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Evening star., 1932-12-19
GAS MERGER DRAFT
SENT TO CONGRESS
Provision for Taking Compa'
nies Out of Anti-Merger
Act Omitted.

The Public Utilities Commission today
forwarded to Congress the draft Of q
bill authorizing merger Of the Wash
ington and Georgetown Gas Light COM
panies. with the commissions approval.
The commission approved different
measure for the same purpose in March,
1880, but there was objection to that
bill in the Senate on the ground it
provided for taking the gas companies
out of the control Of the La Toilette
anti-merger act. The measure today
does not contain that feature, and it is
believed there IS no opposition to the
rest of the bill.
Dissolyes One Company.
The draft Of the bill provides, briefly,
that after its passage 1t shall be lawful
for the Washington company to absorb
town company shall be dissolved upon
such merger. and the Washington COM
panv will take over all of its rights,
privileges. liabilities and obligations.
THIN the new Washington company
will be allowed to increase its capital
stock by the issuance Of new stock, with
or without par value, in such amounts
as may be approved by the Public
Utilities Commission, which shall con-
troll all Of it's issues.
At present. the capitalization Of the
companies Is described as "topheavy
With bonds" The Washington COM
pany has s2,600,000 in stock outstand-
ing and $13,60O,O00 in bonds. while the
Georgetown company has S150,000 in
stock and 81 ZOO 900 in bonds. Neither
company may issue additional stock
without express permission OF Congress
at present.
Right to Extend Mains.
The draft gives the new company the
right to build or extend mains on either
side of Rock Greek. At present, the
Washington company is limited to the
east side and the Georgetown company
to the west side Of that stream.
Congress would reserve the right. In
the final section of the bill. to alter
amend or repeal the act or any part
of it at any time.
Chairman Mason NJ Patrick esti
mated today it would mean q saving OF
about $50, 1000 to $50,000 to the COM
panies If the merger goes through. The
Washington company owns all the stock
Of the Georgetown company. and to all
real purposes they are one concern. but
they must maintain separate corporate
organizations and make separate month
" and annual reports to the commits
sion.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
WOMAN SHOPPER DIES
IN DOWNTOWN STORE
Mrs. Mary T. Kroger, Chevy Chase,
Nd, Stricken Suddenly-Had
Been in Poor Health.

Mrs. Mary T. Kroger, 56, of 205
Taylor street, Chevy Chase, Md, died
today while shopping on the second
floor of S. Kann Sons Co. department
store. at Eighth and D streets. She
had been in Ill health for some time
The fire rescue squad was summoned
after Mrs. Kroger collapsed, but efforts
to revive her proved futile. She was
pronounced dead by DR.. Michael De
Vito of Emergency Hospital Her son.
John, had accompanied her to the
store and was with her when she be-
came Ill.
Surviving are her husband, Bernard
Kroger, q foreman at the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving; her son, and
a daughter.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
Realtor Removed to Home.

Allison N Miller, prominent Capital
realtor, who was seriously injured
Thanksgiving day in fall from q
horse, has recovered sufficiently to re-
turn to his home. at 1888 Cathedral
avenue. It Is believed he will regain
complete health soon. He suffered .
fractured vertehrA.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
1.-THE CHRISTMAS STORY"
Miss Alice Hutchins Drake Speaks
at "Y. w." Tonight.

THE Christmas Story" will be told
by Miss Alice Hutchins Drake at 8
o'clock tonight at the Young Wom-
ems Christian Associations "booklover
hour"
Other Christmas functions scheduled
for the current season include an "open
house. for young people Wednesday.
The program will include dancing and
games. The staff Of the center at Sew
enteenth and K streets will extend
Christmas hospitality also on Christ
mas day at pm.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
HIBERNIANS TO FOREG0
DINNER TO AID RELIEF
St. Patrick's Day Fete in Balti-
more to Be Abandoned for First
Time in 129 Years.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 19.-Believ-
ing that it would not be in keeping with
the objects of the organization, In view
of the suffering of many for want Of
food and shelter, the Hibernian Society
of Baltimore has decided to forego its
annual St. Patrick's day dinner and
contribute the cost to the Baltimore re-
lief fund.
It will be the first time In 129 years
since the organization was established
that the annual dinner will not be held.
Edward L. Flanagan, secretary Of the
society, said the contribution would
amount to $500.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
BOY DIES OF BURNS
Oil Sprays Bed Of 2-Year-Old When
Stove Explodes.

Burned last night when an oil stove
exploded, spraying his bed with oil,
2-year-old Gerald Sharp, jr.. colored,
1928 Fourteenth street, died this morn
ing in Children's Hospital as result
Of burns on his body arms and legs.
Five-year-old Dorothy Summerville,
also colored, was In the room with the
Sharp child and also was severely
burned She Is at Children's Hospital
n Q critical condition.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
HEADS HOLY NAME GROUP
Walter F. Walton Is Elected by
Hyattsville Church Society.

Hyattsvi1le Church Society.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, December 10
Walter F. Walton was chosen president
Of the Holy Name Society Of st. Je-
rome's Catholic Church at the annual
election yesterday J. S. Williams was
chosen vice president George M. Jones
secretary, Rev. Andrew j. Carey spirit
ual director, Rev. Chester j. Cycz assist
ant spiritual director, E. j. Cannon
treasurer and William Hall marshal.
Delegates to the meetings of the
Washington Section and Archdiocesan
Union are Charles v. Joyce, E. j. Can
non, J. 8. williams and Myles H. Quail.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
Will Hold Card Party.

BERWYN, Nd, December 10 (Spe-
ciaD THE December card party in
Holy Redeemer School Hall here for
the benefit of the school will be held
tonight at $50 o'clock There will be
bridge and five hundred.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
Auto Club Official Dies.

FRESNO, Calf, December 10 R).-.
G. C. Hob6on. II, district manager OF
the National Automobile Club. died at
his home here Saturday night after an
Illness Of several month";. He came
here from indianapolis.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
Knife Brandished
In Fun Comes Near
To Killing" "Victim''
Mans Throat Is Slit at
Country Butchering
Near Martinsburg.
Dispatch to The Star.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, December
ia knife brandished In fun at
country butchering near here Satur-
day came near being fatal when the
brandisher misjudged the distance be-
tween himself and the friend upon
whose throat he offered to operate
The l,nife touched the throat, accident
ally, and slit the skin from ear to ear
before the mistake was realized. but
fortunately not deeply enough to be
serious. The gravity OF the joke came
near disrupting the butchering.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
v. F. W. Will Hold Dance.

BRADBURY HEIGHTS. Md, Decem-
ber 10 (SpeciaD. - Corpl. Milton E,
Hartman Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will give dance at Shady Oak
Inn District Heights, December 80 from
pm. until midnight.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
Pupils to Give Program.

LA PLATA, Md, December 19 (Spe-
ciaD Pupils of the elementary de-
partment of GIasva School will present
an entertainment entitled Love Lights
the Tree" Thursday night.
Evening star., 1932-12-19
MASONIC LODGE ELECTS
John E. Oxley Is New Master OF
Poolesville Group.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POOLESVILLE, Md, December -.
-Poolesville Lodge Of Masons. No. 2l4,
has elected the following officers for
the year 1893: Worshipful master, John
E. Oxley; senior warden, G. Robert
Gray; Junior warden, Robert Dayhoh;
secretary, George B. Remsburg; treas.
urer, R. Kenton Hays; tiler, Maynard
King. These and the appointive ON.
GERS. to be named by the worshipful
master, will be, installed at a meeting
of the lodge next month.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

Reno, New, Feb. 1.-THE Ma
son Valley bank and the Lyon
County bank, both located in Yer
kingdom, Lyon county, Nevada,
We're placed in charge of E. j.
Seaborn, state bank examiner,
this morning. The board of di-
rectors Of both institutions voted
last night to take the step Gin
order to conserve the assets"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
DOAK AGENTS FORCED TO GRANT
SIMON SWANSON REHEARINC
Government Withdraws Affidavits of Own Agents In
Order to Prevent Cross Examination

Due to the militant action of the
United Farmers League and the
vigorous protests of Attorney T..
w. Greer, the immigration author
tiles were forced to give Simon
Swanson a rehearing in their at
tempt to deport him. In the first
hearings the agents of Doak, Sec
rotary of Labor, attempted to
railroad Swanson out of the coun-
try because of his membership in
the United Farmers League. The
government cease" against Swan
SON consisted of affidavits obtain
ed from the immigration stool
pigeons hanging around Plenty
wood and from. the businessmen
and shopkeepers.
The immigration authorities at
tempted to use these affidavits in
order to prevent Swanson's lawyer
from cross examining their wit
nesses. However, the vigorous
protest of Attorney Greer togeth-
er with the protests made by the
United Farmers League forced
the immigration agents al
Grand Forks, the district office Of
Doak's agents, to tell their loca'
agent to get testimony instead Of
affidavits.
The rehearing was held at Plen
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

"they will leave the reds alone"
Preparations are being made for
a mass meeting sometime next
week in Knoxville under the aus
pieces of the Communist Party.
AS result. of the falling of
mary members of the Strike Ex-
ecutive Committee, it has been
reorganized and new forces have
been added. One of the largest
meetings of the executive commit
tee since the beginning Of the
strike took place last night.
Need Relief Desperately
Relief for strikers has never
been more necessary than at the
present moment. None of the
thousands have food and humid
reds are on the verge of starva-
tiOn. Seventy-seven evictiOns
will take place in Prudent, Tenn,
next Monday and not a single
tent is available.
Workers all over the country
must sacrifice deeply IN ORDER
to keep these heroic strikers in
the vanguard of the American
working class alive.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE PUTS
CROP LOAN LIMIT AT $4,000
Loans on Cotton and Tobacco Being Used Force Cuts
In Production

The maximum loan to any one
farmer under the regulations Oh
the Department of Agriculture
concerning the crop production
loans for this spring will be $4OO.
The total of loans to tenants OF
anv one landlord in any one coun-
tv cannot exceed $500. These
provisions cover the expenditure
bv the Department Of Agriculture
of the 100000 received from
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. The Hoover government
wants the toiling masses to believe
that they have received something
from this corporation just as the
hanks. the railroads, etc. Of the
total amount only one-tenth goes
directly to the farm masses and
then only to those in the drought
stricken areas. Even here they
are not given enough to get IN q
decent crop next season. And Oh
this $50, 600, 900 the government
demands it's five and one-half pei
cent.
In the case of cotton and wheat
| the government is using the loans
directly as a means Of forcing tn
| farmers 10 cut the acreage of thu
only cash crop they have Loan'
flor financing the planting Of cot
ton and tobacco will be MADE OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
Gain In u. S. Exports
of Metal Machinery to
the Soviet Union

Metal working machinery, be-
cause of heavy purchases by the
Soviet Union, was the only CLASH
fication of industrial machinery
expcr:s LON the United States
that iE'r,ased in 1881 when the
total industrial machinery exports
were valued at $140,000,000, as
compared to 1921, 100000 in 1890
and 1857 100000 in 1929, accord
ing to a statement issued Feb. >
by the Department of Commerce.
Decreases occurred in all CLASH
fications, with the single exception
of metal working machinery
which advanced from 80 million
in 1880 to 40 million in 1881. The
gain of almost one million dollar;
registered by the latter type Of
equipment is largely accounted FOL
by continued heavy purchases OF
the part of Soviet Russia in con
nection with the Five Year Plan.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

acreage not more than IS per cent
of the acreage devoted to these
crops in 1881, if the owner, share
cropper, or tenant planted more
than ten acres of cotton or more
than three acres of tobacco last
year.
In counties in which fertilizer Is
not commonly used the maximum
loan per acre will be So for all
crops except truck crops, including
potatoes and sweet-potatoes, on
which a maximum rate Of $12 is
allowed. Where fertilizer is ne
cessary fok crop production the
maximum rates are Sc for all
crops except tobacco and truck
crops, the rate for tobacco being
$40 and that for truck crops $40
Not TO exceed 81 per acne of loans
made at any of these rates may
be used for repairs and miscellan-
eous expenses of crop production
other than seed, fertilizer, feed fol
workstock and fuel and oil fol-
tractors.
Special provision is made fol
| additiosal loans for the purchase
of materials to protect crops from
| insects and plant diseases wher'
| spraying or busting is necessary
These loans viii be at rates not Il
! tCOntinued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
800 Poor Bolivian
Peasants Raid Rich
Farm for Foodstuffs

Three hundred Indian farmers
starving under the semi-feudal
domination of rich land owners
and living under the iron heel of
Imperialism, recently raided one of
the richest farms in the vicinity
of LaPaz, confiscating cattle, pro-
visions and other necessities. The
poor farmers with hatred born of
years of misery are reported to
have set fire to the landowners
buildings.
The Indians were led by former
soldiers.
A regiment of cavalry rushed tt
the scene but most of the Indians
Out-maneuvereG them and escaped
to the mountains where the cavai
ry dares not follow. Eleven wer'
taken prisoners and several wer'
killed IN the raid on the farm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
CHINESE NINETEENTH
ARMY STOPSADVANCE
OF JAPANESE TROOPS
CHINA! PROTEST THE WALL STREET WAR

The determined struggle of the Nineteenth Army has
semmed the advance of the Japanese mperiast invad
The Japanese butchers planning pouring adj
ditiona thousands of troops into Shanghai in order
smash thru After four days of intense struggle in which
the japanese had planned break thru the Chinese Ines Japan
forced suspend their activities along the
Woosung Chapel front.
reported that planning
18th the 18th divisions Shanghai This would thirty
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
ST. PAUL JOBLESS
DEFY CANDIDATES
OF CAPITALISM
UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL SAYS
COMMUNIST PARTY Is ONLY
PARTY OF TOILERS.

ST. PAUL, Minn.-The Unem-
ployed Council has issued a chal-
lenge to all candidates running
for municipal office to attend a
mass meeting on Thursday even
ing, Feb. 25th at the Minnehaha
Hall, and defend their stand on
the question of unemployment.
"The Unemployed Council"
says the statement. lis not 'im-
partial in this election. We
have endorsed the candidate of
the Communist Party, THE
ONLY WORKERS TICKET in
in the field. because theirs is the
only fighting program for ade-
quate unemployment relief and
for unemployment insurance"
The challenge is especially aim
ed at Mahoney and his so-calleC
Labor Progressive" ticket, be
cause these A. F. of L. takers ar
using radical phrases to fool thu
workers and get their votes. Thei
platform is a brazen betrayal o.
the workers interests. The,
speak about the people" but no
word about the workers. Their
is not one word in their program
about adequate cash relief, blu
fake promises of "work" (meaninI
forced labor and wage-cuts), an
they are anxious to please tn
business interests, so they spea
about keeping the tax burde
down and relieving the charities.
| A series of successful publ
hearings are being held on the ur
employment question. Last Nor
day night at the Commonwealth
Hall, 45 Rice Street, the worker
packed the hall and listened al
tentively to the voluntary witness
es that testified to the mass mis-
cry Of the unemployed in st. Pau
The candidates endorsed by til
Unemployed Council are for Ma!
or, A. N. Andersen, a buildin
: trades worker; for City Council,
Negro worker; Lucille Bartlett,
, woman worker; A. N. Smoliak,
needle trades worker.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
STARVATION In
SOUTH DAKOTA
RELIEF GIVEN ONLY THRU
MASS PRESSURE

Frederick, S. D., Feb. 11.-Sourh
Dakota is so busy finding ways
and means to feed the pheasants
that they don't know that there
are thousands of people who do
not have anything to eat in their
own state. If they don't provide
better for the pheasants than they
do for their people they will all
starve.
In Brown county, South Dakota
the county allows $6.51 week fol
family of eight which, means
each has IL cents day to live on
They only got that through the
unemployed council. The county
threatened to cut them off alto
gether if they did not stop max
ing demands and ask for reliei
like beggars. But this was an
swered with MORE DEMANDS
and larger demonstrations.
A few days ago / heard radio
speel in which there was cal
for special session of the legis
lature to see if something coul'
be done about the stock that wa
starving. Our governor said j
could not be done. It is just a
well for the same bunch of graft
ers would be called and they di'
nothing for the farmers and work
ers the last time they. were i
session and it is not likely the,
would do anything now.
The only way we will get any
thing is to organize in the Unite
Farmers League. Then we ca
get rid of this circle of CRATER
and have something to say abou
the things that are going on.
| They have another crooke
scheme TO get what little tn
farmer has left the Sales Ia,
The banker would like to hav
this so there would not be S
much tax on the farm. Then y
will take the farm that has no ia
on it and let you work on it fl
him and still pay the taxes thr
the Sales Tax. Farmers don't /
fooled. Join the organization tn;
is fighting for your interest
Show the boss he has had h
! time. Now we are going to hay
ours.
ROY MILLER
: Acting State Organizer +,
l the United Farmers Leagl
E in South Dakota.
PACTFISM- A SCREEN T
D CONCEAL WAR PREPARl
TONS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
.U.F.L. ORGANIZES
TOILING FARMERS
REGARDLESS OF CREED OR
OTHER BELIEF

Flo, Mich, Feb. a. Dear Com
rades: would like to say TO the
readers as there are some who be
lieve that this U. F. l.. touches on
their religion that they will have
to denounce God if they join this
organization. Comrades, this is
not so. We are only trying to
fight for our rights. We arc
weighed down with too heavy tax
es. The Federal Land Bank has
not promised any help whatever as
yet as every farmer knows that
has his farm mortgaged there.
But, if we are organized we can
force them to give US time to pick
up. And that's what we'll have
to do!
How else are we to cope with
this situation? Certainly we are
not going to wait for death by
starvation, which surely be oul
lot if we wont do anything about
it.
Here in our own county though
toni are lots of farmers on thu
brink of disaster. The farmers
pay heavy taxes on their lands
while the companies get ava.
with next to nothing. know O
instances where the big lumbe
companies get away by payinj
three cents an acre for taxes an
the farmers in some cases pay a
bout a dollar and a quarter -
great difference.
, Comrades, this has nothing t
} do with your religion. We JUS
simply must join up to fight pov
! erty and starvation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

tywood, Wednesday, Feb. II. One
of the storekeepers, Ed Peterson,
who had signed an affidavit, re-
fused to show up for the hearing.
Then the immigration authorities
withdrew the numerous affidavits
made by their own agents because
they were afraid to let these ag-
ents be cross examined even in a
closed hearing. And finally the
government witnesses could not
tell such nice stories as witnesses
as they had signed in the form OF
affidavits. The main witnesses Of
the government were Stegner
principal of the local school; Ben,
nett, postmaster; and Oscar Col
Inns, another mainstreeter. Robert
Van Hee and Erik Bert of the Pro
ducers News staff were also wit
nesses at the hearing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

Terror in the strike area, Par-'
ticularly in Kentucky, is forcing
many National Miners Union To-
Gals TO meet in the woods at night.
At the section strike conference
to be held in Clear Fork, LaFol-
lette, Middlesboro, Gatliff, Har-
Ian and Wallins Creek in the next
few days, the miners viii discuss
special problems of each section
that will be taken up at ths con-
ference.
After being evicted from its of
flee and refused space in every
other office building in Knoxville,
the Workers international Relief
is again ordered 10 leave its head
quarters. The order to move
again was received by the w. J.
r. even before the office furniture
had been moved into position.
Cut Wages Again
Several miners have been free
as result of setting up an N. M
U. local in Whistle Greek Mine
in Tennessee. More Harlan mines
where the strike has been weakest
have announced wage cuts. Stan
field mine has cut wages from 8;
cents a ton to % cents. ElcomE
mine has cut from 35 to 25; ant
motor men at Tunays Mine hav,
been cut from $3.50 to $2.06. N
M. U. locals exist in all thre
mines.
| Strikers are preparing to dis
tribute petitions to get signature
to put the Communist Party o.
the Kentucky ballot in the mex
elections. Uniting of courts, Goa
operators, police, is convincing
thousands of miners that onl
through the election of Commur
lists to office they will be able t
have voice in the control of thei
lives.
{ The unemployment movemer
I in Knoxville is developing mas
, support so rapidly that the Knox
/ vile city government has bee
: forced to grant two days work
a week instead of the former or
day to hundreds Of unemployed G
0 the city's charity list. Local leac
t ers of the unemployed have bee
: approached by leading bushes
men with offers of good jobs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
CALF. VETERANS
FACING MISERY
% PER CENT UNABLE TO PAY
INTEREST ON FARMS

In the month ending January
25, there was an increase of $780,
884 in delinquencies of payments
of war veterans on their farm and
home purchase contracts in Cali
fornia. This brought the total
delinquencies to $305,135. Of the
approximately 10000 veterans who
bought farms on these contracts
about $500 or twenty-eight per
cent are in arrears on their pay
ments.
George M. Stout, Secretary of
the Veterans Welfare Board of
California states that this stiua-
ton is Critical as well as alarm
ing" What is it that is Critical
as we'll as alarming?" The fact
that the inability of these war
veterans to pay their interest
means that their living standards
have been driven to a wretched
minimum That they have not
been able to make a decent living
for themselves and their families
despite the strenuous toll they
have put into the land?
Not at all.
'The alarming part of a sit
uatiOn of this kind is that the
only source of revenue the State
has with which to pay off the
bond interest and redemptions
at maturity is from the accum-
ulated monthly installments on
these contracts"
: His alarm is over the fact tina
; the bondholders may not get thei
interest paid. His alarm is owe
! the fact that the bonds may b
defaulted. His alarm is for tn
CONTINUED on Page two)