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Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
FRANCE BALKS
PEACE PACT
BY r. ID. MCMILLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

united PreSS Staff Correspondent
PARIS. May 80. - Its political
life at stake, the French govern
ment today shattered hopes of i'm
mediate signature of the Mussolini
four-nation treaty binding Europe
chief powers to keep the peace for
10 years
The council of ministers, that
met under President Albert Lebrun,
decided that guarantees to France
were not sufficient to warrant her
signature at present.
Optimistic reports from London
and Rome, which went so far as to
arrange" initiating of a draft at
Rome tonight or tomorrow, had
housed similar optimism here.
There were strong indications that
Premier Edouard Daladier would
recommend approval of The draft in
its present form provided promised
safeguards against hasty revision
of the World war treaties material
lied.
But the government stuck to an
undertaking made Immediately af-
ter the initialling of rough draft
of the treaty at Rome 10 days ago.
This was to consult parliament re-
garding the signature.
This means the treaty will come
under a heavy fire of political op-
ponents of the government, ard
may cause delay in negotiations
with other governments unless con-
cessions can be wrung from them
eager as they are to make some
progress before the meeting of the
world economic conference at Lon :
| don June II.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30

The copper box placed in the cor
nerstone of the new post office to-
day, contained the following pho
, toS, documents and articles:
Photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States;
photo of postmaster and his staff;
historical records of the post office
to date.
List of membership of Ell Gen.
tro lodge No. 1925, B. P. o. E..
List OF membership of Ell Cen
school district and graduates and
trustees. List of elective and ap-
pointiye officers of the county of
Imperial Names of grand lodge
> officers participating in laying the
corner stone. Members of the 10
cal, organization of the Southern
Sierras Power Co. Valley Drug
Co. employees list. Sones Lumber
Co. employees list.
List of employees and officers of
. Edgar Bros. Stores in El Centro.
List of Central Union high school
officers and graduates of this year.
List of membership and officers of
KiwaniS club. List of officers and
members of the Ell Centro Cham
tion and fraternal organizations,
ber of Commerce. List of Johnson
> Greene employees. List of educa-
Eastside, Ell Centre. List of sub
scribers to the Ell Centre building
site. List of officers and members
of the Oasis lodge F. & A. M, Ell
Centro. List of Valley Drug lunch
con. List of officers and members
of Ell Centro Lodge F. & A. M. No.
1884. List of officers and members
of the Lions club, Ell Centre. List
''of officers and members of the
Ten Thousand club. Hook Maya
zine Co. literature.
List of city trustees, and officials
of city of El Centro. List of Off
GERS of Bank of America National
Trust and Savings association Ell
Centro branch. Photograph of Hon.
Phil D. Swing, congressman, CO.
author Of Swing-Johnson bill.
Photograph of Leo Hetzel, pioneer
photographer. Photograph of Vir-
ginia Hetzel and Postmaster G. G..
v jenkins advertising first air mail,
June Is, 1882, of the Southern Air
mail route. Names of the district
attorney, Elmer w. Heald, and his
stat. Photograph of the construc-
ton view from Olive street side of
Ell Centro's new post office build
ing.
Booklet of 25th anniversary of
Ell Centro lodge No. 384, F. & A. M.
Stationery of w. l.. Hammond, U.
S. government engineer. Station
cry of Judge I. Mayfield, justice of
peace. Copy Imperial Valley Morn
! ing Farmer, Tuesday, May 80. 1888.
Copy of the invitation of the lay
ing of the corner stone. Letter
containing officers and staff of
Imperial Valley Press and copy of
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
HONOR GUL[S
BY MONUMENT
BY GEORGE ID. CRISSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

OInteu FTcSS oIdII correspondence
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May
20.-A monument to the memory of
seagulls and a deep affection for
the birds lowering over the waters
of Great Salt Lake are two de-
cidedly different characteristics of
this community.
The Seagull monument stands in
the center of the Mormon taber-
nacle grounds.
Two gulls perched on ball,
which stands on a four sided base
is the form of the monument.
Three sides tell the stories of crop
planting, the threat of starvation
and finally of harvesting. On the
fourth side is a plaque bearing the
following inscription:
"The seagull monument, erected
in grateful remembrance of the
mercy of God on the Mormon
people,
Here IS the story:
Long ago, when Mormons had to
be self-sufficient, or starve, ripen-
ing crops were threatened by a
grasshopper horde. A virtual cloud
of the insects appeared, devouring
every green thing in sight.
Suddenly flocks of seagulls came.
They were hungry and feaSted
faster on the grasshoppers than the
hoppers cid on the crops. The
gulls won. Crops were saved. The
threat OF famine disappeared.
Hence the monument.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
Intend Copper For
Military Campaign

CANANEA, Sonora, Mex, May 80
W.P)-France's reported purchase of
100000 pounds of copper a month
is to supply Japan with sufficient
metal for an aggressive military
program, it was said here today.
An official of the Green Can
anea Copper company said the
purchase may be the reason of our
mining activity, but certainly no
public announcement will be made
to confirm it,"
The company recently increased
its production from 100000 to
100000 pounds monthly and plac-
ed 1900 miners at work.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
Cost OF Living
Shotus Decline

NEW YORK, May 30 WP)-The
cost of living in the United States
was 279 per cent lower n April,
1888, than in April, 1929, the ma
tional industrial conference board
revealed IN figures made public to-
day.
The gross living cost in April,
1888, was 9.3 per cent below April,
1882.
Rents, clothing and coal dropped
sufficiently between April and
March of this year to produce a
net reduction of per cent in liv-
ing cost, though other prices re-
manned approximately unchanged.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
Black To Seek
Place As Movor

WASHINGTON, May 80. (U.P)-
Rep. Loring Black Dem.) New
York, today announced he would
seek election as mayor of New
York City to succeed John P.
O'Brien. s+.,t
Black said he would "wage a
vigorous and aggressive campaign
for election" declaring that the
Democratic party in New York
"has reached its lowest level in
public repute.''
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
DiUorcee Ends
Life In DenUer

DENVER, Colo, May 80. WP)-
Mrs. Jane B. Gillfoy, blonde Los
Angeles divorce, committed sui
eide, Coroner George Bostwick ruled
today after an investigation into
the fatal shooting of the Los An
geles woman.
BoStwick said there would be no
inquest, and that the case official
ly is closed.
Mrs. Gillfoy shot herself through
the temple in her luxurious four
room apartment after she had
quarrel with DR.. F. S. Halsted,
when he refused to divorce his wife
and marry her.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
OLD WALKER DIES

GLENDALE, Calf, May 80. U.P)
Dan OLeary, 80, world famous
walker, died here yesterday after
a lingering illness. O'Leary, who
came to the United States from Ire
land at the age of Is, won money
and medals in walking races in
England, Australia, Europe and this
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30

raised and lowered, and then out
over the quiet summer air floated
the silvery notes of taps, the final
goodbye of grateful people to
those who have served their fell
low countrymen even to the giving
up of life itself.
At the conclusion of taps, ranks
were broken and the graves of SOL
dierS and sailors were decorated
with flowers by relatives and
friends. Many private individuals
observed the day by decorating the
graves of their dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
Il CONV|CTS
FLEE PRISON
Continued from Page u

(C0ntlnued from rage ID
Pettijohn were decorating a grave.
The desperados ordered them to
remove their personal belongings
from their sedan. and fled with it.
KidnaD Girls
Soon afterward, the mutineers
encountered H j. Wood and wife,
and their daughter, Louise, II, and
a girl chum of Louise. The Woods
were enroute to Leavenworth.
Three of the convicts elected Wood
and drove away with the woman
and girls.
Guard Powell gave the United
Press an eyewitness account of
the mutiny.
"Underhill stood up in the
bleachers and yelled at Lawes,
Drop that shotgun" Powell said.
Immediately four or five others
crowded around Underhill, includ-
ing Brady and that fellow Bailey
who robbed a bank at Pittsburgh,
Kansas.
"Then Brady yelled out I'VE We
got enough nitroglycerine to blow
up this joint. A crooked move
from any of you and we all die
"Warden Prather told us not to
do any shooting, but to do as di-
rected. We had just searched the
cell houses for nitroglycerin, re-
ported to have been smuggled in.
"Then they got us outside, they
let me go, and that S one joy ride
I didn't take.'
The automobile in which the con-
victs left the prison was found at
noon IL miles south of Lansing. II
was disabled by differential trouble.
The break occurred about 10:30 a.
m. when Underhill stood up at his
seat in the bleachers during the
baseball game and shouted at Guard
LaweS:
Drop that shotgunw
Warden Prather advised Lawes to
comply with the command
Four other convicts crowded about
Underhill.
"We've got enough nitro-glycerin
to blow up this joint" shouted
Brady.
"A crooked move from any of
you and we all Gie."
The warden commanded guards
to avoid a pitched battle with the
convicts and to do as they directed.
A search of the prison had been
made only recently because of sus-
picion that nitro-glycerin was
cached within the walls.
One of the mutineers picked up
the automatic shotgun which Guard
Lawes dropped.
The desperadoes then marched
the warden, Lawes, Sherman and
Powell to post No. 3, guard tower
in the southeast corner of the
prison.
LANSING, Kan, May 30. U.P)-
Convicts watching a Memorial day
baseball game in the Kansas pen
itentiary rebelled today.
Escaping over a wall, they were
reported to have taken with them
Warden Kirk Prather, two guards
and prison employee.
The deputy warden of the pris-
on, speaking by telephone from the
administration building, said those
kidnapped by the mutineers were
the warden, Guards w. A. Lawes
and John Sherman, and C. w.
Powell, prison employee.
He said a check of the prisoners
was being made to determine how
many convicts participated in the
inSurrection.
The deputy warden said that
Guard John Stewart, 35, was shot
IN the arm attempting to thwart
the break. He said Stewart s
wound was not serious.
Reports that 10 convicts par
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30

Two strains of mildew-resistant
cantaloupe seed have been distrib-
uted to growers in Imperial Valley
who will test their commercial
value.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

ticipated in the mutiny have not
been confirmed, the deputy warden
said.
The break was followed by sever
al reports that the convicts had
changed cars west of Lansing. One
such report came from Bethel and
another from Tonganoxie.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, May 80.
U.R-A woman and two girls were
kidnapped today by six men, be-
heved to have been fleeing con-
victs from the state prison at Lam
sing.
They were Mrs. H. j. Wood, of
Kansas City, Kansas, her daugh-
ter, Louise, II, and a chum of
Louise S, whose name was not i'm
mediately available.
The Wood automobile, enroute
here, was stopped on state highway
No. near Lansing. The men
elected H. j. Wood, and drove away
with the woman and girls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13

NEW YORK.-While military and
government officials throughout the
nation celebrated Armistice Day with
military displays and pacifist phrases,
over 800 young workers and students
here demonstrated their defiant OPP
position towards imperialist war by
two meetings and a parade.
The militant challenge to the war
danger was hurled Saturday when
the organizations united in the Youth
Committee Of the American League
Against War and Fascism modified
their membership at Columbus Circle
and marched to the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument, at 89th st. and
Riverside Drive.
Along Broadway, along Riverside
Drive, through the heart of the silk
stocking" district, the demonS TRAITORS
paraded, carrying the banners of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13

for the immature and incapacitated.
Red-blooded water polo, ice hockey
and roulette players, matadors and
pago-pag0 performers frowned al
this Legitimate lawn tennis. Ping
pong, the Spurned OF Sports, che
Pariah OF Pastimes,
She Becomes a Rags,
uIE ALL know how ping pong came
W through with flying colors. IT
swept two continents like crossword
puzzles or the Three Little Pigs, only
it came to stay. People discovered
that to be really proficient in it re-
CURED extraordinary skill, also, that
you could work up devil of sweat
If you were up against fast player
on the regulation table. For a short
and disastrous period / attended City
College, the institution where they
play football, and ii can truthfully
be said that II not for the ping pong
tables in the alcoves wouldn't have
stuck 1t out for even three months.
The school will still be recognized as
one of the cradles of American ping
pong when the Umbrella Man viii be
but q footnote.
In Europe the game has developed
to stage where great international
tournaments are run of successfully.
I know this circumstances will be
seized upon by those who ascribe ele-
ments OF decadence and degeneracy
to 1t, but consider as well its popular
ity in the Soviet Union. There no
recreational center is complete with
out the green tables and they have
room full OF them In the Kremlin
itself. For American workers clubs
it's an ideal winter sport. You can
play 1t indoors, accessories are mex
pensiye, the appeal universal and
competition easy to organize.
It's not only to do right BY our
little ping pong but to display the In
teresting growth Of sport conscious
ness In the revolutionary movement
around New York that I print the
below letter. It's the second such idea
within few days. Last week they
had wrestling bout at the ball of
the Theatre Union.
"NEAR E. NJ:
y THE United Front Supporters Is
an organization made up mainly OF
professionals and other white collar
workers. A while ago we formed a
study group which grew to large pro-
portions and soon transformed its
theories into action. We have al
ready raised hundreds Of dollars for
tne ScottSboro Fund, the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, ETC., and
every month we pay the rent for the
headquarters and the apartment of
the East Side Unemployed Council.
This Friday we're running a dance
at Webster Manor, 119 E. 18th ST.. for
the benefit Of the Daily Worker and
as a special attraction we're having
a crack ping pong player give an ex-
hibition and play all corners. We
cordially invite you and your readers,
united Front supporters.~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
Workers of theWorld Mass to Free Communists from
Protests Grow As
Execution Of Four
Communists Looms
London Police Attack
Delegation After
Demonstration

LONDON, Nov. 12.-Police this
afternoon charged 200 Communists
attempting to send delegation to
the German Embassy, demanding
"the release Of our innocent Ger
man comrades, Dimitroff, Torgier,
Taneff and POpOff." The deIega-
ton was sent by a meeting Of sew
eral thousand workers In Trafalgar
Square. Several workers we're in
jured by the attack Of the police.
NEW YORK.-The tide of protest
against the contemplated execution
Of the four Communist leaders on
trial" for the Reichstag burning
kept rising higher and higher as
many trade union student and pro-
tessional organizations and indiyidu-
ais threw their entire support be-
hind the fight to save them from,
the Nazi axe.
The strength Of $4,000 workers will
mass behind Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union delegation
when 1t appears before the German
Consul here today to demand tbs
release of Dimitroff. Torgler, Tanev
and Popoff.
Raising the slogan of "Swastiks
Out Of New York;" the National Stu
| dent League is mobilizing the stu
dents of New York in demonstra-
ton Wednesday before the MacN1il-
Ian Theatre, Columbia University
where Hans Luther, Nazi Ambassa-
dor, Is speaking. The students viii
mass at 7:30 p. m. on the corner OF
10th st. and Broadway. At Wed
nesday noon they will picket the fac
ulty luncheon which is being given
for Luther at Columbia University
carrying placards urging the faculty
members. to boycott the luncheon.
The National Committee of On.
employed Councils sent q protest yes
terday to Hans Luther, German Am
basSador, against the fascist saw
agery Of the Hitler government" and
demanding the immediate release oil
Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Tanev
as well as Ernst Thaelmann. 1.-THE
German working class does not stand
| alone" the communication read. I'VE
workers of the United States and the
unemployed workers, through the Ma
tional Committee of Unemployed
Councils, are rallying to the support
OF the German proletarian revolu-
ton"
Saturday a delegation of "A writers
and lawyers appeared befor the Nazi
Consul to demand the freeing of the
four Communist leaders on trial in
Berlin. When the Consul dashed out
enraged from his office, Allan Taub
I. l.. D. lawyer, faced him and de-
manded that trial defendants be
freed. He protested against the So
called trial as farce and asked II
the Nazis intend to carry out their
murder plans. The Consul refused
to answer their questions, telling
them to wait till the trial was over
AS the delegation left the office
| they gave cheers for Dinitroff, Torg-
Ter, Taneff and Popoff.
Those in the delegation were David
Lev.nson, Allen Taub, Malcolm Cow
ley, Edward Dehlberg, Isidor Schnei-
der, Horace Gregory, Philip Henberg,
A. T. Cutler, Joseph Freeman, Ken
meth Burke and Others.
Protest kilograms we're sent to
Hans Luther, NaN Ambassador, from
the Finnish Workers Federation,
American Committee to Aid the Vic
tins OF German Fascism and other
ORGANIZATIONS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13

their organizations, shouting Down
with Imperialist War, down with
Fascism!"
At the Monument speakers of the
participating organizations addressed
the workers and students, urging
them to fight against the war prep
arations going on under the N. r. A.
and the Civil Conservation Corps.
The speakers emphasized the need
for militantly protesting the war
provocations against Soviet Russia,
the workers fatherland. They urged
that the workers and students be
come traitors to the ruling class of
their own country and refuse to fight
to protect their profits"
The organizations participating
were: National Student League,
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
Young Communist League, Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13

Ex- Servicemen's League, War-Re-
sisters League, Conference for Pro-
gressiye Labor Action, Labor Sports
Union, I. w. O., Youth Section OF T.
U. U. c., and the l. L. D.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Nov. Ia
A mighty hiss greeted the police as
they seized several placards carried
by Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst
and Massachusetts, State College
students who were marching in an
anti-war parade here today. The
placards, reading "The N, r. A
Means Nationalism and War" were
carried by the National Student
League chapter of Mount Holyoke
College.
The demonstration was led by
Adam Lagrin, recently dispe!led from
G. c. N. Y. for anti-R.O.T.C. activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
DickStein Silent on
Calling ofHathaway
Angrily Refuses Reply
on Nazi Exposure
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker, Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker, Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 49,
Samuel DickStein, chairman of the
House immigration and NaturaliZa-
ton Subcommittee which will open
interim hearings Tuesday on Nazi
propaganda activities in the United
States, today angrily refused to say
whether Clarence Hathaway, editor of
the Daily Worker, will be asked to
appear before the investigating body
to read into the official record the
Daily Workers international exposures
Of Nazi murder, espionage and prop
Uganda activities in this country.
Dickstein's noncommittal reply con-
traStS sharply with his statement
made several weeks ago to to the
Daily Worker that Hathaway would
be invited" to appear before the
committee.
1t is understood that Dickstein
plans to convene his subcommittee
tomorrow in short secret session to
map out the course of the hearings
Formal public sessions begin Tuesday
Martin Dies OF Texas, the prepayment
OF the bill which bears his name and
provides for "the exclusion and expul-
sion Of alien Communists" Is a mem
Der of the immigration Subcommit-
tee. The others are: Kerr, North
Carolina; Underwood, Ohio; Grove,
Indiana; Kramer, California; Dirksen,
Illinois; Taylor, Tennessee, and Focht,
Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
Baltimore Delegates
Must Register by
Tuesday Evening

NEW YORK. - All delegates to
the Baltimore anti-lynching Con-
ference travelling by bus must reg
istcr not later than Tuesday, Nov.
1e. $3.50 o'clock at the district Of
nee Of the International Labor De-
Tense, $40 Broadway. Delegates
will leave Saturday, Nov. is, at
$50 A. M, from Irving Plaza Hall,
Irving Plaza and 18th Street. The
cost for delegates going by bus is
$500, including all expenses,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
Shoe Strikers Mass
Meeting for Today

NEW WORKINGS meeting Of
Shoe strikers today IL a. m. at Ar
cadia Hall, 918 Halsey St., Brook
lyn. The shoe strikers will act on
the final decision Of the National
Labor Board. 1t is important that
all strikers be present and every
chairman should march In with his
crew and sit together in the hall.
There will be signs for every crew
in the hall.
A special emergency Shop
Chairman's meeting will take place
today at a. m. In Manhattan
Lyceum, sc Z. Fourth st. to dis
cuss the proposals of DR.. Handler,
Chief Counsel for the National
Labor Board.
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Route 10 to Defiance County. There
will be short receptions at 10 a. m.
in Medina and at noon in Wellington.
The delegates will be entertained for
the night by the farmers OF Defiance
County.
The other line Of march from New
York and New England will also enter
Ohio on Sunday afternoon over Route
20, stepping overnight near Austin
burg and proceeding the following
morning to Fulton County, stopping
in the morning for a reception ar
ranged by the Small Home and Land
Owners Federation on the Public
Square in Cleveland at ten O'Clock.