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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
WILL REVEAL
IDENTITY IF
CALLED UPON
Labor Conciliator Assertedly
Informed He Could Be Re-
moved For $50.
REQUESTED TO APOLOGIZE
General Declares He Was Asked
To Repudiate Condemnation
Of Attack On Besig.

Imperial Valleys labor difficult
ties, more or less slumbering for
several weeks past, came to the
forefront again last night when a
statement released to the newspa-
pers by General Pelham D. Glass
ford, federal labor conciliator ap-
pointed by the secretary of labor,
charged that an Imperial county Of
ficial had attempted to intimidate
him yesterday and made insinua-
tions that the general could be made
away with for $50.
The threat, according to the gen.
eral, was made in the course of a
conference with the official, who,
the general said, sought to get him
to apologize for Glassfords efforts
in having charges brought against
the alleged assailant of Ernest Be-
sig attorney for the American Civil
Liberties Union, who was attacked
early this week at inland while
about to make his departure from
the valley.
General Glassford's statement to
the newspapers follows:
To-day, leading official of I'M
perial county informed me that all
the Imperial Valley newspapers,
with the exception of one, are pre-
pared to launch a bitter attack
against me and would paint me
very black. In order to obviate this
attack by the local press. he urged
that I make a statement of apology
for the assistance lent to Attorney
Ernest Besig of Los Angeles in Sc
curing warrant for the arrest OF
w. F. Aycock, automobile salesman
of Brawley, for an alleged cowardly
attack on Mr.. Besig at the inland
railroad station last Friday, June g..
"The same county official insisted
that Mr.. BeSig Is a Communist and
stated that he regretted that he was
not the one who slugged him. He
assured me that all Communists
coming into Imperial Valley will be
treated in the same way, no matter
what their purpose may be.
by way of intimidation, this
county official informed me that
there Is very rough element in I'M
perial Valley and that it would re-
quire not more than $50 to have me
removed. The county official warn
ed me that it would be useless for
Attorney Besig to return to Imperial
Valley to secure the prosecution of
his assailant. He said that probably
Mr.. Besig would be beaten up before
he reached the court but that If the
case did come to trial, no jury in
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
VICTIM SLAIN
BY KIDNAPERS

MUSKOGEE, Okla, June ID. U.P)
&C. N. Num-, Democratic candi-
date for president of the state board
of agriculture, died in a hospital
today of gunshot wounds inflicted
by two men who kidnapped him
and trussed him IN a tree in the
Cookson Hills.
The gunner shot Num- late yes
terday near his home at Porter
They picked up the wounded man,
drove him into the hills and tied
him to tree with wire.
Until a few hours before his
death, Num- kept a promise he
made to his asSailants and refused
to describe them to police. Po-
lice held little hope of apprehend-
ing the gunner on the meagre oes-
cription furnished by the victim.
Num- was widely-known cotton
farmer and stock dealers.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
REPUBLICANS
IN TTACK ON
LABOR PLANS
BY H. o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, June 14.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt's IS four point pro-
gram for labor disputes legislation,
aimed primarily at the threatened
steel strike, was subjected to sharp
attacks from senate Republicans to-
day.
The Presidents IS proposals would
substitute the disputed Wagner
labor bill, and a wide variety of
suggested changes was advanced at
a Republican conference to pass on
the legislation.
A Republican subcommittee of
five senators, headed by Sen. James
j. Davis (Rep) Pennsylvania for
mer secretary of labor, wa
appointed to consolidate Republi-
can ideas and put the proposed
changes into legislative form.
Davis was appointed to head the
subcommittee because of his
knowledge of the steel industry, in
which the threat of a general strike
was approaching crisis at Pitts
burgh convention of steel workers.
While there was no great enthus-
iasm for the substitute labor bill
"a joint resolution for creation OF
Cancellation boards and the deter
mination of labor representatives in
industrial disputesHit was decided
it was an improvement over the
Wagner measure.
Others in the subcommittee were
Senators James Couzens of Michi-
gan, P. L. Goldsborough of Mary
land, Frederick Steiwer of Oregon
and Frederick C. Walcott of Con-
necticut.
While the meeting was in prog
ress Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson said NRA would take
no part in the union IS Pittsburgh
meeting although it was invited to-.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
By EDWARD w. LEWIS

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1884, BY United Press)
WASHINGTON, June H. The
administration has under contem-
ination of federal and state taxa
the revenue laws, including coord-
ination of federal and staet taxa
ton systems it was learned today.
The subject is being studied
along several lines with the aim of
modernizing the tax structure of
the nation. The study probably
will be the basis for recommended
legislation in the next congress, ac-
cording to house leaders.
Three major purposes are in
volved:
1. Abolition of the present inef-
ficient overlapping of state and
federal revenue sources.
2. Revenue increases with o u t
drastic revision of the present rate
structure.
8. Strengthening Of collection
methods possibly along the line of
the British system.
Participating in the immense ov-
erhauling task will be the house
ways and means subcommittee
which worked for six months last
year studying leaks in the tax
structure. The subcommittee de-
veloped the tax revision which
plugged tax avoidance loopholes
thus preventing $270,000,000 from
slipping away from the treasury. A
resolution authorizing the commit
tee to continue its revenue study
was ready for house action today.
Roswell Magill, treasury tax ex-
pert, and L. H. Parker, chief OF
staff of the congressional joint
committee on internal revenue tax
alton, will spend the summer in
Great Britain it was learned today
studying British tax methods. They
will particularly inquire into, treas
ury officials said, benefits of the
British administrative system so
far as collections are concerned.
May Call Governors
The administration may summon
governors to confer here and evolve
program which would end pres
ent overlapping tax system. Prob
ably participating in the confer
ence would, be senate and house
members of the joint taxation COM
mittee as well as treasury officials,
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau Jr. already has inform
ed the house ways and means COM
mittee that "there is great need
for a complete and thorough going
revision of the revenue laws
The treasury department has
been making private study for
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
MOMENTOUS
CRISIS FACED
BY INDUSTRY
Delegates Assert Peace Can Be
Had Only Through Interven-
tion Of President.
FEELING REPORTED BITTER
Workers Resent Statement OF
Institute That Company Unions
Are Preferred.
FEELING REPORTED BITTER
BY ROSCOE SNIPES
United Press Staff CcrresD0ndent

United Press Staff Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, June IA. Two
hundred delegates to the convention
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers un-
ion met y re today to decide the
question OF peace or war in the ma
tons greatest industry.
If it is to be peace, delegates
were almost unanimous in their
opinion that it only can be brought
about through direct intervention
of President Roosevelt.
If it is to be war, it will come
in the form of strike which un-
ion leaders claim will tie up most
OF the country's steel mills. OF
the nation IS 100000 steel workers,
Amalgamated claims to control
100000.
"Union recognition or we strike, -
the union declared in an ultimatum
to employers last April, when they
fixed the date of the strike for
June 16, first anniversary of the
NRA.
Today's meeting, which may con-
tinue through tomorrow and Satur-
day, was to confirm the strike de-
cision, or call off the strike If de-
yelopments warrant.
AS delegates gathered they felt
less than lukewarm toward MIRA
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson S
proposed special three-man neutral
board to arbitrate disputes between
the men and their employers. En-
ployers, represented by the Iron
and Steel Institute, have accepted
this proposal.
Delegates were somewhat bewild-
cred by the special resolution now
informally before congress which
would authorize President Roose-
velt to appoint mediation boards
to handle any industrial dispute,
including the present steel fight.
Delegates Bitter
They were bitter against the Iron
and Steel Institute for a statement
issued in New York last night
claiming that IS per cent of the
workers in the nation IS major steel
plants favored the present COM
pany union system and were op-
posed to the threatened strike.
Leaders said the institute s
statement was misleading. The
mere fact workers voted in cleo
tions for representation in COM
pany unions, they said, did not
mean necessarily that they ap-
proved the company union system
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
INCREASE FOR
CREDIT BANK
AT BERKELEY

BERKELEY, Calf, June IA. U.P)
The capital and surplus of the
Berkeley intermediate Credit bank,
farm loan agency for four western
states, has been increased to S10,-
100000, officials OF the bank an
nounced today.
The capital increase was $2,000,-
600. In addition s3,400,0O0 was add
ed to the surplus. Both sums came
from the $25 100000 fund set aside
by the U. S. treasury to aid the
intermediate banks in financing
production credit loans.
The Berkeley bank recently has
advanced s1,598, 750 to production
credit associations in California,
Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14

ACCEPT OFFER
Willing To Establish Area For
Control Of tuberculosis In
Valley Cattle.

Following a discussion neld by
members of the board of supervis-
ors yesterday Afternoon a telegram
was sent to w. E. Howe, state in
spector of the federal bureau of
animal industry in which the offer
of establishing a bovine tubercu-
losis control area in Imperial coun-
ty is accepted by the board. The
wire further states that the board
will adopt an emergency ordinance
to be effective Immediately and
see that it is effective on the un-
derstanding that the government
will provide indemnity to stock
owners.
The board received a letter from
Howe yesterday morning in which
he states that with the passage of
the Jones-Conally bill by congress
it is quite possible that the gov
ernment might be in a position to
test all the cattle in Imperial coun-
ty for tuberculosis. The letter con-
tinues, stating that indemnity will
be provided, $40 maximum for
grade and SO maximum for pure
bred stock with salvage rights al
lowed the owners in addition to the
indemnity.
1t asked that the supervisors i'm
mediately adopt an ordinance de-
claring the county a voluntary
control area'' and outline the reg
ulatons to obtain in such an area.
In yesterdays wire the board
states that last January full time
veterinarian was appointed to test
and furnish tuberculin for volun-
tary testing of dairy stock in the
county without cost to the dairy
men. There are over 5000 cows al
ready tested under this voluntary
plan, the wire states, with approx
imately 10000 head of dairy stock
in the county.
The board requests a conference
with Howe at his earliest conven-
ience in order that plans and reg
ulations for the carrying out of this
work might be formulated.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
THIEF
MAKES HAUL
Continued On Page 81

CHICAGO, June IA. U.P-Mrs.
Adolph Zukor, wife of the motion
picture executive was robbed of
$86,o75 in jewelry last night, she re-
ported to police today.
Mrs. Zukor, who was in Chicago
awaiting the arrival of her husband
tonight to accompany her to CAL
ifornia. said she was awakened
about a. m. by light flashing
in her face.
An instant later the room was
in darkness again and she looked
for her small silk handbag. which
she had left on a vacant twin bed.
1t was gone.
The stolen jewels included:
A platinum clasp containing an
eight-carat diamond and worth
$4,000.
A three-diamond marquis worth
$4,000.
A watch jewelled with sapphires.
diamonds and emerales and valued
at $4,000.
About $50 in cash.
A necklace of 70 matched pearls.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
Asks Damages
For Injuries

Naming the Equitable Life Assur-
ance company and the Nevada
California Power company as de-
PENDANTS. John E. Clifton filed suit
in superior court this morning ask
ing damages of $500 for personal
injuries.
Plaintiff alleges that on Janu-
ary IA, 1882, while in the employ
of the power company and insured
in the defendant Assurance COM
pany he fell from a tree and re-
ceived injuries which have caused
him to become permanently dis
abled. He states that he furnished
proof of his injuries but that the
defendants refused to consider his
claims.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
ALL MARINE
UNIONS MAY
BE MERGED

SAN PEDRO, Calf, June IA. U.P)
"A proposal to unite all marine
workers organizations in order to
present a solid front to coast ship
pers was advocated today by union
officials here.
The joint groups would be known
as the marine federation and COM
posed of the International Long
shoremen'S association; Masters,
Mates and Pilots of America; Sail
ors Union of the Pacific Coast; Ma
rine Firemen; Oilers and Water
Tenders; Shipyard Workers and the
Scalers and Painters union. Spokes-
men said a meeting in Portland,
June 80, is planned to complete the
organization. Seattle and San
Francisco strikers already have ap-
pointed delegates to the meeting, it
was said.
A. H. Peterson, secretary of the L.
L. A. local, vehemently denied char
ges of Capt. Robert Hill, ship own
ers' representative, that Commun-
lists have blocked settlement of the
strike by rising to control OF the
unions.
Communists are not admitted to
membership in the I. l.. A." Peter
son said.
Reporting further gains in their
fight, strike leaders said the entire
crew of the Dollar liner President
Taft with the exception of the mas
ter, chief engineer and two mates,
walked out. Company officials ad-
mitted some of the ships Seamen
had struck.
Following the lead of mayors of
San Francisco and Seattle, Mayor
Frank l.. Shaw of Los Angeles an
nounced he would attempt to nego-
tiate settlement at joint confer
ence of EMPLOYERS and strikers.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
Fourteen VIII
Seek Citizenship

Fourteen petitioners seeking ma
turalization as American citizens
will be examined in Judge Vaughn
Thompson department OF super
ior court tomorrow morning. Names
of the petitioners and places OF
birth are
Pedro Gonzales. Mexico; Ernes-
tine Castillo. Ariz.. Dorothy Will
liams, England: William Vogel.
Switzerland Diorgio Iacobellis. It.
ally; Joe Mitchell, Lithuania. Leon
idas Rouhotas. Greece; G. p. Iadas.
Greece; Maria Murphy Greece:
Elizabeth Taylor, England; Hans
Studer. Switzerland: Efrain DC Ia
Vega. Mexico: Theodore Melias,
Greece. and Raymond Spencer.
England.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14

WASHINGTON, June IA. W.P(-
The senate late today confirmed
the nomination of Rexford G. Tug
we'll, chief administration "brain
truster,'' to be undersecretary of
agriculture.
In a last-minute fight to defeat
confirmation, a small group of con-
servative Democrats, led by Sen.
Ellison D. Smith (Dem) South
Carolina, charged that Tugwell was
"unfito for the position and had
preached an economic doctrine de-
signed to overthrow the con-
stitution.
Tugwell's IS nomination was pigeon
holed by Smith when it reached
the senate on April "a. AS chairman
of the agriculture committee, Smith
sought to block confirmation by re-
fusing to present the question to the
committee for consideration.
White House pressure forced JOS
eph T. Robinson, majority lead
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14

CLEVELAND, June a. W.P-
Cancer could be eradicated almost
entirely in 80 to SO years if general
practitioners knew more about the
disease. DR.. William Carpenter Nc
Carly told the American Medical
association today
Chief blame for ravages of the
malady, which takes 100000 to 150,-
900 lives annually in the United
States should be laid upon the
shoulders of the medical profess
sion itself, DR.. McCarty said in his
address.
Despite the failure of millions
spent in research to determine a
specific cancer cure, enough is
known already to reduce the toll
enormously If it were not for wide
spread ignorance of general p~acti-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
LAYS CANCER TOLL UPON DOCTORS
Medical Convention Told Ignorance OF
Average Practitioner To Blame.

TONERS and their inability to recog-
nize it in its early stages, the spe-
cialist charged.
"Cancer is a simple problem, al
though we may never know its
specific cause, nor even discover a
specific cure. 1t is a problem of
health and of general external and
internal cleanliness and of heredi-
ty,' he said.
"It is disease which is the re-
suit of disease. 1t is a problem of
prevention, which means early rec
ognition and treatment of things
which frequently end in cancer.
"It is time someone endowed
a system of teaching for general
practitioners, now that philanthropy
lists have endowed schools, hospitals
and research bureaus.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
ADMINISTRATION REPORTED TO OBE
PLANNING REVENUE LAW REVISION
Also Contemplates Coordination With State
Taxation Systems AS Another Feature Of
New Deal.

months of the relation of the feder-
al taxing system to those of the
states, and steps which could be
taken toward coordination. The
treasury has also been working on
changes in administrative provis-
ions of internal revenue taxes,
which Morgenthau believes "should
be reorganized and assembled into
a single code which could be left
substantially unchanged from year
to year..
Much of the department IS data
will be turned over to the ways
and means committee for study
this summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
UNION men MEET TO VOTE ON STEEL STRIKE
Big Bout On
Radio s p. M.


For the information of ra-
diO fans, The Press advises
that it has been told by the
United Press that tonight's
heavyweight champi0 n h i p
bout in New York will be
broadcast over the NBC hook
up, from stations WIZ and
WEAF, with Graham McNa-
NEE at the microphone.
The preliminary bouts, also
to' be broadcast, will start at
4 p. m. Pacific standard time.
The main event is Gcheduled
to start at 6 p. m. Pacific
standard (EI Centr0) time.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
..... By THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

VENICE, June 14-Adolf Hitler,
chancellor of Nazi Germany, and
Benito Mussolini, premier of Fascist
Italy, who by force of their per-
sonalities made relationships of two
great world powers, met today for
the first time.
Hitler, accompanied by retinue
of Is, arrived by airplane at the Lido
airport at 9:58 a. m. for confer
ence with Mussolini announced as
on general political problems-an
effort to halt an arms race.
Two German airplanes, escorted
by half a dozen of the Italian Royal
Air force, roared up to the airport.
They were greeted with a cheer
CONTINUED On Page ~
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
SINCLAIR FILES

LOS ANGELES, June IA. U.P) -
Formal announcement of the candi-
dacy of Upton Sinclair, noted Pasa-
dena Socialist, for the Democratic
nomination for governor, appeared
today on the registrars list.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
BAER OUTWEIGHED

NEW YORK, June IA. U.P)-Pri-
mo Camera will hold weight ad-
vantage of 63h pounds when he de-
fends his heavyweight champion
ship against Max Baer in Madison
Square garden tonight. Official
weights taken today showed Car
nera weighing 263h pounds and
Baer 210.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-14
M.HltLl-
F.SY ROGERS
w 'SG>s:

HOLLYWOOD, June 13.
(SpeciaD-Debt thing bobbed up
today. The news never gets SO
dull that somebody can't bob
up with a new proposal. We
can always revive talk of it,
and interest in it, but we just
can't seem to revive payment
of it. In fact, a great many of
the ideas we have loaned 'em,
they haven It even paid back.
Well, it's good to get it all
stirred up before the new con-
gressional elections. The fol-
lowing sounds awful good on
the platform: Did the man
you last sent to Washington
make Europe pay? No, no.
Well, elect me and I will make
them pay.' So it will always
be a good argument.
V0I1rS
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Evening star., 1934-01-28
Jolliest Bal Boheme
In History Planned
For Shrove Tuesday
Circus With All Its Glamour
and Glitter Will Be
Staged by the Arts Club.

The jolliest Bal Boheme In the his
tory Of the Arts Club is being planned
for Shrove Tuesday night, February l3,
at the Willard. when "the circus" with
its glamour and glitter, its side show, its
clowns, its chariot race and its count
less joyous features, will be staged by
artists. dancers, actors to the total of
more than 200 participants in the spec
tacle-pageant that forms the midrib of
the ball.
As a subtitle, the Bal Committee might
we'll use Clowns, Clowns. Clowns" for
there will be many of them, gayly garbed
and played by many groups, with Felix
Mahoney as clown in chief Art students,
members of the press and members of
the club will divide honors in this
multi-colored section of the circus
parade down the Willard ball room,
past the three rings to the side show.
The famous Floor Committee this
season led by John Paul Jones' will play
a large part in this circus. too, al
though, according to custom. the secret
Of its costume is not yet revealed A
group of Hans Kindler's own Symphony
Orchestra. carefully chosen will form
real little German band" marching
in the procession with right good will
amid the dancing zebras, led by Lisa
Gardiner; the lion tanner in the person
OF Anne Yago McGuffey: the Ma-
harajah and his harem, impersonated
by Lester Shafer and members of the
dance group of the Chace Shafer
studios. not to mention the white horses
and their bareback rider (it will be
Evelyn Davis and the traditional
'merry-go-round" of the Abbott School
Monkeys, Lame Ducks. Blue Eagles
the Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Pigs
are among the diverting participants in
this "old-time" circus, whose joys are