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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
The Highest Flight Ever Made by Man "A Soviet Union Victory

reach the height attained by Pic
card. We succeeded In construct
ing a balloon envelope lighter than
Piccard's. An important role was
played by the formula for rubber
lied material produced by two young
Soviet women engineers.
when Picard went up for the
first time he was tortured by the
heat. In his second flight he suf-
fered from intense cold. OF course,
we did not want to submit ourselves
to such unpleasantness, and it was
also important technically to solve
this problem. We solved it.
1--WE considered the stories about
the influence of low temperatures on
duraluminum as 'stratosphere fiction
Our airplanes fly regularly in the Far
I North!
But it wasn't only necessary to
build the stratostat. We. also had
to train the crew.
Training the Grew
The exciting story of the crews
training for the first flight seems
clearly to reflect the concentrated
kind of struggle. of the Bolsheviks to
master technique.
Before YVES appointed to the
stratostat crew hardly knew radio,
said Birnbauna. whose radio messages
now sounded throughout the world
IT had to learn radio technique
Fortunately the crews commander al
the start, Garakandize. was an old
telegrapher. After seven days study
with him I easily transmitted 40 tc
As letters a minute"
Immediately after the flight the
radio operators who were in com.
munication with the stratostat praised
Comrade Birnbaums work very
highly.
The crew spoke of their flight as Il
1t we're pleasant automobile Jour-
ney or an ordinary airplane flight
I'VE we're convinced that people Of
ordinary health could be in the
crew of a stratostat built like ours
The flight took place under excep-
| tionally favorable conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

Staff, Gen. Mendieta, head of one
of the major bourgeois factions OPP
posing the Grau San Martin regime,
and other upper class rlotables. '''
The Grau government hopes to OBJ
tain an understanding with the other
bourgeois groups in order to proceed
unitedly against the strike .wava
sweeping eyer Cuba. Through the
bloody establishment of claw and orr
der" it hopes to obtain recognition
by the United States by protecting
American industrial and financial in
terests against the workers.
indications, were that the govern
nent would deal leniently with the Of
ficers arrested after, the surrender of
the National Hotel as pledge of
amity towards the opposition upper
class groups. Col. Batista assured
Ambassador Welles that they would
have fair trials . a,..ys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Twelve Miles Up in Balloon 100 Per Cent
Soviet Made With "a Soviet Crew

designing engineer of the stratostat,
is the son of a poor peasant. He
entered the Moscow Aviation College
in 1920 and now is talented engi-
neer and scientific research worker
in the Civilian Air Fleet Institute.
1T Was Very Simple"
'It was very simple began Proko-
fieff.
This idea that everything was very
simple runs through the story told
by all the three participants in this
heroic flight. The modesty of these
remarkable people of our era can
only compare with the energy that
fills them-sons of the class that is
remaking the world.
"It was very. simple" Conlrade
Prokofieff repeated. Our group Of
aeronauts was assigned the brief
task: Make flight to the strato-
sphere"
An enormous clohd of hazy guesses
pseudo scientific stories and sensa-
tional legends circulated around
Prof. August Piccard's first FLIGHTS
This cloud had to be pierced by the
Bolshevks to attain the real tech
nioue and master it.
The Struggle to Master Technique
How the crew of the stratostat
mastered the technique, learning anc
building together, how the idea Of
the Soviet construction of the STRAIT
stat arose, and the hard struggle tc
attain it--all this was related by
Comrades Prokofieff, Godunoff anc
Birnbaum.
I'VE needed little time to decide
on the materials for building the
envelope and the car which Soviet
industry could provide to stand con-
ditions In the shakespeare and avoic
the unpleasantness which affected
Picard.
1--WE considered 1t not enough tx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
ut Was All Very Simple" Say Modest Heroes
of Soviet Aviation and Technique

component parts, everything affect
ing the quality of the material was
tested again and again, The Boil
sheviks entered the shakespeare de-
terrnined and confident.
Comrade Kalinin, Chairman Of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Soviet Union, has said that the time
is near when flights to the strato-
sphere will become. a common thing,
Prokofieff remembered. "This is not
so, of course" he said. ~
Twelve Miles Up
I'VE reached height OF nearly
twelve miles. The pressure of the
outside air dropped to less than two
inches Of mercury. On Piccard's flight
it did not fall below three inches.
I'VE descended not far from Mos
COW, arranging our descent at our
own convenience-sloYly. 1t took US
about three hours to reach the ground
again. a
THE next flight could take place
Immediately if required We have
tested all material and parts - the
instruments, tne pallOon Dag anu tne
car. They were perfect.
Everything Soviet-Made
Not a single instrument. aboard,
not single ounce Of material was
obtained from abroad. Everything
was Soviet-made.
THE ,stratosphere flight of the ~.
S.SR." proves that we can design
apparatus which is not only the equal
of foreign manufacture, but is even
superior. to It,, Prokofieff pointed
! OUT.
We may add that, besides the ap-
paratus of which Soviet industry can
we'll be proud, the Soviet Union also
has people. such remarkable people,
that the victory of the proletariat Ii
| the field Of science is assured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
.Race-Hatreds Is
Bosses Method
to Fight Unions
tBy a: Worker Correspondent

:
ALEXANDRIA, vas--As in most
Southern towns, the police, the
American Legion, and the Chamber
Of Commerce use every despicable
method to keep wages at low level,
to make the place a union town,
and to further keep the workers in
poverty BY using the Ku Klux Khan
and the Masonic orders to spread the
Southern infany Of race-hatred
among the students Of the public
schools and the working classes The
r.rions of Alexandria are typically
the A. F. OF L. skilled type. When the
union laborer in the South realizes
that his condition will not improve
until conditions improve for the large
masses OF unskilled and unorganized
labor. then the basis is laid for
strong labor movement that will inn
prove living conditions for the white
and Negro workers. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Los Angeles, Calf.
Conference Hits at
Nazi White Terror
Fl Organizations De
mand Release of
G.. P. Leaders :

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.-Delegates
from 81 local. national and interna-
tional organizations in an Anti
Fascist Conference in this city
unanimously adopted resolutions con-
demnirig the bestiai Fascist brutalities
against the German working class,
and condemned. the outrageous frame
up of Torgler and other Communist
leaders, absurdly accused of the
Reichstag arson. $3.50 essE rs. & Yrs
Plans we're made for making the
conference permanent and carrying
on an energetic campaign on the
Anti-Fascist Front. A delegation was
elected to visit the German consul
with demands FOR the release 5f the
Communist leaders and the tens OF
thousands Of revolutionary workers
held in the Nazi concentration camps
The following executive committee
was elected Herman Beck, S. Elstein
L. G. Fortier, William Gear, Martha
Goldberg, n. Grammar, Nora. He'll
gren, Ellis o. Jones, I. Krupin. A.
Lapin, Val Pavek, M. l., Quateman
and Adolph Spronz.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
M Korean Workers
Face Death for
Communist Revolt
international Red Aid
Asks Protests Flo Cd
Japanese Consulates

SEOUL, Korea, Sept. rs. Especial
cable to the Daily Worker.-De-
ed).--Charged with membership
in the Communist Party and par
ticipation in the 1e29-30 Korean
insurection, 1854 Korean workers
went on trial for their lives in the
Japanese court here today.
These workers We're all leaders
Of the Korean masses in their
struggle against Japanese imper-
ialism, and their trial is part of
the latter's offensive against the
workers in its Asiatic mainland
colonies in Korea and Manchuria,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Stop the Murder of Your
Glass Brothers =

Two steel workers are dead
Two others on the verge Of death
Scores lie wounded by gunfire and the blackjacks
Of the armed thugs who brutay attacked the peace
fd picket line of the striking Ambridge steel workers.
Men women and children we're Unfortunately shot
and dubbed.
For what?s For the crime of having the desire
and the determination fight for bread for the right
TO live the right to organize for those very things
which president Roosevelt and the NA officials told
us were our rights under the N.RA.
..
I'VE knew from the beginning that the NR.A, was
s. " a rypoeritieal lie 1t a lie intended to drug
the masses who we're in growing numbers taking up
the fight in defense of their own interests.
Today the whole world can see in the blood of
the Ambridge steel workers the cruel designs, the
brutal clutches, the bloody aims of the NR.A.
stop the fight of the workers! Use hypocritical
phrases where possble Resort to bloody terror where
necessary But stop the workers at all costs-this
is the aim of the N.RA.
For what purpose9 To insure and increase the
profits of the steel magnates, the coal barons the
bankers Profits wrlmg out of the exploitation of the
men and women who toll who produce all the good
things of life but who themselves live in poverty and
privation this is capitalism, this is the NRA, this
is the liberal" Roosevelt administration the loyal tool
of the capitalists less than the adninstra-
ton of Hoover, Coolidge, Harding or Wilson.
THIS brutal attack is being directed against
all workers everywhere when they dare to take UP
the fight for better conditions The liberal" demo-
cratic Governor White, OF Ohio, no less than the
rliberaI" Governor Pinchot Of Pennsylvania - both
ardent supporters of President Rooseye-is respon-
sble for this attack
In Steubenv1e Ohio the steel strikers of the Weir
ton Steel Mills attacked with clubs and poison
gas for the crime OF peaceful picketng.
In the mine fields OF Pennsylvania the armed
deputies and state troopers of Governor Pinchot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Yudenitch, White GRID
General, Dies in Exile

PARIS, Oct. 6.-One of the leaders
of the White Guard Russian armies
against the BolsheHks, General
Nicholas Yudenitch, died here today.
Yudenitch, whose rapid advance
on Petrograd NOV Leningrad, In
Autumn 1919, raised the hopes OF the
enemies OF Communism all over this
world, was thrown back and his army
crushed by the united efforts Of the
workers OF Petrograd who marched
south of the city with whatever
weapons they could put their hands
on and put the mercenary Yuden-
itch troops, paid and supported by
the Allied Powers, to flight.
His name will live in history as
one of the White Guard leaders who.
with the aid of the Western Powers.
tried to overthrow the Soviet Re-
public, but was ignominiously routed
by the determined stand of the
Petrograd working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

1.-THE simply yet cleverly con-
structed insulation never allowed the
temperature inside the car to fall be-
low 81 degrees or rise higher than SO
degrees Fahrenheit. Under such
conditions it was possible, naturally,
to work well.
1o.5 Miles In AZ Minutes
1--WE reached the height Of 1917
miles in AZ minutes.
Our impressions? Well, we had
no time to watch the landscape
spreading out under us especially or
what were the colors in the sky above
us. nor to remember our own feel
ihgs. Each one was occupied with
his own work. Time flew.
"This is. particularly astonishing
for in usual flights time drags, but
here more than eight hours flew rast
unnoticed.
"An unforgettable and unusual
picture appeared beneath US when
we rose to great height. From a
height of six miles we easily distin-
guished separate buildings in Mos
COW, as we'll as the sport fields Ar
aeronaut in the shakespeare cannot
lose himself. 1t is easy to make out
direction at such heights.
Eleven Miles Up
From a height of ten or clever
miles we saw trains moving, high
ways, villages near Moscow lying url
der us like groups Of gray dots.
THE sky appeared equally effec
/ tive The tints OF the sky. changed
rapidly as we rose. We couldn't he'll
looking upward" concluded Proko
fieff.
Godunoff, the young Soviet en-
gineer who designed the stratosta
"U.SSR." told us how they strug
eled to perfect every detail of tn
apparatus.
! Every inch was checked up. Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
BY vERN SMITH
Moscow Correspondent Of the
Daily Worker

We are sitting in the editorial Of
fees of "KraSSl1aya Svezda," daily
newspaper of the Red Army, inter-
viewing the heroic crew Of the strato-
stat 'U.S.S.R." Comrades Prokofieff,
Godunoff and Birnbaum, In friendly
conversation with Moscow journal
lists, are giving us their impressions
of the stratosphere flight.
Their account of how the first
Soviet stratosphere balloon was built,
how numerous technical and scien-
tific difficulties we're overcome, the
story of these men who went up IN
balloon bearing the proud name
of the first Socialist State to the
greatest height ever attained by man
this simple story must be written
in the book Of the. proletariat's VIC
tories.
A Bolshevik Crew
Lett us first describe these aero
nauts briefly. George Prokofieff, the
commander of the stratostat, Is only
81 years old, the son of railway
man. He worked. as a mechanic. In
1919 he volunteered as member of
the Y. G. L. for service at the front
in the struggle against the White
Guards. 'se1
While simple Red Army man he
joined the Communist Party In 1920
In 1926, when he was the secretary
Of the Party cell in an air detach-
fnent, he began tos-be interested in
aviation and aeropautics. Now he Is
one of the Soviet Unions most
prominent specialists in this field
Pilot Ernest Birnbaum, the second
in command, also worked as me-
chanic. He also. Was a private in the
Red Army, and now is one Of the
best Soviet specialists in aeronautics
Pilot Constantine. Godunoff the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
British Students Hit
Presence of American
Warships in Cuba

NEW YORK.-The British Fedora
ton of Student Societies protests the
action of the United States in send
ing warships to Cuba, according to a
cablegram received by the National
Student League here today.
The British student organization
sends greetings of solidarity to the
Cuban students and workers and
promises to popularize the revolu-
tionary strike in England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Gary Mills. Make
'e War Equipment at
Four Work Shifts

GARY, Ind.--TIhe production OF war
equipment has been expanded in
many steel mills. The Twenty Inch
Merchant Mill of the Illinois Steel
Company Of Gary is now working on
an order rolling the solids for war
material. f .
The Globe Seamless NH at Mil
waukee. Wisconsin, is now employ
ing uninterruptedly six hundred and
twenty workers in four 6-hour shifts
producing augmentation bombs from
the solids supplied by the Illinois
Steel Merchant Mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Last Signature Day
in Philadelphia, Pa;
Needs Final Action

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. g.
The Communist Party has. not as
yet a sufficient number of sig
natures to get on the ballot. There
thousand signatures are necessary
and Saturday Is the last day.
All lists should be filled out and
returned Immediately.
Every Party member should de-
vote the whole day towards getting
signatures. All sympathizers are
urged to participate.
Bring your lists in filed out TO-
NIGHT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

plenty OF tickets sent tnem by CToSr-
ing as Speaker of the Reichstag.
Large groups of sightseers were also
conducted through the Reichstag
daily
Buenger asked van der Lubbe if
he visited the Reichstag as a sight
seer Van der Luobe answered NO"
Parisius, Nazi witness, stated: 1.-THE
Communist Party's deputies received
questionable eyil-looking visitors"
Torgler Rebukes Nazi Witness
Torgler answered sharply: I'VE re-
ceived many unemployed, but it is
unseemly to call them questionable
because they were poor.
Van ore Lubbe denied ever know
ink Koenen.
Buttressing his alibi still further,
Torgler related that while he was
eating in Aschinger's Restaurant, a
patron entered and exclaimed: 1.-THE
Reichstag is burningp He thought
this was a bad joke. He then boarded
street car, but was stopped on his
way to the Reichstag building by an
arncred car. A storm trooper told
the passengers that the Reichstag
was burning at several points and
that the Communists were guilty.
Torgler then went to Stawitzkis
restaurant, his customary rendezvous.
Kuerne, Koenen, Wundersee and
Birkenhauer were present.
Judge Buenger. considered this late
rendezvous rather strange Torgler
. ,ff
later"
Nazi Lawyers Attack Paris Inquiry
After the court had recessed, DR..
Sack, Torglers officially appointed
Nazi attorney, stated that the Paris
commission of inquiry is spreading
false reports. Arthur Garfield Hays
and the "Pravda" correspondent as
sert that the defense is not trying
to find the real incendiaries," he
added.
DR.. Sack said that he rejected the
combinations made in the Brown
Book" 1.-THE assertion that Goering
and Goebbels are the incendiaries
ISLANDERS Germany" he stated, "and
the London counter-trial has no
claim to objectivity."
Attorney General Werner added:
THE counter trials material is value
less" DR.. Teichert, Popoff's Nazi
lawyer, added his protest, after which
Sack again attacked de Giaf-
eri, noted Paris criminal lawyer, for
'calumniating Goering."
Seuffert, van der Lubbe's attorney,
Joined in, stating cit is beneath the
dignity of German defense counsel
to accept the offer of the Defense
Committee to have van der Lubbe
examined by two Swiss psychiatrists.
The Committee only wants to injure
Germany
Sack proposed that Hays, who was
present in the courtroom, be put on
| the stand. The judges refused, as
"the Supreme Court Is above suspi-
cion" Is
Van der Lubbe Contradicts Nazi
Affidavit
An affidavit of Kurlzak, an absent
witness, was then read alleging that
van der Lubbe had participated in
a meeting in Dusseldorf in 1926 to-
gether with Torgler and Heinz Neu-
mann. 1t also claimed that van der
Lubbe was ready to undertake the
leadership of a Dutch terrorist group.
Van der Lubbe then said: Il was
never in Dusseldorf and don't know
Neumann or Torgler."
The Kunzak affidavit forgot ap-
parently that van der Lubbe was
then schoolboy, less than 16 years
old at the time.
Grother, the next witness, who
claimed to have been leader in the
Rote Frontkaempferbund, testified
that the incendiary plan was Matched
in the Karl Liebknecht House, Com
munist Party headquarters, on Feb
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

dovetailing with its plans for war
against the Soviet Union,
+, The International Red Aid has
called on workers throughout the
world Ito protest against these
trials and to demand their inlrne-
date release in resolutions sent TO
Japanese embassies and consulates
in every country and city. As5s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
WelleS Interpenes in
Cuba; Tries to Join
Bourgeois Factions
U. S. Ambassador Seeks to Reconcile Opposing
Is Bourgeois Groups to Establish
..s5gax Law and Order
By Burck

6Thc
political
establish capitalist united
proleaian all the Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
IORCLER BLASTS NAILS
PERJUREO TESTIMONY in
REICHSTAG fire TRIAL
Fascist Defense Counsel Lash Out at Paris
Commission of Inquiry for "Calumniating
Germany and German Lawyers"

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER. Switzeriand).
The continued examination
featured tcdsys sessions of the Leipzig trial,
Presiding Judge Buenge found that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

Keep Your Party on the. Ballot. Reg
lister Communist October o Ia II.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-19

Morris Davis helped Willard Orr
with his butchering Thursday alter
noon
w A. Wallace was over to the Gene
Scott holae the first of last week.
penrod Davis has been staying with
the Homer Davis family the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. C.. E. Gilbertson were
Libby visitors last Saturday.
Gladys Bergen called at the
M / Davis and Gene Scott homes
Friday evening.
Mrs. Morris Davis and children spent
Saturday night with the folks.
Mr.. Lamey has crew of men re-
pairing the Silver Butte bridge near
the A. Z. Peterson ranch, this week.
Mrs c. E. Gilbertsons is visiting {
few days with Mrs. F. ]. Townsend
at Happv's Inn.
Mrs. Gladys Bergen spent the week
end in Libby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Minor are living II
the cabin at the Sedlak place where
Mr.. Minor. is building new barn TO
Mr.. Sloan.
E. w. Scott visited Monday evening
at the M. |. Davis home.
penrod Davis was down to tn
| Swami creek ranger station Saturday
The thermometer dropped. down T
zero Sunday night. :,
Mrs. Ray Beebe has. been quite slcl
/ the past week.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-19

Don't forget the pinochle party given
bv the women of the Moose, January
26, at 8Tp. m. ~
County Commissioner l. c. Kensler
Of Troy was in Libby Saturday to at
tend special meeting of the county
board
Mrs. Glen Lechrone fell on the ice
last Saturday night and dislocated an
elbow, an accident that proved very
painful.
Mrs. James Greenbury returned to
| her home at Fortine last Saturday al
ter a visit in Libby with her daugh-
ter and family, MIR. and Mrs. +. r.
Clark.
M. C. Candee drove in from Spo-
kane Sunday accompanied by young
man friend, Albert, F. Harvey. They
plan to spend three or four weeks here
and at the Candee home in Jennings.
Bob Baker and Ben Baenen each
succeeded in bagging cougars last week
| in the Fisher river district There was
one also caught in trap at Warland
but we were unable to learn the name
of the trapper. Monday Charley Fem
! Swamp creek forest ranger, started ou'
! after another enc in that district. Inc
state now pays SIS bounty on cougar
pelts.
i w. J. Darlington plans to leave to-
morrow for Choteau and from there ht
will proceed to Helena to visit the leg
\ stature and confer with officials o
I the state fish and game department
He goes to Choteau to attend a meet.
ing Of the Masonic lodge OF that place
Of which he is member and at Wnici
meeting Senator M. D. Rowland Will o.
present in his position as grand Wor'
shipful master of the state Alter IN
meeting Senator Rowland and MI
Darlington will return to Helena.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-19
Ura1 Happenings

Frank Day was a caller at Ben
Graham's Wednesday.
Clarence Hoyt and Fred Ely dis
continued work at the mine Thursday
and will spend few days getting UP
wood. -,
S1ack, Young spent Wednesday nigh'
with Oscar Gibler
Frank Day called at Husek's Sun
day
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hoyt ant
faniiyWere Sunday visitors a
Husek >.
The saatleSa drop ih temperature ha'
1T pY#FyrsaT u wurs bringing ~ IN
wood
Every dame with obesity cursed,
Whose clothing all threatens to burst
Who goes on a diet
And gamely stays by It,
Finds the first hundred pounds IS IN
worst