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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27
FRIENDS RECEIVE
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcements have been re-
ceived by friends in this city of the
marriage of Miss Dorothy Louise
Hatfield, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernon j. Hatfield, to William
Fleming Dawson, son of Mrs. Doz-
ier S. Dawson Of this city. The
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27

Mr.. and Mrs. William Wallace at
Bonds Corner Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Whelply and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Auburg and
the children of both families en-
joyed an ice cream party Friday
evening at the Whelply home.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27
PRUlA
PARAGRAPH

Mrs. Leo Rauenzahn and her
daughter, Thiela, are spending the
summer at Balboa Island. Mr..
Rauenzahn will join them later in
the summer.
Business ard Professional Wom-
ems club will meet tonight at $50
o clock in the city park for a box
supper and program.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer A. Todd have
returned from a visit at their cot
tage in Ocean Beach.
Mrs. Lucy ]. Deaton, manager Of
Mrs. Lingo IS Smart Shoppe, has re-
turned from a business trip to Les
Angeles. On per return trip she
visited Mrs. Lingo's shop in Fuller
ton.
The Sons OF Legionnaires are
to meet tonight at 7 O'Clock at the
Veterans hall. This will be the last
meeting of the summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27
EXHIBIT OLD VAULT

HARTFORD, Conn. (U.P)-Con-
necticut's first safe deposit vault
was placed on exhibition at local
bank. It is a large iron box, weigh
ing more than 300 pounds, which
used to be lowered through a trap
door and concealed under the floor
of the old Hartford Bank in 1892.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27
! OF Interest to Women
Social Calendar
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Ice cream social, !, MeCabe
school.
Daughter Elks installation.
BuSine6s and Professional Wom-
en-, $3.50, city park.
Oasis Lodge No. 664, F. and A.
M, 1880. Masonic temple.
Sons of Lesionnaires, pm,
Veterans hall.
Eagles, s, seq Broadway.
Baseball, s, Wilson field.
TOMORROW
Rotary club. Barbara Worth.
Rose-Mesquite home depart
ment, C. b. Ralphs home.
Chicken dinner, 1I-2. Roland
hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27

marriage took place on June % in
Kansas City, Mo.
The young couple will be at home
to their friends after July Is at
1924 Mercier Street. Kansas City.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-27

A new cross bred cotton of the
long staple type is showing much
promise in Arizona.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY a.
Busy little silk worms, which some day
may have a working "code" Of their
own, have spun so industriously that
large shipments Of raw silk will arrive
in Pacific Coast ports this month.
Although the silk industry is Strug-
Cling to retain its former prosperity,
authorities today generally agreed
that shipments would exceed those OF
last February, with some % carriers
arriving from Japan.
The ships will bring an estimated
IS, 900 bales Of raw silk, valued at
more than $4,000 900, compared with
1923 bales In the same month OF
1888. Upon arrival the silk will be
transported as rapidly as possible to
the Eastern United States to take ad-
vantage of the fiuctuating market.
In boom days, silk scared to an all
time high price of $2,500 bale. Now
it sells for around $3.50 a bale, weigh
ing about 1873 pounds.
Hisa K. Watanbe, general secretary
of the Japanese Chamber Of Com
merce here, said the Japanese govern
ment was considering code" for the
silk industry, which would cut down
the output In an effort to boost prices.
THE silk is produced by farmers as
a by-product," Watanabe explained.
The wives and daughters care for the
worm In their leisure time. And in
an effort to raise the price on raw
silk, the Japanese government Is con-
sidering plans to curtail the silk-worm
output"
Some $500 years ago the Empress
Sizing Chi, child wife of the En-
peror Kuang-Ti, who ruled the Celes-
tial Empire in $40 BIC, observed
three silver caterpillars on the
branches Of a mulberry tree, devour-
ing the leaves.
Fascinated the Empress watched
the worms and saw a semi-fiuid sub
stance issuing from their sides. With
in few days the worms became COW
cred with a soft, downy substance
which they Wove from the viscous
matter. The Empress attempted to
unravel the gossamer web but failed.
Then she soaked q cocoon in warm
water and was able to unravel great
lengths of the silk. She experimental
and one day presented the Emperor a
ceremonial garment of silk, the first
made in history.
The Chinese closely guarded the
secret of silk manufacture for many
centuries. Now Japan produces con-
Evening star., 1934-02-14
POLICE MESSAGES
FULL OF LAUGHS
Typographical Errors and
Lack Of Punctuation
Produce Humor.

SeriouS police messages - those
which come in over the teletype ma
xhines-often have inadvertent hu-
nnorous touches.
While the intended meaning Of the
messages generally is obvious, typo
graphical errors and lack of pune
tuation in places frequently make
them ludicrouS.
Many of the messages are tech
nically all right from police stand
point. For instance, when a missing
person is found, the police lookout
Is marked 20. K" no matter where
that person Is located or in what
condition.
Thus a message to this effect over
the teletype machines is not infre-
Quent:
Lookout for Mr. Blank,
missing from his home at --
since January |. He Is feet 10
inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, has
dark hair and eyes. He is o. K,
committed suicide at 10 this am"
Falls Into Hospital.
Noticing the unusual trend of mes
sages coming in over the teletype ma
chimes to police headquarters from
the various precincts over a period
of years. Irving j. Sommers, clerk at
headquarters, whose duty it is to make
records Of the messages, has copied a
number ne thought unusual.
One of the messages describing a
Voung womans fall from cliff on the
Potomac River and her subsequent
trip to the hospital, had a comma left
out as well as unusual wording, which
made the bottom Of the message read:
Slipped and fell about 100 feet to
Georgetown Hospital; condition un-
determined"
Among others is the account Of a
woman who committed suicide with
gas and left apologies saying she
would have done it at home If there
was gas there
Then there is the case of colored
youth who after being arrested and
giving his surname as "Cabbagestalk, ="
announced his occupation was that
Of a "huckster.''
Thief Furnishes Gasoline.
Announcement OF a stolen car re-
severed by police. which was reported
20. K, except for a thousand miles
added to the speedometer."
There was an account of a colored
woman struck by an automobile bear
ing a sign reading: I'll Be Glad
When You're Dead You Rascal You"
The injured woman succumbed the
same day.
Another message told Of q stolen
automobile being recovered, with 5
gallons Of gasoline having been put in
the tank by the thief who took it.
One Of the most unusual messages
on record, perhaps. is one sent by
Virginia authorities asking Washing
bon police to arrest man for murder,
Evening star., 1934-02-14
OREGON LEGISLATOR
KILLED IN ARGUMENT
Attorney Says He Shot in Self
Defense-Held for Further
Questioning.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
KLAMATH FALLS, Greg, Febru-
ary 1S.-Ralph Horan, 27, State Rep
resertative and klamath Falls attor-
ney, was shot and killed here late
yesterday in the Office of Horace M.
Manning, SIS, another klamath Falls
attorney, police said.
Ofdcers said first news Of the
shooting came from Manning, who
called Deputy Sheriff Rex Mcmillan
at the county Jail and reported he
had shot Koran in self defense In
an argument. He said Horan shot
at him.
Manning was held in Jail here for
further questioning.
Manning came here from Chicago
about 1905. A daughter. Elizabeth
Manning, lives in New York City.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
SCHWARTZ RELIEVED
OF DUTIES IN COURT
Action Taken at Request Of Re-
Gently Resigned Assistant
u. s. Attorney,

Assistant United States Attorney
Milford r, Schwartz, who rendered his
resignation about three weeks ago, was
formally relieved Of his duties yester-
day By his chief, Leslie G. Garnett,
District attorney. His successor has
not yet been appointed.
Schwartz was relieved at his own
request to enable him to begin private
practice in partnership with another
former member of the District attor-
ney's STAFF, Wilbert McInerney.
In relieving Schwartz, Garnett said: /:
'Mr. Schwartz asked to be relieved Of
his duties in the Police Court today
and have consented. In parting with
him I desire to pay tribute to his
faithfullness and ability in the per-
formance Of his duties"
Evening star., 1934-02-14

and then wanting his arrest for
"felonious assault" after the dead
man" had come back to life.
The message, sent from London
Bridge, Va. read in part: wish to
advise you that after the doctor had
pronounced - dead and the
undertaken came and took him away
the said came back to life
and Is now living"
Evening star., 1934-02-14
OF JAPANESE SILK
TOU. S. WILL RISE IN FEBRUARY
25, 900 Bales of Ra,U Product Are Expected to Be
Imported This Month Com pared to 1923
for the Same Period of 1888.

siderably more than half the worlds
silk, and the United States is her best
customer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
Biedenkabb Elected United Shoe and Leatl
Naturalization, Say
HaverhiII Strikers
Biedenkapp Gets Great
Ovation at Meeting
iSneciaI To the Daily Workerl


HAVERHILL, Mass, April a.
Arbitration on all questions affect
ing wages and new prices was in
sisted on today by the shoe manu-
facturers Of this city in conference
with the committee representing
5000 shoe strikers, but the commit
tee, whose stand was later backed
by an enthusiastic mass meeting at
Eagles Hall, expressed its deter
mined opposition to arbitration.
The conference ended in a dead
lock
At the mass meeting strike lead
ers pointed out that wages are never
increased by arbitration. but only
by the solidarity Of the strikers
themselves.
Fred Biedenkapp. just elected
general organizer of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union,
received a great ovation at the
strike meeting. Biedenkapp urged
the strikers not to be fooled by re-
ports in the bosses press that the
union was ready to accept arbitra-
ton.
Action for relief of the strikers,
now in the fifth week o their walk
out, was urged on all local unions.
Several manufacturers are con-
tinuing to negotiate with the strike
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03

you see flannels and fancy
tweed suits admiring the
racqueteers of social elite
dom.
It's great stuff watching a tennis
player trying to cut the ball be-
tween those perilous white lines
that read. every time you can't fix
that fuzzy ball between the lines.
Love 40" or 40 love" or Deuce"
(whoever this 40 guy is or who the
Deuce caress?).
But anyhow, it's a great game
which so many workers enjoy that
maybe a decent league, could be
formed among labor sportsmen who
get a chance once in awhile to play
after the sun goes down in sort
of twilight league.
I GOT letter from Long Island
City on this account, which is q
fine suggestion-to be put into ac-
ton.
"Comrade Sam Ross:
What do you think about the
idea of forming a tennis league
within the L. S. u? Tennis is gen.
orally considered to be an aristo-
cratic sport, but in point of fact,
it really isn't. 1t is a tremendously
popular sport among thousands of
white collar workers and students
and is becoming more popular each
season. Such a league could at
first be based on the public courts
and could be accompanied by a fight
for free use of the courts Ga license
costs 81 now, whereas before the
cost was SD and more courts, etc
Arrangements could be worked out
through the L. S. U.
"The tennis stars of today are
mostly the product of the rich Of
our country because only they
have the time, money and free
dom from responsibility to spend
long years of practice and inStruc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
ALL Gunner Beat
Painter Who Asks
Treasury Check-up
Stevens, Rank and File
Leader, Attacked
AT Meeting

NEW YORK.-Continuing their
acts Of thuggery against the rank
and file members of the Brother
hood Of Painters, Paperhangers and
Decorators. Felix Zausner's hench-
men brutally beat J. Stevens, mem
Der of the Brotherhood and presi-
dent of the Rank and File Protec-
tive Association, when he came to
the District Council meeting last
Thursday to demand an explanation
in regard to a certain $50 which was
taken from the union treasury with
out being accounted for.
Stevens was sent to the Council
meeting by his Local No. 848. He
was at once set upon by thugs and
beaten. His noce was broken, his
lips cut and there were several deep
cuts in his head Stevens, although
seriously injured, refused to go to
the hospital after he had taken the
floor and demanded to know what
had been done with the funds.
No explanation was given by lead
ers OF the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03

cry, hunger and restitution is the
lot of the unemployed" Against
all this the unemployed will
march on May !.
Discrimination in relief, less
pay for equal work, compulsory
military training. restitution and
homelessness. fascination and
training for cannon fodder is the
lot of the young worker" And
that is why the youth will join
the May Day parade.
THE most horrible suffering,
discrimination on the job and in
relief, jim crowed in firetrap
slumS, extortion of high rents,
growing police anti-Negro incite-
ment. This is what the New Deal
has brought the Negro people!"
And laundering their burning
demands the Negro workers will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
Bank Admits
1t Has Race
Hatred Policy
Admission M a d Q to
Delegates Fighting
Eviction Order

NEW YORK.-The Emil
grant Industrial Savings
Bank is definitely COM
mitted to a policy Of dis
elimination against Ne
groes. This was the open admis-
sion made yesterday by Mr.. Boyle,
renting agent of the bank located
at 81 Chambers St., elected by the
tenants of 425 East 9Th Street to
voice their protests against the
banks attempt to evict Cyril
Briggs and exclude other Negro
workers from the 9Th Street
building. yes, we seek to exclude
Negroes from the building" the
agent told the delegation.
The delegation, headed by Sam
Posner and including Sonia Sher-
noff and Hy Knoll, and accompanied
by Comrade Briggs, Immediately
challenged this chauvinist dictum of
segregation and persecution of the
Negro masses, denying them decent
housing conditions, isolating them in
tim-crow ghettos and by this and
other means attempting to split the
working class an d weaken its
struggles for better conditions. The
delegation demanded the immediate
withdrawal of the eviction notice
against Comrade Briggs, declaring
the firm determination Of the ten
ants to carry on relentless
struggle. with the support of white
and Negro workers throughout the
city, against the banks segregation
policy
Boyle then asked until Wednes-
day to give an answer to demands
of the tenants, and intimated to
Mrs. Sharnoff that he would see her
in the meantime to collect her rent
Mrs. Sharnoff emphatically replied
that she would have to have the
banks answer to the tenants de-
mands before any Of the tenants
would pay any rent
A written protest, presented by
the delegation, was signed by IL Of
the Is tenants in the house. Only
one tenant White Guard, refused
to sign the protest. Three Others
could not be reached by the House
Committee last week, but will be in
terviewed as soon as they can be
found at home.
The House Committee, organized
by the tenants to fight the vicious
segregation policy of the bank, is
appealing to all workers and their
organizations to join apd support
the fight to smash segregation an6
jim practices and to send tele-
grams and letters to the bank
today demanding it discontinue
its efforts to evict Comrade Briggs
and his family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
N. Y. Committee Issues Call for One United May

through the press are requested to
elect three delegates to represent
their organization. The conference
will lay the basis for the tremen-
dous outpouring of workers from
shops, neighborhoods, and factories
on May First, the international la
Dor holiday.
The Conference call reads in part
as follows "Wage-cuts, speed up
compulsory arbitration, company
unions. the black list, wave of
strikebreaking iniunctions and po-
lice terror, :" Against all this
the employed workers are urged
onto the streets this May Day.
Against Fire Traps
Fire traps and death, cutting
relief appropriations, the LaGuar-
dia Bankers agreement, cutting
salaries, hunger wages, and liqui-
dation Of the C.w.A, worse mis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
Fake Power Probe
Looms in Albany
on Utility Graft
Lineup of Enquiry
Meant to Hush Up
Basic Corruption

ALBANY, N, Y. April 2.-Fol-
lowing the discovery last week Of
letters addressed by State Senator
Warren T. Thayer to state public
utilities companies, revealing con-
clusively that Thayer, Republican
whip in the senate, was on the pay
roll of the utilities interests at the
same time that he was chairman OF
the Senate Utilities Committee, &C
tons to bring about his impeach-
ment and to investigate the utilities
control Of the senate were under
way here today.
Leading the forces who were de-
handing an investigation into the
activities of the power lobby" were
ironically enough Governor Lehman
and Republican State Chairman w.
Kingsland Macy. They were threat
ening a sweeping investigation"
Lehman is known to have strong
ties with the big utilities corpora
lions, particularly through his New
York banking house. His utilities
reform program" was actually pro-
posed as one which would also in
sure greater profits for the power
interests.
The lineup for the proposed in
vestigation was, however, beginning
to take on the same character as
similar Investigations of the past
which, after removing one or two
individuals who were stepped in
graft so thoroughly that nothing
could save them in the public eye
succeeded in hushing up the real
basis of the corrupt robustness and
government tie-up. New York work
ers have recently observed three
such wool-pulling investigations"
al of which began with q huge fan
fare of publicity, only to ooze silently
out of the picture after few weeks.
These were the Welfare Island peni-
Tertiary investigations" the Welfare
Island Home for the Aged probe"
and Tenement Commissioner Posts
"anti-firetrap crusade"
Under the guise of indignation at
these graft revelations, other mem
bers of the senate-for the greater
part as deeply tied up with other
grating interests as Senator Thayer
with the power gang-were hasten
ing to draw up programs which
would do nothing but hush up the
extent and depth Of the Albany
raft ring Outstanding among these
fake investigation program was
that Of Senator John J. McNaboe
(Democrat), who was urging IAN
investigation of public utility con-
with the government by a
joint committee of senators and
assemblymen, requiring approval of
both houses"
In other words, McNaboe was urg-
ing that Thayer's intimate connec-
tions with the power lobby be in
vestigated by committee composed
of other senators and assemblymen
who are, almost to the last man. in
the pay of the same or other big
corporations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03

ton. Thousands of Sportsmen,
however. are anxious to be able
to develop their game; but the
cost of playing on private courts
is too expensive and the park
courts are too overcrOwded to
give one chance to do much
playing.
TT would be good thing to exc
pose the Davis Cup ballyhoo: the
Tildens, Hunters Williams and tell
the world that these leisure class
stars are not the real representa-
ttves of the United States in the
international matches. The real
representatives are the thousands
who love the game, want to play
it, but can't raise the jack to have
a racquet restrung every now and
then, pay 81 for a license or a $3.50
on private court.
"In the section in which I live we
have team already formed con-
sisting of a former captain of the
Bryant High School team along
with three former players in the
Bryant team as well as one nation
ally ranking junior who would be
willing to offer his services to the
L. S. U. All that is needed is the
cooperation Of the l.. S. q. in
working out the details and organ
izing some sort Of league.
"Comradely,
SIDNEY KAPbAF."
THERE should be, no doubt, read
ers and friends of r ders of
this column who will be greatly in
terested in this league. We might
develop a worker champion who
will be true representative and
who will play, not in Davis Cup
matches before patronizing crown
heads and Hill owners; but before
the workers of the world, without
having to blaze his body off with
sweat for two or three hours, as dis
played in the recent match between
George Lott and Lester Stoefen
when Lott finally couldn't bear the
work and said, Guess I'm getting
old. There isn't enough in the game
to work this hard" and he defaulte1
to Stoefen. Which is a perfect ex-
ample of the way boss controlled
sports burns an athlete out, not
considering his health or love for
the game; but "how much can his
playing give us in terms Of money
or prestige"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03

Party. which in its essence pro-
poses 10 split the Bronx and Brook
Ign locals away from the Manhattan
local of the union and set up a
separate local affiliated with the A.
F, of L.
The rank and file of all locals
were urged to repudiate any at
tempts on the part of Smith to d.
vide their ranks and thus weaken
them in their struggle to unionize
the taxi industry
Fight for Licenses
tt was reported that between so
and so members of the Bronx local
were refused jobs when they re-
turned to work. Among this num-
Der was Samuel Jaffee, the garage
chairman whose discharge precipi-
tated the strike. The Bronx men
were urged 10 unite solioly with the
Manhattan men in the struggle
against discrimination, despite at
tempts of Mr.. Smith to disunite
them.
The union will also protest against
the taking away of four more hack
licenses and the suspending of %
licenses of men who were active in
the strike. This brings the total
of revocationS and suspensions Of
strikers licenses up to 48.
The capitalist press played up the
story Of license revocations in a
manner designed to terrorize the
hsckmen and keep them from union
activity.
'Tbe union will keep up the
fight until these licenses are re-
stored" said Joseph Gilbert, or
ganizer Of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
Plumbers Win 4-HOur
Strike; Secure Wage
Raises, Recognition

NEW YORK.-After a strike of
four hours the men working at
steamfitting in the plumbing shop
of the M. Gran Plumbing Co. won
the following demands, with the
signing of the agreement between
the Alteration Plumbers, Steamfit-
ters and Helpers Union, 1854 Broad
way, and Mr.. M Gran: Five-day
week, increase in wages of mechan-
les from IS to 81 per day, increase
in wages Of the helpers from SO to
"a per day, equal division Of work
and recognition of the union.
The A. P. s. & Fl. meets every
Monday at 8 pm. at 864 Broadway,
corner 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-03
Call Invites Socialist
Workers to Join
United Front

NEW YORK. A call for one
united May Day demonstration was
issued yesterday to hundreds of
workers. Negro and intellectuals'
organizations by the United Front
May Day Arrangements Committee.
The call urged all organizations. in
Guiding members and followers of
the Socialist Party and Young
Peoples Socialist League, to send
delegates to the United Front May
Day Conference, Saturday, April IA,
! pm, at Webster Hall, 119 e. 18th
Street.
Each organization which receives
2 copy Of the conference call. and
those who read OF the conference