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Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Another Decline
On Wall Street
NEW YORK, MAY Is. U.P)

NEW YORK, May Is. W.H -
Stocks broke sharply today.
According to preliminary calcula-
tion the Dow Jones & Co. industrial
average declined 5.0l to 269.39 and
the railroad average 0.53 to 144.0S.
Sales totalcd 2,675,470 share S,
compared with 3,l79,500 shares yes
terday.
Discouraged bulls sold their hold
ings and bears pressed the declines
by further short sales
United States Steel and other piv-
otal shares were forced down two
to five points. Some special issues
dropped as much as 81 points.
AT one time Auburn Auto was
down 27% points at new low for
the year at 15S. A corresponding
loss was registered in this issue on
the Chicago exchange,
with Auburn breaking wide open
and j. ]. Case down nearly 20 points
selling spread to all sections, bccom-
ing heavier as the day wore on.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Plans Long Jump
From Parachute

Los ANGELES, May Is. U.P)-
Bert White, ~, representative of an
AR chute company, announced to,
day he will bail out of an airplane
at an altitude of approximately
2o,6oo feet, or five miles, SUNDAY
IN an effort to establish a new par
achute mark.
"hlte VIII enter plane in Los
Angeles and jump when the plane is
over the Muroc Dry lake, it was
announced. He will carry supply
OF food, water and oxygen as it was
oeheved he might drift for miles in
TO some remote section of the coun,
try before landing. The descent will
,aEe approximately an hour and
Whlte is aiming to beat mark
OF or, 1t,4o2 feeet made by Captain A.
W. Stevens at McCook Field. Dav.
ton, O., in 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
AMERICAN WOMEN WITH GROUP
PRESENTED AT BRITISH COURT

LONDON, May 15.-U.H-
London's social season was
opened at Buckingham Palace
last night when King George
and Queen Mary held the first
of five royal courts scheduled
for 1880.
Eight American women were
among the hundreds from Ill
nations who were presented to
the king and queen. Along with
the others. thew arrived at the
palace gates hours 0efore the
presentation was scheduled, and
sat nervously in their autom0-
bileS.
Two of the young women
spent the waiting hours smok-
ing cigarettes, with white
gloves on their hands to avoid
tobacco stains. They attracted
considerable attention. Traffic
jams became so great in the
vicinity of the palace that
many minor automobile coils
ions were reported.
The royal court began at
$50 p. m. when the king and
queen, heralded by trumpets,
appeared at the doors Of the
throne room and advanced to
the two golden thrones. It was
the first appearance Of the king
at a royal court since his seri-
Gus illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Tragic End For
oy Hunter

REDDING, Calf, May 15.-
U.P)-Lenville McLain, II, died
today, following an attempt to
show his brtther "how to COM
NIT suicide.''
Lenville and Joseph, the bro
ther, were hunting rabbits in the
hills near here when Lenville
said: "This is the way to COM
init suicide" He placed the gun
against his chcess and it unex-
pectedly discharged, the bullet
passing under his heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
YOUNG S
CAMPAIGN
STAR
Governor Fires Opening
Gun With Challenge To
His Opponents
OUTLINES PROGRAM
Points To Highway Con-
struction As Achieve
ment OF His Term

SACRAMENTO, May Is. W.H =
Governor C. C. Young today deliver
cd his first campaign address at a
Qualification breakfast" in the Ho-
tel Senator, dealing specifically with
California highway policies.
The governor unofficially issued
challenge to the other two candi-
dates to discuss "specific state
problems,' declaring he planned to
make series of speeches throughout
the state, each dealing with some inn
portant phase of state government.
Among the subjects he will dis
cuss are: water, taxes, finances,
crime. social welfare, agriculture,
schools, institutions and industrial
relations.
The state has built, during the
31a years of his administration. a
total of 22o1 miles of highways, the
governor pointed out.
"This is nearly 1000 miles more
than during any previous admins
tration,' he said.
''in 1927, the first year of the
new highway program, with the adj
ditional one cent tax in effect only
half the year, the total was 223
miles. In 1928, it jumped to 649
miles, in 1929 to 7SS miles, and to
date during 1880 we have added SAL
miles of completed highways.
"Of far greater Importance than
the actual mileage constructed, [
| believe, is the fact that we have
placed our highway program on a
sound financial footing and project
| ed it into the future, achieving econ
omy of expenditure through pcrman-
ency of investmcnt.''
| BY adoption of the gasoline tax
rather than the old method of bono
issues, the administration has savet
approximately $1s,O00,0OO in interes
| charges during the last 3% years
the governor estimated.
"That to me, is striking illus
tration of practical business methods
applied to government.
Again, we have abolished tn,
old part-time state highway commits
sion, placing in it's stead a commits
sion serving without pay, with q
strong administrative head. High
way overhead costs have been re.
duced nearly so per cent as a result
of this and other business-like
changes.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
COURT DEGREES
USURY HEARING
MUST PROCEED

LOS ANGELES, May -. W.H -
Overruling technical objectlonos
which for three days have threaten
cd the collapse of the c ar & $
against II members of Julian re.
troleum pool number /, accused of
having taken excessive interest
from Julian company, Superior
Judge William Aggeicr today order
ed the trial to proceed.
The iurist withheld his opinion on
some of the objections advanced by
the attorneys for the defendants but
he decided that BIO I h indictments
against them charged a public Of
Tense, opening the way for the be
ginning of the prosecutions evi'
dencc.
Specifically Judge Aggeler per
mittcd the state, ever the defense g
bitter objections, to amend for n
second time one Of the two indict-
ments.
He held for later time his opin-
ion on the constitutionality of the
state usury act questioned by the
defense. but regardless of his opin-
ION on thc hattcJ, 'Hc S."'t VIZ
have an indictment to block dismis'
sal of charges against the defend
ants.
The state now has one indictment
against the defendants charging
conspiracy to unlawfully receive
money! and the other as originally
returned by the grand jury, charging
the defendants with receiving stock.
The chief defense objection now
contends that this second indict-
ment in unconstitutional
With the way cleared for the trial,
the state Immediately placed on the
stand Fred Shelley, deputy district
attorney.
Shelley was asked to identify
documents to be used by the state,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
City's Increase
81 Per Cent

FL Ccntro's population. ac-
cording to the United States
census, is 8,413, according to
figures released today by E. N.
D. Hatch, census enumerator
for Imperial county.
This means a .a:n Of 81 per
cent since the 1920 census which
showed 5,464 persons here. The
gain in persons is 2,949.
While somewhat lower than
estimates that have been made
in recent years, the figures are
believed to be approximately
correct, an Independent check
having been conducted by the
chamber of commerce, which
did not vary to any appreciate
degree from the government fis-
ures, Secretary Hays said.
Estimates based on water
meters and other means Of reck-
oning population, nave placed
the city's population between
1000 and 10000 in recent
years.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
LONE RIFLEMAN
HOLDS ARIZONA
POSSE AT BAY

RAY, Ariz., May Is. W.H-A sus-
pectcd cattle rustlcr was captured
today, after he had held off posse
of % deputy sheriffs with Only a
rifle, for the past "a hours.
The heavily bearded rccluse, who
resisted arrest by barrIcading him.
self in a rock cabin in the steam
boat mountains, was taken into Gus
tody after tear gas bombs were
thrown into his stronghold.
Despite the fact the firing be-
tween the posse and the lone rifle
man was the heaviest heard in this
region since Indian fighting days,
no one was injured.
RAY, Ariz., May Is. W.p)-A lone
bearded cattle stealing suspect was
barricaded in a rock cabin high up
in the Steamboat mountains today
after he had greeted possemcn with
a stream of lead yesterday as they
attempted to arrest him.
Failing to get their man after hun.
drcds of rounds of shot were fired
at the cabin fortress and its de.
fender, the officers decided to starve
their quarry out.
The shooting began when n depu-
ty and a cattle inspector attempted
to arrest the reclusc and alleged cat.
tie thief in the cabin. The party
held warrants.
Instead of throwing up his hand,
as ordered, the alleged cattle rustier
| replied with shot from & $3.50
rifle and darted into the cabin. bar
ricadcd himself and fired interim.
tently at the posse from windws
Of the little fortress.
Rcinforccmcnts came steadily and
by 1890 a. m. today, at least %
armed men had surrounded the cab.
il' Some of the deputies brought
tear gas bombs.
The fact that a quantity of Jerk.
ed beef is beloved to be in the
stone blockhousc, caused many of
! the Possemcn to believed that the
riflcman would hold out MANY davs,
ii he had water.
Little is known of the rcclusc.
Officers describe him as a middle,
aged man, wearing a heavy black
| beard lie had been charged with
stealing cattle from ranches. IA II d
selling the meat to members of a
road construction crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Doubles Fund To
Aid Poor Youths

Los ANGELES, May Is. U.P -
Mrs. Lillian Mallrup, who rcccntly
Inherited 100000 from the estate
CT Henri De La Sale, has given
100000 to aid poor boys and girls
to gain an education.
La Sale, life long friend of
the woman s uncle, George La Mont.
dier, provided that tn Q WON n
should establish a trust fund with
100000 of the legacy for such a
purpose, Mrs. Mallrup increased the
amount to 100000.
Institutions whose students will
have access to the fund include I'M
maculate Heart College for Girls
Mt. st. Mary's at Westwood, the
University of California at Los An
geieS, Occidental aud Pomona col
leges.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
kewiping Taken
By Nationalist

LONDON, May Is. W.D Kwan.
tung forces, loyal to the Chinese Ma
tionalist government captured Ke.
wiping from rebel hands after an
al day fight, an exchange telegraph
dispatch from Hongkong said today.
Canton is the capital of Kwan-
tung province.
Many prisoners and quantity
of war material were taken, and the
rebels began retreat toward Pc
nang.
The military governor Of Yunnan
province, who was reported to have
received substantial financial sup.
port from Marking, was preparing
TO invade Kwangsi province.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Accused Enters
Double Plea

Los ANGELES, May Is. (U.R)-
The double plea of not guilty and
not guilty by reason of insanity was
entered by William Burkhart, ~
when he was arraigned today ON a
charge of numbering his wife, Ann
Mcknight Burkhart, screen extra.
superior Judge Walton Wood set
june u as date for trial.
Inc state charges that Burkhart
shot ana fatally wounded his wire
IN ms Hollywood bungalow last
March.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Court Imposes
Traffic Fines

Police court lacked great interest
during its session this morning, traf-
fic eases occupying the greater
amount Of Judge Perkins time.
George Yukawa, paid So fine
for double parking on Main street;
c. j. Hill was assessed the same
amount for parking near fire plug
while Mike Pracsal also heard the
fatal "$2" for parking in restrict.
cd zone. Praesal tried to show that
his stop was for but few fleeting
moments, but they were just few
too many in the opinion Of the
court.
J. Pantoia, 2S, drew n sentence Of
$25 or l21a days in jail for being
drunk in public.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Shuler Appeals
To High Court

Los ANGELES. May 10. UH -
The Rev. r. p. Shuler's S fight to
eVade serving out the % day iail
term imposed on him for contempt
OF court was carried To the state SUI
premc court today.
The Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church pastor, through his attorney
filed with the higher court a pcti.
tion for writ of habeas corpus.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
Two Men Killed
In Mine Blast

WASHINGTON, Pa, May 15.U.p)
Moro than 200 men escaped from
the p. & w. Mine of the Powhatan
Coal Company at Avella, Pa, II
miles west of here, when an explos-
ion believed to have been caused by
gas occurred in section II.
j. 4. Fcderoff, supcrintnedent of
the mine, announced shortly after
p. m. that he had completed a tour
of the mine and that only two men
were killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Legion carnival, 7, B. Salo-
mon store, Main st.
Rotary, 6, w. B. Havekorst
ranch.
Night school, 10. high school.
b. p. o. E. No. 1926, 8, El'ks
hall.
I. v. Council No. "a, 8, Mas
onic Temple.
Barbara Worth Rebekahs, 8,
Davis hall.
Fox Imperial Theatre, "Thc
Golden Calf"
TOMORROW
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth.
w. G. r. u. convention, Bar
bara Worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
TO REPRESENT STATE

- SACRAMENTO, 4 May 15.-WH-
Caliiornia will be represented at
the national foreign trade conveu-
tion IN Los Angeles Nav 2l to %,
by e. Z. Owen, chief of the state
bureau OF commerce and r. p. Hen
a'rS'n' a'so of the bureau, accord
ing To plans announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-15
FALL IS FATAL

LOS ANGELES, May Is. W.D-
Injuries he received in an airplane
accident at Inglewood on May l
caused the death here today of
Wendell Smith, pilot,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
Fight in the Spirit of Ella May
By KARL REEVE.

On September 18th, the anniversary of her
tragic murder by the police, the international
Labor Defense inaugurates Ella May Mem
orial Week, as tribute to the memory of a
courageous and militant working class leader,
and as an occasion for more intensive work
for the success of the September November
Glass War Prisoners Defense and Liberation
Drive
The Gastonia strike began on April list, and
not long after occurred the strike in the tex
tile mills in Bessemer City, only few miles
away. At the very start of the Bessemer City
strike Ella May came forward as one of the
most active members of the National Textile
Workers Union. She was soon acting as the
Bessemer City secretary of the International
Labor Defense, and in that capacity signed up
many workers into the defense organization.
When the delegation of the Gastonia Tex
tile strikers to Washington was organized,
Ella May was selected as one of the twelve
who went to Washington to expose the fake
maneuvers of the Senate. Ella May spoke up
fearlessly in Washington. She exposed the
fact that not only was the textile barons' SEN
ator from North Carolina issuing daily lies
in the Senate about the conditions of the Gas
tonia workers, but also that Green and Woll
and Wheeler were acting as strikebreakers
on behalf of the textile barons.
The lesson of the Washington trip was not
lost on Ella May. She saw that there was
united front of the United States government
agents which included the fascist progress
sives" and American Federation of Labor
tabor" leaders. She that all of these
agents of the capitalist class in the workers
ranks did not want her to appear and give
the true fact as to their conditions. 1t became
clear to Ella May that the Investigation"
was being conducted for the purpose of pre-
venting the southern workers from organizing
into the National Textile Workers Union
In the Gastonia strike area Ella May spoke
daily at strike meetings telling of her ex-
periences with the agents of the bosses in
Washington. She developed into an eloquent
speaker. She told in simple forceful language
the conditions under which she was living; of
her children at home living in poverty and
want; denied schooling because of the starva-
ton wages she was paid in the mills. She
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
The American FasCists OF Atlanta
and the Working Class

klux Khan, and one of the strongholds of the
lynchers of the South (since January, 1880,
seven Negro workers have been brutally
lynched in the state of Georgia), was horror
to the exploiting class, and naturally consti-
tutes a threat to their plumber and robbery.
The utilization of racial barriers between Ne
gro and white workers being one of the main
pillars upholding their oppressive system they
recognize in the breaking down of this pillar,
the accomplishment by the workers-Negro
and white-of one of the prerequisites neces-
sary for the abolition of the whole vicious
system. Their recourse, therefore, to attempt
to prevent this is the organization of the
American Fascist Association and Order of the
Black Shirts and the initiating of its present
campaign to kick the Negro workers out of
their jobs, to pit one race of workers against
the other, to terrorize the Negro workers by
barbarously lynching them, and to try to boil
ster up their crumbling Superiority" and
"inferiority" between the two races of work
ers, both of which, however. are subjected to
the same brutal and miserable conditions.
Let no worker, Negro or white maintain
any illusion as to the true character of the
American Fascist Association and Order of
Black Shirts. and the Atlanta bosses. 1t is
in this very Atlanta that six workers, H. NJ.
Power, Joe Carr, Anna Burlak, Mary Dalton,
81 nerDerC newton ana george Storey, tne last
two Negro workers, stand indicted and face
death in the electric chair for attempting to
hold meetings to organize Negro and white
workers together into the same union. 1t is
in this very Atlanta that the atlanta Life"
one of the leading bosses newspapers of the
city, declared, "The indictment of Powers and
Carr (the first two workers arrested) is the
answer of the state of Georgia to Commu-
nism"--read: is the answer of the state of
Georgia to the demands of the workers for
better working and living conditions 1t is in
this very Atlanta that the Assistant Prosecu-
tor General, Hudson declared "Your Honor. we
will ask for the death penalty in these capt.
tai cases" referring to the six Atlanta prs-
oners. And this very fascist organization
most active in framing up these workers, and
is engaged in melting lynching mobs
against them. 1t is this very fascist organ
ization together with the Caucasian Crusade,
one Of the original signers of which is the
sheriff of the county Jail in which the six At
lanta prisoners we're confined prior TO their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
BY CHARLES ALEXANDER.

The organization in Atlanta, Georgia, OF the
American Fascist Association and Order of
the Black Shirts which has as one of its tasks
the throwing out of Negro workers from their
jobs, and replacing them with white workers
is of signal Importance to the American work
ing class. For it is clear indication OF the
vicious onslaught of the employing class
against the Negro workers, and consequently
against the whole working class.
The name of the organization is significant,
for it manifests that American capitalism is
rapidly unmasking its face, and is assuming
the name which really demonstrates its ac-
tions-fascism. The campaign of this fascist
organization to replace Negro workers with
white workers is another means of the capt.
talist class to further separate and divide the
Negro and white workers, and to render them
impotent to the brutal exploitation and OPP
preston to which both races of workers are
subjected. The workers of Atlanta, and Ct
the whole South must not be misled by the
pretensions of the American Fascist Associa-
ton and Order OF the Black Shirts, but must
organize and unite in a common struggle
against fascsm and exploitation
The conditions of the workers of Atlanta for
the past several months have been frightful.
Mass unemployment and misery exist on all
sides among all sections Of the working class
Negro and white; while those who are yet
fortunate to have job are subjected to merci-
less speed-up, wage-cuts, and general wors-
ening of their living standards. During this
period the death rate from Pellagra-a dread
full disease among the working class caused
by undernourishment--ha increased tremen-
dously. Alongside with this the mortality
among workers children shows frightful in
creases owing to the fact that children at the
early age of seven are compelled to slave ten
to twelve hours in the factories and cotton
mills to increase the starvation level of the
family earnings Confronted with this hor
ribe condition, the Negro and white workers
of Atlanta, under the leadership Of the Trade
Union Unity League, the Communist Party
and the international Labor Defense have been
breaking down the barriers of race prejudice,
and are organizing and uniting in common
struggle for improved economic conditions.
The effect of this organized solidarity and
unity of Negro and white workers in Atlanta,
Georgia, the home Of the blood-thirsty Ku
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16

stated that the organization of the National
Textile Workers Union meant life and death
struggle to the workers in the South. She
stated her willingness to go through any
sacrifice for the union
Ella May knew her life was in danger. She
had been threatened more than once. Ella
May was splendid representative of the
southern women workers.
On September 14th she was killed, on her
way to strike meeting. No one has been
punished for her death, although the six Gas
tonia defendants are judged guilty of "mur-
der" and are now being sought to fulfill SEN
fences totalling more than 100 years.
The working class of America remembers
the heroic role played by Ella May. On Sep
TENDER 18th their tribute to her sacrifice must
be expressed in new action for the same ends
to which Ella May gave her life-the right of
workers to organize and fight for their class;
and the building of powerful defense organ
ization to protect the workers struggle
against the hostile and oppressive ruling class
that exploits them today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16

release on bail by the International Labor De-
tense, and the Ku Klux Khan which burned
cross in the prison yard in an attempt to ter
rorize the six prisoners, and have been instru-
mental in spreading brutal terror among the
Negro and white workers of Atlanta.
1t must be pointed out that it is exactly in
this period when the working masses are bear
ing the whole burden of the economic crisis
their living standards reduced to a starvation
level, and going through one of the worst un-
employment situation in its whole history that
the employing class will utilize and bring into
existence all its fascist organizations to pit
one race against the other, to terrorize the
working class, in order to weaken labors re-
sistance to exploitation and oppression.
The organization of the American Fascist
Association and Order of Black Shirts marks
another step forward in the development of
the employers machinery of persecution of
the workers. And it dates back one year ago
when the Manve Jenckes textile barons Or
ganized their "Black Hundred" during the
textile strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. 1t
was this "Black Hundred" that kidnapped and
attempted to lynch many Of the strikers and
organizers and finally on September 18th,
1929, murdered Ella May, one of the leaders of
the Gastonia and Bessemer City strike, and
whose fighting spirit will be honored by the
International Labor Defense during the week
purposes of the "Black Hundred" laid the
basis for the organization and development on
broader scale of this direct fascist organ
izaton.
The workers of Atlanta, of the South and Of