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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

1 II z " y III . II
learned. for one
thing, what a fine
thing it is to be a
man in wet weather
On a corner across
a couple of men
had taken shelter
In a tobacco store,
another had made
for a barber shop
alongside. while a
gents Is h :
ings" right back Of
her harb bred one
old gentleman and
a couple of boys
while she had to
stand under her
umbrella and wait
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

make 1t at homo, which is mussy
and troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound" You will get
a large bottle of this old-time recipe
improved by the addition of other
ingredients. for only rs cents. Every
body USES this preparation now. be-
cauGe no enc can possibly tell that
you darkened your hair, as 1t does it
so naturally and evenly. You dampen
sponge or soft brush with 1t and
draw this through your hair. taking
one small strand at a time BY
morning the gray hair disappears,
and after another application or two,
your hair becomes beautifully dark.
thick and glossy and you look years
younger.-Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
SUES FOR ANNULMENT.

Wife Says She Was Coerced Into
Marriage on July 8.
A suit for ennulment of her marriage
to Theodore Savas of Long Island, N.
Y, has been filed in Equity Court by
Eva zambuni Savas of 1903 Park road.
Through her attorney, Arthur N
Presmont, she says that the marriage
was performed July 8. 1923, against her
will and that she was coerced into the
marriage and entered 1t involuntarily
through fear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

A WOMAN has just missed one of
~ those suburban cars with long
IL waits between. Nobody really
A a enjoys being stranded forty
eleven squares from base on
September day with January trimmings
but one may always pick up knowledge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
An Old Recipe
to Darker Hair
BY JANICE RANDALL

Almost everyone
knows that Sage
Tea and Sui
phur. properly
:: o m p o unded,
brings back the
natural color
and lustre to
the hair when
faded, streaked
or gray. Years
ago the only
way to get this
mixture was to
p-hirh ie mlIesv
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Negroes Resent
Hoover Speech
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Oct. 8.-Many Chicago
negro Republicans resent the post
ion taken by Herbert Hoover in his
appeal for southern votes, Earl b.
Dickerson, regional director of the
Smith for president colored league,
said in statement here today.
At conferences of negro Republi-
can leaders held charges were made
that lloovcr's speech at Elizabeth
ton, Tenn, was an anti-ncgro
speech.
Dickerson objected to the Re
publican candidate s remark to the
effect that southern "civil service
appointments must be filled by those
who deserve the confidence and
respect Of the communities they
scrVc.'
"ln other words, Dickcrson 5
statement said, che promises to bar
negroes from federal appointments
in the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
BYRD'S VESSEL
EXPECTED ON
COAST TONI CHI
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. S.-ThC
whaler c. A. Larsen will arrive here
probably tonight and begin at once
to load supplies which it will carry
for the Is month Antarctic eXpedi-
tion headed by Commander Richard
Byrd.
Wednesday afternoon the Norwe-
gian ship will steam out of Los
Angeles harbor with the explorers
bound for Dunedin, New Zealand,
and Stewart Island. There it will
meet the remainder of the expedi-
ton. The City of New York, the
Eleanor Boiling and the Ross are
now converging ON New Zealand.
The expidition is expected to ar
rive in Roos Sea December 10. A
base will be established by Byrd at
point as far south as the ships will
be able to travel and exploration
work around the south pole will fol-
low.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
GEN. PERSHINC
AND HIS GANG
AT SAN ANTONIO
BY RICHARD C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

san ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 8. -
While the navy dirigible Los An
geles and scores of army airplanes
circled overhead, General John j.
Pershing and $4,000 of the dough-
boys who were fighting under his
command in France ten years ago
today gathered in Municipal Audi
torium here today for the opening
of the Tenth Nationa. american Le-
gion Convention.
The occasion was significant for
Nhe retired leader of America s war
time forces for t was in this city
that he took his post as head of the
eXpeditionary forces. Many of the
buddies now boisterously celebrating
in the streets o. the city were ten
years ago getting their first taste
of military life at the army train
ing camps about San Antonio.
BLACK jack was accompanied
to the convention platform by Field
Marshal Lord Allenby, British war
hero and the blind French hero,
Major Georges Scapini. The trio
were given tremendous ovation.
After touching briefly upon re-
miniscences the convention brought
to his mind, Pershing lauded the
legionaires for the high character
their organization has maintained
and urged them to participate as
voters in the management of the
government.
Pershing mentioned the Kellogg
peace pact recently signed in Paris
and declared it to be an important
step toward peace. j..
At 1880 O'Clock army buglers
stationed in all parts of the city
sounded taps marking memorial ser
vices in the auditorium.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
SEN. ROBINSON
In ARIZONA TO
MAKE ADDRESS
By GORDON SHEARER
United Press Staff Corresponds

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. s.-senator
Joseph II. Robinson, Democratic
nominee for vice president reached
here this morning for the single
Arizona address which he will de-
liver tonight. In coming to Phoenix
he passed through Peoria whore the
train carrying Governor Cox, DEM
oeratic candidate for president In
1920, was derailed during that cam
paign.
Lingering at Grand Canyon for
last sunset views, Senator Robinson
and his party missed a detour on
the new highway being built 70 the
canyon and barely caught the train
which picked them up at Williams.
At Grand Canyon, Senator and
Mrs. Robinson and members of tho
party were guests of Mrs John G.
Greenway, Arizona ranch owner and
Democratic national eommitteew0.
man from the state. Mrs. Green
way accompanied them to Phoenix.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
DEATH CLAIMS
NOTED COMEDIAN
OF FILM WORLD
by United Press LeAsed wire

VICTORVILLE, Calf, Oct. s.
Larry Semon, the noted screen
comedian. died on the Garcelon
ranch near here shortly after 3 a.
m, today.
Death was due to pneumonia
which he contracted while he was
attempting to recover from a ner-
vous breakdown. His wife Dorothy
Dwan, also of the films, was at the
bedside when the end came.
Scmon's body will he brought
here today and will be removed to
Hollywood tomorrow for funeral
services.
The death Of the comedian was
not unexpected. Two weeks ago 1t
was said that he might not recover
from his breakdown. When preu-
monia set in last week the end be-
came a matter of hours.
Last night his physician said he
believed Scmon could not live
through the night.
With the exception of one brief
and fairly successful venture into
the world of cartooning, Semon al
ways was connected with "show
folks"
He was born in Westpoint, Mis-
souri,, in 1889. His parents were
troupcrs and were playing in that
city at the time. During his child
hood, young Semon took small parts
in shows in which his father fca-
turcd.
While attending school in Savan-
nah, Georgia, Semon began cartoon
ing. He gained considerable repu-
tation in this line and served on
several New York newspapers.
lie discontinued this profession to
become an actor and director with
the Vitagraph company.
Most of his carly efforts were
slap stick comedies. Later he turn
cd to heavier comedy and still later
he attempted to produce his own
pictures.
"Thc Wizard of Oz," which was
to have been his greatest effort,
was financial failure and ended
his career rs Il producer.
Last March he filed Il voluntary
petition of bankruptcy and soon
after he suffered nervous collapse.
In August he was removed to the
Garcelon ranch. 1t was hoped that
rest and quiet would restore his
health
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
SMITH FACES
REAL TEST IN
BORDER STATES
Trip to Southland Will
Give Candidate Chance
To Make Survey.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

ALBANY, y. Y, set. 8.-GOv.
Alfred +. Smith faces a real test
when he takes his brown derby
into the southern border states this
week.
He goes into a land that is just
as new to him as many sections he
visited on his first western trip, and
where the opposition to his candi-
dacy has shown itself in outspoken
manner.
Smith will seek by the contract
of his personality to remove hos
tility reported in parts of Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Missouri, three
doubtful" " border states which
Lave a total of 43 electoral votes
that might prove decisive.
The Democratic candidate will
leave here today or tomorrow for
New York, where he will confer
with Chairman John j. Raskob OF
the Democratic national committed
and other leaders. He will board the
special campaign train Thursday
morning for Tennessee, accompanied
by Mrs. Smith and their daughter,
Mrs. John A. Warner, former Gov.
Nellie Tayloe Ross Of Wyoming, his
multimilionaire friend, William F
Kenny, and others.
To Meet Leaders
Smith will make no speeches in
Tennessee, but will visit Chat
tanooga, along the Georgia border
and Nashville, as well as other
cities on short stops in Tennessee
and Kentucky. He will make the
only speech of the week in Louis
vile Saturday night.
The New York governor went
south for the first time last spring
when he visited Raleigh and Ashe
vile, n. C.
While in Chattanooga and Nash
vile, the Democratic candidate viii
confer with Tennessee state leaders
and is expected to be visited alsC
by leaders from nearby states
Georgia, North and South Carolina
Alabama and Florida. He will seel
from them a real picture of tn,
situation, investigate just how ser
ious the reported boiling is in thu
south, and perhaps offer his trained
political judgment in what steps
might be taken in this final montl
before the election.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
River Commission
Leaves To Survey
District Holdings

Members of the commission ap-
pointed by DIR. Hubert Work while
secretary of the interior, who ar
rived in FL Centre Saturday, spent
the weekend in resting up from
their recent journey across the
country and along the coast. The
commission was named to make a
thorough investigation into all mat
ters pertaining to Boulder Dam and
the All-American canal.
The commission consists of Gen
cral w. j.. Sicbert of Bowling
Green, Ky, Robert Ridgeway of
New York City, d. w. Mead and
w. j. Mead of Madison, Wis, and
Charles p. Berklcy of New York
City.
None of the commissioners was
inclined to discuss the matter yes
terday. They merely Indicated that
they have not been over the ground
thoroughly as yet and declared that
they would seek to make their re-
ports to Congress in December as
conclusive as possible
Early this morning, the commits
sioners, refreshed as a result of the
weekend stopover in FL Centre,
started their work. They left FL
Centre in company of NJ. j. Dowd,
chief engineer of the district, C. l.,
Childers, attorney of the district,
and with other officials and direc-
tors of the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict for Andrade.
Upon arrival there it was planned
to give the visitors Il detailed des-
cription of the workings of the dis
trict and to show them to the num-
erous point of interest including the
hcadgates, the main canal and the
levees which extend far into Mexico.
Starting out early tomorrow morn
ing the visitors will be taken to all
offices of the district and win be
Shown the network of irrigation
canals that spreads over the valley.
The bearing of Boulder Dam and the
All-American canal nthis project
All-American canal on this project
siOners.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
HUGE AIRSHIP
ARRIVES SAFELY
AT SAN ANTONIO
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 8.-The
huge navy dirigible Los Angeles ar.
rived over the city of San Antonio
at 9:40 O'Clock this morning and
lazily driftcd over the municipal
auditorium as the tenth annua
American Legion convention for
mally opened.
The Los Angeles left Lakehurst,
n. j.. Saturday night to be present
for the opening of the convention of
veterans.
No trouble was encountered in its
flight here, according to Commander
II. V. Wiley.
The craft will continue its lazy
drifting over San Antonio until
around noon when it will depart for
the United States helium plant at
Fort Worth to be moored there for
"a hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
COURT UPHOLDS LEGALITY OF
COMMUNITY PROPERTY LAW

intestatc. Previously the com
munity property law gave the
wife only an eXpectant interest
during the life time and one
half at death, the other half
going to his descendants if he
left no will.
Young Phillips brought this
suit against Margaret A. Phil
lips, claiming one fourth of his
fathers 100000 estate for
himself and one fourth for his
sister, Virginia Grattan Phil
lips. He charged the California
law took his property without
due process of law.
Millions of dollars of Cali
fornia inheritance are involved
in many similar situations, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
TWO DIE
IN AUTO
CRASHES
Seeley Rancher and Cali
patria Resident Fatally.
Injured. !.
MORE IN HOSPITAL
Two Additional Deaths
May Result From Sum
day Accidents.

Two persons were killed and mind
persons injured, one perhaps fatal.
ly, in three automobile accidents
which occurred in the valley last
night. F.. NJ. Ward, 30, of Seelev
district, a rancher, was almost in
stantly killed in an accident two
miles west of Seeley on the San Di-
ego highway while Haskell Rich
ardson, 90, OF Gaiipatria died in the
FL Centre hospital from injuries
suffered when the car which he
was driving turned over in ditch
near the Calipatria high school.
Nadine Moon, II, of Seeley dis
trict is in the Ell Centre hospital
with a fractured skull and broken
leg as a result of the accident near
Seeley. While there is a chance
that she will recover, physicians be-
lieve it to be poor one.
In another accident on the Los
Angeles highway, near Calipatria,
at $3.50 o'lock last night, Jesus
Hernandez, 56, of Calipatria was
probably f a tally injured He
vertabrae in his neck having been
was taken to his home where he is
/ lying in paralyzed condition,
shattered. He is also suffering
| from broken leg.
Others injured in the accident
near Seeley include: Opal Lechner,
10, of Seeley district; Mr. and Mrs.
j. F. Bailey and daughter, Virley
Gene, of Ell Centre; M. c.. Mackey
! and Miss Ruth Grounds, both of
Brawley. Their injuries are regard
| ed as minor ones.
William Miller of Calipatria, who
was riding with Richardson, suffer-
ed numerous injuries in the Cali
| patria accident. He is in the FL
Centre hospital with a broken jaw,
three fractured ribs, a dislocated
shoulder and possible internal in
! iuries. 1t is expected that he will
| recover.
The bodies of Ward and Richard-
son have been brought to Lemons
funeral parlOrs where they are be-
ing held pending inquests into tho
| deaths.
Car Stalled
Ward, who had recently moved to
the ranch near Seeley, had gone to
the home of George H. Wolliscroft,
a neighbor, to get some water for
! use at his ranch He had taken
along a number of containers and
! these were filled. His car had not
been running good and as he started
to return, gear stripped.
Anxious to get home, group of
children collected and began assist
| ing Ward and his wife in pushing
the car, while Merlin Woolliscroft
took the wheel and steered the ma
chine down the highway Another
ear drew up behind the Ward ma
chine, which was being pushed along
with the left hand wheels on tho
highway and the right wheels on
the shoulder of the road. 49,,
The car driven by Bailey then
came up behind the two machines.
The car behind the Ward machine
started to pass the latter just as
Bailey came along and planned to
pass the two cars When the other
machine pulled in front of him,
Bailey necessarily cut his car to the
right to avoid hitting it and crashed
Continued on Page Six)
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
WIN
RIGHT TO PLAY
FOR PENNANT
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. S.-Two
strong baseball clubs-Sacramento
and San Francisco were being
groomed today to battle for the
championship of the Pacific Coast
league after the closest competition
in number of years.
Sacramento won the second half
of the split season here Sunday
when they out-hit the seals in a
slugging contest and won 10 TO 7
while the largest crowd in San Fran
cisco's baseball history packed Rec
reation Park.
Sacramento won the second half
pennant by beating the Seals two
straight games in a series needed
because the two teams finished the
regular play in a tie. Now seven
games are scheduled to decide the
championship of the league as the
Seals won the first half of the sea
son.
The two teams will meet for the
first of the seven games here Wed.
nesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
PEACE REIGNS IN CAMPS OF
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS

still in the air the waves were
subsiding today.
Throughout the battle of prox-
les, which ended when ~ of
the votes in the hands of Col
onel William Eric Fowler, chair
man of the Los Angeles county
u. .. F., were swung to Merriam
each faction maintained the dis
turbance was within the organ
lzation and was not to be con
strued as disagreement ON
policy or procedure in the Nov
ember 6 election.
Immediately following Mer-
riam s election it was announced
there would be no important
change in the present organiza-
tion Of the state central com
mittee for the Hoover-Curtis
campaign,
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. s.
A badly battered dove of har-
mony fitted over the Republi-
can camps of California today
after a weekend during which
its feathers were ruffled con-
siderably and it listened to the
harsh words of an intra-party
discord. d
The storm waves rode high at
II a. m, Saturday when the Re
publican state central commit
tee met at the Palace Hotel here
and reached a peak a, m,
Sunday when Frank f, Mer-
riam of Long Beach was elec-
ted chairman over Charles L.
Neumiller of Stockton, incum-
bent, by a vote of 2S7 to POI.
With the "feel" of the storm
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
BIG GERMAN DIRIGIBLE
WILL SAIL WEDNESDAY

BERLIN, Oct. S.-The dirigiblc
Graf Zeppelin completed its final
test flight today. Hugo Eckener,
in command, announced the start for
America will be made Wednesday
morning.
Eckener said he would decided
tomorrow afternoon on the basis of
the latest weather charts whether
the start would be made in the
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Heavy Storm
At St. Louis
By United Press Leased Wire


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 8.-Pros-
poets for a fourth world series game
here today apeared' uncertain after
night of intermittent rain culmin-
ating this morning in a downpour
FCloudy weather this afternoon;
fair tonight and Tuesday; not much
change in temperature" was the
bulletin issued at a. m. by the
United States weather bureau.
Although the heavy rain ceased
at $40, black storm clouds hung
low over the Mississippi valley with
indication more rain might be eX-
pccted.
Officials at Sportsman Park,
however, said at 9 a. N. the game
would proceed at | 80 if no further
serious rainfall occurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Costa Rica And
Panama Make Up
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-Resump.
tion of diplomatic relations by Pana,
ma and Costa Rica was announced
today by Secretary of State Kellogg,
who has sent the government CON
gratulatory message.
Relations were severed in 1921
when long standing boundary dis
pute between the two countries
broke out anew. This dispute has not
yet been settled.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Oct. S,-An
attack on the constitutionality
Of the 1928 amendment of the
California community property
law failed in the United States
supreme court today.
Grctan ID. Phillips, Jr., San
Francisco, was denied review
of a state supreme court de-
cision upholding the law and de-
Gliding that under it the entire
estate of his father, who died
in 1925 without leaving q will,
went to the widow.
The 1923 act gave the wife
full interest in one-half the
community property during the
husband S life time, and at his
death the other half if he died
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Democrat Quits
For La Toilette
by United Press Leased Wire

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. S.-M.
X. Reilly announced in letter re-
eeived at Democratic headquarters
here today that he would withdraw
his candidacy for the United States
senate on the Democratic ticket.
The letter stated Reilly believed
Senator Robert NJ. LaFolette, run
ming for reelection on the Repub-
lican ticket, "is as much in favor
of the legislative program of Gov.
Alfred f. Smith as | ann
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Film Director
Will Lose Eye
by United Press Leased Wire

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. S.-Al-
though the general condition of
Raoul Walsh, Hollywood motion
picture director, was improved to-
day, physicians said there was no
hope of saving his right eye which
was cut by flying glass last Thurs
day.
The director was driving his au-
tomobile near Cedar City, Utah when
a frightened iackrabbit jumped
through the windshield.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Three Die In
Plane Crash
Nv United Press Leased Wire

DENVER, Colo, Oct. S.-Charles
+. Wilson, A, of Seattle, Wash,
pilot of an airplanc which crashed
500 feet near Derby, Colo, Sunday,
killing two prominent Denver so
ciety girls. died in the Denver Gen
eral hospital today.
The young women who lost their
lives were Mary Belle Begole, %,
and Carroll Begole, 10, daughters of
George Begole, city auditor of Den
yer. They were passengers in Will
son s plane
Wilson told police before he died
the controls would not respond and
the machine dropped into a tailspin,
crashing to earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Rain Holds Up
World Series
BY United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 8.-The
fourth game CT the world series
was postponed today on account
of rain and wet grounds. Under
the original plan it will be played
here on the next available date,
when tickets for the fourth game
will be honored.
Decision to postpone the game
was announced by Judge Kene-
raw M. Lands, baseball high
commissioner at. 1919 a. m,
AFTER a personal inspection of
the playing field at Sportsman 8
Park.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
Another Happy Warrior


game at St Lci but the Babe leg ALL the Car
look the weird
play double Meu at first The Babe crashed Wilson, the
Cardinal
midway
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
New BedfOrd's
Mills Reopen
by United Press Leased Wire

NEW BEDFORD. Mass. Oct. 8.
New Bedford IS SO textile mills,
closed for 25 weeks by strike of
27,000 operatives, were partly re-
opened today with hundreds of
police from five cities and towns
cooperating to prevent violence.
During the first hour, % men and
women, all members Of the so-called
Radical Textile Mills Committee,
which had opposed ending the strike,
were arrested.
No serious trouble developed how
ever.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-08
FORMER ENVOY DIES

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Oct
S.-Colonel Charles IIinman Graves
50, formerly United States minister
to Norway, died at his home here
yesterday.