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The Washington times., 1929-03-18
IS
. IN FLOODS
WAKE
By HENRY LEsEsNE

ATL ANITA, March Ia
(I.N.S. Thousands Of lives
were imperilled today In the
Southeastern flood areas as
rampant rivers swirIing to-
ward the open gulf Of Mexico,
cut fortuous paths of devasta-
tion across town. and country
side.
After claiming : total Of 40 lives
in the sections where the crisis
has passed, tons of water enptied
into the lowlands Of southeastern
and southwestern Alabama, where
thousands Of persons are either
marooned or have fled to safety.
In central Georgia, where March
oyerfioWs already have claimed
total of Is lives. rivers approached
record crests, and residents OF
number of small towns have a5an-
donsd their homes,
Deaths Put at 10.
Advices to the office of Gov,
Bibb Graves Of Alabama, at Mont.
gomerg, today placed the deaths
directly attributable to the flood
in that State at IS.
Ten occurred at EIba, two. at
Geneva and seven over scattered
districts. Five others early last
week were Indirectly attributed to
high water. One death was re-
ported from flood-ravaged north,
west Florida,
Pestilence and famine threatened
thousands of refugees. -
AS food and medicine were
rushed to the, flood survivors in
southern Alabama emergency camps
by squadrons of airplanes and flo.
tillas Of small water craft, hordes
of other residents of the lowlands
were either mafooned or had sue.
ceeded in reaching higher ground.
Southern Alabama remained the
vortex of the flood disturbance,
although high water in central
Georgia and northwest Florida in
undated vast 5exnanses of farm
land and caused hundreds to- aban.
don their homes. !
Thousands Mar0Oned q / s
With most of the. residents in
the stricken areas, of southeastern
C4AAAC1 ACSGuCQ. 4OT udNI1ls
found safety on hill crests, the
work of rescue was turned upon
the southwestern end Of the State,
where tens of thousands of per.
sons were reported naarooned in
the upper stories Of their homes
and in tree tops. - -.
Martial law has been declared I'd
prevent looting in Elba and Geneva,
Ala, as flood waters, which reached
a depth of from Is to 20 feet, began
TO recede. ~
Meanwhile the major portion OF
the rescue work was turned toward
a dozen stricken towns in the souths
western tip Of the State, which were
reported under many feet of water.
The towns OF Brewton, River
Falls, Flomaton, Brooklyn, Castle.
berry, Barnett, in Alabama, and Cen.
tury and Careyvflle, Florida, were
under water, which ranged from 20
feet in the lower sections to mere
| covering of the ground on the hin.
tops. {
A number of cases of pneurnonia
were reported at the Elba refugee
Continued on Page 2. Column y
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DR.. /. ". WILEY
GIVES AID To
TAX REFORM

DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, inter
nationallyknown chemist and pure
food expert. today scored the in
on earned incomes and pledged him,
self to cooperate with the national
movement for the reduction of the
levy.
"A cut in this tax would certainly
benefit thousands of professional
workers in the United States,F DIR.
Wiley said. ''I am particularly in
favor of a reform because of the
surtax provision which practically
makes one pay a tax twice-once on
the whole net income and another
time upon the amount affected by
the surtax, although this amount
has been included in the general
tax" sss
Information Sought
DR.. Wiley assisted in bringing the
tax problem before Charles L.. Par
sons, secretary of the powerful and
influential American Chemical So
ciety. Parsons asked for detailed
information to lay before the exec
utive committee OF the society at
its meeting here next month.
Az the same time, this data Will
be given to DR. r. e. Gibson. chair
man of the program committee for
the Washington section of the SO
ciety, in order. to obtain the indorse.
ment OF the many chemists in Gov.
ernmental and private employ In
the Nations Capital.
The chemists, upon the approval
by their organi tions. will he asked
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THOUSANDS STILL MAR0ONED
Poker Players Duel
With Hands Clasped;
Both Dead

HoRNBEAK. Tenn. March 1S
Q.N.sl.-Loeking their lefthands
in "to-death" grip. Roy Parker
son, 40, and Hill Cavett, IS, shot
it out here last night. Today both
are dead.
The duel followed an argument
over a poker game, authorities
said. Parkerson accused Cavett
of drawing three cards while hold
ing three in his hand. They
agreed to "sheot it out"
They went outside and clasped
hands. Four shots rang out and
both dropped.
Parkerson. who lived at Sam
berg. was under sentence of two
years on manslaughter charge
which he had appealed. A wife
and two children survive him.
The Washington times., 1929-03-18

The relative positions OF nations
of the world have so far always been
changed through war" said the
former war minister OF the Russian
Soviet in explaining his startling pre-
diction.
England, 'Patrician' of the CAPT
talistic world, has always defended
what she has acquired in possessions
and commerce against all other
'plebian' states which have come into
power.
Cites Upstairs
England has always considered
countries which disturbed established
conditions as 'upstarts.' France was
considered as such ait the end of the
eighteenth century. Germany was
viewed in a similar light at the end
of the nineteenth century.
Now 1t is the turn of the over
powerful United States to find itself
the object of such consideration.
The greatest danger of war lies
in the disproportion between the
economic strength of the United
States, on the one hand, and the
colonial possessions of England on
the other.
Kellogg Pact's Meaning
Mighty efforts for equalization
within the framework Of the exist
ing economic system are, therefore,
inevitable.
Otherwise, what would be the
sense Of naval programs? The Kek
logg pact has only one meaning, and
that is that every war should be out.
lawed il it is directed against the
predominance Of the United States. .
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Woman Badly Hurt
When Truck Hits Car

Thrown from an automobile YES.
terday on the fredericksburg, Va,
pike; 35 miles from here. Mrs. Edna
Ruhlman, "a, of the 1900 block D st.
s. f., was in serious condition in
Emergency Hospital today. Her
back may be broken.
Mrs. Ruhlman was injured when
a car in which she was riding turned
over after it was sideswiped by q
truck. She was brought to the hos
pital by Michael H. Wilhoite, of the
100 block Alaska Ave- N. w.
The accident occurred when How.
ara Luckham, of Hyattsyille, Nd,
attempted to drive his truck between
the Ruhlman machine and another
automobile, the driver of which
failed to stop.
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GIRL Tells HER
STORY Of THAN
At TACK
@
By DAVID P. sENTNER

NEW YORK, March 18 Q.N.Sl.-
Crying softly and speaking in a
slow. trembling voice, Marcia
Estardus, .2S-year-old showgirl, told
of an alleged attack made on her
by Harry X Thaw, Pittsburgh
millionaire. during a New Years
eve party in Thaws apartment.
She was called to the stand as
her own witness in 100000 suit
she brought against Thaw for
natural damages suffered by her
person and spirit from the attack. +"
The whole affair started, Miss
Estardus said, in the Washington
Square apartment of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Alexander where she was on a
party New Years eve, 1921.
AT the Alexander party, ] met
Morgan Pendieton, Thaw's secretary,
and when the affair broke up went
with him to Texas Guinan's club, =
she said.
Had Some Cocktails
Were you drinking at the Alex
ander party%' William B. Roulston,
her. attorney. asked
yes, i had cocktails maybe two,
maybe three.
I'VE then got into taxicab, Pen
dleton, myself and another couple.
and went to Guinan's. / had decided
to go home when Pendleton sug.
gested that l go with him to break.
fast
I'VE then drove to a house on
West Seventy-fifth Street and went
into a dining room. That is where
Thaw appeared"
. Had you ever met him before, :"
her attorney asked.
Yes, at a roadhouse and also at a
hotel where l was conducting a
dance.
Six at Party
"pendleton, however, introduced
me and | fried eggs and fixed coffee
for the party, which consisted of six
persons.
Among the persons at the party
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REFUELS
ON HOP FROM
PANAMA

BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone
March 1s q.N.s.). Capt. Ora Eaker
u. s, Army flyer. who hoped of
at France field at 4 o'clock this
morning on flight to Brownsville
Tex, landed at David at ell o'clock
to refuel. Eaker spent only about
10 minutes taking. fuel aboard his
plane, hopping off at 6;22 o'clock.
Eaker said that weather condi
tions were fine and that his plane
was funetioning perfectly.
Before hopping off Eaker said
that he might fly to both Browns
vile and San Antonio before the
days flight is ended
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Lindbergh Working Out
N. Y.-CalifOrnia Route

PITTSBURGH, March Is Q.N.S).
Col. Charles Al. Lindbergh 4 is
mapping out plans for an air-rail
passenger ! service between New
York and Los Angeles that will cut
the travelling time across the cont.
Tient down to 36 hours, it was
learned here tonight.
Colonel Lindbergh arranged the
Pennsylvania Railroads seaeduIe
for the franseontinental Air Trans-
port, Inc, for coastsfe e-coast
service in 4s hours and according
TO his new project this time WIN be
lowered b. IL hours.
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Tries to End Life When
Held on Check Charge

ALEXANDRIA,. Va, March 1S.--
Donald r. Leesen. of New York city
said to be solicitor for the Volun'
teers of America. attempted to com
init suicide in the Jail here today by
severing fhe artery in his right
wrist, following his arrest on a
bad-check charge.
Leeson had been searched by, the
desk sergeant and then placed in a
cell. Later going back to the cell,
room it was found that the prisoner
had attempted to end his life, using
small piece of tin. Lessons con,
dition Is not serious
The Washington times., 1929-03-18
Hope for Marshal Foch
Is Seen by Physician

PARIS. March 1S u.N.S.l.--
Marshal Fech's condition today was
described as extremely serious, but
not hopeless.
He was attended by three doctors
this morning. They found that his
pulse had advanced to 100. His
temperature was normal.
'"rhe marshslias heart is not re.
spending as well as l had hoped. -
said DIR. Degennes. one of those in
attendance. "his condition II very
serious. but ] would not consider i
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Mrs. Leeds to Answer
Beauvais Suit Today

NEW YORK, March Is Q.N.SA.
Mrs. 'Flo'' Leeds, named as an init
mate Of James A, Stillman during
his sensational attempt to divorce
his wife, will be the principal figure
in today's preliminary hearing on
the half.million.dolla slander suit of
Fred Beauvais, Canadian Indian
guide, brought against Stillnan.
Beauvais seeks to have her named
as a co.defendant with the banker
in. the suit. Until court opening
today she had filed no answer to the
show cause order granted Beauvais
last week.
The Washington times., 1929-03-18
Germany Puts Ban on
Decorations by Pope

BERLIN, March 18 Q.N.S9.--
Papal decorations may no longer
be worn in GERMANY
Under the German constitution,
Germans are forbidden to accept
decorations from foreign states or
potentates. The establishment of
papal sovereignty puts them now
under the ban.
The Washington times., 1929-03-18
CRASH
DEAD ARE
NOW 4

NEW ARK, n. j., March Is
(I.N.S. The toll of lives in
the crash of the tri-motOred
Ford sightseeing plane here
yesterday mounted to IA to-
day when Belmont Parsons,
of Brooklyn, one of two sur
vivors died in st. James Hos
pital.
Lou Foote,, the, pilot, is in a
critical condition.
Parsons death establishes the
crash as one of the two worst .Jaceis
dents in aviation history. On De
cember 3 last, IA persons were
killed wi1en a plane plunged into
the ocean off Rio de Ianeiro.
Was Air Student
Foote and Parsons were riding In
the. cockpit of the plane. When
the ships motors went dead, it
crashed into the side of a stalled
freight train, the fuselage striking
first. Foote tried desperately to
clear the train, and this action ac.
counts for the peculiar manner in
which the plane crashed.
Foote is suffering from frac-
tured skull and leg, while Parsons
was injured internally
Parsons was a student aviator at
the Newark. field and went aloft
with Foote to obtain instructions
in plotting .tri-motored ships.
Lovers Meet Death
Among the passengers in the
planes cabin were Reginald Il.
Woodward, Brooklyn law student,
and Gertrude Seever, of Newark.
The couple had been engaged for
to make an air flight as lark. ;"
when witnesses of the crash rushed
to the scene. they found the two
locked in last embrace.
Mayor Jerome Congelton. as
sisted by James w Costello. airport
chief. and Lieut.. Richard Aldworth
u. S. A.. on leave and detailed to
the local airport. spent much OF
last night laying plans for the
sweeping investigation which Will
be launched today.
List OF Dead
Identification of the victims was
completed only after several hours
investigation. In cases of several
bodies Identification was still tenta-
tive early today.
The dead:
ANTOINE GOBLE, West New
York, N. ].
THOMAS HENDRICKSON, Wee.
haWken Heights N, j.
PATRICK JAHNUZZI, Jersey
City, N. j.
WALTER WENTScHEL, JR.,
Jersey City, N. J.
REGINALD d. WOODWARD,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
/ MISS GERTRUDE STEEVER.
Bloomfield, N. J. y
w. CLIFTON STEEVER. Bloom.
field N. j., brother OF Miss Steever.
JOSEPH BAUER, Stamford, Conn.
STEVE HAGMASI, Stamford,
RAYMOND ELMscITER, Irving,
ton, N. j.
WILLIAM MARGARETTEN,
Perth Amboy, n. J.
WILLIAM ZIGER, Irvington, N.
j.
ANDKEW HAGMASI. Stamford,
Conn.
BELMONT PARSONS, Brooklyn.
The plane-7-a trimotored Ford
was in perfect condition, according
to Edwin Weatherdon, its regular
pilot, and in addition to being in
spected in the early morning. had
been looked over by mechanics after
each OF five trips precedeing the
fatal one.
Federal investigation of the fatal
5airplane crash near Newark, N.IJ.,t
where IA persons were killed, will
be made, according to officials of
the Department of Commerce.
The. Federal interest in the
tragedy centers around whether
any of the laws and regulations
governing commercial flying were
q 4
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
S5,425, ,418.5S.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $234,DO0. 900.
New u Clearing House ex-
change. x9, 900. .Oe0.
Treasury balance, $ls.6l9, ,ea6.09.
Customs receipts, S21,S97,4O6.s1.
The Washington times., 1929-03-18
7rotzy Sees u. S. War
With Britain Sure
BY OTTO D. ToLIsCHUs
Copyright 1sas by international News ssry

BERLIN March 18.'War between the United States and
Great Britain inevitable Leon Trotzky declared today in
exclusive statement telegraphed to this correspondent
from his exile in Turkey ts.+.e
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE

membership. The efforts of the socialist party
to establish new third bourgeois party, the
leadership of which will be greatly in the hands
of the petty bourgeois and even bourgeois ele-
ments, make the struggle against reformist or
CARNATIONS and tendencies not only clearer to
the masses but also vital necessity if the
illusions still inherent in the working class
are to be destroyed.
New Members Thru Struggle
The recruiting drive for five thousand mem
bers for the Communist Party is a drive not
separated from the general work of the Party.
Membership for the Party in the basic in
dustries will be gained chiefly through the
struggle of the Party to carry on its funda-
mental work of organizing the unorganized and
mobilizing them for militant action. Insofar
the Party is able to throw itself into these
struggles it will be able to secure the best
elements for membership in our Party.
Although the Party does not reject anv
worker whose sincerity is unquestioned never.
theless. in building up Communist Party we
must clearly have in mind those elements which
will be basic for the revolutionary struggle
namely, the workers in the heavy industries.
Although in the New York District there are
large sections of proletarians in the ranks of
the Party, nevertheless the membership as n
whole is divorced from the basic industries
Proletarianization for the Party means bringing
in the workers from the vital industries. and
the Party therefore as a whole must throw
itself into this drive. If properly organized
and modified there is no question that in
New York and New Jersey, and particularly
in the latter field where there are so many
basic industries, we will be able to secure the
one thousand members that have ben assigned
to District q Into the factories-fight against
the war danger-moblization of the bes. eie-
ments in the industrial unions and those
still in the American Federation of Labor, with
main stress on a concentrated drive for the
workers in the heavy industrics--'hcsc must
be our slogans in The membership drive.
Never before in the history of the Party has
there been such opportunity for drawing IN
these elements. The P?rtv for the first time
in its history is unified Communist Party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
Grain Collection Success i'm
Soviet Russia.

MOSCOW (By MaiD-Mikoyan, commissioner
for trade spoke at a meeting held conformity
by the grain supply organizations and the rep
resentatives of the factories. The resolution
passed on his report states:
"The success of the grain supply organizations
in the present year fully confirms the correctness
of the line taken by the Party and the govern
ment with respect to the collection of grain by
means of social and political mass work among
the poor and middle peasantry, and with respect
to the offensive against the kuaks. Thanks to
the participation of large cadres of Party and
trade union members in grain supply work, and
thanks to the co-work of the poorer rural popu
lation it has been possible to oppose the will of
the proletarian state to the attempts of the rich
peasantry to reserve grain. The hopes of the
kulaks of specializing in grain, and undermining
planned economics have been destroyed.
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Andrew Mellon, Steel and SeditiOn

of the organization He is now member OF the
Bureau of the Communist Party of the Pittsburgh
District and on the day when he Will be mana
cled by the u S. sheriff and dragged off to prl-
son, he will be found in the Pittsburgh Party OF"
flee at work on shop papers and bulletins Tor
distribution among the workers in WoodlaWn and
Ambridge, across the river.
lima 49, and the father of four children, Is
the quiet resoute, self-sacrificing worker upon
which the revolutionary movement Will be bulit
in this country especially in this period OF in
creasing attacks by the employers and relentless
persecution and Imprisonment of militants every
where Muselin, 29, barber is an effective agi-
tator, an attractive personality, and is known to
thousands of workers throughout Western Penn
sylvania.
The trial of the three workers opened IN the
Beaver County Court on June 90 1927, before
Judge w. A. Mcconnell, judicial puppet of the
J. & L. who either didn't care lacked the class
intelligence to hide his open collaboration with the
prosecutor with flowing words and soft gestures
Vicious prejudiced, snarling, the judge failed to
conform even to those archaic rules" of law
and procedure so serviceabe to the employing
class. .
Sure They're Guilty!
The Jury was composed of twelve small business
men and clerks, who if they not in the
direct hire of the j. d L.. nevertheless possessed
the abor-hating psychology which would make
conviction foregone conclusion. The foreman
of the Jury Ross is boss in the Wyckoff mill
in Ambrdge and leader of the Ku KluX Khan
there "Whenever that fellow sees me-" Milan
Resetar told the writer she across the
strickland his favorite hiding place is the
church"
Add to this the fact that all three defendants
are foreign-born, altho working in the U. S. for
many years, and one could predict the outcome
of this majestic farce with scientific accuracy.
For one whole week the jury listened to the
"evidence." They then filed into an inner cham
J. lit cigars, exchanged some small-talk, and
then returned, faces solemn, with the verdict
of guilty"
Who made the raid on the birthday party at
Zimas house, Nov. H. 1926, which resulted in
the arrests and convictions. Just take peep
at the printed, official record of the court pro-
ceedngs:
Testimony of S. G. Mauk (vol l, p. 1859.
Direct Examination by Mr.. Craig, prOsecutor)
@. Captain, you in charge of the police
force of the Jones G. Laughlin police, up at
Woodawn?
A. Yes, sir
Q. Were you asked by Chief O'Loughln, of
the Woodlawn police force, to assist him in max
ing this raid on the 18th of November?
A. Yes, sir.
O. And also detailed some of your men to
assist him?
A. Yes, sir.
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
By l. AMTER.

THE third period of post war capitalism de.
mands that the workers be modified foy
militant struggle. This denotes to the Party
the necessity for entrenchng itself not merely
in industry as a whole but in the basic indus
tries The crash in Wall Street is clear
barometer Of the economic situation in the
United States. Based upon the idea of con-
tinuing high profits, stocks were boosted to a
level unprecedented in the history of the coun-
try. The industries, however, were gradually
slackening. Auto building, construction, steel
steadily went downward and the crash came.
Unemployment is widespread and will continue
to grow This will mean vicious attacks by
the capitalists on the conditions of the workers
thus intensifying their militancy. Speed-up,
wage slashes, etc. will lead to mass struggles
by the workers agains these conditions and to
q. broad movement for organization.
Face the War Industries.
The war danger, which becomes accentu
ated DAY by day as a result of these conditions
and in the face of the fake peace and disarma.
ment maneuvers and parleys carried on by
the imneriahst governments demands that the
entire. Party turn its face toward the heavy
industries which fundamentally are war in
dustries. Steel, coal, transportation. chemicals.
munitions. oil. these are but few of the in
dustries in which the Party must drive its
roots if the workers are to be modified and
directed against the imperialist activities of
the government
The continual intensification of socialist con-
struction in the Soviet Union is challenge to
capitalist economy and this, therefore. is the
main motive of the proposed attacks of the
imperalst powers upon the Soviet Union. The
flight Of LAND of the Soviets" has inspired
hundreds Of thousands of workers in this coun-
try who can be modified for defense of the
Soviet Union.
The drive for the organization Of the unor-
ganized into the new industrial unions. the
fight within the American Federation of Labor
10 win over the proletarian elements still in
the A. r. L. on the side of militant activity
all Of these open a field for recruiting Party