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WEISsMULLER MARRIEs,

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March CP.-
Johnny Weissmuller, star of many
swimming events, and Bobby Arnst,
star Of the stage, we're on their honey
moon here today. Their marriage, an
yesterday, took place last Sat-
urday after speedy courtship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

IF they're in the mood, Roscoe Reich
ards Hecht Co. bowlers may steal the
spotlight from the Blue Ribbons and
King Pins. Roscoe has two teams In
the O'Clock squad.
4 TIDBIT for the fans will be dou-
"A bles performance at o'clock by
Charley Watson, the Montgomery
County ace, and Joe Pricci.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

manager and captain, hasn't announced
his partner
Topping of tonight's show will be
Howard Campbell, the Incompatible
King Pin leader, and Glen Weidman
and the famous wolstenholme brothers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

counts the Pigs would have beaten the
top score Of 1852 made by the sokol
Rosebuds Of Bridgeport, Conn.
Mary Cox Of the Queen Pins rolled.
into second place with @ set Of 342,
finishing with game Of 1873.
Sam West and j. MARYLAND Of New
port, r. l., started their doubles with o
count Of 2S2 but couldn't hold the pace
and wound up with . total Of 700.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

Glenn and Jack. They will roll dou-
bles at 10 o'clock and singles at IL.
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white lace and the elbow-length sleeves
had circular flares of the chiffon over
white. Her hat was Of silk in the
same shade, with narrow brim, from
which an ostrich feather of blue fell
becomingly at one side of the back.
About her neck she wore a small sable
fur scarf.
After President Hoover joined her
and received for short time, they made
a tour of the lawn together, stopping
frequently for a chat with various
groups, the rain interrupting their par
taking of refreshment from the gayly-
colored marques on the lawn. There
was a delightful atmosphere of in
formality throughout the afternoon,
many of the guests greeting their hosts
and each other for the first time since
the Spring.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister of
Vice President Curtis, was among the
early arrivals. She wore a black cos
tune, the gown having a deep yoke of
black and dull silver brocaded crepe and
the skirt of lace falling long and in
points. Her black hat was trimmed
with an ostrich feather which fell to her
shoulder at one side, and about her
shoulders was double scarf of pointed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-09

white lace and the skirt Aaring and
Just escaping the floor. Her brown felt
hat was a bowler" shape, had an
ostrich feather in the same shade. Mrs.
Edward A. Hartman, president of the
league for several years before Mrs.
Mondells election last Spring, was in
black crepe. with white lace front
in the bodice, and her. hat was of black.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel, who organ
tied the league and was president for
some time, wore black and white fig
ured crepe with a black hat.
Mrs. James j. Davis and Mrs. Clyde
Kelly, who have been close friends since
they joined the official group of Penn
sylVanians here, wandered about the
grounds together, stopping to greet old
friends.
Among others at the party were Mrs.
George, wife of Maj. Charles P. George,
U. S. A.. and daughter of Vice Presi-
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fox fur. Mrs Henry L. Stimson, wife
OF the Secretary of State, had a gown
OF figured chiffon in shades of old rose
and beige, with a narrow belt of rose
velvet at a normal waistline. and her
ostrich feather.
She wore a short scarf OF sable fur
about her neck Mrs. Charles Francis
Adams, wife of the Secretary Of the
Navy, chose dark blue crepe fashioned
with coat which fell we'll over the
hipline and was belted at the normal
waistline with narrow dark blue suede
belt. Her hat was of dark blue straw
and had an ostrich feather of the same
shade at one side. Mrs. Robert Pat
terson Lamont, wife of the Secretary
of Commerce, wore a gown of figured
chiffon, the background of white and
the pattern in small black dots. The
| waist was finished with deep cape
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-09

dent Curtis, who was in pale green
crepe, the waistline marked with band
of eyelet embroidery, and black hat
trimmed with a black ostrich feather;
Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, daughter-in-
law Of the late President Benjamin Har-
rison, and her daughter, Mrs. Robert L.
Armstrong; Mrs Charles Mason Remey,
who appeared for the first time since her
recent marriage in Paris, and who was
greeted by her many friends made dur
ing her Winters in Washington as Mrs.
Karl D, Klemn: Mrs. George Hastings,
wife of the new secretary to the Pres
ident: Mrs. Arthur L. Ballantine and
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SOCIETY
The Premier of France, NJ. Pierre Laval,
Will Be Guest of the President at
the White House.

ance. She descended the steps from
the south portico and, crossing the
lawn, took her place under one of the
giant trees on the east side of the
grounds, close to a clump of rare old
lockwood. She wore very becoming
costume of dark blue chiffon. the
ankle-length skirt falling gracefully as
it fiared toward the bottom. The
bodice was simply made and was
finished about the neckline with dainty
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collar and the skirt, which escaped the
ankles, was full. Her hat was black.
Mrs. William N. Doak, wife of the Sec
rotary Of Labor, wore q tailored cos
tune, her suit Of black satin, the jacket
straight and to the hipline and edged
about the neck and down the front
with band Of white fur. Her small
black hat was Off her face and trim
med with tiny black and white
feather.
Mrs Harry K. Daugherty, wife Of the
assistant solicitor of the Treasury, and
vice president of the league, was the
ranking official of the organization
present, as the president, Mrs. Frank
w. Mondell. wife of former Repre-
Daugherty had a smart and very be-
coming costume of brown, the gown
OF lace being made with fitted bodice,
relieved in the front with a veStee OF
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Mrs. Hoover Hostess Yesterday
To Republican Women's League.

The garden party which Mrs. Hoover
gave for the members of the League OF
Republican Women yesterday afternoon
was one of the most delightful al fresco
parties of the present administration.
The reception was scheduled for 5
o'clock. and shortly after that the
President joined Mrs. Hoover and, after
receiving many of the late-comers,
strolled with her about the grounds,
where they stopped frequently to chat
with smaller groups of their guests.
Not until their tour was nearly COM
pleted did the shower brighten their
guests to shelter and drive the hosts
indoors.
Many of the 800 or more guests had
arrived before the appointed hour and
were assembled in the quaint little
formal garden on the east side OF the
lawn when Mrs. Hoover, accompanied
bv the Presidents military and naval
aides, Col Campbell B. Hodges and
Capt. Russell Train, made her appear
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Miss Ballantine, wife and daughter Of
the Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury:
State and Mrs. Green H. Hackworth,
Mrs. Ellis Vest, director of women's
activities Of the Republican National
Committee; Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett,
Mrs. Victor Kaufman, Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckermann, Baroness Won Below, Mrs.
Samuel A. Kimberly and Mrs. Paul
Myron Linebarger. Mrs. Charles w.
Fairfax was a striking figure in black
and white, with which she wore q rare
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~HE President and Mrs. Hoover
will have as their guest Tor
overnight at the Executive Man
sion the Premier of France, M.
Pierre Laval, during his four
day stay in the Capital. the olsIln-
guished statesman will dlVlce me
remainder of his visit between the home
of the Secretary of State and Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson and that OF the
United States Ambassador to France
1. and Mrs. Walter E. Edge.
The premier will come to Washington
THURSDAY. October %, and will be re-
ceived at O'Clock by the Presldent ana
Mrs. Hoover before going to the nome
of Ambassador Edge to spend the flrSt
night of his stay. In the evening NJ.
Laval will dine at the White House,
when the President and Mrs. Hoover
will be hosts to officials from foreign
countries who will attend the Yorktown
celebration. Friday the Ambassador OF
France, M Paul Claudel, will entertain
his countryman at luncheon before ms
departure to spend the afternoon ana
night at the White House. That eve
ming the premier will dine informally
with President and Mrs. Hoover.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Andrew W. Mellon, will give luncheon
Saturday for NJ. Laval, and in the
afternoon he will go to the home OF
the secretary Oh Oldle dllo N1A o.
Stinson. where he will dine and pass
the night. The French visitor will re-
main at Woodley during Sunday to
attend the afternoon al fresco reception
to be given in his honor by the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson,
to which will be invited the heads of
the diplomatic missions. In the evening
the premier will be entertained at
dinner at the French embassy, after
which he will return to Ambassador
Edges house. Early Monday the
premier will return to New York.
Mrs. Hoover will receive at the White
House today the mayoress OF Manches-
ter. Mrs. Tit. Mrs. Tit will be &C
companied to the executive mansion by
Mrs. Macnaramara. wife of the naval
attache of the British embassy.
The President and Mrs. Hoover have
as their guest for few days at the
White House, Miss Vaal Stark of Palo
Alto, Calf, daughter of an old friend
of Mrs. Hoover.
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Continued on Third Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
D0les and Subsidies

secretary attempting to put the great engineer
III the capitalist call
"human sympathy"
Quite appropriately hypocrisy the Evening Post
sympathy right beside the story
Landing Doles
appropriation
human food for starving farmers and their families
the refuse the appropriation
which for $2ooO00o0 So he is thanking himself in one
the the entire capitalist class Hoover thanks
the farmers because, according to his
words otherwise would have been step on the pathway OF
Government does."
the farmers and exploit the workers regularly in and year out
food be starving farmers because
100000 obess workers starving with their families might also demand
right to eat the ood they produced i've IN the houses y m ano
the clothes they made And thaah! That would be doe
This executive for the entire
capitalist which cutting right left Which is trying
compel
in taxes of the profits they wiring from the workers. Hoover
against government does."
the following kind
told of W. Chapman president of the United
Lines capitalist his the
directors March 10th:
provisions o. Ac have
granted the Shipping construction
for IS per cent the total cost o new p which will repaid
equal instaIments period 20
understand, is ~ cent
o
so-caled Merchant
being built for wa The Post Office Department kindly another
subsidy in the form OF contracts supposedly for carrying mai doe
Indeed the capitalist company
business and guarantees it profit!
starving children of
the unemployed! Nothing
This is the human sympathy of Hoover! This
policy capitalist Cut the wages of the
workers who have jobs
death QUIETLY Everything for the rich nothing
need sarve! That ors factory
industry
of the workers of all the world!
And on May First International Day the workers
strike and demonstrate against demonstrate
with subsidies with war plots against
the Soviet Union! Onto the streets May First
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
ALL FOOD LOCAL
BOASTS OF SCABS

NEW YORK. - TWenty-four cases
of food workers arrested in the var
ious strikes came up in court at ISL
st. & Amsterdam Ave. yesterday. 10
we're held for special sessions under
Paragraph 600 violation of an in
Junction.. The business agent of the
A. F. L. clerks local 338-his name
is Volchuck, stated: "The aim of this
injunction is not only to protect the
bosses who are not signed up" This
local co-operates fully with the bos-
ses in strike breaking, rushing in
wherever the workers go out and Of
fering to supply scabs and apply the
blanket injunction.
Monday, Rothberg, another bust
ness agent of Local 1913 came to the
picket line led by the Food Workers
Industrial Union at Coney Island
and tried to pick fight with the
workers. He succeeded, and before
the police came down he found out
they coul digit. Several pickets were
arrested. Organizer Reich of the
F. w. I. U. came to the police sta
ton to investigate and was also ar
rested and charged with assault
All were released on bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
CP IN ELECTIONS
OF N. BRUNSWICK
Shop Meetings Used
In Campaign

Last Sunday a City Election Con-
ference was held in New Brunswick
to rally support behind the two Com
munist candidates for city commits
Sioner, one a woman cigar worker,
another a male worker. The city
elections take place Tuesday, May
18th. Ways and means were dis
cussed of dramatizing the struggles
of New Brunswick workers in this
campaign.
A decision was made at the above
conference to hold another election
conference together with the May
Day Conference this Sunday, April
10, and to make every effort to have
more women delegates from the war;
ious shops present, get representation
from the J. e. j. and other shops,
and a good number of Negro dele
gates.
Red nights are to be held, truck
paradeS are to be held decorated with
our slogans and calling upon the
workers to vote Communist. Shop
gate meetings are to be held at
johnson & johnson, the General
Cigar, where many women work, and
at other shops. Open air meetings
are being held regularly. A special
New Brunswick election issue of the
Daily Worker is being prepared. Steps
are to be taken to penetrate into all
workers organizations of the city
and call upon the workers to support
the Communist candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

continue undated. The provisional
government headed by the Repub-
lican Niceto Alcala Zamora is work.
ing to consolidate its power and pre-
vent real revolution of the workers
and peasants. KING Alfonso has left
on warship, presumably for Eng
land, where the British Labor gov
eminent will give him an enthusi-
astic welcome.
A national holiday was declared
Wednesday in view OF the abdication
Of the king. The king was hung in
effigy in the streets. Revolutionary
songs against the aristocrats were
sung by the people. Street car traffic
was forced. to stop. In Seville 212
prisoners we're released when a large
crowd stormed the Jail. Six hundred
prisoners were freed by the author
tiles in Valencia to prevent q whole
sale jail rescue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
START NATION WIDE FIGHT TO FREE Nine NEGRO YOUTHS
They Say "Starve"!
We Say Fight!

THE Financial Chronicle of April journal published and by
capitalists moaizng, when comments
Sa? speech Daniel Willard head OF the al
& Ohio Railroad.
rather than ave he would steal
that Willard said that only those
with resources than starye
From this dsmie the need for
stealing their money! Probably some did
i'll In event says the paper they had
better starve
journal policy for bankers
$50 month not enough to
keep family he wishes unntgated THIEF to
mercy the Financial Chronicle
capitalists their systematic hVery
capitalism millions of men are ob and
starving? indeed" So it
And "only millions out of
poyment while just look at the
Must not the captaisc system be
others being employed? Can such system
be to makeshif mtred pohcy?"
But workers spot the
through unemployment permanent for growing
army! choice And the out
there other policy buC this capitalist policy Ihat
S a choice between steal and "starve!'
Workers learning example the Rus
workers overowa of capitalist rule they
clothing toll! With unemployment
construction with the sevenho day and te-da
it is lie say everything but capitalism Is
"untriedW
Workers Government
can they stealing
than the Financial Chron
cles remedy" Of Starving
The workers are learning to fight for every city,
fighting learning
beyond power! Work
against capitalism, unenpoy
prosecutions the workers rayng to demon
slae May Dayl
Out of the shops mills
capitalism Against jobess
Workers Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
General Strike Breaks Out in Barcelona;
Form Revolutionary Committees" King Goes

Cable reports from Barcelona to
capitalist newspapers tell of a general
strike being declared in that city by
the United Labor Syndicate, as we'll
as a strike throughout Catelona called
by the National Confederation OF La
Dor.
The reports go on to state that the
new republican government had
tried desperately to avoid the strike,
which was part of the extremist eff
forts against the new regime"
Revolutionary committees" hive
been formed in the suburbs of Bar
celona where large textile and other
mills are situated. Various exploiters
were arrested by the revolutionary
committees which appear to be at
tempting to arm the workers.
A mass OF workers attacked the
penitentiary where many workers are
imprisoned, The capitalist dispatches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
PICKET JERRY
DRESS TODAY
Special Needle Trade
Meetings Being Held

NEW YORK.-All out to picket
and smash the injunction at the
Jerry Dress, 500 Seventh Ave, at
7:30 this morning The fight goes
on here in spite of all attempts by
arrests, ETC., of the bosses and the
company union to crush the mill
fancy of the workers.
There will also be picketing at
Needleman e. Bremmer, 263 w, 10th
st.
Yesterday four pickets were ar
rested at this shop and came up for
hearing in jefferson Market Court,
Sentence was postponed.
Today, at l p. m, there will be an
open forum for fur workers in r.
wing Plaza Hall. It is called by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and there will be full discus
sion of all >the problems facing the
furriers, and the position of the In
dustrial Union, with particular ref
erence to the Jersey City strike,
where the police, the bosses and the
International Fur Workers bureau
Gratis have united to force a wage
cut on the strikers and the Interna-
tional furnishes scabs.
Tonight the shop delegates coun-
Gil of the Needle Workers Industrial
Union meets at Union Hall, 131 w.
18th ST., at 7:30 to nominate officers
of the union and to take up plans for
organizatio min each of the needle
trades.
Two other meetings are to be held
tonight, one of all knit goods work.
ers in the Industrial Union, at 7:30
p. m. at the 131 w. 28th st. head
quarters, and the other at the same
place, of hemstitchers, at $50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Bronx Meets This
Saturday to Rally
Masses for May Day

NEW YORK.-Section S, Commu-
mist Party, is arranging open-air
meetings for Saturday, April Is, at
g p. m, to mobilize the workers in
the Bronx for May First.
The following are the corners and
speakers:
10th st. and Brook Ave.-L. Baum,
j. Hunt, Movshowitz and Dainoff.
161st st. and Prospect Ave.-Gaal,
Nay, Lustig and williams.
Intervale and wilkins Ave.-I. Hal
perm, Fem, Frey Miller and Marks.
Claremont Parkway and Washing
ton Ave.-Henkin, Cohen, Sharfen-
berg, Rich and Ginsberg.
st. Nicholas Ave. and 163rd St.
Smith, Ford, johnson and Stern.
214th st. and White Plains Ave
Severeno, Taylor, Roberts and Self
ger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
New Republican Government Tries to Keep
Masses From Carrying Forward Real
Revolution; Storm Prisons

say that 600 persons were released
and that "the authorities had great
difficulty in controlling the situa-
ton"
The bourgeois separatists are talk
ing about creating an independent
state in Cataloniafi though affiliated
to Spain.
Barcelona has a long tradition OF
militant strikes and class action. The
workers are not being fooled by the
fake bourgeois promises OF republic
Of claw and order" However, in view
of the scantiness of the news it is
difficult to get clear picture of the
relation of class forces, the extent
Of the mass support Of the armed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

uprising and under what leadership
It is progressing.
1t is clear from events that the
capitalists are having difficult time
10 limit the abdication of King AL
fonso TO a mere peaceful" transfer
cree of power leaving the feudal re-
CINE intact. In Barcelona the masses
were demanding bread and better
working conditions, The capitalist
press il protecting the socialists and
in keeping all blame from them, spe-
officially say that the socialists con-
denim this uprising and are for the
full support Of the republican capt.
talists.
In Madrid mass demonstrations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Condemned Boys Tell Own
Story of Arrest and Frame>p4b

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
April 15.-The Interna-
tional Labor Defense
brands the conviction
Of nine young Negro
W orkers in Scottsboro
circuit court on April
6 with sentencing of
g to death in the cleo
tri chair as a frame
up from start to finish.
This statement followed in
5estigation by Alan Taub, New
York attorney representing the
|. L. d., and Douglas Mckenzie,
district LID representative here.
Boys Had No Part in Fight.
Taub and Mckenzie have inter-
viewed the nine youths at length in
Birmingham Jail. The facts of the
case as presented to them by the de-
PENDANTS are as follows:
The freight train on which the fight
with the white men and attack on
the white girls is supposed to have
taken place left Chattanooga at
I0:45 m. Wednesday. March Is, for
Memphis Willie Robinson. 17-year-
old young worker from Atlanta. got
in an empty box car by himself and
was alone IN that car Until taken off
by an armed mob at Paint Rock. Ala.
He never saw the girls. the white
boys or the other defendants.
Clarence Norris and Charles
Weemo, 10 and 20 respectively. of At
lanta, got on a fiat car piled with
CONTINUED ON FACE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Olympic Calls In Cops
to Attack Picket Line

NEW YORK.-The first clash took
place yesterday on the Olympic picket
line with the police. The bosses APP
parently hoped until then the strike
would dwindle away. Instead the
strikers stood firm and the picket
line grew stronger. Yesterday the po-
lice came down and drove all from
the corner, and even broke up groups
of pickets which formed across the
street. The strikers will not give up
for this, however, and picketing goes
on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16

have as its main speaker Comrade
William Patterson, who has just re-
turned from stay of three and a
half years in the Soviet Union.
In the meantime, other meetings
to protest the Alabama legal lynch
ing are being held in other parts OF
thecity. Street meetings are being
held every night, modifying the
masses for protest against the
planned murder of the nine Negro
youths and for demonstration on
May Day ------,.-A----1'a--s-- 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-16
Patterson Speaks In
Harlem Fri. April oath

NEW YORK,--The Harlem mass
meeting, to protest the frame-up of
the nine Negro youths, with death
sentences for eight, will be held Fri
day evening, April "a, not this Fri
day evening, as enormously an
nounced in yesterdays paper.
The meeting. which will be held in
st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. both ST., will