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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Scottsboro Defense Confer
ences have been called in the
following cities to date:
In New York, Sunday, May
II, at Finnish Workers Hall,
Is West 126th Street, to be preceded
with protest and demonstration in
Harlem on Saturday, May 16.
In Buffalo, N. Y, May %, at the
Michigan Avenue, Y. M C. A.
In Pittsburgh, May 20.
In Cleveland, Ohio, May 90, at the
Spiro Hall, 1904 Scoyille Avenue.
In Chicago, a series of conferences
have been called throughout the Chi
cago district for May "a.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, on May 30
In Philadelphia, May %.
In Minneapolis, Mimi, May 81.
Building Block Committees.
These are the cities heard from so
far. The directives sent out by the
L.S.N.R. and the LID. called for
such conferences in all cities between
May Is and 25 in order to rally the
largest masses of workers and SYM
pathizers to the fight against the le-
gal massacre of the nine innocent col
ored children. The conferences are
jointly sponsored by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
international Labor Defense, the two
organizations initiating and leading
the struggle to save the lives of the
nine boys.
Build Block Committees.
AS basis for building these con-
ferences, the L.S.NR. groups and af-
f1liated bodies are busy setting up
block and neighborhood committees.
These committees are being organized
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Attack Jobless Demonstration
In Front of the State House
Delegates Came Demanding Unemployment
Insurance; Many from Steel Mill Sec
tion Held State Conference

Although no information was re-
ceived yesterday directly from the In
diana state hunger march, capitalist
news services here carry a report
from Indianapolis that on May 4, 500
hunger marchers demonstrated on the
grounds of the state house and that
the demonstration was broken up by
solid lines of police. Militia was sta
toned in the state house itself. The
meeting was in defiance ofean order
prohibiting it. The marchers were
driven back, reformed, and went to
their camp where q meeting was held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
S m a S h Frame-Ups
Demand Amnesty F!

The Indiana march started from
various points in the state, particu-
larly from the heavy industry section,
and mostly from the Gary, Hammond,
Indiana Harbor steel mill territory. 1t
proceeded by auto and truck several
lines conyerging on the state capitol
at Indianapolis. A state conference
was held, formulated demands for
state unemployment insurance in line
with those already adopted at the
May Day demonstrations and took
them to the state house to present to
the GOVERNOR, 'N'~sss,,x.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

'"illegal' A. F.. of L. strikes indEatc@
the correctness of the T. U. o. L. -
gram announced months age ~Ann
this wage cutting campaign was
clearly seen as approaching. This
program is Strike against all wage
cutsl"
1t means organization of the mil
liant unions, and of shop committees
wherever possible in preparation Of
the strike; it means that when the
strike is unorganized or with A, F. of
L. nlisleaders nominally in charge,
the strikers must organize their own
broad rank and file strike committees
Immediately, base the committees on
mills and departments where there
are more than one of these, and bring
them together in a general rank and
file strike committee. Wherever the
A. F. of L. officials are allowed to do
the negotiating with the company
the strikes have been betrayed.
Employed and Unemployed.
The successful struggle against the
wage cuts means that the unemployed
must also be organized as fast as
possible into unemployed councils,
and a united fight waged against
wage cuts, long hours and bad con-
ditions, and for unemployment relief
and insurance. The employers and
the governments, state and city are
deliberately cutting off such relief as
was already given in hope of using
the millions of jobless for strike
! breakers.
The federal government a few days
ago practically liQuidated its "Emer-
gency Employment Committee" and
is doing nothing for the jobless. 1t
actively opposes the use of govern
ment funds for any form Of relief Of
starvation, and commendS the Red
Cross for refusing to ask for govern
ment money for the hungry Arkan-
SaS farmers.
The American Federation Of Labor
officials deliberately follow the line Of
the Federal government. fight against
insurance, and William Green. pres
ident of the A F. Of L. addressed the
United Chamber of Commerce con-
vention at Atlantic City Monday and
called for a second conference OF
business leaders and A. F. of L. lead
ers" such as the one already held in
which Green and his lieutenants
promised to prevent the workers frrm
striking during the depression. IL
/ - tAddlsiousg Naxs % - ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Only the organized power of the
,, moons cas- can SAYS e. .ne Solticai
: stts2sssssss
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Motor Workers Strike Against IS Per Cent Cut; U. S.,
State, Rushing to Break Motor Strike
Employed, Unemployed Must Unite for Strug
gle Against Attack on Living Standard
A. 7. L. Denies Own Building Strike; Ruthless Sell0ut
In indianapolis
BULLETIN


TALAN May 5AnOter battle took place the struck Ear
of twelve which
with rifles machine with unknown
that going the
in
Daniels jumped out of with
machine which action killed by
deputies Harlan said
alongside the
help" of the retreat
deputies bullet woudns and The
i rushing kill off the miners
killed
that the first battle
deputy killed.
Against a wave of wage cuts, ranging in
some cases as high as Is per cent, the already
undergrad workers are beginning to strike.
The strikes are mostly unorganized, or where
ALL. organizations exist, the officials are
busy bctraying the strikes Mtanty conducted strikes led
by the unions of the Trade Union Unity League in textiles
mining the needle and food trades and others have recently
important victories.
The outburst within the days of unorganized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Scottsboro Conferences
Called in Eight Cities
Workers Busy Building Block Committees, Wis
ting Organizations, MobiHzing Wide Masses
for Defense of Negro Boys

NEW YORK-In line with the plans developed by the
national committee of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and the international Labor Defense to strengthen and nen
y and give organzaona character to the campaign to
the lives of the Scosboro NEGRO bows the United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
TESTSOF CHILDREN
BY X-RAY PLANNED
Schedule Announced for
Early Diagonis Campaign in
D. C. Next Month.

A schedule of X-ray examinations
of children by special clinics in local
hospitals was announced yesterday by
DR.. william H. Hough, president OF
the Medical Society of the District Of
Columbia, who Is chairman of the Sub
committee on Physical Examinations
for the coming early diagnosis cam
paign of the tuberculosis Association.
The campaign is expected to get under
way next month.
The schedule announced, TO take eff
feet when the campaign commences,
follows:
Garfield Hospital, to 2 pm, Tues
days, and IL to IL on Thursdays, with
Drs. Chase and Daughton in charge.
Georgetown University Hospital, TO
2 on Tuesdays and Fridays, with Drs.
Colvin and Bier in charge.
George Washington University Hos
pital to on Thursdays and Satur-
days, with DR.. Mandelos in charge.
Providence. Hospital, 1880 on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays, DR.. Mar
garet Nicholson In charge.
Childrens Hospital, 8 to 1880 Wed
nesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, doc
tors In charge to be announced later.
Emergency Hospital, clinics arranged
by DR.. Harry Kaufman, details later.
Freednlan's Hospital, 9 to IL, Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays, with Dr..
Hugh Simmons in charge.
DR.. Hougt, in making the announce
n1ent, expressed the appreciation of the
Campaign Committee for the co-opera-
ton of the hospitals in making their
stats and clinics available in the forth
coming community war against tuber-
culosis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
SIREN ENDS BANK
HOLD-UP IN GOTHAM
Seven Bandits Fail to Cover
Teller, Who Gives Alarm.
One Is Captured.
Rr the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March ga siren
screeched raucously at Seventy ninth
street and Amsterdam avenue today
calling the neighborhood to witness
Illustration of an attempt TO rob a
branch of the National City Bank.
From the bank sped seven men, six
of them holding guns. The six made
for an automobile, all of them except
one reaching 1t in time to speed toward
Broadway and out Of sight.
Lone Man Captured.
Rudolph Merrill, manager Of the
branch and lone pursuer of the groop
kept the sixth man from getting to the
car. Merrill dropped to the sidewalk
when two bullets were fred at him
from the automobile, but rose again and
tackled the single laggard.
The man shook him OF and legged
It straight toward a policeman, who
gathered him in.
The prisoner said he was Bobby
Murphy. A charge of attempted rob-
berry and violation of the law against
carrying gun was made against him
Teller Sounds Siren.
When the six hold-up men entered
the bank they went first to one OF the
tellers, demanding cash. They failed
to cover the ernploye in the next cage
who set of the alarm siren.
Al police emergency squad arrived al
the bank q few minutes after Murphy
had been captured. They had plenty
of work to do handling the crowd sum-
moned by the siren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
GIRL FLYERS CLIMB
WILL Be CHECKED
EIinor Smiths Five-MiIe Fall
Recalls Altitude Tragedies.
May Regain Record.
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2s.-Elinor
Smith, who fell into a stupor high
above Long Island and plunged five
miles through the air before recovering
control of her plane, had recovered to-
day from an experience common to
aviators seeking altitude records.
Skill and steady nerves made Miss
Smith more fortunate than many of
the high flyers" before her.
A coupling of her oxygen tank broke
loose when she was somewhere between
$4,000 and 10000 feet up and she
dropped to 1000 feet before her head
cleared. Then she pointed the plane
toward clearing and although it nosed
ever in the landing she was not hurt.
An official reading of her Paragraph
may show she regained the womens
record for altitude which was wrested
from her by Ruth Nichols.
Elements Are Victorious.
For the most part the history of alti-
tude flying is the record of the defeat
of man and his machines by the ele-
ments. Miles above the earth the eyes
freeze in the intense cold, the metal
parts of the plane warp and jam,
Flyers gulp at the oxygen tube, are
overwhelmed by sense of drowsiness-
aAlu Va JllSul OO1l 4d4Ay do 4O1
tunately as Miss Smith.
Three weeks ago Miss Nichols. with
an oxygen tube in her mouth, found her
tongue freezing at an altitude of $4,000
feet. It was so below zero. Despite
the pain, she continued, and landed
safely.
In 1928 Mrs. Louise Thaden of Oak
land reached $4,000 feet, dizzy and
weak. She discovered that the con-
trolls were stuck tight. She Jared them
loose and came down none the worse.
BaIoonist Died 8 Miles Up.
Capt. Hawthorne G. Gray, Army
balloonist, reached 47,000 feet and tried
to cut away more sandbags. Instead
he hacked the oxygen tube and died
eight miles up.
In 1925, Lieut.. Carleton G. Champion,
Navy flyer, lost consciousness at the
same altitude and dropped like plum
met. The engine exploded, wrapped the
plane in flames, Champion fought it
and landed safely.
Lieut.. Apollo Soucek, the ace Of the
Nays high flyers" reached $4,000
feet and found his eyes freezing, his
hands numb, his mind foggy. At 10000
feet he fell into q spin, but finally re-
covered for a landing
Humans" he said, don't belong up
there"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
BIC SURPLUS AGAIN
| LOOMS FOR WHEAT
S25, 900, 900 Bushels 1891
Crop Estimate of Agri-
cultural Experts.

Another huge wheat surplus in the
United States this year, despite the re-
Gently reported reduction in Spring
paintings, was forecast on the basis OF
figures In new report yesterday by the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics Of
the Department Of Agriculture.
Averaging together Winter and Spring
wheat acreage, the department now
finds that there will be o reduction Of
only 3 per cent, indicating that q crop
Of over $4,000, 900 bushels will be har-
vested in 1881. An exportable surplus
of over 125, 100000 bushels above all
domestic uses Is thus indicated, TO be
added to the $50, 000, 900 bushel carry
over in the hands of the Farm Board,
The depressing effect on prices of the
combined surplus, frankly admitted by
the Department Of Agriculture. which
predicts prices next Summer below
those of last, was considered guaranty
that farm policies will be the high point
Of controversy in the next session OF
Congress. Progressive" Republicans
and some Democrats have already an
nounced that they will renew the agita-
ton for the equalization fee or the de-
benture form of farm relief.
league Reed Clash.
The controversy over the admins
tration'S farm program, already precipi-
tated by the decision Of the Farm Board
to buy no wheat from the 1881 for sta
biliZation purposes, reached q new
combative stage today when G. C.
league, vice chairman of the board
openly clashed with Senator David A
Reed. Republican, of Pennsylvania. Mr.
league singled out one of the conserva-
Reed had condemned the board men,
bers for entering the buying operations
at all. The Senator had attributed the
prospective Treasury deficit this year
to money lost through the Farm Board
and the money loaned to veterans not
in distress"
Mr.. league in a statement Of reply
yesterday declared that the board had
loaned" and not lost the $400, 0O0, 00C
already placed in It's hands through ap-
preparations. 80 far there have beer
no losses from these secured loans" he
said. 1T Is certain that a large part
II not all, of the money loaned viii be
returned to the Treasury"
1t was pointed out, however, that
Mr.. league did not refer to the wheat
surplus owned ~ the board, on which
it Is considered inevitable that 1t will
sustain losses.
3 Per Cent Acreage Drop.
The report by the Department Of Ag-
riculture estimates that, allowing fol
abandonments, total Winter and Sprine
wheat acreage this year will amount tt
57,441 900 acres, compared with 59,-
$4,000 acres harvested In 1880, de-
cline Of per cent. On the basis OF
145 bushels per acre, the 25-year av.
erage for the entire country, this means
that a crop of 832, 8o4,5 500 bushels will
be harvested. Domestic needs at the
maximum are said to be 100000 ,00C
bushels
The departmental report finds ir
prospect IAN abnormally large worlo
carry-over" Of wheat, a situation which
must affect prices here when the pro-
ducers go on an export basis in July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
REJECTS DEMANDS
|. ON ENJOYS RECALL
Rogers, New Assistant Sec.
rotary of State, Lectures"
U. S. Anti-Fascist Group.

In his first public act for the De-
partment of State, James Grafton
Rogers, new Assistant Secretary Of
State and former Colorado attorney,
rejected the demands of New York
anti-Fascists that the United States
seek the recall Of Mobile Giacomo de
MARITIME. Ambassador of Italy. The
Ambassador had been charged with
abetting subversive Fascist activities In
this country.
patriotic lecture to Americans of
Italian extraction, both Fascist and
anti-Fascist, suggesting that they be-
come so thoroughly identified with
the country of their adoption that they
will cease to engage in futile controver-
sizes" He appealed TO the signers of
the resolutions against the Ambassador
to exert their influence toward the
cause of complete Americanisation.
The letter makes plain that the State
Department holds Ambassador de Mar
tino to be innocent OF participation in
controversies among Americans of
Italian origin. 1t was on this charge
that an anti-Fascist delegation, led by
DIR. Charles Fanaa of New York, came to
Washington on February "a and re-
quested a public hearing before Henry
L. Stimson, Secretary of State. The
visit was inspired particularly by the
Ambassadors protest against Maj. Gen.
Snedley d. Butler, United States Ma
rine Corps, who recently charged Benito
Mussolini with being hit-and-run
driver.
Mr.. Stimson refused to grant a hear
ing because he did not wish his ONCE
used as a trumpet" for italian fac
tional disturbances Senator Royal s.
Copeland, Democrat OF New York, later
agreed to hand the anti-Fascist protest
to the President who turned It over to
the State Department In addition to
referring to the Butler incident the
protest included a set of resolutions ac-
cusing the italian Ambassador of calis-
ing "dissension and strife in the United
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
AUBURN STOCK QUIZ
DISCLOSES NOTHING
New York's Attorney General Not
to Intervene in Shares
Sudden Rise. 4
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 28-Psul J.
McCauley, State assistant attorney gen.
eral in charge Of the Bureau of Securi-
ties, said In q statement today that to
date an investigation into the recent
market action of Auburn Automobile
stock has disclosed nothing that
would warrant any Intervention by the
attorney general" nor was there any
indication that there would be amy in
tervention in the immediate future"
Reports were current some time ago
that AuburnS sensational skyrocketing
on the New York Stock Exchange was
being investigated by the bureau, and it
also was known that the Business Con-
duct Committee of the exchange was
watching the stock closely.
The shares have climbed by leaps and
bounds from 1891 low of SI0I so to a
high Of S251.5O. attaining the latter
mark on Wednesday OF this week The
issue is susceptible to rapid movements
because of its small floating supply,
which means that the price advances
rapidly when shorts are pushed to cover.
Mr.. McCauley emphasized that his
department was concerned only with
irregularities In stock transactions and
was not concerned with the worth of a
security.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
FOUR DEAD AND TWO HURT
AS THREE BUILDINGS BURN
Mother Critically Injured, While
Two Children Are Lost in
Wisconsin Blaze.
az the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARSHFIELD, Wis, March 28.--
-Four persons were burned to death and
two others were injured seriously in a
fire which destroyed three business
buildings and several residences early
today in the village Of Loyal, about 20
miles west of here.
The dead are: Mrs. Matt Bever 80;
Mrs. Joseph Shober, so; Robert Chris
Jensen, 10; Marie Christensen, 4.
Mrs. Frank Christensen, mother of
the two dead children, and Jane Chris
Jensen, another daughter, were brought
to st. Joseph's Hospital. Physicians
said their injuries were critical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
Women Plot Crime
But Seldom Try 1t,
Ayers Police Head
Artist, Visiting Gotham,
Hits Beautiful but Dumb
New York Girls.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2S.-Women in
their own and others homes and their
fair sisters in crime were the subjects
today Of two commentators who ought
to know.
Henrietta Addition, head Of the
York Police Department, described the
York police department, described the
weaker sex as usually the subtle ele-
ment in any crime in which they
figure" She said they may be the
plotters but seldom the actual perpe-
traitors. Such things they leave to men
Bobbed-haired bandits and murderesses
are unusual"
Women In BIackmaiI.
In blackmail, however, she said, al
most always a woman is involved. Only
when q Vivian Gordon Is murdered
does the public hear of the deep in
trigue, calculating GOODNESS and ruthless
execution Of which criminally minded
women are capable. Very few cases of
blackmail ever come to court or get any
publicity. The man, Of course, is re-
luctant to appear"
And of the sisters of the salon it's the
pace, or tempo, or what have you, that
hurts home hfe, 27-year-old George
Schneider, German artist, said he found
when impression-gathering here. The
visitor pictures girls with Rolls Royce
chasses and Ford minds" personifying
Americas "aptest phrase, beautiful but
dumb"
Raps "Necking."
"You enter a home" the scandalized
artist said, everybody shakes hands.
Then everybody sits on couehes or pill
lows and begins to drink like q fish.
And such kissing pronounced necking)
Such embracesl In two hours all the
guests have become very intimate and
each knows how many times the other
has been divorced, mar<led, remarked
ana the identity of current loves.
New York girls? AbSinthe without
the thrill
In Germany we don't wOfk so fast. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
FATHER YIELDS RATCHET

HONOLULU, March % H)-With
his father and brother dead as a result
of the mans manical fury Thursday
night, Donald Wallace, 8 years old, was
still in a critical condition today.
His mind unbalanced by losses in
Wall Street, Dudley w. Wallace, former
broker of Montclair, N. j., battered the
heads of his two boys with a Ratchet.
He then killed himself with a rife.
One Of the boys, Dudley Wallace, jr.,
died last night Mrs. Wallace is in a
hospital suffering from nervous col
larSe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
SPANISH GENERAL
GETS TWO MONTHS
Ricardo Burguete Lana Sen
fenced for Interview on
Dictatorship.
~ the Assoclated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, March Following his
dismissal from the presidency Of the
supreme court-martial, Gen. Ricardo
Burguete Lana was arrested today and
sentenced to two months imprisonment
as the result of an interview on the
possibility of a military dictatorship.
Only q few days after sentencing Al
Gala Zamora and his compatriots to
prison for revolutionary activities Gen.
Burguete himself Is en- route to a fort
ress prison in the south of Spain.
The government took the position he
showed in his interview he leans too
far to the left and wanted to free Alcala
Zamora.
Although no new disorders occurred in
Madrid today. the people were wonder
ing whether the outcome of the present
situation will be a continuance Of the
uprisings, revolution and republic or
a new dictatorship.
In his interview with the press yes
terday the general said a military die
tatorship was improbable now, because
army officers themselves desired to
avoid rigorous measures If peace could
be maintained in any other way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
OKLAHOMA PROBE ON

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 90 (P.-
Legislative investigation into charges of
Gov Murray OF fragrant immortality,
misuse of State funds and liquor law
was started today when the Senate ap-
pointed a committee of seven. clothed
with authority to subpoena witnesses
and take testimony. The committee
was directed to go to the campus Of the
university at Norman and conduct the
hearing there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
CHICAG0AN CONVICTED
FOR DEFRAUDING BANK
FaIsifying Records and Blaming
Loss on Robbers Charge Against
John z. Malloy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 28-John e. NAL
10y, "a years old, formerly assistant
cashier OF the defunct Lawrence Ave-
nue. National Bank, was convicted today
in Federal Court of Justification of the
banks records with intent to defraud.
Malloy said he was called to the bank
New Year day, kidnapped by four rob-
bers, who took $4,000, driven to Mil
waukee and released. Weeks were re-
CURED to check looted safe deposit
boxes and to challenge Mailcys roman
tic story.
The bank, which had almost consum-
mated a merger with another institu-
ton, was closed after the robbery.
Malloy testified he "bolstered the &C
counts Of the bank" by juggling the
books to make better cash showing,
but officers Of the bank denied author
izing him to do so. Government in
vestigators testified to reconstructing
records of the bank from deposit slips
after ledgers had been mutilated and
of finding 1913 false entries, totaling
100000.