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Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
Accused Denies
Assaulting Woman

s. Diaz, colored, 46, of Ell Centre
district entered a plea of not guilty
TO charge of battery when ar
raigned before Judge I. Mayfield
this morning. Dora $. Wood, col
ored, was the complainant and
charged that the defendant had
struck her with a stick and n stone
and then kicked her.
The man was apprehended on a
warrant by Deputy Shcriffs Wright
and Freeman. Bail was fixed at $25
and furnished. The case was con
tinued for court trial tomorrow
morning. Kendall b. Perkins ap-
peared as attorney for the defend
ant
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
'Battlefleet Off.
For Maneuvers
BY United Press Leased Wire

SAN PEDRO, April o. The
United States battlefield, consist
ing of 125 ships and $50 aircraft,
left here today for San Francisco
cnroute to Hawaii for 10 weeks of
tactical exercises.
The fleet is scheduled to sail
from San Francisco April 18 and
to arrive at the islands April 20.
Admiral Louis r. De Steiguer an
nounccd today that during the past
year the fleet broke all records for
gunnery efficiency.
The battleships New Mexico and
West Virginia established world g
records respectively in long range
and short range practice, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April Q. -
Control of the construction of
Los Angeles county dams was
taken today from c. f. Eaton,
chief engineer of the flood con-
troll district, and invested in the
board of consulting engineers
by n unanimous vote of the
board of supervisors.
The action was taken without
debate after the supervisors lis
tened to a report from the con-
sulting board criticizing the
construction of the Pacioma
dam.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
Three Disappear
Over Weekend
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April 9.--Police
were asked to search today for q
10-ycar old boy, and Is year old
girl and II 40-year old woman, all OF
whom disappeared under mysterious
circumstances over the week end.
James Jane, 10, left his Venice
home late yesterday and failed 10
return at o o'clock when he was
expected, his parents reported.
Marie Willard, 18, left her moth
or s side in a downtown department
store Saturday afternoon and has
not been seen since.
Mrs. Jesse M Weber, Al, school
teacher at Lemoore, left friends
in Glendale Friday but failed to ap-
pear at her Whittier home.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
FEEDER AL MEN
SPOIL PL ANS
OF SMUCGLERS
Clever Catch of Aliens
Made This Morning By
Border Patrol Men.

Skillful work ON the part of I'm
migration Inspectors lie Clare and
Dean Of the local branch of the
border patrol, resulted early this
morning in the capture of seven
men, one of whom is believed by
immigration officials to have been
active for some time as a leader in
the smuggling of contraband Japa-
nesc into this country. lie is Tenn
cnosuka Shibakusa of Brawley.
The others arrested include five
japanese, all believed to have been
smuggled across the border at Calex-
leo and j. r. Kirby, an American
of Calcxico. The five alleged con-
traband japanese were found secret
ed in truck load of alfalfa meal
while Kirby was the driver of the
machine. Shibakusa was trailing
behind the truck in q Chevrolet
roadster and made dash for free
dom when the truck was halted but
was captured.
When the truck was halted on the
highway north of Wcstmorland by
the immigration men this morning
there was little about the appear
ancee to arouse suspicion. Investt-
cation in casual manner would
have revealed only huge green
truck of five ton capacity, boarded
on the sides and containing many
bags Of the alfalfa meal.
But after some Is or 20 of the
bags had been removed from the
top of the load by the inspectors
it was found that the truck con-
tanned n built-in compartment. com
pletely hidden by the bags of meal.
Tearing out some of the boarding
on the top the inspectors found a
neatly furnished living compart-
ment.
It was equipped with sufficient
bedding to assure the occupants Of
4 fairly comfortable journey for
several hundred miles, an electric
light and quantity of food and
water. To give an idea of the size
of the compartment, 20 men could
have sat comfortable on the floor
and its height was approximately
three and n half feet. A trap door
in the bottom opened 4 means of
escape and was also used to ven
tilate the place.
Driver Claims Innocence
Kirby the driver, denied any
knowledge of the men in the truck.
He told officials that Shibakusa
had hired him to drive the truck
10 Los Angeles and that he was to
receive s. for his trouble. He said
that he supposed the truck was
loaded with meal.
Shibakusa revealed little of his
feeling after the capture.
'Quite Il contraption you have
here remarked one person.
eyes, take three day to fix he
smiled. -"
Chief Inspector Chaffin in com
menting upon the capture declared
that his men had captured Shiba-
kusa once before. 1t was last Sep
tcmber and when they had manag-
ed to overtake the automobile driv-
en- by Shibakusa the machine had
been stopped near field filled
with shrubbery. The doors of spe
cially constructed tanks on the car
were open and the tanks empty. In
the shrubbery three contraband
japanese were found but they de-
MED ever having seen Shibakusa or
the car Shibakusa as a result was
released.
Chief Chaffin commended his men
on their excellent work in this in
stance.
The seven men will be taken to
Los Angeles tonight for hearing be
fore immigration authorities there.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
Bandit Pays
Return Visit
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April 9.-The
same bandit who held him up at a
street corner recently called at the
home of Gerdes Dale t. rob him
of 5000, early today, Dale reported
to police.
Dale said he opened the door of
his home to respond to knock and
was confronted by gun held by the
bandit. After taking the 5000, the
gunman forced Dale back into the
house and then locked the door from
the outside.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
Fess Attacks
Farmers Bill
By United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, April 8 The
McNary farm relief bill was assail-
ed today by Senator Fess, Republi-
can, Ohio, as the senate resumed de-
bate on it.
Fess objected to the equalization
fee provision.
4 consider it unworkable and
unconstitutional he said.
His speech was regarded as an
expression of the administration S
attitude toward the bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
What's Doing
TONIGHT

F. and A. M. No. 3s4, Masonic
Temple.
Regular meeting, Boyce Ater
post, American Legion. Legion
Auxiliary and Spanish War vet
Grams in conjunction. Court House,
8 p. m.
Her Companionate Marri-
age Brunk's Tulane Theater.
1.-THE Jazz Singer, Valley
Theater.
"Across to Singapore, Palace
Theater.
Loyal Young Peoples class
business meeting, Ray Reardon 5
7;3O p. m.
TOMORROW
Ladies' Day, El Centre Coli
Club.
Lions Club luncheon, Hotei
Barbara Worth.
White Shrine Social Club lunch
con, Las Flores.
State Street Christian church
Missionary Society, New England
dinner, 11:30-i p. m. at Mrs. R,
L. Graves, followed by meeting.
Presbyterian Guild pot luck
luncheon, church, p. m.
Episcopal church Guild meet
with Mrs. c. S. Thatcher, 2:S0 p.
m.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
BLAZE HALTS TRAFFIC
ny United Press Leased Wire

NEWHALL, Calf, April 9. -
Traffic ON the Ridge Route north
of Ncwhall was held up for several
hours last night while deputy sher-
ifs fought a stubborn brush blaze,
started by the explosion of the
gasoline tank of a burning automo-
bile truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-09
Illness Defers
"Captive" Trial
Ry United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April 9.-Illncss
of woman juror caused the trial of
Ed Rowland and A. l.. Pcarce,
charged with presenting an obscene
play, "The Captive" to be post
poned indefinitely today.
Informed that Mrs. Catherine Lu-
derer was suffering with influenza,
Municipal Judge Pope continued the
trial until Wednesday or later.
Evening star., 1928-05-20

states; he perceives the coming OF ma
tionalism. of great states like Germany
and France: he envies the formation
of a compact patriotism in the nortn,
and asks what Italy will do In the hour
of attack and invasion II her people
have learned to love and defend only
a small portion Of her soil? What
would he not give to make Italy one?
Being at heart Rabelaisian hereto,
he does not for a moment consider the
possibility of uniting Italy under the
papacy; on the contrary, he believes
that the policy of the Popes, ITO divide
and rule" to maintain papal ascend
ancy In temporal affairs by playing on
one italian state against another, has
been the central cause Of national dis
integration: and beneath this he sees a
cause still more fundamental, and that
Is the Christian exaltation of humility.
"Our religion has glorifled men Of hum
bic and contemplative life. rather than
men Of action. 1t has placed the sum-
mum bonum in humility. In lowliness,
and In contempt of earthly things; pa
ganism placed 1t in high-mindedness in
bodily strength. and in all other things
which make men strongest And If our
IN us, 1t calls upon us to be strong to
suffer rather than TO do" Asked, over
an nn-table, what his plan for Italy
was, he traced on the cloth a banner
with this strange device Italy united,
armed, and unfrocked. He prays for n
standing army, every citizen with a
Evening star., 1928-05-20

tween his thin lips and his small bright
eyes: 1t is quite human, not a
Machiavellian, smile. His friends will
tell you that he is the best story teller
in Florence: he has in this field the
dubious reputation that Lincoln will
have. and deserves 1t better. The laXer
ladies of Florence frequently entertain
him.
And now what does he say to this
embattled buccaneer whose doings he
has been sent to report? Does he de-
nounce him as a villain against whom
Florence must arm to preserve its
liberties2 No. HE is right splendid
and magnificent prince" Nicolo to the
City Council lin arms so enterpriSing
that there is no great deed but seems
small to him: and in glory or gain OF
a state he reSteth never, nor knows
peril or WEAKNESS; he comes betimes
to a place, when no man knows yet
what enterprise he leaves: Of his
soldiery he is loved and of the best
and most picked men of Italy: these
things make him triumphant and re-
doubtable. combined with unending
good fortune"
His Love Of Italy.
There is only one thing in the world
that Nicolo admireS more than Borgia,
and that (barring himself) is Italy:
81 love my country more than my very
soul" And what he hates most is the
cisunion of italy, its division into a
score of sovereign" d. e. warring)
Evening star., 1928-05-20
Fiddles
BY BRUCE R1RTON.

Vail, in meeting strangers, was
as bashful 80 boy.
was discussing this subject
not long ago with an editor who
has known every successful
writer OF the last rs years. he
mentioned the name OF ore man
whom the world ranks as .
genius. He told how that man
hated to writei how he would
proerAstinate 10 the very last
moment, and then. locking him
self In room, sic down at
table, clutch a pencil and hold
II desperately TO the sheet.
From somewhere would come
those wonderful thoughts. The
genius, finishing his task, would
emerge from the room complete
Iy exhausted, as though some
Power, not himself, had seized
hold OF him and compelled him
10 be the unwilling instrument
of lts will.
- WFltGFg aNN0 IVY @N'NS'
friend, "is only Gods stenoura'
phsr. Where do his thoughts
come from7 He does not know.
They comes one day they don't
come. The glory has dsnartedi
God has discharged him without
previous notice and hired an
other man"
Because great men feel that
there 10 something lnesplain-
able about thair careers-~cali Il
luck or Providence, or what you
wlil-~-thsrs 10 usually a sur'
prIsine simplicity about them,
That 10 an almost Invariable
mark OF real greatness.
Almost but not quite lr'
variahlei Occasionally YOU do
meet q really great fiddle that
thinks II 10 ole hull or a really
great stsnooranhsr who thlnks
he 10 God.
IBaa1
Evening star., 1928-05-20

among Chang Kai-Shek, Feng Yu-
HSiang and Yen Hsi-Shan. the question
OF priority of arrival In Peking and the
question of the supreme contribution 70
the victory may prove of considerable
importance. 1t may be that contrary
to Chinese precedent, there will be no
falling out over the spoils. Conceivably.
even, the conception Of 'spoils" viii be
absent: well. well. we shall see.
There seems TO be q curious absence
of worry over the possibility OF untoward
deyelopmentS In relation TO foreigners
and the foreign settlements at TientSin
and Peking out Of the prospective VIC
tory of the trilimvirate. In view OF the
recent behavior of the Nationalist
troops at Tsinan. not a little worry
would seem justified.
There are said 10 be foreign troops
at Tientsin as follows: Approximately
American. 1000 tabout 5000 Of them
Marines: British, 800: French, 1000:
Italian, TOO: japanese, 1850. Our troops
have five tanks and IL airplanes.
There are about 100 troops of sun
dry foreign nationalities in Pcking,
including our legation guard Of $50
Marines.
One hears that the Japanese are
sending 5000 achievements TO Tient-
sin. about 1900 Of them to so on to
Peking.
On January there we're $50 Ameri-
can civilians In Tientsin. and $50 In
Peking.
Presumably, II the triumvirate cap
ture Peking and set UP government
pretending 20 be the government Of all
China. and behave decently the while.
that government will receive de jure
recognition from the powers.
The Japanese war Office has instruct
ed Gen. Fukada. the Japanese COM
mander at Tsinan. to make the following
demands on the Marking government in
connection with the late unpleasantness
at Tsinan:
/. Formal apology from Chang Kat
shek, the Nationalist commander i'm
chief.
3 Punishment Of the Nationalist on
GERS primarily responsible for the anti
Japanese outrages"
3. Suspension OF hostilities, propa-
ganda and warlike activities OF what
ever nature within 10 miles Of Tsinan.
Evening star., 1928-05-20

The apparatus. SIS developed by the
Russian scientists, is very simply con-
Structed. A tiny glass capsule with q
rad!um preparation Is inserted into .
deep hole bored III large lead tngct,
This stops ali rays, except q narrow
strong beam that goes along the bore.
This beam pierceS the casting and en-
counters two fllamentS charged With
electricity and incloSsd within 3 copper
cage, There is all air space between
the filamentS ana the cage which act
normally as a perfect inSulstor. allowing
no electric euFrsat To pass through IL.
But Is soon as gamna-rayS have .
chance TO set III the cage they ioniEe
The air and turn Il into conductor,
EleetSscity fron a battery fiowS nom
the tlamentS to the copper cage and
Erom IL passes through q galyanonaeter
and back to the battery.
AS inteSlty Of the rays changes with
thickness of metal pierced BY them. the
rate ef iogiEatlon varies accordingly,
Therefore the fiow Of eieetrie current
exactly mirrors the shape of the object
under test, Any deviation at once
shows that some inaperfectson Is present.
Evening star., 1928-05-20
The Story the Week Has Told

Tsingtao and the Tsinan -Tsingtao Rail-
way.
It is understood also that the Jap
aIleSe government will demand as con-
dition precedent to formal negotiation
toward settlement respecting the Tsi-
nan incident, that the Nanking gov
ernment admit the principle of compen-
Sation for damages suffered by jap
anese residents of Tsinan.
All good Chinese land there are mil
lions OF them are inexpreSsibly cast
down over the indiscipline and ineffi-
cheney displayed by the Nationalist
troops at Tsinan. One hears that crisis
within the Kuomintang impends.
/ must postpone to next week notice
OF the memorandum of the japanese
government respecting Manchuria pre-
sented on May Is. In identical form to
the Peking and Marking governments
It Is perhaps not 10 overState the mat
ter TO say that 1t creates new phase
in the Chinese situation.
Presumably the serious famine con-
ditions in Shantung and southern Chihli
will end about six weeks from now.
when the Winter wheat begins TO be
four million people are getting no more
ing of the hulls of millet seeds and of
cotton seed pulp: the former commonly
used in making and the latter
being the residue of cotton seed from
which all the oil has been extracted
under pressure and being commonly
used for fertilizer. A long continuance
OF this diet causes death Of chronic
disease. The most valuable commodity
on sale in the district Is a pretty young
girl. These girls are bought at whole-
sale prices and retailed TO sing-song
houses Under normal conditions, crime
Is probably less common In China than
In any other country In the world. Now
in the famine district crime fiourishes
lushly: especially. murder and theft
Much of the murder Is motived by pity:
murder of aged parents by children, OF
infants by mothers.
y
United States.~-On May Is the flood
control bill became law by the Presi-
dents signature. The conference re-
ports on the McNary- Haugen farm re-
lief bill and the Jones merchant
marine bin having been accepted by
Evening star., 1928-05-20
Radium Rays Used to Find Flaws
In l5-Inch Castings of Heavy Metal

Using radium rays SO penetrating that
they can so through iS-inch pieces of
metal to test the hidden flaws in large
casting is one OF the latest accomplish
ments of the Russian State Radium
Institute in Leningrad
These gamma rays" as they are
called. are similar To N-rayS, but are of
much shorter wave length. They are
more penetrating and can pass through
pieces of metal too thick to be examined
with the X-rayS Examination by
radium Is said also TO be cheaper than
with x~rayS. because the same radium
can be used over and over for an In
definite time. Large and expensive
Photographic plates are not required.
since the rays. after passing through the
object. act upon special, sensitive
electroScope. The test record Is pre-
served for future reference IN the form
of q simple diagram automatically
traced. Another advantage Is that
gamma rays speed up the inspection--it
may be cut down 60 couple of minutes
for q large caSting-while N-rayS re-
quire very long exposure. often OF
several hours. when metal Is more than
two or three inches thick.
Evening star., 1928-05-20
D.,
In ~ Auhrd
Story
BY WILL DURANT, Phi. D.

gun: for a nation defended not by
cowardly Ynercenaries, but by men fight
ing for their homes; and for leader
who will discipline these individualistic
Italians into some obedience, some unity
and some power He is the NietZScl1e
of the Renaissance. and Caesar Borgia
in his Napoleon.
Arrest of Machaivelli.
These ideals burn in his memory,
and never leave him, even in defeat.
Suddenly Borgia falls ill; his father dies
and is succeeded by Borgia'S forceful
enemy, Julius II: the ruthless duke i5
captured and exported to Spain, where
he dies In an attempt to win his way
back to freedom The Florentine Re-
public falls before the assaults of the
returning Medici; the citizens of Flor
ence, too recently armed, take to their
heels at the first smell of death; and
Solderini "Gonfaloniere of the Com
mune,' surrenders almost without re-
sistance. Machiavelli, despising him
taking him to the home of his friend
Vettori, who is influential with the
Medici; then he consigns him to Limbo
on the ground that hell Is too proud to
admit towards. He resigns his Office a.
secretary. and the next day, indifferent
to republics or monarchieS If only Italy
can find a leader pays his respects tC
the triumphant Lorenzo (the youngerl
and begs reinstatement. Instead, he is
arrested. and lies for a month in q
cell with no company but rats like cats
and lice "as plump as butterflies.
Freed then with six coils of the lash
he retires to his country villa. completes
his History of Florence" writes dis
sxyNg ID akaIl
dlceS a little book which Is to stir VI
all the world for centuries. He calls II
THE Prince" and, forgetting his stripe:
Cor the itch for Office burning more
brightly than these memories), dedi-
Gates it to young Lorenzo:
"Nicolo Machiavelli to the Magnificent
Lorenzo: Desiring TO present myself tC
your magnificence with some proof oi
my devotion, have not found amone
my various furniture aught that prize
more than the knowledge of the action:
Of great men acquired by me through q
long experience of modern affairs and 8
continual study of ancient Ant
though Judge this work unworthy o.
| your presence, yet am confident thai
your humanity will cause you to valui
1t when you consider that could not
make you a greater gift than this, d
enabling you, in a few days, to Under.
stand what have learned through
perilS and discomforts in a length,
course of years"
1t is his last and most passionat,
plea for the adoption of new philos.
ophy as the prelude to a new anc
united Italy. He filings aside all mora
considerations: there Is no need of con.
| sidering justice or humanity. for thes,
are but phrases, designed for ideolo.
| gistS and saints. Humanity in prac.
tice consists of billion or more egotists
composed Of a majority of fools
Continued on Fifth PAGE.
Evening star., 1928-05-20
Corn Borer Plague Swept Russia
And Provinces as Early as 1908

@he European corn borer. on which
the United states Is now waging costly
war. IL an old and troublesome story In
Russia. II Is = pest throughout the
southern half Of European Russia, and
occurs In less destructive numbers IN
an additional stretch Of territory 70 the
north, Its northernmoSt extension car
ries II to the latitude of the Gull Of
Finland, which Is as far north As Hud~
son Hay Ia the Western Hemisphere
AT this latitude IN Russia It Is not
counted especially bad. but serious out-
breaks occur IN the new Baltic nations,
formerly q part Of tho old empire
The horer plague b felt especially IN
the south, where the eofntieldA OF Rus
sta meFge with those of RnnAnia, and
swing eastward Acruss the shores Of the
BLACK Sea and up the great river val-
leyS In the eastern part Of the south
Russian grain belt, corn gives way 80
miilet, which Is better adapted 10 the
drier steppeS; but the herer atfiicts the
millet rs well a. the corn, and efforts
are nov being made 10 find varieties
less susceptible "a rs attack,
Russia has 40 measures against the
Evening star., 1928-05-20

pest that have not already been recon-
mended in the United states The best
means are the most lahoTioaS. q thor
ough cleanup aud burning Of all stalks
that are not fed t. cattle, The burning
must be shorougla too. for. according
20 A. DehroSieyer, a well known agra
cultural scientist, hererS have often
been seen emerging frum stalks thai
were eharred black on the outside. Ap.
parently none the worse for the eN~
perienee, lie has alSo seen hoEers COM
ms out Of stalks that had been lett
lying IN farm wards after the feedtng es
cattle. although tAeNe had been traMped
about toe weeks Ia snow and fgu1eA
mud
The great increase ta corn hcrer ia-
teStatlon N Russia seems 20 have taken
place shortly before the World War,
In 1904 % per cent tnteSsatioA MAS
observed N the fields OF the gcveFn-
ment tStatel Of EkaierienoSiav. This
initial infeStatinN took about % per
cent more of the stalks IN each nf tha
following years. until hy 1919 pTaeti-
ealls severy stalk IN the aillicted zelda
had Us hefegs,