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Evening star., 1934-02-28
ALL-U. s. PLANNING
COUNCIL PROPOSED
N. E. A. Convention Requests
Federal Finance Aid
for Schools.
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Ohio February 28.-
The creation of a special council for
national social-economic planning was
urged upon President Roosevelt today
in a resolution adopted by several
thousand of the country's most promi-
nent educators.
The educators, attending the Ma
tional Education Associations depart
ment of superintendent convention
also went on record urging the Fed
eral government to provide financial
aid for the Nations public school sys-
tenn. 1t specified. however, that Fed
eral control of the schools should be
avoided.
Delegates Approve Report.
A program asking Federal financial
aid already has been presented to
the government, asking approximately
half billion dollars. Biggest items
in the program are $500, 100000 to
$400, 100000 for division among all
schools of the Nation on basis of
approximately s11 for each student
enrolled. and an additional 500, ,0O0,-
600 to be distributed among schools
according to their actual deficiencies.
The complete report Of the Conven-
tons Committee on resolutions, pre-
sented by Chairman E. E. Oberholtzer,
newly selected president of the depart
ment, was approved by the delegates
without opposition.
The task of re-educating adults in
terms of the New America" served
as a major theme of the convention
today, some speakers envisioning
schools open from early morning to
midnight: or a multiplication of the
recreational and cultural activities of
the school, or extension Of compulsory
education to the twentieth year.
A report which echoed several ad-
dresses striking at the private prof.
system, delivered last week before sub
groups of the N. E. A., was prepared
by a group headed by Dr. Harold
Rugg of Teachers College, Columbia
University.
New System Urged.
As drafted, it declared the present
economic system providing profits for
the few and starvation and unemploy-
ment for the many must give way to
a new system providing comfort and
decent living for all.
It proposed that adults and young
people be educated in the general and
specific purposes which should be
served by government, and urged de-
velopment Of principles and outlines
of a more functional democratic po-
litical system, which would operate on
clearly defined economic and social
issues, making possible the recording
of the popular will.
Senator Royal s. Copeland asked
the teachers to assume responsibility
for q basic crime prevention program"
He asserted the crime situation has
been aggravated by activities within
the law Of certain metropolitan bank.
ers. utility teads and business execu-
It6NoR,s
Evening star., 1934-02-28
REAR ADMIRAL LAWS
TO QUIT NAVY TODAY
Retirement Will End 40 Years
of Service, With Unlimited
Time Now for His Golf.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February %.
Rear Admiral George William Laws,
whose 40 years of distinguished serv-
ice sit lightly on him. retired today to
devote himself to the serious business
of improving his golf.
At sunset, the two-star flag Of the
18th Naval District commandant was
to be hauled down as 13 guns doomed
in formal salute to the retiring Off
Ger.
A native Of Shenandoah, Iowa, he
was president of his graduating class
at Annapolis in 1891. He played on
the first Naval Academy foot ball
team to meet West Point. During the
Spanish American War he served on
the U. S. S. Justin, and for his serv-
ices in the World War he won the
Navy Cross.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
ROOSEVELT TO ASK
TARIFF CUT POWER.
Message to Congress Due
to Be Presented in Next
Two Weeks.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Roosevelt administration is
moving strongly toward revival of
Americas foreign trade-not to bring
it back to the peak Of 1929. perhaps,
but to bring it to the volume of more
normal years.
Having moved in one direction
the establishment of a Government
agency to extend credit for trade with
Russia. with arrangements for Nade
with Cuba in the off1ng-President
Roosevelt will take steps in another
direction-the lowering of tariff walls
and the elimination of other trade
barriers. His expected tariff message
to Congress, it was predicted in in
formed quarters, will certainly be be-
fore Congress within the next two
weeks, and perhaps within a very
short time.
Pact Power to Be Asked.
The President has called into con-
ference with him late today members
of the House and Senate most nearly
concerned with tariff legislation and
also officers of the Executive depart
ments, to discuss the tariff and for
eign trade program. In the list of
those who attend this conference, at
which a decision on the form of tar
if legislation may be reached, are in
cluded Senator Harrison of Missis-
Sippi, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee; Representative Doughton
of North Carolina, chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
Vice President Garner, Speaker Raj
ney, Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
and Representative Byrns of Tennes-
see, Democratic leaders of the Senate
and House; Secretary of State Hull,
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Sec
retary of Commerce Roper, Assistant
Secretary of State Sayre, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce Dickinson,
George N. Peek and several others.
The tariff message. it has been
learned, will call for authority on the
part OF the President to make recl-
procal trade agreements with other
nations. reducing tariff duties, if nee
essary, to make the Importation of
foreign goods into this country pos
sible, with the definite understand
ing that similar concessions will be
made for American goods in the for
eign nation or nations.
No submission of these agreements
to Congress for ratification is con-
templated. To do so, it is contended,
would make for interminable delay,
and for log-rolling at the Capitol.
Change Limited to so Per Cent.
However, it is expected that some
limit will be placed upon the extent
to which the tariffs may be lowered
by the President in order to bring
about such trade agreements with
other nations.
Under existing law, the President is
authorized to increase or lower tariff
duties within the range of so per cent,
after an investigation and report by
the United States Tariff Commission.
The President can raise the barrier
Continued on Page 4, Column D.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
BLAZE TO THAW PIT TES
RESULTS IN q DEATHS
Fire Is Believed to Have Spread
Through Wall After Family
Had Retired.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Ga, February 28-Four
members of a family of six were
burned to death here late last night
in a fire which firemen believed re-
suited from an attempt to thaw out
frozen water pipes.
j. w. Naish, cotton mill worker;
two daughters, Helen. 49, and Louise,
IA. and a son, George, IL, died in the
flames. Mrs. Naish and another
daughter Iona, %, were not hurt.
Firemen said the Naish family had
attempted to thaW out the water
pipes with a fire and they believed
the fire started blaze inside wall
which was not discovered before the
family retired.
The blaze was extinguished before
the house was completely destroyed.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
ICE ANCHORS FIRE DEPARTMENT
TO SCENE OF DEFEAT IN COLD

the town hall to sound . general
alarm on the curfew bell.
That called out the volunteer fire
brigade, which found the fire plug
near the Reid residence frozen. Ten
minutes were required to thaw it out.
BY this time the house was de-
molished
The firemen, however, turned the
hose on the cracking remains. When
the brigade was ready to leave the
fire truck couldn't; the spray from
the hose had frozen it to the ground.
They had to chop the fire truck
loose from its case of ice and then
they couldn't reel up the hose. The
water inside II had frozen so4d.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
AIRPLANE RESCUES 20
RUSSIANS FROM FLOE
Ice Breaker and More Flying
Craft Hope to Save Nearly
500 Other Fishemen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ASTRAKHAN, U. S. s. R., Febru-
ary 28.-With the help of an air.
plane, 20 Of the 500 fishermen ma
rooned on the ice foes of the Cas-
plan Sea reached shore safely today.
The rescue plane landed on an ice
foe which bore more than 100 men.
It distributed food to the marooned
fishermen, then, after an aerial sur
vey, guided 20 of them to land across
the drifting ice
The ce-breaker Ettwo and more
airplanes now are making efforts to
reach the other men. II the present
favorable weather continues, the res
cue parties hope 10 sav all
Evening star., 1934-02-28
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARKHILL, Ontario, February %.
The fire at Mrs. Rose Reid's home
yesterday was bad enough-it de-
stroyed the house-but there is moth
ing to laugh about in the events fol-
lowing
The blaze forced Mrs. Reid, her son
Hugh and a roomer, Lloyd Williams,
out into the snow while the thermom-
eter registered 10 degrees below zero.
Williams discovered the fire, shouted
Q warning, and dashed out to ring
an alarm. He jerked energetically
ut the bell and broke the wirk
Willing citizens helped him open
Evening star., 1934-02-28
Sirens That Sounded KneU
OfLiquor to Signal Its Return
Police to Deliver Licenses at Midnieht
Starting Sales at 200 Places
in City.

to objections filed. The other 148
will go before the board this after
noon for consideration, and unless
halted because of matters other than
objections by neighbors they will be
granted and may be included in the
list to be sent out by the Police De-
partment tonight.
Large Stocks on Hand.
Approximately 80 wholesale licenses
have been issued and large stocks
of all kinds of liquor are on hand,
so it will be the work of minutes only
to get the liquor into the retail estab-
liShments and on sale.
The plans for midnight rides and
deliveries of the licenses were made
this morning by Chairman George w.
Offutt of the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
BORIS TO SEE HITLER

BERLIN, February % C).-King
Boris of Bulgaria arrived in Berlin
today for two-day stay, His pro.
gram included conference with
Chancellor Hitler and state dinner
with President Won Hindenburg.
Evening star., 1934-02-28

Guard Called Out.
ALICANTE, Spain, February 28 P.
Authorities were forced to call for
reinforcements of civil guards today
to prevent extremists from burning
the city hall.
Evening star., 1934-02-28

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Guard Called Out.

Continued on Page S, Column S.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Plenty of Laughs
Personal APPEARANCE,

r n N , " ~ "A IL ABFEAKANCE, a
three-act comedy by Lawrence
Riley, Staged by Antoinette Perry
and Brock Pemberton, and fea-
turing Gladys George, at Henry
Miller's Theatre.
HERE is Broadway as Broadway
III likes it "a bombardment of
wiSecracks at a hard-to-miss target.
Lawrence Riley's Personal Appear
ar1ce' is something you look at and
laugh at and then forget. 1t is
hit, it will make money, and then
it will be superseded by other at
fractions at the box office.
Opening with the final scene of
Carole Ardens picture, Drifting
Lady" in Scranton movie palace,
the play carries the star from her
curtain speech to home for tour
lists on the highway to Wilkes
Barre. There her car breaks down
and she decides to while away the
time by seducing an earnest but in
nocent gas station attendant. How
her Public Relations Manager
thwarts her dishonorable intentions
forms the announcement.
Personal Appearance" provides
plenty of laughs for those who find
Hollywood's specie Of glamour
funny. Gladys George, as the
siren whose brain def1es division,
and Otto Huette, as her Public Re-
lationS Manager, contribute most
of the mirth.-B. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
t L N N C. IN

1900 WEAF-Press-Radio Election Returns
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Frick
WJz-Arnos n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
7:15-WEAF-Gene and Glenn--Sketch
WOR-Ccmedy; Music
WJz-Hirsh Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Eill-Sketch
1890 WEAF--New Rights for Old--Profes-
sof James T. Young, University Of
Pennsylvania
WOR-William Larkin, Tenor
WJz-Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles
Sears, Tenor, Concert Orchestra
Wt6C-Jack Smith, Songs
>-:J-WEAF-Press-R Radio Election Returns
f:45-WEAF-Frank Bucks Adventures
WOR-Dance Music
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
00-WEAR-Reisman Orchestra; Phil
Duey, Baritone
WOR-Dave Vine Comedian
WJz-Revenge Is Neat--Sketch
WABC-Ooncert Orchestra; Frank
Mum, Tenor, Hazel Glenn, Soprano
;3o-WEAF-Wayne King Orchestra
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone;
Concert Orchestra; John B. Ken
needy, Narrator
WABC-Lyman Orchestra; Vivienne
Segal. Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor
0-WEAF-Ben Bernie Orchestra
WORLDLY Brown, Violin
WABC-Bing Crosby, Songs; Boswell
Sisters Trio; stoil Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

ground, the former the son of a
retired surgeon who wrote mediocre
plays, the latter of less affluent
army band-master. 1t is no wonder,
then, that their satire was, for the
most part, directed against individ-
uals and not social institutions and,
that, for this reason, their plays
were generally acceptable to the
bourgeoisie.
Why do we still find these operet-
tas so delightful? Because satire
OF snugness and caste, even If as
indirect as that of Gilbert and Sui
Ivan, is rare and refreshing. There
is so much in our Hitler Upton Sin
clair-blue eagle set-up that could be
dealt with in like manner, to the
advantage Of the movement. Where
are our revolutionary satirists?
S. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

opposite the sleeping quarters. He
did not return.
The next morning DULY 10TH his
straw sack was empty. Shortly after
Muhsam had gone out the night
before, Himmelstoss inspected the
company as usual. In reply to his
question II We were all present, we
answered: All except Muhsam,' He
said: I know that, he is on duty"
Next morning, when waking us
up, Himmelstoss asked especially
about Muhsam. On being informed
that he had not come back, Him
melstoss shouted: Then We must
look for him.
He called upon several prisoners
to accompany him, and went
straight across the courtyard to the
privies. There hung Erich Muhsam,
dead, yellow, a rope around his
neck and around a beam, his body
suspended against one Of the wooden
partitions. Himmelstoss pretended
to be surprised.
NO one was allowed to look at the
body after it was cut down, but a
comrade whose trade enabled him
to have expert knowledge Of such
matters, had noticed that the rope
was knotted in q manner utterly
impossible to have been done by
MuhSam, who, incidentally, was no.
toriously awkward at manual tasks.
The knot was the work of an ex-
pert. And in addition, the distance
between the beam and the head
was so small that no living person
could have pushed in his head. The
dust on the wooden wall against
which the body hung was undis-
turbed. The tongue was not hang
ing out. The fists were clenched.
Besides this, comrades whose anx-
iety about Muhsam had prevented
them from sleeping had noticed
that lights we're lit and turned out
twice in the yard during the night"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

s;i5-WJz.story Behind the claim -
s;so-wEAF-Ed Wynn, Comedian; Duehin
Orchestra
WOR-Lum and Abner-sketch
WJz--Canadian Concert
WABC-Jones Orchestra; olga Albani.
Soprano
s:45-WOR-Bafnett Orchestra
lo:oo-WEAF-Operetta- de Ber-
serac, With Gladys Swarthout, Sop
rano; John Barclay, and others
WOR-Keiier Sisters and Lynch. sonzs
WJz-Sea Sketch, Cameron King,
Narrator
WABc-Gray Orchestra; Annette
Hanshaw, Songs; Walter o'Keefe
o:15-WORr-Curren Events; H. z. Read
o:3o-WoR-variety Musicale
WJz-Tim and Irene, Comedy
WABC-Press-Redio Election Results
II. v, Kaltenborn; Raymond
Clapper
HOO WEAF-Coleman Orchestra
WOR--News Bulletins
WJz-Campo Orchestra
WABc-salter Orchestra
i:ls-WEAF-Rebert Royce, Tenor
WOR-Mocnbeams Trio
11:30-WEAF-Heff Orchestra
WOR-Dance Music
WJz-Dursey Orchestra
WABC-Busse Orchestra
2:0o-WEAF-Danee Music. Interspersed
with Election Returns ALSO WABC,
woR, WIZ. wMcA. wEvDl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
THIRD WEEK OF d. w.
NAT. TRAINING SCHOOL
DRIVE INCREASES TEMPO

The determination and enthu-
Siasm of the students in the N. Y
school is clearly indicated by the
fact that the collections for the
third week equalIed the sum col
lected for the first two weeks,
making a sum total of $3.50 UP to
date.
The instructors are taking an
active part in the Drive. They are
challenging each other and there
fore are creating socialist competi-
ton in their respective classes. The
prizes are selected by the class, to
be given to the student collecting
the most money.
The class in Political Economy C.
James Field, instructor, is SO far
the leading Shock Brigade class,
with total collection of SOFAS.
However, if this class wants to keep
the honors, it will have to work
hard because many other classes are
trying to gain the lead.
The series of lectures conducted
by Comrade Hathaway ended last
week. The registration for this
class was immense. However, it did
not serve its full response, since
comparatively very few Party,
Young Communist League and
Trade Union members registered
for it. These Saturday afternoon
courses should be utilized partic-
ularly by those comrades who have
not the time to attend classes
during the week.
The next series Of lectures will
begin this Saturday, Nov. 10th, on
THE Growth of the International
Proletarian Class Struggle as ex-
pressed in the First, Second and
Third Internationals," with Max
Bedacht as instructor. The fee is
81 for five lectures. Registration
now going on at IS East 18th
Street, Room 30l.
Herbert Benjamin, National Or
ganizer, National Unemployment
Councils Of the U. S., will lecture
on THE Fight for Unemployment
Insurance in the Sixth Year of the
Crisis" at the New York Workers
School Forum, IS East 18th Street,
Second floor, Sunday, November II,
at $3.50 p. m. Admission Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
THE EXECUTIONER WAITS. By
Josephine Herbst. Harcourt,
Brace: $3.50.
Reviewed by
EDWIN SEAVER

ONE of the hardest things for the
" middle-class writer to attain,
perhaps, especially those middle
class writers who have definitely
become fellow travellers of the
Communist Party in the last five
years, is a unified approach to his
material. Even if he understands
the dynamics Of the decaying CAPT.
talist and the emerging proletarian
societies, he tends to retain the old
bourgeois approach to his material.
There is a noticeable lag between
the politicalization of his ideas and
of his art, with the result that he
either throws the materialist dia-
lectic overheard altogether when
he writes his novel or his poem, or
else foists it upon his material so
that it sticks out like a sore thumb.
1t is, therefore, gratifying to find
a novelist like Josephine Herbst
portraying the decline and change
of the American lower middle class
without forgetting that the primary
job of the novelist is to write about
real people, and depicting the strug-
giles Of individual men and women
without forgetting the larger social
implications involved.
THE EXecutioner Waits" is an ex-
celient sequel to the authors equally
excellent novel, pity Is Not
Enough" The latter book started
with the aftermath of the Civil War
in the get-rich-quick days of the
carpet baggers, took us through the
days Of the 'roober barons" up to
the years just before the World
War. The present novel continues
the saga Of the Trexler family and
the families related to it by mar
riage, through the years of the war
up to the depression. And Just as
the great American middle-class
longing for "a little capital" to get
started on some business enterprise
was the main theme of pity Is
Not Enough" so the same longing
persists through The Executioner
Waits" only with increasing doubt
and Illustration on the part Of the
older generation and, at the end,
revolt on the part of the younger.
THE first novel Of the projected
trilogy was concerned mainly
with the fortunes of Joe Trexle--
remembered as poor Joe" in the
second volume. Joe TrexIer was
handsome, generous, up-and- coming
lad. He wanted what every Amer
lean was supposed to want: the OPP
portunity to make good, which is
to say, to make a fortune. So Joe
went South after the Civil War,
got in with the best people on some
crooked deal and was left holding
the bag when the best people pulled
out. AS I remembered it, Joe went
West after that to find gold, but it
all came to nothing.
The great American dream ended
in defeat for Joe, as it did for most
Of his kind. But what made the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the Z. S.
SUCCESSFUL FALL TERM
AT BROWNSVILLE
WORKERS SCHOOL

How much stronger and more &C
tive is the administrative and
organizational structure OF the
Brownsville Workers School than
before can readily be seen from the
growth in size, number and success
of the forums, socials and fund
raising affairs during the present
fall term. The peak of the sea-
sons activities will be reached on
Friday, November 16, at $50 D m,
when John L. Spivak, author and
feature writer Of the New Masses,
will lecture at the Brooklyn Acad-
envy of Music on America Faces
Pogroms," under the joint auspices
OF the Brownsville Workers School
and the Brownsville Workers Book
shop.
The Buffalo Workers School, 100
Main Street, which has been Or
ganized this term, has had a sue
cessful fall registration. The school
committee, at its next meeting, will
discuss plans for the coming term.
They will particularly make plans
to conduct a drive In the trade
unions and mass organizations.
We have received a letter from
a comrade which we feel will be of
great interest to the readers of this
column. The comrade states: "One
OF the courses now being given at
the Workers School should be
brought to the attention of the
membership of the Party and
League. 1t is especially important
in view of the tasks confronting the
movement at the present time.
/ mean the course in 'Organza-
tional Principles One of the ma
jor tasks before the movement is
the building Of the Party and
League, and concentration within
shops, etc. Yet, the fact that this
course would aid the comrades in
the fulfilling Of their tasks is not
brought to the attention Of the
membership"
This criticism is very true. The
of theoretical training
in the class struggle is very often
underestimated by those comrades
who are very active. And it is this
comrade who should take courses in
order more ably to apply the
theoretical weapon in the class
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
German Refugee Tells
OF Cruesome Murder by
NaZis of Erich Muhsam

PRAGUE, Oct. 16.-Kurt Hitler,
now in Prague after his release from
a German concentration camp, pub
fishes in the "Neuen Weltbuhne"
the following frightful account of
how Erich Muhsam, German writer,
came by his death:
ON Monday, July 9, Muhsam was
called to see the new camp COM
mander. He returned to the COM
mon room shaking, and pale as
chalk. Eicke had calmly commanded
him to hang himself within forty
eight hours; otherwise, he said,
something would happen to him.
Some of the comrades tried to
console Muhsam, saying that this
must be just another one of their
brutal jokes. Others, however, took
it seriously, as did Muhsam himself.
One Of them advised him to run
through the room shouting: They
are going to murder mel They are
going to murder mel He thought
that If hundreds of people heard
this, the commanders would not
dare to murder him, although they
would no doubt subject him to hor-
rible torture.
'Muhsam did not follow this ad-
vice. A few hours later, he was told
by Eicke Cor perhaps it was the
battalion leader Eckhardt) that
there must be no further delay; the
matter would have to be settled that
night. Muhsam was ordered to ap-
pear in the commanders room at
nine O'Clock, after the other prison
ers had gone to bed. He was told
to wear the uniform of a Storm
Trooper, which he had. to clean,
and to bring rope.
"Muhsam cleaned the coat, got a
piece of rope, a length Of clothes
line like that from the company
leader of the sixth company, said
farewell to his comrades, and went
across to the management building