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Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
SEEK WOMAN SAID TO BE IN
RANKS OF FOREIGN LEGION

SIDI- Ell ABBES, Algeria,
June 10. U.p)-The ranks of the
Foreign Legion were being
searched today for woman,
said to have enlisted as a man
in the "hard-boiled" desert
fighting force.
The rumor has been going
around the camps and officers
were forced to take cognizance
of the report, chiefly because il
has happened In the past
women actually have been found
masquerading among the desert
troopers.
The search is simple. Each
unit is ordered to the showers
for inspection. The program
will be continued until every
trooper has been inspected and
the report verified or officially
disproved.
Legion records show that,
despite vigilance of medical ex-
aminers. woman enlisted and
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19

fought against the Moors for
six months in 1908. She was
the twin sister of a German
youth who joined the legion.
The girl admired her brother
and followed him, dressed as
man.
Their resemblance was so
close that the brother was able
to take the medical examina-
tiOn for both. Once in the
ranks, the girl underwent num-
erous hardships in the Sahara,
once falling out of line.
1t was six months, however,
before a situation arose when
her brother could not aid her
In carrying out the masquerade.
She was ordered to the showers
and her brother could not take
her place. She broke down and
wept, confessing to Officers
that she was a woman. Au-
thorities sent her back to Ger
many.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Indict Officers
In Death Case

RANKIN, Tex, June 10. U.P)--
Five men. three of them peace Of
ficers, were indicted for murder
here today in connection with the
killing of two men for whose lives
it was said the officers had hoped
to obtain rewards.
BountieS of $4,000 are offered by
the Texas Bankers association for
dead bank bandits. The two vic
Tins were killed on January II,
1928. The indictments followed tes-
timony of Ranger Captain Frank
Hammer before the grand jury.
j. o. Bud" Barfield, former Up
ton county sheriff, was at liberty
today under $4,000 bond. In Jail
were Clarence Shannon, former dep
uty sheriff and Hugh Gillespie, for
mer McCamey police chief. j. H.
Dumas and Carl Wood, who had
been indicted previously, were re-
indicted.
1t was charged that w. NJ. Miller
and man named Whitley were shot
down to obtain $4,000 from the
bankers association.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
COnvictS Get
Diet OF Fruit

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 10.
U.P)-Convicts at California's two
state prisons will eat prison-canned
fruit this winter.
Construction of a large cannery,
capable Of supplying canned goods
for the two prisons, at Folsom
prison, was announced here today
by prison authorities.
Much of the fruit and vegetables
to be canned will be grown on the
farm at Folsom prison, according
to Warden Court Smith. who has
greatly enlarged the orchard and
gardening activities at that prison.
With the exception of potatoes
and onions, 80 per cent of the veg
etables consumed at Folsom have
been grown on the prison farm,
Smith said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Low Water Halts
Traffic On River

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 49,.
U.P)-Because of the extreme low
level of the Sacramento river, COM
merce has been suspended north
of Sacramento, it was announced
here today.
This is the first time in many
years the river has not been nayi-
gable beyond Sacramento.
Boast of the Sacramento Naviga-
ton company operating to Colusa
and Butte City were withdrawn,
and freight is now being brought
from the upper river cities to Sac
ramento by rail and truck and
loaded on the companys steamers
here,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
BY EARL ii. LEIF
United Press Staff Corresponds

United Press Staff Correspondent
RENO, New, June 10. U.P)-'The
desert race in which Cornelius VAN
derbilt, Jr., waved revolver as he
pursued but failed to catch Peter
Arno. the caricaturist, resolved it
self into a marital legal conference
which it was believed might result
in a separate maintainence suit be-
tween Vanderbilt and his wife.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, secluded in the
home of friends since she became
the center of conflict between her
husband and Arno, appeared deter
mined upon the legal action that
Vanderbilt had indicated as posi-
BILE.
The flareup was treated lightly
by Reno authorities, especially af-
ter Mrs. Vanderbilt gave her own
version of the affair-a version that
coincided in few respects with Van
derbilt's original account.
William Woodburn. attorney for
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who intended to
confer today with Vanderbilt's
counsel, Sam Platt, said the young
author made a mountain out of a
mole hill"
Speaking for Mrs. Vanderbilt,
Woodburn said Arno drove her
home early last Monday from a
party at night club. Vanderbilt
also attended, and drove home be-
hind with another girl" Woodburn
stated.
when Mr.. Vanderbilt entered,
the three of them sat talking ami
ably. Then Arno went to his home
next door, parting the best. of
friends. The next day Mr.. Wander
bilt phoned Mr. Arno, threatening
to pump him full of lead and saying
he had employed a gunman."
This agreed in the main with
Amos story, but not with that OF
Vanderbilt who claimed that, an
gered by Amos attentions to Mrs
Vanderbilt. he chased the cartoon
list home and would have shot
him If the gun was loaded"
Arno said the first he knew OF
any trouble was when Vanderbilt
telephoned him.
The conference today was the
first definite indication that Van
derbilt separation was imminent.
Woodburn and Clyde Souter, at
torney for Arno. said they believed
the whole affair had been fabricat-
ed to afford grounds for a suit by
Vanderbilt.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Ranch LabOrer
Held AS Slayer

MERGED, Cal, June 49, (U.R)--
Robert Mortenson, 65, miner and
itinerant ranch laborer, was in jail
here today charged with the mur-
der of Bert Fee, so, Smelling dairy
rancher and his former employer.
Mortenson was arrested late yes
terday by Deputy Sheriffs Merrill NJ.
Morse and Jack Gilbert and Police
officer Lewis Fragile as posses under
Sheriff william White combed tho
hills 18 miles east OF here IN search
of the asserted killer The officers
said Mortenson was too intoxicated
to resist.
Fee was shot down in the rear OF
his ranch house yesterday morning
at the climax OF what officers say
was a three-year-old wage dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
HALL CLAIMS RECORD

Aqua CALIENTE, Mex, June 10.
OPP. Goodwin Hall, former U. S.
army aviator and New York brok-
er, claimed new speed record to-
day after flying here from Van
couver. B. c., in seven hours and 48
minutes. Halls time bettered by al
most six hours the record held by
Tex Rankin of Portland, Ore.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
@hM!LL-

BEVERLY HILLS, June ID.
(SpeciaD-The government has
finally been able to arrange an
"armistice' with Al Capone. He
is to go to Jail "in person for
two years (Which term he
named HIMSELF.
His lieutenants are to carry
on his business and deliver the
receipts to him at the Jail every
day. In return, the government
is to feed, clothe and protect
him from harm and release him
Just about the time business
turns the corner.
The government is remodel
ing Leavenworth now for him.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Diver Reported
Trapped In Mud

LONDON, June 10. U.p)-William
Milton a diver, was trapped in Is
feet of mud and water at the new
Ford works at Dangenham. near
London, today when a steel cylin-
der in which he was working slip
ped from its moorings.
Workers made frantic efforts to
rescue him. He appeared to be
still alive after five hours in the
mud. Tangled lines prevented his
co-workers from raising him by or
dinary methods.
Milton, a man of As, was working
at the bottom Of a cylinder IL feet
in diameter and 40 feet in height.
1t slipped several feet and the rush
of water sucked Milton Outside into
the mud
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Rancher To Face
Staying Charge

BISBEE, Ariz., June 10. W.P)-
Albert Scruggs, 50-year-old rancher
Of the San Simon district, today
faced &C harge of first degree mur-
der for shooting Walter Berlen-
bach. a neighbor.
Scruggs. bachelor who came
here IL years ago from Fresno, Cal,
refused to discuss the shooting. I'll
tell the story when the proper time
comes" he said.
Scruggs surrendered to George
Edsen, justice of the peace, and was
brought here yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Hawaiian Volcano
Causes Warming,

HONOLULU, June 10. W.P)-Ha-
waiian government and business
leaders were warned today by DR.
T. A. Jaggar. noted volcanologist,
against a possible eruption by the
volcano Mauna Loa, which, he said,
would cause a disaster.
DR.. Jaggar urged preparations to
minimize the danger of a major
catastrophe. claiming his scientific
observations indicated the volcano
was on the verge of an outbreak.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Hal II TO
PUT OUT
MARINES
President Instructed To
Take Up Their Removal
With u. S.
TREATY RENOUNCED
Island Republic Scene OF
Much Disorder Over
Long Period.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, June
10. W.P)-The legislative chamber
unanimously adopted report today
declaring the treaty with the United
States to have been non-existent
since May, 1926.
A message was sent to President
Stenio Vincent asking immediate
steps to be taken through regular
channels to put stop to the "ille-
gal occupation of the republic by
the United States"
The report said the presence OF
American military forces is unnec-
essarily vexing and dangerous, since
the election of a stable government.
THE convention signed Septem-
ber 16, 1916, expired May 3, 1926"
the report said. The additional act
of May rs, 1917, is null and should
be considered nonresident. The
Haitian executive should act dill
gently in the name of the republic
to suspend as soon as possible the
effects of the convention and the
American military occupation"
If the senate approves the report.
it will go to the president for final
action. He can withhold decision
indefinitely if he chooses.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
EXPECTING STORK

LOS ANGELES, June 10. UP
Dorothy Dwan, motion picture ac-
tress announced today that she ex-
poets to become a mother early
this fall Miss Dwan is the wife
of Paul N. Boggs, Jr., son Of the
vice president of the Union Oil
Company.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
DIVORCE ACTION
FILED AT RENO
BY VANDERBILT
Hero OF ShOtless Gun
Battle Seeks Marital
Freedom.

RENO, New. June 10. U.P)-Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt Jr. today filed suit
for divorce from Mary w. Wander
bilt.
Extreme cruelty was charged in
the complaint.
Vanderbilt was represented by At
torney Sam Platt.
A property settlement will be ar
ranged later, 1t was announced, be-
tween Platt and Attorney William
Woodburn, representing Mrs. VAN
derbilt.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
OLD HOTEL BURNS

MACON, Ga, June 10. W.P)--The
Lanier hotel, temporary capitol OF
Georgia when General Sherman oc-
cupied Atlanta during the Civil
War, as partly destroyed by fire
early today. Damage was estimat-
ed at 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
LETHAL GAS BILL
TO Be DECIDED
BY ROLPH TODAY

SACRAMENTO, Cal. June
10. U.p)-Governor Rolph to-
day announced he would not
sign the bill substituting death
by lethal gas for the gallOws in
California.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
Haiti has a population Of more
than 100000 mostly Negroes.

Haiti and Santo Domingo jointly
occupy large island in the Carib-
bean, between Cuba and Porto Rico.
Haiti has had a long and bloody
history almost since its discovery by
Columbus in 1892. 1t was freed
from the French in the revolution
headed by Toussaint 'Ouverture in
1871. Revolution, massacres and as
sassination characterized its s6pse-
quent political development.
After revolution and massacre in
1915, the United States marines
landed and have been there since.
A treaty became effective the next
year under which the United States
agreed to assist in the establish
ment of an orderly government and
assumed partial control Of the
country's finances.
The natives rose against the
marines late in 1929 and some of
them were killed. President Hoover
sent a commission headed by w.
Cameron Forbes to investigate, and
it recommended ending American
supervision as soon as the political
situation warrants it.
WASHINGTON, June i9. U.P)--
The state department officials said
today they would insist on the VAL
idity of the 1915 treaty with Haiti
under which the United States
maintains customs collector in the
island to insure payment of Amer
ican loans and marines to preserve
order and train a native guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

To bring to these workers our leaflets and
occasional handbills advertising our affairs and
meetings will certainly not do. A better way
must be found-a way Of reaching these work.
ers and speaking to them daily on issues that
interest them. And from the experience of COM
rades here and there in some units (although
done in haphazard and unsystematic way) still
some lessons can be learned These comrades
found the Daily Worker and learned that our
DAILY" can accomplish fine things. In coming
to these contacts and later following them up,
they first acquainted these workers with our
the paper daily, the comrades did not just drop
the d. W. in the mai-box but brought them into
the house and suggested to the workers what ar
ticle they might find of interest that day, thus
laying basis for the worker to ask any ques-
tions not clear to him when the comrade came
the next evening, and in general discuss ques-
tons not clear to the worker. At the end of the
week, during which time the workers got the
Daily free of charge. the workers we're persuaded
to have the paper delivered to them for an
other week and at the end to pay as much as
they could.
In this manner weekly routes for the Daily
Worker were built up and at the same time these
workers were kept in daily touch with. When
bringing our leaflets and generally approaching
such workers, the results were Of course entirely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
MR.. PICKENS JOINS THE FIGHT

been taught that by the system:
even in jails black criminals are
segregated, as if inferior to the
white ones. Even the graveyards
are segregated. The whites, who
were stealing ride, did not want
to steal it in the same company
with Negroes who meant to steal
a ride.
A fight ensued and the nine Ne
gro youths licked the nine white
youths, all of whom were dressed
in hobo clothes and overalls. But
two of the whites turned out to
be girls. When the whites were
all whipped, five having been chas-
ed away and the other boys kay
oed, who in forty-eight states, be-
ing acquainted with the south and
the small chance of self-defense
which colored people have to de-
fend themselves there, will ever
believe that the colored lads then
tarried to assault" the girls?
They know that the boys whom
they had chased from the scene
would be back Immediately with
mob to lynch them. The blacks
doubtless made their getaway as
fast as they could go. You could
hardly get nine Negro boys in
Alabama to do anything else ex-
cept hurry away, after they had
licked nine whites and had found
two to be girls, unless the whole
group of Negroes had just broken
out of an insane asylum.
Sex assault after such strug-
gle could hardly even be thought
of, unless all nine were not only
fools but hopeless degenerates.
And that is not likely in a group
of nine persons who were not
carefully picked out of some asy-
lum for the predetermined.
Nevertheless the defeated white
youths held the boss trump card.
Who would expect them to fail to
use it? Two of their hobo crowd
were girls and cry of rape"
would bring all Alabama to their
aid. The colored lads would be
hunted to the death by every Of
ficer and very idiot Of the state.
1t is great sting of disgrace to
a southern white to be licked in
any fight, fair or foul, by black
- and here was an easy way to
get even. They used it. To one
who knows the possibilities of this
pretext in the south, it is wonder
that it is not oftener used. 1t
is used often enough.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
For Nature WOrshippers

Concerning the backwardness of village life as
it existed in India century ago, Marx writing
on June 10, 1858, said:
"These little communities we're contaminated
by distinction of caste and slavery, they sub
jugated man to external circumstances in
stead of elevating to the sovereign of
circumstances, they transformed self-devel-
oping social state into never changing natural
destiny, and thus brought about a brutalizing
worship of nature. exhibiting its degradation
in the fact that man, the sovereign of nature,
fell down on his knees in alteration of Kanu-
man, the monkey, and Sabbala, the cow"
We were reminded, by this of the comrade out
in California, who some time ago became quite
angry with us for caring more about starving
workers than dogs in distress 1t also remainds
us of the BE kind to animals week" in the
midst of mass misery for workers on one hand,
and luxury as usual for the capitalists on the
other.
Still more, we are struck with the analogy
between the ancient slave society described by
Marx, where man worshipped the monkey, and
the slave society of today, from which we get
such things as the following in the days news:
London, April 7.--Dodo, a monkey, was buried
In coffin costing 5000"
Again: The fortune of Ella Wendell, New
York multi millionairess, was spent at the rate
of $1,000 per day to keep up a house on Fifth
Avenue, because, explained Miss Wendell 1.-THE
dog must have place to run about in.p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
BY William Pickens

The Massacre of Gadsden!"
That is what it will be called in
the Indifferent future, if the state
of Alabama proceeds to put to
death eight Negro boys on the os-
tensible charge that they assault
ed" two white girls, but really out
of revenge because they licked the
mischief out of a gang of white
youths. People forget that the
newspapers have not given us one
word from these boys; that the
"court" in Alabama was set to
legally lynch these youngsters;
that the mob was there to see that
the lynching was done either by
the court or by themselves; that
great yell, like that of trium-
plant savages, went up from the
mob when the verdicts of the "ju-
ries" indicated that the court was
yielding to the mob pressure and
would do the dirty work.
These boys have had no trial
- eight sent to the electric chair
in three days. They have had no
defense. They have seen no col
ored people, no attorneys of their
peoples choosing. They have been
convicted on the testimony of two
hobo girls who were pals Of the
white youths whom they licked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
No Puzzle At All

Every transforming Fish in the country is con.
tinually trembling with indignation because ths
Communists of the Soviet Union say extremely
impolite things about capitalism
And they--the Fish family-"view with alarm"
the fact that the Soviet wants to trade with
the United States. This the Fish regard as i'm
possible while the naughty Bolsheviks firmly
refuse to be civil in their language and respect
full of the Superiority" of capitalism, particu-
larly the Fish part of it
But American capitalism finds no difficulty in
lying about the Soviet while seeking to sell it
machinery. For example, Tuesday night the
radio brought us the most godawful melodrama
over WEAF from the National Broadcasting
Company, with "Soviet Spies Cheka executions
Sobbing widows and ravshed maidens"
But that came along with speech of James
D. Mooney of the General Motors, also from
the National Broadcasting Company, and over
the same WEAF, plainly declaring that none
of the hysterical discussions of the Russian prob
lem" had lick of sense.
And he coldly informed every fool who thinks
that the Soviet just has to trade with the United
States because according to such fools, as "we'
have "the besO" machinery and the Soviet can't
get along without us-that they are all wet. In
fact he adds:
Nowhere / went, did see machinery that
could not be duplicated by European countries,
and these European countries would be glad
to sell to Russia if we should not"
Let the arrogant Fishes take due note that
Bolsheviks are not at all humble petitioners at
the gates of Uncle Sam. And any who get all
excited and want to stop doing business because
the Russian Reds" are confoundedly rude to
Secretary Stimson, just remember that American
capitalism finds no contradiction in lying like
Fish against the Soviet, but just the same wants
to sell it machinery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

We print in this issue of the Daily Worker article written
by Dean William Pickens Field Organizer of the National Aso
citation for Advancement of Coored People Mr. Pckens
the article after the first reports of which,
he correctly not to be trusted for the final facts But
the value of the article diminished by the later and
reliable that the nine boys not fight with the
white boys.
Our opinion that would be mistake to place reliance
whatever in the government of Alabama if Mr. Pckens
to imply such faith That of the ruling class of
White Supremacy capitalism He is indeed the official head
of the state machine which has raroaded these innocent boys
through framedup trial and condemned them
as for Investigation by the governors machnerye
have SEEN that kind of investigation already often
the framedup trial exactly that kind nvesgaon
We believe that rely the cold-blooded
oadeddce jusce of landordand Alabama We
believe that the of the Negro people, and the
elements of the working class both black and white rely
only their MASS STRENGTH putting pressure upon
hearles ruling class of Alabama boys
murder in the electric chair to which they have been
We glad to have Mr. Pickens united front
which will build innocent victims
of capitalist class justice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

different
It's true that to follow up each individual
worker in this systematic way is little harder
than just paying him visit and asking him to
join up, but still, the very immediate results
aren't always what counts. We must learn to
work in an organized manner, step by step and
not try to rush on all at once.
Another example of obtaining results might be
In place here. One nucleus after following up
a number of workers whose names were copied
from the petition lists in the territory Of the
North Western Car Shops in the manner above
mentioned for period of a few weeks and thus
fertilizing" that territory for further work. they
decided to establish an open forum where these
workers could get together once week and after
listening to our speakers, ask questions and dis
cuss subjects which are Of interest to them.
regular attendance of 30 to 40 workers can now
be seen at this open forum every week. and some
Of these workers are now ready to join our
Party
What this shows concretely is Cd that by using
the Daily Worker as lever, very good results
can be gotten and ca that not by spontaneous
and spectacular ways, but by daily little routine
and concentrated asks our best organizational
results can be obtained. ,.c.r.,s