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Evening star., 1939-04-27
U. S. Treasury Position
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury April %:
Recelpts, S7.G47 SS1 90; expenditures, Sl7,-
3a5. .0s: net balance. So O53. .lS4.I77.2i
including $2,39O. .269. .7O6.aI working bal
snce; snc IN customs receipts for the month.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
~; S4 81 ! .661 1,164 81; expenditures 81
455' 603 .662.l4. including $2.662 49,
IeOol OF emergency expenditures: excess
q expenditures. 2.s41,942,4 1927: Eross
deet; .$4o.042. .666,351. 80. . decrease Of
Sl94 b6e 72 below the previous day: sold
Evening star., 1939-04-27
975 Tons of Lead Sold

NEW YORK. April 27 LP.-St.
Joseph Lead Co. reported ATS tons
of Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
yesterday at $3.50 per 100 pounds
East st. Louis. $50 tons at $48O New
York, and so tons at the New York
average.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

DeSplle Lle Suul-uONu III Appdl-
achian soft coal fields, increased
coal shipments from other sections
pushed carloadings up more than
seasonally and offset declines in
miscellaneous freight and less than
Carlot merchandise.
Ore shipments showed a good in
crease and livestock and forest
products were also up. Loadings of
grain and grain products and coke
declined slightly
The Associated Press seasonally
adjusted weekly index, based on
l929-l930 as 100, advanced to 6O.4
compared with 597 the previous
week and 56.6 year ago.
Range of recent years:
1899. 1898. 1887. 1895. l934-35.
Hlsh - 90 .l.3 s2.2 s4.5 Ill
Low 5S. 551 81 / 60 5S0
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Freight Loudinqs

NEW YORK. April 81 LP.-Reyenue
irelsht carloadings on railroads reporting
1or the week ended April - Included:
r, Ap. %. Prev Wk rAgo.
HHlekeI Plate ---12,"52 1885 ii,e45
Pere Marouette-- S.742 9229 S6S
Evening star., 1939-04-27

Inland Steel Co.-March quarter
common share earnings were $l.28,
against SO cents.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Washington Exchange
SALES.

SALES.
Potomac Electric Power so pfd.-
3 at ia.
Washington Gas Light com.-lOO at
27A.
AFTER CALL,
Capital Transit Co.-50 at 141h.
Potomac Electric Power So pfd.-
3 at 1144.
Capital Transit Co.'s at Is.
Riggs National Bank CONS at 27O.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
London Bar Gold

I'D. UNCHANGED Equivalent S34 761 Bar
silver, 20Isd. up Ia. Equivalent 42.53
centS.)
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Rail Loadings Climb
Above Last Week
And Year Ago
558,706 Total Is z
Per Cent Ahead Of
Preceding Period
Be- the Associated Press.

b The ASSOclated PreSs.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today $50. .706 cars of
revenue freight were loaded during
the week ending last Saturday.
This was an increase of 1O,89O
cars, or 2 per cent, compared with
the preceding week, an increase of
34958. or 81 per cent, compared
with year ago, and a decrease of
1882, or 26.1 per cent, compared
with 1887.
The report classified the loadings
as follows:
Evening star., 1939-04-27

Rubber Futures
NEW YORK April 81 lP.-Crude rubber
futures opened > to X lower. May. 1881
IL; July, / B so; September, 1873.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Investing Companies

NEW YORK, April 27 lP,.-Inyestment
Bankers Conference. Inc:
Evening star., 1939-04-27

Tears and Trades don't mend bro
ken bones. Cooperate for safety.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

Quotations not furnished by sponsor or
from those sources.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK, April 27 (P.-Bar
silver, 4234, unchanged.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18

was Sl59, ,ll5. In June OF 1888 the
total was regarded as a record
surge.
A S4500 residence for E. w. Riggs
at 1480 Brighton avenue and a
$1,000 home for C. c. Maertz head
ed the list IN size of recent permits
issued.
Other permits included one for
$500 to M. j. Ferguson for altera-
tions at POI East Main street. SITS
for a shade at 392 Olive street; 5000
for additions to the H. K Nc
Cracken home at 420 Wensley ave-
nue.; $40 for a reroofing job at 535
Olive street: $400 for additions at
844 He'll street issued to L. H.
Rice; 500 for installation of a
foundation for Mrs. j. j. Green;
$3.50 for warehouse alterations at
345 Olive street: $500 alterations at
672 Orange avenue for Mrs. C. l..
Brown; 1920 for a playroom at the
F.. w. Manley home, 1905 Len Rey;
$3.50 for alterations at 1873 Com
mercial; $500 for work at BIT
Brighton avenue; $535 for reroofing
the Ten thousand clubhouse at
Seventh and Olive: alterations to
the Presbyterian church of S170 at
Sixth and Orange.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Work Is Per Cent
Complete on New
Trailer Camp

Plumbing was installed, shades
built and pouring of concrete will
start next week on the new $4,000
trailer court on the outskirts of El
Centre on the San Diego highway,
the El Centro Lumber and Trading
company announced Saturday.
1t was estimated that the job was
about 25 per cent finished Floors
will be poured in the main building
within a few days.
Work was half done on reroofing
the Ten Thousand club in El Centre
at Seventh and Olive streets and
the company anticipated complet-
ing the Job next week. Cedar
shingles will replace composition
roofing. This is approximately a
5000 job.
Installing celotex siding in the
basement of the Presbyterian
church at Sixth and Orange streets
is nearly completed. This will i'm
prove appearance and give addi-
tional insulation.
Work progressed satisfactorily on
a few other minor jobs and the
company predicted a new house
will be started next week as well as
several repair and remodeling jobs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Eastern BuiIdinq
Costs Show II Pct.
Goes to Labor

Significant f cures OF
home construction costs, re-
leased by Frank w. Han
cock jr. Of the Federal Loan
bank board Saturday, dis
closed that in a typical case OF a
S4,783 home Al per cent went for
labor and SO per cent for materials.
The case used as an example a
six.room home of colonial design
built in the middle Atlantic area
1t had wood shingle exterior walls
and asphalt Shingle roofing.
The breakdown gave $50 for labor
OF excavation and $l2 for material,
two per cent OF the homes total
cost. Concrete walls and floors ac-
counted for $l02 in labor and SITS
in materials, six per cent OF the
total.
Carpentry, the largest single item,
was $942 for labor and $l408 for
materials, SO per cent of the total.
Brickwork took $24 in labor and
$50 In materials while roofing ac-
counted for SIT labor and $45 in
materials. Sheet metal took $35 In
labor and S45 in materials.
PlaStering, next to the largest
item, cost $l85 in labor and $279
in materials. nine per cent of the
total Plumbing cost $l44 in labor
and $2l6 In materials, or eight per
cent OF the total. Heating cost $3.50
IN labor and 1925 in materials while
electrical work was $50 in labor
and $l05 in materials.
Tile work accounted for $50 in
labor and the same in materials.
Hardware took SIS in labor and
$50 in materials. Painting and
decorating accounted for $160 in
labor and the same in materials.
Hancock reported that member
institutions of the Federal Home
Loan system made new loans
amounting to $53000,000, $187,000,- :
600 during the first quarter of 1889
gain Of nearly IA per cent over
the same time for 1898. He re
ported that there was a 80 per cent
| increase in the amount that went
for building new homes. For pur,
chase of existing homes the gair
| was 20 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18

the surplus milk, but 1t Will take
better ideas than those advanced
by Shepard.
Shepard commented that half
the milk in the valley is purchased
for four cents a quart and resold
for 10 or IL cents. He said the
other half is purchased for three
cents and that, too, is resold for
10 or II cents. However, an ele-
mentary study of dairy economics
would have shown him only the
higher priced milk can be bottled
and sold as fluid milk The other
half, known as surplus, MUST be
used for byproducts such as ice
cream, buttermilk and bottled
cream. Therefore, the "tremen-
dous profits" Shepard believes are
made on only half of the milk
purchased.
Taking that half of the total on
which Shepard charges profits OF
sc per cent are made, Shepard ap-
parently failed to consider the huge
expense involved in processing and
distributing this amount. He evi-
IDENTIFY did not figure the milk in
dustry payroll, which is one of the
valleys largest, nor the expensive
trucks and equipment, nor such
considerable items as bottles, taxes
and bad credits.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18

According to certified cost sheets
of one of our largest milk dlStrl-
butors, the profit made per quart Is
but five per cent, or about one nan
cent per quart, instead Of the 66 per
cent. Not many businesses would
care to operate on such a small
percentage.
Shepard suggested milk sta
tions" for selling milk at low
prices. Apparently, he meant the
dairy store as we find it in cities.
And what Is it? 1t is the out and
out "chiseler" of the industry. They
have hurt the industry on the coast
more than all other factors COM
bined. Many times they are start
ed by some producer that has such
a low quality milk that distributors
refuse to handle it. We do not
want this kind of milk in Imperial
Valley.
Shepard urged lowering the price
as a means of increasing conSump-
ton. Yet, in a recent price war
in a coast city the quart cost was
reduced from u cents to six, and
one of the largest distributors re-
ported sales advanced only three
per cent. Imperial Valley cities are
no different from this city Cheap
milk" will not solve our surplus
problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18

of flax per acre.
Tese figures are subject to con-
siderable revision, Fairbanks ex-
planned. Final data probably Will
not be available for at least
month.
Wind Losses
Fairbanks told cooperatorS that
losses in the field such as drop OF
pods caused by wind and insects
ahead of harvesting, or shatter of
pods to the ground from the har-
vester header and dividing rod are
often as great as the losses of seed
which goes through the machine.
A third source of loss. the tests
revealed, was from flax finely
ground by the machines. Fairbanks
said it was not possible now to
adequately survey this loss. Some
of this is included in dockage. some
is blown out of the tailings.
Dockage in the 13 fields which
served as guinea pigs" ranged
from l9 to 1928 per cent. MeaSur-
ed according to size, this dockage
varied from 81 per cent to 10 per
cent fine, IS to 19 per cent medium,
and l to II per cent coarse. Yields
in the 13 fields ranged from II to
As bushels an acre.
Amount OF cracked, broken and
split kernels ranged from .27 to IL
per cent of the total yields of clean
flax. Fairbanks indicated this is
not of present Importance, because
the mills do not consider this as
dockage, although they might if
the amount is excessive.
Relative humidity was proved an
important factor influencing eff
cheney of harvesting In two tests
made the same day in the same
field with the same machine, one
test at lis p. m. with a relative
humidity of II per cent showed a
machine loss of 9.8 pounds of
whole flaxSeed per acre. The sec
ond test made at $40 p. m. with a
humidity of 48 showed a loss of
400 pounds.
No correlation was found, how
ever, between relatives humidity
and moisture content of the flax
seed. Moisture varied from three
to five per cent. Recognized STAN
dard for seed is eight per cent,
which accounts for the high quality
of valley seed.
Above Average
Fairbanks indicated that these
results probably are above average.
Although the tests were made over
a variety of fields, nevertheless
they were relatively free of weeds
and above average in yields.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Grapefruit Shi piping Closes. Cant
DeaI Drawing Toward the End
Harvesting of
WafernneIons
Speeding Up

Grapefruit shipping from
Imperial Valley closed, cam
taloupe movements started
to wane, watermelon har-
vesting got into full swing,
alfalfa hay shipments ran at high
gait this week and flax movements
we're more than half complete, a
survey showed Saturday.
Grapefruit shipments were eX-
pected to stop completely Saturday
with the closing of the exchange
shed, climaXing a season that was
only fair. The tail end of the
cantaloupe season also was in sight,
although shipments probably will
continue to July |, depending upon
weather and markets Shipment
of honeydews and honeyballs was
gaining headway and were expected
to pass cantaloupes next week. Can.
taloupeS went out at the rate OF
$500 crates a day
Watermelon shipments got into
high gear this week. A market OF
around SIS a ton was considered
too low. Shipments will continue
into July. The watermelon deal
has been a freak" one in many
respects, with generally low acreage
returns. Fields oil late" water
melons developed days ahead OF
schedule and early" paintings are
still not ready to harvest. Water
melons were shipped this week at a
rate of $50 tons a day.
Flax harvesting in the valley was
about 60 per cent finished. Argyle
McLachlan of the Southwest Flax
seed association reported 100000
bushels had been shipped SO far
through the association and esti,
mated about $4,000 had been ship
ped otherwise. Harvesting will con-
tinue into July. The market has
run around 10 cents lower.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
FARM SECTION
Off to Market!

shipments Imperial Valley reported
by Southe Pacific
tcantalOupes white melons, honeyballs ec) 4575
cars compared time last Ship
ment runnings from a
with 566 to date last
going points Daily movements from 40 to
cars
this with shipments rang
rOm day.
shipments went by truck but the rail-
reported hay shipments through May and so fa IN june S
Recent shipments around ~
to shipments climbed steadily in the past
three weeks to week Barley shipments
car week
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Drainage System
For Test Farm
Will Soon Be In

MELOLAND, June H.
l.. G.. Goar of the expert
mental farm here predicted
today that the new drainage
system would be installed
within three weeks.
Grades have been made and
stakes set," he announced. Il eX-
pect the tile machine will be avail
able in about two weeks and 1t
shouldn't take more than a week
to lay the tile"
The county is ready to supply
necessary gravel whenever needed
and several have volunteered al
ready to provide tile, Goar declared.
This is a voluntary plan on
pretty much of donation basis,
you know, and therefore takes a
bit longer" he added.
Another reason why the expert
mental farm system will take longer
to install is that there will be
manholes for every line. These,
Goar explained, will be used in
regular tests on quantity of water.
Test Case
The drainage system itself will
be a test case in some respects.
Tiles lines vary considerably to
permit observations on best results.
Trees offer another form of ex-
perimentation.
Against some expert advice we
have left the trees in and in some
cases there are trees within ten
feet of tn tile. Engineers have as
sured us that tree roots will fill
them up in no time. However, 9TH
ers maintained that the tree roots
would not extend 512 feet under
ground Goar said. "Well find
OUT
Preparations for the drainage
system have brought summer plant
ing to a virtual standstill at the
experimental farm. BY the time
the systm is installed it will be too
late for paintings so there probably
will be little such activity until
fall.
Goar said there was at least
one job that could not be delayed
and predicted he would have to
find a plot of ground nearby on
which to grow the first foundation
seed for Hegar sorghum recently
sent in from the University Of
Arizona. Calapproved Seed rules
dictate that such foundation seed
must be grown at the experimental
farm. This seed was handpicked
by the University agronomist.
Conclusions Soon
Goar expected some conclusions
would be drawn within year from
the drainage experimentation.
Naturally, it will take some time
to draw definite conclusions" he
said. But within year we should
have some very good indications
as to the best system of tiling."
Meanwhile there will be plenty
of work TO be done at the farm
Lengthy tests are still to be done
from the recent flax harvesting
study and a number of things must
be done to the farm itself, includ-
ing construction of a new fence
around the acrage. Goar planned
900 feet of picket fence for the
south and east sides and four
foot wire fence for the balance of
two to four inch mesh.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Dairymen Urged
o0rganize for
Mutual Benefit

A suggestion that Imperial Val.
ley dairymen come awake" and or
ganize was issued Saturday by
Leonard Cary, chairman of the COM
mittee in charge of Dairy Month
activities in Imperial Valley.
Not only is it apparent when
such a publicity campaign as Dairy
Month comes around that valley
dairymen need an organization, but
also at other times. There is no CEN
tral group through which the in,
dustry can be assisted" Cary said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Minimum Price
avs for Farm
'roduce Favored

County agricultural COM
iissioners of California
ere on record Saturday
lvoring a fight to obtain
minimum price e legislation
!. all farm commodities.
sB. A. Harrigan, Imperial county
mmissioner, brought this word
ok from a statewide convention
Id this week in San Francisco.
"Concensus of opinion among the
ficials was that farm prices are
rong enough but that the spread
so great between the price the
oducer obtains and the price the
nsumer pays that the former Is
1t getting his share" Harrigan
ported.
Most all of our commodities are
mmanding sufficient market
at If the farmer got his proper
are there would be no trouble"
Harrigan said the convention ap-
Ared TO favor action to work out
limum profit agreements with
.tail Grocer associations in var
is large areas.
''The present marketing condi-
III Is deplorable," he continued,
nd it is imperative that we work
ward some form of minimum
ice laws I expect some such leg
alton at the next session of the
yislature. The state director of
riculture William Parker, has
edged himself as we'll as other
of his department, to do
II in their power toward improv-
ng farmers returns ON their prod
cts
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Fals Leaves on
Buying Trip

j. r. Fahs, furniture buyer for
Imperial Valley Hardware stores
left El Centre Saturday for Los
Angeles to attend the annual sum-
mer furniture market.
More than 200 furniture manu-
facturers will display their wares
for a week. The next week Fahs
will attend the Western Furniture
exhibit and market in San Fran
cisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
CONTRACTORS TO MEET

Members of the Imperial Valley
chapter of the Building Contractors
association of southern California
will meet at the Ell Centro chamber
Of commerce at 730 pm. Monday
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18

Inc preliminary results Oh llle'
tests, released by j. P. Fairbank,
extension specialist of the Univer-
sity of California, also showed los
ses of seed in the pods on the
ground after harvest, which did
not go through the machines, var
led from SIS pounds to 94.34 pounds
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
BUILDING SECTION
looming Building Permits
Dwarf Last Years Totol

leaping building permit total "made monkey" out
of 1898 Saturday
Reports from the city engineers office in Ell Centre
showed that $213 059 in building permits have been issued
far Jan At the time last year the total
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Flax Harvesting Losses Disclosed in
Tests Conducted on |. Y. Machines

Flax harvesting tests in Imperial Valley fields DIS
closed losses of faXseed which passed through the mach
ines with the in the tailings ranged from 15o to
121 pounds flax per Frank Beyschlag Imperial
county farm advisor declared Saturday
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
Milk 'Chise|ers' Attacked in Answer TO
Letter Charqinq High Profits

following article written by Zeroh L. Den
s in answer to Shepard In "hc
Shepard assertions regarding the present mix suo
in Imprial Valley published June l3
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-18
By ZERON E. BELL -

"Chseling" or any other form Of price cutting VIII
never solve Imperial Valleys surplus milk problems as
suggested by Roy Shepard in recent editorial comment
+ is tr,e that some means be found to eliminate
Evening star., 1939-03-05

Gated, is on:y IA miles long and
a mile and half wide, the Bahama
Islands include 4,433 square miles.
with only IL persons to the square
mile, and there is no income or land
tax
The British government has an
nounced that it will never sell the
islands to the United States, but
Americans are buying choice sites,
and many of the neighboring small
islands. which heretofore have been
uninhabited, are being purchased
and developed by celebrities desir-
ing peace and quiet above all else.
Hog Island, in spite of its unpre-
possessing name, is one of the beauty
spots of the Bahamas where wealthy
Britains and Americans have col
onized. The island was long ago
inhabited only by wild boar, hence
the name. A long, narrow strip OF
island just east of Nassau, it is
here that the far-famed Paradise
Beach is located.
Evening star., 1939-03-05
vacationists Find
Varied Attractions
In the Bahamas
Nassau Is q Medley
Of Sophistieotion and
Reminders Of Sovoqery

nassau, the Bahamas, March 4
The globe -trotting, adventurous
element of two continents is begin
ming to realize the unusual posi-
bilities of exotic Nassau, where aside
from the delightful climate, which
hovers around rs and 80, Nassau
has numerous attractions unparal-
leled to other resorts.
A land where Negroes pat juba"
and dance the age-old "shimi sha-
wabbi," the island offers unique
contrasts in the customs of age
old savagery and sophisticated mod
ern life.
On a bright, clear night one may
stand on the balcony of the Brit
ish Colonial. where once a scaf-
fold stood, the nemesis of bucca-
neers and pirates, and gaze out
upon the iridescent waters of Mas
sau Bay, where history was made
by those who "go down to the sea
In ships"
Bay Street Characteristic.
Bay street, the main thorough
fare, is as thrilling to the stranger
as Broadway would be to the ma
tive Bahamian. Big. imported cars,
the native blacks wheeled
drays, the West Indian carriages
with their chime of bells in lieu of
horns, native women in bright cal
icos with astonishing loads bal
anced upon their heads, Negro Ba-
hamian hobbies" in blue and scar
let gold trimmed regimentals, Mas
sauvians and cottagers riding BIZ
cycles of British manufacture-all
lend an intriguing foreign atmos-
phere.
The street is made of crushed
white corral Post boxes formed
from upturned aged cannon and
gnarled trees of ancient vintage
line the sidewalks. Smart English
stores with Nassau pink" facades,
tiny native curio shops with old
fashioned wooden shutters, build
ings over 100 years old with IRON
barred windows, remnants of buc-
cancer days, and dwellings with bal
comics of wrought iron or fancy
carved wood vie with the numerous
cafes, pubs" and taverns, from
which the strains of native music
drift.
Sidewalks are shaded by a roof
built over them from the build
ings to the curb. where black boys
strum their mandolins, singing the
airy local songs which are gaining
popularity in America.
Visitors never fail to take the
trip across the bay to Hog Island,
where far-famed Paradise Beach is
located. as we'll as the attractive
Spanish or native type residences
of the exclusive Porcupine Club set
The beautiful little island is teem-
ing with activity as contempo-
raries of the group build new resi-
dences this season
White Coral Sand Beach.
A crescent of the finest white
coral sands stretches for half a
mile, dotted with bright orange and
blue beach chairs and vari-colored
umbrellas. The clubhouse proper is a
low, sea a-green. wooden building,
with palm -thatched pavilions at
each end. A natural coral reef
forms quiet cover and here celeb.
rites from two continents disport
themselves in the surf or relax or
the sands enjoying the panorama
OF sea and sky in all the brilliancy
of the spectrum.
There are no restrictions in the
Bahamas on the amount of prop
erty foreigners may buy. Although
the Island of New Providence, on
which Nassau, the capital, is To-