Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1931, Page 4

" A4 w2 FINSHED NESSAGE | RELIEVES HOOVER President Turns Attention to Accumulation of Rou- tine Work. With hiz annual message to Congress completed and ready be commu cated to Congress probably President Hoover able today to give his attention again t routine of his office. Mr. Hoover appeared great! when he reached his desk and down for the day's bu o he had been absorbed this message, in w m; important subjects are expecte treated. For more than a week given virtually his undivid to the finishing of the doct seemed happy that thi now out of the way tomorrow Ke ord relieved settled Work Accumulates. the eeived few time, the and ‘toda Posing of to reducing few eng few p of Agricult of Indians of Massachu: former Repres: sey, Gov. J W. 0'Donc sociate justice of the District Mr. Hoover w tol to persor the joint Cc livery o ular with President ing and occasionally Dalvin Coolidge. ha by Mr. Hoover. He apparer to entrust this form t House attache Affixes Final The President’s f Affixed to the printed proof: In bust paper t he rece re Hyde Approval al "0 suffic late in the afternoor coples were delivered House from teh Governmer Office, for distribution among sentatives of the press in Wast After giving his final approva terday morning to the finishe the President, accompanied by Hoover, attended services at the Frier Church. In the afternoon the Pr dent and Mrs. Hoover went for a mot ride, which carried them to the Ca and included an inspection tour of the Federal construction projects south of Penneylvania avenue. The President's visit to Capitol hill was a rare one did not enter the big building wher¢ the morrow would open the Se Second Congress. He merely upon the progress of the construction work in_that immediate neighborbood This included a view of the nearly com- pleted House Office Building addition From there the President drove to the new Botanic Garden conservatory, ris- ing near the foot of Capitol Hill. “From that point the White House car drove into Constitution avenue and moved slowly so as to permit the President an opportunity to look upon &ll that is being done in the construction work. Views Commerce Building. The car paused in front of the new Commerce Building, which the Presi- dent as Secretary of Commerce assisted in planning and in vhich he takes an especial personal pride. Next came & visit to the Arlington Memoria! Bricge and then a drive through Potomac Park before returning to ‘he White House Prediction was made today that President Hoover would carry Indiana in the nationsl election were it to be held tomorrow, by Senator Robihson after calling on the President. Senha~! tor Robinson stated that regardiess of reports fo the.contrary, the President has many friends in that State and that he will again: carry- it. “In 1928, the Senator stated, “the opposition to Mr. Hoover was so loud and noisy that many people believed that the outcome was in doubt and only the most optimistic would concede that Mr. Hoover would carry the State by as high a vote as30,000. But the noise died down and when the votes were counted it was found out that he had carried the State by 208,000." MacVeagh Funeral Wednesday SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December % (P —Funeral of Charles MacVeagh, former Ambassador to Japan, who died here Priday night, will be held Wed nesday afternoon from All Sa the-Sea, Episcopal Church of s Montecito, with Rev D. D, officiating Santa Barbara private urban George F. Weld, Interment, at the Cemetery, will be [0 HEAR HOOVER BOOED AT MEETING 1,500 Marchers Cheer Criti- cisms of President and Wall Streel. Four thousand persons in the Wash- ington Auditorfum last night. among them the 1500 unemployed relief marchers, cheered speakers who criti- cized President Hoover as the agent of Wall Street and hailed Soviet Russia as the land of hope for the working man With right fists upraised in the Com- munistic salute, the throng sang the ‘Internationale” and other Communistic songs and chented their demands for Federal unemployment insurance. Boos and hisses greeted the names of President Hoover, Vice President Curtis, Wall Street, the American Federation of Labor, the American Legion and the Socialist Party when they were men- tioned by speakers. | Demonstration Date Set. By unanimous vote the meeting de- cided on a national mass signature campaign to support their petition to Congress and set February 4 as the date for a national demonstration and “full mobilization” to emphasize their de- mands Interrupted continually by the cheers of his audience, William Z. Foster of New York, three times Communist candidate ' for President, declared “Hoover is sowing the seeds of revolu- tion in the United States,” and told the marchers that “the star of Russia points the way all workers must follow to be- come free.” He told the audience the Trade Unions | Unity League, of which he is national | secretary, will raise the question of un- employment insurance in every Ameri- can Federation of Labor union in the country Federation Denounced. w minutes later a resolution was condemning the “reactionary of the American Federation of Labor leadership” and demanding the question of unemployment insurance be submitted to the constituent unions for a referendum vote. The resolution also challenged William Green and Maithew Woll, president and vice president of the federation, to a public debate. Ten resolutions in all were adopted and the vote on every one was unani- The Gift He Would Choose One od-1¢ will surely please h feather with sturdy shirt m. stre inside In carrier, oking (ladstone Bags Made of select walrus aps, leather lining and itialed free of charge Articles Held Until Christmas 1314 F Street N.W. GIFTS THAT 5,0 Dl MEAN MORE Reds Arriving for THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Y. “Hunger” March on Capitol Scenes of the arrival yesterday of some 1,500 delegates {from the Workmen's International Relief, who marched on the Capitol today brought them to Washington. Center mous. The first demanded favoring congressional action on Federal i'nem- ployment insurance. Another initiated the national mass signature campaign. while still another set February as na- tional demonstration and, mobilization day. The meeting demanded the freedom of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bilinzs from the Sen Quentin, Calif, Peniten- ary 2nd that the Wickersham Commis- sion report on their case be made public. Prisoners’ Freedom Urged. The freedom of all “class war prison- ers” was urged. In this categor placed the nine colored youths convicted of criminal assault in Scottsboro, Ala and the 14 demonstrators sentenced by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court here November 27 Numerous _sarcastic remarks were made from the speakers’ platform and in the crowd concerning the food served the marchers for dinner last night. The demanding unemploymient relief The long line of tri by local business concerns and hotels. Their complaints c | the meeting. The m ks Top menu was bean soup, coffee and bread. The first business of the meeting was the election of a presiding com- mittee of 16, four from each of the four columns into which the march is divided. The committee chosen in- ded three colored men and & colored woman. It was refrred to continually by the marchers as the “presidium.” This commitiee cnose William Rey- nolds of Detroit as presiding officer Reynolds was the head of the delegation which grrived from the West A committee of 50 was t the demands of the chers to s, the President and the Ameri- can ation of Labor. Eleven of the committee are women. Herbert Benjamin, chairman of th ngton Arrangements Committee med the delegates 7ou are the spokesmen of 12,000,000 unemployed workers,” he told and have come through a country con- elected ma; to them rchers after they detrained from the moving vans which Below: A group of the demonstrators eating food donated he quality were loud and bitter 5 r Staff Photo trolled by the bosses to carry to Con- gress the determination of the working classes to fight against starvation.” Referring to the police reception of the marche he said “You were met with what ap ed to be a cordial re- ception by the authorities, but this re- ception was mads possible only because the voice of workers throughout the country echoed back to Washington ith such volume that President Hoo- ver did not dare say ‘Annihilate the hunger marchers.’ " The speaker told of the conference vesterday afternoon with Vice Presi- dent Curtis regarding the entrance of placards into the Capitol grounds and said th: the m: rs would rather go_without placards than with “plac- ards censored by Curtis. Before the marchers left lorium A. W. Mills of New tional organizer of the tioned them to mal strict order. We will show the Capital we are & disciplined organization,” he declared. the audi- York, na- march, cau- «E (4] STUDEBAKER ¥ Pioneer of Free the]_ing Complete Information Thursday MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931 43 CHEST DRIVES NET §63.41.5% |Supplementary List by Presi. dent’s Job Committee Indicates Success. By the Associated Press | 'NEW YORK. December from 43 additional camps {ing drives in Los Angeles Results lud- in P) | brought the grand Nation's comn 995 yesterday | The week end statement to Walter |'S. Gifford and Owen D. Young of the | President’s Organization on Unemploy- ment Relief supplemented 131 cam- | paigns previously reported “This (the grand total) is 99 per lcent of the $64,070964 which these | chests had set out to rs aid the { dnnouncement of the N ia- tion of Community Chests and Councils 1 Comparisons with the results of last | year are possible in 155 of these ‘ ports—the chests in the other 19 ci | being either new recently e | ganized. These comparable chests show ncrease of 14.9 per cent over the total of last year. | a goal of $9,000,000, Phila- j delphia up until Saturday night had | raised $8.516.000. As it stands, this was described as th est. total ever raised in a single campalgn in the ! history of the C inity Chest move- { ment, but the committee also rap it has assur ces of being able to t in ths remaining amount at a lunch €on mieeting to be held tomorrow ed the s to $63,441,- n Los Angeles Over Goal. The Los Angeles Chest of $3321000, has raised 3.324 475, | carrying the campalgn “o e top 1d recording a total of $605,000 more n the amount raised last year. T is the third largest amount raised so far this year by any Chest, second place | being held by Cleveland, which had previously reported a campaign that netted $5,688.000, on & goal of $5,650,000 “Contrary to the assumptions of those who are not familiar with Community Chest functions, the grand total of $63441995 is not to be used enircly | for ‘direct unemployment relfef in terms of food, fue!, shelter and clothing Allen T. Burne, executive director of the National Chest Association, satd “We feel that the Chests, while shar- | ing the relief burden, have made their greatest contribution in keeping intact the full program of preventive and con- structive community welfare work, while local tax funds have been supplying most of the emergency requirements,” Cities in New List. the 43 new results with a goal Among following are the Rajsed inst yr No rept No_rept 238,167 Raised this v £30.000 32739 38.006 12.150 this vr ¥75.000 30.000 33.000 15:000 39.160 23,860 | 65.000 897.098 10650 973087 40,000 03342 277,603 115.000 35.000 3,321,000 | . Tex onio Ohio Ashland. Ashtabu Athens, Ohio Barberion, Ohio Bismarck. N. D. Champaign- Urbana, 1} Columbus. Ohio Conneaut. Ohio 32,627 32485 71,000 912,500 12'100 Ft. Worth, Tex Galveston. Tex. Gr. Forks. N.D. Los Angeles Mar \iishawaka, Monterey Pe sule, Calif New Philadei- phia, Pa ottumwa, Towa Philadelphia Pueblo. Colo St. Joseph. Mo San Bernardino. Calif Tacoma. ‘Wach Texarkana, Ark Wichita. Kans. No cam 44.728 197,550 48000 205,000 1325 F STREET K e Freedom of Streets For Cows Is Issue In Georgia Election By the Associated Press. SPARKS, Ga. December Freedom of the streets for cows is at issue in an election to be held tomorrow. Last March 44 persons voted cows should not be allowed on the streets and 42 voted they should be The law was to have gone into effect December 1. but George Rentz asked an injunction against enforcement on grounds the elec- tion was illegal. A hearing was t for December 12, but the Council meanwhile decided to resubmit the matter to the electorate tomorrow. FEDERAL WORKERS CHEST AID LAUDED Campaign Chairman Sees Fulfillment of Goal of $2,601,000. Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the Community Chest’s 1932 Campaign Committee, today expressed gratification over the showing made by Government workers in their contributions to date He expressed the belief that the depprt- ments will reach their million-dollar share of the Chest's $2,601,000 goal the last of the week, if the pace already set by _the Government unit is continued Mr. Colladny praised Gov. Thomas E. Campbell, chuirnan of the governmentai unit, and his assistants on the commit- tee for the deep personal interest they huve taken and for thelr untiring ef- forts to make the campaign in the de- partments a success. “It gives me a feeling of pride to be associated with sch men,” Mr. Colladay said, “and I especially gratified that Gov. Camp- has accepted & position as a vice chairman of the General Campaign Committee, which will give us the bene- fit. of his organizing ability and advice during the general Chest campaign in Jaunary This year I find a fine enthusiasm cominating the campaign in the depart ments. Hundreds are giving more th the three days' pay originally suggested as a proper gift, and there is the same friendly rivalry that obtained last year, stimulating the various departments t try to outdo other departments in ex pressing their concern ror their fellow men through their gifts I may be too optimistic at the start of this campalgn, but I feel sure that the Government ' employes will reach their quota of $1,000,000, and that this will act a5 a decided impetus in spurring the other citizens of the Capital to raise | the remaining $1,601,000 to make up the $2,601,000, which has been set as a tentative goal for the campaign as a whole.” NOTORIOUS THIEF DIES CHICAGO, December 7 (#).—Eddie Jackson, 60, once notorious pickpocket, whose sobriquet of “the immune” came from his frequent escapes from convic | tion, died Saturday night in the county hospitai His death was ascribed to cerebral hemorrhage Police records and newspaper files disclosed more than 600 arrests f Jackson during his long career crime. He entered the hospital for treatment November 28. With him when he died was a sister, who made arrangements for burial Jackson's real name was said to be Oscar Jacobson. in GROSNERS HONOR AGAIN GIVEN 0 MRS. BELMONT Woman’s Party Elects Presi- dent—Mrs. Wiley Retains Chairmanship. Mrs. O. H. P, Belmont of New York was re-elected president of the Na- tional Woman’s Party this morning in & biennial convention session at the May- flower Hotel. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley of Washington was again selected for the national chairmanship of the organiza- tion and two other residents of the District also were chosen for office. ‘The three vice chairmen include, first, Miss Gail Laughlin of Maine; second, Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware, who presided at this morne ing's meeting, and third, Miss Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina and New York Mrs. Dwight Clark of this city was chosen as secretary and Miss Laura Berrien, also of Washington, was elect- ed national treasurer. ‘Twenty-four members of the party’s national council | likewise were designated today. | Will Call on Legislators. | Several hundred femininists from all | sections of the land “dated” their Con- gressmen today for calls concerning rights of women They chose the busy upentn? day of Congress to urge removal of a few scat~ tering 1al in the nationality laws and to ask passage of An equal- amendment to th Constitution. ibilation on the Cepitol £ =5 over the arrival in the Senate of 4rs. Hattle Caraway of Arkansas, first active wom- an member, was a part of today's final program of the National Woman's Party Biennial Convention Mennwhile, plans were made for & memorial to the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway, 1ighter in behalf of the wom- an’s cause. The organization decided to have cast in bronze the words Sena tor Caraway used in dedicating its Cap~ ital Hill headquarters The last shot for the freedom of the States was fired from this building, and I canfidently predict the last shot for woman's freedom will be fired from here." Extension of Work Outlined. A demand for universal jury service for women was urged upon the party by Mis Gail Laughlin, Maine lawyer. She sald any woman convicted could consti- tutionally claim she had not been tried by a jury of her peers if no woman had been permitted to sit upon the con- victing jury. Extension of the party's work into in- ternational fields was outlined by Miss Maud Younger, congressional chairman. She pointed out four international con- ventions have been conducted within the’ past two years.. Several prominent persons spoke at an equal rights dinner, held last night in_the Mayflower Hotel. | The agreement of international jur- |ists on equal rights was discussed by | Dr. James Brown Scott, president of the | American Institute of International |Law. Other speakers included Repre- sentative John L. Cable, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, national chairman, and Miss | Kathleen O'Connell, a mill worker from Georgia. TRAIN KILLS FIVE IN AUTO NORWAY, Me., December 7 (#).— Three youths and two girls were killed Iast night as their automobile was hit by a Grand Trunk passenger locomotive on a raflroad crossing near here. The youths were identified as Doug- las Burgiss, 18, and Malcolm Doe and Francis Rattegan, 18 of Lewiston. 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