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Evening star., 1934-08-21

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look like fountain pens,
demonstrated his article so
effectively today he landed In Police
Court after fight with Angelo Anast-
sal, IL, barber, who volunteered to
be the burglar" during the test.
The demonstration was held in
Harris 'delicatessen shop, at sol c
street northeast, which was held up last
Sunday Everything went all right until
the gun exploded quite unexpectely.
It did not contain q gas shell, but q
percussion cap went of with q bang.
The barber didn't know that at the
time. He thought, in moment Of
excitement, that there was gas in the
gun and that he had been. blinded
and is alleged to have attacked Rogers.
At any rate, Detective Sergt. N. S.
Hodkinson was called in and decided
to have the controversy settled in
Police Court. There Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Whitestone charged
Rodgers with carrying concealed
weapons" Just, he said, to determine
the legality of the tear gas guns in
the District.
Anastsai went to Emergency Hos
pital for treatment for powder burns
from the percussion cap.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
OLD FIRE ENGINES
WILL Be EXHIBITED
Labor Day Parade to In.
clude Demonstration Here
OF Antiquated Pieces.

A demonstration Of antiquated fire
apparatus which the District still
must keep in service will be staged
here as a part Of the Labor day pa
rade, to be held under union auspices,
according to plans laid today by Fire
Chief Charles E. Schrom.
Schrom some months ago called OF
plans for the traditional parade Of
all District fire apparatus. The an
nual firemen's parade will be staged
at Alexandria without the benefit Of
District equipment.
Schrom revealed he was considering
inserting in the Labor day parade
here two of the Districts most anti
quated fire wagons. To show COM
parsons, he plans to use one of the
modern engines, and has requested
the use of the ancient hand-drawn
fire engine now on exhibition at the
headquarters Of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants. The purpose
would be to show how far the anti
quated Washington fire engines still
In use are from being modern appa-
ratus and how much they are like the
old hand-drawn piece.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
LUSK SEES VALUE
OF Low TAX PROVEN
Points Out D. G. Realty Collection
Declined Only 8 Pct. With
Lower Levy.

The record Of real estate tax collec-
tions by the District during the fiscal
year ended June 80 last is striking
evidence that "a comparatively low
tax, which taxpayers are able to pay,
may produce almost as much, or even
more, than a tax set so high that
many cannot pay it"
This statement was made today by
Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the WASH
ington Taxpayers Protective Associa-
ton, in commenting upon the annual
report yesterday Of Tax Collector
Chatham M. Towers.
Unpaid real estate taxes during the
past fiscal year actually were 80 per
cent less than was the case in the
fiscal year 1888, Lusk said. He dis
counted as incorrect a report that the
unpaid taxes increased 800 per cent.
"On July l, 1888, unpaid real estate
taxes equalled s3,856,055; while on
July I of this year they were So, 1885,
600, drop Of more than a million
dollars" Lusk said.
Total collections from real estate
fell less than per cent, even though
the combined reduction in rates and
assessments equalled about 20 per
cent"
Lusk had reference to a reduction
during the past fiscal year in the real
estate tax rate from $1.70 to $3.50 per
500 and slash of some 1000, 900
in assessments on real estate.
He argued that 1t was remarkable
that real estate tax collections de-
clined only 8 per cent last year when
the rate was reduced and when the
assessment also had been cut.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
larson PLANFOUND
WITH WEAPONS IN
RIOT PLOT.
Suspected Conspirators,
Locked in Cells, Restricted
to Bread and Water.
PUNISHMENT HINGES
ON DATA GAINED IN QUIZ
All But Two Industries Resumed.
$50 segregated-Note Urges Prop
uganda, Then Burning Buildings.

With about $50 Of its inmates Sc
curely locked in cells for their part
In yesterdays threatened outbreak,
the District reformatory at Lorton,
Va, was almost back to normal today
With the exception of the tag shop
and the foundry, all institution in
dustries were In operation. The tag
shop lacked workers. AL Of the men
who had previously worked there ex-
cept two are now locked in cells.
Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent
Of penal institutions, admitted re-
porters and photographers to the re-
formatory this morning for the first
time in two days. He showed them
the weapons seized by guards from the
mems lockers after the inmates were
routed out Of bed at am. yesterday.
Weapons included a razor, two crude
black jacks, % files, kitchen knives
ground into sharp daggerS, handy
sections Of lead pipe, scissors, pliers,
hack saw blades, and an assortment
Of new types Of implements. One was
q club with a nail driven through the
end and projecting about three inches,
Evening star., 1934-08-21
IMMEDIATE DONOVAN
CASE RULING SOUGHT
Joint Committee for Unity of
U. S. Employees Adopts Reso-
luton Demanding Action.

A demand for an immediate ruling
in the John Donovan case was made
in resolution adopted last night by
the Joint. Committee for Unity OF
Government Employees, and made pub
lie today by Blanche Cohen, secre-
tary.
Meanwhile, the National Labor Re-
lations Board, before whom the Dono-
van case was heard continued today
to hold public hearings and there was
no indication when the ruling Will be
announced.
The committee quoted the board as
saying rights created under Ia can
not more effectively be destroyed than
by delay in hearing. deciding and en-
forcing"
THE delay in rendering its decision
on this case" the resolution said, 'is
not only unfair to Donovan and or
ganized labor, but it is causing the
public to doubt that the decision will
be truly impartial and untainted by
political pressure"
A similar demand for speed was
made by the Washington Central La
Dor Union, which supported Donovan
in his fight to be reinstated after be-
ing dismissed from his N. r. A. job
by Gen. Hugh s. Johnson, adminiStra-
tor
Evening star., 1934-08-21

good enough to pierce mans skull
in q single blow. Another was Sec
ton Of kitchen spoon filed down to
razor keenness and fitted into q
wooden handle.
Arson Clue Traced.
Barnard said that some of the pris-
oners whose demonstration was nipped
in the bud yesterday were probably
considering burning the prison down.
Written in pencil on the back Of one
of the typewriter circulars stating the
prisoners demand was the following:
'The points raised in this proposal
are impracticable and absurd because
they tend to place the control of the
institution in the hands of the in
mates. This would never be tolerated
anywhere. The only way that condi-
tions can be bettered is by outside
propaganda done intelligently through
friends or parents Of inmates con-
fined here.
"It may be suggested that certain
points be raised and submitted to the
new general superintendent when he
takes Office September /, 1884. Give
him a chance to make the change and
if no result is forthcoming from this
method and propaganda, then resort
to a well devised plan of arson"
This note was seized in the locker
Of one Of the prisoners when the
lockers were searched yesterday after
noon. Barnard would not identify
the writer Of the note.
Transfer Demand Drafted.
He is preparing a demand on the
Commissioners to remove many of the
prisoners now in cells to Federal
penitentiaries. This will be forwarded
to the District Building in q few
days.
The $50 men who were put in
cells were kept on bread-and-water
diet yesterday, but will be put back
on their regular diet today, although
all meals will be late because of the
large amount Of extra work devolv-
ing upon officers of the institution,
owing to the sudden threatened re-
volt.
No decision has yet been made as to
what punishment will be handed out
to the ringleaders. They. will all be
interviewed by Col. william l.. Peake
superintendent of the reformatory
and by Capt. Barnard and decisions
will be made on the merits Of each
individual case. It is expected, how
ever. that the prisoners in whose lock-
ers some of the more brutal weapons
were found will be treated without
sympathy. These are the ones who
will probably be shipped away to Fed
eral penitentiaries.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
COURT DENIES ORDER
TO HALT PICKETING
Refuses Temporary Writ Sought
by Tailor Shop-Second
Marcher Continues.

District Supreme Court Justice Jo-
seph Cox early this afternoon refused
to issue a temporary restraining order
to prevent picketing Of Kassan-Stein
Tailor Shop at $40 Eleventh street by
members of the United Garment
Workers of America.
The order was sought by the tailor
ing concern, which has filed an in
junction against the union to put an
end to the picketing, begun several
months ago. The hearing on grant,
ing the permanent Injunction will be
held during the Fall period Of the
court.
In denying the temporary restrain
ing order Justice Cox held no breach
of peace or damage had been shown.
Meanwhile two men still were
walking up and down in front of the
establishment with contradictory
signs-one charging unfairness to
labor. the other upholding the con-
cern.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
TRADE UNIT TO AID
LORTON PROJECT
Board Will Work for Com.
pIetion of Wall at
Prison.

The Washington Board Of Trades
Public Order Committee pledged it
self to work for completion of the
prison wall at the Jorton Reformatory
during a dinner last night, and de-
clared that unless the project is fin
ished almost inevitably there must be
a serious break at the District lnsti-
tuition.
Strong words were used by commit
tee members in assailing the delay in
setting aside funds to complete the
structure 20 feet high and 600 oy 625
feet in size. One member said any
one who has held up the appropria-
ton "is just as guilty" as prisoners
who were to participate in yesterdays
thwarted strike.
Fleming to See Ickes.
Robert v. Fleming, president of the
Board Of Trade, said he would talk
with Secretary IckeS this week In re-
gard to obtaining P. w. A. money nee
essary to finish the wall, about one
third of which was completed when
funds we're exhausted. No work is
being done on it at present.
IF the Board of Trade said Presi-
dent Fleming, docs nothing else dur
ing the coming year but secure the
completion Of this much-needed pro-
tective wall it will have justified its
existence. I shall confer with Secre-
tary Ickes or maybe persons higher
this week about getting money for
immediate completion Of the project" 4"
Need Held Desperate"
Fleming said perhaps now the au-
thoritieS will wake up to the acute
and desperate need Of the wall" He
added that situations such as yester-
days threatened strike are valuable
in awakening the desired public senti-
ment SO that great pressure can be
brought to bear on inactive officials to
finish the wall for the protection Of
the citizenry of the District and Vir-
ginia from the possible escape Of life
term conyicts."
Odell Smith, chairman of the Pub
lie Order Committee, stated that Capt
M M. Barnard, superintendent Of
District penal institutions, told him in
a telephone conversation yesterday
that the wall was needed to prevent a
break.
Maj. z. w. Brown, superintendent
Of police; Charles Bates and Joseph
Burkart also spoke at the dinner at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
WALL At LORTON
URGED BY BATES
Additional Facilities Greatly
Needed, Says Director
of U. S. Prisons.

Early completion of the wall around
the Lorton Reformatory and the con-
struction of buildings of the ''peni-
tentiarY type" for long-term prisoners
was suggested today by Sanford Bates.
director of the Federal Bureau Of
Prisons, as means of preventing
demonstrations among the inmates.
Bates believes the series Of riots
at Lortor last year and the threatened
demonstration yesterday, which was
nipped by the reformatory officials,
might have peeu avoided If the Dis
trict had proper institutional facili-
ties for handling long-term prisoners,
who In the past have been the prin-
cipal agitators.
More Facilities Stressed.
The District, Bates declared, needs
more institutional facilities, especially
of the penitentiary type, if it intends
to retain in its own prisons the long
termers and troublemakers. He indi-
Gated it would be more advantageous
to have the penitentiary-type build
ings at location other than Lorton
so as to have complete segregation Of
the long and short term prisoners.
At any rate, Bates said, the District
certainly ought to get money to finish
the wall around Lorton."
The District public works act au-
thorizing the Commissioners to bor-
row $10,750 900 of Federal funds for
needed municipal projects was intend
ed to provide funds for completion of
the Lorton wall.
Parole Law Cited.
Bates also declared his bureau has
no control over District penal insti-
tutions, but that it was willing to do
possible to assist local off,
cials with the situation at Lorton. He
pointed out, however, that the Dis
trict parole law, enacted several years
ago. makes it more difficult to place
District prisoners in Federal peni-
tentiaries.
The District parole law, it was ex-
planned, conflicts with the Federal
probation law and District prison.
ers, placed in Federal institutions are
subject to Federal parole laws.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
AUTO CLUB LISTS DANGER SPOTS
IN DISTRICT AND PLANS SURVEY

At Fifteenth street and New York
avenue there were Is more or less
serious injuries, 10 of them involving
pedestrians, the report said, while
next on the black list came Massa-
chusetts avenue and North Capitol
street, with IL injuries, and the via
duct on Rhode Island avenue north
east. with a similar toll.
From the standpoint of pedestrian
injuries, Fifteenth street and New
York avenue, Washington's busiest in
tersection, is worst, with Fourteenth
and H streets and Fourteenth and F
streets close competitors.
Massachusetts, avenue and North
Capitol streets was reported as having
taken the heaviest toll in property
damage, with a total of SIS collisions,
with Ninth and U streets second and
Fourteenth and F streets third.
Evening star., 1934-08-21

Listing the worst danger spots in
what it calls the mo Mans Land"
Of city traffic, the District of Colum-
bia Motor Club of the American Au-
tomobile Association today announced
its safety and trafic engineering de-
partment would make special study
of the intersections, with view to
making recommendations to District
authorities for elimination of the
hazards.
Heading the black list Of fatality
spots for the period January /, 1888.
to last July 81, the A. A. A. named
the intersection at Fourteenth street
and Rhode Island avenue which it
said accounted for four traffic deaths.
The crossing at Fourteenth street and
Maryland avenue northeast came sec
ond with three fatalities, the motor
lists organization reported.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Paris Shows Old STYLES.

During Retrospect week" in Paris
famous fashion shops displayed crino-
lines and bonnets more than 100 years
old. In one window was a bill for SO
pairs Of gloves ordered at one time by
Emperor Napoleon III. Another ex-
hibited violet and yellow stockings In
floral and check patterns popular
years ago.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Library Is Given $50.

SILVER SPRING, Md, August 81
(SpeciaD Announcement was made
today that the Woman's Club Of
Woodside has given the Silver Spring
Public Library $50 toward the fur
nishing Of the children's reading room
IN the new quarters Of the library Ia
Jesup blair Park
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Frogskin Shoes in Paris.

Shoe of frogskin are the latest
craze in Paris, and the feminine fol-
lowers Of fashion are taking to them.
At least 20 skins from big frogs are
shoes. The craze has boosted prices
for frogs.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
20 GO TO CAMP
Group Of Underprivileged Chill.

Vroup OF UnderprlvlIeged ChlI-
dren Leaves for Ammendale.
A group Of 20 underprivileged chill
dren left by bus yesterday afternoon
for the free child health camp of the
Volunteers of America at Oak Lodge,
Ammendale, Md.
Seventy-one children were cared for
last month at the camp and were
severed 2,a45 meals.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Reich to Build Roads.

Seven thousand miles of highways
radiating from Berlin and linking
every corner Of the country are 10 be
constructed In Germany,
Evening star., 1934-08-21
TWO COUSINS HURT

WdTIHd anu hUUy DUU1ey NuVVA'
ed Down by Autos.
Two 13-year-old cousins, Martha
Dudley and Ruby Dudley, 421 New
Jersey avenue southeast, were injured
shortly after pm. yesterday. when
knocked down by an automobile on
Union. Station Plaza driven by Lemuel
Penn. 19, colored, 68 p street. They
were treated at Casualty Hospital
by DR.. N. o. Bowman for numerous
cuts and bruises. Martha was able
to 60 home after receiving treat
ment, while Ruby, more seriously
hurt, was kept for treatment.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Forced Labor Is Part of
Technocracy's Program
By JOHN THOMAS PAINE

Capitalist politics in a period of crisis con-
sist chiefly in attempting to conceal the capital
list wolf in various brands of sleeps clothing.
Technocracy is one sample OF this practice. I'm
der the guise OF promising plans OF plenty
for everybody is concealed the ravening wolfish
Jaws oil fascism.
Tucked away among the Emergency Meas
ures" of the Plan Of Plenty is this Nazi Jewel:
The government shall issue "A proclamation of
continued service. requiring every individual or
group to continue his or it's task until confirm
ed, transferred or relieved" Up. ~.
With such a decree as this, what becomes of
the right to strike, to quit work individually
or do anything else except be chained slaves to
the machines of Capitalism as organized under
the brutal terror of Hitler gangsterism?
Fascism. let it be remembered is simply
Simon-pure capitalist dictatorship carried out
under direct violence, after the ordinary ma
chinery OF courts, law, and parliaments have
been abolished. For under what is known as
democratic government, certain concessions have
been forced from the capitalists as the result of
many struggles waged by the workers. in which
they have shed their blood These concessions
have been recognized and written into law, and
in spite of biased and corrupt courts, these
laws have and do afford the worker some de-
gree of liberty and protection.
These legal rights of the workers won after
long years OF the Dlttefest struggles, Stanu III
the way of the capitalists in their desire to ex-
plot the masses even more ruthessly than at
present Consequently the time comes when
the capitalists themselves desire to destroy con-
stitutional government because it can no longer
serve their interests so completely as they de-
sire. 1t is then proposed to substitute direct
force (terrOr) for the hitherto legal regulation
This Is fascism. Under it the workers are depriv
ed OF all voice and of all rights. They are slaves
pure and simple. Italy and Germany are perfect
examples of such capitalist dictatorship.
And so the Technocrats propose to compel
every person to work as ordered He cannot
leave his Job, but is subject to an iron disci.
piine. To disobey is to 60 to the prison camp or
the gallows.
Remember too. that one of the avowed OBJ
jects of TechnOcracy, is to have the government
guarantee the incomes of capitalists "by pro-
tecting the persona property of ncome-bearing
property from curtailment of their expendi-
lures for consumption OF goods and services"
(Plan OF Plenty, p: 81.
Here then, is the essence of Technocraey:
u Protect and guarantee the present incomes of
the property-Owning classes. q Do this by COM
polling all individuals and groups trade un-
ions) to remain at work regardless OF conditions
This is TechnOcracy, and this is fascism!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Slum Clearance Graft

The New Deals slum clearance program in
New York, the first of it's kind, has one short
coming--it is nine million dollars spent without
any chance of the buildings being used by the
workers who need new housing. Room rent of
$3.50 a room will be charged a survey of the
neighborhood shows that the average family
can't afford to pay more than ST. most of them
S. or less.
This is the way it is being DONE Fred F.
French, prominent real estate shark, was loan
ed the money by the government for period of
40 years, Through his friends on the board of
aldermen of the city, French was able to get tax
exemption for his building and buy the land for
it at about one-thrd its true value. tThe RFC
loaned him the nine million dollars through the
pull and influence of AL Smith,
Through holding companies and various
other schemes, French is able to drain the gov
eminent of further monies. While the rebuild
ing of Knickerbocker Village benefits no one
who is in need of housing. Those who were fore
ed to move out of the slums being demolished to
make way for the new model building have set
tied down in other slums in the neghborhOod
at least as bad as the ones they were forced
to leave.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
ERARY
Pictures Of Soviet China

1927. Chinese Destinies" reveals
the tense revolutionary situation
in which China exists today and
draws clear pictures of the life OF
the various ruling castles, the in
trigues OF military generals and
political gangsters, the life OF the
working class and the peasantry,
and scenes of strikes and revolts.
In her pages the issues con-
fronting the Chinese masses are
sharply barred, and the way many
of them are meeting these issues
in constant bitter struggle and
sacrifice is Accordingly told.
In "China's Red Army March
es," Agnes Smedley gives us a
complete story of that valiant
Red Army of which she had CIV
EN- some glimpses in Chinese
Destinies." One is given a sense
of participating in the day-by-
day marches, conquests and stra-
tegic retreats of the Chinese So
Wet Army. The human details are
vivid and convincing.
Shows Soviet China's Growth
AS we follow the marches of
the Red Army we witness the
building of a new China and real
ize why it is gaining the unquali-
fled support of the Chinese mass
es.
These books of the New China
certainly carry impelling argu'
ments demanding the support of
the Chinese Soviet Republic by
the peoples of the whole world.
A crashing erescendo of protest
should and must arise through
out the world against the increas-
ing interventionist policies of i'm
perialist nations in China.
Workers of the U. S. in par
ticular must raise a huge cutlery
against the use of 50 million dol
lar wheat loans for the purchase
of American aircraft to bomb the
Chinese Soviet cities and peoples.
--Rawl Cady.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
cover 100 Years imprisonment!
Over $4,000 in Fines!"-contin'
usd from Preceding Artiele)
By IRWIN GOODMAN

Eleven Washington and ore
gon workers have been indicted
for criminal syndicalism follow
ing General Johnson's recent
talk at Berkeley University.
They face maximum penalties OF
over one hundred years impris-
onment and $4,000 in fines. Five
of these cases were considered in
the preceding article of this SER
les. Consider now the remaining
six.
II. Don Cluster, Dirk DeJonge,
Edward Denny, Earl Steward On
July q, a public protest meeting
against recent raids and arrests,
attended by about two hundred
men, women and children, was
held at a workers hall in Port
land. Just before the meeting adj
journed Cluster, DeJOnge and
Denny were arrested by police
officials, and vigilantes armed
with saps. Steward was arrested
few days later. After prelimin-
airy hearings bail was set at $4,000
each and, following about seven
ty days in Jail, all were indicted
for criminal syndicalism. Each
now faces a maximum penalty OF
ten years and $1,000 fine. Crime;
attending or speaking at a pub
lie protest meeting!
q. Kyle Pugh and James
Stockman. On October 6 Port.
land newspaper reported:
indictments charging
criminal syndicalism were re-
turned late today by the Jack