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The Washington times., 1934-06-16
OHNSON HAYS FOES OF NRA At RECOVERY CELEBRATION
Fine Record
Made By
Congress
RY InternatlonaI NeWs service

BY International news service
The Seventy-third Congress
may 60 to its death today after
amassing the greatest legislative
record ever credited to an Ameri
can Congress.
The record included these
measures:
FIRST SESSION, MARCH o
TO JUNE, 16, 1888
Emergency banking act, au-
thorizing q bank holiday.
National Economy Act, slash
ing Government pay and vet
Grams benefits.
Bill modifying Volstead Act
to leagalize 80 beer.
Bill, authorizing Federal Re
serve loans to State banks.
Truth In securities act, pro-
tecting investors.
Unemployment relief bills,
creating Federal relief agencies.
Agricultural relief bill, Great
ing the AAA.
$500,000,000 appropriation for
unemployment relief.
Norris Muscle Shoals Bill, pro-
viding for Government opera
ton Of project.
Deposits Guarantee
Glass Banking Act, with its
guaranty Of deposits.
Dill Railroad Relief Bill.
Amendment Of National Econ
omy Act, tightening economy on
veterans benefits.
Act taking United States of
the gold standard.
Huge public works expendi-
lures.
Huge civil works program.
National Industrial Recovery
Act, establishing the NRA.
SECOND SESSION, JANUARY 3
TO JUNE ?, 1884
FIetcher-Rayburn Bill, Great
ing Federal Commission to reg.
ulate security markets.
Bills for direct loans to farm
ers and for refinancing OF farm
mortgages.
Act terminating prohibition,
by placing new taxes on alco-
holic liquors. ,
Bill authorizing new naval
construction program to estab-
lish 5-5-3 ratio.
Bill providing for independ-
ence of Philippine Islands.
Bill continuing the reconstruc'
ton finance corporation.
A new revenue act, increaS-
ing Federal taxes, including in
come taxes. 49,.
Connally bill, including cattle
under AAA.
Bankhead bill, providing for
Federal supervision Of cotton
industry.
Air Mail Legislation
Black bill, revising Federal
air mail contracts.
New corporate bankruptcy act.
Bill permitting municipalities
to 60 through a form Of bank
ruptcy.
Continuation Of civil works
program.
A billon-dollar appropriation
for public works activities.
Dill act, creating Federal COM
mission to regulate all forms Of
communication.
Series of anti-crime bills, Civ.
ing Government greater power
to stamp out various criminal
activities, including kidnapping.
Wheeler bill, liberalizing Fed
eral supervision Of Indian tribes.
Bill authorizing direct Federal
loans to industry.
Bill directing new retirement
pay for railroad employees.
New silver act, providing for
IS per cent silver in Nations
money stocks.
Liberalization Of economy act
toward Government workers
and war veterans.
Deposits guarantee bill with
Steagall amendment providing
relief for bank depositors.
And probably:
Bill creating Federal concilia-
ton boards to avert strikes.
President Roosevelt's n W
housing act.
The Washington times., 1934-06-16
CONDITION OF TREASURY

BY International New0 Service
Treasury balance as Of June IA,
$1,912,673,617.92: internal revenue,
So, 1888, ,703.74; customs receipts,
$l0,137,713.02,
The Washington times., 1934-06-16
GERMANY

BERLIN, June 16.-The new
Horst Vessel trial for the murder
committed in January, 1880, and
supposed to have been judged and
punished at that time under the
republic, produced two death sen.
tenceS and one imprisonment to.
day.
Sol Epstein and Hans Ziegler
were condemned to decapitation.
Peter Stoll was sentenced to seven
and one-haf years at hard labor.
They were convicted Of having
kept watch in a street while the
men who killed Vessel went up
stairs to his apartment and shot
him.
The Washington times., 1934-06-16
CHINA

SHANGHAI, June 16.-A pro-
test against the murder by bandits
Of DR.. j. II. Ingram, 75-year-old
American medical missionary, was
sent to the Chinese government
yesterday by Nelson T. Johnson,
the United States minister. DR..
Ingram, who had spent more than
SO years in China, was shot down
in his summer cottage in the hills
west Of Peiping as he sought to
defend his wife and three grand
children against the robbers. DIR.
Ingram'S daughters are Mrs. Will
liam Mayer, the wife Of an Army
captain at Edgeworth Arsenal,
Md, and Miss Ruth Ingram. Of
st. Louis.
NANK1NG, June 16.-Greeted
by a squadron Of military air
planes, Gen. Chang Kai-shek and
his wife arrived here yesterday on
a Chinese gunboat from Kiukiang
to attend the tenth anniversary
Of the founding of the Whampoa
Military Academy, which the Ma
tionalist generalissimo founded at
Canton and then removed to Nan
king. The presence in Nanking Of
the highest political leaders from
all parts Of the country except the
southwest increases the signifi-
canoe Of General Chiang's visit,
during which important confer.
enceS are planned.
The Washington times., 1934-06-16
FRANCE

PARIS, June 16.-Every line Of
the national defense, including a
string Of Notifications along the
German border, will be strength
ened under an appropriation of
$2O8, 100000 just approved by the
Chamber of Deputies. After q
stirring speech on possibilities of
invasion by Premier CASTOR Dou-
mergue, the delegates voted 420 to
I'll in favor of the measure,
The Washington times., 1934-06-16
ENGLAND

LONDON, June 16.-Q.N.S)-
Ronald Colman, motion picture
actor, well known in America, but
whose home is in England, was
made defendant today in a suit
for divorce by the former Thelma
Ray, to whom he was married in
London in 1919. She is known
professionally as Thelma Raze.
Mrs. Colman is living on the
Riviera. Mr.. Colman said today
he will not defend the case.
The Washington times., 1934-06-16

LONDON, June 16.-The long
awaited plan for reorganizing the
Lancashire cotton spinning trade
proposes that surplus spindleS be
The Washington times., 1934-06-16

PARIS, June 16.-Five more
bombs were delivered by mail
yesterday to various industrial
firms in Paris, all apparently
sent by the same maniac who
during the past few days has
been seeking vengeance on
society at large and certain indi.
viduals. Fortunately all the
packages except one were opened
cautiously or set aside for police
inspection before opening. The
only explosion was at the Citroen
automobile factory, where an en-
ploye received a slight wound on
hand.
The Washington times., 1934-06-16

PARIS, June 16 G.N.S0.-Emi1e
Baum, an American using the
name Of Emile Brown, who was
arrested here on June 9, charged
with stealing diamond from Tif-
fany's, was released from custody
today. The theft of the diamond
occurred last February. Mr.. Baum
is a native Of San Francisco.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

Assistant Secretary of Commerce,
DR.. John Dickinson, was among those
who entertained informally at lunch
con yesterday at the Carlton.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

breakfast Mr. and Mrs Powell left for
a wedding trip, the bride wearing a
henna-color wool gown shot with gold
threads. Her accessories were brown.
Mr. Powell and his bride will make
their home at 3034 P street.
A wedding of interest throughout
Virginia took place this morning at 8
O'Clock in the home of the brides
parents. the Rev. and Mrs. J. Arthur
Winn, at 1886 Thirteenth street north
west, when their daughter, Miss Mar
garet Goode Winn, became the bride
Evening star., 1934-09-20

of Mr. Robert Clayton Land, son Of
the late Robert Clayton Land and
Mrs. Lila Wyche Land of Emporia, Va.
The ceremony was performed by the
brides father, DR.. Winn, and a we'd
ding breakfast was served to the men,
bers of the immediate families Of the
bride and bridegroom who witnessed
the ceremony.
, Mr. and Mrs. Land left by motor
for an extended trip West, including
the Chicago fair. On their return they
will reside in Emporia, where the
bridegroom is in business. Both the
Evening star., 1934-09-20
SOCIETY
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hull
Will Entertain Distinguished
Polish Visitors at Tea

Baker is at the Willard while making
a short visit here.
The former Governor of North
Carolina and Mrs. o. M. Gardner.
with their family. have moved to the
Wardman Park Hotel where they have
taken an apartment for the Winter.
Former Representative William s.
Bennett of New York is staying at the
Willard during his visit to the city.
Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock and Miss
Dorothy Sellers who have been at
Newport since early Summer, will sail
October 7 to visit Mrs. Fahnestock's
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry J. Drummond-WolfI.
Mrs. Willis ]. Nolan of Somerset was
hostess at delightful party yesterday
afternoon when she invited the
Wednesday Club Of Somerset to meet
her sister, Miss Jirka Mala of Prague,
CzechoSlovakia. During the after
noon Miss Mala, who is an accomp-
lished musician, played a group of
songs of her own country. Among the
out-of-town guests at the party were
Miss Ellen Dewey of Schenectady who
is spending several weeks with her
sister, Mrs. Irving M. Day, and Miss
Natalie Emalinoff of New York.
At another party which Mrs. Nolan
gave Tuesday. also in honor of Miss
Mala, she had as her guests a num-
Der of Washington women who had
at one time lived in Prague. Among
them were Nine. Broz, Mrs. A. F.
FluchSa and Mrs. B. Bezuchova, all of
whom are connected with the lega-
ton: Mrs. Anna Torzicka and Mrs
v. Kral
Miss Mala who has spent several
months in this country will leave for
her home in Prague at the end of next
week.
Mrs. A. w. Brown of the Kennedy
Warren Apartments entertained a
company of % in the Maryland room
OF the Olney Inn last evening.
Mrs. T. De Witt Talmadge has. re-
turned to the Mayflower from White
field. N. H, where she spent the great
~ koAS Va CAAC
Mrs. Steever, widow of Gen. E.
2. Steever, u. S. A., has returned to
her apartment at the Martinique, after
spending the Summer at Ridgefeld,
Conn.
Miss Belle Gurnee arrived in New
York yesterday from Newport and is
at the Westbury Hotel for week be-
fore sailing for Europe.
Powell -Mehlhop
Wedding at Noon.
The marriage of Miss Eulalie de
Lassus Mehlhop, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Clarence Warren Mehlhop, to
Mr.. Henry Spencer Powell, son of Mrs.
Henry S. Powell, took place today at
IL o'clock, in st. Matthews Church.
Msgr. Buckley officiating. The altar
was decorated with white gladioli,
asters mingled with palms, and as
the guests were assembling Mr.. Melton
Boyce, organist of the church, played
a program
The bride was given in marriage by
her uncle, Mr.. F. w. Mehlhop of
Chicago. She wore an eggshell-color
chiffon gown made on simple lines.
with high neckline and long sleeves.
Her hat was of brown velvet and she
wore accessories to match. She car
ried a bouquet of brown orchids.
Mr.. Guy T. Scott of Washington was
the best man and the ushers selected
were Mr.. Edward S. Northrop and
Mr. Peter Grogan.
breakfast followed in the home
OF the bridegroom's mother for the
immediate families and a few Young
friends of the couple After the
Evening star., 1934-09-20
TINE Secretary of State and Mrs.
Cordell Hull will have small
company with them at tea this
Il afternoon in their apartment

Cordell Hull will have a small
company with them at tea this
Il afternoon in their apartment
at the Carlton in honor Of the
vice minister of communications for
air of Poland and Nine. Bobkowska.
The vice minister and Nine.
Bobkowska. accompanied by the latter's
brother and ster-inlaw, the Secre-
tary of the Polish Embassy and Nine.
Moscicka, will leave late today for
Hot Springs to remain over Sunday.
The secretary and Nine Moscicka were
hosts at a buffet supper last evening
in honor of the visitors.
Dean Of Diplomats
Feted in Newport.
The Ambassador of Great Britain,
Sir Ronald Lindsay, was the honor
guest at dinner last evening at New
port of the United States Minister to
Colombia and Mrs. Sheldon P. White
house. Among the other guests was
Mrs. Nicholas LongWorth, who is a
guest Of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
Senator Bachman of Tennessee en-
tertained at luncheon yesterday at the
Carlton, his guests numbering four
The counselor for immigration OF
the Italian Embassy and Signora Bo-
nardelIi are in New York City at the
Ambassador Hotel for a short stay en-
route to Washington. Signora Bonar-
delli has been in Canada through the
Summer.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce,
DR.. John Dickinson, was among those
who entertained informally at lunch
con yesterday at the Carlton.
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. and Mrs. Guy T. Helvering have
returned to Washington from q six
weeks trip to the Pacific Coast and
to their home in MarysVille, Kans.,
and are in their apartment at the
Nayf1ower. Their niece and nephew,
Miss Julia Rooster and Mr.. Charles
hotel. have recently returned from
trip to Chicago and New York.
Mrs. John Arthur Hinckley, wife of
the attache of the United States En-
bassy in Canada, is with her mother.
Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, at
the St. Regis in New York.
Admiral and Mrs. William F. Pear
son have with them in their home at
1880 Tracy place their daughter, Mrs.
William Stephens Turner of Atlanta,
Ga, who will remain tor short visit.
Col. and Mrs. Edward B. Clark have
returned to Washington from Mag
nolia, Mass, where they spent the
Summer.
Col. and Mrs. William A. Jones have
returned to Washington from Reading,
Pa, and are at the Mayf1ower. Before
his assignment to duty in Pennsyl-
Vania two years ago, Col. Jones was
stationed here and they expect to
remain in the Capital until the first
OF the year.
Mrs. Caldwell, wife of Maj. W. c.
Caldwell of Fort Meade, Md, will
entertain at bridge luncheon in the
Maryland room of the Olney Inn
tomorrow. There will be 35 guests.
Capt Norman E. Hartman, U. S. A.,
and Mrs. Hartman have arrived at
the Martinique from the Canal Zone
to spend a few days before going to
their new station, Fort Winfield Scott.
Calf.
Lieut.. E. H Pope. U. S. N, is at the
Willard and has with him Mrs. Pope.
They will remain in the city for a
few days.
The Rev. DR.. Oliver j. Hart, new
rector of st. Johns Church, and Mrs.
Hart. with their young son, have re-
turned to Washington after having
spent the Summer at Castine, Me.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Engagement Of Miss Mechlin
To Mr.. Lane Announced.

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Alexander
Mechlin announce the engagement of
their daughter Doris Elizabeth, to Mr..
John Wilson Lane. Sd, of Newton,
N. j. The wedding will take place
the latter part of October.
Miss Mechlin is a graduate of the
Misses Eastman School and attended
George Washington University. She
is a niece of Miss Leila Mechlin, well
known art critic and lecturer.
Former Secretary Of War Newton D.
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
n All Exports
Drop Sharply
In Six Months

BERLIN, Aug. 15.-The growth of
the economic crisis under the poll
cies Of the Nazis is revealed by the
startling drop in foreign trade
which has caused q drop of more
than $20o,00o,000 in trade in the
last six months.
The exports to the United States
alone dropped by more than IS per
cent in this period.
This strangling Of the economic
life of the country by the Nazis is
steadily bringing the greatest pow
erty to the masses.
A food shortage Is implicitly ad-
mitted by the Fascists in their
latest attempt to prevent imminent
food struggles by abolishing the
high tariffs on all incoming grains.
The drought and the Nazi policies
have brought the food supply to a
low level.
The intense poverty of the Ger
man masses is indicated by the
latest order forbidding coal to be
sold in paper bags, indicating that
up to now coal has been sold to the
workers in such small quantities
that it could be carried in paper
bags. Now even the paper bags are
being conserved as the crisis and
war preparations are dwindling the
supply of goods for consumption.
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
Thdelmann Against Hitler
THAELMANN against Hitler for Presi-
L dent of Germany.

THAELMANN against Hitler for Presi-
dent of Germany.
There is not cIass-conscious worker
whose blood will not leap in pride and ad-
miration at the dauntless revolutionary
heroism of our German Communist Party,
which steps before the bayonets of the
Storm Troopers and filings high its nsuhed ban
ner of Marxism-Leninism the banner of prole-
tartan revolution!
Now even the fascist scan not dare to deny that
Now even the fascists not dare to deny that
tion of Germany from the yoke of fascism
The placing of Thaelmann at the head of the
German people is not only a tremendously heroic
act 1t is above all profoundly revolutionary poll
tical act.
For Thaelmann, the leader of the German Com
munist Party represents the only program that can
save Germany from catastrophe that can save the
vast majority of the German people from ruin and
starvation
The Communist Party alone can stop the head
long plunge to inperialist war toward which the
Fascist clques leading the German people
THE campaign for Thaelmann is the proclama-
ton of the Communist Party Of Germany that
the question Of the revolutionary way out of the
crisis the question of Soviet Power is now actually
life and death question for the great majority
Va OIlC 1eIIdl people, WHO Ieel the iron teeth OF
finance capital.
The revolutionary crisis in Germany is maturing
with extraordinary speed
And thus the fight for Thaelmann for his re-
lease from the hands of the Nazi torturers is now
IN the words Of Dimtrof, truly a question of the
honor of the world proletariat.
All aid to our heroic class brothers in C1ermanvl
Let us add to their blows our own by demonstrating
before the Fascist ConsulateS in the cities in this
country! Flood the German Embassy at Washing
ton with kilograms and letters demanding Thael-
manns release! Let the Fascsts know that the
working class of Germany is not alone in its fight!
0F tremendous meaning and inspiration is the
news that thousands of Socialist workers are
united with their Communist class brothers in bring
ing the name OF Thaelmann to the German people
This means that in the very fires of class str1lg-
gle is the unity Of the working class being welded:
that the dross Of Soeial-Democracy is being wiped
away in the heat of struggle
The Socialist workers of Germany have paid Bit
terly for their leadership, that leadership which
plumbed infamy by choosing Hindenburg the tool
OF Fascism, in preference to Thaelmann, son of the
German proletariat, in the elections of 1882
But the Socialist workers of Germany are find
Ing the place that is rightfuy theirs-at the side
of the Communists in the common fight tn smash
the capitalist dictatorship for the establishment
of the proetarian dictatorship.
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
Irish Farmers Revolt

A YOUNG farmer was shot to death and
"a forty-two others were seriously
wounded when more than 5000 Irish farm
ers marched to Cork on Monday in pro-
test against the sale of cattle which had
been confiscated by the government be-
cause they were unable to pay taxes.
This undoubtedly is an accurate gauge
OF the temper-the rising rebellion and dscontent-
OF the Irish peasantry, which Sean Murray, Irish
communist leader, described so we'll on his recent
visit to the United States
Not only were the police called out to smash
the farmers demonstration, but also the armed
forces OF the state Soldiers wearing helmets and
armed with bayonets are still patrolling the streets
OF Cork IN fear of the smoulderng unrest of the
impoverished and militant peasants
This incident, coupled with other similar ones in
other countries of Europe and with the plight of
the large farm population of the United States
clearly indicates the rising tide of battle of the on
pressed masses throughout the world
The demonstration in Cork Ireland. on Monday
is but one additional incident in constantly-grow
ing series of battles against the ruling class of all
lands.
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
''Fair'' Profteering

TT is no longer denied even by the Roose-
velt government that the struggle of
every workers family to get food will be-
come desperate in the coming weeks and
months.
Food prices are rising rapidly every
where.
And the peak is still some distance away" grim
ly reports the United Press.
It's the fault of the drought says Wallace, pre-
pairing the masses for an inevitable" rise of "at
least per cent"
But is it? If Wallace and Roosevelt had not
destroyed more than 80 per cent of the country's
wheat and corn crop last year would there now be
a food shortage?
And why is the price rise inevitable" even now?
Could not the government, if it wished to- fix an
iron limit to all food prices no matter what this
did to the profits of the food monopoles9 Suppose
the government were to lay down the order that
there must not be one cent of price rise in any
food necessity no matter what the conditions?
Who would be hurt? The profiteers-Wsr Street
Who would benefit? The masses
But that is Just what Roosevelt will not do Be
ing Wall Street agent, he would rather leave the
workers and their children TO the rigors of food
shortage than reduce penny of the monopoly
food profits To Roosevelt it seems perfectly natural
aHu JuoI Glldb II the capitalists nave Ine Iood III
their hands that they should charge higher prices
for it,
That is why Wallace has announced the cynical
policy of allegedly fighting only against unfair
profits" in food boarding by the companies.
Food gouging will now go forward with merciless
greed and the Roosevelt government will fight it
by printing fair price lists' Much that will
bother the capitalist profiteers!
1t is now time that the city workers and the
impoverished farmers get together for their own
interests. Fight for the Farmers Emergency Relief
Bill and for the Unemployment Insurance Bill HR
1888 providing for cash relief for protection against
hunger and eyictions, for the cancellation of all
mortgage debts, and for government aid to all
drought stricken farmers
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
Warships and Drought

THE Navy, pride of Roosevelt, opens bids
today for fourteen destroyers, four
cruisers, and six submarines.
This is an addition to the forty-five
ships already in construction.
The total Roosevelt budget for war
preparations in the last twelve months ap-
prosches the s2Oo00O00OO mark
Roosevelt talks of peace and defense" But he
means business. Acting the loyal tool of the Wall
Street imperialistS he is getting ready to defend
j. P. Morgsns investments in China South America,
and throughout the world
Think of what these billions would mean to the
jobless, to the drought-stricken farmers!
Roosevelt will no doubt hurl the workers and
farmers into an mperialst slaughter on the ground
that they must defend their country"
But meanwhile all his economic measures are
robbing the impoverished farmers and the proper
tyless workers of every shred of real ownership In
the resources of the country. How can the toiIers
defend their" country when nothing in the coun-
try is really theirs, but belongs to the capitalist
class?
It will be one of the leading planks at the
Second Congress Against War to be held in Chicago
on September % that all war funds be turned over
Tor the use of the jobess and impoverished farmers
This must become a living demand in the coun-
tryside, where the Roosevelt government is letting
millions of drought stricken families sink into
pauperism and misery.
The daily worker., 1934-08-16
Grain
From USSR
Odessa Deliveries Rise
300 Per Cent Above
Last Years Record

MOSCOW, Aug. 15-Reports from
the Odessa grain region, one of the
largest in the Soviet Union, indicate
that current grain deliveries, de-
spite all the difficulties of the
drought, are now coming in at a
rate 300 per cent above last years
record high.
The collective farms are sending
veritable torrent of grains to the
elevators and the greatest Joy
reigns among the whole city as well
as farming population who together
are celebrating the victory of the
Soviets over the menace of crop
destruction by drought.
Already more than 33.500,00
more acres have been harvested
than during the same period last
year, as a result of the untiring eff
forts of the government to provide
the farms with every available re-
source to fight the drought, from
special funds for new machinery
and irrigation projects to the rec
ord breaking building of dams and
pipes for water supply.