davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
DOCTORS HOLD.
MAJOR KENT
IS SANE
Liner MORO Burned Off New Jersey
By CARROLL PEEKE

FINCASTLE, Va, Sept. 8.-1n
the gnarled hands of Blue Ridge
Mountain farmers today lies the
fate of Major Robert C. Kent, jr..
scion Of a prominent Virginia
family, former army officer and
New York resort operator, charged
with the kidnapping of Mrs. Mary
Jane Hastings.
Death in the electric chair, a
prison sentence of from 8 to 20
years, or acquittal-one of these
three sentences must be returned
with the State asking for the
death penalty.
Any chance of an insanity yer.
dict was lost yesterday when
commission of three alieniStS
named by the judge pronounced
Major Kent sane.
Acquittal today will not mean
release for the major. There is
still pending in this county an in.
dictment charging him with the
murder Of Mrs. Hastings. And
Monroe county, Pa, has sent of.
ficers here with a detainer war.
rant to hold him. The body of
the woman was found near
Stroudsburg in that county, and
authorities there are ready to
prosecute a murder charge.
After a day in which he was
feigning insanity, according to
the testimony of the State alien
lists, Major Kent appeared in
the court room in the late after
noon pale and nervous. He in
sisted that he was not taking,
but that he was very weak.
The defense lasted less than an
hour. Mrs. Kent was not sum,
moned to the stand, and neither
was the major.
Mrs. Kent had been scheduled
to take the stand and testify
that she owned the little black
overnight bag given by the major
to boy in New York and iden-
titled by State witnesses as the
property of Mrs. Hastings.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Captain Dead
Before Ship
Took Fire

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 Q.N.S).
went to her tragic end while
her master, Capt. Robert R.
Willmott, lay dead in his berth.
Confirmation of the death OF
Captain Willmott came today
from a physician passenger
among the survivors.
Contrary to reports that the
master had died from a heart
attack, DR.. S. j. Breigstein.
Brooklyn, said Captain Willmott
had succumbed to an acute at
tack of indigestion.
DR.. Breigstein was one of the
survivors who were picked up by
the S. s. Monarch of Bermuda
and brought into port here.
Grief also had struck at DR.,
Breigstein. His son leaped over
board after the fire broke out
and has not yet been accounted
for.
Subject for a long time to
heart attacks. the captain COL
lapsed late last night before the
ship caught fire, and the first
officer of the liner took charge.
Captain Willmott had been
with the Ward Line for 81
years and lived in Hollis, L. I.
Capt. Thomas Torreson was
sent to the scene by officials of
the Atlantic Gulf and West
Indies Steampship Line to aid
in caring for the survivors.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
COUNCIL MAKES
HOUSING NGPLANS

The first definite plans for the
promotion of the new Federal
Housing program were made in
Alexandria last night by the Alex
andria Home Improvement Coun.
Gil headed by Frank Michlebach.
Clarence Robinson was ap-
pointed chairman of the remodel.
ing committee and as soon as
definite word is received from
regarding the amount
of money to be paid monthly on
loans, circulars will be printed
and distributed throughout the
city.
John T. Normoyle was ap.
pointed vice president of the asSo
citation; Sam Luckett, secretary;
Charles Nicholson, trustee: Kent
White, fair-trade practice repre-
sentative.
The next meeting will be held
September IA in the George
Mason Hotel.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
j. {. To FIGHT.
L|QUORFLEETS

Antismuggling forces Of the
Government from New Orleans to
Maine and Seattle were mobiliz-
ing yesterday for an offensive
against rejuvenated rum fleets
landing liquor in the country in
violation of the tax and tariff
laws.
In every district along the coast
lines, Coast Guard commanders
serving as coordinatorS of Secret
Service, customs, narcotics, alco-
hol tax and Coast Guard forces,
organized and mapped strategy.
Scores Of consuls in foreign
lands, under the State Depart
ment, will help the drive by re-
porting clearances of suspected
rum runners.
Persistent large scale SNUG
Cling of high-proof grain alcohol
and Scotch malt, coupled with
new fashions in the rum running,
were disclosed in intelligence re-
ports to Coast Guard headquar-
terS,
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Ward Line Agent Says
SABOTAGE RumorS False

HAVANA, Sept. 8 G.N.SO.
Rumors of possible sabotage in
connection with the burning Of
the liner Moro Castle were ridi.
culed here today by General
Agent Dudley of the Ward Line.
The rumorS stated dissident ele.
mentS during the labor troubles
here might have damaged the
ship at its dock, but Mr.. Dudley
said only loyal workers were ad-
mitted to the pier.
A cargo Of only 800 tons was
taken on at Havana, he said, dis
posing Of rumorS of overlooking.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Lightning Not Cause
Of Fire, Enuineer Saws

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 8
GNSO.-Lightning was not re-
sponSible for the fire which de-
stroyed the liner Moro Castle,
in the opinion of First Assistant
Engineer Anthony Bujia, one of
the survivors landed here. He
said:
1T seemed to start at the
same time in the lounge, the
library, the recreation room, the
saloon-half a dozen places"
Efforts to obtain a definite
opinion from Bujia as to the
cause of the blaze were fruitlesS.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Wounded RObber
+ Sought by Police

"A police lookout for a young
colored man believed to be shot,
was sent to hospitals and phySi-
clans today. He is one of two
who early today attempted to
break into a Sanitary Grocery
store in the 400 block Bean
Avenue N. E. A neighbor fired as
the men fled, and said he be-
lieved one had been seriously
wounded.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Highway Bridge
Traffic Snarled

Faulty mechanism on Highway
Bridge snarled lower Fourteenth
Street traffic more than two
hours last night.
So impatient did delayed motor
lists become when they tried and
failed to back off the bridge to
take a circuitous route that police
reserves were called out to help
clear up the tangle.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
SHOT BY GIRL, BABY DIES

Death early today claimed the
second victim of the eternal tri-
angle" tragedy that yesterday was
climaxed by triple shooting in o
weed patch near Tuxedo, Md.
Vernon Pyles, 3-year-old son Of
the Mrs. Lula Pyles, who shot her
male companion before turning
the gun on the baby and herself,
died in Casualty Hospital. He
had been shot through the head.
At the same time hospital
physicians declared Ernest C..
Loor, employe Of the District Re
pair Shop, who was wounded in
the hip by Mrs. PyleS before she
took her own life, is improving and
probably will be able to leave the
hospital in a few days.
Police today are centering their
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

investigation about the life Of
Mrs. Pyles, 10, of whom they
have been able to learn but little.
They are endeavoring to locate
the woman'S husband and other
relatives.
At the David Dudley home in
Tuxedo, where she lived, it was
said she had been there for sew
eral months. She was an init
mate friend of Mrs. Marian Dud.
ley, but the latter could give
little information concerning the
dead woman's family. Author
tiles are checking two insurance
policies which Mrs. PyleS was
said to have carried. The
beneficiaries of these have not
been disclosed.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
TIMES GETTING
WORSE, LONG
DECLARES
BY ROBERT G. NIXON

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 8
O.N.S.).-With an army Of 2,500
troops at his call, Senator Huey
p. Long today delivered a lengthy
radio address, in which he sought
to Justify the dictator acts Of the
recent special legislative session,
and delivered a smashing attack
on the city administration Of T.
Semmes Walmsley, predicting early
impeachment Of the mayor and
other city officials.
Troops at Polls
He indicated that another spe-
cial session Of the legislature
would be summoned within a few
days and that the State militia,
summoned here Thursday night
and early Friday, would be used
at the polls in next Tuesdays
Democratic Congressional primary
If New Orleans police are placed
there on duty.
Senator Long then turned to
the "New Deap and offered his
"share-the-wealth" program as a
cure for national ills and poverty
and unemployment. He declared:
"They ridiculed Huey Longs
share.the-wealth program, but
they've had to change their
tune about it. It's darkest al
ways before the dawn.
"GETTING WORSE" HE SAYS
"Times are not getting bet
ter-they're getting worse.
Every day the Government Is
going further in the hole.
''There are too few who have
too much and too many who
have too little.
"If the wealth Of the coun-
try was distributed among all
the people there would be no
need for the Government to ex-
pend billions Of dollars on tenn
pOrary relief!'
Mr.. Long asserted that the
Federal Government could not
intervene in Louisiana.
The Senator declared the city
probe would continue until we
drive Turkeyhead and his thiev.
ing gang out of office"
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
1884 Cotton Crop
/ 9,252,OOO Bales
R1 UNCONDITIONAL NeWa Service

BY International News Service
The United States will have
cotton crop this year Of approx
mately 9,252,000 bales of 500
pound gross weight, the crop re-
porting board announced today,
basing its forecast on a condition
Of 53.8 per cent of normal on
September /. The indicated area
left for harvest is 27,241, 900 acres,
while the indicated abandonment
is 2.8 per cent.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Veterans to Hold
Benefit Showing

Russell Mitchell Post. No. 500,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
hold a benefit movie show, 1.-THE
Birth of a New America" at the
Ingomar Theater, Alexandria,
next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Proceeds will be used to build
a new roof on the Friendship
fire engine house.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
CUTTER SAVES
30FROM SHIP
By International News Service

The fire-wrecked liner Moro
Castle is being towed into New
York harbor by the Coast Guard
cutter Tampa and a commercial
tug, Coast Guard headquarters
here were informed at noon today.
The Tampa was believed to have
rescued from 80 to 40 passengers
and members of the Moro Castle
crew, who remained on the ship.
They were discovered huddled
high on the prov of the stricken
liner when Coast Guard cutters
and other rescue vessels reached
the scene of the disaster.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
TakOmans to Hold
Fall Flower Show

The annual fall flower show Of
the Takoma Park Horticultural
Club will be held next Thursday
and Friday in the Takoma Branch
Library. it was announced today
by Herman C. Heffner, chairman
of the exhibition committee.
Entries may be submitted until
7::30 o'clock Thursday night.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Rich New Yorker
To Divorce Luce

RENO, New, Sept. 8 U.SO-A
divorce from Claire Luce, musical
comedy star, is what brought Gilt
ford Warren Smith here to estab'
fish residence, the wealthy New
Yorker. admitted today.
While not wishing to go into de.
tails, Smith said he has retained
q legal firm to represent him.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Is New Elevators
To Cost $285,OOO

Contracts for installing nine
new elevators in the Senate Office
Building and replacing six worn
out elevators in the old House Of
flee Building have been awarded
to the Otis Elevator Company.
The contract price was $285 900,
and includes new cars, hoiStway
doors and new signaling systems.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
DIR. HALL TO PREACH

The Rev. Percy Foster Hall, rec
tor of st. Paul'S Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, has returned from
his vacation and will officiate at
the II a. m. and 8 p. m. services
tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
THIEF GETS $14

Miss Elizabeth Burton, of the
300 block Munroe st. N. E., clerk
in a laundry branch in the 1900
block Ninth st. N. W., reported
the loss Of $14 to a young colored
holdup man late yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
MRS. MAYER ILL

PARIS, Sept. 8 G.N.SO.-Mrs.
Louis B. Mayer, wife of the
American film executive, is seri-
ouSly i'll with double pneumonia
at the American Hospital here, it
was learned today.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
$4,000 YOUTH
GREET HITLER
BY III. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1884, by International
News Service)

copyright 1884, by international
News Service)
NUREMBERG, Sept. 8 q.N.S).
Sixty thousand reasons why the
Nazis can be confident of their
political power in Germany for
as many years as they can avoid
war marched today before Reichs.
leader Adolf Hitler.
They were the Hitler Youth"
Behind them were 100000
members of their organization,
which Hitler called "the greatest
youth movement on EARTH"
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

Of KinSale at the Southeast tip OF
Ireland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Rich Stockholders Get Theirs
While Price Of Food Rises

packers, announces Wall Street
Journal, ARE currently enjoying
the best rate of earnings in several
years. And in the seven months
ending May 81, they saw their
present dividend requirements for
the period covered by an entirely
adequate margin
The New York Post MAY 25)
made public list of 49 companies
who are this year paying dividends
as large or larger than 1929. Not
once in the past five years have
these companies gone below their
cash dividend rates of 1929. In
Guided are eight food companies,
eight tobacco, seven utilities, five
gold mines, five retail stores, three
household products, two oil and one
railroad company. In the list are
Allied Chemical, American Tele-
phone, American Tobacco, Brown
Shoe, Hazel-Atlas Glass, National
Lead, Reynolds Tobacco, U. S. To-
bacco, Trico Products and 40 others.
Coupon clippers have also been
getting their share of the profits.
The regular compilation of the
New York Journal of Commerce
shows that interest payments in
April of this year were almost as
high as in the corresponding month
last year, $4l4,140,000 as against
SALT, 055, 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Ohio Workers
Urged to Rush
Petition Drive
Communist Candidates
Face Loss of Places
on State Ballot

CLEVELAND. Ohio. July 20
Only 1900 out of $4,000 nominating
petition signatures needed to place
Communist Party candidates on the
election ballot in Ohio have been
turned into campaign headquarters
so far it was revealed today by John
Williamson, district organizer of the
Communist Party here. The dead
line for filling the signatures with
the Secretary of State is August l,
Williamson, StreSsing the vital i'm.
portance of placing Party candi.
dates on the ballot as a reply to tho
recent murders of two jobless work.
ers in Cleveland, and newspaper at
tacks on the Communist Party
which accompanied the killings,
said:
THE Ohio District is a concen-
tration district. 1t is a region where
the factories can be turned into
war machines in "a hours notice,
Throughout the industries of Ohio,
strikes have swept during the past
few months. unemployed struggles
taking place in many counties. The
unity of Negro and white workers is
being forged at the present time in
the city of Cleveland over the dead
bodies of our two comrades.
Every Communist, every class
conscious worker must consider fhs
collection Of nominating petition
signatures his major task"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
The Strike Leadership
Strikes and Revolutions

THE Communist Party and the Daily Worker have
peatedly stated that the general strike in San Fran
cisco has not the aim of transferring itself into revou
ton because the time is not ripe for it. The aim of the
workers strike not to overthrow the
and capture political power.
What the longshoremen and tens of thousands of
workers supporting them fighting for? The ongshore-
fighting for bread for themselves and their fam
lilies. They fighting for the right to work, that
they enough live They fighting the
the hiring halls because the discriminate them
and deprive them of their right living The ongshoremen
striking because they
provide their families food clothing shelter.
To these the longshoremen employers
entire capitalist class the Roosevelt the
MOI They the longshoemen the they
them the They ongshoremen
and their families starvation
The capitalists and the hide That
they raise the revolution The capitalists
the middle of the property owners
order annate the popular of the strike thereby
make easier them
the Party deprive
militant leadership thereby
talis the middle
The strike first of the ongshomen the
crafts and the general strike Francisco
by the conditions
the workers. IN shipping industry developed
the strike the West like nothing
teaching only the workers strike all toers country
the neviabty the poearan revolution necessity
the
agitation given
political education the murderous rkebeang
actions the capitalists the
the strike taught the workers
the capitalists government
workers. through their experience the
the right living,
that theirs not only struggle for bread but struggle against
strike breaking
the struggle
capitalists the workers of
capitalist really They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Nv Labor research Assn.

BY Labor Research Assn.
THE general trend of dividends
i has been favorable, with numer-
Gus increases, assumptions and 'ex-
tras,'" Wall Street Journal, June
IA, 1884. 1t lists SO large and i'm
portant corporations" which "over
the past five or six weeks, have
taken favorable dividend action, in
creasing the return to stockholders. !"
Among them are dupont, Eastman
Kodak, Monsanto Chemical, Pitts
burgh Plate Glass, Underwood Ell
liot- Fisher, Union Carbide, U. s.
Tobacco, Reynolds Metal, Hercules
Powder, Chrysler, Dow Chemical,
Thinker Roller Bearing and a string
of others. Note the four important
chemical companies that are cash
ling in on war preparations.
Dividends paid in May reached
1.-THE highest total for any month
since November, 1882 reports New
York Times June /, 1934). Some
731 corporations paid stockholders
1857, 100000 during the month. This
compares with total of Sl75,667, :
600 paid by 627 companies in April,
l1934.
Packers Cashed In
In May, food and packing COM
lpanies alone paid out over s17,000.-
1000 in dividends. And while prices
of meats advance. the Big Foul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

taught the workers the meaning of the government o the people
by the and for the people The workers strike and the
workers of the entire country supporting the strike learn to understand
whose is who controls the government and whose inter
the experience the works. themselves have obtained
the actions this country Without the
themselves becoming convinced of the ineaby of the
of capitalism, capitalism America will be abolished
impossible achieve agitation and only for
there the political experience of the
themselves
ated all the people society who built this country who created
wealth. the factories the ships feeds and
society capitassony people!
This general strike demonstrated the mighty of the work
the afraid strikes because
shakes their power.
THE demonstrating
Party the workers beginning
themselves such the of
capitalists.
general power
really consists They that their lies only
the they everything in their political control Of all
city, government
police courts bosses
they have government power.
the conclusions
that order to win for families
political and control of
From this general strike the workers realize the need of strong
revolutionary political party Amerca-he Communist Party
bread for state The workers must
join build the Communist Party
Where this American democracy equality and justice for ALL in
the strike the Pacific Coast? Where this right to strike and to
organize which the Roosevelt and the NA supposedly
impaiality
struggle between labor capital?
this strike the workers with their feel it
their shoulders that time the workers ask for bread time
the attempt their living conditions they
bit easier their Riddles to live this
world capitalist
bayon bullets and bombs The workers for themselves that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
ArizOna Communists
Get Place as Regular
Primary Candidates

PHOENIX, Ariz.-The Com
munist Party has been given
formal recognition and will ap-
pear on the primary and gem
eral election ballot as a legally
accredited Party.
After petitions from five coun-
ties containing 2,450 signatures
were filed with Secretary of
State Kerby, the attorney-gen-
erals Office was asked to de-
termine whether the petitions
were sufficient to recognize the
new party.
The attorney generals Office, in
an opinion by Assistant Attor-
ney General P. H. Brooks, ruled
the petitions were legal, if they
contained signatures of at least
2 per cent of the voters who
balloted for governor in 1882.
Under this provision 1880 sig
natures were required.
The Campaign Committee of
the Communist Party has an
nounced an energetic statewide
election campaign.
Four parties are now qualified
to appear on the ballot. These
are, in the order that they will
appear on the printed ballot.
Democratic, Republican, Com
munist and Socialist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
ADVERTISEMENT
Lab. Theatre at Camp
Nitgedaiget
Jake Burck To Give Chalk
Talk Saturday

4 The Shock Troop of the Workers
Laboratory Theatre. winner Of the
first prize in the Chicago Theatre
Olympiad. will present a new roper
toire at the Camp Nitgedsiget The
stre this Saturday night. The The
atre Brigade. under John Bonn's di-
rection, will perform during the
week.
4 Jacob Burck, outstanding proleta-
rian cartoonist, will draw series
of cartoons in chalk talk" Satur-
day night The Pierre Degeyter
Trio. made up of David Atwel pi-
anist, Sidney Franklin, cellist, and
Hy Slonan, violinist, which gives
concerts every Wednesday evening
in the camp, will play popular num-
bers Saturday night.
Joseph Arch of the Friends of So
Wet Union, will speak on the Sec
ond Five Year Plan in the Soviet
Union. at the Sunday morning open
forum.
+ A series of sports events are planned
which include tennis and ping pong
tournaments, ball games. a swim
ming meet, treasure hunt, ETC. The
sports field has been greatly i'm
proved. Two new concrete volley-
ball courts completed, and two new
concrete hsndball courts are being
built. There is a sports staff on
duty which, in addition to leading
and directing games on the field,
gives instruction in swimming and
tennis. There is also a clsrs in So
cisl dancing.
A hsshlisht dance to the music of q
hve-piece jazz band viii follow the
Saturday evening program
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Thousands of Homes Unfit
ForHabitdtion, Surrey Shoes

WASHINGTON IF. P)-Tens of
thousands of American homes are
unfit for human habitation" in SO
cities alone, and hundreds of thou
sand are overcrowded and lacking
in even such elementary modern
conveniences as running water and
water closets. Nearly half million
homes in these cities have no tubs
or showers.
These facts were revealed by Asst.
Secretary Of Commerce John Dickin-
son in a press conference July 49,.
He quoted statistics gathered by
G. w. A. workers in nation wide
survey of housing conditions under
the auspices of the U. S. Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
This Real Property Inventory has
been in charge of Daniel E. Casey.
With returns available from SO
of the 81 cities surveyed, the sta
tistics show that 291 1888. or Is per
cent of the 1911.462 dwelling units
in 1,383.491 structures enumerated.
are either crowded. oYercrowded or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Boston Petition Drive
Needs Greater Speed

BOSTON, Mass, July 10. = The
drive for nominating petition sig
natures here to insure a place for
Communist candidates on state and
local ballots is tagging and this
week all Party sections are organ
izing special committees to speed
the work.
The Party here is presenting an
entire state ticket as we'll as sew
eral candidates to Congress and to
the State Legislature.
The Candidate for U. s. Senator,
Paul A. Wicks, is a well-known
union organizer and leader of work
ers throughout the state. He was,
until recently one of the leaders of
the Socialist Party in MaSsachu-
sets. A few weeks ago he replied
to the S. P.'s refusal to enter into
a united front by resigning at the
Socialist State Convention, taking
with him into the Communist Party
a number of S. P. members.