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Evening star., 1932-09-05
Alpha Sigma lambda Gives
Formal Banquet and Dance.

rormai banquet and Dance.
The Alpha sigma lambda National
Fraternity. which has been holding its
annual convention at Wardman Park
Hotel for the last few days, gave its
formal banquet and dance Saturday
evening in the gold room of the hotel.
Mr.. J. Robert Sherwood oficiated as
chairman, and those who assisted him
were Mr.. F. Edwin Dieste Mr.. F. George
Clendaniel, Mr.. Stewart F. Kneesi, Mr.
William Newman, Mr.. Thomas Costag-
gini, Mr.. Samuel Shreve, Mr.. Harold j.
Goebel Mr.. George B. Earnshaw, Mr.
Samuel C. Ormes and Mr.. Harry G..
Bennett.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
ARMY ORDERS

Capt. Roy L. Bowlin, has been trans
ferred from Army Industrial college
here to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Mo.
Cant. Thomas K Vincent, ordnance,
from Army Industrial College TO ONCE
of chief of ordnance here.
Lieut. COL Edwin o. Saunders, from
Command and General Staff School.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans-, to oftice OF
Judge advocate general here.
Maj. George S. Clark, Infantry. from
Army Industrial College, to Fort George
Wright, Wash.
Capt. Thomas Phillips, from Fort
Riley, Kans., to Aberdeen Proving
First Lieut.. Urban Niblo, from
Springfield, Mass, to office Of chief OF
ordnance.
Col. Edward B. vedder, from Army
Medical Center here, to New York City.
Maj. Paul A. Schulz, from Army Med
ical Center to Letterman General Hos
pital, San Francisco.
First Lieut.. Lloyd z. Mielenz, from
29th Engineers, Washington, to Penn
sylvania State College.
Mai. Charles c. Hillman, from Army
Medical Center to Philippine Depart
ment.
Mai. Arturo Carbonell, from Army
Medical Center to Philippine Depart
ment.
Mai. Norman Mel. Scott, from
Hawaii to Army Medical Center.
First Lieut.. Charles E. Cheever, from
Fort washington, Md, to Office Of judge
advocate general
Lieut.. Col Walton Goodwin, jr., Cav
airy, from Tank School, Fort George
G. Meade, Md, to 9Th Cavalry, Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
Capt Alfred H. Thiessen, from Fort
Monmouth, N. j., to ONCE Of Chief
Signal Officer, Washington, July /.
Capt. George L. Townsend, from Fort
Mcpherson, Ga, to Off1ce Of Chief Sig
nal Officer, Washington, July 2.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
RACKETEER PROFIT
SLUMP IN CHICAGO
Less GuIIible Public Seen
as Means of Saving
100000 in Year.
Nv the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 18.-The racketeer
has taken a nillion-dollar rap" In
Chicago within the last year.
His graft, cleaned from preying ON
legitimate business, charity enterprises
and jobless men, has been reduced at
least 80 per cent, 1t was estimated to-
day by the Chicago Better Business
Bureau.
That slash in racketeer revenue rep
reSents a saving of untold millions to
the city where the term racket"
originated.
Numerically racketeers have increased
since business began to feel the pinch
of economic stress, with new kinds Of
rackets-or old schemes in new dress
appearing almost every day.
Operations Halted.
But their fraudulent propositions
have been nipped so rapidly and con-
sistently. officials of the bureau say,
that the aggregate scope of their oper-
ations has suffered a distinct decline.
A less gullible public is the bureaus
explanation for the drop in racketeer
profitS-a public which has become so
alert to the ways of "slickers' that it
now discovers the catch" in most
racketeering propositions before it's too
late.
Not for some time has chicago heard
the echo of bullets from racketeering
'war" Few crimes of violence have
been committed by musclers-in; deaths
attributed to racketS have been COM
paratively rare.
Most numerous recently have been
racketeers seeking to prey on distressed
business houses which need capital.
But their front Office" schemes-offer-
ing to supervise collections, obtain loans
or new investors-in most cases have
gone awry.
Charity Rackets Fail
Many attempts to inject racketeering
methods into legitimate charities like
wise have failed. Fake employment
agencies have been eliminated almost
as soon as their first victims spread the
news about them.
suuelched until Is firms had played
sucker" to his advertised offer to pro-
vide a man with capital to invest in
''going concern" He insisted the firms
undergo an audit or appraisal-by his
non-existent appraisal firm. After
collecting expense money" for the pur-
ported audit-$500 in each case-he
would disappear.
Prosecution of Chicago racketeers has
been handled by a special division OF
the State attorneys ONCE, with under.
cover work done by the Secret Six,
crime fighting organization OF Cnlcago
business men.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
Marine Corps Orders

Capt. John P. McCann, detached
Quantico, Va, to Recruiting District Of
Baltimore, Baltimore, Md, to report on
April 1.
Capt. John C. Wood, detached Mica
raguan National Guard Detachment, to
Pensacola, Fla, via first available con-
veyance to New Orleans, La.
First Lieut.. Charles D. Baylis, de-
tached headquarters, Marine Corps,
Washington, D. c., ordered to his home
and retired as Of June l.
Second Lieut.. Charles Popp, detached
Pearl Harbor. Territory Of Hawaii, to
San Diego, Calf.
Capt William H Harrison, on COM
pletion of the Battery officers Course,
assigned to duty in the next class OF
the Field officers Course, Fort Sill,
Okla.
Capt. William M. Radcliffe. detached
Quartermaster Corps Subsistence
School, Chicago, Ill, to Quantico. Va.
First Lieut.. George F. Good. jr., or
ders to Headquarters Marine Corps,
Washington, D. c., modified to Guam
tico. Va.
First Lieut.. Alexander w. Krelser,
on completion of the course detached
Air Corps Technical School, Chanute
Field, Rantoul, Ill, to Quantico, Va.
Capt William L. Harding, detacneo
San Diego, Calf; to Puget Sound Navy
Yard, Bremerton, washington.
Second Lieut. Thomas D. Marks, de-
tached 4th Regiment, Shanghai, China;
to Department Of the Pacific.
Second Lieut. Edward T. Peters, de-
tached 4th Regiment Shanghai, China;
to Department of Pacific.
Chief Marine Gunner Daniel Loomis,
detached Cavite, P. l.; to Department
OF the Pacific.
Quartermaster Clerk Walter j. Czapp.
assigned to duty at Peiping, China.
The following-named officers have
been assigned to duty at Marine Bar
racks. Naval Station, Cavite, P. l.:
Capt. James W. Flett, Capt. Joseph w.
6winnerton, Second Lieut.. William I.
Phipps, Chief Gunner Robert c. Allen,
Chief Gunner william A. Buckley.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
NEW STAMP APRIL 22
Sixtieth Anniversary of Arbor Day
to Be Observed.

The Post Ofice Department will issue
q new 2-cent stamp April % to COM.
memorate the sixtieth anniversary OF
the foundation of Arbor day.
The stamp will be placed on sale
that day at Nebraska City, Nebr., as a
reminder that the day was first instl-
tuted by j. Sterling Morton, VINO AVeo
at Nebraska City.
The stamp win be the same size as
the regular 2-cent stamp and on each
side viii be two trees, the INTERVIEWING
branches of which form an arbor. The
center design shows boy and CIR
planting q tree. --
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
LIES ABOUT BENJAMIN SPEECH SENT ABROAD
Party Query AS Accuracy Brands Fasehood

Hoover brings troops there will be
massacre. Pennsylvania Ave. will
run red with blood We are con-
vinced that this statement is fab
ricat' on and provocation Of bour-
geois paper. aiming beforehand to
justify repressions on part bour-
geoisie against unemployment
movement and shift responsibility
for these repress.ons on Communist
Party. We recommend Party and
Comrade Benjamin to Immediately
come out against this provocative
statement. If, however, Comrade
Benjamin really made such incred-
ible statement, we propose Party
repudiate openly such actions in
press. which at best Is empty boast
ing and DIVORCES from both the tao
ties of the Party and the whole line
OF Comiptern.
Tn name Of Executive Commit
Of Communist International.
"KUUSINEN."
The Communist Party of the U.S.A
has cent the following reply TO thC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
HERNDON DEATH
TRIAL UP TODAY
Workers Must Defeat
Georgia Boss Terror

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 12.-The trial
of Angelo Herndon, young Negro or
ganizer, is set for tomorrow. The
chain-gang state of Georgia is de-
manding his life for the crime" of
successfully organizing Negro and
white workers together for joint
struggle against their common pow
erty and exploitation. The case is
woven out of the same fabric as the
|Scottsboro frame-up-the monstrous
national oppression and special per-
secution of the Negro people.
Refuse Habeas Corpus Writ.
The court has refused the request
OF John H. Geer and Benjamin Day.
is, Jr., Negro attorneys retained by
the international Labor Defense for
a writ of habeas corpus. In their re-
quest for the writ, the I. L. D. attor-
neys maintained that the exclusion
of Negroes from the Grand Jury in
validated the indictment against
Herndon.
At tomorrow's trial, the I. L. D.
attorneys will again raise this fun
damental issue. They will also offer a
motion to squash the entire petit
jury panel on the grounds that Ne
groes have been excluded from It,.
This is the first time that exclusion
of Negroes from juries is being made
an Issue in Georgia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
Threatening
War Games.
by u. S. Fleet

SAN PEDRO Calf, Dec. 12.-The
entire U. S. Battle Fleet was ordered
out TO sea today for tactical man
ouvers" as the struggles of U. S.
imperialism with its rivals ShaIpened
on all fronts. The exercises will
take three days, it is reported. After
that the fleet will return for final
gunnery practice before proceeding
TO Hawaiian waters for the war
games which begin on January %.
The entire battle fleet has been
concentrated in Pacific waters since
last January. The concentration has
drawn many sharp protests from the
japanese government and navy.
The reported aims OF the present
tactical vancouver" are to correlate
the operations of the fleet and its
air force at night, and stimulation
OF general action between two great
fleets"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13

received. The Daily Worker exposed
the falsity of these reports. This
did not, however. prevent the report
from being given International cir
culation. The British Reuter- Agency
cabled it to London, where it was
published in the Times of Dec. b.
Lies Cabled Abroad.
1.-THE London Times story came to
the attention of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Interna-
tional, which promptly sent the fol-
lowing wire to the Communist Party
of the U.S.A.:
London Times, Dec. 5, publishes
dispatch Reuter- Agency with fol-
lowing statement by Benjamin:
we will storm the halls of Con-
gress, declared Herebrt Benjamin,
the leader Of the marchers, who
greeted every reference to Uncle
Sam with boots and jeers. On
Monday We will break into the
Capitol by brute force, and they
will entber listen to our demands
or we will run riot on the streets.
We are well prepared for siege
and the police can't put us out. II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
I4itvinOff Announces
USSR-China Renew
Diplomatic Relations

GENEVA. Dec. Pit was reported
here today that Maxim Litvinoff,
Soviet Foreign Commissar, has an
nounced the re-eStablishment of
normal diplomatic relations between
the U. S. S. R. and the Marking
Government. broken off by the lat
ter government.
1t is also reported that Litvinoff
will confer while here with Yosuke
Matsouka, chief Japanese delegate to
the League of Nations, on the Sow
let Unions proposal for non-ag-
gression pact between the U. S. S.
R. and Japan.
The Soviet representative Is de-
clared opposed to the attempt OF the
League of Nations to involve the U.
S. S. r. in the controversy over Man
churia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13

NEW YORK.-The Central Office
Of the Communist Party Of the United
States of America has issued the fol-
lowing statement to the press:
During the presence Of the Hun
ger Marchers in Washington, certain
newspapers in the United States pub
lished whole series Of false reports
designed to provoke violent repres-
sion Of the Hunger Marchers. Chief
among these provocations was what
purported to be a report of a speech
by Herbert Benjamin, National Sec
rotary of the Unemployed Councils
at that time. In this report, Benja-
min was made to appear as appeal
ing for bloodshed and riot. The truth
is that Benjamin never at any time,
and especially not in Washington,
made any such speech as ascribsd to
him by these especially INSCRIPTIONS
newspapers. The Unemployed Coun-
Gil in New York City at mass meet
ing held in Cooper Union publicly
denounced these fabrications and
sent large committee to the news
paper publishing them, to demand its
retraction, but the committee was not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
FIGHT ON WAR
DEBTS FIERCER
Fiske Admits Powers
Are Rival Gangsters'
BULLETIN

bOLLE lin
PARIS, Dec. 12.--In an address
to the French Chamber of Deputies
today, Premier Herriot assailed Hoo
ver's moratorium as responsible
for all of Europe's debt problems"
A terrific uproar and cries of
don't pay cent? greeted his pro-
posal to pay the December Is in
stalment with reservations similar
to those proposed by the British
Government. He charged that IAN
intolerable anti-French campaign"
was being carried on in the U. S.
by cynical press and odious men,"
The British are reported prepar-
ing fourth note to the U. S. on
take 1t or leave it, basis.
WASHINGTON Dec. PLAT re-
lection by the Washington Govern
ment of British proposal for condi-
tional payment of the December Is
instalment on the war debts resulted
in a terrific sharpening of the war
debt struggle today.
The British proposal was delivered
to Secretary of State Stimson yester-
day afternoon in new note which
called Hoovers bluff for some future
consideration" Of the debts question.
The British offered to make the Dec.
Is payment on condition that it would
apply to the future settlement" The
u. S. answered the British note on the
same day fatty rejecting the condi-
tion,, which does not meet the de-
mands of Wall Street for special trade
concessions and colonies in exchange
for debt revision.
Rival Gangsters"
In speech over the radio last
night, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske
called for more intensive war prepara-
tions and deplored the fact that the
U. S. Navy was not now powerful
enough to enforce collection of war
debts against the united front of Brit
ain, France and five smaller Europ-
can states, including Belgium and
Poland He admitted that the debts
we're uncollectable, and further adj
mitted the bandit character Of the
imperialist powers. declaring:
THE resemblance between rival
nations and rival gangsters is so
close as to be disquieting."
British Challenge to Z. S.
Similarly sharp statements from
European imperialists emphasize the
fierceness of the struggle over the
war debts. J. M. Keynes, British
economist, declared that the collec-
ton by the U. S. of interests on the
debts was pure usury" He also chal-
lenged the ability of the U. S. to en-
force payment.
The interests of the workers both
in the U. S. and Europe demand the
all around cancellation Of these war
debts which are sweated out of the
toilers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13

cable from the Communist Interna
tional:
Reuter- Agency dispatch in Lon
don Times December fifth purport-
ing to quote Benjamin's speech is
widest fabrication without slight
est foundation in fact stop this was
merely one example of widespread
campaign provocation by police and
press attempting to create atmos-
phere for heavy repressions against
unemployed movement stop as re-
suit of widespread mass support and
sympathy to Hunger Marchers these
provocations were defeated and de-
mands of unemployed we're present.
ed to Congress according TO original
plans stop Daily Worker has already
exposed these provocations and is
continuing exposure stop Comrade
Benjamin Is bringing actions against
press which published same fabri-
cations in United States with pur-
pose exposing lies and establishing
before masses the character Of capt.
talist provocations.
For the
CENTRAL COMMITTEE C.P.U.s.A.
RROwDER,'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
u. S. BOSSES HIT
JAPAN ARM MOVE
Imperialists Sharpen
Danger of War

Capitalist reports quote 'Prayda,"
Moscow newspaper, as declaring
that japanese naval disarmament"
proposals were aimed prIncipaIiy
to weaken it's U. S. rival in the
Pacific. The Soviet paper declares
the proposed elimination of air.
craft carriers is intended to protect
Japan against U. S. air forces.
WASHINGTON. Dec. l2-U. S.
imperialism moved nearer today to
war with Japan over supremacy in
the Pacific and control over China,
as leading Washington officials
joined in indignant denunciation of
Japan's proposals for a new naval
ratio of 1o-10-8.7 for the three lead
ing naval powers, Britain, U. s. and
4 Japan in the order named.
| U. S. Bosses Oppose Japan Move.
Naval officials and Republican and
Democratic leaders made it quite
clear that U. S. imperialism will re-
sort to every and any weapon at its
disposal to block the japanese de-
nandS. Representative Britten, of
Illinois, ranking Republican on the
House Naval Committee. attacked
the Japanese plan as "preposterous."
He declared there isn't the slightest
possibility" of the Washington Gov
ernnient permitting Japan to increase
her naval forces over the present RAJ
ito of $3.50.
U. S. War Maneuvor.s
During the day the significant news
was received from San Pedro Cal
ifornia. that the entire U. S. Battle
Fleet had been ordered to put to
sea for three day joint vancouver
with the fleets air force. The U. S.
Fleet has been concentrated in Pa
cific waters since last January, fol-
lowing the increased tension between
U. S. and japanese imperialisms over
the division of the loot in China.
Britain Wants Loot Share.
The Japanese proposals are also
meeting sharp resistance in British
imperialiSt circles who see in them
an attempt by Japan to hog the loot
in the Pacific area The British also
resent, the japanese efforts to gain
support from French and Italian i'm
perial'sts by offering tonnage con-
ccssions. to France and Italy which
the British claim would upset the
proportion of relative stregnth which
Great Britain demands for herself
with reference to the Mediterranean
powers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
DEMAND BONUS
TOMORROW; ASK
MASS SUPPORT
Deleg alton of Vet
Marchers to See
Congress
OPEN HEARING TONIGHT
Meet Thursday to Plan
Further Action
OPEN HEARING TONIGHT

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. -
The Veterans National Rank
and File Committee issued to-
day from its headquarters at
905 81" ST., N. W., an appeal
to ex-servicemen throughout
the country to support the
delegation of bonus marchers
which will petition Congress on We'd
nesday by demonstrations through
out the country. The Committee also
appealed to all veterans and SYM
pathetic organizations to send tele-
grams to Vice President Curtis and
Speaker Garner, demanding that the
delegation be given a hearing
Veterans Demands
The following demands will be pre-
sented by the bonus marchers' del
egation Wednesday
/. That Congress authorize the
immediate payment of the balance
due on the adjusted service cer%i-
ficate (bonusl.
2. That all interest charges on
certificates cease.
5. That all interest charges on
loans already made be added to the
balance due.
4. That funds be raised by a
surtax ON industries, by an In
heritance tax, by turning over all
war funds and through Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation funds.
5. Not cent off the disability
allowances.
s. Negro war veterans TO be ad-
mitted TO all hospitals.
!. Jim Growing of Negro vet
Grams to cease.
8. Veterans to have the right to
/ choose their own doctors, with ex-
penses to be paid by the govern
ment.
8. The housing and feeding Of
all unemployed unmarried veterans,
as well as other unmarried unem-
ployed, without police supervision
at local and federal government
expense.
~. Unemployment and social
insurance for all unemployed ut the
expense of the government and the
employers.
Tomorrow Tuesday, the real sit
uation among the veterans of this
country will be revealed at an open
hearing in Typographical Union Hall,
423 &c" ST, NJ w. Rank and File
bonus marchers from various parts Of
the country will testify. General
Hines, administrator of veterans af-
fairs, and other enemies of the vets
have also been invited to appear and
defend the bankers program.
The bonus marchers now here,
whose numbers are being constantly
increased by new arrivals, are also
planning to pay fitting tribute to
the memory Of Hushka and Carlson,
the veterans who we're killed in the
murderous assault by police and
troops on the camp of the first bonus
nlarchers last July %. The memorial
will be held Thursday in Arlington
Cemetery, where the two martyred
vets are buried.
Thursday night mass rank and
file conference will be held, at which
plans will be made for continuing and
broadening the struggle of tens of
thousands of eX-servicemen against
the Hoover Roosevelt Wall Street at
tempts to drive them to starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13
Better Food
Supply for
USSR ToiIers
By n. BUCHWALD
European Correspondent Daily
Worker

MOSCOW, Dec. II. CBy Cable)-In
emulation of the example of the Tar
tar autonomous Socialist Soviet Re-
public and the Moscow Region
which have fulfilled the annual quota
Of grain collectioos, other sections
of the U. S. S. r. are working fever
ishly to complete collections. A gov
vernment decree authorizes the COL
lective farms and individual peasants
of the Moscow Region and the Tartar
Socialist Soviet Republic to sell their
surplus grain at market prices. It
assures the same privilege to other
sections upon completion of their
quotas.
Reorganize Food Distribution
The workers of all sections of the
q. S. S. r. have greeted enthusiast
ticafly the latest government regula-
ton aiming at the reorganization of
the system of food and goods dis
tribution. The new decision, based
on the recent decree concerning the
right Of factory arrangements to dis
mis- wilful absentees, specifies the
method to transfer the factory CO.
operative stores under the jurisdic-
ton of the factory management
While the decree about absentees
affects all industry, the new regula-
ton applies only to major industrial
establishments. Only those workers
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