virginia soldiers in this city The
bill empowers a commission To contract
for memorial to cost $250000,
Promoters of the carlton plan would
be required to raise the $75.000 for the
bells In the tower TO be built
Evening star., 1928-03-28

A London vicar has proposed thc
charging of an extra fee Of $l25 fot
weddings where confetti is used. to pa
for the extra work OF cleaning after
ward
Evening star., 1928-03-28
PRISONER SENTENCED.
Man Who Stole Shoes AT Jail Gets
Additional Year.

Brought up from the Government
workhouse at Oceoquan. Va, where he
was serving a. Six-month sentence for
larceny. Grant Hamilton Smith, colored,
made the return trip this afternoon
bowed under the load Of another SEN
tence, this time for a year. which was
imposed on him this morning by Judge
Isaac r Hit. when he pleaded guilty
to stealing eight pairs of shoes from
the wharf OF the penal institution.
The shoes were part Of a shipment
for the prisoners Smith, who was work
ing nearby. just couldn't resist the urge
10 take them He was caught and the
shoes recovered Now be will have
another year 70 serve when the original
term Of six months IS ended
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The Finishing Shop

The finishing shop in the crime factory is
the courtroom ruled by political influence
Cities in which petty and major crime
flourish usually have judge or two who can
be depended upon to turn free those with
political power and protection.
The criminal law is well devised to protect
the criminal through apparently insignificant
courts.
A hearing before magistrate is constitu-
tional right, originally designed to protect the
Individual from official tyranny. In many
places it has developed into an easy method
of escape for the guilty.
The bosses who thrive on big graft must
protect the underworld and its characters, for
the underworld furnishes the votes to put over
the candidates who are labeled by parties as
pure and indorsed, most frequently, by profes-
sional reformers.
The underworld furnishes the ballot box
suffer and the repeater. It's price is the right
to prey, through crime, operation OF petty
gambling places, vice, baseball pools and boot
leg Joints upon the public. The customers OF
these places furnish the man with the gun who
sticks up and sometimes kills the decent citizen.
Even a determined and honest police de-
partment might be discouraged when courts
continually turn loose the guilty on slim tech
nicalities and often in violation Of the plain
evidence That furnishes departments with
desire for blindness with an abb for inactivity
"What court am 1, ina" was the question
asked of a policeman by man placed under
arrest. according to testimony of the arrestlng
officer. And when given name, ne said:
..Tbat,s All right" And it was all right. He
went free.
When any city becomes the victim of crime
waves and discovers the crime factory In wide
open gambling and protected violation OF the
law, it may be worth its.while to look for the
finishing shop. That shop is the political court
room ruled by political influence, where pull
and protection instead of law govern decisions.
This department of the crime factory IS
generally easily located. ,sv
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LYnching Disgrace

Meanwhile, Houston finds it nee
essary to interrupt preparations for
the biggest show she ever staged
in order to wipe out the disgrace OF
lynching. -
It was the kind of a curtain rails
er that no one looked for and no
one wanted. Half a dozen hood
lums. reverting to Ku-KluXism and
playing the part Of towards, have
made Houston madden than she has
been for a long time.
Bad as it is, the outrage they per-
petrated may do some good. 1t was
of such a character and occurred
under such circumstances as to
arouse public indignation. 1t not
only broke a spotless record, but
came at time when Houston was
on dress parade.
Local feeling is faithfully reflected
in the drastice measure adopted by
the city council. A special commit
tee, including two negroes, has been
appointed to run down and prose-
cute the lynchers and $4,000 has
been placed at its disposal.
One successful prosecution would
do much to discourage lynching. 1t
looks as though that might be the
result of this unfortunate affair.
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LaW-Abiding Record

Millions of people will jump to
the conclusion that lynching is as
typical of Houston as any other
southern town, but such is not the
case. Houston has not only opposed
mob violence, but has prided herself
On its successful prevention.
She has done this, moreover, in
the face of some tense and irritating
situations.
I we'll remember the morning
when Houston woke up to find that
company of Negro soldiers had
mutinied; that five of her peace Of
f1cers and a dozen defenseless citi-
zens had been shot and that whole
section of the city had been terror
lied during the night
I do not believe That another city
in the South, or anywhere in the
United States, for that matter, could
have shown firmer respect for the
law under such circumstances.
Houston had been outraged for
no reason in the world. 1t lay
within her power to reek prompt
and merciless vengeance. Her in
sistence that the law be allowed to
take its course; that the case be
left for military authorities TO han
die, was almost as surprising as the
tragedy Itself,
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Running Mate Problem

1t is generally agreed that a
Protestant, a prohibitionist and a
man who appeals to the farmers
should be nominated for Vice Pres
ident. The South hopes for recog-
milton, but wonders whether polit-
ical expediency does not call for
westerner.
In naming a man from Cali
fornia as its standard bearer, ane
one from Kansas as his running
mate, the Republican party has
presented a unique and perplexing
problem.
Hitherto the Republican party
has gone out Of it's way to please
the East, but this time it is all
West.
The Democrats are hoping to
capitalize midwestern discomfort.
What worries them is how to do it.
With a presidential candidate
from the East, it looks as though
they were almost compelled to name
an exponent Of radical measures for
farm relief for second place and
write a plank into the platform on
which he could stand.
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Tomorrow's Navy

What does all this ocean hopping mean 10 us IN
terms Of national defense?
Are we in peril of bombs from overseas? Is our
NAVY obsolete or on the point of being? the battle
ship doomed?
The next Congress should consider these questions
It is due to tackle the problem OF rounding OUT our
Navy to bring it up treaty of Washington specl-
ncations which imply it shall be second to none.
It is proposed that we build fifteen 1OOoo-ton
cruisers an arplane carrier and some other ships at
once And in 1881 some of our capital ships will have
to be replaced while between that time and 1889
practically our entire fleet of desoyers will be retired
for age and new ones built.
With what are going to replace them? What
will our new ships be keG Will they be like the old
ones to all intens and purposes will they embody
all we have learned to date, plus intelligent
guesses as to the future?
Much depends on the answers which Congress Will
give to these questions 1t is to be hoped therefore
that brains rather than politics, will be the deciding
factor
In the last fourteen months the Atlantic has been
flown time and again. So has the Pacific, from the
west coast to Hawaii and from California to
Australia.
These exploits have thrown the spotlight on some
of the possibilities, well some of the limitations
Of arpanes They have proved beyond doubt the
worlds great naVleS OF Cooay are uue 1oI VAoAousn
overhauing to fit them to fly as well to swim
and dive.
But they have also proved that barring some
revolutionary discoveries in the way of motors and
fuels, we can not afford to place sole reliance
or even our main reliance, on planes for our ma
tional security. This is particularly true when the
fortunes of war dictate that our fighting shall be
done at considerable distance from home
The other day airplane carrier Lexington
shattered all records for speed She steamed faster
even than the swiftest passenger liners Yet she can
carry upward Of a hundred planes-pursuit planes,
fighters, bombers, torpedo-launching and the rest
Recently, too Great Britain experimental with
great new ocean-going submarine equipped to carry
planes. Even destroyers are being planned to
utilize aircraft at least for scouting observation
purposes
Here, many Of our younger naval officers are
serting. is glimpse Of the future Our present
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battleships not obsolete. but they passing.
In their place we will have Lexngtons. Our ships Of
10000 tons may be called cruisers. but they too will
be arpane carriers. And all new destroyers and
submarines will carry planes.
But we must have ships We can't dispense with
shps-at least for indetermnate time to come.
The question is the type of ships must have the
kind of armor required, and the sort of guns the
ships will carry, in addition to the planes.
Perhaps it just well that Congress failed
to appropriate that for new craft during
its last session. 1t gives time to think-time to
study things out Both the old fogey who says the
battleshp is everything and the enthusiast who claims
the airplane is all we need are wrong.
Somewhere between is the type of navy we must
build and it will be UP to Congress to blaze the trail
For, surely iron ships superseded wooden ships,
the present is dead.
Aircraft 2-c here and they will revolutionze the
navies and the naval tactics of tomorrow.
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Same Two Issues

The folks talk as they travel, not
only with each other, but with those
they meet on the way. The polit-
ical chorus swells as the multitude
converges on Houston.
With Governor Smiths nominal
ton virtually conceded even by
those opposed to him, one hears
more and more about the platform
and the possible candidate for
Vice President. The chatter sounds
much as it did one week before
the Kansas City convention. There
is the same uncertainty about who
will be nominated for second place
on the ticket, and the same two
issues are considered of primary
Importance.
What will the Democrats do
about prohibition and farm relief?
Will they adopt a dry plank, a wet
plank, or a compromise? Will they
come out for the McNary- Hauger
bill or puSSyfoot?