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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06

alton, and a trustee Of Sibley Memorial
Hospital and the Swartzell Methodist
Home for Children. He is member Of
the Chamber of Commerce, Board Of
Trade, Association of Oldest Inhabit-
ants, Anacostia Citizens Association,
Masonic Order and Trinity M. E.
Church. His son, Raymond E. Otter
back is employed by the Union Trust
Co., having also selected banking as his
profession.
Maurice Otterback never misses a
District bankers convention. AS the
expression goes, HE spins a wicked
top" At the convention when the Nc
Lean Cup was captured by Howard
Moran and j. Frank White, the Ana
costa bankers scores almost upset
the spinning honors of the other well
known local financiers.
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AUTO OUTPUT AHEAD
OF FIGURES IN 1928
Producers Of Low.Priced Cars Get.
ting Still Firmer Grip on
Business.

While running considerably under
record figures of 1929, the production
OF motor cars thus far this year is still
ahead Of 1928 figures, according to this
weeks United Business Report.
The producers of low-priced cars
have succeeded in getting an even firm
er grip on the bulk of the automobile
business than they had last year. Of
the sales of cars thus far this year
Ford has succeeded in getting SO PEI
cent of the total, compared with 80 pei
cent last year, and Chevrolet IS credited
with 28.5 per cent, compared with 2:
per cent a year ago. Ford and Gen
eral Motors combined do approximate.
ly "A per cent of the total automobile
business, the remaining 26 per cent be-
ing accounted for by about 20 less i'm.
portant manufacturers.
It must be borne in mind, however
that competition is severe and there i.
little likelihood of profits even ap.
preaching those of last year except iY
q few isolated instances.
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OTTERBACK. ANACOSTIA BANK
HEAD, STARTED AS MESSENGER
Widely Known Financial Fig
ure Observed SD Birth.
day Last Week.
Became Cashier Of Institution
When 1t Was Founded 20
Years Ago.

From messenger boy to bank presi-
dent is the life story of Maurice otter
back, president of the Anacostia Bank,
who celebrated his sixty-third birthday
on April 3. Two other events are also
combining to make the present time of
particular concern to the Mayor Of
AnacoStia." His bank showed a sub
stantial increase in deposits on the
last controllers call and the institution
will be 20 years old in May.
Educated in the Washington public
schools, Mr.. Otterback became a mes
Senger for the National Capital Tele-
phone Co., later absorbed by the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co. He
soon became assistant chief operator,
but resigned in 1891 to become note
teller in the National Capital Bank.
In october, 1907, he gave up that posi-
ton to Become manager of the Ana
costa branch Of the Union Savings
Bank.
His next nave was to assist in the
organization and become the first CASH
Ter of the AnacoStia Bank. which start
ed its successful career in May, 1910.
Mr.. Otterback was elected president
Of the bank in June, 1918, and has been
at the helm ever since. The bank moved
into its own building in July, 1925, and
is still doing business in this fine home.
Mr.. Otterback is a director In the
National Capital Insurance Co. and
the Eastern Building & Loan ASCOT
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REDUCTION IN WHEAT
ACREAGE is URGED
Meetings Are Being Held in Mid
west to Prevent Over
Planting.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 5.-Wh1le
a decrease of $13,000,000 in deposits in
the past three months is shown by the
national banks of this city, this is moth
ing exceptional, for the same percentage
of decrease is experienced in the rural
banks of the interior and to degree
1t Is seasonal.
The income of the producing country
Is at this time limited and the expense
Of the farms steadily goes on. Just now
the banks are having strong demand
fr loans.
Reports are coming in from the
Western and Southwestern wheat belt
Of some damage from dry weather and
high winds, but these are not serious
and are to great degree local. A
Santa Fe report tells of a prospect Of
record yield II present prospects are
maintained. However, there Is plenty
Of time for change In the condition
before harvest.
Meetings are being held throughout
the wheat belt to induce the farmers
to join the Farm Board cooperative
movement and thus far the response
has been fairly liberal.
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ELECTRIC IRONS TOP
SALES IN APPLIANCES
Percolators and Washing Machines
Next in Popularity in 1929,
Recent Survey Shows.

Heading the list Of electrical appli-
ances sold during the calendar year
1929, according to a survey of a large
number Of electrical companies just
completed by Stone & Webster, Inc,
were electric iron, with 54.4 per 1000
home customers compared with Sill in
1928. Other increases were percolators,
1919, against 1911; washing machines,
90, against Sc; electric, ranges, It's,
against 1863; electric refrigerators, lib,
against 9.5; electric cookers, 81, against
So, and vacuum cleaners and floor poll
ishers, 100, against 90. Miscellaneous
appliances increased from $50 to $50.
Gas water heaters of various types
sold, increased from 1877 to 1874 per
1000 home customers. Automatic heat
ers especially are. very popular, having
increased from ~ TO 7.6. Gas house
heating intallations increased from I66
to $50, or l12 per cent.
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have been made to secure permission of
| the lawmakers to increase the stock OF
the corporation in order to finance eX-
tensions and improvements. The city
| has spread out all over the District and
even into Maryland and Virginia and
the chief fuel for cooking purposes has
been gas during all the intervening
| years.
Pipes have been laid by the company
in every direction east of Rock Greek,
not financed by new stock issues as Gus
tomary with stock corporations, except
one increase Of $4,000. but by certif1-
Gates, Interchangeable for stock if the
Congress of the United States should
ever permit an additional stock issue"
but matured and paid off long ago.
Bond issues of very limited amount
| were used to finance betterments-in
all $10,756, 500--modest capital in
| creases. when 1t is remembered that
the stock has never been over $3.50, 900,
| par value $40 a share, on which 10 per
cent dividends have been paid for some
time.
They All Tried to Get Increase.
Every executive of the company
through the corporate history of the
company tried to increase the stock,
but Congress stood pat-on gas at least.
Last year the control Of the company
was sold to some gentlemen from New
York, representing utility interest.
| Georgetown Gas Co., also chartered
by Congress July 20, 1854, with terri
tory west of Rock Creek set aside for
its field OF operations-truly a restrict
ed business opportunity for many years,
but today one of the most promising
with its population increasing every day.
1t had capital of $150,0O0, and was al
ways more or less controlled by the
Washington Gas Co.
Has Owned 1t for Years.
The latter has actually owned all of
| the Georgetown's stock for many years,
! paying rather high prices for the last
Few hundred shares. There was law
against another corporation owning con-
troll, but 1t was acquired and held just
| the same.
The Washington Gas Co. has been
/ trying for years to secure permission to
merge the Georgetown Gas Co., to take
1t over as measure of economy, but
was blocked at every attempt.
New Workers Look Like Winners.
Right now it looks as if the new
owners, who acquired control of Wash
| ington Gas by purchase at S125 a share
and less, have impressed the desirability
Of increases in the capital stock of the
company as may be needed for the
proper extensions of service and for the
| merging of the two gas companies, Civ
ing, therefore, If Congress agrees, q cut
in the price of gas.
Just how important this concession
will be to consumers remains to he seen,
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CONSUMPTION OF TIN
IN MARCH INCREASED

American consumption of tin during
March reached the highest level in IL
months, totaling 8,675 tons, an increase
of rs per cent over the February con-
sumption of 1910 tons, according to
official statistics made public in London
today.
The worlds total consumption for
March exceeded production by 531
tons. Supplies of tin for the month
amounted to 1902 tons, compared
with 1902 tons in February, repre-
senting a decline Of 9 per cent. De-
liveries, on the other hand, totaled 49,
433 tons, an increase of 80 per cent
over February.
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govern ors that
which they want.
Appropos of con-
ditions that have
existed for many
years and will, in
all probability, be
radically changed
in the not distant
future:
Washington Gas
Light Co. was in
corporated by act
Of Congress with a
capital stock Of
$15O,0O0 In 1854. q
matter of some 76
years ago, In the
interim b e t W e e n
t h en- and now
falir1nnnniiS affaHnaHafe
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Utilities Firm Expands.

NEW YORK, April R).-The
Commonwealth Utilities Corporation
has acquired control Of the st. Louis
County Water Co. through the purchase
of rs per cent Of the outstanding COM
mon stock at $225 a share. The total
assets of the st. Louis County Water
Co. are listed as 910,000,000.
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MARCH SALES UP.

Schultz United 5c-$1 Stores, Inc, re-
ports an increase of more than 85 per
cent in March sales and more than lO9
per cent for the flrst quarter of 1880.
The company reports 81 stores In opera.
ton at the end of March compared
with q total Of so stores In operation
on the corresponding date last year. 4
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bonds for the new reparations issue.
It was an active period for converti-
BILE bonds. Under the influence of a
strong stock market, such descriptions
as American Telephone convertible AVS,
International Telephone AVS, General
Theater Equipment IS, Warner Broth
ers' Pictures IS, Texas Corporation S.
Atchison 41as and New Haven IS went
to new high levels.
(copyright, $4,000
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BY I. A. FLEMING.

New Workers, graduates in the field
of public utilities, know how to go
about obtaining from utility commits
sioners, common councils, mayors and
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
Working Women Rally
to Aug. | Demonstr.

millions of women workers in
the United States and in the Euro
pean countries are being trained and
mobilized for the next imperialist
blood bath. In some countries the
bosses are agitating for conscrip-
ton laws for women as well as men
workers" This is part of the state
ment issued by the Women's De-
partment of the Communist Party,
New York District, in its call to
working women to attend the
Women's Anti-War Conference to
be held July 18 at 1880 p. m. at 26
Union Square, New York.
In the demonstrations on August
women workers will take their
place with the men workers in pro-
testing the war preparations Of the
imperialists and the attacks On the
Soviet Union. The Women's Con-
ference of July 18, which will in
clude delegates from factories as
we'll as from women's organizations,
will make preparations for this
anti-war demonstration.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
four FUR SHOPS
NOW ON STRIKE
Demand July Increases
Inspired By N.T.W.I.U.

NEW YORK.-The campaign for
July increases conducted by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is spreading very rapidly.
Four company union fur shops are
on strike. The workers of these
company union shops declared their
strikes over the heads of the COM
pany union officials, and were in
spired by the campaign conducted
by the Industrial Union.
The shops on strike are: Diamond
& Altman, 214 w. 29th ST.; Harris
& Hammer, 129 West29th St.; New
Idea Fur Co., 242 West 30th ST.;
Feinberg & Freeman, 315 7th Ave.
The Industrial Union is calling
upon all furriers to support these
strikes and help them win July in
creases as we'll as follow their ex-
ample and to declare more shops on
strike.
A mass meeting of furriers will
take place at Cooper Union, Thurs
day, next week. 1
A very important meeting of the
Shop Delegates Council will be held
today, at Irving Plaza, 18th ST.,
Irving Place. At this meeting a
report will be given of the acti9i-
ties in the various trades and plans
for future activities will be con.
sidered.
A successful conference Of active
registered cloakmakers as well as
Industrial Union members took
place yesterday, Tuesday, July 18th
at the office of the Union. About
ITS were present Of whom a large
number were registered cloak
makers.
A plan for starting campaign
in the cloak field to prepare the
cloakmakers for struggle for con-
ditions for fight against the COM
pany union was presented and was
enthusiastically accepted and ad-
opted by the conference. 1t was
also decided to make all necessary
plans for the mass meeting of cloak
makers in the very near future.
This conference constituted itself
as committee of action to carry
out plans of the union in the cloak
trade.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
I0bLessLeddeY
Assault Case
Put Off Again

For the seventh time the boss
controlled officials of the Magis-
trate's Court, 4th District, 57th
st. postponed the cases yesterday
of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond
ana Lesten on the trumped up
charges of "assaulting a policeman"
The trial has been set for July 25,
through the efforts of Attorney
Brodsky of the International Labor
Defense.
This frame up is aimed at adding
to the sentence of the previous case.
The absence of the District Attorney
and necessary witnesses was the spe-
cious excuse made by the court for
postponing trial. But while he is
not available for the trial of the
unemployed delegation, Whalen will
be on hand this week to present his
forged documents before the Fish
Committee to investigate militant
workers organizations and assist
the imperialists in their prepara-
tions for war against the Soviet
Union.
The International Labor Defense
urges the workers to smash the at
tempted frame-up of the jebless
leaders by vigorous protest in the
courtroom on July 25.
The international Labor Defense
urges the workers to protest this
attempted frame up of the obless
leaders in the court room July 25.
Lesten, a seaman, is held on bail,
and deprived of chance to get a job
by the setting of the trial every two
weeks or so. He has served 80 days
for the March demonstration. The
other four were sentenced to three
years, and are in prison.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17

fight of the Negro masses for self
determination.
This terror has been flaming up
for months now and shows no sign
of abatement. Eighteen workers
have been lynched already this year
seven more than for the entire
year of 1929. The customary charge
of rape has not been able to stand
up in these lynchings, has not been
able to cover up the economic clause.
Plan Big Campaign.
The campaign includes an extern
sive eireularization of Negro and
white organizations, unions, fra
ternal orders, etc., with a four page
leaflet depicting the conditi ,ns of
the frightfully oppressed southern
Negroes and giving statistics, in
Guiding the economic causes which
the Congress declares to be back Of
most lynchings, Of eighteen lynch
ings which it says has taken place
during the first half Of the present
year.
Preparations for the National
Convention Of the American Negro
Labor Congress to be held in St.
Louis, Aug. 30, 81 and Sept. 1, are
now well under way.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
SPREAD STRIKE
OF ILL. MINERS

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 16.-Reports
received by the Trade Union Unity
League headquarters show the fol-
lowing mines are on strike the
coal fields: Ziegler No. / and No.
of the Bell and Zolla Co Agoa
No. l and Agoa No. IL in Eldorado;
Royalton Peabody No. 18 in West
Frankfort.
The west mine in West Frankfort
has been completely shut down and
400 miners were thrown out from
the mine. The sentiment for spread
ing the strike is growing daily.
The National Miners Union held
meeting in Eldorado and prepared
to hold meetings in many other
mining towns, calling on the miners
to spread the strike and to get rid
of the Lewis, Fishwick, Howatt and
the so-called rank and file Belle
vile clique of the u. M. w. A.,
which are leading the miners in the
interest of the bosses.
The latest report from Harris
burgh states that States Attorney
Rumsey issued warrants to arrest
from so to rs miners who partici-
pated in the mass picketing in front
of the O'Garra No. IL Mine, prevent
ing the breaking of the strike. The
report states that some miners had
wanted to get into the mine to work
and had been forcefully stopped ly
the strikers, and some automobiles
had been smashed. There were
more than 1000 miners in front of
that mine.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
Be AT WORKERS AT
HARLEM Meeting
Fig ht Starvation and
1mperialist War

While members of the Commu-
mist Party were holding a street
meeting at 132nd st. and Lenox
Ave, Tuesday evening, Comrade
Melvin Green was viciously attacked
by reputed member of the Back
to Africa" movement of Marcus
Garvey, sci '-styled provisional presi-
dent Of the republic of Africa, in
which white and Negro members of
the African Communist Party are
facing death from bullets of the
British and other capitalist powers.
This is the third attack made on
Negro and white workers. The first
was that of Comrade Alfred Levy,
Negro worker murdered by police
at the corner of 133rd st. and Lenox
Ave. during an anti-lynching protest
meeting, and the other was Com
rade Gonzalo Gonzalez, Mexican
worker murdered while walking with
several Spanish workers to the
funeral parlor where Levy's body
was lying.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
Communist Activities

section s Funetionnry
Meeting will be held Thursday
July II at p. m. at 5ss Prospect Ave
section 8 Election Campaign
Work will be held, tonight, Friday
from 6'to 9 and Sunday UP to p. IN
All comtades are 70 report.
Unit 1; section Z.
VIII have an open air meeting TO.
night at Fifty-Second st. and Fifth
Ave, Brooklyn.
section Functionaries.
Will meet tonight at p, m, at sec
tion headquarters. 6s Whippie ST
Dance
Held by Unit 2 and s of Harlem
saturday, July 49,, at 8 p. m. at 14S
L. 1oSrd st. Admission. 25 cents.
Youth Fraction Needle Trades
Will be held tonight at y. m. al
the Workers Center, 26. Union So.
Cleaners and bnunders
Fraction VIII BE held tonight a'
s p IN. at 20 Union So.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17

the spiel of his schoolmasters. He
with his classmates join the army;
they go to training camps and soon
! find out war isn't the fun they
thought it was. At the front the
fighting for ones country" turns
out not to be the pleasure the pa
triotic elders told the lads it would
be. Paul's mates are killed off one
by one.
Paul is wounded and granted
leave and realizes, at home, that he
is changed, all his illusions about
patriotism gone. He actually has
tens back to the front, there to die,
amidst the blood and dirt Of the
Notwithstanding out for butter-
fly one morning while "all is quiet
on the Western 'front.'" according to
the military dispatches.
The cast gives a great perform
ance, the work of Louis Wolheim,
as Kaczinsky, the corporal, being
outstanding.
A remarkable filnl-but what the
Soviet directors could do with It'll
m. II.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
All Quiet On Western Front
Is a Real Picture OF War

"All Quiet on the Western Front
now playing at the Central Theatre,
produced by Lewis Milestone from
Eric Remarque's famous war novel,
is the finest thing by far which has
yet come out Of Hollywood.
The cutting technique of the great
Soviet film directors, Eisenstein and
Pudowkin, are amply made use Of
by Milestone. Eisenstein, director
of "Ten Days That Shook the
World" of "Potemkin" and "Old
and New" has great praise for "All
Quiet"
The picture follows the famous
novel faithfully--very unusual for
Hollywood. Remarque dedicates his
story of the horrors of the last inn
perialist world war "to a genera
tion who, though they may have
escaped its shells, were destroyed
by the war;" Says Remarque: ut
is not an accusation"
If only Remarque had made "All
Quiet" an accusation, instead of a
thrilling, and, in a sense, paeifist
work, we would have a valuable
revolutionary, social document. No
where in this fine film perturbation
of all the miseries suffered by the
common soldiers in the imperialist
war, in the cross-section of .he kill
ing of millions Of workers by other
workers, as the unwilling puppets
Of rival groups Of capitalists, no
where is there an accusation against
the criminality of that capitalism,
except in the mouth of one obscure
soldier-character for a fleeting mo-
ment.
Nevertheless, such picture as
"All Quiet" can make workers more
determined than ever not to be used
against other workers in the com
ing imperialist war.
EAll Quiet" tells the story of
Paul Baumer, young German boy,
carried away by patriotic lies, plus
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
COPS BREAK NEWARK
MEET, ARREST TWO

NEWARK, N. IA street meet.
ins held by the International Labor
Defense and the Civil Liberties
Union here was broken UP by the
police.
The meeting was called to demand
ths use of the streets of Newark
for meetings of the workers. The
police were well mobilized to break
up the meeting.
AS soon as Paul Stark began to
address the meeting he was arrested
by the police. The workers began
to protest and Taylor, from the
Civil Liberties Union, who led the
protest was also pulled in. At this
writing, the charges against these
two could not be learned. They will
be defended by the /. L. D.
The daily worker., 1930-07-17
FEW MEN IN ONE ROOM
CARRY OUT BOSS POLICY
REGARDING COMMUNISM
Fish-Cabnet Disappointed When Lackey Has
No "GoId From Moscow" Evidence
Legislation to Curb Native Workers and to
Deport Foreign Ones Hinted At

A little stuffy room is crowded
with handful of Red Investigators,
exceeded in lumber by the corps of
reporters present. The room will
not seat more than 35. There is
murmuring and confusion. The wit
ness, C. E. Wood, commissioner Of
Coneiliation Of the U. S. labor de-
partment, does not speak clearly.
He fidgits around and, in the little
room, he can scarcely be heard by
the reporters and investigators"
Tall, nervous, well past fifty, this
agent Of the bosses, ironically wear
ing a red necktie, talks tediously
and incoherently.
Before the Communists can make
any progress, Wood says, they must
first win over the workers. AS a
bulwark against the Red menace the
old unions can be used.
Chairman Fish asks about the
number of native Americans in the
movement. Wood replies the num-
Der is negligible. We find native
Americans mostly in the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Work
ers International Relief.
Fish: Has strike-frequency in
creased since 1925?
Wood ANSWERS vaguely: Princi-
pally violence to promote activities
to provoke the police.
Congressman Bachman: Strikes
and the movement have been pretty
much confined to industrial centers,
the movement has not made much
headway among the agricultural
centers, it makes its spread quicker
where there is a large foreign pop
ulation, does it not?
Wood: Yes.
De you know generally how move
ments are financed here-or by
Soviet Russia?
Wood: Not one kopek is sent from
Soviet Russia.
They next took up the question
of the Workers School.
Exhibit made of Workers School
leaflet. Wood reads.
The word cadre is not understood
and someone asks Wood to explain.
Wood tells them it is military
until
When asked about Negroes who