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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair today;
warmer this afternoon and tonight; to-
morrow mostly cloudy, possibly light
rain; colder tomorrow afternoon or
night.
Maryland-Fair today; rising tenn
perature this afternoon and tonight;
tomorrow cloudy, possibly light rain;
colder tomorrow afternoon or night.
Virginia-Fair with slowly rising tenn
perature in extreme north portion to-
day; tomorrow mostly cloudy, possibly
light rain and somewhat colder in in
terror.
West Virginia-Increasing cloudiness
and slightly warmer today, probably
followed by light rain tonight or to-
morrow; colder tomorrow.
Record for "a Hours.
Observation-Disclosures 80; 2 am
"a; 4 am, 80; 6 am, 80: 8 am, 80:
10 am, 81; IL noon, AZ; 2 pm, as;
4 pm, 49; 6 pm, 46; pm, AZ; 10
pm, SO.
Highest, 81. Lowest, 81.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, SO; lowest, II.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today-Low tide, 6:44 am. and 7:20
pm; high tide, 1905 am. and 1924
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 7:19 am. and
$40 pm; high tide, 12:49 am. and
1921 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose 7:21 am; sun sets
5:21 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 1921 am: sun
sets 5:22 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather I'm Various Cities.
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United States Marine Band and Her
man Fakier will sing.
Friday morning, Secretary Hurley,
Representative Douglas, Democrat, OF
Arizona; Representative Fish, Repub-
lican, of New York, and Senator Rob-
inson, Republican, of Indiana, viii
speak.
will Visit White House.
President Hoover will receive the
delegates at the White House at noon
on Friday. That afternoon, Col. Charles
Burton Robbins, former Assistant Sec
rotary Of War; Assistant Secretary OF
War r. Trubee Dawson, Rear Admiral
William A. Moffett and Mrs 0. d.
Oliphant of Trenton, N. j.. who organ
ized the conference six years ago, will
address the convention.
On Friday evening at 1880 o'clock the
dinner of the conference will be held
at the willard Hotel.
Saturday mornings session will tea-
ture an address by Senator Reed, Re-
publican, of Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
women WILL MEET
ON DEFENSE PLANS
Patriotic Conference to Open
Session Here on Thurs
day Night.

Treading almost on the heels of
organized women who seek to Danish
war by ascertaining its causes and cure.
a group of women'S organizations, in
SiSting that America look to adequate
national defense, will initiate a three
day meeting here on Thursday. Prom
inent speakers will address the sessions
OF the Women's Patriotic Conference on
National Defense, representing 40 ma
tional women's patriotic groups ths! will
summon some 600 delegates from all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
MAIN STREET DEFENDED

Chesterton Would Not Have
Awarded Lewis Nobel Prize.
ST. LOUIS, January "a (P).--Gilbert
K. CheSterton today came to the de-
Tense of Americas Main street.
IT think 1t is extremely unfortunate
so many people should form their idea
of the Middle West from disgruntled
writer such as Sinclair Lewis" he said.
An Englishman sees many good things
in your small cities that do not exist in
his own country. A sort of social equal
ity, for instance, is taken for granted
in America"
The British essayist, poet and writer
OF mystery thrillers. now on q tour Of
america, said Il should never have
given the Nobel award to Lewis. Surely
Edith Wharton, for one, is far greater
artist"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

1t would be dismissed and the book
declared printable.
Levine said he paid Miller between
81 500 and $4,000 to have the case
thrown out of court. but quoted Miller
as saying Simpson demanded $4,000
to dismiss the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

Joseph Milton, aged rs, of Bedford,
England. says he has not drunk water
for so years and has never been III in
his life.
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walsh and o.NeiI 70 Speak.

In the forefront of the speakers will
be Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts. and Ralph T. O'Neill. national
commander of the American Legion,
who will speak on national defense at
the opening meeting on Thursday night.
Mrs. Hoyal, Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart,
president general of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, and Mrs.
Virgil Mcclure, national president Of
the American War Mothers, will speak
briefly. Music will be furnished by the
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corners of the land, to meet at Memo
rial Continental Hail. A great public
gathering, to be held on Thursday
night in Constitution Hall, will be out
standing on the program.
Delegates will start to register at
Memorial Continental Hall, national
headquarters Of the Daughters CT the
American Revolution, on Thursday
morning, but Mrs. Robert L. Hoyal of
Arizona, the national president Of the
American Legion Auxiliary, who is
chairman of the conference, will have
her headquarters at the Washington
Hotel, with the State presidents and
executive committeewomen Of her
group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
PAYROLL CUT CONTINUED
Gov. Bryan Slashes Away at Ne
braska Expenditures.

LINCOLN, Nebr., January "a P),-
Gov. Charles w. Bryan continued slash
ing away at the State pay roll today.
1.-The Commoner's" brother abolished
II State positions, effecting an annual
saving of $4,000.
Yesterday the Governor slashed of
$21 900 from the pay roll.
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in one solid front and throw back this wave of
terror. They must stand together and refuse
to permit their ranks TO be divided-one of the
main purposes OF cry of Grape and ALL at
tacks on Negroes by the murder agencies of
American capitalism and its HOover-WalI Street
government,
1t means that the Scottsboro case and the
struggle against the whole hunger and terror
program of the Southern ruling class must be
placed in the very center of the strike of Negro
and white miners in Kentucky and the unity OF
the white and black workers and exploited farm
ers welded in q huge mass struggle against
Southern terrorism. 1t means a struggle for the
elementary rights of all workers, Negro and
white, to organize, meet, strike, q struggle for
free speech and free assemblage, a struggle
against the whole starvation and war program
of American Imperialism which, in the Black
Belt, uses as one of its main weapons of oppres-
sion wholesale secret and open murder and or
ganized lynching of Negroes.
The masses in the industries and the millions
OF unemployed thrown on the streets to starve
will settle this issuel Millions of workers can
and must be set in motion! The fight to save
these sons of our people is the fight of the white
working class as well as those Of the Negro
masses. 1t is the fight against the common OPP
pressor.
The efforts made so far to save the lives and
liberties Of the nine Scottsboro boys have not
been strong enough. Ten times bigger demon
STATIONS must be organized.
In every city and town-organize and call out
the masses of workers to demonstrate their de-
termination to save these nine innocent boys.
Hold your mass demonstrations, your mass
meetings. Send your protests by telegram to the
Alabama Supreme Court at Montgomery, Ala
bama But do not fool pourselves-the bosses
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forms only for the purpose Of aiding the legal
lynching of the boys. The purpose will be to
quiet down and pacify the many hundreds Of
thousands Of Negroes and of black and white
workers who have been aroused by the Com
munist Party, the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights and the International Labor Defense to
protest against this intended murder of innocent
children. The court will consider whether or
not it will pay the landlords and capitalists OF
the South to go straight ahead and murder these
boys in defiance Of the aroused anger Of the
masses, or whether it would be better policy to
hold off this cold-booded butchery SO as to avoid
arousing the masses to further fury,
VIII the nine innocent Negro boys be burned
to death on the electric chair? VIII the lynch
ers' court at Montgomery declare on January IS
that the nine innocent boys must be burned to
death on the electric chair?
This is the question to be answered, not by the
Court of Lynchers, but by the toiling masses of
black and white men and women and youth who
have the power to save them. The answer will
be given, and the decision really made by the
degree of the militancy and courage of the over
whelming numbers of toilers who will come into
the streets to show their anger against this
beastlys butchery.
To save these innocent boys means especially
to mobilize the masses of white workers and
working farmers against the white ruling class
which is committing the murder!
1t means to arouse the Negro and white masses
against the wave of bloody terror now sweeping
through the South. 1t means fighting with the
greatest courage and energy against the whole
sale lynching that is splitting the blood of work
ing people for the benefit of the parasite class
1t means really sunmoning the masses of white
workers, together with the Negro masses, to stand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
January 10 Is Last Date for Daily Worker bee Get Subscriptions
HUNGER STRIKE DECLARED BY
P0LITICALS IN POLISH PRISONS

acts Of violence against the reYoIu-
tionary worker peasant prisoners.
From all the prisons-from Luck,
RaWicz, Jemberg, Lublin, Piotrkow,
Grodno, Wronek and many others
there constantly filters out fearful
news. Mass tortuing Of political
prisoners by means learned from the
Luck torture chambers; throwing po-
litical prisoners into cells with GRIM
NAL prisoners, who have previously
been bribed ar encouraged by the
prison administration to perform
bloody attacks on political prisoners;
depriying them Of their food COM
munes; Of their own clothing; de-
priving them Of and i'll some in
stances destroying. as in wilma,
burning, their libraries-these and
other acts OF violence were lately
crowned by the edict Of the minister
Of justice relating to abolshing the
category of political prisoners and
placing them on a par with criminal
prisoners.
Tormenting Of revolutionary work
er-peasant prisoners, instituted al
ready by the infamous Peoples
Government" Of the P. P. S. Polish
Socialist Party, continued steadily
ever since with the participation and
support Of this as well as other bour-
geois parties. is being constantly
sharpened in proportion to the in
creased general attack Of fascis1n on
the Working-class Today this prison
horror is already appearing unequi-
vocally as a planned system of ex-
terminating the best revolutionary
forces of the proIetariat and the
peasantry, and the representatives of
the emancipation moment Of the
enslaved national minorities. Raising
our voices in protest against the
growing barbarous wave of prison
terror, we call upon all those who do
not agree with the methods Of the
prison thugs, to join us in this pro-
test.
StanisIaus Biczysko. Vladyslaus
Broniewski, J. Buke, Alexander Dan,
J. Deutscher, K. Doczkal, A. Stawar,
L. Walinsd, Alexander Wat, Adam
Way, Julius Wit, S. wygodzd, 7.
Hanover.
From the West Ukrainian writer's
group "Horno:" M. CzawImy-Buc-
zynski, D. Dragan, J. Galan, Alex.
Hawrzylek, K. Jazan-Krawczuk, j
Kondra, f. Kozlanink, W. LanysEi-
Dhytryn, W. Myzynec-Matczuk, s.
Maslak Prague), R. skarzynski, 8.
Tudor Oleksink, J. Wokula.
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comrades then began the hunger
strike.
The women political prisoners III
the various prisons of Poland are also
beingtreated brutally, and even more
brutally. The comrades from the
women's prison Serbia" in Warsaw
write among other things, as follows:
Lately the situation here has
sharpened. During the week we were
five times deprived of our walk for
indecent behavior during the walk
Comrade Kaplan was published by
isolation for answering the chief
Iatlor that we we're behaving decently
In the library-new chicsnery. Up
until now we we're able TO place a
book back into circulation the same
day that it was returned to the IL
brary, This week they took those
books away for inspection. This
greatly interferes with our studies
as the most necessary books are being
held in the library. This is an at
tack aiming to completely deprive US
Of our library.
Warsaw September, 1881,
The Influence of the Church on
the New Prison Regulations
The new prison regulations, which
place the political prisoners on a par
with the criminal prisoners, goes into
effect on october /. Article LOG pro-
VideS: 6, at a given time in the
morning the PRISONER arises, washes
himself, cleans up his cell, takes out
the night pan and cleans it properly,
and then at given signal all the
prisoners say the prayers of their
faith under the supervision of the
prison guards" In the evening
evening prayers are to be said. In the
prison schools, teaching Of religion
occupies first place. The prison chap
plain has the right to arrange rel
| lg1ouS talks etc. and in this manner
exert influence upon the prisoners.
On his satisfaction" with the pris-
oner depends the treatment of the
prisoner by the prison authorities.
The new prison regulations open for
the priest wide field for activity,
and all kinds of chicanery. The fas-
cist government not only tortures the
political prisoners physically; it is at
tempting to institute a new system of
moral torture.
Polish and Ukrainian Protest Against
Enforcement Of Fascist Prison
Regulations
Polish prisons have lately become
the terraine Of increasingly horrible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Unite TO Free 9 Innocent Sc0ttSbOr0 Boys!
Smash the Murder Terror IN the Soulful

court is the lynchers friend Use every meeting
and demonstration to rally masses for bigger and
wider demonstrations against this bloody muir
der Of the nine innocent boys.
We demand the immediate release Of the nine
innocent Negro boys framed up in Scottsboro.
Wedemand the immediate release of all VIC
TINS of the white ruling class courts-the release
of orphan Jones and George Davis in Maryland
Willie Peterson in Birmingham John Moore at
Winston-Salem, the Negro and white coal miners
in Kentucky, Mooney and Billings, and the In
perial Valley prisonersl
Down with the bosses lynch justice
Negro and white workers and fsrmersl Unite
for mass defense against the bosses terrorI
Death to lynchers!
White and Negro workers and farmersl Pre-
vent the disarming Of Negroes by the bosses po-
lice and sheriffs to make them easy victims for
Swindling landlords and lynch gsngsl Defend
the right OF Negroes to keep and bear arms"
in defense against the bosses lynchers!
Workers and exploited farmers black and
white, join together in the fight against wage
cuts and unemployment, against the robbery Of
the laboring farmers and against lynching and
frame-up.
Fight for equal rights for Negroes! For the
right of self determination of the Negro masses
in the Black Belt.
We demand the confiscation Of the land OF
the rich white landlords in the Black Belt, for
the benefit Of the Negro tenant farmers and
laborers.
Workers and farmers, black and wtitel Fight
for the immediate release of the nine innocent
Negro boys whom the bosses plan to murder in
Alabama
Down with lynchingl Death to lynchers!
Smash the new drive of murder terror against
Negroes! Cement the fighting unity Of the white
and Negro toilers throughout the United States
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lists. Take the case of married wo-
men. The Evening Express, a Roth
ermere Qike our Hearst) paper de-
clared that of 10000 cases, 10000 of
them were declared not deserving of
unemployment relief. This is just
the beginning of a report that will
effect hundreds of thousands of job
less workers. All this is done in the
name of economy.
JObIess Movement Grows.
A word on the activities of the
Communist Party 1t is increasing
its strength rapidly, having doubled
its membership in the last three
months. The Party has organized
Tenant Councils, which have been
resisting evictions. The Tenant
Councils fought evictions along an
entire street, the struggle involving
over 300 families.
The London Tenants are being Or
ganized to fight for a 25 per cent re-
duction in rent. Ten thousands
families have pledged to carry on
this fight, The unemployed move
ment has about 10000 paying mem
bers, There are 100000 all told in
the movement.
Robert Julien Kenton.
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R { D CANDIDATE
ASSAILS CIT Y
HUNGER PROGRAM
Ford Appears Before
Cleveland Commits
sion and Demands
Relief

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. GA
terrific indictment Of the mass star
walton and lack Of relief for unem-
ployed workers in this city was de-
liyered before the Cleveland City
Unemployment Commission, Dec. %,
by I. Q. Ford, Communist candidate
for mayor.
Ford quoted the figures of the AS
ISOLATED Charities and the Jewish
Social Service to show that no relief
whatever was given this year to two
thirds of C1eveland's 10000 destitute
families.
He told of the accumulation of
100000 in the Community Fund, by
picking pennies from the pockets Of
those who still have jobs, and cited
the funds directors as saying that
only fourth of this was scheduled
for the jobless He showed how the
big overhead, fine salaries paid the
administrators for this amount, cut
down the actual fund for relief TO
unemployed to about million, or
less than s8 per individual jobless
worker, for the year of 1882.
Children Faint
Ford gave medical statistics to
show that the number of under
nourished school children living a life
of tragedy, frequently fainting at
their classes in school, had increased
from SO per cent of the total in
1e28-29 to 9.8 per cent In 193o-31.
The Communist candidate told Of
the merciless eviction program of
Cleveland landlords and courts 4o84
in 1929, and TITS in the first ten
months Of 1881.
The bosses and the city govern
nlents do nothing or practically
nothing for the starving unemployed
The Communist Party election cam
paign is for immediate cash relief
from the city of $50 for each jobless
worker ana $50 more for each de-
pendant, and for weekly payments
from the city of SIS week to each
unemployed worker pending passage
OF the national Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill.
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YOUNG PLAN Is
PROVING BLOW
TO CAPITALISM

NEW YORK.-Another blow to
world capitalism was contained in
the report Of the Young Plan adj
visory committees which met recently
in Basic, Switzerland. This group of
banking experts from the leading i'm
perialist countries openly stated that
all Of the big powers are faced with
financial collapse as the result of a
break down of the Young Plan and
war debt payments in the setting OF
the world economic crisis. They pro-
posed an international conference to
revise the Young Plan and put
greater burdens on the workers, not
only in Germany, but in all capitalist
countries.
One section of the Basic report said
that of 18ooo,ooo,00o marks borrowed
by the German capitalists 100000, :
900 were used to pay reparations.
The problems of the present crisis,
the experts admit, are without par
allel" for the capitalists.
SO Per Cent of q. s. Workers
Unemployed or on Part Time
In the United States the depth TO
which the economic crisis has sunk
and its effects OH the workers is
shown by the enormous increase in
unemployment. The National In
dustrial Conference Board in re-
port issued on December 9th said
that only 14.4 per cent of the
workers in the United States were
fully employed. The rest were
either totally without work on a
rart-time basis.
Even the capitalists and their gov
eminent officials are beginning to
see the difficulties OF fooling the
workers in the present crisis as to
the nature OF capitalism. "One of
economic systems weaknesses is the
Recommendation of wealth in the
hands Of few individuals" said Sec
rotary Of War Hurley. His remedy is
to continue this concentration but to
cover it Up by more subtle means,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
by a Worker Correspondent

CoNTONAGON, Mich.--Last fall a
state police station was established
al Houghton, Mich, on highway
number 2e. This was done supposedly
TO arrest drunken drivers. These
police who are in reality copper
trust police to terrorize the travellers
and also the workers and farmers
throughout Ontanagon, Baraga and
Houghton counties. If your car
headlight burns out on the road, they
tine you four or five dollars without
hesitating.
on Dec. is, $50 farmers and I'M
employed workers marched to the
ontonagon county courthouse where
the SUPERVISORS meeting was being
he'd. They forced the county off,
cials to grant a is d. "layoff" to
the sheriff's sale of Fred Saubsrt's
farm. This was the third demonstra-
tion against farm fore closures. The
state police wore present each time,
hut this time the farmers we're more
militant than before and enthusiasts
nc over the victory. The speakers
exposed the sheriff and his body
guard, the state police.
After the farmers and workers
marched out of the courthouse the
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conditions carefully.
Prices Increase.
With the introduction Of the new
tariff bill the prices OF food stuffs
and other necessary goods for the
masses have increased. Conditions
are utterly appalling. The peoples
faces are pinched; they look hungry;
they wear clothes so shabby that one
wonders how they can keep warm.
The average wage is now 81 to So per
week.
Money buys much less than for
merly. Prices before the present
price ris- were 40 per cent above
pre-war. Another significant feat
ure is the great number of prosti-
tutes, women neatly but shabbily
dressed soliciting men on the streets
for a shilling.
Gain In Unemployment.
Unemployment has been increasing
rather rapidly The joker is this
the official list consists of only those
who are legally entitled to some form
of government relief. The thing that
has happened is this: the govern
ment as a result of the Anomalies
Bill and the Means Test has been
striking scores Of thousands from the
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war funds for the starving millions
of unemployed workers and bankrupt
poor farmers! Demand Unemploy-
ment insurance.
Japan Calls For Speed In Partition
ing China
That the war in Manchuria is the
gateway to armed intervention
against the Soviet Union and for the
partition Of China with a war of ex-
termination against the Central
Chinese Soviet Government and the
tremendous mass anti-imperialist
anti-Kuomintang upsurge throughout
China is shown in the further state
ment from Hallett Attends dispatch,
Japanese civilian and military
leaders in affairs are quite frank
in declaring their belief that the
time is rapidly approaching when
the great powers will have TO take
action In China itself similar to
the action which Japan is now talk
ing in the Manchurian Provinces"
Negro Reformists Support Murder of
Chinese Masses
This frank invitation Of the Ash
attic imperialists to the European and
American imperialists to join in the
immediate partition and dsmember-
ment of China is a smashing answer
to the illusions being spread among
the Negro masses by the Negro re-
formists to the effect that Japan by
shooting down Chinese workers and
peasants is protecting" China a.
gainst the white imperailists!