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The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Guffey Is Silent
On War Income STUDY

PHILADELPHIA Dec. 20
G.N.SD.-United States Senator.
elect Joseph F. Guffey CD,
Pittsburgh, had little. comment
to make here today on planned
investigation of his wartime in.
comes while he served as a $1-a-
year man as director of sales for
the Alien Property Custodian.
Informed the Senate munitions
committee had ordered an inves.
tigation of his income, Mr.. Guffey
said:
"AS far as am concerned,
my income tax records are on
file in Washington and avail.
able to the committee"
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
DU: POINT WARNS
Of NEXT WAR
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amount of confusion and lost
motion. I think there would
be so much confusion it would
be hopeless to try to straighten
1t out in a short time."
eff Senator Clark, who was
. veteran, entered your office
on the outbreak of war and
said your plant had been con-
scripted for the war to make
powder and that he was the
administrator and wanted your
full cooperation and your COM
plete staff to make powder,
wouldn't you cOOperate?"
Mr.. du Pont agreed:
"If you select the right man
for each job, it would be fine.
But how in the world could you
select the right men? We have
a terrible time trying to find the
right men for positions in the
du POnt company. Now, in the
last war, the Government Sc
lected Mr.. Jackling, who never
saw a powder plant, to take
charge of building powder
plants. He was a fine man, but
knew nothing about the job. If
you ask me to take a surgeons
tools in the next war and go
into a hospital to repair the
wounded, then l would make q
mess of it."
$50 you think we need an alb
solute monarch to win the next
war;"
"Any aggressive nation needs
an absolute monarch to win q
war. You never really hear of a
democracy or a republic waging
. successful war;"
Would you set up an abb
sOlute monarch now in order
to win the next war;"
"No, not now"
"Well, didn't you say we
should prepare for war in time
Of peace?"
eyes, but we don't need to
set up a monarch, but we can
prepare just the same"
KAISER QUOTED
Mr.. du Pont made it plain h
believed President Woodrow Wi
son was an absolute monarch
during the World War.
moment later, Major K. K. '
Casey, du Pont military expert
called attention to a statemen
by Kaiser wilhelm in 1915, "tha
President Wilson had more poWe
than he had"
The debate over war came afte
q du Pont memorandum reveale
the company quoted a lowe
powder price to a prospectiv
European customer than to tn
United States. The memorandum
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

mistrial when the rioting began
The negro prisoner was wrapped
in an army coat, fitted with a gas
mask and rushed out OF town by
guardSmen.
When the crowd learned it had
oeen tricked and deprived of lynch
ing Harris the attack on the court
house was resumed. Soon the
structure, built IS years ago, was
a mass of roaring flames.
Informed by telephone of the
mob's latest depreciation, Governor
McAllister ordered 500 guardsmen
to 60 at once to Shelbyville.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

showed the du Points were willing
to sell abroad at from 54l2 to
56.6 cents a pound while charg-
ing the United States II cents a
pounds.
Secrecy Urged
Major Casey. who wrote the
memorandum, told a forei G n
agent, however, not to submit the
price until you are absolutely
satisfied that the prices quoted
will be regarded with the utmost
secrecy" He said:
I'VE cannot take the chance
of this reduced figure being d.
vulged:"
Major Casey explained the COM
pany did not want the bid divulged
for fear the deal would fall
through and the United States
Government would be offended.
He said:
IF the sale had gone through
we would have quoted the same
lower price to our Government.
The lower price was based on
large quantity production. If
we got the foreign business, we
could have reduced prices to our
Government"
The deal never was concluded.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
CITIZENS SAVE
100000 BY.
REDUCTION (.
Budget for New Fiscal Period
to Retain Present Scale;
Park Needs Studied

Reduction of 100000 in the an.
nual water bill of citizens of the
District, put into effect this year,
will be continued in 1886.
This was strongly indicated on
Capitol Hill today as the hearings
on the District budget for 1895
before a House Appropriations sub
committee drew to a close.
It was learned that the existing
water rate of $685. for 10000 cubic
feet has been recommended by the
budget bureau and that members
of the House subcommittee will ad'
vocate this rate when they draw
up the District appropriations bill.
The water rate here was SlaShed
this year and the consequent
saving is estimated at 100000.
The Water Department estimates,
the last item on the District
budget to be considered by the
subcommittee, will be taken up
sometime today, Representative
Clarence Cannon, chairman, indi'
Gated.
Citizens to Be Heard
Representatives from business
and civic organizations will be
given opportunity tomorrow and
Saturday for presenting requests
for improvements in the District.
Discussions relative to the Wei
fare Departments expenditures
for the coming year featured to-
days hearing. Commissioner
George E. Allen, in charge of Dis
trict relief funds, told the com
mittee Washington will need more
than $2,00O,000 to care for more
than 10000 families on relief
rolls. Commissioner Allen had re-
quested the Budget Bureau for an
allotment of 100000, but it is
understood this figure has been
pared by $1,000,000.
Street Makes Plea
Elwood Street, director of Pub
lie Welfare, joined with his chief
in making a vehement plea for
an increased appropriation for Dis
trict welfare work.
Other items considered by the
subcommittee today included ex-
penditures for the tuberculosis
Hospital, Gallinger Hospital, St.
EliZabeths Hospital, and the Dis
Er.int Troinipo GnhOO1
The committee at its afternoon
session today expected to hold a
hearing on estimates submitted by
the National Capital Parks and
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Mob Too Strong
For Police to Handle
BY M. H. YANCEY
[ember Of Shelbyville (Tenn.)

BY M. H. YANCEY
Member Of Shelbyville (Tenn.)
Police Force
Copyright. 1884 by International
News Service)
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 20
GN.SD. 1t was a mob that was
too much for us to handle. Even
the militiamen couldn't stop
the rioters without killing a lot
of people.
Before any of the police or
deputy sheriffs could stop them
they had emptied several cans
of gasoline on the courthouse
and touched it off. All we could
do was guard the water works
and the county Jail.
Dynamite exploding in the
burning building added to the
confusion and made the hope
less job of fighting the fire
more dangerous. Then the mill.
ing crowd took to cutting fire
hoses, and we knew that the
building was lost.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
CHINA

PEIPING, Dec. 20 I.NSD.
With the American gunboat
Panay standing by in the Yang.
TIE River at Wuhu, with British
and japanese vessels, all Amer
leans in Anhwei province were
under warning today to hasten to
Wuhu for safety from rowing
Communist bands. Communist
troops, being beaten back by
forces of Gen. Chang Kai-Shek,
were threatening to wreak more
vengeance on Christian mission
aries, following the execution Of
four reds for killing Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. STAN, American mis-
SionarieS.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Pupils Serenade
School Heads
With Carols

Whatever school children
think of their teachers in the
classroom, they believe in wish
ing them well when Christmas
rolls around.
Several groups Of students
called at the Franklin Admins
tration Building today and
"serenaded" officials of the
school system with Christmas
carols.
The glee club of Mckinley
High School marched through
the building singing and wish
ing a merry Christmas and a
happy New Year to everybody.
Groups from the colored
cadet corps and from the Mar
garet Murray washington Vo-
cational School sang for the
school officials.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

LONDON, Dec. 20 G.N.SD
Three times during the last week
doctors feared that Gertrude
Lawrence, famous English actress.
was near death, it was learned
for the first time today.
And Douglas Fairbanks. jr.,
lowering around the nursing
home where his oft.rumored
fiancee lies critically i'll, refuses
to appear on the stage or film
set until Miss Lawrence is able
to act with him.
Miss Lawrence has been under
treatment in the nursing home
for several weeks, suffering, it is
understood, from severe maStoid
ailment.
Surgeons declare that an opera
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Employers Asked
To Aid Job Office

Public and private employers of
labor were urged today to take ad-
vantage of the service offered by
the United States Unemployment
Office in Rockville. where labor of
all kinds is available. Every un-
employed person who is not regis
tered at the office was advised to
do so at once.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Net Profit Gains
For Credit Banks

Statement of the IL Federal
intermediate Credit Banks as Of
September 80, last, shows total
loans and discounts of $191, ,39O,-
682, compared with $19S,O26,783,
on June 30, last, reflecting a sea-
sonal drop. according to Charles
R. Dunn, fiscal agent.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

ton is imperative, but they can
not risk the knife until the pres
ent attacks SubSide.
Moonlight Is Silver" the sec
ond show in which she and the
young American film actor had
appeared together, was cancelled
two weeks ago.
The reason given at that time
was that Miss Lawrence and
Fairbanks were busy working on
new picture, "Vie de Boheme. :"
When Miss Lawrence became
seriously i'll, however, young Fair
banks refused to act with sub
stitute leading lady, and produc-
ton of the picture, too. was halted
by the British International
Studios.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
ENGLAND

LONDON, Dec. 20 G.N.SO The
Duke of Kent celebrated his 32nd
birthday today with his bride. the
former Princess Marina, at a fam
lily luncheon party given by the
King and Queen at Buckingham
Palace.
Thousands of congratulatory tel
egrams poured in from all over
the world.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
RUSSIA

MOSCOW. Dec. 20 0.N.SO.
Soviet officials today refused to
confirm or deny the rumored ar
rest of Gregory Zinoviev, old
guard Bolshevik, whose sup
posedly defunct oppositionist or
ganization was linked a few days
ago with the assassination of
Sergei M. Kirov. Rumors of the
arrest have been current since
last night. Lev Borisovitch Ka-
menev, another old-line Bolshevik
rumored to have been arrested
also, is not believed implicated.
For the correct time telephone
the office of THE WASHING
TON TIMES, District 1000, at
any hour Of the "a.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
D. C. RETAINS LOWERED WATER RATE FOR ANOTHER YE
World News
CUBA

HAVANA, Dec. 20 GN.S1,
Five members Of the Cuban La
Dor Defense League, a Communist
organization, were under arrest
today charged with sending let
ters to the American consulate
threatening to blow up the build
ing unless the Scottsboro Negroes
were released.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
GERMANY

BERLIN, Dec. 20 G.N.SO.-Offi-
cial life-saving medals will be given
to the lifeboat crew of the s. s.
New York which rescued the crew
of the laundering steamer Sisto, it
was announced today.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
JAPAN

TOKYO, Dec. 20 GNSD.
Masanao Hanihara, ambassador
to the United States from 1922
to 1924, died today at the age
of ST.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
TREASURY BALANCE

BY International News Service
Treasury balance as of Decem
ber 1S, $2.522,852,0 2,094.27; I. R..
$4,242,559.24; c. R., $20,540, ,807. .66
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Sales Tax Robbery

THE latest capitalist robbery of the
L people is the sales tax, the tax that
literally reaches into the pockets of the
poorest sections of the population and robs
them of their pennies. nickels and dimes
The bankers are forcing the idea of the sales
tax in municipalities all over the country. The
recent Congress of American Industry held in New
York outlined plan for a Federal sales tax to
be laid on top of the local sales taxes.
But this wholesale robbery is meeting with
resistance
In New York the consumers are answering the
tax by refusing to pay it. In Ohio similar move
ment is rising. This can become an excellent mass
answer to the sales tax
The New York district of the Communist Party
has issued a call for mass campaign under the
slogan Repeal the Robbery Sales Taxi" The call
rips apart the hypocritical lie that the sales tax is
to feed the obless. The only way to feed the job
less is to make the rich pay heavy taxes stop all
payments to the bankers take 10 per cent capital
levy on all big fortunes, stop all payments to the
rich bondholders, declares the Communist Party
The Communist Party is circulating petition
among the small keepers against the sales tax
1t is a fact that the sales tax tends to drive the
small businessmen into bankruptcy aiding the larger
stores.
The capitalist bankers and their governmental
office boys like LaGuarda think they can plumber
the masses with impunity Show them they are
wrong. Protest against the Sales Tax! Repeal the
Sales Tax! Demand that the bankers and rich
corporations utilities and bondholders shell out of
their profits to feed the jobless and provide I'M
employment insurance!
Support the coming Congress for Social and
Unemployment Insurance to meet in Washington
January to 7, where the sales tax will be fought
on national scale!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Why Not a Member?

no YOU wish to know how and where to
~ recruit excellent members for the Com
munist Party? Read this letter which ap-
peared in yesterdays issue of the Daily
Worker on the workers correspondence
page written by an electric welder in a Staten Is
land shipyard:
Il am writing to you in the hope that you
will publish the reaction of the recent Sisco strike
upon of the welders.
81 admit that, had one of your men entered
our headquarters in the early days of the strike,
would have been of the first to throw him
out. But, the strike went on 1 became dis
illusioned. I saw A. F. of L. leaders working in
harmony with Powell to break the strike 1 also
watched you Communists.
Your sympathy, encouragement and advice
upheld cur morale during those eight long weeks.
know that all the food that came to our head
quarters came through the Communists
Your unselfishness your loyalty to the cause
of the workers has won the respect and adnnira-
ton of many of the striking welders.
MANY of us left this yard eight weeks ago IN
organized workers and firm believers in the
prophets of the New Deal. Today we are, in heart
at least, Communists"
This testimony to the ability of Communists to
lead workers to strike victory should inspire every
one of us. But something is still wrong Why is
this worker not member of the Communist Party
where he belongs? He says To-day we are in heart
at least Communists" That is not enough Having
seen the important tasks carried on by the Party
1t is up to him, and to other workers like him. to
strengthen the Party by joining it; and it is I'D to
the Communists who took part in this strike to see
to it that workers who can now speak like this
should join our ranks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12

"A Negro juror in Jackson County
would be curiosity, and some curiOsi-
ties are embalmed, you know"
That was the blatant admission and
savage lynch threat of the Alabama rulers,
expressed editoriaIy in the Jackson County Sen
tinel, published in scottsboro Ala, when in 1881
the International Labor Defense militantly chal-
lenged the Alabama lynch courts on the exclusion
of Negroes from Alabama juries, and specifically
from the grand jury which indicted the nine limo
cent Scottsboro boys and the petit juries which
fenced eight Of them to burn in the electric chair.
That was in 1881. Since that time, however,
the Alabama lynch rulers and their courts have
been forced on the defensive by the mighty world
wide mass fight against the lynch verdicts against
the violation of the constitutional rights of the Ne
gro people and the whole monstrous system of Ne
gro oppression and persecution. Already in the
Decatur retrial of Haywood Patterson the Iynchers
had forged the names of Negroes to the Jackson
County jury list.
And this week. we find Alabama Attorney Gen
eral Thomas E. Knight Jr, denying in his brief to
the u s. Supreme Court, filed in answer to the brief
of the LID. attorneys for Clarence Norris, that
Negroes are excluded from Alabama juries because
of race or color. This is the same gentleman who
in the Decatur retrial of Patterson contemptuous-
ly referred to the Negro lad as that thing over
there" and argued that no Negro-no matter how
educated or intelligent-was fit to sit on an Ala
bama jury
Knights attempt to cover up a fact once proudly
admitted by the Alabama lynch rulers provides
further confirmation of the Communist analysis that
the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scots
boro boys is inextricably connected with the strug
gle for Negro rights for Negro liberation. The
mass fight, which has forced the Alabama rulers on
the defensive, should be supported by every sin
cere opponent of Negro oppression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Italy's Troops
In Maneuvers
In Erithria

PARIS, Dec. 11.-Intense military
activity, including gun running and
the assembly of sqradrons OF fight
ing planes along the Italian Samoli-
Abyssinian frontier in Africa, were
admitted yesterday by Count Byron
de Prorok, apologist for Italian i'm
perialism, when he returned from
tour of Ethiopia.
1T is estimated that in the Spring
there will be 100000 Italian troops,
including colonials, in the Italian
city of Erithria awaiting order to
he declared.
De Prorok let the cat out of the
bag when, speaking of Abbysinia's
possessing the richest gold and
platinum mines in existence" and
describing how the mines are
worked "by Negro slaves in the same
manner as in the time of King
Solomon" he limited that these
treasures, eff developed along mod
ern lines, would become an unbe-
lievably rich possession"
Paying tribute to the colonial
ton" work done by Mussolini, the
explorer naively gave the instance
of the imperialists' having built
magnificent roads into the noun
tains as far as the frontier, which is
621 miles from the Ethiopion cap
ital."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12

workers organizations, suppression
of the right to form unions, dissolu-
ton Of factory councils, etc. In spite
of these facts the Austrian govern
ment seeks to appear before the
world as country governed by hu-
manitarian laws.
The Austrian Red Aid appeals ito
all men of feeling in every country
to agitate for the election of a dele.
cation which may be sent to Austria
to verify the results of the war
waged by Austrian fascism against
the working classes The Austrian
government will have no choice but
to agree to such Investigations.
since Chancellor Schuschnigg has
declared that he will give every op-
portu11ity to foreigners with serious
intentions to visit Austrian prisons
and to see for themselves the living
EDITIONS in the country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Burck

Soviet power is the only solution
to their problems. Despite the i'm
Notwithstanding military cam
paigns, the hunger blockade set up
by the Kuomintang around the So
Wet district, the living conditions
of the toiling masses under the So
Wet rule has been improved. In
the city of Tingchow, for instance,
the textile workers have been able
to increase their wages from ten
dollars a month to IS dollars. SINH
lar increases have been effected by
the workers in other industries. The
eight hour law has been strictly en-
forced. A system of unemployment
insurance has been established. The
peasants have appropriated the
property of the landlords and sue
ceeded in increasing their produc-
ton Is per cent Central Soviet
Districts. Cooperatives, schools and
hospitals have been multiplied. Mass
trade unions protect the daily in
terests of the workers and serve as
one of the important pillars of So
Wet power.
In the central Soviet district
alone, there are 10000 trade union
members. Ninety-five per cent of
the workers have joined the trade
unions. Outside of the Soviet Union,
there is no other place which has
attained such record of mass trade
union membership.
What has been achieved by the
Chinese Soviets is only beginning
of the partial realization of the pro-
gram of the Chinese Soviet Govern
ment of complete overthrow of the
imperialist Kuomintang rule and
victory of Soviet power throughout
China. Yet these achievements of
the Chinese Soviets have already
forced their enemies to recognize
the existence of modern state, the
Chinese Soviet Republic, in the
heart of China. which has become
"a rival to Marking authority" Gyt-
ton Report League of Nations.
The oppressed masses in the Far
East are looking toward Soviet
China as their beacon of hope. 1t
is quite significant that The chair
men OF sessions of the All-China
Second Soviet Congress held in Sui
kin last February were Korean, For
mosan and Javanese delegates. The
successes of the Soviet movement in
China will not only increase the
confidence Of the colonial masses,
but also workers in the capitalist
countries in their ability to over
throw the power of their exploiters
and establish their own power-So-
Wet power
Herein lies the international sig
niflcance of the Chinese Soviets and
the reason why American imperial
ism is giving all kinds of assistance
to Chang Kai-sbek, the murderer
of the Chinese masses.
Let us answer the attacks of the
imperialists and the Kuomintang
with mass campaign in the U. S.
in support of the Chinese Soviets
to smash completely the sixth anti
Communist military campaign and
for the final victory of Soviet power
in all China, which will mean
powerful blow against the imperial
ist war danger in the Far East.