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Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-25
RESTRICTION ON
COLORADO RIVER
LAND COMPANY
Mexican Official Makes
Bitter Attack On Firm
Headed BY Chandler.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. %. UP
Revision of the concession held In
Lower California by the. Colorado
River Land Company, with specia
regard to colonization features and
geographical limits of American
companies vast holdings, has been
ordered through the ministry of ag'
riculture.
President Pacual Ortiz Rubio,
who announced the order, said that
the government hoped to open more
land to colonization under govern
ment auspices.
A report of recent inspection
tour by Secretary of Communica
tions Juan Almazan contained a
bitter attack on a company head
Cd by Harry Chandler, Los Angeles
publisher. The report provoked
widespread editorial demand for the
"Mexicanization' of Lower Cali
fornia, opposed to the rapid expan-
sion of United States influence i'll
the region.
President Ortiz Rubio also an
nounced the treasury had been in
structed to study means to enable
Mexican residents of the northern
frontier "to require provisions and
food of absolute necessity without
payment of import duties, with the
object of reducing the cost OF liv-
ing in those communities. The
announcement was interpreted as a
forerunner of free ports on the
frontier, which have been demand
cd by frontier cities, especially
.]uarez, opposite FL Paso.
Mexican frontier merchants have
petitioned the government frequent.
ly to establish free ports to enable
them to compete with merchants on
the United States side of the tron
tier for Mexican trade. They allegc
that Mexicans trade across the Dor,
der clandestinely and bring theil
purchases to Mexico without paying
duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-25

The Colorado River Land Com
pany controls several hundred acres
of land lying along the international
boundary, between Mexicali and
Algodones. This year it is reported
the company S operations have been
greatly curtailed compared with
those of former years, apparently
in anticipation of an adverse ruling
from Mexico CITY.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-25
PLAN new HUNT
FOR BOYS SLAIN
BY NORTHCOTT

RIVERSIDE, Calf, Sept. -. (U.P)
Using Il map said to have been
prepared by the Gordon Stewart
Northcott, Riverside county authori-
ties tomorrow will make search
for the graves of his victims.
The map, believed by officers to
have been drawn by Northcott, who
will be hanged in San Quentin next
week, is in the possession of Sheriff
Glenn Sweeters.
The map is said to be drawn in
pencil with, crosses to Indicate
where he buried the bodies of the
various youths he killed ON his
chicken ranch near here.
\ preliminary search, under Iii
rCctions of the map, already has
been made, but was not successful,
it was learned.
Northcott was accused and con.
victcd of Staying Nelson and Lewis
Winslow, of Pomona. He also was
accused of the murders of Walter
Collins of Los Angeles and an un-
Identified Mexican youth. He was
"
charges but his mother, Mrs. Louis
Northcott, confessed the killing of
Young Collins and now is under life
sentence to San Quentin.
SO far officials never have been
able to find any trace of the bodies
or Northcott S victims.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. -. UP)-
Cyrus Northcott, father of Gordon
Stewart Northcott, was to have a
conference with Governor Young
late today-a last appeal by North
colt to save his son from the San
Quentin gallowS, Oct. >.
The chief executive is understood
to he adamant in his refusal to stay
trc execution sentence and it was
rumorcd that his receiving North.
eott today was but a courtesy. "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
RESPONSIBILITY

One reads the following dispatch
from Urbana, ILL.,: "a banker who
stole 100000, and a chicken thief
who pilfered Is pullets, were taken
to the same penitentiary yesterday.
"John H. Thornburn; former pres
ident of the Urbana Banking Com
pany, who confessed to the embez-
element of 100000 from the bank,
will serve from one to ten years. He
was taken to Chester penitentiary on
the same train with Coy Leach, of
Penfeld, ILL.,, the chicken thief, who
was sentenced to serve from one year
to life"
The mind leaps to the idea Of in
justice. And yet the injustice may be
less than it seems to be on the surface
The banker may have lived long
and useful life. The deed for which
he is suffering may have been the
first step and last serious misstep of
his life. The chicken thief may be
an habitual criminal, one who has
preyed on society for a generation
One needs all the facts to Judge in
justice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
WE'RE BACK NUMBERS!

Arthur Brisbane, nationally known
journalist whose syndicated material
reaches millions of Americans each
week, compares unfavorably the
American with the communist method
of handling the farm problem.
The Moscow government, he says,
is preparing to spend 1920, 100000 of
"real money in promoting the well
fare of the farmer, and that it is man.
ufacturing tractors and fertilizers for
the farmers in state-owned factories,
instead of permitting the wicked cap
italists to do this in privately owned
plants, as we backward and unintelli-
gent Americans do.
The fact Brisbane overlooks is that
the Moscow government is not plan
ming to spend this money, or provide
the allegedly cheap tractors and fer
tilizers for the farmers at all. The
Moscow masters are now engaged in
taking the land away from the peas
ants, converting their holdings into
state-owned farms, and reducing the
farmers to status of serfs from
which even czardom lifted them by
imperial ukase. The money is to be
spent and the equipment provided to
operate farms to produce revenues
to maintain in power the million COM
munists who now own Russia.
Strange it is that prominent Amer
leans find so much to admire in a
governmental system which makes
the citizen slave to the Russian
political machine that has set out to
own and operate both public and pri-
vate property, and which keeps itself
in power by free use of the bayonet,
the Jail, the moose, the exile camp and
complete suppression of liberty Of
speech and of the press.
It is no longer considered original,
however, to find any merit in the
American way of doing things, and
journalists who wish to be considered
heavy thinkers find it necessary to
pretend to believe that socialists and
communists are progressive and that
American methods and political doc
trines are outworn and reactionary.
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a prospective customer at Barnum, w.
Va, ION whom he had called to sell
silverware.
Senator-elect Harvey ]. Spicher and
Assemblyman D. E. Bolden went to
Annapolis to take the oath of Office
and to enter upon their duties as
members of the Maryland General
Assembly.
( Ohio s.. Fike was elected president
of the Board of County Commission
ers at the organization meeting of
that body held on Monday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
IN DAYS Of OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

The Board of County Commission
ers appointed one hundred and fifty
eight road supervisors, the largest
number ever appointed in any one
year in the history of the county.
Among the supervisors appointed
were P. ]. Lohr, William Sharpless,
William Junkins, Noah HENDERSON,
c. E. Ellitorp, Henry Bethel, Lewis
Harmon, jeff Ralston, Clark DeBer-
~, Andrew Shartzer and William
Browning. a2 g.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Ralph Thayer, Fred. ,Townshend,
Stanley Mitchell, G. Milton sSincell,
Harry McComas and Frank Palmer
were among those who returned to
their respective schools from Oakland
following the Christmas vacation.
Horace Coddington returned to Oak
lapd Thursday from Kansas City, Mo.
where he had been employed for sew
eral months.
J. B. Germany, formerly of Deei
Park, dropped dead in the doorway 81
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
LETTER
By HARRIET SAMUEL


With the Christmas holidays at an
end, Congress reconyened on Monday
The session, it is prophesied, will run
until June or July, since a heavy
legislative program confronts both
houses, with the tariff bill and prohi-
bition enforcement the principal fea-
lures.
The fight to keep Senator Robert
M. La Toilette off. the Senate Finance
committee will probably be carried to
the floor Of the Senate. The youthful
senator from Wisconsin is backed by
the Republican Progressives, while
the Old Guard is opposing him. Sena-
tor Golf of West Virginia, also q
candidate for the appointment, out
ranks Senator La Toilette in seniority
and under the usual procedure woulc
have been assigned to the vacancy
The appointment of Senator Sackett
of Kentucky as Ambassador to Ger
many, however, leaves two vacancies
Hence an interesting fight is expec
ted.
Senator Grundy of Pennsylvania
who but a short time ago, just before
his appointment to the Senate, was
being grilled by the Lobby Investigat
ing committee, has given the Senate {
lesson in political ethics. When the
roll was called on the question Of
raising the duty on wool yarn, Of
which he is a manufacturer, the Sena
tor replied, 81 am interested in the in
dustry which is sheltered under thii
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
Questions to Be Asked in 1880
Census

Following are the questions to be
asked in the 1880 population census:
l. Relationship to head of family,
including a statement as to the home
maker in each family.
2. Whether home is owned or is
rented.
8. Value of home, if owned, or
monthly rental, if rented.
4. Radio set? Eyes or no).
5. Does this family live on farm ?
Eyes or no).
6. Sex.
7. Color or race.
8. Age at last birthday.
9. Marital condition.
10. Age at first marriage. (For
married persons only.
Continued next Thursday
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GORTNER

| Inefe Will De singing IN the Union
church next Sunday evening.
Mr.. G. D. Miller, Springs, Pa, filled
the appointment in the church at this
place last Sunday morning. He was
accompanied to Gortner by Mr.. and
Mrs. Dwight Miller and daughter Lor-
raine, who were guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Swartzentruber.
Mr.. J. H. Sanders and Mrs. George
Yutzy, of Oakland, spent last Friday
in this community where they visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Sanders.
Mrs. Amanda Hoff has been spend
ing some time at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Owen Martin. Mr.. Martin has
| been confined to his bed for several
weeks with an attack Of infammatory
rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Spoerlein took
their son Ernest to Burlington, w.
Va, on Thursday, from which place
he accompanied a Mr.. Miller, to
Bridgewater College. 4,
Mrs. Nora Swiers and daughters
Ruth and Gladys, of Loeb Lynn, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Yoder
on Saturday night.
Mr.. Simon Swartzentruber has pur-
chased the wind mill on the Alvey
Martin farm, which he is now erect
ing over a spring on his own farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Shaffer and
Mr.. Ray Mosser and family visited
the Dodge family on Sunday. Mrs.
Dodge has been ill with an attack of
lumbago for short time.
Miss Dora Louise Spoerlein was a
guest of Miss Winona Fike in Cash
Valley one day last week.
Mrs. Dice Spiker and Misses Lucille
Bernard and Fannie Yoder spent Fri
day with Mrs. Harvey Swartzentru-
Der at her home in this community.
Mr.. Ernest Gnegy who arrived from
Chicago to spend the holidays with
home folks at Mountain Lake Park
and Hauser, spent Tuesday evening at
the home of Mr.. S. w. Slabach. Mr..
Gnegy left on Wednesday for Lancas-
ter, Pa.
Mrs. Miller and Miss Helen Mosser,
Red House, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hervey Roth last week.
Misses Amanda Swartzentruber and
Anna Yoder and Messrs. Solomon Yo-
der and Joseph Hershberger, of Nor
folk, Va, and Mr.. Noah Beachy, of
Meyersdale, Pa, visited relatives here
several days last week,
Mrs. w. WEIGH, Miss Ruth Schloss-
nagle and Mrs. Paul WEIGH and son
Billy spent Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mr.. S. w. Slabach.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Lichty took Mr..
S. ]. Lichty to Meyersdale, Pa, where
he will remain several days receiving
medical treatment. They were ac-
companied home on Wednesday even
ing by Miss Lottie Butler.
Rev. A. D. Scrogum and family, of
Accident, called on Mrs. Elwood
Schlossnagle, Mrs. Paul WEIGH and
Mr.. W. E. Spoerlein and family on
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schlossnagle
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Andy
Miller on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Mary Mosser, Hauser, is
spending some time with her. daugh-
ter, Mrs. Artie Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Beachy and Mr..
H. E. Yoder and family were SUM-
day visitors at the home of Mr.. D. ].
Swartzentruber. -
Mrs. A. J. Alexander, of Accident,
spent the weekend with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Paul WEIGH. She was &C.
companied to Accident Sunday even
ing by Mrs. WEIGH, Mrs. Anna Bit
finger and Miss Ruth Schlossnagle.
Miss Rosalie Click and Mr.. Roy
Lichty were dinner guests at the res
idence of S. W. Slabach on Sunday
evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09

Mrs. w. E. Spoerlein was the guest
of Mrs. James Hamilton at Red House
recently.
Mrs. Noah Slabach spent Tuesday
night in Uniontown, Pa, where she
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Slabach.
Among the Sunday visitors at the
home of Mrs. Amanda Hoff were Mrs.
Harry Beeghley and son.
Mrs. Leroy White and daughter
Helen and Mrs. Russell Beckman, of
Fairsweep, spent Monday with Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Swartzentruber. 7
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
OVER 500 PERSONS SEEK TO
BE CENSUS ENUMERATORS
Supervisor Stump Expects To
Use 1876 In Three Counties In
His Jurisdiction

Over five hundred residents of AL
legany, Garrett and Washington coun-
ties seek to be census enumerators
during the census takin this spring.
John ]. Stump, Of Cumberland, SUI
pervisor of the 1880 census in the
Western Maryland District, said Sat
urday that he has sent to the Census
Bureau in Washington the names of
over 800 applicants. Blank forms of
application with examination blanks
will be sent to these people within
the next month direct from Washing
ton.
Each applicant will be given plenty
of time to complete the examination
and return the papers to Washington.
There they will be graded and a rat
ing given to all eligible for appoint
ment. Supervisor, Stump must make
his selections from the list of eligi-
bles.
It is expected that 1876 enumera-
tors will be required in the 8 West
ern Maryland counties and these will
be appointed in ample time to prepare
intensively for the actual taking of
the census.
Headquarters for this district will
be in Cumberland at the Postof1ce
building. An office will be opened also
in Hagerstown in charge of an assis-
tant,
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at the service of the public.

braska are talking of drafting him
for candidate for the United States
Senate. The former Commanders
Chief of the American Expeditionary
forces is reported to be disinclined to
seek the honor.
The Vice President, Mr.. Charles
Curtis, entertained at dinner on Tues
day evening at the Mayfiower in hon
or of the President and Mrs. Hoover.
Due to the fact that Mrs. Hoover has
been confined to the White House for
several days suffering from a severe
cold, she was unable to be present
and Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of
the Secretary of War, was asked to
take her place. Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam, sister of the Vice President,
was hostess.
A double celebration of the we'd
ding of H. R. H. Princess Marie Jose,
daughter of the King and Queen of
the Belgians, and H. R. H. Humbert,
Prince of Piedmont, heir to the throne
of Italy, was held in Washington on
Wednesday evening
Prince Albert de Ligne, the Bel
gian Ambassador, entertained at din
ner at the Embassy, while the Italian
Ambassador and Nobil Donna Antoin-
eta de MARITIME gave a large recep-
ton at the Italian Embassy later in
the evening. -.
Among the guests at the White
House dance for Mr.. Allan Hoover
last week were two young women for
whom the White House has happy
associations. One of these was Miss
Clara Boiling, niece of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, while the other was Mrs.
John H. Amen, the former Marian
Cleveland, daughter of the late Presi-
dent Cleveland and the present Mrs.
Thomas Jex Preston, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amen have taken
house in Washington and evidently
plan to spend some time here.
49,
Mrs. Philip Lee Goldsborough, wife
of the Senator from Maryland, died
Monday at their home in Baltimore.
Besides her husband Mrs. Goldsbor-
ough is survived by two sons, Phillips
Lee Goldsborough, Jr., and Brice W.
Goldsborough, Jr.
= Mrs. Goldsborough rarely entered
into political activities. Since her
husbands election to the Senate she
has led a semi-secluded life.
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Oakland, Md.

paragraph. Therefore 1 would like to
withhold my vote on the amendment. y
The Senator's action has caused
quite a bit of comment and also
speculation as to whether in the flu
ture his example will be emulated by
his fellow members of the Senate
when legislation in which they are
personally interested is up for con-
sideration.
| The War Department appropriation
bill reported to the House on Tuesday
provides for improvements at Airing
ton cemetery to link in with the new
memorial bridge and the restoration
of the Lee Mansion.
The memorial bridge, which will
cost $15,000,000, will make necessary
changes in the road system at Airing
ton costing approximately 100000
The bill carries approximately $110,-
900 for Confederate-head stones.
The amount appropriated hereto
fore for the reservations of the Lee
Mansion in Arlington cemetery has
been 100000, and ST., 500 will be
needed to complete it. 1t is estimated
that $38,500 will be required for the
interior furnishings, many of which
have already been purchased ano
many have been donated. The build.
ing and it's surroundings, including
the slave quarters, will be restored to
the condition they were in at the time
of the Civil War.
President and Mrs. Hoover enter.
tanned the American delegates to the
London Naval Arms Conference
their wives and the Rear Admiral
who will act as technical advisers, al
farewell breakfast at the White
House on Tuesday. The delegation
! left Washington on special train or
Thursday morning and sailed from
New York that evening.
The American delegation will stay
at the Ritz Carlton hotel where head.
quarters will be maintained. The
Secretary of State, who will head the
| delegation, and Mrs. Stimson, have
leased "Stanmore," fine old estate
near Harrow, where they will, OF
course, do a great deal of entertain.
ing over week-ends during the perioe
of the conference.
$50
The thirty-third honorary Masoni,
degree, the highest in Masonry, wa!
conferred upon General John ]. Per
shing at an impressive ceremony il
the Scottish Rite Temple on Monda,
evening. The degree was conferred
on behalf of the Supreme Council Of
the Southern Jurisdiction by Captain
John Henry Cowles, Sovereign Crane
Commander.
A number of distinguished guest.
witnessed the ceremony, including
members of the Supreme Council
His Excellency, Ahmed Mouhtar Bey
Turkish Ambassador; and His Excel
lency, Charles A. Davila, Rumanial
Minister.
Friends of General Pershing in Ne
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09

braska are talking of drafting him
for candidate for the United States
Senate. The former Commanders
Chief of the American Expeditionary
forces is reported to be disinclined to
seek the honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-19

J. A. Benson, business man and
sportsman of FL Centre and the
hacker of the FL Centre baseball
club in the winter league ranks,
was in the city yesterday on the
beginning of brief vacation.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-19
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IMPERIAL VALLEY
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W. G. COSTELLO,
Manager
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Now that the shouting and the flag
waving brought on by the Fourth of July
have died away it might be a good idea
to take a critical look at this freedom OF
ours, which the holiday celebrates, and
see just what it amounts to.
We are very fond of talking about
our right" to freedom, as American cit
liens. Too often we forget that this
right carries duty with It. lobe Tree
we must deserve freedom.
Solomon Leyitan, state treasurer OF
Wisconsin. expressed this truth very
ably in a recent speech, part Of which is
worth reproducing here.
Every man, woman and child wants
to be independent" remarked Mr.. Levi
tan, but how many are willing to fulfill
the requirements of freedom? Uncivlllzed
tribes roaming the forests are not free;
they are the slaves of natural forces and
of their ignorance. Freedom is the fruit
of education and social discipline, and
integrity is its strength and sinew.
without integrity the sudden gift OF
freedom is apt to develop license. Rus
sia and Spanish America are examples
of this. When the Spanish-American
countries adopted democratic constltu-
tions. graft was everywhere. Lack of
integrity has greatly delayed the politl-
cal, industrial and social freedom in
those countries We will find that Wher-
ever integrity is the highest, democracy
is the most stable.
.'In our own country today our con-
tinued progress industrially, socially
and politically is dependent upon our
integrity 1t is the foundation of that
self-government so vital to a democratic
form of government
That is worth thinking about a little
Surely it would take an optimlst to
say that political conditions in America
today are famous for their complete IN
tegrity The Teapot Dome and Neter
ans Bureau scandals are not very far
in the background City governments are
still, in large measure, in the hands OF
ward-heelers and self-seeking political
czars. Chicanery in public office is 50
common as to excite little comment.
MIR. Levitan has summoned up the sit
uation aptly. To get the fruits OF our
democratic government, we must take an
interest in the government and demand
100 per cent performances from our Off
ice holders Otherwise cur boasted in
dependence will become sham.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-19
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modern means of warfare, the time is
rapidly approaching when even the fire
eating politician must hesitate to advo-
cate armed struggle.
with the Peace Pact, the League of
Nations and the international Court,
from two of which our timid national
lists shy as too dangerous for us to con-
template, war should be made humanity
impossible. But this will not occur un-
less the men of your generation so de
cree, and, if you do not so decree, you
and your children with you may we'll be
blotted out in the utter ruthlessness of
the next war This is not idle specula-
tion if is grim fact
1t is right there that President Angel
strikes the note that must be sounded
incessantly if the move for world peace
is to succeed. If the race eventually
reaches the point where it will put war
out of existence, it will do so, not because
of any appeals to its altruism, but SIM
ply because it comes to realize that war
is too deadly a game to be played any
longer Dr. Angels remarks deserve
wide audience and close study.