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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
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CAR STRUCK
BY SN|TCHER

Three persons narrowly escaped
death at 8 O'Clock last night when
the automobile in which they were
riding was struck by switch en-
gine at the railroad crossing on
Main street, according to report
made at police headquarters.
Milton Bailey OF Holtville was
driving the car, the report states.
With him were Bert Gibson of El
Centro and Dorothy Woolridge,
Holtville. The car was crossing a
side track at the Main street
Southern Pacific crossing when a
switch engine pushed the box car
into the automobile. The occupants
of the machine were able to jump
to safety before the crash.
Police were told by the occupants
of the car and other witnesses that
the engine and boXcar seemed to
loom up out of the darkness on the
siding without any warning. 1t
was stated that there was no signal
in operation at the crossing, neither
was a flagman present nor did the
box car have any lights shown as it
bore down upon the car.
Although none of the occupants
sustained any inquiry, the car was
badly smashed by the impact, ac-
cording to the report.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
AMPLE POLICING FOR CELEBRATION
Traffic Officers And Deputies To Direct Mo-
torists Next Sunday

Proper policing of the highway
between Imperial Valley and the
point of turmoil to Potholes for
the canal celebration next Sunday
has been assured by Captain A. F.
Oswalt, of the state highway patrol
and Sheriff George l.. Campbell, it
was announced today.
Captain Oswalt will have several
men patroling the entire route to
keep traffic in order, while extra
deputies will cooperate in handling
traffic at the point where the cele-
bration is to take place.
The road from the main highway
to Potholes is in good shape, ac-
cording to Jess Worley, secretary
of the Calexico Chamber of Com
merce, and will be sprinkled next
Saturday and Sunday so that there
will be a minimum of dust during
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10

Walter B. Havekorst, temporary
chairman of the Milk Institute OF
Imperial Valley has called direc-
tors meeting to be held in the Bank
of America, Ell Centro, Tuesday
night, December II, at 7:30.
Havekorst asks that there be a
full attendance of directors, as Of
ficers will probably be elected and
much other important business
transacted.
Fred Nebel-Thau, chairman of the
membership committee has asked
his committee to meet at the same
time and place to perfect plans for
the membership drive to be held the
en- dof this week. II ask each men,
ber of the membership committee
to attend this conference tomorrow
night at the Bank of America,
said Nebel-Thau. Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday are going to be big
days in the Milk Institute. and if
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10

the heavy traffic it is expected will
pass over it.
Worley states that the road is in
good condition and that none
should remain away fearing that
the section from the highway to
Potholes is too difficult to travel.
In addition to traffic officers and
deputies, the route to the celebra-
tion point will be adequately posted
with signs directing traffic, Wor-
ley said.
The meeting of the committee in
charge of the celebration, which
was to have been held tonight in
the office of l.. j. Thomas at I'M
perial, has been postponed until
Friday night at the same place
Worley said. At that time final
plans for the celebration will be
completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
AUPTMANN'S s
HOME YIELDS
LADDER CLUE

FLEMINGTON, N. j., W.P)-New
Jersey officials were convinced to-
Gay that Bruno Hauptmann figur-
atively will step to the electric
chair on the rung of a ladder.
A wood experts IS discovery, an
nounced as incontrovertable, link
ed lumber in the German carpen-
ter's Bronx home with the kidnap
ladder down which Charles A. Lind
berg Jr. was taken to death on the
night of March l, 1882.
Charging Hauptmann with mur-
dering the baby and prepared to
try him January 2, authorities re-
ceived jubilantly the find of Arthur
Koehler of the department OF agri-
culture of "the other half" of a
rung of the ladder in the Haupt-
mann home.
Koehler, a wood expert in the u
S. forestry service, announced his
discovery in a report to Attorney
General David T. Wilentz. 1t fol-
lowed closely an announcement oil
Anthony M. Hauck, Hunterdon
county prosecutor, of important
new evidence
The section of wood in the ladder
referred to in Koehler's report was
said to be identical with that used
in the flooring of the attic of the
Hauptmann home. 1t was further
stated that the piece fits perfect
ly into hole in the flooring where
a portion of board had been re-
moved. Authorities said they were
certain that this particular piece OF
wood was used to strengthen the
ladder and that it was taken from
the floor.
l. Not only does the shape of the
= board coincide with the hole in the
floor, but the texture and mark
ings of the wood are the same as
that used throughout the attic, II
was said
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
SANTA CLAUS
To Be HERE
ON SATURDAY

Ell Centro has many attractions
booked for next Saturday but cer-
tainly one of the biggest beyond
dispute, is the scheduled visit by
that grand old man, Santa Claus
himself, in person, who will come
to this city on the invitation OF
the Imperial Valley Press, in CO.
operation with merchants of El
Centro and the El Centro Cham
ber of Commerce.
Although this is the busy season
for Santa Claus, as he prepares for
his annual trip on Christmas eve,
the good old gentleman is always
willing to give little Of his time
to the boys and girls, so that they
may let him know what they wish
for Christmas and have the pleas
ure of meeting him..
Because Imperial Valley doesn't
have any snow, or at least not
enough to count, Santa Claus has
to leave his reindeer behind him
and use an airplane. This gives
him more time to stay in Ell Centre
because he can get here quicker
from the Moth Pole, and then
hurry back to resume his big job
of making toys of all sorts for boys
and girls and getting them packed
for his Christmas delivery.
Santa Claus will arrive Saturday
afternoon, at a time which will be
announced later, and will make
visits to many of the stores in the
business section. The names of
these will also be announced later.
He will not have time to get out
to the homes of the boys and
girls, for it would take too long to
visit all of them, so he will make
his headquarters in the business
section, where the boys and girls
can come to visit him.
The Press, and those cooperating
with this paper, extend a cordial
invitation to every boy and girl in
Ell Centre and the nearby territory
to visit Santa Claus next Satur-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
BY HARRISON SALISBURY


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-Shat-
tered and terror stricken remnants
of drug-peddling syndicates from
New York to Hawaii sought refuge
today in underworld hideouts be-
fore the nation IS greatest narcotics
drive.
Already 765 prisoners-peddlers,
key men and addicts-were in fed
eral custody and more faced arrest
in a campaign to deal a crippling
blow to the illicit traffic.
Agents expected to round up ad-
ditional prisoners on information
cleaned from those already held
and from addictS, starved for drugs
with their regular source of supply
cut off.
The next move in the nation
wide drive will be to coordinate
data from prisoners with that in
possession of law-enforcement de-
partments of the treasury. About
$4,000 men are concentrated in
treasury police forces, covering mar
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
Webb Asks Dismissal
OF utl er Appeal

U. S. Webb, attorney general, in
conjunction with the district at
torney's office, has presented a mo-
ton to the U. S. supreme court
that the appeal made to that tri-
bunal by Emma Cutler be dis
missed.
1t will probably be two weeks or
more before an answer is heard to
this motion, Elmer Heald, district
attorney, stated this morning.
Miss Cutler who is under sentence
to the county Jail on a charge of
vagrancy growing out of the strike
disturbances here last winter, took
her case to the federal supreme
court after an appeal had been de-
MED by the state appellate court
and the state supreme court had
refused her a rehearing on the
matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 10. U,P)-
Police closed four downtown Port
land drug stores today in an effort
to cut off the supply of deadly de-
natured alcohol that in "a hours
killed 18 men.
Murder or manslaughter charges
will depend, police announced on
whether dispensers knew the alco-
hol was to be used as beverage. A
coroner's inquest into the deaths
will be held Wednesday.
Twelve men died Friday night,
eleven Saturday and four Sunday.
Three were in critical condition
today.
Despite newspaper announce
ments of the mounting death toll
Saturday, some men later obtained
the potion, drank it and died, po-
lice said.
The four drug stores ordered
closed were named by several men
who drank the alcohol and survived.
They alleged some of the clerks
served free "eye openers" of wood
alcohol in the mornings to shaking
derelictS.
Victims were habitual drinkers of
the denatured product. That which
caused illness and death however
apparently contained more methyl
alcohol and formaldehyde than the
ordinary preparation.
Victims ParalyZed
Many of the men died alone in
squalid hotel rooms. Physicians said
those hospitalized suffered excru-
ciating agony just before death.
First symptoms were abdominal
pains of increasing intensity, blind
ness and paralysis of the arms. The
paralysis TIL e. n became e general,
breathing labored and the victim
died gasping for air.
Post-mortem examinations showed
corrosive nature of the poison, de-
generative changes in the brain
structure, distended blood vessels
and swollen nerve bundles.
Police searched all North End
rooming houses, finding several
bodies.
The habitual drinkers of dena-
tured alcohol, purchasable for ap-
proximately 25 cents a pint at any
drug store, are known as "dehorn-
ers," and the potion as "dehorn." :"
The "dehorner' usually blends the
alcohol with water and gulps it
down. Some of the less hardy drink
ers blend it with milk, which is sup
posed to counteract the poison.
The fact that most of the victims
we're own-and-outers" will not
prevent vigorous investigation of the
case, Deceive Capain John Keegan
said. Meanwhile score of addictS
were held in Jail for their own safe
tV
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
AkMllL-
E'3R!So2e!;1Rs 3R!S2!;

SANTA MONICA, Dec. 10
(SpeciaD- Notre Dame popped
in here and started heaving S.
yard passes and 60-yard kicks.
Wait till the Irish Free State
hears she has a guy named
Shakespeare playing with those
Irish.
Notre Dame lost their great
coach and their great president.
but Father O'Hara and Elmer
Layden are worthy successors.
One more year and they will be
right at the top again a great
school and a great spirit.
The war news today mostly
concerns Italy and France.
That's one thing about European
arguments-the trouble is never
between the two nations most
concerned. It's always among
those who want to make it their
business.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
JUC0SLAV|A- HUNGARY ACCEPT COMPROMISE
DATA ON RIVER

TopOck was the only station on
the river which showed an in
crease in flow over the weekend,
according to readings posted at
district headquarters this morn
ing. Here an increase of $50 sec
ond feet was noted while the
Canyon registered decrease of
80 second feet. Decreases are
noted at Yuma. the spill and also
the diversion which latter was
reduced from $500 to 3100 Sec
ond feet today.
In a telegram received from
the Yuma office of the weather
bureau it is stated that no pre-
cipitation is recorded in any sec
tion of the watershed for today
nor is any indicated over Tues
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-10
DEATH TOLL
IN PORTLAND
REACHES z
Police Close Four Drug Stores
Charged With Selling Poison
ed Alcohol.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 10. W.P)
As the 21st victim of denatured
alcohol in ~ hours died today
authorities traced the course of
the lethal drink.
Police announced that the al
cohOl was all bought from one
wholesale paint house. 1t was
sold by the paint company as
industrial alcohol" and the
paint company was entirely with
in its legal rights, the district at
tOrney said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

lutionary traditions OF the Daughters OF the American
ReyoluJion
without BOlsheyisyn without the Infinitely richer
experiences Of the proetaTian revolutions from the
Paris Commune to the victorious Proletaran Revolt
ton Of 1917 the jingoistc Music conception Of Amer
lean history becomes reactionary obstacle in the
path Of the working class, becomes an theological
weapon Of SOcal-Fascism Of betrayal away from the
road toward Soviet Power the only true road to the
overthrow Of capitalism
The Communist International with its American
section, the Communist Party, alone is the embodied
experience Of all the revolutionary traditions Of the
international working class. The Communist Party
alone is the nheritor OF the best revolutionary ira
dtons of the American masses It takes what is best
IN these traditions and mergeS it with the world ex
perience Of international proetarian revolution, of
BoShevsm.
1t is not Washington but Lenin who is the leader
OF the revolutionary prolsGariat OF America today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Britain Threatens
South America to
Force More Trade
By Burck

LONDON, Feb. 21.--An open threat
to South American countries to buy
British goods or lose all chance to
borrow new money or get any con-
ceSsionS on old loans from British
financierS was made in the House of
Commons by representatives OF some
Of the most powerful British indus
trial and financial interests.
This threat, which takes the form
Of a demand that the British gov
eminent refuse to allow any British
support of the nearly bankrupt South
American countries unless they agree
to spend the bulk of all new credits
in Great Britain, is a declaration of
intensified trade war against the
United States.
Both British and American finan-
ciers with billions to lend and no safe
market, and industrialistS using every
resource to capture markets for their
products, are now modifying their
most powerful resources short of war
in their desperate fight for markets.
Coming on top Of the attempts Of
each country to squeeze the other out
by cheapening their currency and
thereby cheapening their exports, this
new step brings the conflicts and
antagonisms between the worlds
greatest imperialist countries to q
sharpness which is moving them
headlong toward war as the only cap
italiSt way to seek a solution of their
crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
All for More Violence
Against Militant
Workers

The views Of the Socialist leaders
on police and against the Communists
Party appeal for unity OF all workers
are sustained by the capitalist press.
The New York Evening Post, rabid
supporter of Roosevelt's fascist
measures, published an editorial on
the Madison Square Garden Meeting,
entitled "DiSgraceful" It was disc
graceful to this boss sheet for workers
to prevent the Scabby Vol and the
strikebreaking LaGuardia from
! speaking.
Communists staged disgraceful
spectacle in breaking up the Austrian
protest meeting at Madison Square
Garden" says the Post editorial. Not
word can they find to characterize
the vicious, murderous attack made on
the editor of the Daily Worker, come
rade Hathaway. They follow the cue
given by the Jewish Daily Forward
and conclude: "Only Nazi hoodlums
could have equalled the demonstration
by the Communists
Which Of course justifies, according
to the Socialist leaders and the capis
talist press the appeal to the police
for a fascist attack on Communists
and all militant workers.
1t is no accident whatever that ON
the New York Daily News the editors
have availed themselves of the servi~
ces of the Socialist David Karsners
whose knowledge comes in handy for
their fascist editorials. On the New
York Evening Post, the capitalists
owners have the help of the Socials
ist Edward Levinson, trained for ante
workingclass SANDER by his experiences
on the New Leader.
Every Socialist worker must Iook
these facts squarely in the face.
Where does this policy of his officials
lead TO? What does it mean instigs
ating and emphatically urging the
police to use their clubsP It is hustle
fication OF the growing violence
against the whole worizingclass. This
is the provocation of social-fascist.
1t is the seal of approval of Socialiss
leadership to all of the violence of the
capitalist police against Communists
and every militant worker. We muss
not forget that Dollfuss leveled his
first and main attack against the
communist Party of Austr1.- nth the
help OF the Bauers, Deutchs and ADJ
lers. SO Waldman wants to direct the
pohceman's club again / the Com
munists, but the recoil the greatest
blow will be struck against the work.
ingclass. Down with the united front
OF the Socialist leaders and tina
capitalist policel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

although his party has long
campaigned against the use of
police clubs, to Subdue disorderIy
civilian demonstrators, Louis Wald-
man, former Socialist candidate
for governor, was emphatic In
favoring their employment in out
breaks, like the one at the Garden,
which grew out of q Pink rally
protesting Austrian butcheries.'"
A Socialist leader becomes EN-
phatic in demanding the police use
their clubs when Communists ask
for united front with Socialist
workers in support of their Austrian
brothers. A Socialist leader becomes
emphatic in urging the police crush
the heads of workers with their clubs
when Communists and Socialist
workers protest the sullying of the
heroic deeds of the Austrian workers
by the fascist Vol and Mayor La
Guardia.
''The police handled themselves
admirably" said Waldman, 'and
did the best they could with their
bare hands to halt the brawI, but
they should be equipped with night
sticks on occasions like that one"
What was the occasion? Commun-
lists were joining with Socialist work
ers to fight against fascism, to arouse
tremendous protest q g inst tn {
slaughter of the ustrian workers. The
Socialist leaders we're not satisfied in
cYNIiS+ir1e, 4l,a haod nf Ht1v,, 20 10 IYafho
way with chairs. They want the
police to jump in and finish the jot
with their clubs.
Every striker who has seen the
brutal cops march by with their clubs
who has seen his fellow worker felleo
to the ground by police clubs, will
boil with indignation at this fascist
declaration of the Socialist leader
Waldman.
The police will remember this n.
vitation. Haven't the Socialist lead.
ers urged us to carry clubs" they viii
argue. "It is true they want to picE
the occasion. But we are the best
judges of that, being the best defend
ers of capitalism againct every strug.
gle Of the workers" they will add.
How closely these police, these gun.
men protecting the interests OF CAPT.
talism, felt to the Socialist leader;
is shown by the admiration they
layished on the gangster attacks they
made at Madison Square Garden.
"After the meeting dispersed" re-
ports the Bronx Home News of
February II, Inspector Anderson,
who was present at the Caro- m,
commented on the private police
work of the Socialists, with the
words, And very good job they
did of it, tool"
Inspector Anderso who, hai
dubbed more than one striker him.
self, knows good job when he see
1t, and this gets his professional ap
proval,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

power by the brutal murder and op-
preston Of the majority of its Cit
liens. In making this demonstration
I and thousands of others were only
exercising our fundamental right of
peaceful assembly and free speech.
We were unarmed and utterly IN
prepared for violence. The streets
and sidewalks were, Of course,
damned with professionals and the
steps of the Library crowded with
onlookers. without warning or any
provocation that could see, a squad
of mounted police charged down
Fifth Avenue from 43rd Street, bowl
ing over pedestrians as they went. In
front of the Library they executed a
right turn and charged up the steps
into the crowd, a crowd that was
penned in and helpless. followed
after, helping PROSTATE women and
children on to their feet and out of
the way OF flying hoofs. A squad of
brutal police on foot followed your
mounted Cossacks and belabored us,
who were rescuing the fallen. For
IlIC 4l4oO OlLAlC AL q AOl1S oll0 dGblfC
life felt the sting OF policeman's
club. Sir, was dumfounded. I saw
innocent women and men cracked
over the head with clubs in the hands
OF your vicious police. I saw Robert
Minor, one of our most distinguished
citizens, knocked unconscious, and I
myself was dubbed for going to his
aid.
In the past, both as father and
as Scout Master, taught youth to
look upon the police as their friends
and faithful servants. Your brutal
police taught me that was wrong.
Yesterday they were the upholders
OF fascist terror. I prote-t, Sir. and
demand that disciplinary action be
taken against the entire detail that
smeared the steps Of the Library,
and especially against the officer who
gave that brutal and unnecessary
order for the mounted police to
charge.
Yours truly,
Pass r, Crcense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Austrian Workers Fight Stirs All Soviet Factorie
Nv Orkers' Rule
Will Solve the
Coal Crisis .
Mary Van Kleeck Report
By Russell Sage Foun-
dation Hits Bosses

NEW YORK-Only by the struggle
! for power and the establishment OF
a planned economy, impossible under
capitalism, will the workers be abb,
to solve such conditions Of wide,
spread unemployment, waste, acci-
dents and bloodshed which now &C.
cur in the coal Industry OF the
United States, Is the conclusion OF
report published by the Russell Sage
Foundation, based on extensive stu
dies made by Mary Van Kleeck, d.
rector Of the foundation.
The report issued by Miss Van
Kleeck points out that the coal In.
dustry in the United States "has for
so years caused continuous and
widespread unemployment, waste of
an indispensable and unreasonable
natural resource, and discrimination
against the household consumer in
favor OF the steel industry, public
utilities and other large industrial
buyers"
She then contrasts the chaos, tho
bitter conditions Of the American
miners, with the planned economy Of
the Soviet Union, where under the
development of Socialism the n1inerH
are not suffering from unemploy-
ment, but with planned economy
find their conditions constantly i'm
proved.
Example Of q. S. SIR.
Such conditions, declare Miss Van
Kleeck, can be achieved in the United
States only by following the example
of the Soviet Union.
AS an immediate step, the report
urges elimination of company unions.
strengthening Of the genuine trade
unions of the miners, unemployment
funds, complete freedom Of the
workers to organize, workers educas
ton and technical training.
However, 1t Is made clear In the
report that these are only temporary
protective measures. A solution OF
the crisis in the coal industry can
not be considered apart from tho
total economy" Of the present order,
points out Miss Van Kleeck.
Political Structure
Miss Van Kleeck says, adding:
''rhe struggle for power to bring
this change about will be between
workers and owners. And in that
task, which may well be the historic
work Of this generation, the miners
will have an important part to play,
as they have played an important
part in the workers struggles in
the past
Both economic and political Struc-
ture must be changed If the United
States is to move from the present
irrational condition of poverty in the
midst of plenty to the constructive
task Of using the abundance Of
Americas natural resources to re-
place the present Shamefully low
standards Of living in the basic ins
dustrieS with security, comfort and
hopefulneSs commensurate with this
skill and productivity of Americas
workers"