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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
MRS. RRITTON'S
DAUGHTER KEPT
OUT OF COURT

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. %, W.P)--
Elizabeth Ann Britton was barred
from her mothers libel suit trial
here today despite the eloquent
protests of Nan Britton, who de-
clared my daughter knows who
she Is"
The child was missing from this
mornings session of court which Is
hearing Miss Britton's $4,000 libel
suit against >Iarion, OHIO, hotel
keeper. who distributed copies of a
book, allegedly defaming the plain
tiff.
Elizabeth Ann knows what has
happened her mother asserted
shortly before Federal Judge John
H. Killits formally barred the child.
"She knows the truth. She is able
to discount a good deal of the un-
truth she will hear and to distin-
guish between truth and falsehoo0. -
The reference was made to asser-
tionS of A. G. HUNKS counsel that
Miss Britton's claims that former
President Warren G.. Harding was
the father of her child, as written
in ner book 1.-The Presidents Daugh-
ter, would be disproved in the cur
rent trial.
Judge Killits ordered Elizabeth
Ann kept from the court room be-
cause "this is no place for a child
Of her age The girl Is r.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
NAVY RESCUES
CASTAWAYS ON
DESERTED ISLE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. U.P)-
Three American castaways were
enroute to Balboa, C. g., today
from tiny, tropical Cocos Island,
500 miles out in the Pacific from
Panama where they had lived for
the last six months on fish, wild
pigs and cocoanuts-a modern Sc
Quel to DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Clad only in loin clothes, the
modern Robinson Crusoes, Earl
Pallister of San Diego, Cal, Paul
Stachwick Of Huron, S. D., and
Gordon Brawner of Springfield, Ill,
were rescued last night by the Unit
ed States gunboat Sacramento.
The men had sailed last spring
from San Diego in the yawl West
Wind and had long been thought
to have periShed.
Details Of the rescue and the
castaways experiences on the island
we're relayed to the navy depart
ment from the Sacramento last
night.
Commander G.. H. Bowdey of the
Sacramento reported that the three
appeared to be in good physical
condition. They had kept them
selves supplied with food with the
aid of guns and fishing gear which
they had saved when their yawl
was wrecked off the island. Their
clothing had gradually diminished
until in the end they were reduced
to nothing but loin cloths.
The Sacramento was dispatched
to the rescue of the men Sunday,
after Julius Fleischmau of Cincin-
natl, reported he had discovered
the wrecked West Wind but that
he could not find the men them
selves.
The gunboat arrived at Cocos
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
JAPAN EXTENDS
EXPLANATION TO
SOVIET LEADERS

TOXIC, Oct. 20. U.P)-The for
eign office instructed japanese rep
resentatives at Moscow today to eX'.
plain to the Soviet government that
japanese activities in North Man
churia should not be misunderstood
as demonstrations endangering
Russian lives and property.
The instructions were understood
to be general and friendly. They
were believed intended to elicit a
similar statement from Soviet
authorities, after recent rumors
here that Russian troops on the
Manchurian-Siberi border were
being reinforced.
Foreign Minister Baron Shide-
hara denied an ultimatum had been
sent to Chinese officers at TSitSi-
har demanding that they repair
damage done by Chinese troops to
railway bridge over the Nonni
river. The foreign minister said
Workmen from the japanese owned
South Manchurian railway were re-
pairing the bridge.
TOXIC, Oct. %. U.P)-Japan
sent her acceptance of a one-year
armament truce to Geneva today
as a preliminary to the League OF
Nations negotiations for naval
holiday
The cabinet voted to inform the
league of its decision with the pro-
viso that the truce must be accept
able TO Japan's neighboring powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
Bet He Wishes
He Was Dumb

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. %. U.P)
When Robert p. Melius found
several years ago that he
couldn't express his thoughts
warmly enough In writing, he
made phonograph records of
them and sent the records to
his sweetheart, Genevieye Kei-
ley, in London, Ont.
"Gee, but I'm lucky to have
a girl like you TO love me-" he
said In one record. How
happy l am to know that all
your kisses will be mine alone
Miss Kelley now Is suing
Meilus for $4,000 because. she
charges, he changed his mind
and refused to marry her.
She has kept the records and
will play them in court as evil
dence.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
Compton Officer
COnfesses Theft

COMPTON, Cal. Oct. 2s. U.E)-
Juggling of city accounts over q
period of three years to conceal
q 6,400 shortage in his accounts.
IVES dramatically confessed to The
city council here last night By
Robert B. Hedrick. city treasurer
for the past 10 years.
He said he first took the money
to invest in real estate and when
the venture lost. begun juggling his
accounts. He avoided detection by
auditing firms by last minute
switches in funds, he said, but he
was unable TO work fast enough 10
conceal erasures from an audss
which has been under way during
the past week.
Formal charges were to be placed
against Hedrick by the district at
torney's office today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
ATTEMPT MADE
TO ROB STORE
IS FRUSTRATED

That burglars are also consum-
mate liars is the belief of county
peace officers after a report to the
sheriff's office late this morning by
King L. Kendle of an attempted
burglary of his store half way be-
tween Brawley and Holtville on the
highway between those two towns.
Kendle told officers he saw two
men in front of store at | o'clock
this morning. He shouted at them
not to move, or he would shoot
Kendle declared.
After talking with the two for a
while Kendle became convinced
they were trying to get some oil
for their car, as they said they were
doing, and ordered them to leave.
A subsequent investigation, how
ever, showed Kendle the screen door
had been pried from his store, and
the door jimmied almost open. At
ter discovering this Kendle started
after the burglars north on the
highway, to Brawley, but could not
catch them, he told officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
FRENCH PREMIER
Has PLANS FOR
UNITED EUROPE
National Interdependence
Of Nations Emphasized
By Laval In Interview.
BY RALPH KEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondent

Cnitcu AICsS obdtl SOiIC>pOIACnt
Copyright, 1881, by United Press
ABOARD S. S. LIE DE FRANCE.
Oct. %. UP)-A new Europe, a
united Europe leading eventually to
military disarmament as well as to
political disarmament, is envisioned
by Premier Pierre Laval of France,
he revealed to the United Press.
Laval is enroute home after q
momentous conference with Presi-
dent Hoover at Washington which
in turn had followed a similar con-
ference of the 47-year-old states
man and Aristide BRAND with
Chancellor Bruening at Berlin.
Lavals ideal of united Europe,
which follows closely an idea ad-
vanced by BRAND, his political
sponsor, calls for a union in which
all nations of Europe-including
France and Germany-recognize
their interdependence and work for
the common good.
That troublesome issue of Ger
man-Franco relations, he revealed,
was discussed during the Washing
ton conference.
II personally am convinced" La
val said, las is Mr.. Hoover, that
the first and most important steps
will be the realization of a close
working approachment between
Germany and France.
This is Europe's opportunity but
the government must quit playing
nationalist politics and really seek
to understand the Independence of
our problems.
Will Consult BRAND
Much is heard of military dis
armament. Equally important is
political disarmament. The govern
ments must look beyond their own
frontiers for the common good"
Laval will consult BRAND. the
veteran foreign minister of France,
on his plans for international, par
ticularly European cooperation. it
w Wco bOA1SfSos t4C w III w Iliic CfCll
before announcing to parliament
any definite ideas he has for in
ternational effort derived from the
Washington conference, and the
Berlin conference which preceded it.
BRAND it was who proposed two
years ago what was widely termed
a Omitted States of Europe" He
proposed Pan European coopera-
ton on economic, political and mill
tary problems through a body act
ing independent of the League of
Nations but in no way weakening
that body.
The Pan-Europe plan was SUBJ
mitted by BRAND to 26 nations and
all replied tentatively favorably-
but most of them made counter
proposals or suggestions for changes
in the plan. All were agreed that
closer European cooperation was
not only desirable but necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
LAbORITE
PARTY is
Dictate
Macdonald And Govern
ment Supporters Win
English Election.
LEADERS TOPPLED
Former Adfierents Of Pre-
mier Get Less Than so
Seats In Commons.
By CLIFFORD L. DAY
itaT Press Staff Corrcsponde,

United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Oct. %. U.H) - Great
Britain has repudiated the Social
ist-Labor party IN one Of the most
decided revUlsions Of national sent
iment in its history.
Returns from yesterdays general
election gave the National govern
ment and the Conservative party
an overwhelming vote of confidence
to proceed with its program for na-
tional economic rehabilitation.
Labor was defeated, shattered and
humiliated in the landslide. Its
chief, Arthur Henderson, and al
but two or three Of its leaders lost
their seats in parliament. The
Conservatives, the National govern
ment Liberals who turned from
David Lloyd George, and the few
Labor followers Of Prime Minister
J. Ramsay Macdonald swept con-
stituency after constituency, taking
rom Labor the seats it had won In
the 1929 election.
At noon today, as returns contin-
ued to pour in swelling the govern
ments total. the standing was:
For the National government, 2S5.
Conservatives, 240.
Simon Liberals, II.
Samuel Liberals, 20.
National Labor, 8.
Against the government, %.
Thus, out Of 6I5 seats in COM
mons, returns on the first 308 re-
ceived gave the anti-goverumerlt
forces only 23.
A bare majority of commons Is
303 seats which was attained by
the government shortly after noon.
The trend of thG returns made it
certain that the Conservatives
alone would have a comfortable
working majority in their own right.
and that the National governments
would have an overwhelming ma
jority against practically no oppos-
ition at all
It was doubtful II Labor would
have more than so or so seats,
against 400 Tor the government.
labor Stunned -..
The returns were amazing. Trade
Union headquarters Mt Transport
house was strpified and could
CONTINUED On Page q
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
ADVANCE
HEARING
ON WRIT
Arizona Officers Expect
To Get Custody Of Mrs.
Judd Tomorrow.
ACCUSED NERVOUS
EXtraditiOn Papers Ap-
proved By Rolph Arrive
In Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. U.P)-
Winnie Ruth Judd probably will
leave here tomorrow night for Phoe-
nix where she must face charges
that she murdered her two friends,
Miss Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs.
Agnes leroi.
This became apparent when Arl-
zona authorities succeeded in having
set up to tomorrow the hearing of
the writ of habeas corpus brought
by her attorneys to prevent her re-
moval from Los Angeles.
The writ originally was to have
been argued November 3.
The Arizona officials said they
were certain they could get the writ
dismissed at the hearing tomorrow
and that they would be enroute to
their home state with her tomorrow
night.
The writ was granted by Superior
Judge Charles Burnell a few hours
after Mrs. Judd surrendered here
last Friday to peace officers who
had hunted hor unsuccessfully for
100 hours.
The writ was granted on the con-
tontion that Mrs. Judd's physical
and mental conditions were such
that she could not be taken to Ar.
iona Immediately.
Today Judge Burnell told the
Arizona officers to file an affidavit
attacking the writ and that he
would set hearing on it for p. m
tomorrow.
The action of Judge Burnell fol-
lowed closely on hte arrival here
of Sheriff James r. McFadden with
extradition papers signed by Gov
ernor Rolph and 1t confirmed tho
worst fears Of Mrs. Judd who spent
n terrible night" in county jail,
fearing that she was to be taken
10 Arizona soon.
Suspect Held
Fred. Williams. young Ell Paso
chemist. who last night confessed
that he helped Mrs Judd slay Miss
Samuelson and Mrs. Leroi was tax
en- into visit Mrs. Judd during tho
day.
Mrs. Judd greeted him with a
smile that contained no hint Of rec
ognition and a brief handshake.
Please don't talk and please see
my attorney" she said.
Officers condemned Williams
story as a piece of imagination and
said that it failed to match facts
at any point,
Although officials said they in
tended to turn Williams loose they
decided instead to hold him n
while longer after his visit to Mrs,
Judd. Williams was booked as a
material witness.
Williams voluntarily walked into
police headquarters last night To
give himself up. Police said his
conversation indicated he was not
even well-read on the slay:ngs and
that certainly he had no part in
them.
Mrs. Judd decided not 10 talk to
Williams at all when he first was
led in but she changed her mind
as ne went away.
Bring him back" she called out.
II want to shake hands with you
and tell you not to talk until you
have seen my attorney" she said
when Williams came back.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
Honor Among
Thieves, Blah

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 28. (UH
Life was dreary for Andrew
Clark today-he was in jail,
his best suit was gone and his
best friend was missing.
Clark and Ralph Port were
cellmates in the county Jail.
Both were held on charges of
aggravated robbery.
Ports trial came up.
pal, lend me your suit so
i won't look like bum in
court" he requested.
Sure, pal, anything got"
was Ciark's reply.
Port went to court in the
suit, was acquitted and disap-
peared.
After Clark's mournful COM
plant police sought the suit
and Port today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
ROlph Reported
Seriously I'll

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. %. U.P)
THE governor is O very sick
man."
With this statement, DR.. John
Galway barred all visitors TO Gov
ernor James Rolph Jr. at the st.
Francis hospital today.
1.-THE involvment in the respira-
tory tract has increased" DR.. Gall
way said. HE has been suffering
from very severe cold and his
condition has been complicated by
excessive fatigue, due to his execu-
tive activities. We have ordered
strict quiet and have barred all
visitors"
The governor was reported to
have spent n watchful night.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
CapOne's Guard
Gets Jail Term

CHICAGO, Oct, %. W.P)-Phil D.
Andrea, bodyguard who carried a
revolver to AL Capone's income tax
fraud trial, was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail on a
contempt of court charge today by
U. S. District Judge James H. Will
kerson.
Judge Wilkerson observed that
D'Andrea was ''linked with an ouo-
law organization of which Al Ca
pone was the head" and mentioned
that the body guard had spent
much time at the Lexington hotel,
headquarters OF the Capone gang
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
VETERAN SCRIBE DIES

SANTA ANA, Cal, Oct. % U.P
Horace Fine. 81, we'll knowr
Santa Ana newspaperman an
dean of the Orange County Press
club, died at his home here today
after a long illness. He was a ma.
tive OF Santa Clara county. Hi.
brother. Walter Fine, and two
daughters survive.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
FRESHMEN LOSE MUSTACHES

GENEVA, N. Y. U.P - Freshmen
at Hobart College will do without
their mustaches this semester. A
new code ruled that newcomers
to the college must be clean shaven.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Mooseheart Halloween party,
&. Moose home.
Scout banquet, $3.50, De ANA
hotel, Calexico.
Oasis lodge, F. and A. NJ, 1880,
Masonic Temple.
Eagles, s, 200 Broadway.
Troop 3, b. S. A., 7. Scout hut.
V. F. W., s, Veterans hall.
Fox Imperial Theatre, "The
Beloved Bachelor"
TOMORROW
Seeley- -Westside home depart
men,, lO:30. community hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-28
@AN!uLlL-.e
w ,sQys:

BEVERLY HILLS, Oct. 81.
tSpeciaD-Well, this was Navy
day. We celebrated it this year
by looping off its appropria-
tions. Wake up some morning
with a war on our hands then
the mad rush will be on to build
battleships. Give the companies
big bonuses to get 'em done
quick. Then we will have to go
through that silk shirt buying
period again.
England is a pretty wise old
bird. She relinquished her
worlds financial supremacy but
she didn't relinquish any ships.
Shows which she thinks the
most valuable to q country.
Yours, =,
The daily worker., 1931-05-18

MOSCOW, US.S.R. (By MaiD -
The Fourth AlI-Union Congress of
the Association Of Former Political
Convicts and Exiles has passed
strong resolution condemning the
frameup and continue imprisonment
of Mooney and Billings and the inn
prisonment on 40 year sentences of
the Imperial Valley TUUL organizers.
1t has passed another resolution scor-
ing the sabotage and imperialist in
vasion plot of the second interna-
tional the Russian Menshevist and So
cial democratic parties of other coun-
tries, and their alliance with the
imperialst governments. This latter
resolution calls on workers every
where to defend the Soviet Union,
and highly praises a S "the loyal
guards of the Soviet country" the
GPU (state political administration
which discovered these plots.
The Association Of Former Political
Convicts and Exiles consist of 2,806
members, of all nationalities in the
USSR, and Of all political leanings,
including a large number of old mem
bers of the Mensheviki, who until the
revelations Of the Moscow trials were
not very much in favor of the GPU.
This association includes all revo-
lutionaries against the czarist gov
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
COLLECTIVES GAIN
RAPIDLY IN USSR
737, 400 Join in One
Month

MOSCOW.-In January alone 737,-
400 peasant farms joined the collect
i've agricultural undertakings in the
Soviet Union. In February the num-
ber was even 1,520,8Oo farms and in
March still higher, namely 1861, 800
farms. In the first 10 days of April,
$4,000 peasant farms joined the COL
lectives so that on the 10th of April
no less than 11,197,5OO individual
peasant farms were organized in the
collectives, representing 45.2 per cent
of the total number of poor and
middle peasant farms in the Soviet
Union. In Northern Caucasia the
per centage of collectivization is 80
per cent and in the Lower Volga
district 60 per cent In the Auto
nomouS Republic of the German Set
tiers on the Volga the per centage is
even 85.5.
The spring sowing in the southern
districts of the Soviet Union has
been interrupted by sharp frost. How
ever, work has again been resumed
and up to the present 1,15O,0o0 hec-
tares have been sown.
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
Old Mensheviks In Organization of Former
Political Convicts Also Recognize Treason
of Socialists; Laud G P y

their wrecking work in the sphere of
the supply Of food and other neces-
sites for the millions of the toiling
proletariat of our country" and in
other departments, trying to par
alyze the defensive powers of the
country" and they prepared for mil
itary attacks on the USSR by the
capitalist and imperialist govern
ments. They formed plot to es-
tablish bloody military dictatorship
which would inevitably have moved
down millions of the more revolu-
tionary sons of the working popu
lation and would have restored the
domination of the bourgeoisie, the
landlords and the monarchy in our
country"
They compared their own suffer-
ings and the sufferings of the thou
sands who died in the long struggles
against czarism with the certainly
much greater blood bath that would
have washed over the Russian work.
ers and peasants if the plot had been
successful, They remind the workers
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
Men Who Served 1884 Years in Czar's Time
Score Mooney and Imperial Valley me>Ub

and peasants of the capitalist world
how the fall Of the Soviet Govern
ment would increase the exploitation
and terror among them also, and
prove by the facts of the trial the
guilt in preparation for this horror
Of the socialist parties of the capital
ist countries in alliance with the mil
itarist governments of those nations.
The resolution ends with this de-
claration: ITO the workers and peas
ants of the USSR we send greetings,
and we look with admiration on the
achievements in socialist construction
and in the material and cultural up
lift of the working population of the
USSR, which are of an extent and
tempo hitherto unknown in history.
We are convinced that henceforth
they will be still more vigilant against
the attempts of the WreckerS and in
terventionists, both here in the USSR
and in other countries, will give all
possible assistance to the loyal guards
of the Soviet country-the GPU-
against internal enemies, and to the
victorious Red Army of the workers
and peasants against enemies abroad,
that they will rally still more closely
around the Soviet Government and
their vanguard, the Communist Party
Of the Soviet Union"
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
MORE SUICIDES
IN JOBLESS YEAR

NEW YORK. - Starving workers
are killing themselves in appalling
numbers, the report of DR.. Frederick
l.. Hoffman, in the Spectator, insur-
ance paper, reveals. The suicide rate
has gone up from 154 per hundred
thousand in 1900 to 20 in 1880. In
New York, taking a typical city, the
rate was 1873 in 1929, a relatively
prosperous year and jumped to 20.1
in 1880, the first year of depression.
The number who killed themselves
last year in New York was l,402.
Back of these dry figures is a story
OF acute misery and despair. The
Communist Party calls on workers to
fight, not die but masses untouched
by this message continue to oblige
the capitalists who have no further
use for them.
Examples are the following: Paul
Inc Reinchik of New York, only pos
sessions a worn hat, coat and house
dress, an empty suit case and 81
cents, was found dead from gas poi
soning in her room. She had no Job
and could not pay rent.
George Mapes, of Middletown. left
a widow and two children when he
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
OIL INDUSTRY in
USSR ADVANCES
Plan Completed; Go on
With New Work

MOSCOW. AS is known, the Five
Year Plan for the Soviet oil industry
was carried out in two years and six
months the Supreme Economic
Council is now considering plans for
the future development of the indus
try In 1888 the production of the
industry is to reach 485 million tons
In 1892 three great destillation works
will be opened in Moscow, Samara
and Liski. The existing works are
to be extended and reorganized. Sim
liar works will also be constructed
in Georgia and the Urals.
New pipelines from Grozny to ARM
ayir and from Liski to Moscow are
also planned.
In 1888, A new benzine stations
will be opened By 1884 it is hoped
to raise the production of the Soviet
oil industry to 61,3OOOOO tons.
The oil districts in Sachalin. Cen
tral Asia, TurlImenistan and Usbek-
istan, which play a subordinate role
at the moment are to increase their
production tremendously. Great pros
pecting work is being conducted in
the north and in Kasakstan where
large oil deposits have been dis
covered
The daily worker., 1931-05-18
Story of Graft
and Gunner to
Start on Monday

How did gangsterism and graft
originate and develop in the Unit
ed States to such gigantic proper
tions? Who is behind AL Capone?
What is the real story of the Bugs
Moran massacre in Chicago?
Read how J. p. Morgan, the eld-
er, hired gangster armies to amass
his millions. All this will appear
in a special pamphlet that will be
run serially in the Daily Worker,
beginning next Monday.
In this pamphlet by Harry Gan
mes is traced the history of graft
and gangsterism in the United
States. The role of the gunner
in the labor unions. The story of
Big Bill Thompson and his success
sor, Anton Cermak. Here is the
story of graft leading from Tam
many Hall to the White House.
Read about the facts behind the
Buckley murder in Detroit.
This is the first complete study
of gangsterism and graft in con-
nection with capitalism ever made.
Get the inside story of the gun
men and grafters. Order your
copies now. Be sure to read this
series of articles.