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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
NEW NAVY PLANES
PASS RIGID TESTS
Speed of $50 Miles an Hour
in Power Dives Part of
Requirements.

SEATTLE, Wash, January IA
speed of $50 miles an hour, a vertical
power dive-an ascent from the ground
to 10000 feet and return in five min
uteS-hoating ability when the ma
chimes are forced down on water and a
high speed at great attitudes
These are some of the features of 46
new Boeing single-Seater fighting
planes, first delivery of which was made
to the United States Navy at Bremen
ton, Wash, yesterday.
Although Boeing officials refused to
estimate possible speed of the planes, it
was understood they are as fast as the
speediest combat planes of any nation.
They are distinguished from the old
type of war birds by their ability for
quick take-off, rapid ascent, their high
degree Of maneuvering ability and
speedy diving possibilities.
Navy Planes Improved.
The new Navy planes are similar,
though with added improvements, to
the ships which won the Shift Naval
Trophy for 1880. A squadron in COM
peting for the award made 861 take
offs from an airplane carrier, a like
number Of landings, and flew 100000
miles, mostly over open seas, without
an accident.
Other fighting planes with which the
oAhPo "tAG are lilOhC WUlCIl
Army airmen resently flew in formation
TO establish an international altitude
formation record of $4,000 feet. They
carried full military loads. Individual
planes of this type climbed to $4,000
feet with similar load without reach
ing a ceiling. These machines also were
Boeing-built.
If forced down on water the planes
are kept afloat by chemical bags upon
which the wings ride. Their straight
type landing gear. as compared with the
old cross type, lessons wind resistance
The 450-horsepower Wasp engines are
supercharged to give added power at
high attitudes.
Five Planes Already Delivered.
Five of the as planes already are in
Bremerton to join the airplane carrier
Lexington. The remainder of the ships
will be received by the Navy at the rate
of 10 month. They will be flown in
the annual Navy Winter maneuvers.
The ships were approved by the Navy
Trial Board after tests in which DEM
onstration plane shot into a power dive
from an altitude Of 10000 feet and at
tanned a speed estimated at $50 miles
an hour straight downward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
FREEDMAN'S HOSPITAL
CONTRACT is AWARDED
Capital Firm to Build $12e, 300
Maternity Ward, Total Cost
to Be S155,OOO.

Contract for the new maternity ward
wing at Freedmans Hospital has been
awarded to Bahen e. Wright of Wash
ington, it was announced at the Interior
Department. this morning.
The work is to be completed in 225
calendar days. The contractors bid was
S129,30O. A total of $155,000 was appro-
priated for the work. The bids for
equipment to cost $4,000 or $4,000,
will be asked shortly. while architec-
tural services and incidentals will take
care of the rest of the appropriation.
1t was also announced at the depart
ment that bids will shortly be asked for
a chemistry building at Howard Uni
versity for which 100000 has been
appropriated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
MRS. HOOVER DONATES
CARD PARTY AWARD
Autographed Picture Presented for
Bladensburg Church Event.
Dance Planned.
peeial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BLADENSBURG. Md, January -
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the Presi-
dent, has donated an autographed pic
ture of the White House as an award
to be made at the card party to be
held Thursday night by the Ladies'
Guild of st. Luke's Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the Parish hall of the
church here. Merchants have donated
various other objects, and in all there
will be "a awards.
The guild also will give a masquerade
ball in the parish hall February 4.
Mrs. Richard Schiller, president of the
organization, is in general charge of
arrangements. Henry A. Friday will be
the flood manager and John B. Alsop
will be in charge of the door.
A meeting of the Sewing Circle of
st. Lukes Church will be held tomor-
row to make plans for a play to be
given next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
HOOVER DAM ANSWERS
ARE FILED BY 5 STATES
Defendants Claim Supreme Court
Lacks Jurisdiction in Case
Brought by Arizona.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Six States named defendants by Ari-
IONA in its effort to prevent erection
of Hoover Dam today filed in the Su-
preme Court motion to dimiSs the
complaint made by Arizona.
The States were California, Nevada,
Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.
The motion commended the Supreme
Court did not have jurisdiction, argu-
ing the complaint did not present a
can take judicial cognizance"
The motion also commended that Ari-
zona's bill of complaint docs not join
the United States, which is an indis-
penSable party to this suit" and it
docs not state facts sufficient to con-
stitute a call to action"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
SUSPECT PRISONER
AS HOME INTRUDER
Woman Who Surprised Man
in Apartment to Attempt
to Identify Bandit.

An effort will be made today to iden-
tify Theodore Brewer, one of the ban
dts arrested Saturday following a
grocery store hold-up in the Southeast
section, as the man who entered the
apartment of Mrs. Frances Walker, 1888
New Hampshire avenue, last Thursday.
Brewers companion, John Boyd, who
shot himself when police cornered both
OF them in Garfield Park. Second street
and Virginia avenue southeast, is dying
at Casualty Hospital, doctors reported
today. The hold-up was staged at an
Atlantic g. Pacific Co. store, Tenth and
c streets southeast.
Mrs. Walker told police a picture of
Brewer published in local paper closely
resembled the man she surprised in her
apartment early Thursday morning
Mrs. Walker said she will go to the fifth
precinct some time today in an effort to
pick Brewer from lineup.
Surprised in Apartment.
The intruder was surprised in the act
OF rifiing a desk drawer. Mrs. Walker
told police. She explained that the
man commanded her to keep quiet, but
she screamed and he fed down step
ladder which had been apparently
placed against the window by the
TODDsr.
Mrs. Walker told police she found
her pocl;etbooll on the floor near the
desk. and reported that the only article
missing was valuable cigarette case.
Brewer and Boyd were arrested by
police after Gordon Hooff, l9-year-old
grocery clerk, trailed them for several
/ blocks. Brewer, who first gave his name
to police as Theodore Owens of New
ark, N. J.. is from Winston-Salem. N.
C., and Boyd said he resided in PhLa-
delphia.
No Murder Connection.
Capt. Edward J. Kelly, assistant chief
/ of detectives, said today that following
grilling at the fifth precinct yester-
| day he was satisfied that Brewer had
| no connection with the death of 49,
| year-oid Beulah Limerick, slain at her
| home, 10 Nineteenth street southeast.
| Kelly said bosh men we're in Phila-
| delphia at the time of the murder.
However, Capt. Kelly said, he would
| subject the two .25-caliber guns found
on the men - an examination some
| time today in an effort to determine
/ If the bullet which ended the life of
the Limerick girl could have been fired
+, from one of them. The test will be
made by Lieut.. John Fowler, police
firearms expert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
COURT DENIES LENIENCY
Refuses to Suspend Jail Terms as
Urged by Jury.
special Dispatch to The Star.

LYNCHBURG, Va, January ~
Judge F. P. Christian in the Corporation
Court Saturday declined to abide by a
recommendation of the Jury In the trial
of the charge against Kenneth Spiggle,
who appealed from a charge of driving
an automc bile while intoxicated.
The jury returned a verdict of 500
fine and 80 days, recommending the jail
sentence be suspended. This the court
declined to do. Motion for a new trial
was made and bond for Spiggle was
fixed at $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
AUTO DEALERS SEEK
BANKRUPTCY RULING
Washington Cadillac Co. Directors
Declare Inability to Meet
Obligations.

The Washington Cadillac Co., 1888
Connecticut avenue, today asked the
District Supreme Court to adjudge it
bankrupt. Through Rudolph Jose, its
president, the company states that a
meeting of its board of trustees and
stockholders was held January 7, when
it was shown that the company is I'M
decision was reached to file an applica-
ton in bankruptcy.
No schedule of assets and liabilities
has been filed yet.
Attorneys Ellis, Ferguson, Houghton
& Gary appear for the company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PRESSER FALLS DEAD
Was Recently Hired at Fort Hum
phreys Post Tailor Shop.

j. Everett BrawTaer, IS, colored, a
clothes presser, fell dead today at the
home of his employer, Nathan Douglas,
proprietor of the Fort Humphreys Post
Tailor Shop.
Douglas said the man, who had been
working for him only two weeks, coll
,apSed a few minutes after being adj
nitted t. his hcnlc II $50 Princeton.
place. The b1Gy CT E-2wner, who lived
at 1889 T street. was removed to the
District Morgue, pending an inyestiga-
ton BY Coroner J. Ramsay NeE1tt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
DAUGHTER GETS 100000

John c. Wilson who died December
%, eft an estate valued at 5000, 900,
according to the petition of his daugh-
ter. Elizabeth Wilson, for the probate of
his will. She is named as the sole
beneficiary under the will and as ex-
ecutrix. Attorney Henry w. Sohon APP
pears for the executrix.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
TWO FACE GRAND JURY
IN DRUG STORE ROBBERY
Morris Beck, 10, Under Suspension
for Previous Hold-up, and James
Carpenter Waive Preliminaries.

Morris C. Beck and James L. Car
penter, accused of breaking into and
robbing drug store in the 5000 block
of Connecticut avenue. were bound over
to the grand Jury from Police Court to-
day on bonds of $4,000 each.
Beck, who lives on Fourteenth street
near Clifton, was recently placed on
probation with a 3-year suspended sem
tence in District Supreme Court for
completely in a hold-up and robbery of
a bank messenger.
The boys, both of whom are 10 years
old, waived preliminary hearing. Car
penter lives on Kilbourne street near
eighteenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PET RESTORED TO OWNER
Photograph in The Star Locates
Missing Setter.

Publication by The Star of photo
graph of Dan, 3-year-old English
setter, missing almost week, has re-
suited in the return of the pet to Laura
Belle Wyatt, daughter CT Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Wyatt.
The dog was found by E. B. Small
wood, colored Mr.. Wyatt is general
counsel Of the Federal Reserve Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
BOY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
Sister Transports Him in Toy
Wagon, Following Injury.

When her 4-year-old brother fell and
cut his head yesterday, Frances bur-
roughs, 9 years old, placed him in their
tov express wagon and ran seven blocks
to Casualty Hospital. where the injured
youngster was treated by p1lvsic.ans
The children were playing in TIE
kitchen of their home, 327 Fourteenth
street northeast, when the brother Will
liam, fell against the sink. He was
not seriously injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
Arts Club to Meet.

CLARENDON, Va, January IL (Spe-
cis) The Creative Arts Club of Ar
ling on County will meet tonight at the
home of Mrs. Waiter w. Cosby, zoo
Clarendon avenue, this place. A pro-
gram Of unusual interest Is being plan
ned, it Is announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
$500 INCREASE
FOR JUR|ES ASKED
D. C. Budget Hearings Dis
close Plans for Avoiding
Delay of Trials.

Note.-ThiS Is the sirth OF series of
stories GnGIyzinO the Districts BUDGET for
the 1882 fiscal year, which is nolO under
consideration by the House Subcommit-
tee on APPROXIMATIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
DEMONSTRATE AT
STRUCK LAUNDRY

The Laundry Workers Union, 260
E. 18Th st. held successful DEM
onstration Thursday, I p. m, near
the Active Laundry, Wales Ave. and
f51st st. The bosses gangsters were
all lined up, but after the licking of
last week did not dare to attack the
meeting.
A car parade with signs will go
through the Bronx streets today ad-
vertising the strike in the Active
Laundry. A hearing in court on the
Injunction the bosses are asking, will
be held today. The bosses ask for
an injunction prohibiting picketing,
canvassing and advertising the strike
and barring giving the strikers re-
lief.
"The Laundry Workers Union will
carry on the strike in spite of gang
sters, injunctions and everything the
bosses association can do, the
union declared yesterday.
The President of the Association,
Steinhorn, the boss of the Sterling
Laundry, hired an extra force Of
gangsters. There was an army Of
about so gangsters, but they did not
dare to attack the meeting Of the
Laundry workers. Many bosses Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
heHOuse Was
In An Ubr0ar'
By BILL DUNE.

Congress proved yesterday
by the demagogic disorderly
character of it's proceedings
that the Hunger Marchers had
presented their demands to it
SO effectively that they could
not be ignored.
The mass impact of the Hun
ger March and the huge dem
onstrations which accompanied
it, both in Washington and in
hundreds of cities throughout
the country, the roaring de-
mand for government Workers
Unemployment Insurance and
immediate cash winter relief
which all the military mobili-
zation could not prevent hitting
the capitol like an avalanche,
showed all the other points in
the Hoover message into the back
ground-just as the Hunger March
demonstration in Washington showed
the formal opening of Congress into
the background.
Under a Washington date line a
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

These raids and arrests on
the Communist Party is a con-
tinuation of the attacks on the
Party and the working class in
the State of Illinois and it is
part of the attack against the
National Miners Unio in
Southern Illinois coal fields.
On August 1, 1881, anti-war
meetings in the coal fields were
brutally attacked by the forces
of Sheriff Browning Robinson
of Franklin County and the or
ganizers were arrested, among
them being Ivan @Ilijevich (R.
Shaw, Anthony Altman, and Clara
Saffren. Later, at mass meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
German Capitalists Order "Rote
Fahne" Shut Down; Fear Strikes

preston, from appealing TO the
workers TO strike against wage cuts
decreed by Bruening or to appeal
for mass meetings against fascism
and the Bruening government fas-
cist DEGREES"
Further on, Rote Fahne stated:
Eve appeal to the masses to re-
sist attempts to lower wages and
to fight to maintain their political
rights"
The. police declared these state
inents represent an indirect incite-
ment to the workers to defy the
emergency DEGREES.
Police Chief Grzesinski also sup
pressed the fascist newspaper Angriff
for the same period on account OF
insulting the Prussian Minister of the
Interior, Severing He also suppressed
the reactionary bourgeois daily, the
Boersen zeitung, on account of an
article accusing Severing Of partiality
against the reactionary police Off
GER, Levitt. This is the first time q
bourgeois newspaper has suffered
under the emergency DEGREES.
Yesterday evening a group OF Com
munist workers returning home after
meeting were attacked by score
of fascists with revolvers. One work
er was killed and three we're wound
ed. When reinforcements arrived
the mUrderers fled. The police ar
rested nine workers but they were
compelled subsequently to release
them. A collision between worker;
and fascists took place in another
part of town. Three fascists were
injured. The police arrested five.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
RAIL BOSSES ASK
UNION HEADS TO
HELP SLASH PAY
1,500 Officials Meet in
Secret on 10 PC. Slash

NEW YORK.-With the question
of a 10 per cent wage cut before
them, to effect 100000 railroad
workers, 1900 officials of the twenty
one railroad unions now meeting in
Chicago are wracking their brains to
work up a problem acceptable to the
bosses and yet able to fool the work.
ers. The railroads have asked the
union Officials to get the men to ac-
cept a voluntary wage cut. The
workers are everywhere bitterly OPP
posed to wage cuts. 1t is for this
reason that the 1900 officials meet in
secret, trying every means to help
the bosses put over their wage cut.
The railroads, just as soon as the
union officials conference adjourns,
will take steps to put into effect a
10 per cent cut. But there is not a
word of talk about strike coming
out of the meeting in Chicago.
In answer to this secret conference
of the railroad nlisleaders, the Ma
tiona1 Railroad Industrial League,
with offices at Room 6, TIT E. 63rd
St, Chicago, has issued call to all
railroad workers to call local and
district conferences to prepare for
strike. The first of such conferences
will be held in the Chicago Switching
District, Sunday, Dec. 10 at the Peo-
Piles Auditorium, PAST West Chicago
Ave.
On the Northwestern Railway,
where the bosses have ordered five
cent an hour cut for 5000 railway
maintenance -of-way men, the union
officials refused to call a strike, but
instead are putting through fake
strike vote. When this is put through,
they will maneuvre with the bosses,
but not unless the railroad workers
force action and themselves will there
be any resistance to the wage cut.
Urging that the wage cut be put
over on the railroads in order to give
the parasite railroad stock and bond
holders greater profit, Alfred H.
Swayne, vice president of the Cen
eral Motors Corporation, speaking be-
fore a bosses organization in At
lantic City, stated:
eff the railroads are able to
accomplish the 10 per cent reduc-
ton in wages being sought, it will
Immediately effect a savings of
s30O,0OO,oOO. That figure alone rep
resents 5 per cent interest of
S6,OOO,OO0,O00.
'"The savings would assure the
payment of interest on outstanding
bonds for the amount Of the latter
on which payment is now In
difficulty, will not approximate
| S6,O00,00O, 900.
Swayne and the railroad bosses
want the workers whose pay has been
steadily cut for three years to turn
over $3OO0OOoOO to pay rich stock
holders The 1900 railroad union Of
ficia1s are also working to this end
Only the rank and file, preparing for
action, can stop this attempt to in
crease the profits Of the rich by
slashing the wages of the railroad
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
INTENSITY
UNEMPLOYED
STRUGGLES
Masses Hail Marchers
in Every City and
Carry On Fight
Parade Thru Detroit

Great mass meetings
greet the Natl Hun
ger Marchers as they
come back home from
W a S h in g t on where
they smashed race discrimina-
ton, forced the government to
permit parades, carried ban
ners and shouted the demands
for Workers Unemployment In
surance and for immediate relief at
the Capitol while congress assembled,
at the White House, and at A. F. L.
headquarters. The mass meetings
greet the marchers' return, hear their
reports, and start the Big campaign for
a national day of demonstrations for
unemployment insurance Feb. 4. They
build the unemployed councils and
speed up the local struggle for relief
from the city governments, against
evictions, against forced labor, etc.
So far mass demonstrations have
been announced at Cleveland, today;
Detroit, Sunday; Boston, Sunday;
Livingston, Ill, Dec. is and st. Louis,
Dec. 10; Terre Haute, Indiana,
Dec. ii.
Cities through which the marchers
have already gone have held their
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
KY. MAYOR
HOSTILE TO
Mine MEET
Says National Miners
Union Convention
Should Move On
Sumner Still Missing
Expect 100 Mines to Be
Represented Dec. Is

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec 1e.-The
Knoxville (Tenn) Journal states that
the Pineville city officials conferred
yesterday relative to the district con-
vention of the National Miners Union
which is scheduled to be held here at
the K. of P. Hall on Dec. 10, and
that Mayor j. M. Brooks said he ex-
pected to notify the men in charge of
the gathering that their preesnce was
not wanted in Pneville and they will
be advised to hold the gathering some
other place. Legal authority for re-
fusing the assenblage is all that was
lacking to prevent issuing an order
forbidding the gathering
The same newspaper states that the
Convention Call leaflets have been
distributed throughout Bell and Har-
Ian County coal fields asking the
miners to strike against starvation
wages.
Ten carloads of coal company
armed thugs with high powered rifles
and machine guns surrounded the
National Miners Union hall in Wal
lns Creek for several hours yesterday.
They raided the hall and several
homes, having search warrants for
literature and guns. Several copies of
the Daily Worker were taken.
Delegates from 80 mines have al
ready been elected for the Convention
which opens in Pineville on Sunday,
Delegates from at least 100 mines are
expected. Three new locals of the
National Miners Union were or
gained yesterday. Hundreds of min
ers are joining up daily. The wo-
mems branches are electing delegates
Two new branches were established
yesterday.
The convention call was issued by
| the National Miners Union calling
upon all the miners In Harlan and
Bell County to elect delegates and TIC
set the date for strike against mass
starvation and against the growing
terror.
No trace has yet been found OF
Midsummer, active member of the
NMU who was kidnapped soon after
the convention call was issued. The
Harlan County Coal Operators Asso-
citation know whether Midsummer
was murdered. Midsummer was taken
out of his home by two carloads OF
coal company deputized gunner on
Dec. 8. Not a word has been heard
from him or as to his whereabouts
since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
2 NEGRO WORKERS
L Y N c H { D IN
WEST VIRGINIA
Boss Mob Permitted
Free Entry to
Jail

LEw1SBURG, w. Va, Dec. 10
Two Negro workers were taken o,rt
OF the Greenbrier County Jail hers
today and lynched by gang of sixty
travelling in automobiles. The lynch
gang had no difficulty in entering
the jail and locating the cells of the
two workers.
The two Negro workers were seized
in their night clothes and dragged to
the cars, being punmeled and kicked
on the way. They were taken by the
boss lynchers to the edge of the town
and hanged from a cross-arn of a
telephone pole. Before they died,
they were riddled with bullets.
A capitalist press dispatch reports
that:
"The mob stopped their cars with
lights dimmed and license plates
removed, at the jail about o'clock.
Almost with military precision they
marched to the jail door, seized
Jailer Wallace Flint and took his
keys
The dispatch does not bother to exc
plain how the lynchers could seize"
the jailer without being first adj.
mitted to the Jail. The dispatch does
say. however, that Flint. the jailer,
refused to say whether he had recoSs
nized any Of the men"
The two workers were in Jail on q
charge OF killing Constable Joseph
Myles and Joe Brown, a companion,
when the two white men attempted
to shoot up Negro dance at Leslie.
These two latest brutal lynchings
Of Negro workers makes a total OF
lvnchings for this year of 106. OF
this number rs occurred in the state
of Alabama alone, according to the
admissions of the Fellowship Of Re-
Cancellation, an organization of white
bosses and Negro handkerchief heads.
The Negro workers must organize
| together with white workers against
| the lynch terror White and Negro
workers. Defend the Negro masses |
Organize self-defense corpsl Smash
the bosses lynch terror! Build o.
fighting alliance of white and Negro
workers!