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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Nazis Hide
Thaeln1ann
Fate in Fog
OF Silence
Famine Conditions in
Germany Are
Spreading
FOOD SHORTAGE
Imitation Rushes On,
Bank Report Shows

NEW YORK, July lore
peated radiograms and cable
messages sent by the Daily
Worker to many sources in
Europe during the past week
has failed to reveal any new
clue to the fate of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party.
The consistent conspiracy
of silence on the part of Nazi
government officials has pro-
duced the deepest alarm
among all workers and or
CARNATIONS engaged in the
struggle for Thaelmann's safe
release from the brutal
clutches of his Nazi captOrs.
NEW YORK. conditions
are rapidly spreading over Germany,
according to latest dispatches from
Berlin and Rome A cable dispatch
to the New York Sun states:
Though the government radio
brOadcasts the assurance to the
people that there are abundantsup-
plies, many restaurants and homes
are without the staple article of
German food. The famine is ex-
pected to become worse and the
peoples faith in their govern
ment more severely shattered than
by the most sensational events"
From Rome comes the report is
sued by the International Institute
of Agriculture that the German
wheat crop is a severe failure, and
that the harvest will show a de-
crease in yield of at least 20 per
cent.
Lack of Potatoes
NO potatoes nave appeared in the
Berlin and other markets for several
days now, and the condition of the
unemployed as we'll of the great
mass of poorly paid workers is be-
coming desperate. Several small
shipments came in from Holland,
but they we're quickly snatched up.
Other foodstuffs are running very
low, and hunger and famine is
talked about openly throughout
Germany.
The latest report of the Reichs-
bank also indicates the growing
economic and financial crisis,
especially the rapid increase of cur
rency initiation The ReichSbank
reports that the total circulation of
currency this year is 100000, 900
marks higher than in 1888, show the
government is trying to meet its
huge war expenditures by printing
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Subscriptions Slip
Seriously During
Second Drive Week

A re-check of subscriptions dur
ing the first two weeks of the
drive for 10000 new Daily" read
ers by September LIST, shows a net
loss of 1874 subscribers. Deducting
renewals, we find a total Of 1913 ex-
pirations against which we have
only "a new subscribers.
Only Districts 4, 9, IA, Is, 10,
20, % and "a showed an increase
In subscribers. The short term subs
of the past few months are not
being renewed in sufficient guam
tity, nor are many new subscrib-
ers being secured. Unless every
Party member sets out to correct
the condition exposed in the table
below, the work of our Red Build
ers, route carriers, ETC., will be
largely nullified.
SUBSCRIPTIONS JUNE 10
Tn TTTY W
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
amsterdam .JObIess Brave
Guns to Continue Protest

AMSTERDAM, July 9.-Sporadic
fighting continued in the streets
here against police and soldiers who
during the past four days have
slaughtered nearly dozen workers
for protesting against the NUM-
cipality's cut in unemployment re-
lief.
New barricades were raised in
Jordan, the workers section of
Amsterdam, and red flags flew on
top of many buildings and the
hastily flung-up barbados.
For days now the soldiers and po-
lice. aided by military tanks have
been trying to drown out the work
ers' resistance by machine gun fire.
Again and again, however. the work
ers returned to the streets to con-
tinue their protest. showing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Truckmen
NRA
Arbitration
Minneapolis Drivers
Vote To Deal Direct
With Employers

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July g.
The General Drivers and Helpers
Union Strike Committee, under
pressure of the rank and file, to-
day rejected the decision of the
Minneapolis-St. Paul Regional La
Dor Board. The strike committee
voted to ask for meeting direct
with the employers and not carry
their decision back to the Labor
Board.
The deadline of pm. Wednes-
day has been set when strike vote
will be taken and other unions will
consider a general strike unless the
demands Of the drivers and helpers
are granted. They demand union
recognition for all crafts connected
with the drivers and helpers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

greatest heroisn in the face of the
huge massing of armed forces of the
government.
Hundreds of workers have been
arrested, and a vicious drive is be-
ing made especially against the
Communist Party of Holland. The
central organ of the Party has been
occupied by soldiers and it's printing
presses smashed. The Dutch i'm
perialist government does not want
the truth of the events of the last
few days to reach the toiling masses
in other parts of Holland. They are
especially afraid of the call for a
general strike which is being pro-
posed and is gaining sympathy and
support among great number of en-
ployed workers who are enraged at
the slaughter of the jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Call Troops
Against NJ.
Farm Strike
90 Workers Hurt in
Brutal Tear Gas
Assault
BULLETIN

BRIDGETON, N. j. - Donald
Henderson and his wife Elinor,
organizers of the Agricultural and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union
were seized and rushed off to Jail
here today, after a battle had
ragged for hours between hired
thugs, police, "vigilantes" and
more than 200 farm strikers.
Especial to the Daily Worker)
BRIDGETON, N. j., July 9.--Mort
than 100 deputized thugs, local po-
lice and armed "vigilantes," rich
farmers organized into bands, at.
tackled a picket line of 200 men
women and children here this
morning with tear gas bombs, clubs
lead-weighted rubber hose and the
butt ends Of guns and pistols.
In a battle that lasted for one
and a half hours, the pickets finally
succeeded in keeping the scabs of
the farms. Seabrook, the wealthy
farm owner, had attempted to rush
Is field workers into the fields fol-
the beet crops and 40 workers into
the canning house.
More than so workers were beaten
or affected by the tear gas. One
woman striker was badly cut by g
tear gas bomb. Several strikers
children we're nearly choked tt
death by the gas attack.
Call Militia
At one point in the battle, thu
local fire department was called anc
turned stream of icy water upor
the pickets, who bravely rushed thei
/Con.4:.,,J -. d. 0N
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Evening star., 1934-08-19
INDUSTRIAL BANK
OPENS TOMORROW
35 Per Cent Dividend to Be
Paid Depositors of EIev-
enth Street Institution.
Star Staff Photo.

Closed since the Presidents bank
holiday in March 1888, the Industrial
Savings Bank at Eleventh and U
streets will open tomorrow morning,
reorganized as the Industrial Bank of
Washington, and will pay depositors
Of the old institution dividend Of 35
per cent, amounting to about 5000, 900.
The new bank is member of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp,
which insures each account up to
$4,000, and will conduct a general
banking business.
Officers of the new bank are headed
by Jesse H. Mitchell, president, and
others are Isaac S. Mason, vice
president; Walter L. Carter, cashier;
James E. Jones, assistant cashier;
Jesse w. Lewis, secretary. Directors
are B. F. Arlington, w. H. C. Brown,
Walter L. Carter, Walter S. Carter,
William B. Harris, Jesse H. Mitchell,
Doyle Mitchell, Isaac S. Mason, Jesse
w. Lewis, and Talley r. Holmes.
General counsel is j. Franklin Wilson.
Assets of the old bank will be
liquidated by w. H. C. Brown, former
president, and later conservator. who
has large part in the reorganization.
The Industrial Bank is the last of
the banks which closed during the
Presidents holiday which is under
consideration by the Treasury for re-
organization,
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Father Confesses Suicide Ruse
So Wife Would Return to Son

The police were still dragging the
Basin for his body yesterday when
Slingland walked up to a policeman in
front of his home and identified
himself
II did it just to make her come
home" he said. Il don't know why
she went away-I only know that 1
want her back. The boy is grieving
so that he hasn't been able to sleep
at night.
''If she will only come back to us
I'll get little home in Maryland and
we can be happy there. Maybe I
should have stayed away another day.
Perhaps she would have come back
to the boy II she'd really thought /
was dead"
Slingland said he swan ashore after
jumping into the Basin and then re-
manned in hiding over night. Police
were called by an onlooker who saw
him jump into the water.
Slingland told reporters his wife
had been in poor health for several
years and was under the care of a
physician at the time of her disap-
pearance. Police will not bring any
charges against Slingland.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
BOYFOUNDH HANGED
HERE HELD SUICIDE;
FAMILY DOUBTFUL
Coroner Says Youth Took
Own Life in Rooming
House.
NO REASON ADVANCED
FOR ACTION, HOWEVER
Father, Held on Wife-Beating
Charge, Believes Son Was
Murder Victim.

The mysterious death Of 14-year-
old James D. Poindexter, IT., found
hanging from a gas Jet in a rooming
house here Friday, was officially pro-
nounced suicide last night, although
both his mother and father-the lat
ter in the Richmond, Va, jail on
charges brought by his wife-insisted
the boy had not taken his own life.
MY boy did not hang himself; I
can't believe it," the mother, now hv-
ing in Richmond, told police there.
The father, detained on charges OF
beating his wife, drunkenness and re-
sisting arrest, declared his son was
murdered. according to an Associated
Press dispatch.
Hanged to Gas Jet.
The boys body was found in a
rooming house at 224 G street. The
rope had been tied to the foot Of the
bed and looped across q gas Jet. Only
the tips Of his toes touched the floor.
Although there was no apparent
reason why the boy should have taken
his own life, Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald issued a certificate Of sui
eide after an autopsy yesterday. The
autopsy showed death was due to
strangulation and also disclosed he
had not been drinking, despite earlier
reports to the contrary.
There's something mighty queer
about the boys DEATH" the father de-
clared. When I left the rooming
house in Washington at o'clock Fri
day morning he was asleep. was
going to market, where work as a
huckster, and told him would give
him some money that night for a
movie. I guess I got to drinking and
came on to Richmond, where got
into this trouble"
Three Are Released.
The wife is reported to have said
Poindexter told her he was going
to keep the boy in Washington and
that she would never see him again.
After the body had been found,
police arrested three men, including
the boys first cousin, ". P. Poin-
dexter. They were held for question:
ing and then released.
The father, who has not been hv-
ing with his wife, was out of the city
at the time of the boys death, police
declared The Poindexters have six
other children, the Oldest 16.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
COTTAGE CITY WINS
FIRE PARADE HONORS
Rockville Is Host to Other Towns
in Carnival Cele-
bration.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatch 10 The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August l8.-
Headed by the Potomac Band and
with 10 volunteer fire departments Of
this and nearby counties of Maryland
and Virginia participating, a parade
was staged here tonight in connec-
ton with the third annual carnival
of the Rockville Volunteer Fire Der
partment, which began last night to
continue through August 25.
For having the best appearing ap-
paratus in line, the Cottage City or
ganization was awarded loving cup,
and similar trophy was presented
to the Ellicott City Fire Department
for the apparatus coming the greatest
distance.
Other departments taking part in
the parade were Mount Rainier, Cher
rydale, Laurel, Cabin John, Gathers
burg, Washington Grove, Hyattstown,
Bethesda and Rockville.
Following the procession, teams of
10 men each. representing Bethesda
and Sandy Spring departments, en-
gagged in a tug-of-war contest in front
of the dancing pavilion at the fair
grounds. Bethesda won and received
a silver trophy. A large crowd wit
messed the contest.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Federal Employees Political
Status Fixed by Commission

in the matter of legislation on labor
questions) does not make it any the
less prohibited political activity.
For more than 25 years the COM
mission has held that activity in cam
paigns concern the regulation or
the suppression of the liquor traffic is
prohibited. classified employe may
be a member, but not an officer, of a
club, league, or other organization
which takes part in such campaign.
The rule does not prohibit temper
ance propaganda, but any endeavor
for or against the regulation, control,
or suppression of the liquor traffic
through political agencies is prohib-
tied. The rule does not exclude the
employe from participating in discus
sion where no political issue Is in
volved or from making an address on
any moral or ethical subject, but when
two or more parties or factions be-
come engaged in a contest for rival or
antagonistic measures or policies of
control or regulation a political ques-
ton is presented.
Have Right to Vote.
For the foregoing reasons, the COM
mission holds that activity is pro-
hibited on the part of classified civil
service employees in the pending ref
erendum of the wet-dry question in
the Takoma Park section of the Dis
trict of Columbia, such as soliciting of
votes, making of speeches, publica-
ton of articles on the subject, service
at the polls as of watchman, chal-
lenger, checker, counter, election off,
Ger. etc.
The commission wishes it under
stood that classified employees have
the fullest right to vote in any way
they please, to express privately their
opinions on all political subjects, to
sign political or prohibition petitions,
but that generally, under the rules,
they are prohibited from engaging in
such public or prominent activity as
may arouse snimosity in the commu-
nifty, either for or against prohibition,
etc. Contest over the wet-dry ques-
ton oftentimes arouses more bitter
ness and antagonism than the usual
partisan political contests.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
BOY OF a. SUCCUMBS,
FIRST TICK VICTIM

The first death in Washington so
far this year from a case of spotted
fever was reported yesterday by the
District Health Department. The VIC
tim was Donald F. O'Dea, years old,
of ATS Sargent road northeast.
Only three cases of spotted fever
have been reported to the Health De-
partment this year. The two other
cases were those of residents or nom
residents brought here for treatment.
Last year seven cases of the disease
and two deaths were reported to the
District Government.
The ODea child lived in q semi
rural section of the District, where
ticks, credited as carriers of the
disease, were more likely to be found
than In more densely populated areas
where underground is lacking.
Evening star., 1934-08-19

Grief-stricken over the mysterious
disappearance of his wife, William
Slingland, 40, walked up to police
man yesterday and confessed he had
feigned suicide by jumping into the
Tidal Basin Friday in the hope his
wife would come back to care for
their 12-year-old son If she thought
he was dead.
The wife, Mrs. Marie Slingland,
80, disappeared from their home at
210 C street Thursday morning, he
said, leaving note saying she would
return in a short while.
When nothing was heard from her,
Slingland reported her disappearance
to police. The next day she was still
missing, and as last resort the hus-
band decided to try the suicide hoax.
Leaving his outer garments and a
note to his wife on the bank, he
plunged into the water. The note
read:
Dear Marie: I am very sorry you
left home. I am leaving town. You
will take care of Bill. I have nothing
against you. Wish you all the luck
in the world. I left you all had
50. Bye, bye"
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Slighted Husband
Insists on Right
To Vote on Liquor
Wife Left Name off
Rolls, TakOma Park Man
Tells Election o O6icials.

One Takoma wife failed to register
the name of her husband for the
referendum September IL, on the
question of granting liquor licenses
to places in the community, because,
she believed, he would vote contrary
to her wishes, an election official re-
vealed yesterday.
The story was disclosed when the
husband appeared before election Off
cialS and complained that his name
had not been registered. A scrutiny
of the books showed he. was correct.
When the canvasser who registered
names in the block was questioned,
he declared the wife had answered his
call for registration, but had said
nothing about a husband who was
eligible to vote.
This sort of thing has been going
on in my household for 20 years." the
irate husband said, land I want my
name on that registration list"
The name was added.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
POSING AS OFFICER
FORMS NEW CHARGE
Man Booked Friday on Morals
Count Said to Have Imper-
sonated Detective.

Arrested Friday on a statutory
charge upon complaint Of l3-year-
old girl, Harry F. Stinson, %, Of the
first block of New York avenue, yes
terday was booked on an additional
charge Of impersonating an officer.
He was said to have impersonated
Detective Sergt. Eugene Davis, head
of the check squad, who several weeks
ago had tried to help Stinson while
investigating check case and mad
given the man his card.
StinSon, police said, told the girl,
the girls grandmother and a taxi
driver that he was Detective Sergt.
Davis
Evening star., 1934-08-19

held by the Civil Service Commission
on September 81.
The examinations have been called
in a group Of about 600 cities, not
only in the United States, but also in
Alaska, Hawaii, the Canal Zone and
Puerto Rico.
Rules Were Changed.
Heretofore attorneys were admit
ted to practice" Commissioner Coe
said, ION the basis of a verified show
ing of qualifications. AS that method
was not wholly reliable or satisfactory,
the rules were changed to require an
attorney to demonstrate by examina-
ton his technical and legal fitness to
render inventors valuable assistance
in the preparation and prosecution of
patent applications"
Richard Spencer, first assistant COM
missioner of patents, explained the
new policy as the outgrowth of
gradual campaign for better legal
service for patent applicants. He also
said that the change probably would
not have been ordered had not the
American Bar Association asked for it.
Matter of Self Preservation.
A patent attorney who has been
practicing here for several years said
the action was taken by the lawyers
'aS a matter of self preservation.
Business at the Patent Ofce has
dropped in the last four years to about
one-fourth of what it was. In 1880,
for example, he said, as many as
$4,000 patent applications were pend
ing at one time. At present, he said,
there are not more than $1,000.
Furthermore, it was said, some di-
visions of the Patent ONCE are now
completing cases and issuing letters
Of patent within six weeks, whereas
in 1880 applications required from
to 10 months. The average for all
divisions now is only three months.
Confusion in Files.
John Woodward, jr., a patent attor-
ney, explained that examiners here
for out-of-town patent lawyers have
in a number Of cases caused conSid-
cradle confusion in their methods of
handling files in the Patent Ofice.
Many of them have failed to follow
and have caused con-
siderable difficulty for searchers as a
result.
Commissioner Coe, after making the
announcement, left Washington for
the week end, but ample provisions
have been made at his Office to take
care of all applications for the exami-
nation.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
PROCESS TAXL|FT
IS HELD UNW|SE
Plan to End Levies on Wheat
and Cotton Seen De-
feated.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Added to the Farm Administra-
tion's drought troubles is the pro-
posal by three Senators that process
ing taxes on wheat and cotton be
suspended and that prices on the
commodities be "pegged" through
loans.
The official word yesterday at the
administration was that the recon-
mendations are being studied, but
privately officials said they felt the
plan was unwise in the main.
Secretary wallace and his aides
have been emphatic in their opposi-
ton to suggestions that processing
taxes be abandoned. They contend
the levy feature is the heart Of
the agricultural adjustment act.
Advocated Loans.
Senators Thomas, Democrat, Of
Oklahoma and Bankhead, Democrat,
of Alabama and Smith, Democrat, of
South Carolina urged that the taxes
be temporarily abandoned during the
marketing season for the two Grops.
They advocated that loans be ad-
vanced on wheat and on corn dur
ing the past year, and that cotton
loans of "at least IS cents per pound"
be made.
Secretary Wallace called his ad-
ministrator of the A. A. A., Chester
G. Davis, who has just returned from
a six-week tour through the Mid
west and Far West, into conference
on the proposal yesterday. Both de-
clined to discuss their talk, asserting
further consideration must be given
the proposal.
Seen Raising Prices.
The Senators held suspension of
the 4Ea-cents-a-pound tax on cotton
would raise the price to growers from
"a to 4 cents per pound and lifting
the 30-cents-perbushel tax on wheat
would increase farmers returns from
Is to 80 cents.
This result would be accomplished,
officials said, If it could be assured
the full benefit of the tax-lifting
would be passed on to farmers.
This assumption would, however,
pre-suppose that the full amount of
the processing tax Is now being taken
out Of the price paid to farmers,
they added. and it is the belief of
administration economists that part.
and In some cases all of these taxes
are being passed on to consumers
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Coal Buying Over
After Oil Well Is
Found in Cellar
Observation-Disclosures.

BY the Associated Press.
CUBA, N. Y, August 18.-Coal
buying days may be over for
Frank j. McDermott Of this vii
lage after discovery by his wife
of an oil well in the cellar Of
their home.
Today McDermott said he was
considering" installation of an
oil heater.
Mrs. McDermott was prepar-
ing to light a gas burner in the
cellar when oil began to pour
from the pipe at the rate of a
barrel a day. The source was
found to be an old well drilled six
years ago near the home.
Evening star., 1934-08-19

At the request Of The Star, the
Civil Service Commission yesterday
issued a memorandum regarding
employees in connection with the
liquor referendum to be held in
Takoma, D. c., next month.
The memorandum stated that the
political activity of classified en-
ployes is governed by section l of
civil service rule /, which provides
as follows:
No person in the executive civil
service shall use his official
authority or influence for the pur-
pose of interfering with an
election or affecting the results
thel eof. Persons who by the pro-
visions of these rules are in the
competitive classified service, while
retaining the right to vote as they
please and to express privately
their opinions on all political sub
jects, shall take no active part in
political management or In politi-
cal campaigns.
Activity Is Defined.
Activity in politics is defined to be
any activity pertaining to or con-
nected with a party or parties con-
trolling or seeking to control gov
eminent in the Nation, a State,
county or municipality. Any one of
two or more bodies of people con-
tending for antagoniStic or rival
governmental policies or measures is
held to be a political party. 1t is
not necessary that such party be
affiliated with any of the great
national political parties. The rule
is designed to avoid any act or dis
play of partisanship by employees on
any pending political issue which
might cause public scandal or un-
favorable comment and offend per-
sons who have relations with them
in their Official capacity. The rule
does not distinguish between good
and bad political activity. and the
fact that political activity may be
under the auspices Of a religious
organization (as in the question OF
prohibition) or of labor union Gas