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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Casper, Cal.

Casper, Cal.
Daily Worker:
The local lumber mill, known as
the Casper Lumber Co., has been the
best for steady work and wages for
many miles around. About three
years ago they started the dup,
and then the night shift became q
thing Of the past. Then came reduo-
ton Of the working force, and for
many months now they have only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
DAILY WORKER MUST
BE UTILIZED WHEN
ORGANIZING SHOPS

Some Qualification needed regard
ing function of Labor Unity, weekly
organ of the Trade Union Unity
League, and the Daily Worker, daily
organ Of the Communist Party. Peter
S., Niagara Falls, N. Y, some weeks
ago ordered bundle Of Daily Worker
cut fren1 IS to IS due to lack of
necessary assistance in selling. Also
because IT am trying to boost Labor
Unity because the workers rather buy
union paper, when they are not
ready, or don't want to read about
revolutions. When trying to organize
shop committees and union I think It
is better to use the Labor Unity"
Separating economic problems from
political issues facing the workers is
a mistake. The chief function Of
Labor Unity is building mass reVo-
lutionary trade unions embracing all
workers regardless of political views.
The Daily Worker, political organ of
eAiO OoiAhluihse Cdl W. CHIFlG5 OH ALL
struggles of the workers, economic
and political; not only for better con-
ditions in shops and more powerful
trade unions, but leads the fight for
political demands as Unemployment
Insurance, against deportation of for
eign-borr, against ir1perialist wars
and colonial oppression; against
lynchings and for right of self-de-
termination of Negro masses in ter
ritories where they predominant. The
Daily Worker gives leadership to
concrete immediate demands for I'M
proved working conditions, and points
the way to winning these through or
sanized struggle which will eventual
~ abolish the whole capitalist system,
replacing 1t with A workers and farm
ers' government.
Labor Unity should not be held up
against the Daily Worker. Labor
Unity readers drawn into organizing
shop committees, etc, should not ex-
clude the Daily Worker which draws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
SIG A Month for the
LOggers Of WhatcOm
Falls Co.; Starving

BELLINciHAM. wash, May g.
whatcona Falls Mill Co. logging
outfit, has a new system Of slow
starvation for Us men. Employees
we're notified April % that they we're
Al laid. nxe fnE n reaIk sAAds I. bale,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05

bell. 5 from Warren and % from
Youngstown.
Defy Police.
CANTON, Ohio, May the
youngstown hunger niarchers we're
greeted by workers at Alliance, Ohio,
at an open-air meeting, despite po-
lice prohibition.
The Chamber of Commerce pre-
vented workers organizations from
lodging marchers. Workers at the
meeting contributed funds and Of
fered to lodge marchers.
Calumet Demonstrates.
GARY. Ind, May 4.--One thou
sand workers In Hammond and 1000
in Indiana Harbor demonstrated ON
May in Calumet steel region. FOR
the first time the meetings were not
broken up.
Eight hundred we're present In the
Turner Hall meeting In Cary.
The Lake Co,znty delegation OF
about % lesves for IndisusS6lts In
tsn cars and vall' pack Up inofe 81
retea to- messsnn sxs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Chatta. Negro Workers DenOunce
Attacks On SCOttSbOrO Defense
Angered By Activities of NAACP Leaders
Tending to Help Railroading of 9 Youths
to the Electric Chair

CHATTANOOGA May A. = meeting to mobilize
he workers for the campaign to the lives of the nine
Scoboo Negro boys held last night in of the arg
est churches in this city The sister of Andy and Roy Wright
two Of the innocent youths condemned by the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
lvERs PROGRAM Or HUNGER,
WAGE VAC CUES ANn, sgzsesY1ea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Two members of the United States
Naval Reserve of the District of Column
bia have been cited by the President for
distinguished services in connection
with tests with the lung" submarine
escape device. They will be decorated
with the Navy Cross by Rear Admiral
Henry v. Butler, commandant of the
Washington Navy Yard, at formed in
spection of the lst Battalion of the Re-
serves at their armory in the Washing
ton yard next Monday night.
Chief Torpedoman Raymond Charles
Wilson will be awarded a gold star in
lieu of a third Navy Gross, while Perry
Jackson Hoy, also a chief torpedoman,
will be awarded the Navy Cross.
The ceremonies will be carried out
before the first inspection of the local
reserve battalion by Rear Admiral
Butler, who recently assumed this COM
mand. Elabors tie preparations are being
made for the event by Lieut.. Samuel
w. Stinemetx, commander of the local
reserve battalion.
Other Reservists who were given
decorations are Joseph Eiben, chief
torpedo man, whose address is given in
naval records as Brooklyn. N. Y, and
who gets a gold star in lieu of third
Navy Cross: Stephen Joseph Coninski,
gunner's mate, second class, OF Trenton.
N j.. who is awarded the Navy Cross !;
Roy Harrison Syphax, chief boatswain's
mate, of 1910 w street southeast, who
is expected to get his Navy Cross from
Secretary Adams in the near future, and
John Linso. pharmacists mate. first
class, who also gets the Navy Cross.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
DISTRICT GAS TAX
INCREASE STUDIED
House Fiscal Relations Committee
Considers Equalization With =
Other States. :

Proposals for an increase in gasoline
tax for the District of Columbia so as to
make this levy on motorists more uniform
with other States. was seriously con-
sidered at a conference of special House
Committee on fiscal relations between
the Federal and District Governments
In executive SESSION today.
Chairman Mapes promised that the
committee would issue a statement re-
earding its work early tomorrow.
1t was ofhcially denied today by the
committee that there had been any
disagreement between members Of the
committee. :fIcluding Representative
Frear. Republican. of Wisconsin, and
George Lord, tax expert for the COM
mittee. over the character of infcrma-
ton gathered for the committee by
Mr.. Lord, or that members of the
committee had been in disagreement
with Mr.. Lord on the contention that
real estate taxes were too low in the
National Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
i. s. CADETS GIVEN
SCHOLASTIC HONOR
Five D. C. Youths Rate Stars
for High Grade Average.
Only Al Are Cited.

Five Washington youths were among
the Al cadets honored last night fol-
averaging 90 per cent or more in all
their studies at the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point. In keep
ing with a ll3-year old tradition, they
were decorated with gold stars.
One Of the washingtonians-Edward
M. Parker of 1909 Van Ness street-was
among the four cadets given special
awards.
The other Capital residents who at
tanned high honors at the Military
Academy were Rush B. Lincoln jr.. OF
3106 Hawthorne place; Ellsworth !.
Davis, 1915 Kalorama road; John c.
Steele. 2l39 Wyoming avenue, and
Jonathan o. Seaman, 1888 Upton street
Besides Parker. the students who
were presented with special awards are
Kenneth A. McCrimmon. South Haven
Mich: Cornelius A. L:chirie, New York,
and Walter H. Esdorn, New Rochelle,
NJ. Y.
The other high-honor cadets are:
Chester w. OFT. Erie. Pa: Chester L.
Landaker, Clinton, Mo-; Rufo Caingat
Romero, Philippine Islands; Richard L.
Jewett, Fort Howard, Md; Frederick s.
Saint, Elmhurst. ILL.,; s. anley T. Wray
Muncie, Ind; Francis r. Hoehl, Mil
waukee. wis; Herrol J. Skidmore, Nc
Cook, Nebr.
Kenneth E.. Fields. Elkhart, Ind;
John j. DAMS. Dayton. Ohio; George
w. Beeler. Seattle. WASH; Duncan
Hallock. st. Louis.
James F. Miller. jr., Pocstello, Idaho;
Thomas de F. Rogers. Devils Lake, N
OAK: Robert Erlenkotter. winchester
Mass; Burton B. Bruce. Oak Park, Ill.
Arthur B. Proctor. Sd, st. Louis, Mo-;
Charles L. Andrews. Glendale. CAM.
John B. Cary, Emporia, Kans., and Will
liam ]. Hines, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
FINDING WITHHELD
ON GERMAN GUILT
Librarian of Congress Keeps
Document for Decision
of Senate Body.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

A study" Of the evidence regarding
the liability Of the various nations for
the precipitation of the World War.
written by DR.. Charles C. Tansill, now
professor of history at American Uni
versity. while he was connected with
the Library Of Congress, Is likely to re-
main q secret document" for the pres
ent. unless Herbert Putnam. the libra
rian, should change his mind in regard
to It,
The document, which is said to chal-
lenge in some respects the verdict that
Germany was solely responsible for the
World War, was compiled while thu
Legislative Reference Division OF tbs
Library of Congress was making study
OF the evidence regarding responsibility
for bringing about the World War un-
der the terms Of a resolution adopted
by the Senate.
Senator Borah. chairman of the For
e.gn Relation Committee of the Sen
ate, who is convinced that there should
be some readiustment or reduction CT
the reparationS which Germany is COM
PEELED to pay to the allied nations under
the Versailles treaty and the Young
plan. IL Germany Is not to be wiped out
economically and politically. will not
dch lIHs IlDl al hdaA Ava bAAo NOSNAAhSsAos
it is understood.
Committee Is Separated.
Congress is not in session and tho
members of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee are widely separated today
When Congress reaSsembles the Foreign
Relations Committee will then be in q
position to ask for this document II I
appears to be desirable.
When the Library of Congress, or
February /. 1926. made its report, in
response to the Senate resolution
which was offered by former Senator
owen Of Oklahoma. in letter to the
chairman Of the Foreign Relations
Committee, H. H. B. Meyer. director
of the legislative reference division, dis
cussed a bibliography of the origin and
causes of the World War, compiled in
the division OF photography. which was
transmitted to the committee In the
Senate for its consideration. After de-
scribing this photography, Mr. Meyer
said in his letter to the chairman
Conveniently a member Of our stan
CDR. TansilD has undertaken study
Of the evidence in our possession with
a view to organizing 1t in its relation to
the main issues. The study is not yet
completed The results are in state
ment in essay form. which, When COM
pleted, may comprise 500 typewriter
pages. The compilation of 1t has been
useful in bringing into relief the main
issues and contentious and in grouping
about them numerous references and
citations.
1T will be valuable as apparatus.
When completed it will be. Of course.
accessible to your committee should you
desire to inspect 1t. But shall not
naturally transmit 1t to the committee.
since to do so might imply that it con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
DOUTHITT GETS DELAY
IN CONTEMPT CASE
Editor, Ill, to Answer June % ia
Charges Of Falling to Go
Before Grand Jury.

Harry N. Douthitt. editor Of an UNI
of1cisl police magazine, who was
scheduled to appear today before Jus.
tice Peyton Gordon to sf1cw cause why
he should not be held In contempt of
court for falling TO appear before the
grand jury early last month, was re-
ported still i'll Assistant United States
Attorney William H. Collins advised the
court OF Douthitt's condition and asked
that the appearance be postponed until
June 23, which was granted.
Collins announced that agents of the
Department of Justice had visited
Douthitt in Philadelphia, and had re-
ported that he Is still physically unable
to come to Washington to answer the
summons Of the court
Douthitt was attacked by unknown
persons at his apartment in the Port
ner Apartments late In April and was
In q serious condition In q local hos
pital for some weeks. Upon his recov.
cry he went to Philadelphia to recu-
perate, and was there served with no.
tice to appear before the grand jury
to explain statements said to have been
made, by him In connection with alleged
police graft. He suffered q relapse and
his physicians reported his inability to
come to washington. and the date for
his appearance has been postponed
twice ne1ore. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
BEER BLOC SCORED
|. ON TAXATION PLAN
w. c. T. U. Estimates Sales
to Meet Deficit Require
1000, 900 Saloons.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Womens Christian Temperance
Union today said that every resident in
a dozen States and the District of CO.
lumbia would have to drink ga gallons
of beer a day next year to raise O bill
lion dollars through taxes as advocated
by what was described as 1.-The congress
sional beer bloc
The biggest beer tax ever paid the
Government in normal pre-war days.
the union said. was $87 .875,672 in
1916, with the tax at a dollar a barrel
the per capita consumption at tn gall
Ions annually"
The w. c. T. U. said 1t would "re-
quire 2,000, 900 saloons. set up next year,
to sell the beer planned under the beer
bloc's proposal" In referring to recent
advoca ing sale of beer to provide rev.
enue to meet the Treasury's deficit.
Heavy Drinking Estimated.
ITO raise a billion dollars tax in the
fiscal year almost upon u.s." it continued.
as much beer as ever before. or nearly
I'll 900 900 900 gallons of beer q year.
2.000. 900 900 gallons more than all the
drinkers in America drank in 10 years
before the war. with the consumption
increasing enormously every year."
The organization pointed out that
Congress did not meet until December,
and that If 1t should legalize beer
only in those States not having prohibi-
ton laws could 1t be sold.
The organization listed the States
where beer might b. sold without
further action by the Legislatures, II it
were legalized by Congress. as Califor-
MIA. Connecticut, Massachusetts,. Mon
tana, Missouri. Nevada, New Mexico,
New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Tennessee. Maryland and the District
of Columbia.
The beer bloc talks about raising
that billion-dollar tax in the fiscal year
starting July /, of this calendar year,
just few days or" the statement said,
adding:
Plan Called Absurd.
Congress does not convene until De-
cember so even If the beer program is
completed Immediately and beer began
! to pay taxes January / next year there
would be only six months In which to
raise the billion-dollar Federal tax
among the dozen States named, with a
population Of 46,I34.0Oo
'Th:se unfortunate people would have
to drink 81 1000. 000, 900 gallons of beer
in six months-two and one-half gall
Ions day for every human being from
newborn babes upward. This is the
beer bloc's program shown in all its alb
surdity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
SAVED BY BRITON'S DEVICE.
Six on Poseidon Owe Lives to Appa-
ratus Described as Third Lung"

Six on POSeidOn Owe Lives to Appa.
ratus Described as Third Lung"
LONDON, June 10 lP).-Six men who
escaped from the sunken submarine
Poseidon apparently owe their lives to
the invention of q Jondoner, r. H.
Davis. who provided them with what
is described in effect as third lung"
resembling q life belt with a gas mask
attached.
It was designed to enable men trap
ped in a submarine to breathe freely
until they had a chance to escape.
1T is Ia months since the apparatus
was first served out as part of the
equipment of submarine crews Cor
man Davis, the inventors son. said
today. 1T consists of breathing bag
carried On a mans chest and a buoy
ancy apparatus. To the bag is attached
q cylinder Of oxygen and the man
inhales and exhales air which is being
continually purified in the bag. With
one Of these bags 1t is possible for a
man to live an appreciab BILE time under
water. Goggles are used to protect the
eyes.
IF there is life aboard q submarine
after she is sunk, It Is possible with
this apparatus to escape to the surface.
no matter how deep the vessel may be.
Pressure in one chamber must be
raised - usually by flooding - until it
equals that outside the ship. Then
matches may be opened and the men
escape. Should they be injured or too
weak to help Themselves much the ep-
paratus is sufficiently buoyant to carry
them safely to the surface and keep
them afloat. Should there be other men
alive in the Poisedon, there still seems
a chance that with this escape appara-
tus they may get free"
The admiralty this afternoon con-
firmed the fact that six men escaped
by means of the Davis apparatus.
Two Of the men who escaped BY
means Of the Davis lung died later and
another is still In critical condition.
A. v. Alexander, first lord ofsthe adj
miralty informed the House of Com
mons this afternoon. The men who
escaped were in the forward compare
ment when Poseidon sank.
Eighteen are still missing. he said:
the number Of rescued still living Is
5 officers and 80 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10


and Edward B. Mclean are co-trustees.
The Post, IS part of the estate of
the late John r. Mclean, was left in
trust for the son, Edward B. Mclean,
from whom 1T passes to the grand
children.
While the guardians of the children
va being kept :nformed Of the negotia-
mons, there Ii said to be no legal bar
TO the sale of the Post II the trustees
consider 1t advisable.
It became known definitely today that
there have been others In the field for
the paper besides Lawrence, whose offer
is said to approximate 100000.
Wilton J. Lambert Of counsel for the
trustees, said this morning that there
have been Offers" but he could not
discuss these. In event the Lawrence
bid is accepted. 1t Is expected to be
several days before the petition goes
before the court.
Lawrence, who has been out Of the
city since the negotiations were barred,
Is remaining silent. In Atlantic City
yesterday. where he addressed the Ma
tional Electric Light Association Con-
vention, he told the Associated Press
that he would not comment "unless the
transaction Is contaminated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Continued From First Pase)
Judgment upon 1t from the facts and
figures as they stand.
In this respect Representative Dyer
cited figures concerning his own city.
st. Louis where. he said. the National
and State prohibition laws apply. and
where 1t is found that the arrests for
drunkenness were IL, 504 in 1929.
1875 in 1929-30. whereas during the
entire three years preceding prohibition
the arrests for drunkenness totaled only
l2,403. These figures, he said. were
furnished by the police department Of
his city. He cited also Census Bureau
figures to the effect that deaths from
alcohol in 1928 were 4.627, compared to
1857 in 1919 and 2.900 in 1910.
England Nets $S7s,252.o
He said also that an official chart Is
sued by the United States Prohibition
Enforcement Bureau shows that ma
terial captured in stills during the
month of January. 1890, would make
534 900 gallons Of alcohol, or the equiva-
lent of 100000 gallons Of 100-proof
moonshine whisky. He pointed out that
in 1928 England collected $679, 252 900
in revenue on alcoholic liquors, and
claimed that at the same rate Of taxa
ton. and the same per capita conSump.
ton, the United States would have col
lected 81 SOC. 000, 900 in the same period.
He added in this connection lin England.
under regulation, the government takes
the profit. but in the United States. un-
der prohibition, the bootlegger gets it
ALL"
In citing prohibition enforcement m
other cities besides his home town, Req
resentative Dyer said that in Washire-
ton, with prohibition, there Is eight
times more drunkenness than in Lon
don, the English capital, under liquor
regulation.
"The population Of London Is $780,
000," he said, land the arrests for
drunkenness in 1929 were 1851, while
in washington, with q population OF
only 500 900, the arrests IN 1923 for
drunkenness were l3,042. London has
10 times the population Of Washington.
yet It has not had twice as many arrests
for drunkenness % our Capital City"
Representative Dyer In the past has
urged the Wickersham Commission to
study the feasibility and economic effect
Of manufacturing beer. He also advo-
Gated at the last session OF Congress
bill legalizing per cent beer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
POWER TEST CASE !
/. FILED BY COMPANY
Long-Anticipated Challenge
to Federal Rights Made
in New River Fight.

The long-anticipated court test Of the
rights of the Federal Power Commission
to exercise jurisdiction over projects on
non-nayigable waters has been taken
by the Appalachian Electric Power Co.
in the celebrated New River case.
Opposing a ruling by the commission
which would give 1t complete regulatory
power over a $l1,000.000 development
on New River, near Radford, Va, the
company has flled suit in Federal Dis
trict Court in Lynchburg. attacking the
constitutionality of section - Of the
water power act Of 1920.
Affects NavigabIe River.
Under this, the commission, some
weeks ago, held that 1t could assume
supervision over the New River project,
even though It might not be on naviga- :
bic water, on the ground that the now
affects the navigability of the Kama
wha, a navigable river, to which the
New River is tributary.
The bill sets out that the New River
Is not navigabie and for that reason, the
commission can invoke no regulatory
right.
If Section % is held to be constitu-
tional. the Appalachian asks that some
form of license be granted which would
give 1t relief.
Offered to Accept License.
The company has offered to accept
minor part" license which would
provide for safeguarding navigation,
The commission, however. last month
rendered a major license, under which
1t would exercise full control over the
financial set-up. provide for recapture
of excess earnings, hold the right to
regulate rates, and limit the leasehold
to so years.
The New River case had been before
successive power commissions for about
six years. before final decision was
reached on the sort Of license to be
rendered the company.
It was the first time that its rights
under such conditions ever had been
challenged.
The Appalachian is said already to
have spent something like 100000 in
preliminary work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

ground failed to throw much light on
the mystery Of what CAUSED 1t.
Farmers dug several feet without
finding any trace Of q meteor. This
did not prove. however, that there wss
no meteor. It was said such bodies
sometimes take q curved path under
ground or otherwise are forced many
feet away from the bottom Of the hole
in which they entered.
In contrast to the possibility that q
meteor caused the shock was the nitro
glycerin theory. This seems to be
supported by statements OF persons who
said they saw a brilliant fash of light
like an explosion at the surface Of the
ground, preceded and followed by ordi-
nary darkness.
No enc was found, however, who
knew of any explosives being transport
ed in that vicinity, although there are
oil and gas fields not far distant where
nitro-glycerin might be used.
Nitro-glycerin is generally trans
ported in automobiles with extreme
caution, but such q load might have
hole was only few feet from the edge
OF a highway.
No Trace Of Vehicle Found.
II 1t was load of nitro-glycerin
which caused the shock, no trace was
found Of body Of a wrecked vehicle
Thousands Of automobiles ciogged
the roads leading to Malinta few hours
after the shock, and in the vicinity of
the hole, traffic was brought almost to
a standstill
w. K. Gunter of Malinta, said the
bottom Of the hole was packed hard as
If the meteor had not passed that point
but admitted a meteor after entering
the ground might have turned OF on
q tangent.
Commenting on the possibility that
nltro-glycerin caused the shock, Gun
ter said he knew Of no reason why such
an explosion would have been trans.
ported in that vicinity. There are oil
and gas fields south of Malinta but
none north Of there In the direction
where the center Of the shock was
found.