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adding the fact the living room was in
disorder indicated only that there had
been "a terrific struggle"
Douthitt came to Washington about
six years ago, and was brought into
the public limelight because of his ac-
tiyities with the Citizens Service League,
an organization of prominent clergymen
and citizens which conducted a crusade
for Stricter enforcement of the prohibi-
ton law.
While connected with the league as
secretary, Douthitt made a number Of
private Investigations of speakeasies.
and the information he gathered formed
the basis for number of raids. Critics
of the league charged he was a
"snooper."
After resigning from the league,
Douthitt bought the Chronicle, a
weekly newspaper published in Ar
lington County, Va, and conducted its
affairs for several years as editor and
publisher. He sold the paper to Gran
dal Mackey, prominent Arlington Coun-
ty attorney, and several others. and be-
gan the publication of the Bluecoat,
a weekly magazine devoted to the in
terests and welfare of the police de-
partment.
Douthltt has Wlde circle OF frlends
in the Police Department. and numbers
among them Maj Henry G. Pratt, SUI
perintendent Inspector William s.
Shelby, chief Of detectives. and Capt
Edward j. Kelly. chief of the homicide
squad of the Detective Bureau.
Several weeks ago the Policemen s
Association adopted a resolution criti-
cising Douthitt for the business meth
ods he Is alleged to have used in So
liciting advertising for the Bluecoat
Up to that time his relations with the
association had been friendly
Before coming TO Washington Douth-
lit is said to have been employed by
the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit
He moved into his present quarters at
the Portner about three months ago.
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bayonets and machetes. AS our COM
pany arrived at the foot of the south
wall we saw Marines on top and heard
the cursing of the miX-up inside, so
most of us went around to the gap
and entered just as the battle was over.
The entire fracas took less than 20
minutes; not a Marine was killed and
only few were bruised and scratched.
Over 30 Cacos, including two or three
of their 'gros chefs were killed. This
battle of Fort Riviere broke the back
bone of the bandit activities in North
ern Haiti.
Goes After Dynamite.
Mai Butler took squad Of our men
that night, tramped down to the rail-
road, got o push car, and went into
Cape Haitien for dozen or more cases
of dynamite. They pushed 1t back up
the railroad, passed the Horseshoe Bend,
loaded it onto burroS, climbed the
mountain and got it safely to the fort
before daylight. Just before dawn three
Haitien women carrying food, evidently
the Caco CommisSary Department,
came shutting up the trail to the gap.
They had not heard that We had taken
the fort the day before, and when they
saw a Marine sentry in the gap in the
walls, they uttered one scream, dropped
their rice and beans and fed. The
dynamite was used to blow many gaps
in the walls of Fort Riviere. What was
left Of the old fort was abandoned and
was never again used either by Caco or
Marine"
Well, it looks from Maj. Thrasher's
description that there is no dispute
about the existence of Fort Riviere up
until Maj. Butler arrived on the scene
For his bravery displayed in action Maj
Butler was awarded one of the two
Congressional Medals of Honor he now
possesses.
Evening star., 1931-04-26
CLOCKS ARE TURNED
AHEAD FOR SUMNER
Daylight Saving Time Is Adopted
in 463 Communities in U. S.
and Canada.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
-Four hundred and eighty-three cities
and towns in the United States and
Canada went on daylight saving time at
2 O'Clock am. today.
At that hour, theoretically at least.
clocks and watches were moved ahead
to 3 am, to remain one hour fast until
the same time on the last Sunday in
September.
New York City and most Of the larger
cities in New York State and New Jer-
Sey are now on daylight time. Syracuse
and Rochester did not change, however,
and in East Orange, N. j., clocks won T
be turned ahead until Monday afternoon
because the city council forgot to adopt
a resolution approving the change.
Connecticut has State law prohibit
ing the public display Of clocks showing
daylight time, but banks, offices, stores
and factories in 80 towns will operate
on daylight time anyway.
Forty-seven communities in Canada
changed TO the new time ta6sy.
Railroads, except those u ch carry
commuters, will remain forAthe most
part on standard time.
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about 80 miles south of Cape Haitian
and was generally believed to have been
built by the French under Capt. Gen.
LecIerc sometime before 1900. 1t was
of solid masonry in the form Of a
square with walls from 8 to IL feet
thick and from IL to 25 feet high.
The French used it as a link in the
chain of outposts and later the black
King Cristophe occupied it. In 1915
its existance was not widely known,
for it had not been used In many years
and was well hidden by the jungle
growth.
In that year the Cacos occupied it
and it was discovered accidentally by
a Marine patrol on September 27, 1915.
On November II it was storned and
captured by the combined forces of the
Navy and Marine Corps, commanded
by Gen. Butler, then a major. DR..
Joel T. Boone, now personal physician
to President Hoover, participated In
the engagement.
The fall of Fort Riviere broke the
spirit of the Caco uprising in Northern
Haiti for the time being. The day
after it capitulated the walls were
dynamited.
CnT 0NET RI EVV IT'D E0RT
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HUGHES FOR WORLD
COURT OF JUSTICE
Holds Permanent Body Is
slope" for Development
of International Law.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chief Justice Hughes said last night
the "best hope" for the development
of international law lay Gin the estab-
lishment of a permanent court of inter-
national Justice"
The former Secretary Of State told
members of the American Society Of
International Law at dinner celebrat-
ing the Society's twenty-f1fth anniver-
sary that the province of the court was
not to legislate, but that ''the accepted
principles which govern the nations
must be expounded and applied"
May Not BE Justiciable.
"a vast and steadily increasing num-
Der of international agreements" he
said, give rise to questions Of interpre-
tation, which are questions OF law re-
curing judicial determination. Beyond
these there lies the broad field of con-
ciliation and adjustment of disputes
which may not be of justiciable sort.
1T is in the development Of agencies
for these purposes, giving greater play
to the processes of reason, and In the
disposition to utilize them, that we find
the most notable progress"
The Chief Justice scanned the quar-
ter century of the Society's existence, a
IIC Wdo OCOAOUoAy
of State and a justice of the World
Court, and said progress toward extend
ing formally the content of international
law, or "even of recording agreement as
to what the content now Is" had been
slow.
He gave as an instance the failure of
the recent Hague conference to reach
agreement of codification Of interna-
tional law on nationality. territorial
waters and responsibility of states.
25-Year Period Too Short.
"You have a task for which a period
Of 25 years is altogether too short to
yield gratifying results" he said.
Instead of attempting to record the
progress of international law, should
prefer to dwell upon the progress of
international lawyers. Perhaps, should
say, the progress of the students Of in
formation law. They multiply and in
crease In learning and avidity.
All this activity holds the greatest
promise"
IF little has been achieved in pro-
noting the development of international
law, as q definite body Of law" he con-
tinued, 1--WE have abundant reason for
qualification in the promotion of insti-
tutions for the peaceful settlement Of
international disputes"
Evening star., 1931-04-26
MEXICO HOLDS FUGITIVE
Suspect in Staying Of Texas Girl
Must Await Extradition.

AUSTIN, Tex, April IS (P). Gov.
Sterling today received a telegram from
F. Castellanos, jr., governor Of Tamau-
lipas, Mexico. stating that Alberto San
chez, jr., alleged slayer of a Texas
schoolgirl. would be held in custody in
Neuvo Laredo pending the arrival OF
extradition papers.
Gov. Sterling asked Henry L. Stim-
son, Secretary of State, to use his In
fiuence In having Sanchez returned to
Texas.
Evening star., 1931-04-26

Sage Foundation, New York; Right Rev.
Paul Matthew, d. D., Bishop Of New
Jersey; Right Rev. William j. Scarlet,
D. D., Bishop Coadjutor Of Missouri;
Right Rev. Cameron j. Davis, Bishop
Coadjutor of Western New York; Rev.
Frank H. Nelson. rector Of Christ
Church. Cincinnati; Very Rev. Fred
erick c. Grant, D, D., president of the
Western Theological Seminary; Rev.
Howard G. Robbins, D. D., former dean
of the Cathedral of st. John the Divine,
New York City; Rev. Caleb r.. Stetson,
D. D., rector of Trinity Church. New
lor of the diocese of Long Island;
George w. Wickersham. former Attor-
ney General Of the United States. and
Roland s. Md us, former Ambassador
to Japan and how chancellor Of the
diocese Of Pennsylvania.
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ington to place wreath on the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier and Fort
Myer military reservation, where the
King will receive a 21-gun royal salute.
They also will visit Mount Vernon to
place wreath on Washington'S tomb.
Wednesday will be closed by state
dinner at the White House, followed by
musicale. Thursday the King will
receive the degree of doctor of laws
from George Washington University
and greetings from seven other untNer-
sites at the Pan-American Union.
After this ceremony the King will go
by automobile to Baltimore for an ex-
animation by DR.. William Holland
Wilmer, an eye specialist.
Upon his return to Washington the
King and Queen again will meet Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover at tea at the
Larz Anderson home, their residence
during their visit to Washington. They
will depart for New York Friday at
10 am.
After the visit to Washington the
King viii be operated on by DR.. John
Wheeler, New York eye specialist, for
cataract.
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MRS. SOPHIE RICHARDSON
DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE
Daughter of Late Col. aad Mrs.
Welby Carter to Be Buried
at Upperville. Va.

Mrs. Sophie Carter Richardson, SO,
wife of Malbon G. Richardson of Coroto-
man, Upperville, Va, died yesterday at
Garfield Hospital here.
The daughter of the late Col. and
Mrs. Welby Carter, Mrs. Richardson Is
survived by her husband and five sis
ters, Mrs. H. Gordon Moore of Lynch
burg, Va; Mrs. Mackenzie Tabb and
Mrs. A. C. Marshall of MiddIeburg, Va;
and Mrs. Peter Wood Of Baltimore
Funeral services will be conducted at
Trinity Church in Upperville, Va, at 3
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon by Rev. Ed
ward Burwell. Burial will be in Crednal,
Upperville.
Evening star., 1931-04-26
SEIZED LIQUOR THOUGHT
BLOSSOM FETE SUPPLY
Dozen Alleged Runners Taken In
West Virginia in Autos With
400 Gallons of Whisky.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, April 25.-
A series of raids on liquor-runners with
cargoes which officers believe were in
tended for Virginia points to be made
available to the apple blossom festival
crowds at Winchester, Va, on May
and 6, has netted more than 200 gallons
Of whisky, confiscation of six automo-
biles and arrest of a dozen alleged run
ners in the past week. Officers believe
the liquor is being bought in the Frog
Hollow section of Maryland and brought
into this section. Five colored men
were arrested this morning. Two of
them, from this city, were held under
81, 900 bond each for a hearing before
a United States Commissioner. The
others were also held. Two cars were
seized this morning, overtaken only
after officers had been forced to go 10
miles an hour to keep watch on the
suspects. Fifty gallons Of liquor was
seized in the two cars.
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COLONEL BLEW UP FORT.
Marine Officer Tells of Gen. Buffers
Entry Into Haitian Stronghold.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, April rs UP).-
Fort Riviere is not in Haiti any more
because I blew 1t up after we took it,
but it was certainly there in 1915" Lieut.
Col. Chandler Campbell, Marine Corps
executive officer of base troops here,
declared today.
Col. Campbell's statement followed
reports of remarks made by Minister
Bellegarde of Haiti to the effect that the
fort for whose capture Maj. Gen. Smed-
ley D. Butler was given Congressional
Medal of Honor, "is not known in
Haiti"
Details Of the Nel5 engagement, in
which he share6k Command with the
fiery Butler, came unfalteringly from
Evening star., 1931-04-26
Thieves Fall Out
In Bus and Police
Take All to Jail
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, April 25.-Three
pickpockets, none recognizing the
others as professionals, were rid
ing in the same bus.
Two of them operating inde-
pendently dipped into the pocket
Of the third from opposite sides.
The victim raised such an outcry
that two detectives riding in q
back seat arrested all three.
Evening star., 1931-04-26
FRANK B. MOVES SAILS
Publisher and Wife VIII Visit
England and France.

NEW YORK, April Is (R).-Frank
B. Noyes, president of the Associated
Press and publisher Of The Washing
ton Star, sailed on the lie de France
today with Mrs. Noyes for two months
motoring in England and France. They
were accompanied by Sir and Lady
Wnlmott Lewis and Mrs. Frances Noyes
Hart. Lady Willmott Lewis and Mrs.
Hart are their daughters.
The lie de France sailed with e7S
of whom 403 were IN the
first class.
Evening star., 1931-04-26
RECALLS FORT WELL.
Serst. Maj. Cartier, Who Served in
Campaign, Tells Of Stronghold.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, April 25
IP1.-Reports from Washington that
the Haitian Minister there had
questioned the existence OF Fort Riviere,
for whose capture Gen. Smedley d:
Butler was awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor, surprised Marine
CORPS veterans of the 1915 campaign.
SerRt. Gen. Cartier. who served un.
der Gen. Butler, said he remembered
it well. It stood on 3,o00-foot peak
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KILLS BABY, THEN SELF
Estranged Husband Gives Poison
to 1s-Month-old Child.

DALLAS, Tex, April IS (R.I1homas
j. Cook, rs. estranged from his wife,
went to her home today, administered Q
fatal dose Of poison to their 18-mofith-
old baby and hen took hts own life ~
swallowing the remainder Of the potion
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about which ceners protest by Nal
which Butler received the Navy Medal OF Honor the
Gazette
the Tort
Beregard, declared
emarks had
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CAPITAL ARRANGES
PROGRAM FOR VISIT
OF SIAMESE KING

Continued From First Page.)
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HARRY N. D0UTHITT
SEVERELY BEATEN
IN HIS APARTMENT

Continued From First Pagel
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EPISCOPAL DIVORCE
!. SANCTION IS ASKED.
Commission Redrafts Canon
on Matrimony to Provide
Remarriage by Church.

CONTINUED From First Page)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
NEEDLE UNION
BOARD MEETING
Session Today to Form
Plan of Action

NEW YORK.-The most important
next event in the continuing rtsug-
gle of the needle trades workers is
the meeting of the National Board
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union. The board will be
in session today at pm. at union
headquarters, 131 West % st. Sun
day sessions will open at the same
place, at 10 am.
The board meeting will result in
drawing up program of action. The
first session will take under consid-
Grafton a report made to it in full
detail on the strikes and struggles
since the last meeting, and those
still going on and likely to develop.
A whole plan of work in old I'M
ions and organization generally Will
be proposed, discussed and adopted.
The Industrial Union calls all
workers to rally at 131 West % ST.,
at 7 0. m, for continued picketing
against the shops still out, especially
Jerry Dress at 500 Seventh Ave, and
Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West
40 Street.
Smash Injunction!
There was mass picketing yester-
day in violation of the Jerry Dress
Injunction, and this picketing will
continue.
Thursday night in Webster Hall,
mass membership meeting of the
dress strikers heard the report of
1. Potash, secretary of the union and
after general discussion, adopted it
almost unanimously. The Loveston-
cites, headed by Zimmerman, finish
ed disgracing themselves by finally,
in desperation. coming out openly,
as they have long argued indirectly,
in favor of liquidating the Industrial
Union and all going back to the COM
pany union. They found tremen-
dous majority against them.
The meeting recommended to the
National Board that Boruchowitz re-
present the union on the First of
May Workers Delegation to Moscow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
FJJRRIER LOCAL
ON WAR PATH
Votes to Recall Begun;
Rejects False Minutes

NEW YORK.-Rank and File fur
riers in the International Fur Work
ers Union, smarting under the rob-
berries and sell out and other treach-
cries of the ruling cliques, gave the
administration a surprise at the
meeting of Local 105 Thursday,
meeting in the Rand School, at the
call of the officials themselves. These
officials are now trying to have the
whole meeting outlawed.
The minutes read in the meeting
Thursday, said that Communists
broke up the meeting held week
ago in Webster Hall. The members
Indignantly refused to accept these
minutes and voted to change them.
The facts of the broken up meeting
we're that the membership refused
to go on with it because members
were being barred and the meeting
was full of police and detectives
brought in by the official cliques.
One of the Machine
A committee reported Thursday
recommending that j. Begun be re-
moved from his offices as chairman
of the joint council, chairman of the
executive of the local, and vice
chairman of the local. There were
only two votes against accepting the
report. The committee had been
elected at the previous meeting, and
it stated that it found j. Begun,
drawing $45 week, with extra
checks whenever he attended meet
ing of the joint council or executive
board of the local Furthermore,
Kaufman, international president,
they reported, had beggen them not
to sell these facts to the local.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28

The officials Of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, together with the po-
lice department of New York, are re-
peating their fascist policy of last
year in driving the reds off the
square" and are attempting to deny
the workers of New York the right
to hold their demonstration.
The following facts indicate clearly
the cooperation Of the fascist leaders
of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars and
the police department of New York,
l. On Monday, March 16, 1881, the
Communist Party informed Captain
Hickman of Precinct 10 that the
North Plaza of Union Square was
wanted for the demonstration from
80 p. m. to p. m.
2. A letter dated March l6, 1881,
- was sent to Captain Holman in
forming him to the same effect, This
letter which has not been returned,
Captain Heizman pretends not to
have received.
8. On Friday, March 20, Captain
Hickman, upon arrangement on
March Is, called at the Communist
Party headquarters and in the pres
ence of several witnesses confirmed
the agreement for the use OF the
north plaza of the square on May
First from 1880 p. m. to s p. m.
Therefore the Communist Party
was able to announce that the dem
onstration would take place at Union
Square as arranged.
On Monday, March 23rd, Captain
Hickman informed the Communist
Party by telephone that the Veterans
of Foreign Wars on March 18th had
procured permission at Central Po-
lice Headquarters to use Union Square
on May Day at p. m. but he per-
sonaIly wished to make an adjust
ment so that the square would be
cleared for the workers after the
fascist leadership of the V. F. w
and their fascist colleagues Of the
capitalist class leave the square. Cap
tain Heiznan demanded that the
Communist Party as one of the par
Elephants in the United Front should
step back in favor of the fascist
V. F. w.
This is an open plovocation of the
fascist leadership of the VIEW.
against the working class of New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
GAEL A GENERAL
ASSEMBLY MEET
Yorker School Stud
ents Gather Monday

A general assembly of all students
in the Spring Term of the Workers
School will take place next Monday
night, at 8;15 p. m. at the School
Auditorium.
The assembly is to further acquaint
the students with the many activi-
ties of the school, as being extensive
ly carried out by the Students Coun-
Gil and to get suggestions and pro-
posals from the student body to fur
ther improve these activities.
Besides the report by the Students
Council on its past activities and flu
ture plans, Comrade Markoff, the
director of the school, will briefly re-
view the improvements, achievements
and problems since the opening of
the Spring Term and outline the
further expansion of the school. All
students should attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28

A resolution calling for united
front struggle against deportation of
foreign born workers and lynching
OF Negro workers was adopted.
The meeting raised $40 for the
Freiheit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
TENANTS LEAGUE
WINS VICTORIES
= 2duces Rent, Stops
Increase, Organizes

NEW YORK.-The Coney Island
Tenants League is now fighting for
rent reductions in the three houses
on 33rd st. The tenants demand SIS
reduction. The landlord tried to
scare some of them, threatening to
throw them out, but just as soon as
they explained to her that they are
all organized and they will all stick
together, she immediately changed
her tone of voice and became very
nervous and the result is that the
reduction seems to be won.
In another house on w. 32nd St.
the tenants are confronted with a $40
increase in rent. The answer was,
''Try and put us out if you can, but
your chance of renting the rooms is
slim, because we will picket the
house" An open air meeting was
hel1 near the house and most OF the
tenants of that street gathered and
joined the League and this will help
to organize the rest of the houses on
that block. The landlord was COM
PEELED to come down to two dollars;
ne must also do the painting. How
ever, he wants to get some satisfac-
ton and proposes to evict one tenant.
The tenants are holding demon
stration against the eviction on Mon
day in front of the house, and this
will be followed up with another mass
meeting very soon.
Open air meetings to start cam
paign against the high cost of living,
and to demand free lunches for the
children of the unemployed will be
arranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
Alexander to Speak
On Garvey Movement
Sunday in Harlem

NEW YORK.-Charles Alexander
will be the speaker at the Harlem
Workers Forum, 1853 LenoX Avenue,
at o'clock this Sunday.
His subject will be 1.-THE Bank
ruptcy of Garveyism." Alexander will
expose the reformist illusions of the
Carney misleaders, their consistent
betrayals of the Negro liberation
movement and the collapse of the
Carney movement, including GarveyS
present activities in selling the pro-
perties of the organization and ap-
propriating the money to his per-
scnal use. All workers should hear
this interesting expose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14

BooZ as engineer for construction,
and J. G. Rogers as deputy. The rail
way problem was far from easy, and
many were the obstacles to be over
come, botn in our own and in the
French services. Successful manage
ment would have been very doubtful
under a leader without Atterbury's pa
thence, ability and force of character.
Visits to our training areas by the
French, official and otherwise, had be-
come rather frequent. One of the Wis
itors, NJ. Georges Clemenceau, who al.
ways remained power even when not
in any official position (Clemenceau
was not then prime minister), called
at the headquarters Of the First divi-
sion, accompanied by General de Cas-
telnau, the commander of the group
of armies with which it was serving.
cIemenceau Urges Action.
In the course of the conversation
with General Sibert, the division COM
mander, NJ. Clemenceau, with consid-
cradle emphasis, urged that our troops