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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
COPELAND BLAMES
DISTRESS ON G. O. P.
Says Administration Has Failed
to Deal Effectively With
Crisis.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 3l.-Blaming
economic distress en- the Republican
administration Senator Copeland, DEM
ocrat, New York. TODAY predicted
Democratic victory in 1882
He called upon his party, however.
to present workable" program in
order that it may deserve victory and
make it lasting.
Speaking before the Nati"nal Demo-
cratic Club, COPELAND said: "All in
formed persons look upon the present
administration at Washington as fall
ure"
"Today's economic distress" he said.
sis the fault Of the Republican admins
tration / do not saw and nover have
said that President Hoover BROUGHT on
the panic, nor that he is responsible for
what happened originally. Thst would
be silly.
But 1 do saw it has been impossible
to deal effectively with the situation be-
cause the Republican administration
has denied, belittled and lodged the
truth. There has been no frank ad-
mission of the facts"
Copeland said however the Demo-
cratic party should not win in 1882 by
default"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
VANDERBILT STICKS
TO SILENT POLICY
Refers to 1926 Interviews
With MussoIini, but Ignores
Butler Case.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., January 3l.-The
silence Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., has
maintained over a remark attributed to
him, in which Premier Mussolini of
Italy was pictured as a hit-and-run
driver was broken briefly today in a
denial of statement from the Italian
foreign Office that he never had met
Mussolini.
Vanderbilt declined dire,t comment
on his meeting with II Duce but men,
toned two cables from Rome in 1926
referring to the meeting and said they
were true"
Continues Silence.
ANY one has only to look up news
paper files of 1926. he saio. MY
I interview with Mussolini was copy
righted 1t was true. The story from
Rome of my talk with MuSSolinl was
copyrighted, and it was true"
He again reiterated his intention to
say nothing about a story related by
several persons in which he was said
to have told group of men that while
driving with Mussolini the premier ran
over a child and did not stop to give
aid
The story was repeated by Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler in Philadelphia, re-
sulting in an official apology to Italy
from the United States and COM
mand to Butler to appear for court
martial
Vanderbilt referred all questioners to
his attorney. Frank C. Smith who said
Vanderbilt had advised the State De-
partment about the situation. Smith
said he had warned Vanderbilt net to
talk.
Ready to Appear.
Vanderbnt's DUTY as citizen, Smith
said. was to refrain from any COM
ment in view of the complications that
have arisen. Smith agreed Wander
bits silence might infer the story was
told by his client but added; Although
I am not prepared to say whether he
did or did not say it, if the statement
were made by him you can bet it was
true"
He indicated Vanderbilt would appear
II summoned for the court marital OF
Butler, and in that event might be
willing to make a public statement.
Reports Vanderbilt had armed him.
self because of threats brought reply
from him that there is not WORD
of truth in it."
ur,rUEu AWAITS CHARGES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
OVERPOWERED IN HOME
AND ROBBED BY TWO
Milo Mcdonald Reports $46 Taken
and Gives Police Name of
Former EmploHe.,

Milo Mcdonald, so years old. 1908
Chestnut street northeast, reported to
police last night that two men had en-
tered his house, overpowered him.
robbed him of $46 and some small
change. and fed. Neither OF his assail-
ants was armed Mr. Mcdonald said
he recognized one of the men as
former employe, and gave his name to
police. The suspect is said to live in
Colmar Manor. Prince Georges County,
Md. Maryland authorities were notified.
According to the story told by Nc
Donald, he was in his house, in which
he lives alone, when some one knocked
at the door When he opened it, two
men entered, the first one shouting
stick them up" The pair then seized
him, emptied his pockets, and ran. Nc
Donald went to a neighbours house and
called police. but by the time they ar
rived the men had disappeared. Nc
Donald is gardner by occupation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
SURGEON APPOINTED.

NEW YORK. January 81 P)-Dr
George j. Heuer, surgical director of the
Cincinnati @ neral Hospital, and
Holmes, professor in the medical col
lege of the University of Cincinnati. has
been appointed surgeon-in-c chief of New
Yory Hospital and professor of surgery
in Corn II Univ rsity, to take effect
July /, 1881. He will undertake or
ganization of the surgical department
IN the associations medical center
which is expected to be opened in 1882
: Dr. H uer will succeed DIR. Charles l..
Gibson. who has been a member of the
Cornell Medical College faculty tor
more than 80 years and who is retir-
ing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
Benny Rubin Stars
In Earle Presentation.

A THOUGH the new film at the
Earle. Illicit" is no doubt
meant to be a penetrating study in
the psychology of this modern age
as regards the marriage bond, it
seems as though the best part of it
is Charles Butte"worth's sketch of
scstter-brained man a'wavs on the
lookout for an alcoholic tonic.
This film is said TO have evoked
great cheers in certain quarters of
the globe for its frGnl,ness and del
icacy in the handling of a subject
that skates on ice that our grand
mothers wouldn't have STATED on.
Somehow or other. in the divulging
of the theme. which is meant to try
to clinch tho mparishab'cnoss Of the
home. end the feet that alth9uoh a
modern girl thinks that love Is
crushed BY the monot9nv of mar
ried life. it is really a grand and
wonderful sohomo-scmehow in all
this. which toFes Just en- hour end
a half to tel, time sits pretty hcav-
ilv on tho shoulders
so that a'thcuoh Barbara Stan
WICK does en- excellent piece OF act
ing. as does James Renne. and al
II
splitting in his moronic wanderings,
one fees lust a trifie tired of the
whole business. For the story of
girl who believes that life in fiat"
by herself, with her husband just a
casual dropp2rin, IS the ideal exist
ence, surrounding herself with cock
tails. champagne and the Sunday
paper, all this has been proved so
often to be a vapid form of being
that If the movies seize on it again
one is likely to howl.
Some of the film is extraordinarily
good. And some of it IS pretty slop-
by. But it is the long in-betweens
that one really minds--long stretches
of social columns that deal with the
stuffed lives of people one would
prefer to have permanently stuffed.
Most notable of anything within
the Earle is. of course, Benny Ru-
bin, one OF the best clowns on and
off the stage and the films. who
keeps his audience i'm fairly contin-
ual roars. Others on the bill in
clude Dave Genaro. the Dance Aris-
tocrats. etc. E. de S. M.
1.-THE Easiest Way"
Is Turned Into a Talkie.
EXCEPT for the ending, The
~ Easiest Way" the ancient stage
drama resurrected for screen pur-
poses this week at the Palace, is
fairly easy to understand When,
however. at the very close the blonde
and lithsome and extravagantly
handsome Constance Bennett trots
into her sisters house midst the
strains of Christmas hymn, one is
inclined to wonder why the curtains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
THREE IN FAMILY HURT
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin T. Cannon
and Charles Cannon Figure
in Accident in Virginia.

Mrs. Helen Cannon, 18, of SIG Girault
avenue. Virginia Highlands. Va, is in a
serious condition at Emergency Hos
pital and her husband. Edwin F. Can
non, %. and brother-in-law, Charles
Cannon, 10, suffered less severe in 'uries
in an automobile accident on the Alex
andria- Washington highway, near Viz
ginia Highlands last night.
The small roadster in which the trio
were riding, driven by Edwin Cannon.
struck the parked auto of Jacob w
fucker of New York City and over
turned. The ROADSTER was demolished.
Mrs. Cannon was thrown through the
windshield of the car and suffered Sc
we're decorations in addition TO other un-
determined injuries. Her husband suf-
fered cuts TO the face and severe shock,
while Charles Cannon was less severely
cut They we're taken to Emergency
Hospital by Ernest Bailey Of Arlington,
Va. County Policeman Edward Duncan
investigated the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
CAST ASSEMBLED
FOR BAL BOHEME
"Masque of the Moon" Fea-
ture Has Formidable Ar
ray of Personalities.

Acting for the Arts Club, william F.
Baker, chairman of the Bal Boheme
Executive Committee, has assembled the
cast to attend upon King Looney XIII
and the Silver Queen i'll the "MaSque of
the Moon" which will be presented as
the principal feature of the Bal Bo-
heme tomorrow night at the Willard
Hotel
Harry Welker will be King Looney
and Louise Rochon Hoover will be the
Silver Queen. the ladies in waiting are
Minna Niemann, Hester Beall, Helen
Griffith and Elizabeth Grill Charles
T Tittmann. Maurice Jarvis. Harold
Allen, Arthur White and Genevieve
Hendricks will be in the royal en-
tourage.
The Lisa Gardiner Dancers will ap-
pear as Snow MaidenS and the Donna
Taggart Dancers as veStalS. James Otis
Porter will be Jupiter. and his attend
ants include Mrs. James Otis Porter,
Carson and others. Jack Perry will
be Mars. attended by Frank Kemon,
George Davis. Rowland Lyon, Charles
Watts and Lawrence Stafford. Char
lotte Patterson as Venus will have as
attendants Mildred Bargain, Olive Bir-
mingham, Anita Callahan, Alva Bea-
vers and Myrtle Watts.
will Represent Saturn.
John Paul Jones will be Saturn at
tended by Philip Notes. Lucille Sangsted.
Charles Hoover, Duff Merrick and
Comdr. Lewis P. Clephane Leslie
Waudby will appear as Neptune, his
attendants being Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Dunn, Mrs. Frank w. Smith, Mrs.
Lewis Clephane. Marie Fisher, Mrs
Gladys Mccarthy, William Walter,
Helen Colhoun and Mrs. Samuel Kim
berly. Virginia Rutty will be mer-
maid.
Mercury will be enacted by Leslie F.
Brownton, who will be attended by
Harry Newman, Frank Mccarthy, Alex
ander Hopkins, Grace Walton, Virginia
Lawrence. Robert Read and Olga
Helm. The Marjorie Webster girls will
appear as the milkmaids of the Milky
Way, with Lyle Brookover and Fred
erick Chesley appearing as the Cow
that jumped over the moon"
The Egyptian group will include Karl
Langenback as high priest, with the
DenishaWn Dancers of Washington as
temple girls. The medieval group in
cludes Josselyn Giff1n. Marjorie Lowe,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
"AlOha," at Eia...O, Offers
Drama From South Sea.

~ PIPING into the South Sea
storehouse of human con-
trasts, Aloha" played ct the
~ Rialto, presents a story of
sufficient force, suspense
and conflict of emotional charac-
tiers to furnish interesting drama.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
On Flight to Panama.

COLON, Panama, January 81 [p.-
Igor Sikorsky, airplane designer, with
two passengers and two mechanics. took
off today from San Salvador on an air.
plane flight to Panama by way of San
Lorenzo and Msnagua. They were ex-
pected TO spend tonight at Puenta Are
mas, Costa Rica
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

It also has the
scenic EN- eel
lisllments that
are to be ex-
pected at the
island selected
by the author,
with incidents
on shipboard,
including the
rescue of a
child who has
fallen overheard,
and at the eli
max the inevi-
table fate CT
those Who are
b ought into the
clutches of an
active volcano.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

of contributing TO the record of Ben
Lyon and Raquel Torres, Aloha"
has been well chosen. Miss Torres
represents a young woman who is
the product of mixed marriage,
but whose loyalty turns to that
part of her ancestry which is
from the United States. Her own
marriage to the son of a proml-
nent business man of this coun-
try is the foundation Of series
of family disaster The young huS-
band furnishes the r3le for Mr..
Lyon. At sea and on land the bat
tie RACES, none the less fierce be-
cause it is a battle of social conven-
tons and not of ordinary weapons.
The difference in racial charac-
terictics. as affecting the develop
ment of a romance. is treated with
fidelity to the picture which might
easily be presented in real life. and
employs with effect the differing
TALENTS of the two leaders Ct the
cast A matter which might be
subject of comment is that the role
of the unyielding parent in dealing
with the alien wife is PLAYED by
Ro5ert Edeson, whose record as a
star was made notable partly
through his appearance in the title
role Of "Stroneheart" which in
yolued comDlicat ons similar to those
CT the play IT the Pialto. Others
in the excellent est are Thelma
Todd IS a young woman of fashion.
.Dickie Moore in a well ected child
role. Marcia Harris as cold-blooded
governess. Marian Douglas Alan
Hale. Otis Harlan, T. Roy Barnes,
Robert Ellis, Donald Reed Al st.
John. Addie McPhail, Phyllis Crane
and Rita Rey.
Besides the chief feature. George
Sidney and Charles Murray appear
in typical nonsense film and
Graham McNamee presents his news
reel d C. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
Auto Show Sales Rise.

CHICAGO, January 81 P).-The
Chicago automobile show closed tonight
with dealers reporting that sales this
year exceeded those of last year by rs
per cent.
The total for the 1880 show was es-
timated by officials at between S2,000,-
900 and $2,500.0oos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
Class Struggle Flares Up in
Countryside

Let peasants know that the red flag that
mas been hoiSted up in the cities, is the flag
OF struggles not only representing the strug-
giles of the industrial and land workers. but it
is also the flag of struggle for the immediate
demands of millions and tens of millions of
small landowners"
This is our answer to you, Mr.. Fish Our
Communist Party is backing this fight of the
Arkansas farmers against starvation, with all our
power. But not only that, we ask the whole
poor farming population-share troopers. tenant
farmers and poor owners on the land to organ
lze into the one powerful organization into the
United Famers League (Which is not, as you say,
Communist organization, but which is the
lighting organization of the oppressed farmers),
and to demand immediate relief, to fight against
landlords and big farmers, fight against bankers,
against implement companies, against the rail-
road trusts against marketing companies and
against all their robbers and oppressors and first
OF all, against the protectors of these robbers
the Hoover administration and the rotten capt.
talist system, that is represented jointly by the
republican and democratic parties and supported
by the socialist social fascist party and Amer
lean Federation of Labor and all kinds of rene
gades from the revolutionary labor movement
There is even some concreteness in tie Fish
accusation against us, because incidentally we
nave neard that there is unit of our Party
nearby, where these farmers were mobilizing
themselves for action. This unit of our Party
distributed the Daily Worker among these starv-
ing farmers and by reading the Daily Worker,
they learn that the best way out of starvation
is organized mass action. And in order to show
their gratitude to the Daily Worker these starv->
ing farmers send contributions for the Daily
Worker from their last pennies
The poor starving farmers in Arkansas have
taken up the class struggle in the countryside
1t is the duty of our Communist Party to help
to spread this struggle throughout the farming
regions OF this country. We must help the poor
farmers to organize themselves into Farmers
Relief Councils and use these as mediums to put
forth The struggle for immediate relief. We must
help the United Farmers League to utilize this
movement for building its organization as the
organization of struggle for the poor farming
masses
We must take steps everywhere to develop soli-
darity between the industrial workers in the
towns and the oppressed farmers in the country
side, and develop Joint action of their organiza-
tons. And this solidarity must be developed
into the solid alliance of revolutionary industrial
workers and the revolutionary farmers against
the capitalist class and the capitalist system.
Through allied struggle of workers and poor
farmers, we will be able to overthrow the capt.
talist system and establish the workers and
farmers government in the United States, Just as
the Russian workers and peasants have done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
FORWARD TO THE LENIN
RECRUITING DRIVE!

portance that our activity in the Recruiting
Drive shall be linked in the direction of bring
ing hundreds of working women from the fac
tories into our ranks
In this connection, the work of approach to
working women shall not be assigned as the
special task of our women comrades alone but
special tasks shall be assigned to the units for
concentrating in the textile mills and other fac
tories in which the working women constitute a
large percentage of the workers.
The recruitment drive shall be the basic task
of the units. For this reason application cards
shall not be distributed as leaflets" but shall
be given only to those workers who show a real
Willingness to join the Party. The application
cards shall not lie around in the district offices
for weeks and weeks, but should go Immediately
to the section committee. The Section Commit
tee shall take the necessary information as
quickly as possible within not more than one
or two weeks and assign the members to
units, Every section shall appoint a special
committee for the duration of the drive, for
quick action on assigning the applicants to the
respective units taking all necessary precau-
tons in order to avoid the entering into the
Party of doubtful elements.
Applications that are sent directly to the dis
trict committee shall be turned over to the re-
spective sections without delay.
The new members must be in possession of
their membership books when they are assigned
to the units. Admitted into our ranks, the new
members shall be drawn into work The work.
erS that join the Party come to us in order to
be active. to fight with us, to learn. Here it is
necessary that our comrades be careful not to
repeat the previous mistakes of looking down on
the new comrades from above, or assigning them
immediately all sorts of work, in order that the
older comrades be released from their own tasks.
u,
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
CALIFORNIA CLASS WAR
PRISONERS
BY UPTON SINCLAIR.

We have here in California number Of class
war prisoners, and still larger number whose
cases are on appeal but who are almost GER
tain to go to the state pententiary in the end
I have known some of these men and women
and can testify that they are devoted idealists.
Our treatment of political prisoners in Cal
ifornia is entirely callous, and the general pub
lie is completely indifferent to the issues in
volved. Our masses read the capitalist news
papers and believe what they read. We shall go
on protesting in California Of course, but our
great hope is in outside demonstrations.
What saved the lives Of Mooney and Billings
in 1917 was the newspaper reports that there
had been street demonstrations in Petrograd
GeningraO on behalf of California political
prisoner named TON NUM-" People in CAL
ifornia might hear for the first time of Frank
Spector and Yetta Stromberg, II the newspapers
should report that there were street demonstra-
tons in Paris Berlin, or Tokyo, on behalf ct
these Victims Of Calfornis justis 7 sFssssSr .t,
= 80 . y $50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
Ryan Walker Not Guilty

A reader. writes to us asking in puzzled sort
OF way, how it happens that Comrade Ryan
Walker ALSO draws for the Revolutionary Age?
Such deviations to the right seem odd for Blu
Worker"
Well it would rather be odd if true. But there
is one thing that has escaped our readers mind.
that is, the pleasant habit of stealing cartoons
by simply clipping them, FASTING EN- on a,sheet
of paper and getting the engraver to make b
"cut" exactly like the original, artists name and
all
When Comrade Walker came to work on the
Daily. the Lovestone sheet ruled up It's tail and
denounced" him and the Daily. ana the next
week promptly stole one Of his cartoons from the
Daily the Lovestone sheet shufYled up its tail and
deviation to the Right on our part, but devia-
ton to the Left on the part Of the thieves who
try to cover up their counter-revolutionar poll.
cies with stolen revolutionary pictures.
And, by the way, dear reader, while We are
answering questions. we might ask one: What
kind Of deviation is It that you ara guilty OF.
In receiving, reading or even looking q -tlas
pictures In ths LOseatcue ashss1As ss.-a-r I'm
-'"-. -s-s'-i asxhllsst. X t,.sss- .:..s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
SOLIDARITY NORTH AND SOUTH
By JIM ALLEN.
Editor, Southern Worker.)

THE Southern Worker published by the Com
munist Party at Birmingham, Ala. has ap-
peared regularly every week for the past six
months. 1t has found its way into the most re-
mote sections Of the South. While the main
body of its readers consist of workers at Birn-
ingham, Chattanooga, Charlotte, Atlanta, Eliza
bethton, and the Gulf ports it has also followed
the migrating southern worker into many iso-
lated country towns, into the most brutal and
reactionary plantation sections
Slowly but surely, it is being taken to the
heart of the southern proletariat and farm ten
antry Like nowhere else in the country has
the crisis ravaged the southern workers and poor
farmers. In the South, more than anywhere else
in the country, have spontaneous hunger
marches, demonstrations and struggles of work
ers and farmers taken place. Altho it is only
a sx-months infant, the Southern Worker has
been factor in these struggles. 1t has found
point Of raiding company commissaries, to the
country towns where the farmers are taking food
practically at the point of their guns.
The trouble is that the Southern Worker has
not yet played an important enough role in the
organization and development of these struggles.
1t is not bringing the Communist program Of Or
ganization and struggle fast enough and widely
enough to the seething workers and farmers of
the South. One Of the chief reasons is that our
paper has been handicapped for lack of funds.
We have been forced to print very restricted
number of copies every week because we could
not pay for more For the same reason our
paper is restricted to only four pages in which
must be crowded all the news and articles so
important to the southern workers. And even
this restricted paper is now being threatened
with temporary suspension.
The southern workers are extremely poor. The
crisis found them at a much lower standard OF
living than the workers in the North Today
even Is cents for 3 months subscription to
the paper is beyond many workers reach. To
many the price of a single copy is a problem
They cannot dig into empty pockets, which are
not backed by single penny of bank savings, to
keep the Southern Worker going. Just as it was
the northern workers who raised the money to
start the Southern Worker it must now also be
their task together with the southern workers,
to keep the paper going. 1t will be an expression
Of working class solidarity, that the southern
workers will never forget.