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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-21
Father Brennan Bids
 Farewell To Parish
Popular Pastor to Leave Next Week for New
 PastOrate in New London

Not only parishioners, but repre- sentative citizens as well feel that Father Brennan's departure is a decided loss to the entire com munity. a
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
LEADERS KILLED Or END LIVES
AS LOYAL FORCE MOVES QUICKLY
To FRUSTRATE OPEN REBELLION
General Kurt Won Schleicher, Former Chan
cellor, And Several OF Leading Figures In
Nazi Movement Among Those Killed.

BERLIN, June 80. (UP)-Adolf Hitler sup
pressed Nazi storm troop mutny before it was we'll
started today at the cost of the lives of Gen. Kurt
Won Scheicher, former chancellor and reichswehr
commander, and several of his own best men,
Schleicher was shot as he resisted arrest as a
conspirator against the government
Leaders Of the mutinous elements in the storm
troops also were killed or committed suicide as they
faced arrest and court martial.
1t was all over in few hours.
An official Nazi party communique said that it
was mutiny of which leaders hoped to take advan-
tage by effecting coup.
Ernest Roehm, chief Of staff Of all reichswehr
units, the communique said, conspired with Won
Schlecher and representatives of foreign power
unnamed and it was intimated they hoped to over
throw Hitler
1t was reported reliably that Baron Franz Won
Papen, vice-chancellor and like Schlecher former
chancellor, was under surveillance
Police were detailed to the vice-c -chanceery-an
occupation in fact if not by official admission &.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
DEADLOCK IN
COAST STRIKE
Little Hope OF Settlement Seen
Before Monday As Factions
In Unions Squabble.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 80. Up)
Negotiations attempting to bring
peace in the Pacific coasts mil
lion-dollar ar-a-day maritime work.
ers' strike were trapped in dead
lock today.
Little hope of settlement was
seen before Monday when ship
owners, whose coastwise and Orien-
tai commerce has been tied up since
$4,000 workers struck May 9, plan
ned an armed attempt to smash
the waterfront blockade.
A schism broke out n the ranks
of longshoremen leaders, stalmat-
ing further the efforts of Presi-
dent Roosevelt IS labor board to
bring peace between embroiled
workers and their employers.
Failure of the board to find
common ground for settlement
and the strikers inability to agree
among themselves, snarled the sit
uation.
The mediation board was not ex-
pected to meet today unless union
leaders solved their internal dis
agreements and decided definitely
on their demands.
Meanwhile, the board, headed by
Archbishop Edward j. Hanna, con-
sidered a general vote by districts
on the question of giving the board
power to arbitrate the longshore-
men s difficulties. The board asked
the International Longshoremen' Is
association executive COMMITTEES
to put the question to vote but
the committee refused.
Bridges Out of Line
+ 1t was understood, however, thai
the committee agreed to allow the
board to take the initiative in pre-.
! senting the question but was un.
willing to assume the responsible
ity of placing the longshoremen 5
fate in the boards hands.
The schism in the ranks of the
longshoremen negotiators developed
around Harry Bridges, cleft wing
leader who has acted as chairman
of the longshoremen IS strike COM
mittee. Members of the I. L. A
executive committee told Bridges
definitely to "shut and stay shut.
The crisis developed at a meet
ing with the mediation board wher
A. H. Peterson, San Pedro long
shoremen executive committee
man, told the general assembly
that Bridges had no right to speak
for the district and he was "go-
ing too far.o
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Mx Ro7~4
OlSsx. NsNsushS syndicate. lac.
NJ 'C[ELLAND
RITES TO BE
HELD SUNDAY

Funeral services for F. w. McClel-
land who was killed in an auto
mobile crash near Holtville last
night will be held at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon from the Fields
funeral parlors, Holtville. Rever-
end Langston of the Holtville
Christian church will officiate and
interment will be in Evergreen
cemetery.
McClelland was killed when the
car in which he was riding alone
skidded on gravelled road south
of Holtville at $3.50 o'clock last
night, struck a post and over
turned pinning him beneath the
wreck. Ira D. Preece near whose
home the accident occurred, heard
the crash and with four other
men from passing automobile
raised the wrecked car from Nc
Clelland's body but it was evident
that he had been killed almost in
stantly.
At the time of the accident he
was on his way home, a mile south
of the Alamo store after visit
in Holtville.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Jennie McCleliand; his mother,
Mrs. Ira McClelland, now residing
at Live Oaks Springs; a daughter
Mrs. Pearl England, and three
brothers, Wallace. deputy coun-
ty clerk, Mark, member of the
Holtville city council, and John
of Dayton, Ohio.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Confessed Slayers
To Hear Sentence

LOS ANGELES, June 80. W.H-
Two Centerville, Mich, youths who
shot and killed Louis Mallin, Hol-
lywood jeweler, in holdup, will
be next Tuesday for their crime.
The youths were convicted here
late yesterday of first degree mur-
der. They face hanging or life i'm
prisonment.
Edward Lang, one of the boys,
told Judge Thomas p. White that
they were hungry when they staged
the robbery.
''Ralph Balicki, who was with
me, had a gun, so we decided to
hold up the jeweler and get some
money for food,' he said.
Balicki told the judge he did not
intend to shoot the jeweler but the
latter grappled with him and the
gun went off.
The youths left Centerville last
March 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
NAZIS ATTACK
CHIEF CONSUL
OF PORTUGAL

BERLIN, June 80. U.P) - Nazi
storm taoops beat Jose Augusta
Ribeiro de Mello, Portuguese consul
general at Hamburg, because he
failed to give the Nazi salute when
group of the Nazis passed him
on a road near Nauen, it was re-
vealed today.
The incident was revealed when
the Portuguese charge d'affaires
Armundo Lopo Since, protested to
the government. The foreign office
expressed the usual regret.
Mello was motoring to Hamburg
Tuesday when unit of storm troops
who called themselves "the old
guard of Hamburg" marched past
on their way to Berlin. Mello halt
ed his car on side road to let the
marchers pass. Without warning
he said, two of them went up to
his car and struck him in the face
He said he believed it was because
he did not raise his arm in the
Hitler salute.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Six MEN DEAD
IN JAZZ PANES[
NAVAL CRASH
Miracle Saves Crews From
Heavy Loss As Two Cruisers
Collide.

SESEBA NAVAL BASE, Japan,
June 30. (U.P)-Japan recorded its
second naval disaster in less than
four months today as small craft
searched the sea for sailors miss
ing after two destroyers crashed in
heavy fog during secret maneuv-
erS.
Six lives were lost and a score
injured when the destroyer Ina
yuma rammed the destroyer Miyuki
at sea off Quelparte Island Friday
night, the navy department. an
nOunced.
Three sailors on the Miyuki were
killed instantly by the terrific i'm
pact when the two craft crashed
under full steam. Two sailors at
tached to the Miyuki were missing
and one seaman on the Jnazuma
was killed.
1t was believed the missing men
had drowned.
Both ships carried 212 men and
it was considered miraculous that
more were not killed or injured.
The collision followed by less
than four months the Tomozuru
disaster. in which more than 100
men were lost when the imperial
navy's newest fighting suit, cap
sized during maneuvers.
Both the Inazuma and Miyuki
were towed to the naval base here
today. The injured were removed
to a hospital while naval authori-
ties started an investigation.
An officer of the Miyuki said
the Inazuma, appearing suddenly
like a ghost-ship in the fog-en-
shrouded sea, crashed full speed in
to the Miyuki. The rear portion
of the destroyer was torn away
completely.
The Miyuki settled swiftly and
appeared to sink. However. fast
and heroic rescue work saved sail
ors trapped astern.
Watertight bulkheads kept both
vessels afloat while other nearby
naval craft rushed to their assist
anco
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
EMPEROR NORTON GIVEN HONORS
San Francisco Pays Homage To Memory Of
Early Day Eccentric.

Norton was prosperous busi-
nessman until he speculated in the
rice market in 1853 and lost his
fortune. He dropped from sight un-
til one day in September, 1859.
On that day he appeared on the
streets of San Francisco and,
dressed in an admiral's full uni
form and sitting astride a bicycle,
he swept his sword through the air
and proclaimed himself, Morton
I, emperor Of the United States. -
San Francisco knew Norton I
was a mad emperor. But it was
an agreeable madness and he was
given the freedom of the city. He
had no money and needed none,
but he issued notes on the Elm
perial Treasury of Norton t.
The Emperor Norton Memorial
association, which includes among
its members some of San Fran
cisco's financial leaders. will bury
him in Woodlawn Memorial park
here with all the ceremony his
strange mind possibly could have
wished.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
SECOND REPRIEVE SAVES WOMAN
Death In Electric Chair Deferred By Action
Of New York Governor

OSSINING, N. Y, June 30. UP)
-Crucifix candles burned in a
Sing Sing death cell today while
Mrs. Anna Antonio. her life dra-
matically spared for the second
time just before she was to die in
the electric chair, prayed for per-
manent reprieve.
A shaved spot on her head
shaved to receive the death voltage
of the chair which in all its his
tory has killed but three women
was hidden by towel. She did
not remove it even while she talk
ed for what she thought was the
last time with her brother.
"Oh, thank God," the 28-year-
old mother breathed last night at
10 O'Clock when Warden Lewis E.
Lawes was notified that Governor
Lehman had granted a second stay
of execution. She was to have died
at II O'Clock.
The first stay, granted "a hours
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Ford Finally Signs
NRA Certificate

WASHINGTON, June 80. U.P) :
The Ford Motor company today
sent a certificate of compliance to
the National Recovery Administra-
ton. Gen. Hugh S. johnson an
nounced. The certificate complies
with the automobile code which
Ford heretofore had refused to
accept.
The certificate was accompanied
by a letter in which Ford told
johnson he would comply with all
code provisions. The letter has
been submitted to Harry H. Wood
ring. assistant war secretary.
The submission of Ford's COM
pliance certificate brings to an
end the long legal wrangle over
the Detroit automobile manufac-
turer's bidding on government con-
tracts.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30

COLMA. Calf, June 80. U.P)-
Muffled funeral drums beat dirge
today as San Franciscans, rich and
poor, came here to do what resi-
dents of no other city would do.
They came to honor the memory
of an emperor who was no emper-
or, except in his imagination; to
a ruler who was no ruler, except
in his harmless pretentions; to a
king who was no king, except to
his two mongrel dogs, who followed
him about early-day San Fran
cisco as his sole retinue; to regal
splendor that was complete, but
loveable, sham.
They came to bury in a fresh
grave all that remains of Norton
I. emperor of all the United
States and protector of Mexico. -
Joshua A. Norton was his name
when he came to San Francisco
two years before the discovery of
gold. When he died in 1880 he was
Norton and 10000 San Francisans
gave him public funeral in Mas
onic cemetery, now abandoned
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
RESIDENTS 0F
VALLEY ASKED
To COOPERATE
Possibility Of Dangerous Sani-
! tary Conditions Prompts Ad-
vice For Precautions.
VACCINATION ADVOCATED
All Water From bitches Should
Be Boiled Before Being Used
I, In Households.

H9ced by the possibility of Sc
riW health problems in the face
Of Mie present water shortage, DR..
Warren Fox, county health officer,
issued the following statement to
valley citizens following a meeting
last night with members of the ir-
rigation district board of directors:
THE threatened water shortage,
If 1t becomes reality, may pre-
sent serious public health prob
lens. Without an adequate water
supply outbreaks of gastro-intes-
tinal infections, typhoid fever, etc.,
may occur. It Is, therefore, i'm
portant that every effort be made
to reduce to minimum potential
communicating influences on our
ditch banks. With a lowered wa
ter supply, dilution will be mark
edly less. Should certain canals
be dried up they must not be SUBJ
jected to communicating influences
as the water supply may become
infected at a later date following
the introduction into these canals
Of water. 1t is universally good
practice to permit the first head
! of water to go by to flush the
ditch before drawing off the do
mestic supply.
Ordinance No. 101 which has
previously been brought to your
attention prohibits the location of
any privies, cesspools or corrals,
within so feet of any canal; pro-
hibits the burial of dead animals
within 100 feet OF any canal; pro-
hibits the location of any camp
within 40 feet OF any canal; and
makes it unlawful to permit do
mestic animals to drink from any
canal.
state laws and county ordi-
nances likewise prohibit the con-
tamination Of any water supply,
used for domestic purposes, from
any cause. This makes it unlaw-
full to swim in our canals. to dump
cantaloupes, melons, refuse Of any
kind into the canals or permit
/,ivestock to enter them.
"Your cooperation, in removing
any contaminating influences from
the banks of canals, which may
now exist, is expected. Your CO.
operation in reporting any violators
of our laws is requested. In this
connection we wish to assure you
that the complainant's name is
never divulged.
FINALLY, as we have pointed out
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
STATE PRISON
FARM URGED

SACRAMENTO, June 30. tU.H -
Plans for large prison farm
which would relieve serious over
crowded conditions at San Quen-
tin prison were under consideration
today by the crime problems all
visory committee.
Wardens Court Smith of Folsom
and James Holohan of San Quen-
tin told the committee the greatest
immediate need is for good prison
Farm of 1900 to 1000 acres where
hriety of crops could be grown.
San Quentin, according to the
Wardens, IS the most overcrowded
penitentiary in the United States.
A farm would relieve it just as ef-
fectively and more economically
than new prison, they believed.
The farm would be self-supporting,
and any surplus of produce would
be sent the other prisons.
Committees were appointed to
study the farm plan and also to
consider the proposal to establish
a new penitentiary in Southern
california; a suggestion that state
police force be organized and
equipped with radio; recommended
tions that crime punishment should
be made more consistent; that
counties should study proposals to
unite in establishing farms Tor
long term county prisoners; that
prisoners should be more effective
" classified and segregated; that
all peace agencies be required to
send criminal and court records to
the state bureau of criminal iden-
tification
\ The committees will prepare sug-
gested legislative measures for con-
ssderation of the next legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Demonstration On
Silage Conducted

George L. Winwright, assistant
farm advisor, conducted silage
demonstration yesterday at the A.
Studer ranch at Meloland.
Yield on Atlas sorgo was 26 per
acre and % on honey sorghum, the
crops being planted in the middle
of March and this yield being OBJ
tanned on alfalfa land which had
practically gone to bermuda. Stu
der had used the land for pasturage
during the winter and then obtain
ed this high yield. A second crop
will be obtained that will amount
to something even without water,
and if Studer were able to put wat
-er on it, the yield would be SIM
liar to the first, besides work
ing the lanG effectively and getting
it ready for fall alfalfa.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Ban On California
Arouses Protest

CHICAGO, June 80. W.H = DR..
Morris Fishbein, editor of the Am
erican Medical Association Jour-
nal, today reiterated his advice to
tourists not to take children into
California at the present time be-
cause of an infantile paralysis cpl
demic.
DR.. Fishbein said he had receiv-
ed a protest from DR.. George M
Parish; Los Angeles health officer,
against an editorial in the Journal
issue of June % In which tourists
were warned against visiting the
city.
"The same advice stands,' DR..
Fishbein said 81 am not ac-
quainted with the latest figures on
the prevalence of the disease but
the history of such epidemics is
that they usually disappear with
the coming of cold weather. -
DR.. Fishbein said he saw no rea-
son for answering DIR. Parrish IS
protest.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30

earlier when one of two men ac-
cused with Mrs. Antonio of plot
ting the death of her husband to
collect his insurance, made a last
minute confession that tended to
absolve her.
Clad in loosely fitting blue XII
mona, she lay on her low prison
cot and murmured prayers inces-
sanity. She watched the candles
that flickered about a small cruci-
fix and intermingled prayers for
her three children with those for
her own life.
The reprieves delayed execution
until the week of July 9.
The two men sentenced to death
with Mrs. Antonio, Vincent Saet-
ta and Samuel Feraci, outwardly
were unmoved. Saetta, whose 1lth
hour confession assumed entire
blame for the murder, said only
II don't expect anything. I'm viii
ing to pay the price,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
Cantaloupe Crop
About Completed

Cantaloupe season is practically
over, states B. A. Harrigan, agri-
cultural commissioner, and the
market for the latter part of the
season has been satisfactory.
White melons will probably be
shipped for 10 or Is days more, but
the cantaloupes are practically ov-
er. Due to the water shortage tbs
fall melon deal probably will be
considerably smaller.
Watermelon shipments have
reached their second peak and are
expected to decline. The market,
states Harrigan, weakened little
but still is fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30

"Imperial county is faced with
the most serious water shortage in
its history. The Colorado river is
nearly dry. A t. b. eradication
campaign and drought relief work
could be carried on together. We
urgently request that you do every
thing within your power to have a
program of drought relief work and
t. b. eradication started in Imper-
ial county at one earliest possible
date.'
The above telegram was des-
patched by the board of supervis-
ors this morning to w. E. Howe.
inspector in charge of tuberculosis
eradication, Sacramento, and an
early answer is expected to this
urgent plea for assistance in the
two great problems now facing
this county.
Howe had written a letter to the
supervisors some days ago asking
that the board prepare an emer-
gency ordinance relative to tuber-
culin eradication for which feder-
al funds are to be used. The board
was asked to incorporate in this
ordinance that the county be de-
clared a voluntary control area and
that the fullest cooperation be Civ
en- the state and federal agents in
their work here.
This letter was followed shortly
afterwards by personal visit on
the part of Howe who came to El
Centre, met with the board in spe-
cial session and the district attor-
ney's office was instructed to pre-
pare the required ordinance.
The draft of this ordinance has
been completed, it was learned to-
dav and all that is now NECESSARY
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
BY FREDERICK OESCHSNER

BY FREDERICK OESCHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, June 80. = Chancellor
Adolf Hitler, fearing mutiny of
his storm troopers, today sent
crack state police and reichswehr
soldiers to surround their head
quarters here.
Ernst Roehm, commander of all
Nazi storm troop units, was arrest
ed at Munich. Karl Ernst, COM
mander of storm troops in Brand
enburg, was arrested at Bremen.
Capt. Hermann Goering, Hitler IS
chief cabinet aide and minister of
aviation, announced to newspaper
correspondents that several storm
troop leaders had been shot dead
and others had committed suicide
1t was reported without con-
firmation that a state of siege had
been declared in Berlin.
Hermann Goering, Hitler's
"strong man. declared after the
troop movement:
"The second Nazi revolution has
OCsul dllo CllQCo. x1lUlCl kOol-
ton is stronger than ever.
Breaking off a conference with
storm troop leaders at Munich, Hit
Ter ordered a special airplane to
bring him to Berlin and made
emergency arrangements to address
the nation over wireless hookur
tonight.
AS Hitler sped toward Berlin. ar
official Nazi party communiqus
from its national headquarters al
Munich announced the dismissal oi
Roehm from the party and his
command of the storm troops
The communique was signed ir
Hitler's own name. That, and the
situation generally, indicated he
was firmly on top of crisis which
might have proved fatal to him
and his cause.
Warming Given
1t was said on good authority
that Hitler warned the Storm
troops, breaking all bounds few
hours before they were to go or
months enforced vacation, anc
intended to take independent ac-
ton against the affiliated but al
ways hostile Stahlhelm.
The Stahlhelm or Steel Helmet
men are war veterans, formerly
affiliated with the Nationalist
party which the Nazis suppressed
They are mature men, veterans o.
the World war trenches. They
consistently refused to lose theil
identity, and showed maddenine
contempt for the younger element
in the Storm troops Hitlerf
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
DROUGHT RELIEF FOR COUNTY
REQUESTED BY SUPERVISORS

is definite word from Washington
that the intimated indemnities OF
$40 and $50 for reacting dairy cows
will be a fact. When this is es-
tablished the ordinance will re-
ceive the final approval of the
board and it's contents put into ef-
feet to clean up every dairy herd
in the county.
The ordinance will be considered
by the supervisors at their meet
ing on Monday by which time it
is hoped the definite word from
Washington might have been re-
ceived.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-30
HITLER SURPRISES REVOLT IN NAl RANKS
Health Officer Acts On Water Shortage

June goth, 1894.
TO WATER USERS AND CITIZENS OF
Ell CENTRO:
Imperial Valley is now facing very serious
water shortage and all people in Ell Centre are
urged to conserve all water possible so that the
farmer may have the benefits of any such saw
ing.
It is probable that water will necessarily be
rationed to users in the next few days; just how
limited and how long the rationing will be will
depend upon rains and the flow of water in the
Colorado river.
You are urged to observe the following rules:
Discontinue all lawn irrigation.
Use water sparingly on shrubs and trees.
Protect trees and shrubs from revapora-
ton by covering with straw or like mate
rials.
Discontinue children's showers on lawns.
Repair all leaking plumbing fixtures.
Do not fill bathtub to OverflOwing; use
minimum amount of water
Use waste water from house, such as bath
water, for trees and shrubs.
Do not let sink or lavatOry faucets run
continuously while working or washing.
Use such other means Of conserving water as
may occur to you, and it is suggested that you
remember how little you can get along with when
you have to pump it by hand and carry it in
buckets
Your cooperation will be gratefully appre
ciated by your neighbors the city council and
myself. f,A's~tes
PHILIP W. KNIGHTS,
City Engineer.