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Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
SHRINE VISITORS
DELIGHTED WITH
VALLEY WELCOME

Directors of the FL Centre Cham
Der of Commerce feel that much
favorable publicity was given to I'm
perial Valley over the week end
when the Shrine trains passed
through here and cantaloupes, now
IN season, were distributed. On sew
eral occasions hundreds of red fezzed
mobiles were seen on the platforms
jovfullv munching slices of Imperia!
Valley cantaloupes.
The cantaIoupes were donated by
growers and distributors from all
parts of the valley and one of the
features Of the advertising was the
called 'cantaloupc pass, - in
Shrine col0rs, handed to each person
on the train and reading as follows:
" Imperial Valley Shrine Club vel
comes visiting Mobiles. Exhibit this
pass in dining car and be served an
iced Imperial Valley early canta-
ioupe, with the compliments of the
cantaloupe growers of Imperial Val
ley, who unite in bidding you wei
comet - These cards were devised
by the chamber Of commerce and
distributed through the Shrine club.
The last group to go through was
the Houston auto caravan, the ears
reaching here Sunday night. All the
visitors marveled at Imperial Val
ley's activity. Next week one more
train goes through Imperial Valley;
this viii be train routed to Birm.
ingham, Alabama, which viii reach
here at p. IN. Thursday, June 6,
after the Los Angeles convention IS
over.
Imperial county literature, includ-
ing the booklet specially prepared
by the board of trade with an out
side cover in Shrine colors and de-
sign. was distributed on all the
trains and to members of the cara
Van and there were many requests
tor information on special subjects
which are to be mailed to the ad-
dresac"s ut their homes by the local
chamber.
\ fancy drill by the patrol and a
band concert in front of the Barbara
Worth hotel. featured the Sunday
visit of the Shriners here.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
New Additions
TO Chain Gang

The city chain gang was augment
ed by five members today the new
ones being initiated this morning by
Judge Perkins in police court. They
will all do 10 days if they are not
able to pay the $50 fines levied
against them.
Those who joined Pennington S
Army were W. Tennin, NJ. Mar
tinez, T.. NJ Harding, win Meller
and K. Carr.
There was an unusual large mum
Der of vagrants and drunks TO face
the bar this morning and about 90
per cent of them pleaded guilty
while the rest will have to wait un-
iii Saturday morning before their
cases come to trial. Those who will
wait are X. Schulcr, Angel Nunez,
Ernest Wood, Samuel Wilson and
T. Guadalupe.
Willie Bonds appeared before the
judge on possession of liquor
charge and pleaded guilty, Sentence
will be pronounced tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
POLICE STAGE
BATTLE in DARK
WITH CONVICTS

One vollev of shots in the recent
epidemic of gun firing heard in the
city during recent weeks. was ex-
planned today by the police depart
ncnt in n report by Night Officers
fill Heating and John Mayo.
The two officers had running
gan battle with Willie Woods and
IN unknown Mexican, both alleged
Tlrolrd Arizona convicts, Saturday
night. Woods Was captured but the
Mexican. believed wounded, man
tged to escape.
Woods was found with two pints
Of liquor in his possession and
p'cadcd guilty to the charge this
morning III police court. An intcn.
sive search is being Nade for the
supposedly wounded Mexican.
According 10 the report Of The
police officer, the negro and Mex.
can were found proving late Sat
urdav night around the railroad
tracks. They were ordered to halt
but ran. Both Kcating and Mayo
fired volley and Woods surrcn-
dered Keating's report stated he
believed he has wounded the MeXi
can but that the man lodged away
behind the freight house.
Woods admitted today tina. he
was recently parolcd from the
Arizona penitentiary after serving
two years Of 10 year sentence for
burglary. He stated he had come to
IT Centre looking fer work but
police officials believe several jobs
had been planned and probably
pulled here by the two men.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
LOCAL TEN MS
PLAYERS KEEP
SLATE CLEAN

FL Centre racquet wielders just
did manage to keep their record
clean for the year when they eked
out 6 matches to ) victory over
the Yuma tennis players in the final
net tournament Of the year yester-
day in the Arizona city.
To Strickland and Davies in the
doubles goes the credit for giving
the valley netters a victory, for II
was they who won the only match
after a terrific battle with Pulsifer
and Saunders Is and l2.l0.
The final set was classic with
first one partnership and then the
other leading. The locals finally
smashed through for the victory and
the margin necessary to cop the
tourney.
The Fl Centre PLAYERS participated
in -four tournaments during the past
four weeks and won them all beating
Yuma and Brawley twice at home
and abroad.
lestcrday morning FL Centre won
five OF the seven single matches and
one of the four doubles.
In the singles Shirk, FL Centre de.
fcatcd White, Yuma, So, o.: Strick
land, Fl Centre. wallopped Brown
Yuma, Go, 6-3 Edgar, FL Centre
beat Plumley, Guma, 10, %, 7.5
Joy of FL Centre had a tough time
winning from Gray, Yuma, O., 80
Ga: Gordon, FL Centre, beat West
phal, Yuma, Sc, Of; Hale, FL Cen
tro, beat Saunders, Yuma, 6-3,6--
and Pulsifer, Yuma, defeated Davies
FL Centre, Ga, 81, O..
In the doubles White and Carruth
crs. Yuma, won easily from Shirk
and Gordon, FL Centro, 50, 6-3'
Brown and Gray, Yuma, took Joy
and Edgar, Fl Centre, 90. 6-4 and
White and Wcstphal, Yuma, beat
Hale and Shrk, FL Centre, -, %
The other doubles match, mention
cd above as the one which gave r.
Centre the winning margin. was tho
toughest battle of them all.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
BUILDING BUREAU
OFFERS PLANS FOR
SUMMER COTTAGES

one of the FIRST requirements Of
q cottage or summer camp cabin is
HAT it be comfortable in either hot
weather or cold weather, says W
~. Whcatlv. secretary Of the Build
iug Service Bureau, the new orgaa-
i1ation for promoting better build
ing material merchants of the I'm.
lura Valley.
Realizing that more people are
giving thought 10 the necessity Of
building comfort into the summer
cottage, the Building Service
bureau has secured a number of
modc,n plans for the vacation home,
which are now available and may
10 seen by calling at the Bureau,
Rooms 2o.2l Bank of italy Building
~ Centre.
These plans range from simple
one room cabin, To cottages having
tive ample rooms and bath. Various
typos Of construction are shown,
and each plan Is the result of con
siderable study toward making the
little home comfurtablc, attractive
aud of lasting value. Beauty and
utility ere two things that cannot
always be measured by the amount
az money expended, Many simmer
cottages are simply wooden boxes
IN which vacationists house them
selves for period of weeks.
How much better it is to give n
little thought to the appearance of
thIS temporary home, and make it
attractive. The chances are that a
Vacation spent in an attractive,
well planned. modern, comfortable
summer cottage, will have much
greater rccrcational value for the
entire family.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
New Service
Station Opens

Several hundred persons visited
ImDcrial county airport Saturday
night when Richfield Beacon High
way service station No. 4 was Of
ficialIy opened and the sigma! lights
At the airport were turned on
The service station officials were
presented with bouquets of flowers
by the Imperial and FL Centro
Chambers of Commerce and by the
Lions club of Imperial. Miss Helen
Oakley acted as flower girl for the
Imperial Chamber and Miss Lucy
strain for the Lions club. Secretary
HAYS presented the FL Centre cham
ber = flowers.
Richfield officials today express
ed their appreciation for the trib'
utes and for the splendid attendance
at the opening.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
Visiting Shriners
Killed In Crash

LONG BEACH, Calf, June 3.
tU.P;--A traffic accident in which
Two persons were killed and four
injured marred the gayety of the
Los Angeles Shrine convention
Sunday.
Mrs. Howard Ellsworth, 80, st.
Paul Mimi, wife of a Shrine dele
gate, and Harry Christian, a dele
gate from Fargo, \. d., were kill
cd.
Mrs. Ellsworth and Christian
were riding in an automobile with
Harry Christian and Edward
Elliott of Glendale, Calf, when it
colIided with a machine driven by
James Johnson of Signal Hip.
johnson and his son, Carl, 4, suf-
fered fractured skulls and were near
death today. Mrs. Johnson aud a
daughter sustained broken arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
Tariff On Peas
Not Satisfactory

In response to wire sent by +.
W. Greer of Brawley to NJ. y.
Witter asking how the valley felt
in regard to the proposed tariff bill
before congress and which was re.
.errcd to Scott h. Fouids by Nitter
since the latter felt that he had
grown out of touch with the matter
due to his absence Al the state iegis-
lature, the following statement
was made.
'Farmers in general are very
w,ll satisfied with the proposed
tariff Of three cents 4 pound on
tomatoes but they feel that the
proposed tariff Of two cents per
pound for green peas does not give
them adequate protection against
he importation Of peas from
McNi"o. -
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
Hehcr Rancher
Dies Suddenly

w. ID. Pace, chicken raGcher,
iocatcd near Ileber. died last night,
cause unknown, according to the
coroncr's office this morning. The
man, about 80 years of age, was
found dead in his bed in the ranch
house
According to Bert Underw ood,
investigator for the coroner, Pace
was without family and no record
of amy relatives could be feUnG in
the man 5 effects. Pace had rented
;hc ranch from Fred Gilbert and
had stocked it with approximately
500 chickens.
1t is expected that an effort will
be made to locate relatives before
burial.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
Counties Plan
War On Pests

b. A. Harrigan, horticultural com
missioner, will leave today for Los
Angeles to attend meeting of the
commissioners of the eight southern
counties of the state which will take
place tomorrow in the office of H.
i RYAN, horticultural commissioner
for Los Angeles county.
The purpose of the meeting is to
establish a war college of quarantine
and pest control, so that the forces
of the state may be in readiness to
combat the Mediterranean fruit fly
menace should such an emergency
arise in California.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03

Elmer Anderson has been secured
as official eowtester for the dairy
department of the MADEIRA county
farm bureau, succeeding Karl CRUDE,
resigned.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-03
and All COMPETITORS
We Guarantee to UnderseU 4

S Cheaper SalomFr Obvious
ened Elsewhere Supposedly Price In This Event We Cut
UndsoMTh This
Stock Iiquidato Absolutely Solomon
Walls. Fixtures Now Remain For
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Hydr0-E2ectWc Workers
Their OVn MANAGEMENT
Dear Comrades:-

We have received your letter. and although
how the capitalists in America the workers.
that class who cannot treat differently those from
whom he has to out much profit possible
Ever since the working power
abominabe things here The personality the
protected by all existing laws And under the protection these
laws performing task, the reconstruction of the whole
country a technical basis.
"Dneprostroi where working years present
hydro-ec power station of 100000 hp This powr
house will be source of energy which will turn the wheels Of number
Of industrial undertakings be built there giving employment
100000 workers.
We building this power
Union closely watching We building with
with the participation your engineers Germans
the will spent
hundred million res necessary experience
Until managed construction pretty
by the plan have been time
ton collectively In all production
which consider the questions which brought forward by the active
workers arise the of construction These questions
first of all discussed by the commissions which they
cred at the production conference with the participation the
ers the technical staff and the administration.
These conferences play the matter of economng
IN he OF funds and material they atonaze this or that
part of the construction Ever the
Oo active social workers. These active workers take on social work.
they take active the
services assume different forms AT present the Dneprosroy people
have taken the patronage village We have
sense as we" we nave decided to help the poor population
of this village with the spring planting We sending
ers brigade repair their agricultural implements We
funds for the purchase of necessary materials
We worked two hours Saturday, during
the repairs the machinery proposed
hours Saturday in order to collect money.
Our village and uncuured 1t
road on which the working class marching ahead Beaten down by
arm the and erae peasant is like the
the village "ulak, and it difficult the
path of Socialism And still each day brings Everywhere
their land as science teaches
and we the neposoy people have also assumed the obligation help
to the road which long closed worker
and particularly the Dneprosroy worker lives There whole
CT remembering all direction
world Write. ~ viz "D'l'
With aenal greetings by the
paper 'Dneprostroy- DASHKEYEV.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, (By MaiD. -
The conditions fulfilled by the work.
ers in the E. G. Budd Body Mfg.
Co. in order to exist are a study in
modern slavery. The plant is wellr
known to Philadelphia workers as
the "mad-house," and after passing
doctor, giving name of next of
kin, and showing a full kit of fin
gers, young man is permitted to
work on piece work if his record is
good" and is white man.
Inside, the plant is crowded, dark
1.-THE windows are light proof and
has the sour smell of the true sweat
shop. One learns to know Buddy"
by his smell. The racket of the
speedup is absolutely deafening. A
worker has to learn Ip-reading in
order to navigate thru the clouds of
welding smoke.
The punch-press hands and the
welders work IL hours and more
day and one man will handle as
many as 5,00os pieces day. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
DUTCH Boy Lead
SLAVES WORK IN
tn MILLING SHOP
Slaves Driven in 100
Year Old Shacks
(Bu q Worker Correspondentl

tDY U w OTh6T COTTeSpONueHt/
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD AT
a recent banquet of the Philadelphia
Chamber Of Commerce Centenary
Association, 103 business firms were
"honored" for having exploited the
working class 100 years or more.
Well-known capitalist spielers, such
as Joy Lee, took part in the casing
bee but made no reference to the
fact that many of the rotten build
ings put up century ago are still
in use and that workers risk their
necks behind rickety walls every day.
Among others, the John L. Lewis
Co., makers of Dutch Boy White
lead, and Job F. Pugh, Inc, auger
makers, herd their slaves in struc-
lures which ought to have been con-
demned a generation back. But
when the building inspector" pres
ent the open palm they tactfully
close their eyes.
Besides being dangerous, with
their bullying floors and dark, broken
down stairways, these ramshackle
pens menace the health of the slaves.
Small colonial" windows, spaced far
apart, let in so little sunlight that
their eyes are under a continual
strain. There is no ventilation;
where serfs have to work in an
atmosphere saturated with poisonous
fumes, as in the Lewis plant, the re-
suit is fine breeding ground for
TB and other occupational diseases.
In many cases the bosses have
given up all effort to keep the ruins
in repair; the dust of years blankets
the walls and ceilings; the term
"fire-traps" does not begin to de-
scribe them.
The gold-beaters of Hastings and
Co., another of the "honored'' 100
year-old exploiters, toll in the cellar
Of a wobbly building in Filbert Street
that has been used by the firm since
1920. The light here is entirely
aftlIlclaI. AS the floor is OF con-
crete and the stone walls are damp
with age, the workers become vic
tins of rheumatism early in life. All
day long they are forced to stand on
their feet, beating out the gold leaf
with 10-pound hammers, SO that
even walters do not have higher
percentage of broken arches. Lack
OF ventilation also subjects them to
consumption, because they are al
ways breathing in the powder with
which they sprinkle the parchment
pads.
1t was in tribute to their feudal
treatment of slaves that these 1903
hoary firms were really rewarded
with engraved certificates of mem
bership" in the bosses Centenary
Association. N. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Vampires and Water Power
on the Cinema Guild Bill

At the Film Guild Cinema they
put on a movie that seems to have
a scenario by some sophomore whose
instructor told him to write horror
play. So what could be more hor-
rible than vampires? And he swiped
enough out of Dracula to get plot,
after which the thing went to a
great director and some excellent
photographers, backed by enough
money to carry the actors and the
machines to Czecho-Slovakia or Hun
gary, where the scenery is well
worth seeing.
The director had a bunch that
vampires couldn't go over these days
and persisted in introducing natural
istic touches. For example, "Nos-
faertu, the Vampire" loads six cof-
fins full of earth in which demons
have disported, on a ship, and has
them sent to city where he wants
to start the plague. But when the
coffins are opened rats come out
true plague carriers, no vampire
needed.
The CHASTITY makeup of Max
Schreck as Nosferatu, the almost
convincing expressions of terror that
Greta Schroeder, Ruth Landschoff,
Wolfgang Heinz and Albert Denohr,
as two women and two sailors, can
produce, deserve to be used on a
better theme. Why couldn't it have
been a story of plague pure and
simple, with the vampire, if there
must be vampire, obviously a fig
ment of the imagination? The story
has borrowed some of its technique
from OR. Caligari's Cabinet
one reason that went through so well
was that the audience was not al
lowed to recover from its. momentary
spell of the supernatural before it
was all explained as a maniac's
dream. This one sends you out in
suited, and ashamed of whatever
yielding to the glamor of the photo
graphy you may have felt, because
of the childishness of the plot.
The graveyard epitaphs are
great. If they are not faxed, some
body spent a lot of time hunting
them up. Some of our forefathers
had the merit of frankness when
it came to concentrating the dear
departed.
The Lure of Labrador is a mild
travelogue, interesting chiefly be-
cause of it's frankness in discussing
imperialistic motives. Labrador has
water power greater than Niagara,
and virgin forests. Canada and
Newfoundland endulged in 20 years
litigation over it, and Morganland,
the U. S. A, has yet to be heard
from. Either insult will have Labra-
dor or some British insult will have
Niagara when the next world war is
ended.
Two other features are the old
Ballet Mechanique, surprising as
ever, and Charlie Chaplin's "The
Fireman." not his best, but very
good-V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
By q Worker Correspondent.

CHESTER, Pa. (By MaiD.-Just
what is responsible for the intensi-
fled drive to make us all safety ex-
perts? All the workers at the Sun
Ship have been given buttons and
signed up to be more careful.
I was missed in this gas attack of
safety. 1t has become a disease
around Chester, a new Epidemic as it
were.
The ambulance hurried into the
"Yard First Aid" from the Wetherill
Plant of the Sun Ship with victim
of the new disease, Safety First)
all decked out with h button on,
the new insignia of boss camouflage.
How did this accident happen and
he with his safety button on? Why
he just fell down in a pit withou.
any fence around it and few planks
laid over to teach you to be careful
and to remind you to watch your
step.
Is this stuff safety first new
kind of graft put out by the insur-
ance company? Is this a new way
of teaching the public, "all is well
with the wo- iers," that accidents are
your own fault and the boss is very
considerate of his slaves and does
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Young Communist Tells
of Savage Manhandling
from Toronto Police

TORONTO, Ont. (By Mail).-A
story illustrative of the savage
methods used by local police in their
campaign of violence against mill
tant working class organizations is
told by Able Pearl, 16-ycar-old
Young Communist, among three ar
rested at Soho and Queen SITS. for
refusing to abandon meeting in
celebration of International Chill
dren's Week. Pearl will appear in
Juvenile court tomorrow on charges
Of "disorderly conduct"
"He wouldn't stop, he kept on
twisting and twisting till I got sick"
the arrested Young Communist
stated. "He only laughed and kept
twisting till my wrist snapped and
I tainted"
go and mind your own business"
was the remark of the official en-
trusted by Police Commissioner ORA
per with the task of keeping Com
nunism out of the city" to a doc
tor who told him to "let the boy
alone"
Indicating the casual nature of his
Investigation" into the circum-
stances of the arrest, Draper de-
clared that "the police Of Toronto
will make every effort to restrain
Communism from this CITY,"
II am confident that the officer
has not used any unnecessary vio-
lence," he stated.
The three had been ordered to
"move on" from an earlier meet
ing. Pulling them from the stands
on their second attempt to continue
the celebration, police dragged them
away from the sympathetic crowd
to the station. They were later re-
manded on bail for tomorrow's
trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Phone COMPANY
ExPL OTIS Heroes
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
For Outstanding acts of service"
performed last year in the employ
of the telephone industry, three
women workers and a man were
awarded Vail silver medals, national
prizes, it was announced yesterday.
A cash sum of $3.50 also was received
by each winner.
Anna C. Yureckso, of Rockaway,
N. j. aid winner for the second
successive time, averted train
wreck; Mrs. Mabel Hite, of Potter,
Neb., prevented the crash of an air.
mail plane; Mrs. Althea P. Marks, of
Saticoy, Cal, sounded the warning
of the st. Francis dam break in
California and Olin Etheridge Per-
ude, of Atlanta, Ca, saved a fellow
worker from a flood swollen river.
Shaving all year round, seven days
week, these telephone operators
work for meager wages as low as
$12 and $14 week. After years of
slavery, they may receive a "medal
for service" and when, as frequently
occurs, these slaves show extreme
heroism during a disaster, small
cash sum is generously" added to
the medal by the company.
These awards are not made in any
generous spirit by the phone COM
panies, but are used as advertise
ments for the company, particularly
in selling the telephone company's
stock. The heroism of the workers
is exploited to the limit thru COM
pany advertisements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Communist Expelled
by ReactiOnaries in
British Rail Union

BLACKPOoL, Eng. (By MaiD.-
Stewart Purkis, Communist member
of the Railway Clerks Association,
has been expelled from the union by
the reactionary officials for his ac-
tivity in the Left Wing Minority
Movement. The weight of the rul-
ing machine was brought to bear to
push through the expulsion Of Pur-
kis, despite the demand of 5000
members that Purkis be allowed in
the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
FLOODS IN TEXAS.

HOUSTON, Tex, June 2.-Waters
of Buffalo Bayou, which in places
flowed through streets near it's
banks, are receding. No loss of life
has been reported definitely.
A report circulated widely last
night that a messenger boy had
been seen to drown when he rode
his bicycle too near the swirling
waters was denied today. The boy
was found safe. There was no veri-
fication of the reported drowning of
another bystander.