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The Washington times., 1934-05-02
YOUTH CHARGES
DAD SHOT HIM

Pale and trembling. son took
the witness stand in Police Court
today and related how his father
had struck at him with an iron
bar and then shot him.
AS a result of his story. the
father, Clarence Curran, 40, of
the 1400 block Morse st. N. E.,
was held for the Grand Jury
under $500 bond by Judge Ralph
Given.
The son. William Curran. "a,
of the 27OO block Twenty-eighth
St. N. E.. only recently was re-
leased from a hospital where
he was treated for the wound.
He stated that on April 10 he
went home and his father or
dered him to leave the house.
He returned later to get his
clothes, he said, and his father
attacked him.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
N|CKELL DEATH
UNDER PROBE

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
is investigating the death early to-
day, of Gilmer Nickel, Al, who
dived into the Tidal Basin after
leaving his friend, Miss Helen
Frederick. 80, in his parked
automobile.
Mr.. Nickel, according to Miss
Frederick, had been unemployed
for a year and a hall and was
respondent. He also had been
ill, she said. He lived in the 1900
block of Fifteenth St. N. w. Miss
Frederick lives in the 1900 block
of Rhode Island Ave. N. w.
Park police recovered the body
a short time after Miss Frederick
reported his disappearance to
them. He took off his hat and
coat and left them on the bridge
over the inlet at the Georgetown
channel side of the basin.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
HELM SECOND.
IN ALABAMA
PRIMARY
81 Out of 246 Boxes in Fifth
District Give N. B. AIIgood
2,315; Graves in Lead
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Ma

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 2
G.N.SO.-The comeback attempt
of the picturesque former Senator
j. Thomas Heflin found him in
second place today as returns
mounted in Tuesdays Democratic
primary.
Mr.. Heflin, in a fiery campaign,
opposed Miles B. Allgood, the in
cumbent, and Major Joe StarneS,
in a three-cornered race for the
Fifth District Congressional post.
With 81 out of 246 boxes tabu-
lated Mr.. Allgood led this morn
ing with 2.315. Mr.. Heflin was in
second place with 1891 and
Major Starnes was a close third
with 1,474. A runoff was pre-
dicted.
Alabama voters apparently
were to send former Governor
Bibb Graves back to Capitol Hill
for another term.
Mr.. Graves was far in the lead
over his two opponents, Major
Frank M.Dixon, of Birmingham,
and Judge Leon McCord, of Mont
gomery.
Early today Mr.. Graves led
with 47,110. Mr.. Dixon was
second with 10000 and Mr.. Nc
Cord was in third place with
$4,000 votes.
Two prosecutors of the inter
nationally celebrated "Scotsboro
case" were leading opponents
in races for separate offices.
Attorney General Thomas E.
Knight, jr., chief prosecutor of
the ScottSboro trials, led Thomas
w. Vert more than two to one in
the race for the lieutenant COVER
norship. Knight tailed 1924;
Vert 1918 this morning.
Judge James E. Horton, of
Scottsboro, who presided over the
second Scottsboro trials and re-
versed death sentences of two of
the negro defendants. trailed Oc.
ceola Kyle, of Decatur, another
figure in the Scottsboro prosecu.
ton.
In the congressional races w. B.
Oliver. sixth district incumbent,
held a majority over Secretary of
State Pete Jarman, and Thomas
Maxwell, of Tuscaloosa. A. H.
Carmichael, incumbent, was al
most two to one over ]. Fred John
son, jr.,
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
CHORAL GROUPS
|NFEST|VAL!'.l

Tonight the, three-day choral
festival in which IL church choirs
of this city are participating will
close with a concert at Constitu-
ton Hall in which the choirs will
be supplemented by so members
of the National Symphony Orches-
ira under the direction of DR..
Hans Kinder.
The second group of choirs ap-
peared last evening at First Con-
gregational Church. those partici-
pating including the choirs of
Foundry Methodist Church, St.
Thomas Episcopal Church, Ia
koma Park Presbyterian Church,
Epiphany Church, National City
Christian Church and Mount Yer
non Place Methodist Church.
The festival is given under the
auspices of the Columbia Bible
Training School. and all II
choirs will be heard with the
Symphony tonight.
Features of last nights pro-
gram were the "Inflammatus,"
from Rossini's "Stabat Mater"
presented by the Foundry choir
under the direction of Justin
Lawrie; the setting by H. A.
Matthews of Kipling's "Reces-
slonal," as sung by Epiphany
choir; and two compositions by
Tschaikowsky as rendered by the
Takoma Park choir.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
Branch Libraries
For COLOred Urged

Establishment of branch libra
ries which will be easily accessible
to colored people is being urged
by the Joint Citizens Committee,
of which Major Campbell C..
Johnson, director of the Twelfth
Street Y. M. C. A., is chairman.
According to the report of the
committee there are ten branch
libraries, all of which are in
neighborhoodS inconvenient for
colored readers to reach. Employ
ment of colored clerks is also
being urged by the committee.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
l8 Years Giiuen
In Sentences
By Court

Sentences totaling 18 years to
the Maryland penitentiary were
yesterday given six men con-
victed by Prince Georges county
circuit court jury.
The sentences include Bernard
Rhine. two years for larceny;
Paul Makel, two years for assault
with intent to kill; Thomas Brown,
two years for lraceny; Charles
Snowden, two years for attempted
arson; Albert Byrd and Gordon
Lynn, five years each for assault
and store breaking.
Edward L. MCGOWAN, Baltimore,
and Elmer w. Baker, Beltsville,
were declared not guilty of lar
ceny by the jury yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
CHARGES
CALLED FALSE !.
BY PROBERS !!
Minority Charges 'WhiteWash'
After Committee Finds NO
Evidence OF, Plot
BY International News Service


Branding as false DR.. William
A. Wirt's charges of a brain
trust plot" to overthrow the es-
tablished social order, a majority
Of the special House Investigating
Committee today submitted its
report to the House without
recommendation.
The committee report declared
no evidence was presented show
ing that any person or group in
the Government was planning to
overthrow the social order.
'WhitewaSh' Charged
The Republican members of the
committee countered with a
minority report assailing the in
vestigation as a "whiteWash" and
asserting that the committee had
failed to carry out instructions
of the House.
Representative McGugin (RO
of Kansas, a minority member,
asserted that all circumstances in
dicated that DR.. Wirt's statements
were true.
After reciting the testimony,
the majority report declared the
testimony and facts and circum-
stances clearly showed that the
statements made by DR.. Wlrt
"were not true" 1t continued:
"From all of the evidence pre-
sented to the committee, there
was none whatever showing
that there was any person or
group in the Government Serv-
ice planning to overthrow the
existing social order or plan
ming or doing any of the things
mentioned in DR.. Wirt's state
ment."
Evidence Suppressed"
The minority charged that the
majority "has by studied effort
deliberately refrained from OBJ
tanning the information which 1t
was directed to obtain by the reso-
luton" 1t added:
eve further report that the
committee has not only deliber-
ately refrained from obtaining
such information, but has delib-
erateIy suppressed the obtain
ing of such information"
Referring to testimony Of the
six dinners that DR.. Writ monopo.
lized the conversation, the minor
ity report said:
eve do not believe that there
was a five-hour conversation
among seven people, in which
one person did all the talking
with the exception Of one Of the
remaining six uttering one SEN
tence."
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
1000 VETERANS
ON WAY HERE

With 1000 ex7service men re-
ported en- route to Washington,
the 1884 bonus army is expected
to start pouring into the Capital.
with the first group of 100 due
here today.
Harold Hickerson, secretary of
the Veterans National Rank and
File Committee, said that as
many as 10000 may come here in
the next few days to push the
demand for immediate payment
of the bonus.
Members of the executive COM
mittee will go to the White House
tomorrow, he said, to make a de-
mand for quarters and food for
the veterans. They will oppose
being quartered at Fort Hunt,
Va, as they we're last year, claim
ing that it is too far from the
Capital, and will seek permission
to camp in Anacostia Park.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
FORBIDDEN
IN PARK POOL

The stern arm of the law has
reached out and forbidden chill
dren to sail their boats in the
pool in Meridian Park.
Park police officials said that it
is against the law to sail boats
there. The law has never been
enforced there, they said, but now
children are coming in such num-
bers that il is necessary to do so.
Numerous complaints have been
made by parents whose children
have been warned to give up their
play at the pool.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
PH|LADELPH|AN
SEES NATION
NEAR CRISIS
We Are Living Under Dictator
ship; Speaker Tells Costs
Association

CHICAGO. May 2 G.N.S0.
President Roosevelt's recovery
program is a menace to the Con-
stitution, according to Representa-
tive James M. Beck, of Philadel-
phia.
Addressing the annual dinner
of the Illinois Manufacturers
Costs Association, Representative
Beck said the nation is being i'm
periled by the recovery program
and that the United States is con-
fronted by its greatest crisis since
1860.
He said:
1--WE are living under a die
tatOrShip. do not question for
one moment the patriotic pur-
poses or the amiable intentions
of the President of the United
States. have nothing but ad-
miratiOn for his qualities Of
leadership, which may rank him
as one Of the most fOrceful
Presidents this country has ever
known. But.it can be said of
him, as of any one vested with
dictatOrial powers, that the ap-
petite for power grows by what
it feeds on"
Representative Beck said the
Constitution came into being dur.
ing an economic crisis far more
acute than the present one. He
added
But in Washington today
there is only lip service to the
Constitution. 1t has wholly
ceased to be a restraining force
upon these excesses of DemOc-
racy.
"The power of the Govern
ment is largely concentrated in
the Executive branch, and in !
that department men of high
position flOut the Constitution
and Sneer at any one who ven
lures to raise a voice in its be-
half.
Imagine great historic States
like Massachusetts, PennSyl-
vania, Virginia and Illinois au-
thorizing their governors to
crawl to the throne of Federal
power and ask the President to
become, in fact, the super-gOv-
ernOr of those States in matter
of police administration"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Wheat Gamblers
Speculate on Bad
CropNextHarvest
Admit Sowing in USSR
Ahead of Last Year;
Expect Bumper Crop

LONDON. May 11.--All negotia-
tons for wheat export agreements
appear to have broken down here
today, with a wild scramble for
world markets, specializing on a
world shortage of wheat due to
drought and rust. The American
and European crop, outside of the
Soviet Union, IS far below all pre-
vious estimates; while in the Soviet
Union the reports are that wheat
acreage is greater than ever before,
and even considering bad weather,
a bigger crop is expected than last
year.
Argentina refused to join with
other wheat producers to regulate
markets, or come to a minimum
price agreement. Unless an agree
ment is unanimous, all efforts at
negotiation break down.
Drought in the Middle Western
wheat belt of the United States, plus
the deliberate cutting down of acre
age by the Roosevelt government,
has caused a di. in forecasts of
170OO0,00o bushels. For the Amer
lean farmers it means many of them
will have no crop at all or very
little to sell, even at the increased
prices,
Exporters here admit that the So
Wet Union is ahead with it's sowing
and expects q bumper crop, but are
praying for bad weather to cut down
the huge harvest expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
General Johnson Cut Wages,
Smashed Union In OaUn Shop

union called the International Car
pet Workers Union which the work
ers formed, Herbert Smalley, an
employee of four years standing,
was fired with the approval Of
Hugh Samuel johnson for protest.
ing the pay cut and for actively
organizing union to fight it"
His dismissal" the story con-
tinues, "was part of campaign
under the N. R. A. to smash a
union in Johnson's backyard. The
wrecking job was successfully car
ried through by Ellery K. Files,
vice president and general manager
of Lea Fabrics, Inc. controlling
stock in the company and the
final touches we're made by the
local N. R. A. board, working snug
ger than a glove with Johnson's
company"
The New Masses" article further
asserts Snlalley was dismissed i'm
mediately after protesting, on be-
half of the newly-formed union,
against reduction of pay in the fac
tory. An appeal to the ~ R. A..
Board resulted. the article says, in
a star-chamber proceeding uphold
ing the dismissal of Smalley.
It is also charged that at present
q company union is being encour-
aged at the plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Drought Raoages Mid-West;
Spectators Are Jubilant

Gent to prevent further storms Of
dust that blanketed the city like a
dense fog.
The full horror of what is hap
pening is just beginning to be felt.
Farmers are demanding from gov
eminent officials the right to plant
food crops on the land withdrawn
from production by the crop reduc-
ton program of the A.A.A.
officials in Washington, refusing
to make this concession, cynically
tell the farmers it would not do any
good, since the plants would not
grow in the arid soil.
Spectators with warehouses full
Of grains, and rich farmers who
have deep wells and money for fod-
der are jubilant at the situation.
The Chicago capitalist press, speak
ing for these groups, is carrying
stories and cartoons telling what a
fine thing this drought is for the
farmers. since it raises prices.
Letters that have reached the
Daily Worker Midwest Bureau, how
ever, tell very different story. The
poor farmers, with their wells dry.
and the crops ruined at the outset
Of the season. face not only the loss
of crops and cattle but bankruptcy,
foreclosure and hunger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

NEW YORK.-Charges that Cen
eral Hugh s. johnson, National
Recovery Administrator, was aware
of and approved "a campaign
under the N. r. A. to smash a
union" in the factory of which
johnson is president and part
owner in Newark, N. j., and that
wages were cut after johnson be-
came code administrator, are con-
tanned in a story appearing in this
weeks New Masses" published
Friday.
The article titled General john
sons Private Code" by Anne Aleen
Barten, gives the name of the au-
tomobile carpet factory of which
Mr. Johnson is the head as the Lea
Fabrics, Inc, and its address as 1853
FrelinghuySen Avenue, Newark, N. j.
Wages of the workers in john
sons own plant in Newark we're cut
SO to Sc a week with the reduction
of the work hour week from 48 to
40 hours, with no raise in hourly
pay" the story asserts in referring
to what happened after the code
went into effect. This followed the
issuance, it is stated. Of bulletin
~ Johnson saying The employers
part is to act at once to shorten
hours and raise wages"
The story charges that in the
campaign to wreck an independent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Order Detroit Dicks
from Workers Center

DETROIT, Mich, May 1.-Two
red squad dicks, Masisuk and
Makuliak, were told to keep out of
the Workers Hall at 1853 Four
tenth Ave, when they were caught
shopping inside the building. When
caught they gave the filnsy excuse
that they wanted to find out if
the Communist Party which has
established its new district head
quarters at this address was organ
izing the march of veterans to
Washington.
william Weinstone, district Or
ganizer of the Party when he saw
them shopping around the building
called them into his Office and in
formed them they had no right to
enter the Workers Building and
they must keep out. They said the
National Government wanted in
formation about the vererans'
march and came to the Party for it,
after which the dicks left.
The Communist Party is filing
protest with Mayor against this in
yasion of Workers Hall by police,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
NJ enzhinsky
Death Great
Loss For USSR
Was a Staunch Leader
in the Fight Against
Characterization
BY VERN SMITH
Especial to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, May II (By Radio -
Death has torn from the foremost
ranks of the fighters for the cause
of the construction of socialism,
Viacheslav Menzhinsky. Although
Menzhinsky had been sick a long
time, and there was no hope that he
would recover and return to work,
nevertheless, the news of his death
was a great blow for all.
Irrevocably lost is the head OF the
fighting organ of the proletarian
dictatorship, the chairman of the
United State Political Department
(OGPUD, a loyal and answering
disciple of Lenin and Stain, the
nearest colleague of the iron Felix
Dzerjinsky.
The brilliant life Of the revolu-
tionary fighter has been broken off.
The son of teacher, a lawyer by
education, Comrade Menzhinsky, at
the very beginning of the century,
joined the revolutionary movement
and without hesitation became a
member of the Bolsheyik Party. A
man of action, not words, he chose
the most dangerous section of Party
work, going wherever the class en-
envy stood directly before him,
where he could see and direct the
result of his work and struggle.
In the 1905 revolution, and the
first years after it, Menzhinsky
worked in the military organization
(Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Negro Mothers
Off Today For
Washington
Roosevelt's Secretary
Denies Request for
Interview

NEW YORK.-The five Scots
boro mothers and a small COM
mittee representing the Interna-
tional Labor Defense prepared to
leave early this afternoon for
Washington to see President Roose-
velt in spite of the refusal of their
request for an interview.
The mothers will demand that
Roosevelt intercede to free their
innocent boys who are being kept
in the Alabama prison.
The LID. received a telegram
from Roosevelt's secretary yester-
day, after they had sent many COM
munications including a long dis
lance telephone call which read as
follows:
1.-THE case to which you refer. {.
is one over which the State Of Ala
bama has jurisdiction. I must
therefore respectfully decline your
request"
The request of the LID. was just
for an interview with the president.
In Washington a small group will
accompany the Scottsboro mothers
to the White House.
A mass send-off meeting to the
mothers was held last night in the
st. Nicholas Arena. A full account
of the meeting will appear in Mon
days Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
BY BILL ANDREWS
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Middle
West is in the grip of bowling
dust storm as farmers fields, bare
and dry as a result of the unprece-
dented drought this Spring, are
swept by winds that are, in many
places, tearing the top soil and
newly planted seeds from the
ground.
Reports from Hecla, South Da-
kota, and other places throughout
the central part of the country, tell
of cattle dying of thirst as shallow
wells and country brooks dry up.
The hay crop is almost total loss,
and except where farmers are or
ganized strongly enough to force
relief to distribute hay, fodder is
almost unattainable by poor farm
ere
Spectators in wheat and other
grains are prolting nightly from
the destruction of crops by the
drought. Wheat went up the maxi
mum five cents allowed by law yes
terday on the Chicago Board Of
Trade. In Chicago and other places,
the light rain OF yesterday, the first
in twenty-e eight days. was not suffl-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Use Torture
To Frarne-Up
Til aelmann
A. Workers Re-Arrested
But Refuse to Sign
False Confession

PARIS, May lin bestial eff
fort to rush through the execution
of Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader
of the Communist Party Of Ger
many, the Gestapo (Secret Nazi
Police are not only torturing Thael-
mann, but are attempting to frame
him up on the killing of Horst Yves
sci, Nszi scoundrel who was shot
some time before Hitler came to
power.
Four workers who were at first
released from Jail in the matter of
the Horst Vessel killing were again
arrested recently. They were tor
tured by Nazi agents in an effort to
get them to sign confession stat
ing that the shooting of Vessel was
carried through upon the personal
request of Thaelmann. The worker
accused of killing Vessel was Of
ficially admitted to have been tor
tured to death in Nazi prison.
The four workers refused to sign
the Nazi concocted confession and
denied any connection with the in
cident. They were thereupon saw
agely maltreated. The same trick
was tried on other arrested work
ers accused of the shooting of two
police officers on the Buelowplatz.
No fiendish attempt to murder
Thaelmann is too low for the Nazi
butchers. The life of Thaelmann is
now in the greatest danger. Only
worldwide protests can save him.
Hitler, Goering and Goebbels should
be flooded with protests. Delega-
tons should be sent to all Nazi
counsels in this country demanding
the release of Thaelmann and hold
ing them responsible for his safety.
Workers delegations in all countries
should be organized to go to Berlin
and demand the right to see Thael-
mann and insist that torture be
stopped. European workers dele
cations have already gone to Berlin.
Ernst Thaelmann's life must be
savedl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Copper Miners in
Butte, Mont. Strike
Against NRA Code
Thousands of Miners,
Allied Trades Ont;
Tie Up Industry

BUTTE. Mont. CBy MaiD Over
5000 copper miners and other en-
ployees of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. here walked out on
strike yesterday against the pro-
visions of the N. R. A. Copper Code
which would further reduce the
starvation wages paid the miners.
The miners are demandir~ ? mini
mum Of s120 an hour and 30-hour
week, abolition Of the contract svs-
tenn and the company one-man
system.
The strike was called by the local
of the International Union Of Mine.
Mill and Smelter Employees. The
teamsters, blacksmith and electrical
unions have also joined in the
strike. These workers are joining
the picket lines at the mines.
The N. r. A. officials at Wash
ington and Governor Cooney Of
Montana have made every attempt
to postpone the strike The miners
have answered these attempts with
the strike The miners at Ana
conda and Great Falls ere also ez-
pected to come out for increased
pay and in solidarity with the Butte
strike.
The companies are repairing the
barracks used to house militiamen
in former strikes and are making
the same military preparations as
were made in 1917.
Promises of S. a day and board
are being made by the company to
induce scabs to come to Butte.
Despite these preparations it is
expected that the whole copper in
dusty in the state will be tied up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Seeks
Air W ar Pact
Against USSR
Sends Agent to Sound
Out British; Build Many
War Planes

LONDON, May 11.-Hitler's agent
here, General Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, has proposed a three-power
air force treaty with Britain and
France, providing for supporting the
heavy ariplane armament program
of the Nazis, with the direct object
of attacking the Soviet Union.
The proposal was conveyed to Sir
John Simon, foreign secretary by
General Ribbentrop, who is Hitler's
special envoy here, discussing Brit
ish support to the fascist air plans.
British and American aircraft
manufacturers have been supplying
Hitler with airplanes. The Nazi
budget provides for 210,000,000 marks
for war aviation construction.