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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
AGED COUPLE
MEET AMBUSH
Elderly Woman And Nephew
Victims Of Attempted Assass-
nation At Pasadena.

PASADENA, Jan. II. W.P)-Two
victims of an attempted assassina-
tion plot were in Pasadena hos
pital today while sheriff'S deputies,
puzzled for a motive, directed an
uncertain hunt for the assailants.
Miss Esther l.. Alfred, 81, was
reported near death with gunshot
wounds in the head, chest and
throat. Her 66-year-old nephew
Ralph Chapman, retired broker
nursed less serious wounds in the
head and leg.
Authorities checked back through
Chapman's past in an effort to
unearth some forgotten enemy who
may have inspired the attack. At
the same time, they conceded the
possibility that aunt and nephew
were victims of mistaken identity.
Absence of a fixed motive ham,
pered their hunt for the assailants
Miss Alfred and Chapman were
riddled with shotgun Slugs last
night as they were returning home
from a downtown restaurant. Just
as Chapman drove his large sedan
into the front driveway, a burst
of gunfire from behind hedge
sprayed machine and occupants
with lead.
Chapman's presence of mind
probably saved himself and aunt
from certain death. Remindful of
a previous attack, the broker
feigned mortal wounds. He slump
ed over in the seat beside his un-
conscious relative and let the the
heavy car roll backward into the
street. The volley ceased. The
car struck the curbing on the op-
posite side of the street but Chap
man remained motionless.
For two or three minutes I
didn't move" he related. II just
sat there, hunched over like I was
dead. Then I began to think I
might bleed TO death. was
bleeding badly, and so was my
aunt. I thought she was dead.
Aunt May Die
81 suddenly came to life and
started the motor. Then 1 drove
to the sheriff's sub-station at AL
, tadena."
There, Chapman asked for an
escort before driving on to the hos
pital where he submitted to treat
ment.
Miss Alfred was shot four times
in the head and several more times
in the chest and throat. One shot
penetrated her nose. Because OF
her advanced age, physicians des-
paired of saving her life. The car
itself was riddled with 81 bullet
holes, some indicating they had
been caused by pistol shots.
Chapman was unable to ascribe
motive for the attack. He furn-
ished Investigators with an account
of an old business deal, however,
which he said prossibly might ex-
plain it. Investigators connected
the attempted assassination with a
previous attack made upon him
last September when he was slug
ged in his garage. At that time
he was robbed, however.
The victims son, Royal Chap
man, also was inclined to believe
the two attacks were connected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
DAUGHTER OF
LEON TROTSKY
ENDS HER LIFE

BERLIN, Jan. IL. W.P}-The
suicide of Sanaide VOlkOff, 80,
daughter of Leon Trotsky, was
revealed today in a brief police
bulletin five days after she
ended her life by gas in a
rented room here.
Trotsky's daughter was suf-
fering from tuberculosis. Berlin
police informed her recently
that she might be expelled from
Germany, but it was said that
no expulsion order had been is
sued and an application for an
extension of her stay was being
considered.
She had already been de-
prived of Soviet citizenship,
along with other members of
the Trotsky family.
Bewildered and depressed,
Mrs. Volkoff went TO her room
and turned on the gas. Her
landIady smelled the fumes,
broke into the room and found
her unconscious. She called a
doctor, who learned the wo-
mans identity and sent for
her brother, Leo, who has been
studying medicine.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
COUNTY ACT
DULY SIGNED.

: After accepting several minor
changes, the Imperial county gov
ernment act, recommended for
adoption to the state legislature
by the board of supervisors and
grand jury, was signed yesterday
afternoon by Ralph Reynolds, fore
man of the grand jury, Irwin Maui
pin, secretary, Ed Law, county
clerk. and w. j. Best, chairman of
the board of supervisors, and CO.
pies sent off to the legislature.
Elmer Head, district attorney,
sent off two signed copies on the
train last night SO that Ben Hulse,
state senator, and Samuel E. Rob-
inson. assemblyman from this dis
trict, might receive the documents
in time
Tom Sharp, criminal investigator
for Heald's office, left the val
ley last night with copy of the
act so that it might go out by air.
mail from San Diego IN time to
reach Sacramento today. The rec
commended act was not prepared
in time to leave here by regular
mail channels. r
The act, as outlined In Satur-
days issue of The Press, contains
recommendation for a total sal
ary payroll cut of 2o-25 per cent
until 1885 when, for the greater
part, the officers go back to their
former salaries although in Ger
tain instances, deputies remain at
the reduced salaries and depart
ments may be kept at the reduced
payroll.
Consolidation of offices of clerk
and recorder, treasurer and public
administrator, assessor and tax col
lector, sheriff and coroner, is rec
commended, as is also consolidation
of judicial townships. These con-
solidations remain those outlined
in Saturdays Press.
In addition to the county govern
ment act recommended, the super
visors and grand jury further rec
commended to the state Legislature
and so instructed the local senator
and assemblyman. that the irriga-
ton district act be amended TO place
more severe restrictions on the fin
ancial conduct of district officials
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
Urges Curtailnent
OF Hay Shipments

While the hay market statistic
ally is good, the Los Angeles mar
ket is at present overstocked and
local growers should not make
heavy shipments during the next
few weeks, states Scott B. Foulds,
secretary of the farm bu-
reau who has returned from a Los
Angeles farm bureau conference
and also from an investigation of
the hay market.
Foulds reports that dairymen
bought heavily in December and
are pretty we'll stocked for the next
few weeks. At the present time too
much hay is coming in the mar
ket for the current demand.
However, stocks in all producing
districts are lower than at the
same time last year, in fact there
is less hay availaie than was con-
sumed between the period of Janu-
airy l, and March Is. Consequent
ly, Foulds declares, If the demand
is as great this year as last there
will not be enough hay to meet
that demand.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
FARM RELIEF
BILL SNARLED
Numerous Amendments Added
To Measure By Runaway DEM
ocrats And Republicans.
By WILLIAM F. KERBY
United Press Staff Correspondent


. WASHINGTON, jar. 1;.-Dem-
ocratic leaders struggled today to
salvage their original farm relief
program from the wreckage left
by a runaway and log rolling house.
They hoped for passage of the
domestic allotment bill before ad-
journment today. The more opti-
mistic hoped that it would be
shorn of general bounties on pea
nuts and other products which
were added yesterday in a frenzy
of amendments.
Aided and abetted by scores of
diehard Republicans, representa-
tives from the rice, peanut and
dairy sections wrote into the bill
allowance for these producers. The
original measure treated only hogs,
wheat, cotton and tobacco. An ef-
fort was to be made today by in
surgents to eliminate hogs and in
Sert potatoes.
Democratic leaders contended
the allotment plan is unavoidable
for the lesser commodities in which
there is no export market for sur
pluses. They argued the amend
ments would give producers of
these products huge federal
bounty without improving prices
and market conditions.
They were particularly anxious
to eliminate the peanut amend
ment. They feared it would carl
cature the program and make the
whole allotment plan a joke in the
public eye.
Professors Taxed
In an effort to squeeze out these
amendments, the leaders planned
to force roll calls on each pro-
vision before the vote on finaI
passage. The votes yesterday were
by teller and no one was COM
mitted by name.
AS the measure faced the house
| for passage, it would tax process
scrs (canners, pork packers, mill
ers, etc. something more thar
81 900, 100000 a year. These take:
would be returned to the farmers
as bounties for reducing output
of the major products and for do
ing nothing at all about some O.
the others.
Opponents OF the plan insis
that the whole processing tax will
be passed on to consumers in tht
form of highest commodity prices
Defenders of the measure say G
portion of the tax will be absorbed
' by the various middlemen and the
remainder will be too small to W.T.
ally affect food prices.
No estimates were available oi
the exact amount the three amend
ments would add to the nation:
general tax bill. Some congress
men estimated it in the millions
| of dollars.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
Files Suit To
RecoUer Rent

Efforts to secure payment of al
legged unpaid rent is the basis of
suit filed in superior court today
by II. H. Timkin against w. r. Ir-
win.
In his complaint Timkin asserts
Irwin leased ranch property near
FL Centre for a year at $3.50
month and that he failed to pay
the last months rent.
He asked for payment of the $3.50
alleged to be due with interest
from August 20, 1882 and costs of
the action.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
Forgets College
Frat Pledge

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. U.P)-
William B. Meredith, 10, who said
he was member of Kappa Sigma
fraternity from Oregon State uni
versity, faced sentence of 80 days
in Jail today on charges he stole
clothing from fraternity brothers
at the University of Southern CAL
ifornia and University of Califor-
mia at Los Angeles.
The college men complained to
Judge Bert H. Woodard in night
police court that they had enter
tanned Meredith only to have him
leave with their clothing.
He pleaded guilty to three counts
of theft and was sentenced to 30
days on each count. the terms to
run concurrently.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
BARTER GROUP
DISCUSS PLANS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL. U.6-
New plans of acquiring food and
clothing to exchange for labor
"currency" were to be discussed to-
day by delegates to the convention
of the California Council of Co.
operative Unemployment Relief.
Committees were to submit re-
ports describing new ways and
means of obtaining commodities
which the Organization through
its exchanges distributed among
INDECENT members for labor serv-
ices.
Officials re-emphaSiZed their pol
icy of non-profit operation.
"All produce or anything of value
obtained shall be used for the pur-
pose of alleviating suffering and
want among those who have no
money with which to buy" they
said. Under no circumstances
shall any of these things be sold
or be used on the competitive
MAJ hIO. DJ OO aOhl6y VIC WO0AO
only lower the market price and
prolong the depression"
Money which applicants SUBJ
scribe as membership fees is used
only to defray overhead expenses
they said. No salaries are paid
The exchanges serve as a clearing
house for credits.
E. G.. Kreuger of Los Angeles
was reelected chairman of the or
ganization and R. H. Buck, Oak
land, vice president. H. c. Doctor
of San Jose was elected secretary
and w. B. Lee of Oakland, assis-
tant sescretary.
The executive board was consid-
ering a resolution, clearing Stock
ton produce merchants and Dudley
Moulton, state food administrator,
of charges of food-dumping in
central California. The resolution
introduced on the floor of the con-
vention, was referred to the board
for report.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
ConUicted Woman
Declared Sane

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. W.p)-
Mrs. Ida Brown, who twice stood
trial accused Of binding her Sleep
ing husband, Louis, with hot I've,
today faced a prison term OF from
one to 10 years on charges OF as
Sault.
The same jury which found her
guilty later denied her plea Of In
sanity and ordered her sentenced.
Both times the jury ignored at
tempts of the blinded husband 70
save his wife from prison In testi~
Tying she had acted irrationally
in recent months.
" The Sierra Madre housewife Will
appear for sentence Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
: TALK
ANNOYS JAPA
BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

Omteu freSS CtdII Correspondent
TOXIC, Jan. II. - Josef Stalin's
recent statement that the Soviet
government Is preparing for war
removed the last possibility that
Japan might sign a non-aggres-
sion pact with Russia, a govern
ment spokesman intimated today.
The Soviet government demon
strated that while it was asking
Toxic to sign the pact, it was shift
ing it's entire industrial five year
plan to prepare for war, the
spokesman said.
The demand of the Japanese
military for huge appropriations in
the current budget was due to the
knowledge of the change in the
Soviet program, according to the
spokesman.
Stains speech. to which the
spokesman referred, was delivered
before the central executive COM
mittee of the Soviet Union and
was the first announcement in 18
months by the virtual dictator of
the Soviets.
Stain told the committee that
the far eastern crisis and the fail
ure o. certain neighbors" to sign
non-aggression pacts forced the
Soviets to devote an unexpected
portion of the five year plan to
the production of modern instru-
ments of defense" This change in
the program was responsible for
the six per cent under-f -fulfillment
of the first five year plan, Stain
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
Kellogg States
Business Better

PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. II. W.P
Business conditions have i'm
proved. Frank B. Kellogg, former
secretary of state and ambassador
to England, said today as he left
by train for Pasadena, Calf.
There have been definite chang
es toward improved business dur
ing the past few months, he said.
"About the only business that
doesn't seem to realize the necessi-
ty of drastic reduction in expenses
is the government. But 1t will
come to it or be driven to it." The
former cabinet officer is accom-
panied by his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
BY HERBERT r. EKINS
United Press Staff Correspondent

PEIPING, Jan. II. = Japanese
troops, tanks, armored trains, air.
planes, artillery and cavalry were
prepared today for an invasion of
Jehol province, with the capital,
Chengtefu, as their goal.
While unusually cold weather
retarded fighting between japanese
and Chinese at the strategic pass
through the Great Wall at Chic
menkou, the chief of the telegraph
administration at Chengtefu ad-
vised Chinese officials here that
10000 Japanese we're massing for
drive on the capital
Soong Hung -Chun, chief of the
Jehol telegraph administration, re-
ported japanese military activity
on all highways leading to Cheng-
tefu.
He reported that japanese troops,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11

On last Saturday and Monday
in this column we discussed brief
ly the refunding plan. Yesterday
we gave some of the reasons why
an All-American canal is necessary.
Today in the last of this series of
articles and on the eve of the elec-
ton on both of these propositions,
we will discuss briefly the terms of
the All-American canal contract;
what the All-American canal is;
what it will cost and how it will be
paid for.
The canal as proposed starts with
a new diversion dam Az miles
above Laguna and 90 foot higher
elevation at the diversion point.
Immediately below the dam will be
the desilting works that will take
out all of the heavy material and
effect a saving to the community
of more than $1,Q00,00o a year, as
we indicated in our article yester-
day. From that point the canal
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
STARTS NEW STYLE

SEATTLE W.P>-A new style for
court-wear was started here recent
ly when Miss Helen Thompson
walked into trial wearing rubber
boots. She appeared with her sis
ter in an unsuccessful attempt to
regain $50 from her brother that
she loaned when he became mar
ried
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
MARITAL WOES
bESET STARS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II. (U.R)-
Norman Kerry, motion picture ac-
tor, and his bride of two months,
the former Helen Mary Wells, have
reached fork in the marital road,
Mrs. Kerry revealed today. She
said they separated Monday night
but declined to discuss the cause.
She is the former wife of Frank
Peary Wells, New York grain brok-
er.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. U.H-
Love for another woman actuateo
Alexis Davidoff, former high rank
ing officer in the Russian Imperial
army, to leave her, his wife, Sera-
phine Davidoff, testified in obtain
ing a divorce. She was granted
SIS monthly alimony and custody
of their daughter, Vera, 8. David
off is a technical adviser in mo-
ton pictures.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. IL. U.P)-
King Vidor, film director, denied
In answers on file today, charges
of his estranged wife, Eleanor
Boardman Vidor, that he was en-
amored with Betty Hill, actress.
Mrs. Vidor had filed a separate
maintenance suit against her hus-
band.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. IL. U.P)-
Ann Harding's trip to Hedgerow,
Philadelphia suburb, is not inspired
by plans to remarry her divorced
husband, Harry Bannister. the ac-
tress' business manager, Harry
Ellington, said today. There is
nothing further from the truth
than such reports" he said, add
ing that her trip east was for So
cial purposes between pictures.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II. U.P)-
June Clyde film actress, boarded
a train in Chicago with police
guard as an escort, she said today
upon her return here from a visit
with an aunt, Mrs. Morris Epstein,
Chicago. The actress said the
guard was provided after thieves
had stolen her $500 mink coat
from her aunt's apartment and had
clipped telephone wires. The rob-
berry was kept secret because she
feared she might be harmed, she
said. Miss Clyde was accompanied
by her husband, Thornton Free
land, screen director.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
GALE CAUSES
SEVERE LOSS
IN SOUTHLAND
Sailor Drowned And Eleven
Others Missing AS Storm
Lashes L. A. Harbor.
CITRUS CROP HARD HIT
Trees Uprooted, Oil Derricks
Raced And Communication
Disrupted By Storm.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL. U.P)-
An almost-cyclonic Santa Ana"
dust-filled desert windstorm, drown
ed one sailor today and IL others
were missing in the high sea run
ming in Los Angeles harbor.
OF the IL missing men, hope was
virtually abandoned for two enlist
ed men who left the cruiser Chica-
go in small gig early today for
shore, and had not been sighted
five hours later.
The others-six men from the
cruiser Pensacola and three from
the aircraft carrier Saratoga -
were long overdue after having set
out in shore boats to run down
small craft that had broken their
moorings in the gale.
The dead man was swept from
the gangplank of the cruiser Ra-
leigh and drowned.
Damage at the port was estimat-
ed at close to 100000, in crushed
and foundered small craft, wrecked
rigging and minor damage on
shore.
SANTA ANA, Cal, Jan. II. lUP)
Damage of $750,000 to the VAL
encia orange crop was caused by
an 80 mile wind which swept across
Orange county early today, grow
ers estimated.
Practically the entire crop was
blown from the trees.
Seventy-five oil derricks in the
Huntington Beach field were blown
down and IA other derrickS serious
ly damaged, with an estimated loss
of $150,000
Damage to communication sys-
tenn brought the loss in Orange
county to more than $1,000,000.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. U.Pj-
A magnified Santa Ana" wind,
cold, electrical and gusty, swept
Southern California early today,
causing widespread property dam
age.
The wind reached maximum
velocity of 80 miles an hour at
Ontario, in the Pomona valley,
while 6O-mile gales were reported
at Burbank, in the San Fernando
valley, and at Los Angeles har-
Dor.
An extreme hign-pressure area
over Nevada caused the gale, ac-
cording to L. H. Daingerfield, Uni
ted State meteorologist. At VIM
nemucca, the barometer stood at
30.70 inches, diminishing to 30.12
inches at San Diego.
The wind poured over the noun
tains from the north and north
east, enveloping everything In a
cloud of dust, uprooting trees, un-
roofing houses, demolishing signs
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
JAPANESE MASS FORCES FOR
INVASION Of JEHOL PROVINCE

fully equipped, were assembled at
Kailu, Chaoyang, Suichung and at
other points between Shankaiwan
and the Jehol capital.
Chiomenkou, a strategic gate in
the Great Wall, was the scene yes
terday of the latest Japanese Of
fensive in the Manchurian struggle.
Fighting lasted all day, with Chin
ese regulars opposing the Japa-
nese attack, which included in
fantry, artillery, cavalry and air.
planes.
The area around Shanhaikwan,
which the Japanese seized last
week, remained quiet except for
the troop movements. The fighting
occurred to the northwest of the
city.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 11.-{U.Pl-
Japan holds China entirely respon-
sible for the Shanhaikwan Incl
dent, Akira Ariyoshi, Japanese
minister to China, declared today
in transmitting Tokio's formal re-
ply to the Chinese protest.
The seizure of Shanhaikwan was
entirely within the rights of Japan
under the Boxer protocol, Ariyoshi
was authorized to state.
Formal reply to the Chinese pro-
test against Japanese invasion of
Shanhaikwan approximated pre-
vious statements of Japanese mill
torxy loo dorc oy,d cto otacroaY, ond
served to increase the tension here.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11

Two hundrd thousand gallons of
smudge oil were rushed from the
refinery at Martinez to the Mills
orchards, Maxwell, Colusa county.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
DISTRICT OUTLINES NECESSITY
FOR ELECTION NEXT THURSDAY

EDITORS NOTE: This is
the fourth and last of a series
of articles prepared by the Inn
perial Irrigation District, ex-
planning the two propositions
to be voted on in t0morrow's
election.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-11
nMILL-.o

BEVERLY HILLS, Jan. 10.
(SpeciaD-Bernard Shaw stop
ped over just long enough to
make one speech in Bombay,
India. Started war and 100
Indians killed each other.
That's what I call good speech
making. The only enthusiasm
any of our speakers can rouse
is a demand to kill the speak
er.
Shaw is headed for Holly
wood. We will buy one of his
scenarios and he will just love
us.
They got the beer thing so
muddled up in this session of
congress that it looks like the
people will get to vote on 1t
again in the next campaign.
Yours,
nMG& R1~~
@less McNausht Syndicate. Inc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-01
.MATSUOKA AGAIN
SOUNDS WARNING
Pays Short Visit to
\ Pres. Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, March 31.-.Yo-
suke Matsuoka made a five-m minute
call today on President Roosevelt.
He announced that his visit was
purely personal and informal. Before
visiting the president, the Japanese
head of the League delegation from
Tokyo again made it plain that the
Japanese government is deeply con-
cerned over the increased aggressive
ness of United States imperialism in
the Pacific.
Repeats Fear of Fleet
In an interview with newspaper
men Matsuoka said that the concen-
tration Of the American fleet in the
Pacific, coming at this juncture, was
bound to cause nisgivings to the
Japanese"
Continuing, MStSuoka said: what
would some of you people think If,
just now, we decided to concentrate
our entire feet at some point just off
the Hawaiian Islands?"
A Yelled Threat to u. s.
This is recognized here as strong,
almost provocative hnsuaap tw .
diplomat !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-01
ARGENTINE JAHS
DELEGATES FROM
ANTI-WAR MEET
Large Meetings, Held
Protesting Arrests
and Deportations

MOETEYIDEO. Uruguay, March
81 (By naiD-After the Latin-Anler-
lean Anti-Wsr Congress held in Mon
tevideo, thirty-one delegates were
arrested by the reactionary Justo
government on their return TO Buenos
Aires. The charge preferred against
them was that Of having been dele
gates TO the .Auti-War meet. This
alone is sufficient to ensure police
torture for all of them, and IN ao6i-
ton, deportation for the. foreign
born. Several students are included
among those arrested, Argentine po-
icemen were sent to Montevideo to
see who the Argentine delegates were,
in order that the authorities could
identify them for arrest when they
returned to the Argentine.
OF the rs delegates here, several
have already been fired from the fac
tories that they represented at the
Congress. t s
In Montevideo, workers have held
big meetings to demand the irnne-
diate release Of the delegates, and to
protest against the Justo Dictator
ships campaign Of mass deportation.
The government is making fevertsh
preparations for war; and all foreign
born workers suspected as Commu-
nists are in danger Of arrest and Of
deportation.