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Evening star., 1934-04-13
TWO DRUNK DRIVERS
RECEIVE SENTENCES
Prince Georges Offenders Fail in
Appeal-one Accused of
Striking Child.
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April /

BY Stau correspondent OF Inc Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 10.
Two men who pleaded guilty in
Circuit Court to drunk driving
charges after appealing their con-
victions from Police Court. were
sentenced yesterday.
Carlos Deathridge of Riverdale
drew the Severest penalty--six months
in the House of Correction and a
$3.50 fine. The court was told his
car struck and slightly injured a
child
He also was fined 500 and given
three months more in Jail on a charge
of failing to stop after a collision.
The sentences are to run consecu-
lively
Daniel Boyd of Baltimore, the other
driver to plead guilty to operating a
car while under the influence of
LIQUOR, was given the minimum fine
of $l00
John Ferguson of Colmar Manor
pleaded guilty to reckless driving and
was fined $50.
Two other men were acquitted Of
drunk driving charges after jury
trials yesterday. They were George
w. Bremen of Terre Haute. Ind, and
George c. McKenney Of Capitol
Heights.
Bremen was arrested on a war
rant sworn to by Joseph r. Brewer,
former head of the dry agents in
Evening star., 1934-04-13
COMMENDS MRS. NORTON
FOR "STANCH SUPPORT"
Northeast Washington Citizens
Association Approves Inde-
pendent Budget Fight.

Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee today received from
the Northeast Washington Citizens
Association commendation for her
"stanch support" of voting represen-
tation In Congress for District cit
liens and for an independent Dis
trict budget.
The association, of which Evan H.
Tucker is president and chairman OF
the Legislation Committee, also filed
with the District Committee indorse-
ment of four District bills.
One of these would require financial
responsibility from owners and op-
orators of vehicles for hire in the
District, and the association wants
the bill broadened so as to cover
all vehicles in the District. The asso-
ciation also indorsed in principle the
bill transferring the powers Of the
Board of Public Welfare to the Dis
trict Commissioners, the bill with re-
spect to the Board of Indeterminate
Sentence and Parole for the District
and the bill providing for relief to
the needy blind in the District.
Evening star., 1934-04-13
ARGENTINE GROUP
HITS WHEAT PLAN
Delegates Tell Conference
Opposition to Export
Price Minimum.

By the Associated Press.
ROME. April 13. Delegates from
the huge wheat growing country of
Argentina opposed today the minimum
export price plan being debated by the
International Wheat Commission.
Before the conference Is q program
recommended by - subcommittee to
boost the value of wheat through a
minimum export price plan, but its
details have not been revealed.
The Argentine delegates DR.. A.
Fernandez Beyro and DR.. Thomas A.
LIE Breton-objected strenuously to the
plan, 1t was understood, and were still
ob1ecttng when the meeting ended.
They opposed 1t on the grounds that
1t would help export theoretically, but
said evasions on the part of exporting
countries would shatter the plan, even
II governments adhered religiously to
the scheme, the South Americans
argued, private exporters would not
and governments would find It din
cult to stop them.
A system OF international control
would be necessitated, they continued.
which would be extremely expensive.
Arguments OF other delegates to the
contrary left the Argentines uncon-
vinced. 1t was understood delegates
Evening star., 1934-04-13
|FA|RFA TEACHERS
TO HOLD MEETING.
Annual Spring Conference
Will Convene Tomorrow
at Falls Church.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va, April 13.-An Fair
fax County teachers will assemble at
James Madison High School, Falls
Church, tomorrow for the snnual
Spring conference Of the County Edu-
cation Association, it was announced
this morning by Mrs. Elsie Davis. ele-
mentary supervisor, who has charge
Of the program.
Following the opening exercises at
10 am, group meetings will be held
until 1880. The high school group
will be addressed by @. D. Gasque,
principal Of the Warren County High
School. Front Royal. Mrs. Davis will
be leader of the primary group. with
Division Supt. Of Schools w. T. Wood
son leading a discussion on Bridging
the Gap Between the Grades and High
School" G. c. Cox. Gordon E. Smith,
Miss N. G. Edwards and j. E. Bauser-
man, county principals, will speak on
the same topics.
At 1880 DR.. Edwin w. Broome
superintendent of public schools.
Montgomery County, Md, will speak.
During the afternoon DR.. Mitchell
Dreese. head of the psychology de-
partment, George Washington Uni
versity, will make an address.
Evening star., 1934-04-13
COAL MEN TO ASK
AID OF ROOSEVELT
,Alabamans Prefer "Civil
War" to Accepting N. R. A.
Mandate, Says Counsel.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Disappointed that Recovery Ad-
ministrator Hugh S. johnson had
delayed his return to the Capital.
Alabama coal operators said today
they would carry their grievances
direct to President Roosevelt.
The operators sought suspension Of
the March 81 N. r. A. order. which
raised wages In Alabama coal fields
from so to 10 per cent above the
scale agreed upon by themselves and
miners March 16.
Would Prefer Civil War;"
Forney Johnston, attorney for the
Alabama employers, told N. r. A.
oficials at a coal hearing this week
the increased wage would destroy the
Alabama coal industry and declared
the operators he represented would
prefer "civil war" in the industry
to acceptance of the mandate which
reduced working hours and raised
wages.
The attorney declared the "arbi-
trary, illegal and unwarranted" action
by johnson was a violation both of
the national recovery act and the coal
code, which stipulated that code pro-
visions should not be revised without
a public hearing He charged the
N r. A. order followed a conference
between John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
and johnson.
johnson and Donald Richburg
general counsel for N. Il. A., left
President Roosevelt's train early to-
day for a continuation of their vaca-
tion at Hot Springs, Va.
Ask White House Farley.
The Alabamans had hoped the ad-
ministrator would return with the
President, but learning of the devel-
opments they sought an immediate
conference at the White House and
expressed confidence Mr.. Roosevelt.
who has successfully calmed trouble
In other coal fields. would retract the
N. r. A. order until special study
could be given mining conditions in
Alabama.
n CUuIL luJuIlCtiOll OUIdulcu against
enforcement of the wage and hour
mandate by the Alabama operators
expires Monday. and Attorney John
ston has been making a spirited effort
to gain a suspension of the order to
avoid further court action, which. he
said. probably would result in a test
case on the constitutionahty of the
recovery act itself.
Evening star., 1934-04-13

from other nations would try to. So
them privately this afternoon IN an
attempt to induce them to join the
majority. - - =
No meeting Of the main commission
was held this afternoon. Delegates
spent this time studying the subcom-
mittee's nine-pase report. 4fl
The commission will devote An day
tomorrow to the question and hoped
to issue comprehensive communique
tomorrow night. - .,
Evening star., 1934-04-13
GETS LIFE INCOME
Mrs. Louise Hitchcock Provides
for Husband in Will.

NEW YORK, April Is CP-Thon1ss
Hitchcock, sr., father of the polo star,
receives life income from the estate
left by his wife, Mrs. Louise Hitch
cock, under the terms Of her will, filed
yesterday at Mineola, Long Island.
Mrs. Hitchcock, often referred to-
as "the mother Of polo In America"
died at her Winter Home in Aiken,
s. c., April !.
The value Of the estate, which is to
be divided among four children after
the elder Hitchcock dies, was not set
forth. the probate petition carrying
the conventional phrase lover $50 600"
Aside from Tommy Hitchcock, the
children who ultimately will share the
residue are: Mrs. Celestine H. Pea
body, Mrs. Helen H. Clark and Francis
c. E. Hitchcock, all of New York and
Long Island. e"'o'
Evening star., 1934-04-13
GEN. STEPHAN is LAUDED
BY ORDWAY RIFLE UNIT

Remembering him as comrade
with whom many of them served, men,
bers Of the Ordway Rifles Veterans
Association devoted a major portion
of their meeting last night to eulogies
Of the late Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan.
Brig. Gen. William E. Horton,
q. s. A.. presided at the meeting. which
was attended by a large number Of
the original members of the Ordway
Rifles Company, organized in 1887.
Ofhcers elected are; Charles F.
Roberts, president; Henry H Bur-
roughs. vice president. and William
Wagner, secretary-treasurer.
Evening star., 1934-04-13
TRANSATLANTIC SHIPS
MENACED BY ICEBERGS
Rerouting Ordered to Avoid DAN
ger a. Tloes Drift From
Labrador Southwark.

By the Associated PreaS.
BOSTON, April 13.-The greatest
iceberg threat to transatlantic ship
ping in years has been drifting slowly
southward from Labrador and Green
lard, Lieut.. Cclndr. Edward H. Smith
of the Coast Guard said last night
Smith said that before July at least
$50 bergs will have crossed the ship
paths. He said the bergs already had
been carried by the Labrador current
so near the Grand Banks that the
shipping lanes had been ordered to
move so miles southwark. II has been
many years since such q rerouting has
been necessary, Smith said.
Evening star., 1934-04-13

Southern Maryland. after a collision
on the Largo road. Constable Alvin
Campbell preferred the charge against
McKenney.
Both drivers were represented by
Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
flaming" the Bulls
and Bears

YESTERDAY Roosevelt signed the
4 much-touted Stock Exchange Control
Bill.
There have been tons of White House
publicity proclaiming that this bill
makes Roosevelt the tanner of the Bulls
and Bears" of Wall Street. And all the
capitalist and liberal press has faithfully echoed
the cry
This is just another of those Roosevelt frauds
that are becoming so frequent that they have be-
come the hallmark of the Roosevelt government
The Roosevelt Stock Exchange Bill is nothing
but the regulation of the specuations of the Wall
Street capitalists for the sole purpose of making
this speculation more efficient and smooth running
Not one single Wall Street banker will have to
stop coming his profits not one single Spectator
will have to cease making fortunes the sweat
and labor of others
And that Wall Street knows it very well Is illus
trated by the comment in the Wall Street Journal
of the lawyer for the Association of Stock Ex-
change Firms, who stated yesterday:
There should be little or no fear or appre-
hensOn. Out of experience gained in my con-
facts in Washington with the proponents and sup
porters of the Bill, there has come to me the
conviction that it will be wisely and fairly adj
ninistered and that its administration will ul-
timately allay all fear"
So Wall Street is wise to the fact that the Roose-
welt Stock Exchange Bill means nothing in its
merry life of profit-making.
The Bureau of Better Business has just re-
ported that II months of the Roosevelt Securities
Act of 1888 has not resulted in one single action
on the part of the government against any stock
swindling.
On the contrary the Roosevelt initiation pro-
gram his dollar devaluaton, his credit program to
ton hor Iie
the Wall Street spectators the latest year of
profits since 1929 with brokerage houses clearing
up almost billion in one year
And is there any significance in the fact that
Roosevelt's son-in-law, Dahl, is one of the chief
officers of the Wall Street Stock Exchange?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
They Got Quick Action

A TINY item, buried away in the col
"A umns of the capitalist press. an
nounces that General Johnson has signed
an order cutting the wages of miners in
five states, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Alabama.
The coal operators asked for wage
cut below the level set by the code And John
son gladly granted their request The miners get
the cut Immediately. The bosses request won
almost immediate" action, states the New York
Times.
What contrast this is to the way johnson
and the whole Roosevelt NR.A government acts
when it is the workers who want an increase in
wages!
Then Johnson rushes furiously to set up barbed-
wire obstacles of fake arbitration boards" Then
Roosevelt and the whole government begin trickery.
threats and, finally send troops against the work
ers who dare to ask q few cents an hour more in
wages
To cut wages-that is easy for the NR.A To
raise wages above the starvation level? The
N.R,A. moblizes the whole government against It,
In this is the best reason why the working class
has to unite its forces against the whole NRA
strike-breaking wage-cutting machinery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Imperialist Rule Is the
Cause of Spreading
Starvation

ing the last century. In 1900 it was
100000, in 1900 about 35,000,000
today it is 100000 to $4,000, 600
In England, however, the main
growth took place when the forces
of production in the country we're
being rapidly developed by growing
capitalism.
In India, British imperialism has
destroyed the forces of poduction
Out of their own mouths the
British rulers stand condemned.
Only complete revolution
which destroys feudalism root
and branch, which gives land to
the peasant. relieves him of rent.
interest and taxation, can avert
the catastrophe predicted by Sir
John Megaw.
The first condition of such a
revolution is the overthrow of
British rule. which maintains these
conditions of mass murder, starva-
ton and disease. The Bombay tex
tile strike, the herald of the ALL
India general strike, shows that the
leadership of this revolt is being
forged by the heroic workers of In
Ola. Soviet India will bring bread,
rice. peace and freedom to the In
dian masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
7O,OOO,OOO in India Suffer Famine Conditions

stage at which reproduction is in
creasing more rapidly than produc-
ton. so that a close parallel exists
with the conditions existing in Ire
land century ago." Sir John re-
fers to the period of the hungry
forties" when the population Of
Ireland was more than halved by
starvation, disease and forced emf
grafton.
Britain has weathered the finan-
cial crisis so far by restocking hel
depleted gold reserves with gold
squeezed out of India. The few
gold ornaments were once the In
dian peasants only reserve against
natural calamities, famine, pesti-
lence or earthquake.
They are gone now. I'VE used to
blame the people of India" admits
Sir John, "for boarding gold. but
it looks as if the sale of these boards
had been staving off the evil day
during the past two years"
He fears that the next big fail
ure of the monsoon will bring an
all-India calamity.
"The country is in state of
emergency which is passing rap
idly toward one of crisis"
GIT is clear that the growth of
population has already begun to
outstrip the increase in the produc-
ton of the necessities of life so
that even low standards of eco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
French Groups Join
In Fight Against
War and FaSciSm
Women's World Con-
gress Receives Pledge
from Paris
By Burck

PARTS,-A number Of leading
trade union and cultural organiza-
tons have sent in notice of their
utilization to the Women's World
Congress Against Imperialist War
and Fascism. Among the French
organizations the Unitary Union of
Civil Servants, the Unitary Trade
Union. Federation of Paris, the
Unitary Textile Workers Union, the
Women's Association Against War
and Poverty, the Workers Theatri-
cal Association of France, the Ma
tional Women's Suffrage League;
the presidents of these organiza-
tons express their enthusiastic sup
port Of the Women's World Con-
gress in their letters to its commit
tee. The National Council of Peace,
whose secretary is the former Dep
uty Lucien lie Foyer, writes to the
Preparatory Committee:
We congratulate you cordially on
the great struggle which you are
undertaking against war, poverty,
and fascism. All the friends
Of justice and humanity must as
semble their powers whilst there is
yet time to speak and to act. War
may become fact overnight. Hence
our organization deems it an honor
to join your organization and to
support your work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
British Health Officer
Admits Country Faces
a Calamity
BY RALPH FOX
Author of 'Lenin"

IN A PAPER read before a meeting
i Of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sir
John Megaw, Director of Public
Health in India, has communicated
some of the results of his recent
Wholesale inquiry into the health
of the Indian villagers.
In 1881 the death-rate in India
was rs per 1000, as compared with
u in England. The infant mortality
rate was ITO, as against 6S in Eng
land. The expectation of life of a
child boin in India is about half
that of child born in England
Sixty per cent of the village
population, says Sir John, are
poorly or badly nourished. "Scar-
city or famine had occurred at
some time during the previous
ten years in % per cent of the
villages surveyed"
Think what this means, over a
fifth Of the population, 100000
human beings, have felt famine
during the last ten years.
Sir Johns conclusion is as fol-
lows: The evidence goes to SHOW
that India has already reached a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Steelhelmet, Storm
TrOOpRiftGrOwing
Differences Particularly
Sharp in POmerania

BERLIN, (By underground mail
route) he differences between the
Nazi S. A. (Storm Troops and the
Steelhelmet organization have be-
come particularly sharp in the
Prussian province of Pomerania,
because the numerical relations be-
tween Storm Troops and SteelheI-
met members is much more favor
able to the latter than in the other
parts of the country. These clashes
have now reached a high point by
the arrest of the provincial leader
of the Steel Helmet organization,
Degelov and his assistant, Bucholz.
The Storm Troops are now also
using the radio in this struggle. The
press director of the Nazi Reich
Youth Leadership Staebe will speak
on the radio on this struggle, under
the tile: Against reactionaries, kill
joys and squawkers" He is sched-
uled to speak at a mass meeting in
Magdeburg on "Just one word,
gentlemen of the reaction" The
Steel Helmet organ, however, is
continuing its attacks and states
that the Steel Helmet organization
has not declared itself for any per-
son, any system of government, any
political doctrine or any particular
way of looking at things. These
statements Of the Steel Helmet
paper have caused new furious at
tacks on 1t by Staebe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

nomic life must inevitably become
still lower unless some economic
change is brought about.
THE outlook for the future" Sir
John continues, lis gloomy to a
degree, not only for the masses of
the people who must face the in
tensified struggle for bare sub
sistence, but also for the upper
classes whose incomes depend or
the production of surplus crops and
other commodities.
"If the entire produce of the
soil is needed to provide for the
urgent need of the cuItivatoTs
nothing will be left for payment
of rent CT revenue and the
whole social structure of India
must invitably be rudely shaken
if not completely destroyed"
CIR JOHN has no illusions. 1t is
~ the social system Of India.
squeezing rent. interest and taxes
out of the peasant by brutal meth
DDS of feudal violence and police
terror which is responsible. Some
economic change" to use his words,
must be brought about.
Some people claim that here is
only a question of over-rapid
growth of population Tin the last
ten years the population has grown
by 35,000.000).
But the population of England
increased much more rapidly dur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Cannot Halt
Anti-Hitler
Propaganda
Austrian Press Admits
German Communist
Party Is Growing

VIENNA widespread growth
Of Communist propaganda, organ
ization and activity, penetrating
even the ranks of the Storm Troop
ers in Germany is admitted here by
the leading Vienna paper, the
'Neue Wiener Journal"
This newspaper writes:
zone result of the discontented
atmosphere is terrifying growth
Of Communist propaganda in Ger
many. The Communist Party d.
is becoming active again to an
alarming extent. Leaflets and
pamphlets are flooding the towns
and country-sides. Police raids on
the workers districts (Which are
completely surrounded for the pur-
pose), to search for the leafet dis
tributerS. are becoming more fire.
quent, but astonishingly enough
meet with no success The
police only occasionally succeed in
uncovering this active Communist
point of view in individual Storm
Troop detachments. These de-
tachments are then suddenly dis
solved, and disappear into the
nearest concentration camps. Last
fall such cases were rare, and not
a general occurrence. Today there
are so many of them, and dissa-
tisfaction in wide circles of the
Storm Troops has reached such a de-
gree that one must admit that large
sections Of the Storm Troop are
growingly infected with Commu-
niSm."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

NEW YORK. - Answering af-
Tentatively the question, "Will AGO.
100000 Chinese Go Communist"
Frazier Hunt, famous capitalist
world correspondent, in a special
feature article in the current issue
Of the magazine Liberty" tells of
the tremendous advance of the
Soviet districts in China.
by the million he writes, "the
peasants of the Yangt7e Valley
swept behind these Red banners Of
revolt"
Mr.. Hunt interviewed Generals
simo Chang Kai Shek in Hankow,
where that tool of the imperialist
bandits in China is conducting the
anti Communist war.
I'm hospital in Hankow," he re-
lates, Il talked with a Chinese Ma
tionalist colonel wounded in fight
ing the elusive Red battalions. We
can do little against them, he told
me. The masses of the people are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
On the
World Front
L. BY HARRY CANNES =
World Famine News
A Greek Welcome
Nazi Currency Worries
Wheat in the Arctic
By HARRY CANNES

HEAMINE" is very much in
i the headlines of the
world capitalist press these
days. On another section Of
this page the Daily Worker
publishes an article on FAM
inc in India, which during the
past ten years has affected 10000
900 people, and now threatens the
whole of India. Since this article
was written the drought has de-
stroyed the Indian peasants crops
just as it did in 80 states in this
country.
The "Indische Courant" of Mo-
doera, Dutch East Indies, reports
that famine is raging in the dis
tricts of Tatango, Badoeng, and
Tjampor
Nevertheless, the British impe-
riaGsts still squeeze their 81 100000
900 profits yearly out of India, and
the Golfers of the Dutch bankers
keep piling up with gold no matter
how many natives die of hunger.
THE Nazi war statesmen, the firm
1 Of Goebbels and Goering, have
been rushing frantically all over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Frdzier Hunt Admits China
Sooiets Supported by Masses

with them. Our own soldiers are
only half-heartedly against them.
Many of our soldiers sell their arms
and desert
And an old China hand said to
me: I have been in districts where
the Reds have been in control for
several years, and the peasants and
poor workers are better off there
than in districts under the central
government. ! do not believe the
Marking authorities can defeat the
Red armies"
To which Mr.. Hunt adds: "a US.
S.R.C.-a Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics of Chinal 1t is at least
a picture to contemplate"