The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1933, Page 1

Help the Daily | Worker Fight | Lynch Terror With Your | i Dollar Donations! Daily ‘(Section of the Comne Vol. X, No. 287 = * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 18789, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933. usist International) rker | ist Party USA. | i { America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper tATHER—Warmer, rain. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MISSOURI NEGRO LYNCHED; DECATUR VERDICT AWAITED 2,000 PHILA. JOBLESS HIT CIVIL WORKS Demonstrate Against Forced Labor, for Higher Relief PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 29. — Two thousand workers demonstrated here against forced labor, for higher unem- ployment relief, and for unemploy- ment insurance, at the Reyburn Plaza today. A delegation to the Mayor was refused admittance. The delegation then went to the relief headquarters, accompanied by whole demonstration, and headed by the elected committee of 25. The committee saw the relief di- rector, presenting its demands, while the workers waited for an hour, shouting slogans and demands, The relief director refused the demands and the committee reported this to the workers. The demonstration pledged to struggles. The National Unemployed Con- vention, to take place in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 13, was indorsed. Res- olutions demanding the release of the Scottsboro prisoners and the framed up prisoners in the German Reichstag fire trial, were passed. | Jobless Delegation Made Demands on Director of Relief Yall for Union Wage on Foreed Labor Work NEW YORK A telegram protest- ing against Frederick Daniels’ refusal to talk with an unemployed commit- tee reg: ditions under the new Civil Works, forced labor, program of Roosevelt, was made by the Unemployed Council yesterday. ‘There were sev sand more workers in line v4 for the promised Civil Works jobs, but again they were told that work would not begin until Dec. 15, Daniels is head of the State Relief Committee. The telegram of the Unemployed Council signed by Ben Lapidus speak- ing for tens of thousands of unem- ployed workers, stated in part, “The starving unemployed have the right to know your plans regarding the minimum hours and minimum days per month which will be enforced, the duration of work, the treatment of Negroes, women and foreign-born. In the face of the open government support of the pr intensified wave of lynchings of ite and Negro S q | ES the | develop neighborhood | ing wages and working con- | _| confirmed his thesis that the Party |First Ambassador to | Soviet Union Sails NEW YORK.—William C. Bullitt, the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union, saiied from New York yesterday on the President Harding. Bullitt was a member of the U. 8. mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 which was headed by Colonel Raymond Robbins. He was accompanied by his family. TORGLER CLAIMS | RIGHT TO STATE PARTY POSITION “Must Try 6,000,000. to Try Communists,” Dimitroff States (Special to the Daily Worker) | AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Nov. | 29 (Via Zurich, Switzerland). —Facing |the hostile Nazi court at Leipzig on |the 47th day of the Reichstag arson trial, Ernst Torgler, former head cf the Communist Party fraction in the | Reichstag, demanded that the pre- | siding judge give him the opportunity to present the Communist Party’s po- sition. The judge denied this im- | mediately, saying that he would be | given a chance to do so tomorrow. | George Dimitroff, who, together with | Torgler and Blagoi Popoff and Vassil |Taneff, faces death by the Nazi |frame-up machine, cited Marx and |Lenin, the Communist Manifesto and |other Communist International docu- {ments in a brilliant defense which put the prosecution itself on the de- | | fensive. | | “The program and aims of our | movement,” he stated, “have often | been openly proclaimed. If you want to accuse the Communist view- point and policy, then you must put six million Germands on trial!” The trial opened with detectives \giving evidence that consisted mostly (of readings from Communist Party |leaflets and resolutions. This evi- |dence was aimed to prove the police jassertions that the Communist Party | had fixed the date for an armed in- | surrection for February or March. No |single document, however, brought \forth the slightest proof of these po- |lice assertions. | Dimitroff again stated, as he did | | yesterday, that all the evidence used jagainst the Communist Party merely |had fixed no date for an insurrec- | |tion and that the Party was in no | way involved in the Reichstag fire. The presiding judge, embarrassed by | (Continued on Page 2) | | increase wages from 35 to 75 cents an | gaining influence in the strike, an ‘attack was made on union headquar- | use of it. Call Off Chicago Stockyards Strike; Get Pay Increase. Stockyards W orkers’ Compel N.R.A. to | Grant 10 P.C. Rise CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 29. — The strike of livestock handlers of the Union stockyards was called off today after a ten per cent increase in wages was granted the strikers. Late yesterday after- noon, the Chicago Regional Labor Board of the N.R.A. on which Fitz- patrick of the Central Labor Council and Sam Levine of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers are represented, de- cided together with the union offi- cials involved in the strike to refer the strike to arbitration and send the men back to work. The proposal was rejected by an overwhelming majority of the strikers when it was presented to a mass meeting of strikers last night, and the strikers declared their intention of continuing the strike, Faced with defeat in thei: strike- breaking action, the officials, the N.R.A, and the Union Stockyards and Transit Co, arranged to bring Pro- fessor Hutchins, head of the Uni- versity of Chicago and of the local N.R.A. board, to address the strikers near midnight. Hutchins offered the ten per cent increase, which was ac- cepted by a majority of the strikers. The strike was called for a return of the 1929 wage scale which would hour to 60 to 90 cents an hour, The number of strikers involved was grossly exaggerated in the press. According to reports of strikers, about 1,000 workers were involved in the strike. The Packing House Workers’ Industrial Union raised the slogan of spreading the strike, which met witn an excellent response among the strikers. Attempts to recruit strike- breakers failed utterly. In view of this situation the officials of the union and the companies worked to end the strike. Because the Industrial Union was ters at 37th and Halsted last night and windows were broken. Efforts were made to halt a meeting of the Industrial Union called to spread the strike by police, packers and A. F. of L., who put pressure on the owner of the meeting hall to refuse the The Industrial Union today issued @ leaflet to the strikers analyzing the lessons of the strike and calling for Nine Gallup Strike Leaders Released From N.M. Prison. | fexico, Nov. 29.—| GALLUP, New workers, we insist you teke a definite | Word was received here today that against discri 4 for | #ll nine leaders of the Gallun strike, | delegates to a united congress against ronal More NGIEE aonacnaiioa fo: | Who were being held in violation of |war to be held Sunday, Dec. 10, at Negroes. We demand you receive the} delegation of the Unemployd Council on Friday morning at ten thirty.” The Unemployed Councls urged all organizations and unions to send tele- grams and letters to Frederick Dna- niels, demanding that he see the com- mittee and grant union conditions on all forced labor jobs. Misleaders Conceal Silk Strike Vote Expected to Send Men Back to Work on Monday PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 29.—The United Textile Workers Union lead- ers, now selling out the silk strike, hhave agreed with the manufacturers that the tabulation of the vote on the strike agreement will be kept secret and not published. The U.T.W. leaders took a secret vote. The agrec- ment gives up the right to strike, gives up all wage demands, and sends the strikers back to work defeated. The U.T.W. leaders will, it is pre- dicted, order the 10,000 silk strikers back to work Monday. Unions of Jackson, Mich., Demand That Woll Resign AFL Job JACKSON, Mich, Ney. 29.—A resolution asking the resignation of Matthew Woll, third vice-presi- dent of the A. F. of L, was unanimously adopted here last nicht by ropresentatives of the Jackson unions, if was reported. Wo! has taken the the lead in att mg the Soviet Union, the fore’gn bern workers, and in sup- porting every fascist move di- tected against strikers. terms of the strike settlement, have been released. These nine strike leaders include the military stockade in Gallup: Henry Sumid, representing the Na- tional Labor Research Association; Carl Howe, of the International La- bor Defense; Clarence Lynch, I. L. D. attorney; Charles Gvynn, of the executive board of the National Min- ers’ Union, and Frank Georges of the | N.M.U, from Utah. | In addition three strike leaders al- |veady sentenced have been released from the penitentiary in Albuquer- que, according to reports received to- Gay. These are: Herbert Benjamin. national organizer of the Unemployed Councils; Robert Roberts, of the N. M. U. and George Kaplan of the ILL. D. the following six who were held in} building of the union to prepare for further struggles. Call Los Angeles Anti-War Congress | LOS ANGELES, Calif, Nov. 29 The United Committee for Struggle | | Against War and Fascism has issued | |a@ call to all organizations to send | |the Orange Grove Theatre, 730 8. | Grand Ave, | “Right here in Los Angeles,” the call reads, “groups of Hitler sym- pathizers are spreading fascist prop- aganda, the Ku Klux Klan and its ilk is sowing seeds of race and religi- ous hatred to divide the people and make them an easy prey for fascism. Military parades and naval air ma~ neuvers prepare us to accept war willingly.” ATTENTION—YCLERS! | Comrades are necded to help in important work in reference to the Scottsboro case. Unemployed ¥CLers are urged to dur- ing the day time, to the offices of the Internatonal Labor Defense in Harlem, 870 Lenox Ave. A Challenge IN Nov. 25 Philadelphia wired the Daily Worker, pledging to raise 5500 over its suota eo” 877° iss challenging Chicago to raise its quota. Philadelphia workers went into immediate action to fulfill their pledge and their revolutionary challenge. Holding a second affair for the “Daily” they raised $*99, an amount they pledge to rush to our paper very shortly. With this addi- tional $500, Philadelphia will more than go over the top in the $40,000 drive, Meanwhile how does Chicago stand? It has not answered the revolutionary challenge by Phila- detphia, So far it has not even raised 50 per cent of its quota. Comrades of Chicago, what is your answer to this challenge? . HE achievement of the workers in Philadiphia is not only a challenge to Chicego, but to New York, Detroii, Cleveland and other districts which, by still lagging to Chicago! behind literally endanger the ex- istence of our Daily Worker. The national quota of $40,000 Is not the maximum, but MINIMUM amount needed to cover the un- voidable current deficit of our daily operations; $10,903 remains to be raised. This amount must come in very shortly. Creditors de- mand that payments be made on overdue bills. We have additional | expenses caused by the complete breakdown of our 35-year-old press. What Seattie, Boston and Phila- delphia have achieved, Chicago, New York and other districts can equal if they go into immediate action. RAISE FUNDS! RUSH TAG DAY RECEIPTS! A DOL- LAR FROM EVERY READER WILL HELP PUT THE DRIVE OVER THE TOP AND SAVE OUR DAILY WORKER! PIONS A oe Wednesday's receipts $306.14 Previous total 28,790.70 —_— TOTAL TO DATE $29,006.84 | DI | e Communist Party Issues Message to Membership on Campaign to Save Scottsboro Boys Fro Mob of 9,000 Storms: Statement bf Central Commiites, CPE SA. County Jail; Hangs, ae ae oe Burns Young Negro Machine Guns Pointed at Crowd as Empty Gesture ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Noy. 29.— Patterning themselves almost completely upon Monday’s lynching in San Jose, Calif., an armed mob last night stormed the Buchanan county jail here, seized Lloyd Warner, a 19-year old Negro boy and hanged him, after torturing him into insensibility. After hanging the young Negro from an elm tree near the jail. the mob set fire to his clothing and in a short time his body fell into a bon- fire below. Nearly 9,000 men and women—incited by stories of mob vio- | lence in various parts of the country —are estimated to have participated in the killing of Warner. The Negro youth, who was charged with having “attacked” a white woman here last Sunday evening, was turned over to the lynchers by Sher- iff Otto Theisen after several hours ot mild resistance. Informed that the mob was gather- ing about 10 o'clock in the evening, Governor Park—instead of rushing militia to the scene—dispatched sev- eral military tanks which were in- effectual in the face of the mob of nearly 10,000. The mob opened up the tanks and pulled the men out. An iron pipe was used to batter down the jail here. It is significant that an iron pipe was also used to batter down the jail in San Jose, Calif. Machine guns and shotguns were Pointed at the mob, but this had no effect on the mob, which feit confident that this was only an empty gesture. Officers in charge excused their lack of decisive action on the ground that they “feared casualties, particu- - | larly among the women onlookers.” After the young Negro had been hanged, hundreds of men and women gathered about the pyre—shouting, laughing and singing. When fresh fuel was added from time to time, thus lighting up the gruesome spec- tacle, photographers snapped pictures | without the aid of flashlight powder. | Federal Gov't Will _ Not Act Against. Rising Lynch Wave Eye Witness Tells of Mob’s Fight to Free Armwood Lynchers By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Noy. 29—An Ala- bama-bred newspaper man told me today that the bravery of two Negro} bellhops helped to save him and six others from the fury of the Salisbury, Maryland, mob yesterday. “Two Negro bellhops in the Wico- mico Hotel shunted us from room to room, out of sight and reach of a yelling, lynch-mad Eastern Shore mob intent on giving us a severe beating, tar and feathers and a ride out of town on a rail,” said Eddy Gil- more, 26-year-old Washington “Daily News” reporter. Perched upon his desk, he rubbed his chin reflectively and exclaimed: “I want to tell you, those two Ne- gro boys had guts, if they hadn't hustled us from one safe place to an- other, we would have been thorough- ly mauled.” Eastern Shore Plans Big Welcome To Jailed Lynchers Gilmore also declared that Federal troops would be the only means of obtaining all the leaders of the Prin- cess-Anne mob who lynched George Armwood, and that without a change of venue it will be “absolutely im- possible to prosecute the Eastern Shore lynchers.” “Why, only this morning I talked over the phone to 2 chap who was one of the Armwood lynchers,” Gil- more related. “He said, ‘we're going to welcome back the four men held as Armwood suspects when they arrive here for habeas corput pro- ceedings.’ I asked what he thought would happen if by the slimmest chance Judge Duer ordered the su- spects held. This fellow replied, ‘I don’t need to think—I know, The Eastern Shore citizens will take them from the authorities, and it’s going to be pretty dangerous for a (Continued on Page 2) November 29, 1933 | To All Members of the Communist Party, Dear Comrades: HTS urgent message must be taken up without one hour’s unnecessary delay in every organization throughout the Party. The beastly murder of the 19-year-old Negro and in Missouri, coming immediately upon the heels of the approval of the lynching in California by governor of that state, clearly indicates that a nation- people is being developed as an aid to fascist develop- ments in the country. The ruling classes are tryin to direct the rising indignation of the masses suffer~ ing starvation and misery in the fifth y crisis. The terror is directed, in the first place, the Negro toilers. Just as Hitler gathered his cist forces on the basis of anti-sernitism, so the ruling of the against Bal on the basis of oppression and lynch terror a; the Negro toilers. It is in the light of this situation that we must view the events at the trial of the Negro boys at Decatur, Ala. It has become so clear that even the capitalist press can ne jonger conceal the fact that the trial is an empty sham intended only to give a s tense of legality to the intended wholesale of innocent Negroes. Long ago it became apparent that the honest admission of one of the white women witnesses, supposed to have been a victim, that the case was a frame-up and the boys innocent, would not change the determination of the Alabama white ruling class. Even without seriously credible accusing witnesses and in direct contradiction to -all evidence, the state proceeds toward the murder which the Ala- bama ruling class considers politically necessary in order to obtain support in a wide campaign of terror- ization against a mass of both Negro and white popu- lation. The suppression of even the right tq cross- question clearly perjured witnesses, or even to in- quire into the state’s own evidence and glaring co traditions, has given the latest proof of the inten- tions of the state. The local Alabama press is playing up sensation- ally the action of Governor James Rolph of Californis the would-be murderer of Tom Money, in supporting the recent lynching at San Jose. We are informed that local newspapers with large headlines announcing Rolph’s approval of the California lynching are being conspicuously displayed in the courtroom within sizht of the jury with the approval of the judge, who has lost_no opportunity to lay a favorable ground for the lynching of the 9 Scottsboro boys. Many indications are that the trials of the 7 boys now appearing before the court will not be completed before the state and county authorities, insti Attorney Gencral Knight and encouraged b; ernor Miller, will organize their own “mob” or to murder the 9 defendants and probably the: torneys and witnesses, . mast i Central Committee has decided that it is x sary to speak-very-frankly to the whoie Party mem- bership about the grave danger that the Party may underestimate the tremendous events and struggles the | wide drive of violence and terror against the Negro | class of this country is organizing its fascist troops | in the courtroom at Decatur, the forms, tk is not th But whatever may be slightest doubt that a great wave of si throughout the South and in the country gen ly will be the response of the masses to the outco! of the Decatur trial, A marked up- which must cer- ite working class led vitable, whatever may lopment of the Decatur trial. Savage repressions will be attempted against the masses wherever our own weaknesses and neglect to mobilize the masses may make this repression expedient to the ruling class. Comradi tainly be supported by by the Communist Par es! Have no illusions, The fact that the State's case has been exposed as fraudulent has caused | some members of our Party to harbor illusions as to a probable “change of heart” on the part of the ruling class. Remarks attributed to a defense attorney which would gi the impression that the Supreme Court can be relied upon to save the boys, and that therefore a conviction would be unimportant, tend to create the most dangerous illusions leading to a weakening of the struggle, Have no illusions! At this time of great economic sis and social tension the ruling class will go to We must not forget that the whole am, implying a necessary forcing down of of living of the already desperately suf- of such an effort to divide-the Negro as is represented in-this Scottsboro * . * "REPARATIONS for the slaughter, either th..uch s ching or through a lynch verdict, can be successf combatted only by a mass campaign of far greater dimensions, mass volume and militant strength than have ye? been attained. The struggle must bé raised to a higher plane, especially in the se of drawing in a many times greater volume of mass support. Demonstrations, parades, mass meetings—in all of which the widest mass and the greatest variety of or- ganizations posi to our and inev sehi y must be drawn in in addition own fe —can be made to lead—naturaliy xbly to the higher plane of strikes, marches, S, mass violation of Jim-crowism, accom- ss picketings, ete. Our Party m ake the initiative for the develop- ment of the wid possible united front of all work- class organizations against the growing fascist and lynch terror. The Communist Party is the only Party that can and will lead this struggle.. The Communist Party, which has already done splendid work in defense of the Negro m: must now rise to this occasion with greater energy, determination and sense of mass lead- ership than ever before. In order properly to mobilize the Party to this end, you are ucted that every unit meeting in the whole for the present time, beginning with the first ter the publication of this call, must be Scottsboro Discussion and Action meet~ ing District Committee and every Section Com- 1 st Part meeti Eve! mittee must discuss and work out plans for sity-wide tions on the broadest united front basis. The Party raction in every mass organization must immediately ake steps te mobilize the whole organization for this United States | the South, requires just such an | the Negro people today. which center about this trial in Alabama dangerous tendencies to underestimate its great hi torical significance, its tremendous immediate me ing to the stfuggles of the American worki agale. re of w There are action. and It is not possible to fore g clas Frate! the exact form in which the offensive against the Negro and: white masses will be immediately expressed | t | US. Rivals Prepare | To Beat Off Attack Of Cheap Dollar Roosevelt Jacks Gold | Price to $33.93; | Prices Rise | : WASHINGTON, Noy. 29. — The Roosevelt government pursued its inflationary measures still further today by raising the price for gold another 8 cents to $33.93, This brings the dollar still closer to 50 per cenit devaluation, This is permitting American ex- porters to penetrate into markets formerly dominated by the British pound. The result {is that British impe-/| tialism is preparing for resistance | to the Roosevelt inflation. London | banks are openly calling for the in- | tensified use of the famous equal- ization fund against the dollar.| France, Canada and Japan are) throwing up higher tariff walls in an effort to beat off the competition of the cheap American dollar. As the treasury financing ap- proaches, it is altogether likely that the Roosevelt government will again, as it did a short while ago, pretend to make a turn away from infla- tion, with a renewed inflationary drive afterwards. Although commodity prices are not showing anything like the response | they did in the first stages of the Rooseveli ‘nflation, they are at the highest levels of the year. Rush Funds to Aid the Scottsboro Boys to I. L. D. Today! Every day’s delay in collecting and turning over to the Interna- tional Labor Defense of funds for Scottsboro cripples and endangers the Scottsboro defense. The Scottsboro defense is in seri- ous danger from lack of money to coliect and keep together witnesses in Decatur, to provide physical pro- tection for them and the I. L. D. lawyers, as well as for the Scotts- boro boys, and to maintain the legal corps and witnesses, William L. Patterson, national I, L, D. sec~ retary, mid today. Judge Callahan fs rushing through the trials not only to rob the Scottsboro boys of their legal right of adequate time to present | the defense evidence, but to cripple the defense through huge added expenses. The lynch danger grows hourly, Answer Judge Callahan with mass action, and with an immedi- ate resnonse to the appeal of the I. L. D. for funds to carry on. Don’t hold collections a single day. Don’t delay a moment in sending in_your contributions, Rush funds to the national of- fice of the I. L. D., Room 430, 80 E. 1th St., New York City, Need Scottsboro Volunteers NEW YORK.—100 volunteers are needed at once for special Scotts- boro emergency work in Harlem. Report to the @arlem Headquar- ters of the I. L. D., 326 Lenox Ave., any day during the week from 9 am, to ll p.m Material which has already appeared and ch will continue to appear in the Daily Worker, should be the basis of discussion leading to rnally yours, CENTRAL COMMITTEE Earl Browder, General Secretary. (Call Three Mass _ Meets in Harlem Against Lynchers First of Series Opens in St. Lukes Hall | Tonight NEW YORK. —Harlem workers, | seething with indignation against the brutal lynch wave sweeping the country and the lynch threats against the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, | will hold a series of protest meet~ ings this week. The first meeting is scheduled for | tonight at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., under the joint auspices of | the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights and the International Labor | Defense. All workers are urged to | attend. | A huge mass demonstration {s | planned for Sunday afternoon at the Rockland Palace, 155th St. and | Eighth Ave. Organizations are urged |to send mass delegations to this | meeting to support the struggle against lynching and the fight for the Scottsboro boys. On Saturday the Young Communist | League is mobilizing the young work- jers and students of this city in a | mass demonstration to demand the | freedom of the Scottsboro boys and to protest against the lynch terror. The workers will assemble at 131st and Lenox Ave. at 2 pm. The League issued a call urging all Negro and white youth to attend, m Lynchers Callahan Snarls at Defense Witnesses; Creates Lynch Spirit Refuses to Wait for Deposition Made by Ruby Bates By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) BULLETIN. DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 29.—The jury trying Heywood Patterson will get the case tomorrow morning. While waiting for Dr. Reisman of Chattanooga to arrive, Leibowitz got Solicitor Bailey of Jackson County, who originally prosecuted the Scottsboro boys, on the stand, over Knight’s and Callahan’s vocif- erous objections. The court finally agreed to permit the defense to ask Bailey one question. Leibowitz asked him if he paid any attention to Victoria Price’s step-ins and whether he noticed any stains im- | mediately after she claimed to be raped. Bailey replied that he paid no attention te them. Callahan | after waiting an hour for Dr. Reis- man decided not to wait any longer, He ordered the prosecution and the defense to start summations to the jury. ‘s Bailey, who had sat quiet all dur. ing the trial, opened up for the state, bellowing as usual and demanding that the jury find Patterson guilty, and sentence him to death in the electric chair. Knight followed with @ similar plea for death. Leibowitz in a two-hour summa- tion pointed out the lies of Victoria Price, Gilly and other witnesses, | showing the contradictions in their testimony between this trial and the former trial. In a touching, ringing | plea he asked the jury to set Pat- terson free. DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 29.— Indifferent to the fact that | Heywood Patterson’s life hung in the balance, Circuit, Judge | W.W. (“Speed”) Callahan today | refused continuance of the trial until | tomorrow morning to give the defense | time to get Ruby Bates’ testimony. Ruby’s interrogatories (questions and answers regarding her original story of being attacked by Scottsboro (Continued on Page 2) Ritchie Apologizes For “Using” Troops Against Lynehers Mob Violates Grave of Armwood, Lynch Victim | SALISBURY, Md., Nov. 29. — The grave of George Armwood, Negto | Worker lynched on Nov. 18, was vio- | lated yesterday by the lynch mob which fought 300 militiamen, sup- | plemented by State police, in an at- | tempt ot release four of the arrested |leaders of the mob which took Arm: | wood out of the Princess Anne jail dragged him leisurely through the streets, hanged him to a tree before Judge Duer’s home, and then cast his body on a blazing pyre. It is re- ported that Armwood’s head has beer decapitated from the body and maileca to Governor Ritchie of Maryland, who under pressure of mass indignation. ordered the arrest of seven known lynch leaders, Ritchie Apologizes for Use of Troops Ritchie today issued an apologetic defense for the use of troops against the Eastern Shore lynchers, He in- timated that his intention in ordering the arrests was actually aimed at whitewashing the lynchers, According to his plans, the arrested men were to be taken before a Somerset County court in the knowledge that the court would have refused to mIndict then, just as State’s Attorney Robins had vefused to arrest them. Ritchie could then have claimed tnat he had ful- filled his duty in attempting to pros- ecute the Iynchers. This dastardly plan was temporarily defeated by the actions of the lynchers themselves in attacking the troops. Ritchie de- clares: “It was General Rockford’s in- tention to take the men before a magistrate in Somerset Connty at \ Ranaae.. vac Ue wo an ston ns aces