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Evening star., 1934-12-15
PRECEDENT SEEN
|NNUMBERS CASE
D. c. Court of Appeals Re-
fuses Petition to Allow
Writ of Error.

Mote: Acceding to q recent
request BY United States Attorney
Gdrnett, The Star, the Post, the
Times, the Herald and the ctty's
four broadcasting stations are re-
fusinq to aid the numbers racket
by dissemination of the race total
numbers Uith Which the game here
is conducted. Publication or broad
casting OF such totals is OF no in
terest outside the numbers racket
In the first test case affecting the
numbers game, the District of Colum-
bia Court of Appeals has denied pc
tition for allowance of writ of error
After an arrest Of a year ago, q
decision of Judge Ralph Given in
Police Court was upheld in the case
Of the United States VS.. Eddie Jack
Bowen, Elwood jackson Brewer and
James Adolphus Allen. all charged
with violation of the District of Co.
lumbia code as it applies to Setting
up gaming table"
While the arrest was made on De-
cember IA, 1888, the case was not
brought to court until January Is OF
this year. Next day. January Is
Judge Given-after a jury had re-
turned a verdict of guilty-sentenced
the men to serve go days each in the
work house.
Appeal Was Noted.
Immediately attorneys for the de-
PENDANTS noted an appeal. Therein
began the delay. Under the old pro-
cedure of the Court of Appeals nc
time limit was set for filing a bill OF
exceptions. Attorneys for the defend.
ants drew up their bill. the United
States attorneys Office filed objections
and proposed amendments. Then both
sides got together. After term o1
months the papers were filed and the
case finally landed in the Court o1
Appeals. It was reported out on De-
cember 13, and the clerk Of the Police
Court, F. A. Sebring, was notified tc
this effect yesterday by Harry w
Hodges, clerk of the Court Of Ap-
peals.
This will probably mark the last OF
(Continued on Page 3, Column So
Evening star., 1934-12-15
Described by Captain.

Heroic attempts to rescue the help
less members of the Usworth's crew
were described by Capt. Sadie Con-
thier, master of the rescue ship Jean
Jadot, in a wireless dispatch to the
Associated Press.
As the seas rolled furiOusly in a
wild storm of hurricane force the Jean
Jadot launched q lifeboat carrying 10
members of her crew who volunteered
for the rescue attempt. The Ascania
stood by, pouring hundreds Of tons OF
oil on the oceans surface.
The Jean Jadot's boat finally came
alongside the Usworth, Capt. Gonthier
said, and started taking off her crew.
1t was perilous job, for the sea
kept hurting the rescue boat against
the Usworth's sides and the freighter' s
men were forced to slide down line
to reach the Jean Jadot,s boat.
Eight men had been taken off the
freighter when huge wave swamped
the little boat and it became folled
in cargo derricks hanging over the
side of the Usworth. The rescue boat
edged away, rolling in the raging sea.
Suddenly another big wave swept over
the frail boat and it capsized, with its
18 passengers plunging helplessly into
the water.
The Jean Jabot rushed another boat
over the side and managed to pick
up 8 of the 10 volunteers and two of
the Usworth's crew.
The two men lost from the Jean
Jadot we're the fourth officer and an
other member of the crew.
Another Boat Launched.
The Ascania then launched boat
and took off other survivors while the
storm continued unabated.
The. Usworth was stricken helpless
about $50 miles east of Newfoundland
when giant waves smashed her steer
ing gear She sent out calls for help
and the Jean Jadot hurried to her as
sistance. The Belgian liner managed
to get lines aboard the Usworth and
was endeavoring to tow the helpless
boat to safety when the storm tore
the two vessels apart, and for 10 hours
they were separated.
Then came on S OS appeal from
the Usworth that her situation was
precarious and that the crew must be
taken of. The Jean Jadot and the
Ascania arrived to start their rescue
work with its tragic results. Details
regarding the deaths of the other sever
victims were not contained in the dis
patch from the Ascania.
Evening star., 1934-12-15
Dollar Liner in Collision.

SHANGHAI, December IS P).-The
Dollar liner President Jefferson suf-
fered a damaged bow in Hongkong
harbor yesterday when the Danish
motor ship Afrika collided with her
according to information received by
the line today. The Jefferson was at
anchor awaiting docking
Evening star., 1934-12-15
r T APPEARS as II it is going to be
Merry Christmas for Washing
tons poor children after all.


tons poor children after all.
l New toys and gifts and new
articles of clothing by the tens
Of thousands poured in to the II
theaters where The Star-Warner Bros.
toy matinees were held this morning,
brought by generous persons who
seemed kindly determined that there
should be no forgotten child in Wash
ington this Christmas.
They came from all directions
from all parts of Washington and
from nearby towns in Maryland and
Virginia-in a steady stream which
began early this morning and con-
verged toward the many theaters
where the finest of entertainment
awaited them.
Although the downtown theaters,
Evening star., 1934-12-15
Star Preference

A recent questionable sent
by a Washington department
store to its charge account
customers brought 2,747 re-
plies.
OF this number 1926 re-
ported that they read The
Evening Star in the home and
of these 1870 read no other
afternoon paper in the home.
OF the 924 homes which re-
ported that they took one or
both of the other afternoon
papers, 66% reported that
they also took The Star.
Yesterdays Advertising
Gocal Display1
Lines.
The Evening Star 116,787
End Newspaper, :, 6O,163
3rd Newspaper. 1896
4th Newspaper 44'oo'
5th Newspaper 25,S99
Tot,1 (x4 Other 176 463
BY using The Star as their
outstanding advertising me-
dium, Washington merchants
present to readers of The Star
the best and most varied
items of attractive merchan-
disc to be found in the local
stores.
Evening star., 1934-12-15

picture on Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1934-12-15

CONTINUED on Page 3, Column 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16

One of the most perplexing
problems facing the Communist
Party today is the nature Of our
work in the trade unions. The
changing situation has necessitsted
the giving up of the National Tex
tile Workers Union end the send
ing Of it's membership into the
United Textile Workers. The same
is true of the needle workers.
The changes made necessary in
our trade union tactics have raised
several important questions such as:
Where is our main basis for WORK
at present-in the A. F. Of L., the
ITUUL., or the independent unions?
What is the future of the T.UU.L.
organization? What Of the indie
pendent unions and the slogan
raised in the Eighth Convention,
Independent Federation of Labor?
Does the present change of tactics
constitute revision Of our former
line? And so on.
Comrade Jack Stachel answers
these questions in his article, Our
Trade Union Policy" published in
the November Issue of The Com
munist." First made as report
to the Political Bureau of the Cen
trail Committee, the article traces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
hminence Of Var Stressed
In Important Ne'O Pamphlet

Italian. Yet daily the sabre rattles
more loudly in both these count
tries, as the Nazis prepare for an
attack on the west against the U. S.
S. r. simultaneous with Japan's
attack on the east, and as Mussolini
puts the italian infants in uniforms.
And in the United States the war
budget exceeds that of Japan, Ger
many, France or England.
NOT only is war imminent, Hell
N Ter points out. War exists: in
China, where the Chinese white
armies of Marking, trained by Ger
man fascist commanders and sup
ported by the wealth of the i'm
perialist powers, struggle in vain to
crush the Chinese Soviets; in South
America, where the rival capitalists
Of Great Britain and the United
States are behind the armies of
Bolivia and Paraguay.
But if the imperialiSt war is i'm
minent, it is not inevitable, Heller
shows. He points out in detail the
efforts Of the Soviet Union on be-
half of world peace, leading up to
the entrance Of the U. S. S. r. in
the League of Nations. He discusses
the anti-war efforts of the Euro
pean masses and shows how this is
linked up with the fight against
fascism, the breeding ground of
war He takes up the anti-war
work in America led by the Amer
lean League Against War and
Fascism.
Nobody wants war" Heller con-
cludes. Nobody but the financiers
the munition makers, the mill
tarists and advocates of prepared
ness, the Legionaires and fascists,
the enemies of the Soviet Union
and the imperialiSts of all coun-
tries. The war forces dominate
capitalist governments, control the
press, have unlimited means at their
disposal They dictate the policies
Of the reformist trade unions, and
many Socialist leaders in the cap
italist countries give them support
by word and deed. But there are
other forces which are vitality con-
cerned in preventing war. The
toiling masses, the enlightened in
tellectuals, standing shoulder to
shoulder with their class brothers in
the Soviet Union can and must pre-
vent war. If our strength is not
great enough today, if the forces OF
reaction still appear to be stronger,
it is only for a time. Each one Of
us, every friend of the Soviet
Union, must work harder; every
conscious worker and farmer, every
honest intellectual and professional,
every Communist and Socialist must
get together, must form one solid
united front BY united, organized
effort we shall conquer, we shall
Danish imperialist wars from the
face Of the earth.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
L u N | N C. In

:oo-WEAF-Gould and Shelter. Piano
wOR-sports Resume-Ford Frick
WABC-Amos n Andy-sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-sketch
7:i5-wEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Front Page Drama
WJZ-Plantation Echoes; Mildred
Bailey. Songs; Robson Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill-5ketch
3O-wEAF-Uncle Ezra-sketch
WoR-Mystery Sketch
WJz-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-Paul Keast, Baritone
:45-WEAF-Frank Bucks Adventures
WOR-Dance Music
WJz-Dangerous Psradise-Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
800 WEAF-Bourdon Orchestra; Jessies
Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quar-
tet; Football-Grantland Rice
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketeh
WJZ-Jewels Of Enchantment-Sketef
with Irene Rich, Actress
WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
8:l5-WJZ-Dick Liebert, Organ; Arm
bruster and Kraus, Piano; Mary
Courtland, Songs; Male Quartet
WABC-Edwin C. Hill, Commentator
8; 0-wOF7-Katzman Orchestra; Lucille
Peterson, Songs; Choristers Quartet
WJz-Goodman Orchestra; Jane Fro
man, Songs Al Bowlly, Songs
WABC-Court OF Human Relations
0oWEAF-Lyman Orchestra; Frank
Mum. Tenor; vivienne segal, Songs
WOR-Selvin Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Stachel Clarifies Trade Union
Tasks in November Communist

the development of our trade union
work since the formation of the
Party, examines the conditions
which we face at the present
moment, and sets forth our tasks
in this situation. In the course of
the article. Comrade Stschel makes
an annihilating exposure of the
dual unionism" ISLANDERS of the
Lovestoneite and Trotzkyite rene
gades.
The November issue Of The Com
munist" is an enlarged. 128-page
issue. 1t contains an editorial on
the seventeenth anniversary of the
October Revolution. an article on
the national textile strike, the sec
ond part of the review Of Lewis
Corey'sa book on American capital
ism and other material The full
table of contents follows:
The Seventeenth Anniversary of
the October ReyoIution-Edi-
torial.
Our Trade Union Policy-by Jack
Stachel.
Lessons of the Great National
Textile Strike-by Carl Reeve.
Leninism Is the Only Marxism of
the Imperialist Era--by Alex
Bittelman and v. ]. Jerome.
Part 2 OF review Of Lewis
Corey's The Decline Of Amer
lean Capitalism.
The Present Situation. Perspec-
tiyes, and Tasks in Cuba.
Figures on the American Economic
Crisis-Labor Research Assn.
Dynamite Against t he Working
CLASSIFY A. 3imba review of
Louis Adamic's Dynamite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Reviewed by
EDWIN SEAvER

I'll W In SIN INV
ONE of the most alarming symp-
v toms in the contemporary world
is the fatalism with which the idea
of new world war is accepted.
Masses of people no longer speak
Of the possibility of war in terms of
'if"; they take the coming of war
as certainty and speculate only
or when war will be declared and
what will be the probable lineup
among the nations. Meanwhile the
capitalist powers, unable to come to
any agreement because of the inner
contradictions of capitalism and the
cutthroat competition for markets,
are at one and the same time arm
ing to the teeth, accusing their
prospective enemies Of arming, and
using every source Of propaganda
to poison the minds of the masses
for preparedness. Add to this the
necessity of nations either openly
or tacitly fascist to exploit the war
spirit to keep in check the up
surge of their revolutionary prole-
tariat and to defect the minds of
the people from conditions All
home, and you have a picture that
makes a rnadhouse look compare
lively sane.
The Soviet Union alone stands
out like an oasis of sanity and hope
in a world gone mad with i'm
perialist and fascist rivalries, the
one world power which has consist
emily struggled for peace and which
continues to leave no stone I'M
turned that will in any way at
least perpetuate the present state
of armed truce. And because of
this very fact, because the existence
of the Soviet Union proves daily
that world socialism holds out the
only lasting certainty for peace, all
the roads Of imperialist military
plans lead eventually to the bor-
ders of the U. S. S. r.
In view Of present world condi-
tions, then, A. A. Heller's pamphlet
on Who Wants War" is an ex-
tremely timely and important pub
LEGATION. Heller shows that it is
not the common people of any
country who want war, the masses
who will have to pay the piper
until they get rid of those who are
calling the tune. Certainly the
japanese masses don't want war.
Yet they are staggering under an
incredible war budget, are being
killed in the war to dismember
China, are being herded to Man
chukuo in ever increasing thousands
to be held in readiness for the
long planned onslaught against the
Soviet Union. Certainly the German
people don't want war, nor the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Little Masterpiece
Ralph Fox Calls The
October Revolution

No Communist can afford to be
ignorant of this little masterpiece,
Ralph Fox writes in his review of
Joseph Stains THE October Rev
olution," in No. So of international
Press Correspondence. Just off the
international Publishers press, the
book is warmly praised by Fox as
"a handbook of proletarian rev.
olution, a classic of MarXism-
Leninism. 1t is safe to say that
neither the problems of the work
ers' revolution nor the slogan of
Soviet Power can be properly
understood without it,"
Fox finds the dominant note in
Stains book to be its battle
against counter Revolutionary Trot-
skyism, against the conception of
October which would have denied
its Socialist character, which would
have destroyed its world revolution
airy force and eventually destroyed
the revolution also.
stain enables us to see not
only the genius OF Lenin, but also
how the tactics of the Party were
rooted in revolutionary Marxism
drawing all their inspiration from
it. It is common taunt of re-
fornism today that October was an
accident" due partly to luck and
partly to Lenin's genius in Selling
the exact moment tc strike. That
a1i1 uas revolutionary canine ie
beyond doubt. Stain, however,
makes clear how the whole work OF
the Party in the period before Oc-
tober made the victory of the
working class certain. Trotsky also
has the vulgar bourgeois view of
October, save that he modestly sub
stitutes himself for Lenin as the
human factor responsible for the
victory"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
The Lowest of the Arts

IS example, finally for
murders shall permit him the plea of criminal insanity
No he He unusually clever swndler hired by the
big capitalists fnsnces their bankrupt system. The
method he demagogy that and lowest of all the
arts the art of deceiving the in the interests Of the rich
grant the premise capitalism ought and be
then Hlers those
nationaism breaches only
while all Lains Oriens subhumsn
hopes capitalism dierting
from their real problems
The attack the Jews also gives them false scent to pursue
Anti-semim been called the socialism fools
and Hitler consciously
starving it capitalism obviously that them;
but Hitler tells is the thus shields his from
attack
It all very clever and logical said And it
for obviously Capitalists dare look into
get by for another Gay more, all is we'll with them
how about umbrellas? Hitler preaching the he
doctrine his Teddy Roosevelt
here So according financial report have just most
Of the German bourgeois males like the
Segfieds they umbrellas in the rain would
be too Unmarried, neighbors might gossip.
The result has terrible slump the umbrella industry
throwing according
pert II the Review of Reviews
Which about help prosperity the aughte
ing CT by Brain Trust Yet all good capitalist logic
friends the old logic that will finally the
that rules Europe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
That Wonderful epic" Plan

I old literary Upton
has been defeated in his
Upton doesn't understand that capitalism
ordinary standards thought could the
capitalists permit him them themselves.
It disgrace that Upton Sinclair
dedicated the capitalist
of the body up job
defending this disease.
Re thought he had wonderful
patient gang~ene
let him
Upton is enough know that Communism
and he prefers capitalism His really
he said often and again, to halt Communism
capitalists necessary sinclairs
services public
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16

]
lea showing the decay Of bourgeois
society and the development Of the
revolutionary idea among the
masses.
Other paintings that attracted at
tention we're Phillip Reisman'a
muted "Hoovervile," William sie-
gels water tempera "shsre-Crop-
/ pers Union" Max spivak's plastic
Right To Organize" Anton Re-
fregier's Hungry" and Jim Guys
"A Kiss for Every Hero"
AMONG the graphic artists Harry
n Sternberg's contribution was most
effective. His Autograph, Industrial
Landscepe-1934," possesses genuine
Revolutionary indignation and sends
thrill of horror up ones spine. A
worker is being deliberately and
sadistically bayonted by a Ma
tional Gusrdsman, whose gas-mask
and brutal stance make him seem
monstrous. Sternbergs channeling
| Of resentment against the National
| Guardsman throws the soldier into
false perspective as deliberate and
cruel oppressor of the working class
O. a conscious agent Of the bour-
geoisie, like the policeman or thug.
instead Of the deluded working class
boy he is Burcks painting, to a
lesser degree, shows the same mis-
conception.
Barbara BuTsge's Autograph Of
miner and his wife is very
human document. Lillian Adelman's
/ Autograph. Evening Meal. is capa-
BILE. Julien Albert's Autograph,
Profits for God" modern in treat
ment has richness Of tone and
texture that makes it one Of the
most interesting exhibits in the
show. Paul Meltsner's dramatic
Death Of a Sailor" is a bit too
inerveless and black in drawing.
Other graphic work of merit in
clude Edward Laning's fine, sym
bolicel Riders Joseph Vogelis
strong and effective Hungarian
Miners Hunger strike" Ned Hill
tons satirical The Demogogue,"
Mitchell siporin's stop Munition
Shipments" I. Margoles' solid Wen
Put 1t Back" Louis Lozowick's
Strike Scene" and Herb Kruck-
mans war At Home" r. Linn
bach's Reviewing Stand" and VIII
| liam Choppers Sweat Shop" have
been seen before.
THE sculpture is much better than
that Of any previous John Reed
exhibition. Aaron Goodelmsn's in
tense and powerful "Driller" would
be outstanding anywhere. Sam
/ Becker's "Pickets," compact figure
group of workers carrying awey
hurt but still defiant fellow striker
/ is fine small figure piece. full Of
feeling and revolutionary spirit Nat
Werner's Taxi Driver" a strong
head, is sympathetically done. Ann
Wolfe's "Eula Gray S. Olenikov's
Head and S. A. Lipcon's United
Front" are other pieces that at
tracted attention.
! The exhibition is open daily from
one to six p. N. and on Tuesdays
and Sundays is open until nine
o'clock. The admission is 10 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
HAVE THE WELLS OF
SCIENCE RUN DRY?

Science, which is being put to
such Bolshevik use in the Soviet
Union. is certainly not showing
Bolshevik spirit in the case of
Comrsde Ramsey. While the
cultural front supports Mike
Gold. the art field supports
Burck and high political circles
flock to Cannes, the scientists
are leaving Comrade Ramsey
high ard dry. Witness today's
records Per cent Of his $3.50
quota
Total TO dste......................s4 1.24
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Reviewed by
LEON ALEXANDER

LEON ALEXANDER
EVERY once in a while tine thea
Il tire of Broadway busies itself
with the eternal verities Of life and
death. This time, taking it's cue
from the tabloids, it seeks to an
swer that old favorite query: What
would you do II you had only
day-a week, a month, year-to
live?
The contemplation of this prob
lem is supposed to fascinate news
paper readers; the playwright must
have figured it would panic"
theatre audiences. AS a matter Of
fact, the average man is strangely
undisturbed by the abstr act
thought of imminent death. 1t is
sign of the disintegration of a
class when the idea begins to pre-
occupy its playwrights and its
journalists. And there is dis
tinct odor of decay around the play
Dark Victory and the shrill acting
of Tallulah Bankhead.
This is the dilemma of life and
death, as Dark Victory expounds it,:
A young daughter Of the idle rich
miss Tallulah Bankhead) learns
that as a result of a fall from a
horse, she has developed a malig-
nant tumor of the brain. Nothing
can save her, not even an opera
ton. She has but six months more
to live. She spends the first three
months carousing, the next two
days in deep self probing; and
what is left to her of her short
span of life up in the hills of Yer
mont with her doctor, finding true
love with him. Then the time
comes for her to die, she bravely
sends her lover-doctor away while
she makes ready to face the grim
reaper alone, purified by the no.
bility Of true love.
THE play is surprisingly dull. The
plight of the heroine raises no
terror or self-identified pity in the
hearts of the audience. Their
yaWns can almost be heard above
the valiant Mysteries of Miss Bank
head.
AS an actress, the lady spatters
herself and her emotions all over
the scenery. Since her much
ballyhooed glamor is also consid-
cred a drawing card by the pro-
Queer it may not be unfair to men,
ton that she seems to be growing
both plump and buxom. The rest
OF the actors struggle valiantly
against the handicap Of the mys-
ticism and pseudo-poetry.
There is one scene, however, that
rises above the level of the rest.
Hard, unsentimental, strident, it's
three protagonists a music playing
stockbroker, a smart scribbling wo-
man and our wealthy heroine, di-
rected with feeling for its clashing
moods, it reveals suddenly, whether
Intentionally or not, the whole
naked foulness of a dying upper
class culture.
1t would be interesting to see
what a revolutionary playwright
could 90 with the same theme Of
imminent death. The material is
not lacking in the lives of the
workers, whether it be the plight of
the victims of radium or silicon
poisoning, or that of miners en-
tombed by an explosion. And above
all of these, the magnificent theme
pointed out recently by Mike Gold:
the story of those miners of Hun
gary who chose death in the mines
rather than slow starvation and
slavery to the mine owners, even in
their attempted suicide affirming
life and struggle above death.