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The Washington times., 1929-04-26
ACT
SUIT FILED

The first litigation to arise under
the newly enacted Emergency Off
GERS Retirement Act was brought
in the District Supreme Court today
when Justice William Hitz ordered
Frank T. Hines, Director General of
the Veterans Bureau. and James
w. Good. Secretary of War, to show
cause May II why they should not
place the names of two retired en-
listed men of the Regular Army on
the list of disab bled emergency Off
GERS.
The present situation gives Gre
dence to the opinion of many oppo-
nents of the bill that technicalities
would arise to delay those entitled
10 the provisions from being placed
on the list
Robert C. Easton and John Cdva-
naugh. both of San Diego, Calf, are
the petitioners for the mandamus.
They are represented by Attorneys
Samuel T. Ansell and Edward S.
Bailey.
The two men were formerly en-
listed men of the Regular Army and
accepted commissions in the emerg
ency establishment after the declara.
ton of war. When the war was
over they were retired at the expira-
ton of 80 years of service as mas!
ter sergeants.
Later they were rated disabled in
line of duty by the Veterans Bureau
and applied for the benefit of the
Emergency Officers Retirement Act.
The Comptroller General ruled that
they were not entitled to it's bene.
fits because they had been retired
as enlisted men.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
BILL WOULD AID
EX-TEACHERS

Sixteen former teachers of the Dis
trict public schools would be bene-
fitted by the passage Of bill intro
duced in the Senate today by Senator
Guy D. Goff of West Virginia.
The bill would amend the teachers
retirement law of 1920 so as to in.
clude among the beneficiaries those
teachers who were placed on the in
active list by the Board of Educa-
tion, or who resigned from the SER
vice before June l, 1919.
The retirement law applied only
TO those teachers who were on the
payroll of the public schools during
the month of June. 1919. Before the
passage of this law the teachers
maintained their own private retire
ment fund.
There are now surviving only Is
OF, the veteran teachers who failed to
be included under the terms of the
law. Should the legislation be
adopted each of these would be paid
an annuity of $500 year.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
Probe Begun of Toledo
Air Crash, Injuring

TOLEDO, Ohio, April IS Q.N.S9.-
Investigation was started today into
a plane crash at the Sticknet
municipal airport in which three
officials of the Curtiss flying service
were critically injured.
The crash occurred late yester-
day during a severe wind and rain
storm. The three injured are:
w. r. Inflow. 25, of Toledo, pilot
of the craft, who suffered a frac-
tured right leg. fractured left ankle
and severe cuts and bruises. He was
reported to have been hurled so
feet after the plane crashed.
T. w. Harland, 4S, of Oakwood
Heights, n. Y, both legs broken,
back wrenched and body bruised.
J. d. Kenyon. IS. of Detroit,
broken back, both legs broken, cut
and bruised.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
BRITISH filters
FAIL To SET
!. RECORD

LONDON, April rs ON. .s.).-The
Giant Royal Air Force Fairey. Napier
monoplane which hoped off at
Cranwell Airdrome for Bangalore,
India, Wednesday morning in an at
tempt. to smash thes long distance
and duration records, landed at Kar-
achi, India; at l2:15 p. M. Greenwich
time, the air ministry announced.
Squadron Leader A. g. Jones-Wil-
iiams and Flight Lieut.. n. H. Jen.
kins, who manned the plane, failed
to break either records.
The distance record Of N4,S5O miles
is held by Italians and the duration
record of IS hours and rs minutes
SHIELD by Germans.
If the English fliers had been able
to continue to Bangalore without a
stop, they would have Travelled more
than 5000 miles.
Bangalore lies 1876 miles south
east of karachi.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
HEFL|N ATTACK
RESOLUTION
BLOCKED

The Senate was reminded today 1t
was called into special session with
the House to pass legislation of
farm relief and tariff revision-'not
| to take up some personal matter"
1t was Senator Blaine (RJ of Wis
consin. speaking and he blocked ac'
tion of the resolution of Senator
Heflin Cd of Alabama. condemning
the attack upon him in Brockton
Mass, recently.
This was the second time Blaine
blocked action on the resolution and
his remarks ,rought Heflin to his
feet.
Tomorrow l will discuss the
Roman Catholic conspiracy before
this body"
Senator Watson (R.1 of Indiana,
the majority leader had sought to ar
range a vote on Heslin's resolution.
Blaine. however. blocked it. When
the vote is taken the resolution will
be defeated as Republican leaders de.
cided to oppose it because of Helm s
frequent attacks on the Catholic
church.
Heflin named a set of conditions
under which he would cease his at
tacks on Catholicism.
"If you get the Catholic Church
to say there shall be no union of
state and church" he declared, 'if
you get them to respect Protestant
marriages the same as they do
Catholic marriages; if you get them
to sav their first allegiance is to
the flag and not the Pope. l won't
discuss this question any more. !"
The Alabaman read list of Sena-
tors, coming up for reelection next
year. He warned these Senator'S
80 of them-that their vote on his
resolution would DO made an issue
in the campaign.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
WOMEN VOTERS
END SESSIONS

The National League of Women
Voters, which adjourned at noon
today, Is preparing to celebrate its
convention in 1880, it was an
nounced at the final session of the
council meeting at the Washington
Hotel today.
Miss Belle Sherwin, league presi-
dent, declared that the selection of
the 1880 convention city will be
made by the national board. which
will remain in session here over the
from February. 1920, in Chicago.
ganiZation in the United States Of
the International Alliance of
women for Suffrage and EQUAL
to the Berlin meeting of the alli-
ance in June.
Miss Sherwin will head the dele
Maud Wood Park, former president;
the United States Children's Bu-
reau; Miss Ruth Morgan, Mrs. F.
Louis Slade, Miss Dorothy Straus,
LII. AIM blHSndIl, MISS Louisa
Faat. Mrs. Frank j. Shuler, Miss
Clara Hyde, Miss Mary Gray Peck.
Miss Mabel Leslie, New York; Miss
Amy G., Maher, Miss Rachel Gal.
lagher Toledo. Ohio; Mrs. James
G. Mcpherson, Saginaw, Mich;
Miss Gertrude Ely, Bryn Mawr:
Miss Mollie Ray Carroll, Baltimore:
Mrs. Ann Webster Washington:
Mrs. Craig Miller. Marshall. Mich:
Miss Beatrice Marsh, Hartford,
Conn, and Mrs. William r. Healy,
Boston. I,
Many of the delegates. following
today's final session of the council,
visited the Capitol, calling on their
Senators and RanreSentafiunr
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
DR.. Nearing to Tell +.
Whittier China Goes

Prof. w. Scott Nearing, of New
York, author and economist, will
speak on whittier China?" to-
morrow night at the Playhouse,
1900 block n ST. n. W.. under the
auspices of the Washington. chap
ter of the League for Industrial
Democracy.
DIR. Nearing recently returned
from China, where he made an ex-
haustive study Of the political and
economic situation confronting the
new regime.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
MARK DECLINES

BERLIN, April IS U.N.S,l.-There
was a sharp decline in the value of
the German mark today due to the
upset in money conditions that fol-
lowed the crisis in the reparation
negotiations in Paris. Heavy de-
mand for American dollars on the
exchange market forced the German
mark down for cables to 4.2l7S to the
dollar and for notes down to A2ss
to the dollar.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
Negro, IS, Dies When
Struck by Street Car

A 65-year-old colored man, Lloyd
Green, of the 100 block Clicks
Alley N. W., was fatally injured
TODAY when struck by a Capitol
Traction Company Street car. on
seventh Street near S Northwest.
Hospital shortly after the accident
r. r. Showalter. IS, of the 400
block 1 st. n, W. motorman Of
the car involved, is expected to be
the principal witness at a coroner's
inquest tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
World Amusement
Reason For Long
Life

CHICAGO, April 26 n.N.SJ.
Prof. Albert A. Nicholson, who is
76, wants to live to be 100 be
cause his world is so amusing"
"A man should live as long as
he's amused" said the noted sci
enlist today. For me there are
so many diversions-science paint
ing, tennis. billiards and playing
the violin"
Besides, he remarked, he has
another experiment in mind -
new calculation of the speed Of
light.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
Eastern Star Chapter
To Celebrate Birthday

CLARENDON, Va, April 20
Mary Washington Chapter, No. 50,
Order of the Eastern Star, will
celebrate it's sixteenth anniversary
at it's meeting to be held tonight in
the Masonic Temple at Clarendon.
Mrs. Mary Teachem, grand lecturer
of the District of Columbia, will
be the honoredS guest.
The committee in charge of the
arrangements is composed of Mrs.
A, C. Cosdon. Mrs. Eugene More
land, Mrs. Howard B. Fields, Mrs.
John c. Whitehead, and Mrs.
Frank A. ParkhurSt.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
Conduit Road Citizens
Favor Wider Highway

The Conduit Road Citizens Asso-
citation at its meeting last night, went
on record as favoring the widening
of Conduit Road. from the District
Line to Great Falls. The meeting
was held in st, David's parish hall.
The resolution adopted by the or
ganization will be delivered 4ostho
District Engineer, Samuel HS&Shett,
president Of the association said.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
PLAN FIRE BALL

BALLSTON, Va, April 26.-Final
arrangements for the celebration to
be held next week in connection
with the opening of the newly COM
pleted firemen's hall will he made
at a meeting of the committee to-
night at the firehouse.
The Washington times., 1929-04-26
Hawaii Votes Whipping
Post to. Aid Women

HONOLULU. T. H, April 26 a..
NS.).-The senate today had
unanimously adopted a house bill
prescribing the, whipping post for
persons convicted of attempted
criminal assault. The bill now goes
to the governor for his signature.
More than 200 women were pres
ent in the senate halls while the
bill was being discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

is only ~ hours off, will assure
them of the means to carry on.
Everything from a thimble to
suite of furniture and from a can
opener to a suit of clothes will be
on sale at Madison Square Garden
Oct. too, inclusive. All the arti-
cles and clothing are being made by
hand by the members of the various
workers organizations which have
pledged themselves to take part in
the affair, and will be sold at one
third less than their actual value.
There will be entertainment in
plenty, including two first rate or
chestras, and food that will put
home cooking in the shade. Several
surprise features are being held in
serve.
At least 100000 workers must
be brought down to the bazaar. Help
the Daily and Freiheit to help the
Gastonia defendants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
WORKERS SCHOOL
OPENS TONIGHT
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lined exactly what is expected from
the student during the course OF
the term in the way of prepara-
ton outside of courses, etc.
1t was also announced at the
school office yesterday that due to
a number of reasons it has been
found necessary to postpone The
actual beginning of classes to Oc-
tober 7th. This leaves the posi-
bility open for registration for the
entire week of Sept. Both to Oc-
tober 5th. All students wishing to
register can still do so during this
week.
The program for tonight's as
sembly is as follows:
The task of the Workers School,
by Sam Darcy. Teaching methods
and the organization of school, by
A. Markoff. The English and
language courses by V. I. Jerome,
and a program of Negro spiritual
songs to be sung by Charles Bur-
roughs with accompaniment by
Helen Black.
All units and sections must dur
ing this week settle for their share
Of the units and section scholar
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

preparing the children for the COM
ing war. 1t is a step in militariz-
ing the children. 1t is a step where
by they will draw thousands upon
thousands of children into the Boy
Scouts.
Baden P0well-Militarist.
"Take in England, they are going
to meet Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
Who is Sir Robert Baden-Powell,
anyway? He is miitarist who
was sent out in 1902 by England to
Africa, where after the English
soldiers refused to shoot down the
natives, he went and organized
groups of boys who they themselves
did not fully understand what this
whole question was, and he gave
these boys guns, and they went and
shot down the natives. This is
how he formed the Boy Scouts, and
through this deed he became the
hero of the day. He formed the
Boy Scouts and his wife formed the
Girl Guides of England, so this
proves to you alone that the Boy
Scouts were formed at time of
war, while their main aim is to keep
up the spirit in the children of de-
Tending your country, right or
wrong, whereby they do not give
the child an understanding who
runs the country.
Start Drive For Release.
Sand this jamboree taking place
in England is an international step
on the part of the Boy Scout move
ment whereby they will draw thou
sands upon thousands of other chill
dren into their organization, and
there they will train to fight against
the working class, just as they did
in Colorado two years ago when
the miners went on strike, and
that's the reason we are opposed to
the Boy Scouts of America"
The New York LID. has started
campaign to force the release of
Gisman. Immediate funds are need
ed to appeal the case. Workers are
urged to send contributions to In
ternational Labor Defense, 799
Broadway, Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
"Atghanlstan ,
at the Cameo

T7HE devious ways in which
l. British imperialism operates
in Afghanistan is illustrated strik-
ingly by report in the capitalist
press few days ago. Amanullah,
deposed Emir of Afghanistan, now
in exile in Rome, had turned Roman
Catholic! The rumor, of course, was
declared false by Amanullah few
days later. 1t had been spread by
the British. 1t was an admission
by them that their puppet, Bacha
Sakao, so-called water Boy" was
tottering. For an Amanullah turned
catholic would discredit the former
Emir and kill all his chances of
coming back.
Afghanistan! Ancient, forbidden
Afghanistant, with its buffalo
drawn carts, ancient customs, all
just as the Mongol conquerors left
it centuries ago. Afghanistant,
with it's dawning industrialization,
railroads, flivyers, lone wireless sta
ton, modern hospital and school,
erected by Amanullah. Side by side,
through the eyes of Belyayev's
camera, the Sovkino film at the
Cameo Theatre this week, we see
the Afghanistan of ten centuries
ago, and the Afghanistan of fifty,
a hundred years from now.
The Soviet scientist Vladimir Ye-
rofeyev, and the peerless photo
grapher Belyayev take US into the
pulsating bowels of the most mystic
rious of all countries and the key
to Asia, the hot-bed Of British i'm
perialist plotting is laid baretous.
Down the River Oxus, crossed by
Alexander the Great, Atilla, Tanner
lane, Akbar, all great conquerors,
over the great Hindu Kush spur of
the Himalayas, into Mazar-i-Sherif
in tn north. the vast silences Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
5O3b OF NEEDLE
WORKERS WOMEN
Many in the New York
Shoe Unions

Women workers from many in
dustries reported at the women's
conference held in conjunction with
the T.U.U.L. Convention in Cleve-
land. The reports from the textile
industry have already been given.
The Needle Trades of Boston was
reported on. The delegate pointed
out that women make up so per
cent of the workers in the needle
trades. She reminded the confer
ence that it was the dress makers
who first proved to the A. F. of l..
that women could be organized
Their strike was an effective an
swer to the propaganda of the re-
dictionaries that women were "un-
organizable." Now women in the
needle trades receive equal pay with
the men. In Boston, clubs for the
young workers have been organized.
Of the 5000 shoe workers organ
inzed in New York, at least 20 per
cent are women, according to- the
report of a delegate from the shoe
industry. The union, under left
wing control, is one of the few
unions having a Woman's Depart
ment. The A. F. of L. union has
made no effort to organize the wo-
men workers, although they are
making much less than the men for
the same work. Women work for
as low as $18 and $40 a week for
work which should pay at least $50.
The women have shown themselves
to be very militant even tho unor-
ganized when called out on strike,
and have stayed out in every case
until a settlement was made.
The delegate from the laundry
workers represented 1000 Negro and
white girls. The Negro girls are
being hired to do the highly skilled
work, such as pleating, at lower
wages. Then the wages all around
are cut. Machines are being intro
duced, but they cannot take the
place of the very fine work. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

ancient Bamian, capital of the i'm
perialists of other days, now but a
deserted city of fragments; Kabul,
the old capital and Jallalabad, the
new; Herat, on the Persian border;
the Soviet camera catches the life
of all these cities of mystery.
Then ancient Mohammedan fana-
ticism, spurred on by the parasitic
priesthood, the ignorance and abject
poverty of the fighting hillsmen and
the peasants, with luxury for a few
all this suited British imperialism;
Amanullah's new schools, railroads,
factories, all modelled on the Soviet
Russian system--all this didn't
Therefore. Amanullah had to go.
British imperialism saw to it that
he did. For the attack on the So
Wet Union may come by way of
Afghanistan.
A thrilling film, accompanied by
the realisI. which is the stamp of
the Soviet cinema.
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
MACDONALD HERE
As FOE OF BRITISH
AND US. WORKERS
Meaning of Visit to
Hoover Explained

Pointing out that the candidates
IF the republican, democrat and So
,ialist parties, LaGuardia, Jimmy
Walker and Norman Thomas, will
grovel at the feet of British imper-
ialism's spokesman, Ramsay Mac
Donald, on his arrival in this coun-
try this week, ]. Louis Engdahl,
Communist candidate for president
of the Borough of Manhattan, called
on New York labor, speaking at a
campaign meeting Sunday, to dem
onstrate against and expose Mac
Donald before the whole American
working class as one of labor's
worst enemies.
"Only the Communist Party and
its candidates, speaking for broad
sections of the. toiling masses in
this country, declare their solidar-
ity with British labor against the
Macdonald government in Great
Britain, against the Hoover govern
ment in the United States, that seek
to knit closer their strength for a
new onslaught against the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics, for great
er oppression at home.
"Wall Street imperialism, with all
its lackeys from Hoover in the
White House at Washington, to
Norman Thomas, the socialist may
orally candidate in New York City,
give their greeting to Macdonald,
who smashed the recent strike of
the British textile workers, forcing
them to accept reduction in wages,
that butchers the striking textile
workers of India when they protest
against the murderous conditions of
employment inflicted upon them;
that puts on Zionist mask in Pal
estine and proceeds to slaughter
Arab and Jewish workers and peas
ants alike"
1--WE give our greetings instead to
the Soviet flyers now on American
SOIL" said Engdahl, "pledging them
to battle on toward victory with in
creasing revolutionary zeal"
Engdahl emphasized that these
become vital issues in the present
municipal campaign, along with the
trial of the 16 Gastonia textile
strikers and organizers, pointing
out that it is the Midland Marine
Bank, the billion dollar New York
financial giant, that has bought up
control in 20 strategic banks in the
southern textile area, seeking to
control the industrial situation there
as it does in many northern indus
trial areas.
Here we see powerful financial
combinations in action that are
alike the enemies of the workers
North and South, and that should
force unity in struggle of northern
and southern labor"
The meeting took place at the
outdoor Hungarian festival of the
Elore, at the Bohemian Park in As
toria, Long Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
.SHEARER RECORD
Will Be EXPOSED
in SENATE TODAY
Gave Orders to Naval
Arms Experts"

When William B. Shearer appears
today before the Senate Naval
Subcommittee investigating his ac-
Invites as agent of big shipbuild-
ing and munitions corporations at
the Geneva Arms Conference in
1927, he will be confronted with
inquiries concerning his life before
he became a naval expert"
Played Leading Role
Thus far it has been definitely es-
tablished that Shearer played most
important role at the Geneva con-
ference where Great Britain, Japan
and the United States discussed
limitation of naval arms" and
where the conference broke up be-
cause no agreement could be
reached between the United States
and Britain on the question of
cruiser size and range of guns.
Shearer played the role of chief ad-
wiser to the so-called naval experts
of the United States Government,
the retinue of admirals, commo-
dores, naval lieutenants, etc. At
the same time Shearer was director
of all publicity and completely
dominated the capitalist reporters
and editors so that their papers pub
lished precisely what the ship
builders and munition makers want
ed them to publish.
Kellogg Directly Involved.
Secretary of State Kellogg and
the entire Coolidge-Mellon cabinet,
including Hoover, who was then
Secretary of Commerce, were I'M
doubtedly aware of the activities of
Shearer.
But the shipbuilding companies
and other concerns employing
Srearer directly did not pay him
what he considered adequate for
his services. So Shearer sued GER
tain concerns for some S225,000
alleged to be due him. He thus
threatened to expose the whole
double-faced role of the United
States agents of imperialism at
Geneva.
At the same time another i'm
perialist power was preparing to
launch a blast against the United
States war mongers by exposing
the activities of Shearer. Under
such conditions and faced with a
double threat of exposure the Amer
lean imperialist war conspirators,
through their chief of the Executive
Committee of the capitalist class
Hoover, assaulted Shearer as one of
the most depraved scoundrels in his
tory. The shipbuilders and the
heads of the steel and munition
combines, Charles M. Schwab, Eu-
gene E. Grace and others, were pic
tured as innocent victims of the
malevolent Shearer.
Turn Batteries Loose.
The game is to try to raise such
a roar over Shearer that everyone
will forget the fact that Shearer
was only the agent of the war
mongers, who was entrusted with
the job of directing their policy at
Geneva.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
WOMEN ACTIVE IN
ELECTION DRIVE
Mobilize Workers for
Communist Party

The New York District of the
Communist Party, which has en-
tered the present election campaign
on the slogan of "class against
class" has been actively mobilizing
the women of the working class
for the election struggle. 1t real
ICES that the fight against the
strikebreaking Walker government,
its republican co-workers and social
list supporters must have the back
ing of the working women as well
as the working men.
The Finnish women of the Harlem
Club of Progressive Finnish Women
have already responded to the cam
paign by organizing Gastonia and
Election Campaign Banquet for
Wednesday, October g. The banquet
is to be held at the Finnish Workers
Center, Is w. 126th St. After the
banquet there will be a musical
program and dancing. A Finnish
orchestra will furnish music and
many Finnish folk dances will be
on the program.
This banquet is direct result of
the special meeting of representa-
tives from the various women's Ian
guage organizations held several
weeks ago. At that meeting each
organization pledged itself to carry
out special work for the election
campaign and Gastonia.
On October 81 there is being
called an Election Campaign Gas
tonia Defense Women's Mass Meet