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The Washington times., 1932-04-05
VETS MAY DROP
HOUSE DRIVE
FOR BEER
Rep. Dyer, However, in Favor
of Popular Referendum;
2 Measures Pending

The House drive for 2.75 per
cent beer may be abandoned
for the present session at a
meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the "wet blocs"
today.
With many leaders in the anti
prohibition movement favoring
postponement of the beer fight
until after the next election, Rep
resentative Linthicum CD of
Maryland, chairman of the Demo
cratic "wet bloc" called a meet
ing of the executive committee in
charge of the beer bill.
Discouraged by the failure to
win more votes for tax on beer
during the tax bill fight, many
wet members fear they would
hurt their cause by demanding a
vote at this session.
Dyer for Referendum
In rolling up 1877 votes for the
Beck-Linthicum resolution for re-
submission of the Eighteenth
Amendment to 227 against, the
vets believe they reached the
peak of their strength in this
session. The beer tax lost, ZIG
to 1872.
Representative Dyer (R.) of
Missouri, one of the early leaders
in the movement to legalize beer,
favors carrying the fight to the
voters.
Representative O'Connor CD
of New York, co-author of the
Hull 2.75 per cent beer
bill, said he didn't know "of any
agitation against a vote by real
VETS"
Two Others Pending
The O'Connor-Hull bill, which
would permit legalized beer to be
sold in bottles with tax Of 3
cents a pint, is pending before the
Judiciary Committee.
With the committee dry, the
vets would have to resort to get
ting 145 names to petition to
force a vote in the House.
Anti-prohibitionists in the Sen
ate will continue their campaign
for the Bingham beer bill. Ac-
cording to present plans, it will be
offered as an amendment to the
tax bill and another effort will be
made to consider the legalizing
measure apart from the tax meas
ure,
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
MISS BR|TTON
TALKS TONIGHT

Charges that political pressure
was brought to bear to have her
lecture barred from the Hotel
Willard were made today by Miss
Nan Britton, author of THE
Presidents Daughter" who is
speaking here tonight on "Illeget-
imacy."
Miss Britton's lecture, origin
ally scheduled for the Willard,
will be given at 423 G st. N. w.
She says:
Its the same old problem
that has confronted me ever
since my book was written.
The politicians accuse me of
attacking President Harding.
They fear that I am going to
tell something Whereas /
have never had even an unkind
thought of Mr.. Harding and
everything 1 have to tell is in
my two books"
This is Miss Britton's first pub
lie address in Washington.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
FARM BOARD 5
POLICY RAPED

Abolition of the Federal Farm
Board was advocated today be-
fore the Senate Agricultural Com
mittee by J. M. Locke, of Musko-
gee, Okla, representing the Amer
lean Cotton Shippers Association.
He was spokesman for COM
mittee of cotton shippers from
Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, and
North Carolina, who appeared in
support of the Gore bill to regu-
late the sale of cotton owned or
controlled by the Federal Farm
Board. He said:
1--WE wish to state the posi-
tiOn of the Farm Board today,
particularly with respect to cot
ton, is dangerous to the welfare
of the country, it is fraught
with possibilities of further and
irreparable harm to the pro-
ducers of cotton and to the
whole business structure of this
country"
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
CUT OFF MAGDA,
HELEN INSISTS

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April
5 QN.S).-The return of the
Princess Helen as Queen of Ru-
mania today hinged upon whether
Magda Lupescu, King Carols for
mer companion in exile, is ban
ished definitely from the country
without royal retainers.
This was established at a formal
visit paid Helen by Carol last
night at which the monarch
begged his divorced wife to return.
Helen, however, remained firm in
demands that Nine. Lupescu gives
up the Chateau Beleme, near
Paris, and her annuities from the
royal eXchequer.
King Carol, who was backed in
his appeal to Helen by his mother,
Queen Marie, gave no indication
of willingness to accede to the
demands, 1t was said.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
DUNCAN FACES
HIGHER BOND

william H. Duncan, Arlington
county clerk, out on bond on a
charge of larceny of State funds,
was served by Sheriff Howard B.
Fields last night with a circuit
court rule requiring him to ap-
pear before Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy April 18. and show cause
why his bond should not be in
creased.
Following his arrest, Duncan
posted a bond of $4,000 to cover
his office. An audit of his books
showed an apparent shortage of
SIS, 900, according to State Audi
tor T. Coleman Andrews. and the
court rule was issued for him to
show cause why his bond should
not be increased to the extent of
the money handled by his office.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
GOEBEL To TRY.
FOR RECORD
By COL. Arthur C. GOEBEL
Winner of Dole Trans-Pacific Flight
and First Pilot to Complete Nom
stop West-tO-East TranscOnti-
mental Flight,

sup " eSb-IO-EdSD lFhnSCOnIl-
mental Flight.
Written for International News Service.
DETROIT, April 5 Q.N.S0.
Weather permitting at the ma
tional aircraft show today, 1 am
going to try to break my own
altitude record in a Disel pow
cred airplane.
Ray Cooper, manager of the
show, will be the official judge.
Official instruments are expected
to arrive here by plane from
Washington today and oxygen
equipment to enable breathing at
high attitudes is being installed
in the ship.
There is no reason why this
record cannot be broken. The oil
burning engine has proved itself
more efficient at high levels than
at sea level, a fact peculiar only
to this type of motor.
I will fly my taper wing Waco
biplane, powered with the new
185-horSepower Guiberson Diesel
motor. A few months ago 1 flew
this same job over Dallas to a
height of 21,686 feet, which, I am
told, is the unofficial worlds rec
ord for the Diesel motor.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
MRS. MARTIN
MRS. ROBERTSON

MRS. ROBERTSON MRS MARTIN
THESE PITTSBURGH sisters, Mrs Hazel Robertson,
TO- and Mrs Albertina Martin, 18, filed divorce suits
simultaneously alleging desertion. Mrs. Robertson
says she deserted by Clarence T. Robertson IA
months after their marriage. Mrs Martin says she
married Raymond Martin in May 1929, and that he de-
serted her the following November Photo by Interna
tional News Photographic Service
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
4POWERSC CLEAR
PARLEY DECKS

LONDON, April S UN.S0.
The Franco-British stand toward
the United States on reparations
remained subject for specula-
tion today as the decks were
cleared for the four-power Danu-
bian conference tomorrow.
The groundwork for future rep
arations dealings, as we'll as for
the conference, was laid here yes
terday in discussions between
Premier Andre Tardieu, of
France, and Prime Minister j.
Ramsay Macdonald, of Britain.
Tardieu returned to Paris last
night, planning to absent himself
from the Danubian parley.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
Gordon Hotel Bridge
Winners Announced

Winners in the Gordon Hotel
bridge tournament last night
were M. c. Schrader, 1920 I St.
N. W.. and Fred L. Syler, 2728
Woodley Rd. N. W., for East and
West teams, and Miss Maisie
Buie, of the Argonne apartments,
and I. H. York, 1440 r st. N. W.,
for North and South teams.
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
HOWARD RECITAL

The Women's Glee Club of
Howard University will be heard
in it's annual recital tonight at
8:15 in Rankin Memorial Chapel.
The club is under the direction Of
Miss Carolyn Grant,
The Washington times., 1932-04-05
RUMAN|A FLOOD
BROWNS 40

BUCHAREST, April S G.NSO.
At least 40 persons were reported
to have lost their lives in floods
throughout Rumania today.
Eight railway lines and dozen
bridges in Pennsylvania were
washed away.
The factory district of KlauSen.
burg was inundated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
WORLDS BIGGEST BANK LOSES
Ga MILLION DOLLARS IN DEPOSITS

NEW YORK.-The Chase National
Bank, Morgan-Rockefeller controlled,
the biggest bank in the world, lost
$614,661 900 deposits during 1881.
Deposits which in the beginning
of the year were over two billion,
shrank 30 per cent, according to the
official statement of the bank. The
report says nothing of the hundreds
of millions withdrawn by depositors
and replaced by the Rockefeller
fortune to hide the situation.
1t is significant in this connection
to remember the secret White House
conference preceding the rushing of
the Glass Steagall Bank Aid Bill.
The conference reported that bank,
whose name they refused to disclose,
was facing critical situation so dan
gerous and of such size that the two
billion dollar Reconstruction Finance
Corporation could not meet it. One
Congressman who insisted on know
ing the name of the bank was stifled.
The Rockefeller controlled corpo-
rations have been notorious for half
century for their vicious and bloody
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
COURT FRAMES
NEGRO FOR AID OF
SCOTTSBORO BOYS
LID. Filing Appeal
for New Trial for
Mcdowell

CHATTANOOGA, March 3. - The
boss court here yesterday carried
through its frame up of oscar Nc
Dowell, a militant Negro worker &C
tive in the mass defense of the 8
innocent Scottsboro boys. The court
convicted Mcdowell on the framed
up charge of attempting to shoot
Baugh, a backward Negro worker and
tool of the INSTRUMENTATION
Ministers Association and the N. A.
A. G. P. who melted him to beat up
his wife because of her support of
the mass defense of the Scottsboro
boys.
Mcdowell was fined fifty dollars
and costs, in addition to the convic-
ton which carries a Jail sentence Of
one to five years. E. M. Buchanan,
attorney for Baugh, acted as pro-
secutor, injecting the Scottsboro is
sue, charging that the International
Labor Defense was stirring up the
Negro masses and sought the death
of the Scottsboro boys.
Mcdowell and his mother had
taken in Baugh's wife after her ter
rible beating at the hands of Baugh.
Baugh several times invaded the Nc
Dowell home threatening the Nc
Dowells, and tearing up copies of the
Liberator, official organ of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights. When
his wife pressed charges against him,
the local court told Baugh to get
shot gun and shoot up the Reds.
Baugh fired two shots at Mcdowell.
He then accused Mcdowell OF shoot
ing at him with pistol.
The prosecution could produce no
eye witness to support Baugh's claim.
-Four witnesses testified for the de-
Tense that they heard only two shots,
and no pistol shot. McDowell'S
mother and brother, and the latter's
wife, testified that McDowell's pistol
was in his trunk after mcdowell had
been taken to the hospital for shot
gun wounds inflicted by Baugh.
After Mcdowell came out of the
hospital, he was picked up on a gun
carrying charge while taking his pis-
tol to the pawnshop to obtain money
for moving expenses. This charge
was also pushed against him by the
bosses court in its anxiety to punish
him for his support of the mass fight
to free the nine innocent Scottsboro
boys.
George w, Chamlee, International
Labor Defense attorney, is filing a
motion for a new trial on both
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
M A IS NJ E EFT
HITS CENTRAL
AMERICA TERROR
5000 w ork ers and
Peasants Murdered
in Ell Salvador

NEW YORK.-The Anti Imperial
iSt League of the U. S. has just sent
a resolution of protest against the in
hreasing terror in Central America,
directed at the Workers and Peas
ants organizations, to the following
conSulates in New York City: Qua
temala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicara-
CHA, Costa Rico, and Panama.
The resolution was adopted at a
mass meeting held Thursday, March
10th at the Spanish Workers Center,
E. 116th ST., New York City. After
citing as instances Of this increased
terror, the murder of 5000 workers
and peasants in FL Salvador and the
execution of the working class lead
er, Juan P. wainwright, the restitution
ends with a declaration of the Anti
Imperialist League of the US. against
the terror and in support of the
struggles in these countries, for COM
plete and immediate independence
from, and freedom of control by
Yankee or British imperialism.
The Anti-Imperialist League calls
on all workers and other anti-imper-
ialist organizations to protest SINH
larly to the consulates involved. A
model form of resolution can be Sc
cured at the Office of the League, 799
Broadway, Room $50, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
Printing Workers
Pledge Support to
China NJ a S S e S

NEW YORK.--The Printing Work
ers Industrial League of New York
City has adopted a resolution deal
ing with war on the Chinese masses,
the plot TO attack the Soviet Union
and with the colonial struggles.
THE success of Socialist construc-
ton in the Soviet Union contrasting
sharply with the desperate struggle
of the working masses in the United
States. . is accounting for the in
crease in war preparations read the
resolution.
The resolution records the attempts
of the imperialist to crush the move
ment Of the colonial masses for liber-
alton.
BE it here resolved that the Print
ing Workers Indust ial League goes
on record for the id of the Chinese
masses, for thu withdrawal of all
troops and we ships from China. for
the prevention Of shipment OF am
munition 10 the Far East states the
resolution.
BE it further resolved that the
Printing Workers Industrial League
pledges continued propaganda and
organization against the Japanese in
vasIt'n of China, against iinperialist
aLtae& on the Soviet Union, against
Yank3a Imperialism in Far East and
colofsM possession"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
NEW SOVIET FILM OPENS
AT CAMEO THEATRE FRIDAY

"Cossacks of the DON" a Russian
synchronized motion picture, direc-
tide by the only women producer in
the U. S. S. r., Olga Preobrazhens-
kaya, will have it's American pre-
miere showing at the Cameo Theatre
this Friday. Preobrazhenskaya is the
noted film director of 1.-THE Village
of SIM" which was highly praised
by critics, including Theodore Drei-
ser, who said, Among the best
achieved so far by the motion pic
ture adventures anywhere"
Counsellor Law" Elmer Rices
melodramatic comedy, featuring Paul
MUM, plays its 150th performance at
the Plymouth Theatre this evening.
"Counsellor-at-Law" represents Rices
second attempt at producing, his
first being "The Left Bank" at the
Little Theatre.
Ann Ayres has acquired the rights
to comedy by Gilbert Emery, author
of THE Hero" and "Tarnish' The
new play, which is as yet untitled,
will be directed by Pauline Frederick.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
RESPIGHI TO CONDUCT
PHILHARMONIC WEDNESDAY

Ottorino Respighi, italian composer
and conductor. will conduct the
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
for one week and direct the world
premiere Of his Maria Egiziaca," at
the benefit concert of the orchestra
pension fund on Wednesday night, at
Carnegie Hall, He will also conduct
the regular Carnegie Hall concerts on
Thursday night and Friday after
noon. and at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music on Sunday afternoon, March
90 At the Pension Fund Concert
he will precede the premiere OF Ma
ria Egiziaca" with two other COM
positions of his: THE Birds" suite
for small orchestra; and the "Trit-
tico DO TT 1 celliano" C'Botticellian
Triptych'D This program will be re-
peated on Thursday and Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
Communist Party OF BULGARIA
Gains Greater Mass Subb0yt

Yambul, Stara- Zagora, Shumen, Cab
rovo, Teteven and a series of smaller
towns the Workers Party headed the
polls. The government coalition was
the chief loser.
The Minister of the Interior Cir
ginov reports that the elections passed
off peoceably. He made no reference
to a series of STAINLESS terrorist acts
committed at the last moment by the
police. In Russo for instance, all the
candidates of the Workers Party we're
arrested early in the morning and
held in custody during the elections.
In Ploydiy an election day raid took
place on the headquarters of the
Workers Party and everyone on the
premises was arrested. The house was
closed down for the day and the
election organization disorganized,
Apart from this over 200 workers
we're arrested throughout the day.
The same action was taken by the
police in Burgas and Sliven. Accord
ing to'a statement issued by the
Central Committee of the Workers
Party after the poll, the police con-
fiscated every leaflet of the party
they could lay hands on. And despite
the terror. the Workers Party en-
erges trimnphantly from the polls!
The Ministry of the Interior has
now published the total figures of
all the municipal elections which
have taken place in Bulgaria. in the
towns with the exception Of Sofia
between the LIST November 1881 and
the 14th February 1882 The list is
as follows:
Peoples Block Government Coali-
tom i05035 ard TAO seats
Workers Party
5O087 and 2a4 seats
Democrats Bourgeois Opposition
2538e and 1876 seats
Social Democrats 7.77B end IS seats
Even according to these figures
which The Workers Party declares to
be faxed and despite the terrific wave
of terror, the Workers Party is the
strongest party in the country for
the so-called Peoples Block consist
OF four different parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
A. f. of L. Officials
Pull Guns onW Workers
at White Plains Meet

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. - Officials
of the Building and Common Laborers
Union, Local No. 8, pulled guns on
the rank and file at a membership
meeting last Friday when the workers
demanded that the $4,000 in the
treasury be distributed among the
members Of the union.
The rank and file Of the union, the
majority of which is unemployed,
have been carrying on an intensive
agitation demanding that the funds
OF the union be at once turned over
to the workers. The officials through
strong arm tactics had felled a reso-
luton which accused the officials Of
graft and improper bookkeeping at a
previous meeting, but at the meeting
Friday the workers, determined to get
their money, rushed the secretary and
treasurer of the union from the plat
form.
AT this point the officials pulled
guns and riot call was sent out, The
police arrived and drove the workers
from the hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
TrOtzkyite Eastman
in Same Group With
Soviet Foe, E. Grady

While Leon Trotsky sends vicious
attacks from Turkey against the
Soviet Union, his American rep
resentative, translator and mem
Der of the American Trotskyite
faction, Max Eastman, has joined
in a writer's committee which in
cludes the Infamous Eve Garrette
Grady and George Sylvester Vie
reck.
Mrs. Grady, after leaving the
Soviet Union last year, launched
the most extended anti-Soviet
campaign ever seen in the United
States. This included magazine
articles, a book, debates and radio
broadcasts. 1t was she who spread
a great deal of the dumping and
forced labor propaganda in this
country. Viereck was the propa-
gandist Of the bloody German
Kaiser in the United States dur
ing the last war.
In joining hands with these
enemies of the international work
ing class in a so-called organiza-
ton to encourage young artists,
contemporary arts (most likely of
the Grady type), Eastman further
exposes the real face of Interna-
tional Trotskyism as an agent of
the counter-revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15

NEW YORK.-A great rise in the
mass support to the Communist Party
of Bulgaria is admitted here in a
special Associated Press dispatch
from Sofia, Bulgaria. Not only are
the Communist forces growing ma
tionally, but the A. P. cable declares:
"As matter of fact, there are al
ready more than sixty villages with
similar red administrations.
Notwithstanding the laws aimed at
them, the Communists prsue an ac-
tive campaign of propaganda. At
least fifty days in the year are des-
ignated as manifestation days. On
such occasions there is always clash
with the police, frequently with a list
of dead or wounded.
THE economic crisis is blamed as
the chief cause of increasing Com
munistic strength, but the proximity
of Russia also is mentioned"
A detailed report of the Bulgarian
elections is sent out by the Interna-
tional Press Correspondence from So
fla, as follows:
The results of the municipal cleo
lions which took place recently in
81 Bulgarian towns represent a fine
success for the Workers Party even
if the official figures are accepted
These figures are as follows: Peoples
Block (the government coalition Of
four parties 1880. Workers Party
38,0o3, Democratic Block Opposition
al parties 1000, and the National
Fascist Block 1,005 votes.
The workers newspapers however
declare that the results have been
faxed by the authorities and that in
reality the Workeys Party received
46, 732 votes viii : the Peoples Block
received only 75,c45 votes. The Work
ers Party is in any case the strongest
party in the county, despite the ter
rifle wave Of police terror which
swept over TIE country prior to the
elections. In three towns the Workers
Party has gained the absolute ma
iority Of the votes, In the textile
centre Sliven, in Troyan and In the
tobacco centre SWlengrad. In Russo,
Varna, Burgas, PloydiY Haskovo,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
us. TO GO TO WAR SOON,
HINTS ARMY CHAPLAIN

That the United States will soon
be at war was broadly limited in a
speech delivered by Col. j. E, Yates,
chief of chaplainS of the U. S. Army,
before the Iterseminary Movement
conference at Howard University on
March IL.
The text of Col. Yates speech,
which alludes to the Soviet Union as
"the dominion of atheistic Commun-
ISM" was issued to the press in adj
vance by the U. S. War Department.
1t was thus endorsed by the Wall st.
Hunger Government.
In his speech, Col. Yates calls upon
the churches to rally the masses to
"the road of loyalty and sacrifice"
for the defense of the holy profits
of the very capitalists who have con-
demned over 100000 unemployed
workers and their families to starva-
ton and who meet with machine
gun bullets, as in Detroit on March
7, the demands of the unemployed
for work or unemployment relief. Col.
Yates declared:
"The church should not lose sight
of the fact that war is not disease
at all, but one of the painful
symptoms of a disease far more
appalling than war itself"
A faithful defender of this very
diseases, Col. Yates ommitted to
state that this disease which is far
more appalling than war itself" is
capitalism. This, however, is being
recognized by increasing numbers of
starving unemployed workers, of ru-
ined farmers and small business men,
of employed workers forced to, exist
on starvation wages.
Most of Audience, Members of OPP
pressed Negro Group.
Col. Yates closed his speech with a
strong appeal for loyalty to the gov
eminent, as religious duty.
and if that loyalty leads to sac
rifice," he said, even to the sacrifice
of life itself, for the weak and op-
pressed, for the principles of honor,
freedom, righteousness, and justice
between man and man, then the path
of duty for the church lies on the
road of sacrifice, the road which the
master did not refuse to tread"
Col. Yates was speaking in COL
lege dedicated by the government he
represents to the maintenance of Jim
Crowism against the Negro national
minority. His audience was mostly
made up of members of this group
which is so brutally and savagely OPP