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will review the steps by which North
Central sections obviated some of the
difficulties that agriculture encountered.
The economic role of Government, in
levying taxes. establishing tariffs, reg
ulating transportation and other ac-
Invites, developing public facilities,
shapin national economic policy, will
have conspicuous place in the deliber-
alton of the meeting. It will be repre-
sented by Secretary of Commerce Robert
P. Lamont, as one of the speakers and
others.
Immediately following the Atlantic
City conference, many of the delegates
will journey to Washington to partici-
pate, with representatives from other
countries, in the deliberations of the
International Chamber meeting.
AS a basis for consideration of the
larger question of world business stabil-
ization, Georges Theunis. Of Belgium,
president Of the International Chamber,
will present at the first plenary session
comprehensive analysis of the causes
and effects Of the depression, with O
detailed report on conditions in the
different countries. He will propose
remedies to hasten return Of more
normal world business conditions.
Agenda Of Conference.
1IlC COIlpltOS dS6IlQd 1OT GIl6 WASH
ington conference as announced today
by Silas H. Strawn, chairman for the
American Committee, include many of
the troublesome problems now facing
the business world, all dealing with
some phase of the question of restoring
and maintaining the business equi-
librium.
The International Conference will dis
cuss the silver problem in the Far East.
the movement toward a European
economic union, the agricultural crisis,
the economic development of Europe
and the United States, the impact of
the economic crisis upon world business
structures, regularization of employ
ment, tariffs and the new commercial
treaty policies, and the effect of the
decline in commodity prices.
President Hoover heads the list of
speakers. Others include Owen D.
Young, chairman Of the board, Gen.
eral Electric Co.; Melvin A. Traylor,
president. First National Bank, Chicago;
Sir Arthur Balfour, Shef1eld steel
manufacturer, England; Dr. Alberto
Pirelli, prominent Italian industrialist
and member of the Dawes and Young
Committees on Preparations: AloySe
Meyer, president of the European Steel
Cartel. Luxembourg, and Robert Mason,
director general, Credit Lyonnais,
France.
Out of the conference will come def
mite proposals for dealing with inter
national phases Of industrial and en-
ployment sterilization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06
EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, April 6 [P.-Utilities
Power g. Light Corporation today re-
ported 1880 net income of S7,236,S40,
equal to S4.08 a share on the class A
stock, compared with $7,6l7,657, or s4.79
a share on a smaller capitalization, in
1929.
Total assets increased from $401 1885,
lo6 at the end of 1929 to SAT-, 120, 623,
while current assets rose from $37,166,-
GAL to $49856,S35. Current liabilities
amounted to $27,525,l84 at the end Of
1880, against $16,s58,524 the year be-
fore.
Harley L. Clarke, president, informed
the stockholders that the corporation
spent mere than $30,000,000 for new
construction during 1890 in the United
states, Canada and Great Britain,
where its properties are situated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06
W0oLWORTH SALES.

NEW YORK, April tP).-Apparently
due to one less Saturday in the month,
March sales of r. w. Woolworth Co.
showed a moderate decline from the
total for the like month of 1890.
In explaining the figures, H. T. Par
s-n, president, said there were five Sat-
urdays in March last year, against four
for the month this year, and that a
Saturday in March is equivalent to
about $l,750, 900 in sales.
The March total was S21, 723, SAT, a
decline of 3.3 per cent from s22,481 ,375
for March of 1880. Sales for the first
three months this year showed an in
crease Of nine-tenths of l per cent TO
S6o,35i,729, over s6o,916.s43 for the
corresponding period of 1880.
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which gives some measure of encourage
ment.
Automobile production for March, re-
ported in the middle of last week,
showed an increase over February, ris-
ing to the highest level in 10 months.
Freight car loadings for the week ended
March 81 were further above the week
before than was expected, but still
much below the same week of 1880.
News of a more unfavorable nature
comes from the utilities, which pro-
duced a volume of electric power is
per cent under the same week.
Unfavorable reports continue to be
received from the oil industry, where
price-cutting continues, particularly in
California, and where efforts to curtail
output still have not met with great
success. Efforts to effect some sort Of
control are being made at present, how
ever the success Of which will be await
ed with interest.
The Companies.
Chalmers Manufacturing obtains
81 ,025, 900 in orders from Inland Steel
and California utility company.
Callahan Zinc-Lead Co. 1880 deficit,
before depreciation and depletion, $685.
9l0, against deficit s57,770 in 1929.
Elgin National Watch omits dividend;
paid 371a cents February /.
General Motors March output of
Oakland and Pontiac cars totaled H.
29l units, against 10,007 in February
and 1900 in January; Chevrolet truck
output increased.
Gruen watch declares two preferred
dividends Of $l.75 each.
Jewel Tea number of sales routes 4
weeks ended March 81 up per cent;
10 Wfpkc I'm 4 2 mar rent
Kresge Is. 81 Co. on March 81, 1881,
ctcres.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06
New York Cotton
Special Dispatch the The Star.

Special Dispatch the The Star.
NEW YORK, April Cotton prices
were / point lower to l higher at the
opening Of the market today. CONT
mental markets were mostly closed and
there was little in the local situation to
cause active trading. Local profess
SIGNALS sold in anticipation of bearish
acreage report, but their offerings were
readily absorbed by the trade and COM
mission house buyers
Opening prices were: May. 1850, up ! {:
July, 1915, unchanged: October, 11O5,
unchanged December, 1925, un-
changed; January, l1.36, up /, and
March, 1883, off l.
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U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance.
announced today, as of close of business
April 3, was $543, 659, 663.76. Customs
receipts for the month to date were s.
957, 390.56. Total ordinary expendi-
lures, Sl3,152.107.58.
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Because of the influenza epidemic
all public institutions of Derry. Ireland,
were closed to the general public re-
Gently.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET s s~:; :s: S Ss:

Note-An stocks sold In hundred-snare IoIs
excepting those designated by the letter (Sos) (250s,
which shows those stocks were sold In odd lots
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Money to Loan

Secured By frat deed Of trust on real estate.
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph |. Weller 1 nfs. w': sss I : F n%.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06

Catholic schools In England number
1,1e4, with 36e,Se6 pupils enrolled
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q u Ford Mot Ltd Apr IT 173 u a A
Dividends based quarterly
dividend fParty
Payable Adjustment dividend.
fPlus cent in stock Plus cent in stock Plus
Plus Plus 10
in stock Plus n
Paid last ra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Peace Pacts-War Budgets
CapitaliSt Lies After the Last Slaughter.


1.-THE conference at San Reno means that
the last war In the worldwide conflict is about
to be terminated in a stern but just peace.
That surely is an event of great Importance for
the women of the world. But the decisions of
the conference have deeper meaning than
even that. They mean that the sacrifices of
men and women are not in vain. They also
mean that miltarism with its horrors and
dangers is to be kept under wherever it threat
ems the peace Of the world From this view
point the decision to insist on the disarmament
Of Germany has great Importance, but the de-
cision to confer with German statesmen has
equal Importance 1t signifies that the nations
are determined that their misunderstanding
should be settled by elaboration and reason
and not by the constant brandishing of the
sword" Qloyd George, April %, 1920.
The Angel of Peace-1931 Style.
"They the Allied and Associated Powers)
taxed themselves and borrowd from others to
equip those armies and almost all the rest have
been engaged ever since in increasing and per-
fecting and strengthening their ornaments,
The angel of peace has never been SO toasted
but since then the preparations for war have
been going on in almost every country through
out the world who signed the treaty, and at an
accelerated pace. Lloyd George, July II. 1881
NY. Times, July IL, 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Another Bright Guy

Under the heading "A Cure for Communism,
Also Chance to Spin Factory Wheels and Put
Americans to Work" we have the following
selected idiocy from the editor of the Spokane
Wash, Press:
IF America can create among Russian
demand for silk stockings and fine
clothes such American girls demand and
get, not only will that demand set American
factory wheels turning, but it will make Russia
prosperous customer. Russian men will
have to get more money, and they will finally
get it, Stain or no Stain, Communism or no
Communism"
Let's see if we can unravel this mess:
Firstly, Russian women already want silk
stockings the demand doesn't need to be
created" But they're getting along nicely in
mercerized soX or-in Surnmer-none at all
until their own silk industry is developed to
capacity to meet the demand rather than pay
robber prices to American capitalists
Secondly, how many American girls what per-
centage of the total, really get silk stockings9
Well bet our own cotton sox that less than 20
per cent--were tempted to make It 10 per cent
wear silk stockings regularly.
We mean silk and not rayonl If they are
all wearing silk, please tell us why American
factory wheels are not already turning? If
Russian women never have worn silk then it
isn't any loss of the market there which has
stopped American silk mills that's clear.
How can a Paterson, New Jersey, silk work
err the head of family, with wages cut to $12
week or less, buy silk stockings for his wife
and two daughters, let's say9 How many silk
stockings do you see hanging on coal miners
clothes lines? What percentage of the millions
of starved and half-starved share troopers of
the Southern cotton and tobacco farms buy silk
stockings for their women folks?
When workers who make silk can't afford
not only to buy it-but can't afford bacon and
beans and cotton soX, that, you unatic editor
of Spokane is what makes Communism grow
When Russian workers build their silk mills and
work in them, they, and not a few capitalist
wenches, will wear that silk
The chief reason why most girls want silk
stockings is because only few capitalist women
can get them. When there will be plenty for
all at cheap prices, few will make fuss about
them. In the meantime, speaking as man to
man, why should Russian men rise in revolt
under the revolutionary watchword. Give our
gals silk stockings!" when, their gals bare legs
look mighty nice!
There may be a demand in the Soviet Union
for silk stockings, but there isn't any demand
for Spokane idiots
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Pa. Labor Herald Admits i. T. W.
Misleaders Nearly Ousted from
Control of Strike
By BURCK

go into the election campaign treasury of the
socialist party. At the same time the socialist
party is trying to catch votes of the strikers by
pretending to give them relief STRIKERS
SHOULD DEMAND THAT ALL MONIES COM
ING BE HANDLED BY NON-SOCIALIST
RANK AND FILE STRIKERS APPOINTED BY
SHOPS TO CONTROL MONEY COLLECTED
IN THEIR NAME.
UTW Permits Allentown Striker Be Railroaded
TO Months in Jail
A young militant silk striker by the name Of
Takatch was railroaded to a month in the coun-
ty Jail for having the nerve to picket and stop
scabs from taking his job without even pre-
tense at trial, the prosecuting attorney refus-
ing to permit any witnesses in his behalf AL
though the UT.W. has lawyer on the payroll
coming out of initiation fees which the strikers
have recently paid, he did not even appear in
court although he knew the trial was coming up.
The International Labor Defense which de-
tends all workers prosecuted by the bosses and
their courts when they fight for decent living
wage ought to come into the situation. work
ers' defense organization is badly needed in Al
lentown where the Mayor calls the state police
the moment mass picketing starts.
Allentown Strikers Vote Unanimously Against
Individual Settlements.
At mass meeting of strikers held Thursday
night in the Leiderkrantz Hall, the question of
individual settlements brewing in the shop
chairmen committee was brought into the open
by the rank and file and vote called for The
strikers voted unanimously against individual
settlements and upheld a previous decision
against such procedure on the grounds that it
would break the backbone of the strike and en-
able the bosses to force their terms upon the
workers which remain the same before the
strike The decision gives the shop chairmen
committee the right to consider settlement Of
the strike as whole. In view of the fact that
the shop chairmen have become the mouthpiece
Of the McDonalds and other U.T.W. officials it
is especially necessary now to turn the shop
chairman committee of 80 into broad represen-
tative fighting strike committee Every shop
should lose no time in electing at least three
more representatives to the shop chairmen
committee and see to it that they are seated with
a voice and vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Preparing the Army to
Shoot American Workers
abandoning Military Possible.

Abandoning Military Posts-1913.
July IA, 1918: Secretary Garrison-is OF the
opinion that the abandonment of useless mill
tary stations and the concentration Of the
military forces at fewer posts will be long step
army"
Preparing Military Posts-1931-Against
the Workers.
Abandonment Of some of the minor army
posts throughout the country for the sake of
economy is being considered by the admin
istration as result of the weekend conference
between President Hoover and War Depart
ment officials at the Rapidan Camp.
stations near large cities, although some are
small will not be disturbed according to off,
Gals. This would apply to such stations as
Governors Island IN New York Harbor, which
the War Department maintains principally to
have troops available to New York City for use
In any serious domestic disturbances."-N. Y.
Times, May IL, 1881.
Troops available for use In any serious
domestic disturbances" The War Department
which is preparing the attack the Soviet
Union Is preparing the military attack the
American workers. In addition TO the city and
state and company police and thugs that they
are already using against the striking miners
they are preparing to use the army against
workers on strike. Demand all war funds for
the unemployed. Demand immediate unem-
ploynent relief and social insurance DEM
onstrate on August First Defend the Soviet
Upicul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
RAG...
Tent. Tent! Who's Got a
ToLO
BY JORG8

Makes no difference where you are, If you have
a tent that you're not using, there are some hun
dreds of striking miners families needing them
IN Western Pennsylvania and the other strike
areas.
Hundreds of families, evicted, are camping out
In the open fields, without the slightest shelter
for their babies or their poor but precious be-
longngs Send tent and help win the strikel
Even If you're using your tent-get another
one If you must have one, but send one to the
strikers. What about all of our 'proletarian
camps?" Let some of these proletarians who
are using tents try sleeping in the open for
while, and send the tents to the strikers
These strikers and their women and children
battling the elements, the mine owners the DO
lice and hunger, deserve everything possible
They've worn out their shoes on the picket line
Wrap up all the shoes you can lay hands on,
wrap 'em up inside tent, and send the works
to the Pennsylvania Ohio Striking Miners Relief
Committee, 611 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
shoot the Works."

We refer to the second attempt that the so
cialist clown, Haywood Broun, has made to help
the unemployed"-or maybe it's the third Any
how, back in March, 1880, when Hoover said
prosperity" would be back in 60 days, Broun
thought so too. So he started a campaign among
the bow-wows to Give job till June"
That was two Junes ago and Broun long since
had to give it up Now that something around
100000 workers jobless Broun starts a
new stunt supposed at the most to "help' about
so unemployed actors. 1.-THE plays the thing
quoth he, and cooked up what is known as the
rottenest show known to Broadway-which is
saying lots.
It's called Shoot the Works." and from all
indication that advice would be excellent if only
carried out. Putting 1t in his own column in
the World Telegram and rather brass-faced pleas
to critics to give it boost, haven't saved it from
Hopping though charitable dowagers? donations
keep it going.
Variety" the theatrical magazine gives it an
awful razzng, pointing out that it's without
real merit from start to finish" with mediocre
acting, about ten speeches by Broun who crawls
under bed in a bedroom scene, probably out
of socialist" habit Variety objects to the critics
boosting such a rotten piece of work:
"Thusly Brouns misguided effort to provide
work for unemployed actors goes wrong even to
tIle HotlCeS. Inc brOun SNOW makes q monkey
Of producing, makes monkey Of notices, and
makes monkey of Broun."
OF course that put it too harshly, since Bron
has never been anything else. And the play
is useful in boosting him for Alderman on the
socialist" ticket. Isn't he rupturng himself to
"help the unemployed?"
= Incidentally, Buffalo paper Of the Scripps-
Howard chain asks its readers to say whether
they SHOULD get rid Of Broun, fire him, in fact.
The oYy two answers so far published give
unanimous affirmative, one saying:
by all means, fire him. There isn't an iota
Of interest in his monotonous gibberish"
But of course we must remember that the
socialist" Broun is all tangled up with the
Scripps- Howard capitalist press, which in its New
York paper, the World Telegram, expresses SYM
pathy" with the striking miners. but in its Pitts
burgh paper, the press" wants the strike broken
quickly and with violence. Any concern that
can be that crooked needs socialist" around
as pinch hitter in case any writer shows q
streak OF honesty and has to be let out.
II they only would Shoot the works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
August Number, Party
ORGANIZER

The August issue of the Party Organizer will
be out on August. First This is a strike issue
and takes up every phase Of the mine strike,
from the preparatory organization, the spread
ing Of the strike the functioning Of the strike
committee, building of the Party, etc. Units
should order their copies immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

Another heroine Of the opera season is the
ladies retiring room attendant, Mrs. Rose
Goldbauer by name and Woodworking
girl she is, seeing that ladies don't leave
their cigarettes OH the carpet and looking
after one thing or another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

Nine Tney Mutselhauer the German opera diva is sing
inc Erda "Segfried" of which show OF the
lighter moments, where Erda pops up out OF the paper
mache rocks tells Woan where he gets on roa
is one girls who sits home and boodS and seldom
gets chance get word in public She has lot to oner
when she gets under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

No this isn't Brunhlda. This is Grmgerde,
of the Valkyries i'll the opera named for those
girls, and she is not sprnging at anything IN par
tiCuar. She is just up scenery rock looking at
the view and wondering if those clouds mean rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
NAMED
FOR NAVY HOSPITAL
$3,200,000 Medical Center
Project to Be Erected on
Constitution Avenue.

The Allied Architects Of Washington
were selected today by the Navy De-
partment as architects for the new Ma
val Hospital and Medical Center. to be
located between Twenty-third and
Twenty-f1fth streets and e street and
Constitution avenue.
william T. Partridge at the same
time was chosen as consultant and ar
chitectural adviser.
Will Cost S3,2OO,OOO.
The new construction is to form an
essential part of the new War and Navy
Department Buildings development, as
the Public Buildings Commission has
selected the adjacent area, between
Eighteenth and Twenty-third streets,
as the future home for the service
buildings. Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons,
chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department, will supervise the
construction work.
Authorized in the act approved Feb
ruary IS, 1881, the project will cost
$4,000, 000 The project involves the
demolition of the present Medical School
Building and the original permanent
hospital and will make it possible to
eliminate the wartime temporary
structures.
Under the program, 600 patients will
be accommodated, and adequate facili-
ties provided for carrying on the re-
search work of the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery of the Navy. Likewise the
enlarged space and equipment needed
for the activities of the Naval Medical
and Dental Schools will be furnished
Partridge to Assist.
Mr. Partridge, who will assist the
Allied Architects of Washington in de-
veloping the plans. has had intimate
contact with the development of the
National Capital, for he is consulting
architect of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. He has made
special study of the area embraced
in the triangle bounded by Seventeenth
street, New York avenue and Constitu-
ton avenue.
Mr.. Partridge was connected with the
original Mcmillan Commission of 1901
and has had extensive experience in
the designing of public buildings. He
has developed a plan for the COM
pletion of the west end of the Mall and
gardens surrounding the Washington
Monument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
ToDAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NationaI-"strictly Dishonorable," at
$40 pm.
Gayety-"California Beauties" at
2:15 and 8:15 pm.
CoIumbia-"Men Call 1t Love-" at
HAS am, 1:45, 345. 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"It's a Wise Child" at l1:5o
am, 2:03, 4:34. TIT and $50 pm.
FOx-"Mr. Lemon of Orange" at
1850 am, 2:22, 4:40, 1882 and 9 SO p m
R-K-O Keith's-"Laugh and Get
Rich" at ll:49 am, 1:45, 3:46, SAC,
7:47 and 9;48 pm.
Earle-"Kept Husbands" at 1920
am. 2. ABS. 7:25 and 10 pm.
RiaItO-"Drums of Jeopardy at IL so
am, l so, $50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
rOpoIitan-"Dracula," at II am,
12:48, 2:36, 4:24, 6:l2, and 9:48 pm.
TivoIi - MY Past" at 2:30, AIS,
SIS, 7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Resurrection" IL am. to
IL pm.
Ambassador-"The Right of Way" at
6:15, 8 and $50 pm.