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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
SOVIET ENVOY
ARRIVES FOR
CONFERENCE
LitvinOff Speeded To Capital
For Series OF Discussions On
Russian Recognition.
CONFIDENT OF OUTCOME
First Representative OF Com
munistic Nation Extended
Fullest Courtesies.
CONFIDENT OF OUTCOME
By FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent

JERSEY CITY, Nov. 7. U.Pl-
Maxim Litvinov, foreign commits
sar of the Soviet Union, arrived in
the United States today on one of
the most significant diplomatic
Journeys since the World war. de-
signed to lead to United States
recognition of the Russian Com
munist state.
Received with high honors by
official government representatives
as he sped from the S. S. Beren-
garia to special train for Wash
ington, Litvinov expressed complete
with President Roosevelt and of
happy future relations between the
two nations.
The first official Soviet repre-
sentative to visit the United States
reviewed in formal statement
and in answering questions of re-
porters the common interests OF
the United States and Russia.
Litvinov referred to the desires
of both nations for world peace
and their common interest in in
dustry and trade-a trade which is
expected to lead to huge Soviet
purchases in the United States If
recognition is achieved.
"All of these factors encourage
me to high hopes as to the out
come of my mission and as to the
future of relations between our two
nations,'' Litvinov said. "There
are many symptoms of success.
cit seems to me that all we now
have to do is legalize, SO to say,
the reciprocal gravitations of the
two nations, which have had no
conflict and in which I cannot an
ticipate any conflict.
Litvinov, a short Stocky man, with
touseled yellow h air becoming
slightly grey, was dressed in a
, blue suit and wore a white shirt
and blue tie. He posed good ma
! turedly for the cameramen.
81 am setting foot today on the
territory of the great American
republic with a keen sense of the
privilege that is mine in being the
first official representative to
bring greetings to the American
people from the people of the So
Wet Union,o he said
81 realize that I am, in way,
making the first breach in that
artificial barrier which has for 16
years prevented normal intercourse
between the peoples of our two
countries. Everybody now realizes
that this situation has done no good
to either side, and the sooner it
becomes q thing of the past, the
better for us ALL
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Find Portion OF
Body On Beach

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7. U.P)-De-
tectives today sought to solve what
may be a gruesome murder mystery
following discovery on the Palos
Verdes beach Of a human torso yes
terday.
The griSly human relic was cast
up by the sea and was found by two
fishermen, Murray Tynes, 408 South
Catalina street, and E. j. Watkins
of Redondo Beach.
All that remained of the possible
murder victim was the torso and
the thigh bones, according to Will
liam S. inland, Redondo Beach un-
dertaker, who took charge of the re-
mains.
inland said the torso was in such
condition that he could not deter
mine the sex or probable age of the
victim and was unable to conjecture
how long the body had been in the
water.
Search was instituted along the
beach in the hope that the head and
other portions of the body might be
found,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
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Gls.s nsRAsshi ayndisa.'' ~
ARMY OFFICER
SEEKS BAIL IN
1T TACK CASE

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. T. U.Ej
Blanche Rails, twice married ma
trcn of Birmingham, Ala, testified
today at a bond hearing for Lieut..
John H. Murrel, former West Point
football star, that he took her to an
abandoned spot on the Fort Sam
Houston military reservation and
attacked her.
The comely young Birmingham
woman choked with emotion as she
related incidents leading up to ,fe
alleged attack.
She testified that the attack oc-
CURED last Oct. %, following Tex
as football game here Lieut.. Murrel,
Army's bid for All-American honors
IN 1880, was referee at the game.
Defense attorneys pressed Miss
Rails for details of the alleged at
tack and for incidents which preced-
ed the visit to the Fort Sam Hous-
ton military reservation where she
alleged she was attacked.
Miss Rails denied she was intox-
icated at the time. She admitted
having visited two speakeasies pl-or
to going on the ItOtor drive with
the army man. She said she drank
two cocktails during the evening. A
one OF the speakeasies, she said, she
saw the body of a friend who had
committed suicide. This uuiGfved
her, she said.
Defense counsel in outlining Muir
rell's case said it would show the
young woman was unnerved by see
ing the dead man and that Murrel
took Miss Rails motoring to calm
her.
Murrel, held in Jail without bond
since Oct. 81, pleaded not guilty. He
told newspaper reporters last week
when a bond hearing was postponed
that he was not able to identify Miss
Rails.
The dance, the witness said, was
at a hotel sroof, In the excitement
of the evening, Miss Rails testified
she gave Murrel card upon which
she had written her name and tele-
phone number This incident, She
maintained, had no bearing on their
cquaintanceShip
The bond hearing was held before
Paul Lockhart, U. S. commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
CERTAINTY Of
REPEAL HELD
BY president
Sees Action As Redemption Of
Pledge Made By Democrats In
Last Campaign.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
Unitet Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. :. = From
President Roosevelt down, admin
istration leaders were supremely
confident that repeal balloting in
six states today would redeem the
Democratic pledge to scrap prohib-
ition.
The favorable votes of only three
of the six were required, 33 other
states having voted to repeal in
unbroken succession, but the COM
plete RECOMMENDATION of all 80 was
sought.
Mr.. Roosevelt already has moved
to have temporary control machin-
cry ready for repeal, to deal with the
liquor situation in the period from
December 5 until congress acts. A
special house committee is working
with various agencies of the gov
ernment on permanent liquor con-
troll and taxation laws. These will
be considered by congress in JAN
uary.
At the President IS direction an
inter-departmental report on tenn
porary control machinery has been
drawn up under the leadership of
Undersecretary of Treasury Ache
son. It's content has not yet been
revealed. The President is anxious
to meet with all the power at the
government S command the posi-
bility of continued bootlegging af-
ter repeal. Through proper taxes
and duties it is intended to make
bootlegging Improbable, and at the
same time assure revenues to make
up for several tax levies that die
with repeal.
Among conflicting reports of the
report S content was one to the
effect that the state department
had recommended high import
taxes on all liquors to give it bar
gaining power in negotiating for
reciprocal trade agreements.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
BRITAIN ENDS
TARIFF TRUCE

LONDON, Nov. 7. U.PJ Great
Britain served notice on the world
today that she will abandon the
present tariff truce at once.
Announcement of the British re-
nunciation Of the truce, which was
made effective in a gesture toward
economic stability at the world &c
onomic conference, was made to-
day in the house of commons. 1t
is effective at once.
Walter Runciman, president OF
the board of trade, announced the
end of the tariff truce to the house.
1.-The government, he said,
f'has come to the conclusion that
the tariff truce is no longer OF any
practical value y
1t was pointed out that although
the government S announcement
cancels the tariff truce Gas of to-
day.. the cancellation cannot be
made effective until December II,
since the terms of the truce re-
ouired one month IS notice of with
draWal,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
WHITE HOUSE
SILENT UPON
GOTHAM RACE.
Indications Roosevelt Favors
Mckee Due. To Endorsement
OF Postmaster General Farley.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. - Pres
tige of the Roosevelt administration
was at stake today to some extent
in the New York mayoralty election,
according to the significance gen.
orally attached by Washington to
the three cornered fight.
The White House has been silent.
But in the opinion of some, espe-
cially on the republican side, an adj
ministration color has been given to
the candidacy of Former Mayor Jo-
seph V. Mckee, because he has been
endorsed by Postmaster General
James A. Farley, political kingpin
of the administration.
Victory for former Representative
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, fusion can
didate, would be construed by many
as a defeat for administration for
ces Republicans nationally were
prepared to hail it as such, if La
Guardia WINS.
Belief is widespread here that il
Farley's candidate wins, the ad-
ministration will build up a New
YORK City OrganlzaIlOn WHICH VIII
be the nucleus OF the 1886 general
election campaign. 1t has been sug-
gested that one object is to pave
the way for Farley to run for Gov
ernor in 1886. Some even suggested
that after two years, he would be
urged by some Democrats as sue
cessor to the White House in 1910
A side angle of national signifi-
canoe was the New York assembly
election. If the Democrats gain three
seats in addition to having the SEN
ate and the governorship. Thus the
administration had the opportunity
to consolidate the gains of last years
landslide by taking complete con-
troll of the city and state. 1t was
result fondly hoped for by the ad-
miniStration to combat criticism OF
the recovery program. A smashing
victory at the polls would go far, it
was felt here in restoring the ad-
ministration lus;er.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
GOTHAM FOLKS
HAVE Bic DAY
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 7. = New
York voters jammed the electoral
machinery of 5000 polling districts
today and, voting at the rate of
one a minute, cast an estimated
100000 ballots-nearly one-third of
the total registratiou-by mid
morning.
The heated battle Of recrimina-
ton and counter attacks by three
Democratic factions and the fusion
coalition, had its election day re-
Election in disorders, beatings and
arrests, and in the frantic descent
of police radio cars and flying
squadrons upon east side danger
spots,
Nineteen thousand police provid-
ed inside and outside guards at the
polls. They were augmented by a
force of 1,700 special deputies and
by "15,0O0 party Watchers, the
greatest protective array ever
thrown around the city's polling
places.
Hoodlums on the lower east side
knocked out a Republican watcher
who objected to their chanting,
"You can't vote here unless you
vote for John P, O'Brien. " A po-
lice squad ended their activity.
A fake "repair man. wandered
from polling place to polling place
in Manhattan with a bag of gad-
gets. and "repaired numerous
voting machines-putting them out
of commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
|NRA AND AAA
TO BE GIVEN
FULL TRIALS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. W.P)-
The administration IS determina-
ton to give its AAA and NRA pro-
grams a full trial before consent
ing to supplant them with other
recovery plans was announced by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
last night.
The secretary's address was con-
sidered to- be an explanation of
the administration IS rejection of a
drastic price pegging plan propos-
ed by governors of middleweStern
states where the farm strike is in
progress. Wallace is scheduled to
carry the message to Iowa person.
ally by airplane Friday, duplicat-
ing, for the AAA, a series of
speeches for the NRA which Ad-
ministrator johnson is making in
the midwest.
Wallace estimated it would re-
quire at least two years to restore
prosperity, and stressed that farm
ers in the meantime must be will
ing for city workers to obtain bene-
fits through the NRA to increase
their demand for the output of
farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
CONCERT STAR
IN HOSPITAL

SAN DIEGO. Nov. 7. U.P)-Mme.
Ernestine -Heink, cele-
brated diva of the grand opera
stage, was undergoing hospital
treatment today for a severe in
testinal inflammation.
She was removed to a hospital
last night when Dr. Charles NJ.
Fox, her son-in-laW, said she may
be suffering from appendicitis.
Hospital attendants said she spent
comfortable night and that she
was in no immediate danger. DR..
Fox said he heSitated to operate
because of her age. The diva is 70.
Nine. Schumann-Heink returned
to her home in Coronado. San Di-
ego suburb, last week after an eX-
tended theatrical tour She plan
ned to resume her tour in January.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
FIRE DAMAGES
OIL PROPERTY

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calf,
Nov. 7. U.P)-Damage of $4,000 was
done to property Of the w. and K.
Oil company early today when fire
destroyed a derrick and two 500
barrel storage tanks in the center of
the Huntington Beach field.
Fire broke out when an unattend-
ed tank overflowed, the oil pouring
into nearby boiler rooms.
Five other derricks were damaged
slightly. One, owned by the Tide
Petroleum company, which recently
came in flowing at a sensational
rate, had the floor burned away
from the derrick, but the pipes held
until the blaze was eXtinguiShed.
The w. and K. Oil company is
owned by S. F. Void, Pasadena, and
p. A. Kingsland, Long Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Recommendations ADOPTED
BY CITIZENS MILK COMM |TTEE

At a conference which lasted un-
til midnight last night the Ell Gen.
tro citizens milk committee adopt
ed recommendations which were
finally ratified tentatively by the
milk producers in the Ell Centre
area. The price schedule adopted
follows very closely the code of the
Imperial Valley Market Milk as
sociation which was approved a
number of weeks ago and which j,
now in effect in Calipatria, Braw-
ley, Westmorland and Holtville.
The Ell Centro milk producers
have never adopted prices provid-
ed by the code of the milk produc-
ers association and last nights &C
tion will tend to make Ell Centre
milk prices uniform with those
generally prevailing in other I'M
perial Valley cities. The result is
expected to make possible an ad-
vance in the price paid by the city
milk distributors to the dairymen
ON the ranch, which it Is believed
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Senate To Hear
More On Wiggir1

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. W,P) -
Senate stock market investigators
today approached an inside story OF
how the Rockefellers deposed Albert
H. Wiggin from his powerful posi-
ton as head of the Chase National
bank.
In the background of the struggle
for control of the bank was the story
of Wall Street raid led by Wiggin
on the Fox Film corporation. The
sortie was directed through the bro
kerage firm of Pycheon and Co.
The inquiry will resume tomorrow
or next day with further explora-
ton of Sinclair Consolidated Oil
corporation syndicate which earned
Wiggin, Harry F. Sinclair, Arthur
Cutten and others a net return OF
just under $11,0O0,0O0 Sinclair and
Cutten have been subpoenaed for
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Posse On Trail
Of UnderhiLL

MUSKOGEE, Okla, Nov. 7. UP)
Wilbur Underhill, elusive killer
and escaped convict, still was free
today somewhere in the Cookson
hills, hideout for numerous GRIM
inalS.
Fifty possemen, hastily assem-
bled when the state crime bureau
received reports Underhill, Ford
Bradshaw and Charles Cotner had
terrorized the town of Wan and
threatened to ''get the law were
disbanded at Marble City near the
Arkansas line.
The possemen reported they had
found no trace of Underhill, want
ed for a series of crimes including
the Union station massacre at Kan
sas City in which five men were
killed, nor of his two companions,
also sought on several charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
EXPECT PROHIBITION WILL Be
TERMINATED BY VOTING TODAY

the outstanding problem will be the
regulation and manufacture, sale
and consumption Of alcoholic bever-
ages, which will be left to the indi-
vidual states.
Regulatory proposals are almost
as numerous as the states, but vir-
tually all seek to prevent the return
of the old time saloon.
Not one of the 33 states that vot-
ed previously stood by the dry cause
Assuming that the unbroken trend
will continue, the end of prohibi'
tion will mean:
Employment of many thousands
of workers directly in the liquor i'll
dustry-there were over 72,000 Sc
employed in 1914 - and jobs for
many other thousands in allied lines
New markets for farmers crops
many of which show unprcfitable
surpluses.
Huge Revenue Expected
Expenditure of millions OF dollars
to rehabilitate breWeries and dis
tilleries and to build new ones.
The saving Of money spent on
Observation-Disclosures at a total
of $5OOO0O,000 for the prohibition
period.
Addition Of an estimated $780,
100000 year to federal revenue in
liquor taxes. Already the taxes on
beer have poured an average of ST.
100000 a month Ga yearly rate OF
$204, 4,000,000) into the national trea-
Sury.
The Volstead act, enforcing mea-
sure of the 18th amendment, will &c
out with prohibition, according to q
ruling by Attorney General Homer
S. Cummings. There still is some
technical legal controversy on this
point.
Among the mass of measures un-
der consideration the Canadian sys-
tenn of package purchase seems tc
be the one most favored.
The so-called package system, in
effect in the province of Ontario
permits the sale of assorted liquors
up to 12 bottles, comprising one
package, for consumption in ones
home or hotel room. 1t bans the sale
of liquor in hotel dining rooms and
restaurants. Seven states have
adopted this system, or modifica-
ton of it, or have the system under
consideration.
The Quebec plan, permitting sale
of beer and wine in restaurants
and providing sale to the public
through state dispensaries, is favor
ed in Oregon and several other
states plan state-controlled liquor
stores.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
TQDAY'5 ELECTIONS INTEREST
MILLIONS Of NATIONS VOTERS

Francisco, Salt Lake City, Cincin-
natl, Akron, Ohio; Youngston, Ohio;
and Camden, N. j.
Virginia elected a United States
senator, a governor, and complete
state ticket.
Many cities in ali parts OF the
country elected mayors. Outstand-
ing in addition to New York were
Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh and
Cleveland
In Philadelphia the Ware Repub-
lican machine was assailed by a CO.
glition of Democrats and independ-
ents for municipal and county Off
ees.
Another issue likely 10 assume ma
tional Importance was the question
of states awarding bonuses TO for
mer service men. Pennsylvania vot-
ers were asked TO approve a $4,000. r
600 bond issue for that purpose, New
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
.|RATE MIDDLE WEST FARMERS
CONTINUE STRIKE VIOLENCE
Warnings Of Law Officers And Governors
Disregarded By Picket Lines Blocking
Transportation.

DES MONIES, Iowa. Nov. 7. UE)
- Embattled midwestern farmers
drew picket lines tighter about mar
ket centers today in an effort to
enforce immediate acquiescence of
their demands for increased prices
of farm products.
In many sections striking farmers
ruled the highways with violence.
Two men have been killed and more
than 80 injured since the strike was
initiated two weeks ago. Thousands
of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed.
The second railroad bridge burn
ed in the past "a hours was report
ed on the main line of the Illinois
Central between Cleghorn and Meri-
den, Iowa, today. Origin of the fire
which destroyed the 60-foot bridge
was not known. A bridge on the
Great Northern line near James,
Iowa. was burned Yesterday.
The warning of governors and
law enforcement officers and. coun-
sci of farm organization leaders to
avoid violence has been met with
additional violence.
All along the western front" bel
licose farm forces figuratively dug
in" for a long winters fight. Fiery
leaders marshalled a force estimated
at from $4,000 to 25O,0O0 active pick
cts in four states:
While den1Orinp destruction of
property and disregard to life, Milo
Reno, Farm Holiday association
president, urged the farmers to con-
tinue the strike with all the power
you possess"
The strike, Reno said in a state
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07
Admits Attack
On Young Boy

SAN PEDRO, flov. 7. W,P) -
Charles T. Anderson, SO year old
merchant seaman of San Pedro to-
day confessed brutal attack upon
Robert M. Lockwood, IL, who was
found unconscious under a bed in
Anderson's home yesterday, San Pc
dro police announced.
Alex A. Ringstrom, so, who was
arrested with Anderson, was exon
Grated in Anderson'S confession, po-
lice said
While Anderson told his story, the
1l-year- boy lay critically in
jured in the San Pedro general hos
pital, in such condition that police
surgeons said he might die.
The boy was found in the Ander-
son place by his older brother, afte.
he had disappeared while at play.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-07

ment, will perhaps be a long and
bitter struggle and no man can FORE
tell the end The President, he said
has definitely and deliberately bro
ken his campaign pledge" to the far
mers. 1T is foolish to temporize
longer with the situation"
Refusal OF President Roosevelt to
accede to demands of five mid
western governors for the pegging Of
farm prices, initiation and a mora
torium on farm foreclosures, added
fuel to years of smouldering discon-
tent
Gov. Clyde Herring Of Iowa de-
clined to order troops into the strike
area about Sioux City, where a cat
tie train was halted and emptied,
two railroad bridges burned, and
highways bloCkaded.
After a conference with state le-
gislators and representatives Of the
Sious City area, the governor said he
felt that sheriff'S forces could cope
with the situation. IF the sheriffS
cannot enforce the law, then III call
the militia he said.
So tight was the blockade drawn
about Sioux City that only 10 head
of cattle were marketed in that busy
livestock center yesterday Milk and
other foodstuffs were shipped in by
trains on which armed guards rode.
In Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ne
braska, trucks bearing farm pro-
ducts were halted and their contents
dumped. More than 100 Wisconsin
creameries and chees plants have
been closed -Four were damaged or
destroyed by dynamite blasts.