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Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
TRAVELLERS RETURN

Mr.. and Mrs. Don Davis are back
home after three weeks spent in
Missouri and other mid-western
states. This morning Don was
back at his post in the city engi-
neer'S office.
Don brought cheerful news for
valley residents. He said he had
found extremely warm weather all
along his route which in several
instances was every bit as torrid as
our own Ell Centre brand.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
c. &. G. Youths
ShoW Ignorance

COBALT, Conn.,. July 81. up
City youths getting their first taste
Of life in the open as recruits III
the Civilian Conservation Corps are
giving some of their super;ors bad
moments.
The pair who tried to catch a
nice striped cat for a company mas
cot, only to learn too late that
it wasn't that kind of a kitty, have
been gone one better by the re-
cruit who caught grass" snake
and planned to frighten a dormi-
tory mate with it.
Lets see it," said an officer
when the youth trudged into camp
with the snake in a burlap bag.
The boy opened the sack and out
wriggled a very angry four-feet
copperhead.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
STORMS TAKE
THREE LIVES
Texas And Florida Areas Wis
tied By Disturbances Over
Week End.

DALLAS, Tex, July 81. lJ.pt -
Three deaths, two score injured
and devastation of some SO houses
were listed today in a survey of
damage from a tornado that dip
ped into Oak Cliff, suburban resi-
dental section of Dallas.
l. G. Searcy, 90, high school and
college athlete, was crushed to
death when his home was lifted
from its foundation and collapsed.
His mother, Mrs. H. c. Searcy, SIS,
was injured critically. Two other
sons and daughter sustained less
serious hurts.
Thomas w. Henley, 10, was found
dead in small zone the storm
freakishly skipped. It was assum-
ed he died of a heart attack from
the shock of watching the ada
cent damage and threat to his own
home.
Mrs. Mary c. Stewart, 81, died
several hours later at hospital.
She received fractured skull in
the crashing of timbers.
Tentative and unsubstantiated es-
Inmates set the property damage at
half million dollars.
The tornado swept suddenly into
| the western area of Oak Cliff yes
terday. It's visit was as brief as it
was devastating. Torrential rain
fall followed, with unofficial gauges
recording 2.23 inches of precipita-
ton.
The danger zone was half a block
, wide and seven blocks long.
Fire broke out in the wreckage,
but was put out quickly by fire
men. A guard was placed around
the area during the night to pre-
vent pilfering.
D. L. Abercrombie, AZ, from his
bed in hospital gave the follow
ing account of the storm:
1T came from the southeast 1
saw it coming and rushed to the
back porch where my young sons
were playing. was certain our
home was going to be struck.
! II lay down on the floor on top
of the children.
There was rumbIing sound and
our house was carried a hundred
and fifty feet. 1t all happened so
suddenly can't tell you much
about it, and that's about all there
is to tell. The next thing I knew I
was in a hospital"
Abercrombie suffered head in
juries, not dangerous. His children
were not hurt.
TAMPA, Fla, July 81. U,Pj-A
severe tropical storm moved west
ward across Florida early today, ap-
parently blowing itself out after
causing minor property damage and
forcing 5000 persons to evacuate
their homes. No casualties were re-
ported.
Sebring, southeast of here and
almost directly west of Stuart, the
coastal city where it hit yesterday,
reported winds of only 80 to 35
miles per hour early today, and
Wauchula, still further along in the
direct line to Tampa, reported no
appreciable winds. This indicated
the storm was veering southwark.
1t was expected to pass out over
the gulf somewhere between Sara
sofa and Fort Myers.
Three thousand refugees were
concentrated at Okeechobee City,
evacuated from their homes in the
Everglade section by special trains
and automobiles.
Reports indicated the storm had
diminished steadily in intensity
since 1t struck the east coast be-
tween Fort Pierce and Stuart. The
highest recordings were go miles at
Fort Pierce and Stuart.
The greatest damage was done
to the citrus and truck farms in
the narrow strip through which the
storm moved.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
Veterans Return
From, Caucuses

P. A. Thaanum returned from
San Clemente this morning. where
he attended the pre-convention
caucus OF the Fifth Area, American
Legion, as delegate OF Boyce Aten
post. The caucus was held In the
coast city yesterday.
Charles Jobes, delegate, from the
local 40 and 8, the fun section Of
the American Legion. attended the
pre-convention caucus OF that or
ganization which was held yester-
day at Dana Point, north OF San
Clemente.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
THIRD ARREST
REPORTED IN
; K|DNAP CASE
Authorities Seeking O'Connell
Abductors Refuse Information
About Suspects.
WILL QUESTION VICTIM
Young Albany Man Released
After Being Held Captive Over
Three Weeks.

/. ALBANY, N. Y, July 81. U.P) =
A third man was taken into custody
today for questioning in the kid.
naping of John j. O'Connell jr, who
was released for $4,000 ransom at
ter being held captive % days.
Attaches at the district attor-
ney's office explained that the men
were not under arrest but were
simply to be questioned
Names of the men were with
held, an official said, because we
don't wish to tip our hands,"
John T. Delaney, district attor-
ney, who with federal operatives is
leading the attempt to track the
abductors, moved secretly.
While the search progressed, the
handsome 24-year-old nationa,
guard lieutenant was reported tc,
have been brought to Albany from
summer camp of his politically
powerful uncle, Daniel O'Connell,
where he was returned yesterday.
Attaches at the district attorneys
office indicated the youth probably
would be questioned by Delaney
later in the day ir an effort to OBJ
tain some definite description Of
the kidnapers.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 81. U.P;--
Two men were taken into custody
early today, less than "a hours af-
ter John j. O'Connell, Jr., heir to
the omnipotent political empire of
ltft, O'Connell brothers, was re-
leased by his abductors following
payment of $4,000 ransom. Auth
critics let it be known they expect
cd to "break the case" quickly with
the arrest of six men.
The men were not identified as
authorities subjected them to in
terrogation. District Attorney John
T. Lelaney, preserving the inten-
{ sive secrecy he inaugurated with
the return of young O'Connell, re-
fused to say if they were suspect
ed of being actually members of the
kidnapping gang or of having know
ledge of the gang.
O'Connell, little the worst for his
% days in captivity was at the
mountain camp of his uncle, Dan
iel O'Connell where he was return
ed early yesterday morning. De-
laney issued strict orders that he
was not to talk to outsiders, espe-
cially to newspapermen.
A great host of detectives were
concentrated on the hunt for the
kidnapers and Delaney was conf
dent that solution would be quick
and certain. He said he would send
six men to the penitentiary for 80
years. Beyond that, he was silent.
The detectives included federal de-
partment of justiceoperatives. New
York City detectives, New York
state police, and local authorities.
Governor Herbert H. Lehman
prepared a message for the special
session of the legislature now in
session, demanding increased pen
alties for conviction Of kidnapers.
1t was hoped by authorities that if
the kidnapers are arrested they can
be tried under the new law.
The only information concern
ing young O'Connell's adventure
was in a brief statement issued by
his uncle, Daniel. The youth was
we'll treated by his captors, given
an abundance of good food, and
was not kept bound or blindfolded
all of the time.
He was attacked from behind, in
front of his home early in the
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
MARTIAL LAW
IN LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS, July 81. tU.P) -
Granting a request of the Orleans
parish grand jury, Gov. o. K. Allen
declared martial law in Louisiana
at 245 p. M, and ordered out the
national guard.
Prior to the declaration, the
grand jury had asked the governor
to order the seizure and destruc-
ton of ballot boxes in the last No
vember 8 election.
The order. promulgated in Baton
Rouge by e. A. Conway, secretary
of state, after the governor had
signed it in New Orleans, declared
the action necessary "to protect
the grand jury" in view of the fact
state of near anarchy" charged
by the grand jury, had been found
to exist
NEW ORLEANS, July 81. tU.P}--
Two companies of Louisiana ma
tional guard, suddenly ordered out
and held under arms at Jackson
barracks here yesterday, were dis
missed today, as mysteriously and
suddenly as they were called.
No reason was given for the or
der sending the soldiers to their
homes. Military authorities refused
to comment on the sudden action
of Louisiana officials other than to
say that they received orders to
dismiss the troops.
The companies of guardsmen
were ordered modified yesterday
after U. S. Senator Huey P. Long
arrived here from Washington and
conferred with Gov. o. K. Allen,
CASTOR L. Porterie, attorney gen.
eral, and other political leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
(WyRSiSs75R' yiS7 Be-;

SANTA MONICA, July 30.
(SpeciaD-Roger Babson, who
savvys a lot about things be-
fore they happen, says people
are going back to the old
fashioned investments, that
they are starting in to raise
children. figuring on the chill
dren raising them in their
older years.
1t was becoming kind of a
lost art. Babson figures that
if We will just deprive our
selves and furnish the children
gas now that they will do the
same for US in our OLD days.
That's about all there is to
supporting anybody nowadays.
You never hear, who will
board me?" who will room
me?' It's always who will
furnish the gas?"
If we could get the state to
furnish the gas instead of the
school and the teacher, we
could really put on a child
raising campaign.
Vnttrc
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
TOO MUCH 'CH|NN|NG'
 50 WILL LOCK GATES

LOS ANGELES, Jan. g, The New York Giants" spring training at Wrigley Field will be closed to the public. Billy Terry, manager of the Giants" so informed the management of the Los Angeles Teams Ball Park Association, by letter.
 He said last year the players did too much chinning with friends and distant relatives when they should have been practicing, and so he is going to lock the gates this year.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
COLLEGE TEAMS WILL
 TRY BRING cUP ID J. $. \.

NEW YORK, Jan. g, The com bined Yale and Harvard tennis teams will try to bring back to the United States the Grentice Cup in July when it tackles the Oxford and Cambridge teams at Newport, R. I.
 In their ninth biennial battle the British defeated the Americans at Easthourne, England, in 1881.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

Now that few inches of snow has fallen, it can be expected that Seward residents may again see what a plane looks like. Lack of snow turnout this area has prohib- tied planes, which are all equipped with skis. from landing here.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
NOTICE

Our family wash HK or rough dry bundles must be 50 per cent mixed with flat and hand-iron work, otherwise a charge at the regular straight price will be made.
 Seward Steam Laundry
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
HOSPITAL NEWS

John Patrochin, fisherman of Kodiak, was brought to the Seward General Hospital Monday on the vessel Oregon Wolf. Dr. A. D. Haverstock states that MT. Patro- chin is in a critical condition and an operation was performed upon him this morning.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
CROWLEY TO COACH FORDHAM

NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.-James H. Jim" Crowley, one of Notre Danes Four Horsemen" and football coach at Michigan State College the last three years, has signed a three-year contract as head coach with Fordham University.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Imagine Standard Oil Company automobile running out of gas! If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes it would have been difficult to believe. Ask Coon and Corliss was further detail
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
SPANISH PRISONERS ESCAPE

PARIS, Jan. 10,-Twenty- eight political prisoners who engineered an escape on New Years Eve at the Spanish penal colony of Villa Ces- neros, were understood to have landed at Port Etienne, French West Africa, in a fishing boat.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
GEODUCKS STILL ON JOB

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Prchibi- ton personnel will remain intact in states which repealed their en- forcement laws at the November elections, said Prohibition Director WOOdcock.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
FER GOODNESS SAKE."

BOMBAY, India, Jan. g, - A bounding cricket ball which struck passing pedestrian led to serious rioting in the Sluma area here; two MoSlemS and one Hindu were killed and 26 injured.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

The M. s. Oregon Wolf. a fine looking fishing vessel, arrived in port yesterday from Kodiak
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

NEW YORK, Jan. 10, A sell-off near the close of yesterdays mark ct brought prices down from early highs for an irregular close.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10
NOTICE

The Fine Arts Department of the Seward Women's Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Chilberg at 2:15 Wednesday after noon, January 11th.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

Otto Erickson, who recently en- tered the Hospital with severe head injuries, recovered sufficient ly to be discharged Tuesday.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

A bowling blizzard was roaring over Moose Pass today according to the 'SnoeShoe WirleSS."
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-10

Arrivals from Kodiak bring word of heavy fall of snow yesterday and a temperature reading .32 above.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

policy is to use the so-called law of supply and
demand to beat down wages and lengthen hours,
know that trade unions with union shop agree
ments resulting from collective bargaining are
the only real protection working men and women
have against the subversive labor policies Of in
dustrial dictators.
They would like to see trade unions outlawed
by law in the United States just as Hitler has
outlawed them by decree in Germany.
OF course there is not a paragraph or sentence
in the National Recovery Act that prohibits union
shop agreements.
In fact it is likley that those who phrased the
labor section were animated by the desire to en-
courage collective bargaining and thus enable
the workers to participate by bona fide unions
in determining their wages and hours under the
fair practice codes set up under the Recovery
Act.
As William Green, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, told the 1888 convention of
that organization: "The right to enter into an
agreement providing for a closed union shop
has been conceded and recognized by the courts
in all their decisions
That right is not vitiated in the slightest de-
gree by the National Recovery Act, nor by any
responsible interpreter of its constructive pro-
visions.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
AGE LIMIT FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

The decision OF the United States Civil Service
Commission to reverse its decision barring stem
ographers and typists over 40 years of age from
Government employment by refusing them per-
mission to be examined for those occupations
and raising the limit to So years was inevitable.
The justifiable wave OF protest that went up
against such a reactionary position was over
whelming.
The American Federation of Labor has per-
sistently opposed the victimization Of older work
ers by either private employers or the Govern
ment. The 1888 convention of the Federation
did not mince words on this question. It said
There is no more tragic picture than that
OF a competent, able and we'll man or woman
barred from employment for no other reason
than that they have reached the age Of As
years, and in many cases only IS years"
Older workers must live. Unless they are given
an opportunity to earn a living, they must be-
come a charge upon society. Places must be
provided for them in both Government employ
ment and private industry.
The order of the Civil Service Commission
placing a ban on stenographers and typists over
40 years old was distinctly antisocial and reac-
tionary. The reversal Of the order was absolu-
tely necessary not only in the interest of justice
to the older workers but also to restore in part
the confidence which the people lost in the COM
mission by reason Of its proposed victimization.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
THREE BIG CITIES o. X. PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP

Three big cities, Akron, Sandusky, O., and
Camden, N. j., answered the highpowered utility
propagandists by voting for municipal owner
ship Nov. 7. The proposition in a fourth, Gin
%cinnati, was defeated when even newspapers
usually sponsoring public ownership fought the
proposal because Of the wording OF the ballot,
while three other cities, San Francisco, Salt Lake
City and Youngstown, o., retained privately
owned utilities.
Admittedly fearful that public ownership
would gain favor among voters, especially with
the announced Roosevelt policy making public
works funds available for such projects, the util
iy magnates concentrated all their fire on these
cities. They were especially active in San Fran
cisco, where a municipally-owned power general
ing plant is already in operation.
Voting in the smaller towns was about evenly
divided between public and private ownership.
The fight in Akron is not yet finished since
the vote was only in favor of a proposal to di-
rect city officials to prepare plans for municipal
operation and the question will come up again
at the next general election. ~
More favorable results for public ownership
are expected when hundreds of small communi-
ties in the area served by Muscle Shoals in Ten
nessee valley vote on the question. More than
50 of these towns have already declared in favor
of municipal ownership.
Other cities where the question will be consid-
cred in the near future are Washington, D. c.,
Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
NEW RELIEF PLAN TO GIVE 3-DAYS
WORKWEEK TO JOBLESS

funds, and a part of the remaining
funds of the Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration. In order that actual
jobs may be Immediately made avail
able for the 100000 men and women
now performing work-relief tasks, for
the additional day each week, instruc-
tions are going out to all state and
municipal relief agencies, to the au-
thorities using PWA funds, and to
federal departments concerned in pub
lie works, that the number and ex-
tent of public works must be expand
ed, and a wide range of activities bor-
dering upon public works construc-
ton must started. For example,
cleaning up city parks is not a con-
struction job, but it does come under
the program of the Civil Works Ad-
ministration.
Roosevelt said that this is a fun
damental change in dealing with ad-
ministration of emergency relief Of
the unemployed, since it undertakes
to place men on regular employment.
1t is designed, he said, to care for all
employable persons.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

WASHINGTON-(FP)- President
Roosevelt announced Nov. 8 that he
had appointed Relief Administrator
Harry Hopkins to be administrator of
a new relief plan, called the Civil
Works Administration, which is to
take 100000 adults off the public
relief rolls by Nov. 16, by the sim
pie expedient of giving them a 3-day
work-week where now they are doing
a 2-day work-relief stint each week.
Three days pay, he explained, would
make them able to maintain their fam
lilies, and hence their names would be
taken from the relief rolls. Since
100000 of the 100000 names on the
public relief rolls have already been
removed-in the period since April
this new plan would reduce the re-
lief roll-call to 1000, 900 names. The
President expressed hope that he
could have even this remainder cared
for through 3-day employment before
the middle of December.
This Civil Works Administration is
to have s400,000,000 of the SO $500, 000,-
600 Public Works Administration
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
MISSOULA COUNTY
LABOR COUNCIL

Briefly the matters before the
Council at the last meeting were as
follows;
Communication from Kalamazoo
Federation of Labor giving more in
formation about the Montgomery
Ward & Co., building being erected
there contradicting that there had
ever been any union men on the job
and that it is a notorious non-union
job. The carpenters and iron workers
internationals have sanctioned picket
ing of the job and the last issue Of
the Carpenters Journal has a write
up about the situation.
###
Concurrence in the request of Boze-
man Carpenters union in placing a
boycott against "Misco Products"
manufactured by Bozeman Feed and
Grain Co. for using only non-union
help in their building project.
Disapproval of resolutions at this
time purporting to establish wage
scales on Federal Projects different
from the code agreed upon at the
special convention of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor at Helena, being
that this code is now before the Adj
ministrator of Public Works and is
being championed by representatives
of A. F. Of L., Missoula labor feels
that presenting different wage scales
for consideration while negotiations
are pending on the proposed code will
leave %unfavorable impression upon the
authorities and u own representa-
tives in Washington.
#*#
The Building Trades Committee
were instructed to wait upon the sew
eral Boards having authority in let
ting contracts for projects financed in
whole or in part by the Emergency
Appropriation urging such Boards to
approve the proposed code for build
ing craftsmen adopted at the Helena
convention.
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Report was heard in regard to con-
tributions from the several unions to-
wards the expense fund of the local
N. R. A. compliance board. While
a monstrous parade was pulled off on
Armistice Day partly in observance
of the days occasion and partly in
support of the N. R. A. program,
some have thought that possibly its
efficacy in making the N. R. A. an
assured success is somewhat in doubt,
and another and different kind of raj
ly will be staged on Monday evening,
Nov. 18th, when former Mayor Kerr
Beadle Of Butte has been invited to
explain to Missoula people what the
whole thing stands for.
Then if this does not prove entire
ly successful, maybe there will be an
other parade. There have been sew
eral smaller ones for the past few
weeks, it being reported that So cases
have been reported to the Compliance
Board for their advice and attention.
###
The annual contribution of SIS was
ordered paid to the National Child
Labor Committee.
A letter was read from the secre-
tary of the Missoula County Fish and
Game Association in answer to the
letter from Central Council relative
to the proposed banquet at Florence
Hotel, that he was in accord with the
stand taken by the Central Council
and that if a majority of the commit
tee should decide to have the banquet
at the Florence Hotel then in that
event he would not attend or have
anything to do with the banquet.
Missoula Labor appreciates such an
Independent stand by a public official
and it goes to prove that although the
Florence Hotel boycott is old it is still
effective.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
HARRIMAN'S BRAINSTORM

Henry |. Hartman, president of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States, one of the
organizations which strenuously opposes that
section Of the National Recovery Act which guar
antees the right Of the workers to organize in
bona fide trade unions without interference from
employers, is reported in the press as having told
the Cincinnati, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce that
in his judgment the Recovery Act bars union
shop agreements.
What a brainstorml
Undoubtedly Mr.. Harriman's belief is father to
his desires.
Reactionary and subversive antiunion employ
ers of the Hartman type, whose well-known
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

The Building Trades Committee
were instructed to wait upon the sew
eral Boards having authority in let
ting contracts for projects financed in
whole or in part by the Emergency
Appropriation urging such Boards to
approve the proposed code for build
ing craftsmen adopted at the Helena
convention.