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Evening star., 1932-02-18
A strange story of how a s25-a-week

A strange story Of how s25-a-week
grocer clerk forced himself to live on
the barest necessities Of life to pay ex-
tortionists s2,5Oo within the last 1s
months, was being investigated today
by detectives.
The victim, James Slusher Of 3l3
Eleventh street southwest. fer six years
an employe Of q chain store system.
exhibited bank books and receipts from
the extortionists to prove his story.
The books showed Withdrawals Of from
$50 to $500 at a time, covering Pc
Rod of approximately year and a
half
Slusher told Detective Sergt Howard
E.Ogle that for the last six years he
has been living on $40 week, saving
Evening star., 1932-02-18
Appropriations Committee
Strikes Out Limitation Pro.
hibiting Promotions.
FURTHER MODIFICATION
IN CONFERENCE SEEN
Final Decision on Measure Is Ex-
pected to Set Precedent on
All Supply Bills.

The Senate Appropriations Committee
today struck out Of the agriculture ap-
preparation bill the House limitation
which would have prohibited salary
promotions during the ensuing year and
would have prevented the filling of
vacancies except whore the President
declared new appointments to be abso-
lutely essential
The promotion and vacancy filling
program in the House bill would have
applied to the balance of the present
fiscal year as well as the new fiscal
year.
Although the Senate committee elimi-
mated these restrictions entirely in
reporting the bill to the Senate, the
indications were that this step was
taken to throw the whole question into
conference with the House for further
discussion and modification. The COM
mittee report stated:
These sections relating to compen-
sation, filling Of vacancies, promotions
and so forth, were eliminated, without
prejudice, from the bill where in con-
ference more information would be at
hand which would be necessary to per-
fecting the same
Precedent to Be Set.
This being the first of the depart
mental supply bills, the final decision
regarding promotions and new appoint
ments on this measure is expected to
become a precedent in all the other
supply bills The Senate. hearings on
the agriculture bill, made public today,
show that q liberalization of the House
language was discussed If Congress de-
cides to retain such limitations.
It Is likely, therefore, that II the
House provisions are not entirely ell
minated in conference they will at least
be made more elastic.
The agricultural supply bill as re-
ported to the Senate calls for a total
Of S177,192, ,646, an increase OF $1,783.-
1872 over the House total. Even with
this increase, however, the bill is still
$58, 400 900 under current appropria-
tions and $10,500, 900 under the esti-
mates as submitted for new fiscal year.
The Weather Bureau was allowed an
additional $50, 500 for general weather
service and airways weather service for
Alaska. The remainder Of the sum
added by the Senate Committee Is dis
(Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-02-18
$25-A-WEEK CLERK CHARGES
HE PAID EXTORTIONISTS $500
Two Suspects Trapped After Victim Lives
Like Hermit, Saving Money to Keep
From Being Put on Spot

the balance Of his salary In that time,
he said, he had saved more than s2,70o.
Today he has only s24o left. he told
police. having paid out an average of
S137 a month to the extortionists under
threats of physical violence.
He said he had lived under constant
fear of his life at the hands of the
extortionists, who threatened to put
him on the spot"
Checking his story, Ogle found
Slusher kept his money in two build
ing and loan associations and one bank
A total of S4l4 had been drawn from
one building association from January
II to February Is of this year; $705
from the bank, between approximately
the same dates, and S1,348 from the
other building association prior to the
other Withdrawals. Withdrawals totaled
s2.467, of which Slusher exhibited re-
Evening star., 1932-02-18
HOOVER DESCRIBED
AS EXTRAVAGANT
Byrns Joins in Criticism of
Reorganization Pro-
poSaIs.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
President Hoover was charged today
by Chairman Byrns of the House Ap-
preparations Committee with being the
most extravagant Chief Executive the
United States has had in peace time.
This statement, made in the House,
followed criticism of the recommended
tions made by President Hoover yester-
dav by Speaker Garner and Repre-
sentative Rainey of Illinois, the Demo-
cratic leader. They complained that
the President had made no specific
recommendations for saving money.
Opening a fight to get his bill to con-
solidate the War and Navy Depart
ments to the House floor for a vote,
Byrns contended the only recommends
tion President Hoover made is for
eight new high-salaried jobs"
Powerful Lobby" Fights Bill.
Byrns said he was convinced the
Presidents message was sent here to
stave of report by the Expenditures
Committee on the Army and Navy con-
solidation bill" 1t Is opposed by Mr..
Hoover.
There has never been such a pow
erful lobby before the House in opposi-
ton to a bil," the Tennesseean said.
II can show you and the country that
If this bill is passed it will save $780,
100000 annually in operation expenses,
without interfering in the least with the
efficiency of our fighting forces. =
If the President really favors con-
solidation in the interest of economy
why did he not favor the consolidation
Of the Army and Navy?" Byrns asked.
I'VE can save more money by the pas
sege of that bill than by consolidating
all other bureaus and commissions"
Representative Mapes, Republican, OF
Michigan, read a statement from a
newspaper saying the era of co-opera-
ton between the House Democrats and
Republicans had ended and politics had
begun.
Mapes Defends Message.
Rising In defense of President Hoo
rer's message, Mapes said he concurred
with the newspaper, Judging from the
developments of the last few days and
the speech of Mr.. Ryrns of Tennessee" "
Mapes said: President Hoover has a
consistent record Of IL years on the
proposed reorganization of the Gov
ernment through consolidation of bu-
reaus He has been the leading
proponent of Government organiza-
ton"
Regarding the Presidents proposals,
Speaker Garner declared: Il thought
he was going to be helpful and recon-
mend some curtailment, but instead he
asked for new offices that will create
expense instead Of promoting economy"
Representative Rainey of Illinois, the
Democratic leader, said:
"The President, as usual. made no
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Evening star., 1932-02-18
FREE MANCHUR|AN
STATE PROCLAIMED
Decision Reached by Chinese
Leaders Meeting With
Japanese Advisers.
BY the Associated Press.


MUKDEN. Manchuria. February 18.-
The newly formed Executive Committed
of Northeastern Manchuria at moor
today proclaimed the establishment o.
an independent Manchurian-M Mongoiar
state.
Chinese leaders, with japanese ad-
visers, have been conferring here fol
several days, outlining the ground plar
of the new state.
An elaborate dinner was given al
the Yamato Hotel last night, at which
Gen. Shigeru HOMO, Japanese Man.
churian commander, attended. together
with Gen. Nah Chan-Shan, his one
time foe at Tsitsihar last November.
Gen. Nah came to the dinner in spite
of the fact that he was Ill. He left fol
Tsitsihar by train early this morning
declining another airplane journey into
the frigid Manchurian North. AT
Tsitsihar he planned to assume the
governorship Of Hei1ungiang province.
There were 108 persons at the ban
quet. OF these, rs were Chinese and
the rest Japanese, including Count
Uchida, president of the South Man
churia Railway, and number OF mill
tary and naval officials of Japan who
are acting as advisers of the new fed
Grated government.
The founder of the state announced
they would serve as members of an Ex-
ecutive Committee to frame a consti-
tuition and select the personnel Of the
new government.
The state is to have the name OF
"Ankuoa," which means Land OF
Peace" and its national emblem will
be the discarded Chinese five-barred
flag emblazoned with the rising sun of
hi urac
day by the Chinese officials, prompted
by their Japanese advisers.
Couched in Vague Language.
The proclamation was couched in
high flown, often vague Chinese, sprin-
kled with quotations from the Chinese
classics and referring to the new state
in the Chinese equivalents for the bib
| lical land of milk and honey.
In translation the principal points
were pf-ased thus:
Many months have elapsed since the
outbreak of trouble in the northeastern
provinces and the desire of the people
for peace is like a starving mans
hunger.
The assembled leaders, therefore,
have agreed to establish a new govern
ment based solidly on the support of
public opinion. They have organized
the Northeastern Executive Committee,
comprising the leaders of the four
provinces and the princes Of Mongolia
Sever Relations With China.
I'VE have decided to sever relations
with the Chinese government and to
proclaim complete independence.
THE people have suffered long
enough under maladministration OF
military overlords. That military
clique must be banished forever to Sc
cure peace and good government.
I'VE oppose anti-foreignism. We
want friendship and peace with all ma
tions. We are determined to maintain
the policy of the open door, with equal
opportunity for the commerce Of all
peoples, thereby promoting mutual
prosperity"
Evening star., 1932-02-18
PEACE TALK COLLAPSES;
TOXIC SAYS i. S. HELPED
DRAW UP LEAGUE NOTE
Tapping of Private
Wires Draws Sharp
Warning From Japan
By the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, February l8.-
Japanese authorities are saying
it in writing these days as a re-
suit of alleged tapping of their
private wires which have been
strung between consular and mill
tary centers.
Wires also were strung between
the flagship of the fleet In the
river and the consulate and these
also have been tampered with.
they said. The Chinese were
blamed and a stern warning was
issued today that all caves
droppers caught in the act will
be dealt with severely.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
Troops Given
Two Days to
Withdraw.
CHAPEIPOUNDED
AS PARLEY ENDS
Demands Disman.
Ting of Forts and
Arsenal.

(Copyright, 1882. by the Associated Presso
SHANGHAI, February 18.-Gen.
Kenkichi Uyeda, commander OF
the Japanese forces in this area,
served an ultimatum tonight on
Gen. Tsai Ting-kai ordering the
Chinese to withdraw 1212 miles
from Shanghai by sundoWn Sat-
urday.
This was the result of the fail
ure of a peace parley earlier in
the day, during which the Japa-
nese submitted this identical de-
mand and the Chinese represen-
tatives rejected it.
1t was thought the ultimatum
was a preliminary to the begin
ming of the long-awaited major
offensive by Japan.
In preparation for that drive
the Japanese have concentrated
an army of at least $4,000 men in
this vicinity. The Chinese have
twice that many soldiers, and in
the comparative quiet of the past
few days they have been prepar-
ing a line of retreat in case they
should be unable to Withstand a
mass attack.
Demands Called Impossible.
Airplanes have been brought up in
yacid hi 6sarc Hxyh h cid md
It was reported several days ago that
the Japanese have quantity of 500
pound aerial bombs.
The ultimatum was delivered while
guns were in action in the Chapel sec
tor in an artillery engagement which
began Immediately after the peace par
ley broke down.
In addition to demanding withdrawal
from the immediate vicinity OF Shang-
hal, Japan made as a condition Of peace
permanent dismantling of the Chinese
forts at Woosung and Paoshan. The
Chinese withdrawal, they stipulated,
must take them back 1212 miles on
both sides of the Whangpoo River and
the same distance from the mouth OF
the Whangpoo.
It was to be permitted that the with
drawal be observed by Japanese avlators
as an assurance that it would be carried
out properly.
Conditions Called Intolerable.
The Chinese arsenal on the southern
outskirts of the city would be dlsman-
tied under the terms of these demands
and until the Chinese Army had reached
the l2l2-m limit japanese troops
would remain where they are.
These conditions the Chinese de-
scribed as "intolerable and absolutely
unacceptable"
The Chinese forces can withdraw,
they said, only if the Japanese retire
simultaneously AS for the other de-
mands, the military leaders OF the
Chinese force said their discussion was
entirely outside of the military juris-
diction.
There upon the parley ended abruptly
and in a very brief time the cannon
aiding was resumed in Chapel.
Reserve Liberty to Act.
Gen. Uyedas ultimatum, in addition
to demanding the Chinese withdrawal,
stipulated that if the Chinese evacuated
the japanese would not advance from
the region now occupied adjacent to
Hongkew, nor would they fire upon,
lombard or pursue the Chinese.
In addition, all anti-Japanese actlVl.
ties must cease, japanese lives ana
Continued on Page 8, Column So
Evening star., 1932-02-18
SUCCEEDS BALLANTINE
H. Douglas, Jr., of Chicago
Gets Treasury Post.

President Hoover today named James
H Douglas, jr., of Chicago to be As
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury, re-
placing Arthur A.. BaIlautine.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
B. r. WOELPER, JR., DIES
Postmaster of Baltimore for Last
Ten Years.

BALTIMORE, February Is R.-
Benjamin F. Woelper, jr., postmaster
of Baltimore for the last 10 years, died
at his home here today after an ex-
tended illness. He was 63. He was ap-
pointed in 1922 by President Harding
and held the post under successive
Presidents
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Radio Programs os7Page c-z
Evening star., 1932-02-18
WEATHER.

Fair and colder tonight; minimum
temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow
increasing cloudiness with slowly rising
temperature. Temperatures-Highest, "a,
at $40 pm. yesterday; lowest, So, at
7:30 am today. Full report on page D.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Continued on Page 2, Column 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
ORGANIZE FOR
DOCK STRUGGLE
Red Hook Longshore-
men Building Com
mittees

NEW YORK. - Over rs longshore-
men from the Red Hook section of
Brooklyn met at the call of the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union in its
hall at 293 Columbia St., and made
preparations to organize a struggle
against the wage cut set for october
First.
The longshoremen spoke from the
floor and told how they are forced to
pay graft to the International Long
shoremen's Association officials to get
a days work. Now, in addition, Pres
ident Ryan of the I. L. A. has agreed
to reduce the wages from IS cents
per hour to rs, and to cut the over
time from S1.20 per hour to s1.10. The
companies are asking overtime be cut
to 81 flat per hour, and probably Ry-
an will find some way to compro-
mise that or grant it altogether.
The longshoremen left the M w. L
U. meeting pledged to organize dock
committees and rank and file COM
mittees in the I. L. A. locals, and de-
mand public negotiations with the
companies, and all agreements be
submitted for vote to the longshore-
men. A mass meeting is being plan
ned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
MILITIA BOMB
MINERS POCKETS
Leads Scabs into Mine
Near Taylorville

TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Sept. 23.-One
hundred and eighty militia arner
with machine guns, rifles, bayonets
and tear gas bombs, formed around
the Langleyville mine of the Peabody
Coal Co. here yesterday and smashed
a picket line of miners fighting the
10 per cent wage cut.
The four Peabody Company mines
here were closed shortly after the
United Mine Workers district and in
ternational officials disregarded the
two votes of the miners, and agreed
to the wage cut. The mines were
closed by march of $4,000 men and
women in the middle of August.
Several days ago the militia were
brought in after two harmless bombs
were set off by a provocateur in Tay-
lorville. Then Superintendent w. c.
August of the company announced
that one of the four mines, No at
Langleyville near Taylerville, would
reopen yesterday morning A handful
of scabs appeared, the pickets massed
in hundreds to stop them, and the
militia showered the picket line with
tear gas bombs, breaking it up twice
when it reformed, and allowing the
scabS through. Adjutant General
Carlos E. Black has sent another full
company of machine gunners to add
to the force of national guardsmen
already here. He has published an
order prohibiting all picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
ON THE BALLOT
in KENTUCKY
Communists Up for
State, Natl Office

FRANKFORT KY, Sept. %. - De-
spite all technical obstacles and court
interference, as well as interference
by coal company thugs, the Commu-
mist Party is now on the ballot in
this state with both local and national
candidates.
On Wednesday, also, petitions were
filed with the secretary of state to
place Frank Reynolds and George
Conway on the ballot as Communist
nominees for congress. Since all dis
tricts have been abolished by state
law in this election, the candidates
win run as candidates for congress-
men at large.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24

the words of COmrade Stain:
''The press is the only weapon with
whose aid the Party is able to speak
with the workers daily, hourly, in
language which meets the day-tO-day
needs of the struggle. There are no
other means at our disposal which
are as powerful in the establishment
of theological bonds between the
Party and the masses, no other APP
paratus as flexible as the Party
press"
TN THE light of this, we must ourselves
measure the tasks which confront us
now. Realizing the tremendous, all-im-
pOrtant need of powerful, solid, func-
tioning press, we must recognize our
shortcomings in the Daily Worker drive
up till now, and set our plans and
ACTIONS accordingly for the immediate
future.
Comrades, the letters you have read on
page one of the Daily in the past two days,
from workers and workers groups and
organizations throughout the country,
should arouse you to a revolutionary I'M
derstanding of the needs of the Daily IT
is AN INDISPENSABLE WEAPON IN
OUR STRUGGLE!
We must face the facts. Until Thurs
day afternoon, all that the Daily Worker
had received from the districts, from
workers and mass organizations, was
S14,542.56. This means that we have yet
to raise S25, 57.44 to achieve our quota,
which is the MINIMUM amount necessary
if the Daily is to carry on.
Collect all available funds Speed up
the campaign to raise $4,000 half dollars.
Raise the question of the Daily Worker
at the next meeting of your club or group
or organization. Get your comrades and
fellow-workers to ACT! And rush all
funds to the Daily Worker, so East 18th
St., New York City.
Comrades:-Here is my share toward raising
the $4,000 Emergency Fund of the Daily Worker
Name ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Address
City State ...........
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
ENGLISH TEXTILE
STRIKE BETRAYED
Union Heads, Bosses
Agree on Cut

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. %.
The sel-out of the 100000 weavers
on strike in Lancashire cotton mills
seems to be about completed. 1t was
announced here today that the union
officials and the employers had
agreed on and and one third per
cent wage cut, and had only to de-
eide whether 1000 blacklisted men
would be reinStated.
1t has been apparent from the
beginning that the officials were will
ing to give their own union members
a pay cut. Right at the start of the
strike they offered a seven per cent
cut. Now they have, in a conference
called by the minister of labor, raised
the amount of the cut.
The British Minority Movement
Cleft wing movement) is gaining in
fluence among the strikers, and there
may be resistance to the sell out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
FORD DELAYED,
BUT 1000 MEET
Tucson Workers Score
Arrest in Los Angeles

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 23-James
w. Ford, Communist candidate for
President, did not appear here,
where big mass meeting was
arranged for him last night, because
his arrest in Los Angeles has upset
the schedule, and he had to proceed
directly to Proenix, Ariz.
A thousand workers gathered here
last night just the same and were
addressed by local speakers, who ex-
planned the Communist program for
united front campaign of workers,
unemployed workers, war veterans
and farmers against starvationfi for
unemployment insurance and relief,
against wage cuts, against imperial
list war, for farm relief and payment
of the soldiers bonus.
The meeting adopted resolution
condemning the brutal police attack
on Ford's Los Angeles meeting, Tues
day night. 1t demanded the release
of all workers arrested. 1t pointed
out that the arrest of Ford, even
though he was later released in Los
Angeles, and the smashing of the
Communist election rally he was to
address was an attempt to prevent
the workers from getting the Com
munist message of unity and struggle
against starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24
Scott Nearing for Communist
Ticket; Calls Socialist Heads
little Brothers of Capitalism"


plumber against the attacks of the
aroused workers.
"One other party remains-the
Communist Party. internationally, it
is the acknowledged leader of the OPP
pressed masses and peoples. 1t is
directing the vastly important work of
socialist construction in the Soviet
Union. In the United States it has
been in the forefront of the struggle
to organize and lead in the direction
of new social order. OF all the par
ties in the present campaign. the
Communist Party alone has clear
line of policy, leading to an effective
substitute for the chaos OF the exist
ing economic system.
1.-THE United States, North America,
the whole capitalist world must be
rescued from starvation, war and
fascism. The Soviet workers must be
defended in their historic work of So
cialist construction. The Communist
Party is the only Party that is even
pretending to shoulder this task, and
I am therefore supporting that Party
and its candidates, VIM. q. Foster
and James w. Ford, in the present
campaign"
NEW YORK, N. Y.-James w.
Ford, presidential candidate of
the Communist Party, will speak in
st. Louis, Mo-. Oct. S; Sparta, ILL.,,
Oct. Z; Alton, ILL.,, Oct. 8; Springfield,
H., Oct. 8; Davenport, Iowa, Oct Ill;
La Crosse, Wise, Oct. IL; n-du-Lac,
WISE, Oct. 10; Sheboygan, Wise, Oct.
Is; and Kenosha. Wise, Oct. Is. ~,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-24

immediate cash payment OF the bo-
nus.
The conference will open tonight
at 7:30 p. m. in the Ukrainian Labor
Temple. The second and third ses-
sion will be held at Bohemian Hall,
494I Broadway.
Were here to organize a new mass
march to the capitol in Washington
to force the bankers and rich men to
pay us our back wages" said the
leader Of a delegation from Balti-
more.
Resolutions are all right, but mass
action under rank and file leadership
is what will win our back wages, y
said delegate who arrived yesterday
from Superior, Wise.
1t is the general opinion of the del
egates, just before the opening of the
conference that new bonus march
must meet the opening of congress.
Among the delegations which ar
rived today was one of SO from New
York, New England and New Jersey
This is not all of the delegations from
towns in these states, other delegates
having come on separately.
The New York group of So came
in a truck which had been on the
road three days, and arrived here fol-
lowing a 36-hour drive without sleep
The program proposed by several
delegations of veterans includes the
following demands:
l. Immediate payment of the bo-
nus.
2. Increase in disability compen-
sation.
3. Unemployment insurance al
the expense of the state and en-
ployers.
4. Against jim crowism of Negroes
5. Against imperialist war