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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
BEDTIME STORIES
stuff. There must be something
wrong. Go ahead"
By HOWARD Z. GARRIS
(CspyrisAt 1881, b. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,

stuff. There must be something
wrong. Go ahead"
So the dog, with the covered bas-
ket on his paw, went up and down
the boardwalk on which were many
of the other animal folks who had
come to the seashore for August.
But Uncle Wiggily was surprised to
notice that the dog never said d
word. Nor did he uncover his baS-
ket so what was in it could be seen.
Poor fellow" said the rabbit
HE doesn't know how to sell his
popcorn balls. He'll never sell any
that way. I'll tell him.
Soon the dog came prancing back,
This basket as heavy as ever.
See! What did I tell you?" he
whined. 81 didn't sell one"
How could you expect to, the
way you tried!" laughed Mr.. Long
ears You should call out: Pop
corn balls for sale! Here you are!
Popcorn balls! Fresh and sweetH
That's what you should do"
"Oh, no, couldn't do that, said
| the Sea Dog. 81 wouldn't want to
lgo shouting all over the boardwalk.
It would not be polite. Besides, ey-
cry one knows I have in my bas-
ket popcorn balls to sell. If they
don't buy them, it isn't my fault"
But how do they know you have
no cO
"They can't see them with that CO.
yer on the basket"
Cant they smell them?" asked
the Sea Dog.
Nonsense! What a funny chap
YOU arel" laughed the rabbit. Here
| let me have your basket of popcorn
balls. I'll sell them for you!"
will you, really? How kind!'
parked the dog Here, take them!"
So he gave Uncle Wiggily the
big, covered basket of sugared pop
corn balls, and then the Sea Dog
found a shady place on the board
walk where he could curl up and
go to sleep.
well, this is going to be a new
adventure" said Mr.. Longears as he
started to hop away with the pop
corn balls. Il hope sell them"
And what happened next III tell
YOU in the story tomorrow night.
It will be called Uncle Wiggily and
Mr.. Stubtail. And I hope the pho
nopraph will tell the alarm clock to
ring it's bell extra loud SO the tooth
brush will not be late for the NOV
ing pictures.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
CANCER
WITH RADlUM|

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Aug. 10.
<U.p) - The Kern County Genera!
hospital today promised to become
the Pacific coasts white spot" IN
treatment of malignant cancer.
Already armed with sufficient
supply of radium, hospital authori-
ties and electrical engineers rushed
installation OF the most powerful
x-ray machines in the United
States. -
The 300 000-volt deep therapy ma
chine is SO powerful engineers lined
walls of the room in which 1T is
housed with nine tons of lead to
protect patients and attendants
from its powerful rays and current.
DR.. C. D. Bennighoven, mean OF
the hospitals radium and X-ray
department, especially trained in
the machines operation and inter-
probation of X-ray photographs, will
direct the work.
According to DR.. Benninghoyen,
installation of the machine Will
mark one of the greatest strides in
recent years in the war on cancer.
Although a few more powerful
machines have been constructed for
scientific research, none has been
capable Of withstanding extended
use IN actual treatment of disease,
DR.. Benninghoven said. 3
"Our equipment here will be hard
to equal In great medical centers OF
the east" the doctor commented.
This new machine, plus a suffi-
Gent supply of radium, which the
department now has, and with the
aid Of surgery, should do a great
deal in the treatment Of cancer
patients"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
Editorial Page
and
Features
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS

Imperial county is to benefit by over
half a million dollars to be spent here
in the next two years on highway con-
struction
Most of the improvements are to be
made on main highways between Ell Gen.
tro and Yuma and on the Los Angeles
Salton sea route. Nearly half of the
total = $4,000 to be exact = will be
spent on improving the highway between
the eastside high line canal and the
sand hills.
Work on the Los Angeles route will in
clude surfacing Of shoulders, elimination
of dips and Incidental paving and grad
ing.
Other construction will improve the
highway between the sand hills and the
Colorado river.
This program, together with the high
way improvements planned under the
secondary highway program and the pro-
gram adopted by the county supervisors,
should give the county a group of splen-
did arteries within the next few years.
Good roads, as this column has point
ed out before, are a benefit to the en-
tire county, no matter where they may
be placed.
Improvement of main highways is
PARTICULARLY uiolC
so than good roads in the interior of the
county. But if the valley is to maintain
the heavy transcontinental travel which
has passed through here in past years,
the main highways must be kept up to
a high standard. There is a continual at
tempt to divert west bound traffic at
Arizona points to Los Angeles by more
northery route. 1t will not succeed to
any great extent as long as the roads
here are in good condition, for, gener-
ally speaking, tourists stick to the trunk
highways.
No. 80 highway crossing the valley
east and west, and No. 80 joining it from
the north, are vitality important to Inn
perial Valleys welfare. 1t should be
pleasing news to all valley residents that
these two main lines are to be put in the
best possible condition.
While Imperial Valley has no kick
about its treatment from the state high
way department in recent years, the re-
alignment of divisions, which places
this county and San Diego in separate
area, is highly satisfactory. Under the
old arrangement this county was includ-
ed with several others, making an eXpan-
sive area for one engineer to supervise
E. @. Sullivan, in charge of the DIVISION,
did excellent work in maintaining 1t. The
new division, being more compact, Will
make closer supervision possible by the
engineer in charge.
Local citizens who have met E. E.
Wallace, who will be in charge OF the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
sDor1't Quote Me-
BY United Press

we'll had with hay fever was trying
to keep his usual sartorial splendor
up to par. He always carries a fancy
handkerchief fixed just so in his
breast pocket. He is considered one
of the best dressed brain trusters
in town. But when haytever struck
him, his pocket bulged with kerr
chiefs and he lost that well .dressed
look.
When Myron Taylor and Charles
M. Schwab won't talk they won't
Newspaper correspondents at the
White House the other day tried
vainly to wheedle something out
of the big steel men.
Finally in desperation one news
paperman grabbed Taylor by his
coal lapel.
you'd better come clean. We're
stockholders in your company"
Taylor looked at him and said
dryly:
Congratulations"
Schwab grlnned and TOOK ray
lor's hand.
Congratulations Mr.. Taylor ON
meeting some of your stockhold-
ers."
Taylor shrugged his shoulders
and replied: We'll this isn't a
stockholders meeting, however" The
! two then drove away.
Which reminds of a pudgy middle
aged newspaperman who looks as
| if he owned a few oil wells.
| Leaders of the industry were
walking into general Hugh S. john
sons office at the MIRA yesterday
when the reporter decided to go in
with them. He figured on an ex-
elusive story if he wasn't recogniz-
| ed.
After the industrialists had found
easy chairs, Johnson arose and
| said:
"All I have to tell you gentle
men is that the hearing has been
postponed until 4:30 p. M
Everyone then walked out
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
UNCLE WIGGILY'S POPCORN
BALLS

One day, when for some time I'm
Gle Wiggily had been living at the
ocean beach in his seashore shack
with roller skate wheels, he CHANGED
to meet the old Sea Dog who had
sold him the bunch of toy balloons.
We'll, you got back safely, I see"
barked the dog.
How did you know I'd been
away?" asked Uncle Wiggily.
II read it in the paper" barked
the Sea Dog. II told you. when l
sold you that bunch of balloons,
you might get carried out to sea"
You were right. I did, spoke
the rabbit, who had gone out to
take a hop on the boardwalk. Il
had quite an adventure. I came
home to shore on the back Of a
whale"
1T must have been a nice ride, -
barked the Sea Dog"
1T was" agreed Uncle Wiggily
But what are you doing now to
make living?" he asked
I'm not doing anything" barked
the dog. I'm not making much OF
living, to tell you the truth.
i haven't had anything to eat in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
Has Xylophone
Made OF Rocks

YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo.,
Aug. 10: W.PNMus,c from rocks is
no biologists nightmare after an
evening at a concert when DR..
Charles c. Weidemann, University
Of Nebraska professor, goes to work
on bits of obsidian. slate, or baSalt.
DR.. Wiedemann visiting Yellow
stone Park, recently constructed a
xylophone made from pieces found
in Obsidian Cliff, mountain OF
black, glassy-appearing rock.
On this instrument he can play
anything from Rock of Ages" to
Twelfth Street Rag" Small lay
ers of rock arc Clipped to size and
proper thickness, then laid out &C
cording TO the musical scale of their
tones.
He has used calcite, oil shale from
Tea Pot Dome. gneiss from the
Hudson river area, slate IRON Switz-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

three days except an old bone, and
that had a hole in it, don't like
things with holes in them"
Don't you like Swiss cheese and
crullers?" asked Uncle Wiggily.
They both have holes in"
II forgot about them barked
the Sea Dog. But / don't like
bones with holes in. No, I'm not do
ing anything at all"
What have you in that basket?"
asked Uncle Wiggily, for the Sea
Dog carried a large, covered bas-
ket on one paw.
Popcorn balls" was the answer.
We'll, you can't be very hungry
or you could have eaten some pop
corn balls" spoke the rabbit.
"Oh, they aren't to eat!" barked
the Sea Dog.
Popcorn balls, sweet and sugary
not to eat!" exclaimed Uncle Wig
gily. II never heard Of such a
thing"
"Oh, they may be for others To
eat, but not for me-" said the dog
sad like and hungry.
why not?" Mr.. Longears wanted
TO know.
II have these popcorn balls u
SELL" went on the Sea Dog. IF ]
could sell all in my basket, I could
get enough money to buy me a
bone with meat on it and with M
hole. But / can't seem to sell any
Of my popcorn balls"
Have you tried?' asked Uncle
Wiggily.
"Of course, 1 haye!"
Let me see how you sell pop.
corn balls" said the rabbit. "Il
wait here on the boardwalk anc
watch you stroll along selling you
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
Davis Funeral
Rites Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Anne
belle Davis, wife of Moses B. Bob"
Davis, will be conducted from the
Arnold Funeral home at Calexico
at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. In
terment will be made in Mountain
View cemetery.
Mrs. Davis died at MiStletoe
Lodge yesterday morning after a
long illness. She was spending the
summer in the mountains but her
home was at Calexico where she re-
sided many years.
She was born in Falcon, Ark,
December 81, 1879, and came to CAL
ifornia Is years ago.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
NEW BOOKS AT
CITY LIBRARY
August 10, 1888.
Fiction

ssThey Brought Their Women"
Edna Ferber. A good book OF
short stories.
1.-THE Album" Mary Roberts
Rinehart. A new mystery.
"Kraal Baby" Cynthia Stockley.
A swift moving romance N South
Africa.
"Heavy Weather" P. G. Wode-
house. Another Wodehouse plot
with its brainless young men,
shrewd buffers. determined young
women and miscellaneous lunatics
at large. ~
Nom Fiction
"Both Your Houses" Maxwell
Anderson. The Pulitzer prize play
for this year.
MANS Adoption of Nature" =
w. Bryan.
american Alphabets," Paul Hol-
lister.
i CHINESE Japanese War;" Julia =
johnson, comp. e
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
SAYS HUSBAND TIGHT

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. U.Pj -
Louis Weiss, Sc. wealthy real es-
tate man with an income Of $70O
monthly, forced his wife, Sadie, As,
to sit at home in darkness to keep
down electricity bills, Mrs. Weiss
charged in a separate maintenance
suit filed today.
Her husband, she claimed, called
her a gold digger" when she asked
him for $l50 week for clothing
and other expenses.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. U.P)-
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture
Tugwell's present western inspec-
ton trip is family reminiscent of
the Florida excursion enjoyed by
Secretary of Interior Wilbur last
winter.
Wilbur chose a period of cold
weather here for his jaunt to
Florida to inspect proposed nat
ional park. Tugwell has dashed out
of Washington right at the height
OF the hay fever season.
Tugwell is inspecting national
forests but he was shifting con-
stantly a few days before he left
here, and out in the wide open
spaces where ragweed won't grow,
solace exists for hay fever VIC
Tins.
One of the real troubles Tug
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

Published every evening Except Sunday BY The
Imperial Valley Press Inc. 625 State street.
E Centric, California. w. C. Costello, business
manager. Telephone 26, business office: TOO, edi-
torial department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

new division, are unanimous in saying
that the valley is fortunate in having its
section of the state highways under his
SUPERVISION.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

erland, schist. clay limestone, chal-
cedony from Nebraska and basalt
from Utah and Yellowstone TO con-
struct musical instruments. He
also has built xylophones of glass.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

E. Heidrich, Artois, Glenn county
grew barley that weighed 12l
pounds to the sack. the heaviest
ever grown in the county.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

Provision for housing the army
of Half Century Home guards, that
will invade the valley during the
rext few weeks to assist in har-
vesting the crops to feed and clothe
the nation, is the aim of COM
mitted formed last night at the
chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

In no other section OF the coun-
try can the possibility of meat
famine bring less terror than to
this valley. High prices for meat
would produce great local pros
perity.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

In forming his plans for national re-
covery Mr.. Roosevelt should not over
look his fellow-townsman, Mr. Joe Cronin,
who seems to know something about
getting things done.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Pest Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August Is. 1898

Judge Cole issued temporary
restraining order against the as
sessment sale of the irrigation dis
trict.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

LOCAL TEMPERATURES
data compiled by Howard
Emmons, local observer for the
United States weather bureauD
Minimum this morning ...........,....83
Maximum yesterday ............-........l09
Reading At Noon Today
Tennperature ....................10 los
humidity %
Reading at a. m. Today
Temperature o3
Humidity
Reading at p. m. Yesterday
Temperature lob
Humidity ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..3o
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

We have seen or heard nothing of a
code for alarm clock makers. They
should have a tough one.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

San Diego wants battle ship named
after it. In the old days the ambition
was to have a cigar named for one.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August IS, 1918

Imperial county faces the pa
triotic obligation of raising between
sl,50O,O0O and 100000 in the
fourth Liberty Loan campaign.
Those in charge of the drive are
convinced Imperial county will go
over the top"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
y Weather
1S ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair and continued warm tonight
and Saturday, with little change in
Temperature. Gentle wind, mostly
southwest day and southeast night.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
TEN YEARS AGO
August 10, 1923

The teal cotton acreage is IS
per ceZ greater than that of 1922
or $4,000 acres.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

There is a strong suspicion that the
farm bureaus plea for lower taxes Will
meet with the full approval OF the tax
payer.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18
LABOR REPORT ENCOURAGING

Approximately 100000 workers have
gone back to their jobs since last March.
The statement is made by the secretary
of labor, and as the secretary is lady,
1t is not open to dispute.
Although there are still several mil
lions idle, this in an encouraging show
ing With the unanimous acceptance of
the NRA throughout the country, it in
spires the hope that our unemployed
total will be cut down to very low min
inum before the approach of cold wealth
er which means so much suffering to
those who are without work.
Miss Frances Perkins, the secretary
of labor, estimates that the purchasing
power of workers in the industrial areas
has inreased 500, 100000 week over the
amount paid in March.
The return of million and hall
workers to profitable labor has been
voluntary, the NRA codes not becoming
effective until July Is. Again this Is
cause for satisfaction, as it indicates
capital is as anxious to increase its pay
rolls as labor is to get on them.
Another encouraging note emphasized
bv the secretary is that Industries which
were hit the hardest by the depression
brick, lumber, stone, clay and similar
activities = are showing the greatest
gains.
The one dark spot is that employment
in the retail trade decreased Az per cent
during July. But with the increase Oh
buving power due to workers again re-
sunling their occupations, and the adop-
tion of the MIRA codes, the retail trade
should also begin to improve.
The secretary's report is an encourag..
ing one. The long pull is still ahead OF
the nation, but the report indicates we
have begun to pull at last.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

United Stages, Inc, is advertising
a short line" trip to Los Angeles
for $l4 for round trip ticket and
So for a one-way ticket.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-18

One of the real troubles Tug
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-15
Livestock
SOUTH ST. PAUL

South st. Paul, Mimi, April u.s.
(AP-U. s. D. A.)-Prices OF both
hogs and cattle showed some net
gains during the current week, best
yearlings selling this week ct 5.25 to
$50, with much Of the steer and year.
ling crop moving at 400 to 500, plain
er kinds 800 to SIS. Butcher heiferS
bulked at 500 to 100, choice yearling
heifers up to 500, beef cows 2.25 70
800 or better, weighty medium grade
bulls $50 to 2.65, vealers on Friday
mostly $50 to $50. choice to 500 or
better.
Best 100 to 22o ID. hogs sold Friday
at $50 to $40, medium grades 3.25 to
$50, culls down to $50, better 40 to
$40 lb. mostly 3.35 to $50, packing
sows largely $40 to 3.25. desirable
pigs S.25 to $50. light lights $50 to
$40.
Better grade slaughter lambs sold
on recent days at Ats to 500. medium
grades 400 to AS. Gull and common
800 to $50. slaughter ewes $50 to 2.50
or better
The moderate supply Of feeder and
stocker cattle here this week was alb
sorbed at fully steady prices, most
sales 800 to 3.75, some better offer
ingS 400 to $50. Desirable stock
pigs finished at 3.25 to $50 out Of
first hands, while better grade feed
Ing and shearing lambs sold at $50
to Ats.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-15
talk OF IMITATION
CAUSES UPIURNS IN
GRAIN AT chicago
Market u Lively a. Spectators
Look Forward to Big
Money Issue

Chicago, April l5.-R-Controlled
largely by money imitation talk,
wheat led lively uptur1s In grain
values Saturday.
Nearly all grains were affected BY
supposed indications that United
States currency volume would be ex-
banded on big scale, but specula-
tive interest centered chiefly on
wheat. Rye was an exception and
declined In price as result Of SELL
Ing ascribed to sources northwest.
Wheat closed unsettled, M-l%
above Thursdays finish, May 6lA-H,
July 62N-N: corn M up, May
32h-H, July 34N; oats ~ adj
vanced, and provisions at to IL cents
gain.
At Saturdays top prices. wheat
showed in some cases 20 cents q BUSH
Ell gain in the last three and one-half
months. New buying was mainly In
small lots.
Higher quotations on the British
pound sterling were interpreted. by
many wheat traders as Of special sig
nificance, indicative Of possible COM
ing monetary agreement with this
country. Other traders asserted that
the outlook for q sensationally bull
ish United States winter wheat crop
and uncertainty as to spring wheat
prospects would preclude any impor-
tant selling operations.
Corn and oats borrowed strength
from wheat.
Provisions rose with cereals.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-15
REAL ESTATE

FIVE ROOM bungalow. 1 blocks from
postoffice, $500.
SEVEN ROOM modern house, River
view, hot water heat, $5200.
SIX ROOM modern bungalow, 18th
street. $500.
SEVEN ROOM modern house, 5th
street, $1,000.
FOUR ROOM modern bungalow, at
tached garage. 18th street, $4,000.
SIX ROOM modern, stucco bungalow,
It'll street, $4500.00.
DOZENS OF other houses, hundreds
Of lots, in all parts Of the city. Near
ly four thousand sales made with
out ever . complaint from any buy
er. Mr.. Roosevelt Is trying to bring
the country back. Show your con-
fidence In our country, in MIR.
Roosevelt and in yourself by buying
home now at present depressed
prices.
r T. YOUNG
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-15
wrrxLY FINANCIAL REVIEW

WEEkLy FINANCIAL REVIEW
New York, April 15.-(ReFmancial
markets became more active on the
advance this week.
Tangible evidence Of business I'M
provement, gossip as to imitation,
stems designed to readjust interna-
tional tariff walls and an inference
that tho United States intended TO
maintain it, gold dollar against Eu.
ropean currencies illuminated the
path Of markets. Wall Street saw
strong advances by grain, silver, rub
Der and sugar, among other raw ma
terials. Stocks, after mild, dull re-
action, rallied swiftly on Thursday
when inflationary talk raised storm
Of dollar selling: bat bonds were se.
rene. highest grade, issues holding
steady.
Several prominent business execu-
tives spoke optimistically on current
trends. Support for these views was
afforded In q number Of indices COW
ering leading lines. Steel production.
spurred By the expansion OF automo-
bile output and sales which has been
. noteworthy development Of recent
weeks, had It's best rise Of the year:
the 'iron age" average was up 3 per-
centage points to 1911 per cent Of
capacity, virtually duplicating Febru-
ary's avorage.
Retail trade, stimulated by Easter
needs, reported the best sales since
Christmas, according to prominent
authority, 90 that the weeks favor
able record provided welcome light on
the restoration Of public confidence.
Sagging money markets testified to
the vast Improvement that has oc-
Cured In the credit position.