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Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
DATA FAVORING
STATES WATER
PROJECT READY

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 16 - Of
ficial arguments in favor OF the
Central Valley Water act, stressing
EMPLOYMENT and solution of Cali
fornia' IS water problems, were sub
mitted to Frank C. Jordan, secre-
tary of state today for inclusion in
the voters pamphlet.
A special election on the water
program, devised to make possible
the expenditure of $4,000, ,O0O
part of which may be provided by
federal funds under President
Roosevelt S national recovery pro-
gram, will be held Dec. 10.
The official arguments, signed by
Senators Bradford S. Crittenden
Stockton; Frank w. Mixter, Exc
ter; j. I. Wagy, Bakersfield, and
Assemblyman Charles w. Demp-
ster, Los Angeles, claim the main
opposition to the project orlglnat-
ed in the "power trust. :"
Proponents insist the project
would give immediate employment
to more than $4,000 men for al
least three years, Thereby afford
ing a livelihood for approximately
100000 persons.
The proposed project consists OF
a 42O-foot dam at Kennett, neal
Redding; a conduit from the delta
to Martinez to furnish water to in
dustries along Suisun Bay; a series
of dams on the San Joaquin rivel
to supply water to the upper valley
and a large dam at Friant, neal
Fresno, with canals leading north
and south.
Proponents claim thousands ol
acres would be saved from Gre
turning to desert;' navigability o.
the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers would be increase; the prof.
ect would produce hydroelectri'
power at low cost, made available
to farmers, home owners, indus
trialists and cities.
Acceptance of the plan by th'
voters, the arguments said, woult
mean California would receive al
outright grant of S43,000,000 from
the federal government.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
ALL AUSTRIAN
UNIVERSITIES
CLOSE DOORS

VIENNA, Oct. 16. U.H-The gov
ernment ordered the closing Of ev-
cry university in Austria today af-
ter an outbreak of Nazi student riot
ing and the explosion OF smoke
bombs in the nations leading insti-
tutionS.
Outbreaks occurred simultaneous
ly at the University of Vienna, al
Innsbruck, Graz, and the Loeben
Mining college. Police believed the
demonstration were carefully plan
ned
The swastika flag was hoisted at
Vienna while the rioting students
hurled smoke bombs and stood OIL
batallions of police. Many arrests
and injuries we're reported, but the
government apparently had the sit
uation well in hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
ATTACK FATAL
To DR.. N|TObE
CONTINUED On Page 81

VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 16. W.P)-
Japans most widely known jour-
nalist, DR.. Inazo Nitobe, II, editor
of the Toxic Nichi Nichi, died here
last night following at attack OF
pneumonia.
Nitobe was stricken Immediately
following the Pacific Institute OF
International Relations conference
at Banff, where he took leading
part.
Until his fatal illness, he wrote
editorials for two papers which had
a circulation of 100000, the Nichi
Nichi and the Osaka Mainichi.
He was the son of Samurai. At
ter early education in his home
country, he came to the United
States and attended Johns Hop
kins university. Soon after his gra-
duation he married Mary Patter-
son Elkinton of Philadelphia.
From the United States Nitobe
;; journeyed to Europe to study al
the universities at Bonn, Halle and
Berlin. He wrote many books or
Japan, both in japanese and Eng
lish. In his writings he tried to ac-
quaint his people with America ano
also sought to interpret Japan t6
the international world.
He was made a member of the
! house of peers in 1926 and served
as an nder-secretary in the League
of Nations secretariat for period
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Los Angeles Is
Darkest Spot

LOS ANGELES, Oct. Is. W.D -
Chairman John R. Quinn OF the
board of supervisors returned form
washington today to report that
he had urged federal relief off,
cials to give every consideration 10
conditions in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is undoubtedly the
dark spot of the nation" Quinn
said he was told by Harry Hopkins,
federal relief administrator, who
promised that Los Angeles viii re-
ceive a generous allotment OF food
stuffs bought in the middle west 10
eliminate surpluses and feeo the
hungry. ,,.. ,u,,.
Quinn said he urged Public WORKS
Afministiator Ickes to rush ap-
uroval of construction projects IN
and near Los Angeles, so that q
number of unemployed may flno
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
GUILDS bALk
At FILM CODE

HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 16 W.H -
Rejection of the proposed NRA
code for the Motion picture indus
try was asked of President Roose-
welt today by members o. the Screen
Actors and Screen Writer'S guilds.
More than 1900 actors, including
many of the leading stars, protest
ed the code in blunt statement
to the President, citing as objec-
tionable articles and 10. The
statement was ordered telegraphec
at mass meeting CT members of
the two groups.
"The provision for sa ary control
and ck-listing assume screen &C
tors are irresponsible racketeerS
whose salaries and conduct must
he controlled by methods lnprece-
dented in law,' the telegram said.
'"Tte purpose of the proposed code
Is to do what the NRA forbids to
fix minimum rates of pay. THIS
is so un-American in conception
that it makes one shudder to think
it is being seriously considered in
w NNusiiiA-6SOAi.
A clause prohibiting studios from
"raiding" rivals of their stars be-
fore expiration OF contracts was
attacked on grounds it was design
ed to lower salaries.
The artisans conder ned Para
mount and Mctr0-Goldwyn Mayer
executives for having taken mil
lions of dollars out of their ccm-
ranies in bonuses in addition to
their salaries during the last three
years of depression" and alleged
officials of Warner brothers we:t
shedding crocodile tears" in a.
tempting to placate stockholders
with belated economies at the ex-
pense of creative talent.
1--WE assert" the artisans said
without fear of successful contra.
diction that motion picture COM
panies have not been bankruptec
by salaries to talent, but by tht
purchase and leasing of tneatre'
at exorbitant prices. caused by thu
race for power of ew ir dividual.
desiring to get Strengthened on th'
outlet of the industry, the box OF
flee"
Eddie Cantor, president OF thu
actors group, urged adoption of thi
formal protest in strongly -wordeC
speech. His remarks were supported
by Fredric Marsh, Ralph Block anC
several other stars.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Admits Russia
Strong In East

PEIPING, Oct. 16. W.P) - Russia
has strengthened her far eastern
defenses in preparation for pos
sible war with Japan, a Soviet Rus
sian spokesman said today.
Commenting on reports that Rus
sia was concentrating military
forces on the Manchurian frontier,
the spokesman said:
"'It is no secret that Soviet Rus
sia is notably strengthening its far
eastern defense.
"In the event of hostilities, the
soviet military establishment will
present both offensive and defen-
sive surprises, especially in con-
nection with aviation and with
land and sea defenses in the Vladi-
voStok area
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Six Stricken By
Poisoned Spray

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. U.P)-A
new campaign against the use OF
poisonous solutions on edible vege-
tation was launched today by coun-
tV authorities as several victims
were stricken with arsenic poison
ing.
Mrs. w. Fleming of Beverly Hills
was reported in a critical condition
and six other persons were treated
in hospitals after eating broccoli
at a fashionable beach club. The
broccoli had been sprayed with a
poisonous insecticide, authorities
believed.
Scores have been stricken in the
county in recent weeks after eat
ing vegetables which had beer
sprayed. Several japanese farmers
have been fined as offenders.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
NIX R1~
o,,,, MsHsssh, Syndicate. 'A>
COURT DENIES
D|SM|SSALS|N
LAND HEARING

Motion made for dismissal of the
charges against all the defendants
in the alien land law trial now be-
ing held before a jury in Judge r.
D. McPherrin IS department of su-
perior court, were denied by the
court as to each defendant when
the trial was resumed this morning.
The motions had been presented to
the court and argued Friday after
noon and Saturday morning.
AS a result of this ruling the re-
manning defendants, Carroll l..
Post. w. L. Robbins, Eugene Kelly
Frederick Hauseur, Ray D. john
son, j. Labh Singh, NICOLA Singh,
Rolla Singh and Mehar Singh,
must now present their case to the
jury. Charges against another de-
fendant, j. B. Antrobus, had been
dismissed On motion Of the prose-
cution a week ago. The defendants
had based their motions on failure
| of the prosecution to produce SUI
ficient evidence to link them with
the alleged conspiracy.
When the motions had been de-
MED by the court, Harry Horton
asked the court to instruct the jury
as to his clients to bring in ver-
dict of not guilty on the grounds of
insufficiency of the evidence intro
duced. This motion was concurred
in by attorneys for the other de-
PENDANTS and was denied by the
court.
The jury was then brought into
the court room and. the trial con-
tinued with the defense counsel
submitting evidence in favor of
their clients.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Nurse Jumps To
Death From Boat

SAN PEDRO, Calf, Oct. 16. W.p)
-Hjoerdis Lunde, 24-year-old nurse
leaped or fell to her death from the
Danish East Asiatic liner Europa
last Wednesday night, ships OFF,
GERS reported today upon arriving
in port. Her disappearance was not
ed as the ship neared Magdalena
Bay.
The girl was making the passage
as a governess for the children OF
Mrs. Douglas Wakefield, wife OF a
motion picture comedian. Capt. o.
Dahl believed her death was acci-
dental. The body was not recovered.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
DEFER REQUEST
FOR NEW TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, Oct 16. (U.P) -
Hearing on the motion for new trial
of Cleire Windsor, screen actress,
against whom a jury recently re-
turned a $75.OO0 judgment for
alienation of affections, was post
poned today until October 80
The delay IVES granted upon at
torneys pleas that they needed time
to prepare affidavits in urport of
the motion.
Mrs. Marian Y. Read, wife of Al
fred G. Read jr., young Oakland
broker, won the verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
ARMS PARLEY
TAKES RECESS
BY STEWART BROWN
United Press Staff Corresponds

United Press starr Correspondent
GENEVA, Oct. 16. = The general
commission of the world arms con-
ference adjourned today after ap-
proving a blunt note to Germany
characterizing her excuses for quit
ting the conference as invalid,
and voting to reconvene on October
26.
The meeting was perfunctory
empty gesture, but it attracted an
overflow attendance of diplomats
delegates and an army of observ-
ers and reporters recording the end
of the first phase of the worlds at
tempts to reach European harmony
The adjournment was marked by
a single note of optimism. AS the
delegates prepared to rise, Arthur
Henderson, president of the con-
ference, said to them:
II hope you will return prepared
to write an arms convention"
The phrase suggested the only
way apparently open to achieve an!
results from the next conference
individual negotiations between the
nations, looking to pact which
may be signed by all the govern
ments except Germany, and whics
may then be submitted to Chancel-
lor Adolf Hitler for his acceptance
or rejection.
No German delegates were pre-
sent at the general commission:
open meeting today The dominen'
| figures were Norman Davis, Am
| erican representative, Sir John ST.
mon, British foreign minister. ant
Joseph Paul-Boncour, French for
eign minister.
Davis is credited with attempting
to conciliate the widely divergen
views in the steering committee
and it was his pleas for continu
ance of the conference, after brie
adjournment, that prevented com
plete wrecking of the parley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright. 1888, by United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. U.P-
To date the Roosevelt recovery
program has cost the federal treas
ury about three quarters of bill
lion dollars.
It's results have touched every
corner of the country, though it is
just beginning to reach its stride.
More than 100000 men have
been put back to work.
More than $l00,000,000 in cash
has been paid by the government
into the pockets of farmers. Some
100000 idle young men have been
given useful and health-building
work in Civilian Conservation
Camps and have sent $4,000, 900
home to their families.
Closed bank deposits are being
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
COTTON CROP
STILL FACING
LABOR DISPUTE
Strike Leaders Still Active
Though Officials Claim Medi-
I alton Will Win.
By EDWARD ]. HEILMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent


FRESNO, Cal, Oct. 16. U.H =
Strike leaders in the California
cotton fields exhorted their falter-
ing followers today not to heed Of
ficial calls for resumption OF cotton
picking pending arbitration of their
bitter wage dispute.
The calls came from Edward H
Fitzgerald, federal conciliator, En-
rique Bravo, Mexican consul, and
state and county authorities.
Fitzgerald was confident the me-
diation plan he offered meant set
tlement of the strike. He said most
of the pickers would go back to the
fields and harvesting of the crop
would be on normal basis this
week.
But a "central strike commit
tee, - although shorn OF most of its
leaders by their arrests, defied Fitz-
gerald and contradicted his asser-
tions of peace. The committee
called for more intense picketing ir
places where workers deserted the
strikers ranks.
County authorities were ready
for trouble. They expected clashe:
between the 'sdie hards' of tht
strike movement and the mer
whom necessity sent back to thu
/ fields to obtain food and sheltel
for their families.
Pay Old Scale
The peace plan offered by Fitz'
| ,,yNviInl fot> Y,nyyy,pnt1t nf tht
old scale of go cents per hundred
weight until "fact finding com.
mittee,o which started its work il
Visalia, could determine fair wage
and make probable adjustments
| The SpokeSmen for the striking
pickers demanded 81 hundred
weight.
The central strike committee rec
commended cancellation of existing
cotton contracts, most of them ne
gotiated when the price was a
least two cents less per pound thai
at present. BY this means thu
growers could afford to increas'
wages, the committee argued.
Growers and mediators ignored
this committee, whose leader, Pa
Chambers, was held in Jail OF
criminal sydicalism charges. Th'
peace advocates appealed directl,
| to the individual workers.
Their appeals for the end OF tn
strike were distributed through
printed leaflets. At PiXley, wher
two men were killed in rioting
some CT the handbills were torn VI
in defiance of the call.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
MACON RESTS
At SUNNYvALE

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. U.R)
The 1OOO-foot hangar of the Sun
nyvale naval air depot today shell
tered the nations newest Queen
of the Skies" the silvery U. S. S.
Macon which flew from Lakehurst,
N. j., to its permanent home here
in 72 hours, IT minutes.
An experienced ground crew tied
the ship to it's movable mooring
mast in the record time of 13 min
utes after the little yellow flag flut-
tered earthward as the landing sig
nal.
Thousands watched the arrival
of the giant dirigible at its western
base. Delayed in landing by after
noon heat which expanded its he
lium gas, the Macon circled the de-
pot and proceeded to San Francisco
harbor for Sunday afternoon visit
Commander A. H. DreSel, who
brought the ship across the con-
tinent, reported that the Macon
had met every test on the long trir
and rode safely through storms anc
rain without stress or strain
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Believe ShiplDreck
Cost Ten Lives

NOME. Alaska, Oct. 16. U.H -
Coast guard cutters and Alaska IN
dians searched the coaStline today
for trace of the 10 persons aboard
the motorship Good Hope, which
capsized after striking a reef.
No trace Of the four members of
the crew and the six passengers was
found in the early search. Officers
of the cutter North Bound believed
all 10 had perished as natives
found a smashed life boat near the
wreck scene.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Confirms Theory
OF Bomb In Plane

CHICAGO, Oct. l6. W.P-A new
eyewitness account of the explosion
which wrecked a United Air Lines
passenger plane with loss of seven
lives near Chesterton, Ind, was
given department of commerce IL
vestigators today.
Francis Wiseman, an Indiana
farmer living near Chesterton, said
ne was watching the plane when
he saw a terrific blast that tore
the ship in two.
Wiseman's account strengthened
tie belief expressed previously by
federal investigators and official;
of the air line that a bomb or 9TH
er high explosive had wrecked the
ship in midair.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16

Editors note: The United
Press presents herewith gen.
eral survey of the Roosevelt re-
covery program.
This gigantic effort to i'm
prove the economic condition of
a great nation has completed its
opening period. All of the
emergency agencies are func-
tiOning. Most of them have
been operating for at least
three months. Practically all
are now in full stride.
Two questions arise: 1. What
has this vast program cost the
taxpayers to date, 2. What BEN
efits have resulted?
From government and other
sources the United Press has
assembled the most notable
items on both sides of the led
ger and presents herewith an
informal balance sheet on the
recovery program to date.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Brawley Has
Labor Trouble

Twenty lettuce thinners and Is
day laborers employed by the Rich
man-Samuels Co. of Brawley re-
fused to go to work today pending
the outcome of an arbitration
meeting to be held this afternoon.
The thinners want SIS an acre for
their work instead Of the present
wage of So, and the day laborers
insist upon not less than So day.
The strike followed meeting
held yesterday afternoon, but it is
believed that matters will be set
tied today when the workmen meet
their employers in conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Fire Blamed
On Negligence

LOS ANGELES. Oct. l6. W.D "A
special coroner's jury of experts
today found that "gross negli-
gence' caused the deaths OF 28
men in the Griffith Park brush fire
CT October g..
The jury blamed negligence in
supervision of the men and unpre-
paredneSS for fire.
The actual cause of the blaze was
ascribed by the jury to a carelessly
thrown cigarette or match by "a
person or persons unknown.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
CRASH KILLS FLIERS

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 16
U.P)-Two commercial pilots were
dashed to death today when their
plane caught fire and crashed to
earth near here. They were Will
liam T. Murray, 35, transport pilot
of Nashville, and Harry P. Lyle, 80
ClarkSville.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Ouezon Receives
Threatening Note

MANILA, p. l., Oct. i6, W.R -
Death threats printed in Tagalog
on red paper were received today
by Manuel Quezon. majority Lead
er. and other members OF the Phil
ippine legislature who opposed ac-
ceptance of the Hare -Hawes-cut-
ting independence act.
''You executicners OF independ-
ence, we care not TO be imprisoned
If we could kin all traitors" the
notes read.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
GERMANY NOT
INTENDING To
BREAK PEACE
Willing To Collaborate With
Other Nations According To
Official Statement.
MUSSOLINI READY TO ACT
Italian Leader Eager To Invoke
Four Power Treaty As Com
promise Plan.
BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, Oct. 16. U.H-Germany
stands ready to collaborate to the
limit of her resources in the pres
ervation of European peace on any
basis that will preserve her ma
tional honor, it was said authori-
tatively today.
1t was indicated that Germany
was ready and eager to negotiate
an honorable agreement for disar-
mament and would make it plain
within the next few days that the
European war scare which followed
her withdrawal from the League Of
Nations and the world disarma-
ment conference had no basis in
fact so far as she is concerned.
Convincing that Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's decision to withdraw from
international conferences was right
and necessary, Germans, officials
and citizens, awaited developments
at the Geneva disarmament confer
ence and in Europe S capitols.
1t was indicated clearly that Hit
Ter would welcome any approach by
Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy
or another mediator to bring 1ner
and other European nations to-
gether.
Hitler's drastic withdrawal from
both the league and the conference
seemed to have the country unit
edly behind him.
Now his task is, aside from the
negotiatory aspect, to see that in
the election and national plebiscite
November IL, the support is shown
beyond doubt in heavy and as near
a unanimous vote as possible.
It will be a strange election for
Germany, with only NaZi candi-
dates permitted to run for seats In
the Reichstag.
ROME, Oct. 16. U.P) - Premier
Benito Mussolini author Of the re-
cent four nation treaty guarantee
ing the peace of Europe for IL
years, is prepared to lead an effort
to arrange compromise between
Germany and the World war allies
1t was indicated today.
Mussolini believed his 10-yeal
peace treaty, of which Germany
Great Britain, France, and Itlay are
signatories, provided way out OF
the crisis.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. W.H -
The United States government
while still anxious to further the
cause of disarmament at Geneva
is determined to remain aloof from
European political struggles arising
from Germany withdrawal from
the league of nations and the dis
armament conference, it was statet
today in a high official quarter.
This government, it was empha
sized, sent Ambassador Norman II
Davis to Geneva purely to cooper
ate in disarmament. It was sale
he was not there to take any par
in strictly European political ques
tionS.
LONDON, Oct. 16. W.H - Grea
Britain will bluntly refuse to cur
Tail her armaments in view OF Ger
many's declarations. high cablne
officials indicated today.
A full cabinet meeting will b.
held wednesday, at which it is ex
pected the government will expires
desire to continue disarmament
negotiations, but will oppose an.
suggestions for British reduction
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
@IHHlnLdL1oe
w ISoys:

SANTA MONICA, Oct. Is.
(SpeciaD-So Germany left the
League. Well, we can't criti-
cize. We never even went in.
The poor old League never had
a chance, for it had no power.
1t tried to keep everybody
good by having 'em sign a
pledge (but there was nothing
they could do to you If you
broke the Pledge. They didn It
need guns to make the League
a real success. An economic
boycott against any nation by
all the others would have done
the trick.
Let the world quit trading
with Japan and China Will
have Manchuria back by break
fast time. Nations will give
I'D their lives (even cheer about
IT'D. They will give up their
money in order to give up their
lives, but to ask one to give up
their trade to prevent a war,
well. that has never been done.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16

In the last year the public debt
has increased $2,415 ,239, 900. On
October II, the public debt stood at
S23, ,059, ,739 900. Since July the
public debt had increased 1921 ,066,-
600. This is at the rate of approx
mately $2,OO0,O0O,00O a year.
Agricultural Adjustment
Administration
Purpose-To increase income to
farmers by reducing production anG.
improving distribution.
Cost-From May IL to date, $121,-
100000.
Results-Administ expenses,
$4,000 900. Total benefit payments
to farmers, Sis, 100000. Cotton ben
eft payments, $87,000,000 resulting
in acreage reduction of 25 per cent
but a total yield almost as great as
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-16
Actual Treasury Cash Expenditures
For Emergency Program in the
Last Four Months


Agricultural Adjustment
Administration ........$121, ,400, 900
National Recovery Ad-
ministration .................. 1,O27,O0O
Farm Credit Admins
tration ............................ s5,o3s, 1888
Public Works Admins
tration ............................ 5,4ss, 900
Home owners Loan
Corp'n. Capital Ad-
vanced ............................ zoe, ,oOo, 900
Civilian n Conservation
Corps ,............................. 77,1so, 900
Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration .................. 1893 ,315 ,809
Tennessee Valley Auth
ority ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 261 ,7O6
TOTALS. .$769, ,723 ,403