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Evening star., 1934-11-22
BUTLER IS. INVITED
TO SUPPORT BONUS
Request Mailed by Veterans Unit
Of League Against War
and Fascism.

A request that Gen. Smedley D.
Butler, former commander of the Ma
rines, support the program of the
American League Against War and
Fascism was addressed to the gen.
eral today by the Veterans National
Rank and File Committee.
The program embraces Q) imme-
diate payment of the balance due on
adjusted compensation certificates,
CD repeal of the economy act. go un-
Evening star., 1934-11-22

You'll cut the cake with par
donable pride if you have
made it with the new Martha
Washington G a k e F our.
One of the Pantry Pals -
new on the market-but the
elimination of four years of
research, laboratory testing
and experience in our own
kitohens-proving it to be
Evening star., 1934-11-22

really a steel bottle of compressed
air. The whole suit is easily handled
and can be put on in 80 seconds.
The diver can remain below the sur
face for about 25 minutes.
Evening star., 1934-11-22
DR.. EZEKIEL TO SPEAK
Economic Adviser to Lead Forum
Discussion at Syna gogue.

Discussion at Synagogue.
DR.. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic ad-
wiser to the Agriculture Department,
will lead the forum discussion at Adas
Israel Synagogue tomorrow night on
the subject, THE A. A. A. and the
Farm Relief Plan of Joseph"
Another speaker who will link the
Old Testament and the New Deal
will be Rabbi Solomon Metz. His
topic is, Moses and the New Deal,
in the forum meeting to follow the
regular Friday night services at the
Synagogue, Sixth and I streets.
Special Hebrew music will be pre-
sented by the choir.
Evening star., 1934-11-22

are reported to have been successful.
The suit was invented by Comdr.
Prieur Of the French Navy. The es-
sential point about it is that the
diver wears a breastplate which is
Evening star., 1934-11-22

Novel Diving Suit Tested.
Tests of novel diving suit for saw
ing drowning persons, just completed
In the lake at Geneva, Switzerland,
Evening star., 1934-11-22
u. S. PURCHASE TALKED

Employees Consider Change in Dis
trict Transport Control.
A resolution proposing Government
ownership Of the transportation sys-
tenn here was presented to the Dis
trict Federation of Federal Employees
Unions last night by w. E. Hoffheins,
chairman of the Public Utilities Com
mittee.
1t will be submitted to the con-
stituent lodges for action.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
MANCHUKUAN
NEGOTIATIONS
TERMINATED

TOXIC, Aug. 13. U.P)-Russia
and Manchukuo unofficially broke
off negotiations for a transfer of
interests in the Chinese Eastern
Railway today when the Manchu-
kuan delegation announced it will
return home August 16.
The announcement followed a
two and one-half hour conference
between Konstantin Yurenev, Sow
let ambassador, and Chuichi Ohas-
hi, vice minister of foreign affairs
of Manchukuo
Ohashi intimated he was ready
to return to Toxic to resume the
negotiations if and when The Soviet
attitude becomes more reasonable.
For months the two delegations,
with Japan as Intermediary, had
sought to reach a satisfactory
agreement for sale of Russia IS in
terests in the railroad to Manchu-
kuo. The Russians rejected the
latest offer, made through Koki
Hirota. foreign minister, and sub
mitted a counter proposal.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
SCIENTISTS PLANNING NEW DIVE
Deep-Sea Explorers Well Satisfied With
Results Of Saturdays Work

cables to the Geographic Society
quoted Beebe as saying.
The scientists spotted these un-
known creatures with the aid Of
powerful searchlights that cut
through region into which light
never before had penetrated. Mo-
tion pictures were taken and
through telephone connection to
the surface, Beebe dictated thous-
ands of words of scientific descrip-
tion.
On Saturdays dive in the heavy
steel ball, known as a bathysphere,
Beebe and Barton exceeded their
previous record descent by 300
feet. They fell barely more than
100 feet short of their goal of a
half mile. But Beebe said he had
not been interested in merely set
ting records and had stopped at
2,5l0 feet because there were
things there that he wished to OBJ
serve. In the new dive, which may
be undertaken this week, the ex-
plorers expect to go down several
hundred feet deeper.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
IN
ROBBERY HELD
At SAN DIEGO

Word has been received at the
sheriff's office and local police
headquarters that Vincent Cortez,
alias Ramon Navarro, 90, and H.
De la Cruz, 25, wanted here for
investigation concerning the hold
up at the California hotel early
last week had been arrested in
San Diego.
This morning Louis Wandell,
victim of the trio of youthful high
waymen who held him up and
stole $40 from the money drawer
after forcing him at the point of
a gun to give over the keys, ap-
peared before Judge Mayfield and
swore out a complaint against the
three.
Tristani Evangelisto, alias Theo-
dore Sedan, Eric Larsen, alias
William Larson, and Vincent Cor
tez, alias Ramon Navarro, were
named in this complaint and war
rants for their arrest are expected
to be issued. An officer from To-
cal police headquarters will leave
for San Diego this afternoon to
bring back Cortez and De la Cruz.
Sedan and Larson were arrested in
Calexico the same day the hold
up occurred and are at present in
the county jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
BY WILLIAM A. BELL, JR.
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. U.Pt-
President Roosevelt led the admin
istration today in drive to tackle
the enormous drought problem in
coordinated fashion.
Out Of the conferences he ar
ranged, unified program was ex-
pected to result, designed to put
new public works funds into
drought states, protect food con-
sumers against price profiteering
and prevent winter suffering in
the stricken farms of the SUM-
blighted west.
Scattered reports of food hoard
ing and of food profiteering have
reached agricultural offic | a Is
bringing new problems to beset the
overworked agriculture relief agen-
cies. trying to adapt next years
crop programs to the unexpected
compromise forced by nature.
Reports from department Off
cials, conferences with them and
discussion with Harold Ickes, Sec
retary of interior, over expansion
of the public works program in
drought states, we're the Presi-
dents first slated jobs for the
week. He laid aside other pressing
federal problems for the time be-
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
Cattle Buying
.ShoUS Decline

The drought relief cattle buy
ing program is slowing up some
what, Frank Beyschlag, county
farm advisor, stated this morning.
Applications are being received
from ranchers in less numbers as
the program seems to have caught
up somewhat with the great de-
mands made upon it at the time
it was inaugurated, Beyschlag said.
He stated that 279 drought re-
lief cattle sales have been made to
date inf which 5647 head of cattle
were sold. OF this number, 249
head we're slaughtered on the
ranches of their owners while the
remainder were shipped to Los An
geles under the SERA.
About 20 per cent of the origin
al 2840s head of stock falling un-
der the program has been sold to
date, the farm advisor said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
PRINCE DIES
IN CAR CRASH
Heir To Spanish Throne Vic
tim OF Accident While Rid
ing With Sister

VIENNA. Aug. 13. U.R)-Prince
Gonzalo, second heir to the now
existent throne of Spain, died
today of injuries he received in a
motor car accident-victim Of his
sisters effort to save the life of a
bicyclist on the dark road. SWerv-
ing, she ran the car into wall.
1t was not thought at first Con-
zalo was injured seriously. But
several hours after the accident he
became i'll, and it was found that
the Course OF Hapsburgs had
been visited on him. The blood
vessels in his stomach burst.
Gonzalo bled to death, and thus
fell under the Hapsburg curse of
hemophila from which his eldest
brother suffers.
Inherited only. by males and
transmitted only by women, 1t has
been marked into the Hapsburg
family with which the Bourbon line
of Alfonso is mixed.
King Alfonso, in Austria, tele-
phoned to Queen Victoria at Fon-
tainebleau, France, from whom he
is estranged, to announce the
death of their son.
Though he was the fourth son,
Gonzalo was second heir to the
Spanish throne because Prince Al
fonso, the eldest, and Prince Jaime,
the second son, renounced their
right of succession. Alfonso mar
ried commoner and Jaime gave
up his right because of ill health.
Thus the third son, 21-year-old
Prince Juan, became prince of the
Asturias and heir to the throne.
He is a midshipman in the British
navy. Gonzalo was student at
7 o,Ivain TTpiverS itv Re1pillt11
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
RAIN REPORTED IN UPPER COLORADO BASIN
)ne Killed In Weekend Automobile Accidents
Judge SeWeU To
Seek Reelection

LOS Angeles, Aug. l3. U.P)-
Demands of the Los Angeles Bar
association that he resign his su-
perior court position because of an
asserted addiction to intoxicants
were met today by announcement
of Superior Court Judge Harry F..
Sewell that he was determined to
seek reelection.
"My husband is a sick man, -
Mrs. Sewell, speaking for the jur-
ist declared However, he is not
going to quit under fire. -
SeWell is in a Sierra Madre SAN
itarium recuperatina from several
weeks illness, she said. He was the
central figure in a strange "judi-
cial boycott laid down by Pre-
siding Judge Frank C. Collier on
grounds that Sewell was unfit for
duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
THOMAS URGES MORE INITIATION
Address At Chicago By Senator Terms
Present Dollar dishonest"

essary. He urged that there be no
attempt to discourage business and
industry from making profits.
"Profits are the foundation of
both our form of government and
the capitalist system,' he said.
every long and severe deflation
has threatened the capitalist sys-
tenn.
"T he Communist philosophy
menacing the gold bloc countries
today was conceived toward the
end of the most serious previous
period of depression in the middle
of the last century"
Thomas prepared his speech prior
to President Rocsevelt's action of
last week in Matchmaking silver.
He made only a few changes in the
advance text, however, recognizing
the mild initiation inherent in the
silver program but insisting that
more was needed.
He described the present dollar
as ga dishonest dollar" and said
that "no amount of confidence
would correct it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
Emma Cutler Free
Under $1,000 Bail

Released under bail of $1,000 fol-
lowing receipt here of a writ of
habeas corpus from the fourth dis
trict appellate court, Emma Cut
ler left the county Jail Saturday
afternoon for San Diego where she
will remain pending the hearing
on her appeal from a six months
sentence imposed on vagrancy
charge May 16.
She had served over half of this
sentence Saturday, her conviction
being the outcome of alleged rad
ical activities in the county during
the labor troubles in January Of
this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
MISS SCHNURR
IMPRESSED BY
" VALLEY VISIT

"Your indomitable spirit to go
on in spite of present difficulties
and the fact that so many fields
are being plowed in the hopes OF
receiving water IN order TO yield an
abundant crop stood out most vivid
ly in my mind as I went through
your valley this morning. Miss
Mae Schnurr, assistant commission
or of reclamation, told large
group of representative valley cit
liens during luncheon held in
her honor at the Barbara Worth
this noon.
Miss Schnurr was introduced by
Evan T. HeweS, president of the ir-
rigation district who presided at
the meeting She had gone over
the district this morning and will
leave for Yuma this afternoon
where she is to visit the Yuma
project.
The speaker assured her listen
crs that then problems were un-
derstood in Washington and that
everything possible would be done
to prevent the recurrence Of pres
ent conditions. Boulder Dam
means security to you,' she said,
"and you will never see another
year like the present
She stated that President RooSe-
welt promises the same security to
every part of the country citing
the program of 100000 already
authorized, half of which has been
allotted, just to bring about this
security. She cited Roosevelt IS re-
mark made on his recent trip
through Montana that he had seen
enough to make him realize that
water is precious to the arid parts
of this country and he would rec
ommend policy which would
make every drop of water work to
the utmost before it reached the
sea.
At the next congress, Miss
Schnurr said, a definite program
for the complete utility of rivers in
arid and semi-arid sections of the
country will be proposed with
strong recommendations for its
adoption.
About so representatives from
all parts of the county attended
the luncheon in honor of Miss
Schnurr, under the auspices of the
irrigation district and the chamber
of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
RESCUE PARTY
REACHES BYRD
Admiral In Weakened Condi-
ton But Not Severely
Harmed From Long Isolation

LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica,
Aug. II. Delayed (Via Mackay
Radio to up = Unshaven, hair
uncut, physically weak, Rear Ad-
miral Richard E. Byrd was re-
lieyed today from his four and
one-half months of self imposed
isolation in a hut 1913 miles out on
the Ross ice barrier.
A tractor party of three men
headed by DR.. Thomas C. Poulter,
reached Byrd after a dangerous
journey through the Antarctic
winter darkness.
Tiring of his solitude, which he
had intended to maintain for an
other month or two, Byrd ordered
the tractor party to his rescue.
Two attempts failed, but on the
third Poulter, E. j. Demas and A.
H. Waite reached him after a dam
gerous three-day journey.
From fragmentary messages sent
from Byrd's hut it appeared he
had been affected in June by
fumes from his gasoline stove. He
was left weak and unable to care
for himself properly. Apparently
he was unable to cook his food
properly or pay proper attention
to his diet.
The tractor party sighted 10
miles away light Byrd had put
out on a pole atop his shack as a
signal. He himself was on top OF
the hut, level with the snow, tc
greet the three rescuers, and he
said as soon as they approached
Hello, fellows. Come on dowr
! and get warm. have some ho
soup for YOU"
| Mercury Goes Low
Poulter after brief examina,
ton reported that though Byrc
was weak there were no signs oi
scurvy which develops through ar
insufficiently balanced diet.
Byrd reported that the temper
ature at his shack reached as low
as 80 degrees below zero, believed
record for Antarctica.
Byrd's first concern was that the
outer world, and particularly the
men at his base camp, be inform
ed of his safety. He went to the
sending key in the radio shack ano
slowly clicked off this message:
Tell my friends not to worry
I'm all right. I've already come ur
great ways. You fellows have
done a splendid job and I want tc
thank you"
Little time was spent on COM
munication, however. The rescue
party was nearly exhausted. They
had fought their way for nearly
10 hours, nursing along a balky
motor in the southern darkness
Two previous defeats lay behind
them-both due to mechanical
difficulties.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13

CHICAGO, Aug 13. UP) - The
campaign for furthery orderl cur
rency expansion was brought be-
fore farm organizations at the
World IS fair today in an aggressive
speech by Sen. Elmer Thomas
(Dem.) Oklahoma.
Thomas, declaring that national
ization of silver was not enough,
demanded an increase in the price
of gold so that the American dol
lar would have q smaller purchaS-
ing power.
He warned creditor classes that
they would see their bond and
mortgage claims wiped out unless
they supported measures which he
said would make their claims col
lectable.
The speech, delivered at farm
organizations day at the opening
of farm week at the fair, was the
climax of Thomas efforts to con-
vince financial leaders that a
changed monetary policy with a
cautious inflationary trend is nee
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
Film Producer
Occupies Pulpit

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13. UP
Mrs. Hal Roach, wife of the film
producer, and her daughter, Mar
garet, IL, were slightly injured ear
ly today in an automobile collis-
ion in which five other persons, all
of them bystanders, were seriously
hurt.
Mrs. Roach and her daughter
we're riding in q car driven by Ed
die Seller, chauffeur, when it col
lided with another machine. Spec
tators quickly gathered around the
wrecked cars. Suddenly a third
car driven by Dan Randall, 25,
drove directly into the crowd.
Police ambulances carried five
bystanders to hospitals, three of
them with fractured legs
Randall was held for question:
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. U,P)-
DR.. William Beebe and Otis Bar
ton, record holding deep-sea ex-
plorers, were preparing today for
a new and deeper descent into the
ocean in their tWo-and-one-h half
ton steel diving ball.
Advices to the national Geogra-
phic society, co-sponsor of the
Beebe expedition operating in Ber-
muda waters, indicated the scien-
fists were checking all their ap-
paratus to make sure that no de-
fects developed during Saturdays
record dive of 2,510 feet. AS soon
as the equipment is thoroughly
checked, it will be only a matter
of waiting for favorable weather
before Beebe and Barton descend
again into the jet-black ocean
depths.
On their last dive Beebe and
Barton through three-inch thick
windows observed scores of fish
hitherto unknown to science.
Il never saw so much new stuff, y
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
RIVER SHOWS
GOOD RISE At
GRAND CANYON
Reading OF 270 Feet Above
Saturdays All-Time Low
Mark Recorded Today
YUMA REPORT OPTIMISTIC
Weather Office Advises Rain
Is Quite General Through
out Much OF Territory

Continuance of rains, which have
been falling at periods in the up
per basin of the Colorado river
during the past few days, is indi-
Gated in a telegram received here
this morning from the Yuma office
of the weather bureau, which ad-
vises that quite general showers,
fairly heavy in some sections, are
reported over most of the water
shed during the past 48 hours.
This information brought hope
to the valley of ultimate relief
from the drought which has hung
over this section for the past six
weeks, and is reflected in an in
crease of 130 second feet reported
in the river reading at Grand Can
yon, over yesterdays reading.
Yesterdays mark at that point
was 1850 second feet, with 1,780
second feet reported for today, or
an increase of 270 second feet over
Saturday IS reading of 1910 second
feet which set new all-time low
record.
A United Press dispatch received
at The Press office this afternoon
from Denver advised that the
weather bureau there predicted To-
cal showers and thunderstorms in
that vicinity this afternoon or to-
night. The immediate Denver
| area does not drain into the Col
orado basin. The Denver office al
so reported that it had no reports
of rain from stations in the drain
age basin of the Colorado which
report to that office.
This apparent difference with
the Yuma report of rain is ex-
planned by the fact that stations
reporting rain to Yuma do not re-
port to the Denver office. The
fact that Denver is expecting rains
gives added weight to the belief
that there may be rains in other
sections of the basin.
Sultry and cloudy weather
throughout the valley gave indi-
cation that rain might fall here,
particularly as the wind was gen.
orally from the south and south
east, but none had fallen up to
press time.
No reports of rain in the immed-
late vicinity of the valley have
been received here.
Readings for the river at Yuma
and the diversion point had not
been received at the irrigation dis
trict office.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
LABOR SECRETARY CENSURED in
AMERICAN LEGION RESOLUTION

the sense of this convention that
the duty of deporting undesirable
aliens be transferred to the de-
partment of justice and tnat the
department be provided with funds
to carry out this important duty" !"
Another and more severe resolu-
ton submitted to the press by the
same committee said in part:
"It is the sense of this conven-
ton that we do hereby demand of
Madame Secretary Perkins that
she fulfill the duties and obliga-
tions of the office which she occu-
pies and that she carry out her
promises, publicly made, in that
she Immediately proceed to have
taken into custody and detained Ill
prisons or detention camps all such
aliens (Communistic agitators).
" this convention does CEN
sure Madame Secretary Perkins
for her ~Sactivity, lack of interest
and failure to proceed with the
deportation proceedings and for the
further fact that by reason of such
inactivity, lack of interest and
failure to proceed, she extends to
and gives aid, deliberately or indi-
rectly. to such undesirable aliens
and subcertive organizations.
1t was this resolution which di-
rectly accused the Communist party
of inciting recent strikes and riots
on the west coast. Eight persons
were killed in disturbances mark
ing the maritime strike, which last
ed three months. San Francisco
labor unions called four-day
general strike during the disturb
aDca
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
ROOSEVELT TACKLES QUESTION OF
DROUGHT RELIEF FOR MIDDLE WEST
Confers With Assistants To Prevent Pro-
fiteerine In Food And To Offset Suffer
ing During Coming Winter.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. U.P)-
President Roosevelt ordered the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration today to purchase where
ever possible surplus fodder and
fruit crops for drought aid pur-
poses.
The decision came after the
Presidents first drought confer
ence of the day, one with Aubrey
Williams, acting relief administra-
tor. The decision indicated the ad-
ministration was prepared to en-
bark on a hardhitting program
to prevent suffering in the
drought area.
Williams said the fodder and
fruit purchased would be that
which ordinarily goes to waste. He
denied, however, that the move
implied any scarcity of food this
winter due to the drought dam
age.
The fruit, however, will be can
ned for emergency aid use this
winter
Williams said the FERA was al
SO prepared to buy hay for cattle
feed purposes. Quantities as small
as one car lots may be bought.
At the same time, Williams re-
vealed he had discussed with the
President the matter of politics
in relief"
He said the President had reitcr-
ated to him his announced policy
that there should be no political
activity in the relief administra-
tion.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. U.D
Frances Perkins, secretary Of
labor, was criticised for "inactiv-
ity" in deporting Communistic
suspects in the west coast labor
disorders in resolution prepared
for submission today to the con-
vention of the department of Cal
ifornia, American Legion.
The resolution was one of many
prepared by Legion committees in
urging vigorous warfare on Com
munism.
A copy of one of them submitted
by the especial Americanism
committee" read In part:
cit has been publicly stated by
the secretary of labor that funds
are not Available to permit active,
militant action against deporta-
tion of aliens) and no appar-
ent effort has been made to recti-
fly this condition if it does exist.
cit is recommended that it is
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
TDo Killed In
Auto Accident

LOS ANGELES, Aug, 13. U.P)--
Two men were dead today, victims
of an auto accident along the
Ridge route. 80 miles north of here.
while enroute to the American Leg
ion convention in San Francisco.
The dead
G. j. Koerner, 30. Los Angeles
restaurant owner.
Raymond L. Johnson, 38. Los
Angeles policeman.
The driver of the car, j. r.
Walker, 81, lies near death in q
Bakersfield hospital. according 10
word received here. Ruth Barber.
%, and Virginia Perry, 20, others
in the car, also were injured when
1t overturned on sharp curve late
yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-13
Film Producers
Wife Injured

~ KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 13.
W.P)-Cecil B. DeMille, the motion
picture producer of spectacies, oc-
cupied the pulpit of the Linwood
Community church last night, but
his scheduled announcement of the
church movie boycott did not de-
velop.
DeMille advised women not to
paint their faces into caricatures
or to color their finger nails. and
told of the details involved in
filming pictures and the moral
lesson he found in the story of
Cleopatra. DeMille IS next spectacle
will be Cleopatra. -