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Evening star., 1934-01-02
Indiana Fire Loss $500,OOO.

ELWOOD, Ind, January 2 (P.-A
department store building owned and
operated by the r. L. Lesson Co. was
destroyed by fire early today. The loss
is estimated at s5oooo0- The fire is
believed to have been ctarted by de-
f2ctive wirir..
Evening star., 1934-01-02
GERMAN STERILIZATION
COURTS DELAY ACTION
1ncompleteness of Organiza tion
Details Prevent Functioning
Today as Scheduled.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN. January 2-OWing to the
inCompleteneSs Of organization details,
many of Germanys newly inaugurated
sterilization court did not begin func-
tioning today IS scheduled
DR. Arthur Guett, eugenics expert of
the ministry of the interior said sew
eral days would elapse before the tri-
bunal would be able to report activity
Experts have estimated that some
100000 hereditary detectives may come
under the jurisdiction of the courts
which. by new law. are assigned the
task of eradicating the transmission
of hereditary diseases.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
81 Persons Drowned, 27
Missing and Hundreds
Are Injured.
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY:
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
Nearly Is Inches of Rainfall
With Montrose Bearing Brunt
of Cloudburst.
BY the Associated Press.
los ANGFIEC

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 2-The
horror Of another catastrophe, the third
in nine months, flooded Southern CAL
ifornia with misery, distress and enor-
nous damage today.
Sunday the greatest single day Of
rainfall in history here loosed food
waters which had drowned at least 81
persons. In October % men were Gre
mated in brush fire. Last March an
earthquake terrorized the Southland
claiming l02 lives
Between 8 and Is inches Of rain, sud
denly pouring down as though a trap
door had been sprung in leaden skies
which had threatened bad weather for
a week. created scenes of havoc second
only to the appalling damage Of the
earthquake.
Hundreds Suffer Minor Injuries
Besides the known dead, police listed
81 persons as missing, 35 had suffered
serious injury and hundreds were
treated for lesser hurts inflicted as
avalanches of debris poured from the
surrounding mountainsides over popu-
lated areas.
Hardly an acre Of the metropolitan
area escaped without some scar.
From New Year week end normally
counted as one of the happlest periods
here augmented as 1t is by the holl-
days and the famed Tournament Of
Roses and Rose Bowl foot ball game.
Southern California aWoke to scenes Of
appalling disaster.
Search for Missing.
Fear and grief written into their
faces. people searched the morgues and
hospitals for missing kin. Store own
ers. hearts gladdened by the rush OF
holiday business that had bettered the
records of three years. surveyed store
stocks damaged by silt and water.
Others counted possibly 5000 homes
and 1900 automobiles damaged badly
bv water. a score of bridges washed
out, highways swept avay. railloa
tracks inundated and roadbeds under
mined.
The collapse of bridges and the
washing away of homes caused most OF
the human casualties. Babies, boys
and girls, young men and women, mid
dle-aged and elderly persons were
among the victims.
So furiousIy did the flood waters
sweep through the area that for a time
nearly all traffic was paralyzed Twenty
four hours after the first roar OF mud
and rock-laden waters terrified the VIC
TINS there vas only a senlblance OF
orderly interurban and railroad train
movements.
Fire Aids Flood.
Tracing the course Of the disaster,
food control engineers agreed that a
cloudburst in the Montrose area pre-
cipitated most of the damage and loss
OF life. Montrose is community
cupped in the foothills about Is miles
Continued on Page 3. Column A.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
WILSON LEAD PHILLIES
Former Cardinal Catcher Is Named
as Manager.
PHILADELPHIA, January 2

The Phillies today announced the ap-
pointment of Catcher Jimmy Wilson,
recently obtained from the st. Louis
Cardinals. as manager to succeed Burt
:-hottoa. He s'-n{d a t;,.'c-. ear contract.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Davis Opposes Dispensaries.

Another development today was the
statement Of Senator Davis. Republican
Of Pennsylvania. a District Committee
member that he opposes the Govern
ment dispensary method, but wants to
see strict regulation of liquor distribu-
ton to avoid the old evils that pre-
vailed before prohibition.
Senator Davis indicated he would
favor limiting the number of places
licensed to distribute liquor and would
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
SENATE TO SPEED
D. c. LIQUOR BILL
Local Control Legislation Is
Given Second Place on
Program.

Liquor control legislation for Wash
ington today was given second place on
the Senate program for the coming ses-
sion. to be taken up Immediately after
the Federal liquor tax bill Majority
Leader Robinson announced this after
noon.
This action was taken by the Demo-
cratic Policy Committee of the Sen
der of business to be pursued during
the early Gays of the session. Senator
Robinson said he believed the Federal
liquor tax bill would be disposed of
without delay as soon as it comes over
from the House and is ready to be re-
ported to the Senate.
AS the Senate Ieconvenes tomorrow it
will have pending from the day OF ad-
journment last June a bill relating to
the method of selecting the Governor
of Hawaii. Senator Robinson said. fol-
lowing the meeting of the Policy Com
mIttee today, however, that it is ex-
pected this unfinished business will be
abandoned Continuing, he said:
AS soon as the House disposes Of the
liquor revenue bill. its enactment will
be facilitated through the Finance Com
mittee and the Senate. in order that
the Government may have the benefit
of the additional revenue it will pro-
vide. That will be followed by liquor
control measure pertaining to the Dis
tTict Of COunbia. The terms of this
measure are now under consideration
by authorities in the District and the
subject likely will receive early con-
sideration at the other end OF the Cap
itol"
The plan is to have the local liquor
control bill acted On by the House first.
The Senate District Committee will
hold an informal conference tomorrow
to make plans for hearings on local
control legislation and to consider the
suggestion that the House and Senate
District groups hold joint hearings on
the subject, Chairman King said today.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
BOMB KILLS WOMAN

Damage in Camaguey Laid to Gu
ban Terrorists.
HAVANA, January LP).-Three
large bombs were exploded in Ca
maguey last night, killing Maria Betan-
court, an aged woman, wounding a
man, and causing considerable property
damage
The bombings we're regarded as a
continuation of the terrorist activities
of individuals opposing the government
Evening star., 1934-01-02
WEATHER.

Fair. slightly colder. lowest tempera-
ture about % degrees tonight; tomorrow
cloudy followed by rain or snow; gentle
winds. emperatures-Highest. 81. at 2
pm Yesterday: lowest. "a. al $3.50 Am.
today. Full report on page A-9.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

Continued on Page 3. Column A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
Walk Out
Protesting
'RedScare'
By Woman Worker Correspondent

BY Woman Worker Correspondent
BESSEMER, Ala.-Since our dele
gate from the Women's Auxiliary
Local No. of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers to the Second U. S. Con-
gress Against War and Fascism re-
turned, there has been great deal
Of red scare thrown around.
Sister Rose Hargrow, our dele
gate, says she was followed to Chi
cago by pimp from the Bessemer
Trades Council. And since she re-
turned she says certain people have
put guns in her face and told her
not to report on the Congress.
Our union voted unanimously to
send Sister Hargrow from the
American Committee Against War
and Fascism and read it's manifesto
to the union membership.
The takers in the Trades Council
sent MCGEE, the secretary, and
BoStwick, a Negro bootlicker for the
takers, to raise the red scare in
the union, and about so members
walked out in protest against them.
These takers yell about Communist
meetings and try to blind us to the
fact that our sons and husbands
are being prepared for mass murder
in the next world war which may
come any minute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03

~ Recognition of the I.U.M.M.
S.W. and the recognition of mine
and shift committees, against all
company unions.
AZ Adjustment of contract la
Dor; against speed-up, and no one
to work alone.
(5) Against all compulsory
check-Off for insurance, clubs,
ETC., sponsored by the company.
(6l No signing of claim releases
without the approval of union
committees.
~ No losing of jobs because of
accidents, or union affiliatiOn.
49, For establishing joint strug-
giles with other labor Organiza-
tions; for immediate and ade-
quate relief.
49, For the Workers UnempIoy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
(HR. 1889.
1t will be necessary for us to or.
ganize joint actions for these de,
mandS with other locals in ordel
to win them.
All locals of the I.U.MM. S.W
should Immediately send resolu.
tions of protest to the Range Coun.
Gil and back the Eveleth local 1Ot
per cent in their heroic struggle
against these misleaders of LABOR
Send protest to Mr.. Steinberg, sec.
rotary of the Range Council, I.U.M
M.S.W, Calumet. Minnesota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
The First Successful Work
ers' Revolution

On November 6 your father and
mother and big brother will go to
the polls and they will make a cross
on the ballot alongside the hammer
and sickle, because they are sure
the Communist Party is the only
party that really has their interests
at heart. All the other parties
squabble among themselves to see
which will be able to get all the
graft. They make lots of promises
that don't mean a thing. The Com
Party does not offer empty
promises of what it will do in office.
1t will bring into Congress the fight
that it has been carrying on all
along. The Communist Party, day
by day, leads and always will lead
the struggles of the workers and
the poor farmers, Negro and white,
in their demands for better condi-
lions. The workers know that only
by fighting have they ever gained
anything. The bosses give in only
when they are scared to death by
the organized strength of the work
ers. This strength will support
Communist candidates in Congress.
Communist candidates in Congress
will improve conditions, but that
will not solve the big problem.
The boss government is trying
harder and harder to keep capital
ism going. They must keep their
profits, and this means worse and
worse conditions of life for the
workers. Why should we continue
with this crazy system that lets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03

Addresses
UMWALOcal
BY a Mine Worker Correspondent

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
UNIONTOWN, Pa.-The Lemont
Furnace mine of the H. c. Prick
Coal and Coke near here is work
ing only part time. 1t is leased for
producers of commercial coal only.
A group of us members of the Lee
mont local of the U.MW.A., joined
the Unemployment Council in the
early part of the summer. We saw
the need of spreading the organi-
zation in order to win our demands,
and since our local has nearly LOO
members, majority unemployed, we
approached the local officers, and
asked them to permit the U, G.
organizer to speak. The local preSi-
dent, Chick Conteen, gave us a
tentative promise that he will per-
nit the organizer to speak. How
ever, when the organizer did come,
Conteen went to call the district
Office of District No. U.M.WA.,
and the secretary, G. G. Bonner,
told Conteen not to permit the U. G.
speaker to take the floor.
This did not discourage us. We
continued to recruit new members.
We continued to take up cases of
the members of the local, and kept
on winning case after case. Through
the U. G. we gained an increase in
relief of SOC a week for the single
men, and some families got an in
crease of $4.25 a week, or from $500
week to $10.25 a week. The de-
liveries Of clothes increased.
We kept harping and demanding
that our local give the U. c. Or
ganizer an opportunity to present
the U. c. program. Finally at the
last meeting this was granted.
Brother Kanenovich, our county
U. C. organizer spoke. He was well
received by the members. After his
speech he read the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill CHR. 1899, and the local de-
cided to elect committee of five
to be present at the U. G. County
Committee meeting, also commit
tee to make house to house canvass
to sign up our local members into
the U. G.
We feel proud that our efforts
were crowned with success, and now
when our U. G. committees meet
with Hibbs, the relief director, ne
will know that there are additional
LOO unemployed back of the de-
mands presented by our commit
tees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
Ovarian Cysts


Y. L., Pasadena, CaI.-You say
that in the course of general ex-
animation it was discovered that
you have an ovarian cyst Ca growth
of the woman's internal sexual
gland-the ovary). You also say
that your menstruation is normal
AS long as you have no symptoms
(no complaints) you need do moth
ing about the cyst. Very often
these cysts remain the same size
and never give any trouble. Some
times there may be an acute attack
Of pain in the lower abdomen and
vomiting. This may indicate that
the cyst has twisted on itself. An
operation should be performed for
removing it as soon as the dag
nosis is made. Operation should
be performed under the following
conditions:
If the menstrual flow becomes
profuse, or if the cyst becomes large
Gas revealed by examination) if the
woman decides to have a child, it
is usually advisable to have the cyst
removed before she becomes preg-
nant. Even though you have no
complaints, it is important that you
be examined about twice year to
see if the cyst has become larger.
You also ask whether you should
be sterilized. We do not advise a
healthy woman to be sterilized I'M
less she has as many children as
she desires and unless both she and
her husband have thought the mat
ter over carefully. II both are
agreed, then they must decide which
one shall have the operation per-
formed In your case, it would be
preferable that your husband be
sterilized. You are underweight,
your husband is stronger and is
willing. Besides, the operation on
the male is simple and not dan
gerous. In neither case does it de-
stroy the sexual desire.
This advice applies only if you
do not need an operation for the
ovarian cyst. If the operation is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
BY a Worker Correspondent

BESSEMER, Ala-The city coun-
Gil in BesSemer has passed 4 law
torbidding possession Of more than
two pieces of Communist literature.
The penalty under this law is 81
to 500 fine and /or six months in
jan.
The growth Of Communism in
Bessemer, the heart Of U. S. Steel
in the South, has been very rapid.
The Communist Party has won the
sympathy of both white and Negro
workers by leading the fight against
discrimination, wage cuts, lay-offs
and terror of the T,CI. and Repub-
lie bosses. The unemployed who are
being slashed of the relief are TAX
ing up the fight for relief along the
lines proposed by the Communist
Party.
This law was passed at the time
the bosses are preparing big wage
cuts in the steel industry and while
the Roosevelt government is cut
ting relief as low as possible. The
city council which is q tool in the
hands of the T.C.I. is organizing the
fight against the Communist Party
to help the bosses put over their
starvation program. The takers in
the Bessemer Trades Council back
ed this law because the Communists
are exposing all their dirty work
and keep them explaining their be-
trayals to the masses.
This law and all the other terror
against the Party bombing, and so
on, has made the Party members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
New York Leads Country
In Socialist Competition

TOR the launching the 100000 drive
its Socialist comprehensive remaining IS districts 81 SO
B cent the districts however in fifth place
white collar who will what side Of the
81 Willard sends dollar from
Nampa aganhis time H N Wahl of
Petersburg, 50.
H. lawyer 81 wishes that fnan
condition that could give more
other professionals in city who
sympathetic the revolutionary movement but who have not yet
up Party members subscribers to
contributions!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
GROWTHO F C0MMUNI PARTY SP URS DRIVE
UMWA Men Back Rank
And File Convention
BIZ a Mine worker CORRESPONDENT

By Mine Worker Correspondent
YUKON, Pa.-The U. M. w. of A.
Local 6558 of Yukon had elected at
their meeting delegates to go to the
A. F. of L. Rank and File Conven-
ton. The financial secretary of the
local and some other stool pigeon
went up to the district officials at
Greensburgh and reported to Pres
ident Hughes and reported on the
election of the delegates.
The district officials tried to pre-
vent the delegates from going, but
the miners overruled them and sent
the delegates anyway.
The Export and Bittle locals had
sent delegates. Delegates were also
elected from the Central Labor
Council.
Local 6559 has elected ten mem
bers of the union to attend school
on Labor Struggles.
A committee is going up to Irwin
of the Westmoreland Coal Co. to
demand more work for the miners.
The miners work only one or two
days a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
WITH OUR YOUNG READERS

millions of people starve while food
is being destroyed; that spends bill
lions of dollars for a future war
in which workers will be killed for
profit? We want to kick out this
rotten capitalism that is no good.
But the capitalists will put up
fight We must prepare ourselves
to take over power by actually
wrenching it away from them. Then
we will set up our own workers
government and our country will be
used for the benefit of all who work.
Because we are going to do just
as our Russian comrades did when
they took over their country. 1
want to tell you the story of the
first successful workers revolution.
In 1917 the war was three years
old. For the Russians, the war was
a losing one, and brought great
suffering to the workers and peas
ants. In March, 1917, their anger
rises and in one mighty blow they
throw out their Gar. For hun
dreds of years they have wanted to
do this. Now it is done. But the
well-to-do middle class people who
are called "bourgeoisie," still own
the factories, the mills and the
mines. They set up a provisional
government and promise the work.
ers great deal, but actually give
them nothing. The bosses main
idea is to win the war so as to
get more wealth. Kerensky is their
leader. He rides around in a big
military car making grand speeches
about saving Russia, and about
carrying on the war to a glorious
victory. The workers are sore and
disguised with this kind of talk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03

ton. The armed workers and
peasants together with the soldiers
and sailors overthrow the provisional
government in Petrograd. They set
up a workers government. In Mos
COW, after a week of fierce fighting
the workers gain power. More and
more villages set up their own So
VETS. Lenin is speaking to the
workers.
Comrades, we shall now build a
socialist state"
But it is not easy. The enemies
of the new workers government
gather their forces, and with the
help of the bosses of other lands,
begin the civil war which lays the
whole of Russia in ruins. But in
the end, famine and disease are
conquered by the great courage of
the workers and peasants. They
build their country anew. They
sing at their work. They are happy
in the knowledge that the land and
factories belong to them.
The first Five Year Plan for
building the country is finished
with great enthusiasm. In 1924
Comrade Lenin, the beloved, died.
But the Bolshevik Party still leads
the way. Stain faithfully follows
the way that Lenin has shown and
carries on his work. Now the So
Wet Union, carrying out it's second
Five Year Plan, is the only country
in the world with real planning
There can be no unemployment
There everything the workers pro-
duce is for themselves.
The Soviet Union has become the
hate of all capitalists and the guild
ing red star of all the workers of
the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
WORKERS HEALTH
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board
Conducted by the

necessary, the tubes will be tied
of in the course of the operation,
and sterility will result, solving the
problem in this way.
Refitting Glasses
v. S. writes: - please give me
some information regarding my
eyes. have already had three diff
ferent kinds of glasses. The doctor
tells me have astigmatism of both
eyes. Is there any other way to
cure this without glasses? I also
have high blood pressure"
Our Reply
The only advice one could give
would be entirely dependent upon
facts which can only be determined
by examination. If, as you say, you
have astigmatism, there is no other
way of helping your eyes except
with glasses. The fact that you are
not satisfied with the glasses you
have only indicates that they are
not the proper glasses. Sometimes
it is necessary to wait a little time
after getting new glasses, to get
properly adjusted to them.
You mention your high blood
pressure. You should see good eye
doctor (oculist) who can look into
the inside of the eye with the
proper instruments and determine
if the high blood pressure is affect
ing your vision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
Gag Ruling Spiked
By Rank and File
BY Mime Worker Correspondent

STOCKDALE, Pa. At a recent
meeting of Local 854, U. M. w. of
A, Roscol, Pa, the secretary told
us he had very important GORE
spondence" for us to listen to
closely, and if we didn't understand
it we were to ask questions. 1t was
to tell us to beware of the meet
ings, circulars, Coal Digger, etc.
going through District Five.
The floor was open for discussion.
A worker explained that it was
trick to gag the rank and file move
ment. The motion to throw it in
the wastebasket was carried unani-
mously.
The new slate was nominated
unanimously by our local, and also
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill was endorsed.
The joint committee meetings are
held regularly, but Pagan is trying
to stop them since he sees that the
rank and file are outnumbering his
lackeys.
We decided to get in touch with
all the locals, and instruct them to
send their delegates. We are going
to continue our meetings for the
betterment of our conditions.