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The Washington times., 1933-05-12

LUCERNE, Ind, May IL G.N.SO
A woman bank robber sprayed a
crowd with machine-gun bullets
during a spectacular attempt by
gang to hold up the Lucerne
State Bank here today.
Two women spectators were
wounded by the machine-gun
fire.
About 40 shots were exchanged
between the robbers and the bank
officials.
Two Women Shot
Miss Ethel Writers, 20, was
shot down when the feminine
bank robber turned a machine
gun loose on crowd that had
gathered following the first ex-
change of shots, and Mrs. Doris
Minor, "a, was hit while dressing
in her bedroom at her home near
the bank.
The outlaws escaped in a cloud
of gunSmoke.
The first battle occurred with
in the bank.
Everett Gregg, 48, cashier, and
Lawson zelders. "a, bookkeeper,
were alone shortly after the bank
opened. ZelderS was working in
side the vault and Gregg at an
adding machine near the vault.
Gregg was turning to enter
the vault. when suddenly a gun
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
HEM NDERSON
S(;HENED
PLOT He
SNEARS
Asserts Lindy UnWittingIy
Gave Gang idea When He
Hid Child as Prank

The Lindbergh baby was
smuggled out of the United
States into Mexico and held
there while negotiations for
it's ransom were carried on in
New York, in Norfolk, Va;
Washington, Aiken, S. c., and
Ell PaSO, Tex.
CASTOR B. Means testified to
that effect during his second day
on the witness stand in District
Supreme Court, where he is on
trial with Norman T. Whitaker,
''The Fox" on a charge of con-
spring to obtain $4,000 from
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean in
connection with the return of the
child.
Means contended that the child
was outside of the United States
while the nationwide search was
being carried on.
Hidden Near Juarez
According to his story, the kid.
napers managed to get the baby
across the border to some uniden-
titled place near JuareZ, Mex.
This testimony came after he
had given a startling bit of tes.
timony that the ladder found out.
side the nursery in the Lindbergh
home at Hopewell, N. j., was not
used by the kidnapers.
Instead, Means said, the kid
naperS, whom he identified as
members of a rum ring, walked
into the Lindbergh house, picked
up the child, and walked out
calmly without being disturbed.
Means mentioned two new
members of the kidnap ring,
Max Hassel and Max Greenberg.
These men, it was later learned,
must be placed in the long list
of dead witnesses to whom
Means has constantly referred.
These two rum-runners were
found shot to death in hotel
room in Elizabeth, N. j., on
April II, this year.
Henderson, Head Man
Members of their gang, who
delivered beer to servants in the
Lindbergh home, according to
Means, were responsible for the
taking of child.
The method of kidnapping,
Means said. was suggested by
wellington Henderson, whom he
termed "the head man and
brains of the plot" and based
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The Washington times., 1933-05-12
PREAKNESS HAS
Il ENTRIES

PIMLICO RACE TRACK, Md,
May 12.-Eleven horses are Off
cially entered for tomorrow's run
ming of the $4,000 Preakness at
Pimlico.
w. R. Coe entered a triple threat
in Ladysman, Pomponious, and
Pompoleon.
All the horses will carry 1876
pounds, the same weight as in the
Kentucky Derby.
The entries and Jockeys:
Head Play, A. Robertson.
Poppyman, E. Steffen.
aDevalera, H. Mills.
aUtopian, j. Gilbert.
Silent Shot, R. Jones.
Kerry Patch, L. Schaefer.
Inlander, D. Bellizi.
Brokers Tip, j. Smith.
bLadysman, r. Workman.
bPomponiouS, j. Bekshak.
bPompoleon, C. Kurtsinger.
aPhipps-Mills entry.
bCoe entry.
The outlook is for a muddy. or
at least a heavy, track. Post
time will be about p. m. (E.
S. T)
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
GANDH| To LAST
THROUGHFAST

POONA, India, May IL Q.N.S).
Although he had to be carried to
bed because of extreme weakness,
Mahatma Gandhi's physicians
agreed today there was every
likelihood he will survive his 81
day fast against untouchability.
The kahatma entered the
fifth day of the ordeal weighing
95 pounds, a loss of five pounds
since the fast began. His pulse
was 10, and there were no COM
plications as a result of the at
tack of jaundice he suffered yes
terday.
He has been compelled to stop
writing letters and spinning,
however.
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
ROOSEVELT 7
S|GNSFARM
RELIEF BILL
President Asks Holders of
Mortgages Not to Fore
! close at This Time

President Roosevelt today
signed the farm relief-inflation-
ary bill, described by most
authorities as the greatest
single piece of economic legis-
lation ever enacted by an
American Congress.
Under it's far-reaching provi-
sions, the President obtains almost
czar-like powers over monetary in
flation, and, through the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, extraordinary
powers to curtail agricultural pro-
duction in the basic crops of the
country.
Halts Foreclosures
Coincident with signing the bill,
the President issued a statement
urging farm mortgage holders to
abtSain from foreclosures pending
the time the Administration can
put the measure into effective
operation. He promised that this
would be done with all speed.
The Presidents statement fol-
lows:
II have just signed the farm
relief bill, which includes the
refinancing of farm debts.
"The act extends relief not
only to farm borrowers but to
mortgage creditors as well.
"HOlderS of farm mortgages
will have the privilege of ex-
changing them for Federal Land
Bank bonds, the interest pay
ments upon which are to be
guaranteed by the Treasury of
the United States.
Farmers whose mortgages are
to be exchanged for these bonds
will reap the benefits of lower
(COnfinued on Page 2, Col. s.
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
II Hurt, Bus in Fog
Crashes Into Ditch

WARREN, Ohio, May IL Q.N.S.)
Seventeen persons were hurt, six
of them seriously, when a bus
of the Indian Coach Lines left
the road in a heavy fog and
crashed into ditch near here
today. The accident occurred on
the Cleveland road, IL miles west
of Warren,
The Washington times., 1933-05-12

The Washington Times is the only afternoon parer IN
this city publishing the news dispatches of Inter-
national News Service and Universal Service
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
PRESIDENT SIGNS FARM BILL; HITS FORECLOSURES
THE WEATHER

Cloudy and somewhat warmer, probably oeca
sional showers tonight and Saturdays light varia
BILE winds, becoming moderate southerly Sat-
urday. Temperature yesterday-Hghest 65;
lowest, 54 G932-Highest, 55; lowest, 47)
Humidity yesterday-Highest, 9S; lowest, 62.
Full Weather Report on Page 10
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
HOUSE AWAITS
TARIFF PLEA

President Roosevelt will ask
Congress for authority to negotiate
reciprocal tariff treaties, Speaker
Rainey said today, adding that he
had heard nothing of a message
from the President asking author
ity to revise foreign debts.
The message of reciprocal tar
IFS, Rainey said, would follow the
public works bond issue message.
The Speaker said Congress may
be able to adjourn June 10-two
days before the economic confer
ence opens in London.
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
Father of 4 Marx
Brothers Dies at 72

HOLLYWOOD, May y G.N.SD
Samuel Marx, father of the four
Marx brothers, screen and stage
comedians. was dead today after
a long illness. He died at the
home of one of his sons, Harpo.
Marx was 72 and a native of
Alsace, France.
The Washington times., 1933-05-12
ChicdgO's Teachers
Get S3,346,677 Pay

CHICAGO, May IL GN.S).
Payroll checks for last September,
amounting TO $3,346,677, were dis
tributed to Chicago school teach
ers and school employees today
after bankers agreed to take up
sufficient tax warrants to provide
cash for four months pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
A United Dye Union

TILE immediate task, which Affects tbs present
strike the future interest of the dye workers in
Paterson, is the formation of united union.
To achieve this end it is necessary to bring together
the memberships of the National Textile Workers Union
those in the dyers local of the United Textile Workers
Union, and the large number Of unorgansed workers
in the dye shops.
This means in Paterson making reality of the slogan
Of united front in the struggle against the bosses and
the nliseaders in the ranks of the workers
The National Textile Workers Union declared that
it makes the offer to merge itself into one really big
united union.
BY creating union Of all Paterson dye workers one
which expresses and fights for their needs in the struggle
unity for the common good of all the workers in the
dye plants would be achieved in powerful organiza-
tional form.
OUCH union would be ralying force in the fight for
and the protection of better conditions won by the
workers in struggle
Officials opposing such policy are those not con-
cerned with the interests and needs of the workers
They are those concerned with the maintenance of
their own positions keeping the workers divided They
are interested in their bureaucratic unions and are
servants OF the NRA administration. Their policy of
working against the fullest organizatonal unity is of
value to the bosses who fear more than ANYTHING else
powerful united union Of all dye house workers.
The Paterson dye workers will best serve their class
interests by aggressvey supporting this unity proposals
OF the National Textile Workers Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
New Group Formed.
to Cooperate With
NY Marine Workers
All Are Invited to
Join; Soviet Movie
Will Be Shown

NEW YORK, Oct. "a provi-
sional committee of workers, profess
sionsl people, intellectuals, office
workers, etc. to be the adjunct to
the International SeaIr1en's Club, 140
Broad ST., N. Y. City, his been formed
to cooperate with the club in es-
tabnshing meeting place for sea-
men. ...
This new group should appeal
strongly to all those who are inter
ested In developing the spirit of in
transformation, and the struggle
against the shipping OF war NUM-
tionS.
As beginning toward the building
Of library for the Senmen's Club,
the Committee will show the famous
Soviet movie, Potemkin at $3.50 pm.
this Wednesday night, Oct. rs. Ad-
mission will be 80 cents.
All persons interested in forming
a vital link with the workers in the
munitions and marine industries are
invited to join the committee which
meets at the Broad Street headquar-
tiers.
Contributions of book case, cloth
ing, books, ETC., are sorely needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Barbusse to Speak
for John Reed Club
Will Talk at Mass
Meeting in Irving
Plaza Oct. 20

NEW York; enri Barbusse,
world-famed writer and fighter
against imperialist war, will be the
main speaker at a symposium on Eu-
ropean revolutionary literature to be
held under the auspices of the John
Reed Club and Clarte, French work
ers' club, next Sunday evening, Oct.
18th.
The meeting will take place at Irv-
ing Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St.,
at $50.
Other well-know11 writer's expected
to participate in the symposium are
Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman and
Joshua Kur1itz Sherwood Anderson,
Waldo Frank, Malcolm Cowley, Gran
vile Hicks, have also been invited.
Barbusse, who recently came to the
United States from Paris to attend the
American Congress Against War, is
the author of several books which
place him among the first rank Of
world revolutionary writers. His book
Under Fire" was denounced by the
French military authorities for its
terrific Indictment OF the World War.
The book was widely read, however,
and was awarded the Goncourt prize.
Under Fire has since been trans
lated into 20 languages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24

permit wan street to drive .heaA in aggressive Inn
pertstst expansion.
NIFTY did Roosevelt leap into the breach last night
" with his announcement?
The is simple. II Is because the failure Of
the Roosevelt NRA. program a solution Of the eccs
nomic crisis is becoming and obvious TO the
masses Of American workers and farmers.
The American masses have had six months OF Roose-
velt's program. And every Of Roosevelts rosy
promises has turned to ashes Roosevelt has not been
able to give the American workers what he promised
them-bread and economic security
That Is why the coming winter brings Roosevelt
face to face with the most tremendous of coal
and steel strikes in generation That is why the
farmers of the nation at this very moment rising
in tides Of rebellion against the Roosevelt
MIRA. program.
Roosevelts speech last night was an attempt to
blind the American to the failure of the MIRA.
His speech was attempt to fill them with more empty
hopes. He tried to make them forget his earlier
promises.
ROOSEVELT spoke about the NR.A. success in CIV
ing jobs. With utter disregard Of the facts of his
Department of Labor, he claimed 100000 new
jobs.
Why does not Roosevelt give proofs for his state-
ment2
Labor Perkins, who is remarkable for her fidelity to
the Roosevelt ballyhoo claim only 2,50oyo0o7 And
she gved not the slightest proof either.
Why did General johnson estimate 5,0000O02 And
what has become Of Roosevelt's own promise OF
100000 by Autumn
Roosevelt's figures are not worthy Of belief, In
dustry in declining. Where these workers being
hired? Not in steel not in auto not In textile, not in
railroads, not farms. Where? Only in RooseveIt'S
imagination.
ROOSEVELT talks of public works. But Of the total
three billion, only little billion has been
"allocated"-not spent. OF the $4,000 5000 actually
spent, by far the lions share has gone for WAR
PREPARATIONS! Roosevelt did not mention that
ROOSEVELT praises his Farm re-1nancins program
~ But he does not mention that this program has
not relieved the debt burdens of the farmers
one bit. Roosevelt has merely transferred the mort
gage from a private mortgage holder to government
corporation The debt, however, remains, while the
mortgage holder is protected against losses
That is just why the farmers are now up in arms!
Roosevelt tried maneuyers He tried to estab-
lish separation between the NRA and the rest of
his program. But every worker knows and remembers
that Roosevelt announced his program as whole as
a unit. Every workers see through the Roosevelt
attempts to back out Of his promises
Where as he denies the starving workers and their
families any Unemployment insurance, he is building
the most gigantic program in the history of the
country. Faced with the resistance OF the workers
military violence against the workers
He has spoken against strikes. He prepares for
war, for more brutal suppression of the American
toiling masses That is what Roosevelt offered the
American workers and farmers last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
u. S., Japan, U.S.S.R.

THE likely Inauguration Of diplomatic relations between
the United States and the Soviet Union must lead
to imagine that any fundamental change will or
can in the antagonsm of imperialist America to
the workers socialist fatherand.
The attitude of American capitalism which Roosevelt
carries out faithfully, and with thicker layer of dema
gogy than Hoover managed remains precisely the
It is expressed with crude frankness in an editorial
in the Duluth Tribune Of October 16a newspaper
which is part of the chain owned by Paul Block pub
Usher.
The average American does not wish to see war be-
tween Japan and Russia" this editorial says If how
ever such state should arise, he hopes that Japan will
give the Soviet lesson that will forever after keep it
west OF the Stanovo mountains . The American
people wish Japan to quit pn-prickng the United States
while they do not object to Japanese expansion along
reasonable and legitimate lines indicated in these
paragraphs"
THE competition of japanese Imperialism to American
exploitation Of China and other areas of the Pacific
shores one occasion for the race in naval building on
Gn unprecedented scale which Washington and Tokyo
have embarked.
But if the japanese could rob the Soviet workers
of Eastern Siberia and re-ensave It's workers capt.
aGst exploitation that would be reasonable and egiti
mate to the American imperalists, who hope that
Japan will give the Soviet lesson"
This is not complete statement of the international
ntrgues Of Wall Street diplomacy but it expresses in
tude and open way the undytng class antagonism which
the motivating force all capitalist n1aneuvers with
respect to the Soviet Union.
Recognition of the Soviet Union will give Wall Street
some badly needed trade but it does not make Wash
ngton friend of the Soviet Union, no more than is
bloody Hitler whose government also recognizes the
Soviet Union
There is only one force that can work against war
and for the defense of the Soviet Union the workers
fatherland That is the intending militant vigilance of
the working class whose program of struggle against
Is crySallized In the organization of the American
League Against War and Fascism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Another Roosevelt Speech

pE4HT after Roosevelt tniahed radio speech last
" night two things happened
One is that the prices Of commodities leaped up
yard again. The stock market doomed Wall Street
spectators reaped golden harvests.
The other is that the value of the dollar on the
hntt irrational markets sank
And in these two immediate consequences of the
Roosevelt plan to buy gold to initiate the cur
rency the toling WORKERS farmers of America can
see what Roosevelt has in store for them.
Further cruel cheapening Of the dollar further
sashes in REAL wages further rises in the cost of
living.
An intensified, bitter strife for foreign markets. in
ternational currency war against rival imperalist
powers that can only lead to another world WAR;
WHAT does Roosevelts program of rising prices mean
" for the American workers and farmers? It means
masked robbery and increased exploitation.
For the workers 1t means that their meager wages
buy less and less.
For the farmers 1t means that thew must nav more
for their supplies, machines, clothes etc.
The workers and --rmers have already had a bitter
taste OF this Roosevelt plan In the last Eve months
Roosevelt has erked the of food by 20 per cent?
But wages even according to the most optimistic re-
ports Of Roosevelt's Department of Labor have not
risen than per cent The Roosevelt nrogrsr, Of
rising prices has put uniform masked Is per cent
wage cut on the entire American working cIass
But did the farmer get the BENEFITS of this rise il,
food prices? Not bit
AoooocFC4VS oHu oecI6Gdry OF Agriculture admitted
III public speech made only two weeks ago that the
Roosevelt MIRA. program has caused an Is per cent
gap between the things the farmer sells and the things
he must buy eecting deep slash in hi. REAL incon,e
Roosevelt declares that the solution of the crisis
lies in rising prices for farm and manufactured goods
together.
But both the farmer and the workers are skinned
IN the process. IL is the monopoly capitalist corpora
tons In the middle who get all the gravy out of the
Roosevelt pr'ce-raising pregnant That is Roosevelts
real purpose.
WHAT does the Roosevelt price-raising program do
- Tor American Wall Street Imperialism 1t plays
right into its hands. When Roosevelt cheapens the
dollar by buying gold he is in effect reducing the cost
OF production for the American capitalists because they
are thus enabled to pay their workers in CHEAPENED
MONEY
Roosevets scheme to buy gold is equivalent to the
setting up of financial machinery similar to the
British Equalization Fund. This means intensified cur
rency ana trade wars 1t Is the workers and farmers
OF both countries who account of rising costs of
living will bear the brInt Of the attack
Roosevelt robs the workers at home In order to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
An Intervention Signal

QaIESIS have always led the way for advancing
armies by laying down the moral preparation fer
war.
That explains the Congress OF priests now being
held at Vienna which has decided to raise funds "for
the famine victims in Russia"
This appeal for funds "a perennial phenomenon
with priests is significantly timed to coincide with
the sinister provocations Of japanese imperialism
in the Far East, the increasing menace of Fascist
war preparations in the West.
1t comes at time when every government d
brlstllng with war preparations.
That is what makes it an omnoys SIGNAL The
priests, who have very close connections with the
White Guard conspirators at Paris Shanghai etc
smell military intervention against the Soviet Union
moving closer
1t will be remembered that recently the Pope
tried similar campaign for the hunger victims" of
the Soviet Union
But the colossal victories of Soviet coectvization
the enormous harvests and the breaking speed
OF collection, forced him to beat gnominious and
hasty retreat.
The priests at Vienna deliberately close their ewes
to the fact that the workers and peasants of the
Soviet Union have destroyed all poverty and starva-
ZION by destroying capitalism. They have abolished
unemployment and wage slavery
The workers of the world will ask these priests
why they are so Indifferent to the millions of actual
famine victims in every country where capitalism
rules
Iney VIII ask why these priests persist In lying
ABOUT The Socialist victories of the Soviet Union
They will ask these questions because they see
the sinister military intervention that SO obviously
turks beneath the hyporcritca1 sorrows of the we'll fed
priests at Vienna
An important part of the fight for the defence
OF e workers Fatherland is the merciless exposure
OF the lies and plots of these priests at Vienna.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24

he was a provocateur or a police
stool-pigeon."
L'Echo de Paris: Sensational Ex-
posure of Spies The sensation of the
forenoon was the testimony of a wit
ness who said that among the terror
list elements of the workers of Neu-
koelln (proletarian district Of Ber-
lin.-Ed9 agitating for acts of vio-
lence, a man named Haman was es-
pecially prominent-who was later
exposed to be working together with
the Hitherto Storm Troopers"
Chicago Tribune: Accusation
against spy makes impression on all.
A daring Communist accusation that
Nazi agents provocateur had mingled
with Communist workers in Berlin, in
order to incite them to terrorist acts,
created sensation. This accus-
alton, in the heart of Nazi Germany.
impressed everyone in the court
room"
From the News Chronicle Gon-
dom: 1.-THE real rascals are kept In
The background. This trial resembles
a melodrarnatic installment story in
which the solution is continually
postponed and the real rascals are
kept in the background"
From the Manchester Guardian:
"Dimitroff's defense hindered in ey-
cry way. II the treatment of Dini-
troff is justifiable according to Ger
man law, then this law makes posi-
BILE grave injustices to accused per-
sons Dinitroff now has no. attor-
ney defending him, and is hindered
in every way in his own self-defense.
One can no longer say -. that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24


of desert sands and mountain heights.
Electrical and rubber "gadgets" and
variations in construction g were
watched all the way and their per-
fornances charted. Probably the
most interesting was the thoroush
workout given huge balloon tires of
Soviet made synthetic rubber. Tires
of various sizes also were compared
with each other on all the various
types of roads, and on no roads at
all.
The Moscow-Kara Kun Moscow
run had five main purposes, as ex-
planned at the Moscow celebration to-
day by Mirietsky, commander of the
motorcade that made the trip.
First, it was to ascertain the quail
ity of Soviet cars-and the Soviet
made autos and trucks were found in
every respect as good as foreign
makes and In some ways better.
Secondly, 1t was to test out the
electrical equipment of the cars. This
also was found satisfactorv.
Thirdly, It was to give a most
rigorous and grinding trial to the
Soviet synthetic rubber. and Miriet-
sky reports, Our synthetic rubber wes
found to be fully as good as imported
natural rubber" What this means TO
a country that hitherto had to pur-
chase abroad all of this substance 50