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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-02
Workers Children Starve
and Freeze
BY MYRA PAGE

AT noon recess last Thursday, a little girl in a
a Canton, O., grammar school ran up to her
teacher and cried out why can't eat like
other children?"
Why ndeedl The question which this child
asks should be heard throughout the United
States. Why are workers and impoverished
farmers children going hungry today in land
of plenty? From all sections, both industrial
and agricultural come reports of school children
coming to school without lunches, poorly clothed
and obviously under-nourished. Also an ncreas-
ing number OF children are being kept at home,
because they have no shoes or coats to wear and
lack car fare. These are children of the nine
million unemployed
In New York City, for example the situation
has become so acute that teachers have demand
ed that something be DONE Mr.. Rybicki d.
rector of the Emergency Employment, Commit
tees research bureau-the committee appointed
by Mayor Walker, to make pretense that the
Tammany government is doing something about
the situation, admits that Children are coming
to school under-nourished poorly shoe and
poorly clothed, because their parents are unable
to find work Hoover, the authorities, do nothing
except talk.
In sandusky Ohio children of unemployed
WOiACio dlc WdyldyliiS obllcI SllOItH Oh ulelr
way to school, and taking their lunch, In order
to appease their hunger. This shows their des-
perate situation.
Even while the unemployed's children ask for
food, potatoes and vegetables are rotting on the
land; and tons of food are being dumped into
the Mississippi. Hudson and other rivers, so that
the grafters can bring supply in line with de-
mand" and keep up the prices.
why can't eat like other chidren?" Work.
ers and farmers, what is your reply to the cry of
your hungry children Will you allow them to.
be starved, stunted in growth and a prey to the
many diseases which under-nourishment brings
while the means Of feeding and clothing them
are near at hand? OF course not. The way to
prevent this is widespread organization for i'm
mediate action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-02
Proving Ramzin's Confession

John Steele as responsible capitalist foreign
correspondent as. there is, cabled from London
on Nov. %, that:
The biggest single order for airplanes ever
placed has been made by the British air min
isry IN the secret purchase of 200 OF the fastest
service planes IN the world at cost of So
100000"
This is hardly disarmament" but it decidedly
is evidence supporting the confession of Ramzn
and others in the Moscow trial. that Britain
and other capitalist powers are preparing to at
tack the Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-02

further emphasis of the militancy of the
Negro and white workers at the st. Louis
Convention of the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights is contained in the two following
speeches from the floor. The Negro worker
delegates to the convention utterly repudiated
the Islander of the Negro petty-bourgeOis mis-
leaders that the masses were apathetic, are not
ready for struggle, etc. Such SANDER is used
merely for the purpose of excusing the treach-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-02
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION
ANSWERS ISLANDER OF THE
NEGRO MISLEADERS

cry of these misleaders. and of making the
bosses believe that the Negro petty bourgeois
misleaders are earning their Judas pay in
keeping the masses contented and Servile and
uninterested in waging sharp struggle
against lynching and Negro oppression and
for unconditional equality. Nothing could be
further from the truth than this shameless
Islander of set of despicable traitorsl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
WOMAN, 25, SHOT,;
MAN IS ARRESTED
Accident Blamed for Wound.
ing of Miss Clara Moore
in Apartment.

Miss Clara Moore, IS years old, Of
Clarendon, Va, was believed recovering
at Emergency Hospital today from q
bullet wound in the abdomen received
early Sunday in an apartment on the
third floor at 1886 Harvard street. The
owner of the apartment. David Russell,
was being held at No. precinct pend
ing the outcome of Miss Moore's condi-
ton.
Police say Miss Moore at first identi-
fed herself as Russell's wife, and later
furnished her real name when informed
her injury appeared serious. She showed
improvement at Emergency Hospital last
night, however, and doctors believe she
will recover.
Miss Moore told police that she and
Russell had quarreled. She ran and got
Russells revolver out of a bureau
drawer, she said. and attempted to shoot
herself, the gun discharging when Rus
sell sought to wrest 1t from her.
Headquarters Detective L. M. Wilson
responded to a call from the Harvard
street address, he said, and found the
couple alone together. An ambulance
when Wilson was informed the woman
had suffered only q slight flesh wound
In the leg.
Russell and Miss Moore then were
placed in the police car and the latter
collapsed. Seeing that she was serious
ly injured, Wilson drove the young
woman to Emergency Hospital. She had
been hit In the abdomen and right leg.
" Police say Russell verified Miss Moore's
story that the gun had exploded during
q struggle for its possession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
IN MECHANICSVILLE
Candidates in st. Marys County
Laud Administra-
\ ton.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, October 81
The second of series of Democratic
campaign meetings was held Saturday
night at the MechanicSville Hall, in
Mechanicsville. j. Franklin Adams,
county supervisor of assessments, of
Mechanicsville presided. Joseph M.
Mattingly, candidate for reelection for
the clerkship of the st. MaryS Circuit
Court. praised Gov. Albert C.. Richie
He said 1t was an honor to vote for
Stephen w. Cambria, incumbent, run
ming for reelection to Congress from
the fifth congressional district of Mary
land, and added that State Senator j.
Allen Coad of Leonardtown had ably
and intelligently represented st. Marys
County in the Maryland Senate.
Matthew Long said that the Demo-
cratic administration spoke for itself,
and commended Gov. Albert G. Ritchie
on the progress of the State under his
management.
Philip H. Dorsey, jr., States attorney,
candidate for the House of Delegates,
said the school system for the past IL
years had been outstanding. Lawrence
P. Williams, candidate for the House
Of Delegates, also spoke.
State Senator j. Allen Coad of Leon
ardtown, up for reelection on wet
ticket for the Maryland Senate, said
the only weapon that the Republican
party could use was criticism Of the
Democratic administration.
The next meeting viii be held at 1880
tonight at Chaptico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
MUNICIPAL POWER
| PLANT PROPOSALS
| ARE INVESTIGATED
Five Bids for City-0Wned
Electric Survey Studied by
Engineer Experts.
$25, 900 is AVAILABLE
FOR STARTING PROJECT
Work Expected to Begin Within
Six Weeks in Effort to Save
on Costs to District.

Five proposals for making a survey
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of constructing O
municipal power plant for furnishing
the electrical energy used by the Dis
trict government institutions are now
under consideration by Assistant Engi-
neer Commissioner Donald A. Dawson
and Warren B. Hadley, District cleo
trical engineer It is expected that one
of the bids will be accepted and work
begun on the survey within the next
six weeks. The current appropriation
bill makes available $4,000 for the
survey.
The bids must be carefully studied
and compared before that most adj
vantageous to the District Is selected.
according to Maj. Dawson. The situa-
ton is not like bid for construction
of a school. where 1t is relatively easy
to select the lowest responsible bid.
Most OF the electricity now used by
the municipality is furnished by the
Potomac Electric Power Co. at rates
fixed each year for the various services.
1t Is used for street lighting, running
automatic traffic signals, lighting and
operating elevators in schools and other
municipal structures, and the like
The firms who have submitted bids
are the Burns & Mcdonnell Engineer.
ing Co., Kansas City: the Scofield En-.
cheering Co., Philadelphia; Ford, Ba.
con & Davis, New York; Smity, Kynch.
man g. Grylls, Detroit, and the Public
Service Institute, by G. c. Mayer,
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
PARKED MACHINES
LOOTED BY THIEVES
Robbery of Two Homes and
Stealing of Coat in Church
Make Total $1,326.
Thieves melted s1 .a26 in loot over the

Thieves Melted 81 1926 in loot over the
week end, police reported today.
Specializing on parked automobiles in
the grounds of Howard University,
thieves escaped with overcoats, scarfs
and gloves valued at 5000. The VIC
Tins were Edward j. Edwards, zoos
Florida avenue; Gordon Young, SOC 7
street; Franklin Ramsaur, sos Kastle
place northeast; Thomas Gardner, jr.,
753 K street; Clarence Lewis, jr, 1924
Fifteenth street; Robert G. Evans, 1926
w street, and John Washington, Clark
Hall, Howard University.
Parked automobile thefts were also
reported in other sections Of the city.
Naval Officers Car Robbed.
Lieut.. Comdr. Philip v. H. Weams,
c. S. N, of 3506 Garfield street. told
police that leather handbag contain
ing wearing apparel worth 5000 was
stolen from his automobile while it was
parked near his home.
A coat and scarf valued at $500 was
reported stolen from the parked auto
mobile of Miss Stella Rosenstein of Bal
timore, Md, while the machine was
parked at Thirteenth and c streets. A
lock on the automobiles door was
'jimmied."
Theft of a coat valued at $35 and q
pair of gloves worth SIS from a parked
automobile at Ninth and H streets was
reported by Joseph Brown Of 631 ]
street.
Home is Entered.
George F. Huber, 429 Kenyon street,
reported the loss of an overcoat valued
at $50 from his automobile while 1t was
parked near the National Museum.
Later Sunday afternoon police were
told that thieves entered the home of
John M. Waters, 3110 First street, and
stole radio set, jewelry and wearing
apparel valued at 1924.
Employing q duplicate key thieves
entered the apartment of Mrs. Marie
White of 1854 Nineteenth street and
escaped with clothing and jewelry worth
$112.
A coat valued at 500 was reported
stolen from the Church of the Covenant
yesterday by Mrs. Hope D. Wagner of
81 Drummond avenue, Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
ALEXANDRIA ROBBERS
KEEP POLICE ON JUMP
Four Reports of Depredations in
Rapid Order Make Officers
Hustle.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 81
Police were kept on the jump here early
Sunday morning by series of four
robberles, reported in rapid succession.
The same man Is believed to have com.
mitted all Of the robberies, but police
are unable to say whether he Is white
or colored.
Edward H. Magruder Of 81 Dix street
called police early Sunday morning to
report that during his absence from
home Saturday night some one had
entered his house and ransacked it.
Nothing was reported missing Wilson
Darr, AIS Prince street, then called
police and reported that some one had
entered his home and taken a wrist
watch valued at $35 and also stolen
a spare tire, valued at So, from an
automobile parked in front Of the
house.
While police were investigating these
calls, A. G. Howard of 1904 King street
reported that his daughter, Miss Anita
Howard, had awakened to find a man
in her room. She screamed and the
man fled, but took with him a pocket
book containing $40 in cash and q
check for $12. The pocketbook was
found later on Oak street.
Frank E. Hopkins of No. / Lloyd
lane, Braddock Heights, later reported
that some one had entered his house
and awakened his daughter, and then
fed. Nothing was reported missing.
Descriptions of the man tally, but
neither Of the girls who saw him in
their room swith f1ashlight were able
to tell whether he was white or colored,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
.RAz|NG DATE ST|RS
MARKET MEN, Who
EXPECTED DELAY
Fact That No New Housing
Had Been Started Brought
to Foreground.
NOTICE OFFICIALLY
GIVEN MONTHS AGO
Demolition Early in New Year
Blow to Farmers and Deal
ers, Say Shareholders.

Reports that the Treasury, Depart
nnent plans to tear down Center Market
In January have thrown CONSERVATION
into the ranks of merchants and others
doing business at the market
It had been confidently expected by
market people that the demolition OF
the old market would again be post
poned, as 1t was last June. Legislation
had fixed the end of the market on
June 80, but 1t was amended to place
the end at January !, 1881. And mer-
chants were resting more or less secure
in the feeling that another postpone
ment could be obtained until new
center market could be built to house
them.
Projects for building another structure
are still under way, the Downtown
Market Company, being reported as fur
thest advanced. But no building opera
tons have yet been strated.
Protests With Emphasis.
A spokesman for the marketmen in
Center Market today was emphatic In
his protest against the Treasury tearing
down the market in January. 1T will
throw 1000 people out of their place of
business in the dead of Winter" he
said. Announcement yesterday OF the
Treasury's intention resulted in hurried
conferences among market leaders, and
there was deep concern expressed today
as discussion of the matter buzzed
throughout the market.
The Treasury, however, it was learned,
Is going forward with the Governments
great building program. 1t has been
faced with protests of various natures
before against the demolition Of build
ings. These have held back some Of
the projects, but there appears to be q
determination on the part OF the Gov
eminent to proceed now as rapidly as
possible with development of the entire
Federal triangle, including the site Of
Center Market. On this site, the new
Archives Building will rise.
There are now 165 SHAREHOLDERS In
Center Market, each one having about
i've employees. There are also 300
the outside of Center Market, and SIS
employees of the United States Depart
nnent of Agriculture, which supervises
and manages the market. These peo-
pie would all be knocked sky-high"
by tearing down Center Market in the
middle of Winter, one market man said.
He also claimed that there would be
. big Inconvenience caused to the buy
ing public, thousands of whom had pur-
chased their supplies at Center Market
for years.
Official Notice Given.
The merchants of Center Market have
known for years, however, it was re-
called in official circles, that the Gov
eminent intended to tear down the
structure and months ago were put on
oficial notice by legislation which has
been before Congress. Senator Smoot,
author Of the legislation for tearing
down the market, explained that the
bill was to put the merchants on their
guard so that they could make prep
arations to house themselves elsewhere.
Projects for building a new market
have been under way for many months.
but none Of these has yet reached the
building stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
PHARMACIST DEAD
AT AGE OF IS YEARS
Nicholas s. Purcell, Retired, of
Leesburg Succumbs to In
firmities Of Age.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


LEESBURG, Va, October 81
Nicholas S. Purcell, IS years of age,
prominent retired pharmacist of Lees
burg, died last night at his home in
Leesburg from the infirmities of age.
He was a native Of Loudoun County, a
son of the late Samuel and Elizabeth S.
Purcell.
He was former member of the drug
firm of Mott & Purcell in Leesburg, and
later of the firm of Purcell & Littlejohn,
also in Leesburg, which pharmacy still
bears his name.
Mr. Purcell was a graduate of the
Maryland College of Pharmacists in
Baltimore and was employed in Balti-
more as pharmacist until the close
Of the Civil War, when he came to Lees
burg and purchased the interest of
Metzger in the firm of Mott & Metzger.
In 1913 he retired from active business
He was the treasurer of Olive Branch,
No. ia, A. F. and A. NJ, Leesburg,
which order will have charge of the
funeral Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock from Presbyterian Church, Lees
burg. Mr.. Purcell was prominent also
in civic and church affairs and owned
several large farms In Loudoun County.
One brother, Mahlon Purcell, LovettS-
vile, survives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
$44,7O0 Banked in Schools
2O,823 White and I ,5I2 Colored Pupils Savings Re-
ported, and Next Year At1mpt Will Be
Made to Surpdss Figure.

The sixth division. In which IS
schools hal tellers, led in the deposit
total with $l5,250.28 credited to its
children. The third division was next
with $7,764.97 being saved in eight
buildings, while the fifth division fol-
lowed closely with 10 buildings saving
$7,576.71.
Bank Has 80 Schools.
The Mount Vernon Savings Bank
headed the list of institutions maintain
ing automatic tellers in the schools last
year with 33 school buildings on its
list. This Institutions total collections
were $36,144.31. The Security Savings
and Commercial Bank, with five schools
depositing $5,40914, was second. Other
banks maintaining the school tellers.
the number Of buildings served and the
total collections made follow: Wood
ridge-Langdon Savings and Commercial
Bank, three schools, $1,063.03; Mer-
chants Bank and Trust Co., one school,
$582.23; Bank of Commerce and Saw
ings, one school, $57717; Prudential
Bank, three schools, $43795: Takoma
Park Bank, one school, $22402; Brook
land Branch, Merchants Bank and
Trust Co., one school, $143.27, and
Brightwood Bank, one school, $12790.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
STABBED, TILTED BEAU,
REMAINS UNCONVINCED
Returns to Former Sweetheart's
Home Until Neighbors Send
for Squad of Police.

Sylvester Passagno of 1908 Nicholson
street southeast is hard to convince, If
the police have quoted Miss Agnes
Amedink correctly.
PasSagno, Miss Amedink said,
wouldn't listen last night when she told
him another man had taken his place
in her affections Then Miss Amedink
Passagno said, emphasized her words
by stabbing him in the hand.
Passagno left off the argument long
enough to go by Emergency Hospital to
get flesh wound treated, then hurried
back to Miss Amedink's home at 1914
N street.
second controversy sprang up and
became so heated that neighbors tele-
phoned No precinct for the emer-
gency squad. On their arrival the
police arrested both.
At the precinct the couple left col
lateral for disorderly conduct charges.
Passagno was asked If he wished to
press charge against Miss AmI ink
fer the knife wound.
He did not, Passagno said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
OPPOSITION
TO GAS TAX BOOST
Traffic Committee to Meet
This Afternoon to Discuss
recommendations.

The TRAFFIC Committee of the Wash
ington Board of Trade will meet at 4
O'Clock this afternoon to consider the
recent proposals of the Traffic Advisory
Council to increase the tax on gasoline
and boost the registration fee for auto
mobiles in the District, it was an
nounced today by Theodore p. Noyes,
chairman of the committee.
Already on record as opposed to any
increase in the tax rate on gasoline,
the TRAFFIC Committee is expected to
urge the Executive Committee of the
board to oppose the recommendations
which proposed to increase the gaso-
line tax from to 4 cents per gallon
and to double the 81 registration fee
Tor passenger automobiles.
1t also recommended that CONNER
c1al vehicles be taxed according to their
gross weight. These recommendations
1t Is estimated, would result in a cost
to District motorists of 81 500 900 more
annually in gasoline tax and increase
from s94, 900 to approximately $403, 00t
annually in registration fees.
The fight against the recommends
tons in the Trific Advisory Council
session last week, which was led by
Mr.. Noyes, q member of the council
was lost by q vote of to 6. The
Board Of Trade Committee chairman
opposed the recommendations on the
grounds that no cause had been shown
by revenue returns from automobile
taxation sources to justify boosting
rates. The returns as they now stand,
Mr.. Noyes pointed out, show ample
surplus. This Is a time when we should
be urging reduction in rates, rather
than increasing them" he said.
The Washington Chamber of Com
merce and the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association last week filed pro-
test against the proposals of the Traffic
Advisory Council and indicated their
readiness to wage a vigorous fight
against the adoption Of the recon-
mendations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
URGES CHRISTIANS
AS OFFICEHOLDERS
Archbishop Curley Declares Crime
u Rampant in U. S.-Highest
Officials Accused.
apecial nispatch to The star.


FREDERICK, Md, October 27.-De-
claring that the United States Is rid
den with immortality and corruption"
and maintaining that the only salvation
Of the country is through religious ed
ucation, not legislation. Archbishop
Michael ]. Curley of Baltimore yester-
day confirmed a class of 167 persons at
st. Johns Church. this city.
what. We need" said Archbishop
Curley, Sin public and private life in
this country, from the White House
down. Is love for Jesus Christ and
respect for His teachings. I am not
one to mix religion and politics, but /
do say that you can't legislate morals
into people, and the only salvation for
this country or any country is TO elect
men to public ONCE who have a love
for Christ and apply His teachings to
the laws they help enact.
IT know of no country in the world
today" he continued, where there i5
so much disrespect for law as in the
United States. Every day we read and
hear of fragrant violations of the law.
Even the men we elect to the highest
Offices in the land are dishonest and in
quite number of cases are out-and-
out robbers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27

A total Of $44, 10000 was saved by
Washington elementary school children
last school year in the automatic bank
"tellers" maintained in 40 school build
ings by various banking houses here.
These figures have been compiled by
Miss Jane McWilliams, supervising prin-
cipal of the third division, who has
charge of thrift activities In the schools.
and were announced today as the goal
which District youngsters will strive to
pass this year.
In the report on last years savings, 1t
Is shown that 5,978 individual bank &C
counts were opened as a result of the
habit formed by the automatic tellers
In the school corridors Besides these.
22,335 boys and girls actually deposited
their money in the "slot-machine
tellers"
White and Colored Deposits.
OF the total funds saved in the tellers,
4,271 was deposited by white pupils
and $437.95 was saved by colored chill
dren. Of the 40 schools using tellers.
46 were white and 3 were colored.
Hence, while 20,823 white children made
teller deposits. 1872 colored children
used the machines.