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for defense. We are opposed to any
program which deprives an existing
industry of its natural advantages.
We propose to exert every effort to
maintain our services on the sound
and economic basis which in the
long run is our real justification and
sole guarantee of existence"
H. D. Horton, president of the
Horton Motor Lines, Inc, Charlotte,
N. c., said the move to put trucking
carriers under the same form of
regulation as that placed on the
railroads can produce no good in
the general transportation picture
and the only result would be to
hamper and hamstring the services
we are now able to perform"
1.-THE motor transport agencies.
he said, understand to some extent
their Importance as source of
taxation and as a field for employ
ment. because the mighty highway
transport industry alone last year
paid approximately $100, 900 900 more
in special taxes than the railroads
paid in all kinds of taxes. Recent
studies have shown that nearly 10
times as many persons are required
to move given volume of freight
by highway than by rail.
I'VE strenuously object to legis-
lation such as is now before Con-
gress which is designed to burden
competitive transportation in order
to throw some little traffic back to
the railroads."
Transportation problems can be
understood more readily than rem
edied, w. H. Day, manager of the
Transportation Bureau, Boston, said
in talking about transportation from
the viewpoint of the shipper. He
said:
II submit that there is no neces-
sity at this time for either a re-
codification or restatement of the
Interstate Commerce Act, and that
II and when such need arises its
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ceptions remain Indifferent to this
tendency. For I assure you that
businessmen in our thousands of
towns who never have contact
with foreign transaction are vitality
interested in stopping it, for it is
undermining the very system by
which they live. The disease of
using Government for getting some
thing for nothing is contagious"
Vigorous Competition in Orient.
Another speaker, Charles K. Mo-
ser, chief of the Far Eastern section
of the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce of the Department
of Commerce, told the businessmen
that this country is facing vigorous
trade competition from China and
Japan in the Far East. The situa-
ton, he added, has been particularly
noticeable in the last 20 months.
The losses to Japan, he said, may
be transitional, growing from exist
ing conditions, "and out of them
there may even come compensa-
tons" In China, he added, the sit
uation offers less grounds for as
surance or consolation"
In China, he said, exports of
American products in 1888 were val
ued at less than $35 100000, the
smallest export total since 1916 and
a decline of 30 per cent from. 1897.
Seven Reforms Outlined.
Seven governmental reforms to
speed business recovery were out
lined earlier before the chamber.
George H. Davis, president of the
chamber. said experience had indi-
Gated some of the reasons industry
is being retarded. and added that
the following corrective steps sug-
gest themselves:
Remove tax deterrents which dis
courage investment in both estab-
lished and new enterprises;
Abandon unwise public spending
policies;
Modify laws relating to the is
suing and marketing of private Sc
curities;
Discontinue Government compe-
tition with private enterprise;
Abandon monetary manipulation
and modify the policy of artiflcially
cheap money:
Modify banking laws to permit
greater freedom of private initiative
in underwriting security issues;
Discontinue unnecessary investi-
cations which create apprehension
and impose needless burdens upon
industry and trade"
Robert NJ. Hanes Speaks.
Rejecting the same sentiment ex-
pressed by other speakers in the
two days the businessmen have been
meeting here. it was considered like
ly that this platform would be en-
bodied in the resolutions the cham
ber will adopt at the closing session
tomorrow afternoon.
Robert M Hanes, Winston-Sale
IN. c. banker, and first vice presi-
dent of the American Bankers As
sociation, told the chamber that the
declining demand for commercial
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w. P. A.
Continued From First Page.)

with the Treasury's Procurement
Division, told the committee $544,-
900 had been spent on the w. P. A.
fair building when it was 95 per
cent completed. Representative
johnson, Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia interrupted to say Col. F. C.
Harrington, w. P. A. chief, had told
the Appropriation Committee the
buildings cost would be $250,000.
Representative Taber said after
the hearing that testimony will be
presented later to show it is costing
100000 to ship w. P. A. exhibits to
the San Francisco Fair. He said:
That's direct diversion of relief
funds from the needy to advertise
Americas distress to the world
Items which Mr.. Taber said would
run up the cost of the project at
New York included the cost Of the
exhibits themselves, which he esti-
mated would approach $500, 900, and
the pay roll for personnel employed
there.
They're going to run a sort of
continuous show there he added,
'in addition to their art and music
exhibits. and 1 can see where there
might be pay roll of around a
million"
The committee decided to start
hearings again Monday by receiving
testimony from Mayors on how
W. p A. functioned in their cities.
Representative Woodrum. Demo-
crat, of Virginia, who is directing
the committees investigation, said a
committee of Governors would fol-
low on Tuesday.
Mr. Stephens, who investigated w.
P. A. building costs in New York
City for the committee, not only in
quired into the cost of the W. p A.
building at the Worlds Fair. but
also the cost of two school buildings,
police station and some paving
work on the Queensboro Bridge.
Mr.. Stephens was unable to ex-
plain why the cost of labor and
materials in W. P. A. construction
work was greater than in private
building, although he thought it
might be due in part to inferior
workmen. He said he had found
the w. P. A. invariably reached
first into the relief rolls for its
construction labor.
On the Worlds Fair building,
however, he said, only 1T per cent
of the labor working on the job
the day Mr.. Stephens looked at it
was from the relief rolls.
Mr. Stephens thought several
changes made in the plans for the
building might have contributed to
the increase in cost.
The witness said that he had the
complete cooperation of the w.
P. A. officials in making his in
quiry. He testified after an acri-
monious exchange between How
ard Hunter, acting administrator of
the w. p A., and some committee
members over whether the w. P. A.
was interfering with the investiga-
ton.
Mr. Hunter said no, but Rep
resentatives Woodrum, Democrat.
of Virginia; Taber. Republican, of
New York and Otter, Republican,
of Pennsylvania said they thought
the investigation was baked when
it came to finding out from w. P.
A. workers whether they belonged
to the Workers Alliance or to the
Communist party.
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French Army Mission
Departs for China
By Radio to The Star.

By Radio to The star.
PARIS, May ga French military
mission consisting of at least 80 Of
ficers, among whom are at least five
or six generals. has left France to
assist the Chinese government. 1t
naturally will not take part in oper-
ations, but will have the task OF
training Chinese soldiers and of ad-
vising the Chinese leaders in tactical
and strategic matters.
Immediately after the decision Of
German officers to leave China last
year, the Chinese asked for a French
mission, but the government in Paris
did not consider it opportune to
comply with the request. The fact
that this has been done now is con-
sidered to be the result of Japanese
encroachments on French interests
in the Far East, notably the occupa-
ton of Hainan Island in breach of
the apanese-French agreement,
and the more recent occupation of
the Spratly Island, opposite Indo-
China, which constitute a direct air
menace to French territory and
communications in the China Sea.
tcopyright. 1889. Chicago Daily News Inc)
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pansion which the country's econ
omy requires, in Mr.. Grimes view.
He urged greater chemical and in
dustrial research into the question
of wider uses for farm goods. He
said:
II am convinced that new uses for
cotton are awaiting discovery. Why
the cotton fraternity has over
looked the. market for ladies hose
Is quite a mystery"
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in China and the Philippines at the
risk of war with Japan If necessary,
and that this Government should
meet European competition In South
America with gold and productive"
loans.
The appeals for Government lead
ership in organizing and financing
an export unit to deal with China,
and for redistribution of this
ccuntry's huge hoard Of monetary
gold, we're voiced at a dinner meet
ing of representatives of American
chambers of commerce abroad at the
Mayflower.
C. H. French, vice president Of the
Chinese-American Foreign Trade
Council, declared the industrialiZa-
ton of China as planned by the
Chinese would, if not taken over by
Japan, operate within the next gen.
Grafton to give the United States
steady export trade worth $750,000,-
600 year.
James S. Carson, vice president Of
the American and Foreign Power
Co., Inc, who said he had been do
ing business with Latin America for
80 years and that he spoke also for
the American Chamber of Com
merce of Mexico, asserted that the
destiny of the United States lay
with the other Americas rather than
with Europe or the Orient.
Representative Bruce Barton, Re-
publican, of New York spoke as
businessman before the National As
sociation of Commercial Organiza-
ton Secretaries at the Willard.
Edward j. Noble, executive assist
ant to Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins, substituted for
Mr.. Hopkins at the presentation OF
prizes in a contest of American
Trade Association Executives at the
Mayflower. First prize went to the
Portland Cement Association for its
promotion of greater use of cement
in the construction of low-cost
farm-to-market roads.
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Munitions Pile Up
Al Burmese End Of
Highway 10 China
New TruinIouds Arriving
Daily From Rongoon;
Trucks Are Lacking
BY A. T. STEELE,

Chicaso Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
LASHIO, Northern Shan States,
Burma, May (by radio) Arms
and ammunition are piling up on
the Burma China frontier faster
than the Chinese conveys can carry
them away. At Chenfeng, border
village on the Chinese side of the
line, and here at the Burmese rail-
head, IA miles to the south, have
seen accumulations of munitions
totaling several thousand tons.
Daily new trainloads are arriving
from Rangoon to add to the glut.
Because of the shortage of trucks,
the Chinese are transporting tine
materials into China at the rate of
only 40 tons a day. For the transfer
of goods to the Chinese border every
available automobile in Northern
Burma has been pressed into serv-
ice, including scores of buses, which
dtS ChplOSlfCo
able to load than passengers.
Transport on the Chinese side
will increase in volume when the
new supplies of trucks, purchased
under the $25,0O00OO American
credit, arrive.
The bulk of munitions passing
here is of Russian manufacture, in
cluding rifles, machine guns and
small artillery pieces - weapons
which are most needed in guerrilla
warfare.
Chenfeng is literally an island of
grass huts, surrounded by ammuni-
ton dumps The atmosphere here
is so explosive that the town crier
trudges the streets hourly pound
ing his ancient gong and shouting
mo smoking"
The 675-mile highway from Yum
nanfu to Burma which just ira
versed is an achievement of first
magnitude Although the route is
nese built the road in one year. 1t
is we'll graded, uniformly wide and
rock surfaced. 1t is China's hope
to keep the highway open dunng
the rainy season. which begins this
month and lasts until September,
but the chances are only $780, as 60
inches of rain will deluge the noun
tainsides during that period.
tCopyrieht. 1889, by Chicago Daily News,
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committee the truckload of alleged
unlicensed cream was discovered
April by Health Department IN
spector and report filed April II.
Il wanted to investigate the case
first" Mr. Seal replied. LAS matter
of fact I don't think there was any
delay"
Quizzed on Seizure.
Later Mr.. Seal was questioned
about incidents surrounding the
first seizure of alleged bootleg"
cream, especially with reports as tc
a "slugging."
Il heard of one man being
slugged," he said. But on the other
hand I heard reports that he fell
down"
Chairman Randolph of the Dis
trict Committee, sitting as an ex-
officio member of the investigating
group, interrupted to inquire of the
witness if he knew of any efforts to
have the Health Department stop
it's monthly publication rating local
dairies on the quality and purity OF
their milk.
He replied he had heard ''rumors"
that certain groups would like to
have the publication stopped.
The inquiry was to be resumed
in the afternoon after luncheon
recess.
Associations Accused.
The two associations and dairies
named in today's warrants are ac-
cused with bringing into the Dis
trict and with causing to be sent
into the District 200 10-gallon cans
of cream without having first OBJ
tanned a permit to do so from the
health officer of the District and
with bringing into the District cream
which had not been produced or
handled in accordance with speci-
f1cations of an authorized Medical
Milk Commission or State board
of health.
The warrants will be turned over
TO the Police Department for serv-
ice, Mr.. Gray said.
Southern Diaries is the only local
firm in the group, the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton having headquarters in Silver
Spring, Md, and the Maryland Co.
operative Producers and Fairfield
Dairy both having headquarters in
Baltimore, Mr.. Gray said.
The alleged shipment occurred on
March 81, according to the informa-
tions. Mr.. Gray would reveal little
in connection with the alleged Of
fenses, but did say no seizure was
made.
Joseph S. Simms and Harold B.
Robinson, said by Mr.. Gray to be
milk inspectors, are listed as wit
neSSeS.
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American Mer-
chant Marine In
stitute, New York
City, who dis
cussed the trans
portation topic
from the view
point of water
carriers. He said:
ut would be q
strange national
policy to seek to
help the rail-
roads at the ex-
pense of the
water carrier, the
shipper and the
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as economical basis as possible
But economy should not be done
at the expense of people who are
in need"
Gov. Stassen declared that senti-
ment in Minnesota for any Republi-
can presidential candidate has not
crystallized to any great degree" :"
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a speaker IN IIllS
d i S cussion. j.
Frank Grimes,
president of the
Ind e p e n d e n t
Grocers' lii
ance of America.
Chicago, S a i d
that the Agri-
culture Depart
ment's plan for
distributing food
surpluses to the
needy is "step l
in ex panding
consumption of
agricultural pro-
~J,-%-,y A.y
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Senator Davis Takes Rest

Senator Davis, Republican, of
Pennsylvania has gone to Battle
Creek, Mich, for a weeks rest and
physical checkup. Aides said he was
not III, but had been advised to rest.
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Do Not Neglect
ArthritiS
By ]. A. FOX.

have found help in Mountain Valley Min
eral Water direct from famous Hot SPRINGS,
Arkansas. Mildly alkaline. Deeply sat
isfyins. Endorsed by physicians for over
'5 years. Phone Met. 1862 for booklet.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
Met. 1862 14O5 X st. NV.
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Milk

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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
L. 4. PRODUCE

Los ANGELES. March so. up
Supplies were generally moderate
with trading rather slow in most
lines and prices about steady.
Asparagus: Imperial Valley bum
ched Regal 10c; fey std &c; std s.
Sic; special 7-7i4e lb.
Lettuce: dry pack Imperial Valley
4 dOz. mostly SIPS; crate IS mostly
81; Yuma Is very few S1.5O: SIS
$l.10-1.25; san Diego CO. 5s G0-65c:
local loose 25-4Oc.
Peas: san Pedro bush mostly
Site; Coachella Valley best G-7c:
san Diego Co bush ; y &c: I'm
perial valley &c; local 5-51.c: SAN
ia Barbara Co. best 6-6iAc: Pismo-
Oceano 6-7c; Oxuard 4lz-512c: La
guna Beach 5izc; Imperial Valley
45-lb. crates mostly $2.25: Coached
la Valley china peas 11-12c lb.
Strawberries: Imperial Valley best
s2.25-2.5O.
Tomatoes: Imperial Valley crates
3.75; 16s mostly 81 BOZ rs; 2Os most
~ SI.50-1.75; flats 5x5s and 5x6s
So .75-4; Gx7s best S3.25-3.5O: 7xSs
mostly $2-2.50; 8x9s mostly S135-
l.5O; loose flats C5-75c; lugs mostly
S5c-$I.
Squash: Imperial and coachella
valley white summer crates mostly
$1.35-150; flats 81 .25-1.4O: crates
mostly S1.25-1.50; flats mostly 81 .25-
135; yellow CTOOkDeck Imperial
Valley crates best $2-2.25; per ton.
Banana S3O-50.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
ayConfident Of
Win Over Henry

NEW YORK, March 80. CUP)-
1t sounds like the same story that's
been written SO many times and
from SO many places-the one about
Henry Armstrong getting ready to
defend his welterweight title again
But this time it has new twist
because the little Los Angeles Ne
gro stands a moderate chance of
walking back to the dressing room
tomorrow night minus the title.
Five times Armstrong has climb
ed into the ring with the 147-pound
crown he won from Barney Ross
last May at stake. And each eve
ming he left the squared circle with
the words winner and still cham
pion" echoing in his ears.
And for that reaSon-the fact
that Armstrong has been working
too hard these past three or four
months-a broad d-shouldered, dark
haired young man named Davey
Day from Chicago thinks that Hen
ry's number is about due to come
up.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Wilson Track
Team Defeats
Washington, 35-22

Wilson grammar schools track
and field team Wednesday after
noon scored a 1922 triumph ovel
washington Eastside grammar
school by taking four first places
and capturing a majority of the
seconds and thirds.
High point honors in the meet
were taken by Scheumaker, of Will
son, who captured one first, a
second and ran on the winning re-
lay team.
The results:
SO YARD DASH. Scheumakel
(W), 2. Chickahisa (W), 3. Harry
(WA).
100 YARD DASH-1. Alarcon
(WA), 2. Rennie CW), 3. Havanah
WA).
66O YARD RUM. WHY (W)
2. Manuel (WA). 3. Haskins tWA)
HIGH JUMP. Nathaniel (WA)
2. Scheumaker (W), 3. Smith (W)
BROAD JUMP. Alarcon (WA)
2. Rennie CW), 8. Natienel (WA)
SHOT Putt. Haskins (W), 2
Proffitts CW), 3. Paublo (WA.
RELAY-WilSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Bench Warming
By Burdette Kinne
Post Press Sports Editor

Hutch will make the American
league batters eat their words of
criticism before the season is COM
pleted." Dick Ward, San Diego
Padre pitcher, predicted Thursday
as the Coast leaguers prepared to
depart for San Diego where they
will open the season Saturday
against the Oakland Oaks.
One year ago when the Seattle
Rainiers broke camp at the Ell
Centro stadium coast sports writ
erS said Fred Hutchinson would
not make the grade in the Pacific
Coast league.
This year, following Hutch'S
chore of winning 25 games for Sc
attic in 1888, the major league
experts are singing the same song:
Hutch will not make the grade. y
Similar Stories
Despite similarity in stories be-
ing circulated this year as COM
pared TO those which greeted Hut
Crimson in his first performance
last year. the experts say, Hutch
the grade because he has no fast
ball
Last year. the coast writer's said:
Hutch has a good fast ball but
pitchers cannot win on speed
alone"
That, according to Dick Ward,
is a good sign that Hutchll burn
up the American league just as he
did the Coast league. I'VE watched
for Freddies fast ball all during
the season Ward said, and never
saw it.
He mixed curves and change
of pace with marvellous control and
a "sneaking" fast ball to BATTLE
every club in the Coast league" i"
Ward said.
This year, in the majors, the
batters will not be looking for a
fast ball. And unless I miss my
guess, Freddie will throw EN- past
the American leaguers Just as he
did in the coast loop.
When the bell rings and the
blue chips are placed on the line,
Freddie will be in there, winning
more than his share of ball games. +"
The Champ Returns
Jimmy Londos, the wrestling
champion of the world, who will
appear in the Calexico arena on
next Thursday night is one of the
few grapplers who made an out
standing success in his vocation.
Londos has earned more than
two million dollars since he first
entered the squared circle and now,
in his second comeback, he has
started on third million.
Londos spread-eagled the wres-
Ting field soon after he entered
competition. His was splendid
looking fellow, was a good perfor-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, March 80. (UP)-
The United states steel common
stock made a new low for the year
today and led the stock market in
a sharp decline in the last hour Of
trading.
Big steel touched 53K off 2ls
points from the previous close. Else
where in the list losses ranged to
more than points in the active
stocks and 10 points in the in
actives.
Trading picked up for a short
time and tickers We're barely able
TO keep pace. A more orderly mar
ket developed before the final gong
and prices recovered slightly from
the lows. The drop came suddenly
after several hours of narrow move
ment.
Air Reduction. American Smelt-
ing, Santa Fe. Case, Ingersoll- Rand.
Johns-ManYille. and Westinghous {
Electric made new lows.
American Locomotive issues made
new lows with the preferred off 4
points. New lows also were made
by Lima LOCOMOTIVE, Pullman. Am
erican Brake Shoe and New York
Air Brake.
steel shares followed u. S. steel
down At its low Bethlehem was
off around 3 points. Republic pre-
serred made a new low at 81 off 3A
points. Youngstown Sheet & Tube
lost more than ? points. Non ferrous
metals were off down a point or
more.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Youngsters Bolster Boston
Red Sox Regular Lineup
Croninmen Rated
As Threat to
Champions

SARASOTA, Fla. March 30. tUPl
The deep thinkers of baseball
have been saying for some time the
way to beat the Yankees is to out
do them at their own game-to &c
out and get bright young players
and develop them
That's what the Boston Red SoN
have been doing the past three
years and the first bumper crop
has come IN. Three of the prize
rockies in Florida are in the SoX
camp and they are going to add
more strength to the club that
outhit the Yankees by Is points
last year.
The Youngsters are right fielder
Ted Williams, third baseman jim
Tabor and pitcher Woody Rich
They all look ready. Williams
who hit 800 at Minneapolis last
year and hammered out 43 home
runs. looks like one Of baseballs
coming stars. Tabor doesn't look
like he can miss.
But the brightest youngster OF
them all is Woody Rich. labeled
another Grover Cleveland Alexan-
der Rich's presence is doubly mn
portant because of the Red SoX
crying need for pitching. Rich, IN
his second year in baseball last
season, Won 10 games for Little
Rock and pitched a no-hit game.
His pitching style is a duplicate Of
Alexander'S, throwing sidearm with
an effortless motion. He has abun-
dant stuff and marvellous control.
If those three lads deliver, the
Red Sox are going to get in the
Yanks' hair plenty. Last year the
Red Sox finished second. 912 games
off the pace, and broke even,
eleven eleven, in % games against
the Yanks. But they wound up the
season with a frightful pitching
staff which Joe Cronn jugglea
around and kept going.