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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-31

HACCtS Jhh-NiN'S
Negroes country.
Norman Thomas just completed a
tour of the South. In his meetings
there the Negroes were jim in
every city.
More than that, in the South,
where the masses Of Negroes live
were lynch law is the rule, Norman
Thomas failed TO utter single pro
test against the persecution CT the
Negroes. Not a word did ne SPEAK
for equal rights. This he left for his
soesch before a Negro university out
side Of Philadelphia.
No Mention of Equal Rights
For Negroes
Il have carefully examined during
the past week the newspapers pub
lished in every city where Thomas
spoke I had before me issues OF
these papers on the day preceding,
the day Of. and the day after each oil
his speeches. Neither the advance
publicity, Thomas's interviews with
the papers. nor reports OF his meet
ings contain a single mention OF any
word spoken for equal rights Tor
Negroes.
The release of the ScOttsbOTO boys
was net Demanded; the case was not
even mentioned. No effort was made
TO bring the frame-up of Fuel Lee to
the attention of the masses.
This is entirely in conformity with
the avowed stand of the Socialist
Party. The New Leader" the off
cal organ of the Socialist Party. only
a short time ago declared editorially:
Almost all of the Southerners
believe in segregating the Negro
and depriving him Of the social
and political rights that whites en-
10y. The Southern Socialists must
adjust their tactics TO this state
es affairs. 1t is certain that there
VIA never be a thriving movement
in the South unless it is conducted
in Southern style.
Norman Thomas conducted his
southern tour in Southern style
II have before me letter from a
Richmond, Virginia worker. He says
The Socialist Party had a meeting
With Norman Thomas on Friday here.
All middle class elements, very few
workers. About twenty Negroes were
present. All were segregated in the
top gallery where they could not be
SEEM
Communists Broke Jim-Crow Laws
This is in marked contrast to the
Southern meeting of Hathaway and
Wicks who went into the South for
the Communist Party. They smashed
through the jim Grow laws Of the
Southern bosses. They spoke openly
and boldly for Negro rights. The
Communist meetings in New Orleans
and Tampa we're smashed by the
police because the Communists re-
fused to compromise on the question
Of equality for the Negro people.
Norman Thomas, on the contrary,
was warmly greeted by the Southern
bosses because he conducted his
meetings in Southern style and be-
cause he completely failed to utter
a single word in behalf of equality
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-31
Labor Union Meetings
WHOLE WORKED

NprDLE WORKERS
TIE shop delegate council OF the Needle
T'Geeg Union will meet today. right after
~, at irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
t!2ee
SI0E WORKERS
rhe first meeting OF the newly organized
Downtown Shoe Center will be held today
~ ESQ PIN. At 81 Second Ave, between First
End Second SIS. All shoe workers are
J.1ed to come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
NEUTRALITY NEED
STRESSED IN PRESS
Political News Must Give Both
Sides, G. Gould Lincoln of Star
Tells G. w. U. Journalists.

THE political reporter must print the
news and must give both sides of the
story" said G. Gould Lincoln, political
editor of The Evening Star, in an adj
dress before the class in journalism at
George Washington University yester-
day afternoon. Mr. Lincoln told of the
extent Of the news field in Washington
and the variety Of news sources found
here
With Congress, the President and
the Government departments, the re-
porter has many kinds of news" said
the speaker, giving special attention to
the unusual tasks of a national cam
paign year.
One thing that the Washington
writer has to do" he told the students
lis to travel around the country and
study the conditions in the several
States"
Mr. Lincoln discussed the candidates
of both parties and predicted that much
attention would be given to the pro-
hibition question. He directed atten-
ton to the fact that as soon as an cleo
ton has been held the parties give their
attention to preparing for the next cleo
ton. For the newspapers. he said the
national conventions present a big job,
especially where there is a real fight for
the nomination,
He spoke of The rules governing writ
eTs in the National Capital, especially
those requirements which prevent lobby
lists from getting into the press galleries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
B00kLOvERS HEAR
FIRST OF REVIEWS
Mrs. Barbara Knight Cobb of Bos-
ton Opens Series of Lectures on
Latest Literature.

Mrs Barbara Knight Cobb of Boston,
well known as book lecturer and au-
thority on New England, spoke before
several hundred booklovers of the Cap
ital last night at the Hotel Grafton
The lecture was the first of a series of
three similar book lectures. and con-
sisted CHIEFLY of a review of the Spring
books and their publishers
Among the non-hction works to
which she called attention were Ludwig
Lewlsohn's Expansion in America, 1"
Walter Lippman's World Affairs"
MONIES Ich," Twenty Thousand Years
in Sing Sing" once a Grand Duke"
Holy Prayers in Horses Ear Mem
oirs of a Soldier of Fortune" Silas
Bents Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes"
and others
She read extracts from some of the
newer verse collections. including Food
and Drink" Louis Untermeyer; Arthur
Guitermans Song and Laughter" and
Johnny Weaver's Trial Balance"
In up-to-date fiction she listed That
Girl" Mr. Gresham and Olympus, f"
Magnolia Street This Man Is My
Brother" and about so others.
Another lecture will be given at the
hotel on April 10. and third on May
"a by Mrs. Cobb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
BRIDGE OPENED DESPITE PLOT"
TO THROW PREMIER TO SHARKS
Sydney Policeman Rushes Forward and
Cuts Ribbon With Sword as Official
Disregards Warning

which is opposed to the premier's
Socialist policies.
At the other end of the bridge the
mayor of North Sydney cut a ribbon
with scissors used for the Inauguration
of the Kill Van Kull Bridge between
Staten Island New York, and Bayonne,
N. j.. which was sent for the purpose
by Mayor James J. Walker of New
York.
Pageant Enacted on Bridge.
There was great din of whistles,
sirens and general n,errymaking along
with an inaugural pageant which was
enacted on the bridge to the strains of
a tune, Advance Australia Fair" and
a fanfare of trumpets.
Archbishop Kelly drove across the
bridge in an automobile yesterday be-
fore leaving for the Eucharistic Con-
gress at Dublin. stopped in the middle
and blessed the structure.
The bridge is a large single-arch
span 3.770 feet long made Of steel
with abutment towers Of Australian
granite 1t is designed to carry load
of 10000 tons, with a capacity Of 80
trains, 5000 other vehicles and 10000
pedestrians per hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
GOV. RICHIE SCORES
G. O. P. LEADERSHIP
Maryland Executive Asks for End
of Political Sidestepping
and Buncombe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 19.-What Amer
lea needs, Gov Albert c. Richie of
Maryland said in an address last night.
is mobilization of the constructive
brains and energy of the country and
a rehabilitation of political side-step-
ping and buncombe"
Speaking over a radio network for
the Democratic victory fund campaign,
the Governor devoted much of his ad-
dress to a criticism of the Republican
administration and the ''misrepresenta-
ton and false promises that came like
an avalanche out of Republican head
quarters during the Hoover Smith
campaign.
After summarizing the unemployment
and general economic situations, he
added:
"All the while the Republican admin
istration at Washington, its Wanted
patent on prosperity gone, closed its
eyes to the crisis, even after the crisis
was here; murmured sweet nothings
about the fundamental soundneSs Of
the Nations business to an alarmed
populace; issued infiationary statements
which intensified the crash; promised
an early recovery when the worst was
still to come; erected tariff barriers
which heightened the collapse, and
blamed our troubles on people across
the sea-
Why should we stand supinely by
while the Federal Government builds
up huge Federal bureaucracy. with its
red tape and incompetence, its waste
and extravaganza, its downright en-
croachments on the duties and func-
tons of the States, its excursions into
the domain of private business and in
itiative, and its amazing increase in
the army of tax-fed Office holders?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
HOPES Of FINDING
EXPLORER GROW
Italian Believes FaWcett Has
Been Indian Captive for
Seven Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, March 19.-Hope
that Col. P. H. Fawcett, British ex-
plorer, missing in Brazilian jungles for
seven years and long given up for dead,
might still be found alive was further
revived here today by Capt. Luis Longo-
bardi, Italian explorer. who spent eight
years in the Brazilian Matte Crosse sec
ton.
Capt. Longobardi said he thought Col.
Fawcett was a prisoner of the Bororos
Indians, 200 miles east of the Madeira
River.
Sought Garden of Eden.
These Indians inhabit a swampy val
ley near the point where Stephan Rat
tin. a Swiss trappsr, told Arthur Abbott,
British consul at Rio de Janeiro, this
week that he talked with Col. Fawcett
last October 10.
Col. Fawcett went into the jungles
seven wears ago to hunt traces of lost
civilizations, including site he be-
lieved was that Of the Garden of Eden.
Several expeditions were organized to
search for him when he did not re-
appear, most notable of which was that
OF George M. Dyott.
In 1928, after months Of exploring
through the jungles Dyott reported that
Col. Fawcett's party had met death at
the hands of the Indians ana that the
spot where they fell had been found.
Believed Held Hostage.
Rattin, the Swiss trapper, who has
had a long experience in the jungle,
said he believed Fawcett was being held
as hostage by the Indian tribes be-
tween the Tapos and Madeira Rivers,
which are about 300 miles apart. He
said the explorer asked him to COM
municate with Sir Ralph Spencer Paget,
British Ambassador to Brazil
Some features of Rattin's story, Capt.
Longobardi said. caused him to doubt
that the trapper actually saw Col. Faw-
cett, but he believed Rattin heard In
dian stories, which have been current
since 1923. He said he believed these
Indian tales were true.
He said he was willing to accompany
a searching party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
FRESHMEN BARRED

SWARTHMORE. Pa, March 10 P).-
Freshmen are barred from sororities at
Swarthmore College under a ruling
made yesterday by committee of stu
dents, faculty and alumnae, and each
sorority is limited to one formal dance
a season instead of two.
Complaints had been made that the
sororities dominated the social activ-
tiles of the campus, and the new regu-
lations are designed to reduce the domi-
nation.
members on the theory that they then
would make friendships which would
last throughout their college career re-
gardleSs of future sorority connections
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19

"Hmph." said c. w Schneider at
something after O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, when he came around
from the rear of his very excellent gen
eral store at Collington, Md, just off
Defense Highway, and found a couple
of visitors cluttering up his front porch.
"Hmph,' Mr. Schneider said again,
mounting the steps. and deciding with
expert eye that the strangers were not
cash customers What paper are
you from?" Then, as the objects of
the question grinned in amiable silence,
Mr.. Schneider declared firmly and
fatty:
No! I don't know anything about
that baby!" Whereupon he opened the
door and went into the establishment
where some people were craving to
spend their money.
The guests also entered. for they
hadn't come out from Washington just
to be hmphed at. They were on a
mission
How II Started.
1t was this way On the morning.
or some time during the day-the time
doesn't matter-of March 2, which was
the day following the disappearance of
the Lindbergh baby, Mrs. Alfredo
Schneider, who is Mr.. Schneider'S wife,
sailed from Baltimore on the steamer
City of Baltimore, which was bound
for Hamburg and HaVre, or Havre and
Hamburg.
With her was a 20-month-old baby,
identified on the passenger list as
Frances Quirbach.
Sometime thereafter, some one with
sleuthing tendencies noticed this on the
ship record. whereupon he put two and
two together. and made %.
The Lindbergh baby" he said.
Frances is the name of girl, not
a boy" some one else belittled.
But a real sleuth can't be squelched
by little thing like sex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
'BLUEBEARD' HANGS
FOR Staying FIVE
Meets Death on GaIIoWs
Observation-Disclosures
Murders Before End.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNDSVILLE. W. Va, March 10
Denying guilt in the hour of his
death. Harry F. Powers, mass killer,
died on the gallows last night for the
murder of mail order" sweetheart.
He went to his death fearlessly-
brazenly.
In life, he was the "Bluebeard" who
lured lonely women to death with
ardent confessions of undying love and
promises of lifelong happiness. He
was man of many moods, a man with
a Jekyll-Hyde nature-a puzzle to
psychiatrists and alienists.
After the trap had sprung. exacting
society's toll for the murder of Mrs.
Dorothy Pressler-Lemke, Northboro,
Mass, divorce, DR.. H. H. Haynes, a
Clarksburg. w. Va, physician, disclosed
he has Powers written confession, adj
hitting in detail the murder of five
persons.
These five-Mrs. Lemke and Mrs.
Asia Buick Eicher and her three
children of Park Ridge, Ill.-were
killed and their bodies were buried in
a narrow ditch near Powers chamber
of horrors" garage on his wife's
deserted farm in Sylvan Quiet Dell. near
ClarkSburg.
A short time after Powers body was
removed from the death chamber, an
envelope addressed to Warden A. G.
Scroggins was opened.
Therein was letter in which the
man about to die had protested his in
nocence. He assailed capital punish
ment, which he insisted fails to reduce
the number of murder cases
He reiterated that his trial was "un-
fair" that it was held in an opera
house where people go to be enter
tanned" He recalled he had twice been
menaced by a mob, yet had been re-
fused a change of venue.
Fears that Powers would suffer
nervous collapse were expressed an hour
before the hanging, when he was Wis
tied by the sheriff and the warden.
Questioned about what had become
of Mrs Lemke's jewelry. Powers, Sob
bling bitterly, staggered from his bunk,
crossed to a table on which there was
a Bible, and cried:
With my hand on this book of God,
I swear by the teachings Of my mother,
that I know nothing about them"
walked, unassisted, with firm step to
the gallows.
Asked If he had anything to say,
Powers replied, NO" with an en-
phatic shake of his head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
PROSECUTION RESTS
AT TRIAL OF TALLEY
Detective Sergeant Accused of I'm
necessary Force in Max
ing Arrest.

The prosecution rested its case today
at the Police Trial Board hearing Of
Carlton Talley, detective sergeant,
charged with using unnecessary force
In making an arrest.
Alfred H. Lawson, vice president of
the Washington Loan g. Trust Co, one
OF the final witnesses. testified Raymond
Grimes, colored complainant, had been
employed by hts company since 1928.
He said Grimes appeared with swol-
len lip the day after he was arrested
by Talley.
Emily Carter, colored, Of the 1900
block of South Capitol street, at whose
home Grimes visited shortly before his
arrest testified she saw him the next
morning She said he still was wear
ing a blue tie which he had worn the
night before and that it contained no
bloodstains Grimes previously had
testified he had been struck by Talley
until his clothes became bloody.
James A. O'Shea, of defense counsel,
announced Talley would take the wit
ness stand later in the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, New South Wales, March
19.-The new Sydney Harbor Bridge,
said to be the largest in the world. was
opened today a little prematurely by
a policeman who cut the official ribbon
after hearing of plot to throw Pre-
mier J. T. Lang to the sharks in the
river.
Mr.. Lang, prime minister of New
South Wales. disregarded a warning
of plot to throw him overheard from
the span, which is ITS feet above the
water, and appeared to perform the
opening ceremonies. ....stO
Policeman Dashes Forward.
As he was about to snip the ribbon
at one end of the huge structure, a
mounted policeman dashed forward
and severed it with his sword. Fellow
officers dragged the policeman from
his horse and the ceremony proceeded.
The warning to the premier had come
from A. c. Willis, agent general from
New South Wales in London, who said
that the plot was Matched by the
Australian New Guard" an organiza-
ton of yorkmen and war veterans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
Baby Hunt inks Grocer
Colington, Nd Storekeeper Conyinces Slenths
They're on Wrong Trail as They Run
Down Ship Clue.

1t was either the Lindbergh baby
and a nurse, or baby that had been
taken from its home, and the Lindbergh
baby put in its place, the inference
being, of course that neighbors wouldn't
know one baby from another, and that
such a substitution would conceal the
whereabouts of the kidnapped child.
This rumor gained limited circula-
ton earlier in the week, and since then,
MIR. Schneider has had a H that is,
a very troubled existence, what with one
question and another
1t was that that was responsible for
yesterdays visitation, and while Mr..
Schneider ladled out Easter eggs and
candy rabbits in which the trade was
right brisk, he explained how Mrs.
Schneider had planned last year to
make a trip back to her old home in
Saarbrucken, Alsace-Lorraine, but had
been unable to leave, so went this year,
when the opportunity presented itself.
Baby Taken Along.
The Schneiders have no children, and
when the friends in York, Pa, wanted
their baby taken over, Mrs Schneider
was agreeable, which gave Frances the
trip, Mrs. Schneider some publicity, and
Mr. Schneider a pain in the neck.
There are a couple OF other angles
to this, Mr.. Schneider his visitors
said inquiringly as he outlined the situ-
alton.
"Eighty-five, ninety ninety-five, one
dollar" said Mr.. Schneider. who by this
time was balancing a book belonging
to one of his customers.
"A dollar FIVE" he continued in q
tone that was becoming slightly bored,
at the same time turning his glance
toward a very fine shotgun resting at
arms length
well, good-by, Mr. Schneider" said
the two would-be sleuths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
VOLSTEAD SPIKES
EMBRYONIC BOOM
Father of Enforcement Law
Says He Is Out of Pol
itics to Stay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 19.-Andrew
Volstead says he is proud of the law
the presidency, to make certain that it
will live on, would be distasteful to him.
Today a one-minute presidential
boom in his behalf was fat, the victim
of a direct statement from Volstead
that under no consideration would he
consent TO re-enter politics even If the
prohibition enforcement statute were
at stake.
David L. Mcbride of Minneapolis, SUI
perintendent of the Minnesota Anti-Sa-
loon League, friend of Volstead,
started the boom. A minute later Vol
stead had spiked it.
Mcbride, taking cognizance of YER
bal statement attributed to Secretary
OF War Hurley quoting him as ex-
pressing the opinion more liberal"
stand on prohibition would be taken by
the Republican National Convention,
expressed the belief that prohibition
forces may offer a candidate of their
own for President If the major parties
go wet" Secretary Hurley in Wash
ington subsequently said he did not
mention prohibition for publication.
The Minneapolis superintendent went
on to say that prohibition groups could
muster a heavy vote" and mentioned
.Volstead as a candidate who would
never waver in his support of prohibit
ton.
Volstead, meanwhile, sat in his little
office in the st. Paul Federal Building,
pouring over correspondence relating
to his duties as legal adviser of the Fed
eral Governments industrial alcohol
permit division in Minnesota.
Then newspaper men telephoned him
to ask If he would accept the nomina-
ton for President in event prohibition
lists should offer it to him.
I'm out of politics; ! have been for
some time and l intend to stay out,
Volstead said. Il wouldn't be candi-
date for President under any considera-
ton. even as the representative of the
drys
But guess it is nothing to worry
about" he laughed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
ENGINEERS TO MEET

The Washington section of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining and Metal
hrgical Engineers will hold its regular
meeting Thursday evening preceded by
an informal stag dinner at 6 80 o'clock
at GA E street
The technical session will be called
at 7:45 O'Clock and will include the
following speakers: Frank Brewster of
Bradford. Pa. Exploration and Pro-
duction Methods in the Mayne- Dundee
Gas Field; E. " Kesinger, Chicago.
Construction Of the Amarillo Chicago
Pipeline" and Walter M Russell, chief
engineer of the Washington Gas Light
Co, Mixing Natural and Manufactured
Gas" and City Distribution System"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
TAX RECEIPTS DROP
ONE-TH|RD IN YEAR
Collections for Eight Months
S549, 686, 900 Below Like
Period of 1881.

Dy the Associated Press.
BY comparison with last year, Federal
tax receipts for the first eight months
of the current fiscal year are more
than one-third off
A drop of $54e ,6S6, 900 was figured by
the Internal Revenue Bureau, of which
$5l5,537 900 came from decline in in
come taxes. This left the Government S
receipts for the neriod at 81 ,003, $50, 074.
p Income Taxes Slump.
This calculation was made as col
lections from the 1881 incomes, which
began to come In with the March Is
final date for returns, displayed a
further reduction fully up to the ex-
pectations of Treasury officials, who
have expressed a belief that the total
income tax return would be the smallest
In decade.
Income taxes reported SO far this
month were reported by the Treasury
to have totaled 500 ,312,836, but be-
cause of a change in the departments
banking system it included one days
more tax than in the same number OF
DAYS last March. For comparative pur-
poses. this made it $94 100000 less than
credited in the same number of days
q wear ago For the fiscal year, the
Government has collected $75S, 434, l!8
in income tax against Sl,277, 6S5.346 In
the same period Of last year.
Only Two Increases.
The Internal Revenue Bureaus re-
view of all tax receipts showed in
creases in only two important divi-
sions Manufactured tobacco returned
s4o0.557 more than the $50, 562, 263
total during the same eight months OF
the 1891 fiscal year, and cigarette pa
pers brought in $1,l7s,452, an increase
OF s2o5,8
The cigarette tax returned $211, 1877
1876. a drop of $25,458,7 1875, while cigars
returned $l0,069,66 a decrease Of
s2,158,80l. The bureau said that tax
paid cigarettes in February had de-
creased i 1924, 900 900, as compared with
the 1886, 900 900 on which tax was paid
in February 1881. The number of cigars
on which tax was paid in February was
100000 greater than in the same month
Q year ago, when they amounted to
rs ,455, 507.