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Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
IN
EAST SHOWS
LIGHT Loss

NEW YORK, Nov %. (U.P)-East-
ern football attendance decreased
slightly during 1884 as compared
with 1888. But the loss was more
than offset on a countrywide ba-
sis by tremendous gains in other
sectors, notably in the midwest,
south and Pacific coast.
Attendance at Pittsburgh's best
three home games scared from 127,-
900 in 1888 to 10000 this season,
and the Army Notre Dame crowd
of 10000, was larger than last sea
son.
In contrast, United Press sur
vey reveals, Princeton and Ford
ham were among teams which fell
into a slump. The Tigers, despite a
clean record until they met Yale,
waned in drawing power from lis,
600 to 10000 for their three big
games and Fordham dropped from
155, 900 to 10000.
In the midwest, Minnesota, con-
ference champion, outdreW last
years team in four games 172,oOO to
10000. -Four Ohio State games tilt
ed the figures from 129,410 last sea-
son to 10000 in 1894 Notre Dame
attracted 100000 for four home
games last year and $4,000 for q
similar set this season. Northwest
ern neither gained nor lost.
Santa Clara was the champion
crowd gamer on the Pacific coast
with a 100000 increase. Stanford's
best three home games showed an
increase from $4,000 to 10000.
Washington patronage for four
games swelled from 10000 to $4,000.
In Dixie, Duke jumped its at
tendance from $1,000 for four home
games in 1888 to 91,OOO; Alabama
crowds increased by 20 per cent,
Florida and Tulane held even and
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt drop
ped Slightly.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
1XQ{KX
SPARTANS SET FOR THANKSGIVING
GRID BATTLE WITH HOLTVILLE

Headed for their last league
game, which will be played tomor-
row, Thanksgiving Day, on the Holt
vile gridiron, Centra's Spartans
today finished preparations to end
their season in blaze of glory.
A light workout is scheduled for
today, with the varsity third string
throwing passes and mixing up run
ming plays to represent the Holt
vile style of offense against the
varsity first stringers. The boys will
quit early and resi- up for the fra
cas- tomorrow.
Bob Furbass is back, ready to
start at right end. Rudy Furbass is
still out with illness, and there is
little chance that Edgar will play,
for the game is not championship
affair and 1t has been deemed ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28

visable not to run the risk of injur.
ing his knee again, Coach Taylor
said.
In spite of the fact that they
have lest lie championship, the
Spartans now hold second place,
and are out to win, in order to keep
this spot.
Morgan, Holtyilles star fullback,
who has caused SO much grief for
opposing team this season, is still
the fly in the ointment, as far as
the local boys are concerned. To
keep him bottled up will be the
Spartans difficulty the coach said.
The tentative starting lineup for
the game follows: Aaron, le; Dill
beck, It; Maiden, lg; Spear, C; B.
Furbass, re; Wiegand, rt; Moody,
rg: Wagner In; Fox or Jones, rh;
Lambeth, qb; Bush, fb.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
TOURNAMENT
PLANNED FOR
BASKETBALL

With two teams from each of six
valley high schools competing, I'm
perial Valleys first invitational
basketball tournament will be run
off on the local court December IA
and Is, according to Coach w. S.
Taylor of Central.
There will be two trophies for
champions in two classes. Edgar
Bros. Hardware company will fur
nish the Glass c trophy, while the
Imperial Valley Hardware company
will present the trophy to the win
ners in Glass A games. In addition
TO this the two balls used in the fin
al games will be awarded to the VIC
tors.
This will be a single elimination
contest. A team that is defeated
once is out, with the schedule of
play offs as follows: starting Fri
day afternoon at 2 o'clock, there will
be three games, played at hour per-
iods; Friday night, o'clock, three
games. Saturday morning, the sec
ond round will begin at $50, with
two games; Saturday afternoon, be-
ginning at o'clock, two consola-
ton games will be played with the
teams defeated in the morning play
as participants. The championship
games will take place Saturday, be-
ginning at 7:30 p. m.
Schools to take part are Central,
Calexico, Holtville, Brawley, Cali
patria and Imperial. According to
present reports, Calipatria seems to
be the outstanding team. They
play Imperial tonight at Brawley in
2 preseason contest.
Officials for the tournament will
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
ALLISON WILL
Be COACH OF
GOLDEN BEAR
By JAMES A. SULLIVAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

BERKELEY, Calf, Nov. %. =
Leonard Stub Allison. an ambi.
tious young man whom everyone
wishes well, stepped today in one
OF the sports worlds toughest jobs
in eonsenting to become head foot
ball coach at the University of Call
fornia.
In that role ne succeeds William
A. (Navy Bib Ingram, who threw
up the coaching job last night after
four years Of bucking the Andy
Smith" tradition.
Ingram's contract had one years
more to run, but the former Navy
coach preferred practicing law.
The ghost of old Andrew Latham
(Andy) Smith-that canny believer
in the punt and prayer system
who came west from the University
OF Observation-Disclosures over every
football team a California coach
produces.
Smith died at the height of his
power and glory in 1925, but his
AAASaAOA AhASCio Oll dAlo Will IL bllc
memory of those wonder teams
which for four years roared up and
down the coast, scattering all be-
fore them and bending the knee to
10 one, including Stanford and Uni
versty of Southern California. It's
the record of those four undefeated
seasons that the present day Cali
fornia coach has to face, and it's
hard going.
"Nibs' Price, assistant to Smith,
succeeded old Andy but the team
lost two or three games a season and
the lions got Price. They were clos
ing in on Ingram when he gave up
the job.
The athletic council quickly &C.
cepted his resignation, and turned
to young Allison, assistant coach in
charge of the ends.
Allison starred as a player at
Carleton college in Minnesota where
in 1915 he captained the football,
basketball and baseball teams and
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
Probation Work
To Be Discussed

Problems connected with the
work of the probation department
will be discussed Monday night at
Z o'clock in the Wilson school when
the adjustment committee of the
coordinating council will meet.
The council is composed of rep
resentatiVes of various organiza-
tions interested in aiding the de-
partment with its work.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28

won All-America mention in foot
ball.
After serving overseas in the
World war he entered the coaching
game at University of Washington
where ne was assistant in football
and director of powerful baseball
teams. For five years he was boss
of athletics at South Dakota uni
versity. From 1927 to 1881 he served
under Glenn Thistlethwaite at Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
From that post he was called to
California to develop the linemen
under Ingram. He was signed on a
three-year agreement as head coach,
taking charge Immediately. The sal
ary was not announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
WiUoughby Enters
Colierate Match

Laddie Willoughby OF calexlco,
present Aqua canente amateur
champion, will defend his title in
the forthcoming tourney on the bor-
der course, December l and Decem-
ber 2.
Bill Hickey. resident pro and Cal.
iente golf manager, received the
title holders signed entry blank to-
day. A large field of first class anna
teur golfers is expected down from
the north, Hickey reports. Low han.
dicap men from Imperial Valley are
expected to compete.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28

be William Nixon of Holtville and
Pete Sauers of Brawley, who will al
ternate as referees. Coach Taylor
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
SCHOOLS PLAN
TENNIS MATCH

Plans for a tennis tournament be-
tween Coachella union high school
and Central high to be held here
on December 8, were announced to-
| Gay by Joe Burcham, tennis instruc-
tor at the local school,
Matches scheduled are four boys
singles, four girls singles, two boys
doubles, two girls doubles, and two
mixed doubles. With the exception
of George Young. Imperial Valley
junior tennis champion, no local
players have yet been announced.
The time of the tournament has
been tentatively set at 1920 a. m,
though there is possibility of this
being changed,
George Young of this city will be
CentralS first representative in the
twelfth annual mid winter tennis
tournament of Southern California
to be held at Fullerton union high
school Friday and Saturday of this
week.
Young will meet crack players
from high schools all over Southern
alifornia. He is a senior this year,
and. under the tuteiage of Joe
Burcham, has been showing great
form.
Numbered among past winners OF
this highly important tournament
are names now familiar in the
world of tennis--Johnny Doeg,
Gene Mako, Jack Tidball, and ELS
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28

form the business houses Of the
community that these stamps are
not put out by the exposition IL
rectors but are the private enter
prise of an engrayery and printing
firm in San Diego Such stamps
certainly have some value in Great
ing an interest in the exposition.
but the chamber of commerce di-
rectors have not seen fit to endorse
their sale, despite rumors to the
contrary. ;,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
DANA-WOLGAST DRAW

LOS ANGELES, Nov %. UP
Pablo Dano, sawed-off Filipino ban
tamweight, completed his jinx over
Midget Wolgast, flyweight cham.
pion, by holding him to a 10-round
draw in a brisk rematch at the
Olympic last night.
Dano, who had scored a decision
in an earlier meeting, built up an
advantage in the early rounds but
Wolgast rallied fast and held him
to even terms over the entire route.
Both scaled 119.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
100 Die In Ridge
Route Car Crashes

Los ANGELES. NOV. g. M.P)--
Accidents Of the Ridge route over
the Tehaehapis had claimed two
lives today.
William Mahoney Land. 81. Long
Beach, was killed when his auto
mobile struck the rear of a stalled
truck south Of Germans. The
truck had ben parked when out OF
gasoline.
Herbert L. Carnes. Los Angeles.
was killed when he ieaped from
his truck when it went out of con-
troll four miles north of Castiac.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-28
FOR RESTORED BUYING POWER

TOLEDO, O., U.P)-The buying
power of the people, especially
those who have helped build the
nation in time of peace, and war
veterans who have saved it in time
of war, must be restored, Congress
man Wright Patman, of Texas, told
a Democratic rally here.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Blaine Demands
Relief Boost

BLAINE, VII To discuss
demands to be put before the
Welfare Board, the newly org
aniZed. Unemployment Council
held its first mass meeting at
their headquarters in the Cleas-
by Building. June ~.
A committee of I was elect
ed to present the following de-
mandS to the relief officers
June 2G:
Increase in relief at least
100 percent. 2 No restrictions
as to articles purchase d,
3 No discrimination in giving
relief to part time workers, in
need of same. 4 Recognition
of relief committees of the
farmers and workers. 5 En-
dOrSemcnt of the Workers
National Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill, HR 1898
and State Bill Is.
George Bradley Of Bclling-
ham was the speaker of the
evening. The membership of
the council is growing rapidly,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
u in Relief
Job Strike

COEUR d'ALENE, Ida h o,
June 2O.-A crew of eight men,
working on rock drills on the
Observation-Disclosures road, an
Idaho relief project, struck yes
terday for a 25-cent per hour
increase in wages. They were
being paid so cents per hour
and working four six-nour days.
In one day they forced the
relief boss to give them 65 cents
per hour and guarantee no re-
ductiOn in the NUMBER of days.
The action was the result of
militant and solid support from
the entire crew.
Here in the Panhandle we
get cash relief on a budget
basis of 1892 per month for a
single man and up 10 S54 for a
family of ten. Statewide dem
Onstrations during May ended
the voucher or pie.ticket sys-
tenn,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Japanese Murder
10000 Peasants
RY Tang Shin-She

SHANGHAI - According to
the information of the Chinese
Press Agency Central News"
over 10000 peaceful, defenseless
peasants, chiefly women, chill
dren, aged people and invalids OF
the Sansing District, on the Sun
gari river, were killed by air
bOmbers and the field guns of
the Japanese imperialistS dur
ing the suppression of a rebel
lion of peasants and Manchu
troops. Several hundred peas
ant farms were destroyed and
hundreds of thousands of inhabi-
tantS were made shelterlesS and
reduced to starvation.
Every day and every hour new
bloody deeds are being commit
ed by the japanese imperialists
in Manchuria. This mass ear
mage is the greatest and most
cruel since 1882, when 1000 min
erS were drowned in the pits of
the Penshihu coal mines.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Contractors Try To
Intimidate Witnesses

WASHINGTON Up Init
midatiOn and blacklisting of
building workers who complain
to the authorities of "kick-back"
and other wage cutting raCkets
were revealed as the Senate
committee investigating viola
tiOns of the BacOn-Davis pre-
vailing wage law open its hear
ings. The behavior of the con-
tractors in this regard became
so raw that Sen. David |. Walsh
had to read a formal statement
into the record declaring that
the committee would not tOler-
ate ANY interference with its aC-
tivities in getting information as
to exploitation of labor or viola
tions of the wage law.
ANY contractor who attempts
to intimidate any wOrkmen will
be dealt with by such forces as
the committee can INVOKE" the
t a e IN e n t continued. I'VE
guarantee to any worker or any,
one else who may have informa,
ton of interest to the investiga-
ton that attempts at reprisal
will not be tolerated"
This statements was made fol,
lowing reports of the commit,
ee's investigators about the con-
tractors attempts at intimida-
ton.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
BIked PulpCutterS
Demand Their Pay

NOOKSACK, June 26.-Own-
ers of pulpwOOd timber in
Paradise Valley, after working
their employees at starvation
wages, are now trying to freeze
out their men and blk them
besides.
Twelve men had been cut
ting pulpwOOd for 81 a cord
with 20 cents deducted for in
surance. Tools, bedding and
board also were saddled on the
workers meagre paychecks.
After 200 cords had been cut,
hauling to the mill was begun.
Then the WOOds-bOss announced
closing of the mill and firing of
the crew.
The men were fired, but
there was no pay-Off.
A meeting was called at once.
The workers decided to draw
up protest and meantime
signed up with the rank and
file uniOn-the NLWU. Active
steps are being taken to union
ize the entire region. A list
of seven demands have been
forwarded to the mill and tim
Der owners. They include, first
of all, recognition of the union;
a minimum scale of $500 per
cord, and not more than $L5C
per month deduction for insur-
ance; no discrimination fol-
union activities.
A committee was elected at
the meeting to demand that
the mill remove the pulpwOod
and pay the workers immedi.
ately. In pursuance Of the plan
to uniOnize all workers here
committees are spreading leaf
let's broadcast among the lum.
Der workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
ThaeLman Leads
German Workers
BY Paul Booth

ster hangouts, to buy false testl-
mony from them, in order that
the fascist group can publicly
splatter Thaelmann with mud.
The life of Thaelmann is sac
red to all class conscious work.
ers. And they win fight for him
AS they did for Dimltrov, for
TanefT. for PopoH, for Torgler;
and the first three are already
Leadership His Crime
In the case of Thaelmann, how
ever, his head is wanted because
he is the leader OF the German
Communist Party. He Is not ac-
cused OF some melodramatie and
grotesque outrage. For this
reason the struggle to save his
life will be harder. Barbusse
writes, 81 appeal not only to the
Communists, but to all workers
without regard to opinions and
tendencies | appeal to all the
exploited and the oppressed.
To the youth who will some day
profit by his work. And may
the Social Democratic workers
help to save him they whom he
would have saved II they would
baNvn listannH m him /"
Dimitrov says of Thaelmann
and action against his death
plot: 1T is a question Of honor
for all men and women who
stand for art, science, and cul-
.ture- real culture. Those who
sit and do not move finger to
rescue, share responsibility for
his fate"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Klansman Elected
Alabama Governor

BIRMINGHAM, Ala The
Democratic primaries, in which
no Negroes and very rev white
workers were permitted to vote.
last week, returned Col. Bibbs
Graves, notorioues Ku Klux
Klansman, to the Governors
seat.
The same primaries, in Morgan
county, failed to return Judge
James +. Horton. The cam
paign against him had been con-
Quoted by the White Legion and
the Ku KluX Klan mainly on the
basis of his reversal of the lynch
verdict of guilty" against Hey
wood Patterson. ScottsborO boy,
last summer.
Graves ran on a straight Klan
ticket, supported by the White
Legion a XXX under new
name but the same aims and
methods which has been adj
vocating laws designed to pre-
vent defense of framed Negroes
and white workers by LID attor-
neys, and to prevent the Scots
bOrO defense attorneys from con-
tinuing in the case.
Too Much For Scottsboro
Graves Khan affiliations are
so open that even the Jackson
County Sentinel published at
ScOttsbOrO, one of the most rabid
lynch-Organs in the state, de-
nounced him for his open cOnnec-
ton.
An even greater danger than
ever before of lynching for the
ScOttsbOrO boys was seen in the
election of Graves, which marks
the denfinite commitment of
the white ruling class to offc-
cial sanction of terror and lynch
ing. as opposed to smoother"
methods advocated by the more
advanced" industTialists.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Force Welfare Board
Issue Load OF Wood

ABERDEEN, Wn.- Under the
pretense OF Tack of funds the
local Welfare Board has stopped
issuing clothes. 1t is supposed
to give wood to only invalids
and old people.
A committee OF workers was
modified from South Aberdeen.
This committee forced the Wei
fare board to issue load of wood
to a young couple. Lydia and Or
rim SOmerville, 1912 w. Marion st.
1t also forced clothes for two
families.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
400 Back ROmanOv
MILITANT ORGANIZER OF
SEAMEN HELD IN COUNTY
JAIL FIVE MONTHS
Send Protests To Moreno, Immi.
grafton Dept, Portland

PORTLAND, Ore,-At a mass
meeting here, four hundred
workers pledged their support
to Seaman Romanov, militant
organizer of the srGmen, fac
ing deportation. ROmanov has
been held in the county jail
here for five months at the
inStigatiOn of the immigration
department. The immigration
department has refused to nc,
ccpt the bail raised for him to
keep Romanov from his activ-
ity among the workers.
The International Labor De-
Tense is filing u writ of habeas
corpus to force the release of
this worker who holds the world
record for recruiting members
into the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union.
"RomanOv is needed among
his fellow seamen IN the pres
ent situation. All unions, I'M
employed councils and workers
organizations every where must
send protests to Moreno of the
immigration department, Port
land. Ore, and Bonham of the
same department of Seattle,
demanding the release of Seaman
ROmanOv." is the statement of
the LID office here.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
National Farm League
Convention Adopts
Militant Program

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. - The
first national convention of the
United Farmers League, mill
tant farmers organization, held
at Minneapolis, Mimi, June %
%. closed its session, all dele
gates enthusiastically agreeing
that the convention was very
successful and all greatly slim
ulated to back their various
states and organize the farmers
for struggle against their worse
ening conditions and to take
the offensive against the attack
of the present ruling, exploit
ing class and their instrument
of further exploitation h e
Agricultural Adjustment Act,
part of the NRA.
Eighty-nine delegates of the
UFL and fOrty-tWO fraternal
delegates from twelve states,
representing 10000 organized
farmers. attended the cOnVen-
ton.
Puro Reports
After hearing the report OF
Henry PurO, acting national
secretary of the UFL in the
place of Alfred Tiaaia, who is
serving a siX-months' sentence
in an Indiana Jail for leading
Indiana farmers in their Strug-
gle against foreclosures and
evictiOns, which report brought
out very clearly the situation
facing the American farmers,
the tasks of the UFL, the
weaknesses in our work and the
necessity for further intensity
ing and consolidating the Strug-
giles of the farmers against the
enslaving AAA, for drought re-
lief and for the drive to enact
into a law the Formers Emer-
gency Relief Bill, the delegates
reporting from the different
parts of the country brought
out very sharply the critical
situation facing small and mid
die American farmers, and the
necessity of militant mass ac-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Call Issued For Conference
AGAINST War And FaSCiSrn

the army training of the c. c.
G.. camps. Under the fascist de-
vclOpment OF the government,
frantic efforts are made to
smash the workers right to Or
ganize and strike, in the hope
of making the working class
play its part obediently in the
coming war machine.
U. S. S. r. for Peace
Alone among the nations of
the world, the Soviet Union
strives earnestly for peace.
Guarding the rapid advance of
a socialist society every at
tempt is made to avoid a
clash. every opportunity seized
to put forward the proposal OF
complete disarmament.
Even more determinedly
than they prepare to cut each
others throats, the capitalists
nations line up to attack the
Soviet Union. On one border
insane Fascists are the spear
head of this attack. On the
other, Japan, to whom cargOes
of war materials flowed each
day from Northwest ports be-
fore the lOngshOre strike,
boasts of her intentions of at
lacking the workers and farm
ers' fatherland.
A militant stand against
these war preparations must be
taken by the tOiling masses
by those who will bear the
brunt of the coming slaughter.
August First - international
Day Against War-Will unite
these protests in demonstra-
tions in every city in every
capitalist country.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-06
Steel Strike Betrayed

Latest word from the pivotal
steel mill areas around Pitts
burg, Youngstown, Homestead,
Dusquesne, Braddock, McKecS-
port, WeirtOn. is one of anger at
the Scll-Out of the Committee of
Ten.
In one recent meeting labor
faker made the statement, I'VE
must first of all be Americans. y
Some of his thugs then searched
through the group for a steel
worker who had the bOldnCSS to
shout OIt, 'Thcn WHAT"
Increasing numbers Of the steel
workers are accepting the leader
ship of the Steel and Metal Work
erS' Industrial Union. affiliate of
the Trade Union Unity League
which alone has been sincere in
unfolding and fighting for the
demands originally agreed upon.
The SMWlU and Communist
Party members within the AFL
union have expressed and are
continuing to express their solid
arity with the rank and file OF
all the steel workers. but they
also will expose the tactics Oi
miSleaderS such as Tighe, Greer
and the Committee of Ten. The
VaCillatiOn of such gave the steel
operators the opportunity to
construct defenseS, import arms
and gunner, and flood steel dist,
riots with perniciOus prOpagan,
da against the impending steel
strike.
The strike has been sold out
and put off, but conditions are
such in the steel industry that d
blow of of labor unrest is in
cvitable.
The rank and file will either
act spontaneously and thus prob.
ably spOradically and that much
the less effectively since more
subject to AFL misleadershir
and lack of solidarity or else
the militant SMWIU will be able
to lead and direct a strike in the
steel industry for the obtaining
of most pressing demands.