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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
Children Safe
But Neighbor Says
He Killed Them


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7 up
Two small children were found
asleep and apparently unharmed
in a vacant house today several
hours after Mayor S. Davis Wilson
announced that former neighbor
had confessed" killing them.
The children-Helen Whebley, 6,
and her year old brother, Frank
seemed none the worse after be-
ing missing from their home for
almost "a hours. Both were taken
home and doctor was summoned.
Mayor Wilson had announced the
confession" after questioning
Philip Krho, 27, former neighbor
of the Whebleys, for several hours
in a police station last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

president OF the chicago board o.
health, said 33 new cases, four
deaths and 26 new suspect" cases
were reported in Chicago over the
holiday weekend.
1t was a record increase. There
were Ga new cases and seven deaths
reported for the week just ended
and 81 new cases and one death
during the week ended August %.
Postponement OF school openings
spread to additional cities as health
authorities moved to prevent gath
erings of children. most susceptible
to infantile paralysis.
Detroit school and health author
tiles postponed school openings five
days, until Sept. 13, after seven
new cases were reported over the
holiday weekend.
Public schools in st. Catharines,
Ont, were closed at the end of a
one hour session today after the
first case of the disease was re-
ported in that city.
Opening of schools in st. Lucie
county, Florida, scheduled next
Monday, was postponed two weeks
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
ELKS TO HOLD
CONVENTION
IN PASADENA

PASADENA, Sept. City Off
cials, business men and the cham
Der of commerce joined today with
Pasadena's B.P.O.E. to make the
state convention of Elks here Sept.
2S, "a and 25, the largest ever held.
Plans are being carefully laid for
the reception and entertainment of
at least 10000 visitors, according
to Fred w. Birnie, convention
chairman. The beautiful Vista del
Arroyo hotel, one block from the
Pasadena Elks clubhouse has been
designated as the convention hotel.
Business sessions will be held
in the Pasadena civic auditorium.
The seating capacity of the main
auditorium is approximately 5000
with another hall adjoining capable
of holding as many more in case
of overflow meetings.
The golf committee has arranged
courtesies at eight courses in the
Pasadena area. ThefamousBrook
side Park course, municipality oper-
ated, is within "a stones throw"
of the Elks clubhouse and the con-
vention hotel.
Trips have been arranged for
the ladies including jaunts to Hol-
lyWood movie studios.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
MAILS WON'T
BE USED FOR
STRIKE FIGHT

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 7 (UP)
The United States mails will not
be used to break strikes, William
w. Howes, first assistant post-mas-
ter general, said today at the open
ing session of the biennial conven-
ton of the National Association of
Letter Carriers.
Letters carriers will not be used
as policemen and soldiers in labor
troubles" Howes said. "It would be
just as reasonable to ask the mails
to carry new dynamo or machine
into a plant as the carload move
ment of meat and bread"
The letter carriers convention
here is the first since the attempt
of some strike-bound companies in
Ohio to- send food through picket
lines by use of the mails several
months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
GRANDFATHER
STAYS TWO,
THEN HIMSELF

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. U.P)-
Three bodies lay in the city morgue
today as a result of what police
said was a double murder and a
suicide.
They were the bodies of a grand
father, his daughter and his grand
daughter.
Police said the triple tragedy
marked the end to family argu-
ment, in which one member, Ber-
nard Klein, a restaurant owner,
went berserk.
He took his daughter and grand
daughter out for a walk, according
to police, then shot them, walked
few steps and ended his own
life with his antiquated .38 revol-
yer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
HONOR CANDY
STORE BASED
UPON FAITH

OAKLAND, Sept. 7. U.R)-Utopia
was discovered here today. But it
was agreed that it inflicted hard
ship on Oakland kids.
The Utopia was in the form of
an honor" candy store operated
by John Sutton. Customers wait on
themselves, weigh their purchases,
and leave the correct amount of
money.
1--we had only infinitesimal
losses" Sutton said. Il don't watch
for thefts, either All I do is help
customers find the kind of candy
they want"
Sutton said he believed his VEN
ture had proved that Utopia was
possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

groups such as the American La
Dor party have no place in the fu-
ture political picture, he declared.
He warned that strikes were a
menace to the American system and
suggested legislation by federal and
state governments to outlaw GER
tain types and force the incorpora-
ton of labor unions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
.DOCKWEILER
ENTERS RACE
FOR GOVERNOR

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 CUP)-
Congressman John F.. DockWeiler
of Los Angeles was a candidate to-
day for the Democratic nomination
for governor.
Stating that California is now
definitely in the Democratic COL
umn,' Dockweiler ended a prolong-
ed unofficial candidacy" with a
formal announcement last night.
State Senator Culbert Olson of
Los Angeles previously announced
his candidacy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

terday as citizens honored the
states multi-million fruit industry
and Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Alameda county visitors were
guests of honor.
The turnout came on the heels
Of q record-breaking Sunday crowd
OF 90,966, boosted total attendance
for the first four days to more than
q quarter of million and threaten
ed the all-time high of 101, ,082 es-
tablished on Labor Day 1886.
,. California's aged who hold men,
berships in the states Townsend
clubs were honor guests at the fair
today. DIR. Francis E. Townsend,
originator of the nationwide $500
a-month pension plan for all per-
sons over 60, flew here from Chi
cago to address a Townsend club
luncheon at noon. The day also was
designated as radio day and retail
er's credit day.
Ten counties displayed first place
cups for excellence of their exhibits
and had 5000 cash prizes as well.
Winners of first division awards
were, Butte, Humboldt, Napa, Santa
Cruz, San Joaquin, Shasta, Solano,
Sutter, Ventura and Yolo.
In the second division, winners of
cups of $11 cash prizes were Contra
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
Bread Supply in
City Runs Low

Let Them Eat Cake" is a bit of
historic advice applicable to many
Ell Centrans when the bread sup
ply ran out late Monday.
A run on bread was reported by
the few stores open on the Labor
day holiday. More bread was OBJ
tanned from all available sources,
grocermen said, until those sup
plies also were exhausted. The
temperature prevailing late in the
afternoon was not conducive to
biscuit baking either.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

because of prevalence of the disease
in northern states.
The United States public health
service in Washington announced
that 620 new cases were reported
throughout the nation in the week
ended Aug. %, the greatest number
of new cases in a single week this
year.
In the previous week there had
been 499 new cases reported and in
the corresponding week of last year
there were only 164 cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
Radium Queen Goes
Back to Her Mines

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Sept. 7
UP)-Mrs Josie Bishop, returned
to her rich radium claims on the
Mojave desert after a visit to the
brightS lights of San Francisco, to-
day denied with vigor reports that
she was broke while in the bay
city.
She added that she didn't visit
a cocktail bar as northern photo
graphers and reporters asserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
lac Will Speak on
Neutrality Thursday

Congressman Ed. Izac will speak
on Neutrality and Achievements
for San Diego" in radio address
at $3.50 O'Clock Thursday night over
a San Diego radio station.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

New pear washing machines are
being installed in the rebuilt cent
raj packing plant of the Newcastle
Fruit Growers association, Placer
county.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

K. Hanada has bought a twenty
acre ranch near Cutler, Tulare
County; the land is planted to Ma
laga and Thompson grapes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
New Outbreaks
Of Paralysis in
Nation Watched
DO

CHICAGO, Sept. T. (UP)-New outbreaks of infantile
paralysis the Labor day weekend, with record in
in Chicago, reported today health author
ties watched rising temperatures bring threats of an even
greater toll from the disease Dr. Herman M Bundesen
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
100 900 Throng
To Fairgrounds
Over Weekend

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Sept. 7. (UP)-Caifornias 83rd
annual state fair approached the halfway mark of its
1887 run today with officials hopeful that it may break
last years peak attendance mark by the time the gates
are locked Sunday night Labor day crowds estimated
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

Costa, Placer, Santa Barbara, Sis
kiyou, Amador, Mendocino, Modoc,
Nevada, Alameda and CalaVeras.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07
Celebrations Land
Thirty in Trouble

YUMA, Sept. Thirty prisoners
were taken into police court here
today to answer for their methods
in celebrating Labor day.
The charges against the prisoners
were drunkenness, disturbing the
peace, or fighting, Chief of Police
Ike PolhemuS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

Hay growers of Modoc County are
paying their laborers So per day.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-07

Apricot pits are selling for 500
a ton in Glenn County.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
DAPPER THUGS
ROB D. E. BUS

Police were running down a
trail of street-car tokens and dimes,
comprising the major portion of
$127 taken at gun point from bus
driver early today by a pair of
dapper bandits.
The driver-Thomas D. Shipley,
1000 block Third st. N. W.-told
police the gunmen boarded his bus
at Wisconsin Avenue and P Street
Northwest and faced him with a
nickel-plated pistol at Thirty
sixth and P Streets.
A passer-by found Shipley tied
to the drivers seat. The bus lights
had been extinguished. Shipley
told police the thieves took $40
in bills, the fare box of the bus,
500 tokens and 500 dimes.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
Graft Plot Is PrObed
In Redwood Staying

HACKENSACK, N. j., March /
U.N.SO Several mystery wit
nesses were to be examined today
by Prosecutor John j. BreSlin Of
Bergen county in preparation for
the grand jury. investigation of the
murder of Norman Redwood, New
York labor leader.
There were reports the prosecu-
tor was seeking verification OF
reports that Redwood might have
been the victim of plot growing
out of a dispute over construction
contracts for the New York Worlds
Fair.
The Evening Journal asserted it
was rumored that some of the
witnesses had startling stories to
tell of a plot by labor czars to
make two million dollars in graft
out of worlds Fair construction" !"
Inquiries were also being made
to trace the ownership of the re-
volver with which Redwood was
slain. The gun has been traced
to a New York firearms dealer,
and the names of subsequent pur-
chaSers are now being sought.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
ADVICE DENIED
TOULOUSE ON
COAL BILL
Justice e Department
Declines Opinion on
Guffey Validity
BY WILLIAM S. NEAL
International News Service

The Department of Justice has
refused Congress an opinion on
constitutionality Of the revised
Vinson.Guffey bill, for regulation
of the bituminous coal industry.
The department has ruled Con-
gress must struggle with the great
constitutional questions raised and
reach its own decision. The Attor-
ney General will advise only the
President and department heads.
In letter made public today,
Acting Attorney General Stanley
Reed told Chairman Doughton
CD of the House Ways and
Means Committee that the JUS
tice Department cannot abandon
its well.settled ruling against Civ.
ing constitutional opinions to Con.
greSS.
House to Act Alone
The House, which may pass the
bill this week, thus will act upon
its price-fixing and other pro.
visions without assurance the Gov
ernment'S legal officers believe the
measure valid.
Reed indirectly declared the
Government has price.fixing power
in arguments before the Supreme
Court in the first Guffey case,
when he wrote:
MAY l respectfully call to
the attention of the committee
the reasons which impel me to
refrain from compliance with
your suggestion.
There is nothing in the legis-
latiOn relating to the powers of
the department which author
lied the Attorney General to give
such an opinion as you request,
and so far as / am advised, no
such opinion has ever been
given.
"It seems clear that embarrass-
ment in administration would re-
suit, If numerous requests Of this
character were complied with,
or if the department was called
upon to enforce acts previously
stated 20 be invalid by the At
tOrney General" -
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
National FiVe-Ten
Strike Threatened

DETROIT, March 1 GN.SO.
Threat of union leaders to call
dime store strikes in the principal
cities Of the country, to support the
Sit-doWn strike of $50 salesgirlS in
the F.. w. Woolworth store here
was met today by the company
with counter threat of lockouts.
Strike leader Louis Koenig said
the company informed him again
today there could be no negotia-
tions to end the nations first five
and-ten-cent store Sit-down strike
until the store was evacuated.
Koenig said
eve won't bulge from the
store. / guess it's deadlock"
Store officials also Spurned
conference Koenig scheduled for
II o'clock this morning.
kilograms were sent to inter
national headquarters Of the A. F.
of L. unions involved in the strike.
urging that walkouts be called in
Woolworth stores in key cities of
\ the nation. Organizer Arthur Of
fenback said:
1--WE will close every Wool
worth store in the land unless
the employees here get a square
deal"
The new ultimatum failed to de-
press the girls in the store.
While battle lines were being
drawn for what may become ma
tion-Wide struggle between organ
lied labor and the WoolWorth
chain, other strike fronts here re-
mained quiet.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
CHICAG0READY
FOR RENEWED
VIOLENCE
c. |. 0. Leader Seized;
Sit-downers Ousted
After 9-Day Siege
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acts. but the situation was re-
garded as a major test OF
strength between the union and
company union" workers.
2. In North Chicago, the GUST
ed Fansteel Metallurgical sit
downerS completed plans for
"airtight" picket lines, vowing
they will keep out workers hired
to replace them. Meyer Adel-
man, organizer for John L.
Lewis Committee for Industrial
Organization, meanwhile faced
extradition from Kenosha, Wis,
after his arrest for aiding the
erstwhile sit-downers in their
defiance of an evacuation in
junction.
Ford Spokesman Talks
3. In Pittsburgh, another Lewis
aide, Leo Krzycki, who was &C.
tive in the Fansteel dispute,
wired Waukegan. Ill, authorities
that he will return for arrest.
4. In Detroit, William j. Cam
eron, spokesman for Ford, de-
clared strikes will not bring
better wages, and neither could
laws produce them, nor could
threats of violence"
S. In Groton, Conn, the usual
100 employees of the Electric
Boat Company returned to work.
it was reported, as about 100
strikers on the picket line
looked on.
6. In Detroit, the United Auto
Workers Union prepared the
most sweeping demands ever
made upon a major car pro-
ducer from organized labor.
U. w. A. officials announced
they will ask among other
things for staggering employ
ment in off seasons through a
30-hour week when their collec-
tive bargaining conference starts
Wednesday with Chrysler. which
with General Motors and Ford
form motordom's "big three"
Minneapolis Light Out
Z. In Joliet, ILL.,, settlement Of
a strike of $50 employees of the
Star Peerless Wall Paper Com
pany was announced, with the
union winning wage increases
and recognition.
8. In Minneapolis several hun
dred homes went without lights
over the weekend, as the strike
Of more than 800 electrical main.
tenance workers of the Northern
States Power Company con-
tinued. Rev. Francis Joseph
Haas, serving as q Federal medi-
ator, arrived to confer with both
warning forces and effect peace.
9. In Detroit, the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin, the radio priest,
labeled strikes as empty agita-
tion," and urged labor to de-
mand that Congress fix an an
nual living wage.
10. In GAINESVILLE, Wis, the
Fisher Body and Chevrolet
plants, of the once.paralyzed
General Motors chain, remained
closed as officials of both sides
look to conferences to end the
dispute. A discharged worker
brought about the tie-up.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01

; Prosecuting officials were uncer-
tain today when the grand jury
investigation would start, but BreS-
lin was hopeful of having his evil
dence ready for presentation
within a few days.
It was expected that both
Samuel Rosoff, New York subway
builder, and Joseph Fay, head of
a labor organization which op-
posed Redwood: would be called
before the grand jury, although
Rosoff thus far has resisted ef-
forts to bring him into New
Jersey.
A statement by Breslin connect
ing Rosoff and Fay with the slay-
ing of Redwood, brought sharp
reply and denial from Rosoff to-
day.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
Accident Certified
In Poindexter Death

Coroner A. Magruder MacDon.
aid has issued a certificate of acci.
dent in the death of Wayne E.
Poindexter, 25-year-old st. Eliza.
beths Hospital patient.
A native of Laramie. Wyo., Mr..
Poindexter formerly was an EN-
ploye of the Treasury Department.
In what hospital attendants de,
scribed as an attempt to escape,
he was injured on bench at the
hospital and developed blood poi,
Soning.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
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The Washington times., 1937-03-01
FOES OF COURT
CHANGE SPURN
COMPROMISE
To Fight, Out Contest
on Basic Principle In
voIved, They Say
BY w. X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

Administration supporters of
the Roosevelt proposal to enlarge
the Supreme Court were talking
compromise today even as the
President, repudiating such moves,
threw his whole Administration
into action to win popular ap-
proval of his judicial reforms.
The President will climax his
immediate drive for a larger Su-
preme Court with a personal radio
appeal through a "fireside. chat"
next week. He will be answered
the following night by the opposi-
ton, with a decision not yet
reached whether Senators Wheeler
CD of Montana, Glass CD OF
Virginia, johnson (R) Of Cal1for-
MIA, or Borah (R.) Of Idaho, shall
make the reply. 1t is possible all
four will reply during the follow
ing week.
Compromise Talked
Despite the Presidents frequent
ly reiterated declaration against
any compromise, at least three OF
his closest friends have discussed
means of ending the fierce con-
greSsional controversy. One OF
them was a Presidential adviser,
the others Senators.
All three discussed the posSibil-
ity of reaching compromise which
would limit the proposed judicial
increase. to two justices on the
Supreme Court. This suggestion
was rejected Immediately by lead
ers of the congressional opposition.
Compromise Spurned
Senator Van Nuys CD Of In
diana. opposition leader, an
nounced:
eve will accept no cOmprO-
mise, because this is a contest
over great fundamental Ameri-
can principles. Personally,
am Just as much opposed to in
creaSing the Supreme Court by
one member, as by two, three
five, six or so. There will be
no compromise. The Presi-
dent doesn't desire one and
neither do we. This contest
ought to be fought out on the
basic principle involved and to
a final conclusion on that ISSUE"
Meanwhile, the Presidents sup
porters were delighted with the
response from organized labor but
dismayed by the failure Of farm
organizations to indorse the court
proposal. Scores of local unions
have sent resolutions to members
of Congress, urging adherence to
the Presidents plan.
Major George L. Berry, presl-
dent of Labor's Non-PartiSan
League, declared:
"The President already has
the support of 5,5OO,OOO mem
bers of organized labor. / am
impressed by the vigorous tenor
of the letters we are receiving
and shall so advise the Presi-
dent"
On the other hand, heads Of the
National Grange and Farmers
Union have declared against the
plan. Thus far the American Farm
Bureau Federation has failed to
make an expected endorsement OF
it. Edward O'Neal, president OF
the Federation, said:
MANY farm bureau members
from areas benefiting immense
Iy under farm legislation nat
uralIy are for it, but the State
leaders and bureaus, so far as
I have noticed, are divided on
the question"
The radio battle for support
continued unchecked. Tonight,
WPA Harry L. Hopkins will take
the air to defend the presidential
plan. while Senator Clark CD OF
Missouri will speak in opposition.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01
Treasury Condition

International News Service
Treasury balance as of February
26, 81, ,542,282,051.41; internal rev.
enue, $6,121,939.97; customs re-
ceipts. $39,554,0O4.61.
The Washington times., 1937-03-01

NORMAN REDWOOD Cleft in top picture), murdered
head of sandhog" union and Sam Rosoff (top right,
millionaire New York contractor in friendly the
day before Redwood shot and killed in his automobile
in Teaneck N The county prosecutor Rosoff
and Joseph Fay New York labor leader of having
plotted Redwoods death In bottom picture Mrs Norman
Redwood Qeft) the slain mans widow and Mrs Mary G.
Redwood his mother photographed at his funeral Inter
national News Photos.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Needed: A Fair Labor Law
Wagner Act Held Means of Oppression of Minorities
by Labor's Might

ministered In spirit whereby it can
be invoked in confidence by both
sides to a struggle. 1t must provide
machinery for arbitration, OF such
composition that both sides have con-
f1dence in it. A government board,
frankly representing one policy, is not
such an organ and cannot be. There
must be means provided whereby both
parties to contract can be forced
to keep the agreement. Otherwise
the contract is a scrap of paper and
nothing more.
To design such an act does not
require a race Of supermen.
Under present conditions, If the
G. /. O. wins majority in any in
dustry, there is no mechanism which
can be invoked to reverse that ma
jority, ever. That is the idea OF
democracy Of Mr.. Hitler. If you get
In once. by majority, through a
plebiscite conducted in the most in
flammatory atmosphere, you have
the right to disfranchise the minority
and stay there eternally, or until
you are removed by force. Having
the majority, and thus becoming the
sole instrument through which the
workers can bargain. the c. I. o.
next demands closed shop and the
check-of system, and again, and de-
spite agreements, can resort to direct
action to get it.
This now means corop,,lsorv r,oro
bership in the union, and compulsory
taxation by it, and there is no law that
regulates how this power shall be con-
trolled. The law, apparently, goes on
the theory that all trade union leaders
are a special breed of human beings,
in whom the instincts of aggression,
aggrandizement and power, have been
miraculously eliminated.
The act needs fundamental redraft-
ing. and 1t needs to be done now. It
must define fair practices for labor
unions. 1t must provide minority pro-
lection. II union which has been
declared to have majority and thus
becomes the sole instrument for
workers representation fails to keep
its agreement, or if the employers fail
to keep theirs, then either side must
have redress to an impartial board,
which can call another election, and
debar from 1t those who have partici-
pated in violence, or in attempts to
break the contract.
Copyrignt. 1877