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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
GIRLS SENTENCED
ON ARSON CHARGE
Twelve Young Delinquents Given
Prison Terms for Burning
Of Dormitories.
- t.:s Associated Press.

- te.s Associated E-sSS-
CARTHAGE, n. c., May 2I.-Twslve
girls CT high school age who pIsaded
guilty to attempted arson in connection
with the burning of two dormitories
ct Samarcand State institution FOR
dsicvent girls, yesterday were sentenced
to Ss-ve from 1e months % I've re4-s,
N t4s state pcnitcaizry - G4ieis 4.
ITO oth2IS, VINO maze siaI.i2: nIoe-s
=cts freed Enacr Conditional s2nJc4lCcz
IN the case Of Rosa Null, Is, OF
Rutherford. the youngest Of the group.
Judge Michael Schenck continued
prayer for judgement for five years on
condition Of good behavior. $500.
Margaret PIidgen, IS. Of Wilmington
was given a suspended sentence Of IL
months to three years. A five-year
good behavior clause was also added to
her sentence.
AS the jurist pronounced sentence.
the girls burst into tears. There was
no other demonstration In the court
room.
Sixteen girls were indicted for first
degrse arson, a capital offense in North
Carolina. as result of the burning of
the dormitories.
Solicitor Don Phillips decided not TO
prosecute two Of the girls and yesterday
accepted pleas of guilty to attempted
arson by the others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
CLUBS COOPERATE
IN FLOWER SHOW
Arlington Garden Group to
Sponsor Exhibit at
Clarendon.
epecial pispatch 70 The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, May 81. = The
Arlington County Garden Club has
started plans for its annual flower show,
to be held Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week, in the rooms formerly occu-
pied by the Virginia Public Service Co.,
Ia Wilson boulevard. The Neighbor-
hood and Bancroft Garden Clubs, in
stead of having their individual shows
this Spring, have accepted invitation
To participate in this countrywide AZ
fair, and indications are that it will
be the most elaborate ever held IN this
section.
In order to make the show of further
extent and to stimulate interest in the
movement for Identification of the
county to conform with plans of the
Arlington County Bicentennial Council,
sponsors of the show are seeking to
have all other organizations, civic, fra
ternal and church, cooperate.
Paul w. Bowman is general chairman
in charge of arrangements. He is be-
ing assisted by H. l.. Zile, president of
the Arlington Club; officials of the other
garden clubs and the following sub
committees: Entry, Miss Ruth Cath
cart, Mrs. E. v. Goldberg. Mrs Flora De-
yer, MfS. +. y. Dyer, MrS. y. r. Rotn-
cry; Classification, Mrs. Frank L. Ball
Mrs. Harry Bullen, Mrs. Rose Cartnor.
Mrs. Gilbert Hall, Mrs. l.. G. Kendrick,
Mrs. H. c. Rothery, Mrs. S. G. Stone
burner, Mrs. w. L. Stricken. Mrs. H. l..
Zile; Publicity, Mrs. F. L. Hall and o.
j. Shuster; Awards, c. H. Deaton. Mrs.
Maud Martin-Jones, G. p. Taylor;
Schedule, Thomas r. Mechem, Mrs. c.
c. Thomas and H. l.. Zile.
Miss Margaret Lancaster Of Takoma
Park D. c.; Mrs. Lommax Tayloe of
Vienna, Va and Mrs. M. L. Payne of
Bancroft Va. will serve as Judges of
the show THE Judging viii begin nj
s o'clock. opening day The exhibit
will be open to the public. free Of
charge. from 6 to IN pm. Tuesday and
from 10 pm. Wednesday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
CAVALRY WILL TEST
SKILL IN MOUNTAINS
New Mexico and Texas Armies to
Fight Sham Battle North
of Ell Paso.
sy tbs Aseoctptsd Press.

81 ths ssoctptsd Press.
FORT BLISS. Fl pa5o, Tex. MAY 81
Horse troops of the United States
Army. the 1st Cavalry Division, will
test their skill soon in the Sacramento
Mountains OF New Mexico.
Mai. Gen. Ewing E. Booth, COM
mandant, was to leave Fort Bliss today
with white" Army to represent New
Mexico in annual maneuVers. The re-
mainder of the division will constitute
the Brown Army of Texas.
The feigned combat follows closely
an announcement by Maj. Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, chief of staff, that speedy
tanks were to replace 5000 horses in
the Cavalry.
The country over which the soldiers
will maneuver, north CT e. PaSo, l.
difficult OF ingress and egreSs. Peaks
rise to 10000 feet attitude. Spscia1
yculs pack trains will carry supplies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
WOMAN FALLS TO DEATH
OVER HIGH SWISS CLIFF
Other Three of British Family
Cling to Mountain Side Until
Cries Bring Help.
a. a. Assnciated press

BY the Associated Press.
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland May 81 .
-Four members of a British tourist
party fell over a cliff today while climb
ing Harder Mountain. resulting in death
10 young woman and injury to a boy.
Miss Jenny Brown, resident of Scot
land, was killed when the path crumbled
beneath her and tossed her over the
brink. william Fitzpatrick broke his
arm when he landed on ledge His
father and mother chung to bushes at
the edge of the precipice, hundreds OF
feet high. until their cries brought Mm-
bermen to the rescue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
JUSTICE QUITS BENCH
Rubio Accepts Resignation Of
Judge He Criticized.

MEXICO CITY, May 81 GP).-Presi-
cent Ortiz Rubio hss accepted the resig-
ration Of Supreme Court Justice Alberto
VszqueZ Del Mercado, who protested
the recent deportation of Luis Cabrera.
former finance minister, accused Of
plotting against the government.
The President issued statement &C
cusing the justice of attempting by this
means 10 gain popularity among a sec
ton of the public that Is opposed 10 the
government
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
FIGHT EVICTION OF
JOBLESS TODAY

NEW YORK. - The Brownsville
Tenants League has called for DEM
onstration at 9 o'clock this morning
in front of 342 Livona, near Stone
Ave-, to stop the eviction of an un-
employed Negro worker and his sick
wife and small children.
The landlord is evicting this work.
er although he owes only one months
rent for the miserable quarters he
has been forced to occupy. The
house has been unpainted and un-
repaired for years, the sanitary con-
ditions are terrible. There is no elec.
tricity, no gas.
The tenants of this block and all
other workers are urged to show their
solidarity with this unemployed
Negro worker and his family who ara
to be thrown on the streets to freeze
to death.
The landlords are forcing through
a wave of new evictions. Another
eviction is scheduled for Tuesday in
the same neighborhood. at 52I Powell
Street. This case is of white FAM
lily by the name of CARRIER Scores
of other eyictions are planned and
will be carried out by the bosses and
their courts unless the workers nlohi-
lie to stop them.
The Brownsville Tenants League ID
,Esiains the demand Of no stcaous
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
CODER, HURST, SAVED FROM DEATH BY NEGRO FARMERS
Detroit Mayor Says Cities Go Broke Starvation For Jobes
Mr.. MorrOw's Pleasure Trip

looking appearing
- Thursday March H. page was accompanied by the phooa OF
Dwight recently
Senate after having for himself by tanning the bourgeois
and teaching it stand and bark
Wall commands
mentioned peraned
smpton The Times says
board Senator Dwight W. of
New Morrow, trip and
Italy. They will return early in May"
Now workers pleasure trips" pleasure trips"
happens that by chance the Daily Worker into of
what The Kpnnger Washington Letter. which
circulated privately limited
these gentlemen know the inside of what going Washington
washington para
graph that the administration his cabinet
plans" put by
adjourned Further
armies of railroad the oess is the following item
IF Mr. Morrow to Europe this pleasure trip
protection
foreign trade dumping by the Soviet trust"
pleasure
realiysecret diplomacy,
conspiracy Soviet Unon conspiracy
mpeast Intervention against
Repubhcl
pans'-war against Soviet
Italy, rivalry
of the obstacles to the antSoviet mpedalist plans.
Workers should understand that foreign relations the
the capitalist Washington
national affairs the of the Fish Committee being
carried out without new laws or official DEGREES
permission Congress for this? No formal
broadcasng
Committee against the Soviet the
Party will the anSov
igged by Mr. Morrow while on his pleasure trip"
say fascist of Fish
working
working prepared
struggled
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
Must Hurry To Get Into War;" Says
Willard, President of B@O Railroad

WASHINGTON, March l3.-How
to conduct war il 1t breaks out to-
day--that is the leading topic of the
American capitalist government at
the present time, through the War
Policies Commission, a government
organ, now in session here. This is
not a question of abstract prepara-
ton for war. Money has already
been spent for this war. Billions Of
dollars have been given to the army
and navy. Factories are organized
for war. The crisis is rapidly driv-
ing the imperialist powers for war.
Now we have the open prepara-
tions Of the actual conduct Of this
war. The most startling fact brought
out before the War Policies Commits
sion is that all these capitalists who
testify admit that war might break
out amy time now and they must be
prepared for it. They are discussing
how much money they should maks
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
WONT CUT
OFFICIAL PAY
OR PROFITS
Organize Unemployed
for Great Struggle
for Insurance!

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 49,
Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit yes
terday gave complete confirmation of
the need of the demand of the Ma
tional Campaign Committee for Un-
employment Insurance. To be sure,
Murphy did not intend anything of
the sort. Murphy spoke before the
Progressive Conference" here. But
he declared that IF the federal gov
ernment won't help our American
cities, we're sunk" because of the
strain on the city treasures of even
the slight amounts of relief and
emergency work given the jobless.
Murphy won his election by cam
paign promises that he would feed
all the jobless," etc. His weak, inef-
fective scheme went bankrupt months
ago.
1t is certain that the cities are not
making more than casual efforts for
the jobless. The cities have not cut
the wage of single overpaid polit-
ical officer, as demanded by the
councils of the unemployed. They
have not turned over to jobless re-
lief cent of the money appropriated
for the bloated bankers and bond
holders, as demanded by the jobless.
They have not cut down on single
appropriation for police; instead,
they have increased such appropria-
tions. They give the jobless only
what money is lying around, and
only then when powerful mass dem
onstrations force them to do so.
And, even SO, Mayor Murphy says
the cities are going broke and inti-
mates that unless federal aid is pro-
vided there will be no relief at all.
Continue the battle for unemploy-
ment insurance! Make the next few
weeks periods Of intense organiza-
ton of unemployed councils and of
the militant unions. Days of even
more terrible starvation are right
ahead! And only organized power
can force the rulers of this country
to feed the jobless.
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

spoils Of war, counting millions Of
dead workers, and millions of prof
its for the bosses. new colonies, new
markets. Today they went more into
details. They talked about railroads
How much swag would the railroad
bosses make in the war.
Daniel willard, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. testified
Willard made money in the last war.
He is against government control of
railroads in war time. He said that
the railroads should be allowed to
help in war under the control of
the capitalists who own them indi-
vidually, instead of under the coll
lective control Of the capitalists, as
they did in the last World War. Will
lard said that it would make for a
better and bigger war. This would
not interfere with the war, even If
" comes today, Willard said
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
MASS PICKETING
AT JERSEY SHOP
MON. MORNING
Injunction Hearing in
Court Today

NEW YORK-The Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union calls upon
all workers to join in mass picket
demonstration before the jersey
Dress Co., 500 Seventh Ave, which
is trying to make permanent a dras-
tic injunction against picketing.
The injunction hearing which was
to be held yesterday in the Lafayette
and Center st. court is postponed to
this morning, at the same court.
Special sessions Judge Daniel F.
Murphy of Kings County yesterday
sentenced the worker Kellerman to
three months in prison after he had
been framed for an assault. The
charge was that three months ago
he threw rock at a scab.
Monday at 1870 pm. there will be
a meeting of all unemployed dress
makers at Bryant Hall.
Saturday at l pm. all tailors and
mems clothing workers meet at un-
ion headquarters, 1873 West 2Sth st.
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
Jobless Worker Tries To Kill
Wife and 4 Small Children

DENVER, March 13.-Driven tc
desperation by the loss of $14 q
week job on which his family was
barely able to starve through and un-
able to bear the thought of his wife
and four children starving to death,
Orville Swinney, % years old. 1920 E.
Sixth Avenue, plotted to blot out his
family and then kill himself early
Tuesday afternoon, according to the
admission Of the police.
Having reluctantly made his de-
cision, Swinney proceeded to sharpen
knife to razor edge in order to
make the deaths he planned as mer-
ciful as possible.
The fact that his wife and children
were out at the time together with
Swinney's revelation Of his plans to a
neighbor was all that prevented SWIM
ney carrying out his plans. The
neighbor spread the alarm. The boss
police came around and arrested
Swinney before his family could re-
turn. The same police would have
clubbed Swinney and his entire FAM
lily had they been In demonstration
to protest against the bosses starva-
ton system.
Even the boss press which regularly
hides tho misery Of the masses was
not able to kill this story. The Den
yer Post reported It with q huge
double column front page scream
headline: Desperate Man Arrested
as He Sharpens Knife to Kill Family"
The news was too sensational for the
boss press to miss. 1t would help the
circulation, help sell their poison
among the workers.
The boss press, however. does not
say a word about the misery in which
the Swinney family was forced to ex-
ist on that paltry $14 week, does
not mention that Swinney was unable
to provide milk and other necessi-
ties for his children. who range in
age from 2 to 7. They were never
able to get square meal, going to bed
hungry many night because $l4 a
week was not able to pay rent, buy
clothes and provide necessary food
for > family oss --------
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
DEMAND FILIPINO
FREEDOM AT MEET

NEW YORK.--A broad mass Fill
pino organization to fight against i'm
perialism in the islands, and for the
protection of the Filipino workers and
farmers in this country will be estab-
lished at a mass meeting on Filipino
freedom to be held Sunday. March
Is, at 7:3o p. m, at 1888 Columbia
ST., Brooklyn.
The following speakers will touch
on the present struggle in the Philip
pines and in other colonies. as well
as how to struggle against imper-
ialisrn: M. M. Audience, chairman;
G. Conception, P. r. Sajona, Albert
Moreau, H. Lopez and H. Cannes. AL
Filipino and American workers in
terested in struggle against imper-
ialism are invited to attend.
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

Losing the $l4 week job, Swinney
had vainly hunted other employment
had vainly applied to the bosses fake
relief organizations. At last, uttery
desperate and not realizing that sui
eide is not the way that workers
should meet the onslaught of the
bosses, he decided to kill his loved
ones and himself.
There are many other families in
as dire straits as the Swinney fami-
ly. A $14 a week sop for this starv-
ing family won't relieve the misery
OF the unemployed millions. Workers!
Don't stand for it! Organize and fight
for relief and insurance.! Build un-
employed councils! Refuse to starve
while the bosses and their families
wallow in luxury on the wealth your
sweat and blood have produced!
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

hall at 8 o'clock, when the city
council meeting was scheduled
to take place.
The Workers Committee,
composed of two mill workers,
two painters, woman mill worker
and Negro worker, who had been
elected at two mass meetings called
By the Unemployed Council of the
Trade Union Unity League, arrived
promptly at 8 o'clock to present de-
mands for cash relief and make
other demands on the city. No
lights were lighted in the city coun-
Gil meeting room, but the committee
was informed the council had met
and adjourned. Three of the coun-
cilmen were seen sneaking around
the corner.
The committee will report at the
third mass meeting called by the
Unemployed Council of Greenville on
Monday, March 16, at the Perry Ave
Show Grounds, on the scare thrown
into the city council, and their re-
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIyEl
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

lllc OlnCcO Ml1lC WOIhSIS VI fa1llCI :
lea and is outlawed by the officials.
Rely On Flag.
About $50 mass pickets marched
from Coello mine and from johnson
City No. 10 mine, or came in their
wornout cars, and assembled for
mass picketing at Pershing Mine
No. Is. The members of the Amer
ican Legion took the lead, carrying
a large American flag. They had
convinced the bulk Of the miners
that if they carried the stars and
stripes. and did not belong to the
National Miners Union, they would
not be attacked.
They were met by the deputies and
menaeed with sawed-off shot guns,
machine guns and pistols. They had
shots fired over them and were mer-
cilessly dubbed. Twenty men were
beaten up very severely. One of the
pickets beaten up was a deputy
sheriff at the time of the strike of
the National Miners Union in Coello
in December, 1919.
Smash Cars, Too.
After smashing the picket line the
police, who had remained on the
read, rushed down to the miners
cars and wrecked everything they
could, kicking in the windshields and
smashing the headlights and tearing
the doors out of the cars.
Afterwards these same police told
miners they saw that the deputies
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
TO PROTEST TER
ROR WE'D. NIGHT
Expose Role of Men
sheviks

NEW YORK.--The savage attacks
on Charles Coder, secretary of the
Communist arty at Dallas. Texas, and
Louis Hurst, organizer of the Trade
Union Unity League, also at Dallas
by sheriff's mob will be exposed
and condemned at the meeting called
by the Communist Party at the Cen
trail Opera House, 9th st. and 3rd
Ave, on Wednesday, March 18, at
o'clock.
This unlooSing of savage attacks
upon white workers in the South who
are fighting for equal rights for the
Negro workers is part of the whole
campaign Of the capitalists and the
government of this country against
the working class as whole, and in
preparation for war against the Soviet
Union.
This is in line with the persecution
and threatened deportation OF mill
tant workers, such as Yokinen, Serio,
Murdock, Devine, Bebrits, Burkman,
ETC., as part Of the campaign to
divide the Negro and white workers,
the native and foreign born.
The role OF Hillqtit, Thomas and
Co.. Menshevik conspirators against
the working class and plotters against
the Soviet Union through Abramo-
uch, who toured the United States
last year and collected funds for or
ganizing sabotage In the Soviet Union,
as step toward military interven-
ton by the irnperialist powers, will
also be exposed.
Negro and white workers, attend
this meeting and demonstrate against
the imperiahst United States gov
ernment and its agents, the fascist
American Federation Of Labor lead
ers and the socialist party. Bring
along your shop mates. Followers Of
the socialist party who, at last, have
had their eyes opened by these foul
acts of the socialist party must not
fail to attend and participate with
the revolutionary workers in denounc-
ng the acts. Of sabotage of American
imperialism and It, lackie& ~,
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

nent he was threatened with beat
nigs and violence. Then at midnight
Watkins was secretly taken out of
the Wheeling Jail for a ride by de-
tectives, two of whom are definitely
known to be George Gasten and
Sam Moran. Watkins was beaten
and blackjacked in the car and put
out at the Bridgeport-Island Bridge.
The dicks were going to throw Wat
kins into the Ohio River, but his
screaming attracted the attention of
several passersby and the dicks fled,
leaving Watkins lying on the bridge.
After Watkins was out of Jail for
a few days he was again threatened
by Sam Moran, while walking down
Main st. This notorious dick, Mo-
ran, stopped Watkins and Stovall,
another unemployed council member
and Negro worker, and threatened
again to shoot both of them If they
were seen at the unemployed council
headquarters, 1851 Market st.
negro workers are stopped by cops
and dicks in open daylight on the
streets of Wheeling, searched and or
dered to "get to hell out of town" +"
The local and county jails are full of
unemployed workers, particularly Ne
groes, who are framed UP on va
grancy charges.
The Trade Union Unity League and
the international Labor Defense are
planning a big protest mass meeting,
III order to arouse mass sentiment
against this reign of terror directed
at both Negro and white workers.
Apple sellers here make about IS
cents day, and have to buy their
apples through Mayor Beckett, and
pay pay, way way above s,ao wsols ssle Prices or
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
100 Armed Thugs Brutality
Assault Miners Picket Line.
Rank and File Outlaw Strike In CoeIo, ILL.,, Against Wage
Cut, Unemployment Thought Carrying American
Flag Would Save Them

COELLO, Ill., March 13-The miners in
the Old Ben Coal Corporation are on strike in
Franklin and Williamson Counties, striking
against wage-cut and for division of work
On March 8, bloody encounter took place
when the peaceful pckets meessy assaulted by 100
armed thugs deputzed gnmen and guards by Sheriff
Robinson who took the place of the notorious Sheriff Pchard
in the last election
This strike is in the hands of rank and file members of
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
SOVIET CONGRESS
CLOSES SESSIONS
Wire BY Inprecorr)

MOSCOW, March 13.-The Sixth
Soviet Congress, now in session, un-
animouSly adopted a resolution ap-
proving the governments activities,
and instructs the government a re-
solution approving the governments
activities, and instructs the govern
ment to continue the peace policy,
to consolidate and extend trade re-
lations with other countries, to con-
solidate the defensive capacities of
the Soviet Union, to diminish i'm
ports from countries committing
hostile acts against the Soviet
Union.
In the closing speech Comrade Mo-
lotoff promised to diminish imports
from countries hindering Soviet ex-
ports.
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
HIT FAKERS AT
ESTIMATE BOARD
Demand Real Relief
for Jobless

NEW YORK.--With over million
unemployed workers and their farni-
hes existing in utter misery and
starvation in the richest city In the
world, the Board Of Estimate, backed
by the charity racketeers and the
socialist party takers, Thomas and
Hilouit, yesterday side-tracked the
proposals of committee from the
Unemployed Councils for real relief
and insurance and talked instead OF
appropriating $l0,000,000 to be used
by the Prosser Committee to pay
salaries to its officials and fake ''re-
lief" by giving part time jobs at
starvation wages to some $4,000 OF
the city's million jobless.
Lawson Purdy, general director Of
the Charity Organization, admitted
that conditions were "the worst he
had seen in his 81 years of charity
work." but had nothing to offer but
fake relief and hunger rations for
the unemployed.
Rev. Norman Thomas and Morris
Hilquit, leaders of the treacherous
socialist party, fully supported the
manouvers of the bosses to shelve
the question of real relief and to
use the existence of the army Of un-
employed to further attack the
standard of living of the working
class.
In order to cover up their betrayal
of the workers, they put up re-
quest for $25,OO0,000 to be dispensed
at the rate of $5,oo0,0OO month, or
SO cents per jobless If it were dis
pensed pro rata to the unemployed
million in the city.
Sadie Van veen, as spokesman for
a. committee of seven from the Un-
employed Council, asked for the
floor and was refused. She then
took the floor and denounced the
fake "relief" measures, demanding
SIS week for every unemployed
worker, with SIS extra for dependents,
no evictions Of unemployed. no wage
cuts. no stagger. plan. -