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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

last night.
The huge throng grew silent
listening to the words from be-
hind penitentiary walls of the
leaders of the 10000 Union
Square demonstrating workers
Of March 6, addressed to the meet
ing and to the Communist Party.
It read, in full, as follows:
Letter from Prisoners.
."Our heartiest greetings to the
meeting and the Seventh Conven-
ton of our Party.
American capitalism has sunk
into a mOrass OF economic crisis.
This means for the workers, s.
G00,O00 unemployed, hunger, wage
slashes, worsening conditions.
World capitalism has forced
25,000,000 to go without work and
suffer misery and starvation. 1t
feverishly prepares for new war.
At the same time, the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union
are building up socialism and
thereby dealing a mortal blow at
the capitalist system.
This achievement of the Rus
sian workers and peasants under
the leadership of the BOlshevik
Party of the Soviet Union is an
inspiration to the workers and
peasants the world over and they
will defend the Soviet Union
against all its enemies.
THE Chinese Soviet Republic
rising in the East, and the Indian
revolution, together with the re-
evolutionary upsurge in IndO-
China, Haiti Nicaragua, the Phi
lippines, South Africa, show the
colonial peoples in struggle
against world imperialism.
''The workers in the industrial
countries are gathering their for
ces against world reactiOn--the
imperialist powers, aided by the
fascists, sOcial-fascists and rene
gades.
"All these struggles are taking
place under the banner and lead
ership of the World Party of Lee
min, the Communist International.
THE workers of the United
States will continue the fight be-
gun with such tremendous force
on March 6 and May l and, under
the leadership of our Party, will
go forward to the final struggle
for the overthrow of capitalism
and the establishment of Work.
ers and Farmers Government in
the United States.
I'VE call on all workers in SYM
pathy with the Program of the
Party to join its ranks and fight
for the realization of its aims"
Homo: Absent Fighters.
]. w. FORD, Negro member of tn
Central mmittee, as Chairman c
the meeting, declared the Conven
ton opel, and called for the election
Of an Honorary Presidium in tribut
to leaders of Communism absen
overseas or in the capitalist prisons
The following were elected: Stair
Molotov, Kuusinen, of the Sovie
Union; Thaelmann of Germany
Pollitt of England; Foster, Minor
Raymond and Amter, in New Yorl
prisons; Newton (Negro) and Pow
ers, facing the electric chair in AT
lanta, Georgia, for organizing South
ern workers.
Loud cheers greeted the parad
into and through the auditorium
The Young Communist League, tn
Young Pioneers of America, tn
Japanese, Chinese and Latin Amer
lean sections, the workers frater
nal organizations, like international
Labor Defense, Workers Interna
tional Relief, and others, and tn
militant industrial unions: food
needle, hoe, marine and others, wer
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New battalions of workers are joining the army
of iobless auto factories. steel mills. coal
mines, railroads etc, either shut down en-
tirey cut down their operations. On
to the July Conference of Unem-
plOycd in Chicago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
WOMAN REFORMER
CHARGED WITH THEFT
Mrs. Agnes Waters of Winchester,
Va, Accused of Robbing New
Yorker at Point of Gun.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 31-Mrs. Ag-
mes Mulligan Waters, known in. Win
chester, Va, as a reform worker, was
brought to New York today by detec-
tives to answer to a charge of armed
robbery.
The detectives and Winchester police
arrested her yesterday in the Virginia
city. They said they pursued and
caught her in a motor car after she had
attempted to escape when the warrant
was served.
The warrant charges Mrs. Waters
with having held up Edward Irving VAL
entic here in February. 1925, and robbed
him of $500. Detectives declared she
went to Winchester after the alleged
robbt ry and established herself as a
socias worker and political reform lead
er, attracting attention in the presi-
Dental campaign of 1928 by her oppo-
sition to the national Democratic tick
ct and more recently by protest that
the work of the Red Cross was being
misdirected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
Ambassador Gibson Explains
Views of U. S. Regarding
FranCo-Italian Dispute.
PREMIER TARDIEU SEEMS
IMPRESSED WITH EFFORT
France Reported Willing to Accept
Figures Close to Italian
Offer.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Reports from Paris indicate that AM
bassador Hugh Gibson's conversations
with Premier Andre Tardieu have been
highly encouraging.
Ambassador Gibson, one of America s
shrewdest diplomats, did not waste time
upon his arrival in Paris last Saturday.
He got in touch with Premier Tardieu
and in q long conversation put before
the French prime minister America s
point Of view regarding the Franco
Italian naval dispute. He explained to
Tardieu the great anxiety with which
the Washington administration is view
ing the European situation and stressed
the fact that, while the United States
was maintaining a strictly neutral atti-
tude in the Franco-I Italian dispute, 1t
was deeply concerned in finding a way
out satisfactory to both nations.
He also pointed out that the United
States and Great Britain were respon-
sible for the London Naval Conference
and felt to q certain degree responsible
for the increased tension between Italy
and France after the signature Of the
GOnoOn pact. consequently, both the
United States and the British govern
mentS are willing to help as much as
possible the French and Italian states
men to solve their naval problem.
Tardieu Seemed Impressed.
Ambassador Gibson, according to the
same Paris reports which have reached
Washington early this week, was most
emphatic about the great responsibility
France was assuming If 1t refused to
continue to discuss with the Italians
the settlement of the naval question
Gibson's clear exposition of facts,
coupled with the assurance that the
United States Government had nothing
but the friendliest feeling toward that
great republic, seem to have impressed
Premier Tardfeu.
For some reason or other the head
of the French government was under
the impression that the United States
was playing a certain political game
not wholly advantageous to France.
This impression has led him to receive
coldly the first suggestions Of the
United States regarding the settlement
Of the Franco Italian naval dispute.
When Gibson explained to him clearly
and frankly Americas stand on this
question Tardieu began to realize the
uninterested and purely friendly role
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
HOLDS D|SARM|NG
OPPOSED BY WORLD
Britten Insists Europe Could
Have Avoided Trouble
With Wilson's Advice.
BY Radio to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1880.

Daily News Copyright. 1880
BERLIN, Germany, october 81
Representative Fred Britten Repub-
lican, Illinois,, chairman of the Naval
Affairs Committee Of the House, adds
his voice to German allegations of the
worlds unwillingness to disarm in q
special article published in DR.. Alfred
Hugenberg's newspaper, Der Tag, to-
day. Among other candid statements,
Mr.. Britten says:
Europe is threatened by war clouds.
European nations are spending over
$4,000, 000, 900 a year-$6, 000, 900 every
day-for the Forthcoming conflict
European nations obviously do not de-
sire disarmament.
IF President wilson's II points
had been adhered TO the trouble would
have been largely avoided. One cannot
expect the German people to resist
from demanding revision of the treaty
Of Versailles. The Germans will not
rest until the Polish corridor is re-
turned
Undoubtedly the present state of
Europe is insecure. The United States
itself should never become entangled
in European troubles. but In order to
protect its trade 1t must have Meet
inferior to none"
THESE sentiments from a prominent
American get front page play in the
strong Nationalist organ and cannot
fail but inspire German commence In
the expected stiff Teuton attitude At
the Forthcoming Preparatory Disarma-
ment Committee meeting at Geneva
November 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
Police Halt Plan
Of Farmer, Is,
To Wed Girl, 10
Both Silent After Arrest
on Warrant of Sheriff
of Virginia County.

A romance born in the mountains of
Virginia between a 65-year-old farmer
and his 16-year-old sweetheart climaxed
today at the District Marriage License
Bureau in the Supreme Court Build
ing when headquarters detectives ar
rested the couple as fugitives from
justice.
Now; John Martin Childress, gray
haired mountaineer of New Canton,
Va, sits In o cell at the first precinct
police station, his hoary head buried
in his hands-sorrowfu for what he
has done.
All the would-be groom would say to
newspaper men and police was, please
don't give the little girl any undue
publicity-its al my fault and I'm
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
MAIL SACKS STOLEN
FROM TRUCKS HERE
Pouches Containing About $500
in Registered Letters Taken
With Duplicate Key.

Theft of two registered mail pouches
from mail trucks at two substations
here, one last night and one about two
weeks ago, was revealed today by Will
liam J. Satterfield, postal inspector In
charge OF the local office.
The loss will be less than $500, Mr..
Satterfield stated.
Last nights robbery occurred wniie
mail was being transferred from the
Connecticut avenue substation to the
main post office. II is believed the
pouch was taken from the truck while
it was parked in front Of the U street
station exchanging mail sacks.
The other theft occurred, 1t is be-
lieved, while mail was being exchanged
at the Columbia road substation about
two weeks ago.
Mr.. Satterfield said no arrests have
been made in the cases so far. He
expressed the belief that some one with
a duplicate KEY to the lock compart-
ment of the mail trucks has been
watching the movements of the trucks
and getting into the compartment
where the registered mail pouches have
been kept.
I'VE have taken steps to prevent a
recurrence of that sort Of thing" he
declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
u. S. WARNS HUNTERS AS DUCKS
DIE FROM UNDETERMINED DISEASE
Psychologists Doubt, However, That Birds Killed on the
Wing Are Cinicaly Affected.

and Washington by sportsmen and by
the harbor police.
w. r. Dillon, deputy conservation Of
ficer in the Biological Survey, said to-
day that it is improbable that birds in
flight are clinically affected by the
parasites.
"SportSmen do not shoot ducks on
the water as a rule" Dillon said, add
ing that the department does not re-
gard the situation as being menacing,
ether to hunters or to people who like
to eat ducks. Pathologists are still IN
the preliminary stage Of their study Of
the disease and will continue In the
hope Of learning what causes the illness
and discovering q remedy.
Might shooters and poachers are the
chief offenders in shooting ducks on
the water" Dillon commented. "It
would be good thing If finding the
dead birds floating on the water scared
these fellows, who are law breakers
There is no cause for concern. Any
birds killed on the water should be
discarded, however, If an abnormal
reddening Of the intestinal tract II eve
denced."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31

On the eve of the hunting season,
which opens along the Potomac River
tomorrow, the Agriculture Department
today warned that dead wild ducks
have been found floating on the waters
in the last few days, victims of an un-
determined disease.
Announcing the results of study
of the birds conducted by its patholo-
gists, the department said that birds
killed on the wing can be eaten without
fear of consequences, but that birds
killed on the water should be carefully
observed.
A sportsman who operates a duck
blind in the vicinity of Broad Greek
observed about so dead ducks near his
blind few days ago and took several
to the Biological Survey, where depart
ment pathologists found the birds to
have suffered severe Inflammation OF
the intestinal tract, apparently caused
By intestinal parasites. Dead birds
have been found on the Maryland side
Of Broad Greek, about two miles below
Alexandria, and between alexandria
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
WALES TO TOUR SOUTH AMERICA
IN INTEREST OF BRITISH BUSINESS
American and German Competition Causes Plans for Trip
to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Cuba.

land probably in December on an
ordinary passenger steamer, going direct
TO Havana.
The visit to Cuba will be brief, his
steamer remaining in Havana only q
few hours before proceeding TO the
Panama Canal.
His highness Is not making an affair
of his Cuban VISIT" Sir Godfrey said,
but, Of course, he will be delighted TO
see one more Latin American capital"
From Peru the prince will proceed to
Chile and thence by rail across the
Andes TO Argentina and Brazil. Whether
he will come home from Brazil In
British warship or by ordinary steamer
has not been decided.
British business, whose South Amer
lean Investments total q billion pounds
sterling, has been hard hit by American
and German competition.
Business men are greatly elated over
the royal tour and plan to make Of 1t
an occasion 70 induce South America
to give more thought . British goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
BY the Associated Press.


BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, october 81
Flowing an estimated 10000 or more
barrels Of oil and 100, 000, 900 cubic feet
Of gas daily, wild gusher at the south
east doorstep Of Oklahoma City threat
ened residence and business districts
today The fire hazard led to closing
of schools, breakfastless, f1reless homes
and traffic blockades.
The chief danger Of fire lay in great
clouds of gas which chung to low
lands surrounding the well. AS light
southeast wind sprayed business and
residential districts with oil, rigid no.
fire regulations were enforced in homes
south of Seventh street. Hope of re-
moving the fire hazard rested with
increased wind.
The well, No. C. Z. Stout OF the
Morgan Petroleum Co., is located on
the Canadian River bank just east Of
the city limits, less than a mile from
the heart Of the downtown shopping
district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
WHALEN IS GIVEN
6 YEARS IN PRISON
Gordon Sentences Attorney
Convicted of Taking $23, 900
From Woman Client.

Robert Z. j. Whalen, local lawyer,
was sentenced today by Justice Peyton
Gordon in Criminal Division / to serve
six years in the penitentiary. Whalen
Wa recently convicted of embezzling
$23 900 which had been intrusted to him
by Miss Annie Hurley of Hyattsville,
Md, between December, 1927, and last
June. Whalen insisted he had repaid
the money, declaring he took five $1,000
notes to the home Of the prosecuting
witness in Hyattsville June last and
obtained q receipt.
In imposing sentence after Whalen
had declared that he had nothing to
say. Justice Gordon remarked:
1T Is never a pleasant duty to i'm
pose sentence in a criminal case, and
1t Is especially embarrassing to the
court in the case of q lawyer. I have
given the matter much thought and
have reached the conclusion that the
ends of justice will be met in sentence
Of six years on each Of the five counts,
to run concurrently."
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,
who conducted the prosecution in per-
son, offered testimony at the recent
trial to show that Whalen had a safe
deposit box at the Commercial National
Bank, but had not visited the banks
vault at any time near the date on
which he claimed to haves taken the
five $1,000 bills from the box to repay
Miss Hurley. The custodian Of the
bank vault presented slips signed by
Whalen for entrance to the safe de-
post box, but none of them showed
visits near June 6. Miss Hurley denied
that any Of the money had been re-
paid.
Attorney James J. O'Leary, former as
sistant United States attorney, repre-
scented the accused lawyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
DEMOCRATS REPORT
$4,000 MORE SPENT
Massachusetts, Man Donates Sum to
National Committee-0regon
9 Candidate Also Aided.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Democratic National Committee
submitted a supplemental campaign ex-
penditures report yesterday for the
period between October % and 20,
listing contributions of $10,o85 and dis
bursements Of $4,000 to the Massa-
chusetts Democratic State Committee
The report showed a contribution of
$4,000 by Robert e. Greenwood of
Fitchburg, Mass, and balance on hand
on October 20 of $12,604.
Elton Watkins, Democratic senatorial
nominee in Oregon, submitted his cam
palgn expenditures report, listing a con-
tribution Of $400 from the Democratic
National Committee and expenditures
Of $343.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
K|DNAPERS Fooled
BY BANKERS WIFE
Mrs. Yocum Credited With
Causing Arrest of Two and
Search for Others.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
KEWANEE, Ill, October 3l.-A wom-
ans courage was credited by the au-
thorities today as an important factor
In bringing failure-and worthless
wooden block-to the men who kid
mapped Earl Yocum, wealthy banker.
The fortitude of the bankers wife in
cooperating with the Illinois Bankers
Association in tracking down the men,
bers Of the kidnapping gang was pointed
to by them as important in the strategy
that led to the arrest of two of the men
and the hunt for their two companions
The woman, herself, however. was un-
communicative, except to reiterate pre-
vious statements that she was handling
the matter by herself"
Block Used as DecOy.
Mrs. Yocum's part in the effort to
forestall the kidnapers-that Of turning
ransom letters over to J. A. Newell Of
the Bankers Association while her hus-
band was held captive-was revealed
simultaneously with the confession of
told, the police said, how the bankers
abductors asked for 100000, then
$4,000, then 100000 and finally
wound up by getting package contain
ing the wooden block. II had been
placed by the authorities as a decoy on
q road at Leland, Ill.
Ahlgren, seized yesterday at farm
where he was hiding, was quoted by the
police as saying that he and his COM
panions figured that Mrs. Yocum was
so scared she wouldn't dare double-cross
U.S." adding that he would tell the
world that she Is a smart woman"
Ahlgren's confession was made while
a hurE was on tor Orville Whiskers and
Lloyd Winslow, his companions, who
with Harry WhiSkerS, brother OF OrVllle,
were implicated by Ahlgren in the plot.
Harry Whiskers was arrested last Tues
day as a result of an alleged effort to
induce Edward Mckee, farmer, to al
low the kidnapers to hold Yocum a
prisoner on his farm.
May Face Chair.
The search for the two missing men
was continued today. All of them, II
tried and convicted, may face the pros
pect of death in the electric chair. 1t is
possible for juries in Illinois to inf1ict
that punishment for the crime of kid
naping for ransom.
When the alleged kidnapers found
they had been ouped they telephoned
Mrs Yocum Wednesday night threaten
ing to bomb her house, and Andrew An
derson, cashier of Yocum's bank, was
sent to Princeton for meeting with the
gang. His conference was followed by
q chase in which the men escaped, after
abandoning their automobile. 1t was not
until noon yesterday that Ahlgren was
finally caught.
Confident that the package left for
them would contain their easy money"
Ahlgren said, had led the kidnapers to
release Yocum last Wednesday at At
kinson. after holding him prisoner in
hunting lodge on the banks of the Hi
nois River neal Lacon. Yocum, who
was kidnapped last Saturday evening, was
back at work in the bank today, ap-
parently none the worse for his expert
ences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
NEW QUAKE SHAKES
EAST ITALY AREA
Death Toll in Yesterdays
Tremor May Reach so.
Lesser Damage Today.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANCONA, Italy, October 31.-This
region was shaken again today by an
earthquake, almost "a hours after the
tremors which took a number of lives
and did considerable property damage.
Today the damage was less. A few
bricks and chimneys fell at Senigallia.
Every street in Ancona and Senigal-
liza was guarded by the Black Shirts and
Carabinieri with fixed bayonets. Several
shots were fired this morning at sus-
pected looters. Residents and rescuers
were given white arm bands to identify
them.
Many streets are filled with torrents
OF water from the mains which, dam
aged yesterday, we're broken outright
by the tremor today. The public squares
presented a weird aspect, filled as they
nearby beaches by persons who wished
20 sleep In them.
Several Villages Untouched.
Many houses lost their entire fronts
IN the quake. throwing open to public
gaze bed rooms and dining rooms, Just
a. they were left by the fleeing In
habitants.
/ There MAS one rather freakish- as
pect to the earthquake area. Several
villages in the vicinity of Ancona and
Senigallia were untouched by the
tremor, which rocked the country all
around them, but did no damage at ALL
1t appeared today that the total
number of dead in yesterdays quake
would reach so. The police chief at
Senigallia stated there were IS dead
persons there and nearly 800 injured.
In Ancona several persons seriously in
jured died during the night. It was
expected that other casualties would be
found In the villages lying around the
two cities.
Senigallia has all the appearance Of
war zone town. Carabinieri and
Black-shirt Fascist militia have sur
rounded 1t and are keeping out all per-
sons except inhabitants and rescue
workers.
American Freighter Damaged.
Army kitchens today furnished the
first food many sufferers had had since
yesterday morning.
Coast towns were spared the tidal
wave which frequently accompanies
earth disturbances, but the sea heaved
and boiled. The American freighter
Labette in port here was damaged when
thrown against its dock. Otherwise
shipping suffered little.
Early estimates OF property damage
were speculative At Senigallia alone
a hundred houses collapsed and so
more were damaged so that they must
be torn down. Nearly every house was
ordered evacuated.
There were three major shocks here,
beginning at 8:15 am. and lasting
about 20 minutes, with minor shocks
spaced between them. At Senigallia
eight shocks were felt.
DUCE PREPARING TO ACT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
GAS THREATENS OKLAHOMA CITY
AS GUST1ER BREAKS BOUNDS
10000 Barrels of Oil and 100000 Feet
of Gas Daily Causes Closing of Schools
Because of Fire Hazard.

State fire inspectors were ordered TO
exercise extreme police power" In
enforcing no-f1re regulations over a
danger area two miles square.
Incoming trains "doused" their fires
as they entered the danger zone, coast
ing into stations. One outgoing Okla
homa City, Ala and Atoka train was
not allowed to leave at 7:45 am.
Six schools were closed, giving 1890
pupils vacation until Monday. The
Walnut Grove School is but three blocks
from the we'll. Parents were notified
not to send their school children to
the building, where gas was thick.
Motor cars within many blocks of the
well were covered with OIL
Boiler fires at drilling wells were ex-
tinguished as the gas failed to lift and
fires at one asphalt plant near the
gusher were put out.
State Fire Marshal c. r. O'Neal said
the condition was the most serious ever
faced by the city. Pockets and clouds
OF gas would remain a hazard for days
after the well is capped, he said