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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Sen. Wagner
Speeds To
Kill Strike
Rushes to Frisco On
Roosevelt's Orders

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 16.
Patrick Donohue, a member of
the staff Of President Roosevelt's
new National Labor Relations
Board, was ordered to San Fran
cisco late today. The official ex-
PLANTATION was that he has been
requested by the Longshoremen's
Board" 1t is well known here
that he is to join the strike
breaking forces which will be CO.
ordinated by Senator Wagner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
French Communists and Socialists Unite Against Fascisn
Party accepts
Communist United Front
Offer on Var, Fascisn,
Plan Joint Actions Gin Struggle in Defense of
Labor and Democratic Liberties

PARIS July 16.-The united front of Communists and
Socialists against fascism is accomplished fact in
France Following the action of the Paris District of the
Socialist Party in coming to agreement with the Com
muns Party of the district united front struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Special to the Daily worker

SAN FRANCISCO. = Seventy-five thousand working
and answered the general strike call this
ing at o'clock and brought about the most far reaching
industrial te-up in the history of American Labor
The general strike in support of the maritime workers
is spreading rapidly along the entire Pacific Coast.
Troops the waterfront have been augmented by
detachments of National Guard and now number 1000
Among the strkebreakng forces to be rushed to the
strike is section of the tank corps which loaded
flat at Salinas Motorized and horse artillery is also
its way to San Francisco The federal government has
announced that it has $4,000 soldiers in the Ninth
Corps Area which embraces California and threats
been made to send these troops to the bay region.
But troops and threats of troops only made the
strikers redoube their efforts make the wakout COM
pete along the entire coast
The strike went into effect in all the San Francisco area
The region affected included the suburban districts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

SAN FRANCISCO 16-Thc strike spreading
the the Oakland strike
scheduled for tomorrow The workers Contra Costa expected
walk out Wednesday,
Sentiment for the general strike spreading other nearby
cities 14Srd artillery regiment being sent
sent the Stockton where is being unloaded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

the bay on the hills surround
ing the city. The entire
wholesale and business district of
the city is at a standstill
Even the storekeepers are closing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
By MARGUERITE YOUNG

DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 16.-
At the command of President
Roosevelt, Senator Robert F. Wag-
ner, former National Labor Board
chairman, who recently declared,
"I'll go the limit to prevent strikes"
raced by airplane to Portland, Ore,
today to take charge of the gov
eminent strikebreaking machinery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Strike Move Spreads to Nearby
Towns; People Back Strikers
Communist Party Holds Many Big Meetings,
Covers City With Leaflets; Urges Complete
Rank and File Strike Control
BULLETIN

PORTLAND, July 16Wih so having already
voted favor strike voting tonight there
every by
Wednesday.
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Evening star., 1934-02-25
PAY RAISE REJECTED
BY NASH employees
Str::'ers Refuse Offer of 10 Per
Cent Increase Offered by
Company.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
RACINE, Wis, February 24.-Ra-
cine today looked forward to pro-
tracted labor difficulties as striking
employees of the Nash plant refused
to accept 10 per cent increase In
pay offered by the company.
Labor leaders did not announce
their demands, but 1t was understood
they were holding out for a 20 per
cent boost in pay. I'VE agreed to dis
agree" said william Sonlmers, presi-
dent of the Racine Trades and Labor
Council. Officials of the Nash COM
pany confirmed refusal Of the strikers
to accept 10 per cent.
The strike at the Nash plant, where
about 1000 men we're affected. was
sponsored by unions affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor. In
four plants of three other companies
strikes initiated by the Racine County
Workers Committee continued in ef-
feet. There was no activity at the two
plants of the ]. I. Case Co., the Eisen-
drath tannery and the Oster Clipper
Co. factory. Approximately 1000 mer
have been employed in the plants.
Officials of the Eisendrath tannery
In a letter to Mayor William A. Swo-
boda, said that threats to bomb the
plant and injure officers have beer
made and that windows have beer
broken. The company said 1t would
hold the city responsible for damages
Evening star., 1934-02-25
WITNESS
TELLS Of ATTACK
BedeII Found Unconscious in
Street-Says Pair Tossed
Him From Auto.

Edward Bedell, paroled District
Reformatory prisoner. who came here
in connection with the investigation
Of conditions at the LOrton, Va, In.
stitution. was found unconscious at
avenue last night.
Bedell, questioned at Emergency
Hospital by Capt. Bernard W. Thomp.
son, assistant chief of detectives, and
Detective Sergts. Jake Wolfe and
Clyde N. Strange, said he had been
thrown out of an automobile by two
strange men, who previously had
warned him to get out of town."
Bedell, central figure in the Lorton
inquiry, was found by Mrs. Elizabeth
Fields and Mrs. Bertha Herdey, both
Of the All States Hotel, who sum-
moned Park Policeman George R.
Shibley. The officer took Bedell to
the hospital. where he was found to
be only slightly hurt.
According to Inspector Frank S. w.
Burke, chief of detectives, Beden said
the men visited his room at the Bur-
lington Hotel. drank some beer with
him and then invited him to go out
with them and have a drink. After
he entered their car, he said, they
told him to leave the city and, when
he attempted to argue the point with
them, threw him out. A telegram
found in Bedell's pocket revealed he
was here at the invitation of George
S. Wilson, chairman of the Board of
Public Welfare, Burke said.
The Lorton inquiry is scheduled to
open tomorrow, with Jddge Michael
NJ Doyle presiding. Oficials of the
reformatory have claimed Bedell fur
nished Representative Shoemaker
of Minnesota with the informa-
ton that resulted in the lnyestiga-
ton. The inquiry was ordered after
Shoemaker charged in the House that
graft and corruption exist at Lorton.
As self-appointed counsel for Bedell,
Shoemaker has advised the former
prisoner not to testify at the inquiry.
because it will be whitewash from
start to finish" Shoemaker himself
does not intend to testify.
Bedell had wired Shoemaker last
week from Jersey City that he would
be willing to testify II the probe Is
conducted ION the level" and his ex-
penses are paid.
Shoemaker reiterated his statement
that he would have nothing whatever
to do with the welfare boards inves-
tigation. He said he proposed to
wait until the House acted on his
resolution authorizing an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for a sweeping inves-
tigation of all Federal prisons, and
then have . congressional commit
tee 20 into his charges.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
FILE
EXTENDS WAR QUIZ
Grand Jury Examining Dia-
ries Produced by Wood
rings Private Secretary.
BY REX COLLIER.

Two confidential diaries containing
memoranda of callers and confer
ences in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary of War during the present
and past administrations are under
stood to have proved so interesting to
investigators that the grand jury in
quiry into War Department contracts
may be extended another week.
The diaries are said to have been
produced by Mrs. Kate Buckingham.
private secretary to Assistant Secre-
tary Of War Harry H Woodring. Mrs.
Buckingham spent three days at the
Office OF United States Attorney Leslie
c. Garnett the past week and was in
terrogated at length by the grand
jury.
Woodring is scheduled to make a
second appearance before the grand
jury tomorrow and is to be ques-
toned about conferences and Incl
dents said to have been noted in
the memoranda.
A diary of conferences held in the
Assistant Secretary's Office during the
incumbency of Frederick H. Payne
has been given similar close scrutiny.
Payne was a witness before the in
quisitorial body last week.
Prominent Persons Included.
Running through the ,moranda,
it is reported. are names OF a num-
Der OF prominent persons, some of
whom already have been mentioned
in the investigation Other names
are new to the inquiry and careful
checking will be required to learn
their connection, If any, with mat
ters now under investigation.
1t was in an effort to throw light
on a number of events noted in Mrs.
Buckingham's diary that Lieut.. Col.
James K. Grain. frequently referred
to as star witness" was summoned
last week for a second engagement
with the grand jury. Col. Grain is
executive officer in Woodrings Office.
Col Earl Mcfarland of the Army
War College, who was executive officer
for Payne, is believed to have been
quizzed about matters during Payne
regime.
New avenues of inquiry developed
from the closely guarded diaries have
caused special agents of the Division
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Evening star., 1934-02-25
Doctors Radio
Byrd AdUice on
Injured Pilot
10000 Mile Consulta'
ton FoHO,Cs accident
in Shirley Absence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 24-A COM
mittee of physicians in New York con-
Quoted a medical consultation tonight
10000 miles long. transmitting by ra-
dio to the second Byrd Antarctic ex-
pedition advice for treatment Of an
injured aviator.
Ralph Smith of Frederichtown,
Ohio, an airman. fell into an ice
crevice, bringing on a recurrence OF
an old spinal ailment.
At Little America, Antactica, where
the injured man lay. there has been
no doctor since DR.. Guy o. Shirey
was forced because of illness to re-
turn to New Zealand and civilization
with the Byrd flagship.
Meanwhile James NJ Sterrett, a
medical student, had been attending
Smith. News of Smiths accident wa:
transmitted to New York during g
test Transmission. The information
was passed to the doctors committee
which asked for further details.
Tonight the physicians received
the required information and sent
back instructions for treatment
Another doctor is en- route to Little
America from New Zealand and was
expected to arrive Monday.
In a brief broadcast from Little
America Rear Admiral Richard E
Byrd compared conditions in the Ant
arctic with conditions in the civilized
portion of the world as conveyed to
him in a news broadcast.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
SACASA DENOUNCES
SLAYING or SANDING
Nicaraguan President B1ames
e., Maladministration of
National Guard.
BY the Associated Press.


MANAGUA, Nicaragua, February
24.-President Juan B. Sacasa tonight
issued formal statement blaming the
Staying of Gen. Augusta Sandino We'd
nesday night upon "maladministra-
ton" in the Nicaraguan National
Guard
Describing the kidnapping and slay-
ing outside Manague of Sandino, his
brother and his two aides, the presi-
dent said in his statement:
Before the whole Nation I energeti-
cally reprove this unjustiflable crime,
which seriously compromises my gov
ernment 1t was caused by malad-
ministration in the national guard.
II am firmly enforcing a rigorous
investigation to duly punish the perpe-
traitors for the honor of the Nicaraguan
army, in which the national honor is
intimately entwined.
II trust we can count on nation
wide obedience to military and civilian
authorities as well as the entire citizen
ry in order to obtain the desired end,
maintenance of public order"
Managua and surrounding cities were
peaceful and orderly tonight.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
DEATHS IN STORM
MAY AMOUNT TO Il
Nine Are Killed, 81 Injured in
Bus CraShes-Eight
Missing in Plane.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Nine were killed and 81 persons
injured in two motor bus crashes on
storm-swept Arizona and Kansas
highways yesterday, and there was
growing fear for the lives of eight
others-passengers and crew of an
airliner missing in a blizzard near
Salt Lake City.
Search for the United Air Lines
transport plane, lost since Friday
afternoon shortly after it took off
from Salt Lake City for Cheyenne,
Wyo., centered in the treacherous
Wasatch Mountains, but was ham,
pered by swirling snow and lowering
clouds.
Six Killed in Arizona.
at looks bad-mighty bad" said
the airline official directing the
search.
Six women and a 2-year-old girl
were killed and 81 injured near
Aguila, Ariz., when a motor bus
failed to make a detour and turned
over in rainstorm. The driver said
the rain had extinguished warning
flares. The bus was taking a group
Of Mormons back to Home Gardens,
Calf, after a pilgrimage to a Nor
mon temple at Mesa. AriZ.
In binding snow near Bethel,
Kans.. Union Pacific Stage Lines
bus collided with a freight truck,
killing the bus driver and two pas
sengers.
Snow South to Arkansas.
The Army airmail and the COM
mercial passenger and air express
services we're disrupted through the
Rocky Mountain country and the
Midwest. Snowdrifts we're piling up
on highways. and railroad traffic
was slowing up.
The snowfall covered a wide area
from Canada south almost to Ar
kansas and was continuing. There
was a Az 2-inch fall in Kansas City.
New England was still struggling
with ow-blocked highways and a
cold wave, and in Southern California
heavy rains were regarded as a pos
sible flood threat in some sections.
HOPE FOR EIGHT FADING.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
FASCISTS OF AUSTRIA
MASSED FOR MARCH ON
VIENNA TO SEIZE RULE
Fascist Aduance in Europe
S,ueepmg Democracy aside
Intelligence Replaced by Emotion, In
tolerance and Violence, Sir Philip
Gibbs FHds-Euen France Doubts.

by that frightful bloodshed in Vienna.
the city with reputation OF a care
less, music loving, laughter-loving
people. They were hard-Sticken after
the World War and utterly ruined for
the time. Nevertheless, we thought
them incapable Of barbarism and
ruthless hatreds.
Habicht Warns Heimwehr.
Judgment upon this recent Vienna
affair has not yet been delivered. A
Judgment Of moral Indignation IN the
defense Of liberty Is dangerous. The
Austrian situation is very perilous be-
cause Of the powers grouping them
selves on one side or another OF Aus
trian independence-which means
that Austria will be tied to this or
that group Of rival powers. Such an
independence may cause war no
one wants, though every step seems
in that direction.
The German Nazis are calling
across the frontier to the Austrian
Nazis, and Herr Habicht, chief propa-
gandist for German union with Aus
tria, has issued an ultimatum to the
Austrian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS all
who lean toward Italy as the defender
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Evening star., 1934-02-25
Air Trio, Do,un at Sea, Greets
Death With Cadet Days Song
Narrowing Hours on atlantic Softened
Near End for Dead Pilot by
Melody Pair Al,Uays Sang.

came alongside. It was like a check
from home
But they couldn't get to us. We
wondered and waited as the police
plane TAXED away. We had shouted
to them, We're OK, get us boat. ="
The ayiators learned after their
rescue that the police craft had been
forced down and TAXED perilously to
shore
I'VE burned all our smoke candles
trying to attract attention. The water
was coming in. We closed the door
between the cockpit and the cabin, but
that didn't do much good.
THE tail was higher than any
other part of the ship, so we climbed
back on the tail, and it started to
60 down rapidly under our weight.
I'VE made dive for the top wing
and we lay there on the wing until
about the time the sun went down.
We were drifting seaward all the
time.
"Our faces were coated with ice.
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Evening star., 1934-02-25
BY the Associated Press.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, February "a
Two Army lieutenants propped up on
cots in the Navy Hospital told today
how their best friend was drowned in
the icy sea while they clung for five
hours to the wings of drifting, Grip
pied plane.
I'VE we're over the water, two miles
off Coney Island, when we experienced
our first dificulty," said Lieut.. w. S.
Pocock, jr., Detroit, as he puffed a
cigarette.
Across the hospital room, with his
left knee heavily taped, lay Lieut.. j. H
Rothrock, Washington, D. c. The two
men were rescued last night by the
Navy destroyer Bernadou is minutes
after their companion, Lieut. George
F. McDermott, had been washed into
the ocean.
When we hit the water, one Of the
motors broke away. But we weren't
awfully worried at first. We driftee
about for an hour. A police plane
Evening star., 1934-02-25
M'GRAW GRAVELY
LATTER RELAPSE
Family Summoned to Bedside
of Veteran Base Ball
Leader.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, February
Is Sunday John j. McGraw had
slipped into a coma early today and
appeared to be losing ground against
an attack of uremic poisoning. He Is
at New Rochelle Hospital.
Apparently on the road to recovery,
McGraw suffered a severe intestinal
hemmorhage early last night and was
so critically ill that Mrs. McGraw,
relatives and friends were summoned
to his bedside
McGraw's relapse, as sudden as 1t
was unexpected, came early last eve
ming after he had spent an extremely
comfortable day.
DR.. E. L. Kellogg, one Of the phy-
sicians consulted in the case. dropped
in during the afternoon and said the
base ball leader seemed to be making
satisfactory progress.
Suddenly came word Of the relapse
and DR. L. B. Chapman of New
Rochelle, physician in charge of the
case, was hurriedly summoned.
Late last night DR.. Chapman issued
the following bulletin:
After passing a comfortable day,
the patient suddenly developed Sc
we're intestinal hemorrhage. Condi-
ton considered serious"
Evening star., 1934-02-25
BUILDING GAINS SEEN
Speaker Predicts Tremendous
Growth in Next Two Years.

CHICAGO, February "a R.-A
tremendous expansion" in building
will come in the next two years. A. D.
Theobald, director Of education and
research for the American Savings,
Building and Loan Institute, predicted
today in an address before the North
Central Building and Loan Confer
ence.
He expressed fear. however, that
building and loan associations would
not be able to meet the demand for
funds, declaring that there was little
new investment IN such associations
at the present.
He said that unless heroic meas
ures are taken," building and loan
assets will be less at the end of 1884
thQn they were at the end Of 1888.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
WAR'OF CATHOLICS
0NNAZ|SFORECAST
Pope Said to Have Accepted
Hitler Challenge for
Church Youths.
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN. February 24.-A battle
royal between Catholicism and Nazi-
ism, in which the issue will be Ger
man youth, was regarded as inevitable
tonight in German Catholic circles
Pope Plus XII. they said, has ac-
cepted the challenge of Chancellor
Hitler and will decline firmly to re-
lease the church hold upon Catholic
young people,
Hitlers negotiator with the Vati-
can. DR.. Rudolf Buttmann, has re-
turned from Vatican City without
coming to an agreement with his
holiness and a two-hour conference
between the chancellor and Cardinal
Karl Joseph Schultz of Cologne also
failed to clear the atmosphere.
Paganism Fight Decreed.
Indicative of the peoples concern
over the religious situation in Ger
many are the pontiff's placing of the
book, The Myth of the Twentieth
Century"-by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg,
the philosophic dictator of the new
Germany-on the index of banned
DOOkS, anu lllS uloVl uCllOiio W SCl :
man priests TO cease attacking Prot
estantism in order to conserve all
their strength for fighting paganism.
Un a speech today, Pope Plus de-
nounced modern initiative leading
to the errors and horrors of pagan
life" and declared a terrible men,
ace' exists Ito souls Of people, eSpe-
cially the young" His address was
interpreted as referring to German n
laws and movements.)
DR.. Rosenberg is a leader Of a new
Germanic cult movement which seeks
the recognition Of a German" re.
ligion. Of the same status as Cath
olicism and Protestanism.
May Abrogate Concordat.
Recently youth organizations, in
Guiding the Boy Scouts and religious
groups, were ordered disbanded and
incorporate into the non-relgious
Hitler youth under the supervision
of the Nazi leader. Baldur Won
Schirach.
According to well-informed Catholic
circles, Pope Plus is ready even to
\
Evening star., 1934-02-25
LION CLAWS COMEDIAN
Joe E, Brown Engages in Second
Bout With Beast.

Bout With Beast.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf February "a
LR.-Movie lions apparently don't like
Joe E Brown. comedian.
For the second time in 10 days he
was clawed by one today in the max
ing of a motion picture with a circus
background. His right forearm was
torn.
In the first encounter, another lion
bit his ear and nose.
After treatment, Brown continued
work.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Four Banks Guarded.

COBOURG, Ontario, February "a
R1.-The four banks of this city we're
under police guard yesterday and to-
day because of tip the authorities
received that one of them was to
be held up. The police refused to dis
cuss the matter.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
COLD WAVE TO FOLLOW
FALL OF SNOW TODAY
Fresh East Winds Expected to
Cause Drop in Temperature
TODAY

More snow is expected to fall in
Washington today and tonight, fol-
lowed tomorrow by clearing and
colder weather. The Weather Bureau
expected the mercury to get down to
19 degrees early today.
Fresh east to northeast winds are
expected to shift into the northwest
tonight or tomorrow The temper
ature at midnight was 20 degrees.