Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1933, Page 21

RADICAL EONGRESS CLOSES SESSIONS. . Delegates From Every State Begin Departure by Various Means. Dedicated to a broad program of social legislation. and to a policy which looks to coalition of Socialists and Communists in the United States “on certain specific issues,” the Continental Congress for Economic Reconstruction, ‘which brought 4,000 delegates to Wash- ington for meetings Saturday and yes- terday, ended its sessicns late yester- day. Last night and today the delegates from every State-in the Union were dispersing by automobile, bus, freight train and the familiar thumb route. Name Permanent Body. ‘The congress, in its closing session, set up an organization of 26 delegates which will stand as a permanent body to push the principles advocated by the congress. ‘The Executive Committee of the So- cialist party, which dominated the con- gress, meanwhile, has named a com- mittee, composed of Norman Thomas, Darlington Hoops of Reading, Pa., and Leo Krycki of Milwaukee, to confer on recommendation of the entire congress, with an already named committee of the Communist party on the subject of presenting a “united front” on “specific _issues.” e e congress also adopted a “new declaration of independence,” calling for a rebuilding of the economic and governmental structure of the country upon the principles of state Socialism. Other high spots of the closing ses- slons of the congress included: Demand for the recall from Mexico of Ambassador Josephus Daniels be- cause he was Secretary of the Navy at the time it captured the Mexican part of Vera Cruz. Adeguate direct farm relief, preven- tion 'o? evictions, foreclosures and tax sales. Reorganization of the tax system, with exemption of homes and farms of 85,000 value or less. National ownership of the services utilized by farmers. A new national banking system, with the postal savings serving pending re- organization. Recognition of Soviet Russia. A five-day week and six-hour day, with a minimum wage law. A capital levy and high inheritance Immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus. A $6,000,000,000 'works Ditest el ot 3,000,000008, To Call on Darrow) B = in an in'.enl- ve program up an organi- zation to work for the principles adopt- ed by the congress and to come back to Washington next year in increasing numbers for another congress. In the closing minutes of the con- gress the delegates gave their greatest ovation, one lasting for about six min- utes, to A. C. Townley of Des Moines, Iowa, representative of the National Farm Holiday Association, after he had read the farm strike resolution adopted by the farmers’ organization which called for “a declaration of war.” P i WINDSTORMS STRIKE SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS Woman Injured at Harrisburg and Property Reported Destroyed at Searcy. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 8. —Wind- storms struck in two sections of the State yesterday, causing injury to a woman at Harrisburg and destroying some porperty at Searcy. Mrs. Herman Jacobs of Harrisburg was struck by flying timbers when the || home of Clarence Drenham was de- molished. Mrs. Jacobs, who was visit- ing at the Drenham home, was not se- Hoél:ly hluPL veral other homes in Harrigburg were damaged. At Searcy a number of houses were unroofed and several blown from their foundations, but no one was reported | injured. R QUAKE RECORDED Georgetown University Reports | | Tremors 2,100 Miles South of Here. An earthquake, centered about 2,100 miles to the southwest of Washington, was recorded today on Georgetown Uni- versity’s seismographs as having begun at 5:39:54 a.m., Eastern standard time, with maximum movement at 6:55 and still continuing at 7:40 records sheets were being c! ed. The distance would bring the center just off the Mexican coast. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, MONDAY, MAY 8 1933. PROMINENT MONTANA BUSINESS MAN DIES A. W. Miles, Former President Pro Tem of State SBenate, Had Been Il for Months. By the Associated Press. LIVINGSTON, Mont., May 8.—A. W. Miles, 73, prominent Livingston business man and former State Senator, died yesterday. He had been {ll since last November. His birthplace was the old Miles farm at Westminster, Mass., where the late Gen. Nelson A. Miles was born. He served as president pro tem of the Senate in 1807 and for a few days held the chief executive’s chair in the absence of Gov. J. K. Toole and Lieut. Gov. E. L. Norris. 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