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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-14
PLAN SPEECH TESTS
Navy Purchases Compressed Air
Systems for Experiment.

Compressed air has been summoned
by the Navy to aid in catapulting the
human voice long distances. The de-
partment announced today it had pur-
chased two sound systems of this TYNE
TO be utilized in experiments.
A speech, transmitted eight miles
against q 20-mile wind, showed the
possibilities and with the wind. the
words were heard Is miles. At Lake
hurst, N. j., recently, message trans
mitted over the apparatus to the dirip-
ible U. 8. S. Los Angeles half a mile
III the air was heard above the noise
OF the crafts engines. Messages were
audible in plane 800 feet aloft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-14
DEATH HELD ACCIDENT
Coroner's Inquest Finds Carpen.
ter Was Unavoida bly, Killed.

A coroner's inquest yesterday in the
case OF Mitchell Booher carpenter. who
was killed by an elevator Saturday aft
ernoon While working in Westchester
Apartments. resulted in a verdict of
accidental death.
The deceased, who formerly resided
at Camp Parole, Anne Arundel County,
Md, is survived by his widow and two
sons, one of whom was at work in the
apartment house at the time of the
accident.
Funeral services were conducted at
5710 Georgia avenue at 10 o'clock this
morning. Interment was at Smithville,
Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-14

piiance Co.. win have George w. Riley.
radio manager, as chairman. Guest
speakers include Ben c. Bowe, H. J.
Francis, Sayre M. Ransdell, j. Mccoy,
Harold A. Brooks and c, Melvin Sharne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
THE IMPERIALIST WAR ON
THE CHINESE EASTERN
RAILWAY

military operations against the Boslfeylst dan
ger lie, against the Soviet Union all these
statements and utteranceS emanating from yarta
GUS countries OF reaction are much more than
the usual Indictment OF the imperialst agents.
They are, at the moment of the battle of TSit-
sihar and the threat to Hardin, an expression
of a particularly dangerous Indictment, which
reckons on immediate success
The Japanese rule in South Manchuria, which
is to be sanctioned by the meeting of the League
OF Nations which has Just commenced forms the
prerequisite for the advance to the Chinese East
ern Railway, and further to a threat to Soviet
territory. According to the Times" of IA No
Vernber, the only thing which is requested Of
Japan is that the League Of Nations be allowed
the right TO participate in the police measures
which Will be adopted by Japan. That Japan
must remain in Manchuria is an accepted fact
for the imperialists Of the European countries.
The Kuomintang will once again have to play
the role of inperialist agent; in fact this factor
no longer forms part OF the discussions of the
imperialsts, so certain are the real masters of
the Kuomintang clique that Chaing Kai-shek's
people will do everything demanded Of them as
soon as they receive orders from the imperiaists.
On the other hand, the progress Of the Chin
csc Soviets is becoming threat to the impe-
rialists. At the commencement of November, the
consular reports from Central China stated that
"the position of the Chinese Soviets has become
stronger than ever" "Kiangsi is almost entirely
under Communist control, and Human will soon
be in the same position" The impatence to
partition China as quickly as possible, to carry
out as soon as possible the attack on the Soviet
Union, is to great extent explained by the i'm
perialsts fear of this new historical factor, the
Chinese Soviets, which are coming more and
more to the forefront.
In such tense situation, which is becoming
more and more dangerous every day, underes-
timation of the Manchurian war and lack of
concrete action by the proleSsriat against NE
danger Of intervention would mean strengthen
ing the irnperiaGst position The numerous
workers delegations who in the Soviet Union
have seen with their own eyes the tremendous
success of the Five-Year Plan, who have seen
the proletarian dictatorship in practice, who
bring to the proletarians Of all countries tidings
OF a new world, must help to mobilize the masses
to defend the Soviet Union The proletarian
masses must react more sharply than ever to the
japanese robber-caInpaign against the Chinese
working masses, to the threat OF war on the
Soviet Union. The counter revolutionary inter-
vention threat Of the inperianst robbers must
be answered by the fight Of the revolutionary
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
By YoBE p ~

By YoBE kH4ssss2
n,NrRADE Iatv1nov's Note which complained OF
\ the imperlalist intr1gues OF the Japanese and
Of the Powers behind them, once again reminds
The international proletariat how is the
danger of a war against the Soviet Union in the
Tar East. The battle of TsitSihar, which reminds
one of the great battles in the world war and has
been going on for some days the Japanese at
tempt to place the dethroned emperor Of China
again on his throne, the concentration OF large
bodies Of troops along the Chinese-Ea Eastern rail-
way. are accompanied by lies and provocative
''runo1s," characteristics of war-mongers, regard
ing the source of which there can be no doubt
and the purpose of which is quite obvious name
IT, to find pretext, no matter how tlrnsys IN
order at last to launch an attack against the
hated Soviet Union.
The version that Japans chief mission in Man
cnuria and the subsequent conquest Of North
China ito which the Manchurian war is to be
only the preude) consists in the determination
OF Bolshevisn the idea of the anti-C Communist
united front OF the Powers against the Chinese
End Soviet working people, is coming more and
more to the forefront This is expressed in the
Jacy that not only the japanese military clique,
bat also the leading imperialist newspapers OF
Europe are maintaining q barTage of lies to the
Cl4ect that General Ma is receiving subventionS
from the Soviet government, that the Chinese
troops are being supplied with Soviet munitions,
8 Well as in the fact that the theological prepar-
alton for war is being more and more carried on
along the line of Crusade against Bolshevism."
The Indictment being carried on by the mil
itacis5 and chauvinist newspapers is simply dis
missed by superficial journalists or by social i'm
peralist politicians who deliberately aim at
masking the war action, as simply irrelevant"
Ia reality however, the reactonary and military
clique have tremendous practical influence on
imperialist policy. The assertion of General
Weygands paper, Revue Militaire Franchise"
which two months ago pointed out that the
united front of all Powers must be set up against
Communism in China, as Japan is threatened
in Mananuria just as England is in India. the
United States in the Philippines, France in Indo-
China and Holland in Indonesia"; the welcome
givel by the London correspondent Of the 'Mor-
ming Post" to the Japanese Ambassador Yoshi-
zaea: The whole world must be grateful to
japan lor its fight in the Far East" the demand
made b. The Polish MackeYiecz group that Po-
l2ad SHOULD make use of the japanese fights
il order, on its part-now that the Soviet Union,
To- tie first time since the intervention-wars of
the Entente and OF the white troops, would be
sh2-,sn to It's very foundations to commence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
This Is A Tough One

We'll, boys and girls we see that the pope hs9
up and said something. He declares that thu
depression is whole lot too big to be man
made, so God must have made 1t. God makes
only the big ones
But here we strike a knot. In fact couple
Of knots Firstly, God seems to have lost an
influence over territory ruled by the Soviet. The
crisis never touched it. Secondly the witch
doctors disagree Down in the Virgin Islands,
according to clipping somebody dropped on our
desk, some holy man riseth up and sayeth that
the crisis was brought about by Sexual Iaxty"
1t seems that there are no virgins in the virein
Islands and that this is the cause of the "de-
preston" That being so, it must be a "rnan-
made" crisis. Unless, of course God is respon-
sible for the Sexual laxity"
Just where the thing stopped being man
made crisis and became god-made crisis is a
problem we'll have to leave to wiser wits to solve.
But still we are grieved to learn that the pope
has taken all the sting out of the charges of
Father Edmund Walsh. of the Society of Jesuit.
Walsh, you know, testified before the Fish
Commission last year, and in tones trembling
with excitement revealed that the economic crisis
was caused by the Communist International
Yes Stree bob! He produced document to
prove" 1t. "Here" said Father Walsh, SIS the
Thesis Of the Sixth Congress of the Conmmm
ISL international. 1t was issued III the summer
OF 1928, and 1t says in it that an econorn,, crisis
was socn to sweep over the capitalist world
And the crisis came in 1921 That proves the
Communist International caused the crisis"
We leave 1t to you folks, If figuring out thu
cause Of the crisis Isn't q tough On IN ~ -
rss Sz9MTxzx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
BY l.. BREUER Berlin

A regroupng OF forces is taking place III the
= camp OF the German bourgeoisie The ma
loutiist fascist wave is still rising The cleo
tons TO the Hessian Diet have resulted in the
national socialists doubling their vote at the cost
Of all the bourgeois parties. The Communists in
creased their vote by 81 per cent whilst the social
democratic vote declined by IS per cent. The
big question which Is being discussed in Ger
many today is: VIII it come to a Bruening-
HITLER alliance? Since the Hamburg Conference
OF the national opposition, a number of things
have occurred which render it quite clear that
TIC Ceutre is prepared to allow the national
alists to enter the Reichs government, if it
slould thereby be possible politically to disarm
to} national opposition and at the same time
5 reogthGp the arm of the executive power OF
the Reich Hitler's interview with Hindenburg
nnu his visit to General Schleicher, General
Gro2ners light hand man, and at the same time
the politically most influential general in Ger
many were events the political importance of
which must be clearly recognized.
l., hcWegcr, anything served to emphasize the
seriousness OF these negotiations bewteen the
~ elrlneut aud the party of fsscism, it was
the statements of the social democratic Reich
stag deputy Herr Breitscheid in Darmstadt on
the eve OF tho TIeSsian elections The threat
made by the sooal-democratiC fraction leader to
discontinue the policy of tolersting Bruening If
the latter on his part, did not put an end to
the terror Of the Easciss the surprising overtures
TO the Communist Party and the declaration
that tho Prussiau social democracy would op-
pose prohibition of the C.p. Of Germany, all
this, Of course, was not due to mere chance. 1t
is obvious that the social democratic party lead
ers are already well informed regarding the con-
tent OF the negotiations between the Reichs
Ministry and the fascist headquarters in Nun
chen. The social democratic party leaders are
trembling for their positions. The more they
lose their mass following the less indispensable
they become to the ruling class. The social de
mocrsts are in tight corner Their yelled offer
of an alliance to the Communist Party is only
an expression of their helplessness. BY means
of a single speech, the German workers are to
be made to forget that it was the social demo-
cratic leaders who since the days OF the revo-
luton prepared the way for fascisfn, when they
gave Groener and Schleicher, the leaders Of the
Freicorps, free hand to crush the revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
&!'4%;..,A
Believe It or Not'.And We
Don't!

The chap calling himself 'ERipIey" who tickles
the folks with his 'Believe it or not" stuff, had
better have care about standing at least some
where within thousand miles of the truth But
then after all, he sells himself to capitalist jour-
naIism and we cannot expect too much from
mental prostitute
Inc reason we are mentioning him Is an item
he put out recently. 1t appeared in the New
York papers using the Kings Feature Syndicate
and In the Hearst paper, the Herald Examiner
OF Nov. 80 in Chicago But in the latter paper,
by happy accident the editor let a story Green
in showing up the lie.
The item appeared as a brief caption under
meath the mug of a bald-headed guy with a. mus
tache drawn without doubt from pure imarina-
ton, the caption reading:
THE MERCIFUL MURDERER"-Dr. Alexe1
Sukov, of Moscow, poisoned 40 of his incur-
able patients to save them further suffering
and then committed suicide! The Soviet
government will erect monument to his
HUMANENESS."
Such GOOD story! And so in tune with the
general feeling that if you tell lie against the
Soviet Union it is virtue that the capitalists
will reward. But, as before stated the Chicago
Herald Examiner editor slipped a cog and in
another column ran the story from which the
liar, Ripley believe it or not took his cut
only it CAME FROM BERLIN! 49,. =.
1t was headed: Doctor Kills 40 to End Suffer.
ing" and it ran as follows:
BERLIN, Nov. ga DOCTOR whose medical
philosophy 1t was, that incurabIe patients
should painIessly be put to death, killed thirty
nine suffering people, poisoned his wife, whom
he thought to be dying, and then discovered
that she had been suffering from mild all
ment. He killed himself. DIR. Buk0v wrote a
letter to the public prosecutor just before he
took deadly poison. He confessed poisoning
thirty-nine of his patients i'm order to put
them out of their misery"
Now the comparison between this Dr. "BukovH
OF Berlin and Ripley's Dr. "Sukov" Of Moscow is
too obvious to gainsay! But it wouldn't do to
put the blame on Berlin! Moscow must be in
vented! Along with first name that would
sound Russian, so "Alexei" had to servel And
then to make a dig at the Soviet Government
by saying that it will 'erect monument to his
humaneneSs"!
Believe it or not, but the monument ought 10
be erected to Ripley being sure of course. that
he is under it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
He Forgot the Alfalfa

From Chicago, by the International News Ser
vice of Nov. IA, we learn that one Dr.. Lloyd Ar
mold has won renown by finding out that zone
bushel of wheat, 63 cents worth at current prices
will keep an average-sized family for several
weeks"
This doc surely ought to be rewarded by the
Rockefeller foundation. Science under capital
ism has reached it's zenith when it can discover
some way to reduce the living standards of the
workers. And this approaches as near the 5000
lie" standard as anyone in America can get, since
rice the usual diet of the cooie, costs even more
than wheat.
BY the way we sailed forth to find what wheat
would cost in Manhattan, being rather given to
natural food. And say, farmers, did you ever
hear anything like it? For wheat, just plain
wheat in gunny sack, the same that we used
to drive header-box out In Kansas, will set you
back just ten cents a pound or some $3.50 per
bushel at retail on the sidewalks of New York;
And that's uncooked. Ali you gotta do is to
spend about six hours of gas cooking It, So what
becomes of the argument about Giving on So
cents month?
In the health food" stores, where you can
find them, of wheat, already cooked will
set you back just Is cents cents, and It's less
than pound, ID ounces. So figure out what
profits Battle Greek makes
But at that, even jackass requires hay with
the grain! And the scientific doctor OF Chicago
forgets the alfalfal
Workers, this idea Of all the wise guys laying
awake nights figuring out how to put you on q.
diet OF straw hats and rubber biscuits ought to
get your dander up. Tell EN- to try it on the
Chamber of Commerce members first for a ten
year period! And keep on insisting on real food
and Unemployment Insurance to get It'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

This is the third and last of series Of three
articles on the history of the vicious death
frame-up against 60-year-old Negro farm hand,
Orphan Jones-a frame-up brazen in its
age torture Of the worker by the police in order
to extort confession" open denial by the
courts and the governor Of Maryland of the
simplest constitutional rights such as the right
to select his attorney; followed by open lynch
indictments by leading officials Of the State
and Of the County Of Worcester; with an at
tempt to lynch the lawyers of the defendant
and two investigators sent to Snow Hill by the
International Labor Defense, an attempt by
the court to force the /. L. d. attorney out of
the case and finally insistence by the court of
bringing Jones to trial on Dec. in Cam
bridge on the Eastern Shore, where armed
lynch gangs Of rich farmers have been hunt
ing Negro workers for days, searching the iaiIs
for Negro prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
BY BILL Brent.
Part UI-Couelusicn.)

THE rich farmers and storekeepers on the
Eastern Shore were determined TO lynch
Orphan Jones in order to show the workers
there that it doesn't pay to stand up for their
rights. Governor Rttchie was equally determined
to lynch Jones but he insists that it must be a
legal 1ynching; that is that there must first be
a trial before jury of rich farmers and business
men who will of course find Jones guilty and
with a rich lawyer defending Jones so that
the lawyer will be on the bosses side and not
investigate the case. Jones was removed to
Cambridge.
Invade Jail in Hunt For Jones'
The Snow Hill bosses thought Jones was in
Snow Hill SO they surrounded the Jail and broke
in and searched 1t for Jones But he was not
there few days later they heard that Jones
was in Cambridge SO the mob started for there
but Jones was then quickly taken to Baltimore
where he has been ever since. Still there we're
new runors that Jones was in the Snow Hill
Jail and the mob broke in again and searched
1t once more for Jones Although these mobs
have been on the Eastern Shore now for more
than a month Governor Richie has done moth
Ing about 1t because the mob leaders are his
friends. The sheriff OF the county knows who
the mob leaders are but he doesn't arrest any
body because he Is Just tool of the bosses who
are In the mob. The states attorney who has
sworn to have anybody who joins mob ar
rested doesn't have this mob arrested because
they are in his class, the boss class He only
has workers arrested and especially workers who
stand up for their rights And OF course the
Mayor OF Snow Hill doesn't want the mob lead
to be arrested because he himself is the chief
leader of the mob.
NAACP In Usual Role Of Betrayal.
The boss officials had to think quickly They
wanted to hang Jones but they also wanted to
quiet the workers who were protesting about
what was being done. So although they wouldn't
let the l. L. D. lawyer see Jones they did let the
lawyer for the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People see Jones This
association is a boss class organization which is
interested in exploiting and depressing working
class Negroes just as white bosses exploit all
workers. The NAACP lawyer, Josiah Henry,
went into the jail and looked at Jones. He
didn't ask him single question. Then he went
out and did what the NAACP lawyer Roddy did
IN the case Of the Negro boys in scottsboro.
He announced that Jones was guilty. He hadn't
asked Jones anything He just looked ut him,
at his face still bloody from the beating, at his
head still bandaged where it was split open by
O. policeman's blackjack and he decided that
Jones was guilty
Later on when the l. L. d. began to expose
ttae tsame-up nature c& this case aud how the
NAACP has betrayed this worker Tire NAACP
eRp,utnsd thai tbsg didrzA do apVthins h This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

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Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-20
PAYMENT FOR
WARRANTS TO
REACH BIG SUM

Approximately $4,000 will be
paid by the county superintendent
of schools office to the holders OF
registered school warrants. the no.
tice of the payment of warrants
appearing in Mondays Press.
This money is in payment of
services rendered which could not
be paid for at the time because the
tax money had not been collected
and distributed TO the county su-
perinsendent's office.
Since the share of the county
taxes belonging to the schools is
distributed only twice a year, in
January and May, the schools are
forced to register against the tax
money. These registered warrants
are issued and cashed by the
schools, usually by the banks to
carry them through the year sOne
bank alone has $4,000 in these
warrants.
The warrants pay six per cent in
terest. the interest automatically
ceasing on the date that a notice
is issued stating that warrants are
payable. Warrants are paid when
ever funds are available and regis
tration occurs only when necessary.
The money raised by the cashing
of warrants is used to cover school
maintenance, practically all OF the
teachers salaries being paid by the
state funds which are received by
the local office in September.
A few of the schools had suffi-
cient balance to carry them over,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-20
JOHNSON GETS
BIG OVATION IN
EXHIBITION BOUT

LOS ANGELES, May 20. U.p)-
A fast finish brought Battling Do
zier, San Francisco welterweight.
draw with Eddie Murdock of Tulsa
IN their 10-round battle here last
night.
Dozier was willing enough at the
start, but was hammered about the
face for several rounds by Muir
docks long lefts, and it was not un-
til the ninth round that tne san
Francisco boy showed enough OF an
edge to overcome Murdock's lead.
Dozier weighed l44 pounds and
Murdock $50
Jack Johnson, former worlds
heavyweight champion, and Dyna-
mite Jackson went through a three
round exhibition. The veteran
fighter was given a great hand, and
demonstrated his old-time skill
when he tied Jackson up in the
clinches so effectively that his
younger opponent was helpless.
Freddie Hawkins gained a deci-
sion over Joe Saldiyar in the six
round semi-final, but Referee
Charley Randolph called a bad one
when he said Tommy McGough and
Eddie Lloyd had fought a draw.
McGough won three rounds and
had Lloyd down for a nine count.
Lloyd Smith knocked out Tony
Roccaforte in the second round.
Augie Curtis defeated Speedy Lucas
by technical knockout in the third
round.