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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
5000 Communist and
Socialist Workers
in United Front
BY HOWARD BoLDT

10y nv W EAAAD LNOAD
TOR more than a full week New
u Orleans, under partial martial
law, saw one side of the City Hall
barricaded by National Guardsmen,
called out by Huey Long to protect
his share of the loot-appointments
to city jobs, graft from the city
treasury, gambling houses and
houses Of prostitution.
On the other side were arrayed
$40 police armed with machine guns,
and reinforced by 500 deputies
sworn in to protect Mayor VAIN
sey'S right to the loot.
While these two factions of the
Democratic Party, the party of the
Roosevelt New Deal of hunger,
fought for the major share of the
graft and plumber, unemployed
workers by the thousands were
driven further and further into
starvation. Federal Emergency Re-
lief administrator Harry ]. Early
announced that $4,000 "unemploy-
ables," sick, blind, crippled, thou
sands of expectant mothers, and
children would be cut off relief on
Aug. 1, unless the state provided
funds.
On Aug. 8, about 5000 workers
massed in the square facing the
City Hall, and demanded immedi-
ate relief, demanded that the city
administration, which could find
funds to equip the National Guard
and the police with machine guns.
Immediately appropriate funds for
the jobless Negro and white work.
erS.
While the city, state and federal
officials agreed that none of them
had taken any steps to feed the
$1,000 "unemployables" and to pro-
vide adequate relief for the other
thousands of jobless, Lafayette
Square rocked with the demands of
the unemployed in a huge united
front Of unemployed workers.
The modified forces of the state
we're hurriedly armed with tear gas
guns, gas grenades, side arms and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Novel of Life in a Coal Mine Town

novel which Tilie
life OF coal judging the already published
to be imaginative
etaan literature She is also writing
General Strike and the vglane raids appear
issue of Partisan Review
Francisco events.
Reed Clubs should follow the
example OF the New York club sending kilograms
authorities demanding the prisoners jailed during
raids and the cessation of attacks
Carmel and other California cities New
organization planning meeting next week
at which prominent writer's be invited to speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

and National Guardsmen arrayed
before the City Hall, and declared
Both Long and Walmsley have
money to spend for bullets, but
nothing for bread" and invited
them to throw down their guns and
fight with the Unemployment Coun-
ellis for relief.
While the unemployed massed at
the City Hall, city, state and fed
eral officials variously placed the
burden for relief on each other.
Said Governor Allen: mo state
funds are available for their relief"
Said Federal Emergency Relief
Administrator Early: tits up to the
parishes, since the state didn't do
anything about them"
Said Mayor Walmsley: "The state
has passed no laws by which the
city could levy taxes for the I'M
employed"
Meanwhile, as all relief food was
exhausted, Mary Raymond, director
of the municipal welfare depart
ment, stating that the unemployed
were applying in increasing num-
bers for relief, declared: 81 am
advising the unemployed to attempt
to get aid from neighbors, churches
and relatives"
in THE heart of the lynch South,
in the very stronghold of the
jim-crow party Of Roosevelt, Negro
and white workers massed together
in united front of Socialist and
Communist workers, raising the de
mand for equal rights for Negroes.
The demonstration called attention
to the fact that the state legisla-
ture, which has adjourned, refused
to make any provisions for the
states unemployed.
When. the jobless demanded APP
preparations for relief, Governor
Allen declared that the state could
do nothing. Mayor Walmsley, con-
cerned only with the fight for poll
tical spoils said that he could do
nothing. Both factions of the
Democratic Party united on one
thing-decreeing starvation for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Absentee Fault Finders

IN RECENT months especially members of the
Clubs have found themselves the
struggles of them process Right
Jan Wttenber outstanding Chicago is
behind the bars Hboro
poyed Readers of the Daily Worker already
valuable work of John Howard
Der of the New York John Club
to come in the Birmingham, Ala
sts in his having dispatches Daily
miners strike and the treatment accorded Angelo
Scosboro
The first John Reed Club formed New nearly
Since that sprung
up throughout the country has become fashionable
OF the arrived writers to dismiss with shrug
writer's active in the John Reed Clubs party people
are mot capable of creative work.
parenty that creative
have but yesterday writing
for the bourgeois liberal magazines-that pay.
l. or one am not interested in giving
the john Reed Clubs which, of mistakes
But is obvious that the superior people who
dsdan to attend the
take no active interest in its
Inc TACT is that is in these young who have grown
up ana are unctlonng actively within
that proetaan literature place its most genuine hopes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Letters From a Revolutionary Writer

TILIE gives of
of revolutionary writer which the
producing sophisticated aded product
Of the Tess Slesnger variety novel, e Unpossessed"
popular among bourgeois critics Womraths
lending library for malicious bit nosethumbng
leftward- moving intellectuas
Tie Lener born and reared Nebraska
the state secretary
but she active young Communist despite youth
already found time tie-prser housemaid
packer book clerk writer written
when
Debs who handled his
Robert Cantwels high Title
publishers Lerner
literary hangeTson did not intoxicated
the publishers
reach the pay
bourgeois publishers charge their
the approval of the
Literary guilds" a letter
a.. But what I'd like best of all be to have pub
shed edition people really read
get a :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
There's Profit in early Genius"

QOBERT CANTWE author of THE Land of Plenty Of the
published in review Of little
in July Republic
Te story Throat which had appeared in Par
san Review organ York, the
Cantwe selected this out of 200 stories
published in the magazines covered in his survey.
expected publishers the alert for
genius exploited commercially began
Review with letters and kilograms frantic effort
mystery her whereabouts finally
letter from her to Partisan Review which
that she had just released BAIL
light the mystery cast when Harry
Word-Telegram published
which full details of her and trial. and which called
writers ito help convince the court that she not
but o high talent"
interesting sideligh the writer's trial found
Cantwels up couple
Steger the freeating Judge who said
bunch of sentences If only George Washington
called her mental wouldn't
questions demanded trial Judge Golden
bene1ting marvellous
system pretty
bail and her trial comes soon."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By SENDER GARLIN

WORD comes from California that LangstOn Hughes,
famous revolutionary poet and novelist and president
of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights has been
driven from CARMEL Cal, by vgiante group which calls
itself the Citizens International Defense Committee"
consisting committee appears, has
upon the job watching"
"ant-red" drive
upon workers organizations along
Coast which began part campaign
Strike arrests which followed hundreds of leading
mtans and general dragnet
Among Lerner 21yeaod organizer
interesting Telegram Thursday
because of the special
cumsances that she happened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
LABORATORY
AND SHOP
= Notes on Science and Technology

I In order to protect fruits and
vegetables from the ravages Of IN
sects, lead arsenate and other fdS
secticides that are poisonous to man
are used. These poisons can be
removed with inexpensive chamicai
washes. Nevertheless, due to the
lust for profit, dozen different
fruits and vegetables are sold that
bear enough insecticide residue Of
arsenic and lead TO constitute
serious hazard.
Despite the efforts Of growers TO
minimize the danger Of the sitUa-
ton, there have been many deaths
from eating produce carrying in
secticide residues. More than 100
persons were poisoned, some Of
them fatally in California during
the past few months. The con-
sumner does not keel over from a
single apple, but he does store up
sufficient amounts of arsenic and
lead to do serious damage.
The Food and Drug Administra-
ton once stated that it would not
permit lead residues to be used on
foodstuffs. A Department Of Agri-
culture chemist issued a warning
that a certain exceedingly small
amount Of lead injected daily would
ultimately cause chronic poisoning.
Nevertheless the Administration has
legalized lead residue twelve times
as strong as the amount the gov
eminent chemist said would lead
to chronic poisoning.
In bakery products low quality
has become the standard rule. The
dried and frozen eggs that are used
are in all stages Of decomposition.
The butter is so dirty that no grocer
would dare sell it, The shortening
materials intended to protect the
product from weather and tenn
perature make 1t indigestible.
All these serious and pressing
hazards to the great body of the
people will continue to exist as
long as the food, advertising and
publishing interests can prevent
even a discussion of their malprao-s,
tees. They will be abolished when
the food racketeers and the system
of which they are an integral part
are destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Radio for Navigation

CIGNOR GUGLIELMO MARCONI,
y like his friend and patron, Nus
solini, is a well known blow-hard.
He has a tendency to make an
nouncements of epoch-shaking dis
coveries which turn out to be either
fizzles or notifications of existing
techniques.
It is difficult to see how his much
heralded invention for the blind,
navigation Of vessels in fog diff
fers from any of the ultra-wave
radio beacons used in landing air.
planes by blind flying. Marconi
uses two radio transmitting sets,
located on buoys 300 feet apart, one
on either side of the ships chan
mel The incoming vessel finds the
halfway mark between the two
transmitters where the signal in--
tensity is the same from both
sources. 1t then sails along the
line of signal equality. Marconi
has also put loudspeaker nearby
from which there issue two notes
one OF low ana the ODilef OF nlgH
pitch. The line Of the channel is
where these two notes are Of the
same intensity.
In America, airplane landing
beacons use a comparable method.
Two transmitters give off either
short or ultra short waves on the
landing field. They project radio
beams at an angle with the ground.
The pilot finds his line of equal
intensity, just as in Marconi's
method" and then rides" down
the line of slope.
If Marconi uses the comparison
of two notes Of different pitch to
determine the line of channel, he
is going back to worse methods.
1t has been shown that it is more
difficult for the ear TO compare
two different notes for the same
intensity, than it is to compare
two notes, each Of the same pitch,
coming from different sources.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Cre,u of Fishing Schooner
Describe Battle With Sea
Captain Says Ship Vas Under Water
Three Times-Deck House Swept
A,uay With Wheelnan Lost.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass, December
24-The Mary T. Goulart, last OF
Provincetown's old feet of opulent
fishing days, coasted into this snug
harbor yesterday with one of the most
hair-raising tales in this ports an
mails of the sea.
She had that BLACK look" old salts
said, as she slid up to her dock, her
flag at half mast and her decks
strewn with wreckage. The two
masted schooner had lived through
the most rigorous Atlantic storm she
had ever known.
Christmas was sad prospect for
the crew, for somewhere in the rolling
deep, about LOG miles off Yarmouth
Nova Scotia, they left Frank Silva. SO
probably still imprisoned in the wheel
house in which he was washed over
by a boarding sea.
Under Water Three Times.
Capt. Lawrence c. Santos said the
craft was under water three times
during that storm.
IT never expected to come back
alive" he said. Then he told of the
night Silva went over.
It went up to the wheel house where
Silva was at the wheel and asked
him how she was holding. He said
she was o. K. so I went to my bunk
and turned in. About 10 minutes had
gone by when I heard a huge wave
hit the schooner A minute later my
room was flooded and I was forced tc
swim from my cabin. I went on deck
to find that the wheel house had been
washed away. Silva had gone with it. y
The skipper had high praise for his
Evening star., 1934-12-24

crew Of 81. He told how Alfred
Joseph crawled forward the length of
the vessel, grabbing the rail, and cut
the foresheet just as it seemed the sail
would pull the vessel under the hungry
waves. He told how Manuel Santos.
his brother and the engineer cut the
motors at that moment to contribute
in saving the craft. The next min
ute, he said, gigantic seas nearly cap
sized the vessel and spilled acid from
batteries in the engine room which
severely burned the engineer.
CrawIs Length of Vessel.
Joe Bravo also crawled the length
of the vessel to free the anchor chain
after the anchor had broken loose.
He received a badly gashed hand.
Added to the threat of the sea was
the horror of fire when the stove in
the galley tipped over as the vessel
heeled and set fire to pile of oil
skins. The men succeeded in beating
out the flames.
Santos estimated the damage to the
vessel at $4,000. Her winches were
disabled, her sails in tatters, rails
bent, and dories smashed. Six dories
were washed overheard.
But for the anxiousness of the crew
to make this Christmas happy one,
it might not have been so sad. After
being on the banks for two weeks,
the schooner still carried plenty of
bait and the crew prevailed upon the
skipper to stay longer, swell the catch
and make Christmas that much more
abundant. 1t was during the last
week that the storm broke. The YES
sci brought in $1,000 pounds.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
City Restdurdteur
Viii GiUe Dinner
To "AU COn,ers''
Louis Pappas Plans to
SerUe YuIe Feasts to
$50 Persons.

In the hope that no one in Wash
ington will go hungry on Christmas
day Louis Pappas will provide 75o
men and women with free turkey din
ners between 10 am. and 3 pm. to-
morrow at his buffet restaurant, 5l1
Ninth street.
Although many tickets for the din
ner have been printed and distributed
through welfare agencies and friends
OF the restaurant proprietor, Pappas
hopes to feed every hungry person who
presents himself-ticket or no ticket.
There will be turkey with all the
trimmings, topped OF by steaming
coffee or large glasses Of milk.
The restaurant seats about 400, It
was said, 50 the dinner will be served
over a five-hour period to accommodate
all comers.
After this party is over tomorrow,
Pappas said, IT hope there will be not
a hungry man, woman or child in
Washington"
Evening star., 1934-12-24

window in great easy chair, nodding
over a Bible printed a hundred years
ago.
Every room Of the house of death
was Uttered with curios as victorian
as was Miss Muspratt with 75-year-
old magazines, yellow newspapers,
creaky furniture and even q wheeZy
organ or two. There even was q let
ter once carried by pony express.
Sister Died Six Years Ago.
When Miss Violet, her sister, fell
dead of heart attack in the mouse
six years ago, builder offered Miss
Victoria 100000 for the crumDling
structure. She refused.
The house was built so years ago BY
her sea captain father.
The theory that Miss Victoria hid
money in the house was bolstered by
the stories of trades people They said
she paid her bills with notes of large
denominations.
Her death recalled, too, the $3.50 900
fund hidden in the antiquated home
of Miss Louise Herle, another Brook
lyn recluse who died recently of
natural causes.
However, Mrs Sarah Rickard, {
neighbor from whom Miss Muspratt
obtained water, said she always had
doubted that the 7s-year-old spinster
had much money.
There were no mirrors in the house
and its eccentric mistress would have
none. the neighbor added. She quoted
her as saying, one time:
Il do not wish to look at an old
woman growing older each day"
Evening star., 1934-12-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A niche in sciences mythical hall
of fame was reserved for Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh today when 1t became
known that he had gathered the first
proof that unseen organisms which
cause plant diseases can travel
through the air across hundreds OF
miles of ocean.
Designing a "sky hook"-a sort OF
aerial fly paper-Col. Lindbergh
caught hundreds of microscopic bac-
terra, fungus spores and pollens, as
his plane zoomed over the North At
lantic.
The samples, collected during the
flight Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh made
in 1888, but not revealed until last
night, constituted the first proof that
these air-borne organisms can be car
ried by winds over such far-f1ung
stretches of ocean.
Called a feat that may be OF tire
mendous economic consequences" the
collection was made in cooperation
with Fred C. Meier Of the Department
Of Agriculture.
Meier, who planned the project and
analyzed the organisms, already had
gathered evidence that they can be
carried alive for hundreds OF miles
across land areas.
Announcement Of Lindbergh's work
appears today in an article by Meier
in the January Scientific Monthly.
The tiny objects Col. Lindbergh
collected include beneficial as well
as disease organisms.
Though the air over the Northern
oceans contains fewer organisms than
are found over warm land areas, sci
entists point out that even a single
spore could reproduce and spread
rapidly if it landed in a favorable
place.
Lindbergh's instrument for the COL
lecting job projected above the cock
pit. On the upper end glass plates
coated with a sticky substance were
exposed to the air. The organisms
caught on the sticky surface.
Each time a collection was made
Lindbergh made notes showing the
Evening star., 1934-12-24
PLANE DISAPPEARS
lin ICE AND SNOW
Pilot and Three Young Pas
Sengers Sought Near
EIko, New.
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ELKO, Nevada, December "a
Three young airrlane passengers and
a pilot, who vanished on q flight
over the Winter-lashed mountains
north Of here, were sought by rescue
pal ties today.
The missing plane, in which Floyd
De Long. the pilot, was taking two
girls and q boy to their homes at
Mountain City, 80 miles north Of here,
disappeared in binding snow and fog
yesterday.
De Longs passengers were Donald
Stinton, 13, and his sister June, Is,
children of a Mountain City cattle
man, and Ruth Womack, 13, daughter
of Mountain City resort owner.
No trace of the plane was reported
after it was believed to have been
heard roaring through clouds Of snow
and fog above Gold Greek an hour
after it was due at Mountain City.
Gold Greek is 80 miles of the course.
De Longs plane left Elko ahead of
another plane piloted by Lieut.. New
ton Crumley, jr., former Army flyer,
in which the parents of the Stinton
children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stin-
ton, were passengers.
Lieut.. Crumley said he saw no trace
of the De Long plane
The Stinton family was returning
home after another airplane mission
had failed to save the life of q son,
Thomas Jewell, II.
Lieut.. Crumley brought the son,
critically Ill with pneumonia, to Elko
last week to receive hospital care. He
died and the Stintons were going home
from the funeral here when the sec
ond threat of tragedy came.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
STRANGERS WILL HAVE
DUTCH TREAT DINNER
DR.. Grace A. Thompson Will Be
in Charge of Affair Tomor-
row at Shoreham.

There will be Dutch treat Christ
mas dinner for strangers in Washing
ton at the Shoreham Hotel at pm.
tomorrow as result OF the success
Of the strangers Thanksgiving dinner
held this year.
Strangers In the city who wish to
attend are asked to assemble in the
Garbo room al the hotel at 6 o'clock.
where the committee in charge will
introduce guests to each other. The
dinner is planned, it was explained by
DR.. Grace A. Thompson, in charge,
Ito afford an opportunity for visitors,
newcomers or longtime residents of
Washington TO meet and dine to-
gether in spirit Of friendliness and
good will"
Reservations for the dinner may be
made by telepconing the hotel, Adams
0700, DR.. Thompson said.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
VIRGINIA OPENS WAR
ON DRUNK DRIVING
Many Lives Can Be Saved by
Keeping Inebriates Off High.
ways, Says Official.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, December "a
To catch twice as many drunken
drivers on the State roads during this
Christmas season than ever before is
the declared intention of the State
Division of Motor Vehicles.
I'VE are going to make things hot
for men and women who take car
on the road after filling themselves
full of Christmas spirits,' declared
John @. Rhoads, director of the
division.
Many accidents can be prevented,
many lives saved, if we catch the
drunks, deprive them of their licenses
10 drive and keep them off the road"
said the director, "and we expect to
catch many chronic drunken drivers
and to see that they don't drive any
more"
There are $4,000 more cars in Vir-
Einia today than there were last
Christmas, Rhoads said.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
NEW YORK POWER
CITES D. c. CUTS
Calls Attention to so Per
Cent Rate Reduction
Here.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 24.-The
New York State Power Authority to-
day called to the attention of New
York City utilities the experiences Of
Washington, D. c., in effecting SO
per cent reduction in electric light
and power rates over a period of nine
years, filing copies of its findings in q
three-year study with the companies
and with the Public Service Commis-
sion.
The power authority's action fol-
lowed on the reply of the utilities to
New York City's preparations to con-
struct q municipal power plant as the
answer to sharp increases in the city's
1885 power and light bill.
Opposes Experiments.
The utility industry pointedly
warned against experiments in "un-
sound" and costly municipal socialism
and deplored efforts to make war
on the utilities industry during the
fight for industrial recovery.
The power authority's bulletin
stated that as result of concerted
movement in Washington for pub
licly operated power plants for bring
ing down electric costs, the Potomac
Electric Power Co. in 1924 reduced
rates by more than half
The average consumption Of cur
rent by residential users has doubled
and the company has earned as high
as q 10 per cent return on its in
vestment." the power authority
pointed out.
Similar Arguments Used.
"The bulletin shows" said Frank p.
Walsh. chairman Of the power author
ity, that all the stock arguments now
used against the st. Lawrence project
were urged against the public develop
ments of Potomac power to reduce
| rates in Washington.
1T also shows" said Walsh, that
Newton D. Baker, who as a utility
lawyer, is now fighting with might and
main to prove the Governments great
! Tennessee Valley project unconstitu-
tional, as Secretary of War and chair
man of the Federal Power Commission
gave to the Potomac project glowing
Endorsement"