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INJUNCTION AGAINST
SALE OF HOME ASKED

Charging that John D. Howard and
Charles S. Shreve, 1922 Connecticut
avenue, as trustees under a deed of
trust, were threatening to sell her home
next Monday at public auction, Mrs.
Gertrude Clark, 2703 Bladensburg road
northeast. filed an injunction suit
against them yesterday in the District
Supreme Court.
Mrs. Clark claims there is only sos
interest due and that she offered to
pay this amount, but the trustees re-
fused to accept it and advertised the
properly for sale.
Through Attorney Godfrey L. Mum
ter, she asked the court that the de-
PENDANTS be temporarily and perma-
nently restrained from proceeding with
the sale. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat
ordered the defendants to appear in
court Monday to show cause why the
petition should not be granted.
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BROWN SENTENCED TO DIE

Benjamin A. Brown, colored, yester-
day was sentenced to die in the electric
chair next February 10 for the murder
last March 81 of his wife Alice. Sen
tence was pronounced by Justice F. D
Let's in Criminal Division Q.
1t was the first death sentence i'm
posed by Justice Let's since his ap-
pointment to the local bench. Brown
shot his wife at the home of neigh
Dor and later surrendered to police.
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BEGINS SIXTH YEAR

Peoples Congregational Church
marks this week the fifth anniversary
of the tenure of its minister, Rev. A..
F. Zines. Dean D. Butler Pratt of the
School of Religion, Howard University,
will present the anniversary sermon to-
morrow at IL O'Clock, speaking from
the topic, Experiencing Religion"
Anniversary church night with a
special fellowship feature will take place
Thursday at 8 o'clock.
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was named 70 arrange for the dinner.
The associations officers are: Elmer n.
Bailey machinist. president; William
McShea, plumber. vice president, and
N. j. Cunningham Of the cost account
ing section. secretary-treasurer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

ner to Lieut.. Col. q. 8. Grant. Sd, di-
rector of that governmental group. and
his staff of officers.
A number of matters of interest were
discussed at meeting in the Interior
Department cafeteria. and committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

WORD moon
burleSqued over
m u C h in I o
"mon," or the
of-stage singing
voice of the First
Fairy a trihe
uncertain, the
whole was never
theleSS as pleas
ing a produc-
ton of the
b ard S m o S t
comical bit of
D h a n t a y as
has been di-
vulged behind
the local foot
lights.
Man is but
an oec - niY0fh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

IL yOu AdNC
tears, prepare
to shed them
now" For in
side may be
found one Of
the most tear
full of the cur
re n t cinema
Sagas.
1.-THE Sin of
Madelon Clau-
Diet, which in
its grease-paint
version and as
p erf ormed by
Florence r e e d
was called THE
Lullaby" h a S
been built with
ON eve To the
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Stratford Players,
"a Midsummer Nights Dream"

THE Stratford Players last night
donned the mask of comedy
and before the largest of their
i local audiences, an audience
happily filled with large
groups of youngsters, played Master
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" And whether you
thought Puck a trif1e dark, or the
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surely be the next Speaker Of the
great House of Representatives. I
never did go in much for this
typical American stuff, but this fell
low in his career and his home life
will come pretty near living up to
what we think one is.
His only regret and this is no bull,
either. in going back to Washington
this time, is how he and his wife will
Texas famous soft-shell pecans. He
gave me some and I just found out
what a soft-shell pecan is. It's one
you can crack with just a small
hammer. When 1 got here he was
practicing with a gaVel
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1.-THE Mad Genius"
At the Metropolitan.

John BARRYMORE'S performance
as THE Mad Genius" at the
Metropolitan for a second week, is
super-example Of that gentleman
working in the manner which he
enjoys most. While the halo of
comedy Is said to sit above his head
at home, he prefers to be as agoniz-
ing as possible before the camera
and is rapidly assuming the hideous
masks and 6eformities which the
late Mr.. CLANCY used to advantage.
In his present Characterization he
is club-footed genius driven to de-
spair by the insane desire to do a
glorifled Metropolitan ballet "hatcha"
before an audience. Since, however,
nature has burdened him with a
groteSque and useless limb, he trans
fers his genius along these lines to
the feet OF young boy whom he
steers into the paths of dancing
virtue
At this point the story becomes
another "Svengali," and one may
watch the sinister influence of the
decaying genius envelope the boy
and then disappear at the sight of
a certain blush of love on the cheek
of Marion Marsh. For at the sight
of Miss Marsh the boy forgets the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
DINNER is PLANMD

The Supervisors Association Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks of the Ma
tional Capital is planning to give a din
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Bottom, Weaver, last night, and
the audience roared. Lord, what
fools these mortals be-" quoth some
kind of a fairy, and the audience
again roared. In fact, what between
the roars of the audience and the
roars of the lion, there was enough
noise to send the younger generation
home in haze of delight.
Outstanding, of course, in this
yarn of misplaced aft ,ction and the
disastrous effects that love potions
have when lovers insist on running
away from home and besporting
themselves in the forest, Is the
''tragicar comedy of Piramus and
Thisbe. The most famous example
of the Bard laughing up his sleeve
at actors and other mortals, this I'M
comfortable bit of burlesquerie is the
surest known laugh fire which was
produced in ripe old Queen BesS'
days. AS played last night by these
sturdy Stratford sons and daughters,
it seemed funnier than it has ever
seemed before.
Roy Byford as the rotund Bottom
uncomfortably sinking to the floor
in the well known death paroxysm
at the end Of the Pyramus TRACE
dy" is probably as comical sight
as the most precocious of the Marx
Brothers antics And, too, the ASS
head with which Titania fell in love
had more animal at" to 1t (through
the courtesy of revolving eyes and
rotating jaws and the sudden jack
in-the-box actions of the ears) than
many human prototype.
Recommended, too, among last
nights sterling performers were
Gyles Isham, a particularly smooth
spoken and handsomely bedecked
Oberon; the entire members Of the
union" brethren, particularly
Quince the carpenter with blue-rib-
bon honors to Mr.. (Byfor6 and the
various sons and lovers who stead
lastly refused to get into the
Shakespearean frenzy which so
often takes the joy out OF a hand
some production Of this kind. All
good-except for the fairies, who
were ladies far beyond the width
and teighth of such gossamer per-
sonages' E. de S. MELCHER.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders Of the Capitol Park Hotel Corpora
ensuing year will be held on Tuesday. De-
cember 8. 1881, at the hotel North Capitol
and streets, at 7:45 o'clock pm. The
Der and 8. 1881.
EDWARD L. HILLYER. Secretary.
CHAIRS FOR RENT. SUITABLE FOR
BRIDGE PARTIES, banquets, weddings and
meetings, 10c up per day each; new chairs.
Also invalid rolling chairs for rent or sale
UNITED STATES STORAGE CO.. 4lS 10th
gt. NV. Metropolitan 1874
WINETH FARM ORCHARDS.
Five miles from d. C. line on Ga. ave.
pike. Stayman, Winesnp and York I'm
perial apples, 75c per bu. in bu lots only.
Sweet Cider, Csc per gal. Bring containers.
i z Weisman. nrnnnrifnr %
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y - ~ : =
town. Flew in
here from the
King Ranch to
spend the after
noon with a man
you are going to
hear more of in
the next few
months t h a n
any man in
America, that's
just plain Jack
Garner, W h o
will aim o S t
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Helen Hayes in

Helen Hayes in
"The Sin Of Madelon Claudet."
THE relocated ballyhooers, who
cry their wares at the doors OF
the cinema theaters this week,
should stand in a line outside Loew's
Palace and chant one OF father
Shakespeare's well known lyrics:
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Will Rogers
Says:

NORTH UVALDE, Tex.-Here I
am in this beautiful little Western
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Diplomatic Duplicity

Every time someone brings up the question OF
relations between the Soviet Government and
the bunch of bandits at Washington, all the per-
triots raise their hands in horror claiming that
a Soviet legation would be simply terrible, sim
ply a center of red propaganda"
Yet what the capitalist governments do In
their legations, even against each other, is a
marvel to the uninitiated who think that "our"
diplomats are everything they're not "Com-
mercial attaches" in Shanghai, go out from the
U. S. legation with bags of tooth paste hair-ol
and sample sewing machines to convince the
modern" Chinese to trade with American firms
rather than "those blankety- blank British"
Military attaches go about with brazenness
derived from diplomatic immunity, carefully col
lecting all military information useful for this
country in of possible armed clash with
the country where they are.
The habit simply has no limits when Yankee
diplomat is giving orders to servile dictators of
Latin American countries. In Nicaragua the
u 8. minister gives President" Moncada his
orders in detail by phone. In Cuba, Ambas-
sador Guggenheim attends the cabinet meetings
of the thing that passes for government, Just
like he was the most important Cuban official
present, which, in fact, he is.
When General Cerro in Peru led the militarist
ship of Leguia, of Wall Streets pet lackeys,
the U. S. minister accidentally on a vaca-
ton. But Yankee imperialism was not without
friends at court One Yankee army officer went
out in plane to lombard the rebels for Leguia,
but got captured and the U. S. minister had to
bring pressure" to get him turned loose.
But while the minister was away, the Cuban
minister took up the good work, organizing
counter-revolt in the Cuban legation, in the
safety of diplomatic immunity, to overthrow the
new rebel government before it could get full
control The N. Y Times of Dec 26 says that:
"The plan to resist was discovered, by. DR..
Jesus Salazar, who informed Colonel Sanchez
Cerro of the Cuban minister's activities against
him and that Dr. Roura was using the Cuban
Legation as a place of gathering for friends of
former President Leguis."
DR.. Roura, the Cuban minister, tries out q
great alibi when Peru tells Cuba to take him
back where he came from. He says that he only
offered refuge to Salazar but that Salazar was
the one who plotted, all unknown to him. while
taking advantage of his hospitality in the lega-
ton. 1t sounds kind of thin, but diplomats
must say something Anyhow. 1t only illustrates
the fact that all capitalist legations are hotbeds
Of plotting and imperialist intrigue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
BY F. BROWN.

BY F. BROWN.
E THE recent Penum CT cur Party differentiated
itself from the Plenuns of the past, not only
by tne corcrete problems that were on the
agenda but also in the character Of the discus
sion end the methods Of work that were dis
cussed 1t is precisely this characteristic that
gave this Plenum its unusual importance In
regard to the practical program for the con-
tnretiz$ton Of the Partys work this Plenum
marked turning point.
Tho Plenum approached directly the immedi-
ate tasks of the Party pointed out the most
important practical concrete organizational
problenls On tie basis of the experiences
gained since the Seventh National Convention.
analyzed our weaknesses and pointed out the
Importance CT work that must be applied in Or
der to strengthen the Party Organization and
put the Party into the leadership of the daily
struggles of the working class. The analysis of
the economic and political situation, and the
political line of the Party which stressed the
necessity of turning to the masses concentrat-
ing in the shops, leading the everyday struggles
of the working class on the basis of concrete
immediate demands, were already laid down at
the last convention. The development of the
objective situation since the convention, shows
clearly the correctness Of the analysis of the
Party.
tf IN tflS SITUATION, repeutlon oil The p0luCdl
analysis made at the Plenum. would be only a
loss of precious time The situation shows us
clearly that task is to strengthen our efforts
in the line of leading the daily struggles of the
I working class, of winning the great masses of
workers to the revolutionary movement. 1t is
in this respect. on the basis of the experiences
since the convention, that our work must be-
come more concrete, that we must double our
efforts in concentrating our activity in the shops
factories. mines and mills applying vigorously the
new methods of work that we're already discussed
in part at the Cleveland and New York confer
ences which were in harmony with the line OF
the ECCI, and wherever applied in correct
manner gave good results, as proven especially
In the election campaign.
Comrade Kuusinen, speaking about our pro-
blems, stated very clearly the fundamental pro-
blem of our Party when he said I'm America
we have now very peculiar phenomenon so to
say.-an irreproachable Communist Party,
mail Communist Party, but one very well pre-
pared for battle On the other hand we have
great masses also ready for battle but the two
~ctors have apparently not found each other
ne Communist leadership is ready for battle,
the masses are there, but the chemical union
Is not yet here" This is exactly the fundamental
problem the plenum discussed n this Eight We
must discuss the tsnaansptsI psenlsma snep =
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A Hard Struggle
BY JORGE

A correspondent writes in from right here in
New York City. asking how he can find the
Communist Party. II sent worker" he says,
" so East 18th St. but he said he couldn't get
in, though that's the address I got from the
Daily. There's another address 125th St, but
it doesn't say if meetings are held there. How
does worker ever get into your Party?" 81
Well, it is apparently difficult. We have more
than one kick about how people are received
even when they manage to get the combination
and discover that the present entrance is on
18th Street, at No. IS East
Right here in the editorial room we have an
illustration of how difficult it is to break into
the Party. Way back in September before we
moved from Union Square, Comrade Ryan
Walker applied for membership. Months went
by. Inquiries were made. Finally about three
weeks and half ago, he got letter one evening
when he went home at p. m, telling him to
be at q East Fourth st. that day at 6 p m. and
get his card. ~
Joyfully and with trusting heart he rushed
down. but found no Sec. Org. there as promised
in the letter tentatively He though that was
his fault so he tried again; then again; and
still again, fearful that he might be expelled
for non-attendance before he could get joined
Never could he find anyone there who could
tell him how to get his card or when anyone
else would be there who might. The Section
Organizer says that there is always somebody
there" But Cornrade Walker can't seem to
find anybody so far. 3-
friend for years of his was In our office,
also telling of the hard struggle to join the
Party. A food worker, he had applied eight
months before. As months went by he felt that,
since he was no longer young he would like to
be Party member before he died. SO he came
down to the District Office couple of times
to find out what about It, t
Yes his application was located In the files.
But it hadn't been acted on" AT last reports
it is still reposing peacefully in the files and the
worker is still outside the Party.
This, of course, could be acted on" But when
we ventured to speak in jest about the District
Bureau "girding up its lons" one day, the whole
building shook with indignation and lot OF
time was devoted to acting upon Red Sparks.
Yet it still remains one of the most dificult
things for workers to crash through what seems
to be red" tape necessary to join the Commu-
mist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
BY HARRY CANNES.

+ EADING the predictions Of the leading bosses
Is and their economists at the beginning OF last
ar and viewing what really took place, gives
au the same feeling as sticking your finger
91wn your throat. Especially in view Of the
@ore than LOO bank crashes that have taken
ace during the year, with over billion dollars
volved Hoover's statement in his annual mes
ee delivered on Dec. 2, 1929, is a good sample
the whole lot "A strong position of the
9nks.7 said the imperiahst chief, has carried
e whole credit system through the crisis with
D it Impairment"
N is no impairment when all records for
nix failures are broken in 1880; or when about
100000 worker and farmer depositorS have
seir sweat-ccvered pennies robbed from them,
An Abiding Faith.
Hoover surpassed himself later on. we
all see. The guiding principle i'll the following
eanings from the mouths of the leading CAPT
lists, bankers and economists is not just or
nary lying. The capitalists with their abiding
4 it'll in the saundness Of capitalism, simply
ought crisis of the extent which the work
now feel on their backs was impossible.
ri have every confidence" said Andrew Mellon,
cretary of the treasury on Jan. ?. 1890 that
here will be a revival Of activity in the spring,
i'd that during the coming year the country will
axe steady progress
mot to be behind hand. William Green. preSi
sant of the A. F. of L., his pockets well-filled
I'D promises Of graft for the coming year as
Dundant as ever, told the workers the follow
ag: Recovery from the present recession may
expected ct al early date And what is more
lportant, as we look ahead to the future def
tie progress hes been made in controlling the
wn-swings OF the business cycle"
Green's Hot Potato
You see Green was not only confident of early
covery but he picks up the hot potato dropped
: Friday, Catchings Wadding, Foster and other
" economists who long before had decreed the
nd of economic crisis.
We will turn over q few more leaves Of last
: ears newspapers and CLEAN an assortment of
he bosses estimation OF the crisis. Then we
i'll see what happened.
Words of Wisdom.
PAUL WILLARD GARRETT. Financial Edi-
Or of the N Y Evening Pest: More certain there
i'll be definite turn early in 1850 from de-
lining to an expanding industrial flow.
LEWIS E. PERSON. Chairman of the Board.
wing Trust Co.: 1t should not be difficult to
,ad into the year 1880 substantial measure
Il the national prosperity We have enjoyed in
929.
.rsNrs7G Fisher. Professor of Economics,
7ivers.t7: Fort unateiy, the pledges Of the
If the nations business to maintain en-
at ard wages have been given and their
.rent will assure the continuity Of con-
kr purchasing power, will prevent business
5page and consequent danger Of depression.
DAVID FRIDAY. leading bourgeois economist:
The fact OF the matter is that a careful survey
shovs that there is nothing fundamentally wrong
With our Industrial and financial situation love
tone repeated t,lis). In this situation any re-
cessien in productive activity must be short
-ived sat.
LAURENCz II. SLOAN, vice-presidsnt Stand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
BY G. T. GRINKO

Peoples Commissar of Finance, u S. S. R.
XXI
THE farmers of America face catastrophe
within the immediate future, one that will
possibly equal that which befel the peasants of
England at the dawn of capitalism, when the
landlords wanted their lands for the develop
ment of sheep raising on large scale,
The prospects for the growth of the socialist
sector in Soviet agriculture open to the village
and the masses of peasants, are altogether differ
ent The state farms, the machine and tractor
stations, and the collective farms, are only the
vanguard on the glorious road to the technical
and socialist reconstruction of the great bulk
of small and middle peasant farms in the So
Wet Union. In the USSR. and there only, will
tn e transition toward large-scale mechanical
mechanical agriculture which is everywhere die
tated by modern technical progress be effected
not as a result of wholesale ruin of the peas
antry, but of an accord between the interests
of the poor and middle peasants and the OBJ
jectives of socialist development; and it will
bring about an unparalleled advance, in the
economic and cultural standards of the 1870 mil
lion people who now constitute the national
economy of the Soviet Union. 1t is, therefore, a
glaring absurdity to maintain that the develop
ment of the socialzed agricultural sector is an
attempt to draw line against the peasasntry,
violating the union of the proetariat with the
poor and middle groups. Far from weakening
the worker-peasant bloc, the development of the
socialized sector in agriculture marks the be-
ginning of its transition to a new and incon-
parably higher level. The class division between
the proletariat and the peasantry begins now to
be effaced; and the great process of overcoming
the historical opposition between city and coun-
try is definitely inaugurated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
WHAT THEY SAID AND
WHAT HAPPENED

ard Statistics Co. Zone of the leading statistical
bureaus in the United States: Assuredly no
business depression of any major Importance is
forecast on the basis of facts now known
Certainly the 100000 unemployed, shyering
in the streets or eating the sinking soup given
them on the bread lines, after reading these
glowing statements must pinch themselves to
get a feeling of reality
The Daily Worker space for the entire next
year would be too small to include the rest of
the quotations, all along the same line. Just
sentence more, from Samuel P. Arnot president
of the Chicago Board of Trade the grain pitt
on the agrarian situation: Generally speaking,
the whole agricultural outlook is bright"
Hoover Gets the Prize.
The prize, of course, for this type of essay,
easily goes to Hoover On March 7th he said:
All the evidence indicates that the worst eff
feet of the crash (stock markell upon employ
ment will have been passed during the next 60
days" Finding this incarnation insufficient to
end the crisis. early in May, when the death SEN
tence was supposed to have been carried out,
Hoover stated: Il am convinced we have now
passed the worst, and with the continued unity
of effort we shall rapidly recover"
There was one thread that is brightly woven
into every one of these whole-coth lies that
Hoover fabricated. Here is the way he put st
on several different occasions: 1--WE have had
substantial reductions in wages" The I'M
dertakings to maintain wages have been held"
How Wages Were Maintained.
So far as wages were concerned, the Standard
Statistics Co. in the latter part of Oct, said:
Because of wage cuts and part-time employ
ment. aggregate wages have declined from $44-
6070OO00O a year to $35, 754oOOO0O-a loss of
20 per cent" In other words they dropped near
ly nine billion dollars!
So far as the recovery" which was so boun-
tiously promised we find that the latest index
of business activity, published by the Annalist,
shows that business activity has dropped to the
lowest point since 1903. The Annalist index is
at rs compared to ITO, the high point of 1929.
In order to get an idea of just how low this is
we must compare the same index at the lowest
point in every crisis in the United States since
1885. Here is the result: