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The Washington times., 1931-02-03

brother is in want of relief 1
will not ask the Federal Gov
ernment to take care Of him.:
In Mr.. Parks attempt to reply,
his answer was drowned out by
booes, catcalls, handclapping, and
other noises, including the bang
again on the Speakers gavel in
the House chamber.
Cramton Flares Again
AS the House tumult died with
conclusion of Mr.. Cramton's
speech, it flared up again a mo-
ment later when Representative
Allan T. Treadway R), MasSa-
chusetts, one of the G. o. P.
leaders, arose just as Representa-
tive Robert G. Simmons (RD, Ne
braska, called up the District ap-
preparation bill for general debate.
Allowed time for general debate,
Representative TreadWay bore out
Mr.. Cramton in every detail and
asserted that the House rules:
Ought to be amen0ed SO
that red-bloOded men in this
chamber can answer such abuse
as has been heaped upon them
by members of another body
meaning the Senate).
Treadway said that a certain
member of the Senate had even
heaped ridicule upon Speaker
Longworth, and:
This House ought to be able
to defend its Speaker against
such facetiOus and unjustified
remarks"
At this point the House at
tendance thinned out and a
deSultory general debate on the
District budget was begun with
indications that the actual read
ing of the bill will not come for
several hours.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
CONDITION OF TREASURY
Wheeler Joins

Treasury balance January 81,
$155, 1872, ,897.33. Expenditures, $6,'
221, ,O91.9 .93. Customs receipts, $28,
SO7, $50. .88.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
D. .C.CONN|TTE
IS MEETING

The Senate District Committee
is meeting today in what may be
it's last session of the present
Congress, to consider four con-
troversial local measures.
These are the small loan bill,
the anti-vivisection measure, the
bill making Immediately avail
able $3,000,000 to buy land for
the George Washington Memorial
Parkway, and the bill to close
barber shops on Sunday.
Fights Over All
Hearings on all four have been
held. and opposition to each has
developed.
The anti-vivisection bill has be-
hind it a powerful feminine lobby,
and is opposed by an array Of
scientists and physicians. Thou
sands of kilograms, letters and pc
titions have been flooding the
Senate from back home" urging
its enactment.
The 3l2 per cent per month in
terest rate allowed in the small
loans bill has drawn fire. This
bill also has behind it a powerful
lobby, formed mostly by national
organizations.
BARRIERS for 1t
The Sunday barber shop is be-
ing fought vigorously by those
who see in it an entering wedge
for gen eral Sunday closing legis-
lation. The BARRIERS, however,
seem to favor it overwhelmingly,
and Senator Royal Copeland CD
of New York, is fostering it as q
health measure.
The opposition to the parkway
measure is mild.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
Dead Soldier Cited
For War HerOiSnl

Announcement was made at the
War Department today Of the
posthumouS award of the Dis
tinguiShed Service Cross to Ed
ward j. Kearnin, formerly SER
geant, infantry, Forty-second Di-
vision. whose mother, Mrs. Mar
garet T Kearin, lives in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
The award was presented Ser
geant Kearin for attacking an en-,
eIny machine-gun nest which was
causing heavy losses to the Amer
lean troops in the World War and
saving a wounded companion.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
WATER WALL
ROARS OVER
HARBOR
Ships in Hawke Bay Tossed
About HeIpIessIy. as Huge
Peaks Sweep Over Them
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being treated in temporary dress
ing stations thrown up IN parks
throughout the city.
Doctors Keep Busy
Local physicians found them
selves overwhelmed by the
injured, and sent out a hurry
call for assistance. Fifty doctors
and nurses we're requested I'M
nediately, and from wellington,
New Plymouth, Wanganui ana
elsewhere medical assistance
was rushed to the scene Of the
disaster. Some of the physicians
and nurses travelled hundreds OF
miles to reach Napier.
Four cabinet ministers, accom-
panied by police and soldiers, de.
parted from wellington aboard
q special train equipped with
portable Army radio outfits and
an X-ray apparatus,
School COlIapses
Among the tragedies of the
quake was the death Of IA boy
students at the Napier Technical
school, which collapsed like a
house of cards when the temolor
struck. Many other students
were injured.
Latest reports from TIE cen
ter of the disaster area indicated
firemen were having a s,;ff bat
tie to save the city from total ex'
tinction.
All buildings in the community
Of WairOa, on North Island, were
demolished and roads IN that vi
cinity Obliterated by another viO-
lent earthquake shock today, &C
cOrding to MESSAGES received here.
Disrupted communication made
immediate check-up on casualties
impossible.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
RETURN
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Continued From Page y
States Marine Corps officers
and men while stationed in
Nicaragua"
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
Auto Tag Dead Line
Set bu Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 3.--At the
office of the commissioner OF
revenue it was stated this morn
ing that only TAB city automobile
tags had been issued. although
there are a total of $500 tags to
be issued.
The dead line has been set for
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03

CONTINUED From rage ~
States Marine Corps officers
and men while stationed in
Nicaragua"
Wheeler Joins
Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
Cd, Montana, who visited Mica
ragua several months ago, said
today he would Join Senator
King in the effort to force the
withdrawal of the Marines. Both
Senators asserted that the
United States is now virtually
performing police duty" in
Nicaragua and this should have
been discontinued long ago.
Senator King disclosed that
not only is there more than
1,4OO officers and men of the
Marine Corps still in Nicaragua
but that small government pays,
in part, for the American "oc'
cupation." Senator King said:
81 am informed at the State
INdVy uCPoA VIC
still have 1,455 Marines in
Nicaragua. At the peak of our
occupation there were approx
mately 5000. There is no more
reason that the Marines should
police Nicaragua than my own
State or Washington, District of
Columbia.
Country Pays Officers
81 also learn that Marine Of
ficers go through a form of pro
motion in rank and pay and
that this little country helps to
foot the BILL
"This is done, I am told, by
covering these officers into the
Nicaraguan National Guard. and
Nicaragua makes up the differ.
ence between the ordinary
salaries of the officers and the
pay at the increased figures"
Senator Wheeler, Montana,
agreed in substance with the pro,
gram of Senator King to cut the
Marines in Nicaragua off the pay
roll of Uncle Sam, and predicted a
showdown in Congress over the
Nicaraguan policy Of the State
and Navy departments.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
British Sub Blast
Burns, Shocks CreLU

CHATHAM, England, Feb. 8
GN.SD. One member of the
crew was badly burned and
others suffered from shock follow
ing an explosion aboard the Brit
ish submarine XII during trials in
the Thames Estuary today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
< !

MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: The Story Of q
Commonplace Crime. BY Francis lies. New
York: Harper & Bros.
| IERE, the opening sentence: "It was not
until several weeks after he decided to
murder his wife that DR.. Bckleigh took any
active steps in the matter"
What could be fairer statement than that2
What more artful either? For at once the
reader gives up the sleuth idea, since here is no
mystery whatever to be solved Not even Is he
the collaboration going along to check up the
Probabilities Of the adventure. He knows the
end Of 1t. Thus. with so little for him to do, he
quite naturally becomes an accomplce, to the
measure in which he seeks the doctors rea-
son for so mad and dangerous an act. A
reader has to have something to do besides
picking familiar words OF the page.
The doctors wife Is a good woman. She
admits it in q manner implying that she Is about
the only one OF that kind roundabout. She Is
masterful woman, exercising her powers in
this line chiefly upon her husband, as master
ful women who are lucky enough to possess
such an outlet are likely to do She is use
full woman in the community. Why expand
that topic!
Men Of certain professions are unfortunate
unless, perchance, they are adamant in the
st. Anthony manner. Men surrounded by
women, mostly, not in rough tumble con-
tact with men-in a word, men of the polite
professions" run great risks and meet great
dangers. DR.. Bickleigh did. An Grant eye,
heart of high pressure, opportunity crowding
his pathway-well, the doctor was in imminent
danger, quite apart from the driving ferocity
of his good wife toward the destruction of both
of them.
A novel plan for the crime stroy. very ef-
fective one, for-between us-a reader grows to
feel that the doctor-why, of course not! Vio-
lence is never justifable Well fate took its
course, primarily in the form of that "scorned
woman" who has been acting up harmfully ever
since the world began. No. not the wife.
Another one.
Good plan, good writing, for a story of the
kind And. actually, it seemed shame, the
outcome. Yet, 1t was plain justice, whatever
that may be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
Books ReCeiUed

For the young ones:
FOUR GYPSY CHILDREN BY Cora Norris
Illustrated by Dorathea Fouse New York:
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LITTLE YUSUF; The Story of a Syrian Boy.
BY Idella Purnell, author of The Wishing
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Macmillan Co.
DOG OF FLANDERS BY Louise de la Ra-
Illustrated (mcst charmingly) by
Ludwig and Regins. Chicago: Beckley-Cardy
Co.
ROBIN AND ANGUS. BY Mabel L. Robinson.
Illustrated by Eloise Burns Wilkin. New
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PADDLEWINGS; The Penguin Of Galapagos.
By WIfred S. Bronson. Pictures by the
author (talking pictures). New York: The
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SEA LEGS. BY Oliver HEREFORD, author of THE
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FLOWER AND WEED. BY Edith Mirick n
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LITTLE MISS APRIL. BY Anne Robinson,
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SANTA'S COTTON DOLL FARM BY Cuisine
Courson Weaver. St. Louis: The Bethany
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
THE TWENTY-FIVE FINEST SHORT STO-
RIES. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. New
York: Richard r. Smith, Inc

EDWARD J. OBRIEN Is an old hand at gath
l. ering best stories for the use of those
who are not entirely capable of deciding be-
tween the best" and those grades of storiese
that descend so sharply and abundantly
from this high level. So taking up a collec-
ton of his, one feels assured of being in good
company. Let us see yesterdays company,
this And that does not please impatient
reading public that wants its cakes right hot
of the griddle. However, again, let us see.
Some stories, you know, even those written long
ago, are as current in effect as the ones gath
cred this morning off the streets or f1shed
out Of the sunrise tide.
So it Is here. All contemporaneous in spirit
and effect, certainly, these writer's And
the stories they have brought, as if each had
selected his own with today in mind, with this
hours readers in his heart, are without ques-
ton partakingly Of the present The French
and the Russians are. in this collection, giving
the home folks a hard run. BalZac, Daudet
Maupassant, Merimee, Chekhov Komrof-but
genius IS not shut within any country. Here
at home, are Hawthorne and Harte. Melville
and Poe and Twain and Dresser and O. Henry
with Hardy and Scott and Kipling from across
the way. There are others. All together they
serve the good purpose Of comparison and con-
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readers in most convenient form a substantial
budget of entertainment. To the student of the
short story, to one interested in its purpose and
in the best plans to meet such purpose, this book
Is Of distinct value. To one interested in cur
rents and trends Of literature from time to
time, In the changing fashions of short story
writing. it is. again, Of q promising usefulness.
To meet the great average who want cork
ing stories" this selection by Edward ]. OBrien
steps out In complete and justified self-con-
ndence.
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% IDA GILBERT MYER
The Story Of Stain, Russian Leader -''7He
Problem ofLife"-A Book for Boys,
and Some Short Stories.
81 The

comparable spirit of Manhattan. good
gesture Of sincere affection that is bound to
meet with welcome.
The story-it is In purpose q story, Of sorts
begins with the Civil War and the draft riots
about which American history books talk
so duly and unconvincingly. II the book end
ed right with the record Of that event. 1t would
have justified itself. Fer here Is a realism Of
action imbedded In q sound motive, here is q
vividness of picture that one does not often come
upon. An admirable bit Of work. that. Then
the story goes with the influx of the fer
eigners, with their compliant part in making
the city government something for reformers
to lament and good citizens to turn away from.
A character, Irish naturally bears most CT the
burden OF bsing hero to this tale of civic vicis-
situde to this story of more or less unconvinc-
ing romance. game of croSs-purpoSe takes
away from the clear quality of the story as
such. This game includes both literal fact and
colorful fancy. Reading a romance, one is
bit daunted at the appearance of Theodore
Roosevelt and Elihu Root and James Blaine.
One wants to know what they doing there.
Not so much of a slip that, since these are
agents of righteousness against the ever-preS-
ent and swiftly self-magnifying monster Tam
many with its bosses and its political vandals.
The pleasure of this reminiscent hour lies al
most wholly, in the familiar touch Of a writer
who obviously, knows his New York. And so
1t turns out, for Louis Wilton has lived there
the most Of his life. And here he sits, just
remembering RELIEVING bits of that older town
and setting these down in a hundred pictures Of
lfelike interest and sound historic substance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
Demonstrations This Week to
Demand Release of Mooney

NEW YORK.-A Negro and a
white miner of Harlan, Kentucky,
two Of "a miners facing murder
frame-up organized by the coal OPP
orators, will be brought to New York
early next week They will speak
before mass meetings and demon
STATIONS in the Mooney Harlan
Scottsboro United Front campaign
initiated by the International Labor
Defense.
They will be part of a corps Of
speakers, all of them class-war pris-
oners Just released from the capital
ist dungeons, who will help to rally
the masses for the fight for amnesty
for Tom Mooney and Billings, the
Imperial Valley prisoners, the Scots
boro boys, the Camp Hill troopers
and all class-war prisoners still held
in Jail or out on bail awaiting trial.
Among these speakers will be Jessie
London Wakefield, LID. Kentucky
organizer, who spent six weeks in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
JAPANESE SEIZE MANCHURIA; WORLD WAR THREATENS
War in Manchuria!

tiE armed seizure OF South anchuria by Japanese military
cisve step familiar
hlane to the seizure of World
the seizures called local Incidents and IN
both reflected the fight between perast powers standing behind
both "aggressor" the victim"
The difference imperial powers their main
enemy in the country consuconand the other
difference that the mpeials find more difficult to enthuse
the
The nearness depends
the developments struggle the mpersts andore
struggle immediate future holds American workers
must from the events.
that the danger is acute fact
which American bgned by pac
fist gable about peace Japanese diplomats
Manchia still peace the
instruments of not OF peace Manchua Is seized
these peaist agencies paey for time to prepare their own
tnterventonl
not Official but that both Chinese and japanese soldiers got out
Washington the Kellogg Pact oatedas yet
The Geneva dispatches how supporters of Ma
promises appease the
completely Nancua Japanese control
pas intervene in bloody war for their own
The Communist, statement that policy of Chang
the whole Kuonnang imperialism enslave
the victory of Japanese
But while Japan Selling Chinese territory Chang ka
fighting Chinese Conmunihe leaders of the
fight that national independence and unity
through a power.
The evet prove up Inter
imperialism and therefore the nevabty
deepening offensive the capitalists against the
wrD the growing discomfort of the masses the strike wave and
the mutiny the British and Chilean fleets
imperialism essbut fas
reeabnsh It's position both by frontal attack its
competition with its
andno the eaby seeking to destroy and loot the Soviet
the it sets to British workers
capitalists continually about the of the
American
especially the East colhdng with
had Manhria and Mongolia
hamelessy mitarists 1929 the attempt
to Eastern Railway.
imperialism been continual
interests Previously the two imperiahs rivals
enters the fight
swiftly
the the
important one!
that the contradictions and
against responsibility
Manchian conflict but them
the capitalist offensive against their
world of standing
defend of all workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
British Capitalism Bankrupt!

sterling would miver
of
WORKERS should the world shaking
. collapse gold
fall the Pound Sterling exchange before Minister
F1andin through talking
The confidence in British sterling not only
first clearly shown
hrnkage gt-edge
nmnt bonds of no than $50 ooo ooo in one hour and the follow
taken from the dispatch from London
Saturday
papers bombsrdins appeals
sterling into foreign exchanges not regard the franc
che dollar refugees
refuge light
the selling Wall the widest this year" when
high stocks American Telephone and
Telegraph, others, collapsed catastrophe
the Britain and the fall of Pound Sterling.
Workers must by all strive understand the intimate
non these matters have with their lives and destnes Events
the week end have been filled with Importance the life of
worker in America and throughout tn world
credit AS the Daily Worker oeod when occurred the muny would
fn world imperialism into speeding its plans against the Soviet
the perspective between the mpeast but
Is step toward armed attack on the Soviet Union
inter-periah against the Soviet becomes
nearer as the world crisis OF capitalism turns into universal disaster
catastrophe all capitalist desperately seek the
appeal
all the pacs and driven by panic of sene ready
O the blood Of the
that British Admiralty attempted to pa
the standD hopes
action this the fake "op
position socialists ceased talk against the
wage peace with the government
also President Hoover suddenly changed his
Yankee Imperialism figures that the Legion
may be needed for
The Leonnairss will up only
attacked result the financial collapse
which with its collapse of the gold standard Sunday
dumping goods the world market which Amer
capitalists will meet by cuts compared to which those
aires will be nothing at all
war bloody
before to
against all by refusing bear the burden of the crisis
American capitalists intend to unload upon theml
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
TALK PEACE
TO HIDE WAR
MANOUVERS
Imperialist League
Of Nations Hopes"
For Settlement
But Prepare to Fight
u. S. Covenant Says
It's "Only A Mutiny"

NEW YORR.-Cumulative imper-
ialist antagonisrns, especially between
Japanese and Anglo-American in
terests, broke to the surface Friday
when With startling swiftness Jap
anese troops occupied the TOO miles
of the Southern Manchurian railway,
in renewal of war that may lead
to a new world corflagration.
Coinciding with the weakness Of
the American backed Marking gov
eminent, now fighting the Cantonese
and losing out in the anti Communist
front; the internal difficulties of
British imperialism, Japan timed its
move to meet with the least possible
immediate resistance.
The Moscow Pravda in its issue Of
September 9th already foretold the
present inperiaist outbreak, when
it wrote:
Penetration of Anglo-American
capital into Manchuria has aroused
the Japanese into Fastening their
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

masses; Pat Toohey, mine leader who
has been in many bitter fights
against the coal operators in the
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
GINA districts.
Frank Spector, who has just been
released from San quentin prison
as a result of mass pressure, and who
saw Tom Mooney in jail will tell
how the California bosses are trying
to undermine the health of Tom
Mooney by hard labor and unhealthy
cell conditions. Spector brings a
militant message from Tom Mooney
to the working class to unite behind
the amnesty campaign.
r h Mooney Harlan Scottsboro
United Front campaign will rally the
workers and poor farmers through
out the country in mass demonstra-
lions and conferences for a stern
fight for the immediate and uncon-
ditional release Of Tom Mooney, the
Scottsboro boys and other victims
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
Millions for Ten New
Destroyers But Not
A Cent for Jobless

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 49,
War preparations rush ahead. The
navy department has just taken bids
for construction of ten big new IS
knot destroyers. Bath Iron Works,
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation,
Maryland Drydock Company, New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Co., New York Shipbuilding Co.,
Pussy & Jones Corporation, and
United Dry Docks, Inc, are dividing
the work among them, each building
on one or two of the destroyess. Bids
for hull and machinery only range
around 100000 each. The ordin-
ance equipment will be about ST.
100000 for each ship.
This money comes from the q. s.
government, which refuses to give one
penny to save the lives of the millions
of starving unemployed --4-~-..1Ax.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
6Harlan Miners on Trial
November23;
"a Miners Held for Murder to Be Tried in De-
cenlber; Bosses Plot to Hold Men in Jail

HARLAN, KY, Sept. 21-The six
Harlan c1ine leaders still retained in
Jail here on charges of criminal syn
dicalism will be tried on Nov. %, it
was learned today by attorneys of the
International Labor Defense to wf1om
the miners have entrusted their de-
tense.
The "a miners held for murder have
had their trials postponed till De-
cember LID attorneys declare that
this act on the part of the prosecu-
ton Is part of a campaign to keep
the men in Jail as long as possible
in order to hamper the leadership
of the National Miners Union. The
prosecution also fears a trial now
while workers are aroused to mass
demonstrations and protests over
coal company justice in Kentucky,
the attorney state.
Judge D. G. Jones and Sheriff
Blair have been attempting to make
deals with miners, offering to release
them from Jail and drop the charges
against them if they leave Kentucky
with the promise never to return.
Those who have been released and
will not leave their homes, are being
terrorized
LID attorneys who visitoed the i'm
prisoned miners here today found
court records of the case in great