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Evening star., 1934-05-04
MUTT GETS BLAME
FOR BANK FAILURE
IN SENATE REPORT
Dictated Policies That
Wrecked Cleveland Trust,
Probers Say.
VAN SWERINGENS ALSO
NAMED BY INQUIRERS
Are Charged With Influencing
Former G. O. P. Treasurer
in Costly Decisions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Investigators reported to a Senate
Committee today that the policies
which led to the failure of the $685.
100000 Union Trust Co. of Cleveland
were dictated by Joseph R. Mutt and
that he was Influenced by the Van
Sweringens
Mutt, former treasurer of the Re
publican National Committee, and
o. P. Van Sweringen, railroad builder,
are under indictment for what in
vestigators term a window dressing
loan to the bank Mutt once was
president of the institution.
The report naming them was sub
mitted to the Senate Stock Market
and Banking Investigating Committee
by Ferdinand Pecora, counsel.
Failure Causes Listed.
1t held the banks failure was due
to "unSound banking practices over a
period of years" Among the prac-
tices named were heavy investment
in real estate" excessive concentra-
ton OF loans to the Van Sweringen
and Eaton interests" loans to Off
GERS, directors and their affiliated
corporations, a bad dividend policy
and inadequacy of reserves.
The Van Sweringen brothers. o. P
and M j., are chiefly interested in
railroads and real estate. Cyrus S.
Eaton is a Cleveland financier.
Pecora's report was prepared by
Frank j. Meehan, his chief statisti-
clan, and Walter H. Seymour. 1t
charged general use of window dress
ing" practices by the bank. and sug-
eested it had obtained advance notice
of bank calls.
"These window dressing tranSac-
tions were consummated prior to the
call date" the report said. This
supports the conclusion that notice
was given to the Union Trust Co. suf-
ficisntly in advance to permit the Off
GERS to negotiate the transactions
necessary to carry out their desire" )"
lllegaI Loans charged.
Other conclusions reported were:
Loans to the Van Sweringen COM
panies at times exceeded the legal
limit.
A director who objected to them,
D. L. Johnson, was not reelected.
The Union Trust turned over to j.
P. Morgan g. Co. as collateral on a
Van Sweringen loan the same COL
lateral it held as trustee for other
Cleveland banks on previous loans.
Collusion among officers of the bank
to misapply funds for their own
benefit.
Mutt Directly Accused.
"The mana cement policies of the
Union Trust Co. ere dictated by a
small group of men," the report said.
"Chief among these men was the
banks first president, Joseph r. Mutt,
later elected chairman of the board,
Others associated with Mr.. Mutt in
the domination OF the banks policies
were: Wilbur M. Baldwin, president;
George A. Coulton, vice president,
Frank H. CHM. director; Kenyon V.
Painter. director, and Otto Miller
director
There is very little doubt that the
affairs of the Union Trust Co. were
dictated by Mr.. Mutt and, too, there
is very little doubt but that the
. policies and act OF Mr.. Mutt we're, in
a great measure, Influenced and die
tated by the Van Sweringens.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Kidnapers Strip
Federal Worker,
Bind Him to Tree
Darid T. Burgh Tells
Police of Standing All
Night in Rain.

Clad only in his underwear, David
T. Burgh, 1901 K street, appeared at
farm house near SunnySide. Md,
shortly after am. today and told
of having been kidnapped last night
by two men who left him tied to a
tree after stripping him of his cloth
ing and valuables
Burgh. who is about SIS. and who
is clerk at the Federal Trade Com
mission. declared the men abducted
him as he stepped out of his automo
bile. parked at Nineteenth and
streets, shortly after 10 o'clock last
night. The men, one of whom was
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
GERMAN GIRL SOUGHT
IN ESPIONAGE PROBE
French Police Believe She In
duced Former Polish Officer
to Turn Spy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, May 4.-Search for beau
tiff. and cultured German girl for
whose sake. police say, former Polish
army officer turned spy, was pressed
today by the French secret service.
Authorities said the girl accompa-
MED Stanislas Krauss, the Pole whom
they charge with peddling French
military secrets to neighboring powers,
to this country and is still here.
Krauss now In prison, has confessed
espionage activities, police claim. His
alleged accomplice, Capt. Froge of the
French army, has denied the charges.
A third Observation-Disclosures also
held.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
B U LII E 7. . N
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hugh S. Johnson today issued
an order declaring existence of an
emergency in the retail tire trade.
requiring establishment of mini
mum prices on tires and tubes
May IA, when the already approved
code for the trade goes into ef-
feet.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Montana Samples Show Value of
$27,123.14 Ton.

HELENA. Mont, May 4 LP.-Mon-
tana gold proSpectors eagerly scanned
assay reports today that showed values
OF $27,l23.14 a ton in samples sub
mitted from a vein discovered in the
property of the Channel Gold Mines,
Ltd, at MarySville.
The vein approaches in value those
discovered in the bonanza days of
Montana's early mining history.
Officials of the Channel firm said
the vein is about feet wide and the
high-grade streak averages about
foot in width. Land near the new
discovery is privately owned.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
BOWLING IN SENATE RACE
Star of Stage and Screen Enters
Rhode Island Primary.

PROVIDENCE. R. l., May LR.-
United States Marshal William F.
Goucher today announced that his
brother, Eddie Bowling, stage and
screen star would be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for United
States Senator from Rhode Island
this Fall
Bowling was a leading Roosevelt
campaigner In 1892 Former Senator
Peter G. Gerry, also is expected to
be a candidate.
Evening star., 1934-05-04

WILKES Pa, May (P.-
Luzerne County detectives were noti-
fed today that two anthracite miners
were shot to death by man who ap-
parently went insane in the Keystone
colliery in the mountains six miles
from Wilkes Barre.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOwRER.


BY Gable to The Star
PARIS, France, May 4-The French
Cabinet apparently plans the recon-
sideration of the entire debt dispute
with the United States and the
elimination of the bad feelings re-
sulting from the French refusal to
make even token payments on what
Americans generally consider legiti-
mate debts.
This sensational decision, which is
expected to be announced shortly, fits
the policy of the French national con-
ceptration cabinet both in the finan-
cial and political aspects
Financially, this cabinet is COM
mitted to the policy of sound money,
no imitation, no reputation of obli-
cations and the restoration of inter-
national credit and financial morality.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Anarchy Reigns as Yemeni
Troops Flee Before
Ibn Saud.
CITY REPORTED LOOTED
BY NOMADS OF DESERT
British Rush Armed Forces as
Great Part of Yemen Falls to
Ruler of Saudi Arabia.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 4-British occupa-
ton of Hodeidah was threatened to-
day because of the breakdown of the
civil administration at that important
South Arabian port as result of the
headlong flight of Yemeni hill war
riors before the conquering troops OF
Ibn Saud, ruler of Saudi Arabia.
Apprehension over the future ambi-
tions of the powerful Ibn Saud In
other parts of the Arabic world were
overshadoWed in British official quar-
tiers by alarming reports that state
OF anarchy exists in Yemen itself
Extensive Seizure Reported.
Reports today said Ibn Saud's for
midable military machine was in pos
session of great part of Yemen--a
state bounded by the Red Sea. the
desert and British-controlled Alden.
1t was indicated the fighting be-
tween Ibn Saud and the Imam Yahya
ruler OF Yemen, probably was over,
but the danger of widespread disor-
ders brought new threat to the early
establishment of tranquility.
Pending the restoration of order by
Ibn Saud in Hodeidah and other
towns evacuated by the retreating
Yemeni, British official circles indi-
Gated it may be necessary for British
authorities to take over control.
Armed Forces Dispatched.
British armed forces already have
Been dispatched to the war zone to
assure the safety of foreign residents
and interests.
Meanwhile, nomads of the desert
are reported to be rushing into Ho-
deidah and looting the city.
A British warship lay in Hodeidah
Harbor today. but it could not be
learned Immediately whether any
patrols had been landed or whether
Ibn Sauds army had arrived to take
control of the fallen city.
1t was said in government quarters
that there are 300 British subjects in
Hodeidah -.-sz
Sloop Dispatched.
The British commander of the
sloop PenZance. sent to Hodeidah TO
protect British nationals, was in
instructed to keep the government in
formed of developments.
There still was no confirmation to-
day of reports that the Imam of
Yemen was dead. but it was pointed
out there are no British sources of
information in Sana. the rulers cap
ital
One version is that the report may
have been circulated purposely to aid
revolutionary movement in Yemen.
although it is known the ruler held
thousands of hostages at Sana and
that they may have seized an oppor-
tunity to slay him.
With reports that Wahabi IA funda-
mentalist Mohammedan sect troops
we're not far behind the fleeing Ye-
meni on the way to Hodeidah. a
spokesman for the Saudi Arabia le-
CATION in London tod the Associated
Continued on Page 5, Column -
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Town Pays Bounty on Flies.

NEPHI, Utah, May 4 R.-The
City of Nephi. Utah. is paying rs cents
a quart for flies caught within the
municipal limits between now and
June Is. The offer had its inception
in drive started several weeks ago
for a cleaner city.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
WEATHER.

u. s. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair tonight and tomorrow, little
change in temperature; gentle northwest
winds, becoming southerly tomorrow.
emperatures-Highest, II, at noon to-
day; lowest, 60, at am. today.
Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1934-05-04

CONTINUED on Page 3, Column s.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
FIND RICH GOLD VEIN

Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Two Miners Fatally Shot.

Continued on Page 2. Column 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
BY IRVING POTASH

Hundreds of thousands of work
ers in the unions, especially those
recruited in the last eighteen
months, are growing impatient with
policies and practices that benefit
no one but the employers. They
are demanding more militancy,
more aggressiveness, more struggle,
and a new leadership representing
these ideas. These developments
have brought CONSERVATION to the
employers and to the rock-ribbed
old-ine leadership of the A. F. of
L. Both are countering the new
developments in the same way, by
drive against the more militant
and aggressive elements in the
trade unions. -
IF the labor movement is to
weather this crisis it must smash
this joint drive of the employers
and the reactionary officials to rob
the unions of their aggressiveness
and fighting spirit"
The bold words of the foregoing
two paragraphs appeared in the
zimmerman-Loyestone paper, the
Workers Age" of August /, 1884.
Nine days later, at the Mecca
Temple, at meeting OF I. L. G..
w. o.. dressmakers' shop chaifmen,
under the craftsmanship of the
Lovestoneite Zimmerman and the
guardianship OF Julius HOFFMAN,
whom Zimmerman helped to elect
as manager, Shirley Bloomenthal, a
militant shop chairiady was beaten
black and blue, and other militant
shop chairmen attacked by profess
sional gangsters. following lynch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
General Strike
By Trimmers

NEW YORK.-All textile trim
ming and yarn workers were urged
by the Textile Trimming Workers
Union during the past week to hold
themselves in readiness for a gen
eral strike call in the industry.
The demands in the strike will be
30-hour work week; pay for seven
holidays; and the following wage
scale:
From $32 to $38 a week for knit
tiers; $3.50 a week for winders,
coners, doublers and twisters;
minimum scale of $27.50 a week for
braiders. The following minimums
will be demanded for the following
crafts: $3.50 a week for weavers;
s25 for passementerie table workers;
$40 for chenille makers, and $35 for
cord spinners. Increases will also be
demanded for members, pressers,
operators, gimp and bullion makers
with a minimum of $18 for all other
auxiliary workers.
The strike will also fight for
abolition of discrimination against
workers for union activity, the rec
ignition of shop representatives and
collective bargaining in all shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

City Hall to present relief demands
TO the Mayor.
The prevalence of such cases as
that OF Delcrita Thomas, a eOIOred
member Of an Unemployment
Council, who starved to death last
week in a damp basement after
waiting six weeks for a Heme Re
lief investigator to come around
makes it absolutely necessary for
each local unien, work relief or
ganizatiOn, project, sfeA to send
TIVE delegates to the Aug. IS con-
ference en- the Sept. % Demon
Stration.
The united acUs5I1 will show the
strength Of the organized employed
and unemployed workers. Mean
while the gains made by workers
organizations must be consolidated.
and efforts increased on every front.
Nelghborhood action for increased
relief, protests against welfare scab
labor and against layoffs are urged.
Reports on many committees will
be heard at the Aug. Is conference.
The Committee on Discriminatory
Practices of the Associated Once
and Professional Emergency En-
ployees is expected to tell how it
succeeded in having four out OF six
workers, who were discharged fer
organizing their projects, reinssaEed.
The Actors Emergency Association
will present in detail a report ON its
conference with LaGuardia. at
which the Mayor promised to elm
mate discrimination against Ne
groes and organizers on the actors
proisct.
Farmers Situation to Be Discussed
Other topics of discussion include
the continued decrease Of employ
ment in industry and the increas-
ing movement of the farmers and
their dependents from the desolate
drought region into the large cities
where they are thrown on the en-
ployment market. The need for
unity between the farmers and city
workers will be stressed.
The reports will emphasize the
fact that the whole unemployment
situation at this time greatly af-
fects the future of those still work.
ing.
Taxation on the incomes of the
bankers, stock transfer taxation and
taxation ON real estate now exempt,
is expected to be recommended at
the Aug. Is conference as some Of
the ways of financing the only un-
insurance bill that pro-
vides for the welfare of the work
ers, the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. The bill will also be
compared to others. such as the
Wagner-Lewis bill, which Would tax
the worker and then refuse to give
him any of the benefits until he has
been completely unemployed for
two years, and then for only 10
weeks.
The city wide demonstration ON
Sept. % Is expected to lead d.
rectly to state wide hunger
march onto the state capital at
Albany, sometime i'm October.
Plans for it are being completed
now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

speech by Zimmerman against the
militants in the union.
Wanted Rank and File Decision
The crime of the beaten shop
chairmen was their proposing that
the so-called scientific unit system
for determining the wages of work
ers, recommended by the officials
as a substitute for the prevailing
system of settling prices by workers
shop price committees, shall be sub
mitted to membership meetings for
discussion and decision. They also
proposed the striking of every shop
where the employer attempts re
organization" = wholesale dis
charge of workers. A still greater
crime Of these militant rank and
file shop chairmen was that they
dared demand the right of the as
sembled workers TO vote on their
proposals.
This characterizes the thinner
man-Lovestone role in the trade
unions; in one and the same week
they "denounce" in words the cam
paign against militants in the
American Federation of Labor,
while in action they resort to the
most brutal suppression of the mil
itants, when their own reactionary
leadership is at stake.
The essence of an opportunist
demagogue is that he masks his
reactionary deeds with high-sound-
ing radical and militant phrases.
The Most Courageous Labor
Leader
When William Green stabbed the
San Francisco general strike in the
back, Zimmerman issued a fiery
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

Ave, at pm, this coming
Sunday, Aug. 26. A thousand
representatives are expected
to attend.
Trade unions, responding to
the call of the United Action Con
ference on Work, Relief and Unem-
ployment, will tie up with the un-
employed and relief workers in a
solid front,
Forced labor, such as transfer
ring heads of large families whose
relief budgets are higher than their
work relief wages to work relief, will
be among the leading questions.
Decisions will be made on the CO.
operation of welfare agencies with
private employers to furnish scab
labor in strikes.
Another subject on the agenda
will be Mayor LaGuardia's dema-
gogic policy of appropriating funds
for relief from hand to mouth and
leaving the worker uncertain
whether his next check will be
Forthcoming while at the same time
continuing to pay the bankers $23,
100000 month out of city funds,
regularly.
To Call City Wide Rally
The Aug. 26 conference will call
for city-wide demonstration of all
workers on Sept. %, to meet at 10
am. in Union So, then march on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
News Guild
WnsROund
IN Fig
Judge Refuses Injunc-
tion Demanded By
advance

A preliminary victory has
been won by the New York
Newspaper Guild in its fight
to have the Staten Island
Advance rehire Alexander
Crosby, editorial writer, who
was dismissed because of his
guild affiliations.
Justice Edward j. Byrne, sitting
In Brooklyn Supreme Court, re-
fused last Friday to enjoin the
guild from picketing the Advance
as had been requested by S. I. New
house, editor of the Staten Island
paper. Justice Byrne reserved de-
cisiOn until later this week. Carl
A Randall. president of the guild,
Haywood Broun and Crosby ap-
peared in court as defendants.
Meanwhile guild officers have
announced picketing will continue
at the Advance plant until Crosby
has been rehired and other en-
ployes of the paper insured the
right to join the guild. Sentiment
among members of the guild is
strongly in favor of carrying on the
fight to a successful finish.
Second Battle with NewhOuse
This is the second time the guild
has been forced to picket a pub
LEGATION owned by Newhouse in
order to win the right of guild af-
filiation for workers on his papers.
Newhouse introduced himself as an
open-shopper last month in the
case of another paper which he
owns in part = the Long Island
Daily Press There nine persons
who were active in guild organiza-
ton were fired. The guild carried
the fight to the picket line and the
publisher was forced to rehire the
workers and recognize their right
to organize
Crosby, who has worked for the
Advance for the past five years, is
the only staff worker of the pub
LEGATION who dared to join the guild.
Although other workers on the
paper had evinced interest in the
organization, they feared guild af-
filiation might cost their jobs.
Ask for Pickets
Realizing that the present fight
against Newhouse is of vital i'm
portanee to the future of the guild,
the emergency committee in charge
OF the picketing, through Hugh
Holahan, issued orders to all unit
chairmen to make vigorous efforts
to line up volunteers for picket duty
and collect contributions for the
emergency defense fund.
In addition to picket activity the
guild Is planning other methods of
winning support for their cause. A
street meeting was held Saturday
night at Harrison Ave. off Rich
mond Avenue, Staten Island. AS
the Daily Worker went to press
last night, guild officers were
scheduled to broadcast their case
over radio station WNYC.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Plan March to City HaU,
State Capital; VIII Fight
Rise in Cost of Living
Will Map Out Fight on LaCuardia Starvation
Program; To Direct Fire Against Scabbng
OF Local Welfare Agencies

mass conference for united city-wide action on un
employment insurance the LaGuada administrations use
OF work relief and the PWA scale of wages lower all
established scales of in industry and the increased
cost of living, will bring delegates from trade unions I'M
employed and employed groups atena ORDERS professional
and technical associations to uyvesant Casino Jap Second
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
No Food Tickets, Is
Alibi for Relief Cut
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW York; was informed at
the 44th Street Relief Station that
due to their running short of food
tickets. no relief is being issued.
Not that there are no available
supplies in the store room. This
means a cut in relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

When William Green stabbed the
San Francisco general strike in the
back, Zimmerman issued fiery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Militant Leader Exposes
Role of LovestOneites
In Needle Trades Unions
Potash Terms Them ''The Knights of Phrases, y
Citing Their Reactionary Actions to
Show Up the Zimmerman Clique

speech by Zimmerman against the
militants in the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

Union Members, Become
Contributors to the
Trade Union Section
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-15

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. IS
'(I.N.SO.-"Laws with teeth" were
being prepared in Louisiana to-
day, enabling State authorities,
commanded by Senator Huey P.
Long, to take a stranglehold on
all community administration.
The Louisiana legislature,
called into special session by Gov.
o. K. Allen, last night planned
the first of a series of measures
designed to bring the New Or
leans city government under heel.
Senator Long, who ordered
Governor Allen to assemble the
legislators. stalked about the
halls during the evening and
watched with satisfaction while
measures were launched to estab-
lish his political supremacy in
the bayou city.
State Police Sought
One Of the most important
bills provides for establishment
of a State constabulary, empow-
cred to make arrests in any sec
ton of Louisiana. This force
would have authority superseding
that of the New Orleans Police
Department, and could fetter the
authority of New Orleans mayor,
q. Semmes Walmsley.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-15
j. S.PROFESSOR
MANHANDLED

BERLIN, Aug. is G.N.SO.
American officials are preparing
to protest to the German gov
eminent because of beating
administered to Albert Lepasky,
Chicago University professor, who
was struck by Nazis for not
saluting the German flag.
Prof. Lepasky, accompanied by
DR.. Howard Jones, of New York
city, a director of the National
Municipal League, was watching
a Nazi parade at Neukoellin after
a speech by Minister OF Propa-
ganda GoebbelS. When they
failed to salute the flag a uni
formed Nazi trooper left the
ranks and shouted:
Salute the flag!"
The Americans remained stand
ing at attention and someone
struck Prof. Lepasky on the side
of the face. He appealed to a
policeman, who paid no attention
to his protest, whereupon the
Chicagoan plunged into the ranks
to identify his assailant, only
to be attacked again.
The American officials are call
ing the matter to the attention
of the secret police.