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The Washington times., 1934-11-17
KING To GRANT
ERIK DIVORCE

LONDON, Nov. II G.N.So.
King Christian of Denmark, who
must personally pass on the
divorce petition of his cousin.
Prince Erik, and the Princes
wealthy Canadian wife, will dis
solve the marriage. the Daily
Herald said today in a Copen-
hagen dispatch.
Hollywood parties" given by
the Princess, the former Lois
Frances Booth, of Ottawa, at her
country home at Bjerbygaard
were one of the points of
mutual tncompatibility" cited
as reasons for the requested
divorce. according to the Herald.
The Prince had been living in
Copenhagen, said the Herald
correspondent, while the Princess
and her two children remained
at the country home. The dis
patch said custody of the child
rem almost certainly will be
given to the Princess, who plans
to go to Hollywood to live with
her widowed mother"
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
PENSIONS FIGHT
IN CONGRESS
By International News Service

BY International News Service
A congressional battle over old.
age pensions loomed today in the
wake of the Presidents confer
ence on economic security.
Already lines are being formed
between those who advocate a
national old-age pension system
and those who favor maintenance
of State systems, with aid from
the Federal treasury.
Lurking in the shadows Is the
Townsend plan" widely publ
cized in the West, and echoes of
a portion of Upton Sinclair's
EPIC plan" may reverberate in
the halls of Congress.
The Administrators attitude
was clouded in doubt after Secre.
tary of Labor Perkins, seeking to
clear up neutrality-suspicious." Of
President Roosevelt's recen t
speech, intimated that some form
of old age pensions will be made
a part of the social security pro-
gram. A report will soon be made
by the committee appointed by
the President to study social in
Surance.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
NEW AIR BASE
SYSTEM URGED

Plans for a large network Of
airplane bases for defense against
invasion were discussed by Rep
resentative j. Mark Wilcox CD
Of Florida at meeting of several
mayors and chamber of commerce
representatives in the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce today.
Representative Wilcox declared
the present air defense, IN which
there are few central air bases.
is weak from a modern military
standpoint, and argued in favor
of large number of bases along
the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf
coasts, with large supporting bases
in the interior. He declared our
present air defense is based on
old-fashioned, slow planes.
Maj. Gen. J. E. Fechet, U. S. A.,
retired, said the Army air force
should be strengthened, and added
that with a "seagoing President"
the Navy is getting more than its
share of air strength.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
MARINA FACES
TAX ON FROCKS

LONDON, Nov. II QN.S0 Al.
though she soon will be a British
princess and one of the first ladies
Of the land. Princess Marina, of
Greece, will be treated like an
ordinary tourist when she arrives
at Dover from Paris next Wednes-
day.
The only courtesy of port" to
be extended, it was learned today,
will be the presence of her hand
some fiance, the Duke of Kent,
youngest son of King George and
Queen Mary.
The Duke, however, will be
powerleSs-officially at least-to
prevent customs inspectors from
rummaging through the princess
baggage, examining her bridal
dgeSS and other gowns of her
smart Paris-made trousSeau, and
perhaps levying taxes upon them.
The Duke, may be called upon
to pay duties on some of these
gowns as sort of pre-husbandly
privilege.
Originally it had been planned
for the Duke to meet his bride-to-
be in London.
The King and Queen also we're
expected to greet their future
daughter-in-law at Dover and ac-
company her back to London.
LONDON, Nov. 17-G.N.sO.
Scotland Yard, apprehensive as a
result of the recent Marseille as
sassinations. today laid extensive
plans for guarding both British
and foreign notables during the
forthcoming wedding of the Duke
of Kent and Prince Marina OF
Greece.
Every shopkeeper and house
holder on or near the route of the
bridal procession was being visited
by detectives quietly inquiring as
to the identity of residents. TAX
ing utmost precautions, police paid
most attention to casual residents,
determining how long each had
been in his present abode. If a
foreigner, all his papers were
checked carefully.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
WAR PRO TESTS
|Rk COLLEGES

Controversy was raging today
in local colleges and universities
over charges that the recent anti
war meeting at Johns Hopkins
University was an "anti-Ameri-
can" conference sponsored by
Communist groups.
This conference came just be-
fore the anti-war meeting here on
the George Washington Univer-
sity campus which was attended
by only handful of students, a
few of whom took an anti-War
oath.
The University of Maryland
flatly refused to participate in
the Johns Hopkins meeting.
Joseph T. Elvolve, president of the
university debating society, at
tended unofficially and declared
before the conference that it was
engendered by Communistic or
ganizationS.
Rabbi Edward L. Israel of
Baltimore. chairman of the League
for Industrial Democracy. one of
the organizations sponsoring the
meeting. called on Mr.. Elvolve to
prove his charges of Communism.
James True. president of the
America First Society, lauded the
student for his stand.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
JAPAN REJECTS
NAVALPL

LONDON, Nov. II G.N.SO.-
The japanese reply to British sug-
gestions for a compromise naval
formula tantamount to flat re-
lection, it was understood today.
While the japanese delegates de-
clined to make public the reply
before it is transmitted officially
to the British government, it was
learned it reiterated Japan's de-
mand for parity and is in no way
likely to ease the negotiations.
While expressing appreciation of
British efforts to find compro-
mise, it was understood Tokyo in.
structed it's delegates to make
clear Japan is unable to accept
any suggestion which does not ac-
cord Japan parity in fact as we'll
as principle.
Japan, it was understood, con-
tinues to insist upon full recogni'
tion of her right to build up her
navy to the strength of the United
States and Great Britain, and
again emphasizes that the present
$50 ratio is contrary to Japanese
ideas of prestige.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
BOSTON STOCK
FRAUD PROBEG

BOSTON, Nov. II G.N.SD.-
Federal Securities and Exchange
Commission investigators, whose
visit here resulted in decision by
the Boston Curb Exchange to close
forever, turned their attention TO-
day to an alleged 81 100000 stock
swindle scheme whose hackers
were reported about to be indicted
by Federal grand jury.
Both United States Attorney
Francis j. w. Ford and the Fed
eral Securities md Exchange
Commission investigators have
joined in a probe of the stock
swindle scheme, said to involve
distribution of . tipSter sheet to
more than 100000 subscribers.
Closing of the Curb Exchange
followed a hearing begun Novem-
Der 8 at which the S. E. C.
attorneys charged that some
stocks we're sold here through
listing on the Curb Exchange
after the State "blue sky" stock
division refused to permit their
sale.
In voting to close permanently,
the Curb Exchange officers gave
consent to an order of the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission whereby further opera
'tions of the curb will be adjudged
a violation of the law and subject
to heavy fines and imprisonment
for those concerned.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
NEW L|NDY CLUE
DISCARDED

NEW YORK, Nov. II G.N.S).
Police investigated today a volume
in the New York public library
containing a symbol reported to
be similar to that used in the Lind
bergh kidnapping ransom notes.
After checking up, officials
termed it a coincidence and dis
missed it's value in aiding in the
solution of the crime.
The volume examined was "The
Book of Signs" by Rudolph Koch.
Checking up the list of those
Nho had read the book, it was
found the records of the library
did not extend beyond June. 1882,
. month after the kidnapping.
Meanwhile, it was revealed in
Eunterdon County, N. j., that
Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Lind
bergh kidnapping suspect. will have
a panel of talesmen containing
the names of many women when
the drawing of potential jurors
takes place on November 81.
Hauptmann goes on trial on
January 2.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Navy Maneuvers
To Take 80 Days

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Nov. II
U.N.SD D.-Maneuvers of the United
States fleet next spring will re-
quire SO days, according to an
nouncement today at Eleventh
Naval District Headquarters. The
exercises will be within the San
Francisco-Alaska-H Honolulu triangle
of the North Pacific, with about
$50 ships and from 800 to 400 air,
planes participating.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Peery ReappOints
V.P.L. Visitors Body

RICHMOND. Va Nov. II (Spe,
ciaD disappointment of Homer
L. Ferguson, Newport News;
Robert A. Russell, Rustburg;
Harry Flood Byrd. Winchester
and Robert S. Moss. Burkes Gar
den. to the board of visitors of
the Virginia Polytechnic Insti,
tute was announced by Governor
Peery today. All are named + f1r a
four-year term dating from July
1. 1884.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
BRANDS SET-UP
BADLY IN NEED
Of REFORM
Asks National Control Over
All Banks; Proposes Exten-
sion of Deposit Insurance
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service


International News Service
Unification of American ma.
tional and State banks into a sim
gle system, chartered by the Fed
eral Government. was indorsed to-
day by Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher (D) of Florida, chair
man Of the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee, as a means
of further safeguarding depositors.
Senator Pitcher was in no hurry
to enact chartering legislation,
saying he preferred to wait an
other year to determine the effect
of banking reforms, enacted IN
1893 and last spring. He an
nounced he favored extension for
another year of the temporary de-
post insurance act to give further
time to study insurance assess
mentS.
Demands Reforms
Senator Pitcher also favored the
suggestion of Ferdinand Pecora,
Federal Securities CommiSSit ner,
for the Federal incorporation OF
all corporations doing business in
interstate commerce and said the
proposal should be studied for tu'
ture action.
Senator Fletcher pointed out
that his committee reported
"basic banking reforms were
needed" holding the existing
banking organization is outmoded
and archaic and incapable OF
adequately performing the func-
tions so essential to the economic
safety and welfare of the nation"
He said:
BRANDS SYSTEM FAILURE
"A fine way to accomplish
unificatiOn of our banking Sys-
TENS would be to require all
commercial banks, receiving de-
pOsits, to take out a Federal
charter. That would give us
unified system. All deposit
banks would be under the direct
examination and supervision of
Federal authorities. Now some
banks con do business in the
States on a capital of $4,000.
They operate under 4S different
State charters and the national
banking laws. This series Of
systems is wrong.
Congress has the COnStitu.
tiOnal right to require the Fed
eral chartering Of all CONNER
cial banks.
I'm inclined to believe we
will come to it sooner or alter.
81 feel too we should extend
the temporary deposit insurance
act for another year from July,
1885. Such an extension would
give us time to study effects of
the assessment rules"
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
New York Drafts
City Income Tax

NEW YORK, Nov. II G.N.SO.
Plans for a progressive city in
come tax Of 11a to per cent
on incomes over $1,000 a year
were drafted today by the alder.
manic local laws committee,
which is seeking revenues for
relief. 1t estimates the revenue
at $3,000,0OO to $5,OO0,O0O year.
The tax is designed as a SUB
stitute for the present tax of IS
per cent of Federal income tax
payments, which has been st-
tackled as illegal and impossible
of collection.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Chief of Revenue
Cut, Aides Raised

ROANOKE, Va, Nov. II (Spe-
ciaD An agree m n t between
Commissioner of Revenue John M.
Hart and the city council calls
for an increase in salary for four
of the five workers in his office.
The change, however, cuts Mr.:
Hart's salary by $500 year and
increases the combined salary OF
his workers by $500.
Mr.. Hart will get $4,000 year
one assistant, $4,000 and another
$4,000. a clerk $1,000 and two
stenographers $1,000.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
CH|LD'S 8 SLAYER
COVERS TRAIL
IN NASHVILLE
Prosecutor, Lacking Clue to
Identity or Motive, Fears
Arrest Is Remote
Copyright, 1884, by the international
News ServiCe)


News Service)
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. II.
Six-year-old Dorothy Ann Distel-
hurst, whose nude body was un-
earthed in a shallow grave in
sorghum cane field two months
after a disappearance startling in
its similarity to the Lindbergh
case, is believed not to have been
the victim of a ransom kidnap-
ing.
The crime is thought to have
been the work of fiend with
distorted mind who mistreated
the child, killed her to escape
detection, then buried the body.
The little girl probably was
slain the same afternoon she was
stolen on lonely Scott Avenue in
suburban Nashville, a short dis
tance from her home, as she re-
turned from kindergarten, and
was buried that night miles away
in the field adjoining the David
son County Tuberculosis Hospital.
Arrest Remote
The slayer, authorities deem
certain, lives in Nashville or vi
cinity. No arrest is imminent.
From Attorney General j. Carl
ton Loser. head of the investi-
eating forces, and other authorita.
tive sources, International News
Service learned:
That the series of ransom
notes mailed from various parts
of the nation following Dorothy
AIMS disappearance the after
noon of September 10, proved to
be the work of cranks.
That the six-day vigil kept
by Alfred E. Distelhurst, father
of the child, in New York, end
ing last Wednesday when work
men digging soil for flower beds
uncovered the body, was under
taken with but scant hope that
four notes demanding $4,000
ransom, apparently penned by
the same person, might prove
genuine.
That Mr.. Distelhurst, whose
livelihood is dependent upon a
small salary, did not have or
carry the $4,000 ransom with
him to New York.
Attorney General Loser ad-
vanced the theory of a fiend muir
der, after investigation failed to
reveal any other motive.
Trust Income Dwindles
He pointed to the fathers
modest income and his lack OF
ability to pay ransom as max
ing kidnapping for ransom unten-
able. Dorothy Ann, he said, was
not insured and Mr.. Distelhurst
apparently had no serious en-
emieS.
From Montclair, N. j., former
home of Mr.. Distelhurst, came
further details of trust fund
established by Hugh Distelhurst,
grandfather of Dorothy Ann.
which mentioned the child. The
fund, consisting of real estate and
personal property valued at $685.
900, was set up July 81, 1881,
through the Montclair Trust Com
pany.
However, depreciation in real
estate, due to the depression, had
so reduced the value of the estate
that the income had dropped to
$3.50 monthly before the grand
father died and he tried unSuc-
cessfully to break the trust agree
ment in order to increase his
funds.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Divorced "a Hours,
Mrs. Stein ElOpes

CHICAGO, Nov. II GN.SD.
Exactly "a hours after she re-
ceived her divorce, the former Mrs.
Montefiere Stein, niece of the late
Julius Rosenwald, eloped with
Tom Menefee and was married
last night at Waukegan, Ill, it
was learned today. The couple
are on their way East today. in
tending to sail shortly for a years
honeymoon in Europe.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Typewriter Theft
Reported on Hill

South Trimble, clerk of the
House of Representatives, re-
ported to police today that a
typewriter was stolen from the
office of Representative w. D.
McFarlane CD of Texas in the
House Office Building. The theft
took place some time since
October 8.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

ALL LONDON is busy
with preparations for the
royal wedding, November
29, of Princess Marina of
Gree and Prince
George, of England. The
victorian coach above,
with ghstening trappings
will be the vehicle carry
ing the royal couple after
their wedding ceremony.
The carriage dates back
to the days of the Princes
grandmother, Queen Vic
tOria.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
74-YEAR RECORD

BEDFORD, Pa, Nov. II (Spe'
ciaD "A Sunday school record OF
"a years and also a teaching
record of so years, has been com.
pleted by Calvin w. Dittmar of
Loysburg, who, in his 80th year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
SHOUT 1T FROM THE HOUSE
TOPS"

DENVER, Col.-Some time ago a
worker was talking to the relief
worker while she was making out
his order for the week. In his re-
marks he said that he thought the
United Front of the Unemployed
Movement was a pretty good organ
ization and that he was going to
join them for they sure do see to it
that the unemployed get relief.
He had been getting an order for
$500 each week for himself and his
wife and when he took the order
this time he did not look at it, but,
went to grocery store to get food
with it, and then he noticed that
instead of it being for $500 it read
$3.75.
This worker told the correspond
ent that it would pay every unem-
ployed worker to keep talking about
the unemployment councils and the
United Front Against Hunger when
they get their relief orders.
Moral: Shout it from the house
tops,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
W o r K E r
CORRESPONDENTS!

The names of workers who
write to the Worker Correspond
ence Department of the Daily
Worker" are never published I'M
less We are especially authorized
to do so.
The staff of the Daily Worker"
understands that to print these
names might mean local persecu-
ton. Hence every precaution is
taken to make absolutely certain
that all names are kept secret.
However, we request that all
letters sent directly to the paper
be signed.
We ask this because frequently
letters arrive from important
shops and industries from which
special information is urgently
needed. Valuable information
concerning the activities of labor
racketeers, secret war prepara-
tions, and similar events are fire.
quently obtained from worker
correspondents with whom we
are able to get in touch when
any hint of this information
comes into our office.
The effectiveness of the Daily
Worker" can be tremendously
increased if we are able to get in
instant touch with correspond
ents in various sections Of the
country and in various industries
as occasion demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
I.R.T. TraCkWaIker
Smells a Rat
BY a Tractionworker Correspondent

BY a TractiOnWork Correspondent
NEW YORK-Recently the I.
r. T. put on about 20 new men
in the transportation department
of the Manhattan division. All
trainmen will be very wise to take
very skeptical view of this move
because it smells suspiciously like
an act of the beakie (rat) de-
partment of Mr.. "Rat'igan
There was no real need for hir-
ing these men as the extra men
were getting very little work as it
was. Furthermore all of these
new arrivals landed at 1855 Broad
way with letter from P. j. Con-
molly (the kept head of the fake
brotherhood company union)
which fact practically clinches the
belief that there is something rot
ten in Denmark, when an outfit
like the twelve-hour, slave-driving
I. R. T. has 20 more men than
they need.
AS a trackwalker my pay en-
velope has been reduced not 10
percent, but over 30 percent be-
low the previous rates. Our job
is dangerous one, in fact one of
the worst on the system; still we
are compelled to put in 10 hours
for 9 hours pay seven days a
week.
Good luck to your paper. Yours
for the 8-hour day and the 5-day
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Communist Party Expels
Otto W allin AS Renegade

where to begin work with renewed
determination and tempered energy
to carry through successfully the
present circulation campaign of the
Tyonies, to broaden out the circu-
lations of our literature and other
publications and to build our F.
w. F.
The Executive Committee of the
Finnish Workers Federation and
the Board of Directors of the Ty-
omies are confident that all the
readers supporters and friends of
the Tyomies, the membership of
the Finnish Workers Federation will
give full support to the decisions of
the Executive Committee of the F.
w. F. and the Board of Directors
of the Tyomies and will more
unitedly than ever rally around the
Tyomies, our publications, and the
Finnish Workers Federation.
Finnish Workers Federation's
Executive Committee.
Board of Directors of the Tyomies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Need for Organization
on Jacksonville Docks
By a Worker Correspondent


JACKSONVILLE, Florida.-Last
Thursday, April 20, young Negro,
Chris Donaldson, who was in the
U. S. Navy during the World War,
and a taxpayer in Jacksonville
for many years, chopped his
thumb with an ak while splitting
wood. Barely earning living
loading fruit at the Refrigerated
Service Line Docks, he went to
the Duval County Hospital for
treatment.
The doctor bandaged his thumb
but did not care for it properly.
He did not sew up the wound and
he bandaged the thumb too
tightly, stopping the circulation.
The pain became unbearable and
Donaldson went back to the hos
pital to have the wound treated.
He was fatty refused treatment
on the grounds that he had not
signed up with the local relief
authorities recently for groceries,
etc. Donaldson made IS cents an
hour at the docks, rarely getting
over $3.50 a day, and never able
to work more than two days
week.
Steps will be taken to organize
the M. w. 1. U, There is no or
ganization at all among the long
shoremen at present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Phila. Cabmen
Describe Fruit
0fS.P. Advice
By a Taxi Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-After at
tending mass meeting recently at
Convention Hall, Camden, N. j., of
the New York Shipyard Workers,
We are more firmly convinced than
ever before that Socialist Party
leaders, such as Felix and Norman
Thomas, are selected by the bosses
to throttle the militancy of the
workers. To prove our points, we
submit the following:
Felix was introduced as the or
ganizer of the Taxi Drivers Union,
Local 1856. He did not deny this,
when he knows as well as the driv-
ers do, that he never was organizer
Of the union. The sentiment of the
taxi drivers is that Felix, in plain
cab lingo is a 'phoney." The cab
drivers still remember the IA KIT.
iron clause that includes the follow
ing strikebreaker and treasury
wrecker, That if a striker is found
to be an aggreSsor, the company
will not rehire." BY convincing and
influencing the men to vote for
such an agreement" today 10 driv-
erS are blacklisted not only by the
P.R.T. but by all the bosses in all
industries. The local treasurer is
instructed to pay $40 per week to
these men until these workers find
employment. This item costs our
local union $500 per month.
The drivers have agreed to take
care Of these IS men, and it is no
more than right that they do so,
but We still insist that these men
would have gotten their jobs back,
if Felix had not fastened this clause
around our necks.
Felix claimed he did not take
large part in the strike, but we
know he influenced Galbrath and
instructed him in all his disunion
activities.
In concluding his short talk, be-
fore introducing Norman Thomas,
he told the shipyard workers that
if the taxi drivers had opened their
union meeting with a prayer, the
same as the shipyard workers had
done, the taxi drivers would have
been better off.
Then Norman Thomas got up and
said the NR.A. is the machinery to
keep the workers in order. How
come that in August, 1888, faker
Norman stated that the MIRA. is
the road to Socialism, and that this
is not the time to strike?
Thomas said he is for industrial
unions, and against the practice of
organization on the craft basis. How
is it the Socialist Party of which
Thomas is the head, suggests to
workers, organization in A. F. of L.
craft unions, instead of industrial
unions?
We suppose Norman does in Rome
as the Romans do, that is, when
speaking before independent indus
trial unions, he is for industrial
unions, and when speaking at A. F.
Of L. unions, he is for craft unions.
"A COUPLE OF SOCIALIST
SOLD OUT PHILA. TAXI
DRIVERS.