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Evening star., 1934-07-22
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
n YEw YORK, July 2l.-The re-
N trenchment chorus is being
" heard on the floor OF the New
4 York Stock Exchange. Mem
bers have retrenched, elimi-
mated. and cut to the bone in their
own Offices. They cannot understand
why the AK should not be swung Wig
orously on stock exchange expendi-
lures.
If the volume of stock trading con-
tinues at the present low rate for the
next SIX months. the exchange may
have to cut expenses. as 1t has been
living of its surplus.
The stock exchange has about , 800
employees. Many of these workers now
are idle for long periods, If not most
of the time. But they are kept on the
Job because the mechanics and tech
nique of stock exchange business can
not be taught almost overnight, like
elevator operating.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
1S4 OIL WELLS DRILLED.

NEW YORK, July 81 LP).-Sinclair
Prairie Oil Co, subsidiary of the Con-
solidated Oil Corp, drilled 1874 oil
wells and one gas well with an initial
oil production totaling 195,070 barrels
in the first six months of this year
The largest number of wells we're
drilled in Texas, the total being 81,
with an initial production of 179, SAB
barrels.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
BIG CUT IN WHEAT CROP
OF HEMISPHERE SEEN

BY the Associated Press.
1t now is estimated the Northern
Hemisphere will produce only 2,793,-
237, 900 bushels of wheat, outside Rus
sia and China, compared with S,073,-
450, 900 last season.
That is the figure reported to the
Division of Foreign Crops and Mar
ketS for the 81 countries which ac-
counted for 98 per cent of Northern
Hemisphere wheat in 1888.
A marked reduction is expected in
European and North American coun-
tries. Good prospects are reported in
the Orient.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
EXTRA DIVIDEND VOTED.

NEW YORK, July 81 CP.-Direc-
tors of Hollinger Consolidated Gold
Mines have declared the usual extra
dividend of cents a share and the
regular monthly dividend Of the same
amount, both payable August 13 to
stock of record July 81.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
CURTIS PUBLISHING NETS
43 CENTS ON COMMON
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
NEW YORK, July 21-Curtis Pub
fishing Co. for the quarter ended June
80 had a net profit of S2281 ,946,
equivalent after preferred dividends
to 43 cents a common share, against
81 ,449, ,425, or S1.69 a share on the pre-
ferred stock in the previous quarter
and S543 ,286. or 90 cents on the pre-
ferred in the June quarter. For the
six months epded June 80 net profit
was S3,73l,3 ,371, equal after preferred
dividends to SO cents a common share.
against 81 500, 726 or STA a share on
the preferred in the like 1888 period
Evening star., 1934-07-22
PACKARD MOTOR SHOWS
REDUCTION IN LOSS
Nv the Associated Press


NEW YORK. July 2l.-Packard
Motor Car Co. reports for the June
quarter net loss OF $l.7ll.I2S, against
net loss OF S1.2S7, ,o2l in the preceding
quarter and net profit of S2l 95s in
the corresponding period last year.
For the six months ended June 80 net
loss was s., ,96S, ,l44. compared with net
loss of 81 .l09,s7o in the first half last
year,
Evening star., 1934-07-22
SYMINGTON LOSS CUT.

NEW YORK, July 21 G4o).-Syming-
ton Co. reports for the June quarter
net loss of s7.524 after all charges
compared with loss of S76,l20 in
the preceding quarter and loss of
S2T,753 IN the second quarter Of 1888.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
NEW TRUCK INTRODUCED

NEW YORK, July 81 CP-A new
truck Of the medium line duty capac-
tty has been introduced by General
Motors Truck Co., priced 10 sell at
$2,l35. This new addition completes
the company's medium duty line
units.
Evening star., 1934-12-02

owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mrs.
Folger, I know, is anxious to have 1t
added to our treasures, for it was
Emerson who inspired Mr.. Folger to
begin his quest of Shakespeareana.
Possibly The Star may be able to
help us to find it,"
And yesterday DR.. Adams announced
that the book has. indeed, at last
been located. Moreover, it has been
lent to the library and Is on display
in the exhibition hall of the library
building.
DR.. Adams explained in his state
ment that unfortunately the volume is
not subject to purchase. 1t is the
property of the Emerson Memorial
Association, and that organization has
no power to sell it. But through the
courtesy of w. Cameron Forbes, Emer-
sons grandson, the association has
consented Ito make loan" of the
treasure for IAN indefinite period"
Placed in Honored Post.
THE book" DR.. Adams said, has
been given a post of high honor in
the gallery. flanked on one side by
the Routledge handy-volume edition
of the dramatist. which Mr.. Folger
constantly used. and on the other side
by q photograph of the inscription
from Emerson, which Mr.. Folger
caused to be carved over the great
fireplace in the library reading room" ="
Mr.. Forbes, remembered In Wash
ington as a former governor general
of the Philippines and Ambassador to
Japan, added to DR.. Adams announce
ment: This copy Of Shakespeare Is
one which Emerson kept in his bed
room, and from certain annotations
it is obviously the one which he let
Evening star., 1934-12-02

ton copies" of George Washington,
John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irv-
ing James Russell Lowell. Walt Whit
man, Edwin Booth. Charlotte Bronte'
Robert Burns, Robert Browning,
Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coler-
idge, John Dryden, George Eliot,
Thomas Gray, Leigh Hunt, Alexan-
der Pope, William Morris, Dante Ga
briel Rossetti Sir Walter Scott, Rob-
ert Southey, Sarah Siddons, Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Lord Alfred Ten
nyson, Horace Walpole, Bayard Tay-
lor. John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stew
enson. Percy Bysshe Shelley, William
Makepeace Thackeray, Walter savage
Landor, David Garrick, Samuel john
son, Charles Lamb, T. H. Buckle,
Charlotte Cushman, Augustin DAILY,
Richard Mansfield, Edmund Clarence
Stedman. Bernard Shaw. Louis XVI,
Napoleon III, George III, George w.,
william Nv and Queen Victoria.
But he was not content. The one
volume which he especially wanted
was missing. Book dealers on ooth
sides of the Atlantic ransacked their
shelves in quest of it-in vain.
Search Not Abandoned.
The search, however, was not aban-
doned. His widow and others who
we're designated by Mr.. Folger to
carry on his work took up the
problem where he, perforce, relin-
ouished it. On September IL. 1882.
DR.. Joseph Quincy Adams, speak
ing for the library, said to The
Star: There is one association copy
missing from our collection. No one
seems to know where it is. I refer
to the copy of Shakespeare's plays
Evening star., 1934-12-02
EMERSON VOLUME
PUT ON EXHIBITION
SAGE of Concord's Personal
Copy of Shakespeare Is
at FoIger Library.
Ry JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's personal
copy of Shakespeare's plays has been
made available for exhibition at the
Folger Shakespeare Library, East
Capitol street.
The donors interest in Shakespeare
began with Emerson. 1t was a lee
ture on the Bard of Avon given by
the Sage of Concord in 1864, which
first prompted Henry Clay Folger's
enthusiasm for the great Elizabethan
poet. But the text which Emerson
had owned and used appeared to have
been lost, and such search for it as
Mr.. Folger later was able to make
failed to bring it to light.
Copies of the plays read and an
notated by other eminent men, Mr..
Folger purchased as they successfully
were offered at rare book sales
At the time of his death in 1880
he had in his possession the 'associa-
Evening star., 1934-12-02

his children take to school and use
in their studies"
Mrs. Folger has expressed her graft
fication to both Mr. Forbes and the
Emerson Association.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
BAR GROUPS TO HOLD
CONFERENCE RECEPTION
D. c. and Federal Associations to
Be Hosts December 10 at
Dance and Supper.

Delegates to the Attorney Generals
crime conference to be held here will
be the guests Of the District and
Federal Bar Associations at a recep-
ton, dance and buffet supper at the
Pan-American Union December 10 at
$50 pm.
j. Bruce Kremer of the District
group is chairman of the Arrange
ments Committee for the reception.
Other members are Dean Justin Mil
Ter, solicitor in the Attorney Generals
ONCE; william r. Valance Of the
Federal Bar Association, and ]. Ed
ward Burroughs, jr., Of the District
association.
Samuel Beach was named treasurer
Of the general committee. The Invi-
tations and Tickets Committee com.
prises Edmund M. Toland. Guilford
s. Jameson and william j. Rowan, jr.
Music will be furnished by the
United States Marine Band Orchestral
Evening star., 1934-12-02

What does a man want in shirt? Ex-
cellent broadcloth, fine tailoring, the con-
fidence that the shirts will come back from
the laundry the same size they set out!
Baystate lives up to these standards and
so is ideal for gift giving. In collar-at-
tached style in white, tan, blue or grey. In
neckband in white only. Sizes 1872 to 18.
Evening star., 1934-12-02

This baby not only has eyes that
open and shut but that roll from side
to side. "a inches tall with lovely
dimpled face. Dressed in organdy-
and she cries!
RTH FLOOR-TOYTOWN.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
English Style r-or e
PerambuIator

With the entire inside padded and
lined. Chromium plated cow-horn
handle, combination foot and hand
brake. Green, blue, grey-29h
inches with 20 n -by-12-inch body!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
US. Leads Fight
on LitvinOff Peace
Plans at Geneva
Roosevelt's Ambassador
Blocks Plan; Aids
Hitler Govt

G ENEVA, June 4.-Roosevelt's
perso al Ambassador. Norman
Davis, today took up the leadership
of the fight against the proposals of
Maxim Litvinoff, Foreign Minister
OF the Soviet Union, for establishing
machinery to guarantee peace.
Davis, supporting Chairman Ar
thur Henderson's proposals for adj
journment, which we're supported by
the British representative Eden.
sought to block consideration of
Litvinoff's proposals that pacts be
made for mutual assistance" of ma
tons, for Transforming the arms
conference into a permanent peace
conference, and for the study of the
Soviet definition of what constitutes
AN aggressor nation"
Litvinoff's proposals we're made
after his proposals for universal dis
armament were rejected by all the
capitalist countries. His proposals
for partial disarmament were also
rejected.
Davis actions against the Lit
vinoff proposals leaves the way open
for the return of Hitler Germany
to the discussion. Hitler is striv-
ing to cement a united anti Soviet
front in Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
MOscOw Welcomes End
Schutzbunder Group

chance to participate in the great
task of socialist construction with
the toilers Of the USSR.
Schutzbunders Glass Brothers
A huge meeting, under the chair
manship of the representatives of
the Central Executive Committee
and the Red Aid, took place in the
enormous station square, filled with
delegates from plants and factories
in the proletarian capital. Speakers
represented the Central Executive
Committee, the Red Aid, the Trade
Unions, the foreign workers in Mos
COW plants, and the first and second
group of Schutzbunders
All the speeches emphasized that
the Schutzbunders we're not guests
but class brethren Of the workers Of
the Soviet Union, joining hands
with them in the building of so
cialism.
Representatives. Of the Schultz
bunders stressed the fact that the
defeat of the Austrian proletariat
was due to the lack Of revolutionary
leadership with definite object.
Victory, they emphasized, would
have been possible only under the
leadership Of the Communist Party
of Lenin and Stain.
Afterward the Schutzbunders
went to their hotel in special motor
buses, hailed on the way by the
toilers Of Moscow. who lined the
streets to greet them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
Cops Jail Worker
Leaving Trial of
10 Demonstrators
Workers Again Barred
From Attendance
at Trial

NEW YORK. Police seized a
young worker who was leaving the
preliminary hearing at the trial of
the ten workers arrested after the
May 26th demonstration at 50 La
fayette st. While the young work
ers was being taken into custody.
Edward Kuntz, International Labor
Defense attorney, demanded of
Deputy Inspector ]. E. Wall that
the police keep their hands off this
young worker. q hold you person.
ally responsible for the safety Of
this prisoner Kuntz said, I'VE are
not through with your department
yet. Let me remind you that the
American Civil Liberties Union is
conducting an investigation of po-
lice brutality and will institute Grim
inal proceedings against the police
(Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
Browder VIII Speak on Toledo,
Minneapolis Strike Struggles

ever anxious to hear the Communist
program on the strike situation.
Shopgate meetings are being held at
the Chevrolet, Overland, Dura,
American Can, Gendron Wheel
plants. Twenty thousand Leaflets
have been distributed to popularize
the meeting.
Detroit Meeting Thursday
DETROIT, June 4.-Earl Brow
der, general secretary of the Com
munist Party, will speak on THE
meaning of the Glass War in Min
neapolis and Toledo" at mass
meeting THURSDAY at Finnish
Workers Hall, $3.50 Fourteenth st.
William Weinstone, Michigan Dis
trict secretary, will be chairman.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. June A.
Earl Browder. general secretary of
the Communist Party, will SPEAK
here on the Lessons OF the Min
neapolis and Toledo Strikes on
June 10th. at the Gayety Theatre,
Washington and First Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
AtlantaCopsMa
Raids; Prepare for
''Atlanta O. Trial
Hudson Quizzes Negro
Workers on knowledge
of cred Meetings
RAISE cred SCARE''
Threaten Arrest of Ben
Davis, LID. Attorney

ATLANTA, Ca, June A.
In a studied attempt to whip
up an atmosphere of lynch
hysteria in preparation for
death trials Of the Atlanta
Six" planned to take place
within the next two weeks,
police squads led by the Rev. John
A, Hudson, Assistant Solicitor Cen
eral carried out another series of
raids on the homes of Negro and
white workers yesterday, while the
boss press played up the Red Men
ace No one was arrested.
Forcing his way into the homes of
several Negro workers, Hudson de-
manded whether they knew of any
"red meetings" in their neighbor-
hoods and offered to pay them we'll
to act as stool pigeons and inform
on all Communist meetings. They
were asked if they knew Ben Da-
Wis. Angelo Herndon's defense at
tcrnsy, and if they we're members
of any organization with which he
was connected. Hudson informed
bne Negro conrace that he had
{ EarTant for Davis, who was one of
Them Reds" as we'll as for Don
West, native white organizer It is
clesr that Hudsons threat to ar
rest Davis is pure bluff. as Davis
where abouts are well-known to the
ertire Atlanta police force.
Two days ago, Hudson raided the
homes Of several Jewish members of
the International Workers Order.
demanding to know whether they
subscribed to the Daily Worker, how
they got it, who collected for it. who
vas section organizer of the Com
lunist Party, who was head of the
International Labor Defense and
ether questions
1t has been definitely established
that the young white attorney, A.
w. Morrison, who volunteered his
services in the Herndon defense,
and turned out to be a stool-pigeon
together with Willie feathers. agent
provocateur and spy, expelled from
the Communist Party are working
hand in hand with Hudson and are
responsible for the raids on the
homes of Negro and white com
radcs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
Steel Firms String.
Barbed Wire, Arm
Thugs With Guns
Pinchot Ready TO Call
Out Militia To
Break Strike

WASHINGTON, D. c.. June A.
Steel companies are building bsrbed
wire entanglements around their
plants and arrning guards with
machine guns in preparations to
break the approaching steel strike,
it was reported here today. Gov
ernor ,Pinchot. who mentioned this
activity. limited that state troopers
and guards would be called out,
when he said "tf1e state (of Penn
sylvania) is ready to handle what
ever trouble may develop" The
arrning of these company guards
and the wire entanglements taking
place in steel towns in Pinchot's
state are continuing without any
steps by Pinchot to prevent them.
In some steel towns additional
guards are being hired and large
bunkhouses and kitchens are being
built inside the mills.
Mills are increasing their output,
it was openly admitted. in order to
fill orders on their books, and build
reserves in view of the strike.
The statement in New York Of
the American Iron and Steel In
stitute, which claims that the over
whelming majority of the 100000
steel workers want the company
union. shows that the U. S. Steel
corporation and other companies
are determined, with the help of
the N R. A., to force the company
union on the steel workers. The
steel institute declares that col
lective bargaining under the N. r.
A, means the company unicn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
Mayor Plans to
Make Masses
for Relief
Tax on Employed Is
Proposed at Banker
Meet in City Hall

NEW YORK.-In an atmosphere
outwardly calm, but surcharged
with an inner tension created by
the growing momentum of the UNI
employed workers struggles for ade-
quate relief, Mayor LaGuardia ed
dressed a group of almost 100,
among whom big bankers and poll
ticians predominated, ito discuss
ways and means of financing relief
work when the present city fund is
depleted"
Police in groups and in rows
guarded all entrances to City Hall
Park, permitting no one to enter
ample proof of LaGuardias fear of
another demonstration such as
those of last week, which forced the
Board of Estimate to appropriate
$17,75O,Oo0 for relief on Friday.
In his half-hour address, La
Guardia further revealed this fear
by stressing the fact that sit is
economical to provide for the un-
employed in a proper manner" in
order to safeguard the security of
the banker-rule of the city. "A
large unit of the unemployed will
be on our hands for some time,
LaGuardia admitted, proposing two
alternatives for the raising of re-
lief; long term borrowing-or the
pay-aS-you- go" system.
He Immediately declared his
preference for the latter method,
(Continucd on Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
BY VERN SMITH
Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent

Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent
MOSCOW, June A second
group of 230 members of the Aus
TRAN SchutZbund the Republican
Defense Corps, arrived in Moscow
today on special train from Nego-
reloye,
They were joyfully welcomed all
the way to Moscow. Men and wo-
men workers in the Soviet plants
saluted the Schutzbunders with up
raised fists and Red Front" rs the
festively decorated train passed
through. AS the train slowed down
in the Moscow station appraised fists
and flying banners appeared from
the train windows.
At the station we're representa-
tives of the Central Executive Com
mittee of the US.S.R., the Red Aid
and the Central Council of Trade
Unions. With these were the first
group of Schutzbunders, previously
arrived, With the band playing the
international, the Schutzbunders
jumped from the train, and greeted
with handshakes and hugs their
comrades of the harricade fights in
Austria.
They had last been together when
under arrest in Czechosloyakia; now
they were met again as free cit
liens in free country, the country
which had not only given them a
refuge but also was giving them the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
1872 Win inSweepstakes
But How Many Lose?

NEW YORK.-Approximately 1872
persons in and around New York
won prizes in the Irish Hospitals
Sweepstakes cut of the many thou
@ands that paid $3.50 each for a
Chance of picking horse in the
famous EPSON Downs derby in
England
The fortunate 1872 are assured of
s2,608.50 each. Those holding the
winning horse will win s152,1Oo,
second S76,05o, third s50,70o.
The allure of these prizes is held
out to the workers and middle
classes in England, Ireland and
America in order to make them
pay for the maintenance of the
Irish hospitals "a burden which
rightfully belongs on the wealthy
capitalists and landlords of Eng
land and Ireland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
II Am Being Hogged, Thoe1mam
Tells First Workers Delegation
G erm an Communist
Defies Nazi Police,
Tells of Torture
HIS FOOD STOLEN
Saar Delegation Breaks
Through Isolation

SAARBRUECKEN, June 4.
II am and have been beat.
en-" Ernst Thaelmann, inn
prisOned leader of the Ger.
man Communist Party, told
the first delegation to see him
since his arrest by the Nazis
more than a year ago.
The delegation of three
Saar coal miners, one 6. member
Of the Communist Party, one a So
cialist Party member, and one UNI
organized politically. all elected by
shaft meetings Of their mines, sue
ceeded in breaking through the wall
Of isolation and silence that the
Nazis have built up around the he
roic leader of the German working
class. They state:
We delegates are firmly con-
WINGED that the German govern
ment gave us permission to see
Thaelmann and speak to him I'M
der the pressure Of the tremen-
dous campaign throughout the
world for Thaelmann's release"
The Nazi Secret Service State
Police allowed the delegation to ask
Thaelmann only six questions, other
questions being prohibited.
when we demanded the right
TO ask him whether he was man
handled or tortured, the Nazi po-
lice answered, That is a political
question and cannot be allowed"
the delegates asserted.
I'VE were expressly warned
that II We asked any questions
besides those dictated to us, we
would also be Jailed a. political
prisoners.
Finally we got to see Thael-
mann. We could not avoid the i'm
preston that they had also die
tated the answers that Thaelmann
gave us, just as they had dictated
our questions.
But the interview proved that
Thaelmann-in spite of the man
acing situation he is in-refuses to
knuckle under, his unflinching an
Swers revealed this.
"Thaelmann said: 1T is impOs-
sible to get along on the food get
here. If 1 didn't buy other food
with the money my wife sends me,
i could not exist. l get mail only
from my closest relatives. I know
that hundreds of workers wrote me
on my birthday recently, but only
three were given to me-
The prison officials then called
on Thaelmann to walk up and down
in front Of us, to show us that he
was uninjured. Thaelmann ignored
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
SWISS POLICE ATTACK
COMMUNISTS

ZURICH, June 4.-Forty- lone
workers we're arrested yesterday fol-
lowing clashes with police when
they demonstrated in front OF the
city Jail demanding the release Of
their leaders.
Police had arrested leading Com
munists earlier in the day when
Socialists called an Anti-Fascist
meeting.
Communists attended, but when
permission to speak was denied to
the representative of the League for
Struggle Against War and Fascisln
they organized Jail demonstra-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05
! Died Every o. Hours
Of Hunger in Ne,U York
in 1884, Says Report

NEW YORK.-A study of ten
of the largest hospitals in the
city reveals that 1879 starved or
died of malnutrition in 1888, one
every g. hours, according to
survey made by Better Times"
a publication of the Welfare
Council. In all, 697, cases were
treated at the ten hospitals.
The majority of the 1879 who
died, the report states, were la
borers. There we're also artists.
newspaper men. actors and
teachers. The majority of the
men were in their forties and
fifties, but some we're not more
than 20 years old.