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Evening star., 1932-11-20
ALLEGED KILLER, II,
SEIZED IN THEATER
Varecha Denies Identity in Muir.
der, kidnapping and Assault
of Girl.
Ry tie Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 10 -Ignatius
Varecha. 17-year -old alleged desperate,
who was the object for three days Of
one of the city's most intensive man
hunts as a suspected killer. was cap
tured late today as he watched per-
formance in a cheap burlesque theater.
Varecha, a fugitive from the State
epileptic colony at Dixon and possessor
OF a long police record, was identified
through Bertillon records, although he
at first gave false name.
The youth was sought as the slayer
Of Frank Jordan, 38, last Wednesday
night, who later held up Miss Lillian
Henry, niece of Deputy Police Commis-
sioner John Alcock. and her escort,
John Guisinger The hold-up man
trussed Guisinger. tossed him from his
car, and assaulted Miss Henry whom
he held prisoner for several hours.
Alcock rushed from his city hail
offlce to police headquarters immedi-
ately upon being informed Of the
arrest, and took charge of tire case
Varecha was bundled into a squad cal
and whisked to Miss Henry's home, but
the young woman, still i'll and hysteri-
cal, was unable positively to identify
him, police said
The youth then was taken back tC
headquarters to be questioned.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
KIDNAPPING STORY
IS DECLARED HOAX
Winchester Sheriff Says
Woman Denies First Re-
port to Police.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
WINCHESTER, Va, November 19.-
Eula Woofter, 81, of Picketts, w. Va,
was quoted this afternoon by Sheriff
Luther Pannett as having confessed
that she left Jackson, Miss, voluntarily
and came to Virginia with two men
who put her out Of car here.
Earlier the girl had told police and
hospital authorities a story of having
been kidnapped from the Mississippi city
and brought here by the two men, whom
she then said assaulted her and threw
her out of their car.
Questioned by Sheriff.
Sheriff Pannett said that under ques-
tioning the girl admitted that her story
of being the daughter of a railroad
official at Jackson and student at the
University of Mississippi was a hoax.
He said she gave no reason for telling
the tale, but admitted she had been
drinking with the men ON the way to
Virginia and that~When they let her
out of their machine here yesterday
afternoon she started to walk toward
West Virginia. hoping to get ride
home.
She said, according to the sheriff
that the men with whom she had come
North criminally assaulted her on the
road in the vicinity of Gore and then
left her.
Sheriff Pannett said be also had a
telephone message from her father
Robert Woofter, at Picketts, saying his
daughter had left home a year ago and
had not been heard from until reported
here today. He asked that she be de-
tained until relatives could come for
her.
Denies Knowing Men.
Asked by police for the names of the
men with whom she had been travelling
the girl said she did not know them
claiming she merely had been offered
ride from Jackson, where she had
been staying for some time. She said
one was tall and white and the other
a short man, who wore glasses, and
had the appearance of Filipino.
Both were young, she said
Evening star., 1932-11-20
SANBORN EXECUTES
CATHEDRAL MISSION
Designer of Te Deum Windows
Returns From Study at
Leon, Spain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ine ASSOCIATED FIESS.
NEW YORK, November 19.-Earle E.
Sanborn. designer and executor Of two
65-foot stained glass windows in the
TIE Deum group IN the National
Cathedral in Washington, D. c.. re-
turned from Spain today on the liner
President Harding.
He had been studying lighting effects
Of the windows in the ancient Cathedral
at Leon, Spain, for directors of the
National Cathedral, who decided that
it would be well before contracting for
additional windows to have reports OF
cathedrals in the same latitude as
washington. D. c.
The windows of the cathedral at Leon
are from the early fourteenth century
and Sanborn said the colOring IS richer
and more intensive than that OF later
period. He indicated that III the new
plans for the Cathedral the fifteenth
century coloring and design Will be
abandone.N- .or that Of the early
fourteenth century,
Evening star., 1932-11-20
DR.. SCHACHT ADVOCATES
GRASURE OF WAR DEBTS
Reduction of Private Obligations
Also Urged by Ex-Head
of Reichsbank.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME. Italy. November 19,-C22cel-.
lation of the.War debts and reduction OF
private debts we're advocated today by
Dr.. Hjalmar Schacht. former president
Of the German Reichsbank, in a speech
before the Volta Institute Convention
attended by European statesmen, seem
fists and intellectuals. -
Since the war, Dr., Schacht SAID the
finacial activity of Europe has been as
organized and there IS at present a
great problem IN the matter OF trans
ferring money. He considered TINS
problem particularly grave because OF
the suspension of credits and because
countries which cannot export money
have elevated their tariff barriers.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
BID OF $4,000 IS FILED
FOR SEIZED RUM YACHT
Craft, Which Had Cargo Valued
at $150,O00 When Captured,
Is Sought by Jersey Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. November 19.-The big
twin-motored yacht Prudence, seized
with a cargo of liquor valued at $150000
in Dorchester Bay recently, was bid in
at United States marshals sale today
for $13,600
The highest bidder was W. P Higgins,
member of New York yacht brokerage
firm which designed and built the
Prudence, and he said he was acting
for Louis M. Plansoen, wealthy mer-
chant of Belleville, N. J. The yacht
was appraised at $40, 900.
The crew of eight men arrested when
Federal agents boarded the craft are
awaiting action on their cases by the
Federal grand jury. The ownership of
the craft. which was built in Ontario in
1927, has not been determined.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
ILLINOIS OFFICIALS
WIN COURT FIGHT
State Fund Suits Are Dropped Over
Protest of Attorney
General-Elect.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 49,
Over the protest of Otto Kerner of
Chicago. Democratic attorney general
elect, Attorney General oscar E. Carl
strom today obtained dismissal of civil
suits" against Lieut.. Gov. Fred Sterling
and Andrew Russell both Republicans.
and former State treasurers, for re-
turn OF interest on State funds. A SIM
liar case against former Gov. Len Small
caused restitution of more than $600.000
after a criminal proceedings had failed.
Circuit Judge Jesse r. Brown, Re-
publican, allowed the motion to dismiss
the cases, which have been on the
docket for years.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
ADOPT SHARE-WORK PLAN
Guaranty Trust Co. Ask Employees
to Take Brief Monthly VACATIONS.

NEW YORK, November 19 (E).-The
Guaranty Trust Co.. of New York an
nounced today that it had asked all
employees to take vacation of one day
month without pay, and officers two
days month under similar circum-
stances, to aid in the share-the- work
movement.
The saving thus effected will be used
ito assist financially those employees
who through misfortune are in circum-
stances threatening their health and
happiness, which are so essential to
satisfactory service; to help further the
local situation through giving tempor-
airy employment to limited number of
men and women, preferably former en-
ployes," and Ito carry excess en-
ployes."
This was announced in letter from
w c. Potter, president, to Walter C.
Teagle. chairman Of the Share-the-
Work Committee.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Aid Will Serve Turkey.

WOODFTELD, Md, November 10
Especially The Aid Society of Wesley
Grove M. E. Church will serve turkey
supper in the Community Hall here on
Thanksgiving day from to 8 pm
Mrs. William Lewis, president of the
society, heads the committee in charge
of arrangements.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
WILL SEE ROOSEVELT

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, November
19 (Pl-Senator Sam G. Bratton,
Democrat. New Mexico, received an in
vitation today to confer with President
elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm
Springs. Ga, about December 3.
The Senator said he accepted. Gov.
Roosevelt's message did not indicate the
Evening star., 1932-11-20
TWO WOMEN ARRESTED
ON HOTEL FRAUD CHARGE
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 1.-TWO
women were held in $500 bond today on
charges of defrauding the Park Central
Hotel.
One of the women said she was Mrs.
Mary w. Finley Steers, So, former
president of the Steers Sand g. Clay
Works of Severn River, Md. The other
woman said she was Mrs. Alice Mo-
riarty, secretary to Mrs Steers.
The hotel charged them with evad-
ing payment of two weeks bill.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Evangelistic Services to Open.

BALLSTON, Va. November 19.-Dr.
w p. Shamhart will conduct series
OF ev2ngelistic services at the Ballston
Christian Church. beginning Sunday
morning and continuing throughout De-
ceTnber 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01

being voted on today. He will bring
his message Of solidarity with the
strikers, and of organization into the
new Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union.
Fosters speech will be in the larg-
est hall in town, the Rayen- Wood
Auditorium, on Rayen Ave, at 7:3o
p. m, Sept is.
Thousands Of mill workers from
Warren, Niles, Farrell, and New Cas-
tie will be at this Communist cleo
ton CAMPAIGN rally.
"WilI Bring 25,00O"
The steel barcns fear Foster, the
leader OF the great 1919 strike of
over 100000 steel workers. Police de-
partment officials turned down the
application for an open air meeting
with the words: "That man will bring
rs, 1000 workers to the Public Squire
For weeks hall owners refused to
rent meeting places, saying: 1--WE
know Foster. and respectable citizens
and the police do not want him in
Youngstown.
Finally the Communist Party in
Youngstown called great mass pro-
test meeting against this blockade
against the Communist candidate
The meeting is tonight, at Basin and
Federal ST., but just before the date
of the meeting, the barriers were
broken through and the Auditorium
leased for the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01

workers, who are involved in the two
leading war industries, into the DEM
onstration on the issues of struggles
against wage cuts, speed-up and war.
Fight for Negro Rights in Phila.
The Philadelphia young workers
who were recently faced with an at
tempt at legal lynching Of a young
Negro, Willie Brown, and who bitterly
fought against this frame-up gave
of an example of white and Negro
solidarity which drew in several hun
dred outside workers las Sunday. At
a picnic held by the Young Commu-
mist League in Strawberry Mansion
park defeated the attempt of the po-
lice to throw young Negro worker
out of the Park.
First Conference in Brooklyn
NEW YORK. THE first of five
United Front conferences to prepare
International Youth Day in New York
City was held Tuesday night in
Brooklyn at 81 Atlantic Ave.
The conference consisting Of 40
delegates from IL organizations APP
proved the proposal that a demon
stration be held on Columbia ST.,
which is block from the piers Of the
Japanese Lines on International
Youth Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01

News from the various districts
participating in the drive for 1000
new subscriptions to the Daily
Worker continues to lag. In the
last week only three Of the districts
have reported drive activities-Cali-
fornia, Chicago and Northumberland
of these three reports only one shows
definite activity in full swing.
The best showing is made by the
cities of Calumet and st. Joseph
Counties, Indiana. According to a
Letter from Leona johnson, Daily
Worker agent in the section, con-
ference of all activists in the cities
of Hammond, Gary, South Bend, In
diana Harbor and smaller towns in
these two counties will be held very
shortly to plan sub drive work.
An example is being set by Com
rade Johnson both in the amount
and accuracy of her sections work.
Her report states that a systematic
canvass of workers in these coun-
ties is being carried on, and that a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
Districts Sloav in Reporting
Neavs OF Subscription DriVe
Calumet and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana. Set
ssaes.s.s Example for Other Sections

rattle has been held to pay off all
old debts to the Daily Worker. This
last point should be taken up and
followed by all districts.
The report from California states
that a conference of Daily Worker
agents is in preparation. Milwaukee
districts report SO far is merely hope
full. The comrades here are getting
after workers whose subs have ex-
pired and plan to extend their can
wasting to sections where the Daily
Worker has as yet made few inroads.
Calumet alone, of all the reports
received, seems to be whole heartedly
bending its efforts toward a success
full completion of it's part of the
drive. Alone of all the districts, it
is assigning active comrades to cover
five subscribers each month, getting
workers reactions to the Daily by
personal contact and discussion, and
stimulating an interest in the paper
that will not disappear with the ex-
piration of subscriptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
SPEED UP KILLS
TIN MILL WORKER
Scores More Collapse;
Union Plans Funeral


WARREN, o., Aug 31.--Grueling
speed-up, burning heat, and the bru-
tai refusal of the Republic Steel
Co. managers to replace sick and ex-
hausted men killed the Catcher on
Number tin mill last night.
He had just showed pack of red
hot steel over the rolls, when he tot
tered, groaned, and fell back dead.
This is murder, and the sort of
thing that can occur on a mass scale
if the company's policy of insisting
that men stay on the job until they
drop is not smashed by lighting &C
ton Of the workers.
Many workers are collapsing all the
time in these mills from the intense
heat and speed-up, and are carried
out on stretchers.
The workers are aroused to the
need of struggle for better condi-
tons in the mills. The Steel and
Metl Workers Industrial Union is at
tempting to arrange a mass funeral
for this slain worker.
The Warren and Niles Steel Work
ers are holding mass meetings and
taking strike vote against the wage
cut ordered by the operators under
their contract with the Amalgamated
Association of Iron Steel and Tin
Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
PERUVIAN WORKERS TO HOLD
CONGRESS

CALLAO.-The Peruvian p r t
workers who have splendid fighting
traditions are preparing a National
Port Workers Congress under the
leadership of the revolutionary oppo-
sition.
The Peruvian workers have lost
faith in the refornist leadership
that abandoned the workers in the
last revolutionary upheavals and al
lowed hundreds of workers and 8
sailors to get shot without voicing
any protest, and even cooperating
with the government in crushing the
toilers.
Representatives to the Congress
have already been elected by the
rank and file in the ports of Mol
london, Paita, Salavery, Pimentel,
Sechura, Pacasmayi and last but not
least in the central port of Callao.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
N. CHINA MASSES
FIGHT INVASION
Beat Back Japanese
Troops in Manchuria

The anti-Japanese national revo-
lutionary struggle has spread to all
parts of Manchuria. All South Man
chria is aflame with rebellion
against the Japanese invaders and
their puppet Manchouko state. Par
tisan troops are still active in the
vicinity of Mukden, on which they
carried out a daring raid last Sun
day night.
Yesterday, the partisians attacked
the city of Penhsihu, 35 miles from
Mukden, infhcting heavy punish
ment on the Japanese garrison and
burning the market building. A
partisan force disrupted train service
on the Southern Manchuria Railway
between Fenshuei and Tashan. Raids
on the railway average forty a day.
Railway service is disrupted through
cut Manchuria.
In Mukden the japanese have
driven the workers off the streets,
fearing an uprising within the city
itself. 1t has developed that in Sun
days raid, almost the whole police
force in the city joined the par
tisans. The remaining police have
been disarmed by the japanese The
partisians succeeded in paralyzing the
Waterworks, electric plant and other
utilities, as well as burning one air.
plane hangar and is japanese planes.
The raid was carried out by 1000
partisans, from three directions.
The Japanese invasion is also aimed
at establishing war base against the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01

young workers Tor the ZOO antl-War'
meetings and parades that will take
place.
In the Bronx, N. Y, is young work.
ers employed at the Wilbert Products
Company, chemical place, have
struck for better conditions. Instead
of 9la hour day and six days a
week for $1283 they are demanding
a hour day and 5la day week
with minimum weekly wage of SIS.
Plan Hunger March
In the Pittsburgh area struggle
around youth demands for unemploy-
ment relief is being developed. Here
in Homewood country hunger
march will be held, The demands
include: ID $3.50 cash for all unem-
ployed and part time young and
single workers; 90 Only girls of
needy families be employed in Well
fare Agencies, without reduction in
wages and no discrimination against
Negroes in the giving of relief
In Baltimore the Young Pioneers
are being drawn into activity to mo-
bilize the workers children on i'm
mediate needs such as the opening
OF feeding stations. Here the central
demonstration will be held at the
foot Of Broadway on the waterfront.
Special efforts are being made to
draw the young steel and marine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01

trafnway line is being rapidly con-
strlCted Buses 60 lack and scrth
Grass and shr,.boery and trees are
being planted in the rev boulevards
and squares. Paven ents are being
laid Electric lamps burn brightly
all night.
Within the Arctic Circle
Khibinogorsk, Leningrad Oblast -
In 1929 there were simply few tents
of the nomadic Lopars in the place
where today a city is rising in con-
nection with the development of the
Khibinsk apatite deposits. A new
city is rapidly growing up within the
Arctic Circle. In January, 1880, there
were altogether only 100 inhabitants
in Khibinogorsk; at the beginning of
1881 there were already $4,000; today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
VET LABOR DAY
RALLY in CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Aug. 81. A continual
downpcur of rain forced the postpon-
ment of the Bonus Unemployment
Insurance Conference until Monday,
September 5th. More than eighty de-
legates who had gathered at Sokol
Hall, 1862 No. Ashland Avenue, under
the auspices of the Rank and File
Committee and Workers Ex-Service-
mems League, held brief session
and then voted to hold the conference
on Labor D9y morning.
Sokol hall has been secured again
for the conference on September 9Th
and the enthusiasm shown by those
present indicated that the meeting
will be one of the most successful
ever held in Chicago.
Adams Grear and Kirkman, vet
Grams of the Battle of Washington"
arrived in Chicago this afternoon
bearing credentials from the Nation
al headquarters of the Rank and File
Committee and Workers Ex-Service-
mems League. They will speak every
evening until the conference on Sept.
5th, on Wednesday, August 31st, at
Washington Park; Friday September
End, at Wilton and Belmont AYES.
Other meetings will be also ar
ranged thru the regional headquar-
ers of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League here.
For State Bonus
The vets proposal for an Iv.nois
Emergency Bonus, providing .or the
payment of fifty dollars rer month
for each month spent in the military
service of the United States. is receiv-
ing vice support. The drive for pass
age of this BIZ will be formally
launched at the conference on Sept.
5th.
Another problem which the confer
ence will deal with is the question
of securing immediate and adequate
relief for the starving veterans ond
their families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
The Growth of Soviet Cities
in All Corners Of Soviet Union

The Moscow Pravda recently pub
lished brief descriptions of the more
important of the socialist cities de-
veloping in connection with the new
industrial projects. We quote few
of them below as an example of what
is going on in all parts of the Soviet
Union.
Out of the Steppe
Noyoe -Zaporozhe, Ukraine. - Five
Years ago nothing but empty steppe
and rustling grasses. Now city has
grown up, e-zaporozhe. Next
to the largest hydroelectric station
and the plants of the Dnieper COM
binat being constructed around 1t,
fifteen large workers settlements
have been built. These settlements
are called temporary" but their
houses are strongly built, they are
supplied with water systems, sewer
age, electricity and central heating.
about a hundred thousand persons
Ire now living in these settlements.
Planned Growth &
According to the plan, the city of
"Bolshoye zaporozhe is to grow until
1t can accommodate population OF
250,0O0 This plan is already being
realized. The first settlement, be-
ginning at the dam, has already a
solid foundation of many storied
stone houses. A Palace of Soviets, a
hospital, polytechnic, Peoples
House, hotel, school, technical
schoo1 with mecnarical. electro-teck-
nical and construction departments
are all in operation
Under construction are central
tatns and lalndiies. children's estab-
lishlnents for every quarter, govern
ment stores, a theater. Along Eighth
Prodolny, a broad, wide road leading
straight to Staroye zaporozhe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
SMASH BAN ON
FOSTER MEETING
Youngstown Workers
Struggling for Weeks

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 81
Weeks of protest against orders Of
the steel trust and the city authorities
which barred all halls to Fosters
meeting here, have finally broken
through the obstruction. Foster,
Communist candidate for president,
will speak here in the heart Of the
Ohio steel region, just a few miles
down the Mahoning River from War
rem and Niles where strike action is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
Foster and Ford
Meeting During
the Next 2 Weeks

NEW YORK. The National
Communist Election Campaign
Committee announces the next
meetings to be addressed by VIII
lam y. Foster, Communist cam
didate for president of the United
States, and James w. Ford, Com
munist candidate for vice presi-
dent, as follows:
FOSTER.-Zeigler, ILL.,, Liberty
Hall, 7 p. M, Sept. L; Gillespie,
ILL.,, City Park, Sept 8; SPRING
field, ILL.,, Reservoir Park, Sept. A;
Rock Island, Ill, Sept. 6; Moline,
Rock Island, Ill, Sept. 6; Moline,
ILL.,, Prospect Park Pavilion, also
Sept. 6; Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. I;
Kenosha, Wis, Sept. 8; Chicago,
ILL.,, The Coliseum at 18th and
Wabash, Z p. M, Sept. 10; South
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. IL; Gary, Ind,
Sept 10 and Youngstown, Ohio,
Sept. Is.
F0RD.-Madison, Wis, Sept. /;
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 2; st.
Paul, MINI, Sept. 8; Brush Lake,
Mont, Sept. 5; Great Falls, Mont,
Sept. s; Butte, Mont, Sept 8;
Spokane, Wash, Sept. IL; Seattle,
Wash, Sept. 10; Tacoma, Wash,
Sept. Is and on the same date in
Aberdeen, Wash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-01
BRITISH TEXTILE
STRIKE SPREADS
Government Mediator
Tries to Break 1t

MANCHESTER, England, Aug, 81.
The strike of the 100000 textile
workers is spreading throughout the
Lancashire area despite all attempts
of the regoformist leaders to break
it.
1t is expected that in few days
the strike will affect all the textile
industry. More men are joining in
the strike every day. @
A special mediator" of the Minis
ter Of Labor arrived in the strike
area and got Immediately in touch
with some of the reformist leaders
for the obvious purpose of devising
together the best method Of selling
out the strike.
Heavy police reinforcements are
continuing to arrive from neighbor-
ing cities in the strike are to ter
rorize the workers.