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Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-20
ROOSEVELT AND
 SIR LINDSAY MEETING
 TODAY SECOND TIME

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, -Presi- dent-Elect Roosevelt and Sir Ron aid Lindsay, British Ambassador, will meet again today for sec ond war debt conference.
 T told Secretary Stimson over the long distance telephone that if it was entirely approved by the State Department that in order to save time and an additional trip to Nov York, would be glad to see Sir Ronald when he arrives in New York today" Roosevelt an- nounced.
 Sir Ronald first went over the debt situation with Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia, and from there went to London to confer with his government.
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FIFTY MILLION ACRES BE
 NON-PRODUCT|vE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 20, - Secretary Of Agriculture Hyde proposed that 50,000,000 acres of land be kept out of production for one year by having Congress en- power the Federal farm board to lease this land.
 Such action, he said, would re- suit in preventing of new sur pluses and in consumption of ac- cumulated surpluses. Such land would include only terrain plant ed to cotton, wheat, corn and other cereals, now totalling 355,- 100000 acres.
 The cost to the government was estimated at $150,000,0O0, payment to be supplied by a manufacturers excise tax on prossessors of the affected commodities. Such a tax Hyde said, would not exceed one or two per cent instead of as 12 per cent as contemplated under the domestic allotment plan.
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MANY PROBLEMS IN FOREIGN POLICY
 FACES ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20, TT State Department clerks started sitting through diplomatic papers of the last four years for new deal" in foreign policy which will plunge President-Elect Roosevelt and his Secretary of State into a maze of problems.
 There will also be a thorough shakeup in the State Department and diplomatic service.
 War debt adjustment, Far East ern situation, disarmament, salu- tion of some part of Americas Is billion dollar foreign invest ment, maintainance of peace and stability of Latin America and ex- pansion of American trade, are among Mir Roosevelt's primary problems in the foreign field.
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BRIG, GEN. JAS. ALLEN
 WHO LAID FIRST CABLE
 ID ALASKA, IS CALLED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20,- Brigadier General James Allen, 84 years of age, retired, died here in the Walter Reed hospital after a stroke of paralysis.
 Brigadier General Allen laid the first cable to Alaska from Seattle and saw service in Indian cam paigns, Cuba and in the Philip pines. He held Distinguished Service Cross for heroism at San tiago Harbor, Cuba.
 He was born at Laporte, Ind, and was graduated from West Point in 1872. He was retired in 1913.
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JAMES J. CORBETT DIED SATURDAY AFTER
 ILLNESS OF 19 DAYS

BAYSIDE, N. Y, Feb. 20, = ''Gentleman" James J. Corbett, most colorful heavyweight cham pion boxer ever known, died at his home here Saturday.
 His death at 2:1O D. m. came peacefully after long illness due to a glandular disorder which in- duced heart disease.
 His wife and two lifelong friends, John and Dennis Kelle- her, were at his bedside when the not unexpected end came.
 Corbett had been ill 19 days. He was 67. Corbett won the cham pionship from John L. Sullivan in the 21st round of their New Or leans bout in 1892 He lost it a few years later to Bob Fitzsimmons.
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SENATE COMMITTEE CONTINUING THE QUIZ
 0F STOCK MARKET

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20,- A Senate stock market investiga- tion into Wall Street affairs and high finance will continue beyond March 4, the press learned.
 The inquiry will include the National City Bank of New York.
 It was not known whether the affairs of other financial institu- tions will be looked into.
 The inquiry was started in Feb ruary, 1882, as a search for so- called Bear raiding culprits who were defeating President Hoover's reconstruction program. In it's concluding phases the investiga- tion is subordinating market oper- ations and the committee it hot on the trail of investment bank CTS who floated the stacks that Jack bought"
 Tt is rotten all around" Senator Glass, Democrat from Virginia, re- marked There should be and probably will be remedial legisla- tiOn."
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zANCARA SENTENCED ID 30 YEARS IN PRISON
 ATTEMPTED KILLINGS

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20, -G. Zan- gara, who last week attempted to asassinate President-Elect RoOse- welt, was sentenced to 80 years in prison when he pleaded guilty to four counts, or 20 years on each.
 After the sentence, Zangara asked the judge how much he had given him, and at the same time held up eight fingers. When in formed that was correct he said:
 Don't be stingy, Judge, give me 100 years" He laughed as he was hastily removed from the court.
 Prior to pronouncing sentence he was asked if he had ever been in jail before and replied he had not.
 He added that because of an ache in his stomach he did not care to live and he thought if he killed Mir. Roosevelt, maybe the officers would kill him. He also said that everybody in America had mis- treated him.
 Judge Collins said there was no question but what the man was insane.
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FORMER ALASKAN MET AN ACC|DENTh!
 DEATH IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 20, Overcome by gas in his hotel room, John Peter Kilenies was found dead Sunday.
 His effects showed he was an Australian but had taken out nat uralization papers in Alaska where he was employed on the Copper River & Northwestern Railway. at Cordova. ]
 He had carefully hung his clothes around the room, the trous- CTS on the gas jet which was found partly open. The coroner, who pronounced the death accidental, is endeavoring to locate relatives or friends of the dead man.
 Wiileniees recently arrived in Seattle on a fishing schooner from Alaska.
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WILL TAKE ALMOST
 ANY STEP. PROTECTION

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 20.-Gov- ernor Comstock announced that he will take almost any step he might deem necessary to protect ing passage of legislation which banks and their depositors pend will make Michogan's new bank ing system operative. The plan would provide for continued oper- ation of banks despite inability to turn liquid assets quickly into cash.
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THE CHAIR
 THREE TIMES BUT NOW
 MUST FACE HIS DOOM

ROCKFORD, IT,. Feb. 20. - Eighteen year-old Russell McWil- Hams, for the third time, was sen fenced to die in the electric chair for the holdup and staying of a streetcar motorman. Judge Edw- ard D. Schurtleff set February p as the date when the youth must die.
 Twice before young McWillaims had been sentenced to die for the fatal shooting of Wm. s. Sayles.
 Pale, biting his lips, the youth stood with his father and moth CT as the doom was pronounced.
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CHINESE ANSWERED JAPANESE ULT|MATUM,
 VIGOROUS ATTACK

PEIPING, Feb. 20, The com mander of the Chinese garrison at Kailu, on the Eastern border of Jehol, answered a Japanese ultl- matum by attacking Japanese po- sitions between Kailu and Tung- lia, and official Chinese communi- que said.
 The "big swords" of Feng Chan Hai also participated in the attack.
 The Japanese were forced to re- treat to Shis Chia Pao, between Kailu and the main Japanese concentration at Tungliao. the Chinese claimed.
 Governor Tang Yu-Lin of Jehol announced that the garrison con- mander at Kailu reported the gar rison a heap of ruins after repeat ed aerial bombings He also off cially reported receipt of a Jap anese demand that Chinese evacu- ate the sector on threat of imme- diate Japanase attack in full force"
 T am tired of Japanese aggres- sions," Governor Tang said. "The Japanese are drunk with aggreS- sion. We are determined to hold our position and ignore Japanese demands"
 Thousands of Chinese troops are being moved into stragetic points.
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PRACTITIONERS UP
 IMPEACHMENT TODAY

ROANOKE, Va, Feb. 20, Two men and a woman, alleged parties to a conspiracy to eXtort S17,000 from Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh by threatening to kidnap his second son, will be arraigned today before U. s. Commissioner Charles D. Fox.
 They are Norman Harvey, his wife Ethel, and Joe Bryant, charg- ed with sending eXtortion letters through the mails.
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DOCTORS DECLlRL!:
 zANGARA \ M|SF!T

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20, -GiuSeppi Zangara is a social miSfit, doctors who examined him announced.
 Facing a possible sentence of 80 years imprisonment for his at tack on President Elect Roosevelt, the Italian born bricklayer was described as an unnatural per sonality" by the doctors.
 The report did not state defi- nitely whether zangara is sane, but the report is expected to play an important part when the as sassin goes on trial today.
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NEGRO LYNCHED

RING GOLD, La, Feb. 20, A negro suspected of killing J. B. Bachelor, banker, after he had attempted to attack Mrs. Bachelor, was lynched here Sunday by sever al hundred men who forced the sheriff to surrender his prisoner. Sixty bullets were fired into the negro's body as it swung high in a tree, near where Bachelor was murdered.
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WILD DUCK AND
 OFFICER GOT CHUMMY

FORT MORGAN, Colo, Feb. 20, Policeman Jake Strom was driv- ing home Saturday when he saw a wild duck in the street
 He stopped to pick it up, but it flew on down the street. He fol- lowed in the car, he said, and then the duck, changing it's mind, alighted on the running board.
 He opened the door and the duck hopped in. Jake has the duck to prove his story.
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THREE HUNDRED
 NOTE IS PREDICTED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20, - The prohibition repeal stampede was evident throughout the coun- try Saturday with assurances from Washington that the House today will concur in the acton of the Senate and resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States.
 A vote of 300 House members for the Garner Blaine repeal resolu- tion was predicted by jubilant Vets following the Democratic caucus.
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AL|EN|sTS EXAMINE
 COUPLE ONCE MORE

OSSINING, N. Y, Feb. 20.-Mrs. Mary Field Simpson 21, and her husband, who are scheduled to die in the electric chair March 2 for the murder of their baby son, will undergo another examination by alienists, Sing Sing officials re- vealed. Governor Lehman has not as yet passed on their requests for executive clemency.
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CONVICT ATTACKED
 WIFE WITH AN bXE

LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 20, TIT An escaped convict, Paul Stanley, 28, attacked his wife with an axe when he saw her escorted home by a strange man.
 Rolly Baker, the father-in-laW, told police that Stanley had called on his wife, Muriel, after the man left, and struck her four times on the head with an axe, then fled. Mrs. Stanley is in a critical condi- tion.
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PATRIARCH PASSES

SPRINGTOWN, Tex, Feb. 20, - B. L. Shirley, 113, Springtown's patriarch who drank whiskey un- til he was 104 years old, rode horseback at no and chewed tobacco until Friday, died here. He is survived by his third wife, who was at his bedside when he Succumbed.
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NEARLY TWO BILLION
 PAID ID BORROWERS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20, - The Reconstruction Finance Corp oration has paid out $1,788, ,666, 900 to borrowers, it was announced by the department today.
 In repayments $347 ,237, ,000 have been made.
 The total amount of loans auth orized is estimated at more than $2, GOO, ,o00, 900.
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MAKE INVESTIGATION
 BEFORE RECOGNITION

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20. III A resolution authorizing a foreign relations committee investigation of economic and political condi- tions in Russia, was introduced in the Senate by Senator King, Dem ocrat from Utah.
 Senator King said he believed such an investigation should be made before any consideration is given to possible recognition of the Soviet government.
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MOTHERS, CHILDREN
 TRAPPED QU|CKsANDs

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, - Four children and two mothers were recovering from the shock of being trapped in quicksand off the Burlingame Bay shore.
 They were rescued by three Bur lingame city employees who heard their cries and formed a human chain to save them.
 Capt. Pete Sather, of the Nuka Bay Transportation Co.,, is due to arrive in port today from the min ing camp.
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EMBARGO ON GRAINS

BERLIN, Feb 20-The German cabinet decided to declare ., vir- tual embargo on the import of wheat or rye as part of a cam paign to support domestic grain prices. The decision also includes extending the existing government monopoly on corn to other na- tionS.
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AVIATOR HELD: GIRL
 FELL SEVEN STORIES

HUESTON, Tex, Feb. 20, HI. M Edwards, an aviator from Reno, Nev., is being held by police for questioning in connection with the death of Miss Iva Young, 32, who leaped or was thrown from a sev- en-story hotel room.
 Edwards told the police that he was entertaining the girl when she suddenly ran to the window and leaped out. She died two hours later.
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INVOKES ARTICLE 15

GENEVA, Feb. 20, -Colombia invoked Article Is of the League covenant in the dispute with Peru. The League council will meet to- day to consider action to be talk en to stop war between Colombia and Peru over possession of Let icia. No new fighting in the Leti- cia area was reported.
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MILK WAR STILL WAGES

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 2O.- Violence was reported in the Wis consin milk strike. Frank Holdt declared he was fired upon while trucking milk to market in viola tion of the strike decree. Tickets seized several other milk trucks, threatened the drivers and dumped the product.
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TOO PROUD TO BEG

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 20, Be cause he was too proud to beg, Charley Rodgers, 19 year-old school boy of Fallow, Nev., was in a hospital today recovering from weakness that caused him to faint.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-20

BERKELEY. Calf, Feb. 20, -. University of California defeated the University of Southern Califor- mia basketball squad Saturday nite 29-24. The half ended 13-9 in favor of U. s. c.
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PRESS SILENT

BERLIN, Feb. 20, The entire Catholic party press of Prussia, numbering 600 newspapers, was banished for three days by the Prussian government because of publication of sharp election manifesto.
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SCHWAB'S BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, Feb, 20, Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Board of the U. s. Steel Corporation, celebrated his Fist birthday quiet ly at his home.
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GERMANY GIVEN EXTENSION

BERLIN, Feb. 20.-Germany ob- tained an extension on payment of her foreign credits with the sign ing of a continuation of the so- called "standstill' agreement with the committee of international bankers involved in the short term loans.
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LOADINGS INCREASE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20,- The American Railway Association reported that car loadings for the week of February II totaled SOL 32O cars, an increase of 18,128 cars from the preceding week.
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-OR SUFFER CONSEQUENCES

TOXIC, Feb. 20, China must give up Jehol province to Japan or suffer the consequences, Min ister of War Sadao Araki declared in a press interview.
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HOUSE VOTED REPEAL

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20, - The House voted 289-121 to submit to the States repeal of the 18th amendment, the vote being more than the necessary tWo-thirdS majority. The Senate already has acted favorably on the act.
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TELEGRAPH RREWTIES
HUNT FOR DRIVER

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 "A hit and run driver was hunted i'll Oakland for the death Of Mrs. Alice Gay, 75, whose body was found near her home.
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PLANES OFF FOR EVEREST

MARSEILLES, France, Feb. 20.- Three airplanes, led by Lord Clydesdale, left here on their way to India, whence they hope to fly over Mount Everest this spring.
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TELEGRAPH BREvT|ES
WINS FLORIDA GOLF TITLE

PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. 20.- Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, de- feated Mureen Orcutt, EngleWood, N. J., defending titleholder, to win the Florida women's golf cham pionship.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
LONG MARRIAGE
IS HAPP|EST

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July Is, (U.P)
Marriages are happiest when
they last long time, was the un-
animous opinion Of 460 persons who
gathered at Swope Park here re-
Gently for a party. And these per-
sons set themselves up as. author
tiles. .--,
The guests were 23O couples,
who had been married for a half
century or longer. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Clark, of Kansas City 81
and 80, respectively, have been
married for Sc years.
These folks, who earned their
membership in the National True
Vow Keepers Club by living to-
gether for at least so years, had
many formulae for making mar
riages happy But most of them
agreed that the best plan was to
keep up the courtship after the
honeymoon.
The party in Swope Park was
the annual event of the National
True Vow Keepers Club, which
was founded by Mr.. and Mrs. w.
D. Aurand, of Kansas City. The
couple who came the longest dis
tance to attend was Mr.. and Mrs
Peter Hanson, whose home is in
Mount Olive, III.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
RIVER OFFERS
MANY THRILLS

NEW ORLEANS, July Is. UP
Life on the rivers of the south,
made famous by Mark Twain and
long series of authors, who put
into literature the glamor of steam
boating, has nothing on a motor
boat trip on OF Man River, accord
ing to two Ardmore, Okla, boys
who recently made trip down the
Red and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans.
Arriving here, the pair, Charles
N. Harmon, Jr., and Claude L. Fer
rier. Jr., termed their trip great
adventure"
Among the high spots was their
hitting a ferry boat, with Ferrier
going overheard. On another oc-
caSion, their small craft was caught
in one of the large, treacherous
whirlpools of the Mississippi, and
almost drawn beneath the surface.
Another time they captured an al
ligator, and once stopped to rescue
some cattle from quicksand.
The trip took them 25 days. The
boys said they met "some of the
most unusual people - guys who
hadn't shaved for three years, fish
ermen who told us all kinds of wild
tales. and pessimistic folks who pre-
dicted we'd never reach New Or
leans alive
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
Traffic Cases
Only Court Work

Two minor traffic violations
constituted the sole business tran
sacted in police court this morning.
1t was the third straight day when
10 arrests were recorded on the
docket at headquarters.
However, although crime seeming
" took a vacation. the ordinary
routine of police activities con-
tinued. The report for last night
shows that an officer was called to
settle a difficulty on the East Side.
Four Negroes who had been impli-
Gated in a rock throwing escapade
which resulted in Negro girl be-
ing struck in the eye. were point
edly advised by the officer who an
swered the call to ray the doctor
bill or be dealt with accordingly.
The men decided to settle promptly
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
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COUNTY HISTORY
CONTRIBUTION TO
CALIFORNIA LORE
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One of CALIFORNIA; outpost coun-
ties, beyond the blue Sierra IS
celebrated in W. A. Chalfont,s book.
"The Story of Inyo," which appears
in revised edition for reviewing this
month.
The book is a valuable addition
to California. dealing as It does
with a county comparatively little
known to dweliers outside its own
borders. Inyo county contains some
of the most interesting terrain in
the world from a scientific view
point. Here Mount Whitney's bulk
rises more than $4,000 feet above
the floor of Death Valley. The
mountain crsgs have been engraved
with the petroglyphs of ancient
peoples that still challenge scien-
tific Interpretation.
Spanish padres, Mormon trail
breakers. fbrty-niners traversed In
you seeking gold itself or the quick
road to- other gold fields. Bloody
battles have been fought on noun
tain scarps and desert wastes. Pho
neer families built up an outpost
of civilization only to see it de-
stroyed that great metropolis
might have water.
Chalfonts book is written with
a true feeling for the romance OF
his native county while maintain
ing the scholarly attitude that
makes it valuable as contribution
to California history.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
BIueberry Pudding

One-third cup butter, cup
sugar, 1-3 cup milk, eggs, Ia
blespoon lemon juice, cups blue
berries, / ga cups -four, IA tea
spoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon,
2 teaspoons baking powder.
Wash and pick over berries.
Drain and dry between towels.
Dredge with 2 tablespoons -four.
Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks
of eggs well beaten. Mix and sift
remaining -four with salt, baking
powder and cinnamon. Add al
ternately with milk to first mix
ture. Add lemon juice and fold
in whites of eggs beaten until
stiff. Add berries very carefully
to avoid crushing and turn into an
oiled and Toured pudding pan.
Bake in moderate oven for one
hour. Put the pudding into the
oven heated to 400 degrees F. and
after the first half hour decrease
the heat to $50 degrees f. Serve
the pudding warm with sugar and
cream or with a sauce made of
stewed and sWeetened blueberries.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
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Christian Science

This is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent These words of Jesus consti-
4tutc the golden text in the lesson
sermon on Life" on Sunday in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist,
branches of The Mother Church.
The First Church of Christ Scien-
itst in Boston, Mass.
Various Scriptural citations from
the Proverbs are included in the
.esson- sermon: Happy is the man
that findeth wisdom, and the man
that getteth understanding . She
is a tree of life to them that lay
hold upon her: happy is every one
that retaineth her d. My son, let
not them depart from thine eyes:
i:eep sound wisdom ana discretion:
so shall they be life unto thy soul.
and grace to thy neck . F.. Under
standing is a wellspring of life unto
him that hath it
Among the correlative passages
from Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker
EDDY. is the statement, when un-
derstanding changes the stand
points of life and intelligence from
a material to a spiritual basis, VIC
shall gain the reality of Life, the
control OF Soul over sense, and VIC
shall perceive Christianity, or
Truth. in its divine Principle"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
Declare Farmers
Are Not PeddlerS

HARRISBURG, PA. tU.PD Far
emrs in Pennsylvania are not look
ed upon as "hawkers" or "peddl-
ers' when it comes to the question
Of paying a fee to sell their wares.
Complaints against city and bor-
ough regulations setting prohibitive
fees or other limitations on farmers
brought this ruling, eXempting
them, from the Attorney Generals
department.
Sales by the farmer are often
confused with those by haWkers,
peddlers, and travelling merchants,
who peddle, from house to house,
goods, wares and merchandise.
The ordinance against this class
of statesmen, who are required to
procure licenses, run into the
hundreds throughout the Common
wealth. These regulations are
sometimes improperly used to de-
ter unwary farmer from exercising
his right to sell the products
which were raised by his own toll
upon his own soil
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-15
NEW BOOKS AT
CITY LIBRARY

Books released Tor circulation
July Is.
Fiction
"Six-Gun Melody" by William
Colt Macdonald.
Let Me Co." by Flora Sandstrom
Marriage by Capture" by Ar
thur Stringer.
WAS 1t Murder?" by Glen Ire
yor.
NOn-Fiction
The Parent and the Happy
Child" by Lorine Pruette.
General Foods Cook Book"
Song Book of the American Spir-
it, by Stanley-BroWn.
"Vagabonds and Puppets" by
Walter Wilkinson.
Twenty Years in Tibet" by Da-
vid Macdonald.