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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
ASK HO0vER'S
TESTIMONY IN
DETROIT QUIZ
Former President Requested
To Give Information Concern
ing Bank Crash. =.
STATEMENT BY COUZENS
Senator Says Enforcement OF
Federal Laws Not Upheld Dur
ing Crisis.

PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug. %.
U.P)-Herbert Hoover is not go
ing to Detroit to face a grand
jury investigating bank failures,
the former President announced
late today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
nIHHlnLdL1,e
W Isays:

CHICAGO, Aug. 81. tSpeciaD
Well. the Hill Billies" beat the
Dudes" and took the polo
championship of the world right
out of the drawing rooms and
into the clubhouse. And she
wont go east in years, for the
west always thought you had to
have a birth certificate to play
it.
Now every COW puncher is
herding in the heifers with a
corn plaster saddle and even
the hay beavers" have changed
a pitchfork into a polo mallet.
Twenty thousand Chicagoans
witnessed Sundays social mas
sacre. Ninteen thousand of EN-
had never seen a horse, much
less a polo game. So from now
on west OF the Mississippi "Old
Dobbin" plowS in the fields only
till four o'clock, when he will be
washed, scrubbed, his teeth pol
ished and he goes out on the
lawn to cavort IN what used to
be known as strictly a social
recreation.
Poor old society. They got
nothing exclusive left. The mo-
vie folks out-married and out
divorced 'em, the common folks
took their cocktails; near" So
ciety took to bridge. Now polo
has gone to the buckwheat belt
So poor old society hasn't even
been left a code.
Yours,
M<& R1~~
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22

DE lRt)lI, Aug. %. - rOrIlleT
President Herbert Hoover will be
requested to accept subpoena to
testify before the grand jury in
vestigatinly bank failures here.
Circuit Judge Harry B. Keidan
and Prosecutor Harry S. Toy de-
cided to make the request at a
conference last night.
The grand jury has no power
to enforce its subpoenas without
the state, officials admitted, but
were hopeful Mr.. Hoover will CO.
operate ana voluntarily accept the
subpoena" Once before the former
President was requested to appear
but officials received no reply to
their letter, inviting him to appear
and testify.
Decision TO subpoena the former
President came as result of the
repeated testimony of Senator
James Couzens, now concluding a
three day appearance before the
grand jury, that banks throughout
the country were permitted to OPP
crate in technical violation OF law
BECAUSE Vi Jlle dIIlIuue VI VIC I1oo'-
er administration.
Originally Couzens charged that
the persistent belief of everyone
connected with the Hoover admin
istration that prosperity was just
around the corner" led them to
permit banks to operate against the
letter of the law.
Yesterday he charged that if the
government had forced the First
National bank to write off the loans
federal bank examiners listed as
losses in May 1882 the bank would
have been "hopelessly insolvent.'
However, you must remember
there was political campaign in
progress" he added by way of ex-
PLANTATION.
PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug %. U.P)-
Former President Herbert Hoover,
home from fishing trip, had moth
ing to say to the press today re-
garding plans of Detroit grand
jury to subpoena him in its bank
failure investigation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
American League

American League
At Chicago 1st game)-
Boston ................ 100 900 OO0-l l
Chicago ......... Ol0 402 0lX-8 Is 0
Rhodes and Terrell; Lyon and
CRUDE.
At Cleveland
New York ..... 900 200 Ola 9 2
Cleveland .............. 900 020 0l0-3 4 D
Gomez and Dickey, Jorgens; Har-
der and Spencer.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
BY JAMES c. AUSTIN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, Aug. %. GU.Pl-En-
torcement of the banking laws by
the comptroller of the currency in
1880 would have prevented the de-
bacle of collapsed banks in the ma
ton, Senator James Couzens testi-
fled before the grand jury inquiry
into banks here today.
If the comptroller had enforced
the laws as early as $780," Couzens
said, I'VE would have avoided all
this trouble now There would have
been gradual liquidation of these
banks"
Meanwhile Prosecutor Harry s.
Toy dispatched letter to former
President Herbert Hoover renewing
his earlier request that Mr.. Hoover
volunteer to come here to testify.
No mention was made of subpoena,
which, Toy explained, would have
no compelling power outside of
Michigan.
CouN9nS testified that Senator
Glass told him Comptroller Poole
and his successor, Await, had mot
enforced the banking laws because
they feared a national bank COL
lapse"
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Washington Produce
WHOLESALE PRICES.

Butter-One-pound prints (s3 score).
27; tub. &c; one-pound prints (s2
score), 26; tub. IS: one-pound prints
coo score), IS; tub, "a.
Eggs-Gcvernment graded, extras, "a;
standards, 20; mediums, 10; current
receipts, 13a15; hennery whites, 15a17.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, hens, 10;
toms, 8; chickens, Plymouth Rocks, 15a
20; mixed colored, 13a15; Leghorns, 13a
IA; hens, mixed colored, 11a12; Leg
horns, 7a8; roosters, 5a6; capons, 25a28.
Poultry, dressed-Trrkeys, hens, Is;
toms, II; chickens, Plymouth Rocks,
18a23; mixed colored, 16a1S; Leghorns,
16a17; hens, mixed colored, Halls; Leg
horns, 10a11; roosters, SAT; capons,
2Sa31.
Meats-Beef, II; veal, 10; lamb, 16:
pork loins, 10; fresh hams, II; smoked
hams. IS; strip bacon. Is; lard. 81;
compound, 8.
Fruits -Watermelons, goal. 90; canta-
loupes, California, 3.00a3.75; Georgia,
bushel, LOCAL so; honeydews, California,
$50; North Carolina, zoo; oranges.
2.75a3.50; lemons, 4.50a7.00: lines,
Persian, ugs, 2.00a3.00; honeyballs. $50
a3.00; plums, zoo: apricots, 2.o0;
North Carolina plums. crates, 1.5o
Evening star., 1933-07-01

a2.0o; grapefruit, 2.0oa2.50; alligator
pears. 1.75a2 90; raspberries, red. quarts,
25a3O; black. 1Oal2h; cherries, Cali
fornia, iugs, 1.75a2.25: blackberries,
2.0Oa4.00; figs, las; huckleberries,
4.00a5 90; peaches, 2-peck baskets. $50
al75.
Vegetables-Potatoes, barrel, 3.50a
3.75; old, 1O0-pound sacks, 2.00a2. rs;
sweets, bushel, 60a75; celery, 2.00a2. so;
asparagus, 50a2.oo; string beans, 75a
100; Gmas, 2.o0a2. so; peas, 1.65a1. rs;
lettuce, Iceberg, 300a3.25; cucumbers,
1.25a1.5 so; turnips, so; carrots, per 100
punches, 800; beets, per 100 punches,
800; squash, 1.00a1.25; tomatoes, lugs,
1.25a1.75; homegrown, bushel, ESQ;
spinach, 100: kale, 40a50; corn. l.o0a
1.25; cabbage, so; okra, 1.5o; peppers,
1.75a2.00.
Evening star., 1933-07-01

AZ Am Com Al. July IS 81 4 + z
Dividend given
payments based the latest quarterly
- in stock Paid last yeaI-no 5sguaI rate Payable in
preferred stock Payable Paid
Evening star., 1933-07-01
SILVER QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK, July (R.-Bar silver
firm, 5s higher at 36as.
new YORK BANK STOCKS
NEW YORK, July / P.-Over-the
counter market:

Quotations as of 1870 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, July P.-Foreign ex-
change strong, Great Britain in dollars
others in cents: Great Britain, demand
4.33ka; cables, 4.33h: 60-day bills
1925; France, demand, sos; cables,
sos; Italy, demand, 6.74; cables, 6.74.
Demands: Belgium, 1890; Germany
3040; Holland, 51.s0; Norway, 21.80;
Sweden, 22.33; Denmark, 1910: Swift
zerland, 2470; Spain. 10.72; Portugal
394n: Greece, .72%n; Poland, 1434n;
Czechoslovakia, 3.83n; Yugoslavia, 1.75n;
Austria. 14.29n; Rumania. .s2n; Argen-
tine, 32.73n; Brazil, 7.64n; Toxic,
27.12h; Shanghai, 27.6212; Hongkong,
30.62k; Mexico City (silver peso)
27.78; Montreal in New York, 91.62l2;
New York In Montreal. lo9.25.
n-Moniual.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
STOCK TRANSFERS REACH
new RECORD IN June

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July stock transac-
tions on the New York Stock Exchange
in June established a high record for
that month at 125, ,619,530 shares. It
was also a new high level for any month
during a bull market. Transactions
averaged 1881 $50 shares daily, with a
peak of 6,877,860 shares. The smallest
daily turnover during the month was
3,314,100 shares
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Sugar Melt Increases.

NEW YORK, July 1 R-Totai sugar
melt Of Is American redners from
January to June "a was l,855,00C
long tons, against 1,790, 900 tons for the
liveries Of 1855, 900 tons for this yea,
compared with 100000 year ago.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
q. 8. TREASURY BALANCE.

BY the Associated Press.
: Treasury receipts for June 29 were
4 4.792.2lS.30; expenditures, Sic, 1854, ,705.-
90; balance. $393, ,769 ,811.16. Customs
duties for 20 days of June were $2l,-
H52e26.ss. 5..
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Financial District Notes.

A semi-annual dividend of 81 share
has been declared by Compania Swift
international. The dividend Is pay
able August IS, 1888, to shareholders
of record July IS, 1888. This is the
thirty third regular dividend to be de-
clared by the company, according to
Swift's washington office.
". McNair, washington represent
ative of the Lincoln National Life In
surance Co., has just been notified that
he has won the privilege Of trip to
Chicago at the company's expense to
attend a sales school and convention, to
be held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel,
July 10, II and IL.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
NEW BOND ISSUES.

NEW YORK, July P).-New bond
issues formally offered this week to-
tailed $92, ,599, 900, against $4,000, 900 last
week and $1,177, 900 o year ago.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Cash Collections Improving.

Total June cash collections of the
District of Columbia agency of the Mu-
tual Benefit Life of New Jersey were
s44,79O, a decrease of only 3 per cent
from June, 1882. This compares with
a 5 per cent decrease in May. Indica-
tions are that July cash collections will
show an increase over last year, Off
GERS say.
New business written by the same of-
fee amounted to $165,00 an increase
of 16 per cent over last year. John H.
Snyder and James A. de Force are the
agency leaders in volume for the first
half of 1893.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Liberalism Eclipsed

The old-fashioned die-hard conservative is not happy these days and the extreme radical never has been happy; but it is doubtful if either of these groups is getting half the misery that is falling in the lap of certain kind of doctrinare liberal The conservative. can at least reflect that he controlled the government for upwards of a decade. The radical can always cock his ear for the rumble of tumbrils down the streets of the distant future. But there is certain kind of liberal to whom the present era seems to be bringing nothing but confusion and disappointment. To be sure. the actions that this liberal has always demanded of his government are being taken. The program that he has clamored for for years - or something strikingly like it - is being put into effect. The conservatives are in full retreat. all along the line, and they haven't yet found rallying point
 But the tragedy to the doetrinaire lib- eral, is that all of this is being done in the wrong way by the wrong people. The change came before he could pronounce his blessing upon it. He had just got through proving that nothing of consequence could be expected from the present administration. when it proceeded to take the wind out of his sails by adopting his whole program.
 What has our liberal been demanding, all of these years? We'll he has called for planned economy He has wanted fed eral laws to protect union labor in the lead ing industries He has wanted the New York financial powers drastically curbed. He has wanted the government to crack down on the power trust. He has wanted vast sums spent by Uncle Sam on public works. He has wanted a systematized fed eral employment service He has wanted to see people like Frances Perkins, Ickes and Richberg in important governmental posi- tons. He has wanted an administration that would place human rights above pros- perity rights.
 Every one of these goals has been reached. Things that until recently looked like re- mote possibilities for the millennium are now in actual operation. But our liberal got left at the post. Change caught him mapping. Fate delt him hand from the bottom of the deck. And his unhappiness. these days. is heart -rending to observe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

bank deposits. lending them on mortgages. and then couldn't repay them on demand.
 These classes of financial institutions are evidently going to be separated clearly here after in the United States. as they have long been in most other countries. Federal legis- lstion already enacted. with more to follow mex: winter. is expected to separate our commercial and savings banks and restrict each of them to its special functions more clearly than ever before. The states will wrestle with the mortgage and loan problem. if the federal government does not
 It seems natural now, 'in most states. for the mortgage and loan company to do a general banking business. But this has been done only since 1868. Ohio. which started the practice, is now trying to abolish it with a new law which by forbidding building and loan companies to receive deposits of any kind, would force them to become mutual stock companies. We shall hear more of this old-new policy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

Letting the farmers set their own hunting seasons for quail is the way that Iowa is tackling problem that has confronted prae-- tically every state in the nation. The quail at one time was the most popular game bird and one of the most prolific. It was native to practically all our state until the continued nroads of man had taken their toll. Iowa is nothing if not progressive in its methods of treating game eonsetvation. Therefore. this fall for the first time in lo years there will be an open season on quail. And the farmers will regulate the season. Incidentally the farmers are going to provide proper cover and food and protection from the quails natural enemies The idea sounds like good one. It might work in other states besides Iowa. There's nothing like trying.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Not a Spy System

When Motor Vehicle Commissioner Michael A. Connor suggests the creation of d Citizens Volunteer Motor Patrol he does not mean that we shall all become agents in gigantic spy system within the boundaries of Connecticut. It would be quite fatal to set motorists to watching every action upon the open road of their fellow drivers. And while it might in the long run do lot of good, it certainly would have the surer effect of creating bit ter enmity between friends.
 There is no doubt but what recklessness is more apparent on our highways today than ever. This is supported by the stats- tics. Fatalities to date in 1893 points out Commissioner Connor. number 239. That's high figure for the state It should be our aim during September, which has been designated highway safety month, to bring home to every driver, man and woman, the need of exercising at all times extreme care in operating motor vehicles. It may not be the speeder who will meet instant death as he rounds curve at an excessive rate. It may be the man who is proceeding slowly. but too far out in the road
 It's not always the reckless driver who goes to the hospital. It may be the man this driver sent into the ditch by his tactics. It is against this type of driver that Com missioner Connor is declaring war and each and everyone of us should be glad to join him. But his declaration for a volunteer corps is no excuse to work off grudge against the man who may pass you on the hill or who outspeeds you on the long, straight stretch. Don't be too critical in your judgment. Put yourself in the other fellows place before sending in your com plaints.
 And don't think that this invitation makes you the self-appointed enforcer of the motor vehicle laws. If you are going to aid the motor vehicle department know the laws before you decide anybody is violating them. And then when you do complain do so in simple language and without the use of superlatives or excoriations of the driver who you claim is at fault. Remember, too, that perhaps somebody is going to turn you in the next day. SO watch your step and drive carefully. which necessarily does not mean slowly. Please keep that in mind. you people who will take this opportunity to deluge Commissioner Connor with com plaints. real and imaginary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Blames America for Cuba's Woes

Just as Cuba succeeds in driv- ing out Machada, Carleton Belas publishes "The Crime of Cuba; and If you're interested in finding out just how that islands troubles originated and just why Machado had to be expelled, you'll find 1t a most enlightening book. A
 Beals, an extremely capable and intelligent student of Latin American affairs, planes all of Cuba's troubles on the United States.
 First, he says, by the Platt amendment, we have made 1t im- possible for Cuba to develop a healthy political life of her own. Final decision in all matters of at Havana; in consequence, Cuban policy rests at Washington. not political life is carried on in an atm osphere of unreality, and the hest efforts of her politicians must be directed to find out what Washington wants and not what Cuba needs.
 Second. MT Beals insists that Machado came to power large lIy through the support of Ameri- can interests and was able to stay in office only because the U. s state department did its best te
 keen him there. The infamous brutality with which Cuban oppo-
 sition was beaten down is. he as
 serts, a responsibility which ths United States cannot disown.
 Third, and perhaps most i'm portant of all, Is the fact. as MT | Beals presents 1t, that Cuba | Icompletely dependent economi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Something To Do

The best and most hopeful thing abou the whole MIRA business is that it gives the American something to do. For three years he was hopeless, sodden with discourage ment. There didn't seem to be any way to turn to improve his condition. Work was the indispensable factor towards taking care of his family. And there was no work he could do. With power in his arms and brain, he was helpless. Nothing he did or said or thought meant anything.
 Now there is something for him to do. He is important. Whether he has got his job yet or lot isn't the question. He knows it is coming in time, and that itself is hopeful. But more than that, he, himself. as an individual is important. What he says and thinks is important. He can support the forward movement or retard it. When he earns dollar, the spending of that dol lar is important. He can spend it in en- couraging conscientious employers who are keeping his neighbors employed at decent wages or in encouraging ehiselers. When his wife buys food she is important. The way he does his work in factory or workshop. the way she does hers at home are important.
 Every hour of thorough work. every spruce backyard. every wel-mended sock. adds to Americas prosperity. Every we'll prepared school lesson adds to America s education and power. We all mean some thing, now. to ourselves and to the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
IT PLAQUES GOVERNOR
 CROSS
(New York Sun)

In the Land of Steady Habits the folks are taking their NRA with calmness that irks the enl- thuisasts in Washington. The Con- necAcut men stop, look and listen. This is a spirit intolerable to the fast workers by the Potomac. A "high official'' of the recovery administration is quoted as using language that must pain the brain trust: I've have done all we can in Connecticut; the state can now go to hell"
 Governor Cross - himself not without academic distinction -- is grieved. He seeks a retraction of the allegation that Connecticut as seen from NRA's tall towers is "the worst state in the Union." Perhaps he will get it, for, he has a way of getting what he wishes. But if he does not, he should re- strain his tears. Geniality is under going severe strain where MIRA solves the multitudinous problems that press on it. If bitterness ex- udes occasionally, 1t should not cause wonder; and Connecticut has heretofore proved that it can care for itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
ZONE WORD MORE"
(Hartford Courant)

&I1dIIlOTQ SOuTduIJ
 Although it is near to the heart of every New Englander. we had hoped that The Courant had al- ready paid 9 sufficient tribute to sweet corn, but we find that the Providence Journal in the course of a like acknowledgements to the bounty of heaven has gone even farther in its praise of Golden Bantam than we care to. It says, There is no other corn known to is Its equal in delicacy and creamy richness"
 Is it true? De gustibus and all the rest of that proverb. It is undoubtedly true that men and dental plates are keen for Golden Bantam because it is small of ear and one may gnaw it from it's cob with less fear of mischance than when dealing with Evergreen or the Shoepeg ear. With Golden Bantam one may eat corn from the cob in almost a gentlemanly man. ner.
 Save for the size of the ear, If one was blind folded, could one distinguish between a large ear of Golden Bantam and a small ear of, say. Black Mexican? We doubt 1t. It may be a trivial point for argu- ment, because we have yet to>taste a fresh ear of sweet corn that was not greatly to be desired. All sweet corn is rich and delicate as 1t comes from the field with dew still upon it's husks. When the time arrives, late in October. we are more than willing to salute Rhode Islands white flint field corn, but now when sweet corn IS the Hheme of conversation, if one has time for conversation with the corn before him. we play no fav- orites.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

The state board of mediation and arbi- traton is about on its last legs judging by recent actions. Governor Cross involuntar- fly put the quietus on the board week or so ago when he asked for the resignation of Johnston Vance. New Britain editor This action was taken simply to make it possible to name republican to the board. There were three democrats On it at the time Mir Vance. Deputy Labor Commissioner Walter J. Couper and Athletic Commis- sioner Joseph H. Lawlor The state law demands the presence of only two members of any one political party. However. the governor did not immediately name suc- cessor to MT Vance and now MT Couper has rendered his resignation. leaving Com