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The Washington times., 1934-07-19
Slain Mans ''Ghost'' Tells
Where to Find His Money!

HAGERsTOWN, Nd, July 10.
The occult entered into the grand
jury investigation Of the fatal
shooting Of George Saum, 25-year-
old married man, allegedly by
Allen L. Hollar. Is, here on June
3, when Carl Smith, a neighbor
Of Mr.. Saum and a witness Of the
shooting, unfolded a story which
has the police scratching. their
heads.
While waiting to be called be-
fore the grand jury, reconvened
under a new law, Mr.. Smith told
the amazing story that, on the
night following the shooting of
Mr.. Saum, the latter appeared to
him in dream and gave direc-
tons where he would find his (Mr.
Saum'S) pocketbook in a field
near the scene of the tragedy.
In the dream, Mr.. Smith said,
MIR. Saulm said he would find
money in the pocketbook and ths
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
.CHURCHESF|GHT
TAXI DANCES

NEW YORK, July 10 G.N.s).
The fight Of the Inter-Faith Com
mittee against "salacious moving
pictures" was extended today to
taxi dance halls with a complete
investigation ordered by Police
Commissioner John F. Organ.
Orders for the investigation Of
the morals and activities of the
taxi dance halls followed a con-
ference of the nter-Faith Com
m1ttee with Mayor LaGuardia,
License Commissioner Moses and
Organ at City Hall.
Father Joseph A. McCaffery,
spokesman for the committee,
said:
1--WE would have the moving
picture interests understand
that this is q serious, deter
mined and sustained effort for
the permanent purging Of mo-
ton pictures Of indecency.,
crime portrayal and lewdneSs.
The same holds true as far as
the taxi dance halls are con-
Cerned."
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
VOTE MAY END
BAY STRIKE

OAKLAND, Cal, July 10
UN.s0.-With East Bay trans
portation facilities to resume in
full tomorrow morning, a meet
ing was called for tonight to take
q vote from all East Bay unions
10 call off the general strike.
The Key route ferry system
and the East Bay street cars and
buses will operate under an
agreement between A. j. Lund-
berg, president Of the transporta-
ton system, and representatives
Of the Garments union.
william A. Spooner, chairman
of the general strike committee on
this side Of San Francisco Bay,
announced that all unions tonight
would vote to either reject or
affirm the calling off Of the
general strike"
It will affect lot unions with
$4,000 members.
The East Bay-the cities of
Oakland. Berkeley, Alameda, Pied
mont and six others will return
ito normally with transportation
resumed as the food and gasoline
embargo has been lifted.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
TWO CONVICTED
IN SHOOTING

Houston Greenway, of Benedict,
Md, and Horace Wood, of Upper
Marlboro, were found guilty in the
shooting of William P. Mumford,
Camp Springs store owner, and
an attack on his wife, a month
ago, by a Prince Georges county
circuit court jury after two and
a half hours elaboration last
night.
Greenway was found guilty Of
assault with intent to rob with q
deadly weapon, and Wood guilty
OF assault with intent to rob.
A demurrer filed by Charles
Ford, of Washington, on behalf
of Samuel j. Orlando, charged
with murder in connection with
the Bladensburg tea house STAY
ing in 1881, was refused by the
court. Orlando'S counsel declared
the Short-form indictment was
not inclusive enough in its par
ticulars to hold Orlando.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright, 1884, by International
Nova SAeYical

HOLLYWOOD, July 10 G.N.SJ
Old friends welcomed, Kate Price
back onto q movie set today and
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
City Hall Quarters
S0unht As Offices

All space on the first floor Of
the northwest end Of the City
Hall building, will be requested as
quarters for housing all officers Of
the Federal Relief agencies in
Alexandria, under a project to be
submitted to city council Teusday,
according to A. Petersilia, director
Of FERA here.
Appropriations from the city
council will be asked.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
Cooperative Urged
BIZ Miss BHrrOU0hS

Under the leadership Of Miss
Mamie Burroughs, head Of the
National Training School, for
Women and Girls a cooperative
community effort is being started
to harmonic with the announced
plans Of District relief officials
who are working out a Self-help
system. Residents Of Deanwood
and neighboring suburbs are be-
ing asked to assist,
The Washington times., 1934-07-19

heard a sob
8 tory W hich
brought tears to
more than one
bair Of eyes.
Now and again
during the past
two years, some
one has thought
70 wonder: what
had become Of
the stout, Irish
e o m e d / eY1ne
who was a vet
eran OF Holly
woods SlapStick
dovs R1lt: mo-
one seemed to
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
,CrisfieLd Fights
Flames In Forest

CRISFTELD,! Md, July 49,
Forest and marsh fires sent hun
dreds fleeing from their homes
in the Byrdtown and Calvary sec
lions near here and thickly
populated sections were threatened
for hours.
A bucket brigade worked all
day carrying water from nearby
streams under direction Of the
CriSfield Volunteer Fire Depart,
ment. The recent dry spell had
left many water sources dry.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19

he should take it to his wife, as
she was in need Of funds.
The dream, according to Mr..
Smith, made such an impression
upon him that he went to the field
a section unfamiliar to him, and
at the spot Mr.. Saurn indicated
he found the pocketbook with the
money intact. He delivered the
pocketbook to Mr.. Saum's widow.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19

KNOW G11E H1SWCT.
Kate gave it herself when she
came to work today on the set Of
Metro Goldwyn Mayors picture,
F'HaVe q Heart"
Twenty-one months ago, Holly
wood now learns, the comedienne
met with q nearly fatal autorno:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

class instincts for united action against united
enemy.
THE action Of the Southern State organizations of
the Socialist Party, as we'll as the telegram sent
by Francis Henson, secretary of the Revolutionary
Policy Committee, to Clarence Hathaway, have an
added Importance as a commentary the action
passed by the S. P. Executive Committee in Boston
last Friday.
The s. P Executive Committee last week passed
a resolution endorsing the united front Sin prn-
cple," but actually hamperng the united front by
deferring all action on it until 1885, two years from
nowl This action as pointed out by Comrade
Hathaway in his articles in the Daily Worker, only
to emphasize that the majority of the leaders
in the Executive Committee have no real desire for
building the united front, and are interested only
in hindering as much possible all progress
toward it.
Further, in this weeks issue of the New Leader,
Norman Thomas approves the action of the s. P.
Executive Committee. of which he is the leading
member stating editorally:
d" the statement handles the problem as
well as it can be handled in view of the present
situation, the renewed bitterness of the Commu-
mist attacks on the Socialist Party and the labor
movement, and the manifest desire of the ma
jOrity of the Socialist Party to close discussion
on this issue. a majority which desires no
negotiations the united front and end of
the waste Of time the discussions of it." (Our
EMPHASIZE. W.
Now here is the blunt issue. Can the majority of
the workers of the Socialist Party accept this plain
y stated hostility to united front action by Norman
Thomas and the Executive Committee members?
We do not believe that Thomas is right We do not
believe that the class conscious workers of the S.
consider it a waste of time" to build the united
struggles of the working class against capitalism
and capitalist exploitation
On the contrary, We are firmly convinced that
the majority of the workers Of the Socialist Party
desire heart and soul for unity with their class
comrades in the Communist Party whatever diff
ferences divide them.
And the action of the FIVE Socialist Party state
organizations is the most eloquent political COM
ment that one could make on the statement of
Thomas and the resolution of the S. P. Executive
Committed
1t is indeed precisely the kind of commentary
which class conscious workers everywhere will hail
with particular satisfaction at this moment
These, then, are our conclusons-Hail the pro-
gress toward the united front! Go forward over
all obstacles to build this unity! Follow the stir
ring example of the five Southern states! Press
forward with united front proposals to every So
cialist Party local and state group!
Socialist Party workers! Glass comrades! AS we
weld our class unity let our enemies fear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
BY Burck

ler's bloodhounds, Hitler calls paci-
fic. But the workers in the Saar
are organized and they are organized
under the banner of the United
Front of the Socialist and Com
munists who are fighting for the
Status Quo" and for free Ger
many. In spite of the reports Of
the bourgeois press the United
Front is making tremendous gains.
1t has in its midst all anti-fascists,
the Catholic workers included. In
spite of the terror, in spite of the
millions of marks being spent by
Hitler in the Saar thousands of
misguided workers who had pre-
viously belonged to the German
Front" (the Nazi branch in the
Saar) are flocking to the United
Anti-Nazi Front. Meetings and
demonstrations are being held and
one can hear the tue voice of the
Saarlanders in the heart of these
meetings. Andre Viollis in a
leading article written for LIE
Petit Parisien" about the Saar
situation says: II attended many
meetings, especially at Neunkir-
chen. a city of mines and metal
lurgy. 1t used to be a f1ef of a
certain Mr.. Stumm, powerful
steel magnate, a friend of the ex-
Kaiser Wilhelm II, who used to
rpiOY1 hy terror Moyi,1 l. iro11oy1 ho
become one of the citadels of the
advanced parties and of the Anti
Hitler fight. In cities or villages,
elsewhere, the situation is the same"
Everywhere, men, women and
children march and assemble under
the following slogans and banners:
"F'reiheit;;" Rot Front; "Al votes
against Hitler Germany; Nothing
for Hitler, all for liberty; Save
Thaelmann." Viollis describes the
different meetings. He says that
at meeting "as soon as Comrade
Pford, the leader of the Communist
Party in the Saar appears the faces
of the people brighten up" He re-
lates an interview with Max Braun,
the leader of the S. P. in the Saar.
He asked Braun what hopes he
had for the plebiscite. Braun
answered The brown terror from
the other side of the Rhine has
transformed the Saar. The move
ment 1.-THE anti-Nazi movement and
for the Status Quo"-P. GIL Is
growing to-day from the ve-y
depth of the masses. We see it by
the enthusiasm with which we are
received in the smallest villages
where we never penetrated before.
There are also those who keep
silent because they are afraid, but
who will vote against Hitler just the
same" His hopes are high and he-e
he gives "a very modest estimate"
according to his own statement. 1--WE
have on our side" he says, go per
cent of the United Front; % ser
cent of the Catholics and those who
came to us from the German
Front; PEI cent francophiles :.
and already we have more than so
pe- cent on our side"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
The United Mine
Workers Elections

THE conference of rank and file miners
in the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. held at Arnold City, Pa, last Sunday,
decided to participate with all energy in
the national and district elections now
being carried in the u NJ w A. This rank and
file gathering, with local unions from the Pitts
burgh represented, called on u M w A.
members throughout the country to pile up a huge
vote for the rank and file candidates in both the
international and district elections.
John L. Lewis has arbitrarily and illegally ruled
most of the candidates for international Office off
the ballot so that he could steal the election But
the rank and file candidates for delegate to the
next A. F. of L. elections on the international
ballot Therefore the miners participate in the
most energetic campaign to elect those few candi-
dates not ruled off the ballot by the Lewis machine
The rank and file conference correctly decided
that to accept Lewis provocaton and to boycott
the union election because of Lewis ruling would
be to play into Lewis hand and to allow him to
suppress the rank and file without any protest cam
paign. They correctly decided that the rank and
file movement can be built up and strengthened in
the course of the elections.
In the U. M w A. district elections such as
Pittsburgh district where the rank and file slate
is on the ballet and endorsed by many local unions
the Lewis machine be ousted and heavy ma
JoIlIy vote roHed up Tor the rank and file
didates
In the course of the election campaign the rank
and file conference decided, the membership will
be modified for the fight for special convention
which the membership is demanding. The whole
program of the rank and file, including the demand
for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
for all the economic demands including higher
wages and shorter hours, and the demand for no
discrimination against Negro workers will be put
forward in the election struggle Of the rank and
file miners.
The fullest participation of the miners in the
election for those minor Offices for which the rank
and file got on the international ballot and in the
district elections to elect the rank and file candi-
dates will strike a blow at the Lewis machine and
strengthen the whole rank and file movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
The War Danger GroVVS

WHAT seems to be now the main focal
" point of the war danger in Europe,
Jugoslavia and Hungary, is only one of the
symptoms of the tremendous pressure of
the capitalists for war.
1t is ironical that the first sparks of the
oncoming new criminal imperialst war seem to
arise at almost the precise spot where the last world
slaughter began. The danger of a new bloody world
slaughter was not inferred with the corpse of King
Alexander
The charges of completely in the assassination
made by Jucosavia against Hungary, and the brutal
expulsion Of thousands of Hungarian citizens from
Jugosiavia are but the surface fireworks of the
deeper imperislist contradictions Fascist Germany
has been trying to provoke just such a seems
to be in the making in Jugoslaya and Hungary.
First it the slaughter of Dofuss plotted by the
Nazis Then the assassination Of King Alexander,
In which the Nazis undoubtedly had hand,
Furthermore, the Nazi butchers have been plot
ting the armed seizure of the Saar.
The world crisis of capitalism has reached such
a pass that every attempted solution" Immediately
runs into the paths of armed conflict. The rot
ting decaying system of capitalist slavery can
hardly bulge without setting off the whole noun
tain Of explosive contradictions and prepara-
tons.
II is instructive for us to note that on the very
day that Hungarian citizens we're being ousted from
Jugoslavia, and troops crossed the Hungarian
border, the Roosevelt government made definite
war threat to Japan over the remuneration of the
Washington naval treaty.
In Europe and in Asia, the whole capitalist world
is plunging to war Even if they are able to smooth
over the particular bitterness on the Jugoslav-
Hungarian border, the war danger will not be
lessened by single jot. 1t will continue to grow
more intense, and will sooner or later explode the
whole world into the most barbarous conflict hui
mainly has ever known-unless the proletariat by
their revolutionary action can stop the warmakers.
Despite these constant threats of war lowering
over the workers of the entire world the Socialist
International has refused an International united
trent against war and fascism. And in the United
States, Norman Thomas, aiding the right wing,
has known how to make the best use-against the
united front-of the proposal for the Socialist Par
ties in each country to take up the question in
dvidually. But the danger of a new slaughter
grows more oninous and only the united action of
the workers, of all anti-war forces, against i'm
peralist war acting now, stop the bloodthirsty
rulers from plunging the world into an ocean of
butchery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Real Progress Toward
Unity

FOLLOWING as it does so closely on the
heels of the recent meeting of the So
cialist Party Executive Committee in
Boston, the signing of united front
agreement by five leading Southern state
organizations of the S. P takes on extraordinary
Importance.
Surely this news Of joint action against the
common enemy will send a thrill of joy through
the hearts of all class conscious workers.
And certainly the united front CALL signed by
five leading Socialist Party workers, urging the
swift welding of the working class united front all
over the country will meet eager and happy re-
Spouse everywhere in the ranks of the working class
The Daily Worker as the organ of the Central
Committee Of the Communist Party halls this
swiftly growing unity halls it as another of the
steps which must finally bring the whole Socialist
Party into united front of struggle against cap-
talst reaction together with the Communist Party
The joint agreement very correctly and justly
is an agreement honestly and sincerely entered upon
by two groups, having programmatic differences on
basic questions, but nevertheless determined not
to let these progra1matic differences stand in the
way OF an immediate struggle the specific issues
concerning the masses right now.
On certain issues such as the fight against war
against fascsm for defense OF civil rights, against
wage cuts, for relief and unemployment insurance
for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Hern-
don, against the Roosevelt A. A. A. and N R. A.
Wall Street program, there can be no two ways
of thinking far as the working class is con-
cerned.
These are the immediate issues on which every
class conscious worker wishes with all his deepest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

orders and instructions through an
intermediary, whose title is "Saar-
vertraunnsmann Herr Regierungs-
rat Waterman" and whose address
in SO Hildebold Platz, Cologne, this
in spite of the undertakings given
the Council of the League by the
German Government on June 4 last
and of an official declaration by the
Chief Of the Front that it was IAN
independent organization uncon-
nected with any German authority"
The German Front
The German Front" as this new
Nazi Party in the Saar is called, is
a camouhaged name of the old
National-Socialist Party in the Saar.
This report says, as was pointed out
so many times in the Daily Worker,
is the same Nazi Party as that in
Germany. The report says that it
is supported and subsidized by Hit
Ter and his financial oligarchs-
Roechling g. Co.
The German Front" has a cash
fund of 100000 francs. 1t receives
and follows the terroristic instruc-
lions from the Third Reich of
Hitler. In Other words, the Nazi
Party in Germany, the National
Socialist Party in the Saar, the
German Front" are one and the
same thing.
The United Front of the Socialist
and Communists in the Saar, which
tens of thousands of Catholic work.
ers have joined made uneasy about
the result and, as consequence, he
sent one of his emissaries to the
Pope in Rome to get him to inter-
vene in the Saar for his benefit
(Hitler's). What methods Won Ber-
gen, the German emissary used to
obtain the Pope's blessings we don't
know, but fascist methods are the
same all over.
Now if that were not enough to
prove Hitler's pacifist intentions,
here is another incident. A courier
belonging to the German Front"
stopping in q village near Merch-
weller for drink left behind him
by accident some documents. THE
documents" says the Manchester
Guardian Weekly, include letter
from the Chief of the German
Front 'Motorcar Service to the local
heads of the service throughout the
Saar requesting them to send in 10
days complete lists of owners of cars
in their districts, with full specifl-
cations" The letter explains that
the cars would be needed not only
for transport of ill and isolated
voters but fo- transport of prison.
ers," traffic control" and reserve
purposes" The document was for
warded to the Saar Cove hing Com
mission.
Pacific" Activities
Such activities Hitler calls pacific.
The Justification of the ballot list,
the terror inflicted upon the work
ers, the raids on the workers
unions, the Catholic unions in
cluded, all that occurring in the
Saar territory at the hands of HIT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

attacked during this time. The i'm
possibility of suppressing the armed
struggle against the present i'm
perialist regime in Manchuria is
due, according to this newspaper,
to the armed resistance of a con-
siderable section of the population,
especially the peasantry.
The North China Daily News
reports from Hardin that a group
of Partisans, 10000 strong, has
been formed on the banks of the
Ussuri River, and has proclaimed
an independent republic. Cannon
and reserves of ammunition have
enabled this group to repulse all
attacks by the regular troops. The
Partisan troops have amalgamated
all the units which have been fight
ing in the Manchurian army for
the last three years, and have been
arousing the rebellions in the army
of Manchukuo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Nazis Impose Severe
Sentences on Workers

BERLIN, Dec. Two function
aries named Olbrisch and Brassat
have been sentenced to three and
two years hard labor respectively
for Illegally continuing the work of
the district committee of the Ber-
n-Brandenburg section of t h e
Communist Party of Germany.
The Berlin Assize Court has esn-
te.ced worker named Wepler to
seven years hard labor for helping
to rebuild the organization of the
Communist Party, and two other
workers n m ed Kreuzberg and
Tiege to five and four and half
years for the same offense.
The Hansa Special Court has
sentenced worker named Knopfel
to six years hard labor for carrying
on a messenger contact with ref
ugees in Denmark; three other de-
PENDANTS received terms of four
years each, five two to three years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Italian Anti-Fascists
Get Heavy Sentences

ROME, Dec. IA trial of IL anti
fascists, charged with having built
up revolutionary organizations in
Muggia, Rovigno, Monfalcone, Tri-
este and Spezzia, has been held here
before a special court. One of the
defendants, who had already served
term of imprisonment, imposed
by the Special Court, and who i'm
mediately resumed his revolutionary
work as soon as released, was SEN
fenced to Is years hard labor The
other defendants received sentences
ranging from two and one-half to
seven years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Manchurian
Rebels Press
W Japan

SHANGHAI, Dec. THE Chi
nese press here continued to print
reports on the movements of the
rebels in Manchuria.
Especially sharp conflicts have
taken place near Tunchua, in the
east of Manchuria. In October
alone the insurgents made 158 at
tacks in this district, in the course
of which 337 japanese were killed.
The summer operations of the
japanese troops against the rebels,
writes the China Weekly Review"
ended in victory for the Partisans.
In actual fact there is not a
single town, not single railway
line in Manchuria safe from the
activity Of these heroic insurgents.
The most important centers. as
Mukden, Hardin, Chanshun, were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Jailed Cubans
Send Protest
On ScOttsboro

HAVANA, Dec. THE text of a
letter sent to the Scottsboro boys by
10 political prisoners in Castillo
Principle, the biggest Jail in Cuba,
was made public here by the Defensa
Obrera International, sister organ
ization of the American Interna-
tional Labor Defense. The letter,
translated from the Spanish, reads:
I'VE comrades in this ell, placed
here because of our struggle against
the imperialism that rules our
country, join the international pro-
test against the frame-up of which
you are victims. The memory of
the Chicago martyrs is still fresh in
our minds and we will develop every