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The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Court Asked to Ban Sale
OF woodward BuiLding

The District of Columbia Su-
preme Court today was asked to
enjoin the sale tomorrow of the
Woodward Building under fore
closure of a 1920, 1000 second trust
and to appoint receivers to take
over the management of the
building until it, can be disposed
of at private sale. .
F. H. Duehay, Inc, owner Of
the building and the plaintiff, is
represented by Attorney John E.
I,asky, The defendants are
George N. Everett, Brainerd W..
Parker, trustees; Randall H. Hag-
ner, James j. Becker, trustees
under a first deed of trust; Helen
woodward Wilson, Irene Wood
ward Parker, Donald woodward
and Catherine woodward Tyssow-
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
I. G.. C.. Practitioners
Plan TWO-Ddy Meet

Delegates from all parts of the
United States will attend the an
nual convention of the Assocla-
ton of Practitioners before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
at the Mayflower Hotel, Thurs
day and Friday.
John j. Esch, president Of the
organization and a former inter
state commerce commissioner, will
preside at the meetings.
Addresses will be made by Ezra
BARNARD, jr., chairman; Clyde B.
Aitchison and Joseph B. East
man, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. A banquet and
dance will be held Thursday eve
ming and officers for the ensuing
year will be elected Friday after.
noon. The delegates will meet
President Hoover at the White
House at noon Friday.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Inhospitable Thugs
Strip Tourist of
DudS and Coin

Police are searching for four
white men who early today
grabbed a visiting North Caro-
linian and stripped him of his
clothes and money at First
Street and Maryland Avenue
Southwest.
Frank Simms, of 835 West
Morgan St., Raleigh, N. c., told
police he was approached by
the men while walking uptown.
Two of them held him while
the others robbed him of his
coat, vest, shoes and $12.15.
Simms walked to the First
precinct station in his scanty
attire and made the report.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
D, c. WIFE GETS
RENO DECREE

Mrs. Elsa P. Emmons, 1851
Irving st. N. w., employed in the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue, has
been awarded a decree of divorce
in Reno, New, from her husband,
otto Emmons, it was revealed to-
day by her attorney Raymond
Neudecker.
Mrs. Emmons charged cruelty
against her husband, saying that
he caused her embarrassment and
humiliation by his association
with other women. Failure to
provide was one of her com
plants.
Mrs. Emmons is permitted to
resume her maiden name of Elsa
P. NeWquest.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Garden of Children
Beams Third Year

The Garden of Children, a
nursery school for colored chill.
dren under six, conducted by
Mrs. Dorothy Howard at 1928 s
st. N. W., began its third year
yesterday. A kindergarten for
children between four and six
years of age was added this year.
The nursey had an enrolment Of
II pupils last year. The result
Of mental tests given by Prof.
Clair Price of Howard University
placed 70 per cent Of the children
in the superior class.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
AirpLGne Invention
Suit Opened BIZ u. s

The suit of Robert Esnault-
Pelterie, French inventor of the
Single control airplane device,
was reopened yesterday by the
Government before U. S. Court
of Claims Commissioner Hayner
H. Gordon.
If the suit is settled in favor
of the inventor, it is estimated
he will receive Immediately ap-
proximately $2,5OO,OOO in royal
ties.
The case has been hanging
fire since 1924.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
American u. Starts
With Bio Enrolment

One of the largest freshmen
class enrollments in the history OF
American University was regis
tered at the College Of Liberal
Arts yesterday morning. Class
work for the college will begin to-
morrow.
DR.. George B. Wood, dean of
the college, addressed the first
chapel service on The Meaning
of a College Education" Will
Hutchins, professor of art at the
university, also spoke. His subject
was THE Purpose and Program
Of Daily Chapel"
The Washington times., 1931-09-22

ski, holders of the second deed
OF trust held, and the New York
Life Insurance Company, holder
Of the first deed Of trust.
Loan Deal Cited
Francis H. Duehay says he pur-
chased the building from the
Woodward interests and has a
$1,600,000 equity. The New York
Life, holder of trusts totalling
$2,000,000. advised the Wood
wards of its intention to fore
close.
The Woodwards, it is said,
agreed to protect the insurance
company, if they purchased the
property under their trust, pro-
vided a new loan of $4,000, 900
was granted. An appraiser fixed
the value of the building at $4,-
100000 and the insurance COM
mltted itself for the new loan.
WOOdwardS Favored"
Mr.. Duehay says the advertise
ment Of the sale is improper be-
cause 1t informs the public the
property is sold subject to the
$2,O00,000 first trust whereas the
trust is in default and the pur-
chasers would be confronted with
the necessity of furnishing a new
trust. Such a condition makes
the Woodwards the favored bid,
ders, the plaintiff says.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat
issued a show cause rule, return
able tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
B. AND D. WINS
TRAFFIC CASE

Judge Isaac R. Hit dismissed
a traffic case today against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. Complaint was made
that the grade crossing on Michi-
gan Avenue near Catholic Uni
versity had been blocked on Au-
gust 81, for approximately As
minutes by a B. & o. freight
train.
Police of the Twelfth precinct
testified their radio car was held
up at the crossing from 1888 p.
m. to 8:13 by a freight.
William w. Baldwin, assistant
trainmaster said the delay was
caused by an accident to an air
line.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Chief Justice Hughes
Calls JuriSts ParLey

Returning yesterday Chief JUS
tice Hughes issued =. call for a
conference of senior circuit court
judges to be held here October l
to consider the condition of bust
ness in the Federal courts and
recommend measures to relieve
congeSted dockets.
The Chief Justice Immediately
examined the status of cases in
the Supreme Court, in prepara-
tion for the fall term, beginning
October 5.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Contractors Study
Relief for JObLeSS

Improvement Of economic con-
ditions and unemployment relief
will be studied by the governing
board of the Associated General
Contractors of America at a met
ing here October l, according to
Edward j. Harding. managing
director of the association.
President A. P. Greensfelder,
of st. Louis, will place before the
directors reports of various tech
nical committees from every part
of the country. These deal with
methods of financing, elimination
of waste and development Of new
construction.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Chemical Blast Fire
IniureS u. S. Worker

Joseph C. Carter, AZ. of 1889
Meridian Pl. N. w., is recovering
today from burns received while
fighting a fire in the photo
graphic laboratory of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics at 1858
B st. S. W., yesterday.
The fire resulted from chem
ical explosion, which frightened
a large number of employees in
the building. The laboratory was
badly charred.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
PLEAD AIRING
HARMFUL
JUST NOW
Meanwhile Grand Jury Finishes
New Indictments As Board
Interviews SChenck in Jail

The District Grand Jury today
finished off the indictments which
it will return tomorrow. charging
more police department members
with brutality, as the District
Commissioners sought to throw an
added smoke screen about the in
vestigation.
At the same time, the commit
tee of five lawyers named by the
Commissioners to study the recent
Grand Jury report in the case OF
Orville A. Staples prepared to go
to the District Jail to question
Frederick A. Schenck, former po-
liceman, whose testimony resulted
in the presentment by the inquisi-
torial body.
SchenCk Returned
Schenck was returned to Wash
ingtOn yesterday from Leaven-
worth penitentiary, where he is
serving a 2O-year sentence on a
robbery charge.
The lawyers committee is seek
ing to keep its activities quiet,
while at the same time, the Com
missioners have asked the De-
partment of Justice not to make
public its report of its investi-
CATION of police third degree
methods.
Dozen Writs Seen
This request was made to ].
Edgar Hoover, head of the bureau
of investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice, and was
prompted, it was said, by desire
of the Commissioners to have an
opportunity to study conditions
revealed in the report before the
facts Became public knowledge.
While the Grand Jury will re-
turn at least a dozen indictments
tomorrow there will be no special
report excoriating higher-ups in
the Police Department of brutal
ity practices. Such a report, how
ever, may be made before the
Grand Jury quit on october 6,
it was intimated.
Today Justice Jesse c. Adkins
in District Supreme Court con-
tinued for one week arguments
on petitions to expunge from the
record the special Grand Jury re-
port of September 4, in which it
was charged that Staples had
! been framed"
Rights Attacked
The petitions were filed by At.
tOrneys Henry I. Quinn and AL
bert w. Jacobson, on behalf of
Policeman Joseph HI. Hunt and
Inspector Louis J. StOll. The
Grand Jury made direct charges
against Hunt and implicated In
spectOr StOlI by inference. Both
petitioners attacked the right of
a Grand Jury to return such re.
ports defaming the reputation of
citizens.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
TAX|CAB RATES
To Be STUDIED
BY P. ]. c.
StriCter Regulation Planned
To Be Result of Hearing;
Warfare Looms Over Zones

Stirred to action by demands
for stricter regulation of taxicab
rates and operations, the Public
Utilities Commission. said the
hearing order would not only
call for an inquiry into rates and
zone operations, but also would
cover all conceivable phases Of
cab operations.
On Verge of War
The order will 60 out within
the next few days and comes at
a time when cab operators are
on the verge of another war.
The commission decided to hold
the hearing shortly after receiving
a letter from the Merchants and
Manufacturer Association urging
closer rate and zone regulations.
Peoples Counsel Richmond B.
Keech, who brought about peace
in the cab industry following the
taxi war a few months ago, also
advocated the hearing.
Agreement Discarded
Some cab operators, who en-.
tered into a peace agreement de-
signed by Keech and agreed to
unified rates and zone areas, have
discarded the agreement.
These are principally indie
pendent cab operators. Nearly
100 of these have already notified
the commission of their intention
of splitting the 20-cent "city
proper" zone into two zones-a
20-cent zone and a Accent zone.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Officials Thanked
For Market Work

A vote of thanks to Commis-
Sioner Crosby, Marketmaster Rob
erts and Representative Walton
Moore, of Virginia, for their ef-
forts in providing the newly
erected sheds at the K Street
Market, was given last night by
the West End Citizens Associa-
ton.
The meeting, the first of the
year, was held at the Western
Presbyterian Church.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
ALerGndrid's Rotary
Club Hears AshLV

Ladies Day was observed today
by the Alexandria Rotary Club at
it's weekly luncheon in the George
Mason Hotel. Fred w. Ashly,
chief assistant librarian Of the
Library of Congress, described
the Vollbehr Collection recently
acquired by the Library. Presi-
dent Fred C. Goodnow presided.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
WOMAN HIT BY CAR

Struck by an auto at King
and Washington Streets during
the evening rush hour yesterday,
Mrs. Sidney A. Jenkins, los North
Washington ST., was treated at
Alexandria Hospital for cuts on
her arms, knees and head.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
PLAN CHEST CLINICS

A free chest clinic will be held
at the Alexandria health office
tomorrow from to S p. m. The
same hours will prevail on Thurs
day for colored persons. Drs.
H. A. Latane and Llewellyn
Powell will be in charge.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
2 Board Candidates
Will Address Club

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Magruder
and Mrs. Florence E. Cannon,
candidates for the Arlington
county board, will speak tonight
at the monthly meeting of the
Ashton Heights Woman's Club
at the clubhouse on Clarendon
Avenue.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
1900 CHILDREN
) SIT ON FLOORS
/. AND LAWNS
Lack of Chairs, Desks Blamed
On M'CarI; 0verCrowding
> Reported in High Schools

One trainload of new school
furniture, delayed for the opening
OF school yesterday. was being un-
loaded today at the Pennsylvania
freight station.
Two other loads, said to have
been sent from Gardner, Mass.
Friday and Saturday, had not yet
arrived today.
Sit on Floor
With approximately 1000 chill,
dren compelled to sit on news
papers on floors or on the lawns
yesterday, one Of the schools today
was forced to go on a Ipart-time
basis and four others were com
PEELED to conduct classes without
desks.
At the Deanwood School 535
children we're divided into part.
time classes so that the furniture
h on hand could be equally dis,
tributed. The Lafayette, Mann,
Noyes. and Whittier schools, us.
ing chairs from their own or
other assembly halls, were forced
to do without desks and to lean
on big geography books" for sup,
port of their writing material.
The delay, according to Dr.
Frank w. Ballou, is due to the
holdup in the awarding of the
contract for the furniture in July.
The blame was laid at the door
of Comptroller General McCarl,
who reversed a decision in con-
nection with the necessity of pro-
viding samples according to speci-
flcationS. - j., .-
Schools OvercrOwded
Simultaneous with the chaos
involving the furniture. it was
learned from Stephen E. Kramer,
first assistant superintendent,
that two high schools and one
Junior high school were "very
much OvercrOwded," far in excess
Of their capacity.
Central, with a capacity of
1900 was rapidly approaching
the 5000 mark and Mckinley
whose capacity is 2,100, had al
, ready totaled 2,551 at noon today
Langley Junior High had an en-
rollment of 381 yesterday.
The total enrolment yesterday
was 68,935, a decrease of LOSS
from last year. The decrease was
attributed to the fact that Jewish
children did not attend school
yesterday because of the observ
ance of Yom Kippur.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
FRACTURES RIBS

Falling against a car which he
was uncoupling in Potomac Rail
way Yards last night, Thomas j.
Burns, of 210 B st. S. E., Wash
ington, fractured several ribs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Draft Platform of Action of the C.. p. of India

native exploters who set the toilers of different
nationalities and religious beliefs against one
another. and provoke conflicts between them.
The CP. of India calls upon all the toilers, in
Guiding the untouchables (pariahS) not to per-
init such disorganization and splitting of the
united revolutionary front OF the oppressed, who
suffer equally at the hands of their own and
British exploiters.
In its struggle to win leadership of the masses,
the C.P. of India calls upon all its supporters
to make resolute use of any legal and semi-legal
opportunity for public action and mobilization
of the masses around working class slogans. On
every occasion they must expose the treacherous
part played by the National Congress. Against
the bourgeois front of compromise established
by the national reformists, they must create the
united front of the toilers from below, on the
basis of definite proletarian revolutionary de-
mands and activities
AS one of the practical means of explaining
to the toiling masses the exploiting and treecher-
Gus policy of the Congress leaders, the CP. of
India recommends to its supporters to make use
of their activity in the trade unions, municipal
councils Calcutta Bombay etc. and similar in
situations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

dence, carrying out the agrarian revolution and
achieving democratic reconstruction is the path
of the Struggle of the widest pos
sibe mass of the people, developing into gen.
eral national armed instruction against the
British exploiters and all their allies in our
country.
The propaganda of non-violence of Gandhi,
Nehru and the other leaders of the National
Congress is intended to prevent a general ma
tional armed instruction of the toiling masses
against British rule. BY his own confession in
his autobiography, Gandhi took part in the
armed suppression of the rising of the Zulu peas
ants in Africa and assisted the British robbers
in their fight against the German capitalists for
the right to exploit colonial peoples Gandhi re-
cruited Indian peasants into the British army,
and sent to their deaths hundreds of thousands
of Indian workers and peasants in the interests
of the British robbers And today Gandhi tells
the peasants and workers of India that they have
no right to and must not revolt against their ex-
ploiters He tells them this at the very time
when the British robbers are making war on
the Indian people in the North West Province
and throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
A Complete Mystery

"a poorly dressed man, with empty pockets
leaped in front of a southbound Jerome Ave
express train at Moshulu Parkway station, Bronx,
at 10 A. M. yesterday and was killed. He was
identified as Meyer Solomon, IS, of Is Stuyves-
ant ST, but there was nothing to indicate why
he ended his hfe."-N. Y. Daily News, Jan. Q.
thing that happens today, seems to be mys-
terry to the capitalist press. The capitalist press
doesn't know that there is crisis and ten mil
lion jopless. How could it be expected to know
why this man ended his life? The only thing
it does know is that there is what it calls
depression" that will be over soon. How soon?
That, too, is a mystery?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Down With Wax Candles!

The Chicago Tribune of Dec. 81, commenting
on the depression" takes cheer in telling every
body that it's not only in the U. S. A. Then it
finds what's to blame: the Russian revolution
"One of the Russian revolutions results was
to make questionable or illegal the burning OF
wax candles in churches, and the Ethiopian trade
in wax as a result has been destroyed"
Now, this is downright bad Moreover, from
the way the BoshevikS acted up when lilly
white" American tried the Jim Crow on a Negro
worker at Stalingrad showed that the Russian
revolution is not only against Lur.ling Ethiopian
wax candles. but is against the best traditions OF
Dixie burning the EthiopianS themselves.
Something will have to be done about the
Russian Revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

Of the working class and the peasantry; IN order
to liberate the working class, the peaSantry and
the town poor from the hands of national re-
formsm, and direct their revolutionary struggle
towards an anti-imperialst and anti-feudal revo-
luton-for all these purposes the working class
requires its own proletarian Communist Party
The Communist Party of India is the party
of the working class, the final aim of which IS
the achievement of Socialism and ultimately Ui
complete Communism. The program of the
Communist Party of India is totally differen,
in principle from the programs and ideas of the
other parties and groups which are parties CT
the capitalist class and petty bourgeoisie, not
excepting the national revolutionary parties
While the latter are striving for the develop
ment of capitalism in India, the Communist
Party is consistently and firmly fighting for a
Socialist path of development. While the ma
tional revolutionary groups are fighting for bour
geois rule and bourgeois form of government
the C. P. of India is fighting for the democratic
dictatorship of the working class and the peas
antry, Workers and Peasants Soviet Govern
ment of India.
The only form of government which can safe
guard the interests Of the workers peasants and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
DietskOe SelO

AS an incident actually observed, reader
sends us the following:
"Tsarkoe Selo. The Tsars city. His summer
home The palace with its tens upon tens of
rooms His ultra ornate bejeweled church. The
studded carriages. The lapis-lazuli and
ambet inlat1 ballroom. The mirror-like dance
floor, upon which now tread the heavy unpol-
ished bootS of the workers and peasants.
Suddenly rouSing cheer A group OF about
che hundred children their red scarfs flying,
marching to the rhythm of a reusing revolution
airy song Symbol of the times. In the city of
forme~ monarchy, former pomp, former greed,
are banded together the children of the new
freedom.
1.-THE evolution of the name illustrates the
revolution of the times. 1t had been Tsarkoe
Selo-the Tsar's City. 1t is now Dietskoe Selo-
the Childrens City"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
&4s;~.~
Juniors Education
By JORGE

Junior: Who's Henry Epstein, PAPA: don't
know. Why?
Junior: see the N. Y. Times says he has been
appointed First Assistant Attorney General OF
the State of rev 1ork.-Pa: Well what of 1t?
Junior: Nothin', pa But, pa, amt the Attorney
General supposed to prosecute any crooks that
took the money of small depositors in banks
they run?-Pa Sure. But what's that to do
with Epstein?
Junior: Nothin, pa But; amt there lawyer
by the name of Max D. Steuer who is attorney
for some depositors in the Bank of United
States?-Pa: Yep, and he's making big row.
Says that millions of dollars are missing
Junior: Uh nun But, pa. How does 1t hap
pen that this lawyer Steuer is attorney for de-
positors who lost their money in one Tammany
bank, and is also attorney for the former State
Superintendent of Banks who got bribed to al
low the swindle of depositors in another Tam
many bank?-Pa: Hmm. Seems little queer.
But lawyers take cases of anybody who pays them
for it, But what's that go to do with the Ep-
stein chap? ~
Junior Noth1n', pa. But was just wonderin',
cause see that this Epstein is the Son-in-law
of Steuer. Do you suppose that Tammany has
appointed Steuer's son-in-law to prosecute
crooked Tammany bankers that Steuer is de-
fending?-Pa What? You repeating Red Ru-
mors! Never let me hear you impugning the
uprghtness OF leading citizens again! Nor the
scrupulous honesty of bankers and banking sup
erintendentS!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
A Lesson on Belly Crawling

A piece of protoplasm crawling about under
the name of Don ODay writes this paper let
ter, sending-please note-a copy to the N. Y
American. That was his only purpose in writ
ing us.
In it he criticzes, in his best threadbare upper
class arty STYLE the story published in the Daily
Worker about a story it printed describing the
charity handout by the American" on New
Years as lousy sandwich"
This, he writes-with tail wagging in the direc-
ton of the editor of the Observation-Disclosures
to a sandwich--a token of mercy-given to the
needy And it was not lousy; indeed the Daily
Worker reporter must have meant delicious, or,
possibly even luscious-surely not lousy"
He confesses to the Daily Worker-or rather
to the American-that he is newspaper man
out of job That he was in the Americans"
breadline apd loves and reverences it for its
token of mercy" Also, he thinks that the Daily
Worker should reprinland its N"reporter, CIV.
Then he gets real clever, and slashes out:
"Just where is the Daily Workers food dispens-
ing station?" That, surely, ought to get him
job on the Hearst papers,
Our reporter? He was a worker jobess,
.lungry cold--and sore at being forced to stand
in line to provide the Hearst camera men with
publicity. Cheap publicity at that betause the
American collected cash to buy sandwiches for
"its" breadline
Wen believe that worker as to whether the
sandwich was lousy" in its specific content. We
know 1T was lousy in every social sense.
And we also know, as does the worker, that if
it were not for the militant mass action of the
workers encouraged and guided by the Daily
Worker" there would be not even the lousy
co1c t-in from, Tho
Worker, no fight; no fight, no sandwich.
We can go further No sandwich, no belly
crawling MIR. O'Day to show the N. Y. American
that he is the best belly-crawler extant and out
Of job