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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-26
HARD TIMES
HIT POLITICS
Leaders Have Trouble
Keeping War Chests
Filled

WASHINGTON. June 26.-P-
National political leaders are find
Ing 1t kind Of hard to keep their
new high powered machines run
ming through the dull season.
II Is a question OF money and
both republicans and democrats
have run into hard times" Ways
OF keeping the treasury filled In the
off-year OF political campaigns is
occupying attention OF the party
chieftains.
Joseph r. Mutt Of Cleveland. G.
o. p. treasurer. is comforting here
this week with the republican high
command and IL is understood he
said the bottom vas In sight IN
the old money barrel.
The last report OF the democratic
national committee showed a loan
had been required from Chairman
John j. Raskob.
For the first time in history both
parties are now maintaining per-
manent national headquarters with
STATS, including publicity directors.
Such headquarters require money.
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get II. Strangely enough. she once
planned 10 become a nun. but that
idea faded quickly when the ambi-
ton turned to aviation.
Il was a student in a girls school,
she begins. One day a neighbor,
riding with me on a street car. ask
ed me II | had ever flown. l told
her no. but that set me to think
ing. I decided to take an airplane
tide"
Dorothy hurried home. borrowed
the necessary money and We out
to Tex Rankin's aviation school 70
make a flight. AS soon as she looked
down on the housetopS from above
she made up her mind. She would
be a flyed!
For a year, the girl studied ground
courses al a night school. travelling
eight miles to the field and eight
miles home again. In the daytime,
she worked rs an inspector in a
WOODEN mill.
There we're 100 boys in the
ground school class she relates.
For a long time ] Was the only
girl. I liked putting lacquer on
wings and grinding valves and every
thing. but / was scared of those
boys. 1 had never been around men
before. / knew they were thinking
that 7 was just a silly girl who
thought She could fly. As D as
the class was over / would hurry
home to get away from them.
A regular flying course cost $500
and when Dorothy completed her
ground work she had only 500. II
was enough to give her the air once
a week for a short time. Every Sun
day morning she went to church.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-26

Then she went 10 the flying field
for a i5-minute lesson.
Then. suddenly. her chance to
make money dropped right out Of
the sky itself.
An American Legion convention
at Medford. Oregon. wanted a girl
to make a parachute jump. There
was 500 in 1t. Dorothy got the
jump-and the 500. That went on
her lessons. and three more such
Jumps enabled her TO complete her
flying course.
Rankin. impressed by the girls
determination. took her in hand
and began TO teach her how 70 40
stunts. He taught he feats that ID
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-26

A ton OF coal yields almost 10000
cubic feet OF gas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-26
New Trial Motion
Now Before Court

FORT WORTH. June 36-tF-
Motion for n new trial for Eugene
w. McMurray. given a 50-year
pcnitentiary sentence on charges n
murder. vas pending before Grim
inal district court here today.
The motion was filed late yester-
day by Arthur Lee Moore. defense
attorney.
McMurray was convicted OF siay-
inE walter M. Poole. his wifa's
uncle. OH May e.
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She TryAnyD DEATH efying Stunt in the Air; But Boys
Brighten New Champ of Girl Pilots

woman had ever tried In the air
before and she mastered each quick
ly.
Just a year ago she started her
upside-down flying stunts. the most
dangerous OF all-when a pilot
hangs head downward IN a streak
ing airplane with only his safety
belt supporting him.
Dorothy's crowning feat-that Of
performing 81 outside loops at
Omaha-Was responsible for Nation
al Air Race officials at Cleveland
deciding TO break their rule and
employ a woman stunt flyer.
Il had made % outside loops be-
FORE she says, That didn't sound
very large when I considered Mr..
Rankin's record OF 70 but I wanted
10 make a better showing. 50 I went
out to beat him"
An empty gas tank. exhausted
after her sind outside loop. defeat
cd Dorothy. but she suffered no
dizziness. nose bleeding or other
III effects. She was laughing when
she alighted from her plane and
i'm a couple OF hours she was up a
gain. entertaining the crowd with
another series OF stunts.
The other day she came 10 Cleve-
land to get a new airplane. given
her BY the Great Lakes Aircraft
Company. the Goodyear Tire e. Rub
Der Company and the American
Circus Motor Company.
She thanked them in a neat
speech. took the stick and roarec
away from Cleveland'S airport u
fly to her home in Oregon.
A ton OF coal yields almost lo.0ot
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MISCELLANEOUS DATA
SUMMARY

Barometric pressure was moder-
ately low yer the far Canadian
Northwest this morning. and moder-
ately high over the eastern states.
Except for light TO moderate rains
along the middle Gulf coast and a
few scattered showers in the west
ern states. the weather was mostly
fair TO clear throughout the country
during the last "a hours. Tempera-
lures were unseasonably high in the
central states yesterday and this
morning.
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WEATHER

For East Texas: Mostly cloudy
Friday night and Saturday; show
ers in south and a portions.
Light to fresh shifting winds on
the coast.
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BULLETIN

First figures. lowest tempera-
ture last night; second. highest
yesterday: third. wind velocity at
8 a. m: fourth, precipitation in
last "a hrs.l
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-26
TIDE TABIE

High and low tide at Point Isa-
bel tomorrow. under normal Meteo-
BIOLOGICAL conditions:
High 3.52 a. m.
Low TAO D. m.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

through Berlin. The letter says in
part;
Went down to the Lieblnecht
house. The German workers show
cd special interest in our Negro
delegates. The headquarters we're
just reopcned after the seizure by
the police. We went up to the ex-
hibition of the International Red
Aid and was it impressive! The
Germans sure have learned how to
use mass propaganda and speak the
needs and desires of the workers.
"All organizations have corners.
The Friends of the Soviet Union
had a giant corner depicting the
revolution, industrial Development.
Five Year Plan and the war dan
ger In such simple graphic terms"
I'VE ran into a delegation of IS
Russian children, Pioneers, who
were touring Germany. Our first
glimpse of Russia In Beriin--csil-
dren warmly clothed. well fed.
healthy and intensely interested In
the wall posters depicting police
beating up workers. Bread lines in
America and all the misery of the
capitalist countries. Contrasted by
the splendid progress portrayed by
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Decisive Mass Action
Will Save 1t, Says
Michael Gold

Soviet Russia wants peace. 1t is
the only country in the world today
that has made bitter sacrifices for
peace, and that will make any fur
ther sacrifices for it.
Peace is necessary to the Five
Year Plan; peace is the mileu in
which a free, cooperative Commu-
mist world can be built.
The capitalists want war. War
lures them on to their destruction,
like a diseased Jezebel, with fair
promises to solve their panics, un-
employment crises, overproduction
all the contradictions of a crazy eco
nomy.
The capitalists will enter this new
world war as recklessly and blindly
as they entered the last. If they but
knew it, it is the last chance history
will allow them to manage the
affairs Of humanity.
For Soviet Russia is in danger. In
terrupted in her peaceful building,
her millions of red proletarians and
peasants will fling themselves with
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
The American Delegation
Pledges to Arouse the Masses
to Defend the Soviet Union
A Seaman Writes of the Impressions of the
Delegation as It Passes Through Berlin

NEW YOEK,-The national office
of the Friends of the Soviet Union
yesterday received cablegram from
the American Workers Delegation at
Moscow, telling of their pledge of
solidarity with the Soviet workers.
The cablegram follows:
Have pledged to the Soviet
Workers the solidarity of the mill
tant American workers to fight the
imperialist war plans to attack the
Soviet Union. We have seen some
of the great achievements of the
Fiye-Year Plan and we must rally
the working class not to allow the
destruction of these great achieve
nents. The war clouds are gather
ing. Lithuania, Poland and Rou-
mania have been heavily armed by
American and French capitalism.
"We are leaving for a months
tour to Baku and all important
sections OH that route. We will
make known to the American work
ers all of the progress that we wit
messed.
An earlier letter written by Roy
B. Hudson, marine worker and one
OF the delegation, tells of the impress
sion of the delegation while going
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
ck the Hunger March with the Mighty Thunder Of Your Mass Support!
The Soviet Union Is in Danger!
Smash the ImberiaIists' Attempts to
Destroy theWorkers' Fdtherland!

OF the workers and peasants who have
been thrust into uniform and dragged
from their homes to fight Russian
workers and peasants.
There is a new force III the world,
greater than all the military plans
and big guns. Its name is Commu-
nism. 1t exists in America, Japan,
France, in every country on the globe.
This force will fight for the Soviet
Union.
Every honest worker and intellectu-
al in America will join the defense
of the Soviet Union. 1t will not be
merely as a gesture of sympathy, or
a demonstration of loyalty to the
workers fatherland.
1t will be out Of motives of self
preservation. Any threat to Soviet
Russia, is also a threat to American
trade unions, and the wage scale
here, and all indepedent thought. 1t
is not only an attack on Communism
it Is an attack on every inch of pro-
gressive advance that has been made
here for the past fifty years.
A war against the u S. S. r. by
the United States would be ushered
in with massacre Of every vestige
Of radical thought here, including
even the mild Nations, Mercurys and
the like. It would mean Fascist
dictatorship of an intensity never
dreamed of by Mussolini.
The time has come to fight the
var-makers and to defend the Soviet
Union and defend the radical and
labor movement at home, which will
be the first casualty in such war.
The danger is real and near. There
is no more time for quibbling and
backbitins, we are In a crisis 50
enormous that 1914 pales into in
significance.
The capitalists must not be al
lowed to threaten Soviet Russia.
They must be Informed, in clear and
unlnistakable tones, that millions of
workers and intelectuals III every
land are ready to defend Soviet Rus
sia and themselves. Secret diplom-
acy will not fool us; League of Ma
tions lies will not blind us; we are
watching every move of the war
makers and when the time comes to
fight, we will fight for our own cause,
and not for the cause Of Wall Street.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
BY MICHAEL GOLD.

The incuable weakness Of pacif1sm
is that it refuses to recognize the
capitaIst-imperialist origin of war.
It proceeds on the assumption that
war is something like burst of rage
in the Individual that can be fore
stalled by noble thoughts and self
control
War may have depended at times
in the feudal past on the whim OF
emperors and kings. Today it is a
respectable part Of big business. 1t
is as premeditated as a selling cam
paign by q large corporation It is
the last resort Of national salesman
ship
War is merely an extension of
business. The Japanese have been
nibbHng at Manchuria for twenty
five years Their businessmen want
and intend to take the fields, mines
railroads and markets of Manchuria,
And this war they are making is
only the last act in long chain of
business dealings, the final and
clinching argument to which business
firms resort.
Earl BroUder. in the Daily Worker
has been the first to point out in
this country the symptoms of a new
diplomatic plot among the world
butchers America and France, in
return for slices Of China. probably
and other considerations, are stand
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

$50 month; last month I made $1,000. I have
to work for that or starve. I was locked up and
kept in jail for 20 days for working for the Ma
tional Miners Union"
One miners wife, who risked her husbands Job
to tell her story of starvation related the follow
ing:
MY husband is native Xentuckiar With
our two children we live in company town
My husband, when he works, does not average
dollar day Where he is working now he
receives only scrip. We are not living, just ex-
isting I had one dollar in the last three days
to live on, that is, my husband, myself and our
two children" There was. no self pity in her
voice. She had that fighting determination
which is typical Of the Kentucky miners and
their plucky wives I'VE lived on beans and
bread" she continued. I'VE never get no dinner
We eat breakfast and then one more meal IL
we can get 1t. will tell you what my man eats
when he works I will tell you what put in his
r7l 10 sHld bin i''n tn7 r',i-,a TO do he ID
days wo-k-and my man Is a Cood coal dic. er
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

wear This is the home fe' the American
Legion is pledged to protect against the Ma
tional Miners Union.
Drei2er asked her what entertainment the
family had. MY children don't know what the
movies Is" she said. 'They don't know about
no such things. They don't know what radio
is. For while we got some food from the
Workers International Relief soup kitchen, but
the company thugs closed that down.
When my husband works our condition is no
Better. We get our money in scrip. The dol
lsr is worth about rs cents at the company store
For two whole days while my husband was
working couldn't even get the dollar in scrip
My husband was never arrested, but they were
hot after him over at the soup kitchen when
two miners we're shot down.
"Fight now have no furniture All four OF
us sleep on a bed Sister Jenkins gave me- and
1t has no mattress on it. My furniture was taken
away when we we're evicted after my husband
vas fred fo- jcinins the National Eiaers Union.
We AIM cot no chairs. but we ST on tin cans"
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Hunger Hearings and
9th er Preparations
Rapidly Go Forward

be held at 1O4 East 9th ST., Kansas
City, Mo-, Nov. 22nd.
Chicago Raid Fails to Halt Prcpara-
tions.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 19-The raid
Saturday on the Communist Party
office was an attempt to smash the
preparations for the National Hunger
March to Washington, D. c. But the
police and their government soon
found that the preparations were
going on with even greater enthus-
iasm and more and more workers are
becoming involved.
Tag days have been arranged for
Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and
20. AL workers should come down to
the station nearest to their territory
and participate in this tag day.
Enough finances must be raised to
feed the delegates and to buy gas
for the trucks, We urge all women's
organizations, women's councils, Mo-
thers' Leagues, ETC., 10 help in this
work.
On Nov. % the mass Send-off will
take place at the Coliseum, 18th and
Wabash, where the hunger marchers
will be elected from amongst hun
dreds of delegates representing hun
dreds OF thousands of workers and
unemployed workers.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

the loyal service of the writer's, Jour-
naiists, artists, musicians, ETC., it
would have been impossible for the
ruling class to have fooled the
masses for long. Now they are once
more being modified to prepare and
justify a new world war-the war by
which capitalism hopes to solve" the
economic crisis! and to solve" 1t by
destroying the only country that
knows no crisis, that has done away
with unemployment, with human
misery and degradation, the only
country that is building a new free
culture, the Soviet Union. The war
against the Soviet Union is a war
against all workers, both manual and
intellectual, throughout the world. 1t
is a war to maintain the rule of
corrupt and criminal system that has
brought about not only the greatest
economic crisis in the history of the
world, but also the greatest cultural
crisis.
Quick action is essential. Only the
organized protests of all those who
oppose any attack on the U.S.S.R.
can turn back the war tides that are
rushing on. The John Reed Club of
New York, and the other John Reed
Clubs throughout the country which
are affiliated with it, the organiza-
tions Of the Revolutionary Writers
and Artists of the United States, call
upon all writer's, artists, teachers.
scientists, musicians, etc, to refuse to
participate in the theological prep
aration of this criminal war. We
call upon them to turn the weapons
of culture against the imperialist war
makers. Demand HANDS OFF THE
SOVIET UNIONl Demand the with
draWal of American troops and war
ships from Cfinal Defend the world
Of tomorrow against the imperialist
brigands Of today
John Reed Club Of New York.
Philadelphia John Reed Club,
Chicago John Reed Club,
John Feed Club of Detroit,
Jchn Feed Cluh. Bcs.cn.
John Reed Club, Chapel Hill, NC.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
The Natl Hunger March Has Begun! /!
Delegates from the Far West Are
Noev on the Way to Washington

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 19. -
Word has been received here that the
Houston Delegation for the National
Hunger March is on the way and will
arrive in Kansas City, Mo-, on Nov
% for the United Front Conference
The Houston delegation is travelling
in the truck that will carry the en-
tire delegation from the Kansas Dis
trict to Washington.
Additional delegates from Omaha,
Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Oklahoma
City and Pittsburgh, Kansas will
leave Kansas City on the 9th for
Washington, D. c., arriving at st
Louis and joining the other delega-
tions on the 28th. The San Fran
cisco delegation will arrive in Kansas
City on the 26th and will proceed tc
st. Louis with the Kansas delegation
A branch of the Workers Interna.
tiondl Relief is being reorganized III
Kansas City. Their, first activity will
be the greeting, feeding and housing
oftne National Hunger March dele
cations arriving and leaving Kansas
City.
The W. I. p. will participate in the
United Front Conference which will
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
the wall boards In their own coun-

the wall boards In their own coun-
try.
Maybe it was just our ina gina
tion. but everyone thought that
these children we're different from
other human beings children. They
are the products and the fruits Of
the revolution-l0 and IL years old
and after all the revolution can
only be = success If II creates
situation where the children can
be brought into the world and not
have to face the misery confront
ing them in capitalist world.
First impressions are that the chill
dren have benefited immensely by
the revolution and all the delegates
are looking forward to our first
sigat of Soviet land"
The Friends Of the Soviet Unior
has arranged for meetings in Balti.
more, Friday, Nov. 20, and in Wash.
ington, D. c., Sunday, Nov. %. Mar.
chel Scherer, national secretary O.
the Friends of the Soviet Union vii
speak at both meetings on the de.
fense of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

and works hard. I put in his bucket today for
him to go to work a little pumpkin, and what
you folks call white bacon, that is, little fat
and bread. That is what he took for to eat
For breakfast he had water gravy (that Is,
water and some grease) and black coffee The
children don't get no dinner unless we have
bread.
I'VE don't get no clothes. This dress got on
was given to me and the shoes have got were
given to me. The coat I have on was bought
six years ago. And my children are naked and
can't go to school. They are running around
without any shoes on their feet and no under
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Diet and Health" in the Harlan Coal Fields

stores, where you are forced to buy with the
scrip. is from 10 to 20 per cent higher than other
stores, so our dollar amounts to about 80 cents.
I was fired because attended meeting OF the
National Miners Union. They charged me with
criminal syndicalism I don't know what it
means. AL my ancestors fought for this coun-
try Now I am arrested for working for the
National Miners Union and for collecting food
for starving children"
CHARLES SCALF started mining when he
was nine years old; a native Kentuckan He
said
i get 35 cents ton now and I make about
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Organized Protest VIII Prevent
the Destruction of II Years.
Ubbuilding of Socialism
Revolutionary Artists and Writers Issue a Call
for Immediate Organized Mass Action

Ws RACES in Manchuria. Not all
the Bubterfuge and intrigues of
the league of Nations, Secretary
Stims N, French imperialism and the
Japar ese ruling clique can hide the
fact grom the working masses that
with shell and shot the trail of i'm
perialist conquest is being blazed
through Manchuria and northward
10 the Soviet border. The reparti-
tioning OF China has begun. The
war to crush the Chinese Soviets has
begun. The war against the Union
Of Socialist Soviet Republics is about
Do begin.
Despite the sharp antagonisms
among the various imperialist pow
ers, they are effecting a temporary
truce for united attack upon the
Soviet Union. Japan today is the
spearhead of the itnperialist attack
Behind this spearhead is the mighty
arm of Wall Street.
The American capitalist news
papers, which were originally critical
of Japan, have now changed their
tune in conformity with Wall Streets
plans. Their bought-and paid-fo
correspondents are now cabling reams
of anti-Chinese and anti-Soviet prop
aganda designed to whip up the
lynch sentiment that made possible
the imperialist slaughter of 1914-1el8
The stage is set. The directors are
the Morgans. the Rockefellers, the
Melons and their puppets in the gov
ernment The intended victims are
Soviet Russia, Soviet China and the
working masses the world over.
The last war destroyed 10000 900
and manned millions more of the
flower of the workers, peasants and
tntellectuals of the world Most of
the intellectuals who did not fight for
democracy" in the trenches fought
for the imperialist rulers with their
brains and creative talents. Without
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

revolutionary hatred and daring on
The enemy. If they ere not allowed
to build. they will fight. They will
resist the invader with a might and
Ierccity that no nation in history has
ever shown.
They will choose to die rather than
permit czarism and capitalism to con-
quer them again. They viii not send
armies only against the enemy; they
VIII send a nation of workers and
peasants.
They will ssnd spirit that will
cross every no-mans land, and enter
the enemy trenches, to fill the hearts
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

ing behind japan in the rape Of
Manchuria.
Undoubtedly, ons Of the considera-
tions that has formed this new lea
que, is a mutual fear and hatred
OF the success Of the five year plan
Jap2n's approaches toward an anti
Soviet war arouse no protest among
the liberal and socialist mimmesing-
ers Of the League Of Nations.
Soviet Russia is in danger. At
last, as the Communist Interna tional
has been warning for q decade, the
capitalist tiger has unsheathed his
claws, and is ready to spring.