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Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
MARSH HELD AS
ROBBER SUSPECT

LOS ANGELES, April 8. U.P)-
Jack Sherry Marsh, believed wanted
in San Francisco for a big payroll
robbery, was under arrest today on
charges OF possessing narcotics and
suspicion of robbery.
Detectives of the police narcotic
squad, who made the arrest, as
serted they found 80 tubes of NOR
phine in Marsh's apartment.
Fingerprints of the suspect were
found to correspond with those of
a Jack Marsh wanted in San Fran
cisco for a big payroll robbery. Ac-
cording to police the man has a
long police record and has served in
Folsom and San quentin prisons.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
CLAIMS BANKERS
WANT TO REDUCE
LAB0R'S WAGES

WASHINGTON, April 3. (U.H =
High officials of the federal depart
ment of labor and the American
Federation of Labor joined today in
charging that leading banking in
terests are fostering efforts to re-
duce the wages of the nations work.
ing men.
'It is becoming increasingly ap-
parent that the banks are hell-bent
for putting the wage scales back to
where they were in 1913" Ethelbert
Stewart, federal commissioner of Ia
Dor statistics, said.
President William Green of the
labor federation charged there was
a conspiracy" in several leading in
dustrieS to reduce wages and assert
and that banks already had COM
pelled some concerns to cut their
employees pay.
Wage reduction reported to the
federal labor department for the
month ending February Is averaged
1913 per cent and affected 39,096
workers in 228 establishments.
Everybody but few old fossils
are in favor of high wages" Stew
art said. "On the other hand. most,
though not all, of the banks are un-
able to get away from interest and
dividends. That is the only things
they can see. Any talk of lowering
interest rates or emitting dividends
is Immediately resented and the old
time remedy Of reduction of wages
is proposed"
He pointed out that banks which
made large loans when price and
wage levels we're high, would find
it highly profitable to be repaid in
dollars of greater value. Prices al
ready have come down so that a
1926 dollar now has a purchasing
power of $l.32.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
Taxes Delinquent
On April 10th

State and county taxpayers are
reminded by Mont J. Reid, county
tax collector, that the date OF de-
linauency for the second installment
of these taxes has been changed
from the last Monday in April to
April 20.
For a number of years, state and
county taxes have become delinquent
on the last Monday in April, but
this year change has been made
and the tax payers are warned that
taxes will be delinquent on Mon
day, April 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
STORK VISITS ASTHERS

PARIS, April g. U.p)-A daughter
was born to Vivian Duncan, Ameri-
can actress and wife of Nils Asther,
Swedish cinema actor, at Augsburg,
Bavaria, March 80, it was learned
today.
Mrs. Asther and her baby arrived
here today and will remain through
the summer. Asther is enroute TO
Paris.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
WHAT'S DOING
Tonight

Tonight
Grapefruit growers, 1880,
court house.
Rose Mesquite farm center,
7:45, Rose school.
Magnolia Mulberry farm CEN
ter, 1880, Magnolia school.
Box social, 700, Eucalyptus
school.
"Straw Shuffle," $3.50, high
school.
Nv. Pyramid No. 81, A. E. o.,
Sciots, 500, Masonic Temple.
Boxing, 800, Ell Centre arena.
Troop 25, 3. S. A., 1880, Nc
Cabe school.
Troop 2l, b. S. A., 1880, NJ. L.
social hall.
Mooseheart Legion, 8 o'clock,
Moose home.
Fox Imperial Theatre, "Skip-
py."
Tomorrow
Story hour. 1000, city library.
Junior matinee, 2:l5, Fox Inn
perial Theatre.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03
Missouri. Plans Wet Rallies

ST. LOUIS. Mo. tU.P)--Plans for
wet" rallies throughout Missouri
July 4 have been announced by the
Prohibition League OF Mtt-
souri,. !
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-03

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
School and Business

Children going to school always were important and always will be. This year. however, they have a rather special interest to the world in general. When children start to school in September they have to have shoes. They have to have new clothes. Maybe not so many nor so expensive as some years but there is hardly child who does not need something new in the way of clothing. if not this week, then next week or next month. The old togs which do very we'll for summer play will not serve for cooler weather and the more dignified usage of the school room.
 Children need books and pencils, too. and tablets and erasers The business of sup plying these needs is always looked forward to as part of the regular fall upturn. This year it is of more consequence than ever. Clothing is cheaper, so that people on salar- ies may buy more freely than they sometimes do. And they should do their buying not dolefully because the things cost money, but joyfully, because they can get such good value. And because every suit of clothes for John and dress for Sue means little more work for someone in the needlework trades who needs desperately every cent and every dollar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
More Denials

Senator Frederic C. Waleott of Norfolk new national dry newspaper that is to be published in Washington. Both Senator Walcott and E. Kent Hubbard president of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association were listed among the directors of the news paper this summer when pleas for support ware sent to various men and women throughout the nation. Mir Hubbard was quick to announce his withdrawal of sup port, because, as he himself admitted he had given it plainly under a misunderstanding Senator Walcott was away at the time, but in view of his stand upon prohibition as expressed in the keynote address to the re- publican state convention in l930 consider able speculation was heard in Connecticut.
 Most people felt. though. that he had been involved in the dry newspaper project in the same manner as had MT Hubbard. While the latter did not definitely take stand one way or another in regard to the prohibition amendment he did state that he was not backing any newspaper that evident ly was erusading for dry support solely. He probably expected more liberal attitude towards the issue with due consid- eration being given to both sides. How ever if we aren't mistaken that is not the intention of the packers of the new news paper which has yet to make its first ap- pearance.
 Senator Walcott very firmly opposed the 9th amendment in addressing the republi- can convention in 1930. It was perhaps the first time that he had expressed him
 self so forcibly on the subject in public. Knowing his close friendship for President Hoover many wondered what the president might say or do Evidently he realized that his friends were entitled to their own per sonal opinions Senator Walcott again stressed his beliefs this week in denying his support of dry newspaper by putting for ward government ownership and operation of distilleries for the manufacture of all ethyl alcohol and grain spirits needed for commercial and beverage purposes. Sale of liquors in various states should be decided by vote of the people.
 He is in favor of modification, for he believes that repeal or amendment of the 18th Amendment IS long way off. One remark is worth repeating We may be wiser as the result of having made this ex- pertinent in sumptuary legislation by the Federal Government. but l am sure that as nation of individuals. we are sadder. -. Perhaps after all the senator isn't totally right in his assumptions. Maybe repeal of the amendment isn't SO far away as he inn agines. Certainly the next few sessions of Congress are going to find the bugaboo of prohibition eorpping up in their midst with increasing rapidty and with remarkable en- duranee. It looks like the beginning of the end to us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Motor Truck Lines

Italy is showing the world something in highways. A system of thoroughfares now under construction is reminiscent of the old Roman roads, paved with solid blocks of stone, which carried armies, post chariots and wagon freights from the capital city to the outlaying parts of the empire. These are "autostrade", or auto streets built by private capital on rights of way provided by the state. Apparently they will charge tolls. And they will be worth paying for.
 There will leg eight great trunk lines, or superhighways as we would probably call them, for the exclusive use of motor vehicles, without any cross traffic. Speed on such roads will be limited only by the power of ones car.
 This is good enterprise for dull times. When will such highways be provided in America, the native land of the automobile and rapid transit?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1881
Waterbury Day

It's all the fashion this fall to have great big old-fashioned shopping day. Buffalo, N. r., started it with Buffalo Day, which attracted people to their city for miles around. Everybody in the city cooperated. Merchants cut prices on everything as much as 50 per cent on many articles. Everything was marked down so that to some customer it would be bargain Restaurants ans lunch rooms offered attractive meals all day long at prices that haven't been seen Tn years and years. Newspapers contributed full page to those who were participating In the day of bargains. It was a gala holiday of spending. but not splurging.
 An immense amount of money was spent in Buffalo. Probably there wasn't heavy percentage of profit, but there certainly was plenty of money changing hands all day long. And that was the primary purpose of the day and its originators They wanted the people to get out and spend lot of money, not individually but collec- lively. Getting such large sum in circu- laton was the best thing in the world for Buffalo and environs. It was the necessary stimulation to convince people that after all was said and done the world wasn't go- ing to come to an end just because business in general had suffered a relapse.
 Hartford and New Haven in this state are both adopting the idea and We rather inn agine that it will prove successful in both places. Waterbury ought to get in line, too. Perhaps the idea is being considered by local merchants or the Chamber of Commerce. If so. there is no time like the present for sell in it to the public. There may be many unemployed people in the Naugatuck valley and money may be scarce, but Waterbury Day with all the pep and hustle of our bus mess men and women behind it ought to be grand success. It's worth serious eonsid-, eration at any rate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Here, There And Everywhere
ached ss,ooo, 900 for 10000, 900

reached $3,ooo.oOO for 14o.oOO,Ooo
 pounds.
 Even those who like tapioca pud- ding know little about its chief in- 'gredient. Ninety per cent of the worlds export tapioca comes from
 Java and Madura. where it is seen growing on almost every side, a picturesque plant. six to nine feet tall, with large starlike leaves. Its
 root Is ground and dried in local
 mills where the air Is fragrant with it's volatile poisonous acid. The flour, how ever, as the sacks go aboard the freighters, is conspicu-
 ously marked, "Tapioca flour, for chemical uses only" Pearl tapioca
 is probably the forerunner of the puffed breakfast cereals, including pepper corn, for it is made by
 heating properly moist cassava flour
 on an iron. The granules rupture and form irregular pellets which became hard and translucent when cooled.
 "Fish-eye," unlike spinach and
 prunes, has not been pushed of late as an article of diet. Cassava owes its vast popularity to its manufac- turing uses, a fact which should encourage MT. Ford in his experi-
 mentation with melons to obtain alcohol for making paint.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

all commodities would hardly promote the sale of goods. Selling should be made easier, not harder.
 Manufacturers are concerned as we'll as merchants. A tax on the sale of goods tends to become also tax on production slowing down the economic process all along the line. Such tax is difficult to apply and ex- penSive to collect It would involve big increase in public employees and departmental red tape. It would be unpopular, because people would feel it in every purchase and meet it at every turn. It would be bad politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

According to Congressman William L. Tierney of Greenwich. Connecticut will be joined in the democratic column next fall by at least two other New England states
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island will surely swing to the democratic column maintains the new representative from the fourth dis trict while New Hampshire is in the doubt ful ranks. He states that the Hoover ad- ministration has fallen so low in New Eng land that have no hestsnsy in predicting that my state. Connecticut. will cast it's electoral vote for Democratic candidate for president in l932. for the first time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

Washington.-One of the most 1 extraordinary things about this government is the great number of important issues which must be fought out over again, year after year, with each new session of | congress.
 It does seem as if nearly all the old familiar issues, some of them more fiourishing than ever, will be right back with us when the new | congress meets in December. And there are enough new things to fight about so that, when the issues are considered along with the al- most even political lineup and the assured fact that the whole session will be surcharged with 1882 poli- tics, many persons are predicting a perfectly terrible state of affairs. Congress will pass some legisla- tion-it never fails-but the com plete absence of control in both houses and the prospects of bad legislative jam make it difficult to guess what the legislation will be. One general belief is that Presi- dent Hoover will be making fre- quent use of the veto power.
 Only the Omniscient Being has an idea how the two houses will organize, how long it will take them, which party will win techni- cal control and how the congress sional action to legalize the Hoover moratorium can be put through between the date congress meets, Dec z, and the date payments are due, December Is.
 The farm sitation is much worse than ever, especially in wheat and cotton, and the export debenture and equalization fee plans are coming up more urgently than be- fore, after they were once sup posed dead. Many bizarre reme- dies probably will be proposed for the first time and there will be loud demands for curbing grain and cotton speculation.
 The fight for federal aid to re- lieve distress due to unemployment will be far more acute than last year because the distress will be so much greater. Appropriations for direct relief are likely to pass and be vetoed, after a terrific bat Ilo leQ Dy lHc pIoSiCooiNCo anu oP posed by administration forces which will should against what they call the "dole." There will be talk about unemployment insur- ance, but presumably no legisla- tion on it.
 Taxation promises bitter fight because of the great treasury defi- cit and the demands for increas- ing income and inheritance taxes. In a campaign year there is great prejudice against any tax increase, but that won't prevent one of the noisiest battles yet on the old is- sue of taxing the rich.
 
 Veteran relief thas been a live issue here in nearly every congress since the Revolution and veterans will have a program calling for widows pensions. cancellation Of interest on bonus loans and cash ing of the adjusted compensation certificates. Ordinarily congress gives the veterans what they want
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
UNIFORMS
Christian Science Monitor)

The English telephone girl agi- tated some time ago for the right to wear sleeveless frock. It was granted. But the postman is less fortunate. He, of course. is in uniform, and uniforms are strictly regulated. In the summer months, going from house to house with his load of letters, he envied the mixers" with their loose shirts; and he modestly appealed to authority for permission to wear an open-necked shirt in the warm weather. But authority was adamant. A collar he must wear, though it may be reasonably low cut; it may be integral with the shirt" or detachable" from it; but "the top button Cor stud)" must be fastened, and he must wear a tie.
 There might be a Labor govern ment in power, but that was no help to the postman. who, tugging at his top button, would not be allowed to forget that he is a walking symbol of the dignity or His Majestry's postmaster-general.
 But when all is said and done the postman is in some ways bet ter off than the rest of us. He must still wear collar. But his case is not a hopeless one. He at least knows to whom to apply to redress the grievance, and who can say that changes of govern ment may not bring a postmaster general with broad views and weakness for loose shirts?
 But the rest of us who are subject to fashions laws are the victims of an obscure and name less force which issues ruthless edict and enforces them merely by branding offenders as social rebels and eccentrics. This dictator has relaxed the rule which once re- uuired the wearing of top hats by English cricketers and by the oars- men who rowed for Oxford or Cambridge. But to-day. in most countries, the man who would dance in select company must do so in a stiff white collar and a "boiled" shirt. The London clerK who goes to business every day IS under no written orders to wear collar. But he wears one. lie may tug at the top button like the postman. but he is not really free to tear 1t off. He is in uniform
 We are all in uniform. more or less; and the fact that 1t changes from season to season according 10 the fashion does not make the position better, but rather worse.
 Women in modern dress may pc somewhat less encountered than men. but their servitude is the greater since they are compeiieo to change the style at more fre- ouent intervals. And there IS no redress. They are worse off pnan the postman. who knows at least to whom he can appear. rhey must submit. or incur the pen alties of rebellion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
THE AMERICAN VANDALs

(New York Herald-Tribune.)
 The vandalistic craving for SOUL venirs which has necessitated the closing of the control room of the DO-X to the public which has been visiting 1t at the mooring in Bow cry Bay, although in all proba bility shocking to the German officers in charge of the giant craft, will not surprise hotel proprietors, railroad or steamship officials or custodians of scenes of historical interest pa- tronized or visited by Americans either at home or abroad. It is just one more manifestation of na- tional weakness which makes prop erty owners a prey to certain proportion of the American public wherever 1t forgathers or travels In self-defense and in the Interest of having enough levers, controls and gauges to fly the air liner with, it has been found imperative to guard her fittings with the utmost vigilance, since pirates disguised as sightseers removed everything not nailed down that could be snug gled off in a pocket.
 From what of our institutions this manifestation of communism -or, if you will. plain thievery- derives it Is difficult to determine, but it is common enough to consti- ute an almost universal nuisance. Beginning with college students who illustrate the walls Of the studies with pilfered traffic signs, peanut machines and outdoor ad- yertisements, and ending with the yandals who deface public monu- ments and memorials for the sake of souvenirs, petty larceny is be- setting American sin. Roadside fruit trees, truck gardens, growths of mountain laurel-whatever pri- yate property or that of the state is exposed unguarded to tourists are liable to pillage or destruction at the hands of persons who would normally shrink from the Idea or stealing money or other possessions of any great monetary value. Hotel towels, ask trays on steamships silverware in restaurants seem 70 possess an irresistible attraction and one for which there can be iit. tie cure. It can only be hoped thek some day these American vandais will grow up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
PAINLEyE's SPEECH

 On Sept IS, 1917, Premier Paul Painleve of France declared the views of the French government on the minimum aims of France and the irreconcilable attitude of France and Germany on Alsace- Lorraine.
 Premier Painleve delcared:
 "The disannexation of Alsace- Lorraine, reparation for the dam- age and ruin wrought by the en- emy, and a peace which shall not be a peace of constraint or vio- lence, containing in itself the germ of future wars, whether strong or weak, shall be oppressed, peace in which effective guarantees shall protect the society of nations against all aggression on the part of one among them-these are the noble war aims of France, if one can speak of war aims when it is question of a nation which, dur ing A years, despite her open wounds, has done everything in order to spare humanity the hor- TOTS of war.
 "As long as these aims are not reached France will continue to fight"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
At The National CapitoI

DAILY WASHINGTON LETTEI
By RODNEY BUTCHER

but the. treasury deficit has led to a noticeable stiffening on the part of some administration members and there is reason to suppose that the contest will be prolonged and bitter.
 Congress passed a tariff bill not so long ago, but the rafters are going to ring with tariff speeches again. The Hawley-Smoot act will not be revised no matter how vo- ciferously the democrats assail it, but 1t will be used for political purposes and in addition everyone expects the strongest campaign yet for tariff on oil.
 And then there's the World Court fight again.
 Your old friend, the prohibition issue, seems almost shunted away back behind the stage door and admittedly there will be no serious attempt to pass any important yet or dry legislation. But every wet or dry member who thinks his constituents would like a nice red hot speech on tha subjec is going to see that they get it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
BiccntcnniaI Trees by Schools

Schools everywhere are planting Washington bicentennial trees says the American Tree association of Washington, D. c. The Indiana School for the Blind regestered 40 threes through George s. Wilson. the superintendent. Another regis tration came from the Upper Cut Meat Day school at Rosebud Indian agency. The Cherokee Indian school in North Carolina is also on the honor roll. Registration from Ha- wall have been made. The Wo- mems clubs in Alaska have pro- gram under way. At Red Oak, Iowa. a new school was named Tor Washington and one thousand trees planted. The association will send any one tree planting sussestions'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Quotations

Sometimes when I am low in the mind I think I'll end it all by getting married.
 -Tallulah Bankhead.
  The caste system has not tended toward the improvement of human breeds.
 Sir Arthur Keith. The Continental, the Irishman, the American overstate. The Eng fish understate.
 pr R. J. Renier of Holland Nothing learned from a book IS worth anything unless 1t IS used and verified in life.
 Will Durant. It has virtually come to the point that less clothes mean a less- CT chance for external cancer. pr J. c. Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
.FIsH-EYE'
fuartford Courant)


 Joke as the midshipman. the saii- ar or the small boy may about ea.- ing .'fish-eye" when a plate oi tapioca pudding is set before nim' the production of cassava, or tapi. oca. has been growing by leaps ana bounds in the last twenty years. When mixed with plenty or fresn eggs, topped with a meringue, fiavored with nutmeg and served with cream, 1t makes one of the best buildings. It is paiatable also when cooked simply with apples peaches or rhubarb; 1t Is even pass able when found floating h bouiI- lon. But 1t Is not even as iiour Tor cassava biscuit. a thin wafer. par ticularly popular with the British. that It's average annual import value to the United statas has