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The Washington times., 1934-09-27
Greater Than Max's

Max Baer may be the worlds
heavyweight champion, but one
screen star boasts a greater reach
than his, the title holder discov-
cred when he met Gary Cooper
during his trip to Hollywood to
talk over his picture, Kids on
the Cuff" Cooper's span is one
inch longer than Max's 80inch
stretch.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
Guild Understudy

Miss Powers had an important
role in BEST Years" which played
New York two seasons ago and
did another fine job in a depress-
ing play. Last season she was
understudy for Helen Menken
and Helen Hayes in MARY Of
Scotland" but the rudy health
Of these stars kept Leona mum
bling her lines in the wings in.
stead Of voicing them for a New
York audience. She played regu-
larly a minor role in the Guild
production.
At any rate there is the chance
for Washingtonians who see her
performance at the Fulton Thea
ter to slip around to the dressing
room and wish her well.
Some day she will catch up
with the right play and the role
and then Hollywood will be seek
ing her. It was that way with
Ed Arnold. He couldn't get a
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

have the law amended at the next
session or know why.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

have the law amended at the next
session or know why.
The old fashioned waltz is COM
ing back. Hollywood says so in
it's press agent propaganda for
1.-THE Merry Widow" But more
important than that the dancing
masters, the orchestra leaders
and the radio arrangerS say the
same thing.
THE Great Waltz" the oper.
eta built around Strauss melo-
dies including 1.-THE Blue Danube"
is expected to help popularize the
dance of our fathers.
Incidentally the Hollywood pre-
view disclosed the new Merry
Widow" with Chevalier and Jean.
cite Macdonald is a winner.
Those who compared it with the
John Gilbert-Mae Murray version
say the 1884 edition is Lubitsch
at his very best. That should
mean very, very good Carter Bar
ron.
KeIIegrams
Now that Mae West is with us
again on the screen the usual
questions will arise as to how old
she is. Mae says she's 80 and
that's that. The Broadway rec
ord proves that she appeared at
Hammerstein'S Victoria Music
Hall in 1918 and she was not a
child prodigy.
Phil Lampkin has organized a
dance band to play sorority and
fraternity hops. Collegiate stuff.
Eddie Norris. who has been
handling the Riding and Hunt
Club box office has been placed
in charge of the ticket sale for
the National Symphony OrcheS.
ira concerts. ....,
Latest wrinkle in movie show.
ing was revealed at the opening
Of the Arcadia International
Restaurant in Philadelphia where
Guy Lombardo is playing. It's the
cocktail roo mmovie. While sip
ping seductive fluids patrons
watch a local news reel and short
cartoon comedies. They give two
shows, at and S p. m. The idea
is said to be amazingly popular.
Hooray for Alex
In Gift of Cab" which has
about IS radio celebrities in its
lineup and will be coming along
soon to the Rialto Theater there
is a character called Alexander
Woollcott. Who do you think
plays it? Why none other than
the original Alex in person, the
pet of the intelligentsia.
Some say Carl Laemmle, ir,,
hired Mr.. Woollcott to make sure
the New Yorker would review his
picture.
Musical Discord
The Musicians Union has q
$4,000 bill against the Belasco
Theater, $1,7O0 against the Ma
tional, aftermaths of a dispute
over the Wee and Leventhal and
the E Street stock seasons. No
music was provided for this
money since the theaters refused
1t. A controversial point in the
contract.
The musicians say not another
note of union music for either
theater until this matter is set
tied. There is the yelled threat
they will call out the stage hands
but the latter union seems undis-
turbed. It has its own troubles.
The Washington times., 1934-09-27

tumble on Broadway or in Holly
wood either until whispering
wires" came along and then Mr.
Arnold was suddenly discovered
Some Opinions
I am still distressed over seeing
Janet Gaynor reduced to throwing
lemon pies. She has matured fast
has lost the wholesome and limo
cent ingenue look that put her
In big money, so more attention
must be paid to the Gaynor
stories. I hate to say it, but Janet
looks like one due for a toboggan
ride.
Also if I were Harry Hunter ]
would wire the Paramount studio
to start dressing David Jack Holt
as O boy and tell them to throw
away all of those long trousers
suits. The kid looks like an es'
capped Singer midget in most OF
his photos.
Take a look at "Barretts of
Wimpole Street" and tell me
honestly if you don't think the
girls of 1845 with their hoop
skirts and furbelows are not more
attractive to the susceptible male
eye than in the revealing modes
Of today. On this point I'm Vic
torian.
The Stupidest booking I've
seen this year in a movie house
was observed when I caught
Grace Moore's picture, Zone Night
of. Love" in Baltimore. In order
to see this feature one was COM
PEELED to sit through Edgar Ken
nedy rubbing his hand over his
face for laughs in 20 minutes Of
the most goSh-awful rubbish
ever saw exhibited.
Bureaucratic Zeal
Steve Cochran spent hundreds
Of dollars not to mention weeks
Of valuable time trying to get the
rigid child labor laws Of the Dis.
trict amended so that talented
children could appear on the pro.
3essional stage. He won both the
Senate and House District Com.
mitteeS and would have achieved
full success had not his bill be.
come entangled in the legislative
jam over the closing of Congress
Today that stupid law which
was sneaked over on the District
Is being automatically enforced
It will prevent Washington from
hearing Ruth Slenczyski, 9-year.
old piano prodigy booked here for
o November recital in the after
noon. The Capital must also
forego the appearance Of Gloria
Perkins, remarkable girl violinist
scheduled to be q SoloiSt with the
National Symphony Orchestra.
All last week very alert agent
spent most Of her time trying to
find out whether the girl dancers
in the Fox revue were Is years old
as they claimed. RehearSalS were
disrupted while the dancers fur
niShed affidavitS from their par
entS, birth certificates and other
documentary proof.
There is one comfort for the
theater in the present fevered en-
forcement. A certain Congress
man got a thorough taste of Of
ficiouSnesS at the Board of Educa
.tton Offices and Swears he will
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
D. G. Child Labor Law Forbids
Appearance Here Of Two
Juvenile Prodiqies
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Thursday roundup of loose items New York acclamng
Leona Powers in Errant Lady, 1t is not much of play
but Miss Leona close to perfection the lead role On this
latter point all of the critics agree.
One Broadway scribe Leona waited 20 years to be
discovered the nations main theatrical highway That's
giving the little lady much the worst of it age and it's
exactly true,
The Washington times., 1934-09-27
Audience to War

Carl Brisson was boxing in a
Stockholm stadium on the day
war was declared in 1914. Ten
thousand spectators walked out,
leaving Brisson alone with his
opponent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

adding, that if Wallace wants to
make codes, why doesn't he make a
rain code?
The Frazier Bill
But the shattering of the illusions
of the farmers regarding the New
Deal do not automatically lead them
to class consciousness. For years
the Wall Street masters have been
able to provide harmless outlets for
the growing indignation of the radi-
Called farm masses through the
so-called Progressive Bloc" in Con-
gress, led by Senators Norris, Borah,
Brookhart, La Toilette, Frazier and
Shipstead, These capitalist agrarian
politicians have sometimes made
loud speeches against the vested in
terests," against Wall Street, ETC.,
and have cooked up all kinds of
legislative proposals which they
claim, If passed, would help the
farmers and the common people.
The Frazier Bill has been intro
duced in the Senate by Senator
Frazier of North Dakota. Senator
Frazier Is q former North Dakota
governor, elected by the farmers as
the Non-Partisan League candidate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Farmers Crushed by Roosevelt Pue Fight for Relef Bill

and big farmers, whereas it has
lowered the purchasing power of the
great sections of toiling farmers.
DECOGNIZING the failure of the
~ New Deal the New Dealers are
clamoring for more power to estab-
fish real fascist dictatorship under
the N. r. A. and A. A. A. codes.
The Bankhead Bill, just passed by
Congress, is real fascist measure
which forces the poor sharecroppers
in the South into a deeper misery
and deeper bondage to the land
lords than ever before. Other meas
ures. like the Jones-C ostigan Bill for
the beet farmers, which protects the
interest of the great sugar trusts
against the demands of the small
farmers and agricultural laborers,
are pending in Congress.
Under these conditions, it is no
wonder that the spirit of revolt
among the toiling farm masses is
growing. Their illusions regarding
the New Deal are being shattered.
They grow indignant. Nebraska
farmers recently passed a resolution
condemning tf A. A. A. codes and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

on the Republican ticket. The Fra
zier Bill is very clever maneuver
to make farmers pay their mort
cages to the bankers and the in
surance companies. 1t provides
loans to the farmers on the as
sessed valuation of the land plus
one-half the value of the improve
ments at an interest rate of one and
one-half per cent, with loans on
livestock at IS per cent of the value
with three per cent interest. On
the loans on the land, however, be-
sides paying one and one-half per
cent interest, farmers have to pay
every year one and one-half per
cent on the principal, besides keep
ing up taxes and insurance pay
ments. On the livestock besides
three per cent interest, 10 per cent
of the principal must be paid every
year.
These loans are to be financed by
the issuance of the government
guaranteed bonds, but If not enough
bonds are sold, the government is
authorized to print paper money to
cover the rest Of the loans.
Besides payments on principal, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Chicago Fascists
Try to Force Negro
Woman from Home

Daily Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, May 24.-Plans to
disrupt, provoke, even attack the
National Youth Day demonstra-
ton on May 30 have been dis
cussed the last four meetings Of
Friends of New Germany
group in Rogers PIX. on the north
side Of Chicago. The use Of tear
gas by the Nazis has been con-
sidered.
At the same time, police con-
tinue to refuse a permit for the
demonstration to be held at Attn
and Halsted SITS. Delegations
from various organizations are
protesting to the police demand
ing the issuance of the permit.
Leaders OF the demonstration
stated today that no amount of
threats Of terror from the police
or the Nazi groups will prevent
the mobilization Of thousands of
youth in a mighty demonstration
against fascism and war May 3d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Relief BurO, City
Officials, Scab on
Cleveland NeWSieS
speciaI to the naiIr Worker

GPCCAdl W LIAG bdIF NOIhtT
CLEVELAND, May pa wide
spread boss and city drive is in
progress here to break the militant
strike of six-hundred newsies, now
in their fourth day of struggle for
higher rates. The Cuyahoga County
Relief Association yesterday became
an agency for sending scabs in TO
break the boys strike.
The local Home Relief Bureau
is sending jobIeSs youths to the
city hall for Jobs. There they are
offered SIS to scab on the striking
newsbOys.
Police on horse and on foot pro-
tect the scabs at prominent corners
in the city.
OF the more than 40 boys arrested
on Monday, all but u were released
by the following morning. These u
were held without charges named
against them, The International
Labor Defense filed writ of habeas
corpus, whereupon the IL boys were
Immediately released by the police,
without answering the writ.
Daily Worker sales have increased
somewhat in Cleveland since the
strike, which is being courageously
fought by the boys with the support
and sympathy of a large section of
the local population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
The Eame-Up Machine In Action
BUT AFEw SLIPS IN THE BOSS PRESS GIVE THE CAME AWAY

This story can be accurately called
''The First Steps in a Frame-up"
and equally sub-titled; How the
boss press helps to frame workers"
Look at the accompanying proto-
graph. It was snapped by a photog-
rapher Of the Minneapolis journal
shortly before noon Tuesday in
Minneapolis, when cops and special
deputies and thugs attacked the
militant truckmen. When it ap-
peared in that paper, the caption
below it described the scene in this
way:
"a picket, swinging a bIudgeon,
like baseball bat, felIs a fleeing
policeman"
No mention of anything else.
But then the police and big in
dustrialists and financiers of Mime
apolis, against whom the strike is
being waged, discovered that one of
their number, a business man named
G. Arthur Lyman, president of the
American Ball Co., had been killed.
And So without a moments delay,
the frame-up machine went into &C
ton.
Yesterdays papers reprinted the
original picture with variety of
captions. Most of them, however,
uncannily agree that the man on
the ground is the late C. A. Lyman.
The New York Daily Mirror, con-
tradicting the original caption in the
Minneapolis Journal, says that the
picture is that of &C. A. Lyman, who
suffered fatal injuries, is shown as
he was felled with bat"
The Daily News now presents the
picture as the photo Record of
Actual Killing" 1t describes the
man on the ground as Unconscious
on pavement" although the photo
actually shows the man in the act
Of movingl
The liberal" New York Post says:
death Was in the Wake of This
Blow" and also describes the figure
on the ground as Lyman, and "un-
conscious" And the liberal" twin
sister Of the Post, the Scripps- How
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Southern Militant
Workers Will Hit
Birm'ham Terror
Lawson, ToOhey, Raj
ston, RacoIin VIII Adj
dress Monday Meet

NEW YORK.-A wire received
from Alabama yesterday, states that
Herald Ralston. Communist organ
izer in the South whose heroic con-
duct in the Birmingham lynch
court aroused nation-wire attention,
and Alexander T. Racolin. LID.
lawyer associated in his defense, are
coming here to address the mass
protest meeting to take place Mon
day, May %, at Irving Plaza, Irving
Place and E. 18th st.
John Howard Lawson, we'll known
playwright and reporter Of the strike
to the Daily Worker who was run
out Of Birmingham by the police,
will give a first hand account Of the
events in Alabama. Other speakers
include Pat Toohey, editor Of Labor
Unity, Eula Gray, organizer Of the
Sharecroppers Union, and Allan
Taub, Assistant Secretary Of the Ma
tional Convention for the Defense
of Political Prisoners.
The possibility Of sending a dele
cation of writer's and intellectuals,
similar to the one that went down
to Harlan, Kentucky some years ago,
will be discussed at a supper Mon
day, night before the meeting to
which 300 prominent liberals and in
tellectuals have been invited.
The meeting is being held under
the auspices of the National Com
mittee for the Defense Of Political
Prisoners, the New Masses and the
John Reed Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Arbitrary Decision
Ends Theatre Strike


NEW YORK. The strike Of ush-
ers, doormen and cleaners of the
Loew and R.K.O. theatres ended in
an arbitrary decision of Charles @.
Levy, Secretary Treasurer of the
Theatre and Amusement Employ
es Union.
These workers, whose wages
ranged around S14 week, went
on strike on May II for an increase
in pay. Thep picketed the theaters
and on Monday five strikers were
arrested and held for $500 bail.
Levy didn't offer any help to
the jailed strikers end on Monday
evening at a meeting attended by
about 80 strikers called the strike
off without taking formal vote.
Strikers who we're Disseminated
against are urged to get in touch
with the A, F. of l.. Rank and File
Committee. Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

terest, taxes and insurance, farmers
have to pay appraisal, abstracting,
need deed fees and for registering
the deed, His loan would be in
creased to cover back interest and
taxes, all of which have to be paid
to the new mortgage holder!
So even though seemingly good
and tempting. the Frazier Bill is Just
another attempt to save the mort
cages of Wall Street bankers and
insurance companies and TO make
farmers continue to pay tribute to
these money lords.
The Frazier Bill is sponsored in
the House of Representatives by
Congressman Lenke, also from
North Dakota and it is supported
by the so-called progressive and
Farmer-Labor Senators and Con-
gressmen, by Milo Reno of the Holt
day Association, the Farmer-Labor
Party, Socialist Party and other
misleaders of the farmers.
The Frazier Bill does not relieve
distressed farmers from the $12.-
00o,000,000 debt load and the &C
(Contatued on Pare 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
PhiIa. Seamen Win
A Partial Victory
On Relief Demands
Organize Fight for Own
Control of Relief
Project
lspeciaI 70 the paily Workerl

Especial TO the Daily WOrker)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May "a
Militant picketing Of the local
transient bureau Offices, q delega-
ton to Washington, and a threat Of
a mass march on the capitol has
forced the transient bureau to set
aside a building for the sole use OF
the unemployed seamen. The men
are fighting for workers control Of
the relief project, demanding a
superintendent and grievance
committee elected by the men.
A committee of five elected sea-
men forced these concessions from
the special federal investigator,
King, turning down a proposition to
include other "transients" with the
seamen. The men recognize this as
a move to have men on hand as
crews for struck ships, and to con-
centrate all jobless together for war
mobilization,
The seamen's relief project build
ing is at Tenth and Spruce SITS, ten
blocks from the docks. The en-
ployed and unemployed seamen, who
are uniting their ranks in opposition
to war. consider this as an attempt
to isolate the jooless from the en-
ployed seamen. In answer, the sea-
men are fighting this move by a
series Of meetings on the water
front, an anti-war parade on June
7, and an intense organization cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
5000 Butte Copper Miners On Strike 10 Days;
Auto, Textile, Ne,Osmer,, Are in WaIk- Outs

BUTTE, Mont, May "a. - The
striking copper miners and smelter
workers are remaining out solid.
The Anaconda Copper Co., has only
been able to recruit $50 scabs in all
Three thousand are on strike in
Butte alone.
The strike, on its 18th day, is
being betrayed by the refusal of the
international officials of the Inter
national Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers Union to call out the wire
producing unit of the Anaconda
Co., at Great Falls, Mont, under
the preteXt that while it is working
it is being held as a club over the
company's head. A conference has
been called for today of union Off
Gals and company representatives
by the Federal mediator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Call State Police
At CCC Camp, Gust
A Young Workers
CCC Workers Support
Leader Framed for
Organizing

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-After sew
era1 weeks struggle against the hor-
rible conditions prevailing at the
camps, Capt. A. M. Watson called
state police into C.C.C. Camp 1870
at Lushbaugh, Pa The following
morning, Al out of total of POI in
the camp we're expelled from the
camp.
Some time ago there was a strike
in the camp against Saturday after
noon work The workers continu-
ously protested against the food and
the neglect of sick workers. These
protests continued. On Monday,
Capt. Watson called q court martial
trial of Irving Kastrow, who had
been active in modelling the C.C.C.
workers.
Kastrow was "tried" on the fol-
lowing Charges; possessing a
Communist" magazine Ca copy Of
Labor Unity was found in his bunk 4,
resisting work on Saturday after
moons, forming group and meet
ing in the woods with them, making
"Bolshevist" and union statements,
and other charges.
Although Kastrow demanded an
open trial, this was denied. The
workers grouped around the win
dows and booed at the trial. Finally
Capt. Watson told Kastrow to go out
and quiet the workers. Instead
Kastrow explained to the workers
the nature of the trial, a meeting
was held in the recreation hall, and
a committee elected to demand that
the hearing be open.
Capt. Watson called the state
troops. After raying before the men
and attempting to intimidate them,
he asked all those in sympathy with
Kastrow to step aside, Forty-three
workers lined up with Kastrow.
Arrangements are being made to
stage protest meetings in Philadel-
pllia and at the camp at Lushbaugh
where the military prison regime
will be unmasked before the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Steel Bosses Sheet
Proposes CGugsters
To Break Strikes

NEW YORK. Strong-arm
methods in dealing with workers
is openly recommended in a re-
cent issue of Steel, leading trade
paper Of the steel industry. Com
menting on recent strikes in the
auto industry, it says.
There appears to be no surer
cure for treating bothersome la
Dor agitators than organized
strike-breaking on the part Of
the auto manufacturers them
selves. The past week to ten
days has seen several of the
Detroit districts labor sore
spots eradicated as if by magic
through the appearance on the
scene of trouble-making squads,
whose occupation, while profess
sional, might be termed hazard
Gus, yet who talk the same force
full language as strike foment-
ors."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Defend Foreign-Born
Before Officials in
Washington, June 4

NEW YORK. - The Committee
for the Protection of Foreign Born
has issued a call to all organizations
to send kilograms to Attorney
General Cummings, demanding that
they see the delegation which will
arrive in Washington on June 4th
to protest deportstions Of workers
and to demand the return Of citizen
ship to Emil Carlos, whose citizen
ship was revoked because he took a
leading part in a textile strike.
Final plans for the delegation Will
be drawn up at an executive meet
ing, tonight at Room 430, so E. 18th
St. The Gardos petition blanks,
signed, should be returned to the
same address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
BY H. PuRO

THEadsboring masses of the
L countryside have now
lived through one year under
the Roosevelt New Deal. AS
a result they find themselves
regimented to the servitude
and slavery of the bankers.
insurance companies and landlords
more than ever before, by the chains
of the A. A. A. autocratic codes.
Their purchasing power, which the
A. A. A. program was supposed to
raise, has been further shattered.
This is verified by the fact that
farmers are now selling their prod
ucts at 81 per cent and buying at
100 per cent of pre-war levels, and
that their buying power for April
was Sc as compared with 100 before
the war.
However, these official statistics,
even if reliable, take a general aver
age of the purchasing power of all
farmers. And it is clear that the
A. A, A. program has increased the
purchasing power of the landlords
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Wdges in 900 MINI.
Firms ShOw IS Cents
Weekly Pay Reduction

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May
23-Figures published by Merrill
g. Murray, director Of the Min
nesota state employment service,
show that sos firms reporting on
employment and wages reported
an average decrease Of So cents
in weekly wages of their en-
ployes. The. figures are for
March, 1884 in comparison with
March, 1888. OF course this does
not take into consideration the
rise in prices which reduces real
wages much more.
The wave Of strikes in Mime
sofa is the workers answer to
the wage cutting drive of the
Roosevelt N. R. A. administra-
ton and the Olson Farmer-Labor
state administration.