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Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
Nj. ID. TRUAX GETS OFFICE
Named for Office by G. r. Nc
DougalI Whom He Will Succeed

M. Davis Truax, 221 West Six
teenth Street, Wilmington, has
been appointed Deputy Register in
Chancery and Clerk of the Or
phans' Court by George R. Nc
Dougall, register. Mr.. Truax is
a native Smyrna boy. The
new deputy succeeds Mr.. Nc
Dougall who was appointed Regis
ter in Chancery and Clerk of the
Orphans Court recently by Gov
ernor C. Douglass Buck to fill the
unexpired term of Granville P.
Alexander, deceased. Mr.. Truax
for the past 13 years has been en-
ployed by the DUPONT Company in
a secretarial capacity at the dye
works plant at Deepwater, N. j.
Prior to that position he was en-
ployed in a secretarial capacity
for six and one-half years by the
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company.
He is a World War veteran and
enlisted in the u. S. Army in Aug
ust, 1918, and was sent to Camp
Meade, Md, for training. He re-
turned to Wilmington soon after
his enlistment and served as chief
clerk of Local Board No. 1, being
connected with the Adjutant Cen
erals Office. Mr.. Truax is a men,
ber of Delaware Post No. 1, Amer
ican Legion; Delaware Lodge No.
/, 1. o. o. F.; Delaware Consistory
and Eureka Lodge No. %, A. F. &
A. M. He makes his home with
his mother, Mrs. Amanda ]. Truax
also formerly of Smyrna, at the
Sixteenth Street address, in Will
mington
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
HEAVY LOSSES FROM STORM
Crops Damaged Near ChestertOwn
Swept by Storm on Wednesday

Farmers in the vicinity of Wor-
ton, Still Pond and Kennedyville
were Thursday attempting to esti-
mate the damage to their crops
which may amount to thousands of
dollars as the result of a heavy
thunder storm late Wednesday in
which hail fell for Is minutes. At
Worton, which bore the blunt of
the storm, a corn field on the farm
of James Matthews was inundated
by two feet of water. Other farms
in that section, including those of
Harry Williams and Ralph Will
liams, his brother, were also badly
damaged by hail. Kennedyville,
during the storm, was swept by a
wind of near cyclonic proportions.
Trees were blown down and traffic
on the road to Chestertown was
delayed. Trees across the Penn
sylvania Railroad tracks delayed a
train from Townsend to Chester
town for a half hour during the
storm. Railroad repair crews were
kept busy during the night remov-
ing the debris while telephone
linesmen were occupied for hours
in attempting to restore service
that was disrupted when trees
were blown down, taking wires
with them. 1t was said that the
rain was the heaviest to fall in
that section for three years. The
accompanying hail was said to
have been the size of marbles. An
unusual feature of the storm was
that it did not touch an area five
miles away. Farmers in that sec
ton harvested their wheat as US
ual during the time the storm was
raging elsewhere. Corn, tomatoes
and other growing crops were hard
hit.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
PROFESSOR DIES
DIR. Enroll Buck of Washington
College Faculty, Dies in Germany

A cablegram was received from
Germany Friday stating that DR..
Enroll Buck, member of the
Washington College faculty, had
died while visiting there. DR.. Buck
and his wife, accompanied by T.
Howard Fowler left on trip
abroad for both recreational and
scientific purposes few weeks be-
fore college closed. DR.. Buck was
head of the science department at
Washington College. He was an
ex-service man and had for the
past five years been adjutant of
Frank Jarman Post of Chester
town, American Legion, DR.. Buck
was taking a special course in sci
ence in Germany when he was
stricken. He was member of the
Masonic Lodge.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22

Performance Of contract shsE
within ten (10) days after eysvl
contract and be completed as y
In the employment Of labo,. !
shall be given to residents Of b
Delaware.
Monthly payments will be al
per cent of the construction co-1
month.
Bidders must submit pruys|
forms provided by the Depar,nsI
Each proposal must be acer,
a surety bond. certified check, al
the amount of at least ten tl0) d
of the total amount of the pmT'
The envelope containing ths
must be marked Proposal tm
struction of State Highvg
No. .-.
The contract will be AWARDED 4
within twenty l20) days from Is
opening proposals.
The right is reserved TO Fsis1 4
bids.
Complete sets of plans and 81
may be obtained upon reCeiE d /
lars $4,000 for each n.zs
amount will not be refundg
STATE HIGHWAY llHl2l
Dover. DezHa
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
Wise Potato Bugs

Potato bugs that spend the win
ter underground take "anti-freeze'
precautions by getting rid of one
third their weight in water. which
otherwise would freeze and burst
the body cells
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
STATE PLANS CONVENTION
Discusses Features For Meetings
i'm Wilmington October % to %

Tentative plans for the fortieth
annual Delaware State Convention
of Christian Endeavor Unions were
completed last week. The conven-
tion will be held in West Presby-
terian Church from October % to
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
ADyERTTsENr>,r

Sealed proposals IN, y
State Highway 9aI1 De,slll WI be recs,..
lover. lover. Del. until 'hlilent, al 4
and at that pIace in liine, Augu,,
for contracts invoId Jild tine buSfi
proXimate quanritiaailg the iSr..
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
CONTRACT H.,
A AppOquinimink & ~. ~ Is2B

200 Gu. Yds Fraa.yers Crs5s
500 Gu. Yds' Borro,,i -.,salion
I,400 Gu. Yds, CIs5e Clo"
$4,000 Lbs. Reinforcas,.,A i1ss 4 Colcs
1000 Lin. n Concrl.tA sii,tAi
10 N Fl. B. N SL ~ FILM
Note; Applicants h, -.l
Contract LIB !
luired 70 nj,
statements ss !.
tfienee, necbs,,
ment and fns5@'
Fl, before ,be !.
forwarded. n
ments mus i
s'nadard forr, I
8, '.-lent which /
aii-ed upon reas
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
CONTRACT ,oo

DOrman Street. Harr;nr.
1.500 Gu. Yds. Fxra~atias' IN s'On k
1850 Gu. Yds Cenent ,''ISl III
$3.50 Lin. Fl. I,onqitndi.os1I iIo1c;els
500 Lin. Fl. Expansior' MI, Ia; 9ol ne
1000 Lbs. Catch Basin ~ ca.N oolN $,
too LOU In. r.. ? in. c. I. Pm
4oo In r. concrete Curb -
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
- CONTRACT 26p
" 'ii"i'i q oeaar a Streets, Bl

William & Cedar Streets, D.
26O0 Fl. IL
500 Gu. Yds. Excavstion :
400 Gu. Yds. Borrow n
1000 Gu. Yds. Cement Conc,. ia
$500 Lin. Fl. Longitudinss- s-Tis' ~. e.'
700 Lin. Fl. Expansion Ja-. fS- 2u
10 Gu. Yds. Class A Conc. 1T,-, a
1000 Lbs. Catch Basin Csetir. s,-t,ss
$50 Lin. Fl. ~ in. G. i pgs
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22

Marshallton CutaT STAIf I lab
856 n Va. isis' excavation
800 Lin. Fl. Fen F'.ent Conerse
$500 81. Fl. Concrai.s i,aasl9n Si Joint
400 Lin. IT. Conc,r..,e.. Clo.r,e SIdevsIs
10 End End post 0able Guard P,7
1000 Lin. Fl. Wood d5aSShhLaents Shnts
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
KILLS RATS

and mice that's RAT-SNAP, the
old reliable rodent destroyer.
Comes in cakes - no mixing with
other food. Your money back if it
fails.
35c size 1 cake enough for
Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar.
CSC size 2 cakes for Chicken
House, coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size 5 cakes enough for
all farm and out-buildings, storage
buildings, or factory buildings.
Sold and guaranteed by
Beckett's Hardware
SMYRNA, DEL.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
CONTRACT POI

DSian aie q WI Ndllut street, NJ
1850 Fl
1.SOO Gu. Yds. Excavation
1850 Gu. Yds. Concrete Pavsry
4 '9U0 00 LIN. IT. Longitudinal Jor
1'4VO LIN. IT. Expansion join /
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Subscribe for The Smyrna Times
$1.5O per year, in advance.
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CONTRACT %,

School Street, MillsbOro \
500 Gu. Yds. Excavation
500 Gu. Yds. Cement COBcs.
$50 Lin. Fl. Longitudinal H,
400 Lin. Fl. Expansion Joi1.
500 Lbs. Catch Basin Castipn
so Lin. Fl. u in. C. I. Pm
Smyrna times., 1931-07-22
CONTRACT
CONTRAcr

4o'ooo Cu. Yds. EzcagstsloID sl Dr'ta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
JobIess Councils Are
Active; Str. Meets;
. Conference On Sun,

NEW YORK hundred had
gathered to hear the speakers of the
Down Town Council of the Unem-
ployed at University and Fourth Ave
on Monday The crowd rallied close
around the stand and defeated at
tempts made by the police to cause
disturbances. The crowd jeered the
Salvation Army which came by with
the usual bass drums and horns.
Over $50 Daily Workers were sold.
The meeting will take place today at
Leonard and Church at 1130 a. m.
as usual.
All preparations are being made
for the United Front Conference on
unemployment, with delegates from
all workers organizations below 59th
st, on Monhattan. Many organiza-
tons have already promised to send
delegates. This conference will take
place at Manhattan Lyceum, May
10, at 10 a. m. This conference will
set up a Lower Manhattan Unem-
ployed Council, of which the pres
ent Down Town Council, Madison
Square Council, Waterfront Council,
and others will be branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Cops Raid Greek
Club and Want to
Know What WIR Is

NEW YORK.-Detective yesterday
searched the Greek Spartakus Club,
30l West Goth St., to find who it
was that was teaching the Greek
kids Communism" and demanded to
know what the Workers Internation-
al Reliefg Scouts were.
On finding a picture of Lenin in
the -1rooms, the detectives who
said they had been sent by Police
Headquarters, warned the caretaker
not to permit the children the use
of the rooms for their WIR Scout
meeting.
TITS a workers organization, the
caretakwer answered. the chill
dren around here need a working
class training they'll keep COM
ing here whether you like it or not!"
A WIR Scout Group, composed OF
children of Greek parents, living in
one of the poorest tenement sections
of New York, meets in the Sparta
Gus Club every Thursday night. and
in addition to sports training, receives
elements of a working class training
and understanding of the class strug-
gle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
OFFICIALS FLOUT
JOBLESS PROTEST
In AMALGAMATED
Refuse to Recognize;
Enormous Racket

NEW York; mass meeting of
300 unemployed cutters of Local of
the Anaalgamated Clothing Workers
held yesterday in Manhattan Lyceum
heard the report of their committee
elected at a previous meeting. This
committee was sent to make de-
mands on the officials of Local for
a real 40-hour week, abolition of
temporary cards, equal division of
work, no bosses to work as cutters,
rotation Of jobs to abolish faYoritism,
and abolition of the ten per cent
assessment supposed to go to the job
less but which actually is racket of
the officials.
They reported that they inter
viewed the executive of Local 4 and
were told that they could not appear
before it as a body, but only as in
diWduals. Their demands were not
considered.
When this report was made, rank
and file members stood up all over
the hall and announced that they
had already appeared as individuals,
and had not been recognized either.
The meeting stood by the demands
of the previous meeting and sent a
committee OF Is to see President
Hillman. Hillnan was "out," and
wouldn't be back for several days, ("
etc, and Assistant Secretary Potofsky
merely took the demands and said
he would show them TO Hillman.
The committee went to Hillman's
office instructed to file charges
against the officialdom because out
Of sl34,oee collected on the ten per
cent tax, only 1000 week for seven
weeks has been given ths jobless,
and over 100000 is still with the
officials.
In addition, ball was given for
the unemployed, and $4,000 made.
But the jobless never got the money.
Furthermore, the meeting and the
committee demands that the dues,
recently raised from 50 to "a a month
be put back to 81. The raise in dues
is an attempt TO squeeze out the UNI
employed, who can not work If they
do not pay dues.
The officialdom Of Local 4 hold
office illegally. They postponed the
elections on the plea Of saving $4,000
that way, which should rather be
used for the unemployed, But the
unemployed did not get this money
either.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
NEW BRUNSWICK
ELECTION RALLY
Foster to Speak At the
Second Rally Sunday

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.-Stres-
sing the need for unemployment in
surance, leaflet issued by the Com
munist Party here calls upon the
workers of this town to attend an
Election Campaign Rally and Open
Air meeting, French and New Sts.,
Thursday, May 7, at 1880 pm,
In addition to the open air meet
ing big election rally is being ar
ranged for Sunday, May 10, at
Workmen's Circle Institute, New
Street, at pm. VIM. z, Foster,
Communist Party candidate for pre-
sident in 1928; John j. BALKAN,
Communist Party candidate for
Governor of New Jersey and Rich
ard B, Moore will be the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
HIPPODROArE

Herb" Williams, noted comedian,
will be one of the headliners at the
Hippodrome this week, on the same
bill with him are Ferry Convey,
musical clown, and Odiva-the water
nymph and her seals. Ada Brown
Sue Russell with Hinky and Dinky;
Andre and Steven Calgary; Harry
Bentell and Helen Gould, and the
Young Kan Troupe, complete the
vaudeville program.
On the screen, Jack Holt is star
red in Subway Express" mystery
drama of New York's underground
railway with Aileen Pringle.
BILLY Roses Crazy Quilt" will
open at the 44th Street Theatre,
Thursday night, May Ia, instead of
Monday night as was first ammo
unced. Gomez and Winone, dancers
have been added to the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
SIGNATURE DRIVE
in JERSEY SUN.
Workers Candidates
on Ballot

NEW YORK-Only ten days re-
main in order to collect the neces-
sary amount of signatures to put the
Communist Party on the ballot in
the nearing New Jersey election
campaign.
To this date less than half of the
signatures have been collected and
with less than two weeks time left
there is a serious danger of the
workers candidates not getting on
the ballot.
The Communist Party of New
Jersey calls upon all Party and Y.
C.L, members as well as sympath-
izers to call at the following head
quarters in their respective towns
this Sunday in order to make the
final drive for signatures:
Newark, 121 Greenfield Avenue,
Elizabeth, 106 E. Jersey Street.
Linden, Workers Center, corner
King George Ave. and Fern st.
Perth Amboy, 3o8 Elm Street.
Jersey City, 1877 N Henderson ST
New Brunswick, II Plum st.
Passaic, SO Monroe st.
Patterson, 206 Market st.
Trenton, 20 Second st.
Report for all these Red Sundays
at 10 am. promptly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
"a Shanghai Docu-
ment" Shows Tragedy
of a Chinese Worker

"A Shanghai Document" taken by
special Seykino expedition to
Shanghai, closes the Russian Re-
pertoire Week program at the Ca
meo Theatre this week.
"a Shanghai Document" is an no
nest revelation of the strange life in
the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai.
The film shows every type of Chin
csc proletariat, from the dock work
ers to the children who make mat
ches for fourteen hours a day in the
deadly atmosphere of white phos-
phorous, thus giving an idea of the
condition of Chinese workers. The
working hours are most unlong, and
the wages low. Even the better paid
laborers receives from fifteen to
twenty cents a day.
The film was first planned in
1925, but it was not until years lat
ter that the plans were carried out,
and then the state of civil war pre-
vailing throughout China, confined
all efforts to Shanghai. This is a
film no worker can afford to miss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Leather Workers
to Meet Tonight
To Work Out Plans for
Organization

NEW YORK. - The slipper and
stitchdown workers are the most eX-
plotted section of the shoe and lea
Their industry. Wage cuts, Speed-up
are the methods used by the bosses
to squeeze out from the slipper
workers more and more profits. Be-
cause the slipper workers are not
organized, the bosses do everything
they please and, therefore, the cry
for organization is on the order OF
the day.
The workers in the Feifer Bros.
Slipper Co., who went out on strike
under the leadership of the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial I'm
ion against wage cut, continue in
their struggle and are determined to
win. The bosses continue to use
every means at their disposal to
break the strike - gangsters, police
and strike breakers. M. Schiff,
strike Committee Chairman, is held
1Ol btiC M dtlI guy VA q AAS'AANN NP
charge of having beaten up strike
breaker by the name of Mayer Kauf-
man. Shift was on the picket line
at 18th Street and University Ave,
New York, while kaufman was
beaten up in Brownsville. Schiff is
out on $1,000 bail furnished by the
Union.
Tonight the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union will hold
a mass meeting of the Slipper and
Stitchdown workers at $50 pm. in
the Manhattan Lyceum, "a East 4th
Street, New York, to work out gen.
eral plans for the mobilization of
the Slipper and Stitchdown workers
and to organize them before the APP
proach of the season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

ers still more to organize and to
fight.
The Paterson frame-up case is
being handled by the International
Labor Defense which has engaged the
best lawyers in order to provide the
five workers with all possible de-
Tense in the capitalist courts. But
this will not save these workers from
the penalty that the bosses have de-
cided on, viz, burning in the electric
chair. Only the mass organization
and protest Of The workers will save
these five revolutionary workers for
the working class movement
The workers everywhere must be
awakened to the significance of this
case. In connection with the Scots
boro case, in which nine Negro young
workers also face electrocution, this
case assumes the greatest prominence
at a time when a sharp drive is
being made on the workers every
where-when the unemployed are
being left to starve, with even char
ity relief being cut off, with the wage
cut drive in full swing, with the at
tacks on the Negroes and foreign
born, The year 1881 viii be a signi-
ficant year in the history of the
American labor movement, and moth
ing will signalize it more than the
Paterson frame-up case.
Organize defense committees in the
shops for the Paterson frame-up
victims!
Build up the international Labor
Defense and collect funds for the
defensel
Build up the National Textile
Workers Union as an answer to the
textile bosses who want to burn our
comradesl
Save the Five Paterson Textile
Frame-Up Victims from the Chair!
Hold meetings and demonstrations
everywhere! Help mobilize the masses
in defensel Send funds at once to
the International Labor Defense. 7ee
Broadway, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

ranks of the militant textile
workers of Paterson and vicin-
ity, come to trial today on a
second charge also framed up.
The bosses are determined not
only TO get" these workers, but to
deal a blow to the National Textile
Workers Union, Of which they are
members and leaders. The workers
of Paterson will be in court today at
10 a. m. to watch the capitalist court
carry out its mandate from the bosses
to convict these five workers They
will be there to see how capitalist
justice is meted out to workers.
Another Saeco- Vanzetti Case.
The Paterson textile case is an
other Saceo and Vanzetti case, and
the workers of the entire country
must be aroused TO its meaning. The
bosses of this country in the midst
Of the country's worst crisis, hope to
dampen the rising miitancy of the
workers and to crush the foreign born
by attacks on the workers generally
and by singing out groups of work
ers for especial attacks. The rearrest
of Pat Deyine, national secretary of
the National Textile Workers Union,
shows the fear of the textile manu-
facturers of the rising discomfort of
the textile workers whose wages have
been cut and are being cut merci-
lessly, and who are being speeded up
to the limit. These attacks will not
stop the organization of the textile
workers into the National Textile
Workers Union. On the contrary the
Paters on case viii spur on the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Cop and 2 Dicks Beat
Up Worker for Sitting
i'm Second Avenue Park

NEW YORK.-Because he was sit
ting in the park at 18th st. and I'd
Ave, at 2:45 pm. yesterday work
er was yiciously attacked by a cop
and beaten up. The cop told the
worker to get out of the park, which
the worker refused to do. The cop
then started to slug the worker and
called two dicks over to help him.
The people in the park protested
against the vicious assault. The cops
then called for an auto and took the
worker to the police station where
another smuggling was given to him,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
New Jersey lid Conf.
Sun. MAY 10, Newark
to Mobilize Workers

NEWARK, N. WORKERS organ
izations all over New Jersey are send
ing delegates to the State Defense
conference called by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense OF, New Jersey
for Sunday, May 10, 10 a. m. at 30
Ferry St, Newark. N, J.
At this conference plans will be
laid down for an intensive drive in
New Jersey to mobilize the workers
and raise sufficient funds for the de-
tense of the Paterson and Scottsboro
prisoners as we'll as for the Amnesty
Campaign in general All delegates
are requested to report on Sunday,
May 10, 10 a. m. at 80 Ferry st.
Individual workers are also invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
UNITED FRONT ON
JOBLESS IN N. Y.
Conference Meets to
Form Council, May 10

NEW YORK.-The Unemployed
Council of Greater New York is call
ing conferences to organize four sec
tional unemployed councils, which
will be delegated, united front bodies
like the conferences that form them,
One will be in Bronx, one in Har-
lem. one in Brooklyn, andt he first
conference to be held will be the
one that forms the Lower Manhattan
Unemployed Council.
This conference will be at 10 am.
at Manhattan Lyceum. Sunday. The
other conferences will be held before
May 81, These four conferences will
lead to a city conference some time
in June.
Send Delegates
Delegates of all workers organiza-
tons in Manhattan below seth St.
should be elected at once. Delegates
are to come from the present Unem-
ployed Councils, from shop groups,
local unions, tenants leagues, house
committees, flop houses and bread
lines and workers fraternal organi-
cations.
The council created will be united
front body, with representation from
all the groups with representation at
the conference.
Lead Struggle
The task of the councils is to unite
the struggle against unemployment
in their sections to fight for immed-
late relief and insurance, and to fight
wage cuts and speed-up of employed
workers.
What have until now been called
unemployed councils" in New York,
that is, the membership bodies, will
become after the conferences are held
branches of the unemployed council
in their sections, with, of course,
representation on the councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

Lost at the affair Harlem Pro-
gressive Youth Club or at the Two.
affair held at 143 East 103rd Street,
last Saturday, pocketbook containing
glass, papers and some money.
Please return to the Daily Worker
office. All money contents will be
donated by the owner to the Daily
Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Mohegan Colony
| L ID Makes Plans
to Extend Activity

PEEKSKILL, N. Y, May 6.-Plans
to organize branch of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense in Peekskill,
N. Y, and to rally support for the
defense of the Scottsboro and Pat
erson cases were made at meeting
Tuesday night of the Mohegan
Colony Branch of the 1. L. D. located
near Peekskill. The meeting was adj
dressed by Carl Hacker, secretary of
the New York District of the I. L. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

Fight lynching. Fight deporta-
tion Of foreign born. Elect dele
rata - YEN city conference for
psstss1isA IT Anesisa born.