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Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
CLAIM YOUTH
KILLED COED
Second Suspect Admits Fol-
lowing Couple But Denies
Having Committed Crime

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 90.
W.P)-Harold Taylor, 28-year- old
unemployed son of a former city
comptroller, was Jailed today on
murder charges in the brutal slay-
ing of Faye New, 19-year-old How
ard college coed.
Police Chief Luther Hollums said
he would ask a warrant charging
Taylor with choking and then
stabbing the young woman to death
because she repulsed his advances.
A. B. Cain, close friend of Miss
New, who admitted to police he
followed the girl and her compan-
ion on an automobile ride from
which the girl student never re-
turned, was released after more
than SO hours of questioning by po-
lice.
Taylor repeatedly denied the
Staying.
Miss News body was discovered
yesterday afternoon in a ditch be-
side a cornfield after search of
several hours by police, citizens,
Boy Scouts and airplanes. ..
Her throat was slashed twice, ap-
parently with a small knife, an au-
topsy revealed that the girl also
had been choked. Tests were to be
made today to determine if she had
been criminally assaulted.
Admits Following Car
Near the ditch into which the
body was thrust were indications
of a terrific struggle.
Cain had admitted that he fol
| lowed Taylor s car when he learned
that Miss New was going for a ride
with him. He said he was botf
apprehensive and jealous.
Taylor persisted that he did not
follow Miss New when she fled from
his car.
Taylor IS advances angered the
girl he said and she left the car
leaving her purse and the belt Of
her dress.
Taylor called to the fleeing gir
to return, but did not get out .oi
his car; she ignored his calls ano
darkness enveloped her, SO he re-
turned to town, he said.
Taylor made two further admis-
sions after being shown the body
He confessed to "getting rather
rough" with the girl. He also has
been drinking, Taylor said
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
FOREST FIRE
WHIPPED OUT
OF CONTROL

QUINCY, Calf, Aug. %. W.P)-
Rising winds sent fire fighters back
to the Plumas national forest to-
day as flames whipped out of con-
troll on the eastern edge and ad-
vanced through heavy t m e +
toward the Feather River.
Two hundred fresh men were
sent to the area and forest officials
expected to check the fire before it
caused extensive damage.
With nearly 1000 acres already
burned, efforts of fire fighters were
being concentrated on extinguishing
small blazes and smouldering heaps
when flames suddenly swirled into
a heavy stand of timber and be-
gan advancing again. The fire
was expected to spread to the river
before it could be checked.
A new blaze, reported in Butte
valley west of Greenville, was un-
der control but the forest service
feared it may develop into serious
proportions unless the wind died
down.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
Mx R1~>,
OuyI NsNsashs s7sal;sts. I.~
NRA CHANGES
STUDIED OVER
BY PRESIDENT

ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL
TRAIN TO WASHINGTON, Aug.
%. INSTRUMENTATION problems
of the NRA engaged President
Roosevelt today as he sped home
ward from Carrollton, ILL.,, where
he attended the funeral of Speak
er Henry T. Rainey OF the house
of representatives.
With less than 48 hours remain
ing before he departs from Wash
ington for a month in his home at
Hyde Park, N. Y, the President
took advantage of the quiet of his
private car to plan the details OF
conferences tomorrow and Satur-
day with Hugh Johnson, recovery
administrator, Frances Perkins, Sec
retary of labor, and Donald Rich
berg NRA general counsel.
Mr.. Roosevelt was so determined
to achieve perfection of the NRA
reorganization machinery before he
leaves Washington that he worked
steadily through the day, even
though crowds anxious for a sight
of him jammed the train yards at
all operating stops.
With him was Henry A. Wallace
secretary of agriculture, who also
attended the Rainey funeral yes
terday afternoon. The two plan
ned to discuss generally the gov
ernment's program for drought re-
lief
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
WILL EXECUTE SLAYER OF WIFE
Murphy To Pay Penalty Tomorrow Eight
Years After His Crime

SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Calf,
Aug. 90. WP)-Leo Dwight Murphy
whom the law caught after a sew
en-year search. occupied an isolat-
ed cage today in back of the San
Quentin prison gallows ON which
he is scheduled to be hanged TO-
morrow morning.
Murphy was separated from his
bunk-mate, David Lamson o. Palo
Alto, after taps yesterday. Lam
son remained in condemned
IS row." awaiting supreme
court action on his appeal from
similar sentence of death.
Tomorrow morning, unless Gov.
Frank Merriam intervenes, the pud-
gy Murphy will be led through the
little green door into the scaffold
room and there will be changed
by the neck until dead" for the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
DECLARES It
HAS DELAYED
PROSPERITY
Six Point Program Offered By
young Teddy" To Speed
Up Recovery
DENOUNCES ( REGULATIONS
Presidents Cousin Says Busi-
ness Coerced By BalIyboo
And Threats

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Aug. 90.
W.P)-Instead of bringing back
"good times" the NRA actually
has "retarded the return of pros
perity,". Colonel Theodore Roose-
velt, former governor of the Phil
ippines, charged today.
In a speech prepared for deliv-
cry at a Republican state rally at
Crescent Park, he presented a six
point program which he felt would
overcome the nations difficulties
/. "We should economize and
balance our budget
2. "We should pay our way, not
by borrowing which will be hand
ed down to our children, but by
taxes which we pay ourselves.
3. "We should give the people
a money in which they have con-
fidence.'
d. "We should protect and en-
courage industry and thrift
S. "We should guard against I'M
employment and destitute old age
by some sound method of insurance
and pensions.
6. "We should sealously guard
the liberty and freedom of every
one of our citizens, no matter how
humble.'
Both the NRA and the AAA, he
said "seek to impose a mass of
regulations as completely foreign to
our country as the voodooism of
Africa" Not only do they violate
our conception of good economics
he said, "but what is even more
vital, our personal liberty
Roosevelt charged that the NRA
had sought to constitute itself as
a dictatorship and had "cracked
down. on American citizens. The
administration, through General
johnson, he declared, "has en-
deavored to coerce business activ-
tiles to their ideas by ballyhoo and
by threats.''
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
HOLD SUSPECT
IN EXTORTION
PLOT ON FOX

NEW YORK, Aug. %. U.P = A
$4,000 extortion plot against Will
liam Fox, motion pictuS executive,
was revealed by the United States
attorneys office in Brooklyn to-
day with the arrest of a suspect at
Hewlett, N. Y.
Name of the suspect taken INFO
custody by department OF justice
operatives, is unknown the feder-
al attorneys office said.
First information was that the
prisoner had demanded $4,000
from Fox under threat of kidnap-
ing the FORMER film executives
children.
The New York office Of the de-
partment of justice, admitting the
arrest had been made in connec-
tion with the extortion attempt.
said the suspect IS name was known.
They refused TO divulge II.
Frank X. Fay, chief OF federal
operatives here, went TO Hewlett,
on Long Island, in connection with
the arrest.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
GRAND CANYON
DROPS AGAIN

A gradual decrease in the flow
of the Colorado river at Grand
Canyon is being noted daily, ac-
cording to readings posted at ir-
rigation district headquarters, with
little indication at hand of immed-
late rains in the upper basin to
raise this flow. Today's canyon
mark of 287O shows decrease of
80 second feet since yesterday. Yu-
ma held its 19 second foot level OF
yesterday and the diversion remain
ed steady at 800 second feet. The
spill shows a SO foot rise to 276
second feet over yesterdays mark
of 1877.
No telegram was received from
the Yuma weather bureau office to-
day reative to weather conditions
in the upper basin of the river.
Other sources of information failed
to advise that rain was either fall
ing or expected to fall in that area.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
Phoenix Woman
Shot By LoUer

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. %. U.P)-
Bessie Wilmot, 35, was shot and
seriously wounded this morning by
a rejected suitor, according to po-
lice, after the pair had spent most
of the night quarreling. The
shooting took place in hotel
where the woman had been living
for the past year.
Police were searching for Harry
Bellentine, 33, said to have been
seen leaving the hotel room short
" after one shot was heard. The
woman was shot in the mouth. Her
condition is serious.
Bellentine was arrested one week
ago on a complaint signed by MISS
Wilmot, but was later ordered re-
leased in justice court.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
CAPONE AND OTHER BAD MEN,
ISOLATED ON AICATRAZ ISLAND

from Atlanta federal penitentiary,
where, it is said, the officials failed
to prevent him from maintaining
underworld contacts.
Visitors will be few at the new
prison. A rigid system of permits
has been set up and if the visitor
is permitted to enter he will be un-
der the supervision of the guards
every minute during his presence
on the island. Private conversa-
tions with the prisoners are forbid
den.
Capone and the SO other prison.
ers brought here by special train
yesterday were "dressed in" soon
after their arrival.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
BY 1. I. FEMRITE
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 23.-Sen.
Huey P. Long approached Samuel
Seabury, famous Investigator OF
the Tammany hall administration
of New York City, to conduct a
similar investigation of the New
Orleans municipal government, and
was rebuffed, it was reported reli-
ably today.
While the kingfish IS political
machine planned to take over this
metropolis September 7 to rule it
like a conquered province, Rep. j.
Y. Sanders, Jr., appealed for the
intervention of national house OF
representatives. He asked that a con-
gressional committee be sent into
Hitlerized louisiana" to watch
the September IL congressional
primary.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
Chinese Flyers
Escape In Crash

NEW YORK, Aug. %. U.P)-Two
Chinese flyers, bound out to sea
to welcome one of their country S
war heroes, tangled their planes in
mid-air today, plunging one to the
roof of Brooklyn apartment house
and crippling the other badly.
Witnesses pulled Edward On
Wah, &c, from the wreckage of his
blue mon5plane, but he fled before
doctors arrived.
The second plane, its propeller
snapped, zig-zagged over Newtown
creek to land safely in field. Its
pilot, Kong Shak,. was injured
slightly,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
Tree Watering
AUouUed Tonight

AS has been the custom for the
past few weeks, irrigation of trees
and shrubs will be allowed again
this afternoon from clock until
midnight.
Residents are asked not to irri-
gate the trees which are on city
property as shey will be taken care
of by city equipment. This irri-
cation should be confined to the
plants on property other than that
controlled by the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
Admiral Byrd On
Way To Recovery

LITTLE AMERICA, Antarotica,
Aug. %. (Via Mackay Radio to
WPO - Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd is recovering rapidly from
illness which almost prostrated him
during his isolation in a hut 1913
miles out on the Ross ice barrier,
a message from the hut said today.
Byrd is able to take walk each
day. His three rescuers are with
him, awaiting his recovery before
they return to the base here in
their snow tractor
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
BY RICHARD l.. GRIDLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. = The
United States for the second time
within a few weeks today was ready
to pay out gold to foreign banks if
necessary for defense of the Amer
lean dollar on its new gold STAN
dard of 15l2 grains of gold.
A selling furry in the foreign ex-
change market sent the American
gold dollar to a sharp discount
compared with the gold French
franc.
The franc reached $685. cents,
compared with parity of $3.50 MAX
ing 1t apparently profitable for
French banks to buy American dol
lars and turn the dollars into gold
here.
Several weeks ago a drop in the
dollar resulted in the Bank of
France acquiring $1,O0O,000 of Am
erican gold. The readiness with
which the gold was paid out by the
United States caused a sharp rise
in dollar quotations, making furth-
er acquisitions for gold unprofit-
able.
Although Americans are not per-
mitted to buy, sell or hold gold,
the United States government now
stands ready whenever the dollar
falls below its new par to pay out
gold on demand of central banks in
gold standard countries. In this
way the dollar is effectively "peg-
ged" at Is 5-2l grains or s35 to
the counce of gold.
Recent weakness in the dollar
abroad has been accompanied by
reports of an impending further re-
duction of the gold content of the
dollar but it became known today
that such a step is not contemplate
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
MONEY MARTS
DISTURBED BY
WILD RUMORS
Government Ready To Permit
Expectation To Show Intent
OF Defending Standard
CAPITAL DENIES REPORTS
Washington Refutes Claim
Further Devaluation Is To Be
Undertaken
BY United Press

The world money markets were
disturbed today by wild rumors
and speculation caused by recent
fluctuations in foreign exchange
and the movement in gold prices.
In Washington, the treasury de-
partment was ready, for a second
time within a few weeks, to per-
nit the expectation of gold to de-
fend the dollar on its present STAN
dard of Is 5-21 grains. 1t recent
ly allowed a shipment Of $1,000,000
in bullion to leave the country-a
gesture designed to show the world
its intention of supporting the dol
lar.
In London, jump in the gold
price to 1873 shillings 7k pence
placed it at the highest price since
February 6; brought rumors that
the price would go still higher.
Yesterdays gyrations of foreign
currencies, wherein the pound Ster-
ling went down in terms of the
franc, while the dollar sank sharp
ly in terms of the franc and was
fairly strong in terms of the pound,
led to further rumors that England
had withdrawn, temporarily, her
support of the pound, and that q
return to a gold bullion basis was
contemplated.
In Paris, the franc today stood
| at 1893 to the dollar (6.698 cents q
france at which it would be profit
able to import gold from the Unit
ed States. Observers believed the
weakened dollar was the result of
rumors of further devaluation of
the United States dollar-rmors
which were denied in Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23

Timing and Hartnett.
At Pittsburgh r H E
Philadelphia ...O40 100 000-5 II 0
Pittsburgh ......0 900 002 03l-6 13 l.
Johnson, C. Davis and Todd;
Grimes, Chagnon, Meme and
Grace.
Boston at Cincinnati, postponed,
rain. .......a,.s :
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
@M!uL1L-,e

IRKUTSK, Aug. %. (SpeciaD
Pine trees, low mountains,
beautiful valleys today. Distanc-
es are far here and names
have to be long to reach the
next OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
VerhneudinSk.
A mess of nationalities on
the train, English, German,
Russian, Swiss, Czechs, Amer
leans, Indians, Japanese and
the smartest of all Is a Chin
ese, a noted authority on far
eastern affairs.
Mr.. Roosevelt told me to
scout him some new brain ma
terial. I am signing this bird
up.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-23
National League

Leonard and Lopez; Lee, Root
Timing and Hartnett.
Evening star., 1934-01-01
Important Shoe NeWs!C

1t has soft, dull, messy finish and will
colors. .Deb-blue, ash rose, beige, aqua
marine, Persian gold, cruise blue, white and
black.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
A N E ID / T O r | A L

light guiding the exploited and oppressed peoples
of the whole world on the path of the world
October, on the road to the world revolution.
The Seventeenth Anniversary of the Russian
Socialist Revolution takes place at a time when
the whole capitalist world is in the midst Of a
deepening general crisis hurting the masses to new
levels Of hunger and misery, preparing a new
criminal imperialist war; with fascism striving to
meet the upsurge of the revolutionary struggles by
the most brutal methods OF murder and rapine
To the American workers in the most advanced"
capitalist country in the world the Russian Revo-
lutlon and its victorious aftermath shows that in
the most backward country, where the workers
become the ruling class, with the most backward
industrial Development they able to forge ahead
at the greatest pace in all history, to plan their
economic life to transform agriculture to end I'M
employment to insure the rapid advance of their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
PROFESSORS
PROTEST FOR
THAELMANN

DETROIT, Nov. 6. = The Nazi
lynch courts trying Ernst Thael-
mann, and other anti-fascists, and
the bestial torture of workers by
the Nazis are bitterly condemned
by IA professors of the University
of Michigan who have signed the
following demands for Thaelmann's
freedom.
1--WE, the undersigned professional
people of Washtenaw County, pro-
test against the inhuman treatment
of non-fascists by the Hitler fascist
regime. The keeping of tens of
thousands Of anti-fascists in prisons,
among these world-famous scien-
fists and writer's, for the sole crime
of being against Nazism is a trav-
esty upon the rights of the people.
The trial of Ernst Thaelmann,
leader Of the anti-fascist forces,
who has been tortured in prison
for more than one and half years,
is violation of every principle of
justice. This trial, where Thael-
mann is denied defense attorney,
and where three of the five judges
are non-jurists who serve only be-
cause Of their hatred Of anti-Nazis,
is a mockery. We protest against
this farce Of trial and demand
the release of Thaelmann and
other anti-fascist fighters, or their
freedom to leave the country.
"(Signed) John p. Shepard, Pro-
fessor of Psychology at University
OF Michigan; Philip L. Schenk,
Professor of English; Hirsch Hoot-
kins, Instructor of French; A. Her
man, Instructor of French; Leo
Kirschbaum, Instructor in English;
Hobart Coffey, Librarian of Law
School and Professor of Law; j. L.
Baum. Professor of Journalism; w.
r. Humphreys, Dean of Literary
School; Howard v. Jones, Professor
of English; Louis C. Karpinski,
Professor of Mathematics; Vincent
G. Poor. Professor of Mathematics;
James E. Dunlap. Associate Profess
sor of Latin and Greek; M. L. Will
liams, Instructor of English, and
H. P Marley, Minister of Unitarian
Church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
HERRIOT GOES
OUT, SPEEDS
PARIS CRISIS
Especial to the Daily Worker by impress

Especial to the Daily Worker by Inpress)
PARIS, Nov. 6.-The crisis of the
Doumergue government was brought
to high pitch today by the resig-
nation Of Edouard Herriot and five
other Radical Socialist members of
the Cabinet. The Radical Socialists
today handed in their designations
to be effective if Premier Dou-
mergue asks for vote of conf
dence in the Chamber of Deputies
for his announced fascist proposals.
Doumergue has declared that
failure of a vote of confidence
would lead to dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies, and possibili-
ties of bloody street fighting.
L'Humanite. official organ of the
Communist Party of France, in an
editorial yesterday on Doumergues
sensational radio speech. menacing
the dissolution of the Chamber if
the constitutional reforms" are OPP
posed, declared:
French Fascism obviously is pre-
pairing a decisive attack. The crisis
of the regime is ripening with ex-
traordinary rapidity in these
troublous days. Our Party is ready
to collaborate with anybody hon.
estly willing to tight against the
fascist DEGREES and against Dou-
mergue's plans"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
1oiling Masses of World Inspired by Victorious Proletara
Ruling Over OneSxth OF Globe

TODAY, on the Seventeenth Anniversary
of the Russian Revolution, the toll
ing masses of the whole world feel the
inspiration of the victorious proletariat
ruling over one-sixth of the globe, en-
bracing 170ooo,oOO people, driving forward to vic
tory after victory in the construction of Socialism
Seventeen years ago. under the leadership of
the Communist Party of Russia the workers and
peasants transformed the imperialist war into a
victorious civil war, destroying the power of the
Cars and the capitalists, insttuting the dictator
ship of the proletariat and Soviet Power
Today, the Soviet Union becoming more power
full, mghtier. advancing on the road of Socialist
upbuilding under the Party ehick led it to victory
the Party of I,Hnin and Stain, stands as beacon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
$500 Fund Needed
To Save Ella Bloor
From Imprisonment

Earl Browder, general secre-
tary of the Communist Party,
yesterday received a wire from
Ella Reeve Bloor informing him
she would have to start for Ne
braska to begin serving a six
months sentence unless the cost
of filing an appeal was raised at
once.
Her wire to Browder says:
LEGAL COST FILING FEE
FOR OUR APPEAL THREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS STOP
MUST BE THERE BEFORE
NOVEMBER TENTH STOP IF
THIS CAN NOT BE DONE
M U S T START FOR NE
BRASKA SERVE SENTENCE
STOP SEE WHAT CAN BE
DONE.
All workers, professional work
ers and intellectIals who want to
prevent the imprisonment of
the 73-year-old working class
fighter are urged to send funds
at once to Bloor Defense, care
Communist Party National Of
flee, P. o. Box 81, Station D, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
ScottsbOrO Defense
Is in Urgent Need
of Funds for Appeal

Funds are urgently needed for
the Scottsbo-o campaign, in
which the International Labor
Defense is taking the cases Of
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The campaign is endangered at
the present time by lack Of
money, while the briefs on ap-
plication for review by the Su-
preme Court are being printed,
and huge expenses in connection
with the appeals themselves
loom Immediately ahead.
Six thousand dollars must be
raised at once, to safeguard the
appeals and the campaign,
Rush money today to the ma
;ional Office of the I. L. D., Room
SO, 80 East 18th Street, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
Spanish Workers Start
General Strike Against
Fascist Death DEGREES

SARAGOSSA, Spain, Nov. GA
general strike by Syndicalist, So
cialist and Communist workers
which started here today against
the threat to shoot workers arrested
and conference.-the in connection
with the recent armed uprising
against fascism is spreading
throughout the country tonight. The
strikers are demanding revocation
of the death penalties and freedom
for the arrested workers.
Premier Lerroux declared today
that the death penalties against
twenty-one Asturias workers would
be rescinded. but that two of them
would have to face a firing squad
One of those condemned is miner,
who is charged with dynamiting an
army truck, and the Other is ac-
cused of "confiscating property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
SCOTTSBORO
MARCH SET
IN BROOKLYN

Brooklyn workers will march with
four of the Scottsboro mothers Sat-
urday evening, for the freedom OF
the nine innocent boys, and will
hear from the lips of the mothers
the shocking story of the criminal
attempts engineered by Samuel S.
Leibowitz, William H. Kid Davis,
publisher of the Amsterdam News,
and a group of Harlem Negro minis
tiers, to scuttle the defense of the
boys at this critical moment when
two of them are facing legal lynch
ing on Dec. Z.
The demonstration against the
lynch verdicts will start with a pro-
test march from Nostrand and
Herkimer Street, Grown Heights,
and will end up with a meeting at
Ralph Avenue AME. Zion Church
All Brooklyn organizations are
urged to mobilize with their ban
ners and slogans at Nostrand and
Herkimer at o'clock for the mass
march.
The ScottSboro mothers who will
address the meeting are Mrs. Ada
Wright, Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of
one of the two boys slated for death
on Dec. 7 by the Alabama lynch
authorities, Mrs. Josephine Powell
and Mrs. Viola Montgomery Other
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