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Evening star., 1932-08-23
JOBLESS THRONG
K|DNAPS WOMAN
Overseer of Poor Seized and
Beaten by Men Directing
to County Pay.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLES CITY, Iowa, August %
Indignation over varied wages they
said were paid from the city relief
fund. party of unemployed men yes
terday abducted Miss Marion Stull.
Floyd County overSeer of the poor, and
held her prisoner for several hours.
She was released after being struck
and rendered unconscious for a short
time near New Hampton, 80 miles east
of here, with an order to stay out of
Charles City.
Five of the seven men who accom-
panied her on the automobile ride were
among eleven later arrested by authori
ties and charged with conspiracy and
kidnapping,
Can Identify Men.
Miss Stull said she did not know
the names of the two other men, but
would be able to identify them.
Dissatisfaction over the maximum
wage of SIPS paid woodcutters from
the unemployment relief was blamed
for the trouble. Unemployed men put
to work in county roads and COM
munity gardens were paid 81 per day,
the Woodcutters asserted. adding they
were forced to work nine hours.
Between SO and IS workers invaded
Miss Stulls Office shortly before her
arrival in the morning. When she ap-
peared they forced her into the car
with the seven men and sped away. A
hastily organized automobile posse lost
the trail when the abductors changed
their route and returned to Charles
City, where they took Miss Stulls au-
tomobile.
Released Miles Away.
Then they continued to New Hamp-
ton, where they released her and aban-
doned her car. She drove to Alta Vista,
10 miles north of New Hampton and
telephoned Mayor G. c. Gray here
that she was safe.
Miss Stull said the men had beaten
her, twisted her knees and struck her
in the back of the head until she lost
consciousness. Bruises were found on
her arms and head, but she was not
seriously hurt.
She identified Chester Coving, one
of those under arrest, as one of the
men who struck her. Others arrested
whom she identified as members Of the
abducting party were Don Dodd, John
Bauer, Joe Sievers and Ellwood Moh-
ring
Arrested with them were Henry Ness,
said to be the president of the county
Unemployed Association: Kenneth En-
erson, James Smith, Girvin Hutton.
Martin Hallberg and Russell O'Connell.
A warrant also was issued for twelfth
man, Wayne Chapman.
All Got City Aid.
Miss Stull said all of the arrested
men had been employed on the city's
relief works. They had first worked on
the road and garden projects, but when
that work ran out they were shifted
to the wood cutting at the reduced pay.
She said that, while the maximum
cash wage per day for woodcutters was
SIPS. food supplies could be earned
by cutting more than one cord. She
added that the number Of days Of work
provided per week depended uDon the
size of the workers family.
The workers denied that they had an
opportunity to earn groceries in addi-
ton to their pay and claimed that Miss
Stull had not treated them with proper
respect The county Board of Su-
pervisors administers the relief funds,
but Miss Stull was directly In charge
of the employment.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
the night Miss Merrill was shot to

the night Miss Merrill was shot to
death.
They said she told them the recluse
was slain by George Pearls, q colored
gunman, who three days later was shot
to death by a policeman at Pine Bluff,
Ark Edgar Newell. colored. also was
present and with Pearls carried the
body out of the house and into the
woods where it was found early the next
morning. she said.
The woman and Newell were taken
into custody, and after the purported
confession they we're placed in some
unannounced jail.
The Jones woman's statement re-
moved the suspicion that was cast about
the eccentric couple. Richard Dana and
his housekeeper, Miss Octavia Dockery,
who were neighbors of Miss Merrills.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
ST. LOUIS ACCLAIMS
RUSSIANS OPERA
Large Crowd Sees World Premiere
of Work Based on Life Of
Cyrano de Bergerac.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 23.-"Cyrano," a
romantic light opera by Samuel Pokrass,
young Russian composer, met with the
acclaim of st. Louis audience that
attended its world premiere here last
night.
In two acts and eight scenes, the story
of the opera follows closely the dra-
matte masterpiece of Edmond Rostand,
based upon the life of Cyrano de Berg
erac, swashbuckling swordsman and
poet Of seventeenth century France.
The music for the duel scene in the
first act and the balcony song near the
beginning of the second act received
the greatest applause from the audi
ence of approximately 10000 persons
that attended the premiere. Like the
play, the opera presented an opportu-
nifty for the use of colorful costumes
and settings.
PokrasS. in writing his score, adopted
a musical style in keeping with the
spirit of seventeenth century France.
The production was given as the Mu-
nicipal Opera Co.'S final production of
the season. The huge open-air stage
in Forest Park was the setting for the
production. Charles O. Locke, Ohio
man, wrote the hbretto.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
D. c. ART|[LERYMEN|
PRAISED AT CAMP
260th Wins Commendation
for Mimic Defense of
Langley Field.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FORT MONROE. Va. August 23.-
The 260th Coast Artillery completed
its field problem today and was
highly commended by the inspecting
board The problem involved the pro-
lection of Langley Field against an
aerial attack by the Red Forces. The
problem was particularly interesting
since it involved a night bombing raid
against which the searchlight battery,
officered by Lieut.. Clifton l.. Royston.
Lieut.. Lee j. Rutz and Lieut.. A. B. c.
Graves proved particularly effective.
Attacked by Planes.
Battery B, one Of the gun batteries,
commanded by Capt. Leroy S. Mann,
and Battery E, the machine gun bat
terry, under Capt. William F. Bulls,
were positioned at Langley Field and
repeatedly subjected to simulated at
tackS by pursuit Squadrons operating
from that field.
Tomorrow morning work will begin
In earnest on preparations for the
annual target practice in which the
3-inch anti-aircraft guns are fired at
targets toWed by an airplahe.
Following preliminary practice. the
regiment is to honor Miss V. B. Padel-
ford, the granddaughter of Gen. Ord
way, former commanding general of
the District of Columbia National
Guard, with regimental parade Gen.
Ordway was chiefly responsible for the
organization of the District of Columbia
National Guard, which is now COM
manded by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan.
Win Inspection Honors.
Battery c., under Lieut.. PER- o. Huff,
with First Sergt Charles H. Beahm,
tied with the medical department de-
tachment, under Maj. Stewart M.
Grayson and Staff Sergt. Chris L.
Gross. for first place in the daily in
spection. Battery also shared in
honors for having the best mess hall
with Battery E, the credit going to
Sergt. Morris Lerer, who is in charge
Of the mess hall. This is Sergt. Lerer's
seventh successive year as mess SER
geant with Battery c.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
SANTA CLAUS HELPERS
ORDERED TO STRIKE
Union Shows Doll and Toy Makers
Get $s to $1s Week, With
No Standard of Hours.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. August 23-Thirty- five
hundred of Santa Claus helpers in
this city were called upon to stop their
doll and toy making today.
The workers are members of the Doll
Workers Industrial Union. The strike
order was issued in an effort to en-
force demands of the union for higher
wages and better working conditions.
The union charges the present wage
scale Of the doll and toy workers ranges
from So to S18 week, with no stand
ard of hours and no overtime pay 1t
demands a 35 per cent increase in
wages, a 40-hour week, equalization of
work, abolition of night work and rec
ognition of the union.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
TWO HELD IN LARCENY
OF SHOES FROM STORE
Washington Colored Men Are
Seized in Taxicab in Hyatts-
vile Chase.
By STAFF Correspondent Of Toe Star.

By STAFF Correspondent Of Toe Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, August az
Because they picked out store too
close to the local police station, two
colored men were arrested on larceny
charges here yesterday after two pairs
of shoes had been stolen from the mer-
camille establishment of Max DeitZ.
Police say two colored men entered
the store and one of them grabbed the
shoes. They both fed with Deitz and
several citizens at their heels. County
police took up the chase and captured
two colored men who had jumped into
a taXicab.
The suspects gave their names as
Roosevelt Jackson and Bolonious Moore,
both Of Washington. Jackson was
booked for larceny and Moore as an
accessory.
During the chase the shoes were
dropped and recovered by Deitz.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
COLORED MAN KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Two Others Have Narrow Escape
in Collision Near Edgewood
Arsenal, Maryland.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, August 23.-One
Washington man was killed and two
other persons narrowly escaped injury
shortly after midnight when an auto
mobile crashed into truck on the
Philadelphia road near the Edgewood
Arsenal.
The dead man was John Lee, colored.
Those riding with him were Samuel
G. Pierce, and his wife. Annie L. Pierce,
also colored. All three lived in Wash
ington.
Police said that the machine driven
by Lee was headed north on the Phila-
delphia road when it collided with
truck driven by j. r. Nelson of Ac-
comac, Va.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
Railroad Offered
Free If Operator
Will Keep Up Tax
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, August %. -
The Denver & Rio Grande West
ern Railroad has notified the
State Public Utilities Commis-
sion it will give its 39-mile branch
between Saperino and Lake City,
Colo, to any one who will oper-
ate it and pay the taxes.
Or the road will lease the
branch for S48o a year and throw
in free use of a locomotive and
coach.
In the COS the branch was one
of the thriving feeder lines of
the Rio Grande system. With
the decline of mining in the Sec
ton the road has become such
a burden that the company is
willing to give it away to stop
the expense of taxes and opera
ton.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
FORMER NAVAL ACADEMY
INSTRUCTOR is BURIED
Funeral Services Are Held for
Commodore F. w. Bartlett
at Annapolis.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md, August 23.-Fu-
neral services for Commodore Frank w
Bartlett, U. S. Navy, retired, who died
in Boston Saturday, took place here this
afternoon. Burial was in the Naval
Cemetery here.
Services were conducted by Chaplain
Frank H. Lash and the cortege was
under charge of Capt. Russell Wilson,
L. S N
Commodore Bartlett, who was for
merry head Of the department of engi-
neering at the academy, was rs years
old and is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Hattie Owen of Detroit; two
sons, Comdr. Owen Bartlett and Lieut..
Bradford Bartlett Of the Navy, and a
daughter, Miss Marjorie Bartlett.
Evening star., 1932-08-23

humed August IL and viewed by Sheriff
Patrick Gleason and a coroner's jury.
Sheriff Gleason said second autopsy
was unlikely because Of the wasted con-
dition Of the body.
Physicians who attended Mrs Sewer
said her death was due to heart disease
and an autopsy performed in August
1929. disclosed nothing further. Col
Se'ier. who inherited his wife's $3.50, 900
fortune, maintains his wife died of nat
ural causes
After hearing several witnesses, Sher-
III Gleason, who is also coroner, ad-
journed the inquest until Wednesday.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
Boardman Must Rest.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, August % up.
Russell N. Boardman, noted flyer in
jured here when his plane crashed a
week ago. will not be able to fly again
for three months. his doctor said yester-
day. Boardman has not suffered any
setback, however. the doctor said, in
contradicting recent reports.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
STORY CLEARS UP
NATCHEz Staying
CoIored Pair Say Man Who
Killed Elderly RecIuse
Was Shot Later.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NATCHEz, Miss, August 23-Au-
thorities pondered today the story of
a colored rooming house operator,
which tended to clear up the Staying
Of Jane Surget Merrill, 68-year-old re-
cluse. on August a.
Emily Jones told Chief Deputy Sheriff
Joseph Stone and two of his assistants
last night that she was at Glengurney
plantation, the Merrill ancestral home,
Evening star., 1932-08-23
INQUEST IS OPENED
IN SEWER MYSTERY
Wife of Army Officer Believed by
Brother to Have Been
Poisoned in 1928.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, August 23.-An inquest
into the death of Mrs. Marion Sewer,
Irvington, N. Y. heiress and wife of Col.
Granville Sewer Of the United States
Army, was started yesterday. She died
in August. 1928
Ralph Shainwald. Mrs. Sewers broth
er. has urged inquiry since her death,
intimating she might have been poi
soned. At his request the body was ex-
Evening star., 1932-08-23
Society Woman Asks Divorce.

RENO, New. August % LP).-Suit for
divorce on grounds Of cruelty was filed
here yesterday by Mrs. Elsie HUGHES
Lynch, New York society matron. against
Hampton Lynch. whom she married in
New York April IL. 1921. Mrs. Lynch
asked approval Of an agreement arrang-
ing custody of two children and set
tling property rights.
Evening star., 1932-08-23
Barron Funeral Is Held.

GAITHERSBURG August % (Spe-
cial) Services for Miss Hannah Kate
Barron, 70, who died Saturday night
at the Methodist Home, Gaithersburg,
were conducted in Epworth Hall today
at 1920 by Rev. Herman Wilson.
Burial was at Clarksville.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
Nearing Opens Drive
For Membership In
Friends Soviet Union

NEW YORK.-Scott Nearing, well
known lecturer, is the first big gun
used by the East Bronx Branch In
their drive for 1000 new members in
their vicinity. They are inaugratins
this drive for membership in order
TO combat the war on the Chinese
workers and peasants and to prevent
the attempted invasion of the Soviet
Union.
For this purpose, tbs East Bronx
Branch has received the cooperation
OF Scott Naring, who win spak on
Capitalist Anarchy We Planned
Economy In the Soviet Union, on
Friday evening, February IS, at Am
basssdor Hall. 3e75 Third Avenus
(nesr Claremont Parkway Bronx, at
8 pm.
Workers must understand that
war on the Chinese Masses, war
on the Russian workers and peasants.
means Q war on the working class a.
whole.
Turn ost 10 tSns kast Bronx rally
tog wsmbershp, Hear xeott Nsagonaa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26

@ho PonCAs II l. hcNcSSdTI immaculate
" to take advantage Of the diff
cult world economic position, as
wen as of the circumstances that
the Five Year Plan In the Soviet
Union has not yet been completed
and that China is not united
country. All these factors must be
utilized for the purpose Of the more
intense occupation Of Manchuria
and Mongolia and for realizing the
active aims of the former Siberian
expedition The unity Of China,
the existence Of the Soviet Union
and the penetration Of America In
the Far East, all this does not ac-
cord with our interests. II we de-
sire to prevent the penetration Of
America In the Far East, we must
strengthen our defensive power and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26

ing unemployed movement IN KNOX
vile and disrupting OF relief appara-
tus for the Kentucky Tennessee strik-
ers which the Workers International
Relief set up locally. In the few
weeks since it has been organized,
the Knoxville Unemployed Council
has already forced the City Council
to give hundreds Of workers on the
city charity list two days work a
week instead of the previous one.
Local leaders OF the Unemployed
Council have been approached repeat
eddy by leading business men with
offers of jobs if They would only
leave the Reds alone" In Turley,
Tenn, where last week miner fell
dead Of starvation while working in q
mine and where it is common sight
to see working miners picking grass
for their supper on their way home
from work, several hundred miners
who were invited to attend a meeting
called by the operators to discuss the
strike arose and ordered a preacher
who launched an attack on the Ma
tional Miners Union to leave at once.
There is no NM.U. local at Turley,
but as result of this meeting, miners
in Turley sent delegation to ask
the Kentucky District OF the N.M.U
for organizers.
Proceedings OF a meeting of Knox
vile business men which was never
reported in local papers we're unwit-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
90 Chicago
Worker. Organizations
Pledge Support
to Daily Worker Drivee

The districts are giving signs of action in the
Daily Worker Emergency Drive. More money
came in yesterday than nj the last few days, but
the $500 turned in yesterday is still far short of
the $1,000 day needed to pull the Daily Worker
out of it's financial difficulties.
Chicago has at last awakened to the serious
ness of the present situation. 1872 delegates rep
resenting SO workers organizations of Chicago
met last Sunday and pledged full support to the
drive. This is step that must be taken by every
district Emergency conferences must be called
all through the United States to rally the work
ers to save the paper that leads the struggle
against the bosses starvation and terror pro-
gram
Here is the resolution adopted at the Chicago
conference We want to hear resolutions like this
one from every other district.
RESOLUTIONS OF JOINT URESS DRIVE
'We, one hundred twenty-five delegates rep
resentng ninety -nine workers organizations of
Chicago at the Emergency Press Conference
held Sunday morning, ebruary 21st, at Peoples
Auditorium, pledge ourselves and our organ
izations to support the drive for $4,000 to save
the Daily Worker for the working class move
ment of the United States and to establish
Workers Weekly Newspaper for the Chicago
District
We realize that without a workers press
we cannot carry on the fight against the in
creasing misery caused by this crisis the worst
in the history of capitalism.
We realize that without a political organ
such as the Daily Worker is, political move
ment deserving the name is impossible and that
the great struggles against wage cuts, unem-
pleyment, evictons and Criminal Syndcalist
Laws demand district weekly newspaper to
give proper attention to the agitation and or
ganizatiOn of these STRUGGLES
In order to save the Daily Worker and in
sure the immediate issuance of Workers
Weekly Newspaper for this district, we pledge
ourselves to carry out all the decisions of this
emergency conference and to bend every effort
to popularize the workers press among the
masses of workers in our territory and to Sc
cure their financial support to the $4,000
joint press drive.
The secretary of this conference is instructed
to mail copy of this resolution to all workers
newspapers and to urge the workers of this
district to join us in this important task. M. W.
Good, chairman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26

tingly revealed today in an editorial
in the Knoxville Times which ex-
presses agreement with the National
Guard officer who said at that meet
ing, I'VE shouldn't worry about the
Sino-Japanese war as much as about
the spread Of Communism in Ken
lucky and Tennessee. In my opinion
the National Guard will be called on
to suppress disorders at home before
1t will be modified for foreign war"
In preparation for widespread ar
rests Of militant workers on framed.
up charges the Knoxville police broke
a century old precedent yesterday
with the announcement that here
after no reporteds could look at tbs
police blotter TO find out who had
been arrested on the previous day
and why.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
GEN. HOMO STATES THAT
JAPAN'S AIM IS TO SEIZE
SOVIET UNION TERRITORY
Would Grab Chinese Eastern Railway; Crush
Soviet Mongolia, Take All Man
churia From China
Japanese News Agency Spreads Lie That
Red Army Is Massing On
Siberian Border

The japanese are reported concentrating
great numbers of troops at Hardin, 200 miles
west of the Siberian frontier of the Soviet
Union Under directions of the japanese, Chi
nese troops of the puppet Kirin government
are damaging the Eastern Chinese Railway.
The sinister purpose of these monstrous
provocations against the Soviet Union are glar-
lngly revealed in a secret memorandum which
General HOMO, japanese military commander
IN Manchuria sent to the Japanese War Ministry on August
1881 According to reports in the European mperialist
press this memorandum said:
GENERAL HOMO STATES WAR AIMS AGAINST U.SSR.
I'm order to strengthen the position of our country and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
Gun Thugs Stop Trucks
with Relief; Seek to
Kill Miners by Hunger
Drivers Threatened With Death If They Per
sist In Bringing In Food
Workers! Show Your Solidarity With the
Heroic Strikers By Doubling Your
Relief Collections

PINEVILLE, KY, Feb. 25.-Almost thou
sand Brush Creek miners and their families
are slowly starving to death as the result of a
ring of gun thugs who are preventing all
Workers International Relief trucks from en-
terg the section and threatening the drivers with death if
they persist in trying to bring food to the strikers ship
ments arriving by train also being by the gun
thugs of whom two ago murdered Harry Smns,
National Miners Union youth organizer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
DURABLE BOSS'S
TRICK FAILS TO
SPLIT STRIKERS
Workers Defy Injunc-
ton; Hearing This
Friday

NEW YORK. = The strike of the
metal workers of the Durable Tool
& Die Co. against lockout, which
has been going on for almost
month, is continuing stronger than
ever, with the picket lines growing
daily in numbers, militancy and eff
fectiveness. Members of many work
ingclass organizations have respond
ed to the strikers appeal for assist
. ance on the picket line, which has
resulted in a number of scabs being
persuaded to stay away from the,
shop.
The proposed settlement made re-
Gently by the boss on the basis OF
union recognition with the provision
that nearly all of the most active
strikers remain locked out pernla-
nently, has aroused tremendous in
dignation among the strikers, who
are pledging to stick it out until a
100 per cent victory is gained Their
splendid militancy displayed on the
picketline in the last few days shows
that the strikers are already carry
ing out their pledge.
Three workers who were arrested
last Saturday, when the strikers sue
cess fully beat off an attack of
gang of hoodlums, were released to-
day under bail ranging from $500
to $1,000 on the charge of assault
This despite the fact that one of the
cops who arrested them admitted
that he did not see them at the
scene of the fight.
The hearing on the injunction the
boss is trying to obtain in an effort
TO break the strike is coming UP in
court on Friday after several post
ponements. One of the affidavits
which served as ground for the COM
plant in the injunction has been
repudiated as an outright forgery by
the workers who is alleged to have
made it to the bosses attorney. and
has signed er-affidavit to this
effect.
The strikers are giving mass vel
come to the two young workers, Jack
Scaglione and Carl Como, who are
being released from Jail after sery-
ing Is days because of their militant
participation in the strike. All work.
ers, especially young workers, and
their organizations, are urged to at
tend this affair, which will be held
on Saturday, February n, $3.50 pm.
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