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Evening star., 1940-09-18
Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.-Buying at
tributed to mills apparently to lift
hedges as a result of floor business
or to accumulate grain for future
requirements helped to lift wheat
prices as mucA1 as a cent a bushel
at times today.
Some purchasing also was at
tributed to dealers encouraged by
prolonging Of the battle of England
without a successful invasion at
tempt and by firmness of securities
Evening star., 1940-09-18
Pio Lead 'SuIes

NEW YORK. Sept. 1s-st. Joseph Lead
pig lead sold yesterday at S4.75 per 100
pounds East ct. Louis. $50 tons at 81 Los
New York and 275 tons at the New York
Average.
Evening star., 1940-09-18

Cottonseed oil closed steady Bleachable
prime summer yellow. 5.45n: prime crude,
4.37ie-4.5 sob. September, 5.O2b; october.
5:O4b; December. 5.15b; January. 5.17b;
March. 5.2Sb; May. 5.33b.
Bid. Nominal
Evening star., 1940-09-18
CottonSeed Oil.

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
81 lower. Sales. 33 contracts. October,
552b; December. 5.64b; January. 5.65b,
March. 5.75b: May 5.sOb.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. Is LP.-Cotton
futures were more active here today. with
trade buying offsetting hedge selling Final
prices were steady. 4 to 5 points net
Evening star., 1940-09-18

In bankruptcy or recefverShip or beinR
reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act, or
securities assumed by such companies
Rates Of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annual declsra-
tion Unless otherwise noted. special or
extra dividends are not included 0 Also
extra or extras. d Accumulated dividends
paid last year Declared or paid so
far this year. = PAYABLE in stock Paid
last year. Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividends paid or declared this year
ur Under rule. WV With warrants. "
Without warrants var Warrants
Evening star., 1940-09-18
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 R.-Bar
silver. 34&. unchanged
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U. 5. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK. Sept 1S [P,.-Prices quoted
in dollars and thirty-seconds:
Evening star., 1940-09-18
New York Cotton Goods

"-WIIH WdITHIIIS. NW-WIINOUt wa
rants. New. st (stp)-Stamped.
sNegotiability impaired by maturity.
Evening star., 1940-09-18

Cash Market.
Cash wheat, No, hard. 7eiz. Corn,
No. ! mixed. IS No. yellow. 62s+ -63s.;
No ., 63. Oats, No. l white. 32l4: No.
2. 80: No 3. 30 No / red. heavy, 3la.
Barley. mailing. 50-63 nominal: feed,
No 3 48' ons No 3 mating. sils toushi 5s
Field seed. per hundredweight, NOM
inal: timothy seed 3.65; alsike clover
WinnipeE Prices.
WINNIPEG, Sept. Is P.-Grain range
Evening star., 1940-09-18
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Sept. IS tP.-National
association Securities Dealers. Inc:
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK, Sept Is GPi-National AS
soclation Securities Dealers. Inc:
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Sept 1s.-Dividends de-
elared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.
Resumed
Evening star., 1940-10-02

cause Of the influx of people who
are coming to Washington to fill
positions in connection with the
national defense program the num-
Der Of Government employees Is be-
ing increased by about $1,000 per-
sons. Col. Fletcher said it was the
responsibility Of the forum to spread
information of local welfare prob
lens and of the Community Chest
work among these new workers.
Mr.. Carmody compared the pri-
vate social welfare works with the
public relief program. He told the
Federal employees governmental
agencies cannot possibly give the
individual attention and under
standing that private agencies make
available. He said the community
could not appreciate the good done
by private agencies unless the pro-
gram were suddenly stopped.
Though private welfare agency
funds are small compared with
Government funds, their achieve
ments show up WELL" Mr.. Carmody
said.
Federal forum officers were intro
duced to the $50 workers who at
tended the meeting, which was held
at Barker Hall at the Y. w. C. A.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Flyer Saves Life of Cadet,
Then Dies in BeIuted Leap

'Lt. Ostler shouted an order for
me to Jump. He didn't begin to
worry about himself until he knew
I was out. He was a wonderful
pilot-the best I ever saw. II any,
one could have pulled the ship out
Of that spin, he could"
The cadet said 1t. Ostler, Is years
old, was instructing him in bringing
a ship out of spins, at a height of
5000 feet. when the machine failed
to respond to the instructors efforts
to pull 1t from whirl.
This was the third crash Of train
ing planes at the Southeast air CEN
ter basic training school in two
weeks, and raised to five the number
of pilots killed since the school
opened .. month ago.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
looking. But there wasn't q dent

looking. But there wasn't q dent
visible.
Next week, after minor adjust
ments to the engine, the "gnat-
tank" comes up for graduation ex-
ercises in its 1000 mile run, all
within the Holabird reservation.
The torture" course stimulates ac-
tual road conditions-from good to
virtually impassable-and includes
hair-pin curves, steep grades, cor
rugated pavement much like cordu-
roy log surfaced country roads, big
and little. mud holes, and slippery
bitches.
Experts believe the midgets, If
able to stand wear and tear. may
prove land equivalent OF the Nays
mosquito boat" They could serve
as an auxiliary to armored divisions
and the tractor-type tires are cal
culated to give traction through
mud, drift snow and mire to keep
up with larger and more powerful
multi-wheel drive or crawler-type
traction vehicles.
Fully loaded with its crew of
three, machine gun and ammunition,
its manufacturer claims, the "gnat-
tank" will weigh 1000 pounds and be
able to do ss-country runs at top
speed
Evening star., 1940-10-02
New Army 'Gnat Tank
Is MiIe-a-Minute
Midget
Tough Bottle Buggy
Gets Torture Tests
At Baltimore
Py the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. "A rough,
tough and belligerent looking midg-
ct armored car. capable of 6O-mile-
an-hour speed, was undergoing
Army tests here today preliminary
to a l,00O-mile torture" grind next
week.
The tiny "gnat-tank," designed
to carry three soldiers, a .30-caliber
swivel-mounted machine gun, and
5000 rounds of ammunition. has an
8O-inch wheelbase. seats like granite,
diversified tractor tread tires, and
four wheel drive.
1t has no pretext of beauty. Strict
ly business, there's not "gadget"
in or out. The compact four-cylin-
der engine turns up 40 horsepower
and its cubic inch displacement OF
lib compares with approximately
2l5 cubic inches in popular low
priced automobiles.
The pilot model is being run
under every conceivable condition
which may be encountered in serv-
ice with troops.
Officers at the Army's Holabird
motor transport depot here said the
car was getting routine" workouts
TO determine any weaknesses war
ranting a change in specification
before the manufacturer begins pro-
duction on a War Department con-
tract for 10 of the new, highly-mo-
bile weapons.
Today. after the first of the pre-
liminary tests, the midget was mud
spattered and anything but new
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Ickes 10 Stump West
In Wake Of WiIIkie,
Stressine Power Issue
leoves This Week End;
Major Address Planned
At PortIond. Greg.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes will
leave for the Pacific Coast over the
week end to take the stump for the
first time in the 1910 campaign.
Aides said he would challenge Wen
dell L. WILKES stand on the power
question.
While a detailed itinerary was
being completed, it was learned that
Mr.. Ickes would make a Today
swing through Washington. Oregon
and Idaho, with a possible appear
ance at Butte, Mont. This would
follow a maj jor public power address
at Portland, Greg. now the Western
capital of Federal hydro-electric
development.
1t was there that Mr.. Willkie, the
Republican presidential nominee,
said he favored completion Of the
huge Bonneville and Grand Coulee
public power projects with proviso
that consumers be permitted to de-
eide whether the Federal Govern
ment or private utility companies
shall control distribution.
The Interior Secretary's associates
said they expected him to discuss
especially Mr.. WILKES activities rs
head Of the Commonwealth IL
Southern Corp. during its disputes
with the Tennessee Valley Authority
Mr.. Ickes also. it was indicated. will
reply TO Mr.. WILKES comments that
the present Secretary of the Interior
is a big city (Chicago) man and that
If the Republicans win the presi-
Dental election q man from farther
West will get the cabinet post.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Romspeck
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civil service in conformity with the
Senate provision.
Another Senate amendment agreed
to would prohibit the Civil Service
Commission hereafter from requir-
ing submission of photographs by
applicants for employment. In pro-
posing this amendment Senator
Minton, Democrat. of Indiana ex-
planned week ago that the photo
graphs opened the way for racial
discrimination by appointing Of
ficers.
The confereeS went along with the
House version of the bill in exclud-
ing from its provisions administra-
tive employees of the w. P. A., but
struck out language extending this
barrier to persons connected with"
the w. P. A. This move is designed
to permit employees in agencies other
than the w. P. A.. who are paid
from emergency funds. to acquire
civil service status; the provision is
of doubtful value. however. as the
relief appropriation act provides
that none of the funds shall be used
to pay civil service personnel.
T. V. A. Employees Exempted.
The conferees exempted employees
of the Tennessee Valley Authority
from the bill in agreeing with one
Senate amendment and approved
another Senate provision that will
permit the acquisition of civil service
status by clerical employees of Con-
gress after four years service, This
Is intended to take care of cases
where such personnel loses out by
shifts in congressional membership.
The amendment, which would
have given the temporary Census
employees permanent status, had
been vigorously urged by the United
Federal Workers of America. These
employees are taken from civil serv-
ice registers, but do not acquire
transfer status because of their GEN.
sus service and consequently wnen
that is ended 60 back to commission
registers and have to await their
turn for new appointment. The
liberalizing provision would have IA
cilitated their reappointment.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Wallace Criticizes
Wilkes 'Confusinq'
Power Statements
Nominee Leaves Oregon
For Addresses in Idaho
And Washington State
BY the Associated Press.

SN tle ASSOCldltu ItSS.
SPOKANE, Wash, Oct. 2-Henry
A. Wallace carried the Democratic
campaign into Washington State
today after telling an Oregon audi
ence that Wendell L. WILKES state
ments of policy on public ownership
of power are so confusing we can
not be sure what his attitude would
be"
The Democratic vice presidential
nominee. coming into this section dl-
rect from Portland, Greg. scheduled
an address for 3:3o pm. tP. S. TJ at
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, and one here
at 7:30 pm.
At Portland, the former Secre-
tary Of Agriculture asserted that, as
counsel and as president of Com
monwealth & Southern Corp. Mr..
Willkie fought the Tennessee Valley
Authority and testified before a
congressional investigating commit
tee in November, 1898, that he was
convinced the power activities of
the T. V. A. violated the constltu-
ton.
"Stagnation" Charge Challenged.
IF T. V. A. was unconstitutional" 3"
Mr.. Wallace said. so of course was
Bonneville" referring to the Bonne-
vile dam project on the Columbia
River.
Mr.. Wallace challenged the charge
by Republican Presidential Candi-
date Willkie that the administration
believes that "as a nation of pro-
ducers We have become stagnant' y
The Tennessee Valley and the Pa
cifc Northwest he described as
two of the areas where the standard
ness is growing-thanks to the for
ward Joking power policies of the
administration"
"Old Friend of McNary.
Mr. Wallace questioned Mr.. Will
kie's background for bold and ag-
gressive action to promote the ex-
pansion of business activity and
Unemployment"
He charged that the G. 0. P. can
didate made an unfortunate error
in business judgment" in 1885 which
led the commonwealth and South
ern into an expensive course Of OBJ
struction and unsuccessful litiga-
ton"
Mr.. Wallace described Senator
McNary, Republican vice presiden-
tial nomine. as IAN old friend" and
urged the crowd. estimated at $780,
to elect him CWallace) to the vice
presidency SO he could work with
McNary on agricultural and for
estry policies.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Driving Demonstration
To Be Given at School

A demonstration of distances re-
quired for stopping a car travelling
at varying speeds will be given at
. am. tomorrow at the Monteom-
cry Blair High School, Silver
Spring, Nd, in conjunction with the
schools safe driving campaign.
A boy and girl student and a
teacher at the school will be selected
by the Student Council to partici-
pate in the demonstration on Mont
gomery avenue, opposite the school.
Preceding the demonstration q
Evening star., 1940-10-02
New u. 5. Employees
Here Urged 10 Help
Community Chest
Prominent OfficiuIs
Attend Federal Forums
Opening Meeting

Newly arrived Government en-
ployes were urged to support WASH
ington's private social welfare pro-
gram for the aid of the unfortunate
by prominent Government officials
at the Community Chest Federal
Forums opening fall meeting yes
terday.
Federal Reserve Board Gov.
Ernest G. Draper. Federal Works
Administrator John M. Carmody
and Col. Robert H. Fletcher, presi-
dent of the forum, were among
those who spoke to Government
workers.
Mr.. Draper said great things were
expected from the Government unit
of the Community Chest this year.
Col. Fletcher pointed out that be-
Evening star., 1940-10-02

Your Sanitary market couldn't by ordinary
methods. That is 1vhy ove built q unique
meat-selling system at q cost Of $239, 900.
Today Sanitary can say: Eat Sanitary
steak: Unless it's tender; abbetiSimg;
Juicy. money back!
Evening star., 1940-10-02

NTEAT WAS challenge to us. No
lVl body had ever been able to quar-
ontee tender, juicy, delicious steaks,
roasts and chops every purchase!
But today your Sanitary market can
and does give you this guarantee. To
make this possible costs S239,OOO.
Our meat men had to pioneer ney
kind of meat service to put this plan in
operation. They had to build unique
matchmaking plant. install new
equipment, develop new methods.
Under this plan we buy only the
better grades of steer beef, lamb, pork
Evening star., 1940-10-02

talk will be given by Harry Ponttus
at q school assembly. The Demon
stration, to which the public is In
vited, has been arranged by Arthur
c. Bready, guidance adviser at the
school.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
BY the Associate Press.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. IA
flying cadet, swinging in his para
chute, watched his ohlcer- instructor
plunge to his death in q spinning
Army plant yesterday. and the stu
dent later reported to his superiors:
Second 1t. E. T. Ostler saved my
life"
1t. Ostler, whose home was Sandy,
Utah, stuck with the ship, hopeless
ly out Of control, until he was cer-
tain his student, r. M. Smith of
Stamford, Conn, had cleared away
safely, but he leaped too late to save
himself.
Mr.. Smith, an end on Lehigh Uni
versity's 1899 football team who
came here rs . flying cadet two
months ago, said:
Evening star., 1940-10-02
1t. Miller Rites Tomorrow

1t. True C. Miller, Coast Guard
aviator. who was killed September
2s when his plane crashed of st.
Petersburg, Fla, will be buried to-
morrow at l pm. at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
Homing pigeons recently flew 280
Evening star., 1940-10-02

and veal. These fine meats are all prop
erly aged. No piece of Guaranteed Meat
leaves our Central Meat Plant until it
is correctly aged for maximum ten
derness, juiciness and flavor.
Even our Guaranteed Meat delivery
trucks are new kind. Fully enclosed
and refrigerated! In special boxes
meats are delivered to your Sanitary
market daily. These Guaranteed Meats
reach you at peak of perfection daily.
Will you try a favorite steak or roast
from your neighhorhood Sanitary
market-today?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-26
IT'S TIME TO TALK

With election time only two weeks
away. only two candidates for FL Centro
CITY council positions have stated the pol
icies on which they seek election. 1t is
time for the others to tell the public
what their conduct will be if they are
rlectcd
This newspaper. believing that the vot-
crs should know the men who are run
ming for office. and their beliefs, would
welcome statements from any candidates
outlining their policy Not itemized
statements. perhaps. We realize it is diff
ficut for man to know what he would
do without extensive investigation. But
broad statements of policy, certainly.
Politicians often refrain from declar-
ing their stand because they are afraid
of losing certain bloc of votes. In the
routine election, without particular is
sues at stake, that may be permissible.
This is no routine election. Through
force Of circumstances, it has developed
into an election of vital issues, vitality
affecting the life Of all Ell Centrans.
Therefore, it is important to the peo-
pie OF FL Centre tO> know the beliefs OF
the men upon whom they are voting, and
what they may expect from those men
after election.
An election is the American way of
expressing the peoples desires. If the
people do not know what sort Of men
they are voting upOn-if there exists
conspiracy Of silence among candidates
the practice of democracy is defeated.
We can decide what We the people, will
do only after we know what the candi-
dates will do.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-26
SlxTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS

Enough to buy most Of the business
establishments on Main street outright.
Enough TO keep AN average family IN
comparative comfort Il great part of their
lives.
500, 600
That is the amount missing from FL
Centre city water department accounts
over a period Of five years.
II has All been pretty we'll threshed out,
who is To blame. Some people have sut-
fered under criticism who do not deserve
criticism. Possibly some have escaped
who deserve criticism.
Now thai bitterness has given way to
saner thought, however. there is one les
son taught by this gigantic embezzlement
which should never be forgotten in Ell
Centro 1t is the need for every possible
safeguard To protect the city'S funds
the taxpayers money. if You please
from unscrupulouS persons.
II the city had spent thousand dol
lars or 50 five years ago to install book
keeping and auditing systems as fool
proof as possible. il would have saved
MANY thousands of dollars.
In other words. by spending $1,000, for
instance. the city would have saved the
difference between that sum and $4,000.
In at least two instances, former city
clerks had refused flatly to allow in
Stallation Of new systems. when such sys-
TENS were recommended by the council.
In those cases. the clerks obviously were
to blame Under the present council the
present city clerk is installing such new
system. There is some slight consolation
in the knowledge that the future. at least,
is better protected against wholesale
theft Of city funds.
But il is dangerous to sit back complac-
entity in the belief that we need never
again bother about such things. Eternal
vigilance. to miSQuote an old truth, is the
price of safety for public funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-26
CONTROVERSIAL
SUBJECTS
Nevada State JournaD

The question of whether controversial
subjects should be discussed in the
schools. those outside of college ranks
where younger students are enrolled, has
come up for debate among the delegates
to the American Association of School
Administrators. .-.s
In favor of the plan WAS advanced the
argument that practice makes perfect
and that by examining questions that are
bound to come up in later life the youth
ful mind is enabled To distinguish fact
from propaganda, to spot tallaciouS az
gument and to present some understand
ing of matters affecting everyday human
life and environment. Against the plan
was the claim that controversial QueS-
tionS more often than not cut across lam
ilv group and community beliefs in such
matters as political affiliation. the out
look on labor and industrial problems.
even in religion and matters Of faith.
The matter goes deeper than that. The
schools do not offer the proper SuperNl-
sion for the open minded examination Of
many public and social questions. lm
teacher in all cases where such discus
sions were permitted would have To be
entirely impartial if good We're to come
of them He would have To be fair un-
biased and thoroughly informed on the
matters in hand and entirely above any
propaganda of his own. To find So per
feet an individual, might be indeed diff
cult. And il IS we'll known that in the
world of diverse political and social theo-
ry of today, the teaching profession is
shot through and through with precon-
ceived ideas and prejudice. Radical theo-
ry is prevalent among a certain proper
ton of the Younger teachers especially.
and the subscriber to such theory is IL
most invariably prOEagandiSt
The big questions ON which mature men
and women differ had best be left out of
the scope of the formative mind Of youth.
Fortunately most schools today wisely
leave controversial matters alone. Some
of them would inevitably become hot
beds of alien propaganda and bizarre
social theory should their course be
changed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-26
CRUSOE, PROPAGANDiST
Christian Science Monitor)

A recent article in a Danzig newspaper
throws an astonishing 'light' on "iobin-
son Crusoe": 1t reveals Dafoe'S novel as
nothing less than an allegory of British
mperialistic methods at their very worst.
Ones sympathy goes out to all those
high-minded Englishmen who. having
hitherto innocently taken the book at its
face value. and derived, as they thought,
a harmless pleasure from it. may now
feel deeply shocked
Will they. remembering the warning m
this article that 'one admittedly can only
detect the cloven hoof by paying great
attention. and fearful lest, under the
guise of great literature, they have
been fed upon the most shameless prop
aganda-Will they be forced to look ask
ance at all their classics? One wonders.
But if they do says an Englishman
writing to this newspaper, "One trembleS
for the result What will they make Of
Gullver among the Lilliputians. SO OBJ
viously an outrageous picture Of John
Bulls concet and imagined superiority
to the foreigner?' Yes. and how can
they hide their bushes when it comes to
Alice in Wonderland with its thinly
veied reference to the proper treatment
of subject races. in such lines as:
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat hW when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy.
Because he knows it tease5.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-26

Gas for the entire Imperial Val
ley!
That was the announcement when
came from Brawley 20 years ago as
excitement over the striking OF oil
in we'll north of BraWley reached
a peak in the county.
Pressure of gas in the well was
so great that operations were hait-
ed until a cap could be secured
from Los Angeles. Biologists eStl-
mated there was sufficient gas Il
supply the entire county.
The drilling had reached 1000 feet
and oil in large quantities was eX-
pected To be found 300 feet deeper.
Operations were III blue Shale, COM
monty round in California oil well
areas.
One Of the valleys first cooking
schools was sponsored by merchants
of the city and WAS under way at
Vamcv Brothers store. The rival
paper 10 the Press. the FL Centre
Progress. was one Of the Sponsors
and he event received very lltt'
attention in the columns of the
Press
In an editorial the Press urged
j. S. Nickerson president OF the
board OF directors of the Imperial
Irrigation district and c. N. Perry,
chief engineer To reconsider Their