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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
BestioI Torture of Ernst ThoeImann
And Other Workers Told in Sworn
Statements by Former Nazi Victims
Refuses Journalists
Offer of Favored
Treatment

lgusting torture they had to bear
was the camphor injections the
bestialized wretches made in their
urinary canals"
1T MAY be thought that such
things were exceptional and IN
J authorized. But B. L., Berlin
locksmith, says:
There was a definite impression
that specially selected sadistic in
human creatures were in charge of
Jhe Hedemann Hell. Several names
Of these Brown torturers whom I
have not forgotten shall be known
to the world. They are storm
Troopers Ehlers, Merk, Bergman.
Pohlens and Kahn.
Troop Leader of the Berlin
Storm Troop section, Ernst.
knew and knows of these fortunes.
for he very often came at night
for inspection and saw our faces
covered with wounds and drip-
ping with blood. He saw that the
walls of the rooms we're covered
with blood.
He also knew the punishment
system. This included the counted
off blows, Is to so, upon the COW
cred or bare body. There were the
running up and down blows from
mead to soles Of the feet. There was
the rubbing down with % bare
INST, and 90 fist with brass
knuckles.
There was the 'Gleichschaltung'
Cunificatiom, which meant that the
prisoners had to whip each other.
During the rubbing down we had
70 sing military marching songs at
the top Of our lungs. If we no
longer could sing, loudspeakers were
installed in order to drown the cries
of the tortured"
THESE accounts are full of almost
dnimaginable horrors. but there
is more than horror in the courage
which they reveal. In spite of all
fortunes it is but rarely that pris-
oners can be forced to give infor-
nation.
There is, among other things. a
record Of Ernst Thaelmann, who
has been imprisoned for a year and
half, and repeatedly beaten with
leather whips and steel rods.
A harness maker, Kantov Who
was held for ten months in Storm
Troop dungeons and in the Sonnen-
burg Camp, writes:
Once I was informed by the at
tendant that the leader of the Ger
man Communist Party, Comrade
Ernst Thaelmann, who was also be-
ing held in custody at the central
police station, had been visited by
foreign correspondents. The gentle
men of the press wanted to photo
graph our leader.
But he refused and remarked:
IF you do want to take photos,
you might photograph those vic
Tins Of fascism who lie lacerated
and mutiIated in the other cells.
Go there and do your photo
graphing
when these gentlemen declared
their willingness to help provide
him with better food, he refused
their offer with the remark that he
would accept no treatment which
would render him an exception to
his comrades. He would eat the
same food as his comrades ate"
Even in chains Thaelmann re-
mains the leader of the German
workers. The fight for his release
is fight to help all the sorely tried
thousands of Nazi victims. 1t is a
fight to rescue the German masses
through the destruction of fascism!
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

lgusting torture they had to bear
was the camphor injections the
bestialized wretches made in their
urinary canals"
Evening star., 1934-04-09

to Fascism q strongly - to Com
munism.
II am unwilling to zee destroyed In
four years . civilization which has
been centuries In building.
II believe that, given liberty Of
expression and action, and chance
to vote freely and honestly, the peo-
pie can be depended on to find So
luton for all Of heir problems. At
all costs they must be told the truth.
II believe that governments and
men who cannot stand criticism are
those who need It most"
Reed declared there is nothing new
in the Governments present expert
ments.
"Fallacies Of Past Dragged Out"
There have been dragged out,
dressed in modern garb and paraded
before the people, the skeletons OF
most Of the fallacies and failures OF
governments Of the past" he said
"Deluded by promises Of magic cures
for ancient ills, America Is being fed
poisons from which 1t will take dec.
ades to recover.
In announcing my candidacy fol
reelection, call upon the people oi
Pennsylvania to join me in q stern
and sincere protest against the waste.
full policies, which, carried into ef-
feet with no warning, without sub.
mission to the people. threaten theil
happiness and security and invite
disaster for the Nation"
Among Reeds opponents for the
Republican nomination is Pennsyl-
vania's Governor, Clifford Pinchot.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
CHARGES AMERICA
FED WITH 'PO|SONS'
Reed Warns Group Seeking
to Change Course of
u. S. as Nation.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Warning that a little band Of men
in Washington is seeking covertly
to change our course as a Nation, ="
Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn
sylvania, enunciating his platform for
reelection, charged yesterday Amer
lea is being fed poisons from which
1t will take decades to recover"
"In the name of national recov-
cry, the present administration has
launched the country on a course
which, unless soon checked, may well
carry us over the brink of imitation
to complete chaos" he asserted.
One of the outstanding conserva-
tives in Congress, Reed criticized what
he described as the Governments ef-
forts to increase the power of the
central Government and to substitute
for individual initiative a govern
mental control of agricultural produc-
tion and of all business activity"
Opposed to Fascism.
He reiterated his determination to
Support the President when he is
right and oppose him when he is
wrong"
My decision to seek reelection" !"
Reed added, has been reached in the
belief that, in addition to advocating
those policies to which I am commit
ted, and which are expressed in my
record, 1t is my duty to continue with
all the force at my command to re-
sist those experiments of the present
Washington Government which I re-
gard as futile and fantistic.
II do not believe that We can spend
our way to prosperity. I am opposed
Evening star., 1934-04-09
NEW ERA IS SEEN
BEGUNFOR LABOR
Economist Declares 1888
Was Marked by Three
General Movements.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 9.-In a survey Of
what he termed an "epochal" year for
labor, William Jett Lauck, Washing
on economist and labor expert, said
today the events of 1888 opened up
undreamed-of vistas to industrial
workers in general and organized
labor in particular.
Lauck's summary Of the rapid-f1re
changes in connection with the
N. r. A. was made for the American
Journal of Sociology's annual COM
mentary Of social changes for the
preceding year published by the Uni
versity of Chicago Press.
Three general movements were out
standing in labor affairs, he said.
They were:
0D Guaranty Of labor organi-
zation and bargaining privileges;
(2) Recognition of labor as CO.
partner with management In policy
determination. and
90 Recognition of the need for
planned economy, especially with
regard to length Of working days
and consumer power.
There was (due to the stimulus of
the N. r. A. q growth in labor Or
ganizations, he reported. With four
million workers enrolled under the
American Federation Of Labor BAN
ners, total organized labor was over
the five-million mark by the first Of
1884. he said. The gain in the A. F..
Of L. since August was nearly two
million members.
Unemployment, according to the
most reliable estimates available, was
Evening star., 1934-04-09

Wall Street" and to limit the activi-
ties Of dressed up gangsters."
He announced that next Sunday
the bill, and other financial phases
Of the Roosevelt program, would be
discussed by Prof. Raymond Moley.
Ferdinand Pecora and himself.
That broadcast will conclude his
series for the season, Father Coughlin
announced.
Whether the broadcasts are resumed
next Fall, he said, depends upon my
audience" but that whether or not I
continue to broadcast, I will never
change my philosophy that the new
deal is Christ's DEAL" and "if I do
not carry on next year, there will be
another voice from somewhere" enun-
ctating those principles.
Urging enactment Of the Fletcher
Rayburn bill, he said while most Of
Evening star., 1934-04-09

placed at 100000 persons at the
end Of 1888 and there were four mil
Lion more on emergency Federal pay
rolls. The greatest number Of un-
employed persons was in March. 1888,
when tho number out Of work was
l3, ,689, 900.
Viewed from the standpoint Of pur-
chasing power, Lauck pointed out, the
pay check of the worker with q Job
through 1888 bought less at the end
Of the year than at the beginning
because Of the increase in the cost
OF living. However, more men had
jobs-the only real financial gain to
labor In general.
Thus, he concluded, the events Of
1888 stopped the decline In wage
rates and gave legal and public sane
ton to shorter hours, insuring greater
employment.
Evening star., 1934-04-09

the brokers are honest" and wall
Street performs a necessary function"
1t Is "sick and wants TO cure itseJt"
For that reason, he said, ats shotil-
ders must be slashed with the whip
Of public castigation" -.
They claim the bill is tniquitous,"I
ne said, because It removes the lead
from the dice. For 100 years Wall
Street has thrived on false reports.
Let the buyer beware has been its
motto. The Government proposes to
make the motto Let the seller be-
ware" "s|
Evening star., 1934-04-09
COUGHLIN TO SPEAK
WITH MOLEY, PECORA
Concluding Broadcast Next Sun.
day to Discuss Roosevelt
Program.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 9.-Rev. Father
Charles e. Coushlin, In an address
yesterday, described the Fletcher
Rayburn stock market control bill,
now before Congress. a an attempt
to clean out "the Augean stables Of
Evening star., 1934-04-09
THREE FOUND DEAD

Gas Heater Blamed in Brooklyn
Fatalities.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, April 9 CP.-
Three persons were found dead Of
carbon monoxide poisoning in their
apartment yesterday. Police said a
gas heater apparently had absorbed
all the oxygen in the place.
The victims: Charles Reese, 80;
Margaret Reese, %, and William
Reese, 10. A canary also was found
dead.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Peruvian Hours Cut.

Peru is strictly observing in this,
their Summer season, the Summer
office-hour law reducing the working
day from eight to five hours.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Bacon Pigs to Be Raised.

England's largest bacon factory.
which Is to be established in Blew
bury, viii breed its own pigs and
slaughter 5000 animals a week.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
COLLEGE HEAD DIES

1IUI' 11eIUcIC 0s OHmPDeII OF
Morningside Succumbs.
DES MONIES, Iowa, April 9 CP).-
Prof. Herbert Grant Campbell, 81, OF
Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa
died here yesterday Of heart attack
He had come here to attend q lec-
ture.
Prof. Campbell was widely known
in educational circles and went to
Morningside in 1904 as its vice presi-
dent and instructor in philosophy. He
gave up the duties of vice president
later to become head of the depart
ment Of philosophy.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Sets New
Tour Record

NEW YORK, June 2.-Six
thousand different trips to
Europe, each with a separate
combination Of sea and land
journeys, have been worked out
by the New York headquarters
of ThoS. Cook & Son-Wagons-
Lifts, Inc. The tours range from
six to twenty-six days abroad,
with six to nine days each way
on the Atlantic.
This is believed to be the
greatest number of independent
trips ever worked out in detail
by any travel agency. Practically
every point Of interest in Europe
is included in at least one
journey.
Perhaps the greatest single
attraction in Europe this sum-
mer, according to advance book
ings made by Cooks, is the
presentation of the 300th ami
versary of the Passion Play at
Oberammergau. Large numbers
of American travellers also are
going to the music and drama
festivals to be held in various
parts of the British Isles and
the Continent.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Steamship Line Now Offers Tours
On Deferred Payment Plan

what the entire cost of the
trip will be.
Low Cost
The cost of these tours, as low
as 27.50, is said to be little
more than many people spend
on their usual summer vaca-
tions. Some of the tours re-
Quire only 20 days, which al
lows nine days ashore in Eu-
rope. On the other hand,
there are many other tours to
choose from with more elabo-
rate itineraries, each Of which
offers numerous exciting pos
sibilities.
Adequate time is allowed for
visits to museums, cathedrals,
theaterS, concerts, cafes and
night clubs. Arrangements to
take care of the tour members
every step of the way while
abroad is in the capable hands
Of several of the worlds most
famous travel organizations, as
ISOLATED with the Cunard and
Anchor lines.
In addition to the regular
tours there are several special
ones. One is a tour of Great
Britain by motor. Another more
extensive five-week motor tour
Of England and Scotland takes
the visitors to the Trossachs,
the Walter Scott country, the
English lake district, the Wash
ington country, southern Eng
land and Devon.
Deferred Payments
Three economy tours to the
Soviet Union (RuSSia) are listed.
The itineraries for these include
London, Copenhagen, Helsing-
fors, Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev.
Warsaw, Berlin and Paris. Still
another tour, with emphasis on
Finland, is included. On this
trip to "the land of $4,000
lakes" the passenger visits Hell
singforS, and a number of the
most interesting parts of that
beautiful country. En- route, Lon
don, Copenhagen, Reval, Stettin,
Berlin, Cologne and Paris are
also visited.
A feature of q number of
tours this year will be visits to
the famous Passion Play at
Oberammergau on the three
hundredth anniversary of the
Inauguration of the play follow
ing the great plague of 1888.
The entire cost of any of the
Cunard economy tours can now
be financed by deferred pay
ments If the tour member so
wishes
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Florida Resort Is
Having Busy
Season
BY JOHN LODWICK

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, June
2.-Confronted by crowded con-
ditions at Mirror Lake Park,
where six acres have been de-
voted to tourist sports, the city
government has dedicated Bart
lett Park, a twenty-acre tract
in the Lake Maggiore region,
as a great play spot for visitors.
Work on clubhouses and courts
for shuffleboard, rogue, tennis,
archery, baseball and other
pastimes already is under way.
After a four-year period of
comparative inactivity in the
real estate and construction
lines. ST.. Petersburg again is
experiencing growing pains.
Many properties are changing
hands, new structures are being
erected, and present hotels and
apartment houses, homes and
mercantile buildings are being
repaired and redecorated in
anticipation Of a tremendous
tourist season for 1934-35.
Boulevards and avenues are
being beautified with the plant
ing IT thousands of palms and
oaks, while parkwayS and plots
between curbing and sidewalks
are being decorated with ole
ander, hibiscus, and other sub
tropical plants and shrubs.
Leading in the new move
ment Of real estate and build
ing are the island properties
west of the city, bordered by
the Gulf Of Mexico and pic
turesQue Boca Ciega Bay. Pos
SeSsing fourteen miles of
smooth, sandy beaches, this
area is experiencing an embryo
boom.
Many of st. Petersburg resi-
dents and Su m mer vacation
lists on June 18th, July End and
10th, will leave here on the de-
lightful 30O-mile cruise to Ha-
vana, around the Florida Pen
insula and through the straits
to the Pearl of the Antilles.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Ashevi|Ie Draws
Many Visitors

ASHEVILLE, N. c., June 2
Resort activities of the spring
season are attracting the at
tention Of many spring visitors,
soiourning in Asheville during
the vernal, and the regular sea.
sonal crowd is being augmented
by delegates to numerous con-
ventions, holding their sessions
in the city.
With arrival of warm, sum-
merry weather, heralded by a
brilliant display of spring
flowers in the mountain forests,
the tennis and golf programs Of
the year are in full swing.
Spring touring through scenic
regions near Asheville, is a
popular pastime, the flow of
traffic over the highways lead
ing to such famous beauty
spots as Mount Mitchell, Mount
PiSgah, the Sapphire Country,
Chimney Rock and Lake Lure,
Blowing Rock and other points
Of interest. being heavier than
ever this year.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02

Elliot I. Liman, in charge of
cruises of the Holland Ameri-
can Line, in a statement to
company executives character
ICES the current public appetite
for cruises as "only in its in.
fancy" and predicted startling
Developments in the line Of
conducted cruise offerings with
in the next three years.
Mr.. Liman's assertions are
based on a study of over $4,000
cruise bookings over the past
decade on Holland American
Line ships and an intensive re-
search of all other cruises in
recent years.
He revealed that the Holland
American Line during the
period December LIST, 1888 to
April 3Oth, 1884,. carried the
largest number Of passengers
of the transatlantic lines on
short West indies cruises and
stated the public's cruise appe.
tite was so good that in addi-
ton to running their annual
Mediterranean Norway cruise
the company announced a A.
day cruise to the North Cape
and Russia.
Mr.. Liman cited among many
changing factors in the travel
field:
The greater number Of short
weekend and holiday trips since
1929, have increased the de-
sire of the public for longer
trips.
The coming Of new ships in
the Bermuda trade with quick
runs from New York, have
stimulated public appetite for
cruises to other ports.
The general public is no
longer manifesting the desire to
defer things too much to the fu-
ture. The psychology is grow
ing that it is better to live and
enjoy life today and not put
off too much for the morrow.
'Hustling" is no longer
deemed an attribute under the
New Deal and with added leis-
ure, peoples thoughts are more
turning to travel. Cruises pro-
vide the natural outlet for
The Washington times., 1934-06-02

A series Of 100 diversified
economy tours, offering the
best in Great Britain, Cont
mental Europe, Finland and
the Soviet Union this summer
at moderate rates, has just
been scheduled by the Cunard
line.
The tour prices include all
the ordinary costs Of a trip
abroad. such as transatlantic
passage, transportation by rail,
motor or steamer abroad, meals,
sightseeing, everything except
the usual incidentalS.
Tour members, before sail
ing from this side, will be able
to know within q few dollars
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Cape MaySeason
Open Early

CAPE MAY, N. j., June 2.
Mid-season weather has lured
scores of cottage colony mem
bers from Philadelphia, Wash
ington, and other Eastern cities
to open their summer homes
earlier than usual.
Social leaders are busily en-
gagged in preparing their cal
endar Of events, consisting Of
several important coming out
parties for debutantes, in
formal parties and many other
activities.
Owners and real estate offices
have been agreeably surprised
at the increased number OF
early rentals and inquiries,
many prospective summer home
owners making personal visits.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Black Hills Are
Magnet for
Tourists

The time when Billy the Kid
was the rampager Of the South
west and the James boys held
sway in Missouri is gone. So
too are the land frontiers Of
America: but there remains in
that little sections Of South Da-
kota, the Black Hills, a region
that still possesses the true
spirit and glamour Of the old
times.
Trigger fingers are slower.
tits true, and a visitor can
enjoy all modern conveniences
at fine hotels and lodges, but
the old-timers living in those
mis-named mountains make the
old illusion stick.
When one climbs down from
a North Western train at
Rapid City, one senses that
INDISPENSABLE atmosphere that
permeates the hills, calling
back the times when Calamity
Jane dealt the faro games,
Wild Bill Hickok notched an
other slot in his gun for q
daring desperate and Dead
wood Dick gave highwayman
the slip by his clever driving
Of the DeadWood coach.
Truly Mountains
The hills are truly mount-
aims. They raise their heads
higher than any elevation in
the United States east Of tbs
Rockies. They're accessible and
compact and ideal for short
vacation. For that reason, the
Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way has inaugurated one week
all expense tours from Chicago
to the Black Hills this summer,
and the tours have been
crammed full of constant activ'
ity.
The Black Hills, primarily, b
a mountain playground. pleas
antly warm and SunShiny by
day and cool at night. One may
hike or horseback ride, swim or
fish, sightsee or rest, golf or in
dulge in hundreds of other little
vacation pleasantries.
The earth itself gives UP
much gold around Lead, in the
northern hills. Homestake
mine, the largest gold mine in
the world, located there, is GER
tainly worth a visit.
The Black Hills themselves
are draped in blue-black spruce
and pine and their rocks con-
tain more colors than an artists
palette. At sunset one can see
the rocks change color with the
sky when riding through a
canyon or along Needles High
way near Rapid City.
National Memorial
Mount Rushmore, where
Gutzon Borglum Is carving .
national memorial, Is a place OF
increasing interest. The figures
of washington, Jefferson, Lam
coin and Roosevelt, which are
featured on the granite face OF
this cliff, are as tall as q city
skyscraper. Work Is going for.
ward on this memorial con-
stantly, but even now the head
of Washington and the sugges-
ton Of jefferson is a sight I'M
forgettable. The Rock chips at
the base, huge in size, are but
Slivers from the side o. Wash
ington'S nose:
Many are the beauty spots m
the Black Hills. The Needles,
for instance, magnificent granite
spires that they are, are the re"
suit Of a million years Of ero-
sion. Sylvan Lake is a gem in
the mountains, it's hotel beauti-
fully located in a setting Of
rocks. spruce and pines in Gus
ter State Park. Then, there's
Wind Cave, Crystal Cave, Har-
ney Peak, Rapid Canyon,
Roughlock Falls, Spearish
Falls, Bear Butte, Devils Tower,
the petrified forest, and hun
dredS of other things to sec.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Forty NationaIities
Live in Curacao

It is a very remarkable cir
cu1nstance that Curacao, one of
the interesting ports on cruises
to the Caribbean, should have
forty different nationalities,
among its 10000 inhabitants.
The official language is Dutch,
but the general language, a pa
tots, is calle d papiamento.
Spanish and English are spoken
by the educated classes.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
ROMANTIC TOWN

People who go to Bermuda
on the Berengaria's Fourth of
July cruise will be landed at
st. Georges, a little Spanish
town in this attractive British
colony. Much of Bermuda'S
romance centerS here.
The Washington times., 1934-06-02
Conducted Cruises Gain Popularity

travelling economically and see
ing the most places in a limited
time.
Evening star., 1934-03-20

Dinner at Spanish Embassy
Honors Supreme Court Justices.
The Ambassador Of Spain and
Sonora de Cardenas will be hosts
at dinner tonight in honor of Asso-
ciate Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske
Stone and Associate Justice and Mrs.
Owen j, Roberts.
Evening star., 1934-03-20

Dr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Jefferis Of