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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
PARTY HONORS
TWO BIRTHDAYS

Mrs. John R. Robertson was
hostess yesterday at a jolly plunge
party and supper honoring the fifth
birthday of her daughter, Mary
Joy, and the third birthday of
Mary joys little cousin, Ida Ruth.
After an enjoyable cool swim the
youngsters were served a delicious
supper. -
Guests included Lalla Sue Reed,
Phyllis Volner, Diane Clemons, An
ita Norris, Louise Norris, Janet
Lytle, Chloe, Terry, and Tony
Gowan, Jackie Derringer, John
Derringer, Jackie Christian, Fred
die Robertson of Brawley, Walter
Reynolds of Holtyille, Evelyn, Bob
bic Sue and Beverly 10 Robertson
of Heber, Barbara Robertson, sis
ter of the guest of honor, Mary
Joy Robertson nd Ida Ruth
Robertson.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
TWICE TOLD TALES
MEETS ON MONDAY

Following the pleasant custom,
now of several year S standing
Twice Told Tales section of the
Ten Thousand club is planning an
all day session for its concluding
meeting of the year, Monday, May
IA.
The business meeting and pro-
gram will take place at 10 a. m. in
the Barbara Worth Golf club with
Mrs. Ross T. Hickcox as the hostess
and Mrs. J. S. Larew as the story
teller.
A pot luck luncheon will be
served at noon and those who wish
to play bridge will find arrange
ments made for game during the
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
To Give Physical
Examinations For
Children Next Week

DR.. Warren r. FOX, county health
officer, and Miss Edith Eicke, school
nurse. announce a spring roundup
of children who are to enter school
for the first time, next fall.
They will give complete physical
examinations in order to discover
any possible physical defects so
that these defects may be treated
by the family doctor and the child
may be able, physically to enjoy
school life in the fall.
Those wishing to take advantage
Of this opportunity for free med
ical examination are asked to call
Miss Eicke, telephone 107, any
morning between now and May 16
when the clinic will take place.
Miss Eicke may be reached any
morning betv/4n the hours of 8
and g. The clinic will be run en-
tirely by appointment so those wish
ing TO have their children examin-
ed must be certain of appoint
ments.
This clinic will take place on May
Is in the tea room of the Ten
Thousand club. DR.. Fox and Miss
Eicke, in arranging it, have stated
its purpose as follows:
THE child who is entering
school for the first time is taking
his first important step in exer-
cising his rights as a citizen of the
state and nation. Entering school
constitutes the first important
contact with his fellow citizens.
The state has expended vast sums
Of money in the provision of ex-
tensive facilities for education. 1t
is only fair to the state and to the
child. as we'll, that he be in good
physical condition, fit to receive the
expensive education which the
state provides
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
BRIDGE
PARTY YESTERDAY

The w. A. Vize attractive garden.
Alb Len Rey avenue. was an ideal
spot yesterday for those who were
Mrs. Vize s guests at a bridge party
in the afternoon, making pretty
and cool setting for the bridge
game.
After the bridge game, refresh
ments we're served and prizes
awarded to Mrs. Hansen, Mrs.
Bearrup and Mrs. Girard.
Guests were Mesdames J. P. Han
sen, Glenn Kieffer, Frank Modem,
Emery Girard, F. j. Gianola, r.
B. Bearrup, Katherine Gatlin, j.
A. Mum, F. c. Kinne, Fred Hard
er, P. P. Meadows, George Lom-
holdt.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
Society
Clubs
BENEFIT BRIDGE
PARTY THURSDAY
GREAT SUCCESS

Hipass Health camp will receive
a nice sum of money as the result
Of the benefit bridge party given
last night by Nous Faisons Joie
club members.
TIE affair took place in the
Frank G. Weir garden. 1866 Adams
which proved to be a refreshingly
cool refuge from the heat. Auction
and contract bridge games were
played after which the club mem
bers served tempting, cool refresh
ments To their guests.
Contract prizes went 70 Mrs NJ
A. Wilson and T. c. Lanier for
high scores and to Mrs. !. L. Trav-
ers and Paul Gordon Smith for
low.
In auction. Mrs. Fites and A. NJ
Larson won the high score prizes
and Mrs. Louis B. McManus and E
:. Bevens. the low.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
HOME
DEPARTMENT
HAS SESSION

McCabe Eucalyptus home de-
partment took up the project Of
canning tomk.toeS and biting
juice at the meeoing held yesterday
at the home of Mrs. j. P. Labruch-
lie.
Proper methods of bottling juice
were demonstrated by Miss Flor
ence Glenn, home demonstration
agent, during the morning session.
At noon a pot luck luncheon was
held after which the state farm
home department project, the cost
of medical care, was discussed
Next meeting is to be at the
George Swami home at the High
way Date ranch, May "a.
Those present yesterday were
Mesdames j. L. Anderson. Alex
McRae, o. B. Johnson, j. C. Boone,
George M. Austin. John H. Hough,
C. E. Daley, Edna Forester, j. A.
Wilson. Glen Larry, A. r. Kramar,
S. A. Grimes, Evan T. Hewes, G.
H. Lampkins, Frank G, Beyschlag,
Fred Veliquette, Clyde Havens,
John Frohly, j. r. Southworth,
George Swami. Clara Mellor, Edna
Carson, Mrs. Labrucherie and Miss
Glenn.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
st. Pauls Guild
Busy With Plans
For Bridge Party

These warm nights the thought
of a garden party is welcome and
many Ell Centrans are looking Ior-
ward with keen anticipation to the
third annual garden party to be
given by st. Paul IS Episcopal guild
on Tuesday of next week, May Is
This party is to be a dessert
party and to be held in the charm
ing gardens of the w. A. Scheni-
man home, 437 Sandalwood Drive.
Tables will be set out on the lawn
and the women will serve dessert.
st. Paul's guild members have
given delightful parties in the past
and not only are cordial hostesses
but excellent cooks so that the
dessert is certain to be delicious.
Bridge will follow, and SO that
everyone may play according to his
or her preferences. the contract
tables will be arranged in two
groups. One group will be for
those who like to progress and the
other will be for those who prefer
playing at one table. pivoting being
featured in this group.
Attractive prizes have been OBJ
tanned for the winners and st
Paul's guild invites all those in
terested to attend this party which
will begin at 8 p. m.
Reservations should be made eth
er with Mrs. w. A.. Tondro. tele-
phone 1862, or with Mrs. L. s.
Bougler, telephone, 164.
To those who know the vagaries
of Imperial Valley weather should
the evening turn cool. assurance is
given that tables will be arranged
indoors.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
POPPY DAY SALE
COMMENDED BY
POST COMMANDER

The memorial poppies which the
women of the American Legion
Auxiliary will distribute here on
Poppy day." Saturday, May 26,
will recall vivid pictures to the
minds of World war veterans who
served overseas, according to
Charles Delp, commander of Boyce
Aten post of the American Legion.
The poppieS blooming amid the
waste and destruction of the bat
tie front, and among the bare
graves of the dead, left an unfor-
gettable impression on the Ameri-
can soldiers, he said.
when the American divisions
drove forward in the great often
sives of 1918, they entered region
torn. desolated and trampled by the
most tremendous battles of history.
Destruction and death were every
where but amid it all the little wild
poppies bloomed on. When ma
chine gun and shell fire took its
toll from the American ranks, the
poppy was natures floral offer
ing on the graves of the dead. To
us those poppies seemed to symbol
lie the brave spirit of our fallen
comrades and when We returned
home we made the poppy the men,
orial flower of the American Leg
ion.'
Peoples to be worn in tribute to
the men who gave their lives for
America in the World war will be
offered on the streets throughout
the city Saturday, May 26, by the
American Legion Auxiliary women
Men of the Legion are cooperating
in promotion of the project. The
poppieS, paper replicas of the flow
ers that grew on the battlefieldS,
have been made by disabled veter-
ans at San Diego Naval hospital.
All contributions received for the
poppies will be devoted to the re-
habilitation and welfare work of
the Legion and Auxiliary among
the disabled veterans and the de-
pendent families of veterans.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
COMMITTEE TO
DISCUSS DANCE

Members of the Junior Ten Thou
sand clubs social committee are
meeting tonight with the chair
man, Mrs. Paul Shaw, to complete
arrangements for the club dance
Saturday night in the club house.
Since the party is to be "kid"
party, members have been asked to
come in suitable costumes and
kiddies of all kinds and descrip-
tions from "our gangn to little
Lord Fauntleroy will be seen Sat-
urday.
Austin IS orchestra will supply
the music and appropriate novelty
numbers will be introduced. Judg-
ing by the large number of reser-
vations made, the club is showing
much interest in the party.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
MATRON TO VISIT
SIGNAL CHAPTER

Signal chapter No. 276, Order of
the Eastern Star, is looking forward
with pleasure to the visit of Thel-
ma Bailey, deputy grand matron
of the sixty-third district, who will
make her official visit tonight at
the meeting to be held at o clock
in the Masonic temple.
The chapter will exemplify the
ritualistic work and at the con-
cluSion, will serve refreshments in
the banquet hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
TWO RECITAL
DATES NAMED

Each May the teachers of the
various studios in the city hold
their annual recitals and already
two instructors, Marie r. jenkins
and Ruth Teeple Reid. have set
the dates for their closing pro-
grams.
Mrs. jenkins will hold her re-
cital on Thursday. May "a, and the
program will feature 40 students.
Among the numbers will be those
by a stringed orchestra of 80 pieces.
Mrs. Reid is to hold her recital
on May %, Tuesday, and will an
nounce her program later.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11

BANQUET TONIGHT

Juniors are completing prepar-
ations today for the annual jun
ior-senior banquet, at which the
junior class will be hosts to the
seniors. The affair will take place
in the Barbara Worth hotel this
evening.
After the banquet, at which sew
eral faculty members and students
will give short speeches, the two
classes will enjoy dancing in the
lobby of the hotel.
The "Bon Voyage themes.
chosen by the large committee in
charge of the affair, will be car
ried out in decorations and favors.
Plans for the affair are being
made under the direction of Miss
Grace Ferris ano D. w. Ketchen,
class advisers.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
SPECIAL LESSON
FOR BIBLE CLASS

Mothers day will be the theme
of the Presbyterian Bible class les
son Sunday morning, according to
Mrs. Irving T. Raab, instructor.
Mrs. Raab will use some of the
material she obtained when attend
ing the Institute of Family Rela-
tions held recently in San Bernar-
dino. Much information which she
believes will be helpful to mothers
was obtained by Mrs. Raab at this
institute and she will relay it to
the women.
All mothers who are not men,
bers of any other Sunday school
and who are interested in attend
ing are invited to be special guests.
The Sunday school begins at GAS
a, m,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
SECTION TO HOLD
FINAL MEETING

Advance notice Of the final meet
ing Of the International Relations
History section. is given members.
This meeting is to take place on
Monday, May q. at the John F
Waterman ranch, with Stanley
Bigelow as the speaker. Mr.. Big
Glow will discuss internationalism
and after the meeting and program
a luncheon will be featured.
Members viii meet at the W W
Apple home and at $50 a m. and
from there will go to the Water
man home.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
SECTION TO HAVE
CHINESE SUPPER

Chinese supper is being planned
by members of the Junior Ten
Thousand clubs Bridge section
who will meet on Monday, May ID,
at $50 p. m. at the home of Lola
Freeman.
The party is to take the place of
the swimming party planned or
iginally and is for members and
invited guests.
Reservations must be made by
Monday noon either with Win
fired Woodward, 1049-J or with
Buick Underwood, 433.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
GOLF AUXILIARY
MEETS TUESDAY

Barbara Worth Golf club Auxil-
iary will hold its final meeting at
the Allen p. Nuffer home, 572 Len
Rey avenue, Tuesday morning at
10 a. m.
Installation of new officers will
take place and all business for this
year concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11

ers have been invited as special
guests.
The club will conduct brief
business meeting, the greater part
of the evening being devoted to the
program and social hour. The
meeting will begin at 8 O'Clock in
the Harding school.
Since the night is apt to be
warm, the meeting will be conduct
ed on the school lawn which is a
delightfully."- cool spot.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
OF Interest to W Women
Social Calendar
TONIGHT

ION IL Ill
Mt. Signal farm center, Mt.
Signal school.
Junior Senior banquet, Barbara
Worth hotel.
Harding Mothers club, 8.
Harding school.
Verde r. 7. A, s, Verde school.
Signal chapter No. 216, s, Mas
Onic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
PRESENT DAY
CLUB MEETING

Present Day club members will
be the guests on Saturday. May
II, of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Os-
borne, meeting at their home near
the Calexico highway for dessert,
program and bridge.
Members are asked to note that
the hour has been changed from 7
to p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
MT. SIGNAL FARM
CENTER MEETING

Women OF Mt. Signal home de-
partment will award their quilt
which they have been working on
this past winter at the Mt Signal
farm center meeting to be held to-
night at the Mt. Signal school,
The All club members will give
a program and recreation will be
featured.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
FATHERS TO BE
GUESTS OF CLUB

Guy A. Weakley. district super
intendent of schools, will be speak
er of the evening tonight at the
meeting of the Harding school
Mothers club to which the faith
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11
RIVER READINGS

Sleepy Hollow dairy, Lakeville,
,Sonoma county, uses oats and yetch
for silage as well as for hay.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-11

Diablo Valley, Contra Costa
county, will hold its apricot festival
on June 1890, and July /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

almost entirely the powerful Felix
Dzerjinsky" locomotives, larger than
any other in Europe, excelled by
only one model in the United
states.
THOSE industries: coal, steel,
coke chemical and machine =
building, are the main occupation
of the Don Basins 100000 work
ers. The Don Basin forms an eco
nomic unit of those industries. The
coal not shipped elsewhere is turned
into coke and chemicals.
The coal fields of the Ukraine and
the iron ore field almost touch each
other. The cars that carry ore to
the Donbas go back loaded with
coke for the blast furnaces of Krivi
Rog, and never have to run empty.
Part of the pig iron is shipped
away, but right alongside the blast
furnaces are the open hearths, max
ing steel-with iron still hot from
the blasts. And without even cool
ing, lot Of this steel goes into the
blooming and rolling mills attached
to the blast furnace-open hearth
aggregate.
The Soviet engineer and the So
Wet worker has learned the art OF
making tools and other high grade
steels and steel alloys. The ma
chine building industry Of the
Don Basin gets its raw material
directly from the steel mills there,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Stage and Screen
The Land of the Sootets"
In Second Week rf de,,


In the Land Of the Soviets," the
new Soviet film released here by
Amkino for its first American show
ing, VIII be continued for a second
week at the Acme Theatre. The
Him covers wide field, but in do
ing SO 1t presents most interest
ing picture of Soviet Russia as it
is today. Especially so in its pres
entation of the Kolkhoz, the life
on the collective farms.
The heroic Chelyuskin expedition.
with its leader, Prof. Otto Schmidt,
is an important feature of the film.
From its start In Leningrad to the
Behring Strait, the arrival at the
Island of Solitude and the fight
against the elements-the picture
tells a thrilling tale. This is fol-
lowed by the expedition to Kara
Kun, which presents the heroic
trip across the desert.
May Day in Moscow, shown here
for the first time in complete form,
is thrilling. Close-ups of Stain,
Molotov, Kalinin, voroshiloff, Ord
jonikidze are caught by the camera.
The Austrian Schutbund, the Ital-
ian workers and the thousands of
workers and the Red Army are seen
marching in Red Square. The Daily
Worker says: IF you miss hun
dred other films, don't fail to see
In the Land Of the Soviets.'"
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often from their own special mills
attached to the machinery factory.
Nor does the process stop here
Even most Of the food of the work.
ers is grown near the mines and
mills. And this is something very
new. In the pre-revolutionary Don
Basin theory prevailed that such
a region must consume food, never
produce 1t. The bleak character OF
the landscape perhaps helped to
form such a theory; it is a great
rolling treeless prairie with winds
that howl 40 miles an hour over
it. 1t is cold in winter and hot in
summer. A gang of rich landlords
and "kulaks," employer peasants
used these steppes for grazing pur-
poses, and discouraged farming.
YOU should see the Don Basin
now: everywhere tractors pull
ing gang plows, turning up the soil
BY blowing it deep, they found that
1t produces well after all. This year
1885. 900 acres of land is planted
and Of this 4.325, 900 is planted col
lectively, by state farms and collec-
tive farms, mostly collective farms
Over two million acres Of this is in
grain. the rest is fax, sunfiowers
hay, (for feeding cattle, for the
miner and steel worker must have
his meat) and vegetables. The $685.
600 acres of vegetables included
above, does not includes the hun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
BY vERN SMITH

BY VERN SMITH
STALINO, US.SR.-This city is
the capital OF the Donetz "Oblast,"
or province, In the Ukrainian Re-
public of the Union Of Socialist So
Wet Republics. Donetz Oblast CO.
incides with the industrial area
known as the Don Basin, since the
Don River flows along its eastern
border. The basin" lies directly
north Of the Sea of Azov.
1t is the primary center of heavy
industry in the Soviet Union, about
equival erfSin size and economy to
the Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Eastern Ohio indus
trial field in U. 8. A
In the Don Basin some 400, 900
miners and above ground workers
connected directly with the coal in
dustry produced last year 44,50o, 900
tons Of coal, which is 10 per cent
of the coal hoisted in the Soviet
Union. This year they plan to dig
SO, 100000 tons from the Ukrainian
Donbas, and 100000 more from
part Of the coal field that runs over
into the Northern Caucasus. 1t may
be thought that the percentage Of
total Soviet production will drop
for the Donbas, for new coal fields
are being rapidly developed in ST.
IBERIA, in Central Russia, in other
parts of the U.SSR. This is the
only country where coal mining ex-
pands, where production leaps
month by month, where new fields
appear each year. But the Don
Basin will remain for some time
the main coal bin of the Soviet
Union.
1t is also the main snelter. Over
100000 workers in huge steel mills,
working with pig iron from their
own blast furnaces, are to be found
in the Stain mill at Stalino, in
the Tomsky mill at Makeivka, in
the high grade steel production
mill "Azovstall" at Mariuple, in the
voroshilov mill at Voroshilovsk-
producing over AZ per cent of the
pig iron, nearly 80 per cent of the
steel and about IS per cent of the
rolled steel made in the Soviet
Union.
The Don Basin Is likewise the
main coke oven. Over 40 per cent
of the coke used in the Soviet
Union comes from here. There are
coke ovens and the allied chemical
industries that go with coke, dotting
the landscape throughout the coal
fields.
The Don Basin is also the center
Of machine building-the primary
center, for there are others. In Cor
lovka, coal town near the center
Of the area, is a factory which
makes all the coal cutting machin-
cry used in the mines of the Soviet
Union, and those mines are now
10 per cent mechanical, the most
mechanical coal field in the world.
The same factory produces most Of
the conveyorS and other machinery
used in the mines. Mining nachin-
cry is not imported any longer, and
next year they expect to have the
mines 80 per cent mechanical.
In addition, the biggest heavy
machine building plant in the world
was opened last year at Krama-
torsk, in this area, only few miles
from Gorlovka. Further east, just
outside the coal field, but still in
the Don Basin, is the huge Lugansk
Locomotive works, producing now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
CHANGE
WORLD!
By Joseph NORTH

FIRST hesitated to raise the question in this column
wondered Would the "Dailys" readers be interested
in the problem discussed? decided Yes thought Work
s interested in all kinds of neutrality-suspicious. it be
mechanics of steel the mechanics of words The gadgets
machinery revolutionary literature somewhat
tangible than the gadgets Ford
echncans of the word only the
question will develop in the coming swift days
question revolutionary reporting don't think has been
getting particular phase of revolutionary reporting
American wongclass journalists
that 1t sounds hgh-toned Fenchy
The povncam that characterzes Americans in many things applies
this But let's call it by nameI don't care mean the
reporting the reporting Agnes Smedey
includes the kind of reporting John L.
Portrait America sketches in the New
the things Ekne Caldwell Sender
the Daily Worker That's the kind
reporting The Soviet writer's call it Reedism They call 1t
belongs to this continent by rights But think
I think it's revolutionary
really reporting. 1t not only
queries when where
the situation gives the feel too You report in
verify These images should
typical connotations speak for this kind OF writ
movement In fact there's
snobbery it. best writers consider the novel, the
play important important No doubt Let's
have novels plays, more poems
let's have good reporting
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Facts from the Shipping Front

1.-The employers feet of 400 trucks manned by strike
machine inside lined ready open the port by
mayor Chief Police Quinn other authorities have
support protection from the State with armed guards
accompanying scab trucks.
hired they $1,000
spentend the of the port by force and strike
"A mediator conference with
with bastards."
5Teegrams flooded Washington telling the Federal Govern
that longsoeen and striking sympathetic unions do not wish
to end the strike This conscious feheod The
strikes have stated conceivable occasion that they will return
to work as soon as their demands granted,
6The shipping collected funds from industrial
companies which have nothing to do with the strike These are to help
break the strike They complain that they wish deal with
but the onghermcn the waterfront strike They thus work
the right united front which they formed the
employers
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Philadelphia, Pa.

PUBLIC TRIAL Of German Fascist ter
ror, Friday, July 9Th, ais pm. at Garrick
Theatre. Chestnut near Broad. Kurt
Rosenfeld, Mrs. Amabel, VIM. Ellis. Arun-
del Bearon. principal witnesses. Arno R.
Mowitz, German consul. invited to defend
Hitler regime FREE ERNST THAELMANNl
GRAND PICNIC by Daily Worker and
Trade Union Unity League, July 4, at Old
Berkies Farm Take Broad st. Subway or
car IS to end of line; transfer to car 6.
ride to Washington Lane, walk two blocks
west.
JOINT PICNIC Of A. r. of L. Trade
Union Com. for Unemployment Insurance
and Relief and Rank and File Group Of
LL.G.W.U. Sunday. July Is, at SIND and
Parkside Ave. All af1listed and sympa-
thetlc organizations requested to keep
date open and assist us to carry affair
through successfully
PICNIC AND OPEN AIR BANQUET given
By Section s Communist Party, Wednesday
July 4th, at Strawberry Mansion Park
33rd Il Cumberland SITS Excellent food
and drink. entertainment and fine COM
rsdsiv spirit. Ali Strawberry Mansion
workers and their friends are urged to
come