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The Washington times., 1931-08-17
100000 ASKED
. IN FILM SUIT

NEW YORK, Aug. II O.N.S0.
Mae Murray, heroine Of many reel
romances and a few real ones,
went to law today over the mat
ter of $500, 900.
The wife Of Prince Mdivani
claimed that was what should be
accruing to her from the profits
of Tiffany productions for eight
pictures she made for that con-
Germ and she went to supreme
court about it.
In papers filed today in connec-
ton with the suit, counsel for Miss
Murray sought to examine Charles
A. Specie, assistant treasurer Of
the producSs:a concern, and also
demand an accounting of profits.
The movie star entered into the
contract while she was the wife
of Robert z. Leonard, the director,
who was her third husband.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
BEAUTY To WE'D
WH|TEMAN

CHICAGO. Aug. II QN.S). .
Paul Whiteman, famous orches-
ira leader. and Margaret Livings-
ton, film beauty, were en- route
today to Denver, where they will
be married tomorrow afternoon.
Friends of the couple made
the announcement. The cere-
mony, a private one. will be per-
formed at the home of White
mans parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
berforce ]. Whiteman His
parents, his sister, and Mrs. Liv-
ingSton's sister and mother will
attend.
Whiteman, who recently di-
vorced Wanda Hoff, a dancer, has
been married three times.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
CATHOLICS SET
CHURCH GUARD

MEXICO CITY, Aug. II
1N.S0 Catholic at villacuau.
themoc, State of Vera Cruz, were
on guard at their parish church
today to prevent further efforts
to burn it. s-
Incendiaries entered the
church last night. Sprinkled gaso-
line in various places, and then
set fire to it. Only the prompt
arrival Of faithful churchmen
prevented the structure being
destroyed. IL
They alleged the incendiaries
were followers of Governor Te-
jeda, who recently ordered the
Catholic Church to comply with
the State law limiting the num-
Der of priests in the State to
one for each 100000 Of popula-
ton.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
FL|ERS To HUNT
FOR CRANER
Photo by International
NTNn0T IN

DETROIT, Aug. II GN.S0.
Two air mail pilots will take-off
sometime this week for Copen-
hagen, Denmark, over the route
followed by the missing Parker
Cramer.
The men are Edwin L. Preston,
and Robert Colignon, the latter
a radio expert. The flierS are
backed by the Commercial Com
panv that sponsored the Inflated
Cramer hop.
Air company officials declared
the Preston -Colignon flight was
to determine the feasibility Of an
air mail route over the northern
Atlantic. The aviators un-
doubtedly will search for Cramer.
Time of the hop-off is not re-
vealed.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
CONTEST SPURS
SLOGAN PENS

Slogans are coming in at the
rate of IS daily in the contest
sponsored by The Washington
Times, Ludington Air Line and
R-K-O-Keith's Theater. These
slogans answer, in Is words or
less, the question: why Fly-for
Business and Pleasure?"
Today'S winner is Mrs. A. s.
Dillinger, 615 Murray Ave-, Vir.
ginia Highlands, Va, who sub.
mitted the following:
"Air transportation enables
one to fulfill business or social
engagements economically and
in genuine comfort"
Winners in the daily contest,
If applying to the offices of the
Ludington line in the Washing.
ton Building. will get a night ride
over the city of Washington. At
the end of the contest a grand
prize winner will be selected for
free trip to New York city and
return. This is to be awarded
for the best slogan out of the
seven selected daily.
In conjunction with this con
test, the Ludington Line is releas.
ing daily from a plane sent UP
especially for the purpose, 20 toy
balloons with red tags attached
which, If found and taken to
R-K.O2Keith's Theater, entities
the finder to two guest tickets
to see "Dirigible," which is re-
ceiving its first Washington show
ing at that theater.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
.N.y.COMPAREDTOANTHILL
Cunnen Like Ants
People Just Howl,
Says Jurist

NEW YORK. Aug. IT. u.N.S)
Richard J. Hopkins, bone dry
Federal judge from Kansas, who
amazed the underworld, when he
handed Jack c'LegS") Diamond
the limit of the laws punishment
bade good-by to New York today
He enjoyed his five weeks or
the bench here, he said. but he
could not resist a parting shot
at the city's stand on law en-
forcement.
'New York reminds me Of
that silly Arkansas dog" he
said. "The hound sat on an
anthilI, bowling loud and long
because an ant had bitten him.
But he was too lazy to move
off the ant.hiII.
You New YOrkers are sitting
on an anthll crawling with
racketeers who defy yeur laws.
You howl about their defiance,
but you do nothing about IT,"
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
-Four Banks Closed
To Curb 'HysteriG

TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. II
UNS0 Toledo banks
failed to open their doors for
business today as directors sought
''to protect stockholders from an
unprecedented wave of hysteria. !"
The institutions closed were
the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust
Company, the Commerce Guar
dian & Savings Bank. the Com
mercial Savings Bank g. Trust
Company, and the American
Bank. Assets of each we're
turned over to the State banking
superintendent. F..
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Wife Asks DiUOrce,
Charging Be0tingS

Mrs. Jane w. Thompson, 4612
Forty-eighth st. N. W., who was
sued recently for absolute divorce,
today answered the suit with a
cross bill for limited divorce and
alimony.
Through Attorney Godfrey L.
Munter, frs. Thompson denies
her husbands charges of miscon.
duct and says her husband often
beat her. He refused to allow her
to enter their home and carried
her clothes about in their auto
mobile, she SAYS,
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Marriage Is Result
Of COLLeQe Romance

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. II
Their marriage the climax Of q
college romance, Frank L. Chris
tian, Of THAN, and Miss Martha
Wood, of Claymont, DEL, were
married here on Saturday.
The bride was Queen Of the
May, at Swarthmore College last
year and Mr.. Cristian, a mem
ber Of last June's graduating
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Winchester, VG., Girl
Wed to Californian

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. II
Miss Mary Beverley Somerville
daughter of the late DR.. and Mrs
Henry c. Somerville, Of Clarke
county, became the bride Of DR.
Thomas Wallace Whitacre, OF
Monrovia, Cal, Saturday night
at the home Of her sister, Mrs
Gwynne H. Jones, near Boyce. ;
The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Robert z. Harmon
rector Of the Sacred Heart
Church at Winchester.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Battle
BLQzeS in Forest

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. II.
Hundreds of men today were
combating new forest fires in
northern Idaho and western Mon
tana. Heavy stands Of virgin
timber were menaced.
Fresh fires in st. Joe National
Forest in Idaho were spreading
rapidly over 1900 acres of fine
timberland.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
RED PERIL HITS
REICH, MOVES
On BRITAIN
Rising Tide Of BoIshevism
Stirs English to Proclaim
Emergency Defense Plan
BY OTTO D. TOLISCHUS
Copyright. 1891. by International
News Service)

\ LONDON. Aug. 1.-THE Ger
man dam against bolsheviSm is
broken.
That broad streams of red
theology, pouring through huge
gaps and winding through the
manifold phases of German life,
. are beginning to lap the shores
Of England, is dawning upon
Europe and the world.
This Is the reason the British
government has proclaimed
national emergency and called
statesmen Of all parties to help
ramify the bulwarks and erect 4
new line Of defense against the
red tide by StSbilizing finances
through common sacrifice as in
time Of war.
It is becoming apparent that a
great social revolution is sweep
ing the world, likely to be as
fateful to economics as the
French revolution was to politics.,
Work or Bread
Liberty was then the watch
word; work or bread is the watch.
word now.
The French revolution meant
political emancipation of the
masses. Economic emancipation
is now demanded.
The revolution initiated by the
challenge Of BolSheviSm to capi-
talism, or what Count KaySerling
calls "priVatism," is intensified by
the breakdown of capitalism,
which must face the charge of
millions of hungry amid the
greatest abundance of goods in
the worlds history.
Racketeering's Cost
The collapse is the result of the
mushroom growth of the worlds
social overhead. represented by
huge political debts, armaments,
and socialistic extravaganza.
In America, racketeering is cost.
ing $4,000, 900, 600 q year-aH of
which, reduced to purchasing
power, has glutted the markets
and produced q problem of over
production which Is really under.
consumption. s.
The greatest loss of all is uncer-
tainty in the future and loss Of
confidence, Stifling business initi.
ative.
The revolutionary tide, spread
ing from Moscow and batterins
the gates Of Asia and Australia,
threatens to make Germany its
first European victim.
The victors of Versailles left
the East Prussian fortreSses as a
defense against BolSheviSm, but
reparations and their refusal to
make peace with German Ma.
tionaliSm and the propertied
classes put Socialism in the
Bank Sees Crisis
The crisis precipitated by
Frances haggling over the Hoover
moratorium has driven Germany
further Red. Before me is a re-
port from a British Bank to its
clients:
Recent development in Ger.
many must afford concern to
the entire capitaIistic system. It
Is little realized yet to what ex.
tent Germany has adopted the
practice Of Soviet Russia. Bank
ing has become . state monOu-
oily. The mark Is pegged cur
reRcy, little different from the
system OF control Of the rubIe.
The government controls for.
eIgn trade as effectively as the
Soviet. German OffiaialdOm can
cause initiation, dump goods
abroad and generally menace
capitalist countries to q greater
extent than Soviet Russia has
DONE"
The unemployment dole, cost.
ing more than $500 ,OOO, 900 annu.
ally, is Britain's greatest menace.
1t Is only question of time
when flight Of capital, trying to
escape taxation, will begin here
as in Germany.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
CONDITION OF TREASURY

The Treasury balance for Au-
gust IA was $128,765, ,663.46; ex-
penditures were $12,177, 1878,
and custom receipts, $17,746,-
556.69.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
YATES FORGIVEN
. BY INSTANTLY;
FACES QUIZ
Governor Larson Says He May
Be Impeached For Paying
Girl Friend For Her "Work"

PATERSON, N. J$ Aug. II
U.N.S0. - While reverberationS
from the shooting of Senator Roy
T. Yates in the apartment Of his
girl friend sounded throughout
New Jersey, his wife and daugh.
ter today announced they were
unShaken in their loyalty and
devotion to him.
Mrs. Yates said:
1--WE shall be ready at his
beck and call, praying only for
his complete recovery.
ut is all a horrible dream.
He may have Strayed from the
pathways, as who among us
does not at some time in our
lives?
Just Bad Boy
"But I know it was only q
temporary affair, just as a bad
little boy strayS from the home
hearth and comes back to take
a parental licking"
Olive Yates, 16, eldest daughter
Of the wounded senator who Is
near death in a Manhattan hos
pital, issued a statement for her
self and two sisters, Elsie, IL, and
Ruth, 10.
She said:
"HOw can they say the cruel
things they are saying? 1 am
concerned about. our daddy. We
have been praying for reassur-
ing words that he was coming
through the crisis. All we ask
is to be left alone and we are
praying for the day when our
daddy will come back home
WELL"
NEW YORK, Aug. II (IN.SJ.
If State Senator Roy T. Yates.
of PasSaic, N. j., RECEIVERS from
a bullet wound inflicted in the
apartment of his friend, Miss
Ruth Jayne Cranmer, he may
face impeachment proceedings.
Governor Checks Up
Gov. Morgan L. Larson, of New
Jersey, has completed his investi.
CATION of payment of $566 in two
checks to Miss Cranmer from the
New Jersey Pension Survey Com
mission and is now seeking to de-
termine what work she did for
the commission. Yates is chair
man Of the commission and the
girl was listed as a research
worker"
Senate leaders say if the gov
ernor'S probe warrants such
action, impeachment proceedings
will be instituted against the
senator.
Miss Cranmer, under guard in
hospital, insisted today she did
not shoot Yates.
Miss Cranmer's mother, Mrs
Hanna Cranmer, of Media, Pa.
was to visit her daughter today
She blamed prohibition" for the
shooting.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
TODAY'S SCRATCHES
DEVONSHIRE

FIRST RACE-HarmOnicaI, CarlIina.
Satln Eagle. Tender SneeHer. Omen,
THIRD RACE - Pasadena, ByIOna.
PINK Bunting. JalDur. Dals, Golden
.. FOURTH RACE-Dry Dock. General
Toy, Paddock. LiOIeIe. Gi1r0Sa
FIFTH RACE-AymOnd,
SIXTH RACE-GlOOd'e 'eIteIl, BObbie
R.. HOveI. Silver Leaf.
Rempll.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
THTSTLEDOWN

THISTLEDOWN
FIRST RAG E-BetterfIy. Essoess
Tempo DO"day. Whisk o. Day. Ruby
SECOND RACE-sweep Net, TIuv
JGaility' ,SGwdust. PrImlin, Knee GIader,
Sn.. SsS SNsM: Ma marjorie Lillian. Brimsey.
FOURTH RACE-Kinr Kelly H,nr,a,
sUIny Morn: Griffith. Peach Basket.
III n HACE@Seths Jewel. Pebbles
10y. 10y: Sar ~. FuI'' One Cent. NatrOlight.
sixth RAcE-Calrona. vOle, Snow
H1.a.. Msn. keofrIc; Ny Scoop. Mary Me-
SEVENTH RACE--ChOrIster. nld KId
CarIiRO. ShakltuD. "" ~
Weather' clear: track. fast
DADE ARK
FIRST RACE--Klnk Pin DOutados.
SECOND kACE-OId William, Nc
aHeay: Has,: MH1To HHy AnSoH, nSS DOree9 Princess,
THIRD RACE-Mary Marvin,
FOURTH RACE-IIRht Air. Prince
MexIcaR. Privately.
EsEI1 FIT GmaFIss6 aEIAcEnAGalGs asS.I % T. Buffer.
SIXTH RACE-SaIud.
weather. raining; track. muddy.
CONNAUGHT PARK
FIRST RACE-CrisDIe Seth, Free
heis1; DeXtr0se. Follow Me
Frances Smitha. White Basket, Brown
fHfRD RACE-PencII. MarvelIa. Scot
land. All Columbia.
F0URTH RACE-Dea. CrIttaI. Old
Marx. wild Law.
FIFTH RACE-COIIar Ada Rose.
Tout Feu.
SIXTH RACE-COnfab. Alloy. Corn
SEVENTH RACE--DOnn ByFne. Rock
Crusher, Immortal, Business.
Weather, clear; track. fast.
SARATOGA
FIRST RACE-Baal,
THIRD RACE-Fantad.
FOURTH RACE - Backgammon,
OkAybee, VOiIa. Little America, Rae
CO0n, General A.
FIFTH RACE-WlndfaII.
Weather clear; track, fast
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

City and Suburban homes for sale
all sections. all prices. sra I'D
vertised for sale In tOday'A Classified
Section.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

Satisfy your home service needs
through the "24-Hour Service nirec-
tory" announcements In todsy's cIAssi-
fled Section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
By ROSE WoRTIS.

IN recent statement issued by the Lovestone
group they openly proclaim their utilization
with the company union in the needle trades;
however they still try to up their desertion
to the camp of the enemy with revolutionary
phrases. In their statement they speak of build
ing left wing oppositions in the company union
We will therefore cite some facts which will
throw light on the character of the Lovestone
left wins fighters"
In the dress industry the firm called Needle
man and Bremmer formerly located at $40 w.
35th Street and now at 263 w. 10th Street, was
for many years under the control of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union It was one
OF the few shops where union conditions were
enforced and the workers earned decent live
nhood The 1LGW made many attempts to
company unionize this shop in the past few
years, but found it impossible to penetrate this
fortress Of the Industrial Union
When the Lovestoneites began their destruct-
I've work in the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union they concentrated their efforts on
Needleman and Bremmer. where one of the out
standing leaders of the Lovestone group, T. Stein
zor was employed. Through demoralizng ac-
tiyities In the shop steinzor sought to bring
disscntion into the ranks Of the workers TO poison
their minds and turn them against the indus
txaal union. This work Of 4 specialization INST
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
This Is a Nice One

When it comes to explaining the Five-Year
Plan, the N Y Times editorial writer's re-
semble nothing so much as the amusing sight
OF dog chasing its own TAIL without noticeable
success
In its issue of May g. the Times used about
600 words to show how the Five-Year Plan was
failing-precisely because it was succeeding
Yes, Street 1t says, in part:
Plenty of evidence is forthcoming from RUS
STA, of the dislocation produced unscheduled
spurts OF success. Victories on Russa's oil
front or timber 'front.' if won beyond the re-
quirements of the Plan, are denial of the whole
reason of that Plan. . For the foreign de-
voices of Russias beautifully co-ordinated prole-
tartan planning as a substitute for capitalistic
chaos, there must be, theoretically almost as
much regret in a Five-Year Plan attained in
three years, as in Five-Year Plan that should
take ten years"
Oh, yeah! You hear us weeping and wailing,
don't you, Mr. N. Y. Times editor And Won
wrote all that long editorial to gloat over our
sorrow, didn't you And you're plumb tickled
to death that the Five-Year Plan is now sure
to be accomplished in four years amt YOU?
Because that proves that the Plan is a fall
ure!
Now you write another editorial proving that
capitalism is really success because it is such
a magnificent failure, and let lis dry our tears
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
How to Fight for Food tor
Starving Families

complete exposure of capitalist courts In the
neighborhood will give the workers illusions in
that they may now think that because the con-
stable was held under bail, the courts will give
this family Justice"
We Must Fight Sharply Against Opportunist
Tendencies
Unless we carry on this work of securing
direct relief correctly we will only help to mis-
lead the workers. Every TUUL local and dis
trict secretary and the comrades who help give
leadership in our Unemployed Councils and
branches knows that the capitalist governments
the rich corporations, the charity institutions
are against unemployment insurance and give
immediate relief only because pressure by the
workers force them to make gestures in this
direction. Right now the employers and their
government are lessening the measure of irn-
mediate relief in hundreds of cities Starvation
is on the increase 1t is just at this time that
we must bring to the light of day the misery
and starvation among the unemployed fight for
food for the starving families, while at the same
time we organize neighborhood branches thereby
effectng an organizational base for mass strug-
giles and protests
In the next article we will discuss how to carry
on this work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

QuestiOn:-How shall / answer this question
IF the Communists don't like this country, why
don't they go back where they came from?"-A
Young Worker
What If some of the Communists did come
from other countries? Foreign-born certainly
have right to come here and right to work
TO make things different Immigrants have
been in great demand here, they have done
great deal of the work of building industry etc.
Without immigration all of us including the In
dams, would not be here.
The question does not consider the fact that
many Communists are native born. Further
more, probably most of the foreign-born Com
munists became Communists latter" instead of
before" they came.
Workers are Communists not because of the
place of their birth, but because of economic
conditions. Every day Communists are made in
the shops, the mines, the railroads, on the farms
and in the industries of the United States This
is where Communists "come from" and they in
tend to go deeper and further into the shops and
factories. Communism cannot be deported or
exied. Fighting reds like fighting fire with
gasoline
The Communists do like this country; they
want it for the masses of workers and toiling
farmers, the producers to whom it rightfully be-
longs. Surely they do not like the poverty and
misery enforced by capitalism, nor the fat pouch
es living off the labor of the masses, nor the
exploitation, oppression and rule of the cap
italists. They do not like capitalism here or in
any other country. The Communists intend to
continue to lead the masses in the fight for bread
and butter for better conditions right now and
for the final abolition of capitalism,-the fight
to establish workers and farmers government
to take and operate the industries and the land,
and to abolish misery and poverty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
LOVestOneites-- Strikebreakers

with resentment on the part of all workers with
the exception Of two or three followers of the
Lovestone group.
Steinzors Strategy.
Under the influence of Steinzor the Cities
brothers began to work hand in hand with the
bosses to lock out the workers and settle with
the company union Steinzor, who still had to
parade as left winger quietly left the shop
before the lockout so as not to expose himself
by openly scabbing; while his supporters, the
Cities brothers, under his inspiration got the
boss TO sign an agreement with the company
union and become open scab agents working
under the protection Of police and gangsters
When the lockout was declared in the shop
the Industrial Union called all the workers, in
Guiding Steinzor to a shop meeting Steinzor
failed to report The warning of the union that
this will mean desertion of the strike made little
difference to him.
1t is now almost four months since the strike
against the firm of Needeman and Bremmer
started. The scabs Oovestone supporters are
brought in taxis guarded by gangsters and po-
lice. The strikers many of whom are old fighters
in the ranks Of the needle trades workers, have
shown a spirit of militancy and self-sacrifce
that has aroused the admiration not only OF the
members Of the Industrial Union but of many
Of the company -rnion members as well The
strikes have the eftlts srpport Isuuratl,z. NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
Why Use Ca8carotg?

In case you woke uD va . c7 - 4cae.
a coated tongue and a ran IN TIC ca.board
quarter no need to t-.sa c-s1.~,.a, o. even the
Gdy.co CT Heswoed Ercun as to the marvellous
eIcc-s Ct Emo Ll1ccyoscont Salts.
All that is re2dod is to sit down with copy
Of any cari-a-i-t paper that is using the appal-
lr3 Slcp PIT cut by Hoovers new secretary" in
Charge CT publicity; put in charge to try to
make Hoover appear human"
We are getting gripes with that boy hero"
from Colorado who is visiting the President
who is posing with the President, who is
"breakfastng with the President" ad nauseum.
And now in the Times of May T. is something
that ought to get the Pulitzer Prize We will
not inflict the whole story on you but you can
get an acute attack of dysentery by reading
the headline alone, which says: Tells of Pup
py in Lap Stealing Hoovers Egg-Broadcaster
Describes White House Breakfast and the Grand
children's Greeting"
Puppy in lap. "Steals Hoovers Egg. III
And this is the publicity that is going to elect
Hoover in 1892?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11

the workers in the company union shops in the
building.
The workers in many of the company union
shops, inspired by the spirits Of self-sacrifice
displayed by the strikers and the need of their
families, are making financial contributions to
aid the strikers and assist them on the picket
line.
But the Lovestone leader, Steinzor, who had
been employed in the shop for more than year,
not only failed to show his face on the picket
line, but is actively defending the scabs against
the strikers.
Lovestone Tactics
The Lovestoneites, who today are in the ranks
of the company -union under the pretense of
fighting from within, are giving their full sane
ton to these strike breaking activities of the
company union. They have not raised single
word in protest against this outrage committed
by the company-union against some of the best
fighters in the needle trades. The Lovestoneites,
at one time members Of the Industrial Union. are
raf1s ynfala l,u The ffror laleI of fhe