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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18
dollar Store To
Open Saturday

Ell Centro's first Dollar Store"
will be opened tomorrow at 635
Main street, formerly occupied by
the General Electric company.
An excellent stock OF dollar gifts
for men, offering numerous sur
prises in values, will be on display.
The gift saop idea has been a
success in other cities and the
proprietors believe it will answer a
need here, many men being some-
what backward about entering de-
partment stores
Socks, sweaters, ties, pajamas,
shirts and accessories are among
the items carried in stock. in the
Dollar Store.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18
Rebekdhs Conduct
Business MEETING

Barbara Worth Rebekahs met
last night at their headquarters,
532 Main, for their regular busi-
ress meeting, after which refresh
ments were served. 49,
Mrs. Esther Packwood, district
deputy from Erawley and num-
ber of Brawley visitors were present
for the meeting
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18
y 'MlaatheZ

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight ana Saturday. not
quite so warm Saturday; continued
low humidity; gentle changeable
winds.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Fair tonight and Saturday; not
quite so warm in extreme west por-
ton Sunday; continued low hu-
midity; gentle changeable winds
offshore.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Minimum this morning ,..............53
Maximum yesterday .......................82
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18

Cheese Pudding
6 thin slices bread, buttered, or
cubes of bread, buttered
IL cups milk
l cup ground or grated cheese
3 eggs
4 teaspoon salt
Butter baking dish. Cover bot
tom of dish with bread; add cheese
and cover with bread.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18
PEROnAL
PnPnCPnPHC

Mrs. Mayme P. Baldwin of San
Diego is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Don
C. Bitter and will remain here un-
til after the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Bitter and Mrs. Baldwin are
sisters.
Mrs. Mary E. Johnson of Los ALI
geles has arrived in El Centre to be
with her daughter, Mrs. Howard P.
Meyer, who was injured recently
in an automobile accident, and who
lis in the Ell Centro hospital at pre-
Sent. Mrs. Meyers friends will be
relieved to learn that she is get
ting along as well as can be expect
ed. She san see no visitors, how
ever. i<a'.
Chapter CIV, P. E. Q. will meet
Saturday, November 10, at 1890
with Mrs. S. L. McCrory, $50 Olive
avenue. Mrs. McCrory and Mrs. w
E. Malan will be luncheon hostesses
and for the program, each membe.
will be called upon for brief life
history.
Mrs. Ella Travers and Miss Louise
Mousseau, sisters of Calvin CT. Mou-
sseau of this city, and his son,
Eugene, have arrived to make their
home with Mr.. Mousseau and his
family at 1014 Brighton avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Q. Lingo are
entertaining as their house guests
Miss Thelma Jones of Los Angeles
former resident of this city, and
Mr.. and Mrs r. v. King of River
side. Mrs. Lingo and Mrs. King are
sisters
Those Aztecs who have not made
reservations for the dinner tomor-
row night in the California hote
are asked to make them by moor
tomorrow with Mrs. Charles Correl
in the office of the county super
intendent at the court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18

Miss Florence Glenn, home
demonstration agent, is COOP
Grating with The Press by Of
fering timely recipes for one
dish meals.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18
SOCIAL CALENDAR
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Jasper farm center, 7:45, Jas
per school.
Phi Chi dance, 10, 10000 club.
Football, 8, high school.
/. V. Pyramid No. 81, A. e. o.
Seiots, s, Masonic Temple.
Troop 25, B.S.A., 1880, McCabe.
Troop 81, B.S.A., 1880, NJ. E.
social hall.
Troop Is, B.S.A., 7:15, Presby-
terian church.
TOMORROW
Chapter CIV, P.E.O., 1880, $50
Olive.
Story hour, 10 80, city library.
County board of education,
$3.50, court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18

The state has paid $600,000 for
$50 acres Of land on PIT. Lobos,
Monterey county, for a, state park.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-18

H. E. Middleton, Lakeview, Rlv-
erside County, produced over 10000
sacks OF onions this year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
COLORFUL THURMAN
IS DEAD IN CHICAGO
Joseph Letter, Heir to Merchant
Prince, Succumbs at
Age Of So

Chicago, April 12-PeThe color
full Joseph Letter is dead and the
spheres of sports, business and finance
have lost leader.
Letter, nultimillionaire turfman
and capitalist, son Of Levi Letter, the
merchant prince and partner OF the
first Marshall Field. died Monday at
the age Of So.
Complications that set in with
pneumonia after he was pronounced
on the way to recovery from serious
heart trouble caused his death.
Funeral services were set for Tues
day afternoon.
OF massive figure and fierce coun-
tenance, Letter was q familiar figure
at nearly every race track of the ma
ton and equally well known In the
halls Of business and finance.
His first spectacular venture In
business came In 1898 ana made him
q national figure. He tried to corner
the wheat market and failed. That
failure cost his father $l2 ,O00, 900.
Despite the fiasco, the elder Letter
ct death had sufficient faith in the
sons business acumen to make him
custodian Of his 80 1000 900 estate.
His income Ut death was estimated
at Il 1000 : year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
NAME COMMITTEES
TO HANDLE WHEAT
GIVEN TO COUNTY
Eight Carloads Of Free Stock
Food Expected IN the
Next Few Days

Organization of local committees
for the distribution of eight carloads
OF free wheat for stock food in Bur-
leigh county was effected at meet
ing of the board of directors of the
county chapter Of the Red Cross Mon
day.
Committees were set up at Wing,
Driscoll, Sterling, Mckenzie. Moffit,
Baldwin, Regain and Bismarck.
One carload of wheat will be
shipped to each of these points and
is expected to be available for distri-
button within the next few days.
One hundred and sixty tons of
grain has been allotted to Burleigh
county by the national Red Gross but
officials of the local chapter Tuesday
were preparing applications for $40
additional tons.
Decision to ask for the additional
supplies was made after q canvass Of
farmers in the county made 1t evident
that the original shipment would
prove inadequate to the needs of the
county, members Of the board said.
Must Sign Receipts
Local committees will have complete
charge Of the distribution OF wheat
in their respective communities. I'm
der the plan adopted by the board,
farmers allowed wheat must sign re-
ceipts when their allotments are re-
ceived.
Local Red Gross officials have not
been advised as to when shipments
would arrive but said that they were
expected within the next few days.
The local chapter originally made
application for approximately 300 tons
Of wheat but their quota were reduced
to 160 tons.
Local committees and townships un-
der their supervision are as follows:
Bismarck-John French; River
View, Burnt Greek, Naughton, Hay
Greek, Gibbs, Lincoln, Apple Greek,
Fort Rice, Teller. and Missouri.
McKenzie-Willialn Watson and
Harry o'Neil; Frances, Menoken,
Boyd, Logan, Mckenzie, and Sibley
Butte.
Driscoll Committee
Driscoll-M. +. Olson and Peter
Lathrop: Thelma. Driscoll. Clear
Lake, and Lein,
Moffit-F. H. Pillsbury and Jason
Hoover; Morton, Long Lake. and Wild
Rose.
Baldwin,. G. Poole and j. 8. Fe-
void; Painted Woods, Ecklund, Glen
view, and Crofte.
Regan-Mrs. A. L. Garnes and Axel
Lundberg: Wilson, Steiber, Summit
Garfield, Estherville, Grass Lake,
dhylin, Rock Hill, and Trygg.
Wing-Mrs. H. G. Edgerton and Ben
cCloskey; Florence Lake. Hazel
grove, Phoenix, Richmond, Wing.
Harriet. and Lyman.
Sterling III. E. Wildfang; Chris
tiania, Sterling, and Taft.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
Alarm IS SOUNDED
WHEN $20-b|LL is
OFFERED FOR PIE
Proprietress Of Connect G U I
Shop Gives Clue to Pc.
lice in Search
VARIOUS THEORIES OFFERED
One is That Woman is Estrang.
ed Member Of Gang Which
Stole Child

Hopewell, N. j., April l2.-P)-A
chic woman in a green town car be-
came quarry in the great Lindbergh
kidnapping hunt Tuesday.
On the highways of many states
police sought her after bakery pro-
prietress In Greenwich, Conn.,, spotted
q $40 bill she preferred in payment
for q strawberry pie as part Of the
$4,000 ransom mulcted from Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
The hunt intensified when detec-
tives recalled a green sedan was seen
near the Lindbergh home on Sour
land mountain on the night of the
KIDNAPPING Of Charles A. Lindbergh,
Jr., March /.
This development. and theory that
the person who took Col. Lindbergh'S
$4,000 without returning the stolen
child was an estranged member OF
the kidnap gang who no longer has
the baby in his possession, stirred the
mystery to a new boiling point.
Police, wise in the underworldS
ways, had expected the swindler or
swindlers of the flying colonel to wait
months before trying to spend the
cash obtained by q double cross, but
the Greenwich development. assllm-
ing the bakery owner got the number
of the bill right, showed they had
thrown discretion to the winds.
Woman Fled in Haste
There was no indication as to
whether the woman actually was con-
nected with the kidnapping or swindle,
but the haste with which she fled
when the number on the bill was
pointed out, reused police suspicious.
The proprietress, Mrs. Ella De-
cornille, had pasted beside her count
er a list of the numbers on the $780,
600, as sent out by the United States
treasurer. A handsome, middle-aged
woman drove up to her shop last
night, she said, with liveried chauf-
feur at the wheel, and made small
purchase.
When she handed over the bill,
Mrs. Decornille mechanically glanced
at its number. 1t was KB03387539A,
the bakery woman said.
why this is one Of the Lindbergh
bills" she calculated.
The woman tore 1t from her hand.
and sped away toward New York OH
the Boston post road. Police automa-
tic telegraphs clattered the alarm.
Woman is white" 1t said. Age
AZ. Five feet, six inches. Good look
ing. Dark complexioned. Wore
string of green and silver beads
around neck. Gray felt hat. Gray
tweed coat. Brown dress"
Continued on page Seven)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
Terror Lifts i'm South America
Seek Woman, Green Car in Lindberqh Musterly
A PROCLAMATION

Whereas the city Bismarck noted its
both In the residential sections
the eanest and brightest cities the North Dakota
Whereas 1t is only fitting and should
maintain its best not only for the sake OF example to
state but also because of the dignity its situation
Whereas only clean and city
$0ooOo0 state capitol building which
Whereas spring arrived dyng up here
dress
Now therefore, l. A. p Lenhar city
commission proclaim the week beginning Monday
marcks cleanup and respectfully residents during
that their buildings and
property destroy all rubbish
occupied lots presenabe
possible.
A. F. LENHART
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
WHITNEY PRESENTS
STUBBORN DEFENSE
OF STOCK MARKET
President of New York Ex.
change Protests Against
This Hue and Cry
is oUIzzED By coUzENs
Senator Says Customers Who
Signed Agreements Must
Have Been Goats

Washington, April 12.--tF-Deter-
mined defense of the stock exchange
was continued in testimony to the
senate banking committee Tuesday
by its president, Richard Whitney.
He protested against this hue and
cry in regard to loaning customers
stocks that has been in vogue
throughout the country for the last
two or three years.
Senator Couzens (Rep., Mich0 re-
marked that any man who signed
the customers agreement whic h
Whitney produced must have been a
goat"
In response to questions from
Couzens, Whitney said the margin
indicated as good business by the
New York stock exchange Is Isl per
cent margin"
do they ever go lower than Is per
cent?" asked Couzens.
mot If we know it, sir"
absolutely" Couzens inquired.
Eyes, sir, said Whitney.
A motion by Couzens to postpone
further investigation until Monday
to allow time to consider the Glass
bank bill, was approved.
Figures Are Offered
The committee made public figures
furnished by Whitney showing that
total short holdings in U. S. Steel or
April were 1851 ,698 shares.
| The committee made public the
short interest in all stocks from April
to April 6, showing the short hold
! irgs in U. s. Steel greater than ir
any other stock.
! The short interest In steel on April
l was 386,422 shares, showing it de.
creased as the price went down.
Large short holdings in General
Motors also were shown.
At the outset of the hearing Claude
Branch of Providence, r. l., the COM
mittee's counsel, said 1t did not seem
to him "at the present time worth
while to go In detail into previous
short accounts"
You merely desire the firms in
which short accounts reside at the
present timer" asked Whitney.
Branch replied it was agreeable to
him.
He asked If a chart submitted
Monday by Whitney did not show
that. generally an increase in prices
was accompanied by decrease in
short interest.
No Reason for Innocence
mo-" Whitney said, usually de-
cline In prices was accompanied by a
decline in short interest"
Senator CouzenS (Rep.. Mich
questioned Whitney about agree
ments between customers and brokers
regarding the loan of stock.
Il understand" Couzens said, 1T
is quite possible for a broker to use
a customers stock to depress the price
Of the customers security"
Il deny that" Whitney said.
Deny what?" Couzens asked.
That broker may use a custom
ers stock to depress the market. That
Is absolutely violation of our rules"
How do you prevent 1t, when it
happens?"
when it happens?" retur d
Whitney.
"Oh, yes" Couzens said, "there is
no reason for being SO innocent. 1t
does happen"
Whitney said the last time he
heard of 1t happening was in 1920,
or 1921, when e. w. Wagner and
company Of Chicago was expelled
from the exchange for an action
which he said was nothing less than
a bucket shop operation"
Whitney estimated the shrinkage
in stock values during the last two
or three weeks at $4,000, 100000
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
Today in Congress
Senate

Senate
Resumes consideration Of $45,-
100000 interior department ap-
preparation bill.
Banking and currency commit
tee continues stock market in
quiry.
Finance committee continues
study Of tax bill.
House
Considers the legislative appro-
priation bill.
Bonus hearings continue before
ways and means committee.
Coinage committee investigates
silver.
Interstate Commerce committee
considers railroad holding COM
pany regulation.
Agricultural committee consid-
ers storm relief for southern
states.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
DETERMINED
TO ENACT new TAX
BILL IN NEAR FUTURE
Democrats Agree, at Four-Hour
Conference, to Expedite
.... Measure

Washington, April l2.-(R-Unite'
determination to enact promptly tn
billion dollar tax bill-keystone Of tn
1888 budget structure - Tuesday dis
PEELED fears the measure might foun
der in a senatorial storm over tariff
duties.
Senate Democrats. In four-hou
conference Monday night. agree,
unanimously on expeditions consider
alton of the bill. In 50 doing the.
agreed that barring all tariff amend
ments to the measure Is an impossible
ity, but held fast to the position tina
general tariff consideration Is out o
the question.
As a result, and with assured sup
port of Republican leaders. com
promise limiting the bill to few tar
iffs-probabl on oil. coal, copper anc
wood pulp-is in sight. The first two
already are in the bill, the others art
backed by strong and determined sup
port.
With this solid congressional back
ing for speeding the measure, Presi'
dent Hoover turned confidently to de-
mand of the business world q fresh
conviction in American security and a
halt to the steady decline in prices or
the public exchanges. Late Monday
it was disclosed he was planning tc
summon business and industrial lead.
ers for action in q new program o.
national unity against the unfavor.
able economic factors.
Talks With Robinson
The president, in the evening and
before the Democratic meeting, called
in Senator Robinson Of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, to confer at length
on general conditions and particularly
on the revenue measure and the econ
omy program.
It was nearly midnight when Rob.
inson emerged from the party confer
ence, all smiles, to give out q brie1
resolution:
ut is the sense OF the conferenc:
Of Democratic senators that the hear.
ings on the revenue bill be closed a!
the earliest practicable date and that
the passage Of the measure be expe-
dited In every possible way"
Senator Watson Of Indiana. Repub-
lican leader. Immediately concurreL
In this announcement. Earlier II
the day he had initiated a movement
looking to the compromise for Unite,
revision Of the tariff which would
open the way for quick disposition to
the revenue bill.
Committee In Jam
The senate finance committee
agreed in executive session Tuesday
to speed hearings on the bill. but ef.
forts to close. the door to further tes-
timony were laid aside.
The committee action brough,
sharp discussion and considerable
confusion as members demanded ar
appearance for their constituents.
Senator Couzens (Rep, Mich)
moved to break up the committee int,
sub committees and to hasten the
hearings. He was supported by Sen
ators Bingham (Rep.. Conn.,, and La
Toilette (Rep., Wis.,, but was defeat
ed 10 to 6.
AS the hearings were resumed, Sen
ator Harrison Dem., Miss. demand
ed that the names of witnesses not
answering be passed up. This was
approved.
Complainants against the bill were
informed their testimony was limited
to IS minutes. The full hearings
scheduled to last until April %. will
be carried out.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
Bismarck Cleanup Week
Is Set for Last of April
Residents Asked to Tidy Yards,
Alleys, Vacant Lots
and Streets

Bismarck will clean up the last
week in April.
During that week, residents will
climax the cleanup work which al
ready has been launched with spe-
cial efforts to clean up yards, alleys,
vacant lots, streets, boulevards,
houses, shanties. and business build
ings.
All miscellaneous papers and other
objects which hurt the appearance OF
lawns and boulevards will be removed
and destroyed, piles Of ashes and
other rubbish will be removed, lawns
will be raked, sidewalks will be clean
ed. steps and porches will be scrub
, bed, and in general the city will be
tidied up.
In proclaiming the week beginning
Monday, April Is, as the annual
cleanup week for Bismarck, A. p.
Lenhart, president of the Bismarck
city commission, pointed out that
Bismarck always has been one Of the
kcleanest4 and neatest cities in the
state. He urged all residents to keep
1t so. particularly in view of the fact
that the capital city should be an
example for other cities in the state.
He declared that only a spic and
span city can be compatible with the
new 100000 state capitol building
which will be constructed here.
Boy Scouts, under the direction Of
Commissioner w. G. Fulton, will
make two inspections OF Bismarck
during cleanup week. They will re-
port all residences not tidied up to a
Lions club cleanup committee head
ed by John MacLachlan. This
committee then will call on the re-
ported residents to urge them to
speed their part in the city-wide
tidying program.
Residents who will be unable to
clean up their own property are re-
quested to engage unemployed men
to do this work for them. Informa-
ton regarding the unemployed may
be secured from Myron H. Atkinson,
city auditor.
The general cleanup work already
has been launched in most sections
Of the city. Spring rains are ex-
pected to be a great help in clean
ing sidewalks, streets, and the exter-
iors of buildings.
Special efforts will be made this
year to improve the appearance of
unsightly vacant lots. Debris of all
sorts should be either removed or
arranged in an orderly fashion, Mac
Lachlan said.
Planting Of new grass, flowers,
trees, and shrubbery Is expected to
add to the beauty OF Bismarck.
Grass will be planted on the property
of the city's two newest buildings, the
World War Memorial building and
the Burleigh county courthouse and
general landscape improvements will
be made.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-12
BISMARCK STUDENTS
| AWARDED N|NEF|RST
PLACES IN CONTESTS
High School Students From
Throughout Slope Area
Participate Here
MANDAN IN SECOND PLACE
Winners in Many Events Quail
fled to Enter May Con-
ference Contests

Bismarck high school students won
a lions share of first places in the
elimination contests for the eighth
and ninth districts here Monday.
Winners in the various music, COM
mercial, and oratorical events are
qualified to enter the May Confer
ence contests at the University of
North Dakota next month.
Capital City entrants won nine first
places in the competition while Man.
dan, with five firsts, was runner up.
Other first places were won as fol-
lows: Ashley, three; Hazelton and
Turtle Lake, two each; Garrison and
Underwood, one each.
In addition, Bismarck captured four
second places in events in which Sec
ond- place winners qualified for the
state conference. Mandan and Ma
poleon each won one such second
place.
Only first place winners In the mu-
sic contest qualified while first anc
second winners in the commercial
contests are entitled to participate a.
the university. The first two winner!
In the girls reading and first place
winners in the boys reading and ora
torical events are qualified.
Music events We're begun Monda,
forenoon and were not completed un.
til 1880 p. m. so numerous were TIL
entries.
Prof. Hywel G. Rowland, head o.
the music department at the Univer
sity of North Dakota. judged the mu'
sic events and Miss l.. Adeline Pierce
also of the state university faculty
was Judge for the oratory events
Contests In the commercial subject.
were judged according to speed scores
Prof Rowland and Miss Pierce gave
detailed explanations OF their judging
Continued on page seven)