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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
HOW ABOUT PAROLE BOARD?

Yesterday a Los Angeles Judge sent
Burmah White, 19 years old, to San
Quentin prison for term of from 30
wears to life, following her conviction on
II counts of robbery and assault with
deadly weapon.
Most readers are familiar with the
BACKGROUND of the story-a young girl
who met and teamed up with a paroled
Folsom convict in a series or daring
crimes eliminating in the shooting OF a
school teacher who will be blind for life
as result A few days after this affair
the convict. who had recently married
the girl. was killed by officers trying to
arrest him.
In passing sentence yesterday Judge
Fletcher Bowron declared the time Is
past for maudlin sympathy toward GRIM
inals because of their youth. He assert
ed the girl deliberately chose crime
career and made no effort to break away
from her companion as her attorneys had
contended.
Judge Bowron was right. Young
though she was this girl knew right from
wrong. In choosing the latter she did
so deliberately and thought she could
get away with it. There is every reason
TO believe she and her companion would
SClll De staging CRIMES IL IIlt law is'o IloI
caught up with them.
But she should have had company
Yesterday when she stood before the
Judge. She was not the only guilty
party. The parole board which permit
ted her partner in crime to get out of
prison to resume known criminal ca
reer certainly cannot be considered en-
tirely innocent.
Parole cannot be condemned but when
extended it should be carried out as the
law intends it should be. This convict
was supposed, under the parole laws, to
have a job, and the law also says the
parole officers shall see to it that he re-
mains on the lob. If not, they are sup
posed to return him to prison.
Didn't the parole officers know that
White had no job and that he was max
ing living by hold-ups? They could
have found out easily enough if they are
as diligent as they should be in carry
ing out the duties of their office.
The law cannot try the parole officers
but in the minds of many they are guilty
of criminal laXity with those who are un-
der their direct charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

committee addressed TO all the mer-
chants Of the valley asking them to
cooperate with the Legion TO the
extent that they will close their pla-
ces of business at 4 o'clock Satur-
day afternoon and join with the Le-
gion in making this Armistice Day
celebration a success.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press. Inc. 625 State street,
81 Centro California. w. C. Costello, business
manager. Telephone 26, business office; 7Oo edi-
tSrisl department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
DRY PARTY CHANGES NAME

LAPEER, Mich. U.P)-With pro-
hibition repeal virtual certainty
the Prohibition Party of Michigan
in state convention here recently
changed its name to the Common
wealth party.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

Beginning tomorrow, it is prob
able that all Ell Centrans will be
compelled to wear masks as one of
the measures devised by the health
authorities in suppressing the in
fluenZa epidemic.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

1t is expected that the work of
the American Red Cross will in
tensify this winter and that it will
be called upon to do unlimited
service for the civilian populations
of our Allies.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

Fircrest Nasturtium, Guernsey
COW owned by DR.. A. M. Smith. Bell
ingham, Washington, is the north
west champion with 1896 pounds OF
butterfat in year.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

General Balbo can appreciate now
how rocket feels. They go up with
whir and come down with a bang.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

Today New York is trying to paint the
stripes off the Tammany tiger-and ap-
pears to be determined to do it.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

Wonder if General Johnson will speak
in Detroit, and if he does will Henry be
in the audience?
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
TEN YEARS AGO

The use of cottonseed and hulls
as fertilizer is being experimental
with on the Shenk ranch north Of
Calexico on the grapefruit acreage.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

The County Ministerial associa-
ton met Monday in the Methodist
church hall to discuss matters of
law enforcement and moral condi-
tionS of the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Pest Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November Z 1913

The work of laying the pavement
across the railroad right of way
on Main street was begun this
morning, and there is no doubt
that the work will be completed
and the strip of pavement be in
commission in time for the county
fair, which begins on November 19.
One hundred and fifty bales of
cotton await their turn to be GIN
ned at the gin at CaleXico.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
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LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair weather and nearly normal
temperature tonight and Wednes-
day; low humidity; gentle wind,
mostly from the interior.
data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer for the United
States Weather Bureau.
Hp, d.
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Claim Rum Vessels
Carry British Flag

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.-The Swed-
ish and Finnish customs authorities
have failed to receive satisfactory re-
plies to their protests against what
they charge to be an indiscriminate
use Of the British flag by vessels sup
plying liquor to smdgglers along the
Swedish and Finnish coasts.
The Baltic countries whose flags
formerly were used by rum row ships
have agreed to allow customs represent
atives to board and search vessels fly
ing their flags beyond territorial limits
when it can be shown that those ves-
sells were engaging in illicit traffic.
The British government stanchly re-
fuses to grant any such privileges to
the Finnish and Swedish customs de-
partments with the result that a num-
Der Of laden boats lying in the
Gulf of Finland have changed their
colors.
At this moment three ships in the
Finnish rum row. Merina, Atlantica and
ST Peter, are flying the British flag,
while another, Anna V, in the Gulf of
Bothnia. and German ship, Gebrueder
Brake, which at present is reported on
the way to the rum row, also show the
Union Jack.
The total cargoes under the protec-
tion of the British flag are estimated at
approximately 100000 gallons OF alcohol.
tCopyright, 1880
Evening star., 1933-06-25

PARIS.-Plans for organizing what Is
probably the worlds most exclusive
genealogical society, the "Chevaliers oe
hastings" are being pushed, and mem
Aers here state that the society viii be
sn definite basis within few months.
IL had been announced a short time
ago that the scheme would be held IN
suspense until the end Of the depres-
sion. but this decision brought protests
from French members who pointed out
that an English group Of descendants
of William the ConQuerors knights was
ready to go ahead and might seize con-
troll of the society.
In order to claim active membership
an applicant must be able to furnish
documentary proof of direct descent
from one of the knights who fought
under the Conqueror at Hastings.
Descendants are scattered all over the
world and belong to all nationalities.
Americans figuring among the number
TO the extent OF about 25 per cent, it
is estimated.
One great difficulty the organizers
have had to face is that Of drawing up
an accurate roster of the Conqueror's S
knights. The so-called Battle Abbey"
roll. different versions of which have
been preserved, appears TO have con-
tanned many names which were not
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Three Years Without Work Threaten
To Doom Picturesque Canal Bargemen

For the third straight year the vet
eran captains of river barges moored in
the slip at the New York State Canal
Terminal, Pier 6, East River, have seen
Spring come and go without any offers
of cargo for transportation to or from the
North and Northwest. Unless conditions
change quickly for the better, officials
of shipping companies here are of the
opinion that the canal boats, a romantic
phase of New York life, will shortly dis
appear, a victim of shifting economic
conditions.
New Workers have long been familiar
with the barges, carrying commodities
between here and Canada, the Great
Lakes, the Finger Lakes, Lake Cham
plain and Onieda Lake
These old-time sailors have often been
pointed out as one of the most pic
turesque groups in the metropolis.
Prior to 1929, their last active year,
they passed their Winters, from Novem-
ber to March, moored at the Pier ter
minal and Travelled during the warmer
months up and down the Hudson River
and State canals, as business required.
In November, 1929, more than 25
barges tied up at Pier 6. The Spring
of 1880 offered them few cargoes. Since
that time not more than 10 of the boats
have moved from the pier at South
street, foot OF Coenties Slip. Standing
idle for more than three years, most of
the captains. who are independent barge
owners, have already spent the little
money they have saved to buy necessi-
ties for their families
Shipping officials give many reasons
for the inactivity of these individual
barge owners. Hgh-speed motor
Evening star., 1933-06-25

trucks have taken away a good part
of their business
The fact that there has been no ac-
tive movement OF grain between Canada
and New York in the last three wears
has hurt the barge captains. but when
conditions improve in the future it is
doubtful if the business of Transporting
the grain ever would be given back to
these men. Newer and bigger barges,
capable of carrying 10000 tons, and
manned by crew of modern-day sail
orS, are also standing idle and are ready
to compete with the old barges, which
have a capacity of 5000 tons.
In the eyes of New Yorkers, most
glamorous items in the lives of the old
barge men. besides the fact that they
live with their families in neat homes
pullt inside the matches of their vessels.
are that they are Woodworking, hard
swearing and hard drinking river men;
that their children have special passes
from the Governors Office in Albany
allowing them to attend school at any
city or town where their fathers barge
happens to be tied up, and that they
lead vagabond's life.
Before the Bowling Green Neighbor-
hood Association, at lot Washington
street, closed this year due to lack of
funds, officials there knew the barge
people WELL Several times each year
the association held "socials" for the
barge families. But they were never
able really to make friends with them.
They could not break down their reti-
cence. The majority of the barge cap
tains and their wives are French Cana
dians. Some are American citizens.
They were always clannish and to this
day they resent help from optSiderk :.
Evening star., 1933-06-25

to make from the righteousness Of our
general attitude.
There is not the least sign, as
write, which would lead us to suppose
that there has been any change in this
position President Roosevelt, who has
shown himself to be very broadminded,
hoped to secure full authority to nego-
tiate with US, but this he has not at
tanned, so that the House Of Represen-
tatives and the Senate still have the
last word.
We know what that means, and it
would be imprudent for US to harbor
any illusions, despite the evident good
will of the White House.
Linking of Issues Deplored.
The fact that the American thesis
links together the questions of debts
and disarmament has done nothing but
complicAte the discussion even more
than before
To us disarmament and security are
inseparable, disarmament being only
possible as the result of security. What
can we reasonably expect from the
United States in this regard? Direct
ly following the war the United States
did not sign either the security pact
proposed by Clemenceau, or the treaty
OF Versailles, or the pact forming the
League of Nations. America rebelled
against these proposals which expressed
the community of interests of the two
continents. This attitude was due,
no doubt, to a very deeply ingrained
feeling against entangling alliances,
which I understand perfectly.
We have been told that the coming
into power of the Democrats will bring
change in this attitude. There is
perhaps manifest greater desire to
understand and to cooperate than
there was under the Coolidge and
Hoover regimes; and there is certainly
a sincere wish among a large con-
tingent to do their duty internationally
Nevertheless, and principally because
have read the speeches of Mr.. Nor
man Davis at Geneva, 1 remain skep-
tical-for two principal reasons. The
first is that the Constitution of the
United States, drafted $50 years ago
for country which desired no foreign
policy, does not give any real diplomatic
powers to the Executive. so that any
Evening star., 1933-06-25

LONDON. - While many business
houses here are trying to cut down the
daily time interval in the interests
of efficiency, the nations lawmakers
favor teas more than any other meal
when Parliament is in session. Accord
ing to a return made by the Kitchen
Committee Of the House of Commons
the number of teas served during the
144 days Parliament was in session In
1892 was 83,943, compared with 41,0O9
dinners, 2l.5l7 lunches, 946 suppers and
9.o70 meals at the bars on the premises.
But the lawmaking tea is not, on the
average, an affair of cookies and small
clp of the refreshing beverage. 1t has
been found that many members OF the
House of Lords regale themselves with
bread and jam and liberal slices OF
cake. and a large number of Labor
members of the House of Commons VINO
cannot afford dinners every day make
teas substitute.
In the North of England the nigh
tea" is really a supper meal. Cockneys
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Canada Shows Increase
In Electric Energy Used

OTTAWA. Ontario.-The amount Of
electric energy used in Canada, includ-
ing all line losses, increased from 15,-
1O3, ,831 900 kilowatt-hours in 1881 to
Is, BAT ,318, 900 kilowatt- hours in 1882, or
by 243, ,387, 900 kilowatt- hours, or 1.6 per
cent.
The Significance of this improvement
Is more apparent when comparisons are
made of the coal consumption during
1881 and 1882. The hituminous and lig-
mite coal available for consumption in
1881 was 22,237 900 tons and in 1892
1878 900 tons. which was decrease in
1882 of 1884 900 tons, or 1912 per cent.
OF course, all this coal was not used for
power purposes, but it is quite probable
that the coal used for heating buildings
showed a smaller rate Of decrease than
the coal used for power.
1t IS also probable that, aside from
the increased use of electricity for do
mestic purposes. there was an increased
switch from steam to electric drive and
also an increased use of surplus power
for producing steam. In 1881 electric
boilers in the pulp and paper industry.
having a total rated capacity of 883,45O
kilowatts, used 2032 ,283, 900 kilowatt-
hours purchased from central electric
stations.
(Copyright. 1p33)
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Hawaii Seeks Law
To Jail Stowaways

HONOLULU, Hawaii.-Beset by a
plague of stowaways which is adding a
new and sinister element to the scores
OF men ION the beach" in Honolulu
Hawaii plans to enact a law which
will permit the arrest and detention of
such persons when they arrive in Homo
lulu. "On the beach," is the widespread
South Sea term for unemployed sailors
and water frontiers. Ordinarily there are
only few of these in Honolulu. But
during the last few months large num-
bers have come from the mainland.
some working their way here, others
arriving as stowaways.
There are no laws in Hawaii now
that can hold arriving stowaways in iail
or compel them to return. The terri
torial Legislature now in session has in
process of passage a law that will allow
the local police to send stowaways to
jail. and the steamship companies have
agreed to take them back to the coast
without charge. Some of these stow
aWays have long jail records and many
others are professional hoboes.
(Copyright, 1933)
Evening star., 1933-06-25
DANZICREALDANCERPOINT
In POLISH CORRIDOR ROW
Loyalty to Reich by Predominant Ger.
man Population and Polish Sentiment
Keep Troubles Alive for All Europe.

most succeeded in preventing the ship
ment of arms to the hard-preSSed Poles
and delayed the delivery of munitions
which were sorely needed. AS a conse-
quence the Poles set to work to con-
struct their own harbor of Gdynia, 10
miles west of Danzig and on their own
soil. At the same time, with French
help, they constructed a railway from
the upper Silesian coal regions straight
to the sea, traversing the actual cor
ridor-and materially shorter than the
old line to DanZig.
With the completion Of this railway,
which is now in the process of double
tracking, and with the opening of the
harbor Of Gdynia, the Poles at last ac-
quired a port of their own, today one of
the best equipped upon the Baltic.
Concomitantly they established a city
OF 10000 inhabitants where a decade
ago there was only tiny fishing ham
let of few hundred inhabitants And
with the creation of Gdynia the last
reason for any Polish control over
DanZig vanished
The inhabitants of Danzig, as was
natural, bitterly opposing the creation
OF Gdynia. appealed to the League to
compel the Poles to use their own city
exclusively. They saw correctly that,
although in the immediate postwar
PERIOD the commerce of Danzig-meaS-
ured by tonnage of ships using the
port-had enormously increased, the
town was henceforth at the mercy of
the Poles, who could use Gdynia and
mus bring about the ruin of Danzig.
30 lar this has not taken place, but in
recent years, while the tonnage of
Danzig has remained stationary, that of
Goynla has grown by leaps and bounds
Demands Favor Germany.
Today the people of Danzig demand
not merely that they shall be reunited
with the Reich, but also that the whole
corridor shall similarly be returned to
German rule. This, they believe, would
insure the immediate abandonment of
Gdynia and the restoration Of Danzig
as the sole outlet of Poland on the sea.
obviously while such demands continue
no settlement is conceivable, because the
Poles will not abandon the Corridor
save after war and they have sunk many
millions in the harbor and railway con-
structlonS necessary to establish Gdynia
On the other hand, it is plain that no
valid reason longer exists for the per-
petuation of the Danzig Free State and
none for the present Inclusion of that
area within Polish customs limits BY
simply moving the present railway
bridge at Tchew five miles down the
river, DanZig could be joined di-
rectly with East Prussia and restoration
OF German rule would not deprive Po-
land of foot of its national soil Some
350,000 Germans would thus recover
their German nationality and an open
sore would be abolished.
Concomitantly certain injustices in
the drawing of the frontier, notably that
which bestowed upon the Poles the dikes
on the Prussian bank of the Vistula be-
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Evening star., 1933-06-25
British Aim to Save Working Hours
By Cutting Down Daily Tea Time

describe such repast as sit down
tea" or knife and fork tea" 1t may
consist of boiled, poached or scrambled
eggs, sausages, cold meat or fish. 1t
was due to pressure from Labor men,
bers that high teas" were made pos
sible in the parliamentary precincts.
Bar meals at Westminster generally
consist of sandwiches, cold sausages or
hard boiled eggs and beer. For the
equivalent Of Is cents it is possible to
obtain a substantial feed" and glass
OF ale. One of the bars is only few
yards away from the entrance to the
lobby of the House.
In the business world efforts are
being made to circumscribe the length
of the customary afternoon tea inter-
val because many employees also have
acquired the habit Of taking cup OF
tea between 10 and IL in the morning.
Besides an hour for lunch, thousands
of clerks and stenographers have been
-empting another 20 or 80 minutes
of the working cay for coffee and tea.
Copyright 1933.)
Evening star., 1933-06-25

English. who did make this gesture
discouraged us. 1t thus would be more
difficult to obtain from the Chamber
of Deputies today this gesture which
they refused to make last December
The truth is that France has only one
way of looking at the root of this
whole controversy. The Hoover NOR
atorium, launched without consultation
with us ON a plan for concerted action,
had the effect of stopping for all time
the payment of German reparations.
We therefore, do not consider our
selves debtors any longer. President
Hoover killed the reparations. Why
does American opinion not appreciate
that the interallied debts were killed
at the same time? French opinion
today would accept without doubt a
reduction of the payments, correspond
ing to what was decided at Lausanne,
this reduction theoretically to be
charged up to Germany But any other
solution would seem unjust and unac-
ceptable to Frenchman.
Sees Amer;ca Holding Back.
At this point we must not delude our
selves. American opinion makes no
move to meet us half way. From the
moment that America decided that the
debts and reparations were not de-
pendent on each other our process of
reasoning could not appeal to her.
New York, which looks at the matter
from the point of view of intelligent
self-interest, would like to wipe the
slate clean, but the great mass of
America looks upon our attitude as
dishonOrable default Let lis add that
large number OF very subtle moralists
claim that if the French pay America
the French will no longer have the
money to arm themselves to the teeth
and thus to become a menace to the
peace of the world-and this feeling is
strong enough to ordafn the continu-
ance of this inexorable attitude by
America
This last argument is the one I
heard most often in the United States
and the one which, must say, wounded
me personally more than any other. 1t
seemed like an inadmissible deduction
Evening star., 1933-06-25

A COMPLETE uncertainty reigns
" over the relations bet We n
II France and the United States.
1 \ The debts, disarmament, Sc
curity, not to mention the dol
lar, the London conference on tariffs
these are problems whose solution We
must honestly admit we do not now
see, nor can we even imagine what
may be the ultimate outcome. What
is the real French opinion on all these
matters?
aging note: AS far as we are COIL
cerned, we feel no Ill will toward
America. In 1926, when our franc
seemed to be melting away and when
the Americans invaded Paris peace
fully with dollar which could buy
up everything in sight, We were slightly
annoyed by these joyous conquerors
who were utterly unconscious of the
bitterness they were causing. But times
have changed and the shoe Is on the
other foot.
At about this same time, when the
professors of prosperity" from New
York and Chicago demonstrated to us,
ex cathedra. with an unbelievable self
sufficiency, their belief that our meth
ods Of work did not count for any
tIllIlS, We COulu IlOI lllOc OuI iiIlpdIicilCC
The depression has answered these pro-
fessors" in rather peremptory fashion
and they are not talked about any more
but we did retain from them certain
lessons which they long since have dis
carded and we find ourselves defending
these professors against themselves!
Discuss Issue Without Anger.
If there has been in the past little
venom in the relations between the
United States andf France, it can be
truly said that on our side 1t has been
entirely eliminated We can discuss
matters without anger; we can talk not
only with a superficial courtesy, but III
all friendliness. But, unhappily in
spite of this no good seems to result.
In the affair of the debts, If the French
government had only begun to negotiate
sooner they might have secured ma
jority in the Chamber of Deputies to
back the proposal to pay the December
IS installment in cash; but in doing
this they would have considered it SIM
ply as courteous gesture destined TO
precede any negotiation for liquidation.
The obstinate attitude shown in the
American Governments response to the