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Evening star., 1934-09-10
NB.OLDSD|ES;
VETERAN BANKER
Resident of Washington for
SO YearS-Started as
Messenger.

Edison B. Olds, vice president Of
the Union Trust Co., and a resident
of Washington for 80 years, died at
his home yesterday afternoon after an
illness Of several weeks.
Born in Minnesota, the son Of an
Episcopal minister, he came to WASH
ington when 8 years old. At the age
of IL he started his career in finance
as a bank messenger in those days
when the banks exchanged checks di-
rectly instead Of through clearing
houses. He worked up rapidly until
he became one of the leading bankers
in the city. One of the organizers of
the Washington Clearing House As
sociation. he also took great interest
at one time in Washington Chapter,
American Institute of Banking.
For 25 years he was connected with
the Old Citizens National Bank,
where he first served as note teller,
then as paying teller and for many
years as cashier. Later he assisted in
organizing and became cashier of the
American National Bank. Remaining
with that institution throughout 1903
and 1904, he joined the staff of the
Union Trust Co. in 1905 as treasurer,
which position he held until the be-
ginning of the present year. He was
active at the bank as vice president
until recent heart ailments confined
him to his home in Woodside, Md.
Mr.. OldS served on many COM
mittees in the District Bankers As
sociation and was regular attendant
at the annual conventions. He was
active in the Society of Fine Arts and
treasurer for the past 20 years. In
addition to a particularly busy life
as banker, Mr.. Olds found time sew
eral years ago to write a book on the
Olds family which had a wide cir
culation. He had written other books
and was an authority on genealogical
matters.
He is survived by sister, Mrs.
Katherine Olds Hamilton of Wash
ington; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn
Fry, New Jersey, and Mrs. Marion
Schmidt. New York, and one son,
Evening star., 1934-09-10
POTOMAC YIELDS
CORPORAL $ BODY
Joyce of Fort Myer Believed
Victim of Accident While
Swimming.

The body Of Corpl. John H. Joyce,
26, Of Fort Myer, Va, was taken from
the Potomac River early this afternoon
near the spot from which he is thought
to have gone swimming and drowned
Friday.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said drowning appeared to have been
accidental, but that he would not issue
a certificate until after an investiga-
ton by the homicide squad.
Found by Policemen.
Joyce's body was found by Police
men r. C. Ault and H. S. Carrico,
who had been dragging the river
near MacKaye's boat house all morn
gun Saturday afternoon after dis
covery of Joyce's automobile and
clothing on the Virginia shore.
DR.. Mcdonald based the opinion
that the drowning was accidental on
the fact that the body was clad only
in a towel, which the coroner thinks
was used as an improvised bathing
suit. The body was identified by Pvt.
William Joyce, a brother, also sta
toned at Fort Myer.
Told of Fishing Plans.
Joyce was last seen at the Army
post by Pvt. Daniel A. Gray, whom
he is said to have told that he was
going fishing. A search was begun by
Fort Myer authorities when Joyce
failed to report for duty Saturday
morning.
Joyce's home is in Philadelphia. He
was unmarried.
Friends said he was a strong swim
mer. He was thought to be alone on
a fishing expedition.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
DOCTORS TRY TO SAVE
EYES OF MAN IN FIGHT
Colored Patient at Gallinger Said
to Have Been Struck With
Auto Crank.

Physicians at Gallinger Hospital
today were trying to save the eyesight
Of William Page, 81, colored, of the
300 block of Twenty-fift street, said
to be in danger of going blind as the
result Of being struck over one eye
with an automobile crank while in an
alteration with another colored man
at Twenty-sixth and I streets.
Page was given first aid at Emerg-
ency Hospital and removed to Gal
linger.
Douglas Young, Is, colored, of the
1900 block Of Twenty fifth street, was
arrested by police of No. precinct
and held for investigation in connec-
ton with the assault.
Evening star., 1934-09-10

centers, but has workmen in every
town and village and draws its raw
materials from every State. And the
modernization program alone is suffi-
cient to revive the industry, at least
temporarily, according to the figures.
Sixteen million buildings through
out the country need improvements
and repairs" the bulletin states.
Several million unemployed work
men are ready to do the job. There
Is no business or industry in the Ma
ton which will not feel the stimulat-
ing effect Of a successful better hous-
ing program.
Revival Of building means the re-
turn of prosperity and. profit to your
own business"
Instructions on how to cooperate
with the local better housing programs
in order to assure their success are
given in the bulletin. The local ad-
dress of all regional and State direc-
tors of the Federal Housing Admins
tration also are given, so that the
business executives can establish
direct contact with the F. H. A. and
the local committees.
Special better housing literature and
other campaign aids, both for local
committees and for individual business
executives, are described in the bull
letins. In addition there are several
lists Of housing equipment given in
order to show definitely the types of
equipment which are eligible for mod
ernization loans and those which are
not eligible.
d. C. Campaign Ready.
Generally, it is pointed out, any
"built-in" equipment which becomes
permanent part of the structure is
eligible; any movable" equipment
which can be detached and removed
easily, is not eligible. When there is
any doubt as to the classification of
any specific equipment, F. H. A. off,
cials are said to be ready to give
definite rulings.
Washington's campaign, under the
direction of Thomas P. Littlepage, will
get under way this week, according
to present plans. Members of the
Executive Committee will meet tomor-
row at the campaign headquarters, in
the Board of Trade rooms, to pick
subcommittee chairmen and other
drive officials.
A Committee on Committees, named
at the first meeting of the campaign
last week, has designated heads Of
the subgroups, it is understood, and
they will be considered at tomorrow's
meeting.
A house-to-house drive is planned
in Washington to sell" the moderni-
zation program, Littlepage has dis
closed.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
Federal Housing Bulletin Bids
4 For Support of Businessmen
Benefits to All Glasses of Trade Claimed
in Citing National Importance
of Reviuing Building.

The fourth bulletin of its series
was issued today by the Federal
Housing Administration, setting forth
again the central theme of the F.
H. A, that every business in the
United States can benefit from the
moderniZation program and other
activities of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration if it takes advantage Of
the opportunities this agency offers" !"
The bulletin was prepared especially
for manufacturers and advertising
agencies. Previous bulletins have
been issued for property owners, local
Better Housing Committees. and
architects, contractors, building
supply and other merchants.
Immediate benefits will come to
makers of building materials and
equipment, and to service organiza-
tions which adopt aggressive sales
and advertising programs" the
bulletin states. But larger business
returns also will come swiftly to all
other manufacturers who move alertly
to their opportunities The depend
ence of every industry upon every
other is apparent Immediately, as the
possibilities Of the better housing
program are studied"
Recovery Benefits Cited.
Importance of the building in
dustry in any recovery program is
emphasized in the bulletin, which
points out that in normal times
building, next to agriculture, is the
largest employer of men; that one
tenth of all manufacturers are en-
gagged normally in making building
materials, that one-fifth of all
freight cars are used in transporting
these materials, and that one
eleventh Of all wholesalers are en-
gagged in their distribution.
New construction during the past
two years, however, was bare 10
per cent of the 1926-1929 volume,
building records show, while about
one-third of all the families on relief
rolls at the present time are families
of workers normally employed in
building operations. Manifestly, res
toration of their earning power will
restore the demand for every other
type of product, and in turn will
re-employ millions more in these other
industries.
1.-THE building workman is a skilled
workman" the bulletin states. HE
earns good wages. Employed, he i'm
mediately becomes the purchaser Of
all types of goods"
Benefits Held Nationwide.
It is pointed out further that the
benefits Of revived building indus
try will be Nationwide, as this indus
try Is not confined to q few large
Evening star., 1934-09-10
COUPLE HURT BY AUTO

DOUGLAS, Wyo., September 10 (P.
Nathan A. Harold and his sister,
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, both of Elk
hart, Ind, were seriously injured in
an automobile crash near Douglas yes
terday.
Mrs. Thompson was unconscious and
Harold, although conscious, was not
able to give any details of the ac-
cident. They were found on the high
way, about 20 miles east of Douglas,
by John Reynolds, tourist. and were
taken to Shawnee and then brought
to hospital here.
Harold and Mrs. Thompson had been
attending a florists convention in
Denver and were returning to Elk
hart, it was said.
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Births Reported.

hester L, and Mary L. Alvey, boy.
william, B. and Lola Smith, girl
Marshall and Helen Miller, bow
Mlnired w. and Ella Poland, bow
Walter E. and Mabel z. Williams. boy.
SSriano ana Rachel Adriani, boy.
samuel M. and Ruby B. Saylor, boy-
Charlie and Cora Gallman, boy.
oscar and Clara Morgan, girl.
Jonn and Lillian Moore, girl,
Oeianey B. and Bessie Fantroy, boy.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
SLAIN DEFENDING So
Chicago storekeeper Shot When
He Runs for Hidden Gun,

CHICAGO, September 10 CP.-For
~ Charles Harakopas, 81, was slain
yesterday.
He was in his brothers candy store
Wnen two colored robbers appeared.
He ran for hidden gun to protect
the 81 change in the cash drawer,
One of the bandits fired killing him.
The pair fed with the money.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
CRUISE SLATED TONIGHT
BY COMMERCE BOARD
Junior Organization to Convene
Important Meeting Aboard
City of Washington.

The Washington Junior Board Of
Commerce tonight will sponsor a
Presidents Cup regatta cruise on the
Wilson Line steamer, City of Wash
ington, leaving the Seventh street
wharf at $50 o'clock.
In addition to the cruise, the Re-
gatta Committee will hold an i'm
portant meeting on board. Trophies
will be displayed on the boat, and re-
ports of all committees will be re-
ceived, with suggestions and discussion.
The meeting, however, will not be long
enough to interfere with the enjoy
ment of the cruise.
Dancing and special entertainment
are included on the program.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; not much change in
temperature; gentle variable winds.
Maryland, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia-Fair tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature.
River Report.
Potomac River slightly cloudy and
Shenandoah muddy today.
Report for Last 4S Hours.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
Deaths Reported.

Michael vaccaro, IS. 22e 18th st. Sc,
anna M: Grupe, "a, sibley Hospital.
Charles E. D. Wood, II, 4601 18th ST
Mary V. Kelly, SO, 1927 West Virginia
Florence z, Jones. "a. 141a Chaplin st
John z, Cleary, "a. United States Naval
Edith B. Franzoni. 55. sos Massachusetts
ave. '''
Clara M. Bruins. 43, Georgetown Hospital
Manuel M Tavares, Al, 1850 Wisconsin
Doris s. Pinner, 40. Emergency Hospital.
Alice Crawford. 23, Providence Hospital
Vernon PyleS. 2, Casualty Hospital,
mary jackson, 10. 1922 lst st.
ADA Walker, AZ, Gallinger Hospital
saunders F. Thomas, As, st. Elizabeth S
Hospital.
John Barnes. AZ. 1850 Wisconsin ave.
Eva Harris, IL, Emergency Hospital
clarence jackson, 80, Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Donald Price. 4, Children's Hospital
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Report for Last 4S Hours.
Temperature. Baromete,

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, "a, 12:45 pm. yesterday.
Year ago, 80.
Lowest. 72. 6 am. today. Year
ago, "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 101, on June 20.
Lowest, -612, on February 8.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 96 per cent, at am. to-
day.
Lowest 81 per cent, at pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
Evening star., 1934-09-10

Edison B. Olds, jr, Of Washington.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made.
Evening star., 1934-09-10
The Sun and Moon.

Rises. Sets.
sun, To-Day ..... 5:44 Gas
Sun, tomorrow. 5:45 6:24
Moon, today. ... 7:19a.m. 6:53p,m.
Automobile lights must be turned
on one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In
the Capital (current month to date) !:
Evening star., 1934-09-10

FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geo6etic Survey.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

mist League, the future leaders Of
the American proletariat; the wo-
men of the United Council of Work
ingclass Women; hundreds and more
hundreds of college and high school
students with their National Student
League remnants.
Your heart skipped beat as the
veterans came: the members of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
wearing their service hats, and
carrying placards demanding the
immediate payment of the bonus.
Directly behind them the comely
nurses of the Medical Workers
League.
"Join Our Ranks!"
A scene at Sheridan Square: the
parade is passing St. Vincent's
Hospital, and the doctors and in
ternes have come out onto the
streets in their white uniforms to
see the marchers. A nurse dressed
nattily in white, and wearing a
perky blue hat, shouts out toward
the doctors: Join our ranksl We're
working IL hours Gay in the city
hospitals for practically nothing!
Help us in our fight"
How will the capitalist press
laugh this of, I wondered. Here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

poured out into the streets. Into
the Streets on May Day" was a liv-
ing, vibrant call to them. May Day
was OUR DAY, and we took not only
Union Square, but the proletarian
hearts Of the tens of thousands of
working men and women-many of
whom for the first time-raised up
lifted fists as they sang the ever
stirring "Internationale.
The parade began from the south
ermost tip of Manhattan Island, the
richest island in the world and of
the most horrible poverty. From the
Ferry House to the Aquarium, where
the unemployed seamen "are on the
beach, eyes were dazzled by the
bright, myriad colors as the march
ers, wearing red caps, belts, blouses,
ties or hats, held their banners and
placards aloft as they waited for the
parade to commence.
COPS GET THICK
Lower Broadway. too, the sinister
center of capitalism, was mass of
color, mostly red, which predomi-
mated in the marchers' attire. Up
Broadway they came, and the deep
canyons lined by the towering Office
buildings seemed to have been taken
over by the marchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

comes the contingent from the Irish
Workers Clubs, dressed in green
uniforms. They carry a plscard:
Down with ODuffy's Fascist Blue
shirtsl Down with British Imperi-
alislnp
More hundreds follow, the young
fighters from the countless work.
ers' clubs and cultural organizations
throughout the CITY, And many of
them, like the Prospect Workers
Club, with their own bands.
Chinese Workers March
The Lithuanian workers are rep
resented in a body; the Polish
workers march too. The little band
Of the Lithuanian workers plays
the international" on accordions.
Their music sounds somewhat
quaint, but the words on their
placards are familiar and native:
AGAINST THE SLAVERY OF THE
N. R. A! FREE THE SCOTS
BORO BOYS!
The Chinese workers march,
carrying placards and shouting
slogans, and on the sidslines a Chi
nese proletarian girl sells the Van
guard" the paper of the Chinese
Communists in America.
The Chilean Workers contingent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
NEW YORK FLARES RED AS WORKERS PC

Office workers, less difident than
others, threw confetti and paper bits
down at the demonstrators. 81 don't
agree with their IDEAS" one pallid
clerk on the sidewalk told me, "but
I like their grit"
Traffic was halted further up
Broadway, and cops, mounted and
on foot, became thicker. Up Broad
way the marchers went, to Houston,
Varick and Greenwich SITS, up 9th
Ave. to 38th ST., in the heart of the
garment center scene of many a
stormy strike struggle and then
east to Fourth Ave. and south into
Union Square
Fire and MiIitancy
There were mighty numbers in
that parade. And there was fight
ing spirit-fre and militancy. And
color!
They marched with steady, de-
termined, defiant step. 1t was May
Day, and into the streets they went.
You saw the rolling gait Of the
marine workers of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union, which has been
winning victory after victory from
the ship owners. The metal work
ers, the food workers; gay, youthful
contingents of the Young Commu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
BY SENDER GARLIN

NEW York; was like
a red tidal wave, this great
May Day parade yesterday.
They marched and march
ed, the lines swelling as work.
ers, Negro and white, poured from
the flats and fire-trap tenements of
the city to join in the giant DEM
onstration-the greatest May Day
demonstration in the city of New
York.
They answered the call to Down
Tools" and all morning and after
noon these tens of thousands surged
over Lower Manhattan and pressed
against the powerful police lines of
the LaGuardia fake liberal admin
istration.
The capitalist press-truly called
the reptile press"-whined and
screamed; it carried threats. some
implicit and some direct; it printed
scare heads telling how many guns
and clubs the police had. They
sought to frighten the workers away
from the demonstration.
Our Day."
But the workers came out, they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
The Marching Thousands Fling the Words MAY Day OUR Day
GREATEST MAY FIRST IN CITY,s HISTORY

is in the line of march and so is
the Tampa Workers Club, the latter
demanding the release of all class
war prisoners and shouting Hands
off Cubal"
Biting Placards
Free the Scottsboro Boys!" is
inscribed on hundreds of banners,
and how stirring this giant demon
stration must have been to the five
Scottsboro mothers as they ride
past, with that brave. white girl,
Ruby Bates, sitting at their side.
Never before were so many inn
aginatiye and bitingly satirical
placards and caricatures seen at a
May Day demonstration. Here is
the N. R. A. represented by dour
Blue Eagle defeating in the tall
silk hat of the capitalist, with the
legend, 1.-THE N. r. A. Stinks. y
Here are ten marchers carrying a
yellow dragon marked fascism.
Laeer you see the members Of the
Tampa Workers Club carrying a
black coffin marked fascism.
They marched and marched
Hundreds of thousands of workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
One Killed When Armed Thugs Fire
On Strikers nt LdtrObe Steel Mil
Iron Workers Out On
Sympathy Strike With
Steel Mill Men

LATROBE, Pa, May t.
Armed strikebreakers, clad in
khaki uniforms, opened fire
from inside the gates of the
Latrobe Electric Steel Com
pany, where 600 workers are on
strike. One bystander, Paul Me-
halle, II, was dead from bullet
wounds. Incensed at the attack, all
the workers of the Vulcan Mould
and Iron Co. joined the Latrobe
strikers in a sympathy strike, COM
pletely closing down the Vulcan
plant.
The murderers, dressed in khaki
uniforms, were imported by the
steel company from Fayette County
to break the strike.
Sheriff Humes, who refused to
swear the thugs in as deputies, said
that the shot which killed the
young worker was one of several
fired from inside the factory gates.
Many other strikers and sympa-
tllizers were injured by bricks and
iron bolts hurled from inside the
plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
Fast Army of
us. Workers in
May Parades
8, 900 Out in Pitts
burgh; 1000 March
in Paterson
TERROR IN MISSOURI
Chicago, Cleveland Re-
port W ork ers
Assembling
TERROR IN MISSOURI
fspeciaI to the Daily Worker)

tSpeCldi 10 Ine Daily NUIhSIJ
PITTSBURGH, May 1.-Eig h t
thousand workers from unions. un-
e m ployed councils. veterans
women's and childrens organiza-
lions marched through the Hill
district down Fifth Ave, through
the South Side, converging on West
Park on the North Side, in a giant
May Day parade today, The parade
tied up traffic for two hours.
Delegations from surrounding
towns Joined the Pittsburgh DEM
onstrations after their local dem
onstrations in the morning. Thou
sands of Daily Workers" were sold
to eager workers along the line of
March.
The parade was led by con-
tingent of war veterans, and carried
slogans for payment of the soldiers
bonus by May 10, for enactment of
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill I'll. R. 1899
for a six-hour day and five-day
week, with no reduction in pay
against Fascism and War and for
the freedom Of Thaelmann and
other an.i-fascist fighters, the
Scottsboro boys. Tom Mooney.
Speakers at the West Park dem
onstration included E. P. Cush
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
United Front Parade Of
100000 Largest May LIST
March Ever Held In US.
Only Red at S.P. Speak
ers' Stand is in
U. S. Flag
MANY COTO SQUARE
Renegades Make United
Front with Reformists
By EDWIN ROLFE


NEW YORK.-Before the
largest red white and : blue
bedecked grandstand of the
Socialist Party on the East
Side of Madison Square,
people milled about, arguing, rails
ing their voices occasionally. Madi-
son Square was calm 1t was neon,
and although the police had thrown
a Gordon around Union Square just
six blocks south, where the revolu-
tionary workers were to pass in re-
view, they were more considerabe
toward the S. P. leaders. They al
lowed access to everybody.
Despite this, however, never at
any time during the day did Madison
Square look more than third
filled. Union Square, however, was
surrounded by workers lining the
surrounding streets and sidewalks
ten deep up to the time when the
police broke up their blockade.
Then they surged on to the Square,
in steady never-ceasing streams
Late in the afternoon thousands of
other workers, aside from the thou
sands who entered the Square with
the regular battalions of marchers,
surged into the historic square, a
square which for almost fifty years
has witnessed the vast outpourings
of New York workers on this, our
international day of celebration.
One worker standing near the
S. P. grandstand patiently explained
to a group Of companions:
yeah, most of the people here,
they are here everyday. They eat
lunch from the Metropolitan Life
Insurance, then they hang around
the square for a half hour. But
tomorrow, wait you see, the Social
lists will come out with statement
that there was-oh, half a'million
people herel" He ended with an
expressive shake of his head and
shrug of his shoulders and a some
what more expressive but mex
perienced epithlet meaning, in more
polite parlance, "boloney!"
AS he walked away, another work
er approached your reporter. How
many va figure they got here?" he
asked, and, without waiting for a
reply, went on: mot much now
maybe they'll have twenty to thirty
thousand before the afternoons
over"
That's not so much we said.
Its lousy" he said. But" anc
his face frightened, you oughta see
Union Square. The cops amt lettin
anyone in yet, but the place is
jammed already! Gee, they oughta
half at least a hunerd thousand
down there!"
I'm only waitin' around here fol
while" he explained in answer tc
question. Wanna see what they
try to pull off here. Then I'm headed
for Union Square"
with the reds?"
yeah" he replied. "You bet YOU
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