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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

no delegate be barred, as Miss lima
has attempted to do, and that only
accredited delegates vote.
Among the resolutions which have
been fayorably acted upon by the
above mentioned united front group
and which will be brought before
the Congress for approval are:
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, united front anti
war-fascist resolution similar to the
program of the American League
Against War and Fascism, one call
ing for vocational training with pay
for all youth from the age of six
teen to eighteen, and others con-
demning the fascist trends inherent
in the transient camps and appren-
ticeship brought forward by lima
and her federal government adj
viserS.
Browder and Thomas Invited
Having been forced to listen to
the sugary speeches of government
-trusters some of whom adj
vocated self help instead Of govern
ment relief for youth, the Execu-
tive Board of the Congress voted to
invite Earl Browder and Norman
Thomas to address the delegates.
The further business of the Con-
gress will follow the plan of dis
cussion in the various sessions, re-
ports to resolution committee. dis
cussion on the floor and election of
continuation committees to build
the united front of the young peo-
pie OF America against unemploy-
ment, war and fasciSm.
The elected chairman of yester-
days session were Alex Taylor of
the Emergency Employees Associs-
ton and Waldo MacNutt of the
Rocky Mountain Y. M. G. A. con-
ference.
The first two days of the Con-
gress have proven that it is possible
fer all youth groups to work to-
gether for the smashing OF fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
.ScOttsbOrODay
Rally to Hear
HerndOn Talk
Nationwide Protest Is
Planned on SaccO-
Vanzetti Day

NEW YORK.-Thousands of New
York workers and intellectuals will
rally in a mighty city-wide mass
welcome to Angelo Herndon, heroic
Negro leader, at the Bronx Coli
scum next Wednesday evening, Aug.
%, Sacco and Vanzetti day.
Throughout the country the ami
versary of the murder of these de-
voted fighters for the working class
will be concentrated as National
Scottsboro Day in the mass fight
for the complete freedom of Hern-
don, now out on bail, and the I'M
conditional and safe release of the
nine Scottsboro boys, Of Ernst
Thaelmann, courageous leader of
the German working class; Tom
Mooney and all other class-war
prisoners.
The Bronx Coliseum meeting,
called jointly by the International
Labor Defense and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, is being
supported by scores of organiza-
tions in the city. In addition to
Herndon, Clarence Hathaway, ed
itor Of the Daily Worker, and other
speakers, an excellent revolutionary
program has been arranged for the
Bronx meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Nazi Officials Admit
Job Crisis i'm Cities

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-One of the
achievements of the Hitler gov
eminent in the sphere of communal
politics has been the introduction
of what is known as a state of
emergency in the municipalities.
This can be declared in any town
which has especially great expendi-
ture for unemployment and poor
relief. In all these towns the I'M
employed coming from other places
and even these belonging to the
town itself-are given barely enough
10 maintain life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Herndon and Bloor
On Boat Ride Tonight

NEW YORK-Angelo Herndon,
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor and the
entire American delegation to the
Paris Anti-War Congress will be
among the guests on the Show Boat
Cruise which will leave Pier l, the
Battery, on the S. S. Ambassador
at $3.50 o'clock tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
500 Workers in Akron
Hear C.. p. Candidates
At Open Air Meeting

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 16.-More
than 500 workers heard I. o. Ford,
Communist candidate for Governor
of Ohio, speak at an open-air meet
ing in Perkins Square Tuesday
night. Other speakers were Joseph
Tesitel, local Communist candidate
for sheriff, and Fred Yale, running
for clerk of courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

Our Readers Must Spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations AS a Political Task OF First
ImuOrtancei
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

Unless Every Section and Unit in
the Party Throws It's Forces Vigor-
Dusty Into the Circulation Drive,
tho Daily Worker Il ms I'm
known TO Thousands Of Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
LICENSE NOTICE

LICENSE NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that license
number A-973o has been issued to the I'M
dersigned to sell beer at retail. under the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at 1913
Amsterdam Ave, New York, N. Y, for of
premises consumption.
Daniel Bilenkis
Purity Diaries
37S Amsterdam Ave, New York, N. Y
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10000 New Readers by September
1 means 10000 Additional Recruits
for Organized Class Struggle!
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.ROut Fascist Clique
At Youth Congress

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Support Alabama Strikes

A resolution of A. Cox of Hunts
vile, Ala, was unanimously passed
on the Alabama strikes, which de-
clared: THE employees of the tex
tile RI nts cf I7lntsvlllo, h'0N7ma,
were forced 70 strike as last
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-02-22

CURRENT SCHOOL ..a'ss
Penalties. Interest and Costs
= Apportionment ............$ t,705.24
State Apportionment .......... 34,15z.60
Overdrawn Dec. 81. 1888 ...... 3o.4e
$35 1892
Transfer to School Districts .$35 ,692.7Z
overdrawn Jan. I. 1893 ........ 1850
$35 1882
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-02-22

LAW ENFORCEMENT
balance Jan. !, 1893 ..........$ 403.i7
Balance Dec. 81, 1888 ...... 403.l7
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-02-22

ScuStS
Luella Turrell. rent Pratt. Nosaj,
Castle, Brown ...............
Pease Heat. & Plumb. repair Tur-
rell house
Mrs. F. A. Kemnitx. rent bed c..
Johnson
c. L. Maurstad. milk for poor -,
City of Red. Falls, water connection
Ii ton Turrell house ....,.......
Botsford Lbr. Co.. coal poor -.
J.,C. Penney Co., supplies for poor
Seenic CITY Coop OIL spppiies R.
White Eagle Oil Co.. supplies Theo.
=. p. Sefeft 49,. ....,.... $500.
J.. Sehmid. supplies John Cassman
J. ;Schmid, supplies M. l. Heath >.
Redwood Grocery. supplies for poor
John Simpson. milk for poor -.
L o. Melon, glasses Mrs. o. lverson
r. A.~Dumke, dental c. lverson -.
3. H. kuenzli. supplies Mrs. r. Len.
man
Katheripe Praxel, welfare workre.
IS,
Evening star., 1934-02-02
PROVES STOLEN GLASSES FIT
BY READING OWN CONFESSION

For several weeks employees Of the
Department of Agriculture have COM
planned of the disappearance of their
eyeglasses.
Two nights ago, police planted" a
pair of marked spectacles in desk
drawer. A short time later, William
Henry Singleton, guard, is reported
to have been found with them in
his pocket. Questioned. he insisted
he sometimes borrowed glasses while
making his rounds SO he could see
to dial the telephone. but that he
had purchased this particular pair.
Later, he signed a confession.
Brought before Judge Gus A..
Schuldt in Police Court this morn
ing charged with petty larceny, Single
ton said that as a matter Of fact
the marked glasses found on him
Evening star., 1934-02-02

were borrowed to "wear over his other
glasses to read better"
Can you really read with them?"
asked Assistant United States Attor-
ney David A. Hart.
Perfectly. Yessiree," said Single
ton.
"All right, read this and show US, :"
said Hart, proffering a sheet of paper.
Singleton took the paper, adjusted
his glasses and began to read-his
own confession, telling how he had
stolen the glasses
His lawyer gulped, made a few
futile gestures as the reading began,
and then resigned himself with a
shrug of the shoulders to Singleton's
indomitable determination to prove
the glasses suited
Judge Schuldt ordered the man sent
to Gallinger Hospital for mental OBJ
servation.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
MATCH VENDORS CASH
GOES TO PUBLIC FUND
Estate of .95-Year-Old Man Totals
$665-Undertak to
Get Part.

Henry Myer, 95-year-old match
vendor, who for many years made a
living selling matches for a penny a
box at Seventh and F streets, left
$685. in cash when he died recently,
but there are no relatives. so his estate
goes to the District of Columbia
A petition for letters of admins
tration of the estate was filed in Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday by
Katherine E. Ryan. president of James
T. Ryan & Co., undertakers, which
has claim of $299 against the
estate
When this is paid out of the money.
which is on deposit in Lincoln Ma
tional Bank, the remainder will go to
the District. Myer, who lived at 926
Sixth street. died January 49,
Evening star., 1934-02-02
C.W.A. SUPERVISORS GET
TRANSPORTATION FUNDS
Controller General McCarl Ap-
proves Disbursement of
$500 Pay Rolls.

Controller General McCarl today
approved disbursement of the pay roll
of some so persons employed to drive
supervisors on civil works projects
here to and from their places OF as
signment, releasing funds which had
been tied up for six weeks.
The pay roll amounts to approx
mately $500. The pay roll has been
held up by disbursing officer OF the
Veterans Administration, who was
uncertain as to whether a former rul-
ing by McCarl, last December, set up
a prohibition against payment of such
a pay roll.
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, District
auditor, received notice today that
McCarl had interposed no objection to
payment of the pay roll.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Boy Is Believed to Be For
mer Resident of
Washington.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. February 2.-Aftel
scribbling a note to a girl named
Lou" a 20-year-old youth, tenta-
lively identified as Vernon R. Root
formerly of STAT Conduit road Wash
ington. died today of carbon monoxide
poisoning in a gas-fllled garage here
Root had been missing from his Bal
timore home since January 5.
Slumped over the wheel of an auto
mobile bearing District licenses plates
the youth was discovered by Miss
Catherine LaSalle, owner of the
garage in the rear of 2216 North
Charles street, in which the young
man had parked his car.
Miss LaSalle's attention was called
to the presence of the machine in
her garage by James Cushing, stage
manager of Play-Arts Guild Theater
of Baltimore. who had intended to
rent garage in the vicinity Police
were summoned and they found a
scratch pad propped on the steering
wheel of the automobile, on which
the youth had written a farewell
note to Lou"
The body was discovered at 10 m
and physicians at Union Memorial
Hospital said death had occurred three
hours before. In the pocket of the
young mans coat was found a Dis
trict drivers permit issued to Vernon
r. Root. STAT Conduit road The
license plates bore the number N-8404
The description of the body tailed
with descriptiOns of Root contained IN,
circulars broadcast by police upon the
appeal of his distracted parents. Pos
itive Identification was to be made
later by relatives.
Vernon r. Root had lived at STAT
Conduit road until last September, ac-
cording to the present occupants, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph R. Aiken, who said
they had rented their home to the
Roots.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Grounding, Afraid of a Chill,
Stays Indoors, Misses Shado,u
- ATHER than risk q chill and
J pneumonia, Washington's Of
Y flcial grounding left the ques-
ton Of late or early Spring

1ali SAAS III HuooA Co0dJ. .
The prophet at the Zoo, designated
by tradition to emerge from hiberna-
ton on February 2 to look for his
shadow, stuck close to home this
morning. If he had pushed his nose
into the open, the sun was there all
right to cast the shadow. which is
supposed to mean six weeks more Of
Winter.
Explaining the retiring conduct Of
the Zoo specimen. DR.. William Mann,
director of the Zoo, said the hog is a
runt and a miserable example" any
way, and besides had been kept in
doors throughout the cold weather
The animals coat is so short now a
venture into chill air would chill him
to the bone.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
SENATOR DEFENDS
RUM BILL Joker
Harrison Explains Provision
PenaIizing Purchaser of
Illegal Liquor.

Although many members of Con-
gress apparently are just beginning to
realize that in the recently enacted
Federal liquor tax measure they made
the purchaser of illegal liquor equally
guilty with the seller. Senator Harri-
son, Democrat. of Mississippi, made
clear today that he was not one of
the unenlightened
Harrison, who is chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, explained
that this provision was written into
the law for the express purpose of
preventing the evasion of taxes.
Those who were more in the dark
concerning the matter pointed out,
however, that the Finance Committee
previously had rejected by an over
whelming vote specific proposal to
that end
Author Is Surprised.
Senator Couzens, Republican, of
Michigan, author of this proposal to
penalize purchasers and sellers equally,
expressed surprise yesterday when
shown the provision in the law. He
did not believe Congress had intended
to write the act that way, according
to the Associated Press.
The law as finally approved con-
tanned the provision that no person
shall transport, possess, buy, sell or
transfer any distilled spirits unless
the immediate container thereof has
affixed thereto stamp denoting the
quantity of distilled spirits contained
therein and evidencing payment of
q II int oil
such spirits"
The penalty imposed for violation
Of this section, which applies to buy
ers as well as sellers, Is a fine up to
81 900 or Imprisonment at hard labor
up to FIVE years, or both.
Long a Controversy.
The proposal to punish buyers as
we'll as sellers of bootleg liquor was
the subject of long controversy while
the eighteenth amendment was in
force. Despite the efforts of dry lead
ers, Congress never gave consent to
the plan.
The joker in the act was first
brought to light Wednesday by Assist
ant United States Attorney David A.
Hart. who was making careful study
of the act in preparation for the
prosecution of four men arrested on
liquor charges since the District
liquor control law was enacted.
The provision was the subject of
House discussion yesterday, being
attacked by Representatives Shoe
maker Of Minnesota and Britten of
Illinois.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
'Y0UTHF0UNDDEAD ADULT SCHOOLING
in GAS-F|[[ED CAR NEEDS SET FORTH
Miss Perkins Tells Confer.
ence Courses Should Have
Practical 0bjectives.

The modern adult education pro-
gram should provide men and women
with the practical knowledge they
require and not merely the tradi-
tional schooling given children. Sec
retary OF Labor Perkins declared in
an address this morning at the Joint
Conference on Adult Education con-
Quoted BY the Department of Labor
and the United States Office of Edu-
cation at the American Red Cross
headquarters building
The growth in adult education.
Secretary Perkins said. indicates "a
new interest in enlarging the mean
ing of life
But the same kind of education
set up for children is not adequate
or satisfactory for adult men and
women" Miss Perkins said. Adult
educa ton should meet the immediate
requirements of men and women and
it should not confine itself to the So
called white collar type of knowl-
edge"
Deplores Library Closing.
Continuing Secretary Perkins de-
plored the closing of Libraries and
museums in many localities on Sum-
days and in the evenings She said
it would be better to open such in
stitutions later in the morning and
keep them open late at night so that
workers could convert their leisure
to profitable learning more conven-
iently.
Dr Georoe p Zoo,k Tinted States
commissioner of education. another
speaker, cited education as an essen
tial of the preservation of the demo-
cratic form of government.
Americans ought to be concerned
with what is happening in other coun-
tries" DR.. Zook declared. "Democ-
racy is on trial abroad and in many
not sufficient knowledge and judg-
ment among the mass of people to
permit them to conduct a democ-
racy."
Asks Discussion Groups.
The United States, DR.. Zook said,
should not feel that it can continue as
a democracy without more learning
He advocated informal discussion
groups in which governmental prob
lens would be studied.
The conference, which will continue
throughout today, is considering the
problems of adult education in view of
increased leisure resulting from the
reorganization of industry and gen.
eral employment.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
GEN. EDWARD A. MILLER
EXPIRES IN CALIFORNIA

Brig Gen. Edward A. Miller. U. 8
A. retired, World War commander
died Wednesday in Coronado. Calf.
according to an announcement of the
War Department.
Gen. Miller was a graduate of West
Point and served through the Philip
pine Insurrection. During the World
War, he commanded the Fifty eighth
Field Artillery Brigade in the Argonne
Meuse operations November l to 6
1918.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs
Fanny Miller of Coronado. He was q
native of Louisville.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
OPPOSES SMITH BILL
M. and M. Association Against
Increased Gasoline Tax.

Opposition to the Smith bill to in
crease the gasoline tax in the Dis
trict from to cents a gallon to
equal the Virginia tax was registered
today by the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association.
The association advised Chairman
Norton of the House District Com
mittee that the proposed increase was
not needed for District revenues and
would work a great hardship on resi-
dents of the District.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
BUILDERS STRESS
NEW HOME NEEDS
Industry Representatives
Appear Before Home Loan
Bank Board.

Representatives Of the home build
ing industry appeared before the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board today
and emphasized the demand for new
homes and the impetus to recovery
which would be given by new con-
struction.
The meeting, held in the Washing
ton Hotel, was part Of the two-day
session Of the Home and Community
Builders National Association, which
began yesterday.
Mock Hearing Held.
Yesterday the association held a
mock P. W. A. hearing because, ac-
cording to Don A. Lotus, president
the industry has been unable to Sc
cure a hearing before either Mr.. Ickes
or Mr.. Robert D. Kohn. head of the
Housing Division of the P. w. A.
both of whom have been asked to
hold such a hearing"
Today's hearing was described by
Mr.. LOTUS as for the purpose 'of re-
viewing the enormous demand for
new homes which must be financed
if the country is to have all the bene-
fits attendant on resumption of
home construction"
"As We see it." he said. funds
should come from both the P. w. A.
for immediate need and as soon as
possible from the Federal Home Loan
Mo until 20
Home Loan System can get moving
on this big program On the other
hand, although what might be allo-
Gated from the p w. A. will stimu-
late activity at once in many COM
munities, this alone will not be
enough to finance the rapidly in
creasing and long accumulating de-
mand."
Witnesses Scheduled.
Scheduled to appear as witnesses
at today's hearing were Charles c.
Mullaly, president Of the Homelands
Co., New York City; DR.. James S.
Taylor, chief og the Division of
Building and Housing of the Com
merce Department. who, together
with Harold R. Northup Of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers Asso-
citation, was to present a statement
on the housing shortage; William c.
O'Neill of the District, secretary
treasurer of the American Fedora
ton of Labor's building trades de-
partment; Charles H. Galliher of
the District, treasurer of the Home
and Community Builders National
Association, who was to present a
statement on lack of mortgage money,
and the following, who were to speak
on the demand for new home con-
struction: L. E. Fite. San Antonio,
Tex; John D. Brennan. Chicago; A.
H. NJ Graves, Indianapolis; Harry
Vought, Mount Vernon, N. y;
Charles Refs. Atwood, N. j.: Ken
meth Duncan, New York City, and
George H. McGovern, Wilmington,
Del.
Charles E. Bentley of this city also
was to present a summary Of a
survey of the situation.
Mr.. LOTUS was to give a state
ment on currency plan proposed to
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
of the Home Owners Loan Corpora
tion.
Evening star., 1934-02-02

layed, according to the Associated
Press. The Baltimore ice-breaker was
sent to the upper bay, where drift ice
was reported thick. dispatches stated.
At Hanover. Md, southwest of Bal
timore, an automobile, abandoned
after it had stalled on the Baltimore
e. Ohio Railroad tracks. was hit by
two trains, travelling in opposite direc-
tions. One of the trains was delayed
mere than an hour for repairs.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
COLLIER PROTESTS TAX
Advertising Official Asks Income
Levy Adjustment.

Barron Collier, advertising executive
of Useppa Highland, Fla, petitioned
the Board of Tax Appeals today for a
redetermination of income tax claims
totaling s100,954 for 1880 and 1881.
Collier disputes all of an assessment
of s40.67l for 1880, and s57,263 out of
assessment of s60,283 levied by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue for 1881
His petition charges the bureau
enormously disallowed deductions
from taxable income of s267,2239 and
s217,672 respectively for the two years.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
GREETING is PROMISED
President Will Send Message to
Harvard Clubs.

When the Associated Harvard Clubs
hold their annual meeting at Hot
Springs, Va, early in May. President
Roosevelt, who is a member will send
a greeting over long distance tele-
phone.
The President made this promise
when a small committee of the asso-
ciation, headed by Charles Short of
New York, called at the White House
today to make the request.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
.Welland Canal Lock at
Humberstone Is Longest

One of ME locks on the Welland
canal the guard lock at Humber
stone, 1880 feet long, is the longest In
the world, says the Detroit News. 1t
Is not high, however, but merely pro-
vides for adjusting the canal level to
the varying level of Lake Erie. The
two locks on the American side Of the
Sault Ste. Marie canal are 1850 feet
long and 80 feet wide, with lift Of
about % feet. The Welland canal has
seven lift locks, each 500 feet long, 80
feet wide and each with lift of 46h
feet. The three twin locks at Thorold
have total lift of 139h feet, which is
641A feet greater than the Gatun locks
Of the Panama canal. The Panama
canal has three locks at Gatun, near
the Atlantic end; the Pacific end has
two ut Miraflores and one at Pedro
Miguel, the total lift being IS feet. The
disable length Of these locks is 1000
feet and the width no feet; these
locks are In pairs. From the engi-
neers' standpoint the Panama lock sys-
TEN is the most important.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
French Guiana

French Guiana is located at the
northeast extremity of the continent
of South America. 1t is bounded on
the west by Dutch Guiana, the river
Maroni marking the boundary. The
Atlantic ocean is the north boundary,
and the Republic Of Brazil bounds
the country on the east and south.
The eastern botfhdary line is along
the Oyapock river, and the southern
boundary line is along the crest of
the Tumucumah mountains. The area
of French Guiana is 34,740 square
miles, about one-third the size. Of
France A great portion of the inland
territory is covered by swamps and
impenetrable Jungle. Free residents Of
the country for many years have pro-
tested to authorities in France against
the continuance Of the Devils Island
prison in Guiana. 1t is their contention
that the prison labor available TO
them is worthless, and that most Of
the convicts in exile after completing
their sentences become public charges,
either through i'll health or Incidence.