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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14

license in the Bard area recently
he was told that the owner of the
establishment had been informed
by Supervisor w. j. Best that he.
Sharp appeared before the board
stating that while investigating a
card game being played without a
Sharp, had no authority to act in
such matters for the board.
This statement brought the mat
ter to crisis and after further
discussion Supervisor Osborne
moved that the board dispense with
Sharp'S services. This was second
ed by Best who stated that he was
Informed that the supervisors could
not hire Sharp as an investigator.
1t was the duty of the board. he
said, to make the regulations for
the county. Enforcement of them
was left to the offices of the sheriff
and district attorney.
When the motion was put TO a
vote, Supervisors Preble, Vencill
and Graham voted against it with
Best and Osborne supporting it.
At this juncture Charles Halli-
day, attorney for the board stated
that according to a ruling made by
the district attorney the board has
no right, legally. to hire anyone to
act as investigator for them. 1t
was then that the board majority
made the arrangements t h
Sharp's warrants should be paid
from the tax collector S budget and
that he would continue in the en-
ploy of the county as special COL
lector of beer and other license
fees
Charles Nice, former superin-
tendent of the county farm, was
instructed by the board to set up
his offices as INDECENT commission
er and veterans service officer in
the court house. His salary was
set at SITS month. Roll call on
this motion showed Supervisors
Best and Osborne opposed, with the
other three favoring it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
EXPLORER ON
FIRST LEG Of 7
POLAR JAUMT

SAN PEDRO, July IA. W.P)-Lin-
coin Ellsworth, noted explorer,
sailed today for Honolulu on the
first leg of a projected voyage to
the South pole.
Accompanied by his bride, the
former Mary Louise Ulmer OF Potts
vile. Pa, Ellsworth departed on the
Matson liner Lurline. AT Honolulu
he will await the arrival OF his
reconditioned plane and his pilot.
Bernt Balchen, who will sail from
here on the Monterey July IS. The
Monterey will carry the party TO
New Zealand, where the explorers
ship, Wyatt carp. is undergoing ex-
haustive repairs for new cruise
to the Antarctic.
Ellsworth S plane, Polar Star.
damaged by a shifting ice pack on
a former expedition, has been
completely reconditioned. Balchen
has been testing the ship at Lake
Elsinore.
Ellsworth said he hoped TO take
off from Deception Island early IN
November on 2800-mile flight that
would carry Balchen and himself
across the Ross sea and the contiI1~
ent of Antarctica Mrs. Ellsworth
is scheduled 10 accompany the ez-
pedition TO Dunedin. New Zealand,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
REVOLT
IN MEXICO
Troops Reported Concentrat-
ing To Take Action Promptly
In Case Of Trouble.

NOGALES, Sonora, Mex, July IA.
W.R)-Possibility of an armed up
rising in the northern part of Mex
leo was being closely watched by
federal troops here today after a
general concentration of more than
500 soldiers from the interior had
been ordered.
Most of the troops came from
Hermosillo. capital of Sonora, with
additional troops expected to arrive
tonight. The local garrison has a
! regular personnel of $50 officers
and men. The movement started
after a proclamation had been cir
culated on the streets of Nogales,
asking people to join in overthrow
ing the crushing heel' of the pres
ent administration.
Reports that defeated candi-
date for the presidency of Mexico
in the recent election had crossed
the international border into Ari-
zona were current here today but
could not be verified.
Federal troops on this side also
were investigating reports that 25,-
900 rounds of ammunition and a
truck load of rifles and machine
guns had been smuggled across the
border near Nogales during the
past week.
Department of justice agents
from the United States have been
in Nogales, Ariz., for the past few
days investigating rumors that
American capital was behind the
reported unrest
The uprising is expected to break
forth at any time according to
Mexican officials here. A former
Mexico City chief of police and a
leader of the 1927 revolution who
has been eXiled from his native
country, was claimed to be the lead
er in the present troubles.
The unrest is said to have origi-
mated several weeks ago when Elias
Gales, governor of Sonora, issued
orders expelling all Catholic priests
from the country because of their
opposition to the Mexicans govern
ments program of teaching sexual
education in the schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
DRILLING WELLS TO HELP VALLEY
Federal Agent Held For Killing Woman In Raid
Discrimination
Case In Court

Presiding in place of Judge May
field, Judge B F.. Grubel heard the
action charging discrimination
brought by R. j. Burleigh, H. W..
Burleigh and F.. E. Gray against
Quon Hoy Fun, Quon Wood Woon
and Albert Quong in justice court
yesterday afternoon. Following the
hearing Judge Grubel took the
case under submission asking that
attorneys for both sides file briefs.
The defendants had been sued
by the plaintiff Negroes, charging
that the Chinese had refused to
serve them when they asked for
beer in a beer garden operated by
the defendants at Fourth and
Orange.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
ACCUSED MAN
ARRESTED BY
CITY POLICE
st. Louis Tragedy Occurs As
Department Of Justice Men
Surround House.
WOMAN INNOCENT VICTIM
Csptor Of 'Machine-G Gun Kelly
Held Under Bond Pending In
vestigation.

ST. LOUIS, Juy IA. U.P)-Lear
B. Reed, crack department of JUS
tice investigator. in charge of the
st. Louis bureau, was arrested by
metropolitan police here today in
connection with the Staying of the
mother of four children during a
fruitless raid last night.
He was ordered held under $4,000
bond to answer any charge filed
against him.
Reed, one of the captors of
George Machine Gum Kelly, was
arrested shortly after noon and
held under bond for the coroner S
investigation.
Chief of Police James Mccarthy
who ordered Reed IS arrest, dis
claimed any responsibility for his
department. The raid was led by
Reed, who fired the fatal shots,
Mccarthy said.
Reed, who forbid members of his
staff from revealing details of the
raid, refused to talk to newspaper
men.
Mrs. Masterson was fatally shot,
the police report said, as she lay
asleep on the floor in the front
room of a rented home near mid
night last night
Claims Shots Fired
Reed, his assistant, Franklyn F.
Yearsly, and other officers, believ-
ing they had trapped suspects in
a recent murder surrounded the
house. Reed shouted "Come on
out John, we we got you.'
The police report quoted Reed as
saying he then heard several shots
from inside the house, and, be-
lieving officers were in danger
opened fire, shooting through the
door.
Masterson shouted "Stop, you we
shot my wife, Officers rushed the
house and found Mrs Masterson
critically wounded, lying on bed
Oh the floor. She died 10 minutes
after reaching a hospital.
Officers searched the house but
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
SHARP CENTER OF CONTROVERSY
AS SUPERVISORS SPEAK MINDS

A discussion which lasted nearly
an hour and which at times almost
equalled the weather in torridness
occupied the attention of the board
OF supervisors yesterday afternoon.
AS result T. M. Sharp who had
been in the employ of the board in
the position of special Investigator
was retained by the board but in
the capacity of assistant tax COL
lector for the purpose of collecting
license fees from beer gardens,
dance halls and similar establish
ments in the unincorporated areas
of the county.
The discussion originated when
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
AUSTRIAN NAz|
LEADER SLAIN

VIENNA, July IA. W.P)-Cornelius
thinner, 81, a Nazi leader, was
shot dead at $3.50 a. m. today by
three unknown men who forced
way into his apartment with
revolvers, apparently determined to
take direct action to end Nazi ter
rorism.
A few hours before, Mrs. Hermine
Graubner, a seamstress, died at
Salzburg of injuries received in a
Nazi bombing.
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
continued his work of reorganiz-
ing his cabinet by appointing Ul-
rich Ilg secretary of agriculture
and forestry.
thinner is believed the first Nazi
attacked in reprisal for terrorism
that has worried the government
and endangered citizens for months.
The doorman at the apartment
house where he lived said three
young men went up to his flat.
He heard a volley of shots. BY
the time he reached the apartment
the three men had escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14

time and I could get them out with
a rod or a sharp point of some
kind. I would be much pleased to
get the job
81 want the bicycle to ride to
school and I'd work in any way to
get it (Please). If you will do this
favor for me I will do you a favor
whenever l can.'
DR. Fox stated that he intends to
follow up on this letter and will
ask his fellow Rotarians in Holt
vile to come to the assistance of
this young lady who in spite of her
IA years has very good grasp on
present conditions here. Th e
county health officer concurred In
the girls suggestion that dead fish
in the canals are extremely dan
gerous. Furthermore he is going
to do his durndest' to see to it
that she gets her bicycle.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
MANIAC TAKES
CH|LD'S LIFE

SAN FRANCISCO, July IA. W.H
In search of her white bunny"
which had hoped away, little
Elaine Watson, 8, went into dark
basement and met death.
Her bunny" was in a neighbor's S
stew pot today and police were puz-
zled over what they should do to
the neighbor, Albert Ruske, 28-
year-old unemployed electrician and
father of three children.
Ruske confessed, police said, he
killed the rabbit because there was
no food in the house. When the
little girl came to look for it, he
killed her, too-beat her over the
head with a whisky bottle-and
ravaged her, police said.
They believe Ruske is insane. He
was arrested last year for molest-
ing small girls. Police were cou-
fronted either with charging him
with murder or subjecting him to
sanity tests.
Ruske's father, Gustave Ruske,
SAID MS son has been insane for
years, and the mans 23-year-old
wife recently sought to have him
declared insane, police said.
II don't know why I did it,"
Ruske told police. She was look
ing for a rabbit. 1 asked her to
come into the basement. There was
an empty bottle and hit her."
He denied he attacked the child
but autopsy showed otherwise. The
girls clothing, except for a shirt,
was ripped off, and her battered
body buried in shallow grave
when police discovered it.
Following the murder which he
concealed, Ruske was arrested or
complaint of his wife for being "in-
sanely drunk He was in custody
when investigation Of the girls
death started.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
FIRST STRIKE
VICTIM DIES
At PORTLAND
Brakeman Succumbs To Injuries
Received In Clash On Freight
Train Wednesday.

PORTLAND. Ore. July Ia. W.p)-
James E. Bateson, Union Pacific
brakeman, died ~ st. Vincent s
hospital here late last night of in
juries received Wednesday when
strikers and police clashed at ter
minal No. 4.
His death marked the first fatal
ity to occur here in connection with
the Pacific coast marine strike.
Bateson was a member of the
crew which rode on a freight train
police were conveying into the
municipal terminal. He sustained
fractures of both legs, head injuries
and internal injuries when strikers
broke the air line on the train,
setting the brakes and halting it
suddenly.
The brakeman hurtled from the
top of a freight car to the rocky
right-of- below.
E. w. Beatty, picket, shot in the
mouth by a police pistol bullet in
an encounter which followed halt
ing of the freight train, was re-
ported in a "precariolls condition.
today. Three other strikers who
were shot during the same battle
were recovering from less serious
injuries.
Governor Asks Aid
Meanwhile, organized labor here
continued to voice its sympathy
with the longshoremen. A general
strike seemed disastrously imminent
after apparent failure of the med
iation efforts of the federal board
at San Francisco.
The truck drivers union, in a
special meeting last night, voted un-
animously to "support the pro-
gram of the policy committee of
the Central Labor council,' called
to study the strike situation.
Governor Julius L. Meier, follow
ing a long distance telephone con-
versation with Senator McNary of
Oregon at Washington, D. c., dis
patched a telegram to McNary ex-
planning the situation here. He
pleaded for more federal aid in set
tling the strike. pointing out the
inability of shippers to move their
goods and the imperiled business
activity of the state.
Senator McNary attempted to
consult Secretary of Labor Perkins
late Friday but was unable to do
SO, he reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14

scientific observer, and help him
in operation of the multitude of
instruments.
Weight of another man in the
gondola would reduce by some 200
pounds the amount of ballast that
could be carried, and disposable
ballast may be very vital factor
in effecting a safe landing.
Captain Anderson suggested that
this problem be solved by him max
ing parachute jump from an alti-
tude of five miles on the descent,
the longest parachute jump ever
attempted.
Major Kepner and Captain Ste
vens were considering the proposal,
but it was believed their final de-
cision would be withheld until Just
before the takeoff.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
Assert TUins Are
Publicity Seekers

NEW YORK, July IA. U.P -
Amid yelled insinuations that
Violet Hilton. 26-year- Siamese
twin knows a good publicity stunt
when she sees it, Kenneth O'Brien
supreme court justice yesterday
reserved decision on her suit to
compel the city to grant he a
marriage license.
Russell TarboX, assistant cor
poration counsel, who defended the
city's refusal to license on the
ground the marriage would be
Immoral and indecent" to the
other twin, Daisy, commented he
had heard that Violet had applied
for marriage licenses in some 20
states.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
UNION LEADERS DEBATE CALLING
GENERAL STRIKE AT BAY CITY
San Francisco And Other Places Prepare
For Long Seige If Labor Bodies Decide On
Tieup Of Industry.

not tolerate the complete cutting
off of food supplies. His statement
was taken to mean that he was
ready to extend the activities of
the national guard already in con-
troll of San Franc:scos waterfront,
to the arteries of food distribution
SAN FRANCISCO, July ID. U.P)
The crucial question of whether
to submit to arbitration will be put
to San Francisco longshoremen at
a meeting tonight.
Notice of the meeting was given
the San Francisco Labor council by
Harry Bridges, militant chairman
of the joint marine strike commit
tee, who added the men probably
will refuse even to take a vote.
This is liable to cause a certain
onus to be put on us, and the
Presidents board will receive this
answer" Bridge said.
An appeal for a fair referendum
on the arbitration question was
sent to all Pacific coast longshore-
mems locals last night by William
(C0ntinued On Pare 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
DIED BREAKING LAW

VERSAILLES. France, (U.H-
Maurice Gauthier, 35. section hand,
father of four, broke the law by
bathing in a reservoir at Verneuil.
Emerging, he brushed high-tenSion
wire, was stunned, drowned.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
~ Fairgrounds in st. Louis

ST. LOUIS. U.H Seventy-two
public Fairgrounds have opened
here for the summer season, Al
conducted by the city's superinten-
dent of recreation. A staff of men
and women will direct children in
industrial work, games, story tell
ing, pageantry, drama and handi-
craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
American League

At Cleveland
Washington 900 900 000-0 4 0
Cleveland .......020 900 00X-2 8 0
Whitehill and Sewell; Harder
and Pytlak.
AT Chicago
Philadelphia 004 00l 600 5 10 0
Chicago -........120 204 10x-10 IL 0
Dietrich, Cascarella, Mahaffey
and Berry; CASTOR and Shea.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
Baseball Scores
National League

At Philadelphia First Camel
Cincinnati 0 % 600 600 0 4 l
Phila ........ 5QD1 001 00x-18 10 3
Brennan, Benton, Kleinhaus and
Lcmbardi, Manion: Hansen and
Todd, Holden.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14

lOQd, Holden.
AT New York
Chicago loo ITO l0l-ll II 8
New York .......002 900 302- 7 13 2
Weaver and Hartnett... Bowman,
Bell, Al Smith, Luque and Man
cuso, Richards.
At Brooklyn
st. Louis 900 900 900 2 4
Brooklyn oil 300 23x-10 II
Walker, Vance, Haines, Mooney
and Delaney; Babich and Lopez.
At Boston
Pittsburgh 100 900 300 00l-4 13 l
Boston 900 100 900 000-3 8 l
Swift and Padden, Grace; Brown
Mangum and Spohrer.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-14
AhM!llL..o

LAKEWOOD SKOWHEGAN,
Me-, July Is. (SpeciaD-Did you
ever see a place that looks like
it was built just to enjoy? Well,
this whole state of Maine looks
that way. If it's not beauti-
full lake, it's a beautiful tree or
a pretty green hay meadow and
beautiful old-time houses with
barns built right in with the
kitchens.
Vacationers and everything
have improved 80 per cent over
last year. Roads have been
fixed up with federal money.
Newspaper advertising has in
creased over SO per cent. All
these things have been done,
yet the editorials say that the
new deal is a failure. It's
funny world. You feed a dog
and he bites you.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
$4,000 In Mills
OF Mississippi
Talk of Strike

JACKSON, Miss.-A strike of
$4,000 Mississippi cotton mill work
ers looms as a result of the refusal
Of four large plants to reinstate
workers fired for union activity.
Holt Ross, representative of the
American Federation of Labor, has
appealed to the Regional Labor
Board at New Orleans in an effort
to prevent strike action. The board
is known to have wired the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board to
learn whether it has authority to
intervene in the situation.
Meanwhile the workers, irritated
by the bosses disregard of its de-
mands, as well as with the low
scale Of wages widespread in the
State, have begun to feel that they
have little to gain from further ar
bitration. Sentiment for strike is
rapidly spreading.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
A. F. of L. Heads Coach
Omaha Mayor To Deny
Permit for a Meeting

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 15.-Actine
Mayor Dan B. Butler, candidate fol-
sheriff of Douglas County, revealed
before the City Commission yester-
day his real reason for denying a
permit for a Communist Party
meeting on the San Francisco gen
eral strike in jefferson Park last
week.
Butler, in denying the permit
said, mo one can speak on strikes
in Omaha" He explained to the
Commission that following the APP
plication he consulted with local
American Federation of Labor Of
ficials who advised him against
permitting the meeting. One of
these officials told him, Acting
Mayor Butler said, that he was tout
to get something" on William Rey-
nolds, district organizer of the
Communist Party who had made
the application.
Although he called Reynolds q
damned liar" when the Commu-
mist leader confronted him with
thees statements, Butler reiterated
his refusal to permit meetings at
which strikes might be discussed.
The City Commission has backed
Butler completely in his fascist
ruling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Anh-Fascist
Forces Unite
La Cleveland
Three Groups Merge To
Establish New Branch
of American League

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 49,
Consolidating their efforts to pre-
vent war and fascist terror, the
United Anti-FaScist Federation. the
Women'S Committee Against War
and FasciSm, and the Youth Com
mittee Against War and FasciSm
have completed plans which will
result in the establishment of a
functioning branch of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
This branch will support the ma
tional program, aiding in the ex-
posure of war preparations by close
observation of the Rayon Indus
trial Corporation plant in this city.
1t will also take such actions as are
necessary to demonstrate the grow
ing response and willingness to
combat war and developing tenden-
cies of open fascism, such as were
demonstrated in San Francisco,
Minneapolis, Toledo, etc.
On Friday, Aug. II, at 8 pm, the
first cooperative meeting is to be
held at room 4o7, 1877 Prospect Ave.
Plans for participation in the sec
ond National Congress Against War,
to be held in Chicago on Sept. %,
20 and 80, will be formed.
The new organization hopes to
benefit by some of the excellent
connections established by the
original groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Ohio Workers
Cheer Demand
To End A.A.A.

MANSFIELD, Ohio, Aug. 15.-
Demands for the abolition of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration, and for immediate cash re-
lief for poor farmers and unem-
ployed workers voiced here by I. o.
Ford, Communist candidate for gov
ernor, were applauded vigorously by
workers at the first major cam
paign rally Of the Communist Party
in this state.
Speaking with Ford, jamie Lang
ston, candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, urged complete unity of all
workers in making the election
campaign a weapon of struggle
against the Roosevelt governments
New Dear' attacks on living and
relief standards.
Presentation of the Communist
Party program on relief and unem-
ployment and its demands for So
cial insurance were cheered by the
audience, which included a large
group of workers on local work re-
lief projects.
Resolutions were adopted de-
handing the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann and protesting against
the attacks of police and vigilantes
on the West Coast working class or
CARNATIONS. The resolution also de-
manded the release of the 81 work
ers held in Jail at Sacramento since
the end of the General Strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Philadelphia Police
Raise Dynamite Scare
in Gulf Oil Strike

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.-N OF
satisfied with slowly choking the
strike at the Girard Point Refinery
of the Gulf Oil Co., Superintendent
of Police LeStrange filled the ranks
of the strikers, still out, with stool
pigeons. Last night they searched
the home of one striker and said
they found enough dynamite to
blow up the plant, Several other
strikers were Immediately impli-
Gated, and the papers carried head
lines of bomb plot. This morning
police announced that California
Communists were implicated.
"I expected trouble" said Le-
Strange Monday night, 80 I hac
my men mingle with the strikers
The men arrested have been under
suspicion and closely watched for
some time"
A conference of police inspectors
and fire department officers was
highly publicized last night. The
fire chiefs were supposed to deter
mine the source Of the dynamite
Yesterdays implications of Califor-
MIA Communists is apparently the
result of the conferences.
After the fascist terror against
West Coast strikers, Mellon appa-
rently feels he dare not wait until
other Philadelphia workers begin
expressing their solidarity with his
striking employees, but is taking the
offensive at a time when the ranks
of the strikers have been weakened
by desertion and lack Of action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Police and Firemen
Assault Group In
Bread Price Strike

NEW YORK. = Five hundred
housewives, their husbands and
children, picketed the Grossfeld and
norman bakery in the Bronx Mon
day night in demonstration
against the high price Of bread.
Police and firemen who attacked the
demonstration failed to disperse the
workers.
The people of the neighborhood
led by the 160th Street Neigbor-
hood Committee Against the High
Cost of Living, are fighting for a
reduction in the price of bread sold
by the bakery.
Mass arrests of the workers have
been made Five of the pickets
arrested Monday receive two days
each, one getting suspended sem
tence. Eight more were arrested
yesterday.