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LUMBER MILLS HALF LAST
YEARS ACTIVITY.

SEATTLE.-Mills reporting to the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association
for the week ended Jan. 8 operated
at $3.50 per cent Of capacity, COM
pared with 1920 per cent for the
same week last year and an average
Of 65 per cent during the first five
months OF last year. During the
preceding week these mills operated
at 2io7 per cent Of capacity. the low
est volume Of production for any
week during 1880,
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sion. A French delegation was pre-
sent. The decisions were unani-
mously adopted to strengthen mass
work, double the Party membership,
make the new unions mass organiza-
tons, create the political shop stew
erds system mall factories, strengthen
work among tn Socialist workers,
create new forms of the United Front
movement by anti-fascist delegate
conferences, etc, and to mobilize the
masses against fascist terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Mere Wulcting on
in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Pa,
To the Editor
On Thursday, Jan. rs, the Pitts
burgh Press reports that "a drive
will be launched at a dinner tonight
by the Rev. w. R. Farmer, DID, to
collect $4,000 for the Y. w, C. A,
In the very same paper the Red
Cross asks Pittsburgh's aid for only
$4,000, which is part of the $4,000
600 that the said Red Cross intends
to relieve us of.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

~
ward the city hall. Richard B. Moore,
of tne Harlem Tenants League, a Ne
gro worker, also member OF the
delegation, climbed on the base Of
the statue and repeated the informa-
ton.
Biedenkapp and another worker
from the delegation got up again to
continue the report, when the police
attacked, Before this, half dozen
cops on foot had tried to force their
way in on the east side Of the crowd,
where the numbers were less, and
found themselves up against a dele
cation from the Food Workers In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Three Workers on City Island, New
York Relief Job, Die When Exposed
to the Cold; We're Starved and Sick
''Relief" Undermining Health of Thousands of
Unemployed Workers
New York, N. Y.
Dear Editor Daily Worker:

Dear Editor Daily Worker:
am of those married who were fortunate
enough to get the three days work which arranged by the
bankers committee, headed by Tanmany grafters.
On Thursday morning Jan IT, went down to City Island
where group works very cold and the frost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
SIS New Subs and
Renewals For Week

During the past week, 1853 new subscriptions
and 1877 renewals were received. A total of 1871
were dropped from the list during the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

RGANIZE TO END
STARVATION; DEM ND
Relief!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

Note: The figures do not include $3.50 extra
the Lenin Memorial Edition. The figures of
New York In these tables for tho preceding week.
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Here are the tables;
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
BY DAVID p. SENTNER

lC0pyrlgnt, 1851, Dy
News Service)
CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
31.-Two women and perhaps a
third today appeared to have had
narrow escapes from the wiles Of
Cornelius Pierson, mail-order Blue
beard, who dipped his pen in
blood.
He had a system-scientifically
kept files plus code-which lay
behind the synthetic love epistles
with which he courted hundreds
Of romance-struck women.
Had Dates with Two
The very day-August 27-On
which PierSOn was arrested for
the slaughter Of Mrs. Dorothy
Lempke, Mrs. Asia Eicher, and
her three children, Miss Virginia
Bell, Of HagerStOwn, Md. ''had a
date" to 60 riding with him.
And Mrs. Bessie G.. StorrS, of
Olean. N. Y, was due to meet
the correspondence school Romeo
today.
Mrs. Edith D. Simpson, of De-
troit, wrote warmly of wanting
to meet PierSon. In a letter
mailed August "a, she said:
II know by your letters you
are a real man and a gentle
man. 1 love you for your
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
HINTS
j. s. CAN BUY
WEST INDIES
Desperate in Crisis, Cabinet
Ponders Seeking Foreign
Bids for Island Colonies |

LONDON. Aug. 81 G.N.s0-
Sale of certain of Britain's CO.
lonial possessions to the United
States as a means of liquidating
her war debts was being seriously
discussed in official circles here
today.
Disposal Of the West Indies
was pronounced "diScuSsable" in
official circles, although it was
made clear the United States
would be taking on a 'big bur
den" through such q purchase.
Some years ago the breakup Of
the British empire for the pur-
pose of alleviating the mother
country's financial burdens was
discussed, but nothing came Of it,
mot For Sale"
The Prince of Wales was
prompted to proclaim, somewhat
Indignantly. that "the British
empire is not for sale"
Some officials, however, now
hold that anything is possible
in view of the crisis" but whether
the government actually would
embark upon barter OF the CO
lonial possessions if an offer was
made was uncertain.
Surrender of Britain'S mandate
over Iraq, which has been dis
cusSed frequently, would have to
come under the scrutiny of the
League of Nations.
Disposal of Palestine, which
the Daily Mail urged today, was
held impossible, because every
time it has been suggested a
worldwide Jewish protest has re-
suited.
Dictatorship Looms
A dictatorship for Great Brit
ain, under the hand of Prime
Minister j. Ramsay Macdonald,
loomed as a possibility today if
the Labor Party persists in its
determination to block the emer-
gency financial measure planned
by the coalition cabinet to bal
aEce the budget.
The cabinet is determined to
put its program into effect inn.
mediately and Parliamentary Op.
position will result in measures
similar to those taken b Presi-
dent Won Hindenburg and Chan
celIOr Heinrich Bruening during
the recent German crisis.
The cabinet is empowered, by
orders in council" to push
through its measures, including
reduction of the dole, government
tai salary cuts, and new taxa
tions. if the Labor bloc in the
House of Commons threatens to
upset the applicant by obstruc-
zionist tactics.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
WHITNEY RICHES
S239,301,017

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 0.N.SO.
A final accounting of the estate
of Harry Payne Whitney, finan-
cier and sportsman, was filed in
surrogate'S court today. diSpoSing
of an estate of $239,301,017.
Officials here believe this to be
the largest estate ever recorded in
this country.
The accounting, filed by execu-
tors, shows the estimated value
of the property at the time of
Mr.. Whitney's death May 25,
1927, was $186,579,746.
The executors realized $7,414,-
898 as profits on property sold.
Unsold securities increased in
value by $45,306,372. Inheritance,
transfer. and estate taxes totaled
$22,179,274.
Helen Hay Whitney, the widow,
received the largest legacy, $S11,-
282.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Bluebeard Once Met
Miss Bell Here,
He Reveals

A Washington hotel was used
by Harry o. Powers, confessed
murderer of two widows and
three children. as a rendezvous
with one of his intended vic
tins, according to word re-
ceived here today from police
at CIarksburg, w. Va.
He told police, they say, that
at one time he met Virginia
Bell, of Hagerstown, Md, at
the Grafton Hotel. According
to letters in his possession, he
intended to call on Miss Bell In
Hagerstown last Thursday.
1t was also revealed through
the letters that he corresponded
with Marie Anet, Of Hopewell,
Va, and Mrs. Nettie Guerrant,
of Ocean View, Va.
Officials OF the hotel, said
today they had checked back
their register for more than q
year, but found no record Of
Powers or Miss Bell.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Marriage Still Popular
But Not So Enduring

1920. Figured in percentages, di-
vorced persons made up IL per
cent of the population over IS
years old in 1880 and but 6 of l
per cent 10 years before.
In contrast, the experts cite
these figures: Back in 1890, $50
per cent of the men and 56.8
per cent Of the women were re-
ported as married. In 1920 these
percentages were 59.2 and 6O.6,
and in 1880 they are so per cent
Of the men married and GIL per
cent of the women.
More divorced men and women
live in California than in any
other State.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
KNOWS RIGHT
AND WRONG,
AL|ENIST
ASSERTS
Powers Again Denies Confes'
sion as Murder Farm Is
Searched for More Bodies

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
81 Q.N.S0.-Harry Powers. alias
Cornelius Pierson, matrimonial
agency bluebeard, is legally sane.
DR.. Edwin H. Mayors, of Pitts
burgh, nationally known psychia.
trist, declared today.
DR.. Mayors talked with the
murderer in his cell here today,
as authorities continued searching
for other victims of the admitted
killer Of two widows and three
children. Said DR.. Mayors:
Powers knows right from
wrong. He has been abnor-
NAL SexuaIly since childhood.
But he is legally sane"
DR.. Mayors said the murderer
was a "sadist." ..,..
Denies He Has Confessed
Insisting he made no confes.
sion, Powers today told the Rev.
T. E. Gamer. Baptist minister
and his spiritual adviser, follow.
ing the mental examinations:
"AnybOdy who would commit
such q crime is insane"
Powers also told DR.. Mayors:
81 have never confessed and
1 will tell my story at my
trial.
81 have no interest in religion
and only called the minister to
get out of the agony which
off "ers were causing me-"
Address Book Found
An address book listing AZ
names and the holder of a can.
celled check book, apparently the
property of Mrs. Dorothy Lemke,
of Northboro, Mass, was ur-
earthed over the weekend near
the murder garage trench where
the bodies of Persons five vic.
Tins were found.
In addition, newspaper clip
ping was found in the slaughter
house garage containing the
obituary of Mrs. Julia F. WeSSon
Within, IS, widow of George
Minor Within, of North Uxbridge,
I ASS, who died on July IA, 1881,
after an illness of several months.
Although both the women vic.
Tins of Powers were widows,
authorities here secuted the
theory that the mail order MUIR
derer had any communication
with the late Mrs. Within. They
pointed out that she probably
was q friend or acquaintance Of
Mrs. Lemke.
Old Well to Be Searched
A possible new development
IOOmed, according to police, as q
well in back of the murder
garage was being dug into. The
well, once the only source Of
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The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Mother Kills Baby,
Asks Forgiveness

CHICAGO, Aug. 81 GN.S0-
Mrs. Helen Lynch, Is, Milwaukee,
is dying with a broken neck to-
day, having leaped from second
story hotel window after chloro-
forming her 3-year-old child. be-
cause she could not provide for 1t.
A note found beside the
baby's body read: This affair
lacks the customary love inter-
est. There is none. I've killed
my darling. o, Mother, please
forgive me-"
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
WITCH ADMITS
KILLING MAN

DETROIT Aug. 81 G.N.S0
After intermittent grilling of
more than 100 hours, Mrs. Rose
Veres. 40, so-called witch widow"
of Medina Street, today broke
down and confessed to killing
one of the IL men who died un-
der what police alleged were in
eliminating circumstances during
the past eight years.
She is charged with murder
and faces life Imprisonment.
According to Assistant Prose
cutor Duncan McCrea the widow
said: {
'I was hard up and needed
the insurance money on the
man. / tried to poison him
twice but he didn't die, so 1
pushed him out of the attic
window"
Her victim was Steven Max
68-year-old roomer. whose death
led to the probe, which disclosed
that II other men died "mysteri-
ously" in her boarding house.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31

The divorced population Of the
nation more than doubled be-
tween 1920 and 1890; neverthe-
less, there is a gain in the per
centage Of married citizens over
is years of age, the Census Bu-
reau reported today.
The deduction from this, ac-
cOrding to the experts, Is that
marriage is more popular than
ever-but it may not last so long.
For the first time in the his
tory of the census, the number
of divorced persons crossed the
million mark in 1880. The fig
ures show 1,062.726 divorced in
1880 as compared to 508,5Sa in
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Three Women Just Missed
Trap of BLuebeard

franknesS and the mind OF
such beautiful thoughts"
Miss Bell wrote in a letter
dated August %:
81 hope that August 27 will
always be a red letter day for
u.s."
Mrs. Storrs wrote on August "a:
81 am so happy-I will soon
be living in a new world with
YOU" (Signed) "Kisses Love
Bessie"
How did this fish-eyed. flabby.
faced Pierson with the heart of a
fiend do it?
Through an ingenious bookkeep-
ing system, Pierson segregated
various clippings from writer's,
articles, and treatises on love,
friendship, and other romantic
subjects. He culled from the
worlds authorities on psychology,
philosophs and science.
His synthetic system of love,
making even went further. Pier
(Continued on Page ;, Col. y
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
ROVER MAY ACT
ON CANNON,
WITNESSES
Asks Nye Committee Record
For Possible Presentation
Of Case to Grand Jury

Indications that the Grand
Jury may conduct a separate in
quiry into charges that two wit
nesses testifying before the Nye
campaign funds investigating
committee are guilty Of contempt
of the Senate for refusal to an
swer questions loomed today.
United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover announced he would ask
for a Stenographic record Of the
hearings.
Cannon Actions Scanned
This record will also be studied
by Mr.. Rover with reference to
charges against Bishop James
Cannon, jr., of violation of the
Federal corrupt practices act in
connection with the clergyman
activities during the 1873 cam
patgn. ... .-r
At the time of the refusal of
two of the witnesses to testify
before the committee, Senator
Nye, chairman of the committee,
said it was up to the proper Off
cialS to take cognizance of the
alleged contempt.
Rover Moved to Act
This statement has prompted
Mr.. Rover to make an advance
study, not only of the record of
the hearings but of the Senate
resolution authorizing them.
Mr.. Rover said:
"As to the alleged violations
by Bishop, Cannon of the Fed
eral corrupt practices act, 1
would not have to wait for any
one to call my attention to
them as they have been stated
in the press for several months.
"An early decision might
have to be made in this matter
because one Of the charges
would appear to become out
Iawed in December. OF course,
I am not saying 1 shall reach q
decision to ask Grand Jury &C
ton, but 1 intend to study the
records of the proceedings
carefully"
(Other news of Bishop Cannon
on Page e.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
PROSECUTION
RECEIVES
DETAILS
Rover to Be Sidetracked When
Grand Jury Begins Hear
ing Charges of Brutality

Police brutality amounting al
most to murder is under inveSti-
cation today by the Department
of Justice.
Evidence tending to show that
police beatings have resulted in
deaths on at least two occasions
was presented to the department
today as plans were being cOnSid-
cred to strip the office of District
Attorney Leo A. Rover of any au-
thOrity in connection with the in.
vestigatiOn and court proceedings
which may result.
Rover to Be Displaced
Further connection of Mr.. Rover
and his aides with the scandal
hangs upon the outcome of a con-
ference at the Department of Jus
tice this afternoon. It was re-
garded as likely. when the confer
e1ce got under way that Mr..
Rover would be displaced as prose
cutor and that special assistant
attorney general would be appoint
ed to handle the Grand Jury pre-
sentation and whatever criminal
trials follow.
Police beating of woman
prisoner, with the result that
her baby was born dead, is one
charge that was presented to
Federal agents today.
Another charge alleged that a
high police official ordered the
utmost secrecy thrown about the
wounds which caused the death
Of another prisoner.
Woman Tells Story
The woman who charges that
a beating which police gave her
killed her unborn child is Doro-
thy Stewart, colored, of 214 D
st. N. w. She asserts that early
in July she was sitting on the
steps Of her then home. 1928
Seventh st. N. w., when two
policemen, attached to the Eighth
precinct, ordered her to go inside.
When she protested, the woman
said, the officers hit her. They
then took her to the station
house and there again beat and
kicked her. She says that she
was convicted of disorderly con-
duct, in Police Court, the next
day.
On the following day, accord
ing to her story, she went to
Gallinger Hospital. Her child,
born few hours late, was dead,
she said.
Doctors Doubt Story
Physicians at Gallinger said
today that the stillbirth might
have been attributable to a beat
ing, but they thought this un-
likely.
Agents of the Department of
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The Washington times., 1931-08-31
". Y. to InGHgIIrGte
Air FerrU ThUrSdGV

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 QN.S0.
A shuttle service by transport
planes and a sightseeing service
hourly linking airportS will go
into effect here Thursday. The
air ferry will connect Floyd Ben
nett Field and Glenn H. Curtis
Airport with six air transport
lines operating out Of Newark
Airport.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
RECORD SO SETS
GOLF PACE
Photo by International

BEVERLY COUNTRY CLUB,
CHICAGO, Aug. 81. - Record
breaking golf was reeled off at
the very outset of the thirty-fifth
annual conflict for the amateur
golf championship of the United
States, which began here today.
Jack Westland, of Chicago,
shot the first nine holes in SO,
three strokes under par, a new
record for Beverly.
Westland is amateur champion
of the Chicago district and for
mer Washington State amateur
champion. He is a lawyer.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Coleman Appointed
Minister to Denmark

F.. w. B. Coleman, of Detroit,
American minister to Lithuania,
Latvia, and Estonia, has been
transferred as minister to Den
mark, the State Department an.
nounced today. He succeeds the
late Ralph H. Booth, also of De-
troit.
Robert p. Skinner, wartime
conSul.general at London, and
now minister to Athens, Greece,
has been named minister to the
three countries with headquarters
in Riga, LatVia.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
u. S. Woman Victim
OF Austrian Thieves

LINZ. Austria, Aug. 81 GN.S).
The Austrian police today were
seeking the thief who stole a
letter of credit and jewelry worth
$4,000 from the automobile of
Mrs, Mary Ray, wealthy New
York woman, on the road between
ISchl and this city.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Germany to Stand
By Austrian Union

BERLIN, Aug. 81 GN.SO.-De-
spite reports to the contrary, Ger
many has no intention of aban-
doning the Austro-German Gus
toms union project before the
Hague tribunal renders a definite
decision as to its legality, it was
learned today.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Missing Boy Found
At Home and Safe

EDGARTOWN, Mass, Aug. 81
UN.S0 Search for William
Franklin Paris, jr., Is, member of
a prominent Philadelphia family,
missing since Friday, was called
off today when notification was
received that the youth had been
located at his home in Philadel-
phia.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Clark Seeks ReneUGL
OF Claims GrOuDS

American Ambassador Clark at
Mexico City will continue his ef-
forts to obtain a renewal of the
special and general mixed claims
commissions, it was learned at
the State Department today. The
general claims commission ex-
pired yesterday and the special
August II.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Australia Converts
Giant Sterling Loans

LONDON, Aug. 81 0.N.SO.
Conversion of Australia's loans at
a lower rate of interest to aid
the country's economic situation
has met with 81 per cent success,
a Central Newes dispatch said to-
day. Loans converted totaled
more than G556,O00, 900. The in
terest is reduced by an average Of
more than per cent.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
JeLlicOe's Daughter
UndergOeS Operation

MONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. 81
ONSO Lady Gwendolyn Jelli-
coe, daughter of the former COM
mander in chief of the Royal
Navy is in serious condition
today following an operation.
Lady Jellicoe took sick on
trip from England a week ago.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
Aid Freed
After Killing Miner

HARLAN, KY, Aug. 81 UN.S.) &.
Deputy Sheriff Lee Fleener was
at liberty on his own bond today
after allegedly killing Joe Moore,
40, a coal miner, last night. Julius
Baldwin, 80, and Jess Baldwin,
%, were seriously wounded.
The Washington times., 1931-08-31
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of August
%, $144.183,911.12; expenditures,
$6.756.937.85; customs receipts,
$35, 5,193,101.18.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
GROUP OPENS FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Committee on Early Diagno-
sis Campaign Arranges
Talks by Radio.

An intensive campaign for tubercu-
losis prevention opened today, to con-
tinue through May Is, under the direc-
ton of the Early Diagnosis Campaign
Committee of the Washington Tubercu-
losis Association.
The Campaign Committee is COM
posed of representative health officials
and social workers, of which DR.. Joseph
A. Murphy is chairman. The final plans
for the campaign were released follow
ing meeting this morning at the Of
fees of the association, 1922 Eleventh
street.
All three local radio stations will carry
short talks on the object of the cam
paign tonight. From Station WRC, at
6 o'clock, DR.. H. B. Larned, president of
the Board of Education, will speak on
Educational Efforts in Our Public
Schools; from Station WMAL, at $40
O'Clock, DR.. Murphy will talk on Pro
tecting the Health of Our Children, .
and from Station VOL, at $50 o'clock,
DR.. William H. Hough, president of the
District Medical Society, will speak on
Science Conquering the Fee of Youth. >
On street cars of both lines in the
city posters will be displayed carrying
the campaign slogan, tuberculosis the
Foe of Youth" and the statement,
Early Discovery by X-ray." Posters
with the same slogan and a picture of
David, representing youth and knowl-
edge, about to overcome the giant,
Goliath, symbolic of tuberculosis, are
also being displayed in the high schools
and graded schools, as we'll as in most
of the Federal Office buildings in the
city.
Active cooperation of the medical
profession and the hospitals in provid-
ing physical examinations with x-ray
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
NEW SCHOOL URGED
BY CITIZENS GROUP
Erection of Vocational StruC-
ture Is Recommended by
: Southeast Body.

Recommendation that the District
erect a new vocational school on Poto-
mac avenue southeast between Thir-
tenth and Fourteenth streets, was voted
last night by the Southeast Washington
j. Citizens Association at meeting in the
Southeast branch of the Public Library
Stressing the need for added educa-
tional facilities in that section, the as
ISOLATION unanimously Endorsed the ac-
ton OF A. Pheger, chairman of its Edu-
cational Committee, in requesting the
Board of Education to consider building
the new school.
District Owns Property.
The property upon which the build
ing of the school is recommended has
been owned by the District since 1910,
according to Mr.. Pf1eger. He told the
association the property was purchased
at that time for the purpose of erecting
q school,
Setting forth objection to the I'M
sightliness of the Washington Gas Light
Co.'S huge storage tanks on the banks
of the Anacostia River, near Twelfth
street southeast, the association adopted
q resolution asking the Fine Arts Com
mission to plant silver maple trees to
screen off the view from the main road
way. When the gas company removes
its plant to Alexandria the association
contemplates asking removal of the
storage tanks altogether.
FavOrs Boulevard Highway.
The association went on record favor
ing the establishment of Potomac ave-
nue. as boulevard highway. 1t recon-
mended that stop signs be placed at the
intersection of Kentucky avenue, Fiji
tenth and G streets southeast. The
civic group asked also that automatic
traffic signal lights be timed SO as to
give longer time for pedestrians to
make crossings and that lanes be
marked of for pedestrians.
A Bicentennial Committee, appointed
to cooperate with the Federation of
Citizens Associations, included A. G..
Hermann, president of the association;
Mrs. M w Davis and j. C. L. Ritter
Warner H. Wright was accepted as a
new member.