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Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
BY STEWART BROWN
nited Press Staff Correspondent


PARIS. Aug. o. Alternately
sleeping one hour, working one hour,
eating only tomato juice aud bana-
mas - times dav, two Russians,
acting as human Guinea pigs, are
CARRYING ont the bold experiment of
a strange and rich American thcoSo-
phiSt in Paris,
The two Russians, who are well
paid aud under contract for one
year. are required to walk on their
hands and knees aS much as possible.
because their employer considers
that human beings are predestined
to walk ON all fours and would be
happier II they returned to that po-
sition.
JeaiouSlv aud mySteriousIy the
American scientist guards the secret
of his name. lie does all his busi-
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
BOLD EXPERIMENT CARRIED
ON BY MYSTERIOUS SCIENTIST

ness through an agent and is known
to the Russians and his servants aS
=" Doctor NlI. - He is considered
rich, as he drives an expensive ear
and pays his Russian "guinea pigs
5000 Il month each and all their
expenses.
The strange experiment leaked out
recently when the chief Russian
newspaper in Paris, Dernieres
NouvcllcS : published half column
advertisement stating that a wealthy
American wished to adopt couple
of Russian cmigrants not older than
-, not taller than ) feet 10 inches,
having no children, and for one year
willing to submit to theory in
vented 10y the American in question,
the recompense to be wide travel
with all expenses paid and 5000 a
Continued on page six)
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Latin-American
Delegates Here
For Conference

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. g.
(U,P)-The first contingent of Latin
American delegates to the Pan-Am
crican Reciprocal Trade conference
here this month were ON their way
TO Los Angeles today. The group
reached New York yesterday and
were guests of the Pan-American
society of New York last night.
The delegation. composed of more
than a score of trade ENJOYS from
Argentina, will attend "A banquet in
honor of all delegates Sunday night
at Los Angeles.
Following this session, they will
leave the southern city in nm auto
mobile cara van on tour Of the en-.
tire state, arriving in Sacramento
Il few days before the conference.
which opens in the Senate chambers
of the capitol Sunday, August 2j.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
DAWSON PLANE
FLIES OVER CITY

SAN DIEGO, C";it., Aug. Il. U,H
Escorted bV l squadron of pursuit
planes, g. Truhcc DAWSON, assistant
secretary of war for aviation, ar
rived ai Rockwell field at l:l5 p, m.
today. frnm Flagstaff, Ariz.
The pursuit planes flew 10 lmpe-
riM VALLEY to stage a high altitude
attack ON the plan" bearing Dawson
aud formed au escort after the at.
tack had Theoretically shot down
the secretary = ship,
Dawson will leave here tomorrow
for March Field and is expected in
Sacramento later ~ the day to cN-
anime Mathcr FIcld as n possible
future permanent army air base.
Dawson is ON lo,000-milc in.
Spcrtion tour of army air corps ac-
tjviticS.
f., Ccntro residents who were
keeping their cNCS upward this noon
saw f. Truhcc DAWSON, assistant
secretary of war N charge of aNi-
atiun, being greeted by a squadron
of planes from San Diego al an eX'
trcmc height above this city.
DAWSON, who is making an IN
spcction trip throughout the west,
was cnroutc from Flagstaff, Ari-
IONA. 10 san Diego, pilOtcd by cap
tain ira Eukcr of "Qu"stion Mark
fame
The greeting to Dawson took
the form of an "attack" the san
Diego planes diving in formation
toward the ship carrying the sccrc-
tary, just rs they passed over the
city. The murky condition of the
sky made il difficult to see the
flyers and they were in view only
short time.
According 10 announcements
from Rockwell field, the mancuvcrS
here were to take place at a height
hctwccn 10000 and 25,000 feet.
Those who saw the planes estimated
they were not travelling much high,
,r than 10000 feet, probably due
to the haze which existed here.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Davis Predicts
Eight-Hour Day
For Steel Mills

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. U.P}-
Early adoption of the eight hour day
in the steel industry throughout the
country was predicted here today by
Secretary of Labor Davis, himself Il
former steel puddlcr,
Davies prediction came after re
ports reaching his office that the
United States steel corporation and
Republic steel corporation are to put
the cight-hour day in effect III their
Birmingham. Ala. district mills. The
Labor secretary believes other steel
companies in the district will fol
low suit. Most northern mills long
ago shortened their working hours.
Labor department statistics show
3S9,270 men are employed il the
steel industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Fire Threatens
Timber Regions

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Il. UP -
III. Il, Pratt, state forester, today
ordered $50 men e return to Il brush
and timber fire near CohasSct, q
small town in northern California
near Chico.
This was the most serious of a
dozen fires burning in the state, al
though the season as whole has
been notably free from forest fires.
The Cohasset fire has burned over
1900 acres, mostly brush, but today
it threatened timber in the vicinity
of Cahasset. The fire has been con
trolled three times but switch in
the wind has caused it to flare up
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
old Fashioned
Wife Divorces
Film Director

LOS ANGELES, Aug. &. U,P)
Francis James Martin. Hollywood
film director, has lost an cold
fashioned > wife.
Mrs. Beverly Martin, garhcd neat
" but quietly in Il felt hat, dark
dress and low black shoes. told Judge
.loscuh Sproul about her husband 5
views regarding her and won a di-
Norcc decree with alimony.
"'Ilc said | didn't have any 1T >,
Mrs. Martin testified. "llc didn T
IKE it because do not believe IN
women smoking or drinking and SAID
I was too oldfaShionCd.
She also claimed her husband false
" accused her of aSsociating with
other men.
They were married III 1925 aud
separated last July 22.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Double Staying
Believed To Be
Murders

Los ANGELES, Aug. i, (U.R(-A
murder and suicide theory was ad-
vanced by deputy ShcriffS today i'll
the deaths of w. Nj. Stodgill %, a
former motorcycle officer, and Mrs,
Bertha Pettyiohn, 36, with whom he
had been keeping company,
Their bodies were discovered IN
the man S home, each with a bullet
hole in the right temple. Stodgill' 5
revolver lay between them.
A note left by Stodgill Indicated
he was Jealous OF attentions paid
Mrs. Pettyiohn by other men. An
inscription on his revolver read;
Presented by the citizens of ri
Segundo for service rendered III kill
ing bank robbcr.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06

permitted to take Hubert to Holly
wood.
For six weeks Hubert sang daily
over Il radio station. He made a
talking picture, He became popular
Crowds gathered at the studio to
watch him perform.
For the first tim" Hubert was
dressed in the best of clothes Star
tied bv his first trip out of Searey
county. Ark, Hubert cvdid not re
alizc his success.
Today he came home in the big
tri-motored plane. He was landed
here as the big plane could not
find a landing spot in the hilly
country of Leslie.
Crowds greeted him. He smiled
in appreciation.
Then he left for Leslie.
"Gosh," he said, "but | will be
glad to get my shoes Off"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
MIDWEST
RELIEVED
BY rain
Drought-Stricken Middle
west Gets Relief From
Intense Heat.
WAVE MOVES EAST
Mississippi Valley Faces
Water Shortage; Lack
OF Rain Continues.

CHICAGO, Aug. 8. U.P|-RaiHs
that brought Spotty relief to the
drought strikcn middle west, today
rolled the August heat wave cast
ward toward the Atlantic seaboard
and southwark to the fringes of the
parchcd corn belt.
Temperatures that have hung
around the 100 mark for days III
the middle west sought lower levels
today in the 7o's and SOS after
scattered showers and delugcs cooled
the atmosphere and broke in many
area, the drought that scared crops
with hundreds Of millions damages.
The forecast from the Chicago
weather bureau held out hope for
more showers in the middle west
with lowering temperatures. East
ward, however, the prediction was
tor warmer weather. The same fore
east was made for the southern
fringcs of the corn belt.
From the Rocky mountains to the
Ohio border, the drought region was
splashcd with showers and in some
rascs dclugcs. Welcome rains camc
in Colorado, sections of Nebraska,
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
Farm leaders hailed the drought
as a blessing in Disguise which
will force farmers to diversity their
crops and place them III better posi-.
tiou 10 withstand drought.
Insect Invasions
In the north central states, parts
or Canada and ON the west coast.
cool weather prevailed and rains fell
10 save what remained Of the stand
ing grains, but even III these areas
there were sections that continued
larchcd and uurclicVed.
The coutcr of the wave seemed
70 have moved gradually from Mis-
souri, and Kansas. through Illinois
and Indiana and into the east where
the situation was becoming aS acute
as it previously had been in the
ddlcWcst.
The rainfall, amounting To cloud
bursts I'm few scattered localities,
solved for these sections one of the
major problcms of the summer
waiter supplies.
TIE problem. however, was hccom
my more and more serious in those
sections where there has been prac-
ticallv no rainfall since July l..
Southern Indiana aud Oklahoma
were two of the sections hardest hit
~ this respect.
In addition TO the drought aud
beat difficulties, two areas suffered
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Holdup Suspect
Shot By Police

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 6. W.H
john Allcsio, -, who has fought
here under the name OF johnny RiS
SO. was shot today by q policeman
when he attempted to escape arrest.
Allcsio was pulled from the rml-
ming board of ear in which five
holdup suspects were starting up
Pine street. Patrolman Frank AkcrS
took the man in custody and shot
twice when he broke away and ran
One bullet lodged in Allcsio 5
chest. His condition is critical.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
FATALLY HURT
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH

Los ANGELES, Aug. Is. UP
William q. Van Scoyock, % of
Fullerton, was fatally injured and
Jack Piper, 10, of Los Angeles. re
ceived cuts and bruises today III a
collision between two automobiles
at Artesia. Van Scoyock died short
lv after the crash in the Artesla
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Endurance Flyer
Suffers Bad Cold

ST. LOUIS, Aug. o. (Upl Although
Dale Jackson, endurance flyer, sur
tered from cold, the monoplane
Greater ST. Louis droued In circles
over Lambert St. Louis field TO-DAY.
jackson determined his illness w0uli
not conflict with the attempt o.
break the Hunter Brothers record
of 553 hours of continuous flight
At 9:1l a. m. the plane had been
IN continuous flight for $3.50 hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
Chinese
LEADER
RESIGNS
RumOr Declares Kai-Shek
Asked To Quit By The
Northern Rebels.
LOSE CONFIDENCE
Shanghai Bankers Plan
To Withdraw Finan-
cial Assistance.

SHANGHAI. Aug. 6. W.D-A
telegram received by an American
firm here today from its Marking
representative said Chang Kai-shek,
head of the national government.
had submitted his resignation for
consideration of the state council.
The advises were not confirmed
from other sources.
Chang Kai-shek, who gained the
leadership of China S military and
civil forces in the successful nation-
alist campaign two years ago, re
Gently has been called upon to re
sign by the northern rebel leaders
at Peiping.
Chang, youthful and modern, has
been endangered by the northern
armies from Peiping and simulta
neouSlv by the raids Of Chinese
communist forces in Human and
other provinces in the YangtZe re-
gion, where reporst today Indicated
checking of looting and massacres
around Changsha.
Early today it was reported that
Shanghai bankers had demanded
successful termination of the civil
war before the end of August on
the threat that otherwise they
wuold refuse further financial sup
port.
Coincident with the Marking re-
ports, $50 British Green = Howard
troops, including two rifle platoons
and two machine gun sections, en-
! barked ON the steamship Suiwo for
Hankow, which has been threatened
! by Communist forces.
Another detachment of 80 men
will follow within n huors. On
| their arrival at Hankow they will
be quartered on II. NJ. s. Cumber-
! land, to be landed in event of an
emergency III protection of foreign
interests in the region.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 8. U.H-Two
hundred bandits and an equal num-
Der of farmers and merchants were
killed when the former made raid
upon the village of Wuyuansein in
| thC opututlh ScClltu VI ~ AHUWtS
province, dispatches received here
today said
The banditry, numbering about
$50, attacked without warming. AT
ter routing the hastily summoned
defenders III a short and bloody
battle they began to burn and plum.
| der the captured district.
More than half of the robbers
possessed modern rifles and pistols
which they used with deadly eff
feet
The dispatches also declared that
three other villages had been dc
stroyed by the marauders and that
the population had appealed to the
nationalist government for aid.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. W.P) -
Recapture of the important indus
trial city of Changsha by national
! list forces was reported to the state
department today by American
Consul Richard p Butrick at Han
kow. Bandits pillaged Changsha
last week with a great loss of life
and property.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
PLAN FUNERAL RITE
FOR SAN JOSE PADRE

SAN JOSE. CaIit.. Aug. q lU.PJ
Funeral arrangements We're being
made today for Father Ramon NJ.
Mcstres, Padre of the Restoration,
who performed the wedding cere-
mony for President and Mrs. Hoo
yer at Monterey, Calf, in 1899.
He died here last evening at san
atorium.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06
FIND WOMAN'S BODY
IN RAY AT AVALON

Los ANGELES, Aug. t. (U.H-
The shcriff's office today began an
investigation into the idenity of Il
woman whose body was found in
the bay at Avalon, Catalina Island.
1t is not known whether the drown
ing was accidental or intentional.
There were no identifying papers
on the body. -. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-06

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
Mulrooney's Finest

There hasn't been enough head cracking
lately to satisfy the New York cops, SO just
to keep in trim until the winter bread riots
begin Patrolman Calvin Savers got Hey
wood Broun bun on Monday night--walked
into house in Brooklyn, shot 53-year-old
widow to death, showing that he knows what
Mulrooney meant when he made speech re-
Gently telling the cops to be kind and courte-
GUS to the people
Another cop, julius Herberer, taking the
hint from Jimmy Walker that what is wanted
right now in New York City is civic righteous
ness to defend our sacred homes from the men,
ace of Bolshevsm, went out with his little
police car, looted the furniture from two homes
and presented it to his lady love, an Irish
school teacher, who teaches the kids that they
have terrible immortality in the Soviet Union.
1t seems that this cop, who setting up
a little pedagogic concubne thus on the side,
he being married and the father of two kids,
is especially distinguished by having a dad
who is a justice of the peace and at the same
time is drawing salary as chaplain of the
Nassau County Jail, being preacher devoted
to showing the lowly the Way of Life.
Now we ask everybody to note that the cop
who put four bullets through the aged and
widowed mother of six children is reported
in the N. Y. Times to shave had good record
in the police department" While the cop
whose philandering led him into making the
mistake of robbing the houses of the rich, be-
sides "having served with the navy during the
World War; is noted for "a splendid record
as detective and was promoted to be SER
geant two years ago, later acting as ieuten-
anti
1t was while he was sergeant that he lifted
the furniture. But when his police car was
found full of good liquor after fire in rich
mans cellar, he was denoted 1t don't pay
dog.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
By RAYMOND BAKER.

The Communist Party in District has
made a serious achievement in the field of
Revolutionary Parliamentarism by securing
nearly $4,000 workers signatures to put the
Communist candidates on the ballot in the
coming elections.
The significance Of this accomplishment be-
comes clear when we realize that over period
of about two months through the organized
Party machinery more than seventy-five thou
sand workers were individually approached
and canvassed for signatures on the basis of
the Communist Party Election Platform.
The latest reports show that an average of
about Is to 20 minutes were spent with each
worker c2nvassed. Fifteen thousand Election
Platforms were sold to the signers Of petitions
IN addition to other literature.
Intensive Communist Activity.
During TIE entire period the normal day to
day activities of the Party, the Daiiy Worker
sales, op9n air meetings, shop gate activities,
shop papers, campaigns were not only contin-
red bit noticeaby increased both in quantity
and quality.
The campaign for signatures was an extern
sive and sustained campaign OF individual boil
sAevik agitation that actually reached tens of
thousands Of new workers with Communist
propaganda
The character of the agitation, the results
obtained and the large percentage of members
savolved reflects the readiness of our Party
to participate in broad agitation and tie pos
sibiiities of securing serious results on the
basis of planned activities.
The campaign has revealed many weak
nesses and shortcomings, the failure to draw
non-Party members into the activity, lack of
proper organizational coordination the failure
to draw the entire membership into activity,
ETC. However, the characteristic feature lies
in the achievements and the first large scale
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
Westinghouse Cuts Wages,
Mellon Profits
By GRACE HUTCHINS

Firing and wage cuts are the order of the
day at the huge Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co. workers near Pittsburgh,
as at other plants in this industrial center.
Only one-thrd the former number of workers
are now employed. Wages are at least 10 per
cent less than former rates.
The office force was recently cut down by
10 per cent, and two weeks later the remain
ing office workers were given 10 per cent
wage cut. Women workers, hired at a cut
rate of two-thirds of mans wages, have re-
placed men in many departments. Westing-
house plays tie old game of firing group Of
workers when they finish particular job to
rehire sone few weeks later at lower wages.
"Womon come cheaper" and so girls now work
at almcSt all processes in the rubber depart
ments of the Westinghouse Air Brake plants
Workers Starve, Boss Profits
During the very months of 1880 while work
ers' wages were cut, the rate Of dividend go
ing to capitalist stockholders was increased
from 81 a quarter per share to S1.25 quarter
per share-a 25 per cent increase. Dividends
distributed in 1929 totalled over $11,000,000
The Mellon family is well represented on the
Westinghouse board of directors, while Andrew
Mellon himself as u. S. secretary of treasury
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
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Put Walls Around 1t!
By JORGE

Mayor Murphy and the Detroit bosses have
hit on happy idea in putting up signs at
every entrance to Detroit reading: Strangers,
Keep Out!" Only they're about thousand
years behind the times. The feudal barons of
the middle ages-and earlier, used to do such
bright tricks, and found that without building
high walls and moat around the towns the
signs didn't work.
After all it would be suite fitting to show
that capitalist civilization" is reverting to
forms harmonious with its barbarous charac-
ter if all the cities would build walls around
themselves. Of course, in the present case, it
is the workers only who are kept out, and thus
made into pariahs. But let us hear no more
of the "broad social outlook of capitalism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
A BOLSHEVIK ACHIEVEMENT
TO BE CONSOLIDATED
AND FOLLOWED UP

successful agitation by individual canvassing
of workers at their homes.
Each Signer Potential Vote.
The securing of the sufficient number of
signatures, however, is only the first step in
the successful conduct of the election cam
paign.
The plans worked out by the District Com
mittee must be carried out in full by the COM
plete mobilization of the entire Party mem
bership, Y. C. L. and the revolutionary men,
bers who accept the leadership of the Party.
Every signer of the petition is a potential
voter and there are thousands of potential
members of the Party and revolutionary
unions
In the period of the next few weeks each
worker who has signed the Communist petition
must be visited at least once. Every effort
must be made to get these workers to Vote
Communist, to become active supporters and
agitators for thA Communist Party, to secure
them to read NE Party press to become men,
bers of tha revolutionary unions and the Party.
In tlss campaign a serious effort must be
made to draw the non-Party workers into the
election campaign activities.
Into the Shops.
Every shop where Communist and revolu-
tionary workers are working shall endorse the
Communist candidates, vote to march in body
to greet the Communist candidates, Foster,
Amter, Minor, upon their release from prison
on October 81 at the Madison Square Garden
The shop meetings shall vote a definite sum
of money for the campaign fund to be pre-
scented at Oct. 81 demonstration.
Workers in the shops shall be drawn into all
activities of the campaign.
All shop papers shall feature the election
campaign connecting the slogan, demands and
the platform of the Communist Party with the
concrete problems facing the workers in the
shop.