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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
LOOT JEWELRY
 OFFICE, ESCAPE
Well Dressed Men Pilfel Showcases = Escape
 with $20, ,000Loot

DALLAS, Texas, March 31.-Two robbers held up the Pike and Kra- mer Jewelry Company offices on the tenth floor of the Republican Ma tional Bank Building last Saturday afternoon and escaped with jewelry valued at $20,000.
 Irving L. Kramer, President, was alone in the offices at the time. Two men, well dressed, entered and one kept Kramer covered with a gun while the other footed the showcases. The two men then fled warning Kramer not to follow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
SPEEDING CAR RUNS0FF ROAD;
 3 ARE KILLED

TACOMA, Wash, March 31.-- Mrs. Doris Klndberg, aged about .25 years, Mrs. Tiny Cramer and L. H. Noble, three Seattleites, were killed Sunday north of here. when Ia big automobile hit a guard rail and steered off the road.
 The machine overturned end for end three times. It was said to have been speeding.
 Two others in the car, Mir and Mrs. Bert Ayes, were injured
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Bullet Passes Through Body of
 Husband, Kills Vie

DALLAS, Tex, March 31.-Struck by pistol bullet after it had passed through the shielding body of her husband, Mrs. Tony Tor dora, aged 26 years. was killed by a negro hijacker in grocery store. After his wound had been treated, the husband of the woman went home to comfort his five motherless children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
THIRD FAILURE

WASHINGTON, March 13.- For the third time the House Repub- lican leaders failed to reach an agreement upon the plans for pro- cedure in consideration of the tar if bill before sending it to con- ference with the Senate committee. Failure came late this afternoon.
 It is indicated that demands Of Western Republicans that the House accept the Senate agricultural rates is the cause for difficulties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Bill for Millions for Public Buildings
 Signed by Hooue,

WASHINGTON, March 31. . President Hoover has sign Q ed the Reyes Elliott bill authorizing appropriation of c $230,000, 900 for public build ings, half to be used through out the country and the other half in the District of Columbia.
 Allocations will soe decid- ed upon by the Inter-De- partment Board of officers of the Post Office and Treasury Departments.
 . q
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Original Writings of
 Mark TiUain Discovered
 Among Newspaper Files

HANNIBAL, Missouri, March 31. Long sought for newspaper files containing the original and first works of Mark Twain, humorist, described by him as representing my first literary venture" have been discovered in his native home here by Rev. c. J. Armstrong, long a student of Twain.
 The files were found among vol-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Fleeing Man Shot
 and Killed; Officer
 M Technical Custody

RICHMOND, Kentucky, March 31.-Ambrose Williams aged 30, a farmer, was shot and killed by De- putty Sheriff Lloyd Lane when flee ing from his home that had been raided.
 Officers found whiskey still ir the house.
 The officers said Williams ig- nored the command to surrender
 Lane has been placed in tech nical custody pending an investi- gation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
COTVON's OPINION

WASHINGTON. March 31.-Act- ing Secretary of State Cotton to- day said he believed this weeks negcgiations will determine the fu- ture course of the Naval Confer ence in London. He did not go beyond the brief statement and had nothing to say regarding press dispatches from Lon d on saying Great Britain, in discussions with France, refused to arrange any military commitments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Explosion and Fire
 At Aircraft PIant
 Does Sl0O, ,000Dan,agt

DETROIT, Michigan, March 31. followed by fire, at the Stimson Aircraft Corporation at the Wayne-Detroit Airport, cause d $100,000 dam age last Saturday night. The fire spread rapidly from the paint shop in the north wing and threatened the entire plant be- fore brought under control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
SUGAR GROUP BUSY

WASHINGTON, M arch 3l.-A determined move to prevent sep arate vote on the sugar rate tariff when the measure reaches the floor of the House, has been organized by Republican Representatives of l3 states. Cramton, of Michigan, member of the Steering Committee, has been selected spokesnapn for the sugar producing states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
FOLLTES BEAUTY SUFFERS NERVOUS
 BREAKDOWN FOLLOWING DIETING TO
 KEEP SLIM FIGURE AND TAXES LEAP

NEW YORK, March 31-Suffer- ing effects of a nervous breakdown, following efforts to reduce her weight, Allyn. King, aged 20, an ac- tress, for four years in the zieg- geld Follies, attempted suicide by jumping from the fifth floor win dow of her apartment last Satur- day afternoon.
 Both legs and both arms were broken and her skull was frac- tured.
 NEW YORK, March 31.-Allyn King, Southern beauty, who became a Follies star, died Sunday after noon in Bellevue Hospital as the result of injuries suffered when she jumped from the window of her apartment Relatives said contin- ued dieting to keep her figure slim as demanded by the stage, caused 8 nervous breakdown and despon- dency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Foreigners, Including Missionaries, Are to
 Quit Chinese Section

SHANGHAI, March 31.-Foreign dispatches from Nanching, capital of Kianghi Province, said menace of bandits is increasing and gen. eral evacuation of foreigners is an- ticipated, including all mission aries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31

umes of old Hannibal newspapers preserved by the late w. H. League, boyhood friend of Twain and shelved away by his daughter. Miss Nettie League.
 The discoveries included one ori- ginal poem, several witty articles and editorials and a few cleverly designed woodcut cartoons by the famous humorist.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Young Plan Is
 Approued by
 French Deputies

PARIS, March 31.-The French Chamber of Deputies has approved the Young plan by vote of 530 to 55, which practically means &C., eeptance of the plan. Little oppo- sition is expected in the Senate.
 The plan has already been ap- proved by Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
HOME LIBRARY OF 500 VOLUMES IS NOV BEING COLLECTED WHICH
 WILL BE GIVEN TO WHITE HOUSE

umes as a gift to the Executive Mansion.
 Those who will take part in selecting the home library will be Alice Roosevelt Longworth, of Washington, D. C., and Douglas Watson, of San Francisco. The idea originated with Watson, fath- er-in-law of Herbert Hoover, jr.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
NEW CABINET
 FOR GERMANY

BERLIN, March 31-After more interparty wrangling than was ex- pected, pr. Heinrich Bruening, Gen. trist Party leader in the Reigh- stag. got together new coalition Government to succeed that of Heinrich Mueller, resigned last week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
HUNDREDS IN PERIL IN DISASTER, COLUMBIA RIVER
BRIAND SAYS ALL IS FINE
Expects Anglo French Agreement to Be Made
 Satisfactorily

LONDON, March 31.-Former Minister Briand, of France, speak ing to newspaper men, said there was no grounds for the alarmist rumors spread regarding a dead lock in the Anglo-Ffench negotsa- tions. He declared there was good chance of reaching a satisfac- tory conclusion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
CAPT. HAWKS FLYING EAST
 WITH GLIDER

SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 31.- Capt. Frank Hawks landed at Lind bergh Field at 12:55 o'clock last Saturday night, ending glider flight from Los Angeles.
 Towed by an airplane, Capt. Hawks left Los Angeles at 10.50 o'clock Saturday morning.
 TUCSON, Ariz, March 31.-Four hundred miles and ten hours and forty minutes on his way to New York from San Diego. Capt. Hawks, transcontinental glider pilot, cut loose from his tow plane, piloted by J. D. Jernigan, Jr., and landed here in the darkness last night. Twice he landed on the way here when his towing plane refuelled.
 Capt. Hawks expects to reach Fl Paso tonight, having resumed his glider flight in tow this morning early
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Weather Stations for
 Transatlantic Pliers
 Are to Be Established

LISBON, March 31-As an aid to Trans Atlantic fliers, the Cabi- net has decided to create meteoro- logical stations on the Madeira Islands, Azores and at Cape Verde.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31

NEW YORK. March 31.-Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes, Tom Sawyer and Uncle Remus are about
 to occupy the White House perma- nently for mental diversion of American Presidential families as the National Booksellers are col lecting a home library of 800 vol
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31
Democratic Chairman To Be Summoned #
 Ne,0 Inquiry Started
Associated Press Photo.

WASHINGTON, March 31. Senator Robinson, of In- diana. said that if the Sen ate Lcbby Committee inves- tigated the Wet and Dry organizations as announced, he would demand John J. Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee, be summoned and tell of his activities in connec- tion with his work with the Association Against the Pro- hibitlon Amendment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-31

J. E. Pickering, contractor of Mayo, visited in Juneau last eve ming while the Princess Norah was in port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28

PREPARE FOR A
STRIKE MAY 1ST

'That a political mass strike in'
volving scores of factories in the
basic industries shall take place on
May 1" is the gist of a statement
issued by the New York District
Bureau of the Communist Party in
outlining its plans for the tremend-
Gus May Day preparations.
In order properly to organize a
monster May Day demonstration the
conference of all militant labor or
CARNATIONS on April 4, at 7 p. H.,
to be held at Manhattan Lyceum,
will work out the detailed plans not
only for the demonstration itself on
May Day but also for all the prepa-
rations in order to insure a success
full May Day. The plans as issued
by the district bureau includes the
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world conomyit starvation force
adoption of feudal religion and imperialist rule.
With this under the immediate military
opaton of the forces of the pupp Poland
MAMA Jugo-Slavia, etc. for the Soviet Union.
The churches thus workers and
farmers political agencies instruments the robb
The role of religion catholic" longer
masked by humanitarian phrases.
Organized religion stands forth Vatican
as the mercenay and merciess of the all
Science in uncompromsing conflict with religion
on the side of the working class political
party of the proletara, the Communist International
The working class holding the Soviet Union leads the
masses by science instead of binding them by superstition
The working class in the
defending their fatherland political party.
The class struggle itself clearing away superstition
ing clearly the capitalist pope preaes priests
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28
CITY, CONFERENCE
BUILDS CENTER
Wars on Police Terror;
Plans Organization

Hundreds of delegates, represent
ing unemployed councils, militant
local unions (including nearly a
dozen locals of the A. F. of L. and
other workers organizations in Man
haitian Lyceum last night, adopted
a strong resolution for the organiza-
ton of the unemployed and their
continued struggle, elected 80 dele
gates to the National Conference or
Unemployment to meet there to-
morrow, and formed an executive
committee of So to direct organiza-
ton work in New York.
The conference was greeted in the
name of the Communist Party by
Sadie Van Veen, who pointed out
that the great demonstrations OF
March caused the capitalists to
flare out in wrath and fear, but
convinced them that they could no
longer simply ignore the suffering
jobless, now grown militant.
surely the communist Party is
responsible for unemployment, for
before they called the workers out
on March 6, we never saw any," they
said in shocked tones. But workers
were hungry, and children went to
school without breakfast for months
before the demonstrations, and with
out careless word even from the
capitalist masters of the country.
The only preparation the bosses
made was to start the religious cru
SADIE against the Soviet Union,
knowing that the example of a
workers country, where unemploy-
ment does not exist except while
the peasant is being trained for in
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LIbERATOR IN
DRIVE FOR $1,000
Must Have Funds to
Continue Fight

Especially now with growing mas
unemployment, frenzied war hystert
against the working class, the LIB.
orator must remain the mouth
piece of the oppressed Negro mas
ses. 1t must not be allowed to &c
out of eXistance.
The 'cowardly, cringing Negro
middle class leaders, crawling on
their bellies, servilely licking the
feet of their white masters, are
wreaking walls of poison over the
Negro masses. DePriest parades the
country, blaming unemployment OH
the exploited foreign born workers.
Pickens openly attacks the militant
leadership of the Negro workers. -
the American Negro Labor Congress
Kelly Miller, the most prolific de-
generate of them all, floods the SER
vile press with his Uncle Tom blab-
behring's. Marcus Garvey, attempt
ing to divert the Negro masses from,
revolutionary channels, creates i!Iu-
sions of an AFRICAN Heaven, while
workers starve in an American hell.
All these misleaders have Joined
a united front against the workers
government.
Against these cringing, crawling,
cowardly takers, the class conscious
Negro workers must direct their at
tack. But this is impossible without
Continued on Page TWo)
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STRIKE IN JAIL.
AGAINST FOOD
Men in Prison Fight
Rotten Conditions
BULLETIN.

LIE in.
JEFFERSON CITY, NO., March
27.-Using tear-gas bombs and
clubs official gunner battered and
beat hundreds of prisoners in order
to smash the strike of $50 i'm
prisOned men in the Missouri
Penitentiary. Over 20 were sent
to the hospital with injuries in
flicted by the sadist prison
guards.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March
27.-An echo of the second Auburn
prison revolt, and another in the
long series of prison uprisings was
heard when over 500 imprisoned
men in five factories inside the
Missouri penitentiary walls went on
strike today, after $50 had mu-
tinted yesterday against rotten
prison food,
The prisons are being filled up
with broken workers, as well as I'M
employed who commit crimes in
order to keep from starving, under
the vicious indefinite sentence and
Baumes laws all over the country.
The striking prisoners were
rushed to their cells by armed
guards. The National Guard was
rushed to the prison with machine
gun units, in the same fashion as
when workers strike on the outside.
The strike started in the chair
factory where $50 men refused to
go to work after breakfast, demand
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CHALLENGE Pope
DIVULCE WORKS
OF SC|E NTISTS
Blast His Hypocricy
on Freedom of
Conscience"
Expose War Hysteria
Ask For Writings of
Bruno, Calico, Fac.

According to capitalist press dis
patches from Moscow yesterday
twenty-five of the leading astron-
omers of the Soviet Union have
issued an open letter challenging
Pope Plus to reveal the writings of
Calico, Corpernicus, Keppler, Bruno
and other scientists which have been
concealed and suppressed for CEN
turtles in the secret archives of the
vatican.
The Pope, who is so busy at pres
ent whipping up war hysteria
against the fatherland of the
worlds workers under the guise of
a struggle for freedom of con-
science" is thus completely exposed.
The letter of the Soviet scientists
points out that the church of Rome
has throtled science thruout his
tory, particularly astronomy. 1t
points out that many scientific
leaders have been burned at the
stake for their views by the Plus
predecessors of the present pope.
The Soviet astronomers chal-
lenge the Vatican to permit an
international commission to study
the secret archives, pointing out
that such an investigation may
nroua bighIv yaIua hIa
The signers of the open letter ap-
pealed to the astronomers thruout
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28
JAIL DELEGATE OF
J0BLESS Meeting
Many on Way; Session
to Last 2 Days

The National Preliminary Confer
ence on Unemployment, which starts
at noon tomorrow will last two days,
it was announced at the national
office of the Trade Union Unity
League yesterday. The Unity League
and the Unemployed Councils issued
the call for the conference, and the
national board of the T.U.U.L. meets
today at 100 p. m. to work out
the details of a draft program of
action to submit to the conference.
. Miller Chairman.
The meeting tomorrow will be
called to order by Clarence Miller,
temporary national secretary of the
unemployment organizations of the
ET.U.U.L. The first report on the
general unemployment situation will
be made by John Schmiess, assistant
national secretary of the T.U.U.L.
Then will follow district reports and
report on the general campaign
for the organization of wide-flung
network of Councils of Unemployed
in all cities.
Delegates are arriving aready from
outlying districts. Delegates Roy
Powell, a textile worker, and c. W.
Carey, a Negro metal worker, both
elected by the Council of the Unem-
ployed in Chattanooga, Tenn, ar
rived yesterday. On his way up
Carey's car was stopped in Easton,
Pa, by a policeman from whom, he
had inquired the way-the delegate
was taken to the city hall, along
with A. Colley, Amy Schechter, Tom
johnson and Gilbert Lewis, T.U.U.L.
organizers, with whom he was rid
ing, and the whole group held in
jail. They were finally released
after severe cross examination.
Other delegates are on their way.
Ten are coming from Detroit, 10
more from Minneapolis.
Base Councils on Factories.
The T.U.U.L. board will recon-
mend to the conference to elect
National Unemployment Committee
and a full-time national organizer.
The T.U.U.L. recommends that
the conference decide on organizing
the councils around the places where
the members were formerly en-
ployed, and in the halls of the en-
ployment offices.
This can best be done, the 7. U.
U. L. points out, by electing COM
Continued on Page Three
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Today in the
Daily IL. Worker

The Indian Revelation and
Ghand Maneuver, by q. w. Ku-
u5inen. Page A.
Hoover's Magic Sixty Days, by
Harry Cannes. Page A.
Unemployed March of British
Workers. Page 2.
South China Seethes With Re-
volt. Page ..
2'On0 rrow.
Analysis Of the Communist
Party Recru ling Drive. Resolu-
ton Of GENIAL Committee. Bill
Haywood's Book. Reviewed by
Bertha Brauathal.
Monday.
Interes.ing Series of articles on
New York Water Front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28
SEES NO HOPE OF A JOB
Marble Worker Hits Hoover Lies
by Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent.
BROOKLYN, N. VI am writ
ing to expose the lies manufactured
by the American Federation of La
Dor and the government officials.
l am out of work since last Sep
TENDER. My condition is desperate.
Every day l am threatened with be-
ing thrown out of the house. The
Gas and Electric companies threat
en- to shut off the gas and electricity.
My friends no longer want to lend
me any money, because they know
there is no hope of getting any job
at all.
am marble worker, but in this
trade there are more than SIS per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28
TAKES MILK
Young Unemployed Worker Jailed

LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By MaiD
q had to eat" Roy Wade, IS, told
the authorities yesterday when ar
rested for the asserted theft of two
quarts of milk from a doorstep.
II knew that some baby might go
hungry for a few hours" he ex-
planned, "but | have been hungry
for weeks. | knew the mother could
get more milk, but l can't get food
in this oasis of abundance"
A little milk was ALL the food the
boy had had for eight weeks. The
youth appears thin and undernour-
ished, the well-fed man-hunters adj
mitted. This unemployed worker
was quickly booked for petty theft,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-28
PORTER SPEAKS
AT z BIG Meets
Starts Coast to Coast
Tour With Harvey

BOSTON, March 27-Two sue
cessful mass meetings at which
John Porter spoke on the "U. S.
Army and the Workers." marked
the beginning of the coast forecast
tour arranged by the International
Labor Defense.
A large number of workers at
tended the meeting in Boston, which
also commemorated the 59th ami
versary of the Paris Commune.
John Harvey, national secretary
Of the Young Communist League,
who is accompanying John Porter,
also spoke on conditions of the
young workers and lessons of the
Porter case.
Other meetings to be held are as
follows:
March % in New Haven, Conn;
March 30 at Workers Center, SO
Hall, 18th st. and Irving Place,
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worsens. There is the British
French antagonism, with American
imperialism, due to the failure of
the "parity" maneuver seeking a
French alliance against British i'm
perialism. Then there is the
French-Italian antagonisms, and the
American Japanese antagonism,
with British imperialism seeking
alliances with the japanese imper-
ialism against its chief competitor
in the struggle for world markets,
United States imperialism.
Stimson has declared that he
Continued on Page Three)
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International
Wireless
News
(WUcleSs By IRprecorr)

BERLIN, March 27.-The Thur
mgian government answered the
Reich's Minister of the Interior Sew
ering today, refusing to consider the
suggestion that an inquiry be con-
Quoted by Severing's nominee, Men,
Eel. The Thuringian government
denied Severing's tight to withhold
money belonging to Thuringia and
gave instructions to refuse Mcneil
all information. The letter of the
Thuringian government represents
an affront against Severing.
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but the prosecutors are going slow
in failing fat millionaires who
robbed workers out Of their savings
in the $50,000,000 c. c. Julian oil
scandal.
Steals Food, Faces Long Jail Term.
Dominick Pilotti, 19-year- old
Bronx unemployed worker, was ar
rested robbing a grocery store be-
cause he was hungry and had not
eaten for some time.
Because he was convicted previ-
ously on various charges and re-
ceived suspended septences, Pilotti
now faces an indefinite prison term
under the Baumes law.
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cent of the men out of work.
will give the proof.
Months ago lost every hope of
getting back to work, so l tried the
sugar factory, B.M.T., agencies, SUBJ
ways, ETC., but it was the same all
over.
After the March 6 demonstration
the bosses press encouraged me
once more, like the following in the
New York American of March IL:
Hoover feels sure trade is on up
grade"
After such bluff by every capital
list paper, asked my friend for So
for car fares, and then I started to
Continued on Page Three
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ments revealed, the maneuverings
for alliances for the next imperial
list war are going ahead more rapidly.
This is the real significance Of
the security" or consultative
pact" proposal which will be dis
cussed at a special meeting of the
imperialist bandits next Friday.
While the main purpose of the
conference is to secretly prepare an
imperialist front against the Soviet
Union the center Of antagonism
among the imperialists themselves
is the rivalry between British and
American imperialism, which sharp
ems every day as the world crisis