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Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
ROYA[|STS Of
FRANCE HELD
MOST ACTIVE
Small Group Of Monarchy Sup
porters Considered Most Dam
gerous In Rioting.
BY THOMAS COPE
United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Feb. 7.-Of the various
factions battling the French gov
ernment today, one of the most dam
gerous, although one of the weak
est numerically, was the Royalist
group that would restore a Bourbon
king to the long-vacant throne of
France.
| The French royaliStS have all the
vigor of youth inspired by romance.
They pledge unyielding loyalty and
are willing to die for the head of
the house of France, who is his roy
al highneSS, Jean-Pierre- Clement
Marie, Duke of Guise, an exile and
a resident of Belgium. The Duke of
Guise is direct descendant of the
lost Bourbon king of France, Louis
Philippe of Orleans, who reigned
from 1880 to 1848.
The Royalist movement never has
ceased in France. and it is Pare
RoyaliSt is, lis sponsors pro-
fesS to ignore the BonapartiStS, and
regard both Napoleon l and Napol-
con III either in the light of usurp-
4 ClS VI llChCl iiuNlii6 ChiobCSt'
The ancient spirit of fealty is kept
alive through the "Camelots du
Roi,' an earnest group of youths
STEPPED in the traditions of past
monarchial grandeur.
Their organ of expression is the
newspaper "L'Action Francaise, -
vigorously edited by the picturesque
Royalist- rebel, Leon Daudet who
long has been a thorn in the side
of the police. Their newspaper was
suppressed today partly ION gener-
al principles" and partly because of
an article regarded by the govern
ment as a manifesto melting to re-
volt. Charles MaurraS, co-director of
the paper, was orde: co arrested to-
day on a charge OF melting to mur-
der.
The Duke of GuiSe, SO years old,
resides in his Manoid d'Anjou, out
side Brussels, always awaiting a call
to resume the scepter. 1t was only a
year ago that he added fire to the
Royalist cause by suggesting" that
he might be willing to resume the
throne under a limited monarchial
arrangement, inferring that the or
ganization of a Fascist form of gov
ernment, with himself as the figure
head, might be worked out.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
Conference With
CoacheIla Delayed

Due to the fact that the attorney
for the Coachella district board of
directors was unable to be with
that board today because of busi-
ness in Los Angeles, the meeting
which had been scheduled for this
morning between the Coachella and
Imperial boards was postponed
until tomorrow with a possibility
that it might be again postponed
to Friday, it was learned at dis
trict headquarters today.
This meeting was to have been
held for a final discussion on the
terms of an agreement being en-
tered into between the two boards
relative to the All American canal.
1t is expected that with the rati-
fication of this agreement by both
boards the suit now pending against
the canal will be withdrawn.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
FEDERAL LABOR Commission
MAY END HEARINGS TONIGHT

Concluding their public hearings
late yesterday afternoon, the federal
labor commission which has been
sitting at the court house during the
past week made preparations to
leave for Los Angeles tonight. This
commission, composed of DR.. j. l..
Leonard, chairman, Will j. French
and Simon j. Lubin, has been inveS-
tigating labor conditions in the val
ley with particular reference to the
recent strike of lettuce workers.
Before taking their departure the
commission made some private in
veStigationS today, consulting with
B. A. Harrigan, county agricultur-
al commissioner, DR.. Warren Fox,
county health officer, G. B. Collins,
county superintendent of schools
and several growers in CaleXico and
Brawley.
Following further Investigations
to be madei San Diego and Los
Angeles, the commission will pre-
pare their report and sent it to
Senator Robert F. Wagner, chair
man of the national labor board in
Washington, D. G.
The hearing yesterday afternoon
was devoted to group of growers
and shippers from Brawley who had
appeared before the commission
earlier during the hearings. Those
present yesterday were Chet Moore,
A. N. Jacks, George Swink, M. c..
Wilkinson and l.. c. Seibert.
This group was questioned by
members of the commission con-
cerning general conditions in the
valley affecting labor and the grow
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
Los ANGELES
CNA GRAF TING
To Be PR0BED
Federal Grand Jury To Investi-
gate Wholesale Charges OF
Alleged Corruption.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. T. U.P) =
A new federal grand jury was
sworn in today and Immediately be-
gan sweeping inquiry into man.
agement of the civil works authori-
ty in Los Angeles county.
Impetus was given the inveStiga-
ton when it was disclosed that
5000 CWA paychecks had not been
called for, despite the dire need OF
many workers for funds.
1t was insinuated that the checks
were made out to fictitious individ-
uals as a part of the alleged cor
ruption in the civil works body.
Excess work orders calling for
payment of nearly 100000 over a
two month period, also have been
uncovered by Peirson M. Hall, Unit
ed States district attorney.
I'VE look with profound suspicion
upon the fact that 5000 pay checks
have not been called for" Hall said
Department of justice agents are
investigating the possibility thai
the names on some of these check.
mlSnt De 1lctlt1OuS.
I'VE will carry out this phase Of
the CWA inquiry if we have tc
trace down every name on these
uncalled-for checks"
Hall declared that while he had
been informed that only 5000 OF
the 100000 work orders printed were
without serial numbers, his invest
igators had found $3.50 unnum-
bered workers, and that the num-
ber still grows.
These $3.50 work orders repre-
sent an average of $40 a week paid
to workers, or a total of $115,OOO
for weeks work." Hall said.
The first witness to be called
before the grand jury was to be
Harold English, who resigned as
director of the county CWA after
less than two weeks in office.
English declared he could not op-
crate the office because of 80
much political influence from with
in and without"
Also under subpoena to testify are
John A. Greene, local head of the
state unemployment service, which
provided men for CWA work prof.
ects; c. c. Frye, former CWA di-
rector; Miss T. White, secretary to
Eugene M. Brown of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
Miss Ann Laughlin, secretary to
Major Jules Hanique, chief engi-
neer for the CWA, and Robert A.
Brown, Jack E. Mitchell and w. B.
Umbargar of the CWA.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
ORDERS
STRIKE BAN

HAVANA, Feb. T. U.P)-The gov
ernment of President Carlos Men
dieta, threatened by general strike
order effective today, met its first
important crisis by decreeing $50
cial emergency law" prohibiting
general strikes.
The decree was announced after
the cabinet had deliberated almost
continuously for "a hours on the
troubled labor situation. which was
complicated when police fired on
5000 students demonstrating against
the removal of the death penalty for
SlayerS OF fellow students under the
Machado. regime. Several students
fired back. One was killed and 10
wounded, including a policeman.
The drastic emergency strike reg
ulation recognizes the right to strike
but prohibits general strikes and
provides for an arbitration commits
sion headed by member of the
department of labor, appointed by
the labor secretary. The commission
will be composed of three represen-
tatives each of employers and labor.
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Feb. Z.
UP)-ResidentS here were alarmed
when the city was plunged into
darkness during the night and
shooting started in various quarters
Several persons were wounded, one
seriously, when the ABC clashed
with Communists in Caibarien. The
army arrested several persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
BYRD VESSEL
DEPARTS FOR
NEW ZEALAND

BAY OF WHALES, ANTARCTI-
CA, Via Mackay Radio)-Feb. Z.
U.P) - The S. S. Jacob Rupert,
flagship of the second Byrd Antarc-
tic expedition, was enroute to New
Zealand today, having unloaded the
supplies she brought here for the
party that will stay at Little AM
erica all winter.
A foretaste of the hardships in
store during the II months before
the Rupert returns was given the
expedition today. For many of the
young members the trip has been
something of lark. But after days
of pleasant sunshine and compare
lively mild temperatures the wealth
er turned bitter.
Snow storms and a strong wind,
picking up drift, make outside work
uncomfortable. The tractors still
chugged steadily at their work of
hauling supplies, but the drivers
were bundled up in their compart-
ments. Dog teams were slowed
down to walk.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Feb. IA long series of
political events, each causing in
creased public impatience with pol
iticians, led up to the riots in which
10000 persons fought police and
republican guards.
1t was agreed today that though
there might not be further riots of
such serious nature, France must
be ready if necessary for seminar
tial law and for semi dictatorship,
government headed by one man
whom the public trusts.
The Radical Socialist party had
provided the premier and most of
the cabinet for a long time when
parliament met last autumn.
There was a prospective budget
deficit of 6,000,000,000 francs ($376,-
$50, 10000. Some deputies wanted tax
eS increased, others-and the tax
payerS-did not.
Premier Edouard Daladier devised
a budget which raised taxes and
went far to stabilize the budget
The result was that his govern.
ment was defeated in the chamber
of deputies. Albert Sarraut, senator,
of the left Democratic party that is
the senate equivalent of the Radical
Socialists, succeeded. Sarrout last
ed less than a month.
Camille ChautempS, Radical So
cialist, a willy lawyer, suave and an
agile negotiator, succeeded Sarraut
Chautemps was consolidating his
position last month when rumors
began to circulate regarding the fl
nancial activities of Alexandra Sta
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
STATE BOARD
HARASSED BY
LIQUOR ROWS

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 7. U.H -
From the storm of chaos and con-
troversy surrounding its previous
actions, the state board of equali-
zation today evolved a policy OF
cleaning up bootleggerS and pre-
venting the return of the open sa-
loon."
In pursuance of that policy, the
agency charged with enforcing the
state liquor control act announced
that it would do it's utmost to pre-
vent the sale of hard liquor by the
drink in California, either in IL
censed establishments or in places
operating outside the law. The
board said that amendments to the
law are necessary.
At a meeting at Redding last
night, the control group revoked the
licenses of I'll places in Los Ange-
les and two in San Francisco. In
the Los Angeles cases the board
claimed to have a record of viola
tons of the law for each suspen-
sion.
The new revocations were added
to the 1875 suspensions previously
announced, including those of nine
establishments on San Franciscos
far famed "Barbary Coast. The
Coast, after a single night of
soda pop, returned to the sale OF
beers and wines on the strength of
a municipal court decision holding
the revocations illegal.
Hearings on the first revocations
were to start today, with the pro-
prietors of the places appealing
against permanent suspens o S
Those whose licenses were cancelled
in Los Angeles will be given an op-
portunity to appeal at a later date
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07

ing of the different seasonal crops
produced here.
They were asked how they would
feel about an organization of field
workers affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. 1t appear
ed to be the consensus of opinion
that growers and shippers would be
inclined to cooperate with such an
organization SO long as it was an
organization of the field workers
themselves. Legitimate operators, it
was said, would not hesitate to
meet with such an organization and
discuss difficulties with them.
Oppose Outside Leaders
In this connection it was stated
that there was no objection to an
organization representing resident
labor, led by men who are workers
living in the valley. 1t was felt that
conditions would be better when
there was such an organization, rep
resentative of the real workers of
the valley and that it would do
away with much of the trouble eX-
peiienced during the past few weeks.
1t was suggested that it might be
possible to give workers plots of
land in the valley on which they
might live during the off seasons
where they might raise some few
crops for their own personal use. To
this it was answered that such an
idea was not considered practical. 1t
had been tried out in the past and
found not so satisfactory. Little
trouble was found, the commission
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
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el9sI, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
STERILIZATION
FUND INTACT
Government Marking Time
Before Entering Into Foreign
Exchange Market.
BY RICHARD L. GRIDLEY
UP Financial Correspondent

Copyright, 1884, by United PreSS)
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE gov
ernment's 100000 stabilization
fund remained intact today, as Of
ficials awaited effects of the $35 an
ounce bid for world gold to erase
the premium on The dollar before
entering the foreign exchange mar
ket.
The $4,000, 100000 fund was estab-
liShed last week along with the
world bid Of $35 an ounce for gold in
an effort to maintain the American
dollar at 5906 per cent of its for
mer value.
Not one cent of the Stabilization
fund, however, has yet been used,
the United Press learned, despite
the continued premium of the AM
erican dollar in foreign exchange
markets.
Government officials maintained
a strict silence as to the prospective
operation of the stabilization fund
and also with respect to the current
gold purchases at the S35 per ounce
price offered in New York for all
.
world gold.
In the first three days of the new
gcld-buying operations up to and
including February 3, it was reii-
ably reported that 321 ,695 ounces of
gold, most Of which came from
Europe, was acquired at a total
cost of $11, ,259,353.
This metal was still pouring into
New York today as foreign specu-
lators bought gold abroad and ship
ped it to New York to take advan-
tage of the relatively higher rate Of
fered by the United States. In the
first three days of the gold program,
it was understood that $45,947 in
gold came out of domestic hoard
ing, enabling the government to
mark up total profit to date from
dollar devaluation to S2,805 ,730, ,440.
Government officials expressed
satisfaction with the trend of the
administrations new policy. They
read with encouragement the buoy
ancy in various commodity, stock
and bond prices and the gradually
narrowing premium in foreign mar
kets on the American dollar.
Most officials looked for a gradu-
al lifting of the recent foreign ex-
change chaos touched off by the
sudden deValuation of the dollar last
week from 25.8 grains to 15 5-2l
grains of gold.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
FRENCH RIOT RESULT Of LONG
SERIES Of POLITICAL FIGHTS

visky a financier who had come
into national prominence and the
friendship of big public men.
RCyalistS Start Trouble
A police alarm went out for Sta
vasky. Stavisky fled and committed
suicide in an Alpine villa. His Gre
dit Municipal OF Bayonne, bank and
official pawnshop, failed for $780,
100000.
1t was proved that some cabinet
ministers had advised insurance and
other investment companies to buy
Stavisky's bonds.
Royalists, always eager for de-
monstrations, began rioting.
Cha lempS resigned voluntarily
January 81, amid the bowling of
Royalist mobS in the streets.
Daladier came back as premier
and went outside the old political
alliances to strengthen his govern
ment. Among his cabinet ministers
were Francois Pietri, as finance
minister, and Col. Jean Fabry, as
war minister.
Daladier dismissed Jean Chiappe.
chief of police, one of the most po-
pular men in Paris, because he held
the police had been negligent in the
Stavisky affair. Pietri and Fabry
resigned
Daladier faced the chamber yes
terday, fairly sure of an initial vote
of confidence. But half a dozen
groupS-Communists, Socialists, war
veterans. royalists, Facist-like young
patriots, and others announced de-
monStrations whose slogan was
throw the robber out, meaning the
government.
The riots followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
Fay Webb Suit
Delayed A Week

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. U.P)-
Hearing of the separate mainten-
ance petition in which Fay Webb
screen actress, asks S7540 monthly
alimony from her estranged hus-
band, Rudy Vallee, crooner, was
postponed week today.
Judge Dudley Valentine granted
the continuance when counsel for
both sides expressed a desire to con-
clude pending litigation in New
York City before proceeding with
the local case.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
CCC Contracts
Will Be Probed

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. UP)-An
investigation into methods OF
awarding contracts for supplies for
CCC camps in Ventura and San
Luis Obispo counties, Calf, has
been ordered by Assistant Secretary
of War Woodring, it was learned
today,
A recent contract awarded to a
Los Angeles baker for bread to be
used in more than 80 CCC camps
in this section caused Representa-
tive Stubbs (Dem) California, TO
protest to CCC Director Robert
Fechner and Woodring.
Stubbs said the award OF the con-
tracts in one lump instead OF split
ting them into smaller orders COM
pletely eliminated local merchants
for the bidding, and thus took the
benefits away from local dealers
and gave il to outsiders.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
FEDERAL QUIZ
ON CONTRACTS
To DIG DEEP
Capital Expecting Sensations As
Investigation Of Alleged lr-
regularities Ordered.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Justice
department and congressional in
veStigators today ripped into con-
duct of government business on an
unprecedented scale. The inquiry
included the Roosevelt administra-
ton itself and past and present af-
fairs of the post office, navy and
war departments.
The capital was nervous in eX-
pectation of the political sensations.
The war department inquiry was
directed at gigantic commercial
transactions. 1t was asked of At
torney General Cummings by Sec
retary of War Dern in an effort to
run down reports of irregularities
in connection with purchase of
tractors, trucks and passenger cars
in the army's $l0,000,000 motoriza-
ton plan.
A conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment of more than S2.000,000 in
these purchases was rumored with
a grand jury investigation center
ing around Joseph Silverman, who
for years was reputed to have held
virtual monopoly on purchase of
war department surpluses, and who
; was said to have extended his ac-
tivities recently to the sales field,
attempting to sell army motoriza-
ton equipment.
Two Hoover administration cab
met officers already figure in con-
gressional Investigations. William
P. MacCracken, Hoover assistant
and secretary of commerce, has
been cited for contempt of the SEN
ate in connection with investiga-
ton of air mail subsidies. Mac
Cracken represented air line oper-
ators after leaving public office
Former Postmaster Gener
Brown is charged by Chairman
Black of the senate air mail COM
mittee with violation of federal sta
tutes.
Former Secretary of Navy Adams
will be summoned by house naval
affairs Subcommittee to explain
why navy airplane motor contracts
permitted large private profits.
The committee decided also to
summon David S. Ingalls,, the
navys assistant secretary for aero
nautics in the Hoover administra-
ton, and Edward P. Warner, who
held that post under President
Coolidge.
Meantime, Chairman McSwain OF
the house military affairs commit
tee, summoned air corps officers to
obtain data on army airplane costs
over the last six years.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07

almost score oil lives ana injuries
to two thousand.
The hated horse guards, who were
bombarded with iron missiles and
paving stones in the Place de la
Concorde, were ordered withdrawn
across the Seine behind the infan-
try for their protection.
The great square, once called the
Place de la Revolution, where Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette were be-
headed, was left in the hands of the
mob, a battle-ground for Royalists,
Communists and other anti-govern-
ment elements.
A crowd which surged towards the
Elysee palace, chasing the horse
men, reached within block of the
presidential mansion, the closest
they had come in recent days. They
were met by 20 police who merely
of respect for the friendliness of the
police, and a serious situation was
averted.
Communists Surged up and down
the boulevards, singing the Interna-
tionale and shouting for blood and
revolution.
In the Place de la Concorde, the
United States embassy was at the
center of the confusion. Before the
guardsmen were withdrawn 80 OF
them were severely mauled and
stoned in front of the embassy. Am
erican property was respected, how
ever.
Ambassador Jesse I. Straus tele-
phoned to President Roosevelt ac-
quainting him with developments
and emphasizing that there was no
danger to the 10000 American resi-
dents of Paris.
mo employee of the United States
government must be concerned with
the present manifestations" Straus
said in an order to the embassy
staff. "On leaving the embassy, they
must proceed directly to their
homes"
At dusk the storm center of the
fighting was between the British
embassy, just off the Place de la
Concorde, and the Elysee palace, a
few short blocks away.
Steel helmeted police replaced the
horsemen. Five autocars of infan-
try reinforced the guards at the
palace and at the airports, where
heavy shipments of gold are being
made daily.
All planes except commercial
ones were forbidden to take off.
The air ministry, presumably to
guard against danger of bombing,
prohibited all flying except COM
mercial.
The government announced that
three republican guards believed to
have been drowned in the Seine
had been found alive in a private
hospital
The United Press check of hos
pitfalls showed l6 dead and 1868 in
jured. Hundreds of others, Slight
ly injured, did not seek treatment
and were not recorded.
The scene at the ElySee palace
where the beleaguered leaders were
struggling for solution, was dra-
matte in the extreme. Former Pre-
mier Pierre Laval reached Dou-
mergue by telephone at his country
home in Tournefeuille.
THE commander of deputies, the
senate and the municipal council of
Paris-the French people want you
to return to leadership" he de-
clared.
Doumergue, recipient of hundreds
of messages urging him to return
from exile, refused for hours to
give an answer before finally ac-
cepting on certain conditions yet to
be decided.
Il shall decide finally when I ar
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
Deadline Set
In Bremen Case

ST. PAUL, Feb. 7. U.P)-Kidnap-
ers of Edward G. Bremen, 36, bank
president, had until noon today to
communicate with Adolf Bremen,
the victims father, without police
interference.
The noon deadline was the start
ing time for police and federal gov
erpment drives to apprehend the
men who seized Bremen three weeks
ago and demanded 100000 ransom
for his return.
After their first note notifying
Bremer's family and friends of the
kidnapping, no further authentic
communications have been received,
the elder Bremen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
By RALPH II. HEINZEN

PARIS, Feb. 7. - The historic
Place de la Concorde was aban-
doned by the authorities to a mill
ing, sabotaging, fighting crowd of
10000 rioters today while President
Lebrun struggled to form new
government behind the guarded
gates of the Elysee Palace.
Premier Edouard Daladier re-
signed with his entire cabinet in an
effort to appease the fury of the
populace. Riots already have cost
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
URGES NAVY PROGRAM

NEW YORK, Feb. 7. U.R) A
long range naval building policy
which would permit the maximum
of naval defense to be maintained
with a minimum expenditure for
construction and upkeep" was urged
here last night by Admiral w. H.
Standley, chief of navy operations.
The Vinson bill, he told tie New
York Rotary club, was but the first
step in such policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-07
SUSPECT ARRESTED

PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. 7. W.H -
Raymond Torres, 90, was held here
today by county authorities who
said he was wanted in Los Angeles
on robbery, kidnapping and crimina
assault charges. Arrested by depu-
ties, he was identified, they said
through circulars of the Los An
geles police department.