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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
S724,ODO,01O READY
| FOR PUBLIC WORKS
President Says Huge Sum Is
Three Times Expenditure
In Ordinary Periods.

President Hoover announced today
that the Federal Government will
spend S724, 100000 during the next
calendar year In the various activities
looking toward increasing employment
and relief of agriculture.
His statement said the $724, 060, 900
compares with the rate Of about &275,-
Ooo, 900 per annum prior to the depres-
sion."
Wage Level Maintained.
The President said that when the
depression had first struck, he had
been instrumental in securing an agree
nent between industry and labor that
guaranteed as far as possible no re-
ductdon in wages. In view of this, he
said, the Federal Government has
necessarily required contractors to
maintain wage scales at their pre-de-
preston levels.
There have been some difficulties with
minor contractors, he said, but these
have been adjusted.
According to @ detailed statement, the
volume Of construction work, direct ana
indirect, IL estimated as follows: Fed
eral aid to highway construction, 4115,-
0OUUUO III 1901 uAAo OAN@yOOOgVNO AA
1882, compared with 500, 1926, 900 in 1928;
public buildings, S140,033,o00 in 1881
and S147, FOG 900 in 1882, compared with
$33, 404, 900 in 1928; rivers and harbors,
public works, l38,100 900 in 1881, $780,
$4,000 in 1882, compared with $751;
6l3 900 In 1928; ship construction dn-
Guiding authorization for more naval
vesselS), 500, 791 900 in 1881 and $751;
049 900 in 1882, compared with 944,-
06o, 900 in 1928; aircraft and air naviga-
ton, sac, ISL 900 in 1881 and S31 $685.
900 in 1882, compared with $28,555 900
in 1928; miscellaneous, S5,900,000 In
1881 and 913,314,000 In 1882, compared
with 100000 In 1928.
Additional Funds Available.
IN arriving at the total Of S724,o0o,-
900, the estimates did not include
emergency appropriations for still fur
ther acceleration of public works al
ready authorized by Congress, which
money will be spent during the calendar
year 1881. This latter includes $780,
500 900 for highways and s25, 800, 900
for rivers and harbors and public works
The President has informed the vari-
Gus executive departments that the pol
icy Of the Federal Government Is that
wages on contracts let by the Govern
ment shall be held up to the standard
existing in the districts where the work
L. done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
PAIR SURRENDERS
IN RESORT FIGHT
Wanted In Beating of Police
man and Shooting of
Brother.
By a stan Correspondent of the Star.

By q Stan Correspondent Of the Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, December
23.-Two Washington men, sought since
December 2 in connection with the
beating Of Washington policeman at
the Green Gables road house at Suit
land, voluntarily surrendered to Sheriff
w. Curtis Hopkins and Deputy Sheriff
Thomas II. Garrison last night and
were placed under 81 500 bond each TO
await the action Of the grand jury.
Charged With Assault.
The men, Agrschel Kinney and WI
liam A. Kappel, are charged with assault
with intent TO kill Lauritz Christensen,
eleventh precinct policeman. Through
their attorney, j. Wilson Ryon, they
waived q preliminary hearing when ar
raigned before Justice Of Peace Thomas
D. Grifnth at Forestville. They deny
even being in the road house the night
the policeman was beaten.
The warrant accusing Kappel Of the
assault was obtained by the policeman
himself, while Deputy Garrison OBJ
tanned the warrant for Kinney. The
police records show Kinney lives In the
700 block Of A street northeast, and
Kappel in the 900 block Of Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, but the county au-
thorities say both are from Philadelphia,
Pa
Policeman Beaten.
Policeman Christensen was badly
beaten and his brother, Yens Christen-
sen, q Coast Guardsman, shot In the
leg during q melee which Is said to
have started when some one pointed
out LauritZ as a policeman.
The Green Gables road house has
been operating as the Iron Lantern Inn
during the past few months. 1t has
been closed since the night the Christ
ensens were assaulted and the owner
has been endeavoring TO have distraint
warrant for back rent served on the
operators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
ROOSEVELT PARD0NS
10 NEW YORK PRISONERS
Men who sided with Law in Au-
burn Riots and "Framed"
Women Released.
D. thA Aasocinted Press.


ALBANY, N. Y, December 23.--
Gov. Roosevelt yesterday announced he
had commuted the sentences OF 10 In
mates OF the State prisons.
Among those released are two men
who were serving life terms. three men
who sided with law and order in the
1929 riot at Auburn Prison and six who
were freed in reward for services rem
dered" the warden Of Sing Sing.
Another prisoner, who was sentenced
to jail for abandoning his children, was
released several weeks early so that he
might spend Christmas with his family.
Mrs. Pearl B. O'Dell was the only
woman released. She was serving 20
year sentence for the murder Of for
rner sweetheart, whom she and her hus-
band chained to q tree and beat so
badly he died
The Governor yesterday also par
doned six girls he was told were
"frame-up victims" of New York City's
vice ring. He signed the pardons with
the expression that he was deeply dis
turbed and greatly incensed" at revela-
tions of the vice syndicate as developed
in q current investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
RECORD FRUIT EXPORTS

SAN FRANCISCO, December % (E1.
Increasing exports Of apples and pears
from San Francisco TO foreign countries
were sufiicient In the FIRST 10 months OF
this year TO lift the fresh-fruit record
above that Of last year, the Commerce
Bureau here reported today. The gain
was 20 per cent the shipments oeing
0l2, 900 last year.
Exports Of oranges, lemons and grape
fruit were reduced. but the latter
brought better prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
Say Ship Was Sunk
BY Ice-Cutting Bow
In Collision at Sea
Copenhagen Officials Re-
port on Finnish Vessels
Loss With 4lPersOns.
NJ the Associated Press.

NJ the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark. December
23.-The Finnish steamer Oberon, which
was lost Friday night in the Cattegat
after q collision with its sister ship, the
ArctlIrlS, sank only because she was
''sliced OPEN by the special ice-cutttng
bow Of the Arcturus, In the opinion Of
her captain, Eric Hjelt. Forty-one per-
sons drowned In the sinking.
Had the Oberon been hit by any
other ship than the Arcturus," he said
today, "sae would have lived through It.
She was the worlds strongest built mer-
chant marine steamer, especially forth
fed to cut her way through ice despite
the ice pressure in the terrible Finnish
waters.
"Tfe Arcturus was built the same
way. with an ice-cutting stem, and con-
seQuently she cut through the Oberon
quite easily" He added that 30 Sec
ords after the collision the Oberon
keeled over to an agile Of IS degrees,
and that another 80 seconds after water
poured down her tunnels causing an ex-
plosioa Listing Of the ship prevented
paaeeE W. from getting out Of their
~..A&tkksEH >
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
TRUCK OVERTURNS;
TWO FIREMEN HURT
Hose Vehicle II Wrecked in Col
ision in Alexandria
Street.
By . stan Correspondent Of The star.

By STAN Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, December as
Two firemen were injured when the
hose truck of Engine Company No.
OF the local fire department overturned
at Patrick and wilkes streets while re-
spending to an alarm Of FIRE about 1885
o'clock this morning. The hose wagon
was wrecked and came to rest bottom
side up.
The men injured are Frank Cockrell
SO Spring street, driver Of the wagon
who sustained severe body bruises and
cuts to the head and legs, and J. M
Dyson of lit North Patrick street, who
received Q bruised back and various
cuts. The two flremen were the sole
occupants of the hose wagon.
The collision is said to have occurred
when q private automobile sideswiped
the hose wagon. A man and woman In
the other car were taken TO the Alexa1l-
dria Hospital for examination, but were
found not to have been injured.
The fire alarm, which was turned IN
at 1884 o'clock this morning. was
caused by a burning shed in the GOO
block Franklin street. Following the
accident Columbia Motor and Engine
Company, No. 4. was dispatched and
put out the fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
BY the Associated Press.

by tnO ASSoclateo Press.
BOSTON, December 23-A law
against observing ChriStmas2 Yesl
Here 1t is:
50" ." It Is therefore ordered by this
court and the authority thereof that
whosoever shall be found observing any
such day as Christmas or the like,
either by forbearing labor. feasting, or
any other way, upon such account 90
Aforesaid, every such person so offend
ing shall pay for every such offense
five shillings as O fne to the county"
That was the way the Puritans In
New England back In 1859 felt about
Christmas. As q result New EnglAnders
while celebrating Christmas on Thurs
day may look back on q history which
forbade celebrating such festivals as
were superstitiously kept in other COM
munities, TO the great dishonor Of God
and offense of others"
Law Passed IN 1853.
The law was passed by the General
Court here in Boston on May IL, 1859.
and historians have interpreted the
action to mean only that It was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
DATA OF WATER FLY
STOLEN BY AUTOMOBILE THIEVES
Brown Professor Offers Reward for Return of Material
Which Took Five Years to Gather. i. $50.

night, he said, when Miss T4ellna Wood.
his assistant, stopped to visit friends
here, en- route from Providence, r. l.,
70 Norristown, Pa, to study the con-
tents during the holidays.
"The data" said DR.. Banta, threw
some new light upon the breeding and
the evolution Of those particular species.
It took Ave years to produce them.
There Is no way TO duplicate them In q
less period Of time, and nothing can be
published without these data, which are
have reached IA my researchesg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
DUMPING DUTY
Canada to Levy Special Tax on
Barbed Wire Imports.

OTTAWA, December 20 E1.-Author-
4ty TO place q dumping duty on barhed
wire has been given z. B. Ryckman by
an order-tn-councf made public
yesterday.
The minister Of national revenue q
empowered to flx the value for duty
purposes, but the amount to be fixed 10
not expected to be announced for some
days.
The order-in-council was passed on
complaints that barbed wire was being
imported into Canada at prices
preiudictal TO the domestic producer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
r. J. PHILLIPS, so, DIES
WHILE AT HIS DUTIES
immigration Examiner Succumbs
70 Heart Attack-Masons to Con-
duct Rites for Active Member.

Funeral services for Francis John
Phillips, 80 years old, an examiner in
the Bureau OF immigration, Department
Of Labor, who died Of heart attack
while in his ONCE yesterday, will be
conducted in Gawler's chapel, 1854
Pennsylvania avenue, tomorrow after
noon at 8 o'clock. The services will be
under the auspices of Potomac Lodge
of MaSons Interment will be in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Mr.. Phillips leaves a daughter, Mrs.
Nellie F. Jackson Of this city.
Mr.. Phillips was widely known in this
city and was active in the Masonic fra
ternity here He was q member of
Potomac Lodge, No. 5, r. A. A. M;
Mount Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, and Potomac Commandery,
Knights Templar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
MRS. WELLBORN DIES
WHILE VISITING IN EUROPE
Milan, italy, Dispatch Tells Of De-
mise of Resident of This City.
Rites TO Be Held Abroad.

Mrs. Julia w. wellborn, go years old,
former resident Of this city Tor many
years, died in Milan, Italy, Sunday, &C
cording to word received here.
A native Of Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Well
born was the widow Of w. l.. Wellborn,
who formerly conducted q wholesale
grain business here.
with her daughter Mrs Homer Brett,
she left washington In 1925, for tour
of Europe. Besides her daughter Mrs.
Brett, she is survived by another daugh-
ter, Miss w. Wellborn OF the Potomac
Apartments here, and Sidney Wellborn,
3et6 Kansas avenue.
Funeral services and burial Will be
held in italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

NEW YORK, December 23.-Stolen:
Two suit cases full Of data on the evo-
luton Of the Ciadocera, from q locked
sedan in front of q church.
DR.. Arthur M. Banta, visiting pro-
lessor of experimental zoology at Brown
advagtising q 800 reward for the re-
turn Of the material, which constitutes
the result ofNdve years research on the
life and death Of the water Ay.
Tia suit cases were stolen Friday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
WOMAN DISAPPEARS

Police Asked to Search for Mrs.
weisenborn Of HyAttsville.
IN q search for Mrs. Elizabeth Weisen-
born, 81 years old, reported TO have
disappeared from her home, in Hyatts-
vile, Nd. Friday morning Mrs. Weis-
enborn is reported to have resided in
Hyattsville with her brother, Nash E.
Cook.
She Is reported to have had with her
about e2s In cash at the time Of her
disappearance and carried q suit case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
PROSPERITY EXPECTED
Survey Reveals Credit Group
Members Are Optimistic.

NEW YORK, December 23 R.-
A survey covering $50 Of the country's
larger firms conducted by the National
Association of Credit Men reveals that
two out Of every three manufacturers
and wholesalers expect business to I'M
prove in 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
NEW YORK GETS SNOW
Hope for White Christmas Raised
by Light Fall.

NEW YORK, December % R.-
Speculation in White Christmas Pre-
ferred skidded upward today as the
first snowfall Of the Winter slithered
down the citizenry's neck.
The skies opened up slowly late last
night and increased their holiday offer
ing as the hours wore on. Though the
white stuff melted as fast as it hit the
streets, hope scared that Santa Claus
would find q footing for his RENDERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

According to recent discoveries
lipsticks were used centuries ago by
the maidens Of Or, the famous city
Of the Chaldees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
BOY FRACTURES SKULL

Edwin Mayhem, 5, Falls From
Playground sliding Board.
Falling 10 feet from q sliding board
on the playground at Tyler School,
Eleventh and @ streets, southeast, Ed
win Mayhem, years old, OF 1885 Ives
place southeast, suffered o fractured
skull yesterday.
The child was removed to Casualty
Hospital, where he was reported as
having rested comfortably last night.
despite his injury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
Salvation Army Jim Crows
Negro Jobless; Gives Less

number of those needing employment
rapidly increasing"
The Emergency Work Bureau
(Prosser comnittee) reports that all
the big sums collected, over $8,0o0,o0o
of which 1t has been boasting, will
give three-days-a-week, s15-a-week
Jobs to heads OF families for $4,000
men until April. Nothing after that
And it also admits that It has a wait
ing list of $4,000, rapidly growing, and
It expects that the number for which
even this kind of work can be found
will be 10000 within a few days.
Even the police figures, hopelessly
inadequate as they are, show 59,672
heads OF families out of work.
Rybicki, head of the City Welfare
Department, stated Sunday.
Now that the Christmas holiday
is over and many establishments are
Diminishing their extra help engaged
for the season, the need for added
jobs is increasing" But Rybicki isn't
starving and can afford to be hope
full. He says, 1--WE hope during the
coming year for an increased flow Of
Jobs from stores, offices and fac
tories"
He gives no reasons for this cheer
fulness, and none exist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
STOPS EVICTION OF
JOBLESS NEGRO
U.C. Returns Woman,
Furniture to Flat

NEW YORK.-The Harlem Unenn-
ployed Council and the Downtown
Unemployed Council united yesterday
to prevent the eviction of an unem-
ployed Negro worker, Mildred Reid
of 3 w. 127th ST., whose 8o-year-old
mother was thrown on the street
with their furniture during Miss
Reds absence On a job hunt.
When Miss Reid returned to the
house and found her aged mother
and furniture on the street she i'm
mediately appealed to the Harlem
Unemployed Council at 30s Lenox
Ave. A mobilization call was at once
sent out, and the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council asked to help. A body
of 40 workers, headed by Comrade
Sascha Gaudine, was sent to Har-
lem.
The Unemployed Council went to
the house, where they won the sup
port Of many tenants in the build
ing, and were soon moving the fur
niture back into the flat. A protest
meeting was held in front Of the
house, drawing in many tenants and
workers in the block. Workers were
/ indignant at the eviction and pledged
to organize the house, establishing a
house committee, and help to Or
ganize the entire block to fight evic-
ton Of jobless workers, to fight for
drastic reduction in rents and
against rotten conditions in the Har-
lem tenements.
Speakers at the meeting were Glas-
ford and Williams, Negro comrades,
and Gaudine, q white comrade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
TENANTS LEAGUE
SCORE VICTORY
Protect B'klyn Worker
Against Eviction

| BROOKLYN, N. Y.--Samuel Ten
yer, landlord of the tenement build
ing of 80 Moore Street. Brooklyn, who
issued an eviction order against Nor
ris Faster, who has been unemployed
for six months, was forced to with
draw the eviction proceedings by the
mass pressure modified by the Will
hamsburg Tenants League.
Morris Faster, whose eviction was
to be carried out yesterday by the
court marshalls, still remains in his
home.
Samuel Tenzer, the landlord, was
compelled to go before fellow work
er Faster Sunday and with tears in
his eyes plead for mercy that the
Tenants League should not call the
Rent Strike in his building.
In these words the Landlord spoke
to the worker: "a number of these
tenants here told me that II I evict
you I will pay dear and that they
will go on rent strike. I am a poor
man myself and If these people will
not pay me the rent I will not be
able to pay my mortgages. will let
you remain in the house and you got
to help me now"
This is the second victory scored
by the Williamsburgh Tenants
League. The work continues.
This victory once more shows the
Importance Of the organization Of the
Tenants into an organization Of their
own for the struggle against eviction
and against high rent. shutting off
of gas and light which is a general
practice Of the landlord and the cleo
trio and gas companies.
The regular meeting Of the Ten
ants League Of Williarnsburgh is held
every Friday night at 81 Graham
Ave.
All tenants are called upon To Join
and continue the fight for more VIC
tories in the interest Of the working
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
STAGE SET FOR
JOINT BAZAAR
Jan. 2, 3, 4, to Be Gala
Days in N. Y.

NEW YORK.-Final arrangements
have been made for the Joint Ba-
zaar to be held under the auspices
Of the Workers International Relief
and the United Council of Working
Glass Women, at New Star Casino,
Jan. 2, 8 and 4.
The first night, Friday, Edith
Siegel with her well known Red
Dancers will present several prole-
tartan dances. Saturday will be
Children'S Day. The w. 1. r. Scouts
will give an elaborate program OF
play, song and calisthenics.
Five branches of the United Coun-
Gil sof Working Glass Women have
had sewing circles for a few weeks
past and have prepared a great var
iety of hand made articles, such as
pillow cases, lamp shades, blouses, etc.
There will be dancing each of the
three nights of the bazaar.
Members of the q. C. W. w. will
take care of the restaurant during the
three days Of the bazaar. Much food
has been contributed and bought for
the restaurant.
Articles for the bazaar are still
being accepted at the bazaar offices
at 131 w. 18th st. and 80 E. 18th st.,
Room 535. Workers are urged to turn
in their articles Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
REF0RMIST NAACP ELECTS AS
HEAD ENEMY OF NEGRO MASSES
Major Noel E. Spingarn. Betrayed Negroe;
During World War, Advocating jim Grow
Training Camp for Negro Officers

( field Storey, another white bourgeois
friend" Of the Negroes, as head Of
the N. A. A. @. p, is additional proof
OF the nature of that organization as
an instrument of the white ruling
class to divert the struggles Of the
Negro masses into futile. reformist
channels and away from revolu-
tionary struggle against Negro OPP
preston and lynching and for the
right Of the Negro majorities in the
South to determine and control their
own government and its relation to
the United States and other govern
mentS.
Spingran has the effrontery TO at
tempt to justify his betrayal of the
Negro masses during the war on the
excust that while the Negroes at
tackled him at first, the Negro petty
bourgeois traitors later backed him
becauses the camp he was responsible
for at Des Moines had placed 1000
Negro officers in the war"
II is reported that the Negro petty
bourgeois elements wanted James J.
Johnson, a Negro flunkey Of i'm
perialism, 10 head the organization.
Jotlnson's election would no doubt
have helped somewhat to cover up
the treacherous role Of the N. A. A.
C. P. AS it is, the choice Of Spin
gran thoroughly exposes the nature
of the organization as a tool of the
white depressing class, posing as
friends" of the oppressed Negro
masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

NEW YORK.-The election Of Maj
DR. Joel E. Spingarn, one of the white
bourgeois directors Of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and supporter dur
Ing the war of the governments Jim
Grow policy, as head of that reform
list organiza tior, has rousesd the
wrath of the Negro masses through
put the country.
According to the New York News,
Harlem Negro petty bourgeois
newspaper with its own record Of
betraya1s, "a storm is brewing within
the ranks of N. A. a. O. P. branches
throughout the country"
These branches, composed almost
exclusively of petty bourgeois ele-
ments who consistently betray the
struggles Of the Negro masses, fear
that the election of Spingran as head
of the organization, viii destroy the
diminishing influence of the organi-
cation among the masses, on account
of his advocacy during the war OF
jim Grow officers training camp for
Negroes.
They also attribute TO his influence
the treacherous Crisis editorial
"Close Ranks" in which DR.. Du
Bots called upon the Negro masses to
surrender their interests to the in
terests of their white ruling class
oppressors.
To the Negro workers the election
of Spingran to succeed the late More
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
DEFENSE DEMANDS JURY
Oct. l6 CASE TOMORROW

NEW YORK. in Judge
Levine's court in General Sessions, in
the Criminal Court Building, 10 a.
M, Attorney Brodsky OF the Inter
national Labor Defense will demand
that the case of the Oct. 16 delega-
ton be given jury trial
Those on trial are Nesin, Stone
and Lealess, three of a committee
which attended an open meeting of
the New York board of estimates to
move that some of the money the
city was handing out to bankers and
police be used for unemployment re-
lief. Mayor Walker had the delega-
ton beaten up by police, right in the
board room, and these three are held
to trial for assault. nuisance, dis
orderly" etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
Bazaar Workers Meet
At New Star Jan. /

NEW YORK go A meeting Of all
volunteers help at the joint bazaar
Of the Workers International Relief
and the United Council Of Working
Glass Women, to be held in New Star
Casino, Jan. ., 8 and 4, will be held
on Thursday, Jan. LIST at the New Star
Casino at p. m.
Besides volunteers from the W. I.
R., the U. G. w. w. and the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union the
joint bazaar committee urges all un-
employed workers to attend this meet
ing and aid this proletarian bazaar.
This will be the final arrangements
meeting, at which the work during
the three days Of the bazaar will be
assigned.