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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-13

get more than we do marines
say the same). See the
world? Yeah, through a port
hole. Pleasant surroundings?
Living on a juggernaut whose very
existence signifies death and dee
struction.
Not only that, this business Of
war manuevers is plain hell. Com
ing from the coast a whole bunch
Of guys went to the hospital from
shell shock. For instance, on this
ship there are IS men on watch,
You know there are a half hum
dred ships close by, and you can't
see them because Of all lights
out Watching, listening strain
ing all nerves for the slightest
sound or light. No wonder a guys
nerves go hsvwire after two or
three weeks Of that.
Sometimes you just get to sleep,
and along comes the alarm. Gem
eral quarters, battle stations. Then
roll out and drill, drill till yours
damned near blue in the face.
Why2 To achieve perfection. In
what? The business of future
murder. For whom? Somebody
once said, war is a rich mans
profit and a poor mans fight"
And damned if he wasn't right.
Am I going to ship over again7
Not if can get anything ashore.
Pay cuts, some Of the officers are
very nice (?), restrictions, discipline,
and all that baloney. No more for
mine.
Why did I join the Navy? No
jobs at home, the old man hasn't
had a job for a year, mother
making over all our old clothes so
that we have something to wear,
the whole family getting anemic
from lack of proper food and all
that sort of thing, I read the
navy posters and well, here I am.
But, if I had known the true
state of affairs I don't think
would have signed up, in spite Of
the hard times ashore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-13
''W ar ManeuversJ Just
Plain Hell; Newest Go
Says Cob
He's Seeing the World Through Perth ole,
Declares Lad Who Joined the Navy Because
He Was Out of Work
From a Sailor in the L. s. Fleet

NEW YORK,-"Join the Navy and see the world. Pleas
ant surroundings Good Pay Learn trade Thus shout the
posters, pcturng the life of seaman in the Wall Street
Navy. What says John COBB" He responds with usty
Bronx cheer. "Oh yeah good pay is it? The c. boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-13
Strike at Virginia
Beach Rifle Range
Won improvements
Story of 1920 Struggle Against Louse-Ridden
Barracks and Garbage Food Told by Man
Who Was in Striking Company
BY An Ex-saiIor

IN 1920 Virginia Beach Rifle Range the of strike
against ousedden barracks and food that was too rotten
for the sailors who had been hardened by the garbage
iaded out in detention camp! wouldn't do to let be too
widely known that company in the y. s. Navy fired
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-13

varieties of tropical fish we gobs
will be sweating our heads off under
the broiling tropical sun SO that
nothing offensive gets in Franklin's
view, u. S. S. HOUETON,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-13

The Daily Worker gives you the
truth about the Soviet Union, the
truth about working -class strikes
in the United States and abroad.
Subscribe to the Daily Worker
today.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Ticket That Won
Sl5O,0OO Vas Chefs
Hasenpfeffer Tip
Second OtCner Care Ito
CharWOmdn Wife
for Christmas.

NEW YORK, March % (P).-Be-
cause her husband makes good hasen-
pfeffer Mrs. Maggie" Meringer won
$3.50 600 today in the Irish Hospital
Grand National Sweepstakes.
Mrs. Meringer is the janitor of an
apartment house in Queens. and she
held a ticket on Golden Miller, the
horse that won the race.
Her husband. William Meringer, a
restaurant chef, takes the credit.
He made such fine hasenpfeffer for
a patron in his restaurant that the
man gave him two tickets for the
sweepstakes and wished him luck.
That was last Fall. Christmas
came. and Meringer remembered the
tickets he'd been carrying around in
his pocket.
He gave them to his wife for Christ
mas, plus SIS, because I wasn't sure
the tickets were any good
The restaurant patron, full OF
hasenpfeffer and generosity. who pre-
sented the chef with the tickets had
full book of them not inscribed.
Meringer elected to have 'Maggie's
name put on them.
This was a happy day, too, for Mrs
Laura Anderson. a 52-year-old widow
in Brooklyn, who held a ticket on
Delaneige bringing SIS, 900.
The two women who won five and
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1934-03-23
COUCH'S EXPENSE ACCOUNTS
ENTER ARKANSAS POWER QUIZ

Perhaps" replied Baker. He un-
doubtedly has some expense there
chargeable to the company. such as
telephone calls, stationery, stamps and
other expense"
Baker was questioned at length re-
garding the operating expenses OF the
company and an $4,000 manage
ment fee" paid by the Arkansas COM
pany to the Electric Bond g. Share
Corporation last year.
Disclosing that the company's
operating expenses were more in 1888
than in 1882 despite a decrease in
revenues, Chairman Lasley asked the
reason.
THAT Is explained by the fact that
an operating company has certain
fixed charges, which remain the same
even though revenue drops, and do
not come down proportionately,"
Baker said.
"Those New York experts don't help
out much in that respect, then,"
Lasley remarked.
Evening star., 1934-03-23

The last vestige Of prohibition en-
forcement in Washington was swept
aside today as a 22-year-old con-
victed bootleeger walked into District
Supreme Court without an attorney
and persuaded Justice Daniel w.
O'Donoghue to order his immediate
release from the District Jail.
The bootlegger, Harry T. johnson,
pleaded guilty last June 80 to the
illegal transportation of whisky and
was sentenced to serve from l year
to 18 months in Jail by Justice
ODonoghue. Appearing before the
same Judge today, he successfully con-
tended that his sentence, in view of
repeal, was ineffective.
Agreeing with this contention, JUS
tice O'Donoghue held that any liquor
law sentence continuing after the
Evening star., 1934-03-23
FRENCH NOTE HITS
D|SARM|NG HOPES
Britain Is Warned Against
Failure to Give Aid
Guarantees.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 23.-The death knell
Of disarmament and the possibility OF
a new conference to sanction German
''rearmament" was foreshadowed to-
day by a French arms note to London
without mincing words, the Dou-
mergue government states a Geneve
conference would result in failure un-
less Great Britain gives France guar
antees to aid against an aggreSSor.
These guarantees Britain has been
unwilling to give.
Exactly what France wants was
outlined in a secret separate COM
munication handed London. The text
Of a note sent London March l9 Will
be published tonight but the secret
document will not be revealed.
Conference Deviation.
The general note states the Geneva
Conference wandered far from the
original conception Of Article VIII
of the Covenant, which calls for dis
armament instead of rearmament.
The note indicates, and official
diplomatic explanations confirm. that
France might be willing to join a
new conference outside Geneva, where
the degree of Germanys rearmament,
limitation of all arms and the prob
lem of security would be discussed.
Note In Two Parts.
Divided into two parts, the note
first puts failure of disarmament. or
not. up to the British.
The second part discusses the
necessity of a return to the League S
fundamental ideas of reduction OF
arms and hints at the possibility OF
starting anew another program on
the basis of the Italian scheme.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Own PLEA FREES BOOTLEGGER;
PRECEDENT SEEN FOR OTHERS

date Of repeal Is void and directed
that johnson, the only remaining
prisoner in the District Jail for viola
tion of the prohibition law, be re-
leased.
The opinion Is far-reaching in its
scope, and, If followed in other juris-
dictions, means that thousands Of
prisoners now serving time for offenses
committee before repeal of the eigh-
teenth amendment will be freed.
The contention that the Volstead
act is now ineffective in view Of repeal
of the amendment was vigorously op-
posed by Assistant United States At
torney William A. Gallagher, who an
nounced he would carry the case to
the Court Of Appeals. Gallagher
argued that a sentence imposed before
repeal Of the amendment is valid even
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-03-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 23-
Expense accounts of Harvey C. Couch,
president of the Arkansas Power &
Light Co. and a director of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation. have
entered into the State fact-finding
tribunals rate reduction inquiry on
the city of Stuttgart's application for
a cut in electric charges.
In questioning w. E. Baker, treas
urer of the power company, Chairman
P. A. Lasley of the tribunal asked
whether the power company paid
COUGHS expenses to and from WASH
ington.
Mr.. Couch travels on a pass, but
the company pays his out-of-pocket
expenses" Baker replied. He said the
"out-of-pocket" expenses were those
incident to his travel, such as food
and lodging"
Are any of his expenses. such as
household, paid In Washington"
Chairman Lasley asked.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
FISHING
PLANS IN DOUBT
Prospects for Next Tuesdays
Trip Do Not Look
So Bright.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The prospects for that presidential
fishing "trip next Tuesday did not
look so bright today. Business is
piling up.
Mr.. Roosevelt had four pressing
issues to tackle. First and foremost
was the threat of an automobile
strike. Quick developments in that
matter were expected. Then there
were the airmail, veterans allow
ances and the railroad wage problems.
Notwithstanding these and other
problems, however, the President has
yet to change his plans to leave the
Capital next Tuesday for a fishing
cruise in Southern waters.
Aides feel that If it is humanity
possible he will adjust all major mat
terS over the week end and take his
trip anyway.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
BRANDT BARRED
PENDING APOLOGY
Head of Creamery Com
pany'S Attack on Secretary
Wallace Resented.
BY the Associated Press.


John Brandt of Minneapolis. preSi-
dent Of the Land O. Lakes Creamery,
Co, was barred today from the Depart
ment of Agriculture and Farm Ad-
ministration Offices until he retracts
statements attacking Secretary Wal
lace.
In speech yesterday before group
of l25 representatives OF cooperative
dairy marketing associations called to
protest against Farm Administration
policies. Brandt called the Secretary
unreliable and said he failed 10 live
up to a verbal contract.
In the absence Of Secretary Wallace
today. his assistants, incenSed at the
allegations made, informed Brandt in
a letter that he was not welcome in
the department Offices until ne apollo
gized or retraeted his statements.
The administration further declared
it had paid Land O. Lakes all costs
of purchase of the butter in question
and an additional $1l085.53 to cover
overhead expenses incurred. adding
that the company agreed to handle
the transaction without profit
dllOI COuId llOt OC ANoNAACA
diately for comment.
Plan Plea to Congress.
Openly antagoniStic to the Farm
Administration, members Of the milk
marketing cooperative associations
planned to turn to Congress with
resolutions condemning the dairy
activities OF the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
The milk men continued first, how
ever. a protest meeting at which
speakers launched critical statements
yesterday.
Charges were made that the ad
miniStration was antagonlstlc TO CO.
operatives, was not working for the
best interests of milk producers and
had retrogreSSed from its progressive
program after George N. Peek re-
signed as farm administrator
The administration earlier had is
sued a denial Of BrandtS charges
against Wallace, saying:
Mr.. Brandt was advised that the
only basis upon which additional pay
ments from Government funds can be
lawfully made is a detailed statement
of expenditures incurred in the pur-
chase and delivery of the butter to
the Government.
Secretary Wallace has invited Mr.
Brandt to submit such an itemized
statement, but it has not been sub
mitted."
To End Negotiations Today.
The conference expected to COM
plete its negotiations late today and
then submit resolutions to members
of Congress.
The administration. meanwhile, has
called regional conferences to be held
from April 2 to in Is cities through
out the country to discuss the control
plan. 1t invited all dairy producers
TO attend and voice their opinions.
Leaders of the dairy conference
announced they would discuss pro-
posals to cancel existing milk mar
keting agreements unless producers
were allowed to select market admin
iStrators; to return to the old agree
ments which fixed resale prices, to
adopt a substitute production control
program proposed by Brandt and to
urge adoption of a resolution now be-
fore Congress for a Federal Trade
Commission investigation of milk
marketing practices throughout the
country.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Feeling That Roosevelt
Sides With Them Evident
in Expression Of EIation to
Forces Back Home.
TODAY HELD DEADLINE
IN STRIKE CONFERENCE
Manufacturers Statement of Po-
sition Is Awaited-Eastman
Confers With Rail Managers.
Move to Boost Lower Wage
Scales to N. R. A. Level Seen.
BY The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
A feeling that President Roosevelt
was siding with them in their con-
troversy with automobile manufactur-
ers was evidenced today by labor
leaders.
The union spokesmen had another
afternoon conference scheduled with
Hugh Johnson, N. r. A. administra-
tor, who has been active in the strike
averting efforts. President Roosevelt
was ready to receive the men on
either side Of the dispute. if that be-
came desirable, and was especially in
terested in whatever position the
manufacturers would take on his
plans.
Meanwhile, the labor leaders sent
kilograms back home expressing ELLA
tion" and confidence that President
Roosevelt will see us through" The
strike was being held in abeyance
pending the outcome Of the negotia-
tlOnS.
Definite Word Waited.
At this afternoons meeting the
union men expected to hear some
definite word from the administra-
ton. but had no assurances as to
what was planned.
During the morning, johnson con-
ferred with the automobile manufac-
turers but both sides kept strict silence
as 20 the results.
There was growing feeling that
today had definitely become the dead
line for negotiations.
The manufacturers were eager to
return to Detroit and the union lead
ers were having increasing difficulty
convincing some groups of their fol-
lowers at home that action had to Be
delayed further
Labor men spent much Of the morn
ing sending reaSSuring messages 70
Detroit, Flint and other points
They still expressed confidence
President Roosevelt would uphold
their demand for elections in the in
dustry to determine the right Of the
unions TO represent their members in
collective bargaining.
Railroad managers received from
Joseph B. Eastman a series Of pro-
poSalS designed to settle the wage con-
troversy with employees. After an
hour and a half with the managers.
Eastman left the conference, but said
he would return later in the day to
receive their answer before cOnterrlng
further with labor
The Federal co-ordinator refused to
say what the propositions were.
1t was generally understood. how
ever, he IS endeavoring to make some
arrangement so that the lower paid
railroad workers would be benefited
1t has been suggested some arrange
ment be made so the minimum wage
would be the equivalent to the N. r. A.
minimum.
Asked whether he had proposed
such a minimum, Eastman grinned
and shook his head. adding that he
could not talk at this time.
johnson Meets Executives.
An attempt. apparently no more
successful than the previous efforts,
was made late last night by Johnson
to swing the motor executives to the
election idea. Neither side would dis
cuss the conference.
Spokesman here plainly felt the
only one course which could avert the
strike was pronouncement by the
Chief Executive that full observance
Of the industrial law required that
elections be held to determine what
Evening star., 1934-03-23
URGE RATIFICATION
OF WORLD COURT
Al Smith Joins Plea of
Business, Church and
Legal Organizations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Strong pleas. including one from
Alfred E. Smith. for ratification at
this session of the protocols under
which the United States would join
the World Court were heard today at
brief but crowded session of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Approximately 90 witnesses ap-
peared, including representatives Of
business, church, newspaper, political
and legal organizations
Smiths plea was contained in a
letter addressed to Newton D. Baker
chairman of the Committee on Ar
rangements for the hearing 1t said:
In these disturbed and threaten
ing times we should certainly do our
part toward persuading all civilized
nations to compose their differences
by reason and law instead of by force.
The major political parties have
advocated adherence to the World
Court a number of years. The Demo-
cratic National Convention definitely
pledged the Democratic party to ad-
herence to the World Court in 1882
and the Republican and Socialist
parties promised the same thing in
their national platforms of that year.
The occasion was a one-day hear
ing for proponents OF adherence to
this world tribunal for the settlement
of international disputes.
Both major parties are pledged to
adherence to the court. but leaders
were openly doubtful of Senate action
before adjournment this Summer.
President Roosevelt said this week
he had not given the matter con-
sideration and did not look for ac-
ton this session. Some saw a pos
sibility, however, that as a result of
today's hearing there might be de-
mands from several Senators for
committee action.
Many Groups Represented.
Those thronging the committee
room today included spokesmen for
the American Bar Association. the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
Federal Council of Churches, the Ma
tional Grange. the Central Conference
OF American fIdD lIlt SdlIlOlC hS-
sOciation for International Peace.
newspapers and IL national women'S
organizations.
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, former preSi-
dent of the Federal Council Of
Churches, presented Memorial on
World Peace" saying:
we support acceptance of the Root
protocol which 38 nations have rati-
fed"
Clarence E. Martin, former presi-
dent of the Bar Association, who
acted as chairman of all the or
CARNATIONS urging ratification, said
it was the deliberate judgment" of
the association that the national
welfare requires the entrance of the
United States into the Permanent
Court of International Justice world
Court"
Gov. Theodore F. Green OF Rhode
Island presented resolutions of Is
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-23
European Gold
Bloc Is Hard Hit
By Latest Crisis
Money Shortage Faced
by France as Smiss
FduOr DeudIuatiOn.
BY the Associated Press.

ASSOCIaTtu
PARIS, March 23-Troubles for
the European gold bloc, it was ap-
parent today. are fast developing.
France, short of cash, was obliged
to raise l000,000,000 francs (approxi-
mately $65.00000O) by selling treasury
bonds in Amsterdam, while Switzer-
land is agitating devaluation of the
Swiss franc.
The bloc suffered its first shock
when Czechoslovakia recently de-
valued the krone by one sixth
The empty French treasury was
replenished temporarily, but foreign
borrowing emphasizes the inability to
borrow in France, which Georges
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-23
RUSSIA ORDERS 2 SHOT
FOR RAILWAY DISASTER
Engineer Whose Train Killed 33
and Station Master Condemned.
Five Sent to Jail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SVERDLOVSK, U. S. S. r., March
23.-Two death sentences we're de-
creed today as swift justice was meted
out to those held responsible in a
freight and passenger train collision
in which 33 were killed.
The engineer of the passenger
train, and the station master Of Tav-
atui, near where the wreck occurred
March II, were sentenced to be shot.
Five others charged with RESPONSE
bility in the wreck. members of the
train and station crews, were given
prison terms.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Twenty Fail to Finish.
Raise Ends Strike.

LANCASTER, Pa, March % P).-
Promised restoration of a 10 cents an
hour pay cut, 1900 c. w. A. strikers
agreed to return to work today. At
Reading strikers on c. w. A. and
P. w. A. projects returned to their
jobs yesterday.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
PENNIES COME BY AIR
Canal Zone Gives 10000 of Them
for Warm Springs.

MIAMI, Fla, March % (P1.-Ten
thousand pennies, raised in the Canal
Zone through social functions on
Washingtons birthday for the Roose-
welt Warm Spring. Ga. Foundation
fund, are due to arrive here late today
by commercial airplane en- route to
the White House at Washington.
Addressed to President Roosevelt,
the pennies. raised largely through
the efforts of a swimming troupe at
Balboa. will be placed aboard another
commercial plane leaving here to-
morrow morning and due at the Ma
tional Capital that night.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Bandits Get $26, 900.

BROCKTON, Mass, March % CP).
Bandits today held up a truck
belonging to the Home National Bank
here today and escaped. police said,
with q sum estimated at $4,000.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
WEATHER.

(U 8. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Cloudy, with moderate to heavy snow
this afternoon and tonight and possibly
tomorrow morning. probably mixed with
sleet at times emperatures-Highest
as at noon yesterday; lowest, II, at
noon today. Full report on page 3.
Evening star., 1934-03-23

Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1934-03-23

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-27
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THE MeGUFFEY MONUMENT

Graduates of the University of Virginia VINO
were students there in the years between the close
of the War Between the States and 1887 remenl-
Der Dr. William Holmes McGuffey, professor of
moral philosophy and political economy: DR.. NC
Guffey came to that institution in 1916 and was
member of it's distinguished faculty for Al years.
He was one of that galaxy of educators who made
the Virginia University outstanding among the
great colleges of the earth.
It was not the teaching of moral philosophy and
political economy that gave DR.. McGuffey his
greatest fame. He was known best as the author
of series of readers for the lower school grades
Those readers were used in schools in all parts of
the land and it is said that next to the Bible and
dictionaries, they were best sellers.
Last Sunday monument erected on the site OF
the birthplace of DR.. McGuffey, fifteen miles from
Washington, Pa, was dedicated. 1t bore the in
scription, Gather of American Educators" Among
the men VINO had gathered there to do honor to a
great American was Mr.. Henry Ford and in brief
speech he said: "The McGuffey readers taught in
dustry and morality to America" No finer tribute
could have been paid the great author and teach
err and to it hundreds of thousands who studied
McGufey readers will say, Amen.-Spartanburg
Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-27
Kiwanis Plans
District Meet
In Ashevile
Annual Convention for
Two Carolinas Will Be
October 1912

The Carolina Kiwanis district
annual convention, composed of
the Kiwanis clubs of North and
South Carolina, will be held in
Asheville on October 10, II and
IL with Headquarters at the
George Vanderbilt hotel. On Octo-
Der 10 at T p. NJ, the executive
committee will meet at dinner
which will be followed by a get
together entertainment at the
Vanderbilt hotel at 9 p. IN.
Thursday, October II, at Q a:
NJ, the convention proper will
open in the large ballroom Of the
Vanderbilt hotel with District
Governor Ralph Barker of Dur
ham presiding. DR.. +. Gibson Da-
Wis, pastor of the First Baptist
church Of Asheville, will lead the
invocation while Mayor Wamboldt
of Asheville will welcome the dele
gates on behalf Of Asheville. Rob-
in Phillips, trustee of Rotary In
ternational, will welcome the Wis
itors on behalf Of civic clubs of
Asheville. The response will be
made by Past District Governor
Tim Crews of Spartanburg. This
will be followed by the presenta-
ton of International and district