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The Washington times., 1931-10-30
.TALK|ES LOOM
: IN ROCKVILLE

Rockville, after being able to
struggle along for two years with.
out a moving picture house, will
shortly have a theater provided
with the latest talkie device, it
was learned today.
Joseph s. Boss, proprietor Of
the Seco Theater in Silver Spring,
has purchased the town hall
building at Rockville from the
estate of A. Wohson. Mr.. Boss
said that remodeling Of the town
hall into a suitable theater will
be begun Immediately upon re-
moval Of the police court.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
WOLFF ALLEGES
FAULTY MAINS
TILT COST
Board Aspirant Says Users Pay
$24 Annually for $ls Worth;
Would Also Extend System

Alleging that the high rates
charged for water in Arlington
county are directly attributable
to mismanagement in the present
engineers administration Of the
water system and waste leakage,
william e. Wolff, plumbing en-
eineer and candidate for the
Arlington county board Of COM
rnissioners in the election Tues
day, today revealed the results
Of an investigation Of water
records in the engineers office.
According to Mr.. Wolff, 49,
100000 gallons Of water are pur"
chased quarterly from the United
States plant In washington. OF
this amount, 55,500,000 gallons
are accounted for by metor meas
urement, going into the homes Of
water users. An additional 500,-
600 gallons is accounted for in
its use for fire protection, public
hydrants, and sprinkling Of
streets.
Enormous Wastsge
Nineteen million gallons, or Is
Der cent Of the total amount pur.
chased quarterly, however, Is not
accounted for, and this leakage,
according to Mr.. Wolff, causes
the user Of water to pay S24 an
nuaIIy for his water, when all
that he receives Is SIS worth.
Mr.. Wolff bases his candidacy
on alleged defects in administer.
ing the water system, pointing to
the large number Of applications
for water installations which have
been refused by the board Of
supervisors during the past year
because Of a lack Of funds with
which to make the extensions.
Would Extend Mains
Mr.. Wolff contends the remedy
is to extend the county system
to those portions Of the county
where there is now no water sys-
tenn, increasing the mileage Of
the pipes from the present 10
miles to 20 miles and taking pre-
cautions to see that the new
pipes are absolutely leak-proof.
In this way, the leakage from
old pipes would remain the same,
but more applicants for water ex-
tensions would be served and the
percentage Of loss due to leak
proof installations would be cut
from Is per cent to only 1871 per
cent, resulting in a lower water
rate.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
Truck DriUer Freed
In ANtOiSt'S Death

w. C. Lane, Of Baltimore, held
in Laurel following the killing Of
julius Waron. colored, 1886 Gil.
more st., Baltimore, in an auto
mobile accident Tuesday night
on the Washington Boulevard,
was released yesterday when Cor.
oner H. M. Scott gave a certifi.
cate Of accidental death.
Waron and two other colored
men were pushing their car to
service station for gas when a
truck driven by Lane struck and
instantly killed Waron.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30

REFUSING TO plead guilty
to any charge although the
state has offered to allow him
20 plead guilty to involuntary
manslaughter, DR.. Carl p. Andre,
Paramount, w. Va, will stand
trial In Reno, New. He is now
on 5000 bail. He Is charged
with causing the death Of Q
woman IN, an automobile acci-
dent,
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
Emergency Staff
Cautioned bU Board

The board Of directors Of Emer-
gency Hospital has instructed the
staff to use every precaution in
transferring patients to other hos
pitals who cannot be properly
cared for at Emergency.
When it becomes necessary to
transfer a patient after first-aid
has been given, the instructions
state that such a transfer must
not endanger the favorable out
come of the case or cause unnec.
eSsary suffering. Relatives or
friends who accompany the pa
tient are to be advised why the
transfer is being made.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
Suspect ReGrrested
In Bank Robbery

BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.-vernon
Banewood, arrested for the second
time yesterday in connection with
the $4,000 hold-up Of the White
Hall Bank on Tuesday, sticks to
his story that he had nothing to
do with 1t.
Banewood, according to police,
has admitted that h gave two
escaped prisoners, former jail
mates, breakfast at his home on
the morning of the robbery. He
did not see the men. William
Gambrill and Frank Campbell,
colored, until the hold-up, he in.
sisted, in answer to questioning
by James c. L. Anderson, States
attorney of Baltimore county.
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
HORTICULTURE Meeting

MARTINSBURG. w. Va, Oct.
30.-The yearly winter conven-
ton of West Virginia Horticul-
tural Society will be held In this
city wednesday and Thursday,
February 10-11, it has been an
nounced by President M. W. Full!
ton,
The Washington times., 1931-10-30
CHANGE POLLING PLACE

The sixth ward voting booth
has been changed from the
Health Center to the Town Hall
in Alexandra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES

This is the first of series of
three articles on the history of the
vicious death frame-up against the
60-year old Negro farm hand,
Orphan Jones--a frame-up brazen
in its savage torture of the worker
by the police in order to extOrt
confession" open denial by the
courts and the governor of Mary
land of the simplest constitutional
rights such as the right to select his
attorney, consult with his attorney;
followed by open lynch hcitement
by leading officials of the State and
of the County of Worcester; with
an attempt to lynch the lawyer of
the defendant and two investigators
sent to Snow Hill by the Interna-
tionaI Labor Defense, an attempt
by the court to force the I. L. d.
attorney out of the case, and finally
insistence by the court of bringing
Jones to trial on Dec. 8 in Cam
bridge on the Eastern Shore. where
armed lynch gangs of rich farmers
have been hunting militant Negro
workers for days, searching the jails
for Negro PRISONS.
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tional release of the seven Imperial
Valley prisoners, Oscar Erickson.
Lawrence Emery, Danny Roxas,
Braulio Orozco, Eduardo Herrera,
Carl Sklar. and Tetsuji Horiuchi, now
serving five-year sentences in san
quentin and Folsom prisons.
The toiling masses Of the United
States supported by the whole world
working class, charge the American
boss class with the crime Of the
frame-up Of Mooney and Billings. As
result these two workers have been
in prison for over fifteen years.
1.-THE Criminal Syndicalism Law,
under which the Imperial Valley
prisoners were convicted, aims to
drive underground the Communist
Party, the leader of the working class.
The existence Of this law on the Sta
tute books Of the state presents the
constant menace TO all the toilers Of
California and must be repealed"
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is more unemployment and StarVa-
ton, when the bosses begin to push
the workers into the new world war
that has already started in China.
Turtured and Tricked into "Con-
fession."
The police tied Jones in a chair,
they put a spotlight in his eyes, they
else did the killing.
But Jones wasn't lynched then. The
International Labor Defense, an or
ganization of white and Negro work
ers, with branches all over the world,
stepped in and by mobilizing the
white and Negro masses for militant
protest compelled governor Ritchie
to have Jones brought to Baltimore,
with large population of Negro and
class-conscious white workers. Even
Governors are afraid of the workers
when the workers are organized to-
gether.
Boss Press Admitted Torture of Jones
for 81 hours; whole day and whole
night. But they didn't let him sleep
either. They questioned him and
every question carried with it a kick
or blow in the face. They broke a
policemens club over his head. When
he was so exhausted that he didn't
know what he was doing they got him
to sign paper which he couldn't
read The paper was a confession
Then they got a mob together and
were about to settle the whole bust
ness forever by a good satisfying
The mob was composed of rich far
mers and storekeepers Of the neigh
borhood and of the officials Of Snow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
COLUMN 4

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. g.
When Columns and 4 arrive here
Friday, in the National Hunger
March, they will have added to them
delegates of the mining district south
and west of Pittsburgh, which was
the center of the big strike during
the summer.
A second Washington County Hun
ger March was demanded by dele
gates at the United Front Confer
ence in Washington, Pa. that elected
ten delegates to the National Hun
ger March. A farewell send-off will
beheld at Tylerdale Hall at ! p.r1l.,
Dec. 4.
The Conference made arrange
ments for a meeting for the return
ing delegates on the 10th. They will
also serve supper in Washington that
evening to the delegates.
In the Brownsville section, a per-
NIT has been obtained for public
meeting and arrangements are made
for parking trucks Of the National
Hunger March delegates. Ten dele
gates are elected from here.
From the Allegheny Valley, ten
delegates. will come, four steel work
ers and six coal miners. The Avella
section sends eight delegates and the
Library section sends an equal num-
Der.
The use Of the biggest lot in the
line Of march in Arnbridge, right
near the City Hall, was procured
from the Burgess, who gave writ
ten permit for the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
COLUMN |

The first section of 10 marchers of
Column No arrived at the city lin
its OF New York, on Boston Road. at
about 4:30 pm, and was greeted
there by crowd of $500, which had
been defying all police provocations
up to then. The rest of Column I
was expected monentarily.
The marchers reported that going
through Hartford Wednesday they
were met and cheered by a crowd of
1000, although the city authorities
had been making all kinds of threats
against the marchers. They stopped
overnight in New Haven, after being
greeted by a mass demonstration out
doors OF 5000 and by a hall meeting
Of 800.
At Bridgeport, first stop yesterday,
there were q thousand demonstrate
ins for them. At Port Chester an
other thousand met them, and at
New Rochelle the masses of unem-
ployed in that town marched with
Them through the city, by their num-
sers preventing effective interference
which the police were trying to Of
fer.
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attempting to lay the basis for a
new attack against Chinchow. But
while a Mukden dispatch. reports a
huge concentration of Marking troops
in Ctinchow, official reports . from
the British and French observers give
the lie to the Japanese. Both the
British and French declare that the
Marking government is making no
plans to defend Chinchow, that there
are no troop movements in the area.
Strength Of Chinese Soyiets Grow.
The admission made in the Scripps-
Howard papers on Wednesday of the
growing mass threat to the traitor
GUS Marking government, is further
confirmed in an article by George e.
Soko1sky in yesterdays New York
Times. Sokolsky admits that the
strength of the Chinese Soviets and
the Red Army is growing. The Com
munists, he says, are strengthening
their position in the Yangtse Valley.
flG tdQIllllo bLldb AlldoS MISREPRESENTATION
with the Nanking government is
spreading rapidly Throughout China,
and that there is a "rise Of the Com
munist Party Of China in KiangA
Human and Hupeh."
Threat To Soviet Union Grows.
The Japanese continue to rush
more troops into North Manchuria
and the zone around the Chinese
Eastern Railway, on the pretext that
the Chinese General Ma Chen-shan
is preparing a drive to re-capture
Tsitsii1ar, capital of Fieilunghsng
province. A Mukden dispatch reports
a clash between Mas forces and the
forces of Chang Haipeng. Chang is
admitted by the dispatch to be
friendly to Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
Michigan Marchers.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. by MaiD !.
The Western Michigan delegates
to the National Hunger March had a
line of march of their own, on their
way to join the rest of Column g..
They left Grand Rapids Nov. 80 at
$50 am, and held successful mass
meeting In 1onia, IS miles out OF
Grand Rapids, with 200 workers at
tending in spite of the fact that no
preparations had been made except
distribution of TOO leaflets the day
before.
At Lansing, state caital Of Mlchi-
gan, the Unemployed Council had
arranged hot lunches and a meeting
to greet the narchers.
A strong force of police met the
marchers at the city limits, however,
and drove all but one of the cars on
a route around the town. Police told
the marchers they needed no law to
arrest them and that they had or
ders to crush the unemployed coun-
ellis in Lansing because they were
causing too much trouble" This &C
ton is in line with all Of Governor
Brucker's attacks on unemployed
workers. Last year he had the state
hunger march delegates locked up in
the ball park and kept prisoners for
some time.
One carload of delegates got
through the police lines and came
down to the mass meeting in Lam
sing. The whole delegation is re-
assembled and proceeding now with
Column 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
COLUMN 2

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 3.-Here, in
the heart of the Anthracite coal
region, the city officials and police Of
Scranton launched a campaign of
interference and petty persecution,
with threats to arrest the whole del
eeation OF Northern New York and
Eastern Pennsylvania delegates max
ing UP Column 2 of the National
Hunger March.
Column 3 reached Scranton We'd
nesday night, according to schedule,
and in spite Of all opposition. was fed
and lodged by the local workers and
the Councils of the Unemployed.
Previously, the police. department
has issued permit for an open air
mass meeting Of greetings to the Ma
tional Hunger March, to be held at
p. m. in Court House Square. When
the marchers arrived in town at that
time, the police announced this per-
NIT had been revoked. Furthermore,
the police declared that any attempt
to hold meeting in any hall in
Scranton would result in the arrest OF
oil the Hunger Marchers.
Over 20 workers came to the hall to
welcome the delegation, but were not
allowed to enter by the police.
Tho leading committee Of Column
3 OF the National Hunger March Is
sues a statement vigorously protesting
this terrorism against the marchers
and denouncing the strong arm
methods Of the capitalist city govern
nent against the workers and unern-
ployed workers Of Scranton. The
statement declared these tactics would
fail to stifle the demands Of the
unemployed and starving workers TOR
a1g11l1s - .sassasks-s~A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04

TO furnish the capitalists Of CaaSor-
MIA with excuses to attempt to get
them out from under this Mooney
case. What do they say? What die
Mr.. Walker and Mr.. Walsh say2
They say this is a case Of perjury!
Theycreate the impression, and say
in so many words, that Mooney is In
jail because two perjurers, Oman
and Macdonald, swore fals1ly against
Mooney; and as one of tie lkwyers
said-"fooled the whole state Of Cab
formal" And they say these two
liars are responsible for ths irnpris-
onment Of Mooney and Billings.
Is this the Mooney casel OF courss
notl Mooney and Billints were put
into Jail at the instigation, and I'M
der the instructions, of the capital
lists fCalifornia, and with the SUP
port of the capitalist class Of the
United States.
This is not a question OF some
isolated case of perjury. This Is g
frame-up by the capitalist class Of
California and the United States TO
destroy these militants and TO set
them as an example for every other
militant working class fighter in the
country that militancy will not be
tolerated.
We are not going to allow any such
impressions TO go unchallensed about
the Mooney case such as Walker and
Walsh seek TO build up
What else aer they undertaking TO
do out there in California; You read
in your papers how they tried to dts
tinguisf between Mooney and Bill
ings. They are trying TO make IL
appear as though Billings is guilty
and Mooney is not. Are we going 10
allow them TO say tllis7 MOI
I want to say to the capitalist class,
or those who may be interested In
listening, that If they try to put this
across. If they try to make Billings
the goat. that the Billings case w1li
become a bigger case and a harder
one for them to handle than the
Mooney case ever was.
AS the National Hunger March
goes to Washington, as our Hunger
March passes through hundreds OF
industrial towns and cities, they will
demand. and the workers everywhere
will demand, the unconditional re-
lease Of Tom Mooney. ard the I'M
conditional and immediate release Of
Warren J. Billings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
MARCHERS CONTINUE ON SCHEDULE;
NEED FUNDS AT ONCE FOR EXPENSES

The hunger marchers were served
a hot meal and then taken to rooming
houses provided for by the Scranton
workers.
This morning the march of Column
2 continued on towards Allentown,
where it is to stop tonight, and then
reach Philadelphia and join with
Column 1, Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04

be retired and comfortable, but under
the capitalist system Jones has
until now been compelled to work in
the fields ten hours a day and ten
cents an hour in order to get his food;
these things are never mentioned by
the boss controlled press. But not
only did Jones had to work for 10
cents an hour. His boss, rich white
former wouldn't even pay Jones his
full wages. He didn't want to pay
kept him there without anything to
eat and without anything to drink
him for rainy day on which Jones
couldn't get much done. Jones stood
up for his rights and when he didn't
get his pay he quit.
Jones' boss was rich but he didn't
make all Of his money by cheating his
workers. He was a politician besides
and got graft. One day the boss and
his whole family we're found dead.
The police didn't waste any time in
vestigating the racketeering in which
the boss was engaged in order to find
out who might have killed him. No
indeed. They Immediately remem-
bered Orphan Jones and they arrested
him for the murders, And they say
that Jones must have killed the boss
because the boss had cheated him.
OF course they don't really believe
that Jones did it but the police will
be criticised if they don't arrest some
body and here was a good opportun-
ity to get rid of this worker. this
Negro worker, who didn't "know his
place" who argued about wages, who
might make a lot of trouble later on
when wages get still lower, when there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
Great Reception at Providence

PROVIDENCE, r. T., Dec. 3.-The
National Hunger Marchers of Column
l, arrived here safely Tuesday night
and received a fine reception from
the workers Of Providence. At the
state line before Pawtucket a crowd
OF about 500 gathered to greet the
narchers on their way through to
Providence stopover.
The police escorted the two trucks
and one auto with the marchers To
the Providence-Pawtucket city line
where the local police force in its
entirety had gathered. Motorcycle
squads with their riot guns were in
hiding behind the car barns, Plain
clothesn1en, uniformed thugs and the
rest OF the "watchdogs of the bosses
were out along the line Of the truck
parade to the Memorial Square in
Providence. At Memorial Square a
crowd of about 1000 workers had
gathered to hear the speakers de-
ifounce the fake relief, ETC., of the
local and federal government and the
demands that their own representa-
tives would make on the National
Congress on Dec. 2 for immediate
winter relief and unemployment in
suYance.
The Hunger Marchers were carry-
Ing placards with the proper slogans
also sticks with Ioaves of bread and
bottles OF milk with the words we
demand" above.
Delegates from Rhode Island were
among the speakers. Thomas Harri-
son. ex-servicenan OF the 72nd Di-
vision, A. e. r. and the woman del
egate Mary Beaumont, captain of the
Column I King and Fred Biedenkapp
addressed the crowd.
The local government In their at
tempt TO break up the Hunger
March, tried to terrorize the unem-
ployed by sending to the headquar-
tiers of the Unemployed Councils, IN
spector Francis j. McGovern of the
Immigration Department whom the
workers gave good reception"
But as the activities of the Unem-
ployed Council intensified the Immi-
grafton Inspector Francis Nc Govern
came today with squad of uniformed
police and asked for Celia Becker, the
secretary of the Unemployed Coun-
ell. The workers present elected the
bosses tool from their headquarters.
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Hill, Md, where all this happened.
No doubt the grafters who had done
the murders SO they would not have
to divide their loot with Jones boss
any more were also there anxious to
hang Jones so that he would not be
able to prove in Court that somebody
All the boss class newspapers told
how Jones had been beaten by the
police. The boss class was perfectly
willing that the workers should know
how the police treat prisoners they
want the workers to be afraid to
get arrested, afraid to protest against
starvation and unemployment, afraid
to demand unemployment relief,
afraid to protest against the new
world war which the boss government
is preparing against the Soviet Union
which is a workers republic; they
want the workers to be afraid to pro-
test on account of what will happen
to them when they are arrested. But
the International Labor Defense,
which is the workers themselves but
organized together so as to be power
full, began to protest against the treat
ment of Jones. Then the police got
afraid and denied that there had
been any third Degree used on
Jones. But lots of people saw what
happened SO now the police say that
they only beat Jones every time he
called them liars. And of course Jones
told them they we're liars every time
they told him he was a murderer,
Anyway Jones was in hospital next
day in the jail from the Questioning"
Continued Tomorrow
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on capitalist spokesman who do not
seek his freedom but an effort TO
clear the capitalists of the RESPONSE
bility for this dastardly frame-up is
now proved up to the hilt by the lat
est Developments. The call for strug-
gle on the part Of the workers for
the freedom Of Mooney and Billings
now rings out more clearly than ever
as the only means OF forcing the
prison gates open.
One of the glazing features of the
case is the admitted fact that Gov
ernor Rolph Of California knows and
is convinced that Mooney is innocent,
but, working with the capitalist forces
who jailed Mooney, he refused to re-
lease Mooney and Billings except in
accordance with the wishes Of the
California exploiters. An editorial in
the San Francisco Examiner saying
that "if Governor Rolph does release
Mooney, he will always be known as
the California governor who had the
courage to do what he knew was
right, shows that Rolph knows that
Mooney is innocent.
The fourteen workers delegates in
San Francisco, who we're arrested at
the State Building when Governor
Rolph was naneuvering with Walker
to switch the real background of the
Mooney case, were to present the fol-
lowing statement, but were arrested
before they had an opportunity to do
so:
1.-THE delegation Of is workers pre-
sents in the name Of various working
class unions, fraternal and political
organizations, consisting of over two
hundred thousand members, and
backed by the whole working class,
the following demands:
1. the immediate and unconditional
release of Thomas ]. Mooney and
Warren K. Billings.
%. The immediate and uncondi-