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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-18
Foreign Exchange
(By Abbott. Hoppin & Co..
Oct IL
Daily Price Index

By United Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 17.-Dun g. Brad
streets daily weighted price index of
thirty basic commodities. compiled for
the United Press:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-18
INDIANAPOLIS WAGON WHEAT
NEW YORK COFFEE FUTURES

City grain elevators are paying GO cents
Ior NO. SOFT req wheat. Otner grades
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Bank CIearings

INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
Oct. IL
hearings ................... ,91e, 900 90
ebits Observation-Disclosures. 4,910, 900 90
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
THE FLUORIlVE MYTH

THE preliminary report of DR.. Carl
l Wilson, employed by the Metropoli-
tan Water District to discover the assert
ed fluorine content of the Colorado river,
indicates that there is no evidence that
this chemical is present in dangerous
quantities. While it seems to be estab-
hshed that in some parts of the west
streams and wells do contain fluorine
in quantities sufficient to damage the
teeth of users, neither at Yuma nor in
the Imperial Valley, where water from
the Colorado river is used for domestic
purposes, has there been any such dam
age. Nor does the water show more
than the barest traces of fluorine or its
compounds, on direct analysis.
The probability is strong that the
stories of high fluorine content, like the
stories of other mineral impregnation,
are myths. The investigation should
continue, of course, until the question is
definitely determined, since all phases
of the matter have not been looked into,
but there seems no reason to believe that
the final report will differ from the pre-
liminary one.
Opponents of the aqueduct it appears,
will have to find some other ground for
objection-Los Angeles Times.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
A FINE BIT OF WORK

IF ANY proof of the efficiency Of fed
i eral peace officers is necessary, it is
furnished in the tracking down and ar
rest of Harvey Bailey, notorious gang
ster, kidnaper and murderer.
Details of the painstaking hunt conduct
ed for Bailey by federal officers may be
read in the news columns. The reader
can see for himself how the job was done
in a manner that surpasses the most
thrilling fiction detective story written.
The federal men could move with a
freedom denied state or local officers.
Clothed with authority which knows no
limits except the boundaries of the ma
ton, they could follow clue no matter
where it might lead, without having to
stop for red tape or being careful Of de-
partmental jealousies.
Establishment of a Scotland Yard
for this country, was given a needed
boost by the apprehension of Bailey.
"Jimmy's Penny" as the sales tax is
being dubbed, seems to be as popular
with merchant and customer as the seven
years itch.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
FEDERAL JOBS
TO BE FILLED

The United States Civil Service
Commission calls attention to open
competitive examinations for the
power drill operator and blaster.
Existing and future vacancies in
those positions in the various ma
tional forests and other branches
of the federal service in the states
of California and Nevada may be
filled from these examinations. The
entrance salary for the present va
cancies is 1890 a year, less de-
Guction of Is per cent as meas
ure of economy, and 31a per cent
toward a retirement annuity.
Persons who can meet the re-
quirements should promptly apply
for these examinations.
Application forms and further in
formation as to requirements may
be obtained from the secretary,
local board of U. S. civil service
examiners, at the post office or
from the manager, 18th U. S. Civil
Service District, Room 241 Post
Office Bldg, San Francisco, Calf.
Applications must be filed in
complete form in the office of the
district manager at San Francisco,
Calf, not later than the hour Of
closing business on September l.,
1888.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
UNCLE WIGGILY'S BALLOONS

Everything was just fine and
dandy down at the seashore where
Uncle Wiegily had moved his funny
shack made of store boxes on roller
skate wheels. The rabbit gentle
man and his family were going. to
spend a week or two down by the
cool sea waves. The first night
they had been rather upset because
Mr.. WhitewaSh and Mr.. Stubtail,
two bear friends who had hauled
The shack to the shore, slept in the
sand beneath it. When turning
over in their sleep the bears bump
ed themselves against the shack
floor.
But everything was o. K. now.
Mrs. Longears was in bathing.
Nurse Jane had finished washing
the dishes and making the beds aud
the bunny boys and girls were play
ing on the sand.
Il think" said Uncle Wiggily to
himself, as he nibbled piece OF
molasses taffy left over from what
he had made. II think I'll go look
Tor an adventure"
So ,twinkling his pink nose, away
he hoped over the sand which had
in it little hills and hollows almost
like Woodland, where he had left
his hollow stump bungalow.
The ocean waves were turning
Somersaults on the beach and the
gulls and fish-hawks were flying
about in the air when Uncle Wig
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Don't Quote Me-
BY United Press

1916 "The Confessions of a Re-
former.
The marketing problem in his
opinion is the most difficult one in
trying to solve the price question.
He likes to use the fish business as
an example. He explains that a
fisherman spends two weeks out at
sea, comes in with a catch and be-
cause of the "fish trust gets only
six cents a pound for his fish.
But when a housewife goes fish
shopping she probably had to pay
80 cents pound. That spread in
between is too much, Howe asserts.
Two bureau of chemistry and
soil scientists, r. E. Lothrop and
S. I. Gertler were dabbling around
with honey and water during an
experiment. They let some car
bon dioxide (dry ice) drop in.
The mixture began to freeze, and
the carbon dioxide diSintegrated
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD T. GARRIS
tCspyrisAt 1859, b. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate,

You don't seem to be selling
many balloons"
NO" was the barking answer. II
would have done better with lolly-
pops. Children get hungry when
they come out of the ocean ard
they like to eat lollypops. You can't
eat balloons"
Not very WE'LL" agreed Uncle
Wiggily with a laugh. But how
would you like to sell me a bal
loon?"
Sure I'll sell you one," growled
the sad Dog. What color do you
want, MI. Longears?"
III take all the colors," said the
rabbit gentleman. "In buy your
whole bunch OF balloons. I'll take
them home to my Dummies. They
will want something to play with
after they come out from SWIM
ming"
Say! This is great!" barked the
Sea Dog. Selling all my balloons
at once Now I'll go buy some lol-
lypops. But you must be careful, "
he told Uncle Wiggily.
Careful of What?" asked the rab-
bit.
Careful that this big bunch of
ballons doesn't take you up in the
air." warned the Sea Dog. you
see, they are filled with gas and
they are always Juggling and pulling
to get away. These balloons aren't
like the blownup ones BARRIERS give
little children for getting their hair
cut. These are real gas ballons."
"Oh, I guess I can hold them" "
said Uncle Wiggily as he paid the
Sea Dog and took hold Of the bunch
of strings fastened to the gay bal
looms. "I'm pretty strong
well. be careful, that's all I'm
telling YOU" warned the dog. II
hardly think you are as strong as
I am, and once this morning the
balloons nearly lifted me off my
paws"
I'm not afraid" said Uncle Wig
gily, as he strolled along the board
walk with the bunch of balloons in
his paw. But he mad not gone very
far before something strange hap
pened. I'll tell you about It tomor-
row night when the Bedtime Story
will be about Uncle Wiggily out at
sea. And please, please don't let
the fine tooth comb bite the wash
rag in the bath room. Give l. a
bite from the cake OF soap
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

into gas. Gertler and Lothrop dip
ped fingers into the solid mass.
ut tastes good,' Gertler said
to Lothrop.
A little more experiment and the
department of agriculture issued a
pamphlet.
One part of honey and two parts
OF water and little carbon dioxide
will make a "toothsome dessert
which can be concocted at the
table.
A touch of lemon imparts a nice
twang to the frozen delicacy, the
department added.
The super-scientific sherbert has
only one drawback. Great care
must be taken in handling the car
bon dioxide, which is cold enough
to burn. The proper procedure is
to take a cake of the dry-ice, put
it in a sack, and pound the sack
until the carbon dioxide is pulver-
lied. Then be careful in sprinkling
the substance into the honey-water
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Cont I Toxic o bite2

gily started to look for his first sea-
shore adventure. Up a short dis
lance from The beach was the long
boardwalk. Not that the boards in
it ever walked; it was the seashore
folks who walked on the boards,
stepping on the heads of the nails
without ever so much as saying:
Excuse mel" But the nails were
hard. They didn't care.
All of a sudden, as he looked at
the boardwalk, Uncle Wiggily saw
something colored red, blue. green,
purple and yellow. 1t was very
bright and at first Mr.. Longears
thought it was rainbow.
"Rut a rainbow doesn't move
said the rabbit gentleman as he
twinkled his pink nose. and those
colors are moving. Also a rainbow
is high up in the sky and those col
ors are low down on the board
walk. wonder what it is? I'll hop
nearer and find out"
In a short time Mr.. Longears saw
that the colors were those of toy
balloons. An old Sea Dog was hold
ing a big bunch of the balloons
each one on string, and he was
walking along trying to sell them.
Balloons! Balloons!" barked the
old Sea Dog, who had a sad face
all whiskers. Who'll buy my bal
loons?"
He waited, walking up and down
the boards, but no one came to buy
any of the toys. The animal chill
dren were all in bathing. Uncle
Wiggily hoped up, on the board
walk and said to the Sea Dog:
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. = In
a cubbyhole OF an office in the ag-
ricuiture department building. Fred
eric Clemson Howe, lawyer and
economist, is meticulously going
about the big job of keeping food
prices within the housewives bud
get.
Howe Is directing the drive to
keep food prices down. His title
is consumers consul of the agri-
cultural adjustment administration.
He is a man below medium height
and does his work between puffs
on a cigarette and gulps OF ice
water.
Howe has written books on &C.
onomic subjects, dabbled in poll
ties, lectured on taxation, runs the
Ellis Island immigration station,
published magazine, and prac-
ticed law.
He has written Confessions -.
Back in 1907 he wrote 1.-The Con-
LESSONS of a Monopolist and IN
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
NEW TRIAL SOUGHT

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Is. WR)-
A new trial for Jerry Acalin, fish
ing boat captain, and his crew,
Mike Marin and Anton Bjazich,
convicted of manslaughter in the
death of Pedro G. Pineda, Mexican
customs guard at Ensenada, will
be argued before Federal Judge
Harry Hollzer next Monday. The
three were to have been sentenced
yesterday, out 5udge Hollzer post
poned announcement to permit
attorneys time to perfect new trial
arguments.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
GOSH! GOSH! GOSH!

BOGOTA, Columbia, Aug. Is. tU.D
Louis and Garcia Perez, of San
Pedro, in the Bolivar department,
announced in a telegram read in
the senate today the birth of sew
en- children. All were said to be
doing well. The telegram, read as
an argument in favor of govern
ment grants to parents of large
families, was referred to the COM
mittee on public works.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Cline Funeral
Rites Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Crystal
Poor Cline, 81, who died at La
guna Sunday morning, will be held
from Bonham Brothers funeral
parlors, San Diego, at 2:30 O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon, according to
word received here today.
Mrs. Cline, wife of Victor Cline
of Imperial, was taken to Laguna
two weeks ago when she was I'M
able to endure the heat in the val
ley, and suffered relapse Sat-
urday. She had been clerk at the
Imperial post office for IA years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
City Equalization
Board Meeting

Holding its first session of the
week as a board of equalization,
the city council met last night at
the city hall for preliminary sur
vey of the city tax situation. All
members of the board were present
with the exception of H. w. Faw-
cett.
The board will hold meetings
every night this week starting at
1880 o'clock, and all taxpayers seek
ing adjustment of their taxes are
requested to present their petitions
to the board at these meetings.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Editorial Page
and
Features
COURT TOO LENTENT

A 17-year-old Michigan youth pleaded
n guilty to manslaughter yesterday and
was sentenced by the court to serve from
10 to 10 years in state prison.
This would seem harsh penalty to
mete out to one SO young unless it is
known that his victim was his own moth
er whom he beat to death with a book
end
Being remote from the case and cir
cumstances surrounding it. criticizing
the penalty as too lenient may not be
quite fair. The court, in accepting the
plea, stated he did so because it had
been shown that the youth committed
his terrible deed in fit of anger. One
must give the Judge the benefit of any
doubt and assume that he arrived at his
decision in the case after conscientious
consideration of it.
Granted that in the particular case
leniency might be desirable, yet one
must consider the effect which such a
penalty may have on others who are
likely to fly into "fit of anger and
take another's life. Knowing there is
chance they may only have to spend
10 years or less in prison is not likely to
inspire them to curb their anger.
The youth in the Michigan case was a
pampered son of wealth, who was given
everything he asked until it became
necessary to curb his spendthrift ways.
When his mother made an attempt to
bring him to time by refusing him
money, he had his tragic eft of anger.
He will be 81 or less when he leaves
prison, depending upon how prison au-
thorities match the courts leniency. If
it could be taken for granted that his
prison term would show him the error
of bis ways and turn him out a good
citizen, the courts leniency could not be
questioned.
1t is hardly likely that, our prisons
being what they are, youth who could
take his mothers life, even in anger,
will be improved by serving time in one.
Cock fighting has been made legal in
Porto Rico. That indicates our step-chlld
has more real freedom than we have.
Gerardo Machado was a mouthful to
pronounce, but Charles Manuel de Ces-
pedes goes it several better.
-O-
Permanent waves for dollar are BAN
ned by the NRA which set minimum
of $3.50. Stand up, husbands, and cheer.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

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Imperial Valley Press. Inc. 625 State street.
FL Centre, California w. G. Costello, business
manager. Telephone IS, business office 700, edi-
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Association
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
TOBACCO CROP GOOD

WESTON, Mo. U.D - Farmers
are busy erecting new barns to
care for Missouri's 1888 tobacco
crop. Conditions are better than
normal.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
TEN YEARS AGO
August Is, 1923

Cotton and grapefruit acreage
show an encouraging gain this
year. The cotton increase was APP
proximately SO per cent and grape
fruit increased from 1900 to g.
079.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

The county farm bureau will
make final effort to form cot
ton growers exchange. The final
effort will be made at a meeting
in the park.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Pest Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
AUGUST Is. 1913

For the second time in two years,
this publication has outgrown its
press and other mechanical equip
ment and it is necessary to make
additions. A new press and a
three deck linotype were ordered
last night.
Petitions to the state railroad
commission are being circulated by
those who wish to obtain lower
freight rates from the valley to
coast points. Cotton shippers are
the circulators
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

Local ranchers are sending rail-
road tickets to persons in other
states in order that cotton pickers
may be brought to harvest the
crop in the valley.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

Gerardo Machado was mouthful to
pronounce, but Charles Manuel de Ces-
pedes goes it several better.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
A,,ursc< TX 1919

Directors of the. district met
this morning to ratify the contract
between the United States govern
ment and the district for con-
nection with Laguna dam.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
STORM STARTS FIRES

FRESNO, Aug Is. W.H Eleven
fires, started last night by light
ming during spectacular electric
storm, burned at intervals across
a 60 mile front in the Sierras to-
day.
Fire fighters were hanpered by
high temperatures. Scattered rain
fall, which accompanied the storm
in some sections, failed TO reduce
the fire hazard, heightened by
weeks Of extremely high temper
atures.
A. Alexson, Byron, Contra Costa
county, is growing l40 acres OF to-
matoes for the cannery.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

Permanent waves for dollar are BAN
ned by the NRA which set minimum
of $3.50. Stand up, husbands, and cheer.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

Cock fighting has been made legal in
Porto Rico. That indicates our step-child
has more real freedom than we have.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-03-23
All-Conquering Motor
to Supersede Railway

Can old railway tracks, no longer
required for their original purpose,
be made useful once more1
This is 4 question which railway
engineers often ask and as old
branch lines close down owing to
lack of traffic 1t becomes very prac-
teal one.
An answer to 1t has been found In
the United States, where experts ara
advocating that obsolescent railway
tracks should be converted into roads
for heavy motor traffic. They say
that the cost of transforming an old
railway line into \ modern road
would be less than 4 third that
of constructing an entirely new high
way. The state would therefore be
able to buy disused tracks from the
railway companies at quite substan-
tial figure and still show profit
The value OF the Idea, Of course.
depends on whether or not new roads
are needed. II and where they are
the scheme has possibllitIes.-Lon-
don Answers.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-03-23
Boyhood Dreams
BY DOUGLAS MALLOcH

I LOOKED on In boyhood days, and
BIZ looked on the same,
He to wealth and wealthy ways, and
I to hills OF fame.
have never climbed so far, nor he
so much acquired,
Here we were, and here we are, what
ever we desired.
Fate may treat us kindly yet, though
fate SO long delays.
may have my coronet, and he his
wealthy ways.
Then, / wonder, what the dream, and
what the vision then,
What the fairest thing will seem to
be to musing menu
He may have house OF stone, to me
crown belong.
He for riches may be known, and
for but song,
I may stand upon the hill and he amid
the mart,
Each according to his will, according
to his heart.
Yet of something we shall dream.
when sitting there o. nights,
VIII 1t be a larger scheme, and be the
greater helghts7
may win world OF praise, he all
the wealth there is
I'll look back to boyhood days, and
he'll look back to his.
O. 1898. Douglas Malloch.-WNu Service.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-03-23
CENTENARIANs SHOW A FALLING OFF,
Fewer Persons of Extreme Age in the United States According
to Census Bureau Report

The census bureau announces that
there were only 1864 centenarians In
the United States In 1880 as COM
pared with 4,267 in 1920. That is to
say, II the figures are accurate.
longevity has fallen off In this counr
try to the extent indicated by this
diminutlon In the census figures.
But the census bureau, 1t seems, is
incredulous-and properly so-of its
own figures, for the officials express
the opinion that the figures Of cen
tenarianism are too large, since many
people of advanced age either do not
know how old they are or purposely
exaggerate their age. The doubt is
well warranted, for 1t Is well known
that 1t becomes very easy for per-
son to be one hundred years old If he
has passed the age of ninety.
There Is a long period In all lives
when people in general want to be
thought younger than they really are,
writer In the Boston Transcript as
serts. But when the fourscore mark
has once been passed, this tendency
seems to yield to passion for ap-
pearing older than one Is. Great age
takes on an appearance of distinc-
tion- 1t would appear that Emerson
was right when lie spoke somewhat
scornfully OF Z man becoming proud
OF his age when he has nothing else
to be proud of. Lacking all other
forms Of distinction. old age Is In
Itself an honor. And now and then a
veteran Is found who Is willing to
exaggernte the distinction. 1t Is a
form of human frailty. And as men
occasionally indulge In a pleasing
fiction until they come to believe 1t
true, there can be little doubt that
old people not infrequently honestly
believe themselves to be older than
they are. Hence the imaginary CEN
tenarlans whom the census bureau
suspects.
But why a diminution OF these
self-styled centenarlans since 19207
is the world increasing In candor I
Or is extreme old age becoming less
an honor In the public eye, SO that
fewer court it, II the answer rests
In any degree on senile psychology,
the reply will be difficult; but like
ly explanation of the phenomenon
may be found In the fact that we
have better and more general records
OF birth than formerly prevailed In
this country, and that exaggeration
OF age In the face OF accepted records
had become more difficult In 1890
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-03-23

When Washington WIS inaugurated
he stood on one of the pillars of the
Brooklyn bridge and swore at John
Adams.