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Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-20
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Anril 90, 1897


+. c. Paulin arrived from Lf
Angeles to look after his buainel
i"t~-osto IN Imperial and 9TH
valley towns.
Asa Dickey and his brother, j.
DieEey, wen, to Los Angeles toda
Tho closing session of the Imp.
rial Valley Teachers Institute WI
held, and was big success. Teacl
crs from all parts of the valid
have been in Imperial fer the ST
,ions, arriving by train.
Water Company No. announe9
gain of "a per cent i'll water cof
sumption for the II months COW
p,etod as compared with the san
period last year.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 20, 1912
Mrs. John Crawford is vislti1
relatives in Los Angeles.
John Norton was reelected pres
lent of the board of city truste'
of FL Centre.
Supervisor r. IL. C@rk return
from Los Angeles Wherc ne aPPc.,
ed before the state highway coy
mission in behalf of our roads.
The progressive element IN q
local Democratic party is pcrfectli
plans for the formation of a strot
Woodrow Wilson Club. Thi7
signatures for membership have
ready been obtained.
-EN YEARS AGO
April 90, 1917
Present building operations IN
Contrn indicate wonderful strid
are being made in the city's grow
7 he following is a list of the maj
improv vcmcnts being made: II.
Freeman business block on Ma
street, $4,000; j. q. Scott, busind
block ON Main street, $4,000: co
crete warehouse for Pioneer Tral
fer Co., 81 900; remodclliaG Blac
ington block, $500; Edgar Brot.
c1s garage, Main street, 5000; thI
cottages on He'll avenue, Mrs. Id
| BRYAN, 5000; W. s. Fawcctt hoi
on Wenslev avenue, 10000; l.
crty Six garage, Main street $43'
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-20
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
By HOWARD E. GAR1S

UNCLE WIGGTLY'S PEPPER
MINT CANrY
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-20

Join the marines and sit on the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-20

1t might be good idea to publish diplomatic note
when they are sent to Mexico and foil the forgers.
Evening star., 1927-08-30
EFFICIENCY EXPERT
EXPLAINS METHODS
Herbert Brown Talks With D. @.
Heads on Proposed New
Regulations.

Herbert D. Brown. chief of the
Federal Bureau OF Efficiency, con.
ferred with the District Commission
ers yesterday to ascertain what action
they planned to take on the numerous
recommendations for improving con-
ditions in the municipal service con-
tanned in the bureaus prolific reports
Of the last several months. The
matters discussed and the conclusions
reached were not made public. how
ever.
The Commissioners, it is known,
plan to adopt certain Of the bureaus
recommendations, but there are others
which are likely to be turned down
in view Of adverse comment by de.
partment heads. Chief among them
is a recommendation for institution
of a collateral system for traffic vic.
lators designed to relieve congestion
in Police Court. w. w. Bride. cor
poration counsel, has urged an in
crease in the number Of Police Court
judges in lieu of this plan.
The bureaus reports have covered
virtually every phase of municipal
activity, with the exception of the
Health Department. A report on
the bureaus recent investigation of
this department is expected to be sub.
mitted to the Commissioners in the
near future.
Evening star., 1927-08-30
COMING BACK

When Dempsey won the recent flght,
and downed the Boston boy, the news
was hailed with much delight from
Phoenix clear to Troy, and many a
staid and moral wight threw up his
hat in joy. Twas not because this
Dempsey guy has won the love oil all,
for you must sweat and strain and
try, his merits to recall; he catches ne
admiring eye, save when he's in
brawl. He may have spent no toll
some day at any useful chore; he's
never grown two bales of hay where
but one grew before; he merely aims
to soak some jay and knock him to
the floor. Twas not because the
Sharkey gent was painful to men s
eyes; the people do not care cent if
he should fall or rise, though. had he
won, they would have rent the welkin
with their cries. But when a has
been lifts his head, and says, Il will
come back, and with a dauntless,
steadfast tread III take the upward
track, so people who insist I'm dead
must take another tack" the dead
game sports throughout the land be-
stow approving glance; they may be-
lieve he's safely canned, and simply
has no chance, but they would think
1t truly grand if has-beens should ad-
vance. Tradition says the has-been's
done, he never will return, and in re-
sorts where wagers run, no lamp for
him will burn; he's had his season in
the sun, fate's lessons let him learn.
II this is true it is because the has
been has no hope; the old tradition
clamps his jaws and feeds him with it's
dope; he lacks the pep to use his claws
and scramble up the slope.
WALT MASON.
downright 1907
Evening star., 1927-08-30
DROP TIRES FOR MASHIES.
Auto Association Officers and EN-
ployes on Annual Outing.

Dropping lug Wrenches and tire
jacks to pick up mashie nibicks ana
tennis rackets. discarding office garb
for colorful bathing attire and general
lv bemoaning the absence of road
signs" indicating the proper route from
tee to green officials and employees or
national headquarters of the American
Automobile Association yesterday en-
loved their annual outing at the Con-
gressional Country Club. Headed by
President Thomas y. Henry, who,
with his wife and three daughters,
motored all the way from Detroit to
be present, 1870 officers and members
of the headquarters staff attended the
outing.
Ernest N. Smith, general manager
of the American Automobile Associa-
ton, had charge of the program,
which began with ride to the club in
emergency road service cars and which
included a wide variety of sport and
athletic events. Only a skeleton or
SANITATION was left at the headquar-
ters office to take care of emergency
and service calls.
While the club golf course occu-
pied the attention of a majority of the
men attending the outing. the tennis
courts, the cool lawns and the SWIM
ming pool were the chief allurements
for the women of the party.
banquet was served at o'clock
at which Mr.. Henry and his family
were guests of honor. Following the
banquet, a dance was given.
Evening star., 1927-08-30
FIRM MANAGER MISSING.
Paul r. Teeter of "Sytem Com
pany," Roanoke, Disappears.

Paul r. Teeter, general manager Of
the American System Co. of Roanoke,
Va. was reported yesterday to the po.
lice as missing since last Tuesday
night. The report was made by w.
II. Heckrotte, Eastern representative
of the System Co; B. c. Mooman, a
physician of Roanoke. and other busi-
ness associates of Teeter.
Friends said Teeter left the hotel
ostensibly for Boston. with an 'esti-
mated sum of from $500 to $500. Pre-
viously he had complained Of severe
headaches. Since departing he has
not been heard from, and preliminary
police Investigations. Heckrotte said.
indicated that he never reached Bos-
ton. Police have been advised in Bos-
ton, New York. Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Hartford and Atlantic City.
Teeter's associates said that lately
the missing man had been under Sc
we're nervous strain
Evening star., 1927-08-30
BURTON SEES US. WILLING
FOR WORLD DISARMAMENT
Tells Interparliamentary Union in
Paris This Nation Will go as
Far as Possible"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 30.-The United
States is disposed to go as far as pos.
aible in disarmament, Representativ tive
Theodore E. Burton of Ohio. head of
the American delegation, told the In
terparliamentary Union sitting in the
French Senate yesterday. He pointed
out that the United States Army had
been reduced to 10000 men and de-
spita Americas financial position, his
country had not augmented it's fleet
beyond it's needs. Nevertheless, to OBJ
tain real disarmament other nations
must be animated by the same spirit.
He considered an accord like the Lo-
carno pact much more valuable than
any proposed disarmament conven-
tions.
Evening star., 1927-08-30
CHINESE AROUSED
At US. CHAMBER
Nationalist Issue Warning
Against Activities-South-
ern Army RetireS.
By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.


News. Copyright, 1927.
SHANGHAI, August 30.-Declaring
that the activities Of the American
Chamber of Commerce are detrimental
to the best interests of those American
merchants concerned with the devel-
opment Of trade between China and
the United States. the Nationalist
(Southern government) this afternoon
issued the warning that unless the
American chamber ceases its under
handed activities, the Nationalist gov
ernment will be forced to bring the
matter to the attention of the Ameri-
can authorities and ask that action
be taken to curb the chamber.
The warning declares that the
Chambers pro-mperialistic activities
serve merely to provoke and allenate
all Chinese interested in continuance
: OF friendly relations between our coun'
try and America"
Chamber Statement Assailed.
The Nationalists took umbrage at
resolutions and cables which 1t claims
the chamber recently sent to Wash
ington demanding that American Ma
rine be used to prevent China from
increasing customs duties.
The statement continues:
In addition to this recent action
reports have reached the government
from the United States that the Ameri'
can Chamber Of Commerce has been
circulating newspapers and trade
bodies in America with literature COM
piled by notorious tools of local die
hard interests which contain unwar-
ranted attacks upon the Nationalists
government and officials and the gen.
eral purpose of which apparently is
to get the American Government en-
broiled in an imperialistic conspiracy
for military Intervention in China"
The statement 6wells upon the pro.
verbal and the long standing United
States. China friendship, which it de-
clares is threatened.
Nationalist Troops Fall Back.
The Nationalist troops have fallen
back from Nanking, ostensibly to pre-
pare positions behind the city, leaving
only a few troops in the river me-
tropolis to meet the Northerners cross
ing the Yangtze, according to wireless
reports received this afternoon.
One small town along the Shanghai.
Nanking Railroad near Chinkiang.
EAngtZe River port. changed hands
three times during As hours of fight
ing. the Northerners finally wrestling
Contfol from the NatlOHdllSts-
The first of three divisions of 1900
Northern captives arrived at Shang-
hal today and are being sent to Hang
chow and interned at the Lunghwa
Arsenal. A number of Nationalist
wounded also are arriving.
Heavy firing. mostly by Nationalist
from the south bank of the river, is
reported as being rected at merchant
vessels Of all nationalities plying the
Yangtze.
Evening star., 1927-08-30
FLOOD LOSSES COMPILED.
225, 900 Horses, Mules, Cattle and
Swine Included in Summary.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Losses in the Mississippi River food
area included more than 225, 900 head
OF horses, mules, cattle and swine and
more than 100000 in poultry, the
Department of Agriculture announced
yesterday after a summary of esti-
mates.
1t was added that the flooded area
covered 4,417,500 acres in 124 coun-
ties or parishes and that reports for
1926 showed cotton was grown on
about 2,600,000 acres of the flooded
area, corn on about 100000, hay
about 800. 900 and other crops on about
$40 900 acres. The department said it
had no estimates as to the number
of acres of the flooded area replanted
this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
WILL UNITE IL LINES
I. C. G.. O. ks Plan to Consolidate
Roads Operated Now in Texas
and Louisiana.

BY the Associated Press
Permission to consolidate all of the
II railroad properties which it now
operates in Texas and Louisiana into
single company was given the
Southern Pacific system yesterday by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Texas and New Orleans Rail
road Co. one of the 10, will be the
holding corporation for the Southern
Pacific and will lease. and manage the
properties Of the Louisiana Western
Railroad Morgan's. Louisiana and
Texas Railroad and Steamship Co., the
Lake Charles and Northern, the
Houston and Shreveport, the Houston
and Texas Central. the Houston East
and West Texas Railway Co, the
Southern Pacific Terminal Co, the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic and the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass. The Iberia and
Vermilion Railroad and the Franklin
and Abbeville are already owned by
the Louisiana and Texas co.
No change in ownership is involved.
the commission said, but saving in
clerical and accounting work, amount
ing to about 100000 a year, is
expected.
The Texas and New Orleans Co,
after the consolidation, will operate
$500 miles Of railroad in the two
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
DIVIDENDS.
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

ABERDEEN. Wis, January S.
Log prices in the Northwest are firm.
No advances have been reported, but
better quotations are in prospect
since there is a shortage of hemlock
and spruce owing to large orders from
pulp mills.
DETROIT-TheC Columbia Sugar Co
has closed its Mount Pleasant factory
after slicing 81 600 tons of sugar beets
or 900 less than in 1885. Despite
unfavorable weather only about rs
acres OF total of 10000 planted to
sugar beets remained unharvested.
TCLSA.-The Seminole field during
the past week established new record
Cor "a hours of production with flow
Of 166 900 barrels.
CAMBRIDGE. Md.--Shipments of
oysters for Thanksgiving and the
christmas and New Year holidays en-
riched this district by at least $500, 900.
KANSAS CITY The largest ship
ment of wheat -four ever to leave Kan
sas City is now on it's way to the Navy
Deuartment at Philadelphia and Hamp
ton Roads. 1t filled a train of SO cars
with . 900 900 pounds Of flour,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
AUTO OUTPUT HIGHER.
Twenty-Ninth Annual Record
Made in 1926 by the Trade

NEW YORK. January 8. tPl.-Au.
tomobile production in the United
States reached a new peak III 1926 to-
establish it's twenty-ninth annual rec
ord. the National Automobile Cham
Der of Commerce announced yester-
day.
The total production Of 4.480000
motor vehicles in 1926, with value OF
$3,056 $50, 900. is slightly in advance of
the figures for 1925, when 4,336.00O
machines. with a value of s2,977 904,-
1888, were manufactured.
An increase of per cent over the
total export figures for 1928 also was
noted. as 500, 900 machines We're ship
ped to foreign countries. Closed cars
continue to increase in popularity, and
continue to INCREASE in popularity and
"A per cent Of the output manufactur-
ed were composed of machines of this
type.
The truck industry reached new
peak with $50 900 in 1926, as compared
with 497, 452 in 1925, the report
showed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
REESER OPTIMISTIC.

NEW YORK, January R).--A
banner wear for the oil industry in
1927 is forecast by l.. Il. Heeser, pres
ident of Barnsdall Corporation. He
looks for an increase of S per cent in
demand for all petroleum products
over 1925 consumption, together with
new peak in oil production. which,
he believes. viii De l5.000,000 barrels
short of consumption, and will have
70 be drawn from existing stocks above
ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
SAYS STATUS IS GOOD.

NEW YORK, January s OR. r.
Brown. president of the United States
Industrial Alcohol Go. and the United
States Industrial Chemical CO., sees a
reassuring commercial outlook for
1927 in this industry. Firm markets,
coupled with intelligent buying, have
prevented the building up OF over
large stocks by wholesalers and retail
ers, placing both in an enViable posi-
zion with regard to inventories and
commitments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
NORMAN COMING TO u. S.
Governor of Bank of Eng land Plans
Visit in Fortnight

NEW YORK, January s (P-Mon-
tagu Norman. governor of the Bank
of England will come TO the United
States within the next fortnight. il
was learned yesterday. for a series Of
conferences with American bankers.
While no official information is
forthcoming. il is expected in Wall
Street that he will wind up the $500
900 900 credits extended TO the Bank
of England in May 1925 for support
of sterling exchange following upon
Great Britain's return to the gold
standard. OF this sum. the New York
Federal Reserve Bank extended credit
OF $200. 900 900 and j. p. Morgan 4 Co.
SEQ, 600 900. but no use ever was made
of it, =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
FIRMS ARE UNITED.

NEW YORK, January R).-Al-
He'd Chemical and Dye Corporation
has acquired the Steere Engineering
Co, Detroit. and has consolidated 1t
with the engineering and constru"-
ton departments Of the Semet-SoiNaE
Co. a subsidiary, into a new compa ~
known as the Semet-Solvay Engineer
ing Corporation. The Semet-SolVaN
SO. designed and installed the first
by.product coke oven in America and
operates plants in various parts of the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08

centage of rise has been in teachers
salaries, next in building wages, and
third in clerical wages. Taken on
1919 base, agricultural wages are now
much lower, railroad and unskilled
labor wages Just a little higher and
average factory wages about 20 per
cent higher.
Wages Oe.Third Higher.
Taken as n whole. the composite
shows the average wages Tor the
country at the present time nearly
one-third higher than at the close OF
the war: about 6 per cent above the
average for 1920, and some 10 per
cent above the average of 1922. the
postwar low year.
'"The gain to the worker has, of
course. been immcnse--the relative
spread between the wage level and
the average cost of living having
been in the last three years probably
greater than at any time in the last
half century. The difference between
these three years and the years i'm
mediatcly preceding the war is not
less than 20 or % per cent. This must
mean for the 30 odd million wage
workers of the country a difference
in extra spending power of not less
than six or eight billions annually.
which to my mind goes far to explain
the prolonged building boom and huge
sales of automobiles and other things
formerly classed as luXuries.'
These facts also go to explain the
rise of labor banking in the United
States during this period
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
BY STUART p. WEST.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NUeclal DfSpalcn 10 the Nbai'
NEW YORK, January S.-Prices
went down on the Stock Exchange in
the early part of the past week and
rallied toward the end. Whatever
else the opening period of 1927 will
be remembered by. it will not be these
small and not at all important huctua-
tions in stocks.
The main happenings have been IN
honGs Here the expectation of
months past is being fulfilled. What
with the crop-moving funds coming
back, on top of everything else Whlcn
made the money situation SO easy IN
the Summer and Autumn, still higher
bond values than any yet realized are
inevitable.
What are we going to do with the
big money surplus which will pile up
AT the reserve centers from now on?
We are evidently not going to put II
into trade expansion; we might put
it into a gold export movement. bnt
there is no possibility Of this unless
Europe runs up through the sale OF
more securities a big credit balance
Many more foreign loans Will, IT Is
believed. be tioated in the American
dollar market with the course of the
wear But the suggestion has not yet
been made that these will reach
sufficient total to offset the items in
the international balance sheet count
ing in our favor and necessitate gold
shipments on a large scale by way OF
equalization.
Money Quotation Drops.
In a word. the likelihood of a cha nge
in fundamental money conditions
seems remote and an effort regarded
ny many as artificial. has been made
to delay the reduction in call money
rates. But the money market has
finally asserted itself and the call
loan quotation was dropped from ; to
Az per cent Bids of A. per cent
with offers of 49s on ali classes of
time loans have been the prevailing
market for the last month. But the
question is being asked. what would
happen in the investment market if
the Az per cent level We're broken and
if instead OF AT the rate became 334
The general average for bond prices
is already the highest since before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
STOCK CHANGES DURING WEEK
REGARDED AS IMPORTANT
Bond Market Is Fulfilling Most Optimistic
Expectations, With Surplus Piling Up
And Money Rates Dropping.

the war. ANY further downward re
vision i'm money might easily mean a
still higher investment range. II i
s0methi like this that the bohd MAJ
ket of the last week has been getting
ready for. with its eager swapping VI
of foreign government department.
railroad and industrial securities
while maintaining United States Gov
eminent obligationy and the higher
grade of domestic corporation boiidS
well uD to their best Of last year.
EuroDeau CuITencieS Steady.
\othina further occurred concern
inc the stahilization OF European cur
rencieS because it is assumed for all
practical purposes that both franc
and lire have been unofiicially stabll-
lied around their present hGureS.
The selling ceased long ago and no
supp0rt from government or banking
sources has been needed. All that
was required was 4 restoration Oh
confidence in conditions as they were.
Then the liquidation automatically
stopped and capital which had taken
cover in other countries returned
home.
II the merCn ntilo reviews are 70 he
taken as a suitable guide the week
has been as umintercsting in the buSl'
ness world as it has been in the imam
cial world outside the bond market.
The best that Dun's can say Tor the
price situation is that the averag" is
holding steady. The index number
on January | was slightly above thal
on December /. but the difterence
was trivial As compared with "A year
ago it was down AS per cent. That
is. the commodity price level upon
which 50 much depends as basis tor
business advance is still low. IT the
profit margins for 1926 We're unusual
" narrow. then the same is certainly
true for the start of 1927, with its
still lower prices.
Professional operators at the close
of the week We're conducting some
fresh experiments with the steel
shares and some of the rails. The
outcome will he watched With inter
est because 50 far during the last
three weeks every attempt made to
draw the market out of its rUt has
not succeeded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
BANK CLEARINGS GAIN.

PITTSBURGH. January Z P).-
Bank clearings for 1926 increased
more than S340. 900 600 over those OF
1925. the Pittsburgh Clearing House
Association reported today. The total
for the year was placed at $9,197 $50,
6O7.40, as against $S,856,572, 09011 the
nrecadinC year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
LEAD RECEIPTS LOWER.

NEW YORK, January R).-Re-
ceipts of lead ore in the United States
by shelters during November totaled
1881 short tons, against 1881 the
month before, the American Bureau
of Metal Statistics reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08

Economics announces, or rate of re
turn of SOS per cent on their proper y
Investment Their income i'm Novem
her, 1925 was Sl07 ,l53,6S9. return 81
I.SI per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
STEEL SCRAPS HIGHER.

NEW YORK. January R).-Prices
Of steel scrap are up 20 cents ton
in the Chicago district, ranging from
S13.25 to S13.75 a ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
AGGREGATE INCOME UP.

Class ] railroads in November had
net railway operating income Of
$lI4, S97 .2SS. the Bureau OF Railway