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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-04

man. and Misses Martha Lee Jones.
Kazue Otsuke, Carey Ann Hadden
and Gertrude Hugon.
The formal initiation, the Circle
OF Light" will be held soon after
the stunt initiation Of new mem
bers.
MRS. PERKINS Is
COTERIE CLUB HOSTESS
Mrs. Perry Perkins was hostess at
an enjoyable meeting OF the Coterie
club at her home on Wednesday
afternoon.
Blue plumgago formed lovely
floral decorations. In the games OF
contract bridge Mrs. H. J. Mention
won the high score prize.
Those enjoying the games we're
Mesdames j. r. George, Alan Hoist
endahl, B. Clements, r.. E. Kirk
patrick, Art Tolson. j. w. Cham
bers, Harold Stuart, Charles Hupp,
Fred Brooks, w. j. Copeland, Henry
Lauderdale and II. j. Mention.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-04

ms, Ollie Bridges. S. NJ. Duffie, and
Miss Janet Caldwell.
CLUB AND GUESTS
ARE ENTERTAINED
The Wednesday bridge club met
with Mrs. 4. I. Stewart northeast
OF town this week. with three
tables Of players present.
Mrs. H. z. Moore, Mrs. william
Drummond and Mrs. r. G. Rodgers
were out Of club guests.
PERSONALS
Nj. and Mrs. Weeks Martin and
family left the last OF the week for
a visit in Tennessee.
Nj. and Mrs. Il. j. Grove re-
turned Tuesday from a visit with
their daughters in Des Moines.
Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. LanFston and
Mrs. Rufus Milliken were in
Brownsville Tuesday.
Mayor Ross Marcus and wife
have returned from a combineH
business and pleasure trip 10 Fort
Worth and San Antonio.
The members Of the Christian Rid
society met in the basement Of the
church Thursday for an all day
quilting.
Mss Rosalie McAlister spent the
weekend here with her mother.
Mrs. Flora Wright. She returned to
her work in Corpus Christi Mon
dav.
Roger V. Raw arrived in Mission
Friday 10 take UP his work here
with the u. s. Department OF Agri-
culture.
Miss Billy Wood OF Kingsville Is
4 guest in the Carlew home here.
z. r. Trey and Walter Chapple
left Monday for their home In
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-04
INFORMAL PARTY

Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Frazier had
as their guests Friday at a Forty
Two party at their home north Of
Pharr. Mr.. ard Mrs. Ed Maule, MI.
and Mrs. A. j. Malmstadt. and DR..
and Mrs. N. l.. Davidson. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02
DISABLED VETERANS
WILL MEET TONIGHT
Result Of Unemployment Census to
Be Announced at Session in
District Building.

Results Of an unemployment census
taken among 100000 disabled World
War Veterans will be announced at 8
o'clock tonight at q mass meeting Of in
jured former soldiers at the District
Building.
The announcement will be made by
Claude E. Babcock, national commander
Of the Disabled American Veterans OF
the World War, v'',o Will address the
men on the desirability Of Uncle Sam
as an employer and discuss the recent
executive order giving disabled veterans
civil service preference.
At the meeting, which Is being thrown
open to all disabled veterans regardless
of affiliation. will be representatives OF
the Labor Department. Veterans Ad-
ministration and the Civil Service Com
mission, of which Babcock Is assistant
secretary
Facts obtained in the survey Of war
veterans with regard to employability
and whether or not the ex-soldiers now
are working will be both startling and
interesting" according to Melvin Brot-
man of Federal Chapter No. 6, D. A. ",
chairman of arrangements for the
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02

Congress. today presented President
Hoover a mass of protests against the
intention of the War Department to
break up the 10th Cavalry from col
ored regiment into small units.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02

Wants Colored Unit Kept.
Representative De Priest, Republican,
Illinois, the only colored member of
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Gas Believed Worthless
To Be Made Valuable

NEW YORK, March ia non,
inflammable gas ypich has been
blowing away in the Mexican oil
fields for many years, soon may
be turned into an unusually
valuable product for use as a
refrigerant throughout the United
States.
This gas. which. contains prac-
tically no oil can be made into
solid carbon dioxide by a process
recently reported to the Ameri.
can Chemical Society. In the
form of solid carbon dioxide the
gas will have a high commercial
value, since the use of the latter
chemical as a refrigerant has
been spreading rapidly in the last
few years.
The process Of converting the
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
[R|ES To SPEAK
J ON RUSSIA
kEM
HIM WMA
- HIN HNMHERHHg g

= A symposium on Russia and
communism will be given at the
annual dinner of the University
Qf Michigan Club at the Nav
3ower Hotel Saturday night.
Professor Delos o. Kinsman, of
american University, will speak
q Economic Research in Rus
"a" and Maj. Gen. Amos A.
6r1es, U. S. A. retired, will speak
0n "The Social and Political
Menace of Russia"
Shirley w. Smith, vice presi-
cent of the University of Michi-
aan, will address the gathering
md Representative Earl C. Mich
Gner will preside as toastmaster.
hldge James w. Remick, War
claims Arbiter, will also address
the gathering.
z DR.. James G. Cumming, presi-
gent of the club, is heing as
slsted in planning for the affair
" a committee consisting of DR..
Charles D. Cole. chairman; DR..
Mark Finley, Mark Foote and
names F. Pearce,
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
GLOOM FOES TO DANCE

The Gloom Dispellers Club will
give a dance tomorrow night at
the Arcadia, Fourteenth Street
and Park Road Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
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The Washington times., 1931-03-19
The Weather

For the District Of columbia--LiEht
rain this afternoon and tonight; Friday
fsir not much change in temperature;
lowest tonight about IS degrees; gentle
to moderate east, backing to north
east and north winds
For Maryland-IIght rain in east and
rain, changing to snow and slightly
colder in west portion tonight: Friday
generally fair: moderate east, backing
to northeast and north winds.
For virkinia-Cloudy, with light rain
this afternoon and probably in east and
in extreme west portion tonight; Friday
fair, slightly colder in south portion
moderate shifting winds becoming
moderate to fresh northwest or north.
Local Temperatures
Yesterday Today
p. m..........60 4. a. m.........42
s p. m..........47 a.. m..........39
Departures From Normal
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January I, 1891. 1.S9.
Deficiency Of temperature since March
Accumulated deficiency of precipIta-
tion since January /. 1881, 4.S7.
Deficiency of precipitation since
March /, 1891, As.
Tide Tables
Today-High tides at s:17 a. m. and
at S:37 p. m, Low tides at 2:4O q. m.
and at. 3:0S .. m.
Tomorrow-High tides at s:52 a. m.
and at S:15 p. m. Low tides at 3l17 q.
m. and at S:4S p. m.
The Sun and the Moon
The sun rose today at S:15 a. m. and
sets at S:lS D. m.
The run rises Friday at 6:14 a. m.
and sets at 6:19 p. m.
The moon rises today at 6:2S Q. m.
and sets at S:4S p. m.
The moon rises Friday at S:4S a. m.
and sets at 7:46 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
ROBINSON SURE
\ To BE LEADER
! Of MINORITY
lrkansan Believed to Have
Strengthened Position BY
Opposing Raskob Wet Plan

Il Report of a campaign to ouSt
senator Joe T. Robinson, running
nate of Alfred E. Smith in 1928,
rom his present post as Demo
ratio leader Of the Senate, found
little support today among his
senatorial colleagues.
& The Arkansas Senator is as
nred of reelection as minority
ader in the new Congress, his
colleagues declared.
z They contend that Senator
Robinson strengthened his posi-
lion rather than weakened it by
us opposition to the policies of
ohn j. Raskob, Democratic ma
Ional chairman, at the recent
gathering of the Democratic ma
Monal committee.
= Favors Economic Issue
= The overwhelming dryness of
0e Democratic party in the Sen
AEe partially explains why Rob
Wson benefited, so far as his Sen
aSorial leadership is concerned,
~ his attack on Raskob's wet
nan. He also profited by his con-
tention that the 1882 election
mould be fought out on economic
DSueS-a sentiment shared by the
Nreat mass of his Democratic
colleagues in the Senate.
u Even two of the most militant
Democratic wets-Walsh of Mas
aachusetts. and Wagner of New
3ork-believe economic issues
hould dominate the next cam
paign.
3 On top of this Senator Robin
GDn has the support Of such vet
@ans as Swanson of Virginia,
harrison of Mississippi, King of
Utah, Fletcher of Florida, Pitt
nan of Nevada and Sheppard of
1exas.
= Praised by Caraway
q The veteran from Arkansas
as differed with his Democratic
followers at times, but in each
crisis, he finally steered his party
q a course that met with the
approval of great majority.
His own colleague, Senator
Garaway of Arkansas, declared
Senator Robinson had been the
greatest Senate leader in my
experience in politics."
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
ELks Will Attend
tShriners' Circus

Washington Lodge, No. Is, B. p.
o. E., has accepted an invitation
of Almas Temple to attend the
Shrine circus tomorrow night.
Capacity crowds have attended
the performances of the circus
to date at the auditorium, and all
indications point to new attend
ance records.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Congress Raped
For Stunning D. C..

The apathetical attitude of Con-
gress toward the District was
scored by Corporation Counsel
William w. Bride and his as
sistant, William A. Roberts. at a
meeting of the Federal Bar Asso-
ciation at the University Club last
night.
The District officials charged
that Congress devoted less than
half a day in the last "a months
to District legislation and de-
clared that only a passing or
casual interest in the District was
evinced,
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
MATCHES MAKE MANDOLIN

BERLIN, March 10 Q.N.SO.
Friedrich Meukow, unemployed
instrument maker, has succeeded
in completing a full-siZed mando-
lin made exclusively out of ordin-
ary matches. Meukow used alto
gether $1,000 matches for the in
strument and the laborious work
took several months. The tone of
the mandolin is said to be perfect.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Horace J. Morse, SO,
Brokers' Dean. Dead

NEW YORK, March 10 GIN.
S0.-Horace j. Morse, 90, one Of
the oldest Wall Street brokers,
is dead at his home here. He
was a native of Norwalk, Ohio.
He was the senior member of A.
M. Kidder g. Co.
He is survived by a son, C. o.
Morse, and a daughter, Miss Alice
Morse.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
VETERANS PASS ON

YOUNTVILLE, Calf, March 10
GN.S0 For the first time in a
Wallace Winnegar has a regis
civil war veterans at the Califor-
mia Veterans"Home here has drop
ped below the 100 mark.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
DR.. COOPER TO LECTURE

DR.. William Knowles Cooper,
for many years secretary Of the
Washington Y. M. c. A., will
lecture on Government" Sunday
afternoon at the Washington
Open Forum at the Playhouse.
1914 N st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19

gas into the refrigerant was per,
fected by Prof. Ralph Mckee OF
Columbia, according to the re
port, submitted by DR.. James
Wexford Martin, of New York.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
AIR MEET ENJOYS

3 Secretary of War Hurley has
authorized Maj. Gen. Frank
Rarker, commanding general of
ehe Sixth Corps Area, to accept
ne invitation of the Flying Club
% Kingston, Ontario. for repre-
sentatives of the First Pursuit
Group, Army Air Corps, Selfridge
feld, Mich. to attend the air
meet at Kingston, Ontario, on
1lne 2 and 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

Of Ceibu and Progresso. Later re-
ports say these towns we're lost. La
test news dispatches from Teguci-
galpa, the capital of Honduras, said
there is severe fighting going on,
with many killed and wounded.
The United Fruit Co. has already
requested troops and marines, and
StimSon has ordered three battle
cruisers to proceed to Honduras from
Guantanamo, Cuba. American inn
perialism fears that the revolution
in Honduras, which involves the i'm
poverished masses, will rally hun
dreds of thousands throughout Mica
rague and the rest of Latin America
to determined fight against i'm
perialist domination.
That the imperialistS do not fear
the leaders of the uprising such as
General Ferrera, is shown by a state
ment in the New York Times, which
says:
Officials of fruit companies re-
gard General Ferrera as favorable
to American interests and do not
expect rebel assaults upon their
property"
The United Fruit Co. is the lead
ing Wall Street investor in Hon
duras and controls IS per cent Of the
capital invested in that country.
Wall Street Rules.
American direct investments in
Honduras are greater than in any
other Central American republic,
Guatemala ranking SECOND with
$69,979,000, Salvador third with
$29,466, 900, Costa Rica fourth with
22,166,O0O and Nicaragua fifth with
S13,O02,OOO.
For while there existed two lead
ing fruit companies in Honduras, the
Cuyamel and the United Fruit. These
carried on q struggle against each
other, but in 1929 the United Fruit
took over the Cuyamel and has had
things completely its way. After the
consolidation, the United Fruit cut
wages 25 per cent, worsened condi-
tons of workers and started an at
tack against the workers. There re-
suited severe struggles and many
class-conscious workers we're Jailed.
In the present fighting the workers
seized locomotives and other equip
ment of the United Fruit. The in
Surgents are well armed and have a
good deal of ammunition. Despite
the fact that Diaz and Fcrrera, lead
ers of the uprising, try to limit the
struggle to fight against Colindres
and his control Of the government
and the graft from the United Fruit
Co., Communist elements among the
masses taking part will try to force
it into the channels of an snti-iIi-
perialist struggle against the octupus
that engulfs the entire countryside
United Fruit Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

ence, representing thousands of
workers; Niagara Falls mass meet
ing of 400 workers; Kansas City
United Front May Day Conference;
Boston Commons mass meeting of
500 Negro and white workers; mass
meetings in New Haven, Dsnbury,
Conn; Elizabeth, N. j., May Day
Conference, representing 10 orgariza-
tions with membership OF several
thousand; mass meetings in San
Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and
Stockton.
All sent wires to Governor 3. M.
Miller Montgomery, Ala, protesting
court room lynch verdict.
Other meetings are planned in
Stamford tonight. at Workers Center,
40 Pacific Street: Hartford. Thurs
day at corner Canton and Bellevue
Streets; and on the same evening in
Bridgeport and Danbury.
Detroit district has perfected a
well-planned campaign, with mass
meetings throughout the district, and
with speakers being sent to all Negro
and white organizations rallying them
to the defense of the Scottsboro
victims.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Duluth. Mimi. Unemployed Council Stops
Eviction
Eviction

DULUTH, Minn.-One of the COM
elittees of the Unemployed Council
found that a widow woman with 4
children were to be evicted from their
home, at 305 E. Second ST., that same
day. The neighbors, mostly workers,
were Immediately modified by the
committee. About 200 came to the
house, held a meeting and decided
not to permit to throw the widows
furniture out on the street. When
the deputy sheriff came and saw the
bunch of militant workers waiting
for him, he Just took to his heels.
He did not like the reception com
mittee waiting for him.
The workers family is still in the
house and the committee of the I'm
employed Council is seeing to it that
abe stays there and not being terror
lied.
See Need to Fight
Many of the unemployed workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

Colindres taking all of the graft
handed out by the United Fruit Co.
The insurgent movement, which is
gaining strength all the time by the
addition of thousands of armed
workers, is under the leadership of
Roman Diaz, an army officer, and
is supported gy General Gregorio
Ferrera, former presidential candi-
date, and about five other generals.
The crisis, which has been wrack-
ing the entire capitalist world and
has particularly hit the Latin-Amer-
lean countries under the domination
of imperialism, has fallen with a
heavy hand on the Honduran
masses. Those who work for the
United Fruit Co. are virtually slave
laborers, working under contract un-
der the worst conditions. Their
wages have been cut repeatedly, their
trade unions smashed by a united
front of the United Fruit Co. and
the Colindres government.
In order to rally this mass discon-
tent, the -Ferrera forces put for
ward the slogan against special
privileges to foreign companies as
prejudicial to the national inter-
estS." Under this slogan the masses
believe they are fighting against
American imperialism and all of its
agents. But they do not have indie
pendent leadership in this fight and
are following the petty-bourgeois
generals.
The armed struggle in Nicaragua
has inspired the Hondran workers
and peasants to fight against Amer
lean imperialism in their country.
The fighting in Honduras started at
Tela, the headquarters of the United
Fruit Co., and the rebels are re-
ported to have captured the towns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
GIANT RAILROAD
MERGERS COMING
Will Increase Unern-
ploy1ment
(By a Worker Correspondent

my d NOlhci correspondent
TOLEDO, O.-The railroad work
ers are facing more speed-up, disre-
garding of contracts by the bosses,
and giant mergers, all of which are
sanctioned by the misleaders of their
organizations and the Interstate
Commission. In spite of the runors
that mergers will mean more work,
they will in reality throw thousands
Of railroad workers on the streets,
and speed up the rest.
Some years ago, the New York
Central acquired the properties Of
the Toledo and Ohio Central lines
and the CCC and STL system. Even
in this small consolidation, the cler-
ical forces were reduced by the r.
and o. G. and the CCC and STL
in Toledo about 80 per cent. 1t can
plainly be seen what will happen
when the Large Trunk Lines COM
plete the mergers now in the making.
Fellow railroad workers, we are as
helpless as new born babies with our
antiquated union machinery, with
our traitorous leadership in the
crafts, even to thold the concessions
we now have, let alone combat the
giant mergers of the transportation
industry.
The petty bosses have the CUTS not
only to ask the workers to work over
time for the straight time rate, but
they even make clerks work in excess
of their eight hours for nothing, with
the promise that they can have the
time off later to make up for it.
This is the result of individualism
and the lack Of organization. The
situation must be remedied, and very
quickly, or it will be too late. The
only way to do this is to organize
industrially, with militant leader
ship and program, and weld the
forces of the railroads into a strong
united body of workers. With such
a union we can fight for the shorter
work day with the present wages in
tact, demand security for workers
thrown into the streets without Jobs.
Let US show the boss we are real red
bloded men and not worms. then we
can take the whole damned business
"A White Collar Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
SOVIET ELECTRIC
FACTORYFULFILLS
FIVE YEAR PLAN

MOSCOW.--The greatest factory
of the Soviet Russian electric indus
try, Electrosayod, fulfilled the Five
Year Plan April LIST, thereby reaching
this goal in 2ta years. The Electro
asavod now leads the electrical in
dustdy of the whole world. Only the
General Electric Company can COM
pete with its output, and it must be
remembered that this company has
existed for As years, while the Elec-
trosavod was founded only five years
ago. s..
-Four years ago the Soviet Union
was obliged to import its lamps from
abroad, but today the Electrosavod
lamps are burning not only all over
the Soviet Union, but in South Amer
lea, in Turkey, in Persio, and other
countries.
Fifteen thousand workers are en-
ployed by the Electrosayod at the
present time. The factory supplies
one-fourth of the total electro tech
nical production of the whole coun-
try. In 1890, the factory's output
amounted to a value Of so million
roubles and in the present year this
value will rise to 461 million roubles.
According to the Plan, the factory
was to produce to the value of 42o
million roubles by 1928. The rapid
accomplishment of the Plan has en-
abIed the factory to schedule an out
put of $50 million roubles for next
year.
In view of the mighty work accom-
plished by the Electrosavod workers
in the fulfillment of the Five-Year
Plan, the presidium Of the Moscow
District Trade Union Council has re-
solved to build senatorium for the
workers of this factory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
RUMANIAN KING
SEES DETERDlNG
Push War Plans On
Soviet Union

F1ENNA.--A report from Buchar-
est states that the present trip Of
Sid Deterding, the general director
OF the Royal Dutch Shell, to Ru-
mania, is due to the personal invita-
ton OF Kink Carol, who feels much
under obligation to him for financ-
ing the coup d'etat Of June 3, 1880.
Deterding himself has granted an
interview to the press agency FRA
DOR" three-quarters of his usserances
being a savage attack OH the Soviet
Union. The "Curentul' of March 80
emphasizes Deterdings declaration
that 1.-THE world crisis will not be over
come until the Soviet system has
ceased to exist" Besides this it is
necessary that bourgeois Europe
should establish its economic unity,
the united front Of capitalism.
All this shows plainly that Det-
erding Is exploiting his personal re-
lations with King Carold to spur
Rumanla to greater readiness for
war.
He regards Rulmsnis TO such an
extent as his tool that he has al
ready reviewed his Rlmanisn inter-
ventiou troops against the Soviet
Union. On March % he attended,
in company with the king, the mill
tary parade held on the occasion Of
the taking Of the oath Of allegiance
By The recruits In Bucharest 1--WE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Greet Tom Mann
Is Years Old
Gable BY Inprecorr.l

LONDON, England, April 1S.--The
Daily Worker, official organ of the
Communist Party of Great Britain,
publishes message Of greetings to
Tom Mann, veteran revolutionary
trade union leader, on his Seventy
fifth birthday.
Tom Mann was the leader of the
new union movement" which grew
up out of terrific dock strikes toward
the end of last century. The note
Of militancy he struck then he has
ne,er abandoned. He took part in
some of the earliest delegations to
the Soviet Union, was a familiar fig
ure at congresses Of the Red inter-
national OF Labor Unions, was head
OF the British Minority Movement
tl1e left wing movement in the Eng
lish labor unions, and in 1927 went
on a delegation sent by the Com
munist international through China
Just at the time the struggle between
right and left wings was developing
there, and Chang Kai Shek was
ready to start on his bloody slaughter
Of the woTkeA - =. = -------.