Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 5

LAMEDUCK ACTION | SSLATEDTUESDAY Approval of Norris Resolution by House Considered a Certainty. With its adoption considered a cer- tainty, the resolution introduced in the Senate by Chairman Norris of the Judiciary Committee to abolish the short term of Congress will come be- fore the House for a final vote Tuesday. The House v v agreed at the request of Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader. to com- plete debate on the so-called “lame duck” measure Friday. A two-thirds' voie is necessary for the adoption of the measure. It would provide for a constitutional amendment fix two indeterminate sessions of Congress beginning January 4 each year, and the terms of the President and Vice President to begin on January 24, instead of March 4. It already has been adopted by the Senate this session. Heretofore the House blocked final approval of the measure by insisting that the second sesslon of Congress be limited to four months. Speaker Garner and other Democratic leaders favor no limitation, to prevent filibustering. Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, said “that matter has been so long before the House I think the members are disgusted and are going to vote for it to get rid of it.” | He added there seemed to be encugh votes to push it through. ; It will have to be ratified by three- | fourths of the States before becoming | effective. WITHHOLDS RUM SOURCE; GETS THREE-DAY TERM Prince William Man Is Held inj Contempt by Court—Drunken Driving Trial Set. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va. February 11—Re- fusal to tell from what source he pro- cured liquor, when ordered to do so by the Court, got Gale Grubb of near Gainesville, Prince William County, three days in jail when Judge Walter T. McCarthy ruled him in contempt. Grubb was standing trial on a charge of driving while dr and had entered a plea of “not guilt The jury was discharged from further consideration of the case and the case was set for later trial. The following cases were disposed of: Emory Abel, illegal possession of ardent spirits, sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and to serve one month in jail; ‘Thomas Beavers, Tt s driving, found not guilty: Charles Wearing, charged with stabbing John Duritza, found guilty and sentenced to serve six months; Emphlett Umphlett, prohibi- tion misdemeanor, not guilty; Emory Liming, unlawful manufacture ardent spirits, $5 fine and six months in jail; Charles Jones, illegal possessicn of ardent spirits, $50 fine and one month in jail; Lloyd Abel, unlawful posses- sion of a still, $50 . Arthur Corn- well, prohibition misdemeanor, and one month in jail. the j tence being suspended during the good behavior of defendant. M. Toombs of Gain appointed by the court as con the Gainesville magisterial district, no one having beer °d at the gen- eral election in November, while R. R. Smith, Gainesville, was appointed a justice of the peace. only one having been elected in the general election. Upon application of the town of! Manassas for appointment of a zoning | commission the court appointed C.R.C. Johnson, W. E. Trusler and O. O. Hol- ler to recommend boundaries of the various original districts of the town under chapter 122-A of the code. T. E. Didlake of Manassas was ap- pointed a member of the Electoral Board of Prince William County for the term beginning March 1, 1932. SEAT PLEASANT 0. E. . MARKS SIXTH BIRTHDAY Over 200 Attend Annual Banquet and Visitation—Mayor and Officers Speakj. SBpecial Dispatch to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., February 11. —More than 200 persons attended the 6th birthday party, annual banquet and visitation of Seat Pleasant Chap- ter, 76, Orders of the Eastern Star, here Tuesday night. Franklin Smith, the past patron of tre Seat Pleasant Chapter, was toast- master at the banquet and the speakers included Mayor Harmon O. Acuff of Seat Pleasant and the grand officers of Maryland. Among those prent were the grand matron, Mrs. Lula W. Boucher; worthy grand patron, Charles F. Yeager: as- sociate grand ma . Mary Mueller; worthy grand patron, Mr. Ault; grand secretary, Mrs. Nellie Boyd; grand con- ductress, Cecil Traband; acting grand marshal, Blakely; past grand matron, Mother Marie Tovey; past grand matron, Harriett Kuchuff, and past mgd patron, Mr. Mueller, all of Mary- nd. Child Struck by Auto. MOUNT AIRY, Md,, February 11 (Spe- cial).—James William, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Gillis of near Claggettsville, sustained injuries of the skull, a mashed leg and severe lacera- | tions about the body when he was struck by a car operated by George H. Payne of Ridgeville Tuesday afternoon. NAVY ORDERS Comdr. Fred T. Berry, duty in com- mand U. S. S. Los Angeles. Comdr. Rufus King, detached as port director, Naval Transportation Service, 5th Naval District; to U. 8. . Wyoming as_engineer officer. Lieut. Comdr. Samuel N. Moore, de- tached command U. S. S. Lamberton; to U. S. S. Omaha as navigating officer. Comdr. William E. Eaton, detached U. S. S. New York; to U. S. S. Lexing- n. Comdr. William H. Michael, detached Naval Hospital, An about April 1; to U. S. S. Mexic Lieut. Comdr. Walier A. Vogelsang.' detached Blue Marine Corps Expedi- tionary Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, Calif., about May 1; to U. 8. 8. Maryland. Capt. William S. Zane, detached Na- val Operating Base, Pearl Harbor, ‘T. H., about March 4: to duty on staff, commander Destroyers Battle Force. Lieut. Alpheus M. Jones, orders Jan- uary 22, modified; wait orders at Hamp- ton Roads, Va., instead of proceeding Norfolk, Va. Lieut. Joseph T. Lareau, detached U. 8. S. Melville about April 15; “to Naval Supply Depot, San Diego. Chief Boatswain Wiitam P. Bach- mann, detached U. S. S. Concord about May 10; to U. S. S. Chicago. Chief Boatswain James C. Legg, d tached U. S. 8. Chicago about May 10; to Us 8. S. Concord. Chief Machinist George Rahm, de- tached U. S. S. Chicage about May 10; to U. S. S. Arizona { Moscow to the Crimea, s 40-hour jour- { ney by express, had 8 woman conductor. .also share with the men the greatest A Nation THE EVENING at Arms Soviet Trains Women to Stand With Men in Run- ning Country and in Bearing Arms W hen “Next War” The writer of this article, the fourth in a series of six, recentiy spent 10 months in Russia. Having been born that country, and returning at {requent interv:ls. he is particulariy quslined to observe what is happening there and to establish facts, BY ELIAS TOBENKIN. It is the aim of the Soviet regime in “the next war” to give the world the spectacle of & nation run by its women while the men do the fighting. Two million women in the ranks of the Osoaviachim, the Soviet's militant | preparedness society, are training for | war. Some are preparing t> bear arms ' side by side with men soidiers at the | front, others are training for defensive | work, o ward off encmy attacks, es- | pecial'y gas and chemical attacks, at | home. Millions of women, not members of the above organization, are being train- ed by the trade unions and the Com- munist party to take the place of men in the industries and on the farms. They are taught to manage public af- fairs and to run municipalities, large and small. ‘Woman Conductor. A train on which 1 traveled froms In the Pullman the porter wasa woman. Women section workers were keeping the roadbed in condition. Wemen line- en were sitting high up on telegraph poles and working expertly among the wires. In one town we passed women mechanics were repairing a water main; in another a gang of women laborers, managed by a woman foreman, were digging_a sewer. In Alexandrovsk, half way between Moscow and Sevastopol, gn a harvesting | plant, which manufactures threshing | machines, more than half the 7,000 workers were women. | One million six hundred thousand | women in the Soviet Union during 1931 left their places in the home to become | wage-earners. Nearly a million of them were absorbed by industries, principally heavy industries, and by the railroads. Agriculture, the collectivized and gov- | ernment-owned farms run on a factory basis, absorbed the remaining, 600,000. The unprecedented industrial expan- sion of the country, grouped under the general head of the five-year plan, ac- counts in part for this vast migration | from kitchen to factory. The rest of it | must be ascribed to the war spirit brood- ing over Russia today. | ‘The Kremlin leaders have imbued the | Russian masses with the belief that | “the stability of the capitalistic world | is coming to an end,” and that the suc- cess of the five-year plan is helping to destroy this stability. They predict, as | the result of the protracted world crisis, a sharpening of “class division” in all | bourgeois countries. The upper and middle classes, they say, will look for a | way out in Fascism, while the lower | classes will turn to Communism. Expect to Fight World. In a last effort to avert a proletarian revolution, so the Kremlin argues, the capitalist governments of the world” | 1 unite in a war upon the Soviet Union. “Red Moscow will be blamed | for all the ills of capitalism,” and an | effort will be made to wipe it off the map. As intervention by European nations | in Soviet affairs over a period of three years, between 1918 and 1921, did not | succeed in overthrowing the Communist | regime, Kremlin leaders predict that the next attack will be even more pro- longed and on a vaster scale. They maintain, therefore, that it is essential | to train the women to manage the in- dustries, “run the country” in fgct, so as to release as many men as ible for fighting. What Russian women must do to help win “the next war” was outlined by Climenty Voroshilov in a speech en- titled “Working Women and the De- fense of Our Country,” delivered before the All-Union Congress of Women Workers and Peasants. “The men will go to the front,” the | commissar told his audience, “and | women must take their places in shops and factories. On the work of women trainmen, women conductors, women chauffeurs, women machinists, women traffic dispatches, women adminis- trators, will depend the success of mili- tary operations at the front. For in| modern warfare, success on the battle- field is dependent on the efficiency with which the country’s industries are operated thousands of miles away. “Finally, many women will serve in the ranks of the regular army. Wom- en in the Soviet Union having become the equals of men economically, must of all duties—to defend with weapons in hand the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” Plans Carefully Laid. ‘The distribution and training of thei newly recruited women workers are | conducted with utmost deliberation by three of the highest governmental bodies responsible for the industrializa- tion of the Soviet Union—the supreme council of national economy, the com- missariat of labor, and the government planning commission, the organization directly responsible for the success of the five-year plan. The chance to advance from unskilled work into more mechanical positions is frequently given women before they are fully ripe for it. Their apprentice- ship is short. From mechanical work they are drafted into executive posi- tions with the same rapidity. They are compelled to attend educational and technical classes conducted by the fac- tories in which they are employed. In 1931, nearly 9,000,000 adult women in the Soviet Union had “liquidated” their illiteracy, that is, they had learned to read and write. The spec- ter of war and the women’s industrial program for defense contributed in no ;Tall measure to this educational up- ift. Evidence that the government’s pro- gram for the industrial militarization of women is accomplishing tangible re- sults is becoming cumulative through- out the Soviet Union. In one of the government - owned farms, “Gigant,” which puts under cultivation nearly a million acres of land annually, the “tractor work” on these million acres in the last season was done almost en- tirely by women. Women chauffeurs operated the tractors both for planting and har- vesting. Women mechanics attended to the necessary repairs, and did so' competently. As far as this particular sector of the government's bread indus- try is concerned, the men might go to war any day; the women will attend to the grain raising without difficulty. | In the Magnitogorsk steel works the workers had failed to live up to a cer-| tain minimum of production required by the government. A brigade of wom- en industrial shock troopers replaced a particular set of male workmen. Re- sult: The government’s program Wwas filled out 105 per cent, and on time. Many Women Officials. Many factories throughout the Soviet Union have women directors. ‘The Rubezhansk factory, a very large ‘enter- prise, has 32 women enginzers. Wom- en workers are continually sent to pull up the quality of production when the men workers in a particular industry fail to live up to expectations. How- ever, this is not yet the full extent of the government's plans for woman's place in industry in war time. The technical schools of the coun- Machinist Joseph A. Oehlers, detach- ed U. S. S. Arizona about May 10; to U. 8. 8. Chicago. Chief Radio Electrician Chester S. Denton, detached U. S. 5. Idaho on m‘pfll 1; to Naval Alr Station, Lake- N. J. Chief Radio Electriclan Raymond 8. Hotchkiss, detached U. S. 5. Arkansas about April 5; to Submarine Base, New lendan, Conn. try have recently been 50 T as to make it possible for the factories to send their most intelligent and promising women to these institutions for higher training. The number of women students admitted to the engineering schools of the Soviet Union during the last year and a hal has been so great that even after al- Jowing for the large percentage who no doubt will be unable o keep up Wit Breaks Out. their studies, the government still ex- pects that by the end of the five-year plan it have 20,000 university- trained women engineers. Pigures for the number of women in the Soviet Union who are training for regular army service are unavailable for 1931. But in the year previous, nearly = quarter million women were undergoing just such training in the various military schools conducted by the Osoaviachim. About 60.000 wom- en took up general military training. Fifty-five thousand qualified as_rifle experts and machine gunners. Forty thousand more specialized in quarter- master’s problems and similar military organization work. Something over 10,000 women specialized in war them- istry, while the remainder took up ar- tillery and aviation. Exactly 50 women entered higher military academies and colleges in 1930. In the Soviet Union are thousands of women who fought side by side with men during the civil wars which followed the advent of Lenin and Trotsky into cffice. These women Vet~ erans today form the nucleus4about whom the women training for active warfare frequently group themselves, precisely as the men-undergoing such military training group _themsclves about the officers, of the reserve and the discharged Red Army soldiers. Battalien Still Exists. The battalion of woman soldiers or- ganized during the Kerensky regime for continued partigipation of Russia in the ‘World War still has a number of mem- bers, but these are carefully kept out of the ranks of Bolshevist woman soldiers. The women who served under the provisional government are looked upon as “bourgeols” and unworthy the con- fidence of the proletariat. The cities in the Soviet Union where women's military organizations have achieved more than local renown are Petrograd, which has a famous com- pany of woman snipers composed ex- clusively of the workers of & single rubber factory, and Moscow. which has | recently graduated the first corps of militarized 'tlom‘n telegraph and tele- hone operators. - Otherp:mu which have attained dis- tinction are Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk. whose sniping companies are among the best-trained in the union. In Omsk the Osoaviachim maintains a woman's college for the training of shooting in- structors, most of the graduates of this institution being used to organize and train the women of Siberia and Mon- golia, up to the Chinese boundary. Special attention also is given to the women of the Soviet East. the Mahom- medan women, who are citizens of the Bolshevist Republic. These had only recently taken off their veils and thrown overboard other medieval super- stitions. They make excellent fighters. Feminine Training Camps. Camps for Summer training and Fall maneuvers for this woman's vol- unteer army of 250,000 are maintained by the Osoaviachim, jointly with the camps for men, in the vicinity of Kos- troma, Riazan, Ufo and Novosibirsk. The training at these camps last one to two months. After the women have | attained proficiency in their military training they are organized into mixed divisions, the proporton being about 30 per cent women to 70 per cent men soldiers. % One of the most important duties of the women volunteer soldiers in the Soviet Union is inland policing and in- land military intelligence. In addition to millions of former land owners, for- mer army and civilian officials and for- mer merchants who have been Killed, exiled or declassed, the Stalin regime by its collectivization policy has in the last three years antagonized millions of so-called kulaks or rich peasants. It is these peasants, burning with resentment over confiscation of their land and the loss of their homes, who are considered a serious war menace by the Soviet. The Soviet fears that if a foreign enemy once sets foot on Soviet soil these out- lawed peasants may flock to its stand- ard to revenge themselves. The women soldiers are trained to be always on guard against any peasant Aho falls into the group of the mal- contents. They are required to report to the secret service authorities every suspicious move of such a neighbor, every unguarded utterance. They are trained especially to keep watch over factories and storehouses to see that these are not tampered with or de- stroyed by the enemy within. The women in the border provinces are charged with the additional duty of keeping up a steady vigilance over the Soviet iorder. which is 40,000 kilometers long and lends itself to incursions by foreign foes, whether of the bandit or the reconnoitering type. opyright. 1932, by the (CopyriEhy wspaper ‘Alliance, Inc.) COUNTY HEADS TO SPEAK Northern Virginia Electric League to Banquet Tomorrow. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, February 11.—Roy S. Braden, county manager of Arling- ton County; F. Norvell Larkin, county er of Fairfax County, and Com- monwealth's Attorney Wilson M. Farr of Fairfax County will be the speakers and honor guests at the dinner meet- ing of the Northern Virginia Electric League to be held tomorrow night in Fairfax in the Southern Methodist Sunday school rooms. Ghandi would be interested ' in the sensational News for Washington Men in Friday STAR ] STAR, WASHINGTON, North American | SUSAN B. ANTHONY BANQUET MONDAY Jeanette Rankin to Be Chief Speaker on 112th Anniver- sary Program. [ Arrangements were completed today for a banquet to be given Monday night at 6:30 in commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, noted suffragist, at the headquarters of the American Associa- ticn of University Wcmen, 1624 I street. The dinner will be held under the aus plmss of the Susan B. Anthony Founda- tion. Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana, first woman member of Congress, will head the list of speakers, Others on the program will include Miss Janet Richards, lecturer and personal friend of Miss Anthony; Mrs. Willlam J. Funck, chairman of the last convention of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, held in Baltimore in 1906 and attended by Miss Anthony a few months before she died, and Mrs. Bertha Yoder Werthner, president of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation. Special Musical Program. A special musical program will be given under the direction of Gertrude Lyons, president of the District Federa- tion of Music Clubs. Many of the country's ploneer suf- fragists will be the guests of honor. They will be seated at a special table. The committee in charge will be headed by Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, honor- ary president of the foundation. Among other members will be Mrs. Rose Ar- nold Powell, Miss Edna McIntosh, Miss Joanna Stopp, Mrs. H. Moffatt Bradley, Mrs, Caroline B. Stephens, Mrs. Ada Van Loon McGee, Mrs. Percy M. Bailey and Mrs. Lucy Cooper Shaw. Mrs. Hendley explained the head- quarters of the university women's or- ganization was chosen as the place to hold the dinner, because it was the | home for many years of the late Ida Houston Harper, author of a biography | of Miss Anthony. Radio Broadcast. Other means of honoring Miss An- thony Monday will include & radio talk 8t 3:30 p.m., over statfon WMAL on “Susan B. Anthony, Emancipator,” by Mrs. Hendley and the placing of a floral wreath on a portrait of Miss An- thony, which hangs on the walls of the home of the National League of Women Voters at 532 Seventeenth street. Participating in the placing of the floral offering will be Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Powell and Mrs. McGee. POLICE HALT BATTLE BETWEEN OYSTERMEN | A fight over wBp had the saltiest oysters cost two oyster boat skippers 35 each yesterday and sent one of them to a hospital. ‘The fight started on the Fish Mar- ket Wharf at the foot of Eleventh street southwest when Capt. .John Evans. Ewell, Md., and Capt. William J. “Billy” Stanford, Colonial Beach. Va., disagreed over the quality of the other's oysters. It was a hot fight, with Stanford get- ting a shade vhe better of it, until po- lice from the harbor precinct arrived and took the skippers in tow. Each de- posited $5 collateral on a disorderly charge. Evans went to Casualty Hospital after | leaving the precinct station to obtain treatment for his injuries. He was back his oyster boat in the afterncon. A. KAHN INC. JEWELERS A.Kahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, President 39 Years at 935 F St. D. (€., THURSDAY,. 39 Years at Same Address STATIONERS Speaker Miss Jeanette Rankin (above), who will head the speakers at the Susan B. Anthony memorial banquet Monday night. Below: Mrs. Bertha Yoder Werthner,’ president of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation. —Harris-Ewing Photos. iHEHJENHEIMER HEADS RED MEN OF DISTRICT | Great Sachem Selection Made at Election Marking Eighty- ninth Session. Jacques Heidenheimer will serve as great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men of the District, according to results of an election of officers at the eighty-ninth session of the, order Tuesday night. Other officers elected were: Great senjor sagamore, Harry J. Thompson: great junior sagamore, Wil- fred E. Lawson; great prophet. Wil- liam H. Ryan: great chief of records. | Walter M. Alexander: great keeper of | wampum, William B. Garner, and great representative, Frank D. Seiffert. | Officers appointed by Great Sachem | Heidenheimer were: Great sannap, T. M. Hunter: great mishinewa, C. E. Wiley: great guard of wigwam, Walter | A. Jones; great guard of forest. W. B. Garner, jr.. great instructor, Thomas B. Dennis and great instructess, degree of Pocahontas. Mrs. Cleada Horne. The advisory council consists of Past Great | Sachems William C. White, . Alva ‘Thompson and William y. 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