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Evening star., 1934-04-18
TAX RATE OF S1.2O
URGEDBY CITIZENS
Columbia Heights Forum
Claims Assessments Are
Excessive.

Claiming many residence properties
In the District are now assessed at a
value greatly in excess of their market
value, the Citizens Forum of Colum-
bia Heights last night adopted reso-
luton urging that the tax rate on real
property for the fiscal year of 1895 be
reduced to $1.20 per 500 value. This
action was taken at a meeting in
Powell JUNIOR High School-upon rec
ommendation by Chairman Alba M.
Edwards of the Committee on Taxes.
The resolution asks furthe that
actual bona-fide assessment of all real
property be made annually by the
staff of assistant tax assessors. 1t was
claimed that although this Is actually
required by law. 1t has not been car
ried out by the District assessors,
probably because the small size of the
staff of assessors has made it impos-
sible to do so.
Charges Over Assessment.
One member gave an example of
over-aSSessment in his vicinity. He
said certain property near his home
has for years been assessed at a value
of $4,000, and that if that same prop
erty was placed on the market it
would not be valued at over $500.
1t was pointed out that during the
depression t r. Gus sands of District
homeowners have been unable to pay
the high taxes, and that this has been
evidenced by the fact that each year
thousands of District homes have been
advertised for sale to pay taxes.
Members contended further that
during these years the amounts paid
in taxes have been far in excess of
District government expenditures,
with result that a surplus of several
million dollars has accumulated in
the Federal Treasury
Copies of the resolution are to be
Evening star., 1934-04-18

sent to the District Commissioners
and to the Senate and House District
Committees.
After hearing read a letter from
Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor
of The Star. in which he told Of The
Stars Better Homes Contest, initiated
this week, the association voted unan-
imous and enthusiastic approval of
the drive.
Evening star., 1934-04-18
Some Washington Headliners
"A Republicans Look Alike McNar Senate G. O. P Leader
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ NOWLEDGE of two facts in
u the life of Charles LIMA Nc
n Nary helps one understand
L - the type of man who guides
the Republican party's desti-
nles In asie United Stat9s Senate.
One Is that his seat in the senate
chamber is between "Puddler Jim"
Davis of Pennsylvania, G. o. P. old
guardsman, and Hiram johnson of
California, one Of the most vociferous
of Republican insurgents.
This demonstrates the working of
his political credo-"All Republicans
look alike to me-"
The other is the specially con-
structed sand trap on the side of a
hill at his home in Oregon where he
practices with his untrustworthy
niblick.
Generally I am in the bunkers
while playing golf with Pat Harri-
son (of MississippD and Jim Couzens
(of Michigan) in Washington, he ex-
plains.
Pat and Charlie"
The blond, dapper Republican leader
and the man sometimes described as
the Mississippi "gadf1y" are close per-
sonal friends. When one has to be
absent when an important vote is
taken. invariably they are paired.
You see Pat" McNary tells the
clerk when he must be absent. Hell
take care of me-"
You see Charlie" says Pat. Hell
look after me-"
McNary's popularity bridges the aisle
dividing one party from the other, in
the Senate chamber. Almost every
one agrees that his knack of getting
along with his opponents as minority
leader makes the Senate happier and
smoother working unit than it other
wise would be.
Tall, Suave and gracious, he has a
boyish countenance despite the fact
he will be so years old in June. He
has been pronounced one of the best
groomed, if not best-dressed, men in
the Senate.
Always Smiling.
Almost always smiling, he has an
attractive air of easy formality. One
is likely to encounter him in Senate
corridor whistling some popular song
as his long legs convey him easily
almost jauntily-to his destination.
Those long legs represent one of
his political assets. For McNary is
not given to long speeches. His
rostrums are the cloakrooms and the
seemingly endless corridors of the
Capitol and Senate Office Building.
Born on farm, he loses no time in
getting back to his vast acres when
the Senate adjourns. 1t hardly could
be called farm now. however. The
fields near Salem, Oreg., have been
supplanted largely by orchards.
Fish, Birds and Poetry.
He has trout pond near his house
where he feeds ground liver to his
pets A lover of wild life, he has made
his place sanctuary for birds.
On the marble bookshelf in his Office
at the Capitol, among tones on law,
geology and other subjects. may be
seen several volumes of poetry One
volume he likes particularly is beau
tifully bound first edition of the poems
of Samuel Simpson, Western pioneer
poet who wrote of the Oregon country
side.
Evening star., 1934-04-18
Strikes Cost $50. 900. 900.

Strikes have cost the workers of
Spain about s30,OO0,00O since the re-
public was formed in 1881, according
to Senor Estadella, minister of labor.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
PHONE DIRECTORIES
READY THIS WEEK
New "Civic Section and 5000
More Names Included in 1934-5
Winter-Spring Edition.

Featuring a new civic section and
! 5000 additional names, the l934-35
! Winter-Spring edition of the Wash
! ington Telephone Directory will be
distributed this week to telephone sub
scribers in city and suburbs.
| There has been a gain of 1871 tele-
phones in Washington this year, max
| ing 186,432 now in service. Sub
| scribers are warned to shake their old
directories we'll before discarding
them. Bank books, leases. insurance
/ policies, birth certificates and even
money have been found in discarded
directories.
The civic section" which Is being
introduced, contains in its four pages
information of interest throughout the
city. 1t is located between the
alphabetical and classified directories.
| The information on the first page.
headed by picture of the United
States Capitol, was supplied by the
Greater National Capital Committee
of the Washington Board of Trade.
The next two pages consist of dou-
ble-page highway map, on which Gov
ernment buildings and other places
of interest are marked The map was
furnished by the American Automobile
Association. through the District of
Columbia Motor Club.
The fourth page of the civic section
contains postal information, a feature
for several years.
The new directory contains 1,048
pages, with the listing of telephone
subscribers covering 652 pages. Ap-
proximately 100000 copies will be dis
tributed.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

huge new zinc projects down in the
Caucasus. Fay went along and founc
ample opportunity to continue hel
flying. She made Moscow her head.
quarters.
She soon had an established repu-
tation among the fast st-developing avi-
alton circles in the Soviet Union
Women pilots we're few; foreign wom-
en- pilots especially those who coulc
teach what they knew-were in de-
mand. Miss ellis gave several lee
lures before Glasses of 5000 mer
and women who were eager to learn
all she could tell them about para
chutes and parachute packing
There is widespread interest ir
Russia in gliding Miss Gillis tells
Of her first fight in a soaring glider
She made it without any previous in
struction. Besides being breach ir
the Soviet etiquette of gliding, one
may gather that the feat was a bit
daring.
Cracked Up In Glider.
ut was / minute and IS seconds OF
the most eccentric flying any one ever
witnessed" Miss Gillis says II did
Evening star., 1934-12-09

international aviation competition in
the Far East is keen. The British
and Dutch both skirt China and
Bangkok, and the French extend in
land to China proper in Indo-China.
Germany in Orient Lanes.
Germany, with the Eurasia Line
Gufthansas subsidiary, has already
established itself between Shanghai,
Hankow and Peiping and is ready to
provide a direct link between Central
Europe and the Orient through estab-
lishment OF line across Northern
China and connecting with trans
Siberian services at the Soviet border.
The transpacific service is coming
much sooner than was originally ex-
pected-due chiefly to announced
plans of the British ard French for
larger and improved equipment, and
the commercial significance OF trade
with The Orient.
1t was generally thought that trans
atlantic service would precede the
Pacific. AS it is. Pan-American and
Imperial AirWays have made propo-
sails for joint operation Of an Atlantic
and round-the- world service, plan
which has been held up for the
moment.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Cruising Radius 1000 Miles.

With a pay load Of Is passengers
and ton of express. these new clip
pers Of the air can cruise 1000 miles,
well in excess Of the longest over
water mileage With express alone.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
the cruising radius is extended to

the CRUISING IaQlus 10 ehteHueO W
1000 miles.
Advanced ship design and radio in
stallation has been incorporated in
the new airships, which are one-third
larger than the Sikorsky clippers
with which the Pan-American pilots
broke virtually every transport air
record this Summer
Training flights for the clipper
crews are scheduled to begin this
week, when a Sikorsky S42 flies an
all-ocean route to Miami and the
CarIpDean for several months of sea-
soning in navigation, radio direction
finding and general maritime navi-
eating methods.
Quarterback procedure has been
carried out in the new Martin flying
boats, for three of which Pan-Ameri-
can paid Sl,000,000.
To Seat Two Pilots.
A half-deck cockpit will seat two
pilots. On a quarterback above will
operate the flight captain. whose au-
thority will be that of sailing mas
ter A radio operator, fight engi-
neer and purser compose the rest
of the crew.
BY spanning the Pacific. Pan
American will be able to link up
branches Of its service now extending
halfway around the world through
the Caribbean, Central and South
America and China proper. The Chi
nese operations are through Thech-
lnese National Aviation Corp, which
links the principal markets Of Can
ton, Shanghai and Peiping, and
Chengtu, up the Yangtze River.
AS in the South American market
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Ariatrix, Licensed 5 Years,
Back From 42 Years IN Soviet
Fay ellis, 25, Of New
York Visits ID. E..
Briefly.
american Lecfured on
Parachutes to Rus.
sian Glasses.

Five years as licensed airplane pilot
four and onehalf Of which she spent
in Soviet Russia. are among the eX-
periences of 25-year-old Fay Gillis of
New York. who dropped into Wash
ington yesterday and few away this
morning for Pittsburgh.
Few women have ever had oppor-
tunitv to be faced with the question
Shall l finish college or learn to f1y?'
much about it had they chosen to
follow their decision and take up
aviation. Miss GillIs made that de-
cision. however, and made great
deal OF it.
Yearned Early to Fly.
That year, 1929, was held the first
womens air derby. Flying was really
''in the air" but Miss Gillis was still
in college. Marked early with an am
bition to become an aviator. she ap-
preached her father with the question
Her father felt that was Fay's ques-
ton, to settle for herself.
To Valley Stream Long Island, she
lOth IICI StAl NulSh
feeling for the controls. She learned
to fly rapidly, and well. Also, she
learned how to be cool-headed.
One day her plane started to drop.
Miss ellis "bailed out" or, in simpler
terms. took to her parachute. The
fact that she was the first woman pilot
in an airplane who accomplished the
feat. safely, earned her something
beside newspaper notoriety. She be-
came the first woman member of the
now famous Caterpillar Club. an ex-
elusive group of fortunates who are
still alive to relate how they had to
Jump from a moving airplane in order
to save their lives
Father Went to Moscow.
In 1880 her father went to Moscow
to enroll his talents as metallurgist
and chemical engineer in one of the
Evening star., 1934-12-09
ALIBI FOR KENNAMER
Judge Denies Son, Held for Muir
der, Led Robber Band.

TULSA, Okla, December 8 (P)-
United States District Judge Frank
lin E. Kennamer today said his son
Phil. 10, held for the Staying of John
Gorrell, %, was at home for dinner
the night of November %, when two
Wagner, Okla, persons said he led
a robbery band of five youths
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil James viewed
young Kennamer, and said he was
among the five who took S85 and
three firearms from them.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

everything but loop and, naturally.
cracked up bit at the end. But my
second flight-well, by then l had
learned something and my flight was
less Of a skyrocket effect, I believe"
Outside of a short length of time
back in the United States, she has
lived since 1880 in Moscow. That is,
except for few bats about the
country as Miss Gillis describes
them. For example. one of these
bats" included flying across North
ern Siberia. She stopped off long
enough at Chen Chung to see the
coronation of Pu vi, in Manchoukuo.
AfterWard, on her way home" she
few in Penang, Federated Malay
States: in Manila, P. l., over Singa-
pore. Sumatra; took a freighter for
variation, and continued her way
across the Black Sea and up through
the Caucasus to Moscow.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
PRESS BAN EXTENDED

Austria Bars German Newspapers
Three More Months.
VIENNA, December P).-The
government decree banning circula-
ton in Austria of all German news
papers was extended today for another
three months after the date Of its
expiration, December II.
The action indicated that the hopes
of Franz Won Papen. German Minister
to Austria, for reconciliation between
the two countries had not been real
ICED as fully as he wished. Won Papen
recently expressed the hope the news
paper ban would soon be lifted in the
interests of better understanding be-
tween the two Germanic nations.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Firestone Unimproved.

GIBRALTAR, December P.-
The condition of Harvey Firestone,
jr., who was removed from ship and
taken to hotel here suffering from
influenza, was reported today as un-
changed from yesterday, except that
the patient was more cheerful.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
j. S. AVIATION BIDS
FOR ORIENT TRADE
Lines Across Pacific Seen
by Spring via Hawaii,
Guam and Manila.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 2.-Amer1-
can aviation within the next few
months will project new aerial trade
routes over the Pacific Ocean to tap
the Orient's world markets.
Experimental service between the
mainland of the United States and
Canton, China, is to be inaugurated
this Spring by Pan American Airways
in establishing flying routes and
schedules that are expected within
a year to bring the Orient so hours
from Pacific Coast cities.
Comparable in trade significance
with the advent of the American
clipper ships of the nineteenth CEN
tury. the transpacif1c transport flights
will be the initial bid of international
aviation for transoceanic transport
trade.
Route $3.50 Miles Long.
Pan-American it became known
definitely, will launch this service this
Spring in a series of flights over a
route $3.50 miles long. The longest
over-water hop will be that of 2,4O0
miles between California and Hawaii.
Pan Americans projected trade
route, it was learned, is over six easy
legs-California to Hawaii, Hawaii TO
Midway Island, Midway to Wake Is
land. Wake to Guam, Guam to Ma
Mia in the Philippines. Manila to
Canton
Representations have already been
made for the establishment of shops
and sea bases at those land points
on the long transpacific route, it was
understood. 1t has not been deter
mined fully what will be the terminal
location on the Pacific Coast
The equipment for Pacific transport
will be giant Martin flying boats, with
gross weight of 81 900 tons, capable
of carrying so passengers, and a
cruising speed Of approximately 165
miles an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09

Million Signatures and a Million
Pennies" to free Thaelmann and all
prisoners.
II. Collect funds by other
methods, affairs, at meetings, from
treasures of organizations, to send
a committee Of outstanding men and
women in public life into Geremany
to visit the prisons and concentrs-
ton camps, to interview Thaelmann
and other prisoners.
II. Induce tourists going to Europe
this summer. to wire Berlin for their
right to visit the prisoners in Nazi
iails.
10. Secure protests from men and
women in public life in your city,
from attorneys, physicians, educa-
tors, authors, artists.
IA. Check up on every labor paper
in your city. Provide it with news
of your mass protest movement.
Is. Call an enlarged meeting of
all delegates to your city committee
to Aid Victims of German Fascism
to discuss and act upon this call to
action. Invite organizations you
have not reached up to now to at
tend.
Is. All larger cities should begin
celebrating the possibility of a
gigantic counter trial, attended by
thousands of the city population, to
which the National Committee will
send a speaker from our World
Committee at Paris.
Attention: Copies of all resolu-
tons, all kilograms and cablegrams,
all letters sent to prisoners in Ger
many; reports of all actions entered
into, of all meetings held. should be
sent to the National Committee to
Aid Victims of Germany Fascism
$40 Broadway, New York. N. Y.
From the national this material will
be sent to the World Committee,
Paris for their use internationally
and will as well be released to the
press, throughout the United States.
All funds collected should be
rernitted to the National Committee,
at the Address below.
Anti-Nazi leaflets, Thaelmann
postcards, can be secured from the
address below at so cents a hundred
$3.50 a thousand.
Anti-Nazi pamphlets: Do you
know Thaelmann, by Henri Bar
busse; Women Under Hitler" Som
renberg, the story OF concentra-
ton camp; Brains Behind Barbed
Wire" the fate Of intellectuals, ply
sicians and scientists under Hitler,
can be ordered from the National
Committee.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO
AID VICTIMS OF GERMAN
FASCISM
$40 Broadway, N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
Outlines Program
For Action in Fight
TOFroe Thaelmann
continued from Page y

:
Nazi iails, Free Thaelmann COM
mittees CThaelmann stands at the
top of the Nazi list of those to be
murdered) in all organizations,
shops, neighborhoods.
2. Give ten minutes at all meet
ings, forums, affairs to inform all
present regarding the situation in
Germany, tc pass resolutions de-
handing the liberation of Thael-
mann and all prisoners.
3. Send protest resolutions to the
German consul in your city, to Hans
Luther, German Ambassador, Wash
ington, D. G.. to Chancellor Hitler,
Berlin, Germany. Voice the demand
for open, public trials, denounce the
"Volksgericht," demand that prison.
ers shall have attorneys and wit
nesses of their own choosing, shall
be allowed visitors from other coun-
tries, shall have physicians they
name, visit them.
4. Send committees by the hun
dreds to the German consul in your
city. Picket the consulate. Keep the
consulate's telephone busy with
protest calls from organizations and
individuals. Demonstrate before the
consulates.
5. Picket and demonstrate at the
docks where German ships load and
unload Induce dockworkers to
refuse to load and unload German
vessels.
g. Send letters to the Peoples
columns of the daily press in your
city. Demand that the press open
its columns to your protest against
the fascist regime in Germany.
T. Send postcards by the hundreds
of thousands to Ernst Th2elmann,
observation-disclosures, Moabit,
Berlin, Germany (obtainable at
address below. Send a registered
letter, return receipts demanded, to
Thaelmsnn, with your greetings and
pledge Of solidarity.
8. Erect Free Prisoners in Nazi
Germany corner in your headquar-
tiers, Office, meeting place. Display
Anti-Nazi literature, Thaelmann
posters, slogans, etc.
9. Speakers of all organizations
that have not yet been connected
with this nationwide mass move
ment CA. p. of L. locals, Jewish or
carnations, liberal groups, etc.
10. Join in the campaign for "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09


ers that if they strike the Commu-
nists will lead it. They point to the
Party leaflets found in the mills
and try to raise the "red" scare.
Meanwhile bombings continue; two
more chain stores were dynamited
and the butchers strike blamed. The
superintendent tries to blame Com
munists and calls on responsible
union leaders" to isolate the Com
munists.
Misleaders of the Brighton Local
; Of the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, organ
lied in the Woodward Iron Com
pany steel plant, which is the only
1UMM.SW. local not striking, is
making vicious attack on the
Communist Party and blames the
union men for the bombings. The
International Labor Defense and
the Communist Party are issuing
leaflets exposing the bonbings as
actions of provocateurs.
The Unemployment Councils are
calling on the iotless to support the
strikes.
The Republic Steel strike contin-
ues. while charges of firing union
men are before the Regional Labor
Board in Atlanta in an attempt to
defeat the strike. The Board is also
arbitrating grievances of the Agri-
cola Furnace Company, now locked
out. and the A. 81 J. Manufacturing
Company. both of Gadsden, Ala,
trying to prevent strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
Cops Torture
Chairman OF
Cafe Strike
To Protest Terror In
Mass Demonstration
AT Coney Island

NEW Notwithstanding into his
house at night and dragging him
from his bed, police arrested Patsy
Augustine, militant strike chairman,
leader of 43 workers on strike at
Nathan's Famous, Inc, without a
warrant. Other members of his
family, including his wife and sis
ter, were also arrested.
Beatings at the police station
failed to get a confession of felo-
NOUS assault from him. Augustine
was brutally slugged into uncon-
in an attempt by police to
break his militant spirit.
This terror and brutality on the
part of the police, particularly those
of the 9Th st. Station, has been in
effect ever since the beginning of
the strike, which is now in its ninth
week. Thirty arrests have been
made so far, but in spite of this the
morale and the ranks of the strikers
are more solid now than ever.
Must Hit Injunction
An injunction issued by the no.
torious Brooklyn injunction Judge,
Faber, prohibits the strikers from
exercising any of their constitu-
tionsl rights. This injunction is Of
the same nature as the one issued
by the same judge against Bakers
Local sos.
Launch Protest
The workers Of Brooklyn arc
called upon to answer the. vicious
police brutality, the injunctons and
frame-up in a mighty protest dem
onstration on Sunday, June 10, at
6 pm, in front Of Nathan's Fam
GUS. Inc, 14th St, Surf and Still
well AYES, Coney Island. All Or
carnations are requested to bring
their own placards.
On Monday, June IL, at 2 pm,
the strikers are going to City Hall
to protest to Mayor LaGuardia
against the brutality of his police.
All food workers are urged to be
before City Hall on Monday at
2 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
Work Stopped on
Docks in Support
OF Coast Strike
Continued from, Page y
New York District Committee

New York District Committee of
the Communist Party.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union stated yesterday that tele-
gram was received from the San
Pedro, Cal, local of the union stat
ing that terror continues to reign
on the waterfront. Police are ar
resting at least 80 seamen day,
beating them up and attempting to
drive them out of town.
Secretary Baxter of the New
York local of the M. w. I. U. stated
that all the forces of the union
would be thrown into the struggle
to bring out the New York long
shoremen and seamen to the DEM
onstration Monday.
On Thursday night one of the
largest meetings of seamen ever held
on South Street voted to hold mass
trial of Brown and Oscar CARLSON,
leaders of the International Sea-
mems Union, where they will be
charged with sabotaging the sea-
mems strike movement. The trial
will be held in the open air Sunday
evening at Whitehall and South
Streets.
Manhattan and Bronx workers
can get to the demonstration Mon
day by taking the East Side subway
to 45th Street in Brooklyn. Walk to
And Street and First Ave. The
demonstration will be held in front
of pier 6, where the crew of the
Texan struck several days ago.