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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03
Former Dover Nam Passes Away

William C. Kerbin, Snow Hill,
Md, attorney. died in Peninsula
General Hospital, Salisbury, Md,
Saturday, December %, from COM
plications. He was a native of
Dover, Del, but has been a resi-
dent of Snow Hill 35 years.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03
Noted Astronomer Visits Dover

DR.. Annie Jump Cannon, Of
Cambridge, Mass, noted astron-
omer, spent the Christmas week
end holidays with her sister, Mrs.
w. ]. Benson. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
son entertained on Christmas day
for Miss Cannon.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03
Huge Skull Unearthcd

Orvieto, Spain.-A huge skull, ap-
parently that Of prehistoric ami
NAL, was found In an excavation
here. Four teeth still remained
in the jaw, each almost three inches
long and almost two inches wide
at the base.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03


NEGOTIABLE
!, While Ava; I1 Time
4. Evening LAM
u, Work is Done
EryG READING
IS BLIND
hope wilder
newspaper syndicate
N Ty u service
SEEM ike , the irony SaT os
nj there should n Iart
, your house that nn nls''
d I ianshsd Jane ln,. Br@AT Re-
psrdy' have looked
4 Id. d. Of Mars or some
tpes worse Honestly
i0ou' ", fafbpr we're call
!, ..,,rically to get out |
|, + nothing but what 1
H. And to appear tna a.
n half the town and al
4. tbis marvellous new
. 4 you we're trying
Y Ind m pack, or what?'
aiIl highly amused.
.,,r5ed TO shudder. oh
IN wouldn't ask. There
u balcony in front Of
lie very spot ! had e
rred myself in! Ana u
|ss-canent. But far from
,rpIv and romantic Ike
frsssins Romeo, ! vas
ny Of the comic page. Ny
AM % in those metal
tbey stuck out all oyer
bad 4 heavy cream plas-
most Of my face about an
nsgine. But Why all the
sparatiOns?"
want TO look as youthful
iiul as possible at the
4, .onntrv rluh tomorrow
I was following advice
sauty expert for several
hat Td surely be a knock
ZEE, Brad Conklin is In
ting his cousin and !
II bin to speak Of for
And you know how !
Brad
hi Brad turn out to see
! choice make-up?'
be did. His cousin, Jack
sayOlunteer fireman and
bad along to help the boys
re the two Of them stood
bidder leaning against my
balcony.
b climb down the ladder.
the family and the fire
bred 70 grab me when !
eaching distance. Years
determined never to be
such q predicament. And
Irelented once, there had
BE- You're right, 1t must
iste.'
fheer Up, Il you're sure
love with you, he won't
to the subject. If he
p up within six months,
sure be saw all and de-
best way out was a pro
eternal silence"
you're right But after
fssl a little mortified. But
I might have sensed hu-
FAe occasion, don't you
lked Alice.
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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

Professional model show
Ing the new winter, 1885
streamlined hat, along
with the short nosed car
with sweeping tail which
Inspired the hat designer.
The hat is said not to blow
off In wind of so miles
an hour.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

For the third time within this
year an attempt was made to ROB
the postofice safe and general
store of Postmaster Howard F.
Owens in Betterton, Md. last week.
The big safe, containing about ST.
600 in stamps and money showed
evidence of having been tempered
with. The yeggs contented them
selves however with taking a few
articles of merchandise valued at
about SIS from the store.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

Thomas McMichael, of Milford,
age 81, died in a Milford hospital
Tuesday night of last week from
an acute heart attack. He had
been ill only a few days. The fun
eraI services were held at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Thomas
McMichael on North street, Thurs
day afternoon. For many years
he had charge of a brick-yard in
the South, having learned this
trade under his father, but of late
he had lived a retired life at his
mothers home in Milford.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Meredith.
one of Centreville's oldest and
most beloved couples celebrated
their fifty-ffth wedding annivers-
airy at their home on Belvedere
avenue Thursday night. Surround
ed by their children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren, the hap
Ply couple enjoyed a delightful
party. Throughout their married
life they have lived in Queen
Anne's county.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

DR.. Hudson, a young doctor
whose home is in the lower part of
the State, has located in St. Georg-
es for practice. DR.. Hudson only
recently completed his interneship
and this will be his first general
practice. He is married, but has
no children.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03

The State Moquito Control Com
mission met at Dover, Friday, with
Director Wilbur S. Corkran who
has been working for some weeks
in Sussex County. A review of his
work was given
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-01-03
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

t. Bayard Crew has been named
postmaster at Betterton, Md, to
succeed Howard Owens, who has
held that Office for several years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Smash Mayor Hague's
Anti>UniOn Edict!

Drank HAGUE, Mayor of Jersey City,
and member of the National Committee
of the Democratic Party, who swung the
vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt for the
state of New Jersey, in line with the poll
cies of the Roosevelt government intensi-
fies his vicious attack against the right of
workers to strike for better conditions
Last Friday three women Ray Singer and
Sarah Blecher, members of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union, and Lillian sandry of the Civil
Liberties Unon-were sentenced to Jail for 30 DAYS
by Judge McGovern in the First Criminal Court of
Jersey City because they defed Mayor Frank
Hagues arbitrary order that there shall be no
striking or picketing at the Miller Furniture shop
Five members of the Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union-Abe Rothbaum Able Handy, Goldie
Perlow, Mary Kiss and Rose Dicksten-and Alfred
Bingham, editor of the magazine Common Sense y
will be hailed before Hagues Criminal Court in
Jersey City today because they exerted their right
to picket peacefully the Miller shop.
Besides this, three workers and photographer
of the Federated Press, who arrested in front
OF the Miller establishment, have been charged with
melting to riot and unlawful assembly, and their
cases will come up in court on Friday.
1t is clear that the situation in jersey CITY is
on the picket line he is grabbed by the police and
thrown in Jail like criminal
Mayor Hague, aping the tactics of the bloody
Hitler orders the police to arrest men and women
and throw them into filthy cells while carrying
out his anti-pcketng ukase
Here is the new deal of Roosevelt stripped of
all its fancy trappings and solemn trumpery Hague
is new dealer and he cannot deny it. He is blood
and bone of the Roosevelt regime
Appeals to the N.R.A. against Hagues arbitrary
anti-labor decision have met with no response IN
deed, President Roosevelt made joke of the whole
matter when it brought to his attention in
Washington.
The entire labor movement must at once take
action against this attack union labor. If
Hague is successful in taking away the right to
strike in New Jersey the precedent will be utilized
against workers in other states and localities
The anti-strike edict must be smashed in Jer-
sey City 1t can be smashed, however, only by the
united mass action of the working class.
This means that the edict must be smashed by
militant mass pcketng. All labor unions must aid
in this action kilograms and letters of protest
against the iailing of workers on the Jersey City
picket line must flood the Offices Of Mayor Frank
Hague and President Roosevelt.
Workers! Fight for your right 10 strike,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Where Were the Leaders,?

A FEW days ago, Socialist rank and file
"A together with Communists of Mil
waukee, marched to meeting called by
Nazi agents and raised the cry for the
freedom of Thaelmann. Through Joint eff
forts they finally swept the Nazis aside
captured the hall and turned it into an
snti-Fascist demonstration
In the streets in determined struggle against the
hated Fascist pest, Socialists and Communists
clasped hands in working-cs solidarity in the
fight to free that great son of the German working
class, Thaelmann and to deliver blow to fascism
Where were the Socialist Party leaders in this
hight? They were silent. They we're absent.
The vile Nazi leaflets distributed at the Nazi
meeting printed on the presses of the Mil
waukee Leader, Socialist Party organ.
More. The local police captain sent 100 cons to
protect the Fascsts and their meeting The police
seized and slugged a number of anti-Fascst fight
ers. The police captain is Socialist
Socialist workers are ready and eager to fight
the hateful Nazs But their leaders do nothing to
organize any struggle against the Nazi agents in this
country. The Socialist Party leaders forbid their
members to join in any united front action with the
Communists against the Nazis.
In Europe, the Socialist Party leaders after
preparing the way for Fascism through IS years of
OAaoS SoAdDofauon Win tne oourgeolSe, now preach
the hopelessness of fighting for the overthrow of
capitalism in Germany. They preach the poisonous
doctrine Of epoch of Fascism and reaction
They sabotage the fight against Hitler by preach
ing the Notwithstanding but reactonary doctrine of
the automatic collapse of Fascsm when Hitler will
expose himself"
Ihese reactionary doctrines are advanced to
Justify the reactonary deeds Fascism in this coun
try advances steadily. Only in day-to-da struggle
with this beast can the working class defeat it, He
VINO sits by silently he who sabotages single united
front action, single demonstration against the
Nazis, he is an enemy of the working class and an
abettor of Fascism.
To the Socialist Rank and File and Commu-
nists of Milwaukee who showed the Nazi thugs
what militant cass-conscious workers can do, we
say, good work, Milwaukee! Forge the United Front
of the working class against imperiaIist war and
FasciSm,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Cuba Workers Mass against Fascist Concentration

would not take place. Likewise the
announced window display con-
test" was abandoned.
Saturday, on the eve of the con-
centration, hundreds of workers
gathered before a huge arc which
had been especially constructed for
the occasion, and attempted to de-
stroy it in defiance of a heavily
armed guard of AB.C. men who
were protecting it. In the fray two
A.B.C. members were killed, and
many were wuonded on both sides,
as the AB.C. men opened fire.
The same night, boxing match
in the Miramar Gardens, organized
by the A.B.C. as a part Of it's fes-
tivities, was broken up by young
workers and students.
From as early as five o'clock on
the morning of the concentration,
squads of workers, especially youth,
spread through every section of the
city, cutting trolley power cables
and performing other acts of sab
otage.
Delegations of A.B.C. members
arriving from the countryside were
in number of cases met in the
streets by Young Communists who
directed themselves to the workers
and peasants among them who had
apparently been recruited to the
concentration mainly by the prom
Use of seeing Havana. After ex-
planning the reactionary and strike
breaking role of the AB.C. to these
countrypeople they succeeded in
getting dozens of them to give up
their Abe. insignias. From early
morning large groups of workers,
especially unemployed, formed in
Central Park at the points where
AB.C. contingentS were stationed
awaiting the march. AS the work.
erS expressed their antagonism to
the AB.C. and shouted slogans
against the concentration, clashes
took place which resulted in the
stripping of two wearers of green
shirts and the routing of their sup
porters at the hands of workers
unemployed and employed, news
paper and messenger boys, and
other spectators, among whom there
were a large number of Negroes. A
Negro leader of the Young Commu-
mist League, Marcelino, was seized
by an armed band of AB.C. men,
bers as he rose to speak during the
incidents in Central Park, and was
only saved from lynching by the
quick and determined action OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Stop Buses To Block
Massing of ABC
In Havana

OF great significance is the fact
that the army was not called into
service at any time in connection
with the march. Soldiers were
hardly to be seen in the vicinity of
the concentration. This is to be
partly explained by the extreme diff
f1culty of using troops to protect the
march without having to cause high
casualties among the marchers
themselves in case of any shooting.
But without doubt an equally i'm
portant determining factor in the
governments failure to use the
troops is the definite hostility to-
ward the A.B.C., which exists among
the soldiers (before it entered the
government, the Abe distinguish
ed itself by its tactic of sniping at
soldiers from rooftops, and its gen
eral antagonism for them, as we'll
as for the Negro Masses. A group
of soldiers, Negroes in the majority,
is reported to have expressed them
selves as ready to refuse to protect
the Abe, even if they were or
dered to do so, in a discussion with
workers while they happened to be
passing through Central Park few
days previous to the march.
A Havana merchant has asked for
an order for the arrest of an anony-
nous sailor, whom he charges with
having refused to arrest two young
Communists who smashed in the
window of his store last week be-
cause it displayed an ad for the
A.B.C. concentration. Similarly, in
Central Park on the day of the
concentration, the few soldiers sta
toned there during the morning
displayed complete passivity when
it came to protecting the green
shirts and other "Abcedarios' from
the ire of the workers.
Another outstanding feature of
last weeks events has been the
achievement in number of cases
of united action of Communist
workers with members of the vari-
Gus "autentico" (Grauists) parties
and groups, this having been
achieved over the heads of, and
against the orders of the "auten-
tico" leaders,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
The Communists Call for
United Front Action

DEALIZING that the united front of the
~ working class is the basis for a
successful fight against the monster of
Fascism and capitalist exploitation, the
Communist Party has again sent an invi-
tation to the Socialist Party for the organi-
cation of united struggle for the immediate
needs of the American working class.
Every single one of the demands upon which
the Communist Party proposes united action repre-
sents the immediate needs of the toilng populs-
ton of the country
One does not have to agree with the platform
Of the Communist Party does not have to
accept the Communist Party position regarding
the ultimate necessity for the revolutionary seizure
of power and the establishment Of proletarian
dictatorship, to find in these demands a suitable
platform for immediate united action
These demands, for higher wages, for better
conditions against the N,R.A. strikebreaking codes
and Labor Boards against the Wall Street war
preparations, against the Jim-CrOw lynch system,
for unemployment insurance, for cash relief
against all manifestations of Fascism, etc.-these
are the living daily demands of the working class
upon which all class conscious workers and sym
pathzers certainly unite, irrespective of their
differences other questions.
There is not an honest person who will not see
who will not that to reject united struggle
for these demands is to place oneself against the
interests of the majority of the toiing population
These demands are, therefore, an acid test as to
where one belongs.
THE Communist Party now proposes united front
actions with the Socialist Party for the third
time In the past, the Socialist leaders have found
infinite number of excuses for rejecting or ig-
noring these proposals We cannot discuss the
worth of these reasons here.
1t is sufficient to say, however, that the Com
nunist Party has never been shown to have broken
q single one of its obligations pledges made at
8 united front conference, The Communist Party
has never made any demands upon any group in
united front other than that the group actually
carry through its pledges.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party
closes its call with an appeal to all workers So
calist and unafhated, to join hands with the Com
munists in actual struggle in actual united front
actions The struggle of the Milwaukee workers
against the local Nazs is good example.
1t is in practice that the real value of the united
front is proven The working class of this country
has right to prompt answer from the new Ma
tonal Executive Committee of the Socialist Party
on a matter vitality affecting it's struggle against
capitalist misery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Mutiny on
GunbOat in
Cuba HarbOr
Saladrigas Quits ABC-
Nationalist Govt AS
ABC Split Widens

HAVANA, June 25.-A mutiny re-
ported on the gunboat Cuba yester-
day was oficially confirmed.
The replacing OF Commander
Villoch by an army man named
by Col. Fulgencio Batista was the
spark that set off the powder ma
gazine.
DissenSion between marine and
army forces has been increasing
rapidly and the persistent efforts Of
Batista, army Chief of staff, to OBJ
tain power in Cuba are the source
Of mounting fear in other quarters.
ABC Leader Quits
Carlos Saladrigas, Secretary Of
Justice, retired to private life today
as the Abe organization of which
he is an executive announced its
withdrawal from the Nationalist
ABC government headed by Presi-
dent Mendieta.
The ABC had demanded a policy
Of repression against those reSpon-
Sible, in its opinion, for the attack
on the ABC demonstration Sunday,
June II. The failure of the govern
ment to comply with its demands
particularly the refusal to replace
Chief of Police Pedraza led to TO-
days action.
The military section of the ABC
will remain in the coalition. it was
announced. This further splits the
ABC already divided into the ex-
IRENE right and the so-called Abe
radicals. A provocative manifesto
issued yesterday calling for the
slaughter of Communists was be-
lieved to have FASTENED the split.
Martinez Saenz. Abe executive
and member Of the Cuban govern
ment. was known today to have
talked by telephone with Sumner
Wells, former American Ambassa-
dor to Cuba and Latin American
expert in the Department of State,
in spite of denials. ABC members,
armed with machine guns, cap
tured three newspapermen and adj
ministered castor oil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
ThaeImann Trial Due Next Week

workingclass in its struggle against
fascist slavery and terror.
Later in the morning, several del
egations from the International
Workers Order entered the Con-
sulate, protesting the tortures of
Thaelmann and demanding his re-
lease.
M. Stern, District Organizer of
the International Labor Defense. ar
rested in Saturdays militant mass
demonstration at the Consulate, re-
fused to sign peace bond, and
was sentenced to five days.
A Free Thaelmann" mass meet
ing and protest against the falling
of Stern, will be held here Friday
evening, at 507 South st. Richard
B. Moore, Field Organizer of the
I. L. D. will be the main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

white and Negro workers and stu
dents gathered nearby.
Although forced to abandon their
program of festivities, the AB.C
leaders we're able to carry through
large march, which was the cen
trail feature of the days program.
In it some $4,000 or 10000 members
from all parts of the island par
ticipated. Large nuclei of workers
and peasants were absent, the main
body of marchers being forced of
public employees, commercial ele-
ments and people from the admin
istration and offices of the sugar
mills.
Thousands of the marchers bore
arms, which were whipped out and
used without provocation. Many
bystanders, including militant work.
ers who expressed even the slight
est opposition to the march we're
set upon by ABC. bands and
sayagely beaten. In clashes which
took place along the line of march
IA were killed and scores were
wounded. At one point machine
gun fire from a passing auto,
manned, it is charged, by members
of terrorist organization opposed
to the A.B,C. and the present gov
eminent. was aimed at the lines OF
march. In the shooting fray which
resulted, AB.C. members shot wild
ly at all sides, without doubt ac-
counting for goodly number of
the dead among their own men,
bers. At least two Negro bystanders
were shot dead without provocation
and in cold blood by the frenzied
gunner of the A.B.C. An automo-
bile which is supposed to have been
the one from which the gunfire
came was set upon by the A.B.C
marchers, riddled with bullets and
burned to pieces with it's occupants
inside.
The principal shooting took place
before a fortress which serves as a
garrison for the Cuban Navy. II
is common knowledge that when
the shooting started, sailors sta
toned on the fortress walls joined
in the fire on the concentration, in
spite of having received orders not
to do SO. This was in expression
of their resentment toward the re-
dictionary A.B.C. and opposition tc
the government and the present
state Of affairs. The followers Of
the left "anti-imperialist" dema-
gogue. ex-President Grau, are sale
to still have considerable influence
in the navy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
$4,000 Toilers Respond
To Anti-Fascist
Appeal

HAVANA (By MaiD Some $4,000
workers responded to the call of
the National Confederation of La
Dor for protest Stoppages against
the national concentration of the
A,B.C. on Sunday, June IT. Bus
traffic in Havana was at a stand
still as the workers of the Trans
port Union put into action the slo-
gan of refusal to furnish transport
facilities for the fascist concentra-
ton. While rail service was not
interrupted, referendum taken
among the railroad workers by the
yellow leaders of the Railroad
Brotherhood revealed an over
whelming sentiment in favor OF
stoppage among all sectors but the
train crews; a good number OF
workers of the repair shops and
maintenance service of the railroad
participated in the militant counter
actions which were organized in
the streets against the concentra-
ton.
For more than week previous
to the concentration. Havana was
the scene Of audacious counterac-
tons carried through in defiance of
extreme terror. Bands Of young
workers smashed scores of storewin-
dows which displayed placards adj
vertiSing the concentration. This
was so effective that after two or
three days, the green placards OF
the A.B.C. were not to be seen, in
spite of the fact that the A.B.C
has one of the firmest bases of sup
port among the richer merchants
especially the Spanish.
Street cars which advertised the
concentration were invaded in ter
minals and along the routes by
groups of young workers and stu
dents and stripped of their placards
as motormen looked on sympathetic
cally and shouted encouragement
A.B.C. headquarters in three i'm
portant neighborhoods were at
tackled by small demonstrations Of
workers and relieved Of their greer
bunting and insignias. Such was the
popular sentiment aroused against
the fascist demonstration that ABC
leaders we're forced to announce
the day before. that the march OF
their special green attachments