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Evening star., 1934-05-16
Macarthur Seeking %,75O,OOO
On Charge of Libel in Paper
Army Chief of Staff
Names Pearson and
Allen in Suit.
Damages Are Claimed
For Statements on
Seren Occasions.

Gen Douglas Macarthur, chief Of
staff of the Army, today filed suit for
sl,75O,OOO in libel damages against
the Washington Times Co. and Drew
Pearson and Robert s. Allen. authors
of a syndicated column appearing in
the Washington Herald.
Gen MacArthur's suit, filed in Dis
trict Supreme Court, charges he was
libeled on seven occasions by articles
appearing in the column The Daily
Washington Merry-Go-R Round"
The first article, according to the
suit, charged Gen. Macarthur with
attempting to succeed himself as
Chief Of Staff, although Army custom
specifies this job shall rotate.
Macarthur, however, feels that he
should be an exception to this rule"
according to statement in the
column as set forth in the suit And
he has been pulling every conceivable
Evening star., 1934-05-16
FLYER PREVENTS SUICIDE LEAP
BY KNOCKING OUT PASSENGER

tinguisher and struck Schwer on the
head The pilot struggled for three
minutes to get the inert body into
the front cockpit.
The plane was but 500 feet up,
when Williams again took the con-
trolls.
Landing at the airport, Schwer told
officers he had been brooding over
low scholastic marks. Police, how
ever, said they believed the youth was
respondent over . love affair.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
TWO FLYERS KILLED

TOXIC, May 16 CP.-Two Jap
anese officers were reported killed to-
day when their airplane was shot
down in Manchukuo.
Dispatches from Harbin to the
newspaper Asahi said the officers were
scouting over a concentration of Chi
nese irregulars west of Hailer when
their plane was fired upon.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 16.-OVer-
come on a mountain trail in a des-
perate race from flames famed by a
strong wind, three Sera camp MEM
bers persisted in the forest blaze near
Julian Monday, it was learned early
today when their charred bodies were
discovered by fellow fire fighters.
The victims were identified by camp
members and Deputy Coroner c. P.
Hebert as Clarence L. Harris, 81,
Topeka, Kans.; John H. Leapley. 81,
Jacksonville, Greg, and Ambrose Will
liams, 81, Westel, Tenn. They were
members of a Sera camp near Julian
go miles northeast of the city.
The men, with about % others in
the crew. had raced to safety from
flames which threatened to trap them
in q gulch. williams, Harris and
Leapley darted up the trail instead
Evening star., 1934-05-16
BY the Associated Press.

MUNCIE. Ind, May 16.-A fight
1900 feet in the air halted the at
tempt of Regis L. Schwer. 10, to COM
NIT suicide by jumping from an air
plane late yesterday. Raymond VIII
liams, pilot, left the control of his
plane to beat Schwer into uncon-
Sciousness.
Seeing the youth with one foot on
the wing of the ship, William set the
plane in glide, grabbed a fire ex-
Evening star., 1934-05-16
PLAN TO CUT OWN PAY
Members of French Parliament
Discuss 10 Per Cent.

Discuss TO Per Cent.
PARIS, May 16 (P.-Parliament
today was trying to screw up courage
to cut its own salaries
Chamber and Senate officers pro-
posed a voluntary" minimum reduc-
tion of 10 per cent.
This would apply only to salaries
of 27,Oo0 francs $1.78O), or over 1t
would not affect the expense allow
ance of $4,000 francs yearly.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
Plot to Remove Democrats
Is Charged to G.. o. p. Leaders
Dalrymple Says Group
Met at Home of Es-
Var Secretary.
" WatsOn and Hurley
Deny Statement Made
at Hearing.

In oristling testimony today before
the Mcclellan civil service hearing,
Maj. A. v. Dalrymple, a special assist
ant to the Attorney General, charged
a plot was Matched" recently at the
Virginia estate of former Secretary
of War Patrick j. Hurley to keep
Republicans in the Federal service
and throw out the Democrats
Among those present when the
"plot" ot"-also referred to as scheme"
and an absolute conSpiracy"-was
Continued on Page 4, Column 1)
Evening star., 1934-05-16
ONE REPORTED KILLED
IN ALABAMA TORNADO
Several Said to Have Been In
iured as Windstorm Strikes
at Livingston.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May l6.-Re-
ports received here by the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad said one
colored man was killed and several
persons injured this morning when a
tornado struck Livingston, Ala, about
125 miles southwest of Birmingham.
Ali telephone lines into Livingston
were down.
An unconfirmed report said the
root was blown off Bibb Graves Hall
st the State Teachers College at Liv-
ingston and several were injured.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
Frenchmen Plan U. S. Flight.

PARIS, May 16 (P.-France's crack
distance flyers, Paul Codos and Maui
rice Rossi, are considering plans for
a Paris to Los Angenes or San Fran
cisco fight in an attempt to smash
their own nonstop record.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
WEATHER.

10. >. WtdCHtT rUIeCdstT
Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising
temperature tomorrow from early morn
ing; gentle northeast. shifting to south
east and south winds. Temperatures
Highest, 81. at noon yesterday; lowest, 81,
at 7:30 am. today. Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1934-05-16

CONTINUED on Page 4, Column p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Unite All Forces Against
Police Terror!

A MOUNTING wave of terror against the
IA employed and unemployed workers is
sweeping the country
Two workers are dead one lies diving with
police bullet in his back, and woman is wounded
IN the leg after police opened fire on delegation
OF 40 men, women and children in the Prospect
Branch of the Cuyahoga County Relief Association
Cleveland
The delegation was the same as countless Other
delegations from the Unemployment Councils in
their fight against misery and hunger But
premeditated plan of murder and terror was car
ried out by relief administrator Cannon, working
jointly with the police.
MASS actions by the unemployed of Cleveland
IVA forced the City Council on June is to adopt res
olutions favoring the cash payment of rents to
small home owners, against relief cut of % per
cent which was to go into effect on June 16 and
against evictions
Against this rising wave of struggles for ade-
quate relief the relief administration planned
premeditated campaign of terror
One Of the murdered workers was Negro
woman The attack was made in the heart of
Negro neighborhood obviously an attempt to strike
terror into the hearts of the jobless Negroes
The local papers first claimed that an uninden-
tilted man attempted to seize gun from the ho-
Ster of one of the cops who came stornling into
the relief bureau. Later this story was changed
ana the press claims that Arsentin one of the
murdered workers, had grabbed gun from one
of the police and blazed away police fired back
and several workers fell Subsequently. in its at
tempts to whitewash the police and arouse lynch
hysteria against the Communist Party and the
Unemployment Councils, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
states that Arsenti fired and killed Mrs williams
even going SO far to state Ironically they shot
a fellow Communist
For future policies towards the unemployed the
Cleveland Plain Dealer calls for continued assaults
upon the unemployed citing Chicago Detroit and
New York
The Communist Party, the International La
Dor Defense and the Unemployment Councils call
upon the workers everywhere to send protests
against these od-booded murders of jobIess
workers They call upon the workers in the
A. r. of L. unions, workers in the Socialist Party
organized and mnorganized workers everywhere to
forge the solid united front against - '',-
wave of terror Smash police terror. Unite for
adequate cash relief and for the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

all future struggles Of the workers in the United
States.
For the victory of the general strike, above all
the main necessity is that the control of the strike
shall rest in the hands Of the most trusted the
most reliable, and most militant rank and file
representatives Of every union.
Workers throughout the United States! Mass
your forces behind your brothers in the heroic
General Strike in San Francisco! Leave no stone
Unturned in your union, in your shop, in your
neighborhood, to win support for the general
strike, in arousing the enthusiasm and sympathy
and solidarity of every worker behind their
brothers in San Francisco.
Rally behind the workers in San Francisco,
Defeat the terror and prOvOcation and lies of
the bosses.
Spread the marine strike to every port!
Act to insure the victory of the general
strike-Which will be a victory for the entire
working class of the United States!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Why No Answer?

THE Communist Party, through its Gen.
trail Committee statement issued more
than three weeks ago, offers to meet the
leaders of the Socialist Party for the i'm
mediate, practical arrangement of United
Front actions against the advance of fas-
cist reaction.
Three weeks.
Three weeks of great class battles on the Pa
cifc Coast, of new bursts of savagery in Fascist
Germany, of growing hunger and joblessness, of
new ynchings and strike-breaking.
Still the Socialist Party Executive Committee
does not answer.
There many groups within the Socialist
Party which call themselves left wing. There are
many rank and hlers within these groups who
sincerely and eagerly desire united front actions
with Communists their class brothers, in the fight
against capitalism.
1t is up to these rank and ilers in the Socialist
Party to demand action on the Communist call to
United Front. If these workers or groups have any
doubts, or mistruSt to the Communist Party
detectives instruct which is only the result of mis-
representation the part of those who wiGh to
hamper the United Front, then by all means let
there be common meeting ground where these
difficulties can be honestly met and thrashed out
in the open light of day
There must no obstacles to the class unity of
the working class. Then why no answer to the
United Front call?
THE "Old Guard" of course does not want
united front. They have shown that by a long
history of sabotaging actions They have shown
that by whole policy of Misrepresentation of
the position Of the Communists
OUT the new opposition groups within the So
cialst Party the newly elected National Execu-
tive Board, are supposed to be founded on a plat
form OF opposition to the policies of the "old
Guard"
Why then has there been no action as yet
on the part Of these opposition groups in the
direction of meeting the Communist Party invita-
ton to a United Front Conference?
Why do not the leaders of the Revolutionary
Policies Committee demand of the newly elected
National Committee that the Communist letter
be answered?
Norman Thomas last year used to insist that
it was only the votes of the "OId Guard" in the
National Committee that prevented a United
Front Conference between the two parties But
now it is he who has the upper hand in the
National Committee Why answer to the recent
Central Committee statement of the Communist
Party?
The Communist Party is ready for united ac-
ton. 1t urges that all Socialist Party members
demand the right to open, democratic discussion
on this vital question 1t honestly and sincerely
urges steps toward immediate action. The work
ing class OF this country has not moment to lose
Fascist reaction is swiftly advancing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Yankee Imperialism Groonrs Its Colonies for Var

governments; consolidation of its
own influence at the expense of rival
imperialisms; and the arming of its
puppets for active participation in
war. 1t is significant that in two of
the most strategic points for Ameri-
can imperialism and where the revo-
lutionary movement has reached a
very high level, the demagogy and
terrorism against the masses have
reached their greatest heights. Cuba,
gateway to the Panama Canal and
Latin America, and the Philippine
Islands, a key to the Far East.
Philippines as War Base
The Importance of the Philippine
Islands to American imperialism is
chiefly that of war base. While
there are large American invest
ments there, the main consideration
goes to the relation of the Philip
pines to the war plans of the
United States. The great distance
between the United States and its
Far East interests lends special sig
nif1cance to this vantage point in
the Pacific as point of attack
against Japan. In an imperialist
attack on the Soviet Union, the
Philippines would also play an i'm
portant role.
Here Yankee imperialism is at
tempting to stabilize its rule through
a campaign of brutal terror against
the Filipino masses, falling and SEN
fencing their leaders to long terms,
attacking demonstrations of unem-
ployed, etc, and through foisting a
new fake independence bill on the
Islands witt the aid of the native
ruling classes.
At the Seventh Pan-American
Conference held in Montevideo last
December, the Roosevelt Govern
ment attempted to lay the ground
for the wholesale participation of
the Latin American countries in
the next war. Uttering noble phrases
about the good neighbor" and MAX
ing promises about tariff reductions
and on-intervention, which it has
non and never intended to fulfill,
American imperialism tried to line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16


these countries up to be used against
its two chief rivals-Great Britain
and Japan. Latin America and espe-
cially South America where the
United States meets its greatest
competition. is rich in oil, copper,
nitrates, tin, wheat and other raw
materials. The United States is
desperately trying to secure this sup
ply to herself.
These countries are also of great
Importance as bases of military OPP
erations, especially Cuba, Mexico,
and the countries on the west coast
OF South America. One of the pro-
posals Yankee Imperialism tried
hardest to put across at the Con-
ference was for the construction of
a Pan-American Highway extending
along the west coast of the United
States, through Central America
and down the coast of South Amer
lea. The military significance of
such a highway is obvious.
The Panama Canal Zone is a key
point in American imperialism's
war machine. Preparations here in
clude measure providing for the
deportation of West Indian Negroes.
subjects Of Great Britain, and the
moving of the entire fleet through
the Canal under wartime conditions
in practice for the impending con-
fiict. This was followed by maneu-
vers in the caribbean which served
as military punctuation to the
honeyed sentences of the good
neighbor."
The mass slaughter between Bo-
liyia and Paraguay, which has al
ready taken its toll of thousands of
workers and peasants, and which
has continued undated for two
years. is a bloody example of how
the imperialists utilize puppet gov
ernments to carry through their ag-
gressions.
Aids Chang Against Soviets
In China, United States warships
continuously stand guard over Wall
Streets interests and the Roosevelt
government. together with the other
inperialist bandits, attacks the Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Wall Street Aims to Use
Philippines and Cuba
AS War Bases
By Burck

nese people through the murderous
Marking Government. Chang Ksi
Shek bombards the Soviet districts
with American airplanes, trains his
fliers with American officers, and
buys ammunition with the wheat
and cotton loans granted by the
United States. His inability to crush
the Chinese Red Army is resulting
in discussions for a new lean from
the United States.
The struggle against imperialist
war is inseparably linked up with
the struggle for withdrawal of all
armed forces from the colonies and
semi-colonies, with the struggle in
support of the liberation movement
in the countries under the domi-
nation of American imperialism. To
fight effectively against the war
preparations of the imperialists, we
must strike at their colonial arsenal.
The masses Of these countries are
the most important allies of the
American proletariat in the strug-
gle against imperialist war and I'M
der conditions of brutal terror are
conducting a heroic battle against
war. In Colombia, 10000 people
demonstrated on the streets of Bo-
gotta ON the 1st of May against the
war preparations of the Colombian
Government. In Cuba. Mexico, China
snd the Philippines the fight against
imperislist war is being waged. We
in the United States must grasp
the hands of our colonial brothers
for a might united struggle against
the war plans of the innerialisss.
Withdraw the ormed forces from
Cuba and all Latin America-from
the Philippine Islands and China!
Stop the shipment Of anlmunitions
to South America and the Far East!
For the complete liberation of the
colonial and semi-colonial masses
from the yoke of Yankee imperial
ism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Demands of Masses for
Freedom Are Crushed
By Roosevelt Govt

THE Roosevelt tour on board the
warship Houston dramatically
emphasis the intensified war prepa-
rations being carried out by Ameri-
can imperialism in its colonies and
semi-colonies. Like an officer re-
viewing his troops, the Commander
in Chief of the U. S. Navy rides in
state from Haiti to the Hawaiian
Islands, surveying the colonial out
posts of Wall Street, appraising their
value in the coming war, fattering
the local chieftains and making
empty promises to improve their
morale"
Rich in the raw materials indis-
pensable in the waging of war, of
special Importance as bases of mill
tary operations and an additional
source of human cannon fodder, the
colonies play a role of strategic i'm
portance in the imperialist plans
for new world conflict. With bru-
tai irony they are called upon to
supply the very raw materials that
are used in a war for their own
redivision and further subjugation
and actively participate in such a
war. Sugar from Cuba, oil from
Mexico, nitrates from Chile take
their place as ammunition side by
side with bullets from Hartford. In
the last imperialist war. troops from
Puerto Rico we're slaughtered to-
gether with American workers for
the protection of Wall Streets dol
lars.
Three-foId Character
Carried out behind a screen Of
unparalleled demagogy. the prepare
tons of the Roosevelt Government
in it's colonial domain have three
fold character: that of "pacif1cation'
crushing with terrorism the mass
revolutionary movement and rein
forcing Yankee control through in
stalling and manipulating reliable"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Force Release of
3 More Communist
Leaders In Canada
Canadian Workers Are
Rallying to Support
of Frisco Strikers
Special to the Daily wOrker)

Especial to the Daily WOrkerl
TORONTO, Canada, July IS. =
Mass pressure, which about a week
ago forced the release Of Sam Carr
and Matthew Popovich, scored again
yesterday when three more Of the
Communist leaders sent up for long
terms were released. The three are
Malcolm Bruce, John Boychuk and
Tom Hill.
Despite suppression by the autho-
rites of the news of their release,
over 1000 workers demonstrated
and cheered the released working
class leaders in an impressive dem
onstration at the station here.
Tim Buck, secretary of the
Canadian Communist Party, and
Even, were refused release on
various sham pretexts. The Cana
dian Labor Defense League is mobil
izing a giant mass campaign to
force the authorities to open the
prison gates for these two fighters
Of the working class.
A huge Free Thaelmann" and
welcome demonstration for the
three released leaders will be held
here on Tuesday.
Canadian workers are massing
from coast to coast In protest
against the Roosevelt terror in
the United States, and for support
of the heroic struggles of San
Francisco and other workers.
NEW YORK.-The International
Labor Defense yesterday sent tele-
gram to its sister organization in
Canada, the Canadian Labor De-
Tense League, hailing the victory Of
the mass fight in forcing the release
of three more of the famous King
ston prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

order to shield the real actor be-
hind the scenes, Herr Thyssen,
whom Hitler visited the day before
he received orders from this Ger
man Morgan, to open up the
slaughter on the leader of his mass
armed bands.
So far as General Won Schleicher
was concerned, Hitler's only charge
was that he and others had talked
with representative of foreign
power. who is named by the cap
italist press as the French Amcas5a-
cor Poncet, and that nobody in
Germany could talk with an agent
of any foreign power, be it about
the weather or old coins, without
meeting death at the hands of
Hitler.
That the result of Hitler's speech
will be to still further widen the
gap between him and the masses
who were duped into following him,
is now clearly recognized by the
capitalist press. For example, the
New York Times headlines a dis
patch from Berlin, dated July ID,
from its correspondent, Otto D.
Tolischus, as follows: Mass phase
ended in Nazi revolution. An au-
tocracy of tie few now Jules people,
Hitlerites included, with iron hand
Power to armed forces. Specter Of
Communism against raises its head
as result of Storm Troop purge"
IN the streets of Berlin, the rapid
swing away from Hitler. the grow
ing resistance to fascism is sensed
by the foreign correspondents. One
OF them writes: Foreigners have
been Impressed in the lasS few days
by the fact that the He'll Hitler'
greeting is becoming less fire.
quent."
Despite all of Hitler's bravado,
despite his rsving and ranting, the
fact remains that in Germany the
economic catastrophe is growing
worse; starvation and famine are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
By A. S.

| by IA D.
ASIDE from the fact that the cap
II italist press throughout the
world looked upon Hitler's blood
bath justification speech as border
| ing on hySte.ia and insanity, they
were greatly disturbed because it
was a miserable defense of faS-
cism.
The Hitler wholesale butcheries,
the whole rotten structure of fas-
cism, was 50 thoroughly barred that
the capitalists in other countries
find it increasingly difficult 20
speed their own fascist development.
Openly, before the entire world.
Hitler was forced to admit that
the greatest danger to his bloody
regime was the Communists.
Hitler who had promised his
duped middle-class followers that
he would solve the economic crisis,
that he would improve the living
standards of the masses, is now
forced to come out and admit that
the economic catastrophe in Ger
many is becoming worse.
eff today I read in certain for
eign newspapers" he said, "that I
am filled in these times with serious
anxieties. especially economic, I can
only reply: Yes"
HITLER spoke like a criminal at
II bay, as one who was seeking to
defend not only his bloody slaugh-
trs which had SO aroused the entire
world, but as one conscious that
the entire rotten fascist dictator
ship was on trial
His speech with which he pro-
posed to close the whole bloody in
eident of June 80, was SCATTERING
blow to those of his followers who
still hoped that there wss a shred
of truth left to the lurid promises
he made before he came to power.
Hitie-- declared that the so-called
revolution was definitely over.
He stated that fascism would burn
and cut out with fire and sword