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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

nlgn pail OF SZ5,OUU CASH or sou, 0OO
property. The frame-up accom-
panied by efforts of the local press
and police to whip up lynch spirit
against the Negroes of Niagara
Falls.
On Monday, July 80, the Niagara
Falls Gazette printed. under
screaming headlines, a story to the
effect that at 1 o'clock that morn
ing an 18-year-old white girl, Helen
Lachut, had been raped by two
Negroes. The story went that the
girl had been out with white boy,
Stanley Wojcik, and another couple,
and that while in the park, two
Negroes had jumped at them, held
Wojcik prisoner, and had taken the
girl into the bushes.
Print Lynch Appeal
The Gazette printed the story as
though all the statements made by
the girl were proved. At the same
time appeared a letter, signed "a
Mother" calling on "the men of the
community to show chivalry to-
wards their women in the Southern
style, to bend all efforts to make
the streets safe again for white girls
to walk by making an example of a
few Negroes"
The international Labor Defense
had attorneys in court to defend
Davis, who signed retainers for the
LID. The facts unearthed by the
LID. attorneys and investigators
point to vicious frame-up.
The doctor who examined Helen
Lachut stated that she had obvi-
ouSly had intercourse, but that
there were no marks showing vio-
lence, and no indication that she
had made any resistance. The
stories told by Lachut and her
escort, Stanley Wojcik, in court, diff
ferred greatly in detail. Both ad-
mitted, however, that they had
made no cutlery and had not called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Textile Session
Votes To Strike
Continued from Page ~
By CARL REEVE


Mahon's floor leader, carrying on
a determined but losing fight
against extension of the cotton
strike to other departments. Rieve,
who had carried on a sham "op-
position" to Thomas MacMahon
and who had declared he was 60
ing to run against him for presi-
dent of the union, at the last
minute Withdrew his candidacy
and supported MacMahon, giving
that reactionary leader a clear
field.
The MacMahon leadership has
already shifted the scene Of opera
tions to Washington, committee
of the Executive Board headed by
vice president Francis German,
having left yesterday to confer with
N.R.A. officials. Robert Breure, head
of the Industrial Relations Board
for silk, cotton and wool industries,
has declared he will call in the
union leaders for conferences.
A MacMahon Board
The demands adopted by the
convention for the strike include:
against the stretch-out (speed-up) I;
for the thirty hour week; for wage
differentials biased on skilD; and
union recognition.
The executive board elected by
the convention at its concluding
sessions assures MacMahon control
of the union leadership. The board
in addition to the seven officers, in
cludes John Powers of Pawtucket;
Alexander McKeown of Philadel-
phia; Anthony Ammirato and Will
liam B. Smith of Paterson, N. j.;
Abraham Binns, of New Bedford
Mass; Emil Rieve of Philadelphia
and Milwaukee; Harry F. Walton
of Stroudsburg, Pa; c. w. .McAbee
of Spartanburg, N. c.; William
Dunlap Of Rockville, Conn; and
w. G. Watson OF Salemburg, N. C
The board was enlarged from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
WOMEN TO HOLD
ANTI-WAR RALLY
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Webster Hall Meeting to
Prepare for Congress
Against War

NEW YORK. - The New York
Women's Section of the American
League Against War and Fascism
will hold a mass reception rally in
Webster Hall, lie East 18th st. on
Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock in
preparation for the Second U. s
Congress Against War and Fascisn
to be held in Chicago, Sept. %, 80
80.
Prominent speakers will include
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran
labor leader and chairman of the
United States delegation to the
Womens International Congress
Against War and Fascism, held in
Paris on Aug 4, Robert Minor, Of
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party, U. S. A., JesSica
Henderson, International League
for Peace and Freedom, Equille Nc
Keithen, sharecroppers' delegate to
Paris, Clara Bodian, Leader of the
United Council of Working Glass
Women, Rosa Rayside, Harlem
delegate, Mrs. Barnett, California
delegate, Jennie Palermo, who rep
resented $4,000 whitegoods workers.
1.-THE delegates who have returned
from Paris have a stirring message
from women all over the world,
who, representing millions of wo-
men from every walk of life,
unanimously voted to adopt the pro-
gram of the Congress Against War
and Fascism," said a statement by
the Women's Section. with this
inspiration we go on with our CAM
paign with renewed determine
ton that every working woman in
New York City shall be represented
at the United States Congress
Against War and Fascism. We call
upon all trade unions, mass organ
izations, clubs, committees, women's
councils, and members OF the So
cialist Party, all who are opposed
to war and fascism, to join us at
Webster Hall on Friday night"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Anti-FasCists
In NY. Form
Action Group
Organization Protests
Sending of Italian
War Band to U. S.

NEW YORK. AS a protest
against the action of the Mussolini
government in sending the Black
shirts Military Band to this coun-
try for a series of recitals, anti
fascist organizations here have
formed a committee of action.
This committee will not only ex-
pose the real situation in Italy,
but it will act against the three
appearances of the fascist band
which is scheduled to appear in
Carnegie Hall on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
The organizations represented in
the anti-fascist committee of ac-
ton are the American League
Against War and Fascism, the
Workers Music League, the Pierre
Degeyter Club, League of Workers
Theatres, L'Unita Operaia italian
Communist newspaper, the Italian
Bureau of the Communist Party.
the Federation Of Italian Workers
Clubs, the italian section of the
International Workers Order and
many other cultural and fraternal
organizations.
The Committee of Action also
asked representatives of La Stampa
Liberia and II Martello to join in
its work, but they were unable to
attend.
The committee, whose head
quarters are at the American
League Against War and Fascism,
calls upon all organizations opposed
to fascist propaganda to communi-
cate with it in preparation for
protest meeting which will be held
on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2:3O p. M, at
Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 18th
st. Prominent sneakers at this
meeting will speak on the real
situation in Fascist Italy today,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Niagara Falls Negro
Held in $4,000 Bail
In Rape Fram.e-Up
LID. Starts Battle in New "Scottsboro Case
While Press Screams Indictments
To Campaign of Lynchings

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. ia rape" frameup
which bears startling resemblance to the Scottsboro
being fought by the International Labor Defense here
The framed is George Davis, 29-year-old Negro
worker He has been bound to the grand jury the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
a tremendous sep toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Germans Vote
Under BayOnetS

Continued from Page y
Evening star., 1934-12-25

France, but the coal is in the Saar,
giving the French an opportunity to
mine German coal without molesta-
ton.
Fearing tnat Germany might de-
fault the new contract as she has
reparations, the French have demand
ed the right to exploit the two mines
if Germany fails to pay the 900 ,000. 900
francs cash across the counter pro-
Wded for in the. Rome agreement. In
addition to the cash payment, France
also is given the right to use the mines
for five years to extract 100000
tons.
After the French have received full
satisfaction, the two mines probably
will be closed down, as international
law forbids one country from taking
the mineral resources of neighbor
by undermining" the frontier.
The mines, in the Warndt district,
have been a sore point between the
two countries. They were dug several
years ago. much to Germany's openly
expressed disgust. Their entrances are
Evening star., 1934-12-25
AIMS
Of LEGION REC|TED
Universal Conscription in
War Also to Be Sought,
Says BeIgrano.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 25.-
Frank N. Belgrano, jr., national COM
mander of the American Legion, told
the Nation yesterday what the Legion
wants from the next Congress-the
bonus, benefits to needy widows and
orphans of dead veterans, and univer-
sal wartime conscription.
His address was a Nationwide
radio broadcast to crippled former
soldiers in hospitals throughout the
country.
Belgrano presented the bonus issue
as business proposition" chance
for the Government to pay of a debt
while serving relief and recovery ef-
forts.
He made no mention Of any par
ticular method Of raising the bonus
fund, although he remarked mo
national issue ever has been more
befogged by politics and deliberate
misstatement of facts than the ques-
ton of these certificates"
Never before. he added, had he
made prediction on the fate of the
bonus but now he was ready to make
the fiat statement the adjusted COM
pensation would be authorized by the
coming Congress.
"The Legion will not permit the
people to forget" he promised "The
first duty and purpose Of the Legion
is to the disabled"
Turning to the universal draft pro-
gram, Belgrano asserted:
1T was not the meager allowance
paid to the soldiers and sailors that
built up the terrific cost Of the war;
it was the waste and profteering.
Universal wartime service calls for
conscription of all our National re-
sources without preference or profit.
We demand such a law"
Evening star., 1934-12-25

Of their border neighbor or Of the
allies of the neighbor; thus, such
foreign nation may have to consider
war munitions in volume to over
match their assailant or that of its
combined allies. Not SO with Amer
lea! We need not agree to build
against the taxpayer of the United
States a navy equal to one or more
of that of foreign lands-merely to
match in size and quality one with
another or with all. We are not
preparing to advance on any people
in spirit other than as friends.
America needs navy only strong
enough to protect our shores against
invasion, and armament of all uses
necessary only to our complete de-
fence. On this right of our own self
defense America stands sovereign in
her guarded isolation. We deny the
privilege Of any foreign nation to
dictate to the United States the
quantity or quality of defense that
our Nation shall adopt for its Sc
curity.
Our duty now, while we stand
aloof from foreign entanglements, is
to proffer counsel and friendship
wherever called on, but in no wise
to dictate or direct any foreign ma
ton as to its affairs wholly applicable
to its separate interests.
DesOlatiOn Forced on Reich.
Let us not forget that following
the tragedy which insued from the
pact called the "holy alliance" to
that other pact of nations later
scorned as "a scrap of paper" Eng
land was brought to her losses and
compelled to endure her suffering
on an issue not her own-while Ger
many had forced upon her desola-
ton now endured because of her pride
summoned to enforce compact,
pledging her under arising circum-
stances to war against Russia.
Will our United States not learn
from any lessons? Hear the patriot
call out against Macbeth, Stands
Scotland where it did?" So, too, does
our citizen cry out, Stands America
still Americana"
Let the United States keep out of
volunteer entrance or adherence with
any foreign nation in the processes of
revenge satisfying ancient and in
herited grievances. Let us hold for
ourselves the now sustained superior
station Of the one nation at peace
with the world. Guided by the Christ
mas spirit spoken in our national
text" friendship with all, vengeance
against none" we stand as mediator in
all service required. but with no con-
tracts to assume obligations or give
support by human lives in any in
ternational or foreign complication
in which for our defense we are in
no wise involved.
U. S. Keeps Faith.
We keep faith in all associations
thus our President and Secretary Of
State continue to "Sit in" where other
administrations pledged us-but let
us decline all bids to enter into re-
sponsibility to any nations or people
in policies or purposes not directed
to the United States by the voice of
America.
Tonight, with salutation OF love and
brotherhood to all people in this sacred
season, we stand apart from all mill
tary conflict and international broil-
while we petition for all people the
Commander of the Celestial Camps
the granting of the prayer of Tiny
Tim in the Christmas carol, God
bless us all, each and every one Of
U.S."
Thank you. Good night.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
78-Yr.-OId WOn,a1,
Sentenced to Jail
For Pension Fraud
Be,UiIdered and Almost
Blind She Had $6,473
Savings account.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-Be-
wildered by what had happened, Miss
Mary Dorrington, a tiny. 7s-year-old
sprinster dressed in an old-fashioned
cape and bonnet, was led from
court room yesterday to serve three
months in the work house.
She had been found guilty of
fraudulently accepting old-age pension
funds. The three justices who SEN
fenced her said she had been given
until yesterday to repay 1919 she. had
received.
Evidence was that Miss Dorrington,
now almost blind, accepted the funds,
keeping secret savings account In
which she had deposited $6,473. She
was arrested July 81.
Justice Henry w. Herbert said the
court did not wish to be harsh but
that Miss Dorrington. a frail, stopped
old lady who sold needles from door
to door. had refused to cooperate In
any way.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
BLUE COLOR OF LAKE
LAID TO LACK OF DUST
Different Hues of Ocean Water
Attributed to Numerous
Tiny Sea Plants.

BY the Associated Press.
PASADENA. Calf, December 25.-
How lack of dust makes Crater Lake
a vivid blue and tiny sea plants
cause different hues in the oceans
coloring was told yesterday by Dr.
John C. Merriam, president of the
Carnegie Institution.
Merriam, who is president of the
Crater Lake Park Board had won-
dered why the water was so blue in
the Oregon lake which is 6,l77 feet
above sea level.
He asked DR. Edison Petit. a scien-
tist Of the institutions Mount Wilson
Observatory here, to make laboratory
tests and find the answer.
DR.. Petit made comparisons with
city water and with some ocean water
which he had had in a bottle for
several years. The city water, in
which light disclosed many tiny par
tlcles, was almost white. The ocean
water, whose sediment had months In
which to settle, was a light blue.
Evening star., 1934-12-25

but few yards from the frontier.
They serve, French officials assert,
as the first sure guarantee of payment
France has found In her postwar
dealings with Germany. Oh1cials add.
however, that they were not opened
with this purpose in mind.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
FRENCH USE SAAR
MINES AS THREAT
Will Dig Coal if Germans
Fail to Pay Cash of
Pact.

SAARBRUECKEN CP).-Two mines
dug by the French under the Franco
Saar frontier serve as a guarantee that
Germany will pay France for the
territory's mines in an unusual ex.
pertinent in international dickering.
The entrance to the pits is in
Evening star., 1934-12-25
HURRYING SANTA VISITS
CHILD BEFORE DEATH
St. Nicholas Takes Short Cut to
GLADDEN. Last Days of Doomed
Girl, Who Dies.

BY the Associated Press.
MUSKEGON, Mich, December IS.
-Five-year-old Donna Mavis Shaw
is dead, but she had her fifth
Christmas.
Surrounded by gifts from all over
the Nation, she died last night, victim
of malignant growth that started
three years ago when she was bruised
by the paw of dog.
Doctors were agreed she could not
live to see her fifth Christmas, so
Santa Claus took a short cut to fill
her last wish for some toys, a doll,
and above ala brand-new toy auto
mobile.
Never did she know her parents
were hurrying against time and death
to prepare for Santa's last visit.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
YULE DRINKS APPROVED
Bone-Dry Atlanta Will Permit
Spirits in the Home.

ATLANTA, December Is P).-Folks
In this capital city Of bone dry Georgia
may take their holiday spirits" today
with the approval Of Police Chief T.
o. Sturdivant.
"Eggnog and a sociable drink will
be o. K, provided they are taken in
the home" the chief said.
However, the chief warned against
drunken driving and stressed that the
sociable drink was permissible only
in the home.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
FILM COUPLE END SUIT
Hearing on Actress Case Against
Cary Grant Is Cancelled.

Cary Grant Is Cancelled.
LOS ANGELES, December 25 Cp).
The scheduled hearing of the re-
quest of Virginia Cherrill. movie
actress, for attorneys fees and tenn
porary alimony from her actor
husband. Cary Grant, was marked of
the court calendar yesterday, indicat-
ing the couple may have reached an
agreement on their financial diff
culties.
Miss Cherrill Is suing Grant for
separate maintenance She was re-
Gently awarded $l7650 a week tenn
porary alimony and S2,5G0 for attor-
news fees
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
FERA Funds Used for Experimental Work
in Child Education; Plan Provides
Laboratory" for College Students

The program Of nursery school
education, for which Mrs. Roose'
welt fought SO vigorously, already
has become an actuality at the
University Of Maryland.
With funds from the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
and in cooperation with the
Prince Georges county welfare
board, the university is now con-
Quoting a nursery school which
represents departure in the uni
versity's program in experimental
education.
The nursery school is serving
a two-fold purpose, for in addi-
ton to providing lunch and rec
reation to children whose fami-
lies are on relief, it is serving as
a laboratory for college students
studying child development. The
colleges Of education and home
economies Of the university are
supplementing their class work
with laboratory work at the nurs-
cry.
The children, whose ages range
from 2 to 5 years, are called for
at their homes and taken to the
nursery where they are cared
for by two teachers. They are
permitted to play and eat to
their hearts content, their pro-
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
COUNTY LIMITS
IL|CENSESF0R
=. LIQUOR

No more temporary liquor Ii.
censes viii be issued in Prince
Georges county if Maryland's
chief deputy comptroller, ]. L. Nc
CuSker, has his way.
He advised the Board of License
Commissioners yesterday that 1t
was unlawfuIly issuing temporary
permits to persons applying for
licenses to cover the period during
which hearings on permanent IL
censes are advertised.
The board Immediately ordered
its attorney, Gwynn Bowie, to get
an opinion from the States at
torney generals office.
The board, on its organization
after passage Of the liquor law,
was empowered to issue temporary
licenses, good for so days, as an
emergency measure. The date on
which such licenses became illegal
was April 30, according to the in
depreciation Of the chief deputy
comptroller.
Temporary licenses issued since
then are illegal, but no action
concerning them is contemplated
by the board, it was said, until
the legal Interpretation Of that
section Of the law is fixed. The
new Interpretation does not affect
renewals Of licenses, but only the
original application for a license
where a temporary permit is is
sued.
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
ALLEY CLEARING
HERE ESPEEDED

Possibility that actual clear
ance Of District alley dwellings
may be under way before fall
was seen today as the alley clear
ance legislative committee moved
to speed up their part Of the
program.
Meeting for the first time yes
terday, the committee, with repre-"
sentatives from the District,
PWA, National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the
Washington Committee Of Hous-
ing. selected a committee of
three to make immediate recon-
mendations to President Roose-
welt in regard to the administra-
ton of the 100000 program.
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, of
Washington Cathedral, was elected
chairman of the committee. Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen was
selected as vice-chairman, and
Thomas S. Settle, secretary Of the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, secretary.
It will be the duty Of these
three officials to select the or
ganization, individual, or COM
mission that will administer the
alley program. They will make
their recommendations to the
President.
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
Capt. Virden,
Head OfPLots.
Dies at IS

LEWIS. DEL, July Capt.
John Penrose Virden, friend
and advisor Of yatchmen and
Sea-faring men. who for %
years has headed the Pilots
Association of Delaware Bay
and River, is dead. Death
claimed him at his home here
at the age of IS. He was the
Oldest member of the associa-
tion.
Captain Virden came of a
family of pilots and was a
charter member of the pilots
organization, m mberS of
which trace their families back
to the Nanticoke Indians who
piloted the first white men up
the Delaware River.
Three children survive the
colorful figure. They are Capt.
Thomas j. Virden, also a
pilot; Mrs. Arthur w. Marshall,
ST., wife Of a pilot, and Miss
Elizabeth West Virden, all Of
this CITY
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
NOTED BANKER
DIES At 88

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, July 4
Funeral services for Frank z. Gif-
ford, SO, nationally known retired
banker, who died suddenly yester-
day, are expected to be held here
Thursday.
Death claimed the aged finan-
cier only two days before he was
to have unveiled a statue Of his
father-in-law, Reuben E. Fenton,
Civil War governor Of New York.
Mr.. Clifford was born in Warren
County, Pa, and succeeded Mr..
Fenton as president of the First
National Bank Of Jamestown in
1885. He served until 1928 when
he became chairman Of the board
of directors. He retired two years
ago. !
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs.
John w. Mintaun.
The Washington times., 1934-07-04
4 COlOred Schools
To TrV NelU System

-Four schools of Divisions 1913,
will be used for the character
building experiment in education
when the public schools open next
September.
Garnet c. Wilkinson, first as.
sistant. superintendent in charge
of colored schools, is attending
classes being held at the Franklin
School Building by leading ed
ucatorS from different sections
of the country to instruct local
school officials in the operation
of the system. In the high schools,
the test will be undertaken at
Armstrong;, in the, Junior high
schools at Randall. and at Nor
gan Elementary School and Mar.
garet Murray Washington Voca'
tional School.