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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
JAMAICA, |. l., MAN
TRIES SUICIDE HERE
Peter Conlon Reluctant to Disclose
Identity After Drinking Poison
in Fox Theater Alley.

After nearly an hours questioning at
Gallinger Hospital yesterday, a man
who had steadfastly refused to reveal
his identity since taking poison Friday
night told physicians he Is Peter Con-
Ion, 80, of Jamaica, Long Island.
Conlon, who gave his Jamaica ad-
dress as 1888 118th street and said
he had been in Washington only a
day, was found in Semi-conscious con-
dition in an alley in the rear of the
Fox Theater.
A passerby discovered Conlon slumped
against the rear wall of the theater
Beside him were a bottle marked poi
son and an empty glass.
The Fire Rescue Squad took him to
Galltnger Hospital, where he at first
refused to reveal his identity to ply
clans who treated him. Police also
were unable to induce him to talk
An unsigned note was found in a
pocket of his coat, saying: II have tu-
berculosls and am Respondent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
SPECIAL BUREAU
OF INVESTIGATION
FOR D. c. FAVORED
Steps Taken for Creation
of Super Detective
Organization.
FUNDS FOR NEW FORCE
REQUESTED IN BUDGET
Highly-Trained Men, Directly
Under Commissioners, Would
Watch District Departments.

Definite steps have been taken by Dis
night to create the nucleus of specia
force of highly trained investigators
who will work directly under the Com
missioners and be responsible only tc
them.
The plan was recommended to the
Commissioners several months ago by
Corporation Counsel William w. Bride
following the difficulties encountered in
getting the Department of Justice tc
undertake an investigation of the police
brutality scandal. 1t was only through
a request by President Hoover that the
Department of Justice made the in
quiry which resulted in the indictment
of 18 police officers, and the uncover
ing of Sc 'non-indictable" cases OF
brutality.
Strikes Responsive Chord.
Mr.. Brides recommendation struck a
responsive chord, and 1t is understood
the Commissioners, during the recent
hearings before the Budget Bureau on
the Districts 1888 financial estimates,
urged the inclusion of an item provid-
ing for the appointment of four or five
men to form the original staff of the
special bureau Of investigation.
Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, Com
missioner in charge of the Police De-
partment, said yesterday he is strongly
in favor of the proposed investigating
force and believes it would fill a long
felt need in the District government.
With its own staff Of investigators, he
pointed out, the District would not be
required to turn to Federal agencies,
such as the Department of Justice,
UYhcY n Hocirnd IN Yuoka inUocfiUo
ton of one of its own departments.
The Districts special investigators
would not conflne their activities solely
to checking up on complaints about po-
licemen, or the frequently recurring
charges of graft and corruption in the
Police Department, 1t was pointed out,
but they also would be used in making
ing inquiries the Commissioners wanted
IN other departments of the municipal
government. Such investigations in the
past have been made by the Bureau of
Efficiency another Federal agency.
Funds Now Lacking.
Men appointed to the proposed Bu-
reau of Investigation, 1t was said. will
be only those peculiarly we'll qualified
for such work. The men, in reality,
would constitute super detective
force. comparable with the trained in
vestigators of the Department of JUS
tice.
The Commissioners, it was said, would
like to organize the investigating force
without delay, but funds are not avail
able for its creation. AS a result, it will
be necessary to wait until the 1888 ap-
preparation bill is passed, providing, of
course, the request of the Commissioners
is approved by both the Budget Bureau
and Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
TWO MORE ENTER
HENDERSON FIGHT
Niece and Nephew Act to
Sustain ReSiduary Part
of Will.

A niece and nephew OF Mrs. Mary
F. Henderson, principal beneficiaries
under the last will of the wealthy So
ciety leader, asked District Supreme
Court yesterday for permission to in
tervene in the legal battle to maintain
the validity of the will.
The intervening petition was filed by
Henry N. Arnold and his sister Frances
Of New York City.
Their petition asks that they be per-
mitted to join with George Edelin,
executor. in his effort to sustain the
will, which has been attacked. by two
other parties.
Two File Caveats.
Caveats attacking the will have been
filed by Mrs. Beatrice H. Wholean,
Mrs Hendersons reputed granddaugh-
ter, and Battle Creek (Mich) College,
named as beneficiaries in earlier wills
The will now in contest virtually dis
inheritS Mrs. Wholean after stating
that a trust fund had been set up
for her benefit
The petitioners said they have been
informed of the filing of the caveats
charging undue influence by some OF
the persons named as beneficiaries and
that they believe there was no such
undue influence and even If there was
it could not invalidate the residuaEy
devise. They said they are interested
in having the will sustained as whole
and especially to have it upheld in SC
far as it leaves the remaining estate to
them, and wish to make their separate
answer to that filed by Edelin,.
Part of Will May Stand.
The attention of the court was called
to decisions holding that even where
portions of will are declared void be-
cause of undue influence, the rest OF
the will is not affected # without the
offending requests the document may
be read as whole to express the
wishes of the testator.
The petition of the Arnolds was filed
through Attorneys Edward B. Burling
Spencer Gordon and Fontaine c. Brad
ley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

lost their jobs in the theaters appears
slight" it was asserted.
The report added that the only COM
pensating factor in the amusement in
duStry here, so far as the musicians
were concerned, was the increased en-
ployment of them for radio broadcast
ing purposes. One local radio staten,
replying to a Labor Department in
quiry. reported it had paid out in
salaries during the past year total of
1913 to musicians.
1t was brought out that musicians
here for the first eight months of this
year had received $35,331 for radio
service, or an average OF $4,416 per
month. During April, 1881, it was re-
ported that 81 musicians earned 5000
musician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE

John ]. Warren, 80, of 1914 Twenty
sixth street, received serious head in
iuries yesterday when felled by an au-
tomobiie at Twcnty-siXth and K streets
He was treated at Emergency Hospital
The driver of the car, Paul D. Lewis
az of TOO T street, foreman of the
smooth Gravel g. Sand Co, was ar
rested on 0 charge Of operating an au-
tcmobile with pao brakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

v TUCIE SAM will pay nearly
$4,000 for moving a giant
magnolia tree in the Mall to
~ prepare for road construction
there, in a 100000 program
for improvement of the Mall.
The magnolia is SO inches in cir
conference at breast height and will
be moved about 400 feet from its pres
ent location near the fill in the Mall,
in a northwesterly direction. to near
Fourteenth street. This will involve
the moving of a disc CT earth about
IS feet in diameter and feet thick.
which will weigh about 800 tons, in
addition to the weight of the tree, not
yet estimated 1t is said to be one
of the biggest jobs of its kind in the
world.
Will Move 81 Other Trees.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director
of Public Buildings and Public Parks,
yesterday signed a contract with the
Westcott Nursery Co. of Falls Church.
Va, for $12,984 for moving 81 trees.
improving the condition Of a dozen
more and cutting down so trees stand
ing in the way of the road develop
ment and considered not worth NOV
ing, in view of prohibitive costs and
disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
STORE ROBBERY FAILS
WHEN ALARM SOUNDS
SCATTERING of Rear Window Re-
leases Device and Bandits Flee
Before Police Arrive.

Burglars who attempted to break into
the Capital Cigar and Tobacco Co., at
463 street. were frightened away early
last night by the ringing of an out
side burglar alarm gong. ........
The alarm was tripped when they
shattered the glass in a rear window
of the establishment and the bell at
the front of the building set off.
Officers of two police radio cars found
that the burglars had placed a long
ladder in the alley behind the building
and knocked the glass from a second
story window in an effort 10 gain en-
trance to the place. A so~A by Luther
B. Sleet of EOS Spring street. Chevy
Chase. Md, manager of the firm, re-
VAa]ed that nothing was missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
HEARING WILL PROBE
FARM BOARD CHANGES
Senate Agriculture Committee Is
Expected to Bring Up
Question of Abolition.

Charges against the Federal Farm
Board will be gone into fully when the
Senate Committee on Agriculture meets
here November "a under a call issued
bv it's chairman, Senator Charles L..
McNary of oregon.
Later there is likely to be a more
extended inquiry through resolution of
senate or House, but the November "a
meeting is expected to bring out the
hoard and of it's defense. On the re-
sult of the testimony brought out at
the November "a meeting is likely to
depend the question whether the board
is abolished or continued,
Senator McNary, a supporter OF the
board, hopes to get the farm organiza-
tion leaders to unite against abolition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
GIRLS LEG BROKEN
11-Year-old Struck by Auto Near
g and Thirtieth Streets.

Marie Ballard, IL, o. 1905 Thirtieth
street, suffered a broken leg yesterday
afternoon when she ran into the path
of an auto mobile while playing on @
street near Thirtieth.
Wesley Hicks, %, Of Bancroft, Va,
said to be the driver OF the car, took
the girl to Georgetown Hospital, where
she was treated and admitted for fur
ther attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
WOOL WEEK PLANNED
Stores to Cooperate With Govern
ment in National Observance.

Washington stores are planning to
cooperate with the Agriculture De-
partment in observing November to
IA as National Wool week, 1t was an
nounced yesterday.
In an effort to stimulate the wooden
industry, the stores, at the suggestion
Of the Government agency, will dis
play an elaborate assortment Of wool.
en- goods ct special sales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
Notaries Are Appointed.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, November 7
Especially Gov. Richie has appointed
Carlton M1oley 81 Of e Saitns,rsDurs and
public for the county and both have
subscribed to the oath of ofice before
the clc-k ca the Circuit Court here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
Peoples Counsel Contends
Failure to Modernize Gave
Cabs &1vantage.
TRACTION HEAD COMEDIES
LINES BEHIND TIMES
Compulsory Meters Hit-Steam
Systems Method of Meeting Air
Competition Urged on Trolleys.

'FollolCing is discussion OF the
street rdil,Udy transportation prob
lem by Richmond B. Keech, peoples
counsel before the Public Utilities
Commission 1t is intended as an
GnSDer to the complaint OF the car
companies, as reDenled in recent
series in The Star, that tdr;cdbS
must be regulated before the opera
ton OF street cars can be put on a
profitable and satisfactory basis and
gtUen a new public appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
tuberculosis Clinic Scheduled.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Novem-
Der (SpeciaD "A tuberculosis clinic
will be held at the Metropolitan Dis
trict Building, Hyattsville, on Novem-
Der TO-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

to carry out the words of Conlrade Len1n. The
struggle against war must be carried en- now,
daily, hourly"
The capitalist system Is shaking In the Uni
ted States 100000 young workers are nem-
ployed Those young workers as yet in the shops
are getting wage-cuts and speed up. The cap
italists are not giving a cent of relief to the
unemployed. Their solution to the crisis is war,
war for the destruction Of the Soviet Union for
crushing the inspiration of all oppressed and
exploited peoples Against this policy of the
capitalists the young workers must declare their
readiness to defend the Soviet Union Not a
cent for inlperiahst War-an funds for the
relief of the unemployed is the slogan around
which millions are ralying. International Youth
Day of this year serves as the occasion of mob
nizing the young workers, who will the very
ones called to fight in the imperiast wars
struggle against imperialist war. This day of
struggle raises all the immediate problems of
the young workers and must be used to develop
the struggle for the demands of the youth
International Youth Day in the U. S. this
year will be much different from that of previ-
Gus year. Last year several demonstrations were
held in but a few states. This year there will
be close to 100 demonstrations in e states
many of them taking on the form of demon
strations and parades. For the first time In
ternational Youth Day will penetrate into
southern states. Demonstrations on IYD. will
be held in the heart Of the mines and textile
struggle. International Youth Day this year
will be big step in the struggle against cap
italist war for defense of the Soviet Union,
against wage cuts, for immed-@te relief for the
release of the Scottsboro boys, for the freedom
of the Harlem miners facing death sentences,
against all determinations of the youth Inter
national Youth Day of 1881 takes on flesh and
blood and becomes an integral part of the every
day struggles of all workers in general the youth
in particular.
Demonstrate on international Youth Day.
September 8!
Hail the Fighting Day Of the World Toiling
Youth!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

ted this opposition to them on the part of the
parents by refusing the floor to mothers Of the
boys at several mass meetings and at the MA
C.P. conference in Pittsburgh
White admits that one of the mothers of the
boys has publicly denounced him for his traitor
GUS alliance with the Alabama bosses in the at
tempt to crush the mass fight which alone can
free the boys. He negects TO add, however, that
all of the nine boys and all of their parents and
relatives have Joined in this denuncation.
He justifies his meddnng in the case against
the wishes Of the parents on the lie that the
parents are too ignorant to know their own mind
that they misled, that their minds are poi
soned, etc He also peddles the boss lyhchers'
Interpretation Of. the protests of the working
class against this d2mnabe cutra-s as threats
against the lives of the governor and other Ala.
bana, officials
But the workers will not be deceived by the
lies of Walter White The question before the
working class is the mass fight to save and free
the Scottsboro boys and the support of the par
ents and their boys in tehrietaoin shrdlu nunu
ents and their boys in their unanimous choice
Of the International Labor Defense as the Or
ganisation which shall conduct the defens-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
International Youth Day.
1915 and 1881

INTERNATIONAL Youth Day OF this year Will
be the occasion Of huge demonstrations against
inpsriaHst war and for the defense Of the Soviet
Union How did this fighting youth day orig
lr5te2
International Youth Day was born in the midst
Of the last inlpe-ialist war. It came at time
when the young workers were being slaughtered
b. tire millions on the battlefields of Europe in
the interest Of the milIionaires. This mass
slaughter for capitalist profits was highly ap-
plaUded by the Socialist parties thruout the
world. The leader Of the Socialist Youth move
ment Of Europe, Henrik de Man of Belgium,
had gone over completely to the aid of his
'fatherland" The revolutionary struggle against
war was taken up by certain sections of the
Socialist movement, These left wings we're led
by Lenin, Liebknecht, Ruthenberg, and other
militant fighters
Finally, in April 1915 Conference of dele
gates from the revolutionary youth groups of
10 counties gathered in Berne, Switzerland, to
develop the struggle against the imperiaIist war
This conference declared war against the I'M
periaist war" It decided on a day of militant
struggle against war to be held in September
This day became known as International Youth
Day and constitutes one of the outstanding
events of struggle against the last war.
Today, the youth are face to face with an
other war. The situation has changed tremen-
dously since the days of the Berne Conference.
Today we witness Socialism being built over one
sixth Of the worlds surface the Soviet Union.
Capitalism directs its war preparations for an
attack on the Workers Republic. Whereas in
1915 there was no single organized international
workers movement struggling against the cap
itaust war, today we have mighty Communist
and Young Communist Internationals. These
organizations are the revolutionary inheritors
Of the traditions of the Berne Conference. They
have proven their metal in the struggle against
the last nlperialist war, in their everyday lead
ership Of the struggles of the workers of the
world in their building of new system In the
Soviet Unoin. It is necessary at present when
We are faced with the immediate danger of war,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
District. Section, and Unit
Literature Agents

See that you are supplied at once with the
following literature for current campaigns:
FOR SOLIDARITY DAY-September I
Work or Wages, by Grace M Burnham 10
Social Insurance, by Grace M Burnham 10
History of May Day, by Alexander Trach-
tenberg 10
Race Hatred on Trial 10
Graft and Gangsters, by Harry Cannes 10
Lynching Negro Children in Southern
Courts, by Joseph North .OS
Little Brothers of The Big Labor Takers
by william z. Foster .05
The Frame Up System, by Vern Smith 10
Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders 10
For INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY-sept. 8
Youth In Industry, by Grace Hutchins . . 10
No Jobs Today, by Phil Bard .O5
Life In the u S. Army, by Walter Trumbuli 10
For the UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN
Fight Against Hunger 05
Out of a Job, by Earl Browder .o5
2o,0O0,O00 Unemployed 10
5o,e00,ooO Unemployed .O5
Also Work or Wages and Social Insurance
For the ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Why Every Worker Should Join the Com
4-A-3' al " 10
The Heritage of Gene Debs by Alexander
Trachtenbere IN
American Working Women and the Glass
Struggle O5
Revolutionary Struggle Against War vs.
PacifiSm, by Alex Bittelnan .O5
Also your local Election Platforms "out
Of job, Flight Against Hunger
Graft and Gangsters', Race Hatred
on Trial" 'Lynchng Negro Children in
Southern Courts" Work or Wages"
Social Insurance"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
F orCed He alt h "

tant pillars Of the UssR as steel mills and the
Red Army
But to facts The bourgeois and social-demo-
cratic press can live without them but darn if
the revolutionary press can History tells LIS
that about ten years ago there we're still manv
greedy neighbors on the Soviet frontier who
wanted to get into the country badly. To keep
out those who wanted to get in the worst, the
army and navy had to be build first The farm
ers needed ploughs, So the industries received
attention for many years. Matters drifted thus
to about the year 1924-25 until the Bolsheviks
gave serious attention to sports What has hap
pened in the few short years since is verv con-
vincing.
In Moscow about the year 1917 when the
Gar left on his vacation dorcedD there we're
some Is sport places exclusively for the nobility
Today the Bolshevks have established and so
near the factories that the workers cannot avoid
them. some rs ce-skating Kinks 81 stadiums
ALI sport fields, 116 gyms IS swimming pools
l45 shooting galleries, and numerous physical
culture parks. In St Petersburg the nobility only
INDUCED in vodka bouts so we have no figures
as to the studies of sports under the Czarist re-
gime. But today we find some q boating
houses, 16 swimming and sun bathing places
q stadiunls, 60 football fields and 200 sport
fields
AS l continued my Investigations found that
the whole country was gradually being forced
INTO physical culture and sports Even in fac
tories during working hours fifteen minute rec
reation periods have been established | also
learned that sports we're mixed up in some way
with that dreadful Five Year Plan One athlete
just before he took plunge into the Moscow
River from ten foot diving board told me
confidentially that after the Five Year Plan
there would be tens Of thousands OF new sport
places for the workers thruout the Soviet Union
1t is plainly forced health"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
COMMUNISTS ANDN.A,A.CF
SCRAP OVER .SC'BORO CASE
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

TEaE accompanying release sent out by Walter
White. national secretary of the N.AACP.
tens its own story as to who is trying to tangle
srd han1string the defense Of the nine innocent
soottsboro boys vino are facing legal 1ynching in
Alabama
The Dallas Gazette IN publishing Whites re-
Hesse correctly emphasizes the fact that the
ScoStsboro boys are opposed to the perslsten at
ee0nps Of the NA-AC.P. to impose its defense
policy upon the boys and their parents. The Ca
Esttes headltne reads
"prisouers Are Opposing the NAACP."
Have tness boys and their parents the right
70 decide who shall defend them? They have
time and again declared their choice of the In
ternational Labor Defense. They have repeatedly
shown that they realize the Importance of mass
defense movement to back UP their defense In
the hostile courts of the Alabama boss lynchers.
Have they the right to choose their defense2
They have time and again told the NA4AC.P.
10 either cooperate with the LID or keep their
hands off the case. Have they this right? This
question is again sharply placed before the
working class and especially the Negro masses,
by reason Of the continued attempts of N.AA
G. P. misleaders to disrupt the mass defense
which alone can free the boys.
In his release Mr.. White admits that the par
ents and relatives Of the boys are opposed to his
traitorous gang Then why do not the NAA.
CP nnisleaders respect the oft expressed wishes
Of the parents that they stop meddling in the
case? William Pickens also admitted this oppo-
s-tion in his Chattanooga speech several months
Ego. In that speech he accused the Communists
Of having kidnapped, corralled and fenced
around the parents of the boys" This was an
other way Of admitting that the parents would
have nothing to do with the N.AAC.P. traitors
and their Ku Klux Klan lawyer, Stephen Roddy.
The NAAC.P. misleaders have tacitly admit