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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09
JAMES ORME ON SICK LIST

James Orme, who is employed at George Brothers, has been suf- fering from influenza for several days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09
WHITE LEAVES HOSPITAL

J. White, who entered st. Ann's hospital on January with influ- enza was discharged from the hospital today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09

At year old the average child should have vocabulary of seven words.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09
ENTERS HOSPITAL

M. Horr, miner, entered St. Ann's hospital Sunday night to receive treatment for influenza.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09
s I OCK PRICES DRAGGED DOWN,
 TRADING TODAY
Bulls Fail to Revive Ad- vance of Last Week
 Wheat Weakens

NEW YORK, Jan. g. - Stocks were dragged down today by a reactionary tendency of the wheat market.
 The bulls attempted to revive last weeks advance by bidding up carriers for time but found the remainder of the list sluggish. The close was heavy.
 Numerous losses of fractions to more than one point were re- ported.
 Professional Market
 The market remained largely pro- fessional with much trading orig mating on the floor.
 The announcement that the Ma tional Transportation Comm ttee will press preparation of it's re- port was evidently construed bull ishly but was unable to attract a following, however.
 Issues up fractions to point which were then lost, included Pennsylvania, New York Central Southern Pacific and Union Pa cific.
 IndUstrials Lose
 Several industrials closed with net losses of one point to one point and one half including Am erican Can, American Telephone and Telegraph, United States Steel, Woolworth, Westinghouse, Case, AL lied Chemical and United Aircraft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09

Coal mined in Poland in re- cent month weighed 2,36l .680 tons
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09
CLOSING PRICES TODAY

NEW YORK, Jan. g. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13, American Can 58l2, American Power and Light 8, Anaconda 7%, Bethlehem Steel 1858, Calumet and Hecla 25s, Chrys- Ter 16A, Colorado Fuel and Iron 6as, Columbian Carbon 32la, Con- tinental Oil 5sl, Curtiss Wright 2Ss, Fox Films 2A, General Mot ors 13A, International Harvester 23@, Kennecott 9A, Packard Mot ors 2%, Safeway Stores. 4l, Stan dard Brands 15A, United States Steel 28A.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
STOCK LIST SCARS
IN HEAVY TRADING
Leaders Are Pushed Steadily
Higher, With Industrial
Shares Featured.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April ia spectacular
rise in the foreign exchanges at the ex-
pense Of the dollar, buoyantly strong
stock market from start to finish, and
wide advances in all commodities fea-
tured today's markets.
Sterling exchange at one time was up
almost 80 cents. The other European
currencies rose in disorderly fashion.
There were rapid and nervous fluctua-
tons all day, but the dollar was always
acutely weak. Commodities were bought
at steadily rising prices. Wheat in Chi
cago closed 134 to "a cents higher,
with smaller gains in the ether grains.
Cotton made sharp gain. The minor
staples were equally strong.
The stock marget had no reaction to
speak of at any time and the close was
around the best The largest gains
were made by the industrial shares, but
utilities and rails, which Jagged behind
early in the day, came into line before
the end. All told it was as wild
market as has been seen this year.
The only point of weakness was in
bonds and they were lower in proper
ton to their investment rating. the
weakest being United States Govern
ment obligations.
All these movements were founded
upon the latest information with regard
to the intentions of the Government at
Washington as to imitation. Todays
understanding was that no more gold
exports would be allowed except for ear
marked lots and for balances arrived at
in trade movements, and that the dol
lar was to be left to care for itself in
the international markets. The design
was said to be to raise the domestic
price level by this means instead Of by
some expansion of currency. Whether
this is abandonment Of the gold stand
ard or not is an academic question.
The speculative community took it for
granted that equities and staples will
be worth more under this arrangement
and the stock market rose buoyantly for
practically all industrials, with special
strength in stocks having large COM
modify interest. The rails we're only
moderately higher and the utilities were
heavy, in some cases weak, in response
to the latest campaign for lower rates
Commodities scared In silver futures
the advance ran to the limit allowed by
the exchange of 800 points for some
four deliveries. Sugar climbed points
on top Of its gains earlier in the week.
Rubber bounded upward Is points.
Coffee to 10 points higher. Wheat
advanced IL to 2 cents bushel. not
only on the imitation prospect but on
the poor outlook for the new crop. Cot
ton was up s125 bale at one time
during the morning..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
canada IMPROVES
| ITS TRADE POSITION
Dominion Had Export Bal.
ance of $67,693,483 as
Fiscal Year Closed.
By the Associated Press.

OTTAWA, April 19.-Canada ended
the last fiscal year with an export trade
balance of $67,693,4s3. Domestic ex-
ports for the IL months ended March
81 last totaled $473, GOT ass, as against
$406, 213,972 imports. At the end Of the
preceding year the Dominion had an
import balance Of $2,148,580. The
value of total importations then was
$578, 49,, 1892 and Of domestic exports
$576, 344,302.
Statistics issued by the department Of
national revenue show that the total
trade of Canada for the fiscal year just
ended suffered a decline Of $279,023,-
100 as compared with the previous fiscal
year. For the 12-month period ended
March 81 last. Canada's total trade
amounted to 1887 ,o35,2 For the pre-
ceding % months it totaled 81, 166, 058,-
800. Re-exports of foreign goods dur
ing the IL months just ended amounted
to $6,9l3842, as compared with SILL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
WILL COST 500, 900, 900
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Present esti-
mates for 1888 highway construction
expenditures In 10 Far Western States
indicate an increase Of $2l 900 900 over
the 1882 aggregate total for this area,
according to weekly comment by the
Bank of America, Pacific Coast branch
banking institution. The estimated ex-
penditure Of $96,000,000 for highway
development In the Far West this year
Is hailed as forerunner OF employment
throughout the remainder Of the year.
California, already noted for its ex-
cellent highways, has q two-year pro-
gram of SCI, TOO, 900. Major work ALREADY
recommended provides for improvement
ON ISL projects, involving total OF 867
miles. The budget also provides for
maintenance Of a system of highways
totaling approximately 7,349 miles
throughout the State.
Funds as reported from other States
providing for 1888 construction are:
Washington, $22 500 900: Colorado So
OLA, 600; New Mexico, $5,075 900; Utah,
81, 20O,O 900; Montana, $4,000 900; Idaho,
81, 634, 900; Nevada, $2,022, 900; Oregon,
$ls, 400, 900, and wyoming, $l,7oo,ooo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
Business Notes
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1e.-Post- Easter
quotations in the women's apparel
market are generally firm, according
to merchants. 1t is said that stores
scheduling promotions of cut-price gar
ments for the near future are expert
encing some diticulty in covering their
needs owing to a lack Of goods Of dis
tress or cut-price variety.
There Is said to be more interest in
metal hollowware wholesale markets.
rejecting increased purchases by retail
stores for Spring requirements. Pro-
ducers of sterling and plated ware are
understood to have received q fair
volume of orders for June sales.
Selling agents featuring Fall sweat
ers report only a mild interest in their
lines. Prices are about even with those
quoted at the close of last season, it
is said.
The American Institute Of Carpet
Manufacturers, Inc, Is considering a
special Rug week." to be observed by
retailers throughout the country In
October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
$4,000 TRUCK ORDER
IS PLACED BY BREWERY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. April l9-The largest
single motor truck order placed by any
brewery in the United States since the
legalization of beer, according to the
White Motor Truck Co. of Cleveland,
Ohio. has been placed by the Globe
Brewery of Baltimore. Twenty-Five
light and heavy duty trucks at cost
Of $4,000 have been ordered, 1t is re-
ported.
The report also states that more or.
ders for new trucks of all kinds have
been received by the White Co. from
Baltimore in the first three and a half
months of 1888 than were received
during the entire year of 1882 from
this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. April 10 @.-Money
rates were a trif1e irregular today. Time
funds were up to per cent bid for all
maturities with some offered for 80 days
at per cent. Previous rates were "a
per cent for 30 and so days and pei
cent for others. Outside call money was
unchanged at ~ per cent. Commercial
paper rates eased. 2 to az per cent Pc
ing quoted for prime names against 2l2
to pa per cent previously. Bankers
acceptances were unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19

ton Hotel t h / S
noon and listened
to a stirring ad-
dress by Eric j.
wilson. from the
New York office OF
the Penn Mutual
Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. Wilson Is a
young m a n but
has met with un-
usual success IN
the insurance field.
In his address to-
day he told the
Washington u n
derwrite-S how to
increase produc-
ton even in times
of economic stress.
Hic subject. WAS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19

221,215 In the year ended March 81,
1892.
Exports Of wheat were much higher in
the fiscal year which closed on March 81
last than during the preceding IL
months. Total exports Of wheat from
Canada during the year ended March 81
last reached 23o, 373,255 bushels, valued
at $l30,546.365. In the preceding 12-
month period the quantity exported
was 191, 316,933 bushels and the value
Sis, 739,451
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
PARIS BOURSE PRICES.

PARIS, April 10 (P).-Three per cent
rentes, SO francs 80 centimes; A. per
cent rentes, 8770.
Exchange on London 8747 The
dollar was quoted at 2460
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
WILSON ADDRESSES.
D. c. UNDERWRITERS
New York Insurance Expert
L Speaks on Methods of
FNE Increasing Sales.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

In connection with Financial indie
pendence week." the District of Co.
lumbia Life Underwriters Association
held its April luncheon at the Washing
Evening star., 1933-12-17
BY EDGAR SNOW
By Cyrus l. Baldridge,

China, has been abused, looted, flooded
with opium and heroin, heavily over
taxed, but seldom taught or understood
by the various republican governments
of our day?
Outwardly it looks much like any
other grouping of villages in China. The
differences wrought are in people, in
their psychology, in their whole outlook
on life-not in the belching smokestackS
of imported foreign industry.
Over there on farm stands family
gazing intently at the yellow earth,
where square of it has been smoothed
over. A young man, using his hoe
handle for a stylus, practices char
acters: 'wipe out illiteracy in China!"
he laboriously writes. And then an
other, a young girl, takes the hoe and
proudly inscribes, Build new citizens
for the nation" Perhaps the old man
writes also, and the old woman.
Near another village, out under the
Evening star., 1933-12-17

Ignorance, poverty and disease, preva-
lent among rural Chinese, are among
the basic reasons for China's backward
ness. To large extent they explain the
Chinese failure to measure up to the
requirements of modern citizenship. A
fourth significant factor, closely related
to those three, is the nearly total absence
of social or community pride and spirit,
the lack of public consciousness. Always
the Chinese has lived, mollusklike and
Confucianist, within the family. What
happens beyond that restricted unit does
not trouble him.
\A/HEREIN is Ting Hsien different?
w Wherein lies its significance? How
is it possible that change, even If vast
change in Ting Hsien, which is but a
single cell in the tissue of China, may
eventually alter the whole organism?
What is it like today, this tranquil
county," which, like other hsien in
Evening star., 1933-12-17

Oh aOpel HIOVlI1C6. went LneTS
recently to help celebrate the
Double Ten" China's equiva-
lent to the American Fourth of July.
intended to visit only for day, then
to return by the same decrepit Kinhan
express" that had brought me, taking
six hours, over a decaying roadbed from
Peiping. Instead. did not leave until
the fourth day, and then only under
the compulsion of urgent business at
Peiping.
In Ting Hsien I had found some of
the most dramatic and what may prove
to be the most important work in life
reconstruction" going on anywhere out
side Soviet Russia. An exaggeration?
Wait.
Ting" by the way, means, among
other things, fixed" or tranquil" The
character -"hsien" is used to designate a
provincial district, which nearly CORE
spends to our county" "Ting Hsien"
may thus be translated tranquil
county," though its history of more than
1000 years offers possibilities for more
romantic speculations.
Ting Hsien has an area of 7480 square
miles. Its 397, 1000 ~inhabitants live in
472 villages, ranging in population from
SO to 1,200 families each, with an aver
age of six persons to the family. More
than IS per cent Of all Chinese live
under conditions which, for all prac-
tica1 purposes, may be considered the
same as those in tranquil county"
And that means, taking conservative
estimate of China's population, that
more than a fifth of all the earth's
humanity lives in places very much like
Ting Hsien. Anything which is destined
to reshape the whole content of life for
those millions is profoundly important
to the world.
CIRST, let us look at the average Chi
nese village, the component of the
hSien. I have travelled several thousand
miles in China and I have visited
800 or 400 villages, hsien capitals
and cities. In nearly all interior parts
of China the basic form of life, the
mold of environment, is much the same,
and scarcely differs from that followed
for centuries
In most districts in the interior the
only roads are cart tracks, worn deep
through centuries of use. Often they
are mere caravan trails, impossible for
wheeled traffic. The vast majority Of
rural folk rarely see, never use, a train,
airplane, automobile, radio, electric
light or newspaper. From 80 to 90
per cent of them are totally illiterate,
and are almost incredibly poor.
In the villages, made up of peasants
who farm the surrounding lands, the
houses are mostly foorless huts made
Of clay bricks, rooted with straw and
sometimes with tile, lighted at night
by rape-seed oil or kerosene lamps
Millet and wheat are the staple food
In the north; in the south it is rice;
meat can rarely be afforded. Probably
the average farming family earns a
livelihood from less than two acres of
soil. The family's average annual in
come today does not exceed $24O in Chi
nese currency, the equivalent of about
$50 in American money. The average
farmer makes little more than the hired
Chinese laborer. The latter's magnifi-
cent daily wage is now under 20 cents
in Chinese money, or about cents in
American.
Evening star., 1933-12-17

late Autumn sun, Is a group Of zoo
young farmers. They range in age from
IL to Is. Strung along a country road
they carry hoes in their hands, rakes.
shovels, spades; rhythmically they work
side by side, turning over the earth,
leveling it, grading. Before them stretch
two ruts, deep in the dust, filled with
holes; behind them lies the repaired
road. These youths come from six diff
ferent villages, and in front Of each
group Is q man bearing a banner on
which IS written the name of his village.
No bayonets prod them on, nobody pays
them, no one supervises them. This vol
untary cooperation is something which
people who know rural China can
scarcely believe.
Out in the fields, slowly moving down
a lane too narrow even for cart, is a
Chinese wheelbarrow. On top of it is
a neat white box On its sides are
colored pictures which describe its mis-
sion, showing white-clad doctors minis
tering to the sick. Beside the barroY
trudges a young Chinese nurse, and
inside the box are vaccineS, gauzes,
bandages, simple medicines. This
'wheelbarrow hospital gives hundreds
their first glimpse of modern medical
science.
On to a slightly larger village. Here
a group listens to a radio-a radio made
in Ting Hsien and owned by the village.
At another place, by looking over mud
wall, you can see 40 or more young girls
in an improvised school room. They are
carefully following, in their Accent
readers, the story which a young woman
teacher, hardly more than child her
self, helps them to understand.
OUT in a field men from three vii
lagos observe the results of an agri-
cultural project undertaken by Farmer
Wang, who has been growing new kind
of cotton They sample the milk from
Chang's goats-lowly animals which
Ting Hsien people five years ago re-
garded as being even less useful than
a girl child. They consult over a hybrid
swine the result of a planned romance
briStled native pig, and an imported
Poland-China boar. They total up the
eggs produced by the hen resulting from
a cross between a native chicken and q
Rhode Island red. Astonishingly, they
use in their conversation the equivalents
of such words as research" "experi-
ment" and scientific" And they ex-
change congratulations Farmers in
China are illiterate, but as regards
farming they are nobody's fools. When
they begin to spend valuable time in
huddleS like this there must be good
reason for it.
Where is the spark center from which
these innovations generate? 1t is in the
AIS schools in Ting Hsiens 472 villages
mass educational schools, run almost
entirely by the people, without governs
ment support. Here thousands of young
men and women have learned to read
and write. Here, which is. more, thou-
sands of them have learned, are learns
ing now, to work together, plan together.
organize themselves into formidable
farmers unions, joining other village
units, striving for social, economic and
political betterment.
Each of these schools has become q
meeting hall run by graduates OF the
peoples educational courses. Each
gradually becomes the controlling influs
ence in village government, sets lOca4
Evening star., 1933-12-17
Awakening the Masses in China

The Millions of People of That Haze WitNd Many attempts
Remodel Their Lves From the Top Down7oAy Group Of Workr Led by
Famous Jimmy" Yen, Going Differently and Starting the Bottom
of a ad erimaut.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
OF EQUALIZATION IMPE-
RAJ, IRRIGATION DISTRICT

RIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Assessor of Imperial Irri-
CATION District, having completed
The assessment book for the year
1888 has delivered the said assess
ment book to the Secretary of the
Board of Directors of Imperial r.
rjgation District vino now has it in
his office in the Masonic Building,
Ell Centre, California, where it will
remain for the inspection of all
persons interested until September
S, 1898.
The Board Of Directors of said
Imperial Irrigation District acting
as a Board of Equalization, will
meet to eoualize assessments on
September 5, 1888, at ten o'clock A.
M. and continue in session from
time TO time thereafter as long as
may be necessary, not to exceed
ten days, exclusive CT Sundays, at
the office of the said Board of
Directors, in the Masonic Building,
Ell Centro, California, to hear and
determine such objections to the
valuation, acreage. or any matters
pertaining to the assessment, as
may come before them.
BY order of the Board of Direc-
tors.
F. II. McIVER,
Secretary of the Board of Direc-
tors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict.
p Aug 8 to Sept 5 inc
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
Truck Service
Permit Granted

Pacific Trucking company, sub
sidiary of the Southern Pacific
company. has been granted a cer-
tificate of public motor trucking
service for the distribution of rail-
road traffic.
The certificate authorizing the
3rawley- -Westmorland service is a
substitution of regularly scheduled
highway trucks for what the de-
cision brands as an irregular and
very Improbable railroad train
service" Nc figures are given as
TO the saving that this change will
make possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
VETERAN FIREMAN DIES

SAN FRANCISCO GU.P,-Rlchard
Dix, who answered his first alarm
in red flannel undershirt and hop
ped aboard a horse drawn hose
cart, is dead. Dix was 88 and known
as San Francisco's oldest fireman
He began eating smoke in 1866 and
served through tne famous fire
of 1906. He was still active in semi
official capacity at his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
1929 GOLD YIELD SMALL

SACRAMENTO tU.P,-Maybc they
didn't need so much then. but the
state mines division says less gold
was produced in 1929 in Califor-
mia than in any other year-a mere
s8.526, TOO worth of the yellow me-
tai being unearthed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28


SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ceived by the Department of Pub
lie Works, Division of Highways, at
the office of the District Engineer,
247 Third Street, San Bernardino,
California, at 200 o'clock P. M. on
September 2, 1888, at which time
they will be publicly opened and
read, for performing work as fol-
lows.
Imperial County between Araz
an6 the Colorado River, road VIII
Imp-27-B. about six 90 miles in
length, earth shoulders to be treat
ed with fuel oil
Plans may be seen, and forms OF
proposal, bonds, contract and spe-
cifications may be obtained at
above address.
No bid will be received unless it
is made OH a proposal form fur
nished by the District Engineer.
Each bid must be accompanied by
cash or certified cashiers check
made payable to the Director Of
Public Works for an amount equal
to at least ten 10 per cent of the
amount bid. such guaranty to be
forfeited should the bidder to whom
the contract is awarded fail to en-
ter into the contract.
The Department of Public Works
reserves the right 10 reject airy
or all bids.
In accordance with the provisions
CT Chapter 397, Statutes of 1881,
the Department of Public Works
mas ascertained the general pre-
vailinc rate of wages applicable to
the work to be done to be as fol-
lows:
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

THRESHED GRAIN FOR SALE
Milo Maize S1.75 per sack. Field
run barley s1.30 per sack. White
Federation Wheat $1.80 per sack.
One sack or a carload. Call Ell
Centre 8709-R1, or drive out to
Seal Heights, 5ia miles east on
Highway 80. Mckinley. 26t2
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

State of California, Department of
Public Works, Division of High
ways.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28

Sundays and holidays Except
watchaen. guards and flagmen) =
double the above rates.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS
DIVISION OF HIGHWAY
c. H. PURCELL,
State Highway Engineer
By Z. @. SULLIVAN
District Engineer, Dist. VIII
Aug. 24,25, 6,2s,29,3O,3l Sept /.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28

STONE INSURANCE AGENCY
THANK you for $4,000 draft, full
payment fire loss on merchandise.
And your rate was much better"
A Satisfied Client
Phone 24S or 387 831 Main
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
Professional
]. D. FOSS

J. D. FOSS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
i85 Brighton Ave. Phone 1885
Auditing, Income Tax, Bookkeeping
Associated with
r. d. CRENSHAW & co.
Certified Public Accountants
SANTA ANA LOS ANGELES
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28

FOR SALE-Cheap. Two model T
Ford engines in good condition.
Phone 3191 Imperial. 4tf
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
ROOMS AND APARTMENTS

FOR RENT-Furnished apis. and
houses, $3.50 week. All conven-
ience. TIL Park. 25t3
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-28
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

FOR SALE-2C feeder pigs miles
west or A. Forester ranch. Joe
r, Imfeld. 26t3