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Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
Governments
PEN|TENT|ARY
PLAN OPPOSED
San Francisco Objects To Using
Alcatraz As Prison For Des-
perate Characters.
GANGSTERS MENACE FEARED
Site Has Been Military Disci-
plinary Barracks For Long
Period Of Years.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. U.P)
Selection of rocky Alcatraz ISL
and. near the Golden Gate, as an
American "Devil s Island,' met
instant protest today from civil
leaders here. s|
Meetings were called to organize
opposition to the government S re-
ported move to use the present mil
itary prison on the island for con-
finement of desperate gangsters
and criminals of the recidivist type.
81 don It think an influx of such
prisoners is at all desirable" said
j. W. Malliard, Jr., head of the
chamber of commerce, when in
formed of the government IS deci-
sion.
Mathew Brady, San Francisco
county district attorney, added his
voice to the chorus of protest.
eve have never had gangsters
here and we don't want them now,
even though. they will be closeted
safely" Brady said. "For gang
sters, in or out of Jail, draw dis
tinctly undesirable element in their
train and we want none of it,"
The government IS choice for an
isolated prison for dangerous GRIM
inals is a 12-acre rock in the main
shipping channel leading from the
Pacific ocean to San Francisco bay.
On it is a "United States army
disciplinary barracks successor to
the federal military prison estab-
lished there in 1861.
Guarded by Nature
Swift currents sweep around the
rocky island, mile and half
from the mainland. The channel
ranges in depth from 20 to 80 feet.
Many swimmers have attempted to
reach it from the city shore but
only one was known to have sue
ceeded.
The military prison, or disciple
nary barracks, has 600 cells in three
blocks. There were 221 prisoners
held there at the latest registra-
ton. None of them was consider
cd desperate or hardened. Most
were serving sentences for breaches
of discipline.
From afar Alcatraz Island looks
like a medieval fortress, with villas
and turrets rising tier on tier above
the waterline. Spaniards, first to
use the Golden Gate, had a fort
there. Prisoners working around
the island often dig up old gun
placements. The rock is said to
be honeycombed with tunnels:
Officers in charge of the island
were surprised to learn of the gov
eminent s plans for it's use. They
claimed it had the facilities to
meet the requirements OF the
American "Devil' IS Island.'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
nkMiLL


BEVERLY HILLS, Get. IL.
fSpeciaD-We are celebrating
Columbus day here, and he
never even saw California.
(Chamber of Commerce fell
down again.
Old Eric the Red from Gar
poland already had a home in
America where he spent his
summers, but this Columbus
was quite a fellow. He is the
only man then, or since, who
ever had a queen pawning jew
els.
Columbus was an Italian. But
he made Spain pay his fare
over. The other night up to
Charley Chaplin house I met
Emil Ludwig, the worlds great
est biographer who has writ
ten more things about big men
than Walter Winchell has
about little ones.
Well. Ludwig tells me that
Napoleon was an Italian, too,
that was just operating under
the auspices of France.
Lafayette saved the U. S.,
Pershing and some Englishmen
saved France. can't find
where any local boy ever made
good at home. I got to get
with this Ludwig and go into
history deeper when Chaplin
amt Glowing around.
Yours, in search of facts,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
CONSERVATIVES
LEAD LABOR

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. U.H-
The American Federation OF La
boris annual convention drew to-
ward its end today with only
few controversial matters remain
ing to be settled and with the
conservative element firmly in con-
troll
The executive council, headed by
William Green as president, was
swept back into office yesterday by
unanimous votes.
Remaining disputes included a
resolution proposing a boycott by
American workers of German made
goods. At least one high executive
of the federation opposed this
anti-Hitler move.
The federations traditional stand
of non-partisan participation in
politics was upheld when the con-
vention defeated proposal for an
independent labor party.
The 1884 convention will be held
in San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IS. (U.H -
The American Federation of La
Dor today declared boycott
against goods made in Germany
and in other countries whose gov
ernments have opposed free trade
union organization.
The boycott, originally planned
for Germany alone, was extended
to other countries when the feder-
alton IS resolutions committee re-
ported its belief that it would be
"unwise to single out one gov
eminent. 0
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
To Prepare Data
On Water Project

LONG BEACH, Oct. 10. W.H -
Appointment of a legislative com,
mittee to assemble controversial
data regarding the proposed $l70,-
100000 central valley water project
was announced today by 1t. Gov.
Frank F. Merriam.
Merriam notified Frank G. Jor-
dan, secretary of state. the appoin-
tees had agreed to prepare argu-
ments for and against the project.
Copies of the committees findings
will be distributed to voters.
Senators Rich, Mckinley, and
Breed, and Assemblyman kallen
will prepare "pro" arguments
while facts unfavorable to the plan
will be gathered by Senators Crit
tenden, Wagy, and Edwards, and
Assemblyman Dempster, Merriam
stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
PROVISIONS OF
SALES TAX TO
BE ENFORCED

Attention of merchants is called
by the state board of equalization
TO the fact that merchandise Of
fered for resale must show the
number of the purchaser permit
on the invoice or affidavit.
Return forms for merchants are
now available at the office of the
sales tax auditor in the court
house.
Because Sunday is the 18th of
the month, the time limit for mail
ing in returns has been extended to
Monday, October 16.
Merchants and businessmen are
also urged to take note of the fol-
lowing provision in the California
retail sales tax act:
IF any retailer liable for a tax
levied hereunder shall sell out his
business or stock of goods, or shall
quit business, he shall make a re-
turn within Is days after the date
of selling or quitting business. His
successor, if any, shall be required
to withhold sufficient of the pur-
chase money to cover the amount
OF such taxes and interest or pen
alties due and unpaid until such
time as the former owner shall
produce a receipt from the board of
equalization showing that they
have been paid. or certificate
stating that no taxes are due. If
the purchaser of a business or
stock of goods shall fail to with
hold purchase money as above pro-
vided, he shall be personally liable
for the payment of the taxes, in
terest and penalties accrued and
unpaid on account of the operation
of the business by the former
owner
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
EXPERTS STUDY
? GRIFFITH PARK
FIRE EVIDENCE

GLENDALE, CAL, Oct. 10. U.H-
Nine experts sitting as a special
coroner's jury were closeted here
in an office today, each preparing
his own findings as to the cause of
the disastrous Griffith Park brush
fire.
n When individual reports are COM
pleted, an effort will be made to
arrive at a consensus verdict fixing
the blame for the blaze, if possible;
to ascribe possible causes and to
recommend precautions against a
recurrence.
All % bodies recovered from the
holocaust have been identified, it
was announced today. -Four men
were still reported missing by fam
lilies and friends, and authorities
thought it entirely possible theirs
might have been the fragmentary
remains recovered from the center
of the blaze.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. Is. W.H -
A flat statement from Fire Chief
Ralph Scott that the fatal Griffith
Park fire was of incendiary Or
igin echoed in the ears of a cor
oner's jury today as it considered
a verdict at the inquest into the
deaths of % victims.
Answering to point blank ques-
ton, Scott expressed the conviction
the blaze was incendiary. He re-
vealed several suspects were I'M
der surveillance.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
ADAMS RESIGNATION FILED

Word was received by the
District Attorneys office late
this afternoon that the resig-
nation of Burlcigh Y. Adams
as director Of the Imperial irri-
CATION district was filed with
the secretary Of state today.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
THREE AGENCIES TAKE STEPS
T0RR|NG PEACEFUL SOLUTION
Of TROUBLE IN STRIKE AREA
State, National And Mexican Government
Inquiries Cause Rolph To Predict Settle
ment Within IS Hours

off ships. One strikebreaker was
struck by a brick thrown from q
picketing group.
Timothy Reardon, industrial re-
lations commissioner, conferred
with striking fishermen and ex-
pected prompt settlement of their
wage scale dispute.
The strike of lettuce and tomato
packers in the Salinas-Watsonville
area continued without violence.
Workers awaited new compromise
offer from the shippers.
New industrial strife broke out
in Los Angeles where 1000 workers
in ttd dressmaking industries
walked out Five persons were re-
ported beaten by strike pickets. The
strikers demanded recognition OF
their union.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-13
KHAKI SHIRTS
LOSE LEADER
Commander In Chief Among
Missing While Deluded Fol-
lowers Seek Him.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. UP)-
A riding crop, peacefully surrend-
cred by the commanding general,
was Washington's only memento
today of it's invasion by Khaki
shirts" whose professed purpose
was to proclaim President Roose-
welt dictator of America and set
themselves up as his supporting
army.
The Khaki shirts" arrived from
New York, Camden and Baltimore
in two ice trucks and three touring
cars late yesterday. There were A
of them, all officers. George Char
les Zirkler, Baltimore radio repair
man, said he was a major general
and head of the group.
His riding crop was the nearest
approach to a weapon that massed
police could find when they turn
ed back the invaders at the district
line. Zirkler turned the riding crop
over to Inspector S. w. Burke,
chief of detectives, who said he
would keep it as a souvenir.
President Roosevelt wasn't at the
White House at the time to accept
the dictatorship anyway. He had
motored with his mother, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, to visit her friend,
Mrs. William c. Eustis, at Lees
burg, Va.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. ID. - Art
y. Smith, who planned to estab-
lish an American dictator, was be-
lieved today to be seeking a refuge
to escape the wrath of his army.
The commander in chief of the
Khaki Shirts of America whose
adventures have included service in
a half dozen foreign armies and
whose followers included many
who helped Mussolini rise to pow
er, has vanished. He last was seen
stepping through a window at his
headquarters here when his gen
erals" defied his leadership and
while several hundred lesser Shirts"
awaited the order to invade Wash
ington.
He is wanted by police and also
by the disillusioned men who now
believe that the Khaki Shirts of
America was merely Gigantic
shirt selling racket" and who were
left to bear the brunt of a series of
police raids.
Evening star., 1933-03-17

strengthening of the public's belief In
the current value of corporation securi-
ties and commodities and confidence
that the credit of the Government is
now assured and that there need be no
further anxiety on this score. This
has released, for the first time since
1929, funds that had been put aside
to be invested when the situation finally
seemed to have reached a point where
permanent recovery would begin. It Is
this that the markets have responded
to in the first stages of their reopen
ing coincident with resumption Of
normal banking conditions So, If
there is an element of imitation pres
ent it Is of secondary Importance in
fashioning the ophAon of those who
speculate or Of those who invest.
(Copyright 1881
Evening star., 1933-03-17
LARGE INVESTMENT
DEMAND DEVELOPS
NIic Confidence in SeCuri-
IS Has Apparently Been
Revived.

NFNatch to The Star.
ton 3RK, March 1.-THE ques-
men AMOUR asked by Wall Street
ross ufapse representing the busi-
we now ie country is: Does what
ties and 4 the markets for securi-
have enteinmodities mean that we
tion?" Npon a period Of inf1a-
This mig
such, in vieNdily be interpreted as
ment in comhe pronounced move
commodities AstockS and in those
trading have (which restrictions in
for the fact removed, were it not
equally violent there have been
classes of fixees in nearly all
that, by orthodderest obligations
have declined; Skonings' should
The strength Il
corporation bonds S hlghest-grade
Government obligat United States
much a feature of tl has been as
in the junior sharesrkets as that
associated with comm corporations
enced by technical mes or lnnu-
From this standpoint 4 conditions.
garding initiation mayVestlon re,
negatively. answered
Imitation Seed s.
When Great Britain went
basis in September, 193the gold
stocks had a sharp adv3mmon
bonds had an equally abruA while
In other parts of the world tcllne,
gold standard has since bed the
doned this action has been folRan-
intense speculation for a t. by
equities" but by a reaction IL IN
cations payable in gold. The Y
ment SO far in this country, then
has been unique. Although our m
tary conditions have not been pan
to those abroad, there has been a {
sciousness on the part Of the pu
that tendencies were developing
might gradually lead to imitation.
The other day, for instance, Spe:
Rainey Of the House stated that
emergency banking act just passed !
vided for "a control of imitation wi
may possibly reach 100000, 900
new currency not secured by gold,
by other securities, the assets of
banks" Earlier Senator Glass, W
debating this measure, said that
"broadens, in degree that Is ain
shocking to me, the currency and CT
facilities CT the Federal Reserve s
Evening star., 1933-03-17

tenn" From these opinions 1t Is evident
that the seed of imitation has been Sown
and that, whether this will be moderate
or violent, depends upon the degree to
which it Is controlled or automatically
opposed as the boarded funds again
become visible
The demand for the new emergency
currency now represented In Federal
Reserve bank notes grew out Of the
insuf1iciency for public use Of the out
standing Federal Reserve notes and the
large amount of gold coin and gold GER
tiflcates hcarded. This condition is
steadily being corrected. In a little
over a week the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York alone has had returned
to it between $l75,000,000 and $780,
100000 in gold and gold certificates
1t is estimated that over 100000, 900
in gold has come out of hiding over the
country and has gene back into the
banks. This would be an amount suffi-
cient to maintain $750,000,000 of addi-
ticnal circulation on the basis of the
legal reserve requirements of 40 per
cent gold for Federal Reserve notes.
The inward movement of geld has not
by any means ended, while the effort
to restore Federal Reserve notes that
have been boarded has only just begun
ana VIII be recognized IN the next state
ments issued by the Federal Reserve
banks Of the country.
Investment Demand Revived.
The need, therefore, for additional
emergency currency should diminish
steadily as the banks throughout the
United States begin to function in a
normal manner and the confidence of
the public in its financial institutions
expands The almost universal testi-
mony of bankers is that, instead of
facing the anticipated drain on their
resources, they have experienced an
increase in their deposits. There has
been striking reversal in the emotions
of the public from fear to exhilaration;
from suspicion of all banks to q
greater confidence in those that have
been permitted to reopen than at any
time in the recent past.
Along with this there has come a
Evening star., 1933-03-17
OLD DOMINION MILLS
RESUME OPERATIONS
Industries in Shenandoah Valley
Recall Workers in Large Mum.
bers as Plants Reopen.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, March 1.-THE
stimulating effect on business, following
the administrators quick handling of
the financial crisis, is being reflected in
the resumption of work in numbers of
industries in the Shenandoah Valley
Several plants that had shut down here
when bank holidays were declared re-
opened today.
Silk mills in several nearby towns
were resuming with full forces, and
other factories were to reopen next
Evening star., 1933-03-17

Monday. A demand for lime for build
reopening Of lime plants In the vicinity
Of Capon Roads, Va. which had been
closed for more than q year. Orders
for lime were reported being booked so
rapidly that working forces had to be
increased.
Evening star., 1933-03-17
PARTY TO BE Benefit
John Burroughs Center Seeks Fund
for Athletic Plans.

Tor Athletic Plans.
A card party and dance will be given
by the John Burroughs Community
Center tomorrow evening in the John
Burroughs School to raise funds for
organization in the neighborhood Of q
boys group with activities along athletic
and educational lines.
The group would be conducted under
supervision Of the Community Center
Department.
Evening star., 1933-03-17
MEDAL is PRESENTED
Mechanical Engineers Society
HonorS H, B, BinnSe.

A. A. Potter, president of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers,
spoke on 1.-The Relation Of the Engineer
to Present-day Problems" at luncheon
meeting of the Washington section of
the society at the University Club yes
terday.
Mr.. Potter presented q medal to H. B.
Binnse of this city, commemorating Mr..
Binnse's so years membership in the
society.
Evening star., 1933-03-17
Minute Mysteries :
Solution to
MURDER IN THE LULU
BELL BAR.

(See Page A-3.)
Fordney suspicioned Trigger"
Tabor. The Mexican was stabbed
AFTER the lights went out, yet
on meeting Fordney, Tabor said,
That damn Mexican, Castell-
amos been stabbed in the back!"
n Had he not possessed guilty
knowledge he could not have
Nown this. Tabor swung for the
hrder!
fERE, WHERE FOR SHELTER
| SHALL THE GUILTY FLY,
Nv CONS TERNA TION
VRNS THE GOOD MAN
| LIE? Young.
Evening star., 1933-03-17

They come. they saw, they enth
Hollywood's smortest women,
York's famous styIists, Leading Fc
ion editors, keen leather men al
judges Of shoe qvcIity.. All wef(
present at A. S. Beck's private
Spring pre-view.
AS. Beck's new shoes were every.
where, iovntiIy worn by pretty mod.
els, grouped on tables, cut apart to
show every inch Of detoiI. The ESQ
new Spring styles were oppIouded
The new low price proised in won
derment at the value. The bewiIder-
ing variety Of Ieofhers, moteriols,
eoIors s-the hand made turn feo.
tures won many wonderful COM
ments. Let some Of them tell You in
their own words.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-10
Warm Storage Is Best
for Potatoes at Start

Potatoes should be stored at
temperature around so degrees Fab
renheIt for the first few weeks, says
Prof. ORC Smith of the New York
State College Of Agriculture, as this
temperature will allow cuts and
bruises on the tubers to heal. PO-
tates which are stored Immediately
at temperature OF 35 degrees fail
TO heal and lose as much as % per
cent in weight by decay. They also
lose much additional weight by
shrinkage.
An approximate temperature Of 80
degrees may be obtained by keeping
the doors and windows of the stor-
age open during the day, TO let in
warm air, and closed at night. Or.
If the weather is extremely cold,
a wood or coal stove might be used.
After the first few weeks. the
temperature should be lowered to
36-3S degrees Fahrenheit, and this
temperature should be maintained
during the entire storage period.
The humidity should be between
50 and % per cent. or just below
saturation, so that no moisture con-
denses on the walls or ceiling or COL
lects on the top of potatoes. II
the temperature is low, usually no
harm results even If the top layer
of potatoes is moist.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-10
Give Pigs Iron

Young pigs raised out-of-doOrs
eat dirt and thus get iron. Those
kept inside for several weeks after
birth often suffer from anemia due
TO lack Of iron. By drenching the
pigs with an iron solution once a
week for six weeks. starting when
they are three or four days old. the
difficulty can be overcome. One
third of a teaspoonful Of saturated
ferrous sulphate solution is a maxi
mum dose for pigs less than a week
old. and full teaspoonful for a
three-weeks old pig. The solution
Is made by dissolving pound of
dried ferrous sulphate in about a
quart of hot water The iron So
luton can be given the pigs by
swabbing 1t on the sow's udder.
Merely adding It to the feed or wa
ter is not sufficient, stated J. P.
Willman of Cornell university in dis
cussing this problem before the
American Society of Animal Produc-
ton at Chicago recently.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-10

The worlds best known little girl
is being brought up as simply as her
position will permit.
She has been going TO church
since she was five. because Queen
Mary is great believer in teach
ing children to sit still and to listen.
Her training more and more as
sumes the character of the training
that must be given TO the presump-
tive ruler of more han one-fourth
of the population of the earth.
The throne today would pass
thus: CD prince of Wales; (2) duke
of York; (3) Princess Elizabeth !:
(4) Princess Margaret Rose. second
daughter of the duke of York; (5)
duke of Gloucester. and (6) Prince
George. Princess Elizabeth can be
deprived of the succession only by
q younger brother If in due course
he should arrive. Her baby sis
ter, Margaret Rose, born amidst a
tempest In the historic stronghold
of Glamis castle, is second only TO
Elizabeth in her nearness to the
throne.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-10
Carbon Dioxide

20 much carbon dioxide in the
air will kill a man, yet plants can
not live and grow without it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-10
First Vessel Built
in America in 1907

in the American colonies. The sue
cess of these early ventures was
the beginning of an industry which
was thereafter conducted with an
nually increasing volume. The
United States bureau of navigation
records reveal the fact that In
1897, the first year that tonnage
built was officially recorded. 56.6T9
gross tons were completed.
Meanwhile. American shipbuilders
began to abandon the old models,
substituting therefor new plans in
the construction and equipment of
ships that resolved the unwieldy,
unsightly crafts of a foreign type
into patterns of beauty, speed and
endurance previously unknown.
In 1855 the age of sail, with its
clippers, brought the maritime ca
reer of the United States TO its
height in building with 2024 ves-
sells OF an aggregate gross tonnage
Of 5S3,450 tons completed.
Clipper ships for passenger serv-
ice were then in turn succeeded by
steamships built on improved mod
els and REINFORCED by every me-
chanical device and appliance In
vention could devise or money could
procure at the time. until in 1908
there were All ,926 tons OF steam
vessels built as compared with only
1881 tons of sailing craft for the
same year.
The steam vessels became larger
each year. and the ports of New
York, Philadelphia. Boston and else
where were selected as locations for
the most extensively equipped ship
yards in the world. What was true
with respect TO the construction of
ocean vessels and steamers applied
with equal force To vessels of this
type constructed for inland river
and lake navigation. The first
steamer on these inland rivers was
built at Pittsburgh in 1911; she was
named the Orleans. and had a speed
of about three miles per hour. Five
years later the Ontario. the pioneer
steamer of the lakes. was launched
and completed at Sacketts Harbor.
y. Y.
Shipbuilding Jagged in 1918. the
period of the World war. when in
that year IL completed .3OO.S6S
tons in American yards. This pc
riod also gave an impetus 10 the
substitution of steel vessels for
those of wood. especially in the con.
struction of ships for the transat.
lantic service In 1920 the high peak
of American shipbuilding for all
times brought forth 1850. .6:}9 gross
tons launched and completed.
Since that period. construction in
American shipyards has Jagged to
considerable extent. until on
June 80. l93;i. American yards com
pleted 642 vessels of all types with
a total gross of l90.S03 tons. OF
this new tonnage II vessels were
steel passenger steamers of l35.S21
gross tons. two steel steam cargo
vessels of 1922 gross tons, and
one steel cargo motor ship OF l,169
gross tons. aggregating 1922
gross tons. The total horse power
of the sea going vessels was 1884,
300.