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Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23
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IN RECLAIMING
WASTE LANDS

The so-called "alkali" lands of
Imperial Valley can be reclaimed
under a method devised by E. E.
Thomas, associate chemist at the
Citrus Experiment Station of the
University of California. He started
experiments on the waste lands in
1929 and has found that the saline
salts can be removed from the
land by a systematic washing. or
Teaching" with the irrigation wa
ter that comes from the Colorado
river.
Thomas explained that, although
most of the owners of the waste
land believe it is alkaline, yet from
the standpoint of a chemist, there
is really no alkali in the soil. He
says it is really saline soil the
salts being mainly sodium chloride
and sodium sulphate. Miles and
miles of the land which today ap-
pears as entirely waste was at one
time valuable farmland and pro-
duced heavy crops. The land was
ruined by excessive irrigation in
the valley without proper provision
having been made for drainage.
The irrigation water caused the
water table to rise gradually until
1t was within few inches of the
surface and caused the deposit OF
saline salts which were brought in
from the Colorado river.
In 1929 about $50 miles of farm
drains were completed over the
valley, and this caused the water
table to recede to from four to
six feet below the surface. He then
secured tract of waste land upon
which to experiment. He treated
one section of the land with gyp-
sum and another with sulphur, but
found that just ordinary water was
sufficient to clear the soil of the
salts.
In November, 1927, he started
leeching process with the Colorado
river water and in the spring the
soil was ready for a crop. He plant
ed seSbania and at the end of 80
days when the SeSbania had grown
as tall as man he plowed it under
and in the fall of 1880 planted al
falfa. This brought a crop compar-
able with the best crops from other
parts of the valley.
Frank Beyschlag, Imperial coun-
ty farm advisor, has been in touch
with these teaching experiments
since they were started. Thomas
states that BeySchlag can give any,
one interested in reclamation full
details regarding the method which
the University of California has |
worked out in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23
MULCH
PLAN STUDIED
BY PROFESSOR

Use of paper as a soil c---rng
or mulch, now employed in Ha-
waiian pineapple and sugar cane
fields. and tried out in Italy and
France. is still largely in the ex-
perimental stage in the United
State. mainly because of the eX-
pense involved.
The above statement was made
by DR.. Alfred Smith, associate pro-
feSSor of soil technology. University
Of California. during the course OF
a recent radio address.
Discussing the effects of paper
mulches on soils and crops. Pro-
lessor Smith said, in part:
ANY covering on the soil, wfe-
sher the specially prepared manu-
factured mulch paper, boards,
straw, or old newspapers, alters the
soil surface with respect to ab-
;orption OF the suns rays and rain
all. evaporation of moisture from
1he soil. control of weeds, and the
soil climated.
EXPERIMENTAL tests conducted
oy the division of soil technology
amphasize that only by several
ears trials in any particular dis
riot. using small areas, and taking
.nto account character and cost
f the paper, can it be determined
rhether use of paper mulches will
ne economical. AT present, such
soil coverings do not seem to be
justified on large tracts.
in the surface foot of soil,
where the most active feeding roots
Of annual crops are located, there
is a distinct rise and fall in daily
soil temperatures. Covering
,rown- -colored soil with black non
perforated paper, for example, in
crsases soil temperature about five
degrees fahrenheit as compared TO
uncovered or bare soil.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23
MORGAN GROUP
TAX MATTERS
UNDER PROBE

WASHINGTON, March %. (U.Rl
Federal trade commission exam
liners, nearing the end of a four
year investigation of public utili-
ties, today pieced together an intri-
cate series of transactions by which
large Morgan-controlled companies
may have avoided income tax pay
mentS.
Turning attention to the vast
Morgan group, the commission
heard testimony which indicted the
United Gas Improvement company
avoided income tax on $9,300,000
profits on a stock trade.
The testimony was submitted by
Commission Chief Counsel Robert
E. Healy He explained the United
Gas improvement company tram
saction mo doubt was done in con-
nection with the income tax law"
He carefully avoided the term tax
evasion" and there was nothing to
indicate the transactions were not
perfectly legal. q
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23

in contact with an electric wire
when out of the flyers line of Wis
ion.
6. II the kite becomes entangled
in the wires. call the telephone
company'S repair service or the
light and power company, rather
than to attempt to pull it down
Z. Refrain from throwing objects
at kites or climbing poles in an
attempt to dislodge them"
If these rules are followed the
children will have just as much fun
and yet Will enjoy added safety"
the manager stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23

March "a. Friday night. Entertain
ment will be provided by a COM
mittee of which Mrs. John Goss is
chairman.
A five hundred party was given
Wednesday night at the Charles
Hackleman home. The guests in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Lamp
kinS, Mr.. and Mrs. John Frohly
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan T. Hewes, Mr.
and Mrs. George Winwright, Mr..
and Mrs. James Forester, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Forester, and Frank
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23
MAIL CARRIERS GOT SPIKES

FORT WORTH, Tex. U.P)-The
U. S. mail must go through. So
when a norther coated the city's
sidewalks and streets with ice,
Postmaster w. N. Moore ordered
spikes for the shoes of lot mail
carriers. An assistant superintend-
ent played "smithy.'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-23

The Jersey herd of j. H. Eric
son, Tehama country, averaged
ALL pounds of butterfat per COW
last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
CHIEF OPENS
PRISON FOR
LYNCHERS

NINETY SIX, S. G., Oct. 10.-Taken
out of jail here, and brutally beaten
with automobile top tubes, Bonnie
Thompson, young Negro worker, was
lynched here last night by four white
men with whom ne had an argument
earlier in the evening.
Burley Leopard, one of the lynch
ers, openly admits his part in the
brutal crime and reveals that the
lynching was carried out with the
help of Chief of Police Rush In a
statement read to a coroner's jury,
Leopard names j. F. Morris, 'Lesty'
Mayes and ''Toody" Webb as his &C
tive accomplices He indicated there
were others.
I'VE and the others had some
trouble with the niger at a cafe last
night and he drew pistol on us, .
Leppard's statement said. THE mig
ger was arrested and put in Jail.
Later the four of us went to the
jail and asked the jailer to turn the
niger over to us. He refused, telling
us We would have to see the chief.
"Chief of Police Rush came in a
few minutes later, and we made the
same request to him. He told us to
wait until dark and come back and
we would find the jail unlocked.
1--WE went back to the Jail a short
time later and we found the door
open and the lock hanging in the
cell door pushed together as il it
had been locked.
1--WE took the Niger out and drove
him down the road in my car. All
of us beat him with automobile top
tubes and left him beside the road
still alive"
Leopard said this was at 7:30
o'clock last night. just after o'clock
this morning, the workers body, bear
ing many welts, was found in plain
view of the highway by small Ne
gro boy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
RED ELECTION
VICTORY in
TOWN
Worker United Front
Ticket Sweeps Into
Second Place

DEARBORN, Oct. 10. - In
the very heart of the Ford in
dustrial empire, David Jones,
ice-President of the Auto
Workers Union, and candidate
for Mayor on the United Front
ticket came out second in the pri-
maries out of list of ten candi-
dates.
The United Front Party is q
united front of many working
class groups, particularly, the Auto
Workers Union and the Cnnannu-
mist Party. -.
Jones polled 1,441 votes against
the 5,445 count for Henry Ford's
cousin, Clyde Ford, who has been
Mayor of Dearborn ever since the
town was Incorporated in 1928.
Jones' large vote puts him on
the ballot for the final elections IN
November. In addition, Charles
Regain, running for Treasurer on
the United Front ticket, as well as
three more worker candidates for
office will be on the final ballot.
1t is significant that in the pri-
maries over 5000 anti-Ford votes
were cast, despite wide open ter
rorism of the Ford police, and
wholesale stealing of votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Still Guard Ambridge;
Make Threat to
the |. L. D.
BY HARRY CANNES.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 10,
Five thousand pickets massed
at. Weirton, West Virginia, to
prevent scabs from entering
the Weirton Steel Co. plant
this morning. State troopers attack
ed the line, throwing gas bombs, but
strikers picked them up, hurting them
at the troopers, who were driving
them back They hooted and cursed
the police.
Only several hundred out of the
$4,000 in three cities have returned
to work in the Weirton steel mill
The strikers are disobeying the orders
of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Tin and Steel Workers, an af-
f1liate IF the A. F. of L., leaders, not
to picket en- masse.
Not all have returned to the plants
in Ambridge. Pa. The workers are
re-establishing the union and shop
committees. Deputies are still patrol
inr ti,e streets, maintaining martial
ruiz.
Writs Of habeas corpus we're being
filed in the cases of more than fifteen
workers arrested in connection with
Thursdays murderous attack on the
Spang Chalfant Picket line. Repeated
ATTEMPTS to get information by at
torneys and Carl Hacker, LID. Or
ganizer, met with threats of falling
bodily harm and expulsion from the
county
Three workers arrested Sunday at
the funeral of Adam Petonsaki are
held incommunicado. Protests against
holding of these workers must con-
tinue to pour into the Office Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Washington, D. G..
and Governor Pinchot at Harris
burgh, Pa.
Mine Ranks Solid
The mine situation remains in a
deadlock. Philip Murray, U.M.WA
international president, is meet
ing with Thomas Moses, president of
H. G. Prick Coke Co. to map out
a means of tricking the miners back
to work with recognition Represen-
tatives of 100 UNIV. of A. locals met
yesterday in Centerville, supported by
five Thousand miners, and voted to
remain on strike until full recogni-
ton of the union is granted.
Ryan declared, 1--WE are going to
stay on that picket line and won't
leave until Roosevelt and johnson
tell us we are recognized 100 per
cent" He declared that the conven-
ton of District No. of the UNIV
of A. would be held in Isabella, near
Uniontown, today, to plan further ac-
ton.
Agnes Smear spoke at Library, Pa,
urging the miners wives to form wo-
mems auxiliaries, and draw all wo-
men into the strike for victory.
Speakers from Fayette, Washing
ton and Allegheny County are bitter
against the UNIV. of A. takers and
urged all miners to stick out till the
union is fully recognized.
A small fringe of miners, between
six and eight thousands returned to
work today. One Thousand who re-
l turned yesterday walked out today
\ over $4,000 are still on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Naxi Book
Halls Germs
AS Weapon

NEW YORK N. Y. Bacteria
las weapons, warfare with horrible
land loathesome diseases, such as
the letter from w. Haag, adjutant
of Hitler's forces in America,
speaks of in the secret letter to
his superiors in Berlin which was
published in the Daily Worker
Saturday, is part of the. official
program Of the Nazi General
Staff.
In Haag's secret letter from the
"Friends Of the New Germany" in
New York, are the words:
81 agree with you entirely that
liz would be good to give the
damned Communists in Leipsis an
injection Of syphilis"
The same loathsome methods,
ON a war-scale, are praised in the
textbook of Professor Banse, a
professor of military. science in
the pay of the Nazi government.
Writing about this book, in a
special dispatch to the New York
Times, Sunday, Frederick T. Birch
all says:
Biological warfare" says the
book, sis undoubtedly the given
weapon for nation which has
been .disarmed and rendered de-
fenseless."
1.-THE chief methods in such tao
tics would be the infection Of
drinking and other water by ty-
plus bacilli, the introduction Of
typhus by means of fleas, and Of
plague BY artifieially infected
rata"
Quoting from Professor Banse's
book, Birchall says, every meth
cd is permissible to stave off the
superior enemy and to vanquish
him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Coal Miners Hold
Convention; Steel
Mill IN Buffalo Out
Republic Steel Denies
w ork to It's; Strike
Starts; Plan Terror

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 1o.-The
Republic Steel Co., after three
hour conference last Sunday. refused
to reinstate ITS clippers. This Is a
direct threat on workers rights to
belong to any union. All fired men
formed a picket line today. A COM
plete walkout in the chipping de-
partment is expected tomorrow. All
other departments in the mill are
ready for the first CALL A strike in
the entire plant is imminent.
The company police thugs are OPP
Grating in full force inside and OUT
side. An old worker was beaten up
while speaking.
Work last night continued urGer
armed police. Machine guns are seen
being put into place. The Pratt
Letchworth Plant strike is continu-
ing solid, with picketing going on.
The support of the entire neighbor-
hood is splendid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Sec'y Perkins Is
Quizzed on Nazi
Plot By Daily
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Washington Bureau of the Daily
Worker1

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. -
The Department of Labor, no.
torious for deportation meas
ures against striking foreign
born workers, today passed off
without action the Daily Workers
expose of the operation in America
of a Nazi propaganda bureau which
is carrying on campaign of murder
and terror In the United States.
Secretary Perkins, informed of the
expose which brought an announce
ment of an investigation of Nazi &C
tivities by Chairman Dickstein OF
the House Immigration Committee,
declined to act without an Official
request for it.
1--WE certainly will cooperate II
there's anything that involved the
immigration laws" Perkins adroitly
hedged when confronted with the ex-
pose by your correspondent in a
press conference today. But the Of
fetal spokesman of the department
admitted, later, "she hasn't done
anything yet and doesn't plan any,
thing unless something turns up.
She doesn't know about it officially
yet"
1--WE have nothing to do with
propaganda" Perkins said in
geniously. II believe the story is
that there has been smuggling of
aliens into the United States for the
spreading of Nazi propaganda. I
know nothing about it, but any
smuggling is against the immigration
laws and it is our duty to stop it, to
suppress smuggling"
Someone else in the big confer
ence wanted to know whether Per-
kins would inquire into Dickstein's
statement that a "ridiculously large
number Of people 300-recently have
entered the United States as en-
ployers or servants of German con-
sulates."
"You know" Perkins srnilingly
Continued on Page Txoa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Judge Attacks
Dimitroft at
Trial in Berlin
New Intimidation AS
Sessions Open
in Reichstag

AT GERMAN FRONTIER,
Oct. 10 (Via Zurich) A new
attempt on the part of Judge
Buenger to intimidate George
Dimitroff, one Of the four Com
munist defendants in the Reichstag
fire trial, marked the opening Of the
sessions which have been transferred
to the Reichstag building in Berlin.
AS the proceedings opened, Judge
Buenger called each of the defend
ants in turn, with ridiculous SOL
emnity. When he came to Dimitroff,
he called:
"Dimitroff, defended by Teichert."
The Bulgarian Communist instant
1y answered, in a loud voice:
Il defend myself"
Buenger, who last Friday excluded
Dimitroff from the courtroom for his
courageous exposure of forged police
testimony, turned on him and said:
"You are beginning agsinl"
Ernst TorgleF, leader OF the Com
munist deputies in the Reichstag,
Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil
Taneff, ulgarian Communists
looked weary but militant as the trial
entered its third session.
The control of foreign journalists
in Leipzig was sharp enough, but here
the impression is given that the jour
nalists are criminals. The foreign
journalists entering the Reichstae
had their pockets searched twice, then
had to pass three examiners.
Few traces are left of the fire, be-
sides repairs which are going on I'M
der a sharp watch in the session hall
The Reichstag is guarded by police
with carbines Nobody ventures in
the neighborhood. Accidental passers-
by keep their distance. The sentries
in the Reichstag are heavily armed
Despite the dragging trial, with its
accumulation and repetition Of in
Vulnerable details deliberately in
tended to cause fatigue and confu-
sion, the defendants give the inpres-
sion that they are weary but militant
Only van der Lubbe, the Dutch tool
of the Nazis, who is also on trial,
is more collapsed, paler, more apath-
etic. The court made a suspicious
declaration that van der Lubbe is
under constant, careful medical OBJ
servation."
Buenger announced that the hear
ing Of witnesses will continue in Ber-
lin. Among nearly 100 witnesses to
be called is Gempp, former director
of the Berlin fire brigade, who was
dismissed after the fire and pros
ecuted for breach of duty. Gempp
made statements derogatory to the
Fascist plans.
The first witness was a Nazi stu
dent, Franz Floeter, who asserted
that when returning home on the
evening Of February 81 at 8 pm. he
saw man with a burning object in
his hand climbing the balcony of the
main story on the west front OF the
Reichstag. He said he reported it
at the main entrance, where the Of
ficials only looked at him incredu-
lousy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
New York Nazis
Raid Downtown
Store, Smash Glass

NEW YORK. Hitler terrorists in
vaded lower Manhattan early today
when a band Of Nazi gangsters
smashed the large plate-glass win
dow Of M. Richman q Co. store,
candy importers, at las East Houston
ST., early yesterday.
The window had contained big
anti Hitler display with photos Of the
arch-Fascist and legends such as
Hitler, the Murderer" etc.
As part Of their deliberate plans
to crush all anti Hitler sentiment in
the United States by strong-arm
gangster methods, the Nazi band
raided the store at 4 am. yesterday
morning, smashed In the plate-glass,
but were scared off by passers-by be-
fore they were able to ransack and
destroy the windows display.
This act Of terrorism Is the most
recent in . whole series OF strong-arm
raids, the earlier ones having taken
place In the Yorkville district,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11

auction OF a letter sent out by one
Of the Nazf leaders in New York,
urging that restaurant near the
North German Lloyd pier in Brook
lyn freQuented by seamen be put I'M
der surveillance because of a suspi-
cion that its owner has anti-Nazi
synpathies.
Already stirred to action by the
dramatic expose made by the Daily
Worker on Saturday, today's adj
ditional revelations are expected to
create stfiI greater interest In the
protest meeting tonight In New
Star Casino. 107th st. and Park Ave.
The meeting Is called by the New
York District or the Communist
Party. The meeting will denounce
the Nazi spying and murder plots
and demand the release of Torgier
and the other Communists on trial
in the Hitherto frame-up court in
Leipzig.
The publication Of this danlning
document today follows the exposure
in Saturdays issue of the Daily
Worker, Of previous activities of the
Friends of New Germany''-specifi-
cally, a letter from w. Haag, leader
OF the organization here, to his chiefs
in Berlin. This letter disclosed plots
for injecting Ernst Torgler and the
other Communists on trial in Ieip-
zig with syphilis germs, as well as
espionage in Amtorg, Soviet trading
organization In New York.
The letter suggesting that the
Magnet Restaurant be watched by
Nazi spies follows:
Near the Lloyd piers where the
Bremen and Europa sail, Is
restaurant called Magnet The
owner of this place is Mrs. Pogota,
I who is said to be in direct contact
with Mr.. Untermyer.
According to word I have re.
oeived from the Lloyd, the crews OF
their ships have been ordered "a
avoid this place. / request you to
put the restaurant under suryeil-
lance and provide me with reports.
"(Signed) Joachim w. Deutsch,
Leader of 'Bunaste,.s
(Secret Service)
Investigation by the Daily Worker
revealed that the Magnet restau-
rant referred to in the Nazi letter Is
part of the Magnet Hotel, 1879 58th
St, Brooklyn, near the North Ger
man Lloyd Pier.
Mrs. Pogota, said by the writer Of
the above. letter to be the owner OF
the place, was out when a repre-
sentative of the Daily Worker called.
Name MisspeIled Each Time
Not only is the seal on the letter
regarding the Magnet" restaurant
the same as the one which appeared
on the letter sent by Haag to his
Nazi chiefs in Berlin, but it is sig
nificant to note that Samuel Inter
myers name is misspelled in both
documents.
Untermyers name figures in this
letter undoubtedly, because of his
connection with the Jewish nation
alist boycott campaign against the
Nazis.
The letter from Deutsch further
supports previous charges made BY
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Borich Case Not
Dropped; Workers
Must Roar Protest

NEW YORK.-Due to a mistake
made by telegraph operator, the
Daily Worker enormously reported
yesterday that the deportation case
against Frank Borich, secretary of
the National Miners Union, had been
dismissed. The court reserved It's de-
cision. The telegraph operator in
sending the report over the wires
substituted the word reversed for re-
served.
Borich is still in grave danger OF
deportation because OF his militant
working-c1 activities in the lead
ership of the struggles OF the miners
against wage cuts and starvation, for
the right to live. 1t is necessary to at
once intensity the protests against
the attempt to deport him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Translation of Neev Nazi Spy Order

Sept. 20, 1888.

Ogru Naste
called Magnet"
o be
of
TO
provide
(Signed JOACHIM
# Bunaste tServce).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Call Detroit Auto
Meet Tomorrow

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 10.--A big
mass meeting is being called in the
Arena Gardens on Thursday at IL
noon, to be followed by a march to
Clark Park and mobilization for gen.
eral strike Of auto workers.
Efforts are being made to pull out
Ford workers, thousands OF whom are
being laid off in a mass lockout to
forestall a strike. The Communist
Party is issuing statement calling
for production workers to Join the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Answers ''Dai1y's" Call

sponded fully enough to wipe out the danger confronting the Daily
The total received to date is still dangerously low
CHILDREN CONTRIBUTE
Not only the
Daily MY father birthday. q grand
time we thought would make this
took collection for Daily Daily
Worker Signed Pioneer Member Aharonian
ACTION NECESSARY NOW!
We do not wish drive threatens
the very existence Of Daily Comrades
that each District realizing the the appeal
to rush all available you to follow
mington OVER THE $4,000 DRIvEi We appeal to
your District to get INTO ACTION ONCE TO
SAVE TIE DAILY WORKERl
Ousss irceIp's '... $So66A
TOTAL TO DATE $sss44s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Protest Nazi Spy Murder Plots at Neev Star Casino Tong

Get Your Unit, Union Local,
Branch or Club to Challenge
Another Group i'm Raising Subs
for the Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11

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