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The Washington times., 1934-05-11
'LEQD RAPS
*PAY.OFFB BILL
. 'HOLDUP'
Drives Ahead on Campaign to
Fill Petition and Force
!. Vote on Measure

Scheduled to report out the
loans to private industry bill to-
day, the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee plans speedy &C
ton on the deposit guarantee ex-
tension bill.
It is that bill to which Chair
man Henry B. Steagall CD Of
Alabama has offered an amend.
ment authorizing the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation to
make liberal loans to closed banks
throughout the country.
Mcleod Pushes Petition
Hearings were started on the
bank bill last week, but were post.
poned to permit completion Of the
industrial loans bill.
Still fearful as to the sincerity
Of those backing the Steagall
amendment and knowing pres
sure has been laid upon the COM
mittee by President Roosevelt,
Representative Clarence J. Nc
Leod (R0, of Michigan, author
Of the pending 100 per cent pay
off bill. still is seeking signerS to
the Weideman petition.
That petition, if signed by 145
members, or 81 more, would dis
charge the House Rules Commit
tee from further consideration
Of a resolution calling for spe-
cial rule.
Has Week to Go
It must be completely signed
by late next week in order to
force a vote May %, the last
"discharge day" before adjourn
ment.
The contested resolution has
been before the Rules Committee
three weeks and Mr.. McLod is
indignant at failure of the group
to hold a hearing on its merits,
saying:
"This manner Of burying leg
isIatiOn is not fair. This is a
bill wanted by a majority OF
the House, but just because it
IL not wanted by the majority
leaders it is stuck into a pigeon
hole"
Mr.. Mcleod tonight will deliver
n radio address in Atlantic City
(rnns;ru~d on Page II, Col. p
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
TOBACCO GRADE
SYSTEM Barred

Tobacco sold during April in
Maryland for an average of 1928
cents a pound, according to re-
ports from selling companies in
the Baltimore market, it was re-
vealed at the tobacco growers
meeting held at the Prince
Georges county courthouse at Up
per Marlboro today.
w. B. Posey, manager of the
Maryland Tobacco Growers Asso-
citation, DR.. T. B. Symons, exten-
sion director of the University of
Maryland, and Louis P. Ranft, to-
bacco salesman for the associa-
ton, were speakers at the meet
ing.
Features of the new grading
system were explained by the Off
GERS by which growers are ex-
pected to derive more for their
crops,
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Will Rogers
Says:

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May
Ill see that President ROOSe-
welt figures on having a free
hand in the foreign debt settle
ment personally.
Congress sent 'em a bill for
the full amount, the Senate
threatened to sue 'em, the
American taxpayers tried to
shame 'em into paying. 1t
might not be bad to let Mr..
Roosevelt try to collect and give
him a commission on what he
can get.
Either that or have the ]. p.
Morgan Company fOrecIOSe on
all of 'em. They are more afraid
of him than they are Of us.
The thing has dragged along
so far now that it looks as
though we will have to loan
some of 'em some more money
in order to get 'em even to agree
to cancel.
Copyright 1884. by Mcknight
Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
". Y. Pier Workers
PLdnninU WQLkOUt

NEW YORK, May II QNSJ.
New York city faced a strike of
pier workers. A walkout of $4,000
longShoremen on the gulf and as
many more on the Pacific coast
may affect New York workers,
officials of the international Long
shoremen's Association said today.
The strike has grown out of the
failure of the association to OBJ
tain union recognition and a wage
of IS cents an hour.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
ARREST IN TAXI.
TEST ORDERED

Rockville police today obtained a
bench warrant for Frank Tralins,
of the $500 block K st. N. w.,
when he failed to appear in Rock
vile police court to answer
charges of having operated a taxi
cab in Maryland without comply.
ing with the State insurance law.
Judge D. A. De Lashmutt signed
the warrant after having ruled
that under the law all commercial
vehicles operating on any Mary
land highway, whether driven foG
profit or pleasure, must be cov'
cred by liability insurance.
Offenders are liable to fine of
from $1OO to $500 for the first Of
fense, and $500 to $4,000 for the
second.
Mr.. Trains was arrested on
April 80 by Sergt. Earl Thomas
and Private AL Thomas, of the
Takoma Park police force, in a
"teSt case" following an opinion
from Attorney General Preston
Lane that conceded with today's
ruling from Judge De Lashmutt.
There have been much COM
ment and many different opin-
ions voiced on this taxicab inSur-
ance law since it was passed a few
month ago. Some authorities
maintain that as long as a Wash
ington cab driver picks up a fare
in the District of Columbia he can
go into Maryland, but he cannot
go into Maryland and pick up
a fare for the District. Others
say that, regardless of where he
picks up the fare. if he goes into
Maryland he must be covered by
insurance.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
BLANKETS
WASHINGTON

Washington today was hazy
with a mixture of clouds and
dust. The dust has swept across
from the Middle West, which is
blanketed by a dust storm 1900
miles long and 900 miles across.
The Naval Air Station reported
that Navy aviator had ascended
10000 feet this morning in an ef-
fort to- determine the height. Of
the clouds, but had not reached
the top of the dust.
The dust probably will remain
over this section until Sunday
night, when showers are expected
here to clear the atmosphere.
At II o'clock this morning the
temperature stood at 70 and was
expected to reach 80 or slightly
higher this afternoon.
Cooler weather was scheduled
to return today following the elec.
trical storm that struck late yes.
terday afternoon, bringing injury
tc more than a score of persons.
Eight persons were injured
when a bolt of lightning struck
a crowded street car in the 51O0
block Georgia Ave. N. w. during
the rush hour last night.
The injured, all of whom suf-
fered cuts and bruises, were: i:
Richard Carlson, 81, Walter Reed
Hospital; Edna Henry, 80, 7400
block Blair Rd. N. W.; William
Appleby. As, Silver Spring; Ed
ward Black, 81. 500 block Fern
st. N. W.: Lena Lyons. 80. 1900
block Sheridan st. N. W.; Anna
Copley, SO, 5000 block Illinois Ave. !:
Herman Taylor, As, Silver Spring:
Mrs. Paul De Back, 1700 block
Fern st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
5000 D. G.. Families
To Be Dropped by
Relief Agency

Between 5000 and 5000 fami-
lies in the District are to be
dropped a. once from the relief
rolls, it was announced today by
Relief Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins.
This action is to be taken fol.
lowing a careful investigation by
Mr.. Hopkins agents extending
over a period of several weeks.
AS a result Of dropping these
families saving of close to
100000 month will be effected,
Mr.. Hopkins said.
Many Employed
He secuted reports that those
who have been obtaining relief
improperly will be prosecuted by
the Government.
Relief costs in the District last
month were $4,000 Mr.. Hopkins
disclosed, and he hopes that this
figure will be reduced to around
100000.
The majority of the families on
the relief rolls that are to be
dropped have been receiving aid
The Washington times., 1934-05-11

More than 40 persons, including
the District Commissioners and
members of civic organizations at
tended a heated debate today be-
fore the House Rules Committee
today on the bill authorizing a
PWA loan Of $20.00O.000 to, the
District.
No action was taken at the
meeting, but members of the
House committee expressed a
unanimous desire to have the bill
approved.
Witnesses were subjected to a
rapid cross fire of questions con-
corning the financial structure of
the District and it's needs for the
coming fiscal year.
Defend Repayment
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
was subjected to a series Of ques-
tions by Representative E. E. Cox
CD of Georgia. So fast did the
Congressman ask his questions,
Mr.. Hazen was given no oppor-
tunity to answer any one Of them.
Commissioner Hazen, however,
declared Washington asks only
the same authority as other cities
now have and promised that not
q dollar would be spent without
PWA approval. He warned there
is great liability Of an epidemic
as a result of the polluted condi-
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Fort Meade Soldier
Killed Under Truck

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE,
Nd, May 11.-sergt. Herman j.
Sanders, Company F.; Thirty
fourth Infantry, was fatally in
iured here late yesterday when
struck by a truck on the fort
grounds. He died at the post hos
Dital an hour after the accident.
According to witnesses, he was
struck by one of seven trucks leav.
ing the fort to meet group OF
Civilian Conservation Corps work
ers, He was a native of Streator,
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Film Beauty Beaten,
Is Granted DiUOrce

LOS ANGELES. May ii G.N.SO.
Nadine Dore, beautiful film &C.
tress and beauty contest winner,
made it clear today that while she
did not object to being beaten in
. contest for the title of Miss
America, it angered her consider.
ably when her husband old the
beating. She told her troubles to
Judge Georgia Bullock. The judge
agreed. and granted her a divorce
decree from Chester G.. Miller.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
CObbLer Is ChOked
And Robbed bv Thuq

Attacked by a colored thug,
Peter Pavlopoulos. a shoemaker
of the TOO block First st. N. w.,
was choked and robbed of $50 to-
day. The colored man, who had
visited the shoe shop before, Mr..
Pavlopoulos said, entered the
place, choked him, hurled him to
the floor, scooped the money from
the cash drawer, and fled.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Senate Group Scans
NelU Wallace POluers
BY International News Service

Vast powers proposed for the
Secretary of Agriculture in amend
ments suggested to the AAA act
were outlined to the Senate Agri-
culture Committee today by Will
liam w. Woods, of Chicago, presi-
dent Of the Institute Of American
Meat Packers. He said:
$50 far as power goes, the bill,
taken all in all, makes the Sec
retary potentially the admins
traitor, the Judge, the jury and
the exeCutiOner."
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
House Sets May 28
For 6-HOur Dau Vote

By International News Service
A vote On May % on the CroSser
bill for a six-hour day on railroads
was forced in the House today. It
was made possible by the signing
of a petition by 145 members to
discharge the House Interstate
Commerce Committee from con.
sideration of the measure.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Parents Drop Suit
For AStOr SuDDOrt

LOS ANGELES, May II G.N.sD.
Mary AStor. dark-eyed screen
beauty, will not have to support
her parents. after all, it appeared
today. The parents of the screen
actress, who recently sued her for
support, indicated that when the
trial of their case was called to-
day before Superior Marshall Nc.
comb, dismissal would be sought.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
Randall Is Named
LeUiGthQn Master

NEW YORK. May II O.N.S0.
Capt. A. B. Randall. commodore
of the United States Lines, and
master of the liner Manhattan,
was appointed today master of
the liner Leviathan, which will re-
turn to transatlantic service
June 9 after a lay-up Of a year.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
1874 NeU Oil Pools
Approved by IckeS

Development of 1874 new oil
pools in 10 States has been ap-
proved, Secretary of Interior Ickes
stated today. The pools will add
$1,000 acres of producing area to
that already in operation. Ap-
proval was made contingent on OBJ
serving the allowable quotas.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11
d. S. Car LOddings
ShOU 4.449 DrOn
By International News Service

BY International News Service
Loading of revenue freight for
week ended May S totaled 604,2n5
cars, the car service division Of
the American Railway Association
announced today. This was de.
crease of 4,449 cars below preced-
ing week, but 77,087 above CORE
spending week in 1898.
The Washington times., 1934-05-11

WEATHER FORECAST
Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler Ia
"Details on Page B. Section p.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
AFFAIRS FOR THE NEW
YORK DAILY WORKER
TueSddY


Entertainment and Dance Hear
Election Results, fremont Prog. Club,
966 E. fremont Ave. Ausp.: fremont
Prog. and 7th AID. Communist Party.
Junita Hall from "Stevedore" cast,
Chalk talk and other entertainment.
Friends of the Workers School. 116
University Pl., cor. 18th st. Concert,
short lecture, dancing, election skit
by Theatre Of Workers School. More
dancing and election returns.
Coming!
Concert and Dance given by the
Daily Worker Campaign Committee,
Lithuanian Hall, SIS Joseph Avenue,
Brooklyn, Saturday, Nov. 10, pm.
Good program arranged Tickets l5c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Communist Sections Slipping
Back in Daily Worker DriUe

Dropping $500 under the con-
tributions of the previous week, the
New York sections of the Conmu-
mist Party sent in only s788 from
Oct. q to Nov. Q.
Only two administrations l and
l0-are recorded for more than 500
the first Sl49 and the second S13e
Sections 2, 5, IL, 10, Is and 20 did
not contribute anything.
Section 10 Jumps
For Section 10, which is In
Queens, the week brought rise of
almost 80 per cent. Last week one
Of the most backward on the list,
it is now tied with Coney Island
and Upper Bronx for third place,
each having So per cent.
Williamsburgh, which is still first,
advanced to 125 per cent. 1t is now
a long way ahead of Section IL, of
the Hudson River Valley, with
whom it is in Socialist competition,
though Hudson River Valley re-
mains second, with $40 above its
quota.
The units which are responding
to the emergency Of the Daily" are
models for the backward ones. They
are carrying out a Communist task
which is second to none-the task
of preserving the Daily Worker. In
Section 8, Brownsville, there is a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Where Voters
Should Report
Fraud at Polls

Communist voters who for any
reason find that their right to vote
at the polls is being INSTRUCTED, OF
who see any Irregularities at the
polling booths, are urged to COM
municate at once with the Commu-
mist campaign headquarters in their
assembly districts. The address of
these headquarters follows:
Manhattan
AID, 1O7 MacDougal Street italian
Workers Club.
2 AID. 1o7 MacDougal Street italian
Workers Club
AID, 22s Tenth Avenue, chelsea 3-s888.
4 AID, 1853 East End Street.
AID, 229 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea 3-9s8s.
6 AID, 1853 East End Street.
AID. 1O2 W. 21st St., Trafalgar 7-9497.
AID, 1853 East End Street.
8 AID, l02 w. 8Ist st., Trafalgar 7-e497.
10 AID, spartacus Club, $50 w. 25th st.
II AID, 102 w. 81st St., Trafalgar 1881
u AID, 239 E. Goth St.; So W. 25th st.
10 AID, AIS Lenox Aye, Tillinghast
5-4e2e
ID AID, S41 E. 72nd ST., Regent 4-s6s7.
Is AID. So w. 25th Street.
16 AID, $50 E. s1st ST., Rhinelander
4-s312
i AID, 27 W. ll5th st., University
1866.
10 AID, 1888 Third Ave, Lehigh 1874
10 AID, AIS Lenox Ave, TiIinghast
5-4e29.
20 AID, AIS Lenox Ave, Tillinghast
$3.50.
q AID, Ais Lenox Ave, Tillinghast
5-4829
q AID, 4o4s Broadway.
% AID, 4046 Broadway.
Bronx
AID, s06 E. 13eth Street.
AID, 1899 Boston Rd., Intervale 9-2921
AID, 951 Leggett Ave, Melrose 5-2922.
AID, 1899 Boston Rd, Intervale e-292l.
AID, 1857 Southern Blvd. prospect
Workers CENTER.
A. D., 270O Bronx Park E; 685 Morris
Park Avenue.
AID, 3451 Giles Place tschule),
Kingsbridge 6-7334
Brooklyn
l AID, 119 Livingston Street.
AID, COS Stone Avenue (Schule).
AID, ISL Atlantic Avenue.
AID, S13 Broadway.
AID, 16 Utica Ave. Lafayette 1885,
AID. 1874 Tompkins Ave Progressive
Culture Club, Pulaski 5-7591.
7 AID, Sill Fifth Ave; 1913 Fifth Ave.
AID, ISL Atlantic Avenue.
AID. 1880 seth ST., Ambassador 2-2291.
10 AID, Is Fourth Avenue.
II AID, 1883 Bergen St., Main 2-663e.
10 AID, Laisve Hall. 46 Ten Eyck st.,
Stage 2-3s7S.
IA AID, 313 Broadway
II A.Dr 16 Utica Ave, Lafayette 1896.
10 AID, 261 Schenectady Ave, Lafayette
3-9O6s
10 AID, 81 Graham Ave, Evergreen
20 AID, 152 Central Avenue.
81 AID, 563 Stone Ave, New Lots Ave
% AID, 608 Cleveland Avenue
% AID, 154 watkins St., Decatur 2-0429.
Queens
l AID, $500 Astoria Avenue.
AID, 42-06 9th ST., Astoria.
AID, $500 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside
AID, 1919 Jamaica Ave, Republic
o-7672.
AID, T. C. & t. Co. Bldg. 92-32
Union Hall Street, Jamaica 6-1428; Far
RoclIeway, Far Rockaway 7-7276; Finnish
Hall, 1925 Union Hall Street, Jamaica
Richmond
l AID, 1874 Richmond Terrace.
AID, 1874 Richmond Terrace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

live membership in Unit 7. This
unit has alone contributed $119 of
the 1919 to the credit of the entire
section.
Saw Opportunity
Unit 8, in the Lower West Side
Section, is another vigorous group
among tagging brothers. This
unit took the Sherman, Cafeteria
strike as means of raising money
for the Daily Worker, and gave
party last week to celebrate this
victory of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union. The affair, sup
ported by the -Cyprian
brotherhood, which had also sup
ported the strike, brought S14.
From the Mineola unit of Sec
ton 8, Nassau County, a section
criticized in the Daily" last week,
came a contribution of $40.
Though Section l reached the
81 900 it pledged to reach the week
before, this section has filled barely
tlree-quarters of its allotment. 1t
is one of the sections which should
already have reached its quota. 1t
has the largest membership in the
district, is in a thorough workers
neighborhood and in the most
thickly populated territory of the
district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Gag Rule Is
SetUpbyHOne
Relief Bureau

Commissioner of Welfare William
Hodson yesterday issued an order te
the staff Of the Home Relief Blu
reau, which constitutes brazen at
tempt to set up gag rule among the
city employees in the entire Welfare
Department.
The order, to be posted in every
relief precinct, states that no en-
ployes other than the Division Of
Public Information" are to give any
information for publication, broad
cast or for other forms of wide
| spread public distribution"
Under the provisions Of this rul-
ing, Home Relief Bureau employees
would be prohibited from giving ex-
preston to their grievances on leaf
lets or to give any information to
the press on the cases of Sidonia
Dawson and Frederick Benedict,
two workers recently fired in the
relief administrations anti-organ-
national drive.
The order posted on all bulletin
poardS states.
"In line with the new policy Of
centralizing all publicity activities
of the D. P w. and the H. r. B. in
single division of Public Informa-
ton, please inform all members in
the bureau on the following points:
THAT all information to the
press, for radio broadcast purposes
or any other form of widespread
public distribution should be cleared
through the Division of Public In
formation.
"2-That all members of the staff
of any branch of the Department
of Public Welfare are to refrain
from discussing their work, or that
of any branch Of the Department,
for publication or broadcast pur-
poses except with persons referred
to them by the Division of Public
Information"
The order, while specifically d.
rected against the Home Relief Bu-
reau Employees Association, which
has been conducting a wide cam
paign for the reinstatement of
Sidonia Dawson and Frederick
Benedict, also aims to gag the I'M
affiliated staff members from voic-
ing their grievances publicly.
In pressing its fight for the re-
instatement of these two workers,
the association has called a city
conference of all individuals and
groups for tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the Manhattan Indus
trial High School, 129 East 22nd
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Union W arms
Fur Work rs
On Wage Cuts

The Fur Workers Industrial
Union announced yesterday that the
union Office had received numerous
complaints about manufacturers
who are attempting to cut the
wages of the workers. The excuses
given by the bosses are that it is
the end of the season and there is
not much work in the trade and
that therefore, in order to be able
to get some additional work, they
must cut the wages of the workers.
I'VE are calling the attention of
the fur workers" the union an
.nounced, that this is contrary to the
agreement signed with the union
and no boss is allowed to give the
workers any wage-cuts."
The union called upon all the
workers to bring in all complaints
of cases where any boss made at
tempts to cut wages of individual
workers or of the whole shop to the
union. The union will take the
necessary steps, it announced, to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
c. 2. Urges
Voters Back
Relief Bonds

The New York District Commit
tee Of the Communist Party yester-
day urged Communist voters to
vote Eyes" on Proposition No. /
although it pointed to the made
quacy of the measure and called
for a broadening of the mass move
ment for really adequate relief
and unemployment insurance. The
statement Of the District Commit
tee follows:
Proposition One to be submitted
to the voters today provides for a
state flotation of bond issue of
S4O,O00,000 for so-called unemploy-
nlent relief. The Communist Party
the leader and organizer of the
fight for adequate unemployed re-
lief and unemployment insurance
while its election platform calls for
the appropriation of 5000, 900 ,oOC
as the minimum required to keep
two million unemployed in the state
from hunger, cold and suffering
this winter, urges the workers to
vote Yes.
We urge the affirmative vote
only pending the broadening of the
mass movement of the EMPLOYED
and unemployed and DEVELOPMENT
OF the mass fight for real ADEQUATE
emergency relief and unemploy-
ment insurance.
The Communist Party, while
urging the workers to vote YES
points out the cynical, INSULTING
vote-catching nature of the pro
posed S40,00O,O00 issue, which is a
reduction of 20 million from the
last appropriation at a time wher
relief needs are greater than ever
AT the same time the bankers take
OH IN advance large slice Of the
40 million. The Communist Party
is opposed to further mortgagine
the resources of the workers farm
ers and small home owners to the
bankers. Our program calls for di-
rect taxation of the profits of cor.
porations and all large profits anc
incomes Of the rich. The proposed
issue is a hunger appropriation
However, pending the mass fight e
gain real adequate relief, it is nee.
essary to vote YES.