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hunt that it seemed desirable
shortly to slow the chase. His SEN
ate colleagues were annoyed at
what they believed to be Wolcotts
effort to curb the investigation ana
he was quietly ousted from his post
as master of the hounds. His White
House spokesmanship ended there
Majority Leader Watson and
Hoover never were political pals.
Watson and Vice-President Curtis
in 1928 were leaders of the stop
Hoover campaign of favorite sons.
Political necessity brought the
President and the senator together
after the election. Sometimes Wat
son knew what the White House
was thinking, sometimes he didn't.
Watson was chosen to manage
enactment of the home loan dis
count bank bill. The President was
not pleased that it lay for months
before congress and was not passed
until the last day of the session,
but Watson got it through, con-
Tossing that he once had opposed 1t.
When or exactly why Hoover
centered his political affection on
Moses is not know. Suffice to say
that in the last weeks of the ses-
sion it was Moses who most often
got Hoover on the telephone and
shortly thereafter strolled among
his colleagues with the word that
the White House wanted this or
didn't want that.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

Romans used to lay their banquetS
by the side of their pools, and 1
see no reason for not perpetuating
this delightful ancient Romanesque
custom. Consequently our dinner
will be spread beside the limpid
waters of Fred Kenyon's plunge
Dinner is not all of the program,
it appears. There will be a lot
more at the unique chamber OF
commerce function. After the re-
past lovely girl divers and swim
mers will regale the guests with an
exhibition which Will riv
the aquatic part Of the Olympian
games display, it is said. There
will be few short talks during the
dinner, but no regular address.
Chairman Munson has especially
urged all chamber members TO at
tend this novel dinner. This invi-
tation includes he states, wives of
members, friends Of the chamber,
and the people OF Ell Centro gener-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
Editorial Page
and
Features
THE OLYMPICS

AFTER many months of preparation,
II the Tenth Olympiad is underway at
Los Angeles, offering Californians an
opportunity to see one of the most spec
tacular sights of modern days.
The Olympic Games are something
more than a mere athletic meet They
provide a spectacular presentation of
men and women from all parts of the
world, inspired not only by their supre-
macy in athletics but in love of their
own particular country, straining every
effort to bring further glory to their ma
tive land.
But athletic supremacy and patriot
ism are secondary objectives. Clean
sport and friendly competition are the
real objectives of the games.
Great as they are from an athletic
standpoint, they are even greater as a
means of promoting international good
will. Men and women of dozens of diff
rent nationalities and racial character
istics meet on a common level, each con-
-ceding the other a worthy rival, to be
beaten if possible, hut to be beaten fair
ly. There is no gloating by the winner
and no sulking by the loser.
When one recalls that little more than
a decade ago, nearly half the nations
engaged in the Olympics were at war
with each other, hurling bombs instead
of the discus, the possibilities of the
Olympics are better understood.
1t is to be sincerely regretted that
those in charge of the games saw fit to
bar the most colorful entry, Paavo Nur-
mi, the great Finnish runner, from COM
petition This is indeed a loss compar-
able only to the stripping of his honors
from Jim Thorpe two decades ago.
The verdict of the Olympic chiefs is
not to be questioned. 1t IS accepted as
final, but his offense-padding expense
accounts-is one that is so generally eX-
istent in amateur athletic competition,
that it seems a shame he should be the
one to suffer by it. The decision makes
one wonder if there would have been
such action taken had Nurmi been less
spectacular performer. Perhaps yes,
perhaps no.
From the selfish viewpoint of the
newspaperman, the Olympics are great
nuisance They make more work for him
and interrupt the orderly course OF the
daily news in general. But this feeling
is submerged in realization of the real
worth of the games, as an athletic dls-
play and as a stimulant to international
goodwill and world peace.
By all means, those fortunates who by
any chance may be able to see at least
some of the Olympics, should not fail to
avail themselves of a golden opportun-
ity. which will be a long time in coming
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
SHERIFF ODELL
MAKES SURE OF
TRICKY CONVICT

For Joe Valdez, 81, there was
little chance to shoulder his heavy
criminal record, his seven aliases
and his conscience, whether heavy
or light, and make another escape
Saturday night.
Sheriff Harvey M. Odell of San
Joaquin county, declaring that
Valdez already has escaped from
custody of officers and from penal
institutions five times, took no
chances on the elusive Portuguese
as he started on the way to the
Stockton Jail. Valdez will be held
there pending removal to San
Quentin penitentiary, from where
he probably will be transferred to
Folsom prison, the port OF two
time losers.
Odell, arriving Friday night with
a deputy, spent the next Cay in
Imperial Valley with Sheriff
George L. Campbell before taking
custody of his prisoner and going
north.
When Valdez finally was led
ITOHl UIle lIIlptIldl COullIy jail, 1iC
wore the usual handouts, out in
addition he wore a contrivance
known as the Oregon boot which
is nothing more or less than Is
pound metal washer locked and re-
locked about the prisoners ankle.
Valdez was arrested at Calexico
last Wednesday night by imn,igra-
tion border patrol officers as an
illegal alien. His record, and the
fact he was wanted as an escaped
prisoner, was shown by fingerprints
and photographs. The prints were
effective in spite of Valdez action
in slashing the tips of his fingers
1t was January 18 of this year
when Valdez escaped from one of
Sheriff Odell's deputies as the Of
ficer was taking him to San Quen-
tin prison. Picking the lock of his
handouts, the Portuguese secured
the officers gun as they neared
San Francisco, and forced the dep
uty to drive him back to Los An
geles, where he disappeared from
view. Valdez was on thc way to
serve a prison term for five counts
of robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
SWIMMING POOL
TO BE site OF
CHAMBER DINNER

I'VE have a novelty in store for
those who attend chamber Of COM
merce dinner next Wednesday eve
ming" said Mark NJ Munson, chair
man of the chambers program
committee. This weeks dinner
meeting is going to be held at the
Desert Plunge, beside the pool,
thanks to the fine spirit of cooper
alton and hospitality shown by Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Kenyon. 1t should
be a fine meeting, and know we
shall have a good dinner, because
the meal is going TO be served by
Massey Horton, Of the Valley Drug
Co."
Continued Munson: THE old
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

waited for the Funny Bug to come
to him from the bush. He could
now see that the bug insect was
long and thin, with ten legs, two
wings and long, fuzzy jigger
sticking out in front.
Whats that fuzzy jigger for?"
asked the rabbit as the Funny Bug
crawled out on the end of the bush
quite close to him.
Hal Ha! You'll soon find outl"
laughed the Funny Bug who seemed
a very jolly sort of an insect.
Then, all of a sudden, Uncle
Wiggily saw the Funny Bug rise
up and fly toward him through the
air. A moment later the rabbit
gentleman couldn't see the queer
chap any longer but, quickly, Mr..
Longears felt a tickling in the
middle Of his back.
1t was a very funny ticklish
feeling and Uncle Wiggily tried to
reach the place with his paw TO
rub and scratch it. But, being in
the very middle of his back, he
just couldn't get at the ticklish
place at all Uncle Wiggily twisted,
squirmed, jumped up and down
tried to reach the place again with
his left paw and then with his
right paw. But it was no use. All
the while the tickling grew more
funny.
"Oh, what's the matter?" ex-
claimed Mr.. Longears. Such an
itchie place! If 1 could only fine
pest or a tree against which
could rub the middle of my back
I'd feel better. Yes, I must hoE
until I find tree and then III
rub against it and stop this tickling
in the middle of my back. That;
what I'll dol'
"Ch, mol Don't do thatl' buzzec
a voice that came from behind the
rabbit gentleman.
why not?" he asked.
Because" was the answer
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
Couple United In
Yuma CeremOn.

Mrs. Rosa Bell of this city and
Frank Curlay, recently of Cleveland,
Ohio, were united in marriage yes
terday at Yuma. Mrs. Curloy has
resided in this city for several
years and is a successful business
woman.
A number of friends accom-
panied the couple to the Arizona
city.
They will make their home in
this city.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

ally and the farmers of the Ell
Centro district.
Last weeks chamber of commerce
dinner brought forth the largest at
tendance of the season. Munson
declares that attendance increases
each week as the summer advances.
These chamber programs are al
ways well worth while" Munson
stated. The talks are invariably
interesting, and the contacts one
makes at such dinner-meetings are
always agreeable and are valuable
in a business way. think the
meeting which we have arranged
for Wednesday, at the Desert
Plunge, will bring out record
crowd. Therefore reservations for
dinner should be made in advance
at the chamber of commerce, or at
the plunge I promise everyone a
good time and a good dinner"
Many species OF ants depend upon
the milk" of aphids, or plant lice,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
WATER SAMPLES ADDED

ALBANY, N. Y. W.P)-Samples tf
waters from Montevideo, Uruguay
and Buenos Aires have been added
to the collection of waters of the
world at the Port of Albany. a
huge jar contains the various
waters. When samples from every
port are received it will be sealed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

Published every evening Except Sunday by the
Imperial Valley Press Inc, 625 State street. El
Centre, California, W. C. Costello, business man
ager Telephone &C. business office; 70o editorial
department. Full leased wire United Press ASso-
Citations
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August 1, 1917

Imperial county superior court
has adjourned until August 80. Su-
perior Judge Franklin j. Cole has
gone on his vacation part of which
he will spend holding court in other
counties.
William Allen, manager of the
Globe mills in Ell Centre recently
announced that his company has
made arrangements for the build
ing of a cotton compress in Ell
Centro. The investment will repre-
sent $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell or
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August 1, 1912

One more thrilling story of death
on the desert from thirst is to be
placed on record. The victim was
man about SO years of age. The
man was in a light rig with so
geese, and residents of the region
west of Imperial saw him and
feared he would not be able to
reach his destination. Searching
parties discovered he died soon af-
ter having secured water from a
traveller.
There has been another of the
series of moderate summer days,
bringing July to close with the
most favorable record in the history
of the valley. Mercury barely
touched 102.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

Lightning set seven forest fires
on Diamond mountain, Lassen
county, recently. Rain extinguished
four and the fire warden took care
of the others.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
TEN YEARS AGO
Auuucf I 1000

Henry H. Howes of Calipatria will
handle the reins of the Imperial
Valley baseball league during the
coming season. He is veteran in
professional baseball circles.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

F. w. Waite, horticultural COM
missioner, mas several men at work
in the valley making survey of
Johnson grass.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

American Fruit Growers recently
made a large shipment of plums
from Placer county to Java and
Sumatra.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
TWO INDIANS

IT is impossible to comment on the
1 Olympics without thought of jim
Thorpe, universally acclaimed as the
greatest all round athlete the world has
ever seen.
Those of an older generation can recall
the Olympics held in Stockholm in 1912,
when the big Sac and Fox Indian took
everything in sight.
His records in the pentathlon and de-
cathlon have never been approached, let
alone equaled or surpassed, and he was
IN almost every other event in the track
and field sports.
After winning every honor possible
he returned home to be acclaimed by the
United States, and then it was discovered
that some years previous he had played
professional baseball for few weeks.
All his honors were stripped from him,
he was publicly Inundated by the sancti-
monious amateur athletic officials and
was forced out of all amateur athletic
competition.
His road since then has been a rocky
one, with bit of success in profession
al baseball, and the same old brilliance
in professional football, where he played
long past the allotted time of the ath-
lete
Saturday he was denied pass to the
Olympic Games, and only the generos-
ity of friends enabled him to see the op-
ening spectacle, which he viewed through
tear-dimmed eyes.
Amateur athletics had not done enough
to him 20 years ago. They had to con-
tinue the persecution. jim may have
sinned, in what he did but the years have
proved him more sinned against than
SHINING
1t remained for another Indian to see
that due respect was shown for the once
great prowess of Thorpe. The other In
dian had pass for the entire games, but
could not use it, and learning of Jim's
plight he insisted that his pass be given to
Thorpe, who will now be able to see the
games whenever he wishes-something
that those in charge should have been
glad to do voluntarily.
The "other Indian, is Charles Curtis,
vice-president of the United States of
America, member of the Kaw tribe.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

most won the Davis cup yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

For real race Texas should have
nominated Mildred Babe Didrikson, in
stead of Ma" Ferguson.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

There used to be song, Throw Him
Down MCloskey", but the Pennsylvania
McCloskey is not throwing down the
bonus marchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

Many species OF ants depend upon
the milk of aphids, or plant lice,
for food.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-01

Ihe Pi5 0eSAn to tl{S5le
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
Important Pamphlets on Soviet Union

Week by week new pamphlets ar
rive from the Soviet Union, describ-
ing how the workers there work and
live and put their efforts into build
ing a new life.
The pamphlets available up to the
present are:
Kolkhozniki Letters from peasants
on collective farms)
Science, Technology and Economics
under Capitalism and In the So
Wet Union, by M. Rubinstein
The Heroes Of Gro1ny, by T. Gonta
Where the Workers Are in Power, by
D. zaslavsly
The Soviet Patent Law
How the Workers Become Engineers
In the U.S.S.R., by v. Drushinin
The Basis Of the Archaeological Eco
nomic Plan Of Reconstruction OF
the U.S.S.R.. by G. M, Krizhanov-
sky
Socialist Reconstruction and the
Struggle for Technique, by N. Blu
charm
The Fight for Steel, by N. Mikhailov
Bolshevik Smugglcrs. by S. Shaun
van
Forward to the second Five Yea
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
The Election Campaign
Is in Danger!

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the
IT, S. A. in the following statement calls attention to the
fact that the of the election campaign is in danger
and urges an nencaon of the fight to the OBJ
staces that been placed in the way of the campaign
by the capitalist politicians.
The statement follows:
call to every Party member and to every District COM
mittee by Central Committee Communist Party, UsA
Dear Comrades:
The Election Campaign is in danger The capitalist po-
tcans have been busy png additional difficulties for
the Communist Party to get the ballot In states
the requirements have been multiplied by ten times But
cannot waste time waing about these attacks our
task to meet and them The bourgeose how
ever is more busy making difficulties than in find
ing the forces and of meeting them The result is
q dangerous situation for election campaign.
Central Committee set its aim to get the Party
the ballot in 40 states compared with SO states in
1928 But to date the Party has been placed the ballot
finally only in eleven states Most of these were completed
since the sharp warning of the Central Committee issued
July 80 The states the ballot to date New Jersey
West Virginia Michigan Illinois, Maryland Tennessee, New
Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Virginia and Utah
In addition to these states already the ballot nine
additional states will on the ballot by convention the
dates which have been set and the preparatory work be-
ing carried through These include Alabama, Florida Geor
ga Iowa. Montana South Carolina Texas, Washington and
Wyoming.
All other states Except California Oklahoma and Kan
sas where we have definitely failed to get the BALLOT,
are now conducting signature campaigns to get the bal
lot These campaigns have certain success but many are
still being conducted at slow speed which becomes
great danger The time limit is expiring.
In no case have succeeded in modelling the full
energy and enthusiasm of the workers for this first phase
the election struggle In many there is danger
that the legal requirements will not be met remembering
that the Communist Party always must go the require
about 100 per cent to have any of
being accepted by the election boards Particularly there is
tagging in Districts l. TO- H. 49, Is and IT, in this respect
Other Districts should carefully check their position
and the amount of time they have left Pennsylvania is also
in danger.
The Central Committee calling the attention of the Par
to this problem places the duty upon member and
especially every District Committeeman to Immediately take
up this question in the most urgent fashion, and not rest
until the necessary have been taken to
this danger
On to election struggle! On to the building of
a mass Bolshevik Party!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, CP.U.S.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
STATEMENT OF DISTRICT SEC.
RETARIAT, DISTRICT No. 2,
OF THE EXPULSION OF
SEBASTIAN pApPAS

The District Secretariat of the
Communist Party, District No. 2,
New York, has expelled from the
Party Sebastian Pappas, member
of Section No. 8, Unit No. 2, as a
Trotskyite and disruptive element.
Pappas recently issued a letter to
the Party, hundreds of copies of
which we're printed and distributed
to Party and non-Party workers In
his letter he not only disagrees with,
but attacks, the line Of the Party.
He accused the Party leadership and
the Comintern Of following false
and dangerous course toward fascism
and Social-Democracy. He proposes
that the Party and the Cominten
make an open demand for United
Front with the Social Fascist lead
ers and disagrees with the Party's
estimation of the Social Democratic
leaders as social-fascists. Pappas, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
Election, War, Unemployed
Work in August Communist

. "
"The Election and the Fight for
Bread" is the keynote of the Aug
ust issue of 1.-THE Communist"
which contains a number of valu-
able and highly instructive articles.
In the leading editorial on the elc-
ton struggle, inventory is taken of
the campaign to date.
The greatest weakness in the
campaign thus far, it is pointed
out, has been the failure to reach
out among new groups of workers
hitherto untouched, to bring them
into the struggle on the basis of a
united front for their immediate
needs, local demands and issues.
The article points out the burn
ing necessity of sharpening our po-
litical struggle against the social
fascist misleaders and demagogues
Of all stripes. But to sharpen po-
ntically does not mean to use more
calling, vituperation and
shouting"
Article BY Lenin
That much of the failure to take
advantage of the highly favorable
objective situation is due to rem
nants of anti-parliamentarism,
there Is no doubt. If it is for that
reason that the publication, in the
present issue of THE Communist"
OF Lenin's mastery article, Should
Communist Participate in Bourgeois
Parliaments" is reprinted from the
famous pamphlet, Left Commun-
ism-An Infantile Disorder"
An article which should have
found its way into the columns of
THE Communist" months and per-
hapS years ago Is "The Fight
Against Sectarianism In the Ma
tional Miners Union" 1t Is scorch-
ing examination of some of the
bureaucratic methods prevalent in
the N. M. u, which have paralyzed
this revolutionary miners union and
prevented 1t from successfully lead
ing tremendous mass struggles.
Comrade johnson gives, as the
basic factor in the situation, the
isolation of the union from the
masses of the miners, which re-
suited from four chief causes: Cd
the inner orientation OF the union;
ca bureaucratic methods of work;
90 top-heavy apparatus; and "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
Statement of District Two Secretariat On the
the Expulsion of S. Pappas from the C. P.

his letter shows, has been harboring
his Trotskyist views for some time,
but has now come out openly sup
porting Trotsky and slandering the
Party.
AS member of the Food Work
ers' Industrial Union, he has carried
on a persistent fight against the pol
icy of the T. U. u. L., and has been
a constant disrupter of all fractions
and union meetings.
When called in by the District
Secretariat to explain his views and
his attacks against the Party, he re-
fused to respond.
The District Secretariat declares
that such people supporting Trotsky's
views, and attacking the line of the
Party and Comintern, cannot be toll
Grated in the ranks of the Party and
has expelled Pappas as q counter
revolutionary Trotskyite and a gen.
eral disruptive element.
DISTRICT SECRETARIAT,
DISTRICT No. 2.