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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-23

roundings, and with such care, small wonder
that the results achieved in improving toilers
health are so satisfactory.
One Sanitorium strikes us especially. The
spacious marble palace once favorite haunt
of the Cars. Now it is inhabited by simple
peasants who have been sent by their collective
farms to recover their health.
Soviet Polytechnic In Kharkov One of Best
Equipped in the World.
Throughout the Soviet Union the closest at
tention is given to the toiling populations
physical we-being, with great emphasis on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-23

me not to make 1t public as he wished
to keep his plight from the knowledge
of his family.
He is one of the hundreds OF thou
sands In New York and millions over
the length and breadth in the richest
country in the world. The death of
hunger is lowering like a sword over
the necks of the millions Of unem-
ployed in America The capitalist
rulers that guard the fortunes OF their
bosses, the Morgans, Rockefellers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-23
Effect on Workers of Noise
and Vabor in Industr,

Workers In industry using machi-
merry that make great noise are being
made deaf, recent report shows.
Out of I.O40 workers examined in
seven factories, deafness was found
in 246 or 23.E per cent. The deafness
of 1856 of these workers was directly
attributable to the conditions Of their
work, 81 had previous ear trouble
which was aggravated by working
around the noise making machinery.
The greatest number of those deaf
were subjected TO the greatest amo-
unit Of noise. Sixty-siy out Of ninety
six workers In tin can factories domi-
mated by stamping machine.
The report points out that the
noise is preventable and undue. It
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-23

Schwabs, have condemned the unem-
ployed to hunger and death.
Only a powerful struggle of the IN
employed Councils in every city in
the United States will compel the
rulers to grant Unemployment insur-
ance and immediate cash relief.
The workers will not themselves
die of starvation Ell masse. Perry's
words still ring in my ears. ''Scnc-
thing viii have TO be done. am
going to the Reds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-23

points out that the huge noise-mak.
ing machinery can be isolated. TIn
factory owners crowd as many ma.
chimes as possible in one room, the,
aren't interested how many worker,
become deaf. Workers in the indus.
tries where there are such condition,
should demand isolation of the ma.
chimes, 1t is either isolation of the
machines or deafness of the workers
Another cause of deafness Is the
poor ventilation provided In factorie.
for carrying off vapors from spray
booths, etc. tthe vapor is found to
have an effect OF hardening the
ceru moi the ear of the workers.
Workers In factories with such con-
ditions should form grievance COM
mittees and demand improvements.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

! learned things that startled me.
Accident
"What happened was this. A truck backed into my
che truck being as large it was, the street clut
5ered and my car small. Let that CO. yelled and
and then that the driver of the truck was
nice fellow. told him that if the damage was no more
than it seemed, dented fender, wouldn't bother; ne
said if it only couple of bucks he'd rather pay 1t
than report to his who is rather severe about the
looks of the car.
"WeIl it turned out that the body damaged. got
in touch with the driver and he to me- There's
nothing like motor accident to give you insight into
the lives & Of others This mans & story nsd IL nn is
that he prosperous went down in the general slip
ping Of 1890 out Of work for so weeks and then got
job at $40 week, out of which he penalized two
week for sOmething-I forget what He has wife and
child, both for the moment ill.
Terror
This offered to pay the entire cost of repairing
rather than report the accident He also intended
in mortal terror of forcing hand. And what struck
me more than the appalling fear he had Of being fired
was his remark at the end when he said guess that's
pay hundred dollars to get acknowledgements
Job nOw.'"
Mr. Forests letter makes me uneasy. have
little incidents parallel to it myself from people in stores
who will go to any extreme rather than report from
delivery who want to square everything themselves
The millions who out of work rack of appre
henson and fear.
Confidence Is Real
is three years since began to restore conf
dence" think know why the effort has failed It is
because confidence is real thing and tried to restore
through unreal things. For instance, talking about
keeping up when meant only the scale of wages
and actual payrolls being sashed talking about
our big construction program which never came into
being; talking about keeping at work. producing,
when there demand for what they could produce)
You cannot create confidence with fasehoods The
past two months have given proof again. Phanoms
have been evokedeven beer am afraid, is phantom;
have let reality slip out of our grasp as if our
hands too nerveess to hold to it. That not the
way prosperity can be compelled. And it will not
without compuson.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
ACTION
SOUGHT TODAY

Consideration of the District
street railway merger bill, subject
Of local controversy for more than
20 years, will be sought in the
Senate today.
Repeated attempts to enact
merger legislation have met con-
SiStent defeat in previous sessions.
Senator Warren A. Austin (R.)
of Vermont, outstanding advocate
of the merger, will ask the Senate
today to act on the railway con-
Solidation bill before disposing of
other legislation.
He will meet opposition of sew
eral members who contend the
present bill does not safeguard in
terestS of District residents.
Senator Arthur Capper CR) of
Kansas, Senate District Commit
tee chairman, who is one of the
many opponents of the bill as it is
now written, demands that the
measure be amended to protect
public rights with regard to power
sale. He also favorS alterations.
Senator John j. Blaine ,(R0 of
Wisconsin, also opposes the bill
as now drafted.
When Senator Austin served no
tice Saturday that he would seek
to have the Senate act on the
measure this week, Blaine said he
would oppose taking up the bill.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

disappointed. He said he had
been to five places where men
had been reported needed for
shoveling snow but he had not
been able to get a job at any
one.
The Volunteers of America,
who are now feeding about 1900
men a day and housing 14O, re-
ported the same story. The men
had gone out early to look for
jobs, hoping to work as long a
day as possible.
At the Maximum
Officials of all four of these
principal missions agreed upon
the eagerness with which the
men seize the chance of earning
a little money.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
CADET CHANGES
FACE SNAG

Plans of a special committee
on cadet activities to reorganize
the Washington High School
Cadet Corps probably will meet
with serious opposition from the
Board of Education, it was indi-
Gated today.
The Rev. F. I. A. Bennett,
chairman of the student activi-
ties committee of the board, said
today he believed the plan Of
fered by DR.. John C. Eckhardt,
of the Central High School Par
ent-Teacher Association, would
seriously affect the morals" of
the cadet corps.
The school board chairman,
however, has asked for the opin-
ions of the school administra-
tion officials and DR.. Stephen
E. Kramer, first assistant super
intendent of schools, will meet
with high school principals to
get their views.
The plan, as proposed by DR..
Eckhardt, would give recruits in
the corps an opportunity to join
the more efficient companies and
otherwise give the less expert
enced boys a break.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
CAY PARTY TIP
W|NSPR|ZE

Early morning information on
the gay party in the 500 block
of Eleventh st. N. W., which
ended in the shooting of William
Kappel, of the 200 block of P
st. N. W., captures the first
prize this week in The Washing
ton Times newStip confess.
The second award is made for
the tip on the murder of Leo
Scott, colored, AZ, of washington
Court N. w., in the 400 block
of P st. N. w.
Other awards are made for the
following stories: The escape
from death by asphyxiation of
Jackie McClanhan, II months
old, in the 1900 block of Emer-
son st. N. E.; death of Theodore
P. Noyes, of The Evening Star;
upside-down stunt. of automobile.
off Benning Bridge, and death
of Charles w. See, Navy Yard
employe, after falling from a
second floor porch in the 900
block of Eleventh st. S. E.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
INAUGURAL UP
At H|LLPARLEY

At a Capitol conference today,
the program for the Roosevelt
Garner Inauguration in March
was discussed by members of the
official Senate-House committee
and Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray
son, retired, chairman of the citi-
zens committee of the District.
It was decided that the inaugu-
raj platform on the eastern front
Of the Capitol and the Presi-
Dental reviewing stand on Penn
sylvania Avenue, in front of the
White House, be similar to those
erected when President Hoover
was inaugurated in 1929.
The Roosevelt parade will be
shorter than the Hoover parade,
but in anticipation Of possibly
100000 visitors to washington
next March, platform and review
ing stand accommodations will
not be curtailed. The Grayson
committee will let concessions for
the erection of other stands along
Pennsylvania Avenue from the
Treasury Building to the Capitol.
The committee authorized the
printing of engraved invitations to
60 to officials and prominent per-
sons. DR.. Grayson will name his
assistants this week.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
FORMER BOXER
FIGHTS ARMED
ASSA|LANTS
Earl LunSford Awakened by
Pair Carrying Hatchet,
Hammer; Two Flee

Earl Lunsford, former amateur
boxer, saved himself from being
taken for a ride early today.
Lunsford was awakened at 1870
a. m. when two men armed with
a hatchet and hammer broke
into mis- home in the 1900 block of
Gales st. N. E. and threatened his
life and that of his brother, Ray
mond.
Races to House
Lunsford told the pair that his
brother was over in their nearby
woodward, and the men grabbed
him and forced him to accom-
pany them. Raymond, however.
was still in the house.
AS the search progressed, Luns-
ford hurled his aSSailantS into
the snow and won a slippery
foot race back to the woodward,
where he obtained his revolver.
While LunSford crouched be-
hind an automobile in the snow
of his woodward his assailants
came up. Luns1ord sud denly
opened fire and they fled. Luns-
ford, still firing, followed them
into the alley.
Auto In Accident
In their haste to leave the pair
drove their automobile into a
house fronting on the alley.
They backed away, but the &C.
cident and the presence Of broken
automobile glass in the alley led
Lunsford to believe that one of
his shots had struck the driver.
Police are seeking the two men
and the automobile. Later in the
day Lunsford will swear out a
warrant for one of the men whom
he recognized. He charges this
man has threatened him in the
past.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
1,5OO Homeless Men Labor
Shoveling Snow Here

Approximately 1,5O0 homeless
men, housed here by the various
missions, are busy today proving
that they will work eagerly if
they are offered any jobs.
Practically every man from the
missions is engaged in clearing
the streets of snow. At the Sal
walton Army Home, which houses
about $50 white men and 225
colored men, it was said today
that only two men were not
working. Both were i'll
OF $50 men cared for last
night at the Central Union Mis-
sion. only 10 were not at work,
and they were awaiting calls.
1,5OO Fed Each Day
One of them, hardly more than
q boy, had returned, greatly
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

A new bill which would merge
the Washington Gas Light Com
pany and the Georgetown Gas
Light Company was sent to Con-
greSS today.
In renewing it's petition for
congressional sanction to absorb
it's subsidiary, the Washington
Gas Light Company has changed
the bill, stripping. it of objec-
tional features that brought its
defeat in 1880. It now has the
approval of Gen. Mason M. Pat
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
Choral Club Helps
Workshop PLNYerS

The choral club of the Roosevelt
Community Center will assist the
Workshop Players in presenting
a Christmas program tomorrow
night at the Roosevelt auditorium.
Mrs. Florence Vincent Yeager will
direct the musical program and
five short plays will be offered
under the direction of Mrs. Ruth
Harsha Mckenzie.
One of the plays will be entered
in the 1888 District one-act play
tournament.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
Kentucky Firm May
Get Screen Contract

Should the Kentucky Metal
Products Company of Louisville,
KY, comply with prescribed re-
quirements, it will be awarded
the contract for installing a
large quantity of wire mesh
screening at the new Federal
warehouse. Major D. H. Gillette,
public buildings engineer, said to-
day. The Kentucky firm bid
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
Gas Merger Sanctioned
In New House Bill

rick, chairman of the Public Util-
tiles Commission, and of Peoples
Counsel Richmond B. Keech.
The bill asks that the George
town company be merged into
the Washington Gas Light Com
pany, and that the latter COM
pany be authorized to operate
west of Rock Creek Park. It
also seeks to be empowered to
increase it's capital stock simply
through approval Of the P. U. C.
instead of that of Congress.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
Public Asked to Feed
Starring Birds and
Squirrels
Feed the birds,

4SCN UAAC DIIUS.
Unless kind-hearted residents
OF the District scatter bread
crumbs and grain in their
yards and peanuts and nuts
in the parks, thousands of
squirrels and birds will die,
Frank T. GartSide, chief of
public parks. warned today.
Thousands of Starlings are
in immediate danger of starva.
ton, according to Irving N.
Hoffman, park naturalist. Park
police and park supervisors are
caring for many squirrels and
pigeons but public aid is also
needed.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
WOMEN PLAN CLUB

Plans to organize a college
woman's club in Annapolis and
Anne Arundel county will be dis
cuSSed early in January by O
group of interested women. Mrs.
Robert Moss is leader of the
movement.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19

not hard.Iuck stories so mucn as
sidelights on the way hundreds of
thousands of men must be thinking"
(That is why choose those for pub
licatiOn, Mr.. FOrest.) ''But l think
there is an equally interesting light
to be thrown on the feelings of men
who still have jobs. I am one of
them, but I do not think my own
experience is typical; of course, /
worry a little about losing my job
and feel happy at the sight of the
pay envelope, but my circumstances
make things better for me than they
must be for millions. What | want
to tell you about is something l
know not from myself, but from con-
tact with a good scout who, through
me, nearly lost job. Through him
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
BLAINE NOT CANDIDATE

A denial that he is "a pros.
pective appointee" for a Federal
district judgeship in his State
was issued today by Senator
John j. Blaine .(RO of Wisconsin.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
True to Type
FRIGHTENED MEN SHOW
THE FALLACY OF -.
CONFIDENCE"
/ y GILBERT SELDES-

SSVOU have been printing interesting letters
from men out of work. writes John Forest, "and
what interests me most about them is that they are
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
TIGER GRATEFUL
FOR BLIZZARD

1t is a long way to Siberia and
Herman" the Zoos new Sibe-
rian tiger, has been homesick.
He didn't like Washington and
he didn't like y our Zoo. Even
Olga, his mate, didn't impress
him particularly.
But the snow storm of the past
few days has changed everything.
Puppy-like Herman" just loves
snow. And DR.. William M. Mann,
superintendent, has let him play
in it to his hearts content. Yes
terday the Zoo fans who risked
the storm to visit the lion house
were rewarded by the sight of
Herman" rolling and frolicing
in the drifts in his outdoor cage.
CLUB TO SING CAROLS
The Naval Academy Woman's
Club viii present a program of
musical selections at Carvel Hall,
Annapolis, today.
The Washington times., 1932-12-19
Park Roads Opened

Several hundred public park
employees, aided by a corps of un-
employed. worked nearly all night
last night to free park roads of
snow. Today Frank T. Gartside,
chief of public parks. threw open
all parkways and roads blocked to
traffic since Saturday noon.
Evening star., 1932-04-28
GOVERNORS VISIT
HISTORIC SHR|NES
Executives Go to FrederiCks.
burg and Mount Vernon.
Coming Here Tonight.
By the Associated Press.


FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April 28.--
Colonial Fredericksburg today allured
the hosts of States executives, home
ward bent after attending the Gov-
ernors' Conference in Richmond this
week.
A trip to three historic shrineS and
a return visit to President Hoover, who
addressed them yesterday, will bring to
a close the twenty-fourth conference
which has been attended by a number
of the Nations foremost political
figures.
The Governors plan visit to the
home of Mary Washington, mother Of
the first President, and later to place a
wreath on her grave.
The old law Office of another Presi-
dent, James Monroe, also will be visited
in Fredericksburg.
Will Visit Mount Vernon.
After a luncheon at Kenmore, home
of Col. Fielding Lewis, gunmaker for the
Revolution, and his wife, Betty Wash
ington Lewis, only sister Of the first
President, the Governors this afternoon
will continue by automobile to Mount
Vernon.
At the Tomb of George Washington
the Governors will listen to a tribute
from Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
after which Gov. Harvey Parnell OF
Arkansas will place a wreath on the
grave
At 8 o'clock they will attend formal
dinner at the White House, and will be
greeted by President Hoover, who yes
terday, in Richmond, urged a redis-
tribntion Of taxation and reduction in
Federal, State and local expenditures.
seated at the table will be the Presi-
dent, outstanding candidate for the Re
publican nomination, and Gov Frank
lin D. Roosevelt of New York, fore
most among the Democratic contenders.
Congratulated President.
They met yesterday after the Presi-
dents speech and the New York Gov-
ernor congratulated the man whose Job
he hopes to take next March. VERY
good speech, Mr.. President" he said
as he came forward to greet Mr.. Hoover.
Last night, however, during a speech
in which he said that Agriculture is
of primary importance" in the Nations
welfare, Gov. Roosevelt asserted:
What a pity that recent national
leadership and, therefore, recent ma
tional thought has so little needed that
precept."
Gov. Norman Case of Rhode Island
was reelected chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Conference and
California was selected for the confer
ence next year at an executive session
(Cnntinued on Page & Column a
Evening star., 1932-04-28
Victim of HOld-Up
Captures Bandits,
But Lands in Jail
Man Who Turned on AL
legged Robbers Arrested
for Carrying Gun.

They all went to Police Court in the
same wagon today It two confessed
bandits and their intended victim, who
had captured them by displaying a
deadly weapon
John r. Jackson, colored hacker, told
Judge Ralph Given that one of two
passengers last night poked a gun In
his ribs. He pleaded nervousness and
requested the hold-up man to point the
gun some other way while he searched
his pockets for money.
The man obliged, but Jackson pulled
his own gun from his pocket in place
Of money.
stick EN- up!" said Jackson, repeat
ing the command he had just obeyed.
Meanwhile, a crowd gathered, and
the police were called.
Jackson called attention to his pris-
oners with some pride, waving his gun.
"Where'd you get that gun?" de-
manded an officer, Just before all three
were taken to the precinct.
There the alleged hold-up men, who
gave their names as James Grimes and
Gladstone NeSbit, were lodged behind
the bars.
But along with Jackson's prisoners
went Jackson himself, charged with
carrying a deadly weapon.
Grimes and Nesbit pleaded guilty to
attempted robbery and we're remanded
to the grand jury, while Judge Given
placed Jackson on probation.
Evening star., 1932-04-28
ROOSEVELT FIELD HANGAR
AND 10 PLANES BURNED
Two Mechanics Injured in $685.
900 Airport Fire Following
Explosion.
By the Associated Press.

ROOSEVELT FIELD, Long Island,
N. Y, April 28.-Fire destroyed a
hangar and 10 airplanes at this field
tooay with a loss totaling $185,o00.
The hangar, formerly known as the
John Hay Whitney hangar and later
designated as hangar "a" was con-
sumed by flames in less than an hour
following an explosion of undetermined
cause shortly after 9 am.
Carl Schneider, former German wsr
pilot, was taken to hospital at Mineola,
badly burned. He and John D. Egurre,
who also was burned, but not so badly,
were the only persons in the hangar at
the time of the explosion. Both are
mechanics.
The fire departments from four near
by Long Island cities were of no avail
against the flames fed by gas fumes
from the burning planes.
The hangar. supposedly fireproof with
concrete walls, quickly crumbled.
Schneider was working at the time
on the $4,000 amphibian plane Pegasus
owned by Whitney. 1t and another
smaller plane owned by Whitney were
destroyed. Also among the burned
planes was one valued at $4,000 owned
by George Kent, jr., of Jericho. N. Y.
Evening star., 1932-04-28
MARKET PROBERS
MAP NEW TACTICS
Steering Committee Orders
Counsel to Submit Plans
for Inquiry.

Continuing to work in secret, the
Steering Committee in charge of the
Senate's stock market investigation, in
structed its counsel, William A. Gray,
today to submit his recommendation
for carrying on the inquiry.
Gray conferred with the committee
for an hour and a half. Chairman
Norbeck announced they would meet
again tomorrow or the next day.
No agents were employed and no
plan was mapped out. No mention
was made, Norbeck said, of his threat
to call bankers before the committee
and require them to show why they
have not extended further credit un-
der the liberalized credit laws passed
by Congress.
After the Steering Committee made
secret plans yesterday for its future
conduct, Chairman Norbeck issued a
vigorous statement assailing the big
commercial banks for failing to pass on
the newly expanded credit with which
the Federal Reserve system is seeking
to infuse new life into the country's
business.
Banks Accused of Hoarding.
Norbeck charged the banks with
thwarting the will of President Hoover
and Congress, and with extensive
boarding. He based the accusation
largely on the great shrinkage in the
total of loans on securities made by
Federal Reserve member banks during
recent weeks. From March to April
20 they show a continuous decline,
amounting In all to 5000 ,00o, 900. In
contrast during the past three weeks,
he said, the Reserve System has man
ufactured credit wholesale"
His statement carried the definite
threat that If these banks keep on
forcing liquidation and refuse credit
made available to them" he would rec
ommend that the Banking Committee,
making the stock investigation, go into
this angle fully.
Cites Junk" Prices.
eff this liquidation continues" he
said. I'VE must find out what part the
bankers are playing in forcing down
the value of American property to
Junk prices. The bear raiders are
bad enough. The bankers should not
help them!"
The shrinkage in loans, he added,
proves that part of the supply of
securities, which has been causing the
decline in all the security markets,
has been coming from these banks and
it is apparent that the action of the
commercial banks in this respect is
a major Contribution to the present
lack of confidence and crippled condi-
ton of business"