The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1933, Page 10

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933 “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Bublished daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaity Pubitshing Go., Inc., 50 East 18th Street, New York, N.Y. elephohe: Algonquin 4-7895, Cable Addtoes:. “Datwork,” New Washington Bureau: Room 954, th and G. St, Washington, D6. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronz) year 6 months, #3.80;. 3 months, -#2.00; 1 month, 76 cents. rete ‘and Cansda: 1 yeer, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, 3.00. York, KY. Mattonal Press Suftding, 6.00; 7 conte. re Carriet: wom, 36 cents; monthly, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933 Stop the Murder of Your Class Brothers WO ‘steel workers are dead Two others are on the verge of death Scores lie wounded by and the blackjacks of the armed thugs who brutally attacked the peace- ful picket line of the striking Ambridge steel workers. gunfire Mén, women and children were indiscriminately shot and clubbed For what?: For crime of having the desire and the determination to fight for bread, for the right 6 live, for the right to organize; for those very things Which president Roosevelt and the N.R.A. officials told us were our rights under the N.R.A, Ww ew from the beginning that the NR.A. sas a hypoeritical lie. It was a lie intended to drug | fhe. masses: who were in growing numbers taking up the fight in defense of their own interests. Today the whole world can see in the blood of the Ambridge steel workers the cruel designs, the brutal clutches, the bloody aims of the N.R.A. “Stop the fight of the workers! Use hypocritical phrases where possible! Resort to bloody terror where necessary! But stop the workers at all costs!"—this. is\the aim of the N.R.A. For what purpose? To insure and increase the Profits of the steel magnates, the coal barons, the bankers. Profits wrung out of the exploitation of the men and women who toil, who produce all the good’ | things of life. but who themselves live in poverty and privation, this is capitalism, this is the N.R.A., this is-the “liberal” Roosevelt administration, the loyal tool of the capitalists no less than was the administra- tion of Hoover, Coolidge, Harding or Wilson, Senta Le iS same brutal attack is being directed against all workers everywhere when they dare to take up the fight for better conditions. ‘The “liberal” demo- efatic Governor White, of Ohio, no less than the liberal” Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania — both ardent supporters of President Roosevelt—is respon- sible for this attack. In Steubenville, Ohio, the steel strikers of the Weir- ton Steel Mills were attacked with clubs and poison @as for the crime of peaceful picketing. lr the mine fields of Pennsylvania, the armed deputies and state troopers of Governor Pinchot-are terrorizing and shooting down the miners who reftse to go back to work until their union is recognized. In Gallup, New Mexico, where the miners are strik- ing-under the leadership of the National Miners Union, martial law reigns, In Helper, Utah, the same reigh of terror prevails. Everywhere, | the government, under the. N.R.A., dented force and terror in efforts to break the workers’ ranks, Ld Ss sponsible. They are today part’ and parcel of struggles of the. workers. ‘The U. M. W. of A. leaders, in the name of Roose- velt and Johnson, demand that miners return to work. workers that it is a mistake to strike, and immediately | | and by back-door-négotiations. ) In the ‘big National silk strike, the A. F. of L. lead- | ers now try their: best to send the workers back to work under a slavery code providing for a $13 a week. Not -a word of: protest do the A. F. of L. leaders make against the killing, wounding, hounding and tere } rorizing of our fighting brothers, These leaders have | their. hands. stained with the blood of the martyrs of the class wars now raging: e UT the workers -are not taking things lying down. Every day the number 6f strikes grow. Every day the number of strikers are increasing. Every day the fight becomes. more bitter,-more militant. More and more it Is getting out of the hands of the labor bureau- crats- More and more militant leaders rise from | amongst the heroic fighters. More and more the mil- |. itant unions of the Trade Union Unity League are | placing themselves at the head of the growing strike | movement, |. "The capitalists realize the full meaning of this. In |. singling out*the Ambridge steel strikers, led by the | i) * Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, they hope to deal a blow against all workers who are fighting: | | or preparing to:fight.. In the bosses’ attacks and the “outlaw” strikes of the 75,000 miners, they hope to crush the developing revolt against the A. F. of L. |. misleaders. | ‘They. must not succeed! They will not succeed if we can develop the solidarity of the workers and of all honest friends of the workers with the striking | masses. Instead the initiative of the workers will | grow. Their opposition to the A. F. of L. bureaucrats | Will be strengthened. ‘The militant trade unions of the T.U.U.L. will spurt forward, And above all, the united front of all fighting workers against the employers and labor misleaders will be strengthened. are. ee | ORKERS of all Unions—A. F. of L. workers, T.U. U.L. workers, workers in Independent Unions and unorganized workers— raise your voice of protest against the murder of your class brothers.. Honest friends of labor, join in this protest. Organize demonstrations and protest meetings of the toiling masses against the murderous strike- breaking policy. of the bosses, aided by the govern- ment. Send. wires to President Roosevelt, Governor Pinchot, the Governor of Ohio; the Governor of New Mexito Send wires to General Johnson and to the local author- ities protesting against the killing of the steel work- ers and the terrorization of the miners. Give your support to the strikers in every way pos- | sible. Raise funds for the relief of the striking steel workers and the miners who are in the front line of the battle. Appeal of the Central to the Daily Worker Committee for Support Financial Campaign COMRADES: The Daily Worker has called for subscriptions to a $40,000 fund, which is réquired to keep-our paper in the field in this time of rapidly growing mass struggles. Never was the need for our paper so great. Never| before has our paper been performing its duty | so successfully. We have every reason to ex- pect, therefore, that the response of the work- ers, their trade unions, unemployed organiza- | tions, clubs, fraternal -bodies and the Party | units and committees, will be more prompt and | effective than ever before. *=The Central Committee is forced to make this special appeal, however, because the cam- Paign in its first weeks is lagging, because all Organizations are so much occupied with a thousand other tasks. Because our appeals for the Daily Worker Fund have not been couched in the language of desperation and panic, there has been an impression that the Daily Worker campaign could be neglected for other things for which sharper demands have been made. But this lagging in the campaign is. actually becoming very dangerous to the existence of the Daily Worker... The Central mittee has no desire to exaggerate-the problem. Our Daily is in its 10th year of existence, and we know the workers will not Je it die. But the Daily Worker has always m. able to live because, and only because, workers have always responded . to_ its cial appeals and raised the money that las needed. At any time that the financial drive is not carried through fully, that. time the whole existence of our paper is th reatened. ——— We must* say, ‘openly and frankly, that: the present lag in the campaign has created: a threat against the existence of the Daily Worker. We are confident that this situation exists | only. because the Daily Worker and the Central | Committee have not before spoken, with suffi- jcient seriousness and directness about the ur- jgency of this problem. We are confident that every unit of. the} Party, every Party committee will in the com-| ing week get into most energetic action to send a flood of dollars into the Daily Worker to meet the present emergency, and that they will follow this up and carry through the campaign to a successful conclusion in the time designated. We call upon every sympathetic organiza- tion and individual to take part in quickly and energetically. carrying through this task, that all energies may again be turned towards the thousands of other pressing problems arising out of the growing mass struggles. Rally. to the support of the Daily | Worker. Secure the existence of our en for the coming period! Send immediately your dona- tions to the Daily Worker financial campaign. —Central Committee Communist Pat U.S.A. 264 Korean Workers * Face Death for Communist Revolt ks Protests Flood anese Consulates *ROUL, Korea, ‘Sept. 28. (Special § to the Daily Worker—De- Tayed).—Charged with membership in the Communist Party and par- tion in the 1929-30 Korean rection, 264 Korean workers went on trial for their lives in the Japanese court here today. "hese workers Were all leaders ef the Korean masses in their ry le against Japanese imper- and their trial is part of the latter’s offensive against the workers in its Asiatic mainland tolonies in Korea and Manchuria, dovetailing with its -plans. for war against the Soviet. Union. The International “Red -Aid - has called on workers ‘throtghout the world -.to.- protest against these trials and to demand their imme- diate release in resolutions sent to Japanese embassies and’ consulates in every country’ and city.” Gary Mills.Make War Equipment: at Four Work Shifts GARY, Ind.—The production of war equipment, has been expanded in Merchant Mill of the Illinois Steel Company of Gary is now working on an order rolling the solids for war material. ‘The Globe Seamless Mill at Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, is now employ- ing uninterruptedly six hundred and twenty workers in four 6-hour shifts producing fragmentation bombs from the solids supplied by the Tllinois Steel Merchant. Mill. Keep Your Part; ister Communlat on the. Ballot. Res- ber O te 14 many steel mills. ‘The ‘Twenty-Inch’ Race-Hatred-Is Bosses’ Method to Fight Unions (By: a. Worker - Correspondent) ALEXANDRIA, Va-—As in. most Southern towns, the police, the American Legion, and the Chamber of Commerce use every. despicable method to keep wages at a low level, to make the place a non-union town, and to further keep the workers in poverty by using the Ku Klux: Klan and the Masonic orders to spread the Southern infamy of race-hatred among the students.of the public schools and the working classes. The vaions. of Alexandria are typically the’A. F. of L. skilled type. When the union laborer in the South realizes that his condition will not improve until conditions improve for the large masses of unskilled and unorganised labor, then the basis is laid for a strong labor movement that will im- prove living conditions for the white and Negro--workers. in all sections of the coimtry where | the workers organize and fight for better conditions, | is using unprece- | leaders of the American Federation-of Labor are *| | the government machinery for the suppression of the} The leaders of the A. ¥. of.L. Steel Union tell the | take steps to break the strike by prohibiting picketing Los Angeles, Calif. ‘HE MANTAC Burek rele. Conference Hits at Nazi White Terror 21 Organizations De- mand. Release of C. P. Leaders LOS ANGELES,’ Oct. 6.—Delegates from 21 local,’ national and ‘interna- tional organizations in an -Anti- Fascist Conferenté in this» city unanimously adopted’ resolutions-con- demning the bestial Pascist brutalities against the Germar working-class, and condemned-the outrageous frame- up of Torgler and> other Communist leaders, absurdly--accused ..of . the Reichstag arsony *-* ? Plans were made for making the conference permanént and carrying on an energetic’. campaign on. the Anti-Fascist Front?’ “A delegation was elected to. visit the German consul with demands for the release 6f the Communist leaders and the tens of thousands of revolutionary workers held in the Nazi contentration camps. ‘The following executive committee was elected: Herman Beck, 8. Elstein, L, C. Fortier, William Gear, Martha Goldberg, H. Graumari;:Nora, Hell- gten, Ellis O.*Jones, I, Krupin, A. Lapin, Val Pavek; ‘M. Lb. Quateman and Adolph Spronay Last Signature Day in Philadelphia; - Pa.; Needs Final Action PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 6.— The Communist Party has not as yet a sufficient mower of sig- natures to get on the ballot. ‘There thousand signatures: are ‘ni and Saturday is the last day. All lists should be filled out and | returned immediately. Every Party member should de- vote the whole day-towards getting signatures. All sympathizers are urged to participate: pie your lists in filled. out TO- NIG Welles Intervenes in Cuba; Tries to Join Bourgeois Factions U. S. Ambassador Seeks to Reconcile Opposing Bourgeois Groups to Establish “Law and Order” © HAVANA, Oct. 6.--The United States again intervened in Cuban affairs today as Ambessador Suminer Welles teok part in a conference of political leaders in an effort to establish a capitalist united front against the digees tide of proletarian and peasant revolt The conference wes attended by © Staff, Gen. Mendieta, of the. major bourgeois factions op- posing.the Grau San Martin regime, .and other, upper-class notables. The Grau government hopes to ob- tain an understanding. with the other bourgeois groups. in order to proceed unitedly. against the strike wavs sweeping over Cuba. © Through: the bloody establishment. of “law snd or der” it hopes to obtain recognition by..the United States by protecting |" American industrial and financial in- terests against the workers. Indications, were, that. the govern- ment, would deal Jeniently with the of- ficers arrested after the stirrender of the National Hotel as a pledge of amity towards the opposition upper- class groups. Col. Batista assured Ambassador Welles that “they would have fair-trials.” British Students Hit Presence of American Warships in Cuba NEW YORK.—The British Federa- tion of Student Societies protests the action of the United States in-send- ing warships to Cuba, according to a cablegram received by the Nationa] Student League here today. The British’ student organization sends greetings of solidarity to the Cuban students and workers and promises to popularize the reyolu- tionary strike in gE) head of onew— all over the island. ‘ol. Batista, Chief of the Army Geaeral Workers’ Delegation ‘To Be Sent to Cuba | NEW. YORK.—A delegation _is being sent to Ouba by the Anti- poppet League of the United States to carry the greetings of the workers of America to the rev- lolutionary masses of Cuba. || A conference of speakers, edu- cational’ dixector’s and committees of all organizations for preparation of the campaign to send the dele- Zation will be held today at.2 p.m. at 96 E. 10th St. New York City. October 8-14 will be observed as | Workers’ Continental Solidarity | Week throughout the United States. All organizations and clubs should hold “lectures and discussions dur- ing this week ‘on ‘the role of Amer~ iean imperialism in its colonies. Mass meetings, indoor or -out- door, should be held on October 12,° Columbus: Day, to rally ~the American workers to the support of the Cuban masses and all co- lonial peoples. Resolutions against American intervention in Cuba should be passed and sent to President Roosevelt. Collections for the Cuban revolutionary organiza- tions should be taken up, AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, The continucd examination of Ernst Presiding Judge Buenver found ing as Speaker of the . Reichsieg. Large groups of sightseers were also conducted through the Reichstag daily.” Buenger asked van der Lubbe if he visited. the Reichstag as a sight- seer, Van der Lubbe answered: “No. Parisius, a Nazi witness, stated: “The Communist Party's deputies reccived questionable eyil-lcoking visitors.” Torgler Rebukes Nazi Witness Torgler answered sharp: “We re- ceived many unemployed, but it is unseemly fo call them questionable because they were poor. ‘Van dre Lubbe denied ev er know- ink Koenen. Buttressing his alibi still further, Torgler related that while he was eating in Aschinger’s Restaurant, a patron entered and exclaimed: “The Reichstag is burning!” He thought this was a bad joke. He then boarded a street car, but was stopped on his way to the Reichstag building by an armered car. A storm troover told the passengers that the Reichstag Was burning at several points and that the Communists were guilty, Torgler then went to Stawitzki’s restaurant, his customary rendezvous. Kuehne, Koenen, Wundersee and Birkenhauer were present. Judge Buenger considered this late rendezvous rather strange. Torgler answered: “I was often there even later.” Nazi Lawyers Attack Paris Inquiry Afterthe court had recessed, Dr. Sack, Torgler’s officially appointed Nazi attorney, stated that the Paris commission of inquiry is spreading false reports. “Arthur Garfield Hays and the “Pravda” correspondent as- sert that the defense is not trying to find the real incendiaries,” he added. Dr. Sack said that he rejected the combinations made in the “Brown Book.” “The assertion that Goering and Goebbels are the’ incendiaries slanders Germany,” ‘he stated, “and the London counter-trial has no claim to objectivity.” Attorney-General Werner added: “The counter-trial’s material is value~ less.” Dr. Teichert, Popoff’s Nazi lawyer, added: his protest,.after which Sack again attacked de Moro-Giaf- eri, noted Paris criminal lawyer, for “calumniating Goering.” Seuffert, van der Lubbe’s attorney, joined in, stating “it is beneath the dignity of German defense counsel to accept’ the offer of the. Defense Comimittée +6 have van der’ Lubbe oxamined by two Swiss psychiatrists. The Committee only wants to injure Germany.” Sack proposed that Hays, who was present in the courtroom; be put on the stand. The judges refused, as “the: Supreme Court is. above rue cion.” Van der Lube Contradicts Nazi Affidavit An affidavit of Kunzak, an absent witness, was then read alleging that van der Lubbe had participated in a meeting in Duesseldorf in 1926 to- gether with Torgler and Heinz Neu- mann, It also claimed that van der Lubbe was ready to undertake the leadership of a Dutch terrorist group. Van der Lubbe then said: “I was never in Duesseldorf and don’t know Neumann or Torgler.” The Kunzak affidavit forgot ap- parently that van der Lubbe was then a schoolboy, less than 16 years old at the time. Grother, the next witness, who claimed to have been a leader in the Rote Frontkaempferbund, _ testified that the incendiary plan was hatched in the Karl Liebknecht House, Com- munist Party headquarters, on Feb- many entrance tickets for the Reich-tag. plenty of tickets sent them by Goor-® {ORGLER BLASTS NAZIS’ PERJOREO TESTIMONY IN _ REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL Fascist Defense Counsel Lash ‘Out at- Paris | Commission of Inquiry for “Calumniating | Germany and German Lawyers” “Oct. 5 (Via Zurich, Switzeriand) <= Torgler, Comuvunist Reichstag leader, | featured today's sessions of the Leipzig arson trial, oe it suspicious that Torgler. possessed Torgter replies: “All deputies had 24 or 23, Torsler refuted this perfured testi- mony, knecht House was in the hands of the police at that-time and no Com- puis parley could have taken place th: . Blegoi Popoff denied having met Torgler in the Reiehstag, as charged by the prosecution. In reply to- Dimitroff’s*- question, Torgler confirmed that the policy of the _ Communist “deputies*-in the Reichstag was guided by the Central Committee of ‘tHe Communist Party in accordance with the Party pro gram, Jucze Buenger. interrupted him, saying “polities Will not -be discussed until all the evidence is.in.” A protest telegram against the trial was received from the General Coun- cil of the Department of the North in France, 15,000 Protest Leipzig Trial in Paris PARIS, Oct. 6—A demonstration of over 15,000 persons in the Salle Wa- gram yesterday expressed “its indig- nation at the methods pursued by the Leipzig court and expressed its agreement with the decisions of the inquiry commission, = Czechs Ban Nazis as Hitler Leaders Flee to Germany Hitlerites. Charged With High Treason, Dissolve ve Party PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct, 6.— Leaders of the Nazi party here fled to Germany as the Qzechoslovakia goy- ernment started # drive against the Nazis as enemies of the state. Four Nazi were charged with high -treason,. three being: ar- rested and the fourth escaping to the: land of Hitler. © The anti-Nazi campaign followed a récent Supreme Court decision that the Nazi party was dangerous to the Czech State. In anticipation of formal government suppression, the party. dissolved itself last. Tuesday. . “The drive ‘against. the Nazis fol- lowed revelations of Nazt anda, from Germany ahd here as ‘well for the annexation of northern Bohemis, by the Nazi regime. Yudenitch, White G’rd General, Dies in Exile PARIS, Oct. 6—One of the leaders against the Nicholas Yudenitch, died here today. Yudenitch, whose rapid~ advance on Petrograd (now Leningrad), in world, was thrown back and his crushed by the united efforts workers of Petrograd south of the city with weapons they could put their hands on and put the mercenary Yuden- itch troops, paid and supported by the Allied Powers, to flight. His name will live in history as one of the White Guard leaders who, with the aid of the Western Powers, the determined stand. of the Petrograd working class. By VERN SMITH ' Moscow ndent of the Daily: We are sitting: tm the editorial .of- fices of “Krassnaya Svezda,” daily newspaper of ‘the Red Army, inter- viewing the heroic crew of the strato- stat “U.S.S.R.” ‘Comrades Prokofieff, Godunoff and conversation with Moscow journal- ists, are giving us their impressions of the stratosphere flight. Their account’ of how the first Soviet stratosphere balloon was built, how numerous technical and scien- tific difficulties were overcome, the story of these men’ who went up in a balloon bearing the proud name of the first Socialist State to the greatest height ever attained by man this simple story“must be written in the book of the. proletariat’s vic- tories. A Bolshevik Crew LeLt us first describe these aero- nauts briefly. “George Prokofieff, the commander of the stratostat, is only 31 years old, the son of a railway- man, He worked. asa mechanic. In 1919 he volunt as a member of the Y. ©. L. for-service at the front in the struggle: aginst the White Guards, While a simple Réd Army man he joined the Communist Party in 1920, In 1926, when “he. was the secretary of the Party velfih. an air detach- ment, he began t@-"be interested in aviation and aeronautics. Now he is one of the Soviet .Union’s most prominent specialists in this field. Pilot Ernest Birnbaum, the second in command, also worked as a me- chanic. He also. a private in the Red Army, a is one of the best. Soviet specialists in aeronautics, Pilot , Godunoff. the Twelve Miles Up in a Balloon 100 Per Cent! Soviet-Made With <a. Soviet Crew designing engineer of the stratostat, is the son of a poor peasant. He entered the.Moscow Aviation College in 1920 and now is a talented engi- neer: and scientific research worker in the Civilian Air Fleet Institute. “It Was Very Simple” This idea that everything was very simple runs through the story told by all the three participants in this heroic flight. The modesty of these remarkable people of our era can only compare with the energy that fills them—sons of thé class that is. remaking the world. “It’ was very. simple,” Comrade Prokofieff repeated. “Our group of aeronauts was assigned the brief task: Make a flight to the strato- sphere.” An enorinous clofid of hazy guesses, pseudo-scientific’ stories and sensa- tional. legends circulated around Prof. August Piccard’s. first fligh*‘s. This cloyd. had; to be pierced. by the Bolsheviks to -attain the real tech- nique and master it. The Struggle to Master ‘Technique How the crew: of the stratostat mastered the technique, learning and building together, how the idea of the Soviet construction of the strat- stat arose, and the hard struggle to attain it—all this was related by Comrades , Prokofieff, Godunoff and Birnbaum. “We needed a little time to decide on the materials for building the envelope and ‘the car’ which Soviet industry could provide to stand con- ditions in the stratosphere and avoid the unpleasantness which affected Piccard. “We considered it not enough to “It was very simple,” began Proko- | igum, ioe ine reach the height attained by °Pic- card. We succeéded in construct- ing a baloon envelope lighter than Piccard’s. An important role was played’ by the formula for a rubber- ized material produced by two young Soviet women engineers. “When Piccard went up for the first time he was tortured by the heat. In his second flight he suf- fered from intense cold. Of course, we did not want to submit ourselves to such unpleasantness, and it -was also important technically to solve this problem. We solved it. “We considered the stories about the influence of low temperatures on duraluminum as ‘stratosphere fiction.’ Our airplanes fly regularly in the Far North! i “But it wasn’t only necessary to build the stratostat. We. also had to train the crew. T the Crew ‘The exciting story of the crew's training for the first flight seems clearly to reflect the concentrated kind of. struggle. of ‘the Bolsheviks to master technique. “Before I wes appointed to the stratostat crew I hardly knew radio,” said Birnbaum, whose radio messages now sounded throughout the world. “I had to learn radio technique. Fortunately the crew's commander at the start, Garakandize, was an old telegrapher. After seven days’ study with him I easily transmitted 40 to 45 letters a minute.” Immediately after the flight the radio operators ‘who were in com- munication with the stratostat praised Comrade Birnbaum’s work very highly. The crew spoke of their flight as if it were a pleasant automobile jour- ney .or an ordinary airplane flight. “We were convinced that people of ordinary health could be in the crew of a stratostat built like ours. ‘The flight took place under excep- tionally favorable conditions. - “The simply — yet cleverly cons structed insulation never allowed the temperature inside the car to fall be- low 54 degrees or rise higher than 89 degrees Fahrenheit. Under such conditions it was possible, naturally, to work ‘well. 10.5 Miles In 42 Minutes “We reached the height of 10% miles in 42 minutes. “Our impressions? Well, we had no’ time to watch the landscape spreading out under us especially or what were the colors in the sky above us, nor to remember our own feel- ings. Each one was occupied with his own work, Time flew. “This is. particularly ‘astonishing, for in usual flights time drags, but here more than eight hours flew rast unnoticed. © “An unforgettable and unusual pieture appeared beneath us when we rose to a great height. From a height of six miles we easily distin- guished separate buildings in Mos- cow, as. well as the sport fields, An aeronaut in the stratosphere cannot lose himself. It is easy-to make out direction at such heights. Eleven Miles Up “From a height of ten or eleven miles we saw trains moving, high- ways, villages near Moscow lying un- der us like groups of gray dots. . “The sky appeared equally effec- tive. The tints of the. sky. changed rapidly as.we rose. We couldn’t help looking “upward,” concluded Proko-| fieff. , Godynoff,. the young Soviet en- gineer who designed the stratostat “USSR.” told us how they strug- gled to perfect every detail of the apparatus. “Bvery inch was checked up. Alli The Highest. Flight Ever Made by Man .-A Soviet Union Victory Jett Was All Very Simple,” Say Modest: Heroes of Soviet Aviation and Technique component parts, everything’ affect- ing the quality of the material was tested again and again; The Bol- sheviks enteredthe stratosphere de termined and confident. Comrade Kalinin, Chairman of the Central Executiye Committee. of the Soviet Union, st said that the time is near when flights to the strato- sphere will become. a commion thing, Prokofieff remenibered, “This. is not so, of course,” he said. Twelve Miles Up. x “We reached ‘' height of nei twelve miles. “Fhe. pressure:.of the outside air dropped to less-than inches.of mercury; On Pictard’s flight it did not fall below three inches, “We descended: not far from Mose cow, arranging our descent at our own conveniente—slowly. It took us about three hours to reach the pees again. “The next. flight. ‘could. ‘take place immediately it~required. We have tested all material and“ parts — the instruments, the balloon bag and the var. They were perfect, Everything Soviet-Made “Not a single instrument, aboard, nota single ounce of material was obtained from abroad. ‘Bverything was Soviet-~made. ~ “The ‘stratosphere flight of the “U. S.S.R.” proves that we can design apparatus which is not only the equal of foreign manufacture, ‘but is, even superior to it,” ' Prokéfieft pointed ous. We may add that, besides the aps ‘paratus of which Sovit industry can well be proud, the Soviet Union alsa has people, such remarkable people, that the victory of the proletariat in the field of science is proving’ that the Karl Lieh- ' Ct a i ; ' fa ARES