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The Washington times., 1934-05-26
RIVALRY.
POSSIBLE
MOTIVE
Suspects Name Kept Secret
H. as Authorities Push
F Probe of Crime

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
26.-Department of Justice agents
assigned to the mysterious attack
which caused the death of Fanny
xurz, 81, and probable fatal in.
iuries to Milton Brown, "a, her
sweetheart, today started ques-
;ioning a girl known to have been
IN bad terms with both Of them.
Identity Of the girl was kept Sc
,ret, but it was learned that she
lad formerly worked with the
lain girl here.
Suspicion that the attack was
notivated by a woman grew as
7oung Brown, who has been IN
conscious in the Mary Washing
on Hospital since last Monday,
occasionally moaned the name of
girl in his coma.
Three of his former sweet
learts have been under suspicion
" the agents. Today, however,
hey received new information
hat led them to question the
atest suspect in the case.
Miss Kurz died yesterday from
he effects Of the beating admin
stored to the couple, and doctors
;ay that Mr.. Brown is still in a
:ritical condition, with the prob
lbility his mind will be blank
or several months if he should
i've. /
They were struck repeatedly
Ner the head with a heavy club,
hen dragged some distance and
lurled into a deep ravine in the
Battlefield National Park near
lere,
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
NOrgenthGu Is Sued
Bu Leather Tanners

Petition for a writ of mandamus
vas filed against Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau in District
Supreme Court today by 16 men,
>ers of the Calf Leather Tanners
Association to enforce a 80 per
;ent duty on incoming fancy
Gathers.
The duty is provided for, the
petition states, in an act Of June
II, 1880. Although Secretary
Norgenthau had construed that
he statute did not apply against
.rain feathers, the Court of Gus
oms and Patent Appeals subse-
luently ruled otherwise.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
1900 Coal Miners
To Return to Work

CINCINNATI, May 26 Q.N.SD.
A settlement has been reached in
the controversy between certain
coal operators in the Appalachian
territory and the code authority
regarding contracts with the
Louisiana and Nashville railroad
for fuel, Irwin Davis, president of
the Hatfield Campbell Greek Coal
Company, and chairman Of the
coal code authority for the Ap-
palachian territory, said today.
The settlement is expected to re.
suit in the return to work of 1900
miners in the Hazard (Ky.) field.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
President Names
Aide to Cummings
By International News Service

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt today NOM
mated Joseph R. Jackson Of Jack
son Heights, N. Y, to be Assistant
Attorney General, customs divi-
sion, and Augustine v. Long, Of
Gainesville, Fla, to be U. S. Dis
trict Judge, northern district of
Florida.
Mr.. Roosevelt also sent up the
reappointment of Maj. Gen.
George H. Harries to be a major
general in the Reserve Corps. and
Brig. Gen. John M. Finney to be
a brigadier general, Reserve Corps.
The President nominated the grad.
uating class of the Naval Academy
to be enSignS.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26

ito bring the match to a speedy
conclusion and this he did in de-
cisive fashion.
1t required only five holes for
him to close out the Scot in the
afternoon, bagging brides. Wal
lace's birdie 4 on the third netted
him only a half, Little also getting
a birdie 4.
The afternoon round:
Out
Little ................ 3 3 3 3
Wallace ............. 4 3 4 4 3
Both were short on the 126-yard
twentieth hole. Wallace Clipped
up to within ten feet of the pin.
Little then calmly played a pitch
and run that stopped dead at the
hole.
It looked like another win for
Continued on Page S, Col. 4,
Second Section)
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Warmer Seen
OUer the Weekend

Weather Bureau forecaSters
stuck to a fair and warmer"
prediction today for the week
end. Dropping to 48 degrees at
S a. m. today, the mercury began
a slow but steady climb as soon
as the sun came up, and at 8
a. m. stood at SO degrees. Rain
fall Thursday night and yester-
dav totaled 2.7 inches.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
NiIliOn In Stamps
Moved to NeW p. o.

The most valuable carload to
,e transported through the streets
If washington for some time was
;arted from the Washington City
POST office to the new Post
Office Department Building TO-
lay.
More than a million dollars
worth of stamps were taken from
he City Post Office to the new
building, where the philatelic
agency and stamp division of the
iepartment will now be located.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
NEW HOURS SET
BY SEC. |CKES

Eight a. m. to $3.50 p. m. was
officially adopted as the summer
work schedule of Interior Depart
ment public works employees to-
day, as Secretary of Interior
Ickes affixed his signature to an
official order changing the hours.
The new routine for the ap-
proximate 1000 employees in the
District will become effective
June /, and remain effective un-
til September 80.
Employees had been given a
chance to select their own choice
of working hours through a vote
authorized by Secretary Ickes.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26

WOOD, May 26
G.N.S).-Culminating another
swift Hollywood romance Lola
Lane and her new husband, AL
Hall, movie director, returned
to Hollywood today by air
plane from Las Vegas, New,
where they were married
shortly after midnight. He
said: -..-
1--WE known Miss Lane for
nine months. 1 proposed at
7:45 o'clock last night. She
accepted and away We flew.
Now it's MIR. and Mrs. Hall, II
you please, and we are very
happy"
Because Miss Lane is busy on
a picture a honeymoon will be
taken later, he said.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
One Dead, T1VO Hurt,
Auto Leaves Road

HARR1SONBURG, Va, May %.
One man was killed and two COM
panionS seriously injured when
their car Skidded off the road at
Newport, about Is miles from
here, early today. Gilbert Lewis,
81, of Shenandoah, was killed.
The other two, r. o. Sterling and
Clarence Humphries, of Harrison
burg, were hurled clear Of the
wreckage. Doctors have not yet
determined the extent Of their in
jurieS.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Indianapolis Hosiery
,WOrkers End Strike

BY International News Service
The strike of union employees
# the Real Silk Hosiery Mills at
indianapolis ended today with
he signing of an agreement by
he company, the Hosiery Work
RS Union, the National Labor
Board and the Employees Mutual
Benefit Association, representing
company workers, it was an
lounced here. Under the agree
nent the E. M. B. A. is recog-
lked as the accredited organiza-
ion to represent company en-
,loYes in negotiations.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
SLAYER Sentenced
To Death in Chair

HARRODSBURG, KY, May 26
QN.SO.-Formal sentence to die
August 2 in the electric chair at
Eddyville State penitentiary was
pronounced today upon Neal Bow
man. convicted slayer of a robber
oal, in Mercer circuit court here.
The doomed gang chieftain was
assured a longer respite, however,
when Judge K. S. Alcorn allowed
until october 2 for filing of an ap-
peal. which will automatically stay
execution. Motion for a new trial
was denied.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Kansas Wheat Crop
Hit Hard by Drought

TOPEKA, Kan, May 26 G.N.S0.
With the drought continuing its
prolonged siege in Kansas, E. j.
Smiley, secretary of the Kansas
Grain Dealers Association, today
amended his estimate of the total
State wheat crop to mot to exceed
IS million bushels" The normal
crop is around 140 million bushels.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
y. S. Ready to Seek
P1unlent on Debts

BY International News Service
Formal diplomatic notes will be
despatched to European debtor
nations within the next 48 hours
reminding them they are due to
pay this Government a total of
approximately SITS, 900, the middle
Of next month.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Second Man Dead
In Virginia Crash

LURAY, May 26.-An automo-
bile wreck near Shenandoah at
/ o'clock this morning, in which
Gilbert Lucas, 81, Of Shenandoah,
was killed, claimed a second vic
tim today with the death in
Rockingham Hospital of Clarence
Humphries. He is said to have
been driving. r. o. Sterling,
third occupant Of the car, suf-
fered a broken thigh and frac-
tured skull.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
SENATOR'S RUSH
WAGNER BILL

The Wagner labor disputes bill
will be pressed as a method of
pacifying the present strike vio'
lence and labor unrest through
out the nation, Senator Walsh
(D) of Massachusetts,, chairman
of the Senate Education and
Labor Committee, said today as
the committee approved the bin.
Senator Walsh said he expected
President Roosevelt would send
word to Senate and House leaders
that the measure should become
a law.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26

W. LAWSON LITTLE, San Franciscos greatest con-
trbution to golf who today defeated James Wallace
the unemployed Scotch carpenter, IA and 49, to win
the British amateur championship for the United
States. Little succeeded where Johnny Goodman
Walker Cup stars failed. International News Photo
The Washington times., 1934-05-26

A home Is your castle your
greatest protection q wise invest
home buys advertiSed for sale in the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
West Coast Bosses Prepare Terrorism

employers are furious because as a
result of the activity of the Com
nunist Party, coupled with the
strong revolutionary traditions of
the Pacific Coast workers in the
marine and lumber industries, the
boss-controlled leadership like that
of Joseph P. Ryan, head of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Asso-
ciatiot1-who has refused to call out
the Atlantic Coast men in support
of the strike-like that of Andrew
Furuseth, the viciously senile head
of the International Searnen's
Union, which he has reduced to
skeleton, and others, has been re-
pudiated. Their efforts to settle the
strike on a basis favorable to the
employers have been defeated so
far.
The leadership Of the strike in
California is in the hands of a rank
and file committee of so elected
from ten unions. In the oregon
and Washington ports similar com
r1lttees have been set up.
Because of the factors mentioned
the strike is the best organized and
most conscious of the series of great
struggles that have swept through
this country during the past year.
West, who for years has posed as
a liberal, writes in a bitterly hostile
tone:
For six weeks negotiations be-
tween shipowners and longshore-
men failed as power in the union
shifted steadily toward the left
and finally lodged in Commit
tee of Fifty composed Of five dele
gates from ten different unions,
including two shoreside unions
and marine unions all ten had
voted not to go back to work until
joint settlement was reached
80. so that the issue shifted from
one involving only the employing
stevedores and their employees TO
one that involved the entire OPP
Grafton of shipping"
Instead of being faced with few
thousand longshoremen and the
necessity of merely reaching an
agreement with the Tammany Hall
politician Ryan, the employers are
faced With a general strike of ma
rine transport workers!
ITO be continuedD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
NY. Unions
To Support
Hat Strike
Conference Tomorrow
To Raise Funds for
Strike Relief

NEW YORK. While the hat
manufacturers continued to reiter-
ate their refusal to concede to the
demands of the striking matters,
preparations for the strike relief
conference which will be held to-
morrow night at Beethoven Hall
were being intensified.
Committee of the strikers were
visiting the A. F. Of L. locals, indie
pendent unions and other labor Or
ganizations asking that delegates
be elected to the conference and
that funds be raised to swell the
strikers war chest
Unions of the Trade Union Unity
League have announced that they
will send delegates to the confer
ence with money for strike relief
All unions in the city are urged
by the Hatters' Strike Committee
to see to it that they are represented
in Beethoven Hall Thursday night.
Unions not meeting before the con-
ference have been asked to send
local officers as delegates.
The second conference between
the representatives of the hatters
and the manufacturers was held
Monday. The bosses offered to give
the strikers Is cent increase on
a dozen finished hats The workers
are demanding rs cents. The manu-
facturers also promised to improve
the working conditions in the shops
Workers laughed at the offer OF
is cent increase and ridiculed the
promise of better conditions, stating
that this promise was made many
times and was never lived UP to.
Other demands refused by the
manufacturers was the demand for
an increase in pay for hat Hanging
and the demand for increases for
women trimmers. Late in the day
manufacturers were meeting with
representatives of the trimmers.
All negotiations with the bosses
Will be reported at meeting of
strikers Of Local 8 Of the United
Hatters, which will be held Thurs
day afternoon Immediately proceed :
ing the relief conference,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

of movie actresses and prize
fighters. Some day, I hope,
I shall be privileged to read
the memoirs of a sports
writer.
am moved to these reflections
by the conclusion of Mr.. Max
Bser's autobiography Mr.. Bser
has written the story of his glo-
rious rise to fame in an epic
called MY Life and Loves"
modest title, similar to the one
chosen by the Hollywood hero, Mr..
Lou Tellegen, for his own auto
biography = Women Who Have
Loved Me- 1t is evidently the pur-
pose of these two to disprove the
theory that women do not chase
after profundity.
MIR. GENE TUNNEY is another
wi prize-fghter who has written
an autobiography. 1t tells sue
cinctly how he rose to fame. One
of his methods was to pay a num-
Der of newspaper men a per-
centage of his purses, when he
discovered that he could not get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

into the public eye through any
other way.
NOW that Mr.. Baer's autobiogra-
IL ply is done, however, Signor
Camera, late a killer, has started
his own, in the same home news
paper. Mr.. Baer told how he won
and Mr.. Camera is telling how he
lost. Both boys are praising each
other. In fact, they are praising
each other in the same style. Ons
would think that both autobiogra-
phies are the product of the same
person. But the fact is that ath-
letes, when they write. are cap
able of any style. Mr.. Babe Ruth,
for instance, has had three differ
ent styles. He once performed a
neat little writing trick, himself
1t is still marvelled at.
He was sick unto death in Ste
Vincent's Hospital in New Yorn
and he covered the Yankee gam0
in Chicago play by play for the
World.
MR. BAER has done lot ot
Nk writing and there has been n
lot of writing about him, since he
won the title. Not a day has
passed without his name being
mentioned in the public prints. His
soul and his doings have been de-
scribed from one end of his soul
and his doings to the other. have
made a little research into the
matter and I am ready to report
the reason.
The boys are trying to work the
old game up. The Ross-McLarnin
fight, the Baer- Camera fight and
the Canzoneri- Kick fight we're
played UP to an enormous extent
with the hope that once again the
customers would come to the box
office. And renaissance did hang
in the air.
But the renaissance has not
come to pass. Mr. Baer, the killer.
has nobody to fight with and neil
ther has Mr.. Ross. They may give
Mr.. Canzoneri to Mr.. Ross, but
this will take time, and what
afterward? Mr.. Canzoneri, in fact,
is played out. Here are two cham
picns, one a double champion, and,
they must howl in the wilderness.
TT CAN be observed how the boys
l are trying to use Signor Fier-
monte, the husband Of one Of the
-Four Hundred. One can observe
the nuances of publicity, the
heated statements from variouf
camps, pro and con. He seems t.
be about the only thing around
and in the 1ight-heavyweight divi
sion. Mr.. Fiermonte, Of course
will eventually fight Mr.. Rosen,
bloom. But boxing is in a sat
state. Let us bow our heads am
pray.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
1000 Workers Hit
NY. Police Terror
To Hold Nightly Meets
at Union So.

NEW YOR K.-Two thousand
workers packed the South End of
Union Square Monday in answer to
the savage police attack on the
regular meeting of the Unemploy-
ment Councils on Saturday night.
Richard Sullivan, secretary of the
Greater New York Unemployment
Councils, today urged all workers to
pack the Square nightly, and to
especially mobilize for the meetings
on each Saturday night to defend
the workers. right to assemble in
the Square.
About $50 was collected at the
Monday night meeting to pay for
the defense of Frieda Jackson, or
ganizer Of the Upper Harlem IN
employment Council, and Paul
Block, organizer of the Relief Work
ers' League, who were dubbed and
Jailed when the LaGuardia police
attacked meeting Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
LaGuardta Cops Beat Fur Union Leader Unconsciou
LID. Banquet Friday
Called Off in Support
Of Garden Meeting

NEW YORK.-In view Of the i'm
portance of the meeting called to
explain the present situation in
Germany this Friday evening at
Madison Square Garden, and in or
der to mobilize all its forces for this
meeting. the New York District Of
the International Labor Defense has
decided to postpone the banquet
scheduled for the same evening at
Irving Plaza, called to welcome Sam
Weinstein and other released poll
tical prisoners as well as the del
egates to the I. L. D. National
Plenum.
Those who have already paid for
their tickets will have their money
refunded through the organizations
from which they were purchased.
The international Labor Defense
announces its intention of holding
this banquet to welcome these work
ing class fighters at future date,
which will be announced shortly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Striking Farmers
Stand FaStAgainst
Company Terror
Especial to the paliy wOrher)


VINELAND, N. j., July 3.-On the
eighth day of strike against large
Seabrook Farms here, 500 Negro
and white farm workers are main
tanning picket lines firmly against
violence and provocation.
The strike, led by the Agricultural
Union Grade Union Unity League
is of national Importance since it
involves a struggle against one of
the largest farm landlord-employers
in the east.
Seabrook is attempting to round
up vigilante groups for terrorism
against the union organizers.
Seabrook has imported thugs led
by a gangster, Saunders, who have
attacked men and women pickets.
The homes Of the strikers, owned
by Seabrook, were set apart with
barbed wire charged with electricity.
Action of the Vineland Interna-
tional Labor Defense forced dis
continuance of this.
The men have worked for as little
as 7 to 10 cents an hour, and live in
high-rent company Shacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Libel Hearing For
HaCkmen July Is
Charges Are Effort To
Smash Union

NEW YORK, July 3.-Hearing on
charges of criminal libel brought by
taxi company officials against Sam
Orner. Joseph Gilbert and William
Gandell, leaders of the militant
Taxicab Drivers Union, was post
poned today until July 10 by
Magistrate Burke in West Side
Court.
When the supposedly hbelouS
statements were read in court by
the lawyer for the taxi officials,
MAGISTRATE Burke declared that he
saw nothing in the statements
which could be construed as GRIM
inal. He advised G. E. Kamm and
Mr.. Robbins, the complaining Off
Gals, to take civil action instead,
but on the insistence Of their attor-
ney he ordered a continuance Of the
hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

(C0nt1eUed from rage
such vague grounds can possibly
satisfy the demands for justice in
accordance with established prac-
tices in the civilized world"
The Commission is composed OF
Clarence barrow, Senator Costigan,
Dudley Field Malone, L. Elliott,
George z. Medalie, George Gordon
Battle, Roger Baldwin and Raymond
Wise. The report further stated.
This statement was issued by the
Commission after hearing testimony
for two days by German refugees
and others relating to conditions in
Germany today.
Fear that Ernst Thaelmann had
been murdered in the recent wave
of terror by Hitler against his own
storm troop leaders, was expressed
yesterday at the hearing by Anna
Schultz, wife of the murdered John
Scheer, member of the Central Ex-
ecutive Committee of the German
Communist Party. She said that q
cable from Stockholm had requested
information as to the truth of
rumors of Thaelmann's execution.
Anna Schultz gave a clear state
ment of what the German Com
munist Party stands for, pointing
out that the German Communist
Party is against all individual VOL
ence and terror. 1t is for a govern
ment of workers and peasants, q
government based on the true demo-
cracy of the proletarian dictator
ship.
DR.. Kurt Rosenfeld, testified agar
yesterday and said: THE statement
OF the German officials that the
limit Thaelmann can possibly get il
10 years, is not to be believed. There
is no reason to expect clemenc,
while there is every reason to be
lieve that Thaelfnann is in extrem,
danger Of death.
Prosecute Kids
A seven year old Jewish schoo
boy. who gave his name as Fran
voss, testified that even Jewish chill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
ReiChSWeElr Chief
Thanks Hitler
For Slaughter
Continued from Page y
by del

ishment. This was taken as an
indication that the first great
batch of summary executions was
over. and that those who we're
marked for killing would be slaugh-
tered by the new terrorist courts
which recently opened.
The Cabinet, in further slicing
the Storm Troopers and reducing
their importance in the scheme of
the fascist dictatorship, annulled
the law providing that the chief Of
the Storm Troops should be mem
Der Of the Cabinet. Ernst Roehm
was a member of the Cabinet with
out portfolio.
The Reichswehr German Army
is now the chief force upholding the
fascist dictatorship with its bay
onets in the interest of finance cap
ital, the rich industrialists and
landowners.
Guard Won Papen
Early yesterday go Schutzstaffel,
the picked murder gangs of the
Hitler regime, marched into Won
Papen's Office with steel helmets
and sidesrms.
No official list Of the number
executed has been issued by the
fascist government, but various OF
its officials claim not more than
so were slaughtered, while the ma
jority of capitalist correspondents
put the number at around 200
Only the names of the most out
standing Storm Troop leaders, and
others associated with them, have
been mentioned in the news
Scores of lower officers were
slaughtered without any trouble
taken to mention the fact.
Meanwhile, in France, Marshal
Petain, head of the French Army
is utilizing the German events
to increase the concentration OF
French armed forces on the Ger
man border. He also called for
elimination of the one year COM
pulsory service law in favor Of a
longer term of military service.
The Hitler government has CIV
en- permission to 10 Jewish textile
manufacturers to move their fac
tories to England.
The former crown prince was
reported to have flown to Hol-
land, and has Joined the Kaiser
at Doom.
In England and the United
States, particularly the capitalist
press is beginning a TRADE in sup
port of Hitler's latest bloody deeds
calling it "purging" Of the worst
elements of fascism, and praisins
the courage" of the murderous
bands of butchers in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Many Labor Groups Expected
At District c. p. Picnic Today

Guiding the Trade Union Unity
Council, have modified their entire
membership to attend this picnic.
An interesting program Of music,
drama and sports has been prepared
in addition to dancing that will take
place from p. m. to IL p. m. Ad-
mission will be Is cents.
North Beach Picnic Park can be
reached by I. r. T. East or West
Side subways changing at Grand
Central or Times Square, to Astoria,
L. L, Second Ave. 81" changing at
81 St., to Astoria, L. l., or B. M. T.
subway to Ditmars Ave, Astoria.
Buses will run all day long from the
subway station to the park.