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$3.50 Seamless
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$19.75

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Broadcloth shorts, full cut, with elastic and tie
sides, sizes 80 to A. Cotton.ribbed shirts, with
larse armholes, sizes "a to 46.
Evening star., 1932-04-11
APPEAL IN CANN0N'S
CASE FILED BY U. S.
Government Seeks to Reverse Rul.
ing Sustaining Demurrer
to Indictment.

Assistant United States Attorney
John j Wilson today filed in the Dis
trict Court Of Appeals the Govern
ments appeal in the case of Bishop
James Cannon, jr., Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and his as
sociate, Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Rich
mond, Va, charged with violation of
the Federal corrupt practices act in
failing to make proper reports of con-
tributions received during the presi-
Dental campaign of 1928.
The Government seeks to reverse the
ruling OF Justice James M Proctor sus-
tanning a demurrer filed TO the indict-
ment. Proctor held that the 10 counts
Jailed to charge any offense under the
Federal corrupt practices act He point
ed out that the indictment failed 20
allege as fact that the Jameson con
tributions were reported and accounted
for TO Miss Burroughs or that she had
any knowledge of them He declined
to pass on the constitutionality of the
act
Hearing on the appeal is not expected
to be reached In the appellate court
before the Fall term.
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LINDBERGH OFFERS
TO REPLACE KIDNAP
RANSOM WITH GOLD

Continued From First Page.)
of the New Jersey State police, an
nounced that "a noted character" was
taken into custody and was being ques-
toned
In a statement he said:
Early in the investigation, a noted
character was reported to me as not
having been seen since the kidnapping
An informant definitely connected him
with the crime, and this is one of the
lines OF investigation referred to in
earlier bulletins"
Acting Police Capt Richard Oliver
announced in New York that the man
is Sylvan Ortlieb. Oliver said JERSEY
City police had requested New York
police to pick up Ortlieb. Just what
connection he is thought to have with
the case has not been revealed
According to the News today, Con-
don, through the "Jafsie" ads, con-
tacted a representative of the kid
napers. This representative told him.
Condor said, that If the $4,000 ram
som we're not paid by April s, the
price would be raised to $4,000. The
kidnapers' agent added:
Tell Lindbergh we can hold out just
as long as he can
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Continued From First Page.)
study OF reorganization for a long time
and 1t is known he has definite ideas
regarding this subject Also, he has de-
termined as to the governmental func-
tions that could be dropped, if the au-
thor1ty OF Congress will permit such a
step. The President is represented as
being especially anxious to take this
opportunity OF thrashing out the mat
ter with the proper representatives Of
the House, with the hope an agreement
viii be reached and the necessary legis-
lation whipped into shape without
delay
II was said at the White House today
that no date has been set for another
conference at the White House between
the President and members of the
House Economy Committee The Presi-
dent has intimated. however, that an
other meeting will be held and a date
set shortly. There is some likelihood
that at the next meeting represents
tiveS of the Senate will be present.
Preparatory to such a meeting, the
President is giving further study to the
subject and endeavoring to put his ideas
into definite shape. In this connection
he conferred today at some length with
Postmaster General Brown who. next
to the President himself, is unquestion-
ably more familiar with the subject of
governmental reorganization than any
other individual connected with the
Federal Government. His knowledge
was acquired during more than two
years when he was delegated by Presi-
dent Harding TO work out a complete
plan for reorganization of the executive
branch of the Government.
Watches Developments.
Mr.. Hoover a few weeks ago sent a
special message to Congress declaring
the reorganization was essential not
only in the interests of economy but
also efficiency in which he made some
suggestions as starter, principally
along the lines of coordination of ac-
tivities and in which he proposed that
the Executive be given authority, with
some restraint, to make the necessary
transfers and mergers and eliminations.
The President was represented today
as watching carefully actions of the
Economy Committee in its conduct of
hearing following the agreements
reached at a conference at the White
House last Saturday
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SILENT ON CANADIAN CLUES.

LANSING, Mich, April II Cpl.-Two
detectives of the Michigan State police.
who were In Toronto and Montreal last
week tracing II reported clue in the
Ltndbersh baby kidnapping case, were
back at headquarters here today, with
nothing to say" about the trip.
Lyle Hutson and William Watkins.
the detectives, went To Canada last
week and reports We're that they had
attempted neg citations with former
members OF DetroitS purple gang for
Information concerning the baby S
whereabouts,
Hutson denied the two had been in
communication with New Jersey au-
thoritles following their return and
said he did not know the Identity of the
kidnapers.
We have nothing to say about our
trip yet, he said
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HANGING In PRECINCT
Is DECLARED SUICIDE
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict
in N. v. Johnson's Death
in Cell.

A suicide verdict was returned by q
coroner's jury today in the case Of Neil
V. johnson, 80, of the 400 block Of
Fourth street, who hanged himself with
MS shirt in cell at the first precinct
police station Saturday night. Both
the police and two other prisoners in
the cell with johnson were held blames
less by the jury.
Police were inquiring today at rooms
ing houses and hotels in an effort ia
locate relatives of the dead man. Tho
hanging took place shortly after Joans
sons arrest for drunkenness.
The two men in the cell with him
said they did not take Johnson seriously
when he tied himself to the bars and
jumped from his cot and failed to sum-
mon aid until it was too late. The
Rescue Squad made a futile effort to
revive the man.
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lice ACTIVITY hurt the negotiations ue~
mendousN uhtounded reports were
published that tindhergh was In close
cooperation with the police and that
the latter were about Ia close in ON the
kldnapers. The negotiations were broken
on aud ehufts Ca resume them proved
futile Tor days.
The case seemed to have reached a
dandatill when the services uf the "un-
derwotld, pgoiIered by Mutgls RoSner,
smaoth- talking New Work "investiga-
tor were enlisted Rosner succeeded
IN convincing hfeokenriage and Lind
horsh lac could trail the kidnapers
through underworld aequRintanees
snltale and hita then entered the pie
lures with hlars OF publicity and
anet mare diSmayed Lindhergh.
The underworld got nowhere,
Evening star., 1932-04-11
LETTER PASSES CRISIS
IN PNEUMONIA BATTLE
Physicians Say Prospects for Re
covery of Chicago Sportsman
Capitalist Are Good.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April n.--Joseph Letter,
merchant. capitalist and sportsman,
vas reported gaining today in his fight
against severe illness that followed an
attack of pneumonia. and physicians
said prospects for his recovery were
good.
The crisis, they said, passed yester-
day and Mr.. Letters condition was
considerably improved" The pneu-
rlonia developed while Mr. Letter was
recovering from heart ailments that
ri him in physicians care for months.
Evening star., 1932-04-11
NOTES OF 1928 SERIES.

NEW YORK, April II GP.-The
$4,000 paid by Co. Charles A. Lind
bergh in an effort to buy off the
kidnapers of his son is all in notes Of
the series of 1928
The bills include United States notes
of IS denomination. United States gold
certificates of $40 denomination and
United States gold certificates and
Federal Reserve notes OF $50 denomina-
tion.
A complete list Of the numbers of the
bills has been sent TO every national
bank in the country
Evening star., 1932-04-11

Stock Exchange IN 1880, after
l. legend had dubbed him the
dumbeSt man on Wall Street.
He was the youngest head the great
trading board had ever selected-41-
and it is said he was too busy to bother
with denying the story which earned
him his unflattering Sobriquet.
The tale was that on BLACK Thurs
day of October, 1929, he stepped up
to the steel post on the floor of the
exchange and bid 205 for 25,000 shares
of United States Steel-at that time
quoted at 1874 This was hailed as an
heroic gesture designed to stop the
plummetlike drop of stock prices. Had
the incident actually occurred, it would
have cost Whitney mere S4,000,000 in
losses to date.
Facts at Variance.
The facts of the case are somewhat
at variance with the rumor which
caused him to become known as "Twen-
ty-five Thousand Shares Whitney"
When the crash of 1929 came, Whit
ney was vice president of the exchange
The president, E. H. H. Simmons, was
in midpacific, so Whitney was the
nominal head of the organization. 1t is
said he walked across the floor of the
exchange on the day his famous pur-
chase is supposed to have been made,
and seeing Steel quoted at 205. ordered
10000 shares He then moved on to
execute another order. Supposedly only
200 shares of the 10000 ever were
delivered.
Whitney was governor of the ex-
change at the age of 81, attaining that
position four years after he organized
1~s 1nS c
owned seat on the exchange since he
was %.
Six feet tall and weighing over 200
pounds, Whitney was a Harvard crew.
man in 1910 graduating from that col
| lege in three years. He went imme-
diately into finance.
! His attitude toward short selling was
stated last Fall IN series of addresses
defending the practice as a cushion
| to falling market, check on spec
ulative market apt to rise too high. He
claimed bear covering constituted an
automatic and necessary source Of pur-
chasing power, that market in which
| no one ever had to buy stocks in order
to cover short sales might go out OF
sight.
Data Accumulated.
Nevertheless, Whitney ordered brokers
to report their short sales. for the first
time accommodating accurate data on
the short interest in the market. His
figures showed just how much short
selling is done in any issue.
The exchange has ruling forbid
ding bear raids. When evidence ap-
pears indicating that practice has oc-
Cured, Whitney orders the brokers con-
cerned to produce their books. Such a
charge never has been substantiated in
recent years.
A short time ago the exchange issued
ruling designed to limit short selling
by restricting the lending of stocks.
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IS DENOMINATION
UNITED STATES NOTES


country from the office Of Walter G. WOOD treasurer Of the United States in
his kidnapped This information disclosed Saturday night
ndbergh The
currency and denominations of 20 dollar
Lower These the the bills
"A.
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100000 and was pushed to sl,4OO,-
100000"
BY whom?" asked Whitney.
That is what I want to know" re-
piled Brookhart.
Says Public Started 1t.
by the public, who thought it was a
good investment at the price" sharply
responded Whitney
Il am just a broker, and I had no
part n the rise or fall of the stock"
Glass asked what percentage Of the
people who speculate know anything
about the intrinsic worth of stocks.
Whitney said he had no figures to
answer that question, but that the in
formation was readily available in vari-
GUS financial manuals
What percentage OF. the people ever
investigate them?" Glass asked
II have no idea" Whitney replied
but added that brokers were not TO
blame If the investor did not study the
statistics.
He said no corporation made its po-
sition better known than the United
Corporation, and if the people of the
country do not care to take advantage
Oh ItldI lHlOIENdIlOIl, 90 not KNOW Oh
anything the brokerage fraternity can
DO about it
Sees Speculative Fever.
Replying to Blaine, the stock ex-
change President agreed that psyche
logical factors possibly had an effect in
a stock boom"
Blaine insisted large holders of stock
create speculative fever to lure the
unsuspecting public into the purchase
Of securities"
Whitney said the records of 1929, "up
to the panic" showed the increase in
capitalization of corporations was great
er than the ratio increase of brokers
loans "and I see no reason why brokers
should be blamed for any speculative
fever"
AS Whitney answered the committees
questions he tore up pieces of paper
into fine bits and scattered them OF
! the table before him.
The big committee room became more
and more jammed and spectators crowd
ed up to the chairs in which Whitney
and Senator'S were seated.
There was not vacant spot in the
room and spectators stood on desks ane
chairs in the rear There we're far morc
women than men In the audience.
Senator Gore allowed one of the spec.
tators to sit on the arm Of his chair.
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LINCOLN'S KIN TO SPEAK

Blind Cousin of Civil War Presi-
dent Due Here Wednesday.
N c.. Hanks, a cousin of Abraham
Ln-oln. will deliver lecture on optim-
ism Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in
st. Johns Parish Hall, Potomac and o
streets, Georgetown.
Mr.. Hanks, who lost both eyes and
hands in a mining accident years ago,
has educated himself and has become
self-supporting and practically inde-
pendent of help.
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Carlo Mazzoleni and Natalie VaSsenal
of Italy are attempting to travel around
Europe by water and land skis.
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Very truly yours.
W o WOODS
Treasurer OF the Uni
$40 DENOMINATION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GOLD CERTIFICATES AND FEDERAL
RESERVE NOTES
Series Of 1929


tcs (, u, Ctriicn
tteIct r1crl
R Bank q New York
I lovedb
letter United
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~ ICHARD WHITNEY became
president of the New York
Stock Exchange in $780, after
| legend had dubbed him the
durnbest man on Wall Street"
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HARMONY SOUGHT
AS ECONOMY GROUP
MEETS WITH ROOP

Continued From First Page. }
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WHITNEY ON STAND
DENIES BEAR RAIDS
President of Exchange Prom
iSeS Complete Cooperation
in Senate Probe.

CONTINUED From First PageD
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DEMOCRAT LEADERS
.ASSA|L BONUS BILL
Attacks Are Made at House
Hearing Immediately After
Presentation.

Continued From First Psge.)
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Continued From First Page.)
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Owns Some OF Stock.
please be more specific l own some
OF the stock which I bought at so and
is now selling st about 81
Senator Gore asked if Whitney re-
garded that as mistake.
"A grave mistake" the Stock Ex-
change head replied. amid laughter.
Whitney said the facts stated by
Representative La Guardia have been
stated TO me TO be quite contrary to the
fact"
He apparently referred to the charge
made Saturday in the House by Repre-
sentative La Guardia Republican. New
York; that panic" had been threat
ened IL the Senate inquiry on short SELL
ing was carried out.
Brookhart thea went into the history
OF the United Corporation. which ht
called Morgan utility holding com
pany
~ Iowan said it startedPst slos.
Evening star., 1932-04-11

The police we're not advised that
Lindbergh had received phone calls and
letters from the kldnapers, nor that
contact had been established with them
through DR., Condor.
Lindbergh adhered religiously To what
he termed code of homer under
which he intended to keep faith with
the criminals who had stolen his spn
In the background, as already men.
toned, was the lurking fear that harm
would come TO the child u he sought
police help.
The irst iurry II publicity and pe-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
Defend the Communist
Party Ticket!

THE state of Florida has ruled the Communist Party off the
L ballot Although all technical requirements were COM
piled with, the capitalist authorities decided that the toers
Florida shall be denied the right to vote for Communists
Florida followed in the footsteps of North Carolina and
California In each of these states struggles have been going
which dictated this arbitrary action against the Commu
mist Party In California the Communists have been fighting
for the freedom of Tom Mooney. In North Carolina the
Communists have been fighting for the organization of the
textile workers In Florida the Communist Party has fought
for the organization of the Tampa tobacco workers and has
exposed used against the oing
capitalist class knows its and does everything
In its to the Communist Party.
deprive workers
white and workers in
Undoubtedly Florida
the concerted campaign to rule the
particularly the southern states hs candidacy
Of Ford challenge to the white capitalist rulers It serves TO organize
the the terrible conditions of and lynch
sedeemnaon of Negroes in the
Florida threat the rights of the workers
be taken Immediate
The everywhere be
the hammer sickle the ballot Adopt resolutions organize
Geographic protests the Florida Secretary
with the demand Hands of the Communist Partyl'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
SWEDISH Y. c. L. AT MILL
TARY MANEUVERS

STOCKHOLM.-Th Swedish mill
tary manoeuvres are proceeding in
the neighborhood of Upsala at the
moment. Among the illustrious guests
is "comrade" Hanson, the prime min
lister of the fourth workers govern
nlent" of His Majesty the King of
Sweden.
Hanson is the man who declared in
an interview given to American news
paper correspondents that Sweden
would be prepared ito defend the
Baltic States at the order of the
League of Nations against the Soviet
Union" He is thus in his element at
the manoeuvrea.
However, other guests, unbidden
guests, we're also present. These were
members of the Swedish Young Com
munist League engaged in intensive
propaganda among the soldiers and
distributing leaflets and newspapers.
The chief activity of the military
police at the moment is rounding up
these unwelcome guests and escorting
them from the manoeuvre field to
which they return with new material
as quickly a. possible. AZ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
Persecution In Teachers
Union

IT IS coincidence that the discharge of Oakley
Johnson instructor in New York City College, because of
his activity number of militant and revolutionary
zatiOns parallel by drive of the officials the Teachers
Union against the left wing and its leaders, among whom
Scott Nearing Scion DeLeon and Donald Henderson
This attempt to expe the left wing attack against the
the character of the left wing program against salary re-
ducons organization Of school committees combat
tyranny support the
A.
and immediate relief the
and the abolition of the official practice OF violating all constitutional
democratic provisions
advocating nergeical Official
leadership Of the union headed by Dr. Lekovtz and Lve
through
Education drive the militant teachers the school
~ approved (ad fashionable in New York
state witness against the striking
DR. 1oW1z of the Teachers Union calls in OShea head of
many Halls Board Education
fought against him matter
sign that the oedom Of the turning
an auxiliary for the suppression of militant teachers.
cCHOOL regarded capitalism
valuable part of their apparatus
state Of servy 1t not surprising therefore that
make the interests
Teachers Union fighting the
also suffering the brutal effects of the capitalist
for elementary democratic rights
ohcdom Of Teachers
aconary heads the coges-he policy persecution
from the jobs nstanced in City College by the discharge
lay johnson.
The fight defeat Of this new
6rve the
despicabe sfou
teachers
Sc-king class for their economic and political demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
Letters from Scottsboro Boys
Call TOR Increased Struggle
Solidarity of Workers Everywhere Brings
Stirring Messages from Cells

FROM the death cells in Kilby
1 Prison, Alabama, tortured by the
guards, half-starved, taken out for
exercise" only when their would
be executioners have the spectacle
of another man burning in the
chair to terrify them, the Scots
boro boys write to their friends of
the International Labor Defense,
and to the workers of the world to
whom they look to save their lives.
Not all of them can write, but
those who can-Roy and Andy
Wright, DIN Montgomery, Charlie
Weems, Haywood Patterson, Ozie
Powell and Willie Robertson-speak
for the others.
They speak of the monstrous
frameup which has brought them
to the death-house--it is a night
mare to them:
Il wouldn't even tempt to do such,
even if I had ever thought of such
thing in my whole life," Roy
Wright, IA, who was condemned to
life Imprisonment, writes. He has
bad eyes, is going blind. In the
prison, no medical attention for
this is provided my eyes is given
me some trouble and I am tire of
them given me trouble too he
writes.
Something / Know Did Not Do"
DIN Montgomery, IT, writes: 81
am here for something / know
did not do. My pore mother has
no one to help hur to make q living
but me. She had a little girl left
only five years old to take care OF
and she has no job at all And 1
CESS you all know how times is on
the outside. / did all I cud for my
pore mother to help her live and
my little sister. They just made a
frameup on us boys. ! know | out
give Lie one any cause to nistreat
me this way. 7 know cut land
hope you all is dom all you can for
us boys. l ask my mother for
pair of shoes and she say she was
not able to send me any shoes,
1t is getting cold on the Rock Place
in my cell"
HAYWOOD PATTERSON writes
~ poems in his cell sometimes,
and his letters have a poetic quail
ity: 81 am as innocent as the tiny
mite of life just beginning to stir
beneath the heart" he writes. II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
The Share The Work
Scheme

PRESIDENT WILLIAM GREEN of the American Fedora
ton Labor has in favor of workers employed
part starvation wages sharing their work and wages
with the totally unemployed.
The most vicious scheme produced far in the crisis
by the capitalist agencies the share the work. plan This
relief obess The
scheme extension the stagger of employment which al
living standard of employed
workers to the level
Of by
cutting working
number unemployed that time
forcy that portion their they
The the unemployed who will get this part time
the employers by the work
forced to divide their working time with them.
the
relief unemployment the burdens of
employment relief workers
find that William president the American Federation
of Labor, has the his wholeheared endorsement
THE share plan
of the Standard
Federal Banking the chain of
Roov committees whose chief Job the organization of
the plan
Says quoted by
IF labor throughout the
eUork movement their full complete support increasing employ
situation"
originates employers
w interfere with the their
than to contribute the sngy donated the local
Unemployment
F. oil l. in
posing the purposes plan
united front the
batting corporations like Teag and President of the A.