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Montana labor news., 1936-01-23

the commissars and every n who
means anything in the U. S. S. R.
The opening speech was made by V.
A. Mezhlauk, head OF the State Plan
ming Commission, who described the
why, the wherefore and the how Of the
building program.
Costs Cut Only Trifle
Mr.. Mezhlauk, an outstanding citizen
who is not afraid to tell the truth said {:
Last year we meant to reduce build
ing costs by Is per cent-we reduced
them by l per cent. This year we
planned to reduce costs by AS per cent
we reduced them by IA per cent"
Then he went on to show why and
where reduction efforts had failed. He
told how the huge copper reduction
plant on Lake Balkash, near the Chin
ese border, had already cost 100000
rubles more than planned and was still
not done.
They asked him why-that is one of
the most interesting things about these
Russian discussions, that people inter-
rupt and ask questions, which shows
how deeply they are interested - and
Mr.. Mezhlauk replied
Because you, my dear Comrade-
Commissars don't run your business
properly. My job is planning, but it is
up to you to put our plans into prac-
tice."
There was something interest
ing still. They brought into the meet
ing, which, as said before, included
Stain and all the most important fig
ures in the U. S. S. r., a simple brick
layer named Zmurin and let him talk
He not only talked but what he said
covered three-quarters OF the front
page Of Pravda, which is the organ Of
the Communist party-that is to say
lit is the mouthpiece of the U. S. S. R
and prints 100000 copies every day.
Zmurin told them plenty-how he had
worked on Magnitogorsk and other
Montana labor news., 1936-01-23
SOVIET ANALYZES
BUILDING ERRORS
Stain and Other High Officials
Listen to Attacks as Drive
Is Begun to Cut Waste.
WORKMAN SPEAKS BOLDLY
z Government Executives Also
Critical-Vast 6,OO0,0 600, 900
Program is Under Way.
By WALTER

Special Gable to The New York Times
MOSCOW, Dec. 10 Building, of
course, is the first and easiest test
of a nations prosperity. The more il
builds the more prosperous is a nation.
You can see that today in London and
there is no doubt of the answer -
Britain is recovering from the depres-
sion.
But British building or any other is
simply insignificant compared with that
in Soviet Russia. Here they are build
ing-mad. From the Artic Ocean to the
Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the
shores of the Pacific, there is such a
fury of building as the world never saw
In the coming year the Soviet will
spend 32,000,000,000 rubles on a building
program which, in the valuation Of
Russian materials and Russian labor
represents SIS, 0O0,000,000 to $20,00O,0O0,-
900.
In the last few days there was held
in the Kremlin the congress OF Russian
Master Builders. Josef Stain, secre-
tary of the Communist party, was pre-
sent. also Premier V. NJ. Molotoff, al
Montana labor news., 1936-01-23
Not in the Spirit of Self-Sacrifice

The third annual Birthday Ball for the Presi-
dent, like its predecessors, is primarily concerned
with raising funds to fight infantile paralysis in
this country. But despite the immediate SYM
pathy which contemplation Of the suffering Of
~infantile paralysis victims evokes, there is no
intention of using an emotion appeal to swell
the fund.
The process of rehabilitation after poliomye-
litis is long and the benefits very slow to appear.
If the convalescents were to take a melancholy
attitude toward their plight their chances Of
overcoming physical h~andicaps would be greatly
reduced. For this reason the psychological as
poets of after-treatment are extremely impor-
tant, and they are duly stressed by such institu-
tions as Warm Springs.
If you notice pictures of the youngsters un-
dergoing treatment it will be apparent to you
that. their attitude is far from melancholy.
Smiling and cheerful, they take the whole bust
ness Of rehabilitation as a game, in which each
tedious step on the road to recovery-repeated
a thousand times-is like an individual play in a
football contest-to be worked uncomplainingly
for all it is worth.
This is why it is so appropriate to finance the
battle against infantile paralysis through a ma
tion-wide party where all who contribute by
buying tickets may thoroughly enjoy themselves.
In the smallest community dance or the great ball
at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York it will be
the granddaughter will be the symbol OF re-
turning happiness to the afflicted.
President Roosevelt, whose birthday is the
occasion of this tremendous gathering, has, as
we all know, taken the leadership in this fight
against ~infantile paralysis. The one director
ship he retained after being inaugurated as
President was that Of the Warm Springs Foun-
dation, and it is only fitting that, in his capacity
as a leader of the organized fight against infan-
tile paralysis, he should be so honored on his
birthday.
Hundreds Of thousands of i~nfantile paralysis
victims look to him as an inspiring example of
what cheerful courage can do to overcome dis
ability. They look to him also as a friend who
will do all in his power to help in their own
cases. And their own cases do need help.
For there is as yet w%oefully little that medi-
cine can do to help them. The cause of infantile
paralysis is still obscure, and its manner of
spreading. Immunization has not progressed
far. And there are few hospitals properly
equipped TO administer advertisement for re-
Mobilization.
Much money is needed for research and equip
ment, as we'll as for the expense of treating par
ticular cases. Last year and the year before
something more than a million dollars was raised
at each of the previous birthday celebrations for
the President. Seventy per cent of this amount
was retained in the communities in which it was
raised, to support local hospitals in care and re-
search. The remainder went to Warm Springs
Foundation, center Of the organized attempt to
overcome i~nfantile paralysis.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
Thief Err R s.
IN TOSSING
LOOT TO COP
Cloud of Clothing
Engulfs Night
Patro[men

Luis Cabrajal, 81, was get
ting along very we'll with his
burglarization of the Salmi
Samaha store at 453 Main
street at 2 o'clock Sunday
morning until FL Centro police Of
ficers happened to notice a large
pile of merchandise in the alley
back of the store. The owners
were out of town at the time the
store was entered.
AS police bent over the accumu-
lation, two shirts and jacket sail
ed out of a rear window and Joined
the pile. Resulting investigations
disclosed Carbajal busily engaged In
selecting garments from the stock
of the mercantile establishment.
The merchandise was valued at
$129.50 and included leather jackets,
shirts and other wearing apparel.
Entrance was gained by cutting
the heavy netting on window at
the rear of the building and tear
ing the screen. This window led
into the Samaha sleeping quarters
which were separated from the
store by heavy barred doors. Car
Continued on Page 2, Col. 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
DEAT 7 H UPS.
AUTO CRASH.
TOTAL HERE.
Liquor Inuolued In
Accidents Over
Weekend

One traffic death in I'M
perial county this weekend
brought tn annual total to
25 for the year. Four per-
sons were injured in spec
tacular weekend crashes and freak
accidents characterized automobile
and truck travel Saturday and
Sunday.
Peter Gerrarbini, 81, drove his
car off a bridge two miles north
east of Westmorland late Sunday
afternoon, plunged down 10 foot
bank and overturned in an irriga-
- E .tion canal. He drowned
before he could be ex-
tricated from the wreck
age. Witnesses said he had been
drinking and was driving in an
cratic manner a short time DE-
fore the accident, officers said.
Gerrarbini had been a resident of
Imperial Valley for Is years.
Two men we're injured on high
way 80 at 1:30 o'clock Sunday
morning. A car driven by James
A. Winkler, 40, of Ell Centro, ran
off the road and turned ever twice.
M. A. Martin, 20, of the U. S. S.
Melville, San Diego, who was an
occupant of the car, and Winkler
were injured in the crash. Itey
Continued on Page 2, Col q
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
DEAD LIVES AGAIN
IN MODERN MIR ACLE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. W,R)-
A miracle of modern medicine today
brought life to Eugene Kratzer, So,
a man who died.
For three years, Kratzer admitted
ly planned suicide. Yesterday he
swallowed two ounces of hydrocy-
anic acid, usually considered instan-
taneously fatal.
His daughter. Elizabeth, %, heard
him groan as the poison snuffed out
consciousness. Frantically she called
an emergency hospital. Within
half hour, Kratzer was on an oper-
ating table. Physicians were unable
to detect a pulse beat His breath
ing was not discernible.
He was rigid and motionless. His
skin had turned blue.
In another hour, he was laughing,
talking to attending physicians.
You boys are wonderful" he said,
I'm glad to be back"
During that hour Kratzer had
undergone the methylene blue treat
ment, which was first used to save
human lives in San Francisco in
1882.
Since then, the experiments of DR..
j. C.. Geiger, city health director,
lave been credited with saving sew
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
FIRST CRACKER
FIRE REPORTED
In Ell CENTRIC

Firecrackers caused their first
fire in Ell Centre at 6:57 Sunday al
ternoon. Damages totaling $40 re-
suited when children tossed fire
crackers behind the canvas flats on
a house at 1886 South Fourth street
according to Fire Chief Tom Reams.
Firemen extinguished the flames
before they spread to other parts of
the vacant building. The children
in the neighborhood were said to
have been using the place as play
house.
The property belongs to Mack
Bosworth of Calipatria and had not
been occupied for a year, Reams
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
WOMAN RELATES
LOCAL EPISODE
IN BALM SUIT


LOS ANGELES, June 80 WP)-
Lillian Owens, charging that she
lived with the defendant in Ell Cen
tro upon his promise of marriage
and a comfortable living, today de-
manded $4,000 damages from
Claude F. Relyea in a suit on file
in superior court, alleging breach
of promise.
According to her complaint, Miss
Owens accompanied Relyea to Ell
Centric several months ago and lived
with him in hotel after he alleged
ly told her they would be married
this month and that he earned $400
a month as San Diego district man
ager for a canned milk company.
She accused him of jilting her after
he discovered she was an expectant
mother.
Throughout the asserted romance,
Miss Owens claimed she "reposed
complete trust in the defendant be
cause of his inducement, articles
and promises"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
NEWSPAPER ADS
CREDITED WITH
BUSINESS HIKE

HOLLYWOOD. June %. UP)-
Newspaper advertising largely is re
sponsible for a 40 per cent increase
in American theater attendance and
receipts over last year. George j.
Schaefer, vice president in charge
of sales of United Artists Studio, re
ported today following his arrival to
attend the companys annual sales
convention.
To increase its share in these ben
efits, Schaefer said his studio would
spend $2,500,000 in newspaper adver-
tising during the coming year. A
film production budget of between
$21 100000 and $22,0OO,000 also was
announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
NEW VIOLENCE
MARKS FRENCH
STRIKE MARCH

PARIS, June 30. UP) - Serious
violence at Toulouse marked the
protracted general strikes in France
today.
The strikes hitherto have been
comparatively peaceful. At Tou-
louise, several were injured, includ-
ing the royalist editor, Edward de
Carol.
The casualties occurred during a
clash between adherents of the
conservative right and left wing
elements supporting the new pop
ular front government of Premier
Leon Blum.
Many were arrested. Massed
forces of police guarded the public
squares and bouleyards.
Twenty thousand workers went
out in the Mosselle valley industrial
district, making a total still on
strike of about 10000. Five thou
sand dock workers at Marseilles
threatened TO go out again, tying
UP shipping.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
TWO IMPERIAL
B 0YS FREED
in CAR. CASE
Innocence Accepted;
Others Jailed
On Coast

Cleared of suspicion in a
statewide automobile theft
ring, Wayne Kaylor, q, and
Carl Daniels, Is, both of
Imperial, had returned to
Imperial Valley this week after
an unfortunate brush with the law
in which they played the roles of
innocent bystanders, according to
Kaylor.
With Elmo Bowen, %, and Oscar
Daniels, 90, the youths were ar
rested at Pomona last week en-
suspicion of dealing in stolen auto
mobiles. After brief questioning,
Wayne and Carl were cleared CT
participation in the alleged Of
fense, but Bowen and Oscar Dan
iels were held.
Kaylor said he had been with
Bowen and Oscar Daniels several
days before they were arrested,
but knew nothing of automobile
theft activities, he said. Carl
Daniels had arrived at the auto
court where the others were stay
ing only a few hours before it
was raided by police.
The raiding officers found four
automobiles, three revolv9rs and
set of steel dies at the Pomona
auto court when they took the
youths into custody. They charg-
ed that two Of the boys operated
widely in stolen automobiles, blk
ing finance companies OF hun
dreds of dollars. Operations were
believed carried on from Oakland
to San Diego
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
KNIFE VICTIM
SLIGHTLY HURT

Heber dance hall was the scene
of an incipient knitting Sunday
night but the wound and the feel
ings of the knitted did not make a
complaint Forthcoming.
Pete Perez, Imperial Mexican, APP
peared at Ell Centro police station
with his friend, Randolpho Cerban-
tes, "a, who had been stabbed in
the back. The wound was slight
and the description of the fight
vague, so Investigations were ter
minated, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
WOMAN TRAPPED IN BLAZING SHACK
NEAR INLAND; BURNS PROVE FATAL

Mrs. Ella Reed, 44-year-old wife
of a fruit worker, died of burns re-
ceived when she was trapped in
blazing shack on the Henking farm
near inland at 9 o'clock Saturday
night.
r. E. Reed, husband of the fire
victim, is in the county hospital for
treatment of typhoid fever.
MeXicanS who live a short dis
lance from the shack, told officers
that they had seen no one near the
place for several days and believed
Mrs. Reed was alone.
The Reeds were said to be timer.
ant fruit workers who recently were
receiving relief.
Mrs. Reeds body was taken to the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29

pared to Withstand strikes and
riots and to use all resources to
protect their employees from in
timidation, coercion and violence.
and to aid them in maintaining
collective bargaining free from in
reference from any source"
The proclamation directly cl;al-
lenged the new committee for in
dustrial organization, composed of
10 of the largest unions of the
American federation of labor,
headed by President John L. Lewis
OF the powerful United Mine Work
ers Of America. Lewis organiza-
ton has raised $500,OOO or more
to make the third great attempt
in SO years to unionize steel.
Federal troops broke the first
great attempt when it evoked the
famous homestead strike in 1892.
The last attempt was that of the
American federation of labor in
1919. William e. Foster, late COM
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
BOARD STUDIES
CENTRAL GROG
CONTROL PLAN

SACRAMENTO, June 30. UR)-
State administration of liquor laws
will be placed under the supervision
of George M. Stout, former Secre-
tary of the Veterans Welfare Board
and district dictatorship will be end
ed, under a plan proposed today by
the state board of equalization.
Thirteen liquor enforcement
chiefs from all sections of the state
met with the board to work out a
new plan of administration under
which Stout, rather than the board
members themselves, will be respon-
sible for handling the detail of en-
forcement.
Stout will answer to the board as
a whole.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
Meaning WHAT
STATE EXPENSE
IN HUGE JUMP.
REPORT SHOWS

SACRAMENTO, June 20. U.P) -
The expenses of government in
California fer the state. counties
and cities jumped more than Sill
100000 during the 1885 fiscal wear.
Controller Ray l.. Riley revealed
today in his annual report of fin
anclal transactions.
The three main divisions of gov
ernh cnt paid out 1904, ,431, ,784 in the
year ended June 80, 1895. compared
lAith $792,954, ATS during the preced-
ing year.
Most of the increase was credit
cd to unemployment relief. educa-
ticn, social welfare and capital i'm
proVements Of institutions.
The state government led with
payments of 1851, ,876,638, compared
with $253 3,285,2 ,22l paid the year be-
fore. Counties spent 1924, ,496, ,461,
against 1920, ,405, sos, while city ex-
penSes increased from $219 ,263 $50
t. 1927 1885,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
SNAKES TAKEN
INTO COURT IN
POISON TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, June 90 UP)-
Two killer" diamond back rattle
snakes, assertedly used in the tor
ture death of Mary Busch James,
were brought into superior court to-
day as the state constructed its
murder case against Robert S.
James, debonair husband of the
young bride.
The pair of reptiles. housed in
coffin-like brown box, with glass
paneled top, were placed near the
bench of Superior Judge Charles w.
Fricke as spectators, mostly women,
strained in the hot, crowded court
room during the latest sensational
act in the snake death drama.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
Mexican Buried
By Sewer CaUein

Jose Mercado, %, suffered bruises
and possible conclusion when he
was buried under cave-in on the
new Ell Centro outfall sewer con
struction job a mile east of El Cen
tro at 2:15 Monday afternoon.
Mercado, a PWA worker, was
taken to the hospital for further ex.
animation. Rescue crews were 20
minutes extricating him from the
debris of the cave-in. He was un-
conscious when taken out. but soon
gained consciousness.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
YOU'RE DRUNK!
COPPERS SEE
UNIQUE SIGHT

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.
UR)-Officer David Slam today
arrested graceful, pure white
swan for drunkenness.
The bird was discovered sway
ing along residential street.
Officer Slam called the wagon.
IL arrived with n cargo of three
other drunks. All were taken
to the station where the swan
was s0bered on milk.
Police said the bird had been
kidnapped from Stowe lake, Col
den Gate park, by celebratOr
who was digusted with the birds
dignity and did his best to re-
lieVe it.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29

trict officials announced Monday.
This is the first rate schedule in
the district power development pro-
gram.
Top rates of the district schedule
for domestic and commercial gen.
eral lighting service is CTS cents
kilowatt hour as compared to the
Southern Sierras rate of 8 cents.
This represents a cut of 1.25 cents
or approximately 15.5 per cent. The
next block is So cents as compared
to the power company rate of 6
cents, a reduction of cents or 1875
per cent. From this point, district
officials explained, the rate drops
to the lowest bracket of % cents
as compared to the power company
rate of 2.5 cents.
District rates for heating and
cooking service on the first block
are 4 cents. The power company
rate is cents, less a discount of
10 per cent. District officials point
ed out that the discount was made
effective last October although the
rate shown in the schedule was not
changed. The district rate shows
a reduction of IL per cent in COM
parison with the temporarily dis
counted rate of the company. In
the next block in the schedule the
district rate shows approximately
the same reduction of IL per cent
below the temporary discount rate
of the company. This is carried out
through additional blocks to rate
of approximately | cent. The cor
responding rate of the power COM
pany is 1.3 cents less 10 per cent.
Schedule Explained
Rates for general power service
are based on the number of horse
power of connected load of the con-
sumner and are arranged according
to different blocks of installed pow
er, according to M. j. Dowd, chief
engineer of the district. The first
is from two to four horsepower for
which the initial rate is So cents.
The comparative company rate is
6.5 cents, less 10 per cent, repre-
senting a reduction of approximate
ly IL per cent below the company's
temporary discount rate. From this
point the district rate is reduced
according to the amount of power
consumed to a low of II cents.
The comparable power company
rate is 81 cents. less 10 per cent,
reduction of 10 per cent. Rates
for larger installations show about
the same reduction below present
power company rates, Dowd said.
In announcing the first rate
schedule made by the district in
the power development program.
Dowd said a great deal of study
had been given to the rate situa-
ton. Lester S. Ready. consulting
engineer of San Francisco and rec
ognized authority on the subject,
had been consulted.
Rates Conservative
while the proposed rates repre-
Continued on Page 2. Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29

damage in 18 states which agri-
cultural officials estimated has
cost farmers at least $100,000,00Q
already.
Rain fell in scattered sections
over the weekend, and more was
promised this week, but the re-
suits of the rains were problemati-
cal. In most sections it was feared
they came too late or were too
light to save dried-up crops, or
kill the hordes of insects which
have stripped leaves from stalks
and left fields OF. barren stubble. :
The double-edged menace spread
across the agricultural section in
the shape of a triangle bordered
by the Ohio and Missouri rivers
and the Canadian border. 1t
reached south into Oklahoma,
Kentucky, Arkansas and MlssiS-
sippi. and west to the Rockies.
The insect menace-moStly grass
hoppers-Was most serious in Iowa,
oming and Oklahoma. Drought
Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Wy
sections spotted the region from
Ohio to the Rockies.
Wheat en- the Montana plains
grew foot high and Withered.
Farmers reported there was not
enough to it left Ito hide a jack
rabbit" Places where wheat Or
dinarily is waist high at this time
of year are barren.
Cattle Shipped
Stockmen shipped their cattle
outside the stricken areas at spe-
cially reduced rates to provide
Continued on Page 2, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29

en- lives through the treatment. In
none of the previous cases, however.
has treatment been delayed SO long
as half an hour.
The Kratzer case, Geiger said, was
the first on record where person
had taken cyanide in acid form and
lived.
Kratzer was given three injections
of methylene blue, each of so cubic
centimeters. The effect was almost
instantaneous. He began breathing
convulsively. His knees drew up
His pulse strengthened and became
stronger.
An oxygen tank was applied.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
Youthful Duo Held
In Gasoline Theft

Two youths alleged to have been
caught stealing gasoline from an au-
tomobile at Meloland Saturday
night, William G.. Rinson, %, and
Fred Maynard, %, were booked at
the county Jail on charges of theft.
George Lindsey told deputy sher-
ifs that he found them near
parked car with one end of a small
hose in the gasoline tank and the
other in 10 gallon milk can. They
were conducting their activities,
Lindsey said, at Las o'clock Sunday
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29
DAMAGE ACTION
GOES ON TRIAL

Trial of the $4,000 damage suit
brought by Bethel and Eva Brown
against DR.. Lamar Webster OF Holt
vile began in superior court Mon
day morning.
The Browns seek the damages
because of the alleged treatment
given Mrs. Brown by DR.. Webster
when she was patient of his dur
ing September and October last
year. Mrs Brown asks for $4,000
damages and Brown for $1,000. DR..
Webster denied the allegations.
Ray Johnson and A. C. Finney
represent the plaintiffs and Harry
Horton is counsel for DR.. Web
Ster.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-29

Pendey in for questioning Monday
morning and then conferred with
Deputy District Attorney Charles
Halliday regarding the possibility
of negligency charges against Pen
der. OsWalt also asked for a state
ment from Sheriff Robert Ware of
Investigations made by his men
The truck driver was reI2ased
upon his own recognizance with
the guarantee of the Gil company
that he would be available if
neeNd.
halliday is considering the ques-
ton Of negligence which is COW
cred by section 500 of the Califor-
MIA vehicle code The charge is
a felony and conviction thereof
carries a sentence of not mere
than one year in the county Jail
or not more than three in the
penitentiary,