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Evening star., 1934-08-16
FINCH APPOINTED
MINES DIRECTOR
Idaho Official to Succeed
Scott Turner, Who Re-
signed Last Month.

President Roosevelt today appointed
John Wellington Finch of Idaho to
be director Of the Bureau of Mines.
Since 1890 Finch has been director
of the Idaho State Bureau Of Mines
and dean of the Idaho University
School of Mines.
He replaces Scott Turner of Lansing,
Mich. named by President Coolidge
In 1925 and who resigned last month.
From 1901 to 1905 Finch was State
geologist for Colorado and from 1925
to 1929 professor of mining geology at
the Colorado School of Mines.
The new directors technical expert
ence includes that of geologist for the
Rock Island Railroad in Texas and
Oklahoma and consulting geologist
and engineer for several mining COM
panies. His experience covers serv-
ice in various parts of the United
States as well rs in Canada, Mexico,
South Africa and numerous Asiatic
countries.
Finch also is q former Department
Of Justice investigator who sifted
frauds in mining stock sales. He also
has taught at Colgate and Chicago
Universities.
Finch's appointment was to have
been announced before President
Roosevelt left Washington on his re-
cent cruise Political considerations
were reported to have held it up.
Postmaster General Farley, Demo-
cratic National Committee chairman,
checked up on Finch, according to
the Associated Press, and is said to
have been informed he had supported
President Hoover and tried to obtain
the Bureau of Mines position under
q previous Republican administration.
Finch had the strong support, how
Evening star., 1934-08-16
CHEMIST FACING
TRIAL IN KILLING
Young Clevelander Arrives
From Port-of.Spain for
Murder Hearing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August i6-Arthur
Wilson, young Cleveland steel chemist,
was brought back in irons to the
United States aboard the liner Pan
America today to answer to the
charge of numbering pretty Irene De
Bolt in the desert near Van Horn
Tex, nine months ago.
Young Wilson was brought from
Port-of- Spain, Trinidad. where he
was taken from the Canadian Ma
tional liner Lady Nelson by police
on May 5.
Going under the name of Robert
Jones, he had sailed as q steward,
but was identified later as Wilson, an
identification he admitted to be cor
rect today.
He will be taken to El Paso. Tex,
for trial on charges of numbering the
30-year old Cleveland matron.
Wilson was wearing dark glasses
and a neat brown suit He spoke re-
servedly in answer to questions, but
wore a cheerful smile.
Il guess I'm in q spot" he said,
but there's one thing I'd like to say.
If you have any explanation of how
I could have profited by what hap
pened, wish you would call me up
at FL Paso."
Asked if he knew Mrs. De Bolt, he
said: "Oh. yes, knew her"
Wilson said he wanted to COM
municate with his mother, Mrs. A. M
| Wilson Of Akron, Ohio.
The smile left Wilson's face as he
explained that he had not written
his mother.
"I did not write" he said in O low
voice. because I had some hope that
maybe she would think 1t was some
one else. I would like to spare her
| this-but I would like to see her"
Evening star., 1934-08-16
NO INTEREST OR
CARRYING CHARGES

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Evening star., 1934-08-16
BELGIAN ENJOYS
BODYSTARTSH0ME
High Government Officials
at Rites as Casket Leaves
for Annapolis.

The body of Paul May, late Belgian
Ambassador to the United States
today left the Capital where he had
served as envoy for many years
homeward bound to his native land.
In solemn military ceremonies, at
tended by high officials Of the Ameri-
can Government and representatives
of virtually every embassy and lega-
ton in Washington. the casket was
removed from Arlington Cemetery
this morning. To the measured tread
of a mounted band and escort the
black-draped caisson bore the coffin
to the gates of Arlington, where a
motor cortege left at once for An
napolis.
There the body was to be placed
aboard the heavy cruiser Pensacola
and taken to Antwerp, with Dave H.
Morris, American Ambassador to
Brussels, and Richard Southgate, as
sistant chief of the State Department
Protocol Division. in the escort.
Widow and Daughter Present.
Nine. May and Mile. Francoise May,
widow and daughter of the diplomat,
were present at the Maine Memorial
crypt in Arlington this morning when
the casket was removed. The United
States Marine Band played during the
ritual at the vault, while a group of
dignitaries stood with bowed heads in
the drive. Behind the band, detach-
ments of Marines and bluejackets stood
at attention.
Two Cavalry troops from Fort Myer
headed the escort, which wound down
the steep cemetery drive to the beat of
muff1ed drums. Immediately behind
the caisson on which the casket lay
walked the widow and daughter, the
Prince Eugene Ligne, and following
them retainers of the Belgian embassy
bearing in hand the many decorations
Ambassador May received during his
worldwide career as a diplomat. The
Belgian embassy staff marched next
in line and thereafter representatives
Of the State Department.
Casket Transferred to Hearse.
When the procession reached the
gate, the mounted band sounded four
flourishes and played Beethoven's
Heavens Declare Thy Glory, Lord
The casket was transferred to a motor
hearse, and the escort stood at salute
while the band broke into the Bel
gian national anthem. A 19-gun sa-
lutte doomed from distant cannon as
the ritual concluded and the motor
cavalcade departed for Annapolis with
a large motor cycle escort of Wash
tngton police.
At Annapolis the final ceremonies
on American soil were to be held
Naval officers on duty at the academy
the academy band and eight COM
panies Of midshipmen clad In white
awaited arrival of the body. AS the
funeral cortege moves through the
academy grounds to the Santee Wharf
the minute guns will sound 10 times
and when the subchaser on which the
casket is to be borne to the Pensacola
draws alongside the manned rails OF
the warship her guns will roar in last
salute to the envoy. -
Will Sail Saturday.
Nine. May and her daughter will
sail Saturday on the lie de France
for their home.
Ambassador May died July 80 ir
Emergency Hospital, following ar
operation. Private funeral service!
were conducted at the embassy, with
only the family. friends and staff at
tending, two days later. The service.
were held according to the Jewish
ritual, as M. May was an orthodox
Jew.
Evening star., 1934-08-16
Deaths Reported.
81 Gallinrtr Hnsnital

Ida Butts, 81. Gallinger Hospital.
Susan r Mealing, 20, 1855 wyoming ave
Margaret E. Fitzgibbon. 66. lois sth St
Mary A. Burton, So. 54O6 Connecticut ave
Joe r. Brabson. so. Walter Reed Hospital
Leigh c. Brockman, A, Emergency Hos
pital.
Katie Brent. 6s. 2245 9th ST.
Mary Docket. as. Providence Hospital.
William H Oden. 40. Gallinger Hospital.
Virsie Hicks. s, Freedmen's Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-08-16
SOCIETY PLANS PICNIC

The Scottish Societies Of the District
will hold their annual picnic next
Saturday at Breckenridge, the home
of DR.. and Mrs Ernest L. Hendry, near
Thrifton, Va. The event will be fea-
tured by many Scottish games and
bagpipe music.
Evening star., 1934-08-16

ever, of Secretary Ickes and Senator
Pope, Democrat, Of Idaho
Turner told reporters he had not
yet formed plans for the future. He
said he had submitted his resigna-
ton on July 6 and that it had
been accepted as of August IS.
Evening star., 1934-08-16
Gold in Old Paving.

Excavations being made in streets
of San Luis City, Mexico. are yield
ing large quantities of silver and gold
from rock used for constructing thor
oughfares and houses in the seven
tenth century.
Evening star., 1934-08-16
Prince George in Germany.

Pflnce Ue0TRe III UtIMdHy'
MUNICH, Germany, August 16 up
Prince George of England. on the
continent for holiday. arrived here
by airplane from lie Bourget Field
this afternoon. The prince left Eng
land Wednesday and remained ovel
night at Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20

LOughran was postponed from the
oath of this month TO the 2Sth.
The excuse is an injured thumb
of Cameras.
And SO the memory of big gates still
fingers among the business men c.
Madison So. Garden They pray for
another Tex Richard, thinking it's
the individual that promotes big
fights. But you can't turn the system
around and make it good. There's still
little profit made among the top
notchers like the song and dance
lover from Hollywood, Max Baer; the
clumsy worlds champion, Camera;
the fishpeddler, Levinsky; the inno-
cent, proselyted college boy, Hamas:
and the good, mother-loVing, religious
boy, Barney Ross. Meanwhile the
small fry are willing to be punched
around for a few dollars so that they
can keep themselves living, compen-
sation for the fact that they can't do
anything else for a living. Punch
drunkenness got EN- down, They don't
feel right unless they feel the i'm
pact of gloyed fist against their
face and body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
Oscar Day Freed
As LID. SmaSheS
Frame-Up of Negro
(COntinnsd from Page u

by the testimony Of two Of the land
lords daughters for the defense, was
finally forced to dismiss the land
lords trumped-up charges against
Day whom he formerly employed as
janitor at the princely sum of $40 q
month, with the extra work of per-
sonal valet and houSekeeper thrown
in without any compensation.
Day told OF seeing many Negro
workers in the TonibS, held on minor
charges. While similar charges
against white persons are usually
dismissed or punished with minor
sentences of 10 or 80 days in jail,
Negro workers are being raiHoaded
to as much as one year in Jail with
The aid Of the Voluntary Defenders
attorneys who scare the clients they
are assigned to defend" and force
them to plead guilty.
In last desperate effort to have
Day railrosded to Jail, the landlord
raised the Red scare" at the hear
ing before the District Attorney,
declaring that one of his two daugh-
tiers who testified for Day, and who
Is a member of the Young Conlmu-
mist League, was doing this in
order to make q Communist out of
Day" But the District Attorney had
felt the pressure Of the mass in
dignation against the frame-up and
was forced to order Days release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
CleVe. S. P. Rejects
Unity in Austrian
Protest Delegation
BrOwder to Speak at the
Mass Meet on
Feb. Is

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb 10
delegation Of 40 workers, representing
worHngclass organizations, protested
to the Austrian Consul yesterday
against the Dollfuss bloody terror,
and demanding amnesty for all ar
rested Austrian workers.
The Consul ATTEMPTED TO dissuade
the workers by persuasive talk con-
corning ''his sympathy for victims
The delegates demanded that ne for
ward their protests TO the Austrian
Government. This vas refused.
In this delegation, the Socialist
Party had rejected united front Of
fer. j. Martinek, Socialist Party
leader, said, II will not have unity. "
Earl Broyder will be the main
speaker at a mass meeting against
the Austrian terror to be held Sun
day, Feb. IS, at pm, at the Pros
peet Auditorium, 1912 Prospect Ave.
Party leaders and representatives of
mass organizations are urged to come
to the Communist Party headquar-
tiers, 1914 Prospect Ave, on Wednes-
day, Feb. Is, for leaflets announcing
the Browder meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
SLovdk WO Branch Is First
To Get Red Press Certificate

NEW YORK--The first Red Press
Certificate" 70 be awarded the night
Of March 4 at the Red Press banquet
at the New Star Casino, will go to
a group of 100 Sloyak non-Party
workers. The group is the Slovak
Benedt Society, Branch 20,003, a sec
ton Of the International Workers Or
der, the first to answer the call to
help pay for the new printing press
OF the revolutionary movement.
The Slovak workers held meeting
the other night in their lodge head
quarters at 347 e. I'D st. A letter
addressed 10 them by the Central
Committee Of the Communist Party
came up for consideration. It said
that a new $4,000 press was being
bought for the printing Of the Daily
Worker, Freiheit and other revolu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
BY EDWIN ROLFE

Another grim and horrible prole-
tartan tragedy occurred in New York
City in the small, dark hours of
Saturday morning when flames, rag
ing through an old and decrepit tin
derbox of a tenement house at 40 w.
Seventh St., in the heart Of the east
side Working-claSs Stun district,
claimed eight lives.
The fire started in the basement,
but so flimsy was the construction of
the old tenement building-typical
Of hundreds of other tenements in
the same area-that within short
time the flames had burned through
the entire inner structure. piercing
the roof. When the fire engines ar
rived in answer to three-alarm
summons, the flames were shooting
out Of the windows, rising fifteen feet
above the roof.
One entire family, and three men,
bers OF another, unable to escape the
consuming flames, were burned to
death. The dead were Samuel SPELL
man, "A; his wife, Irene Spellman.
80, and their three children, irving,
-; Lillian, 10, and Stanley, 8, and
Mrs. Giovanna TerenelIa. So; Vincent
Terenella, II, and Anna Terenella. IL.
The Spellman family, aroused ear
Her than any of the other inhabitants
Of the building by the barking of
their dog, attempted to escape
through the roof. Their bodies. I'M
recognizably charred, were found in
the hallway of the third floor. They
had been unable to escape the flames
which hlazed through the rotten ma
terials Of which the tenement was
built.
Mrs, Terenella, aroused by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20

tionary papers. If sufhcent money TO
pay for that press was not forthcOm-
ne from friends Of the revolutionary
press, within three weeks, the install
lation Of the press would not be COM
pleted. This would mean q serious
blow to the revolutionary press. The
Sloyak workers, most Of them nom
Communists, listened intently to the
letter Then a worker stood up. He
made a motion that the entire pro-
ceeds Of a dance held by the branch
recently be given to the press fund.
The 200 workers applauded. And
therefore, yesterday morning, one Of
the Slovak workers brought $1,000, the
profits of the dance, TO the Daily
Worker for the new printing press.
This group will be given the first
certificate awarded to organizations
who contribute S. or more TO the
press fund, The Sloysk Benefit So
Ciety. Branch 2O,O03, will have the
certificate, as the letter says, TO
show with lustifiable working class
pride, that it shared in the project
10 AilhhC QAAl ENCA EIlEbo q lAAlAE EbMEA >
full weapon in our revolutionary
struggles"
Chicago, Ill.-ln reply TO your APP
peal for aid to pay for our new press,
we, a group of cigar makers of the
Cigar makers Union of Chicago, Lo-
cal IA, are able to send the small
amount of $40 to help our cause. Hop
ing other local unions will do likewise,
oomradely yours, VIM. Berenbam."
This letter reached the Press Com
nlittee, just as the Slovak worker
walked out. These union members
will be mailed their certificates.
These quick responses indicate that
these workers are alive to the needs
of the revolutionary press, viii your
organization follow the example Of
this promptness2 Get your organiSa-
ton to send is donation for the new
press, and application for its Red
Press Certificate AT ONCE to PRESS
COMMITTEE, Pc. Box 1856, Station
D, New York City. New York or
carnations should also send reserya-
tons for their delegates for the New
York Red Press Banquet to this adj
dress. Tickets are 81 per delegate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20

Army, following cancellation Of all
contracts awarded by Brown.
President Roosevelt seized the op-
portunity to turn the air-mail over
70 the arnly-and thereby demon
Strate the Civilian usefulness" of the
military machine which is being in
creased day by day in preparation for
sending the American masses to war
10 protect big business foreign
markets.
Brown met the shafts Of the Demo
cratic Committee chairman, Senator
Hugo Black OF Alabama, with per-
feet eQuanimity. Black, rambling over
the whole field Of the investigation
apparently to lay the groundwork for
promised sensations, developed that
Brown opposed competitive bidding as
a method of awarding contracts and
later called together a big confer
ence Of airline operators in which
arrangements were completed for the
awarding Of contracts.
In this so-called "spoils confer
ence the investigation has shown
the air-1Ia1 map Of the United States
was virtually divided arbitrarily into
three parts, each part was assigned
to a mammoth holding company, and
al other companies attempting to get
mail contracts (Which carry the sub
sidies) we're compelled to sell out to
one of the big three.
Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, d
Mellon Company, was in on the con-
ference, Black showed, although ii
merely owned couple Of mortgaged
sirports Other small companies who
had actually operated extensively
we're excluded.
Pressed about the Mellon COM
pany's lack Of qualifications, Brown
explained. they had no air lines
that's true, but they had been de-
veloping aviation, as they thought, in
Pittsburgh"
Developing aviation" applied, ap-
parently to their having got the
Chamber of Commerce to talk up
aviation Brown also testified that he
owned valuable blocks of stock in
the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
Penn-Road Corporation while handl-
ing the contracts in which aviation
companies partly owned by these rail-
road Interests were involved.
He admitted, too, that he and Bag
ley, a. professional lobbyist Repre-
sentative who died recently, leaving
Brown some thousands of dollars
gambled in the Joint stock account
during the time Brown was Post
master General. Asked whether he
owned stock in a company which had
a government contract to supply me-
ters to the government, Brown said
MI Bagley told me at lunch one
day that he had bought a Ettle-fol
our joint account I told Mr.. Bag
ley / was sorry he had bought this
stock as 1 didn't want to own stock
in any company having relations with
the government, Later he told me he
lad sold the stock"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
La Guardia Tells
Hotel Strikers to
Stop Picketing
Food Union Warns to
Beware of SelIout
in City Hall

NEW YORK.-Stop your picketing
SAID LaGuardia, and I'll settle the
strike. Such was the advice given
to the striking hotel workers.
The Amalgamated officials, incIud-
ing j. B. Field, agreed to this and
VIII appear before the Mayor TODAY
TO receive his final word. Picketing
however, continued at several of the
struck hotels.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
f1ghttng with might and main against
the acceptance Of such an agreement.
branded LaGuardia's plan as the plan
OF a str1kebreaker. The F.WI.U. de-
mands that a committee of striking
workers be presented at the hearing
today and if the agreement is not
satisfactory to continue the strike to
see that all workers will be returned
TO their Jobs safe against the black
list plans of the bosses.
LaGuardia viii Not Help
The strikers cannot expect to gain
anything by following LaCuardia's
advice. The Daily Worker publishes
today evidence to prove that LaGuar-
dia's police knew about the gangster
control of the hotels and will pub
lish proof tomorrow that LaGuardia's
secretary was advised of the fact that
thugs were used in the big hotels to
break the strike.
1t Guardia has done nothing about
this gangsterism in the hotels and
he therefore cannot be expected to do
anything to better the conditions of
the hotel workers.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
calls on all workers to unite and fight
against the attempt of LaGuardia
and the gangsters to smash their
strike.
Mention the Daily Worker when
srn. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20

tabllsh its authority" Then followed
his declaration of faith in johnson.
Green, co-signer with johnson and
John L. Lewis Of the Automobile Code
with its merit" clause, which per-
lnits the bosses to fire the workers at
will, merely characterized Johnson's
recent act in increasing the hours in
the auto code from 36 to 40 as ''un-
wise" despite the facts that rank and
file A. r. Of L. auto workers are pro-
testing this decision and his own
statement that there are $1,000 regis
tered unemployed auto workers, $4,000
Of whom are in Michigan. OF course,
no one was left in doubt as Just what
this opinion "unwise" amounted to
since Green fastened TO add that he
was not Saying this in the spirit Of
criticism"
Worried About C.W.A. Unrest
Concerning the announced May /
close down of the C.W.A., Green pre-
ferred to be "a bit spprehensive about
the situation" and predicted that
these people will not take their place
among the unemployed and do it
quietly Much TO his regret, evident
ly, especially since social unrest"
will follow if the C.WA. is discon-
tinueo.
Though Green declared, lit seems
to me that C.WA. must continue IN
til we can absorb them in industry"
ne had absolutely nothing to say about
helping the CW.A. workers in their
efforts to effect its continuance.
Has 1t In His Pocket
When your correspondent asked
Farmerite-Laborite Ernest Lumdeen
OF Minnesota, the introducer of the
workers unemployment and social in
slrance bill and member of the
Labor Committee, why he did not
question Green about the workers
bill, he replied; I'm going to have
The bill printed in the Congressional
record so that we can distribute it
and get publicity for it. It's just
hat we're busy and are in the middle
of the bonus business now
Reminded that he had announced
his intention to flight for the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS C. p
AND Y. C.. L.

NEW YORK.-The Washington
Heights demonstration against war
and fascism called for tonight at
lS1st st. and Wadsworth Ave. is
not affected by the special MEM
bership meeting called by the Com
munist Party. All Y. C. L. and
Party members Of Washington
Heights are to take part In the
demonstration.