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Evening star., 1934-08-28
r ERMALINDA U. DE BRIoNEs


90-pound Ecuadoreen good
will flyer and international
Il Il peace advocate, lost" fol
hours yesterday when forced
down in the Eastern Shore of Mary
land by a broken fuel line, while a
large delegation awaited her here
arrived at Washington Airport today
1t was her first -cross-country flight
and the first leg of what she hopes
will be a tour of the United States
and Central and South America.
Propped up on a big parachute
and cushions SO she could see out
of the cockpit of her rented airplane
the diminutive brunette flyer brought
messages of greeting to leaders OF
women'S organizations of Pan-Amer-
lea and the United States and pleas
for women to unite in promoting
universal disarmament and world
peace. She also brought message
of greeting to Capt. Colon Eloy
Alfaro, Ecuadorean Minister to the
United States, who headed the well
coming party which waited nearly
five hours for her yesterday and re-
turned to the airport early today to
meet her.
Interesting Story Told.
Sonora de Briones told an interest
ing story Of her adventures yesterday
afternoon while a search was being
made for her at the request of Capt
Alfaro. 1t involved a broken fuel
line, a search for a place where it
could be repaired, a corn-field landing
and a Maryland farmer who wanted
to see his wife.
II was not lost" she said. MY
fuel line, it broke and could see all
that gasoline going out. So I had to
find place to land. I could not see
any place along the way I wished to
go but I thought could see some
place away from there SO I went out
of my course"
After wandering around the Eastern
Shore looking at one place after an
other which seemed from a distance
to offer hope of help but on closer in
spection proved to be something
else" she finally was forced down in
a cornfield near Chestertown, Md
While repairman was at work on the
leaky fuel line, she explained, there
appeared one Richard S. Buckner,
Eastern Shore farmer.
Buckner, she said, asked her "how
were all my folks" and she replied,
I'VE are very nicely, gracias." So she
asked how were all his folks and he
told her his wife was In Baltimore and
he would like mighty well to see
her"
Buchner Enters Ship.
So the diminutive sonora, In the
spirit of good will in which her fight
was conceived, decided she could pro-
mote international good will by taking
an Eastern Shore aerial hitch-hiker
to see his wife in Baltimore. Buck
ner climbed into the second cockpit
and the goodwill fight put in at
Logan Field, Baltimore. The farmer
went to look for his wife and Sonora
de Briones, having refueled. headed
for Washington and the still waiting
Reception Committee.
Darkness coming on, however, and
the plane lacking navigation lights,
she turned back to Logan Field,
spending the night In a Baltimore ho-
tel.
In the reception group at the air.
port today, In addition to Capt. Alfaro
and other representatives of the Ecua-
dorean and other South American
legations, were officers and members
Of the Union de Mujeres Americana,
Evening star., 1934-08-28
SHORT LINE RAILS
ASK RATE INCREASE
File Petition With I. c. c. Sup
porting Plea of Larger
Carriers. =. W..
BY the Associated Press.


The American Short Line Railroad
Association, composed of hundreds of
small railroads, today filed a petition
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in support of the rate in
crease plea of the larger carriers.
The association set forth virtually
the same reasons for asking increases
as those laid down by the class one
carriers yesterday in their application
for permission to increase rates on
virtually all commodities and classes
Of freight enough to raise approx
mately $170,000,000 a year.
The plea Of the short lines would
result In several million dollars q
year more, but no estimate was given.
The petition of the small railroads
informed the commission that 80 per
cent of the membership of the asso-
citation failed to earn operating ex-
penses and taxes in 1888 and that SIS
per cent failed to earn their fixed
charges. 80.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
SEEK AID OF WOMEN

Crusaders to Enlist Support in
Latest Campaign.
CHICAGO. August % CP).-Support
of the lJation's women will be asked
in the Crusaders campaign against
"un- American influences and excessive
governmental expenditures"
Seymour Wheeler, Chicago leader of
the Crusaders, said yesterday the wo-
mems auxiliary was a great aid in
our winning fight against prohibition,
and this time they are being asked to
Join q greater crusade"
Evening star., 1934-08-28
ENCEPHALITIS SPREADS

81 New Cases of Sleeping Sick
ness Reported in Week.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, August % (F).
With 81 new cases reported during
the past week, the State Department
of Public Health today announced a
pronounced upward trend in the
prevalence" of epidemic encephalitis
or sleeping sickness.
Since August l the public health
officials have received reports of 65
cases.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Mexican Boat Built in Spain.

CADIZ, Spain. August 20 R.--
Mexico's new 1,6o0-ton transport, built
here for the Mexican government, was
launched yesterday. Members OF the
Mexican Naval Commission were spec
tators as the wife Of Capt. Gomez
Mazqueo, Mexican naval captain,
christened the craft the zacatecas.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
DISAGREE ON ARMS
Japanese Premier Confers With
Cabinet Members.

TOXIC, Wednesday, August 29 (P).
1T was stated in authoritative quar-
ters today that Premier Okada, Ad-
miral Mineo Osumi, minister of the
navy, and Foreign Minister Koki Hi
rota had conferred on disarmament
questions, but that some differences
Of opinion still exist.
1t was understood that the problems
on which the prime minister and his
two cabinet ministers could not agree
will be submitted to the cabinet early
in September.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Want Land for Entry.


Through Attorney Raymond M.
Hudson, the Plaintiffs asked the court
t. declare the property public domain
and order its opening for homestead
entry.
All the plaintiffs have fled home
stead applications, but these have
heen denied tc date by the Interior
department because of titles held
under the original land grants.
The land grants involved are some
of the more famous which were made
during the first half of the last CEN
tury. They include the Los Palos
Verdes, Mission San Fernando. San
Fedro, Boca de Santa Monica, San
Joaquin, Topanga Malibu and Las
lomas de Santiago grants.
Treaty Prohibited Grants.
The plaintiffs contend the laws of
Mexico prohibited the issuance OF the
alleged grants to the original Spanish
landowners. 1t also is argued that the
grants are invalid under the terms OF
the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
which brought to a close the War
between Mexico and the United States.
This treaty is said to have provided
that all land grants made subsequent
TO May 10, 1846. by the Mexican gov
ernment were invalid.
Several of the grants named in the
suits are said to have been made
after that date and before the end
of the Mexican War. Theses made
before the war are attacked on the
ground that the laws Of the imperial
Mexican government required con-
frmation of any land grant within
10 leagues of the coast or 20 leagues
of foreign nation by the central
government.
These old Mexican grants allegedly
we're translated into titles under the
United States law through conflrma-
ton by the California Land Claims
Board, which was set up by act Of
Congress March 3, 1851. The plain
tiffs claim this act was unconStitu-
tional as it endeavored to confer on
courts functions without giving them
authority or powers to enforce their
DEGREES or judgments. 1t also is
alleged that some of the titles to the
properties were obtained through
fraud and collision of agents Of the
United States and of the imperial
Mexican government.
Public Scandal Inferred.
The suits recite at length state
ments made by Government officials
indicating that handling of land
grants in California just after the
Mexican War constituted what ap-
preached public scandal
On one of the tracts alone there
are said to be 1000 oil wells, Of
which approximately 1,000,000,o00
barrels of oil has been taken in the
past Is years. The claim is made that
this land belongs to the United States
Government. This is the San Pedro
ranch.
The Los Parlos Verdes ranch is said
TO have 800 oil wells and the Boca De
Santa Monica ranch 400 oil wells.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Minister t6 Russia Named.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, August % (P.-
Prof. Michaltcheff, former Bulgarian
Minister to Czechoslovakia, today was
appointed Minister to Moscow, this
country's first diplomatic representa-
tive there IN 10 years.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Sells Grandmother's Clothing.

LYNN, Mass, R.-Mrs. Mary Ma
sons 7-year-old grandson has no eye
for business. He sold his grand
mothers Winter clothing to a junk
man for 9 cents. She appealed to po-
lice for help to get back the clothing
Evening star., 1934-08-28

portrayed intimately in the
- journal of Sir Augustus John
Foster, the British Minister at
the outbreak of the War of 1872,
which has just been added to the
manuscript collection of the Library
Of Congress.
Some years before he had been an
attache here. 1t was a rude, frontier
society into which he was plunged
after the polished ball rooms of
LONDON, and he could not refrain
from expressing his disgust at the
social manners.
About that time he didn't think
much of Americans anyway.
Pretty Girls
Reported Few Here.
Most of the members of the Con-
greSS, it is true, keep to their lodg-
ings," he wrote, "but still there are
a sufficient number of them who are
sociable and whose families come to
the city for a season. And there is
no lack of handsome ladies for the
balls, especially at Georgetown. In
deed, never saw prctticr girls, any
where. AS there are but few of, them,
however, in proportion to the great
Evening star., 1934-08-28
LESSON IN TIPPING
GIVEN HOWELL BY
CONTROLLER M'CARL

Continued From First Page3
Evening star., 1934-08-28
SUITS MAY GUST
RICH OIL OWNERS
473 Homesteaders Ask Rul'
ing to Restore Fields to
Public Domain.

-Four hundred and seventy-three
Southern California homesteaders to-
day filed seven suits in District Su-
preme Court in an attempt to oust
The present owners of some of the
,ichest oil lands in the country and
nave the property declared public
domain.
The total annual income from oil
wells involved is estimated at $780,
100000 Four tracts of land which
10 not yield oil also are involved in
he suit. These are valued at total
Of 1927 100000.
Say Old Grants Invalid.
The actions are based on the al
leged invalidity of old land grants by
he Mexican government before the
ILeXican War, which ended with the
Ceding to the United States OF Cali
1ornia, together with other territories.
An attack also was made on the con-
ttitutionality of law adopted March
.. 1851. which set up board for ad-
Indicating land claims in California
Secretary of the Interior Ickes is
the defendant in all of the suits. The
ether defendants vary according to
the land in question, and include the
s hell Oil Co., the Standard Oil Co.
of California, the Texas Oil Co, the
Union Oil Co. of Los Angeles, the
superior Oil Co. of Los Angeles, the
Tactic Western Oil Co. Of Los An
eles, the Chanselor- Garfield Midway
oil Co. of Los Angeles, the Irvine Co.
CT Charleston, w. Va: the Title In
s,rance & Trust Co. st Los Angeles,
as trustee, and the Marblehead Land
60 of Los Angeles,
Evening star., 1934-08-28
ROOSEVELT is HOST
TO GOV. LEHMAN AT
SUMMER WHITE HOUSE

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-08-28
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

OVE-MAKING and gay life ir
Washington 122 years ago were
portraYed Intimately in the
Evening star., 1934-08-28
U. S. ARMS SCOPE
INVOLVES ZAHAROFF
IN SENATE'S PROBE

Continued From First Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Militant Unions Must
Take Lead in Fight on
NRA Strikebreaking

Workers: Organize to defend youi
interests. Organize the broadest
united front of struggle.
For immediate wage increases,
for the shorter workday without
reduction in weekly earnings,
against speed up, stretch ont. etc.
For the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill; against c.
Wa. layoffs.
For the unconditional right 10
strike.
Defeat all attempts to fasten
compulsory arbitration to the
workers through the National La
Dor Board, the Wagner BILL o.
any other means.
Demand the immediate with
drawal of all A. F. of L. leaders
from the N.R.A. and labor boards.
Against any and all forms of
government regulation or control
of the Trade Unions.
For the right OF the workers 70
join any Union Of their own
choice.
Defeat the class collaboration
policies of Green, Lewis, Hiiiman
e. Co.
Smash the company unions.
For a powerful independent
class Trade Union Movement.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARl
TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Tremendous Struggle,
Against Effects of
The New Deal

NEW YORK.-The National Elk
ecutive Board Of the Trade Union
Unity League held a special meet
ing here Friday, March Is, and
mapped out plans for action in the
various industries in the present
tremendous strike situation and at
tacks against the workers by the
Roosevelt government.
Leaders of various unions affili-
ated with the T.U.U.L. in New York,
New England, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania were present, besides
the members of the executive board.
Jack Stachel, acting general sec
rotary, reported on the present situ-
alton and the tasks confronting the
trade unions. The Board adopted
a Call to Action.
Speaking of the huge strike wave
in auto, aluminium, taxi, coal, the
Call to Action, which is addressed
to all members of the T.U.U.L., A.
F. of L., independent unions, as well
as unorganized, employed and un-
employed, declares:
New Deal Cuts Wages
zone year after the Roosevelt
New Deal, and eight months after
the N. R. A. and its promises, finds
us worse off than ever before. :"
Pointing out that over 10000 900 are
still unemployed, and that C.W.A.
workers are being flung back into
the ranks of the jobless, the Call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Fire IS Nurses AT
Beth David In New
Hospital Racket
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK.-At the Beth David
Hospital, 1894 Lexington Ave, 10
nurses we're kicked out of the train
ing school without a days notice.
Some of these girls had only two
months to graduate, after having
served for two years at SO month
pay.
These girls were accepted under
the false pretense that within a
year the hospital would be regis
tered, and that the student nurses
would have to complete some ad-
ditional academic points. Mean
while, they were kept under the
most miserable conditions, paid $40
a month, received no training, and
were forced to work IL hours day.
seven days a week with only one
afternoon week off.
AS a result of overwork and poor
food. these student nurses were
often confined to bed. Out of the
$40 monthly wages, SIS had to go
to pay for uniforms and additional
food.
On Jan. /, a new administration
came in. A New Deal was given
to the workers. Some Of those who
had worked there for IL to is years
were fired. The superintendent Of
nurses fired all Jewish nurses, re-
placing them with gentiles, claiming
that Jewish nurses will not work
for $3.50 a day. CPorters, laundry
workers and kitchen help get 81
cents day..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Daily Reporter Pickets With
Cabn'en; Drivers Cheer Paper
you're the Only Guys That Print the Truth
About the Cops Violence Says Taxi Striker

the paper was mentioned at the
strike meeting proves this.
I went to the meeting as re-
porter, but was officially accepted
as strike picket before the evening
was over. You're one of us and
we want you with us on the picket
line" a hickman from a 23rd ST.
garage told me. 1 vent out with
them and sent for delegation Of
pickets from my union, the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. The
seamen and .longshoremen will be
on the cab strike front today,
On the Line
And what a picket demonstration
we had! No PaTnelee or Terminal
cab dared to cross our path as We
swung up Broadway in an orderly
manner.
The trouble started when the po-
lice arrived at Madison Square,
Here LaGuardias finest went pell-
nell about the dirty work Of break
ing the heads of men whose very
life depends upon the success Of the
strike.
Every picket who was attacked
defended himself well, The line
moved on up Broadway At Greedy
Square the cops rallied In their
viciously brutal manner they began
to swing their clubs, hitting any one
who came near them. Three men
were knocked unconscious. James
Martin, living at 224 22nd ST..
Brooklyn, an auto mechanic who
was waiting for a street car, was
assaulted by officer No. 1894 Mar
tin was beaten unconscious and was
taken to hospital with gaping
scalp wound.
"Get this story, Daily Worker"
striker shouted to me. You're
the only guys that print the truth
about the cops violence"
I got the story Our paper is not
only satisfied with printing it, but
the Daily Worker demands that
Mayor LaGuardia carry out his
promises and stops the police bru-
tally.
The Daily Worker demands
that police violence against strik-
ers cease.
The Daily Worker demands
that the Sherwood Detective
Agency, 1457 Broadway, which
supplied gangsters and thugs to
beat up strikers be put out of
business.
The Daily Worker demands this
because it is first last and all the
time WORKERS paper, paper
for the taxi workers and for all
! who toll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

off his feet by drivers in their eff
forts to get copy of the paper.
Hundreds of copies Of the Daily"
were distributed and sold among
the strikers.
Samuel Orner, president of the
Taxi Drivers Union Of Greater New
York, had invited me to speak at
this meeting. He asked me to tell
the drivers about the strikebreak-
ing activities of the Sherwood De-
tective Agency, which we're revealed
following an investigation made by
the Daily Worker and published in
yesterdays issue of the paper.
Daily Worker Aids Union
Prior to the publication Of the
Sherwood Detective material, the
Daily Worker sent letter to the
union giving detailed information
about the thugs and gangsters who
we're supplied by Sherwood to ter
rorize Parmelee drivers. Orner also
had in his possession material EVIL
dence proving that Sherwood thugs
were working for Parmelee; and on
the basis Of the combined facts
gathered by the union and the
Daily Worker, Orner sent vigorous
letters Of protest to the Mayor and
Police Commissioner Organ, de-
manding that an investigation be
conducted into the activities OF
Sherwood and that he be ousted
from business.
The hackInen now understand
the powerful role played by the
Daily Worker in the strike. They
know that it is their paper. The
applause given when the name OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Cleveland Steel
And Metal Union
BuildSNewL Locals
Need New Quarters to
Keep Pace With the
Growth of the Union

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March a.
The workers of Chandler and Price
Manufacturing Company, manufac-
turers of printing equipment, have
organized and joined the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
Their next meeting will be held Sat-
urday, March "a. At this meeting
the charter of the local union will
be installed. This union will be
known as Local 11O4. Their meet
ing will take up the question of
union recognition by the company
and a wage increase.
In addition to that, the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union has
organized Kilby Manufacturing pro-
ducers Of chemical equipment at
present employing about 80 workers.
Local Union 1102 of the Eaton
Axle Company has presented de-
mands for wage increase from Is
to 40 per cent. The strike is eK-
pected within short while unless
satisfactory settlement can be made.
This plant now employs 500 workers.
The Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union has started an en-
ergetic campaign to bring up the
membership to 5000 this production
season in the city of Cleveland.
Due to the growth of the organ
ization, new headquarters are being
established in the center of the city.
There are many strikes brewing in
the metal plants right now which
are expected to come off within the
next three or four weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

This Is only intended to fool the
workers and to stop the many
struggles that the workers are car
rying on against the company
unions. At the same time, the role
OF the A. F. Of L. leaders was clear
ly shown in the statement of Gen
eral johnson to the 1000 chief cap
italists of the country, when he told
them that Green, Lewis, McGrady,
Berry and Co, are a better guar
antee against strikes than even the
company unions. All of these labor
leaders have proven the truth of
this statement Of johnson through
their strikebreaking activity.
United Struggle Can Defeat Attacks
at is especially the duty of the
T.U.UL. unions and the oppositions
within the A. F. Of L. unions Of the
militant elements in the indepen-
dent unions to make these issues
clear to the mass Of the workers
and to organize them for struggle
on the basis of the united action
of the rank and file of all organi-
cations together with the morgan
lied, to expose the maneuvers of
the A. F. of L. leaders in the auto
and other industries who are trying
to prevent the workers from strik-
ing for their demands. 1t is neces-
sary to especially give all attention
to support of the present strikes of
the auto workers, steel workers,
railroad workers, miners, textile and
marine workers.
THE unions affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League must
everywhere increase their activity tc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

the workers in the n R. A., the
bosses through their government
are moving against the workers or
gsnizations and against strikes.
Meaning Of Wagner Bill
"And just as the government with
the MIRA. came to the assistance
of the employers last year, so again
they are trying to create new hopes
in the minds of the workers that
without struggle the workers can
gain higher wages and shorter
hours. And again the A. F. of L..
leadership stands on the side of
the employers and the government
against the workers, The govern
ment is trying to stop the rising
struggles through the so-called
Roosevelt plea for a reduction of
hours by 10 per cent and wage in
creases by 10 per cent to be carried
through voluntarily for those in
dustries that can afford it. In line
with this, and faced with the wave
of strikes in the auto industry, Ford
and the other companies are trying
to stop the struggles of the workers
through small concessions just as
they tried last year, But at the
same time, the Wagner Bill, which
is hailed by the A. F. Of L. leaders
as something in the interests of the
workers, aims to strengthen the
strikebreaking machinery of the
government to make it more easy
to break the rising strike struggles
of the workers. This is the aim
and meaning of tAs Wagner Bill.
"Th Wagner Bill claims that 1t
will outlaw the company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

to Action details the methods by
which the codes undermine wages.
THE MIRA. codes were used to
especially beat down the conditions
of the Negro workers for whom the
codes provide lower wages through
the so-called differentials for the
South, or because they have been
left out entirely in the code provi-
sions. Women workers and young
workers are being Disseminated
against and more ruthlessly ex-
plotted than ever before.
1.-THE right to organize and strike,
which has always been the right of
the workers, is being met by the
most brutal suppression of the po-
lice terror and the armed gunner
of the masters Of industry, where
the workers cannot be demoralized
through the policies of the labor
bureaucrats" Nor is this attack be-
ing made only against the militant
and independent unions. The at
tack on the Alabama miners which
is now going on, shows that where
the rank and file Of the A. F. of l..
unions take up the fight for better
conditions, against company unions,
the A. F. of L. leadership stands
shoulder to shoulder with the bosses
and the government against the
workers
Where workers have made gains,
the T.U.UL. board points out, it
has been only through struggle
against the wishes of the A. F. of
l.. leadership. Now with the deve-
lopment OF new strike wave, and
with the growing establishment of