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Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31

successive hits in THE Nolga Boat
man. and "The King of Kings, -
is featured as leading man. May
Robson, perennial stage favorite re-
Gently lurcd to the screen, is east
in an important role, while Alice
Lake halted her vaudeville career to
return to camera work for this pro-
duction.
Jane Keckley's ability for char
aeterization has been capitalized
upon for "Thc Angel of Broadway
in which she appears as a Salvation
Army officer, and Elise Bartlett, OF
New York stage fame, Ivan Lebc-
def, recent importation from Eu-
rope, and Clarence Burton. promi-
nent in "The King of Kings cast,
are playing other roles in this fea,
ture production.
Lenore j. Coffee wrote the story
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
Gunplay Results
In Jail Terms

LOS ANGELES, July 31.-Three
men, one of them wounded, today
were to begin serving sentences in
the county Jail as the result of gun
play at an Avalon, Catalina, hotel,
where they were employed.
Felix Reed, buss boy, and l..
Ganibi, cook, were sentenced to 90
days in Jail and Paul Ritula, buss
boy, to six months. In the heat of
an argument at the hotel, Ritula
drew a gun and took shot at
Myron Blackman, another buss boy,
but the bullet went wild and struck
Ganibi above the knee, deputy
sheriffs reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
Ground Glass In
Food Causes
Smiths Arr est

Ground glass, even when mixed
up with pork chop gravy, is not
a desirable dish, and jim Talioway
decided that it was time to call a
halt when he suspicioned his room
mate. Lee Smith, of putting the
glass in his food.
Talloway and Smith are colored
and have roomed together on the
East Side, according to the story
the former told the police today.
They worked together on a grape
contract and when it came time for
financial settlement, Smith was
dissatisfied with the amount of
money given him.
The roommates had a lengthy
verbal quarrel during which ac-
cusations and counter accusations
flew thick and fast. Saturday night
Tallowav cooked himself some pork
chops. While he was preparing them
he stated that he left the room for
short time. When it came time to
eat he was surprised to get mouth,
full of ground glass in what he be-
lieved to be pure porkchop gravy.
"Thcre was pieces of glass as
big as pen point and smaller
pieces too he told Chief Oswalt
last night, as he swore to a COM
plant for Smith s arrest. The police
took the latter into custody and he
Indignantly denied that he was res
ponsible for the glass being in the
gravy.
After hearing the story of both
men in the police court this morn
ing, Judge Perkins decided the case
needed further investigation and
turned Smith over to the custody of
the district attorney.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
Radio System
Is Assured For
Market Reports

BRAWLEY, July 31.-Efforts to
obtain radio broadcasting of mar
ket news reports for Brawlev and
| other important shipping sections
of the state have been successful
according to word received from
B. IL. Crutchfield, chief of the di-
vision of markets.
Tests of the proposed service
were made in Brawley by the de-
partment about two months ago and
proved conclusively that highly sat-
! isfactory service could be obtained
/ through the use of a short wave
length
Plan Action At Once
According to the telegram from
| Critchfield, steps are being taken to
! establish the network of stations
and make the program operative.
The application of Director Hecke
for authority to construct and oper-
etc such system has been approved
/ according to word received by
Critchfield from Harold La Fount,
radio commissioner at Washington,
H. G..
The program which has been ten
tatively approved includes short
wave dot-and- dash sending and re-
ceiving stations in Erawley, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, FL Centre,
Fresno, LODI, Salinas, Sebastopoi,
and Watsonville with service main
tanned temporarily in various cen
ters during their principal market
ing movements, such as the Imperial
Valley lettuce and melon seasons or
the Gravenstein apple season at
Sebastopol.
Station At Capitol
Sacramento will have short
wave voice broadcasting station
which viii furnish market news in
formation to be rebroadcast over
other high powered stations desir.
ing TO make use of the service. The
state department at Sacramento will
also be placed on the federal depart
ment 5 leased wire service to re-
celve news on eastern and foreign
markets for California products.
ms VIE VIII also IurnlSh means
of close contact between the Federal
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
and the California department of
agriculture.
Under the plan. growers and ship,
pers will be kept in the closest touch
with the situations prevailing in the
markets, enabling them to better ad.
Just their markets to demands in
the markets. 1t is believed this will
help them to avoid waste, iron ont
extreme price fluctuations and
maintain more satisfactory condi-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
SUFFRAGE MAY BE ISSUE
NEA Los Angeles Buredv

oronr get II IN, but both parties
did mention equality" The Re-
pnblicans accepted whole-heart.
edly equality on the part of the
women" but this made the girls a
little sore because they say such
equality doesn't exist. The Demo
Gratis declared for equality for
women with men in all political
end governmental matters" and
for IAN equal wage for equal ser.
vice" but the candidates inter.
probation is nevertheless awaited.
CENATOR CURTIS. the Repub.
~ lican vice presidential candi.
date, introduced the equal rights
amendment in the Senate, describ-
ing it as of the greatest impor-
tance to American women. Nat.
urally, the women would hate to
turn down friend Charlie at this
juncture in case Smith should
come clean with them, but they
can't very we'll declare for Smith
and Curtis.
The Woman's Party protests be-
cause women don't have equal
citizenship rights. equal oppor-
tunities in schools and uniyersi-
ties, equal pay for equal work,
equal control of their property,
earnings - and even children.
equal inheritance rights, equal op-
portunities in government serv-
ice, professions and industries,
equal right TO make contracts,
and so on. 1t contends that in no
state do men and women live
under equal protection OF the
law" ~
1t cites, among others, these
horrible examples:
Women are barred from hold
ing higher elective Offices in Okla
homa. a-.'- -..'@
Texas law is such that when
Ma Ferguson took Office as gov
ernor she petitioned a court to set
aside her legal disabilities as a
married woman" so that state con-
tracts she signed wouldn't be
questioned.
In many other states the right
af wanasa "a contract Is hnaited
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
Police Enlisted
To Aid In Search
for Fred Hammer

Police of Imperial Valley, San
Diego and other coast points nave
been asked to aid in locating Fred
Hammer, who is reported missing
from this city.
Hammer, who worked for the FL
Centre Trading and Lumber Com
panv, is of English birth, 20 years
old, feet inches in height and
weighs about 1872 pounds, being OF
particularly slender build. when
last seen he was dressed in gray
sport clothes.
According to Pat Glasgow, of the
firm employing Hammer, the latter
is unusually steady going and quiet.
He Informed his employers Saturday
night that he was going to ride TO
Jacumba with acquaintances and
would be back in this city Sunday
night. He has not been seen since
and efforts to find out if he went
to Jacumba have not succeeded.
Glasgow stated today that he
thinks Hammer may have met with
an accident of some kind. Although
advanced in years he was very wei
preserved and active, and appeared
to be much younger than he really
is.
He was a former officer in the
British army, entering as a licuten'
ant with the late Earl Haig. At the
time of the lattcr's death few
months ago he gricved considerably,
stating that of six lieutenants who
entered the army at that time, he
was the only one left alive. He
campaigned through India and Afrl-
ca with Haig but resigned his com
mission several years ago.
Hammer came here from Portland
about year ago and had lived
alone here for that length of time.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31

of The Angel of Broadway The
intensely dramatic picture affords
Miss JOY many opportunities TO
demonstrate her ability.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
MONIES
Aak1aaas Ahks.hHa6ss1l

Seldom has star been supported
by a cast of greater brilliance than
is Leatrice Joy in her latest De
Mile picture production, "The An
gel of Broadway which will be
shown at tie New Airdome theater
tonight.
The picture, which was directed
by Lois Weber. one of the best
known woman directors in the coun-
tr* deals with night club and Sal
vation Army Mission life in New
York city and it is said to be pack
ed with drama and thrills.
Victor Narconi, whose popularity
was vastly enhanced through his
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31

% b the other
Rihond
of Ter tim ohoSn nneenm II
o tn OF glide anues the
is boa in whuth Bety
H the ona5 ylenC
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
I,OMSKI DEFEATS CLARK
By United Press Lensed Wire

NEW YORK, July 31.-7Leo Lom
ski, of Aberdeen. Washington, III
"a, won a technical knockout in the
fourth round over Eddie Clark of
Atlantic City, l76, at Dexter Park
arena. Jamaica. The bout scheduled
for 10 rounds, was stopped by the
referee.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
BY RODNEY DUITHEK
S.er NEA Service Writer

w7ASHINGTON-Th The average
w man no doubt assumes that
the question of equal rights was
settled when the women's suffrage
amendment was passed. -"
But Hoover and Smith hadn't
better assume that in their accept
anes speeches. ;, The National
Woman's Party. whose existence
and activities are based solely on
the fact that inequality between
the sexes does exist under benight-
ed state laws, is waiting with
raised axe.
After the acceptance speeches.
the Woman's Party will hold a
meeting to decide what it will do
in the presidential campaign. II
one of the candidates says some
thing. very definite about obtain
ing equality for women, he can
have the support OF the Woman S
Party. assuming that the other
candidate doesn't do as well or
better. And while the Woman s
Party is by no means the largest
Of ,ne national women's organiza-
tons, it is certainly the most mill
tant.
EoR years the active ladies IN
J. this organization have been
running around in various states
TO clean up little instances where
women were getting a raw deal
under the law, but their primary
objective is the passage OF con-
stitutioral amendment q W hic h
would say:
"AIcn and women shall have
eaua! rights throughout the Unit
ed States and every place suoJect
20 its jurisdiction. Congress shall
have power TO enforce this article
by appropriation legislation"
That would bring the states in
line.
The paNy's crusaders were at
both national conventions, work
ing 20 get an endorsement Of the
S-.-2Iaarl 50 this 1iattarna ThaS
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31

Mountain streams in Arizona are
now smaller than they have been for
30 wears and some districts are ser
iously short of water.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
FORBES CONDITION
REPORTED IMPROVED
BY United Press Leased Wire

HOLLYWOOD, July 3l.--Ralph
Forbes, film player, confined to
Hollywood hospital by inflammation
which spread to his neck from an
infected molar, was reported by at
tendants as resting easier today.
Forbes is the husband oe Ruth
Chattcrton, stage star, and the son
of Mary Forbes, now playing a lead
in the Pilgrimage Play
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-31
The last Town Crier passes

Not long the made quite feature of the
retirement the public Crier For years he
Provnceown Massachusetts, ringing his
bell and crying out the and what not.
In Colonial times and during the early days of the Republic the
Crier pubic institution People depended him for
the we'll information regarding sales of
goods local merchants But the newspaper advertising
made his services unnecessary years and years ago.
To-day the newspapers for news-and the
advertising columns of merchandise naturally
do to the sports the home economics the financial
page of the specialized features that make the
modern newspaper indispensable everyday fe-and
advertising indispensable the news advertising is
news A.I sf.,sx I.Jns.l
Advertising is the of the moment just surely the
dispatch tells what and where purchase
money and energy. touches daily lives
thousand ways- affects the health of children the happ
ness of families and wellbeing
Read the advertisements in the daily They vay
important you yours They loyal friends and
advisers.
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Our Merchant Marine

No less than thirty big ship oper-
ators are meeting with the United
States Shipping Board in Washing
ton to see if a program cannot be
devised TO rehabilitate this coun-
try'S merchant marine.
Ten to one you will stop and look
for some more congenial item when
you have read this far.
Ships have ceased to interest the
average American and that is what
ais the situation.
Seventy-five years ago the normal
American boy wanted to be q
sailor. Such men as Bob Water
man were his heroes. Today he
wants to be a Lindbergh or a chauf-
feur.
Speculation in real estate has
made us a nation of landlubbers.
We visualize prosperity as matter
of subdivisions, skyscrapers, hard
surfaced highways and automobiles.
We forget that the difference be-
tween what we buy and sell has
played an all-inportant part in
our accumulation Of wealth, and
that this difference is bound up
with foreign trade.
We forget also that foreign
trade depends largely on ships and
that whoever owns them has a large
Say-so in determining not only
where foreign trade goes but where
the profit in it goes.
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he believes it is the only way the American flag
be kept on the seas.
The legislation Jones proposes does not deal with
the question of ship operation. Would the Govern
ment maintain the new ships it builds under ship
ping board control? Would it attempt to sell the
new ships, along with the old ones to private in
terestS, or would it continue system of operation
through private companies, which has caused much
criticism in the past? These questions that must
be threshed out in Congress suspicious of Govern
ment in business.
The Government spent three billions to build a
fleet during war time and in 1920 more than 40 per
cent of foreign trade was being carried in Amer
lean bottoms. Some $500 vessels having gross tom
mage of 1062000O in operation. This has dwin-
died steadily until last year there only 1905
sells with tonnage of 6,291,OoO in ocean commerce
This occurred in the face of declaration by Con-
gress in the merchant marine act of 1920 of the in
tention to maintain an adequate merchant marine,
and to sell the vessels to private owners
An adequate merchant marine has not been main
taned nor have private owners evinced any great
willingness to purchase the Governments ships, al
though vessels which cost 5000 ton to build may be
had for little SIS or $40 ton. In one instance
a group of ships costing the Government $3OOOOOOO
sacrificed for $4.5OOoOO, the only stipulation be-
ing that they should remain in operation in their
listing routes for period of five years
The country apparently is confronted with the
necessity of making decision. Either it must sit by
and permit the continued steady decline of the
chant marine, there must be new program
adopted by Congress.
There seems to be an agreement that a subsidy is
undesirable and that the public would not stand for
it, Various indirect methods of substituting Suggester
would be apt to encounter the same objections. Nor
can it be expected that the Government will continue
to build ships and then turn around and sacrifice
them at 10 cents the dollar, or less and without
adequate that they will be kept continuous
ly in operation
The alternative would seem to be real Government
operation, and abandonment Of the frantic efforts to
unload the ships have anyone who will take
them The only ships the Government itself directly
operates-the five vessels of the United States lines
last year showed profit. Shipping board losses last
year were reduced to $12o0OOOO for the entire fleet
The President himself said in his last message "the
United States Government fleet is transportating a
large amount of freight and reducing its drain on
the treasury"
The 1920 program is admittedly failure. If we
must have ships why not give real Government opera
ton trial?
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Storm in Politics

Much hull and some politics fur
nish background for the storm
which has broken out around
sewer contracts in Queens County,
New York. 1t was a Republican
alderman who started the rumpus
and it is a Democratic administra-
ton that will suffer if the rumpus
proves real.
Governor Smith was drawn into
the situation as a matter Of course,
but met it promptly and squarely by
appointing Judge Townsend Scud-
der, who presided at the Gray
Snyder case, to conduct an in
veStigation.
The charges were that contracts
had been let to ring and that orig
inal bidders had sublet some Of the
work at a profit of as much as so
per cent.
No sooner had Judge Scudder
named his assistants, summoned
witnesses and arranged for hearings
than the books Of one contractor
we're stolen, while other CONTRACT
tors refused to appear.
Now things are brought to halt
by an injunction order which COM
mands Judge Scudder to appear be-
fore one of his colleagues on the Su-
preme bench ard show his author
ity to conduct the investigation.
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What Other Editors Think

been closely bordering upon
strategical perfection while lack
ing nothing in energy or enthusi-
asm to engage in aggressive battle.
The Klan's rapid dissolution in
Indiana-as everywhere in evil
dence-is no mere accident. 1t
has come as a result of an awak-
ened public conscience allied with
a concentrated and intensive pur-
pose directed by men of Gilliom's
genius and sincerity. To all who
have given of their talents in an
assault upon the bastions of the
bigotS' defenses we should be duly
grateful. To the attorney general
for his resolute continuance Of the
fight against the forces of en-
trenched intolerance we pledge
anew our hearty support and our
complete approval. We think he
has listed good cause against the
enemy and we sincerely trust that
his eagles may be crowned with
victory. The fact that he will be
resisted by formidable forces in
his effort to make final radiance
of this bad rubbish will but en-
nance the final glory of what we
hope may be quick and decisive
triumph.
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An apostle of safe driving today
requested Mr. Fixit to aid in improv-
ing the electric stop signal at Cap
itol Ave. and Fall Greek Blvd.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: Can you induce
the traffic department of the In
dianapolis police to improve the sig
nal at Fall Creek Blvd. and Cap
itol Ave? At present it is almost
impossible to distinguish between
the green and the red signal until
one is very close. to the crossing.
Yours for safer driving, HIS.
City Electrician William B. Griffis
promised Mr.. Fixit he would do my
best" to put the signal in good con-
dition." The safety board recently
surveyed all electric signs with the
view OF replacing those which are
run down. There is no fund from
which repairs can be made. A bond
issue to provide funds for new sig
nails is considered.
Dear Sir: Who should I appeal
to for some very badly needed cloth
ing for myself and six children?
A MOTHER.
Fixit gave your complaint to the
Family Welfare Society which will
send a social worker to visit you.
A request for aid for woman, out
OF work, who lives on N. East St,
also was referred to the Family We'll
fare Society.
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Why Not Try the Real Thing?

The prediction by Senator Wesley Jones Of WASH
ington that the Senate will promptly enact legsa-
ton to have the Government resume the building OF
ships again directs attention to the knotty problem
of merchant marine.
There seems to be an agreement in Congress and
in the executive departments only one thing: The
country must have an adequate feet OF merchant
ships to serve auxiliarieS for the Navy, and to
carry at least part Of our ocean commerce.
The President, in his recent message to Congress,
said lit should be our policy to keep present YES
sells in repair and dispose of them rapidly as pos
sible rather than undertake any new construction.
Their operations is burden the national treasury
for which we not receiving sufficient benefits"
Jones, who is chairman Of the commerce COM
mittee and administration Republican. thus ap-
pears at complete odds with the President on this
important ISSUE Jones explains he has arrived at
his conclusion reluctantly after long study, because
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a ship, armed them and himself,
pursued the pirates, overlook them,
led his men in hand-to-hand fight
with them, recaptured the ransom,
and never paused till every pirate
was dead.
Then he went on to Rhodes to
study philosophy. Here was man
with the courage of Alexander and
the ability of Napoleon; but capable
Of such controlled intelligence as
Alexander never won, and mellowed
with all the culture of his time such
maturity and depth as could never
come to Napoleon's half-barbaric
soul.
He had left his young wife behind
in Rome; there, in 70 B. G. she sud-
denly fell i'll and died. Caesar re-
turned to mourn and honor her
memory; but a year later, thinking
it better not to burn, he married
again, more wisely but not so well,
rich girl named Pompilia.
Il a.
LIE had by this time shed all
l. l. theology; and rioting in the
license of one whose moral code had
lost its base, he made a name for
himself as young man Of many
sins, the inevitable correspondent in
every fashionable divorce" the hus-
band of all the women"
We cannot know if these tales are
more than the ISLANDERS Of his po-
litical enemies; if they are true,
Caesar was clever enough to make
their verification impossible. The
aristocracy might have forgiven him
his democratic politics, but not his
popularity with their wives.
One of these intimacies seems to
have been carried on with Servilia,
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NJ. 3.
TRACY
SAYS:
"YoM Cont Haze q Game
Without Rules, Morality
Without Standards or
Civilization Without
LGWS."
SAYS:

Carlos Davila, ambassador from
Chile is right not only in adj
vocating stronger ties between
South America and the United
States, but in emphasizing public
sentiment through enlarged cul-
tural, educational and social in
tercourse as the best means by
which to make them stronger.
AS he points out, our trade with
South America has trebled during
the last fifteen years, while our in
vestments in South America have
quadrupled.
There is too much bookkeeping
and too little acquaintance in the
relationship. The commercial side
of the picture has been allowed to
obscure the human side. These two
sections Of the western herni-
sphere do not know each other as
they should.
Morrow, Lindbergh and Will
Rogers have given us a vivid and
convincing illustration Of what can
and ought to be done.