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Evening star., 1939-09-30
0usted Communist
Sees Party Attempting
1oCripp|e U. 5. in War
Relates Reds Efforts
To Use Labor Groups
For Political Purposes

All the strategy Of the Com
munist party would be used to
cripple the United States should it
go to the aid of France and England
in the present war. the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
was told today by Joseph Zack of
New York. time official of the
Communist party in this country.
Breaking long silence about
Communist activities in the United
States. the witness made the state
ment in response to questions by
Chairman Dies and added:
I'm afraid the American public
doesn't understand that Stains po-
litical soldiers in this country have
objectives different from those of
the masses
TITS serious and critical situa-
tion to have" observed Chairman
Dies.
Work Among Unions Told.
Zack, who testified he was ex-
PEELED from the Communist party
in 1894 after he broke" with the
organization over a change of pol
Icy, related in some detail the
policies, strategy and objectives of
the party in the trade union field
in its efforts to use labor groups
for political purposes. All of these
plans, he declared. were directed
from Moscow.
The witness also told the COM
mittee that his wife and their New
York-bred son were held in a Rus
sian concentration camp because
the Soviet government wanted to
assure itself of his good behavior"
in this country.
Zack, who appeared before the
committee as previously unidenti-
fled witness called by Chairman Dies
to link American Communists with
Moscow, testified he had made re-
peated unsuccessful efforts to get
his family back to the United States.
At last, he continued, he had
become tired of trying to cash in"
on promises of Stain and other
Soviet officials and had concluded
it was his duty" to tell what he
knew Of party activities.
A Garment Worker.
The witness said he was by trade
a garment worker; that he had be-
come interested in Communism
years ago and was charter mem
ber" of the party, and that for five
years he had served the party's
Central Committee.
In 1927, he related, the Central
Committee sent him to Russia and
he took along his wife and son.
After two years there, he testified.
he was sent to South America on
party business. That time, he said,
he did not take his family.
Since, Zack continued, he often
tried. and each time failed, to get
his family to America. About three
years ago, he said, he had a letter
from his wife which convinced him
she was in a concentration camp.
He expressed the belief the letter
had been dictated. He received it
in his mail box, he reported, but it
was devoid of all identifying marks
and Zack said it had been placed
there by party agents" rather than
the postman.
Foster Wouldn't Support U. S.
Representative Dies declined to
name the witness in advance of q
hearing scheduled to begin at 10
am.
Under persistent questioning, Will
liam z. Foster, chairman of the
Communist party in the United
States, told the committee yester-
day Communist party member who
disagreed with Communist Interna-
tional policies would be. educated
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Setup Is Mapped
For j. !. Industrial
Mobilization
Factories Inteeroted Into
Huge Wor-SuppIy
Workshop

The War and Navy Departments
industrial mobilization plan has pro-
gressed to point where the coun-
try's manufacturers are integrated
into a huge war-supply workshop
which can swing into action at q
moments s notice.
A breakdown of the country by
States and cities was revealed for
the first time today at the War De-
partment, showing where the burden
of supplying the country with the
means to wage war will lie in case
an emergency should arise and what
individual load each locality will be
called on to bear.
The department withheld. for OBJ
vious reasons, the names of the firms
to which 10,340 secret orders fol-
10000 war items have been sent.
s,43l Orders Go Out.
Under the plan formulated by the
Army and Navy Munitions Board
9.43l Of the orders have gone out
for supplies to the Army and 900 for
naval supplies.
A survey of the breakdown figures
for the entire country shows that a
triangle with Its angles at Pitts
burgh, Boston and Wilmington, Del.
will bear at least 60 per cent of the
load of manufacturing war supplies
Pennsylvania and New York are the
big two" involved. the former re.
ceiving 1853 orders and the latter
1921.
OF the 10000 items which woule
be needed Immediately by the coun.
try's armed forces in case of war
2,7O0 are considered by military ex.
perts as difficult to get and 55 o1
these are considered critical.
D. C. Receives 8 Orders.
Under two congressional appro.
priations of $4,000. 900 and $l4.50O,'
600, these SIS are now being made b,
picked firms on an experimental
basis, so that in the event of ar
emergency techniques in manufac.
turing them will be perfected a!
much as possible. With the excep'
ton of the SIS, all orders are sealee
and not to be opened until notifica'
ton by the Army and Navy.
Although the District of Columbis
is not an industrial area, it has re-
ceived eight of the orders.
A complete breakdown by State!
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Evening star., 1939-09-30

CANON CITY, Colo, Sept. 30 up.
Warden Roy Best said a blind
man asked to be allowed to attend
a double execution at State Prison
last night to find out if he could
sense" death without seeing it. Mr..
Best refused.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Caught Short

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 80 (P-
T. w. Staley drove into a parking
space. discovered he had no nickel.
ana went into store for change.
Returning, he found his car tagged
and paid 50-cent fine,
Evening star., 1939-09-30

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 30.-An influential
neutral ofhcial said today diplomatic
efforts were being made by several
nations to obtain the release Of Pol
ish government ofhcials from Ru-
mania.
President Ignace Moscicki and
other members Of the Polish govern
ment have been held at various
points In Rumania since September
10 after fleeing the joint German
Russian invasion Of their homeland.
The neutral ofacial said the Poles
charged that RlAnania's action In
Evening star., 1939-09-30
BULLETIN.

PARIS, Sept. 80 R.-The Po-
lish Embassy announced that
Ignance Moscicki had resigned as
President of Poland, effective to-
day.
He was Immediately succeeded
by Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, for
mer president of the Warsaw
Senate, said an ofncial announce
ment by the embassy.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
D. C. Receives 8 Orders.

(See INDUSTRIAL, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1939-09-30

(See NEUTRALITY, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Strange Request

(see MOSCOW, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1939-09-30

From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full details on PAGE A-2
Showers this afternoon and tonight;
much cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and
cooler; lowest tonight about 54. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, SO, at ! pm:
lowest, SO, at Sis am.
Evening star., 1939-09-30

tSee PARIS. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-09-30

(see UN-AMERICAN, Page AS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

sheriffs ordered to enforce ordin-
ances which forbid the melting of
workers to leave their posts.
Three carloads of organizers,
numbering Is persons, repeatedly
sped from ranch to ranch urging
the cotton choppers to quit their
jobs unless they we're paid higher
rate than the 20 cents an hour or
IS cents an acre base set by San
Joaquin Valley farmers.
Undersheriff E. S. Pickett de-
tanned five Mexican women, as
sertedly members of the flying
squadron" and released them after
a warning to cease their activities.
Some of the organizers were iden-
fled by the officers as members of
the Workers Alliance.
Pickett said few of the workers
had left their jobs. Not more than
so on half dozen large west side
ranches needed the strike order. he
declared. OF the total, 25 walked out
on the Toschi ranch.
He predicted the walkout would
be short-lived.
Growers expected the strike
movement TO come to a head at a
mass meeting of farm workers to-
night sponsored by the Workers
Alliance. The cotton chopping sea-
son lasts only two more weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Father Who Killed
ImbeciIe Son Freed
Of Murder Charge
Unhappy Couple Plans
To Adopt Orphan to
Replace Lost Boy

NEW YORK, May IL.
(UP) - Louis and Anna
Greenfield planned today to
adopt a child to replace their
imbecilic son, Jerome, whom
Louis chloroformed after they had
devoted 16 of their l8 years OF
married life TO hopeless struggle
to relieve his misery.
They we're free today of the long
anguish that the suffering, help
less child caused them, the grief
over his death and the consequen-
ceS of it. A jury of married men
and women, all but one of them
parents of healthy children, ac-
quilted Greenfield of manslaugh-
ter charge last night
The 40 year old, broken spirited
wife said they hoped to find some
consolation in raising an orphaned
child, but eve never can be happy"
I'VE always wanted to have an
other baby but We were afraid it
might be like jerry
Inc boy Wnom Green1leld, 40
year old milliner, killed last Jan
IL, had deteriorated into an i'm
beetle who could not talk or feed
himself. He suffered constant pain
and frequent convulsions and
Greenfield said that the voice of
Cod came to him during one of
his many troubled nights and told
him to end the boys suffering.
The jurors deliberated more than
four hours and on the first ballot
a majority were for conviction. but
were swayed during the next nine
ballots by the recollection of Judge
Lester w. Pattersons instructions to
return an acquittal if they believed
Greenfield suffered the insane de-
lusion" that God urged him to do
the killing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Bible, Soap and
Castor Oil Recipe

NEW YORK, May IL. UP)-Mrs
Otelia Compton. 30, who was select
ed by the Golden Rule foundation
to be American mother for 1899. =
hesitated today when she was ask
ed how she had reared her child
rem but her son, Professor Wilson
Compton, said
The Bible, Soap and Costor Oil .
They didn't get much castor oil
said Mrs. Compton, but they got
plenty of spinach"
Her children are Professor Will
sen Compton, of George Washing
ton University President Karl T.
Compton. of Massachusetts Insti-
tutc of Technology, Professor Ar
thur Fl. Compton of The University
of Chicago, and Mrs. Mary Comp
ton Rice, wife of the president of
Christian College Of Allabahad, In
dia.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

Sion alter removal of differences ON
the status OF the Alexandretta San
jak or province of Syria, and Prem
ier Edouard Daladier hoped to an
nounce a French Turkish pact this
week end
Final details of the British Turk
ish agreement remained TO be work
ed out. But in broad outline it was
understood that the pact would
provide, in fact:
l. Britain would aid Turkey
against any attack in the eastern
Mediterranean.
2. Turkey would aid Britain
against any attack on Egypt or
Palestine.
3. Turkey would permit the pas
sage of British warships through
the fortified Dardanelles to the
Black sea to aid Rumania against
any attack.
d. BritiSh-Turkish French gen.
cral staff talks will start as soon
as details of the agreement-noW
merely routine oreS-are worked
out.
Thus, Britain and Turkey agree to
aid each other in event Of any
italian attack on Turkey Egypt
or Palestine; Turkey agrees to faci-
litate BritainS task in defending
Rumania against any attack by
Germany.
But actually the British-French-
Turkish agreements are even more
important. 1t was understood that
Turkey would cooperate with Brit
ain under the British guarantee to
defend Greece. Further. Turkey
agreed to The pacts only after full
consultation with its friend Russia
and it was believed that the pres
pective announcement of the pacts
might prove to mean that Russia S
eventual inclusion in a powerful
security front had been made ccr-
tain. There was the additional
factor that Turkey and Russia were
working together tC bring Bulgaria
into a Balkan Black Sea blcc with
Rumania and Greece.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Coal Negotiators
Auree to Contract
As Wa|kouf Ends

NEW YORK. May II. CUP)-Con-
tract ncgotiators for the Appalach-
ian soft coal industry reached a
tentative agreement on union
shop contract with the United Mine
Workers of America today and ap-
pointed a drafting committee to
prepare the proposed agreement for
submission to the full joint wage
hour conference this afternoon.
w. l.. Robinson of Cleveland,
chairman OF the joint wage-hour
conference which has been meeting
here since March Ia, made the an
nouncement after a morning ses-
sion of subcommittee represent
ing 1000 Appalachian soft coal op-
orators and 100000 miners who
have been idle since April |.
The agreement, reached after the
administration at Washington had
intervened with the full pressure Of
the federal government, meant that
the mines in the Appalachian area
would be opened Monday. 1t also
meant that a threatened nation
wide soft coal famine had been
averted.
John r. Steelman. government
mediator, forecast that "all or
practically all' bituminous mines
would resume operations on Mon
day.
The threat of a crippling fuel
shortage which hung over the ma
tion for six week lis definitely over"
he said, and nearly 100000 miners
will return to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Council
Seeking
Site
Financing Details
Studied to Give
Building Terms

Prospects of a new city
hall building for Ell Centro
appeared brighter Friday as
members of the city council
indicated financing obstacles
we're being overcome.
ARRANGEMENTS have not been
completed-in fact are still at
very early stage-but it looks as
though legal difficulties have been
Strengthened out and the way Is
open," Mayor H. w. Fawcett said.
Although declining to name the
financing agent with whom the
council has discussed plans, Mayor
Fawcett indicated tentative pro-
posals provide a ten year payment
period, with option to buy.
The plan probably would be for
the city to sign lease on the new
structure, with provision for pur-
chase at expiration for the amount
of the final months rent. Thus.
payments over the period would be
made in the form of rent, and the
city would own the building at the
end of ten years. The city would
supply the lot.
mo real plans for the building
itself have been considered" Mayor
Fawcett said. However structure
of between 1000 and 5000 square
feet floor space would be required
On the basis of SIS a foot, this
would mean a building valued at
between s35, 900 and $4,000 This
would include air conditioning
Councilmen appeared undecided on
the question of a possible site and
maintained there has been no deci-
sion made.
A number of sites were believed
under consideration, however. in
Guiding several on State street
where the city has tax delinquent
property to which title could be
obtained at small expense.
The Seventh and State street
corner. once mentioned for the
postoffice, also was a possibility.
This, however, would have to be
purchased outright.
Another possibility was the quar-
ter block on Eleventh 1treet just
west of the courtf- Use, which
might be purchased from the coun-
| ty.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
District Emp|oye
Dies at EI Centro

John Lloyd Ross, 26, of Imperial,
died Thursday night at an Ell Cen
tro hospital.
He was an employe of the Impe-
rial Irrigation district. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Wanda Ross
and two children, LaVerne and
Lannie. The body is at the Lemons
mortuary in Ell Centro pending
funeral arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Senate Puts Record Dentin Budqet
By Approving Billion Dollar Bill

expected on the King proposal, Ef-
forts to recommit the bill to COM
mittee to remove the mbudgeted
items failed.
The farm bill was sent to the
house and a conference to iron out
senate and house differences was
expected. The house farm bill
carried only 1885 1858. The sem
ate increases were made despite the
opposition of President Roosevelt
which demanded that congress pro-
vide new revenues to cover the ad-
ditional cost of the extra subsidies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

WASHINGTON. May 12.UP)-
The senate today put record
breaking dent in President Roose-
velt's budget by approving a $1,218.-
GOSSIP agriculture appropriation
bill, carrying 1898 100000 in un-
budgeted farm subsidies.
Approval was given to the meas
ure-the largest farm bill ever
vcted-shortly after Sen. william
F.. King, D.. Utah, introduced a
resolution designed to accomplish
flat 10 per cent cut in all ap-
preparations including that voted
today. N immediate action was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

. MetZger said SuDpenaS nad Deell
/ issued for as many Communist lead
ers as could be located and for all
state officers of the Workers Alli-
ance, including Alexander Moral,
state president. The Alliance is
composed of relief workers in the
WPA, SRA and other relief agen-
cies.
The Workers Alliance was one
of several groups questioned two
weeks ago at another public hear
ing in San Francisco. The COM
mittee is checking into activities
of the various groups to determine
if they are subversive or exerting
undue pressure on the legislature
In particular, Workers Alliance
officials were asked about picket
ing of homes of several southern
California legislators who joined
an economy bloc" in the assem-
bly, to cut Gov. Culbert Olson's
biennial budget.
Metzger said the committee ex-
pected to hold one more meeting
in Los Angeles if possible, to con-
tinue inquiry into the Communist
party.
Meanwhile, with the weeks ma
jor issues disposed of - featuring
two smashing defeats for the Olson
administration-the legislature
mopped up routine business today
in preparation for a weekend jun
ket to Shasta dam.
A negative assembly vote on the
Donnelly lobby regulation bill late
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Bund Leader Sues
Warner for Libel

NEW YORK, May IL. (UP) -
Fritz Kuhn, president of the Ger
man-American Bund, instituted a
$5,000,000 libel suit in federal court
today against Warner Brothers pic
lures for its production of the film,
THE Confessions of Nazi Spy"
Kuhn also sought to enjoin the
moving picture company from fur
ther distribution of the picture. The
suit also named as defendants John
Wexley, director of the film, Mil
ton Krimes, a script writer, and
Leon G.. Turrou, former federal
bureau of investigation agent who
acted as technical adviser for the
production.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Gov.0Ison Signs
Gold Digger Bills

SACRAMENTO, May IL. UP)-
Gov. Culbert Olson today signed
two bills designed to block the
activities of "gold diggers" by pro-
hibiting court action for breach of
promise, seduction of a person over
legal age or alienation of affections.
The bills were introduced by Gar
diner Johnson, r., Berkeley, and
jeanette Daley, D., San Diego.
They become law 80 days after final
adjournment of the legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Schools TO Beqin
Summer Schedule

Ell Centro will begin their sum-
mer schedule Monday by convening
and dismisSing classes early.
Glasses will begin at $40 am. in
the elementary and high school,
Superintendent Guy Weakley an
nounced Friday
Grades /, 2, and 3 will be dis
missed at noon, the fourth and
fifth grades at 2 pm, the sixth,
seventh, eighth and all high school
classes at 2:30 pm. Buses leave
the schools at 240 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

sSaW q DOaC Trying 10 cross Tile
Tredowska river. which at that
point forms the German border, in
the direction of Germany" said
the communique.
After the boat had refused to
halt when called upon to do so,
the guards opened fire and killed
one occupant and severely wounded
the other, who was of German
nationality.
THE dead person was a we'll
known smuggler engaged in snug
Cling persons of German national
ity from Poland SO they could find
employment as agricultural workers
in Germany. The person wounded
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Nazi Anger Reused
By Declaration Of
British Intention
Germans Reject Thought
of Discussions Over
Status of Danzig

BERLIN, May II. (UP)
INSPIRED Nazi sources said
angrily today that Germany
would refuse to enter into
any discussion with Great
Britain concerning the status of
Danzig.
This attitude was even more en-
phatic in Danzig itself, where the
official Nazi newspaper organ said
that not only would any British
mediation" be refused but that
there was no necessity for a pleb-
iscite to determine Danzig's status
because Berlin would determine it.
Nazi organs complained that the
speech of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain, warning that Britain
would fight if Polish independence
were threatened by an attack on
Danzig, and the declaration of poll
cy made to the French chamber of
deputies by Premier Edouard Dala-
dier did nothing to clear up Euro
pean problems. Both Chamberlain
and Daladier, it was held, merely
defended an "encirclement' policy
and big ornaments programs.
out of the shamelesSness to
which Chamberlain and Daladier
seem to have given themselves en-
crgeS a dangerous, highly note
worthy venture to which we will
accord the closest attention. said
the AWoelf Uhr Blatt in a first
page editorial.
Displaying the story over most
OF their first pages, the afternoon
papers carried portions of the
speeches by tie British and French
preinlers, ntersperSed with fire.
quent question marks and exclam-
alton marks in parentheses.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

II can still make them laugh" :"
he said after the amputation. Eve
had harder times than this. AS
soon as I'm out of the hospital 1
think I'll make another tour. I
won't be able TO jump around like
used to, but can work up some
kind of an act"
But the infection that eventually
caused his death at the Alameda
county hospital last night grew
steadily worse and Cho Cho never
returned to the circus again. He
had written his biography when
he died, the story OF his clowning
life through America. Asia. Africa,
Australia and Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
NickIe-an-Hour Parking Cost for
E| Centrans May Become Reality

ceive half. Estimating 100 meters,
spaced every 18 feet along the
two blocks this would amount to
Sl9 a day revenue. Meter owners in
stall them without charge.
Chief Oswalt pointed out the
meter plan would probably keep
the business street open for out OF
town visitors.
When a nickle is inserted in the
machine it starts a clock going
which runs for an hour. AT the
end of an hour a sign turns which
indicates to the officer on duty
that the automobile has outstayed
its time. Then comes the parking
ticket-unless the car owner DASH
es up and puts in another nickle.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12

he was William Lea, 70, but null
titude of circus goers all over the
world knew him only as the fun
niest man who ever put on a polka
dotted suit.
Cho Cho had a thousand imita-
tors. There was one in almost every
circus. But Lea was the original
Cho Cho and he could recall count
less triumphs on the sawduSt in
his circus travels that carried him
to every continent in the world.
In many ways Cho Cho's later
life resembled the fictional careers
of famous clowns who We're able
to laugh despite tragedy.
In 1886 Lea suffered an infection
and his leg was amputated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
BIackmaiI Suspect
Caught in Trap

SAN FRANCISCO, May IL, tUP)
Trapped by police when he &C
cepted dummy package from the
man he allegedly tried to black
mail, Roy Adams, AZ, Oakland, was
held for trial today on charge OF
extortion.
Emmett McAuliff, San Francisco
notified police he had arranged to
meet Adams at 11th and Market
streets and pay him $500. He said
Adams had demanded the money
as the price for Keeping quiet
about a story that you hired three
men to throw Ruby Mulcahy from
a Sacramento river boat a year and
half ago"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-12
Workers Alliance Incites Strike in
Cotton Fields as Organizers Play
Hide-Seek with Deputy Sheriffs

MADEIRA. Cal, May r. tUP)-
A mass walkout of cotton choppers,
a move which virtually would par
alyze the county's cotton industry,
was sought today by labor organ
izers who demanded that growers
inaugurate scale of pay substan-
TALLY higher than the prevailing
wage.
Visiting one ranch after another
in rapid succession, the organizers
played ide-and-seek with deputy