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Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

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POISON GAS
SENT TO FRONT

SENT TO FRONT
ROME, Nov. IL. U.P)-A newspaper
dispatch from Asmara reported to-
day large consignment of "Yost"
liquid, a chlorine ethyl compound
considered one of the most danger
Gus gases, had been landed at Dji-
bouti, French SomaliIand and was
EN- route to the Ethiopian plateau.
Latest war developments:
ROME-Mussolini starts counter
offensive against League to bar i'm
forts from nations which enforce
sanctions. France must pay in adj
vance for Italian exports.
ASNARA-Poison gas for Ethio-
pia reported passing through Suez
Canal. Italian planes sight bands of
Ethiopian warriors camped south of
Makale.
GENEVA--Mussolin action will
have no effect on application of
sanctions, League circles declare.
PARfS-F'rance plans new naval
base in Mediterranean.
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upon a note to League members
with copies to the United States and
other non-League nations and a
separate note to Egypt-that pro-
tested the application of League
penalties, denied the legality of the
Leagues action, defended Italys
course in East Africa and threatened
reprisals against nations that try to
penalize Italy,
MuSsoiinis characteristically en-
ergetic action, anticipating the ap-
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Vaughn N. Thompson for the muir
der Oct. 16 of Ivan E. Null, special
deputy sheriff, at the Date City
service station four and half miles
east of Holtville.
Mrs. Rufus George, wife of
service station attendant, told the
Jury of six men and six women
that she heard the grim words
seconds before the rifle blazed out
with two shots to take the life OF
the officer. Null was attempting
to question the trio about robbery
an hour and a half before of the
Bonds Corner store.
Evidence Damaging
The evidence was particularly
damaging to the defense because
one contention of defending at
torneys is that Null was killed
while attempting to make an il
legal arrest, in that he had not
informed the suspects that he was
an officer or that they were under
arrest.
In cross examination, Attorneys
H. H. Myers, A. c. Finney and
Charles Provence attempted to
break down the woman's story OF
what she heard, but were success
full only in drawing the admission
that Mrs. George might possibly
have been mistaken"
The only other witness called this
morning by D. H. Wolford, chief
criminal deputy district attorney,
was Teddy Hall, proprietor of the
service station. Like Mrs. George
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Oh SOL
says
FRANK WkTAkABE

ed HOLDEN

Pretty soOnly College viii shut
for season. DOctOrs--lawyers--
engineers-& all sort of elevated
hat professions will be dumped
cut In the world. Where can
finding those high tone jobs for
so many? Don't we needing
plumbers carpenters - brick
gentlemen cooks - boat maxi
ers g. other usefulness? Are not
them honorable duties? Thou
sand and thousand OF fellows
step out from college with n rich
white shirt diploma-bnt end up
with n disappointed heart a
stomach. But II those student
biting off what he can chewing
in first place - he will arriving
there and be happy - Instead Of
selling gasoline.
Thank you please.
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West Continues
Single Tax Fight

Dan West, county assessor-col-
lector, continued his campaign
against the proposed single tax
amendment, speaking at the meet
ing OF the Calipatria Two BY Two
club Sunday.
West has already discussed the
matter with farm bureau directors,
reading a letter from Ed Kay of the
state board of equalization.
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Relativity in Age

While a youth g1orying in his
long trousers strobe jauntily down
State street this morning, two little
boys on a bicycle watched in a con-
dition approaching awe. The youth
was out of earshot about the time
the RR came close enough to hear
the smallest OF the boys query:
Hes pig enough for IL years old,
isn't hep"
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WRECK VICTIMS ImPER|LLED
Issue Again Raised
/ | Q Head
Sea rcE1

Major Willis R. Taylor,
who is completing plans
today for a search Of the
Guiana jungles for Paul
Redfern, long missing flier
believed to be a prisoner
of jungle Indians.
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Henry's Hospitality

Henry Ford provided plenty of in
teresting diversion for guests at the
striking Place du Ford on the Expo
grounds at San Diego during the
holiday The new Lincoln Zephyr
was on display to the tune of Gus
Arnheim's orchestra, with the Dolly
Sisters and The -Four Blackbirds
thrown in. j. H. Edgar and family
were enjoying it with the rest Of
the crowd Sunday.
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Suspects Held On
Smuggling Charge

Richard and Lois johnson were
being held in the county Jail today
on a charge of smuggling narcotics.
They were arrested yesterday after
noon between Westmorland and the
truck inspection station to the north
by Inspector Quick, Lee Echols and
j. B. Connolly of the United States
Customs office at Calexico.
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A Course i'm salesmanship--

1t is generally understood about
these parts that, when Les Rogers
lowers the boom, the victim might as
we'll cave IN and inscribe the name in
the region of the proverbial dotted
line. Les apparently never learned
the meaning OF a little, tyb-letter
word, no" Not bad idea for any
one with anything to sell.
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Sciots Open Fall
Program Tonight

Opening meeting of the fall season
for the Sciots will take place to-
night at 8 o'clock in the Eagles. hall.
In addition to the business meet
ing at which H. Jensen, acting top
arch, will preside, entertainment
features will be presented.
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Comfortably Modern

These SWanky new chairs recently
installed at tables in the Valley Drug
store are way up town. Modernistic,
with chromium plated metal frames
and red leather upholstery, they are
an open invitation to while away a
few comforting moments.
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DIE IN DISASTER

ISTANBUL, Turkey NoU. ~. (UP)-Eighty persons
gUen up lost today after the sinking of the Turkish
steamship Fneb0fu in Smyrna hdrbOr last night The ship
sank entering the harbor with I20 passengers
An all night search made for sMUiUOrs.
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SCHOOL CLOSING PROTESTED

MEXICO CITY, NOU. I2. (UP)--An uprOGr ere
ated in the Santa Maria section of the capital today Wen
inspectors of the departments of interior and education
closed the of the Church of Espiritu SantO, charging
the school conducted illegally.
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q 4 Late News
GENERAL KUHN DIES

SAN DIEGO, Cal, NOU I2 (UP)--GeneraI Joseph e
Kuhn, IT, died of intestinal disorder in the NaUaI hos
paI here today after long army engineer
A son, Richard is beLieUed 10 be in NeLC York City
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HEAVY SEAS
POUND SHIP
CONSTANTLY
Story OF Hardships Suffered By Crew
And Passengers Told By Hindus
Who Escape From Ship

MANILA, P. l., Nov. IL. (UP)-Three Hindu seamen
of the lfated British fregher Silver Hazel braved death
today in 20 foot combers smashing the rocky south
Luzon and reached safety aboard the u S. S.
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CRIME FACTS
RECOUNTED
BY WITNESS
Links OF Case Against Suspects Forged
By State AS Trial Resumed After
Recess Over Weekend
Let i'm have it !"

"It's the law. Let i'm have it,"
These words put into the mouth of of three sus-
pected kerbandits by the witness stand to-
day gave the state its most damaging evidence against
Woodrow Corley 23 Nobel Morris 23 and Marvin Norris
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CoVefS
Throne

King George II, who is
preparing for a grand re-
turn to the throne f
Greece by comforting with
sWank tailors in B o n d
Street and Saville Row in
London about new suits
and uniforms.
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Builders, Attention,

RR knows several young married
couples who can't afford to pay e.
Centro rents, high due to housing
shortage and taxes. A house in I'M
perial, equal to the average Ell Cen
tro unfinished house, rents for,
ENTHUSIASTICALLY less There's a
moral somewhere, and it seems to
be in the need for more homes in
Ell Centre.
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The Big Squirt

The Big Squirt
Mothers who had to take over the
task of drying out little Johnnie's
clothing would like today to meet
the comfortable appearing Holtville
fireman who squished water on the
youngsters Monday, several of them
informed the RR. In the event of
such a meeting, RR would gladly
refrain from changing places with
the smoke eater.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
Bank CIearings

54,345I.3l
Building Permits
S77,317
ITO Date This Year,
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"'WISDOM, JUSTICE AND
MODERATION"

lis the motto of the State of Georgia.
and with moderation Angelo HerndOn got
only 1S to 20 years on the cnain gang
when, under the laws of 1886, he could
have been given life sentence fJt leading
an orderly relief delegation and possessing
radical literature.
With the adverse ruling of the United
States Supreme Court on his appeal, Hern-
don has surrendered to the Georgia autOr-
tiles, been imprisoned in the Funton Tow
err Jail, and brought suit for writ of ha-
beas corpus. SympathizerS are working
frantically to secure 100000 signatures
to a petition requesting Governor Tai
madge to free Herndon, and urging the re-
peal of the 1886 instruction" law.
So enviable reputation has Georgia JUS
tice. that when informed of Governor Tai
madge's suggestion that they hold in Ma
con, Georgia, their proposed debate on the
power of the judiciary, Governor Olson OF
Minnesota said:
81 deem it inadviSable to have the de-
bate in Georgia because | would be obi
gated to comment on the denial of the
constitutional right of free speech In
Georgia. and | might find myself on the
chain gang with Angelo HerndOn."
Should Olson change his mind and decide
to speak in Georgia, he had better be
careful not to have copy of the Declare
ton of independence in his possession
Common CnnCo
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THE HAYMARKET MARTYRS

"Forty-eight years ago, on November IL,
five Chicago labor leaders died on the gal
lows to satisfy the blood luStS of Chicago
newspapers and organized industry" says
A. F. Lockhart, editOrially in the ST. Paul
Union Advocate. ''These five men were
the victims of the Haymarket bombing
during a bitter strike at the Mccormick
harvester works when union labor clashed
with an army of strikebreakerS headed by
the Infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency.
THE issue was one of union recognition
and An eight-hOur day The Chicago Trib-
une and Daily News, mOuthpieces of big
business, had whipped the city into fury
of protest against the demands of the
strikers. A corrupt police administration
working hand in glove with strikebreaking
agencies, had dictated policy of clubbing
skulls at the least prOvocation. On May 4,
1886, a protest meeting was held in Hay
market Square. A drilling rain had set
in and the meeting was about to close
when 200 heavily armed police charged the
crowd. Guns blazed and a bomb was
thOwn. Seven police officers were killed
and 80 wounded.
''Six men were arrested, all of them La
Dor leaders. Day after day the Chicago
Tribune demanded that they pay with their
lives. Their attorney was oStraciZed and
driven from practice in Chicago; mobs
Stormed the court room; speakers called
upon the courts to avenge the murder of
the seven police officers Evidence was
introduced and admitted by the state
which was as unfOunded on fact as was
most of the testimony in the Mooney
Billings case. The jury found the men
guilty and they were sentenced to hang
One of them escaped execution by suicide
in the Cook County Jail. The others died
on the gallows, November IL, 1887.
''The next day the broken bodies of the
five victims of judicial murder were bur,
led in Waldheim cemetery, and as they
were lowered into their graves their chie1
counsel declared.
"FOr the love of truth they died. They
fought for a cause believing themselves
in the right and in the years to come
they will be loved and revered."
THAT prophesy has been redeemed, anC
each year a great crowd gathers at thei
monument in Waldheim cemetery on tn
anniversary of their Deaths where elo
quent speakers give voice to a sentimen
that has mellowed with the passing o
time.
''They did not die in vain. For the low
of the truth they gave their all in all, an
the fight for social justice goes on and on.
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YES. BUSINESS MORALITY is
VERY LOW

A British Judge deemed it necessary to
publicly comment on 1.-THE low standard of
business morality displayed by Mr. Wal
ter P. Chrysler, one of the most powerful
of our automobile magnates, in his deal
ingS with his British associates.
Those who feel that Mr.. Chrysler's case
is exceptional should consider the sworn
testimony presented to the Federal Trade
COMMISSIONS fully reported in recent
issues of Labor-in connection with the
commissions investigation of the battle ov-
er a natural gas franchise in Denver, Col
OFado. in the fall of 1927.
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try" How many of US are going
to be one Of these heros in the
next war?
In a book of actual photo
graphs from the last war, there
is a picture Of a priest blessing
thousands upon thousands of the
Cars soldiers before they were
sent to the front. There is like
wise a picture from Germany and
from England, where the cardin-
ais or bishops are asking Gods
blessing upon the soldiers of each
nation, asking God to bless these
men so they will be better able to
murder one another, and we know
that the ministers of each warning
nation prayed from their pulpits
that God would give victory to
their soldiers, which again meant
being able to kill the most of his
fellowmen. ask again Just how
long will we swallow such stuff.
A member Of a certain church
told me, that under the world war
his pastor told him God had sent
US the war on account of our
wickedness. / ask you, has the
world become less wicked on &C
count Of it? However the world
war did accomplish one thing.
Communism was born out Of it, so
if God made the war, he must be
the creator of communism.
The church complains that it is
losing its influence over the
people. If it desn't want to lose it
intirely it viii have to stop these
glazing contradictions. It will have
to stop asking Gods blessing upon
the soldiers so they viii be more
successful in killing one another
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War and Fascism
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
Devil and Profit?" Since God
says Sthoa shall not kill', then
killing must be the work of the
devil, net God.
We call ourselves an intelligent
nation, a nation that is able to
think for ourselves, and still we
permit, without a protest, such
inscriptions to be placed on our
monuments, inscriptions which
distOrt the truth to such an extent
that God is credited with work
which surely belongs elsewhere.
Why is this done? Because Just
as long as they are able to make
us believe that the wholesale
murder which we call war is for
Gods sake, just that long they will
be safe in going TO war again
they will again be able to make
more blood money.
The soldiers however, who did
deserve a statue with such an in
seFiption as the one on the Willis
ton monument, were men like
Eugene Debs, together with all
the rest who opposed this war with
aA their might, who refused 20
participate in that awful slaugh-
ter, all those jailed and tortured
By their government for the fight
they really did put up for their
country These are the ones we
should build statues for with the
inscription "For God and Coun.
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It will have to stop being the err
rand boy of the capitalists, if not
then it will surely slide down the
same CREASED plank that the cap
italist system is sliding down on
these years.
AS far as it being for the sake
of our country, ! wish again to ask
where and just how has it helped
the people of our country. / don't
think there is any honest person
today who win not admit that the
world war is ono et the direct
causes of our deplsss ion. How
idiotic is not all this talk of a war
causing prosperity to the common
man, how idiotic to think that the
world could spend four years do
ing nothing but destroying every
thing it could get a chance at
and then to think that's the road
to prosperity. It's just the same
for you to think that you can GO
out and burn your house, barn and
other buildings, kill your cattle
and horses, smash your machinery,
wreck your fences and fields, in
short, destroy everything and then
say now am on the right road ia
prosperity.
No, the common people reaped
misery from the world war the
same as they do from any war,
but there is however a very small
percent of of our people who reap
ed tremendous profits out of war,
1t was these men who started the
last war, and it viii be the same
class of people who start the next
one. How well we remember those
noble patriots who left their bus
Continued on page fourl
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properties that were in a
hopeless financial condition.

properties that were in a
hopeless financial condition.
FIGHT LIBERALS
WITH MONEY
Mr.. Hutt0n's statement was re-
markable only for its blunt Ian
guage. Business men usuallY en-
ploy softer words. Here IS how
ga d. Whiteside, president of
Dun e. BradStreet says very much
the same thing as Hutton said:
cit may be feasible to sug-
gset that business men take
the initiative-in systematic
ally approaching Senators and
Representatives of their own
states and districts, for the
purpose of cOnstructively dis
cussing the laws which have
recently been passed, and par
ticularly the trend of legisla-
tiOn which appears to be con-
templated in the next session
of Congress-
Legislators recognize this as
speaking softly and carrying a
big stick"
The stick takes the form of q
campaign slush funds to be used
according to thet voting record OF
the legislator. 1t is already clear
that the Republican Party will be
the chief beneficiary Of these slusf
funds, and chairman Fletcher is
taking advantage of the situation
caused by the election of an in
creasing number of liberal anC
radical Legislators bv going out af
ter a 'Hwar chest" modelled aftel
the Mark Hanna fundof 1896. II
this campain, business men wer'
assessed to finance the Republi
can party. They made GOOD re
turns on their investment in year
following. This year the Repu0
leans apparently plan to make u
in the power of cold cash wha
hey lack in popular support.
| The development of a new par
!, ty out of the federated organize
tions of farmers, workers an
consumers, as sought by the Com
monwealtb Federation. will CLAIR
~ the issues and help to show tn
voters that the two old parties al
largely dominated by selfish spec
ial groups. Abraham Lincol
saw the issue clearly:
at has SO happened, in all til
ages of the world. that some haI
labOred and others have withOI
labor enjoyed a large. prOpOrtiO
of the fruits. This is wrong an
should not continue"
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Comments on Weeks NeUs
FrOm American Commonwealth FEEDER

When Edward F. Hutton, chair
man of the board of eneral Foodh
Corporation and leading promoter
of the Liberty League, proposed
that business and industry "gang
up" on the United States Con-
gIess and flight with all the re-
sources at our command" against
Congressman who refuse to ae-
cede to the wishes of business
men, he proposed nothing new
nothing even that is not being
done today.
The technique which Mr.. Hut
ton proposes was observed 10 be
in practice when Abraham Lincoln
was President by no less a person
than Lincoln himself.
President Lincoln commented on
it in these words:
These capitalists generally act
harmOniOusly and in. concert. to
TO fleece the people"
GANGING UP
ON THE TREASURY
Tn evidence that business al
ready has a strong and effective
lobby to bulldoze Congress is ov-
erwhelming. Only the clumsiness
and the brazen dishonesty of the
power trust prevented the defeat
by political pressure of the util
lty holding company act; and il
other things business has gener
ally had its way. It's successes in
clude:
Air mail and ship subsidies.
Reconstruction Finance Cor
pOratiOn loans to bankrupt
businesses.
Excessive expenditures Ito
business) for munitions of
war, amounting this year to
approximately one billion dol
lars.
Tariff policies favorable to
Industries and detrimental to
the rest of the country.
For example Mr.. ]. P. Nor
gan. who this week uttered a
blast against the proposed
policy of taxing rich men to
pay the cost of government
is himself the beneficiary of
large government favOrs. Re-
construction Finance COrpOra-
ton loans to MOrgan-cOntrol-
led companies have saved
him from heavy losses: and
last winter only the vigilence
of Charles A. Beard and a
group of victims of Morgan
operations prevented Morgan
interests from getting a gov
eminent loan on railroad
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Here we have officials of the New Jersey
Standard vi Company-one of the most
powerful OF the Rockefeller groups-nuh-
Ideally acknowledging under oath that thew
paid S35O,OOO IN cash to the late Frederick
G. Bontlls, then publisher of the Denver
Post, the paper with the largest circu
lation in the inter-mountain West.
In return, according to these Standard
Oil officials, Mr. Bonfils agreed to betrav
his city by changing the editorial policy
of his paper on an issue which affected the
pocketbOok of practically every citizen of
Denver.
True, the daughter of the dead publisher
denies that father accepted the bride. but
unfortunately the record shows that the
Post" abruptly ceased its opposition to
the franchise and proceeded to vigorously
demand it's ratification.
Chrsity Payne, president of the Standard
Oil subsidiary directly involved in the
franchise fight, admits that he cashed the
check and turned over the cash to George
II. Shaw, one of the "big shots" on the
legal staff of the DOherty public utility in
tereStS.
And Mr.. Shaw INDUCES in a little wise
cracking as he tells how he passed the
envelope to Mr.. Bonfils.
In other words, Messrs. Shaw and Payne
confess, openly and braZenly, that they are
cOrruptionistS on a grand scale.
"WhO's Who in America" tells us Mr..
Shaw is member of three bar aSsocia-
tions-the Denver, the Colorado. and the
American. The members of these organ
izatiOns are constantly prOclaiming their
determination to preserve a high stan
dard of legal ethics"
How do they propose to handle the case
of Mr.. Shaw? Is it ethical for a law
yer to bride a newspaper publisher to
betray the interests of a great city?
And what are the Rockefellers, who
control Standard Oil, going to do about Mr..
Payne's part in the nauSeOus transaction
Evidently Mr. Shaw and Mr.. Payne are
not worrying Presumably they consider
bribery part of "the business game" and
therefore, entirely ethical" Mr. Shaw will
! continue as a distinguished member of
three bar associations, and Mr. Payne will
move unchallenged among his business
associates.
The Federal Trade Commission has Civ
: en- us an inkling of the corruption which
J marked the passage of one utility fran
f chise in one city. There is no reason to be
9 ieve that Denver's experience Is execp
. tional. If tn commission could dig out tn
: facts in every city of Importance in thi
; country, it would discover substantial!
n the same corrupt connection between util
,. ity corporations and the majority of on
e big daily newspapers.-LabOr
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Entered as Second Class Matter, October
Is, 1918, at the Post Office at Plentywood,
Montana, Under the Act of March 9, 1897.
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THE PRODUCERS NEWS

Published Friday of each week at Plenty
wood, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing
Company, Inc.