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Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
JOHNSON ASKS
REDUCTION IN
WORKING WEEK

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. WP) ---
The government today pressed its
drive to provide job for every
workingman. Recovery Administra-
tor Hugh S. Johnson prepared to
ask industry to reduce working
hours in all codes, creating jobs for
millions.
He would not say how far pre-
sent hours, which average 40 per
week, would be cut, but expressed
the opinion that eventually this
whole country has got to go to a
shorter work week. think if busi-
ness turns up and looks better,
we can. Not only that, but I think
it is going to-
Action will await conferences here
February Is of code authorities for
about 200 industries. They will con-
slider united movement to reduce
hours and also attempt to correlate
codes and clear up conflicts in jur-
isdiction in which some industries
find themselves under as many as
8 or 10 codes.
Asked if there was "a sharp ten
dency' toward the 30-hour week
which has been advocated, john
son said it could not be obtained
"by first decree, without raising
Cain
1t was inferred that johnson had
a 32-hour week in mind. He stated
the recent increase in hours under
the automobile code from "a to 40
was experimental during the period
of increased production and that he
was not quite satisfied it would alb
sorb all the industrys surplus labor.
If it doesn't work, the code will be
opened up for reconsideration, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
STRIKE OF LETTUCE WORKERS
BELIEVED To HAVE WEAKENED
Police Keep Pickets On Move And Many
Laborers Reported To Be Returning To
Their Jobs

Three reports of outbreaks caused
by striking lettuce workers were
brought to the sheriff IS office this
morning. The first was from the
Brawley area followed shortly by
one from Holtville and another
from CaleXico. All available Off
GERS were Immediately sent out to
handle the situation.
Latest reports from the troubled
areas are to the effect that the
strike movement this morning was
in the nature of last fling as the
strikers confined their activities
chiefly to picketing fields and were
continually kept on the move by the
state, county and local officers who
had been called out. No acts of
violence were reported and little
trouble was had with the men, re-
ports stated.
The throng of agitatorS and Strik-
ers who were arrested yesterday
afternoon east of Heber and set out
on their march to the county Jail
via the Dogwood road, were met at
the Ell Centro city limits by Joa-
quin TerraZas, Mexican consul, who
talked for few moments to the
strikers showing chem the futility
Of their stand and exhorting them
to return to their work without
further trouble. The consul IS words
had the desired effect and upon
the promise of the strikers that they
would return to their homes peace
ably and not listen further to agi-
tators, they were released.
Six Arraigned
Six of the agitating strikers who
had been arrested in BraWley Mon
day, were arraigned there yester-
day, some on charges of vagrancy,
others for disturbing the peace and
others for resisting an officer. They
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
By SIDNEY 3. WHIPPLE
United Press Staff COrreSpOndel


NEW YORK, Jan. II. - Walter F.
Brown, former postmaster general,
today told the United Press that
when the whole story of air trans
portation under my administration
is made public a very different pic
ture will be presented than the one
now emanating from Washington y
Brown made the declaration that
mot a single official document to
my knowledge or with my approval
or at my direction was ever burned
when I left office.
Whatever documents were des-
troyed were purely of personal ma
ture and had no relation to the ad-
ministration of the postoffice de-
partment."
For two reasons he said, he would
not make a definite reply at the
present time, to specific pieces OF
testimony thus far taken by the
senate investigating committee.
The two reasons, he said were:
THAT I owe the committee the
courtesy of presuming that they will
call upon me to testify, and that
it would be foolish for me to keep
on replying from day to day tc
whatever is said in Washington
about me-"
Brown explained that no cons
tracts and no letters dealing with
official contracts for air mail or
ocean mail were in his files. AL
such documents, he said, went as a
routine procedure to the office Of
the second assistant postmaster
general.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
Tarnnar,y Will
Make Medicine

NEW YORK, Jan. Il. U.P)-The
Sachems of Tammany gathered to-
day for their first meeting since the
loss of city control. presumably to
devise a strategy against the in
creasingly serious efforts to unseat
Leader John =. Curry and elimin-
ate the ancient organization as a
political power
Shorn of the vast patronage it
once controlled, Tammany now
holds only technical command of
New York county. The fact alone
normally would insure Curry or
continued dominance of Tammany,
but the overwhelming election de-
feat has revitaiized the dormant op-
position to his leadership, both from
within the party and from the
Roosevelt administration.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
FORD BELIEVES IN NRA PROGRAM
Declares Faulty Distribution And Not Over
production Caused Breakdown.

the NRA, by tying up to the price
system is beginning at the wrong
end of the problem"
I'm making prices go up we are
merely buying and selling money.
We must reverse the process. We
must put the commodity on the
top and money on the bottom as the
conveyor of industry instead of as
its product.
There is fallacy also in the as
sumption that industry exists to
support the people" he continued.
It's the other way around. It's the
people who support industry. They
use the things OF industry in getting
a living"
Ford revealed that he believes the
NRA is leading to a new industrial
and social era that will mean justice
and plenty.
THE new era will not crush out
individualists, he said. 1T will al
low them to become more individual
than ever. Narrow selfishness is not
individualism at ALL"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
EXPENSES OF
GOVERNMENT
MOUNT FAST

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. UP)-
The cost of running the United
States government passed the So
O00,000,000 mark today for the fis-
cal year which began July l, 1893
and rushed toward the SO, ,403, 900 900
expenditure estimate of President
Roosevelt.
Total expenditures from July /,
1888 to January 9, 1884, amounted
to $4,000, ,128,528, of which $1,452,-
061 1927 was classed as emergency"
expenditures.
Expenditures for the current fis-
cal year to date were nearly double
income, which amounted to $685.
727,020. This left a deficit of
81 ,446, ,401 SOB. The deficit last year
at this time was $1,743, ,308,84
According to President Roose-
velt IS budget estimates the govern
ment will run in the red' at the
rate of approximately a billion dol
lars month between now and
June.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. - The
post office department is combin-
ing modernism with old-fashioned
tradition in its $1O,OOO,OOO new home.
In tiled rooms of tan, trimmed in
black marble, there are several
pieces of chromium-plated appara-
tus. They are automatic cuspidor
washers. They do the job in 30 sec
onds flat.
Workmen applied the final sheen
to these robots and to other Won
ders today in the white granite
structure. Postmaster Genera a |
James A. (Call Me Jim) Farley,
who chews gum but not tobacco,
his four assistant postmasters gen.
eral and all their helpers intend to
move in next month.
The structure contains 1000 odd
rooms. Over the door of each is a
clock Each of the assistants has Il
black marble fireplace in his Of
flee.
Farley's office has two, one a.
each end. The postmaster general
also has several mysterious doors
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
Ratification Of
Treaty In Danger

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (U.P -
The senate Democratic leadership
appeared today to be headed for
defeat in a contest over ratification
of the st. Lawrence waterway
treaty.
President Roosevelt's special mes
sage urging ratification was expect
ed to gain several votes, but admin
istration forces in the senate have
stated privately that they believe
it impossible to obtain even a ma
jority to support the treaty. A two
thirds vote Is necessary for treaty
ratification.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
Wynekoop Trial
Opens In Chicago

CHICAGO, Jan. IL. U.P)-The
case Of the People of Illinois against
Dr.. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop was
called for trial today in Judge Jo-
seph B. Davids courtroom and the
woman physician charged with the
murder of her daughter-in-law,
Rheta, entered a plea of not guilty.
Outside the courtroom door wo-
men SPECTATORS shrieked for admit
tance to the trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
NAVY PLANES
LAND SAFELY
At HONOLULU.
Historic Trip Across Pacific
Completed This Afternoon
Without Mishap.
THRONCS GREET AVIAT0RS
Longest Massed Flight In His
tory Carried Out As Routine
Job By Navy.
By DAN CAMPBELL

United Press Staff Correspondent
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. IL.
Six navy planes of VP-10
squadron landed at Honolulu to-
day from San Francisco Bay 10
complete the longest nom stop
flight in history and score an
other triumph in aviation's con-
quest of the open sea.
1t. Comm. Knefler McGinnis,
of indianapolis, Ind, led the
planes and commanded the per-
sOnnel of 30 officers and men.
The landing here at 3 p. m.
tPST), marked the end of a "a
hour and 35 minutes flight
against Unexpectedly adverse
conditions at the takeoff and an
overcast night above the Pacific
during which they "flew blind"
most of the time.
The squadron, although losing
two hours in take-off attempts
when wind failed on Paradise
Cove, on San Francisco bay,
shattered by one hour and cne
minute the former mainland to
island record set July IA, 1927,
by Ernie Smith, civilian.
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. II. U.p)
The navy seaplane squadron VP-
10 approached the Hawaiian Is
lands today after approximately "a
hours over the Pacific ocean on the
longest mass nonstop flight ever
attempted
At IL a. m. (PST) the squadron
was reported $50 miles off the coast
of Honolulu, travelling at a speed
which would bring the six planes
to harbor here around 3 p. m. (PST)
according to radio message from
Lieut.. Commander Knefler McGin-
mis-.
Request permission to moor and
land at assigned beach, - Command
er McGinnis asked in the brief navy
manner.
Behind the seven officers and %
men were 1900 miles of open sea
in which five of 10 planes previous
ly to try the same course, dropped
into the water with loss Of seven
lives.
HONOLULU, T. H, Jan. II. UP)
"A typical Hawaiian" welcome
including the flowery leis, awaited
the 80 U. S. navy flyers when they
LAID here today on their trans
Pacific flight from San Francisco
Mayor Fred Wright and Terri
torial Governor Lawrence Judd
headed civilian delegations planning
to greet the flyers officially. High
ranking military and naval officers
and thousands of citizens were ga
thering at Pearl Harbor, the naval
base to see thegiant planes land.
Entertainments were planned for
the flyers after they had rested
from their strenuous flight.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
GOLD PRICE UNCHANGED

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. U.R)-
The government price for domes-
tic, newly mined gold was held un-
changed at $3406 per ounce today
for the 18th successive business day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11
AHSInLd55os
W esays:

RIVERSIDE, Jan. 10. (Spe-
ciaD-Did you ever drive one of
these "sulkys" in a trotting
horse race? Well, they got old
David Harum sitting straddle of
a horses tail out here on the
Riverside track, and if you think
that hasn u got it on all auto
driving, you are wrong, I am
getting just about old enough
and grabbed enough to take
up the grand circuit, so look
out Goshen and Lexington,
young Pop Geers is coming east.
We have our radios, autos.
golf, bridge and a million con-
traptionS, but all of it don t
pay. for the thrill missed in
stepping out in the red wheel
buggy and high stopper. You
could be a pretty poor type Of
lover, but the horse made up
for it. That IS how a lot of us
was able to go out of our class
and get the wives we did.
Yours,
nix Re7+4
e1es4, MeNaught Syndicate, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01
SAILOR CRAZY

dancing with e poor sailor with no prospects. The things people do
 in Hollywood and round and a.
 "What wrong with Miss Barole dancing with . sailor?" Sam StelE asked. "Hasn't she got q right to a private life? Cant she do what she ploases7v
 "of course, she canw one of the women agreed with false sweetness. But why does she please to dance with . sailor when she could have anybody she want cd in the whole world7" Sam didn't answer that one. He
 didn't try.
 around Hollywood. And nfterward lt went out and beyond Hollywood. People down around Venice and
 San Pedro got 50 they'd look for Owen Bar0le ln dance hallB and
 lots of them saw her. And it got to be the fashion In the navy to
 gquelch an obstreperouB gob who thought he was pretty good with the dameg with the simple state. ment:
 "Well, as Gwen Baroic told me the last time 1 danced with her
 down in Venice, 1t ain't the man, It's the uniform"
 And dven's fan maii--which she never gaw---was always full of lot. ters from the fleet wherever In
 the world 1t happened to bo.
 And 50 it went until one night a sailor resented a nasty remark he overheard while he was dancing with q gIrl he secretly knew was Gwen Baroie, the great movie star He sockcd the rcmarker and a re- porter, who happened to be around, wrote the story for his paper. He didn't mention any names but his description of the woman made you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

you and go down to Venice and expose her. What do you say7"
 And Gwen f,arole nearly knocked him over.
 "All right" she said. Lets" They had no more than entered the uGnce hall when they saw her, dancing with Q sailor, her eyes fastened onto his with . rapt look, her form glued to his. Gwen smiled and Sam stein sent for the manager and told him who he was 1 and that he wanted to meet that | glrl who looked like 0won BarOie. The manager nearly strained Q ligament rushing the young lady to the table.
 "l'M MAlZ1E DELAN, WHAT'S IT TO YOUT~
 "Me?" sho said to Sam stein. "I'm Miss Maizio Delan. And whats to you2"
 "if you flini as wonderful as you look," Sam said, lived like to have you in pictures. You resemble one of our stars"
 "so they tell me-" said Maixie, glancing carciesDly at Gwen Bn- role and never recognizing her In her shapeiess clothes. i've been taken for Bnroie. It just goes to show you. If was born in Eu. rope, I'd be movin' picher star. But I'm only m Amerlcun girl" Maybe" Sam said, you'll be a star yet, if you'll report for q screen test tomorrow. Here's my card"
 The screen test was terrible. Maizie brought nothing to the screen hut q vapiI face. wooden movements and q squawkinR voice. She checked her personality the in. stant before shc faced the camera.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01
THE DEMOCRATS
 Daily Short Story
complss. lp This Issue

would like you to move out uf ven- loo and give up dancing with Snil- oru for Q while"
 ''Yeh9v she said. "And how would 1 livef EgQt to eat"
 "That's easy,r Sam Stein told her. "t'D give you any kind of Q job you want, typinR, chorus work, Bewing.~what can you doY What arc you best at7vfs'
 "Weii," Maixie said after deep thought. ''f'm . rarned good wait- roas." tS
 So that's why strangers on the Monarch lot, eating. In tho restau- rant, sometimes think their walt ress iB Gwen Barole, the great star. .
 But if you're ever eating there, be careful if an actor in sailors uniform comes In. Mnsle'B liable to spill q soup plate down your neck She's still sailor c'agy.
 THE END, MN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

know it was Gwen Barole, 1t was printed oil over the country.
 That wasn't 50 good. A story like that was all right whom it was whispered. But in print 1t might h.rt Gwen Bar0los pic. tures. So Sam Stein sent for her and told her ghe would have to Do more discreet when she wont dhnc. ing with sailors. She'd have to wear a disguise or something.
 "f don't know what you're talk. Ing about" Gwen told him calmly in hor husky voice. T wasn't dancing with q sailor that night or any other night, though it might be . good idea. hear they're wonderful dancers. Hut was at q church meeting. 1 can provo it."
 Sam Stein was too smart 10 ask her to prove it. Instend, Miss Barolc," he suggested, "somobody must be iTnpersonating you. Lots
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

Sam Stein took one iook--and sent for her.
 Miss Delan," he said, your screen test was impossible. I'm afraid you're not an actress. Tho real reason we gave you the best was your close resemblance to Miss Barole. It onbarasses hor and Us. You look 50 much llke her and you're out 50 much with sailors that people have gotten the in- precision shos the sweetheart of the fleet"
 "Whacs tho matter with sail. ors?" Maisio asked cooly.
 "Nothin at aii. They're tho salt of tho earth. But Miss Baroie's publicity is based on tho fact that she loves solitude and never goes out socially. That she's Lonesome. Now people, thinking you arc sho said, How can Gwen Barolo Do lonesome whom the fleets inY' We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01
THAT'S THE WAY
 MONARCH PLAYED IT.

And that's the way Monarch | played it. On the Monarch lot any kind of writer, fan magazine. first-iIne magazine or newspaper could get nll tho information he or gho wanted on anything por- tainlng the picture Gwen Barolo might be making at the moment. But about Gwen Barole BerBoIf ( Nothing! She was Gwen Barole. She was wrapped in mystery. And Monarch waB keeping tho wrapy right on. Oh, the writer might say that sho was m earnest church worker. That would take tho curse off h0r with wives whOHe husbands, mentioned before, want. cd to Do in her horo'B shoes and ruined. But that was about ail
 Now, you can imagine tho bomb- shell it was when tho information came Into the Monarch .ot that Gwen Barolc was c0nBOrtlng with the Pacific Fleet in Venice, Col. No. body believed it at first. Why any. body who oven thought of be. lievlng it must Do slightly batty. Gwen Barole, tho mystery woman, tho religious reuse dancing with sailors? Ridiculous!
 Nevertheless the story persisted. Tho Monarch people could say ail they liked, but there was no doubt of it. Gwen Baroie had q sailor complex. In vulgar language, she was sailor crazy.
 The story was always being whispered around. "Say, you know who saw last night dancing with a sailor? Gwen Bnrolo! Can you beat it? Here she's been posing as . doep student, dressing in un- stylish clothes, up to hor neck in church work, And then, bang! sec her dancing with c sailor in c dance hall, holding him so close l thought she'd strangle him. Well, I'm glad she's stepping out. Shows she's human"
 A story like that grows. Whis- pered "grapevine" publicity added piquancy to her already glamor. ouB personality. "Gwen Bnrole goes to Venice dance halls to dance with sailors" "Tf you're looking for Gwen Barole and the fleets in, you'll find her with . sailor"
 Monarch Pictures didn't mind. It drowned in public but privately the officials grinned at one anoth. CT and wondered. Meanwhile, tho whispered story was good to hear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

Mir and Mrs George Stevenson recently returned from
 trip to Washington D. C. They report having enjoy son he would take all the notes of interest It capital idea, George. Matt Price is bemoanng the fact that of the million of homes in these United States lightning had to pick his house for test That's rubbing n says Matt We'll Matt, all say is considering the fact that you have been rubbing in to your many clients all these years for their physical welfare you ought be able to take 1t as well as give it. Betty Gervas and Kath. leen OConnor Infested to New Britain Sunday where they witnessed the Putsc Frars nine take fall out of the Ram blcrs of that town Edith Moss and John Kulman caught the formal hop given by fraternity of Connecticut College of Pharmacy in Wallngford Tuesday evening Gene Connel and "Turk" Faherty among the many local light fantastic trppers at the dawn dance at Walnut Beach the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

plea Co OUT generous contributors. They do say that the pitcher that goes to the we too often breaks eventually No doubt 4 the Tower goes . But svhen such humane little stories are brought to our attention Oe cont help but pass them aong Go our readers We've asking for toys tonight. in far condition or at least 80 that they ay be re- paired amy kind pciu do, but t we could get somae thing that might be used outdoors during the summer months our thanks woud just double Cah or Write tue TOWey
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

But off the screen, the thing which distinguished GwoD Barole was mystery. She was just the opposite of the siren 50 bold and allurlng and fatal she so wonder. fully portrayed. She was great deal of recIuse. She lived all by herself except for Q large and for. bidding Swedish maid in tiny bungalow at the foot of Beverley Canon.
 She was rarely seen in public and even when she wns, WIS sel- dom recognized because she hid her beauty under an old slouch hat and her shapoly form in long shapeless coats and dresses and "senlblc" low. .hcaled shoes. She hated publicity. She sought to live in shadows that were necessarily plotted out in the binding light of hor fame. She was q student She lived in shell of silence. She moved in mystery.
 Nobody knew for sure but the story was that about ton years be- fore, when she was scarcely more than grown, she had been deeply in love. And her lover died. And when he died, he took with him all Gwen Barolo's interest in men. lt looked as though that story or one Just like 1t might Do on the level. She at<ed like woman who had been hurt by love. She was even an enthusiastic church worker. It was in church work that she made more contacts than any place else,
 Well, the way Gwen lived off the screen helped her publicity. The contrast. On the screen, ( beauti. ful, glGmorouB woman Of fatal fascination and no morals. of the screen, Il mysterious dlsap- pointed human boing who was trying to assuage a grief by church activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

Some shorts. Our congrats Co Jim Caw and the Misss on the occastom o ther @5th weddng ammi- Dersary. .. Bob Cleary of Naugatuck had rather fuu evening Tuesday. Alter attending the Mt Mam- resa Retreatens banquet amd makmg speech he soas due out at White Tower Inn, Cheshire aohere Ojeda dance Joe Quigley of Torrington Visitor in Waterbury Thursdav. Chick Errico and Joe Evams, the nrepid ourneymen printers, are prepar- ing for their semi-momthlv visit to New York 4 sligk matter of vanity s involved in the trip, se believe. Picnic spots along our stGte roads not nsum as ooners postimg every few yards wth "No Trespassing" signs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01
By CHARLES McGUIRK

MYSTERY and glamour surrounded Gwen Barole, the
 1 exotic European star of Monarch Pictures hcorpo. rated She dark and sapey with long brown eyes and the she was alluring siren with low husky voice and charming accent who generally drove the hero to ruin and made every man in her audiences wish he was in the heros place and the way ruin too That glamour, Z.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01
TO Cicr sRORT WAVE

New orleans (UP) - Com mercial wireless communication directly between Now orleans and 64 foreign countries will Do pro- vided by July 1 with completion of dlrectionai short wave trans. mittlng and directlonal receiving stations near here by the R. c. 4 Communications, Inc, T. D. Nicola, resident engineer, announced to- day. .af.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

Did you kn0W |. Rev J OLiver Cronan, nG- tive of ths city noV curate at tue imn.acuGte Con- cepion Church in Hartford, dettUered Memorial Day address Wednesday before 1000 people to Zion Hm cemetery He paid stirring tribute Co Americas War dead aud Go tho patriotism of those Who laid dow@ their Hpes for their country.