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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
RADICALS END
HUNGER STRIKE

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8. U.P)-Six
of their number-once again we'll
fed-the II Communists charged
with criminal syndicalism were pre-
pared today to resume their defense
Monday.
A hunger strike of the six who
remained in Jail for inability to
post bond, ended when the sheriff
promised better meals, admitted he
didn't blame them for object
ing
Frank M. Peterson, Earlimart Tu-
lare county rancher, testified for
the state. yesterday. He said one of
the defendants spoke to cotton
workers during the San Joaquin
strike and urged violence.
" Give Pixley more publicity
than any other city in California, "
Peterson quoted the speaker as say
ing. Take the law into your
own hands. If they get in your
way, put them in the hospital. We II
show the rats , were the words
of Pat Chambers, a defendant, Pet
erson stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
CHAUTAUQUA AT
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH SUNDAY

First Baptist church of this city
will sponsor a splendid program
Sunday afternoon, at 2 p IN. in the
church, conducted by the Southern
California Baptist Missionary Chau-
tauqua.
Rev. Carl c. Harwood, moderator
for the Imperial Valley association,
will preside and the theme for this
program is to be "The Light of the
World. "
Earl E. Cavanaugh of CaleSico
will open the session with the de-
votions at p. IN. after which Mrs.
Ola Hanson will speak on ga Lamp
for the Kachin Jungles.o -
Mrs. Ola Hanson spent nearly 40
years of her life in service as a
missionary in Burma. With her
husband, she worked among the
Kachins, a hill tribe of northern
Burma. DR.. Hanson spent four years
in reducing the Kachin language to
writing and 16 more in preparing
an adequate dictionary. In 1926 he
completed the translation of the
!. entire Bible into the Kachin Ian
guage. Mrs. Hanson shared in these
activities and many honors came
to them for their work among the
hill people. DR.. Hanson died in
1929 and in 1880 Mrs. Hanson re-
tired from active work. She has a
vast fund of experiences on which
to draw for her interesting and in
Structive talks.
Rcll call and offering will follow,
after which Inspecting the Lower
Lights" a conference on promotion,
will be led by Rev. Walter E. Wood
bury.
"The Church, a Spiritual Light
house" is the topic of the confer
ence on evangelism which will fea-
ture reports by the various church.
es, the moderator leading.
A skit, "The Rays Go Forth In
to All the Worldo will be followed
by an address, fLights and Shes
dows,'' by Rev. Thomas Moody.
Rev. Moody has been missionary
in Belgian Congo since 1890. In
1917 he was transferred to Soma Ba-
ia where a remarkable movement
towards Christianity was effected.
Often Rev. and Mrs. Moody were
alone. conducting the evangelistic,
educational and medical work in a
field of 10000 square miles. Each
year hundreds of people have be-
come members of the church.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
New York Stocks

NEW YORK, Feb. 9. U,P) - The
stock market held yesterday S gains
fairly well in today s short session.
In few instances changes exceeded
a point, but in the main list fluctua-
tions were narrow and meaningless.
Railroad shares held we'll but made
no additional gain Utilities were
up slightly. Steels recorded small
gains and some oils were higher.
Motors were steady.
American Sugar Refining was at
IS, up 2ss; American Power & Light
6 per cent preferred 14h up IA, and
Seaboard Oil 2512 up 2l2.
Union Pacific declined to 98% off
Is before meeting support on which
it firmed. Small gains were held
by New York Central and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Atchison was slight
ly under the previous close.
United Steel issues and Bethle-
hem Steel were fractionally high
er Republic recovered to the prev
ious close after an early decline.
News from steel centers indicates a
rise in the operating rate.
The demand for automobile issues
which featured yesterdays session
was absent today but prices were
steady. Automobile equipment is
sues we're around the previous close.
Such stocks as American Can, Du-
Pont, National Distillers, General
Electric, Westinghouse Electric, and
Western Union recorded m a / ]
gains. Wet stocks and chemicals
were firm. Sugar shares strength
ened with American Sugar Refining
Amusements were steady to firm
Some gold and Silver stocks made
small advances.
Sales today approximated 290,-
900 shares compared with 100000
last Saturday. Curb sales were
SO 900 shares compared with 74,00O
shares last Saturday.
Dow Jones preliminary closing
averages showed industrial 1925
up 0.30, railroad 1918 off 0.20
utility 1880 up 0.07.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
AIMEE'S PROGRAM TO RESCUE
NATION FROM COMMUNISM IS
SHELVED FOR LACK OF MONEY

NEW YORK, Feb. 8. WP)-Sister
Aimee Semple Mcpherson had a
dream "strai rht from God" COM
| manding her to be Americas Joan
/ of Arc and rid the nation of
Communism and other subversive
elements, it was revealed today.
But Aimees dream has been shat
tered because promoters of the
great campaign she planned have
ben unable to raise the 100000 or
more needed
The dream summoned her to go
forth bearing the torch of new
foursquare deal something like
her -four square gospel"-under
management of Guido Orlando for
mer movie director, and E. j. Welch,
promoter.
The dream did not command her
TO do it for nothing-or, for that
matter, for anything less than So
200 week, which was the minimum
figure Sister Aimee fixed for her SER
vices.
LllS pHiJOO q WCCh Wdo llOb lOlbll-
coming-not even a good part OF
it. So the inspired drama against
atheism and bolshevism, which was
TO have come to climax in Kansas
City in a gigantic outdoor opera
with so to 100 beautiful girls" in a
pageant, with Sister Aimee in the
leding role, has been abandoned.
Sister Aimee is enroute to China
TO visit the tomb of her former hus-
band Robert Semple, "a broken
hearted woman, conscious that the
people she had counted on failed to
support her"
The support" was to have in
volved a $3.50 split with the pro-
moters, according to Messrs. Or
lando and WEIGH, SO they were-it
not brokenhearted-at least Sadden-
cd.
Bankers Not Interested
"We contacted banking and fin
ancial sources" Orlando said. AL
though they were interested in
checking Communism, they were
doing business with Soviet Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
MUCH INTEREST
IN PRODUCTION
OF HEDDA GABLER

Followers of the Experimental
Theatres progress are interested in
seeing the Interpretation by the To-
cal group of Henrik Ibsen's MASTER
piece, "Hedda Gabler," to be given
Thursday and Friday of next week
in the Seeley theatre, postponed
from this week because of the rain.
This play has been favorite
with all groups of players because
of the demands it makes upon the
actors skill in delineating charac-
ter and because the psychological
problems which it presents are as
vital as if the play had been writ
ten today possibly by Eugene o.
Neill, whose Strange Interlude" is
the nearest approach in this type OF
play. ONeill's Nina" and Ibsen's
"Hedda," while utterly dissimilar,
are alike in that they are both neu-
rotic women, who exert an influ-
ence on the people who surround
them.
Henrietta Blank is "Hedda" and
her characterization of the inward
ly cowardly woman whose dangerous
desire to arrange other peoples
lives motivates the play, is said to
be excellent.
Phil Remington will depart from
his usual role as a kindly elderly
gentlemen, usually ordered about by
the women OF his family, and will
appear as the smooth, villaipous
Judge BracN.
Other theatre favorites who ap-
pear in the cast are George Carter
Nettie Bayley who has not played
for some time and whose work is
decided addition, Mrs. Norman P.
Pearse, Mrs. l.. D. Hanks. Sid Fan
cher, newcomer TO the group, is said
TO give an outstanding perform
ance.
Leroy Rumsey is director; John
Wells designed the sets, Phil Re-
mington arranged the lighting ef-
fects and Mrs. Russell Bennitt is to
be in charge of the musical pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
MRS. D|ONNE
VERY TIRED
BY EVERETT HOLES
nited Press Staff Correspondent

I
CHICAGO, Feb. 0. - Mr.. Max
Halperin, ringmaster for papa and
mama Dionne, confessed in his shy
way today that he's found beauti-
full satisfaction IN his glorification
of motherhood
1T sort Of gets you here said
Mr.. Halperin solemnly. He thumped
his heart with his fist.
His other hand was in his pants
pocket
The dapperly turned-out theatri-
cal agent, who smokes 35-cent Gig
arettes, brought the parents of the
famous Canadian quintuplets to the
United States five days ago on a
good will" tour.
THE American people want to
meet this wonderful little mother" +"
ne said. This is just visit, nothing
commercial about it,"
But Mama Elzire Dionne, wearied
by appearing five times a day on
the stage of Loop" vaudeville
theatre, wished today that she could
go back to Calender, Ont, to her
quintuplets and five other children.
II am very tired" she said in
French.
Papa Dionne, black-haired little
Olivia, said he was bearing up splen-
didly and didn't mind swimming
around in the goldfish bowl of Mr..
Halperin's ballyhoo.
Were going to earn lot of mon
ey," he said simply.
From the theatre contracts nest
ling in Mr.. Halperins portfolio they
stand to earn about $4,000 before
they 90 back to their backwoods
home in Canada.
The ballyhoo reached a new high
when-just as the Dionnes we're
about to make their first stage ap-
pearance-they were sued for ST.
100000 in federal court. Ivan Spear,
a promoter who failed where Mr..
Halperin succeeded, charged Olivia
with slipping out of contract last
May whereby the "quints" would
have been exhibited on the Worlds
Fair midway.
From Chicago the good will tour"
of Papa and Mama Dionne will take
them to Detroit, then to Cleveland
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and per-
haps Boston.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
JUNIOR CLUBS
DANCE TAKES
PLACE TONIGHT

Junior Ten Thousand club mem
bers are looking forward to the first
club dance of the spring which is to
take place this evening in the club
house.
These dances are. always enjoy
able affairs and this one promises
to be particularly attractive one.
Valentine decorations will be used
and this holiday will be the theme
of the speciality dance.
Members of the social commit
tee are in charge: Miss Gene Edgar
chairman; Mrs. Margaret Handy
Mrs. Leo A. Magee, Mrs. George
Bennitt; the Misses Lola Freeman,
Virginia Finney, Jean Meyer, Hazel
Velman, Eunice Sprinkle, Katherine
Huston.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09

I'VE got pledges up to SIS 1000, but
that Of course was insufficient"
Orlando related how sister Aimee
came to him "on or about Sept /,
1884, because she was the most mis-
understood woman in America. She
said she was losing her Los Ange-
les temple.
"She said she had a dream in
which God appeared and COM
manded her to take the initiative to
do something for her country by
stopping Communism.
''She saw herself in the role of
Joan of Arc He would be behind
her and this was the psychological
time to act. 1t was her time to rise
as Joan of Arc and undo all the
unfavorable publicity which follow
ed her disappearance in 1926 and her
marriage to David Hutton
Sister Aime intended to organize
q Save America League" and a
Defense League of Prayer and
Principle The prayer was theie
but the principal was lacking, so
Aimee gave up.
Sister Aimee still feels that IN
less Communism is checked, Fas-
cism such as Huey Long stands for
will come to this country" Orlando
said. He revealed that Aimee had
already done much to stall off the
"bolsheviks.
Her greatest work was a whis-
pering campaign against Upton Sim
clair in California, among the 700,-
600 members of the faith"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
Bank Night At
TWo Theatres

To avoid congestion which has
prevailed at United Artists theatre
on recent bank nights Manager
Herb Norris today announced that
both United Artists theatre and
Fox Imperial theatre will be used
tonight to accommodate patrons.
The same show will be shown in
each house and at 9 o'clock the
bank night award will be made at
United Artists theatre. Names
called at United Artists theatre
will be telephoned to Fox Imperial
so that patrons there may be in
formed
Menace" is the principal picture
with another chapter of the serial
"Tailspin Tommy" being shown.
United Artists started its usual
Saturday show at 2:30 this after
noon. Fox Imperial theatre will
open at Gas with the show start
ing at 7 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
TO PROBE DEATH THREATS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 0. W.P)-De-
tective Lieutenants j. j. Sanborn
and w. Murray were to go to Santa
Ana today TO assist authorities there
in investigating the receipt of a SER
les of death threat letters by Mrs.
Eva Cook, of Los Angeles,
Mrs. Cook is said to be heiress to
a $l50,000 Santa Ana estate now in
litigation.
The officers planned to question
her former husband, Elmo Dunn.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
DUKE Of KENT
To RESCUE Of
YANKEE SHIP

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 UP)--
A south Pacific storm which for
25 hours had lashed and battered
the schooner Seth Parker relaxed
its grip on the round-the-world
ship today.
A message from Phillips Lord,
American radio entertainer COM
manding the 187-foot wooden YES
sci indicated that she is coming
safely through the high seas which
for time had threatened to
capsize her.
For a time Lord feared for the
safety of his craft, manned by a
crew of ID and equipped with only
sails and a small auxiliary motor.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 0. U.P)-
The Australian cruiser Australia,
with the Duke of Gloucester, third
son of King George, aboard, today
raced to the rescue of the four
maSted American schooner, Seth
Parker.
AAO ONOll al hCls NY
Phillips Lord, radio entertainer, re-
ported herself in distress in the
South Pacific off Tahiti, her decks
aWaSh in a terrific storm. She had
ID persons aboard.
The Duke of Gloucester is re-
turning to England from an Off
cial visit to Australia. The cruiser
Australia left Apia, Samoa Islands,
for Balboa, Canal Zone, Friday.
She informed the Seth Parker she
would require 10 hours at full speed
TO reach her.
The Seth Parker gave her position
as approximately 100 miles east of
the Samoa Islands and 600 miles
northwest of Tahiti.
Through Globe Wireless it was
learned that the Seth Parker has
been battered badly by gale which
has lashed her for "a hours with
out letup
At 2:3o a. m. (PST) the United
Press received a report from Radio
Corporation of America that the
Australia was 300 miles from the
schooner and was proceeding toward
her at 20 knots.
The S. S. Franconia at the same
time was within 600 miles of the
stricken vessel.
Lord and his crew are sailing
around the world. They started
from a Maine port last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09

Most apple growers at Hood
River, Oregon, will use bands in
cooling moth control this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
L. A. Stocks

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 UH =
Slight gains were registered on
strong but inactive market on the
Los Angeles stock exchange today.
Kinner Motors led the board
with sales of 1900 shares, down
.0212 at go. Universal Consoli-
dated was up 4 at 6la on sales of
5000 shares.
Union Oil was up 4 at 1875 on
200 shares while Standard gained
a quarter at 302s. Hancock lost
Is at lis.
Transamerica remained un-
changed at SIS.
Claude Neon, selling 500 shares,
was up y at 10%.
Edison common gained 4 at II
as did the per cent preferred at
21B.
Southern Pacific was up Is at
l5A
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
PER(OnQL.
PaRaCRapHC

Twice Told Tales section of the
Ten Thousand club meets Monday
afternoon, February II, at 2:30 p. m.
at the home of Mrs. Charles E. An
derson, 531 Sandalwood Drive. Mrs.
Forrest E. Kutz has the program.
Friends of Miss Iva Reah Skip
per will be sorry to learn that she
is confined to her home, recuperat-
ing from an operation for the re-
moval of her tonsils yesterday
Lyman P. Robertson of Los An
geleS, formerly a resident of tbs
CITY, is in El Centro today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
L. A. Butter and Eggs

d. B. Walls, Petaluma, Sonoma
county, feeds green's to his hens
every day in the year through a
careful rotation of crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
\ (InL|<G>S :
L. A. Poultry

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8. U.D---
Following are Looays market quo
tations.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
DRAMATIC MUNITIONS
HEARING

CLEVELAND dU.P)-A dramatiza-
ton of the Senate munitions hear
ing was given following a dinner in
church here, by the Rostrum,
political science group of Western
Reserve University. Professor Will
liam A D. Millson directed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-09
AUTHOR PICKED BEAUTIES

MONTEVALLO, Ala. WP)-Octa-
vus Roy Cohen, author, was Sc
lected to choose the four most
beautiful girls of Alabama College,
and their pictures will adorn the
pages of Technala, the schools
annual.
The Washington times., 1935-10-30

that one Of these more useful
buildings" was being built there
was q shortage Of boards for floor
ing. Dikiy then ordered. with his
usual ingenuity, that the floor be
made Of the antique ikons stored
in the third church, which was
now occupied by the dining'room,
kitchen, and the repair shops OF
the camp.
The ikons were nailed to the
floor beams and a sort Of parquetry
resulted, but it was so insecure
that eventually boards had to be
nailed over the ikons. Thanks to
this sacrilege many priceless ikons
were buried, perhaps for a long
time to come.
The grandioSe plans for the
Northern construction were all
scrapped. The building Of the rail-
road and the industrial central
settlement at KotlaS, as well as all
other projects. were abandoned
halfway. The only thing left in
the program was the highway. Its
construction was rushed with all
possible speed. Twelve thousand
prisoners were concentrated in "a
work posts along the line and
worked increasingly. In the winter
months these prisoners were tc be
transferred to work in the forest
cutting timber in accordance with
a contract made with "KomileS." "
an exporting organization.
Behind Schedule
Usually earthwork labor was
easier than timber-cutting, but in
this particular case the prisoners
were doomed to disappointment.
Moscow had given definite orders
for the completion Of the highway
by the first Of November and had
found an exemplary executive in
Commander Dikiy to see the plan
through.
A mad rush began. Shock de-
tachmentS were organized at every
work post. They consisted chiefly
of young criminals who were won
over by promises of a partial COM
mutation of their sentences. With
this inducement in view, they
went to it tooth and nail, work
ing IA to is hours a day and even
exceeding the planned quotas.
Workers Of these detachments re-
ceived increased rations Of por'
The Washington times., 1935-10-30
ABANDONMENT
OF NEW TOWN
ORDERED

ridge or soup and were paid five
roubles a month in cash.
However, in spite Of these very
effective methods. by the end Of
August it was plain that the work
was behind the schedule set by
the plan. Early in September a
telegram was received from Mos
COW with instructions to have the
highway ready for delivery to the
inspection commission ten days
earlier, /. e., by the twentieth Of
October.
The administration commanders
sent menacing kilograms to the
construction bases and every eve
ming all superintendents were
called on the telephone and ad
monished with threats, curses and
abuse. It was sort Of daily
doping. But the doping did not
help much and the work con-
tinued to lag behind the require
mentS.
The Washington times., 1935-10-30
MORE S0VIE7 I
! INEFFICIENCY
REVEALED
By GEORGE KITCHIN
Chapter xxx

On the following day we re-
sumed the work; the number
Of logs in the river gradually
diminished. On the third day
we were back in the office,
but the mobilized population
continued working. The at
tempt to drive the logs with
out tying them into RATS was
. total failure. More than a
million logs had gone out into
the ocean!
However, the driving con-
tinued. Thousands and thou
sands of logs passed solvy-
chegodsk daily, floating down
the river in unending sue
cession. The damaged booms
at Archangel were hastily re-
paired, the communist in
charge was replaced by an.
other, and his technical ad-
wiser, an engineer, was arrest
ed and thrown into Jail.
Toward the end Of the log
driving operations. we were again
sent to the river, for the water
level had fallen to such an extent
that many logs remained on the
banks and had to be showed back
into the water. Together with
the modified population we were
kept busy at this for another
three days.
On June IS the log-driving
operations were officially de-
clared completed and navigation
was reopened.
40 Per Cent Lost
Then came the report Of the
results. About 40 per cent Of all
the logs had been lost in the
ocean.
About this time a telegram was
received from Moscow containing
important instructions. The
Northern penal camps, trans
ferred to the village Of Use-Vym,
in the Komi territory, were to
be called the Ust-Vym Corrective
Penitentiary Camp. The new
camp was charged with finishing
the highway construction between
Ust-SySolsk and Ukhta and with
keeping the Unfinished Syktyv-
kar-Penug railroad line in repair.
A new commander arrived ana
took charge. It was the chekist
Dikiy-Dymoff from the Caucasus,
who had been caught in some
transgresSion but had been par
doned and made commander Of
the new camp. This swarthy
little man was not still for a
moment and stirred up everybody
with his superabulndant energy.
He remained in Solvychegodsk
only a half a day, but, but Wis
tied all the departments OF the
camp, rushing from one to the
other on horseback, canceling old
orders and issuing new ones. In
the evening he took the river
boat for Kotlas, examined the
warehouses, gave some new in
structions and left for Moscow.
Most of his orders were i'm
practicable, but he had descended
upon us like a tornado and
brought some life into the mo-
notony of our daily existence. In
another week he was back from
Moscow with an order to COM
plete without fail the construc-
ton Of the highway before win
ter.
Fun on the Rats
Two days later we left by
steamer for our new destination.
We passed the remainder of the
floating logs. They came down