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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
Woman Slayer To
Pay With Life

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Dec. Il.
UP)-Harry F. Powers, convicted
for the "Bluebeard" killing of Mrs.
Dorothy Lemke, Northboro, Mass.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
Rooms and Apartment

FLORENCE apartments. 1877 Com
mercial. Large or small, $40 to
$40 per month; sleeping rooms
$3.50 TO $500 per week. Phone
800. 1918
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Stone Insurance Agency

Thanks folks for the nice lines that have been
coming in. The nsurng public is certainly finding its
way to door and being helped to rates that
reasonable, both fire and automobile in times like
these. 1t pays to bring your insurance problems to
us. - w. l. Stone 831 Main St.. Phones 248 and 387,
Ell Centro
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12

SALESMAN - Experience not nee
essary. We are allotting territory
TO sell our advertising novelties
and calendars. Must have auto
to travel territory. New season
opens shortly. Our location on
coast is big advantage to sales
man and customer. Commissions
paid weekly. v. S. Walsh, 156
Second ST., San Francisco. 5-12
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
Found

FOUND-Tire and tube on rim
Owner may have same by identi-
flying and paying for this ad. 522
South Imperial Ave, Imperial, af-
ter p. N. l0t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
Miscellaneous For Sale

FOR SALE - Canaries. ABS Bright
on. 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
livestock For Sale

FOR SALE-Guernsey, Jersey T. B.
tested. Twenty cows, 20 heifers,
some springers. Forced sale. Dis
trict destroyed feed. Can be seen
at George Farmer ranch, Calexico
highway, three miles south Ell
Centro. Greer, 1878
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
Special Notices
Help Wanted-Mule

LOS ANGELES distributor for a
number of different manufac-
turers seeks representative for
Imperial County. Dignified and
permanent profitable business Ap-
plicant must have sufficient cap
ital to open own office and or
ganize own sales force. Give age,
references, experience, etc. Box
86, Beverly Hills, Calf. 12t1
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12

FOR SALE-60 acres good land in
alfalfa; fair house; on drain canal;
price right. Route A, Box 143,
Calexico. llt6
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12

Earl Chiles, near Davis, Yolo
County, lost Is lambs in two weeks
to a big coyote. but G.. w. Scott, a
trapper. caught him the first night
the traps were set.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
Christmas Club
 Will Fail Them
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 ruled that Christmas Savings club accounts are to be classed as com mercial accounts. Bertel Olson, former ashier in the bank, describ- ed the nature of the accounts in a brief stay on the witness stand. He said the Christmas savings accounts total approximately $22,00O.
 On the other hand, those de- positors with savings accounts in the bank stand a good chance of receiving their dividends on a 100 per cent basis. MT Olson said the savings accounts hold priority over the other accounts by reason of a state law.
 The four months time limit for the filing of claims Is dated as of Nov 30. No claims will be paid until the four months period is up. At the end Of March. officials say, 1t is hoped to have the assets liquidated in order that dividends may be paid. The saving accounts will be paid first and then the other claims will be given consider ation. The Christmas saving ac- counts will have to take their place along with the other claims to be met, but it believed that these ae- counts will come after the regular savings accounts ln the order of dividends payments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
Prohibition Scrap Is
 Already Started
d cast tlso feet in diameter.
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I fcial to the treasury in the long
 run as we'll as the veterans to pay
 for the certificate now"
 Mrs B0ole Attacks Washington, Dec 4-(U. P.) -
 Re-submission of the 18th amend
 ment to special state conventions, a proposal now being pressed by
 anti-prohibitionists in congress,
 was assailed to-day by Mrs Ella A.
 Boole, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union.
 Addressing . regional confer
 ence of the W. c. T. U., Mrs Boole said the proposal was advanced in an effort to repeal prohibition
 under the guise of giving the peo- pie 8 chance to express them-
 selves". She contended re-submis-
 sion of the question to the states would probably leave prohibition
 an unsettled question for a long time and hamper enforcement. She said federal enforcement
 last year cost only four and one-
 fifth cents for every man, woman and child in the country.
 "Surely this is not only not bur-
 densome, but is an investment in good government; even this much
 would not be necessary if it were
 not for the actiities of the organ
 ized vets and their supporters"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

l day day :, ', with i railroad shares leading,
 Atchison opened at 95h up IF Missouri Pacific Il up 1%; Wabash 1% up h;. Baltimore and Ohio 25 # Sp 1%; Chicago a and nd Nosthwestern and Rock Island 11N up 1.
 U. s. Steel led the industrials at 54A. National Biscuit spurted 2B to 43s. Consolidated Gas rose nearly point to 6S&. in 8 long list of issues. Including Westinghouse Electric, Chrysler Bethlehem Steel. General Electric Montgomery Ward, International Telephone, Standard Gas and Stan- dard So.3d., oil of ,,S,o, New Jersey; Jersey; .. 4. 1 then rose above 49. J. I. Case rose more than 3 points to 40 and 129H.
 from the rails in the early trading covering. The rails held early gains, however, and several moved above the initial prices.
 American Smelling, led the cop. per section with q rise of point tSo,a to 22i 9,., Allied n, chsmiesl h. 1ss Jumped Motors rose fractionally, responding to publication of its September 30 balance sheet showing strong cash position.
 Aiding in the recovery were ap! parent clarification of the New York CentraPs financial difficulties through credit grant, the 10 pei i cent Canadian railroad wage re- duction, indication of firmer wheat prices at Chicago displayed in Liv. erpool cables and expectation of g | favorable message by Presidnet Hoover when congress opens next week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
KANSAS CITY
 WAR VETS HAVE
 LAST MAN CLUB
Few Survivors Left of Spanish American War
 Company

Kansas City, Mo.-(UP)-Kan- sas City has Q Last Mans Club, formed sometime before the Min nesota organization became prom inent.
 Made up originally of fifty-odd men who marched away to the Spanish American War, the club had dwindled, at its last meeting a few days ago, to eight men.
 Like similar organizations, the club possesses a treasured bottle. brandy, in this case, which is to be kept inviolate until only two of the club are left.
 Then these two .shall drink as much as is discreet" The residue of the quart, if any, will go to the last survivor, who will drink toast to his departed comrades.
 Charles M. Howell, candidate for the democratic nomination for United States senator, entertained the club at it's most recent meeting. To the others he became once more Captain Howell.
 There are more than eight of the group, which once was the Fifth Missouri Infantry, alive. Sev- eral were unable to return for the meeting. One of those obsent was Brigadier General George D. Moore of the United States army.
 The group, gathered in Captain Howell's library after dinner, drank from a loving cup presented by Captain Howell to the organi- zation several years ago, e toast to those already dead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

amendment to the "154 rule' which would require 190 members to sign @ petition before vote could be taken on @ constitutional amendment. This was designed to prevent a vote on resubmission of the 18th amendment to the states
 It was defeated when some vets, learning that the democrats had come out for rules revision, warn- ed the republicans that unless they adopted the "145 rule" the oppo- sition would steal their thunder. It worked. The amendment was lost, and the liberal rule endorsed.
 Representative John N. Garner, Texas, who will be speaker, has agreed that some changes are necessary and has said there should be a "real liberalization"
 The Jones Law
 Washington, Dec 4-(U. P.) - Repeal of the Jones "Five and Ten" law will be sought this ses- sion by Representative Horr, re- publican, new member of congress from Washington. home of Sem ator Jones, republican. titular au- thor of the law.
 The Jones law, which permits 6 maximum penalty of five years in prison and $10,000 fine for pro- hibition law violation, was charac- terized by Horr to-day as "an al- most sadistically conceived stat ute."
 The punishments 1t prescribes. he said, are "more severe than those for treason, arming vessels against @ friendly power, embez- zeling public money, receiving stolen property, perjury, counter feiting foreign securities, passing bogus coins, mail frauds, melting to mutiny, polygamy, and in some states manslaughter."
 Referendum Resolution
 Providence, R. l., Dec 4-(U. P.) Representative Francis B. Con- don, democrat, R. l., will introduce immediately after congress con- venes a resolution calling for a national referendum on the prohi- bition question, he stated before he left for Washington to-day.
 The statement came a day after a commission appointed to study the liquor problem in wet Rhode Island reported in opposition to repeal of the state enforcement act and in favor of educational temperance crusade.
 1T believe firmly" said Condon "that the time has come to sub- init to the country the question oi repeating national prohibition. think the voter ought to be given an opportunity to vote on this question without further delay"
 Asserting that he favored full bonus payments to soldiers desir- ing them, Condon said he would seek to reopen that question.
 "They are peculiarly entitled tc the first consideration of the gov. ernment and the country they fought to defend," he declared Fortunately there's a way to hell them. That is to allow them tC cash their adjusted service certi' ficates. It still favor this legisla. tion, and believe it will be bene.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

(Continued from Page 1.) and Loeb. boy slayers. and who ap- peared at the evolution trial in Dayton, Tenn.
 "Age is the greatest mitigating circumstance in dealing with a death sentence," Darrow said to the board members. "If it isn't, why do we have laws on our stat utes providing special treatment for juveniles? Why do we have juvenile courts and juvenile homes?"
 "There are 400 killings for every person executed for murder" the noted attorney argued. Which way are we going, backward or forward? Is it to be g. 15-year old boy who is sentenced to die next :?
 ''It is strange that for all the modifications in the criminal laws the last 100 years for the creation of Juvenile homes and courts, still we send a 17-year old boy to the electric chair.''
 Governor Emmerson said in Massachusetts in the last 22 years there had been two 19-year old criminals, one 20 and one 21 who were executed. In New York state since 1891, he said, 22 youths un- der 21 have been executed. In Ohio, the numbers he gave were four hanged and 15 electrocuted who were under 21 and seven who were 21.
 A statement by the parole board, to which the governor subscribed, stated, in part:
 "The only mitigating circum- stance urged in behalf of the peti- tioner is his youth. It is admitted that he committed cold-blooded, | wanton murder while engaged in another felonious act. He delib- erately shot to death an elderly man who had a right to live and who was engaged in earning his Livelihood in lawful manner" "This is an ever-changing world" the boards statement con- tinued. Youth now may be said to reach mans estate, or at least to mature in thought and action, at an age less than the youth of yesterday.
 "A few years ago, the average desperado, the gunman, the poten- tial murderer was 8 man more than 30 years of age. To-day an ever increasing percentage of gun hold ups and murders are committed by irresponsible bandits and killers of from 16 to 24 years of age"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
PROPOSALS FOR BONDS

The City of Waterbury, Con- necticut, offers for sale 940.00O.O .O0 59b Park Bonds, of the City of Waterbury, Series of 1881, S60,- O00.00 5g5 Pumping Station Bonds, of the City of Waterbury, Series of 1881, and $1,OOO,000.Q0 5% Fund ing Bonds of the City of Water bury, Series of 1881.
 Sealed proposals will be received at this office until eight o'clock P. M., E. S. T., Friday, December 18th, 1881, Cat which time they will be opened in public at a meet ing of the Board of Aldermen of said City) for the purchase of the following described bonds:
 $40,OO0.O0 5T6 Park Bonds of the City of Waterbury, Series of 1881, of a denomination of $1,O00 each, dated November 15, 1881, and pay able $2,000 thereof on the 18th day of November of each of the years 1892 to 1851 inclusive.
 Interest payable semi-annually May 18th and November 18th.
 $50,000.0O 5g6 Pumping Station Bonds of the City of Waterbury, Series of 1881, of denomination of $1,000 each, dated November 18th, 1881, and payable $2,000 thereof on the 18th day of Novem- Der of each of the years 1882 to 1856 inclusive.
 Interest payable semi-annually May 18th and November 18th.
 $1,OO0, 100000 5% Funding Bonds of the City of Waterbury, Series of 1881, of a denomination of $1,00O each, dated November 18th, 1881, and payable $100,000 thereof on the 18th day of November of each of the years 1893 to 1942 in- elusive.
 Interest playable semi-annually May 18th and November 18th.
 Principal and interest on the foregoing described bonds to be payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the First National Bank of Boston, Massachusetts.
 Said bonds are to be issued in coupon forms convertible into reg istered bonds at the option of the purchaser or the holder thereof, will be printed under the super vision of, and certified as to genu- ineness by the First National Bank of Boston, and their legality ap- proved by Messrs. Storey, Thorn. dike, Palmer, and Dodge, of Bos- ton, whose legal opinion. will be furnished the purchaser. All legal papers incident to this issue will be filed with said Bank, where they may be inspected at any time.
 Bonds will be delivered to the purchaser on Tuesday, December 29th, 1881, at the First National Bank of Boston, Massachusetts.
 Each proposal shall state the amount of the bid in words and numerals and shall be marked Proposal for Bonds" and ad- dressed to Edward B. O'Donne1l, City Clerk, Waterbury, Connecti- cut, and be accompanied by a cer- tifled check payable to the order of the City Treasurer of the City of Waterbury, for one per centum (1%) of the par value of the bonds bid for, as a guarantee of good faith on the part of the bidder.
 No bid for less than par or the face value of the said bonds and the accrued interest thereon, can be accepted, and the right to re- ject any and all bids is reserved.
 Attest:-
 EDWARD B. o'DoNNELL. 12-3.2t City Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
OLD TOWN BELL
 RINGING AGAIN

Kansas City, Mo-Pedestrian fin downtown Kansas City hearkened again today to an old familiar sound, missing for many months.
 It was the chiming of the bell in the "old town clock" which since 1885, with a lapse of only months, has told the time to men and women at one of the city's busy Intersections.
 Purchased by public subscrip- ton, the bell was installed 45 years ago in the tower of the old post office here, being attached to e clock mechanism bought by the government.
 Years later a bank bought the building and the government built a new post office. But still the clock was a land mark, and still the bell toiled the half hours.
 Then the bank decided to build a new structure of 32 stories on the sit of the old. As the old building was torn down, the clock and bell were removed and saved
 Now the bell rings again, not loudly as of old, when 1t was only three stories from the street, but softly, sounding from it's great height, very far away, much like the ohiming of Christmas bells over @ radio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
DIAGNOSTIC CENTER WING AT
 MT. ALTO IS COMPLETED

Washington, D. C.-Construction of the new wing at the diagnostic center of the Veterans administra- tion here, commonly knowns as Mt. Alto hospital, has been com pleted and the new facilities are now being occupied. The new wing comprises space for @ new adminis- tration building and nearly 100 ad- ditional beds, of which nearly 100 ditional beds. of which sixty-five will be available for women vet erans. The building formerly used for administrative purposes will be converted into wards for eye, ear, nose and throat cases, and the gen. eral encouragement of space will provide enlarged facilities for the handling of surgical patients.
 Among other facilities, the new construction includes an operating room with an amphitheater to ac- commodate forty or fifty spectators. From time to time certain groups of Veterans administration physi- clans are detailed to the diagnostic center for postgraduate courses of instruction, and special facilities will be provided to increase the effectiveness of this form of medi- cal training.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
More Cuts in
 City Budget
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Goss an opportunity to study the budget and offer his suggestions.
 At 10 o'clock this morning the commissioners, without MT GOss. resumed deliberations. Executive session was declared yesterday afternoon upon suggestion of Com missioner Goss and this same rule prevailed to-day, reporters being excluded from the deliberations of the finance board. This is in &C., cordance with the usual custom.
 The mayor said this afternoon, early, that he expects to have the budget completed and okayed by his finance board before adjourn ment is voted this evening. It ap- peared that the commissioners would work until late tonight on the job. Then the budget will be gone over in public once more by the board and formally approved and sent on to the aldermen for adoption.
 Cuts in various departments were reported as having been made this morning by the board. How ever, authentic data on the actions of the commissioners was not available. It was promised. though, that when the budget Is approved it will make possible c tax rate of slightly over 33 mills and will pro- vide Appropriations totaiing less for 1032 than were allowed for this year.
 The aldermen. upon receiving the budget Monday night will not take any actlon on the figures aside from referring the matter to q spe- cial committee. It ia believed tho budget will be formally adopted by the aldermen about December 30th.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

@ raid was made on the notorious Russian Garden" roadhouse. Mrs Mary DeNicola, 33, was fined $25 and costs for keeping a gambling machine and $25 and costs for young woman was fined for being a resident of the house and two male visitors $10 and costs each for frequenting the place.
 The name of DeNicola has been featured several times in recent trials. Alexander DeNicola, hus- band of the accused proprietress, was arrested in 1928 for killing 8 Waterbury youth, who had visited Stoffe Inn on the Bethany road for the purpose of getting" DeNic- ola. The latter, who shot second with a deadly accuracy was later witness against one Leo Laurito, formerly of Grand street. Laurito attempted to shoot DeNicola as the latter was walking along South Leonard street, but his aim was poor. The Stoffe Inn shooting took place two nights later. Laurito was convicted and sentenced to prison for 35 years. He died at Wethersfield after serving about two years.
 The feud between Laurito and DeNicola was 8 long drawn out affair. One evening several years ago & gang of card players were showered with shots as they sat around a table in the basement of a building at the corner of East Main and Brown streets. Laurito was one of the several wounded by the unknown gunmen, who poked sawed-off shotgun through a hole in a window and blazed away.
 The Odierno sentenced yesterday to the "hot chair" had the local detectives puzzled here for a few hours to-day. There is some re- semblance between the chap sent up the river and a Carlo Odierno, who was arrested here twice in connection with murder charges within a brief time. The local authorities arc not convinced that the former Waterburian is the one who received the death sen- tence.
 In 1922 Carlo Odierno was arr rested here and returned to New York city to face a murder charge. He managed to prove an alibi and escape trial.
 In 1926 one Johnny Costanzlo's s bullet-riddled body was found on the state highway in Orange. He had started from Waterbury to Walnut Beach as the result of q mysterious telephone call, which ina n0liQa haca ma annvinaaA Uuaa a lure from n woman coached by enemies of the deceased.
 Odierno was arrested In cOnnec. ton with this case and spent spent several weeks in the New Haven jaH. but again he hnd n perfect aiibi and was freed. Several other killings were recalled by the simi- iarity ef names.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04
Two Parties Go
 Into Huddles
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l (COuIluueu ITOm faK0 l.J comes e more assertive body in legislation than at any time since the war. As it rises toward parity with the White House in this pow CT, its actions gain increasing i'm portance.
 For the last decade congress has been somewhat shackled by the strong administration control of the house and prestige the White House gained under the Coolidge regime. From now on President Hoover will propose but congress will dispose.
 | Senate republicans and senate democrats each arranged to meet today to decide on their organiza- ton states. Numerous personali- ties are involved, the most striking development being the effort of republican progressives to unseat George H. Moses, N. H., as the speaker pro tempore, the officer who substitutes for the vice-presl- dent. Republican progressives still resent the way Moses characterized them as "Sons of the Wild Jack ass."
 The underlying issue here is whether these republicans. who hold the balance of power in a narrowly divided senate will pre- cipitate an intra-party fight. Such a fight will lose them some in- fiuential' chairmanships and per- haps throw them into the arms of the democrats on crucial roll-calls later, when the issue will be that of supporting the legislation passed I l,xy4 hA tio
 House democrats hold their caucus tomorrow night. They are expected to select John N. Garner, Texas, as their candidate for speak, CT and to consider proposals to li- beralize the rules of the house. This question of whether congress will be allowed to carry the pro- hibition issue to a real showdown.
 Banlxhead and Hefiin.
 Washington, Dec (UP)-Elec- ton practices in Alabama have been challenged under circum- stances which may lead the senate to declare vacant the seat which John H. Bankhead, on the basis of official returns, wrested from Former Senator Thomas J. Hefiin.
 A sub-committe of the senate privileges and elections committee must pass today upon the charge of its chairman, Senator Hastings, repn., Del, that the Alabama elec- ton law was so widely violated in 1880 as to make it doubtful there was a legal election for United States senator.
 The Hastings subcommittee is concluding It's investigation in the contest brought by Former Sena- tor J. Thomas Hefiin against the election of Senator John II. Bank head. The hearing was postponed from yesterday because of the ab- sence of Senator Bratton. dem.. ". II.
 Tn his report to the committee, Hastings cited thousands of viola tons of the Alabama election law. He charged election officials with "ruthless disregard" of many pro- visions of the law.
 When informed of the nature of IIastlngs' report. Senator Black. dem., Ala, replied: "Weil how do they run elections in Delaware?"
 ProgFesslves Absent
 Washington, Dec 4-U. P.) - With progreaslves absent. senate republicans organized to-day in . peacofui conference undlnturbed by any mention of the fight against