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The Washington times., 1931-02-10
HOOvers Wed
Thirty-T
Years Today
President and First Lady Will
Celebrate Event Quietly;
To Attend Attorney Gen.
erals Dinner Tonight
BY ANNE PATTEN

Today is the thirty-second
wedding anniversary of the
President and Mrs. Hoover.
The event is being celebrated
quietly at the White House with
no particular formal observance
of the day.
Congratulations from friends
and relatives, however, have
been pouring in all day by wire
from every section of the coun-
try.
Guests At Dinner
Tonight the President and
Mrs. Hoover are to be the
guests of honor at a dinner
given by the Attorney General
and Mrs. William Dewitt
Mitchell and the party, the
fifth in the series of similar
functions given annually by
members of the Presidents Of
ficial family, will serve in lieu
of an anniversary dinner.
Was College Romance
The story Of the Presidents
romance with the former Miss
Lou Henry is too we'll known to
bear repitition. Theirs was a.
college friendship, both having
been students at Leland STAN
ford University in California.
and the friendship had ripened
into romance before the two
received their diplomas.
They we're married shortly
after young Herbert Hoover's
graduation and Mrs. Hoover, as
a bride, accompanied her hus-
band to China.
Mrs. StimSOn to Receive
Mrs. Henry L. Stimson, wife
of the Secretary of State, will
be at home tomorrow after
noon at Woodley. This will be
the last at home Mrs. Stimson
will observe this season.
To Honor War Chief
The Secretary of War and
Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley will
be the guests in whose honor
the Assistant Secretaries of
War and their wives, Mrs. Fred
erick H. Payne and Mrs. F.
Trubee Dawson, will entertain
at dinner this evening at the
Mayflower.
Guests at Luncheon
Madame Jan Papanek, wife
of the Secretary of the Czech
oslovakian Legation, and Mrs.
John Gotwals, wife of Major
Gotwals, the new Engineer
Commissioner of the District,
were the guests in whose hon.
or Mrs. Louis w. Eugster en-
tertained a company of IA at
luncheon today at the Shore
ham Hotel.
Mrs. Charles S. Elliott enter
tanned informally at dinner at
the Shoreham Hotel last eve
ming.
The Washington times., 1931-02-10
Science at u

''MicrObe Hunters" by Paul
de Kruif.
Understanding Human Ma
ture," by Alfred Adler.
"Why We Misbehave," by
Samuel SchmalhauSen.
Evolution for John Doe" by
HenShaw Ward.
"The New DecaIOgue of
Science" by Albert E. Wiggam.
"The Conquest Of Fear" by
Basil King.
"Sex and the Love Life" by
william ]. Fielding.
THE BOOK STORE. AIsLEs 2S-aT
The Washington times., 1931-02-10
nneW.Park
Plans Fall
Debut

Daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Gray Park, jr., Will
Be Presented to Capital
Society on Nov. %
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gray
Park, jr., will present their
daughter, Miss Anne Wentworth
Park, to Capital society at a
tea at their home on S Street
on November %.
Miss Park, who is now at
school in nearby Maryland, is
a granddaughter of Mrs. Richard
Gray Park. of Cloverly Farm,
West Chester, Pa, and of Mrs.
Peter Meredith Graham, Of
Chestnut Hill pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Marine Workers Voice
5 core S Deportation
s cheme of Sec'y DOak

NEW YORK.-The April issue of
the Marine Workers Voice, organ of
the Marine Workers Industrial Union,
l4O Broad Street, takes up seriously
the wave of deportations which
threaten the seamen. The leading ar
ticle in the paper describes how Sec
rotary of Labor Doak, an old time re-
dictionary union official, orders the
deportation during the crisis of 1oO,-
600 seamen who didn't happen to be
born in the U. S. A.
Other articles tell of victories bv
seamen organized in the ship COM
mittees of the M w. I. u, and tears
the covering off the betrayal of the
longshoremen now striking in New
Orleans. Quick action by the defense
corps of the workers in New Orleans
spoiled a kidnapping plot directed
against members of the M. w. u
and another story tells how a threat
ened mutiny of seamen on the Brit
ish freighter Middleton saved the lives
of two Cuban seamen who had slowed
away on the ship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Mike Gold to Speak at
T S u vi e m b ers hip
Meeting Thurs. Night

NEW YORK.-Michae Gold, noted
proletarian writer, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at an open member
ship meeting of the New York Local
of the Friends of the Soviet Union
next Thursday, April %, at pm.
in Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th st. Gold
recently returned from the Soviet
Union and he will speak on his eX-
-periences there.
The meeting will help to reorgan-
ize the local FS.U. and lay plans
Tor building it into mass organiza-
ton. Ray Ragozin, the new local
secretary, has issued an appeal to all
members, as well as other friends of
the Soviet Union, to attend this all
important meeting. New York is one
of the centers of the anti-Soviet
campaign and a strong organization
OF the Friends of the Soviet Union
is essential to combat it and to sup
port the great work of socialist con-
shIction over one-siXth of the earth's
surface. Admission to Thursday night
meeting is free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Crusader Restaurant
Manager Calls Police
to Beat Up Workers

NEW YORK.-The manager of the
Crusader Restaurant, 14th St near
Fourth Ave, went on a rampage
against the workers last Thursday.
During the afternoon he tried to
drive away from the sidewalk in
front two Red Builders selling the
Daily Worker. They refused to go,
and the crowd which collected sup
ported them. They did not leave
Then, about midnight, three work
erS entered and asked to be served.
The manager accused one of them
OF being drunk and ordered him out.
The man, though perfectly orderly,
insisted on his right to eat anywhere
he wanted to. The manager then
called a policeman, who, after very
few words, simply pulled his club and
beat the worker numerically, so that
the blood Spurted from his head OH
the floor. A man at nearby table
jumped up and a sugar bowl fell on
the floor. The cop, alarmed, ierked
out his gun, held up all three work
ers, called the wagon, and, after fur
Their beating, handcuffed the three
and took them to Jail, where they are
still held. The manager stood by,
enjoying the spectacle of the workers
being dubbed. The restaurant was
in an uproar and many patrons
walked out Indignantly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
ROCHESTER MEET
FIGHTS EXILING
For Freedom Of 5 Ala.
Negro Boys

ROCHESTER, NJ Y, April II. -
Hundreds of workers of this city fill
ed the Labor Lyceum Tuesday night
to hear Guido Serio, militant Italian
worker, under threat of deportation
to fascist Italy, and certain death.
Serio, who spoke in Italian and Eng
fish, was given a big ovation by the
workers. Comrade Serio pointed out
that it is not the case merely of
Comrade Serio, but one which in
wolves the interests of every worker
and workingclass organization.
Resolutions condemning the per-
Secution of foreign-born workers and
the frame-up of the nine Negro
youths in Scottsboro, Alabama, were
unanimously adopted The workers
pledged themselves to carry on an
uncomproiSing fight for the liberia
ton Of all victims of the class Justice
of the bosses.
The meeting was held under the
joint auspices of the International
Labor Defense and the Council for
Protection of Foreign-Born workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
WIR Parent Branch
Is Organized; Make
Plans to Get Funds

A branch of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, composed of mothers
and fathers of WIR scouts was or
gained Monday night, April 10, at
the Czechoslovakian Home, BAT East
72nd st.
Dorothy Ross, secretary of the New
York district of the Workers Inter-
national Relief, explained the pur-
pose Of the WIR and the necessity of
workers organizing to support the
strike and unemployment relief strug-
gle of the working class.
The members of the branch elect
ed an executive, and made plans for
visiting organizations to make ap-
peals for funds, in order to send chill
dren Of unemployed, to WIR camps
free.
The branch will meet every Mon
day night, at BAT East 72nd Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
"Company's Coming
Opens at Lyceum
Tonight

OF the six productions scheduled
Tor this week, one Young Sinners, .
is revival and another, School for
Virtue" was seen in Greenwich Vii
Iage a short time ago and is now
being moved uptown. The openings
are as follows:
"Company'S Coming" a farce by
Alma Wilson, will open at the Ly-
ceum Theatre this evening with a
cast headed by Lynne Overman,
Frieda Inescourt, James Spottwood
and Leila Bennett.
The New Yorker Theatre will house
the popular-p priced revival of Elmer
Harris comedy, Young Sinners"
opening this evening with Dorothy
Appleby heading the cast.
"Twos Company" by John Patten
Russell, comes to the Hudson The
atre tomorrow night. Rollo Peters
and Ann Davis are the only players
in this comedy.>
AT the LongacreTheatre, also on
Tuesday will be ushered in "School
Tor Virtue comedy by Arthur Eben-
hack. Shirley. Booth, Robert w.
Craig, Buford Armitage and Evelyn
Wade are the leading players.
THE Bellamy Trial" a mystery
play dramatized from the noyey by
Frances Noyes Hart, will have its
premiere showing at the Forty
Eighth Street Theatre on Wednes-
day night. E. E. Give, Philip Tonge,
Fred Eric and Ellen Southbrook are
in the cast.
On Thursday evening, at the The
atre Masque, the new Alice Brady
show, Brass Ankle" will have its
first showing. Du Bose Hayward is
the author.
Miracle At Verdun," the Theatre
Guild production of the late Hans
Chlumberg's play dealing with the
resurrection of World War dead, is
now in its final week and will close
this Saturday night at the Martin
Beck Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
LID MEET PLANS
DEFENSE OF 10
10 Negroes Anon g
Those Facing Chair

NEW YORK.-Plans for the fight
to save 10 workers from the electric
chair in which the ruling class is
trying to burn them were made at a
conference of branch organizers of
the New York District of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, held Friday
night in the district offices, 1893
Broadway. The 10 workers comprise
the eight Negro boys at Scottsboro,
Ala, the five Paterson, N. j., silk
strikers and the six Atlanta, Ga,
workers accused of "inciting to in
surrection." OF the 10, ten are Ne
groes.
The plans include the rallying of
thouSadS of workers through street
meetings, preparing for the great
mass demonstration on May Day in
Union Square. From on until May
Day at least so street meetings will
be held by the LID. in New York
City. The Santiago Brooks Branch
alone, a SpaniSh-language branch, is
arranging 90 street meetings.
-- On Friday noon successful meet
ing was held by the Hattie Carnegie
Shop Branch of the LID. at 54th St.
and Madison Ave. The meeting was
addressed by Carl Hacker, district
secretary of the LID. On Friday
evening at an enthusiastic meeting at
S6th st. and Lexington Ave, attend
ed by more than 600 workers, Albert
Lee, a Negro worker, spoke on the
three cases for the LID. An ap-
peal for defense funds Melted So
On Friday night, April "a, at 8
O'Clock the New York LID. is hold
ing a big indoor mass meeting at
st. Luke's Hall, les w. l3oth st.
William L. Patterson, Negro militant
who recently returned from Soviet
Russia, and other noted speakers will
address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
FILIPINO LEAGUE
ELECTS OFFICERS
Press Fight on U. S.
Imperialism

NEW 9OR K.-The, Philippine
Anti-Imperialist League of the United
States, an organization which is
fighting for Filipino freedom, held its
meeting for the election of the ex-
ecutive officers at 81 Sand st. last
Wednesday, The following was
elected: Sajona, president; Miriam
CuIens, secretary; Reid, treasurer;
Lopez, publicity, activity and propa-
ganda chairman; Gomez, publicity
director.
This organization, while its name
suggests Filipinos only, is open also
to any other nationality who may
desire TO join, provided that he who
so desires support and subscribe to
its aims and objects. The Anti
Imperialist League is fighting against
race discrimination, is fighting for
immediate and unconditional inde-
pendence of all colonial peoples from
foreign imperialist domination and
particularly of the Philippines. 1t is
also in sympathy with any movement
for the liberation OF oppressed peo-
pies.
Today, as never before, we need an
organization of this kind when we
are conscious of the exploiting ma
chinery of imperialism around US.
All workers and fighters against i'm
perialism are called upon to join the
Philippine Anti-Imperiahst League.
The address of the league office is
Room 535-799 Broadway, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
COMPETITION ON
FOR LABOR UNITY
Organizations to Build
Subscription List

NEW YORK.-The Trade Union
Unity Council of New York
has another immense campaign to
increase the circulation of it's official
organ, the Labor Unity" so that it
will be possible to issue a weekly New
York edition of the Labor Unity, re-
porting all New York struggles.
1t is a six months campaign. April
first up to October first of which the
main tasks are to reach between
seven and eight thousand New York
readers of the Labor Unity.
The Council has set quotas to all
Of its affiliated organizations.
The Council has also decided to
send Labor Unity delegation to the
Soviet Union for Nov. 7. 1t is the
14th celebration of the Russian Rev
olution. The Council will pay all the
expenses necessary and is assuring the
delegation that they will get a big
reception in the Soviet Union. One
thousand yearly subscribers is set for
one delegate and the one that gets
the majority will be the winner.
Organizations should call on other
organizations Of equal size to compete
to reach the quota set by them. Many
large organizations can have a dele
gate Of their own by getting one
thousand yearly subscriptions by
October 1st.
Get in touch with the District Of
flee at 16 w. 21st ST., for a speaker
at your next meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
BLEYER WORKERS
TO H0 n @ R COM.
PINKUS GORDON
Memorial Meeting to
Be Held Tuesday

BROOKLYN, N. YIN memory Of
Comrade Pinkus Gordon, a devoted
member Of the Communist Party who
recently died, will he honored at a
memorial meeting which has ben ar
ranged by the BIeyer Shop Nucleus
of the Communist Party.
The memorial meeting has been
arranged for Tuesday evening, April
q. at p m. fright after work. and
it will be held at the Workers Cen
ter, 81 Graham Ave. Brooklyn.
The workers, and especially the
workers of the Bleyer Shop, with
whom Comrade Gordon has for
years been co-worker and fighter in
their interest, are called upon to pay
tribute to the memory of our de-
ceased comrade.
Through the activities Of Comrade
Pinkus Gordon, and with the CO.
operation Of the workers Of the en-
tire shop, the bosses were forced to
respect the workers in the shop and
attempts of the bosses to cut wages
and introduce speed-up were Bit
terly fought against.
Through the activities of our dead
comrade the Bleyer workers valiantly
participated in the defense of hun
dreds of workers throughout the
country who fell victims of capitalist
justice.
Through the activities of Pinkus
Gordon a strong branch of the I. L.
D. was organized in the shop.
The Bleyer Shop Nucleus of the
Communist Party in arranging this
memorial meeting calls upon all
workers of the Bleyer shop to come
TO this memorial meeting in honor
and memory of Comrade Pinkus Cor
don for his activities in the reyolu-
tionary working-clas movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
JEFFERSON

Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey
will be seen on the screen in their
latest comedy, Cracked Nuts" at
the Jefferson Theatre until Tuesday
of this week. On the stage Jack
McLallen and Sarah are the headline
attractions. Other acts are Captain
Willie Mauss; Crane and Earle; the
Varieties" revue, with large cast
of dancers and singers; Ted and Al
Waldman and Frank Shields.
From Wednesday until Friday
Woman Hungry" with Lila Lee in
the leading role, is the screen fare.
The stage acts include the Keller
Sisters and Lynch; Montrose and
Reynolds: Mona and the Radio Mon
archs; May Usher; Harry Stanley;
the Lsssiters; Mulroy, McNeece and
Ridge.
HIPPODRoME
On the screen---Richard Bsrthel-
mess in "The Finger Points" with
Fay Wray, Regis Toomey and Rob-
ert Elliott. The vaudeville include
Milt and Frank Britton and Gang;
Joseph E. Howard, Made and Ray,
Chris Carlton. Fortunello and Grill
limo, Lydia Barry, Easton and Howell
and Aussie and Czech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Banquet to Greet
Il LavOratOre
Italian Comm unis t
Paper Reappears

NEW YORK.-'Il Lavoratore," the
fighting Italian organ of the Com
muniSt Party, will resume its publ
cation after a temporary suspension.
This will be an event of great poll
teal Importance for the Italian
masses, deprived during the suspen-
sion, of their only collective organ
izer, of their indonnitable champion
in the struggle against misery and
starvation, and left at the mercy of
III Nuovo Monde" the yellow daily
that concluded its treacherous and
adventuristic career by becoming,
quite recently, the official organ of
dissenting fascist group headed by
F'ama. leader OF the Ku Klux Khan.
But the fact that I'll Lavovratore"
will resume its leading post in the
class struggle is nevent of great
Importance not only for the Italian
masses of this country but also for
the toiling masses of Italy, engaged
in fierce struggle against fascist
reaction and oppression, and for all
the masses of all nationalities in
volved in the countrywide offensive
against the fast advancing fasciza-
ton of American capitalist reaction.
To celebrate such significant
event more than two hundred organ
izations will send their delegates to
a big banquet on the 26th of April
at 5 p. m, in the Workers Center, IS
East 18th Street.
All organizations which did not
elect their delegates to this banquet
are urged to do so and send their
donations. They are also urged to
notify not later than the 26th of April
how many copies of II LABORATORIES
first iSSue--which will come out on
May Day-they intend to buy. Copies
must be paid in advance at the price
of cents each.
Inc tirst issue of the Italian week.
~ will contain greetings from tens
OF mass organizations. These greet
ings must be sent In not later than
the 26th and paid in advance, too, at
the rate of SIPS per inch.
i1ckets for the Banquet are on sale
at 5o cents in the office of II Law
oratore, IS East 18th st. They must
be bought not later than the 22nd of
April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
f L BureaucratS
Scrap Over Booty:
Accuse of Scabbino

NEW YORK. - Thursday nights
meeting of the New York Central
Trades and Labor Council witnessed
the spectacle of Joseph Ryan, presi-
dent of the council presiding over the
meeting in a full dress suit. Ryan
was in a hurry to get to banquet
given him by some of his exploiter
friends.
During a iurisdictional fight be-
tween the stationary flremen and the
stationary engineers unions, the del
egate for the machinists got up and
mentioned that This jurisdictional
fight is causing strike breaking. Be
cause the machinists want to avoid
the S16O assessment, they are joining
the engineers"
The whole matter was finally re-
ferred to Brother Green and Brother
Morrison" to be hushed up in secret.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Congressman Says
Living Standard Is
Coming Down Here

NEW YORK. - A downward
sweep of the standard of living
of the American workers was pre-
dicted by Congressman Bertrand
H. Smell in a speech Thursday
night before the st. Lawrence
County Society at Hotel McAIpin.
Smell said that the crisis was lev
cling out the standard of living
of all workers (he meant in cap
italist lands). His remedy was to
pull down the tariff walls.
Besides, he saw "a gradual
weakening today of the economic
social structure of this govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
HARLEM PARADE,
MEETS THIS WEEK
S m a S h Scottsboro
Court Lynching

NEW YORK.-Harlem workers will
hold a series Of protest meetings this
week against the frame-up and court
room lynching of nine colored
youngsters in Alabama.
Street and factory gate meetings
will be held every day between now
and Friday night when there will
be big indoor mass protest meeting
at st. Luke's Hall, 125 West both
Street. The principal speaker at this
meeting will be william Patterson,
who has just returned from the Sow
let Union.
Other speakers will be G. A. Ha-
thaway, who acted as prosecutor at
the mass trial against white chau-
vinism, and Richard B. Moore, ma
tional Negro director of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, the organi-
cation which, with the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, is lead
ing the campaign against the legal
lynching of the nine Negro youths.
This meetin will serve to mobilize
for parade on Saturday afternoon
in Harlem against the Scottsboro
court lynching. The parade will
start at $3.50 o'clock from 14Oth st.
and LenoX Avenue and will march
down Lenox Avenue to 116th Street,
then east to 10th Street and Fifth
Avenue where a demonstration will
be held.
Both parade an dmeetings will be
used to mobilize the masses for a
gigantic protest demonstration in
Union Square on May First.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
IL ID Branch Holds
WeeklyOpen Air Meet

NEW YORK.-The Steve Katoyis
Branch of the International Labor
Defense will hold mass open-air
meetings every Monday evening at
Seventh st. and Ave. A. The meet
ing last Monday was very successful,
with new members gained for the
branch and sale of Labor Defend
ers. Speakers are from the ranks
OF the branch. Other I. l.. D.
branches should do as we'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Concert Includes Song
Of Rising of the Masses

The high point in the concert
given recently by Belarsky, basso, at
Carnegie Hall was the singing OF
four songs by modern Russian COM
posers, Denbsky's THE Alarm Bell"
bcIliys Before the Attack" a fold
So'lg arrange dby Ananiev, and Da-
videnkos THE Blacksmith" The
loudest applause greeted an encore,
a song of the rising of the mass IS.
Belarsky has a fin evoice, full of
power and with a wide range. He
evoked considerable appreciation by
his rendering Of classical Italian.
French and German selections, but
real enthusiasm in the Russian song
series mentioned avove. ". S.