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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-28
AFFINITY IN
MFR. ACASE
CLEARED
Prince Rlaokmail Victim, But
Neither Of Robinsons In
VOWED, Jury Finds
BY DAVID N. CHURCH,
international News service.

LONDON, Nov. 2S. Beautiful
Mrs. Maude Robinson, whose H.
licit love affair with the unnamed
Indian potentate cost him $750, 900
.blackmail, was cleared this after
noon of participation in the con-
spiracy.
After an hour and fifteen min
utes' deliberation the jury of ten
men and two women found the
prince, designated as "Mr. A."
for reasons Of state, had been
victimized, but that Mrs. Robin
son and her husband, Charles
Ernest Robinson, a bookmaker,
were not involved in the con-
spiracy.
Two Questions for Jury.
Lord Justice Darling, in his
charge to the jury. said they must
answer two questions. These were:
WAS there conspiracy bred
to catch "Mr. Az as the prince is
called ''for reasons OF state and
beautiful Mrs. Maude Robinson to-
gether in Paris hotel' room with
view to obtaining money from
them?
2-If there was a conspiracy,
who was involved in 1t?
Robinson. once a bookmaker and
police character. charged in his suit
that the powerful Midland bank had
been guilty of negligence in per-
hitting other persons to draw from
its vaults $625,OOO OF the money the
Indian prince deposited with it for
him when Robinson learned OF Mrs.
Robinson's. intimacy with the titled
gentleman of color"
Lord Justice Darling, the trial
judge, after receiving the verdict
Of the jurors, sent them back to
consider whether the checks the
prince signed were properly Endorsed
and deposited to the benefit Of Rob.
inson.
The case went to the jury at
1926 and they returned with their
verdict at 4:40 this afternoon.
The report of the jury was that
there had been a conspiracy be-
cause the prince signed two checks
in blank when found in a Paris
hotel room with Mrs. Robinson.
The jury decided he had signed the
checks "involuntarily and through
fear"
Sought $685., 900
Robinson sued the Midland bank,
one of England's most powerful
financial institutions. for $626, 900,
a part. of the blackmail money
which he alleged the bank had
negligently paid out to others on
checks to which his name was
The bank contended he was not
entitled to the money because il
was the proceeds OF plot in
which the bank alleged Robinson
was party.
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LAF(QLET It
BARREDBY
COT.
Senators Also Ban Brookhart,
Ladd, and Frazier From
Future Caucuses
BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON,
International News Service.

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
International News Service.
The Republican membership of
the Senate today completed its or
ganization for the session of Con-
gress opening Monday, electing
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas
its floor leader. Curtis succeeds
the late Senator Henry. Cabot
Lodge Of Massachusetts.
Senator James E. Watson of
Indiana was named assistant
leader. A party ship" will be
appointed later by Curtis.
Other Senators Barred.
The Republicans adopted a resolu.
ton barring from future party eau
cuses Senator Robert La Toilette of
Wisconsin. defeated independent
preside candidate, and three Of
his followers Senator Smith w.
Brookhart of Iowa. Senator. Edwin
F.. Ladd of North Dakota. and Sem
ator Lynn J. Frazier Of North
Dakota.
The resolution said: Resolved,
that it is the sense of the confer.
ence. that Senators La Toilette,
Ledd, Brookhart and Frazier be
not invited to future Republican
conferences and be not named to
fill any Republican vacancies on
Senate committees"
The resolution was adopted with.
out a record vote, Senator 'Ladd
was the only one Of the insurgent
quartet present when the action
was taken,
Ladd offered no comment at the
time, and sat in silence while his
Republican colleagues, denounced
the insurgent group.
Launched by Reed.
The reprimand was launched by
Senator Reed (Rep) of Pennsyl.
vania, who sponsored the resolution
as adopted.
A number of other similar reso-
lutions were also presented, but
the Reed resolution was adopted by
a viva voce vote, during which
Ladd sat silent.
There were number of absentees
besides La Toilette, Brookhart and
Frazier. These included such
known independents as Senator
Borah Of Idaho, Johnson of Cali
fornia Norbeck of South Dakota
and Norris of Nebraska. Their alb
sence was taken to indicate that
| they did not agree with the action
Of the conference.
In the election Of Senator Curtis
as the new floor leader the confer
sence was unanimous. His name was
proposed by Senator Capper, his
colleague, and seconded by Senator
Elkins Of West Virginia.
Controls Committee Power
Although Administration leaders
opposed any effort to Gust La Fol
lette and his followers from their
choice committee assignments dur
ing the lame duck" they planned
: to maintain strict control Of the
powerful Committee on Committees,
which awards all such posts.
\ Senator James e. Watson of
/ Indiana was slated for the chair.
manship to succeed the late Sena.
i tor BrandeEee of Connecticut and
Senator David A, Reed Of Pennsyl
vania for, the lone vacancy. Both
are so-called regulars"
This committee will be given the
task of filling vacancies in the
chairmanships and memberships OF
various Senate committees.
They will not make their assign.
1 ments public until the Senate con.
venes but under the seniority rule,
Continual on Page 2. Column 81
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FOUR MINERS ENToMBED
BY RUSH OF WATERS

SWANSEA, England, Nov. 28---
-Four miners had not been reached
by rescue parties working today in
the Penlan colliery where eighteen
were caught in the rush Of waters
into the mine, but 1t was believed
that all would be brought out alive.
The rescue workers first feared
that nine were imprisoned beyond
hope of salvation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-28
oBREGoN IS HoNoRED
BY JAPANESE ORDER

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 2S.--Pres..
dent Obregan. who retires to pri.
vate life when President-elect
Gales is inaugurated Sunday, to.
day was member of the Japanese
Order Of the Chrysanthemum, con.
ferred for his friendly services for
the empire.
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FORTY REDS ARE JAILED
FOR PLOTS IN ESTHONIA

REVAL. Esthonia. NoY. 2S.--Sen-
fences Of life imprisonment at hard
labor were passed on forty com
munists convicted Of conspiring to
overthrow the Esthonia government.
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soc, GOO New York Eira

JAMESTOWN. N. Y. Nov. 2s.-
Damage estimated at 800. 900 was
dope by fire which early today
swept the dry kilns and lumber
sheds of the Union Furniture Com
pany. The burned structures GOV.
cred an area of several thousand
.square feet
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Lord AllenbY IIl I

LONDON, Nov 2S.- Lord Allenby,
British high commissioner in Egypt,
is III according to a news agency
dispatch from Cairo. Allenby
has been under heavy guard for
TWO days since discovery Of a plot
believed at his life.
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Pastor to Be drilled
Before ALienists

COLUMBUS Ohio Nov. 28.-The Reverend c. " Sheatsley
and his son. Clarence will be questioned to-
day by Prosecutor John King the presence Of aienss
concerning the mysterious death of Mrs Add Sheatsey the
minister's wife, whose charred remains found the
sonage furnace nearly two weeks ago King announced
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Radio Program and
Other News on Pages IS
and 10.
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Crossword Puzzle To-
day on Page 10.
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SaWyer Gets SlO,OOO.

Doctor Carl w. Sawyer, the SUN
OF $4,000, "as a recognition OF my
gratitude for the uniform faithful
service and kindness to me at all
times and IN further recognition OF
the long. faithful and devoted pro-
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
CHURCH CzAR WANTS
READY CASH TO KEEP
POOR HUMBUGGED

Having systematically humbupged
the workers Into spending their time
and money to watch his entry into
Chicago after he had been honored
with rank a degree higher than
that Of Jesus Christ, MundeIeln Is
trying to make Il up to them by ap-
peaIlng for ready cash to be used,
qstenslbIy, for the relief Of the Cath
ellie poor.
DlsrenardIng the possibility that
the Catholic poor might attempt
their own salvation, the great spir-
itual hypnotizer urges united char
lty front as a means of helping the
exploited. In letter to the catho-
lies Of Chicago, he asks for zone
united effort In an organized way to
practice the various corporal and
spiritual works Of mercy so strongly
commanded TO US by our Lord and
Savior"
MundeIein says that he places
this appeal for ready cash before
everything.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
Hell for Europe Maria for America
A Forecast of the Republican Convention

Again we will have show, at the
1924 convention of the Republican
party. But the capitalist rulers Of the
United States cannot afford to give us
so much OF a circus, this time. They
have had to reveal in advance that
Coolidge ~ little-souled, cold-blooded,
narrow-minded, tongueless Coolidge
will be nominated for the presi-
dency on the Republican ticket. There
is less margin Of safety, this time,
with the masses stirring in unrest;
every possibility must be utilized in
order to pass thru the presidential
election with the least possible jolt.
Not even change Of personnel is
to be had, if it can be avoided. The
big powers of Wall Street have en-
sured in advance and even publicly
revealed, that Coolidge will be the
Republican nominee. Whether Coo
lidge will be president, depends upon
the needs as they develop during the
campaign. The powers that put
Coolidge at the head Of the Republi.
can ticket will put another fish of the
same school at the head of the Demo
cratic ticket-which is the old insur-
ance-policy plan. If the Democratic
ticket, with McAdoo Cor a more ex-
pedient substitute for McAdoo), is
elected, it will make no difference to
the Sinclair-Standard Oil-Mellon and
Morgan interests. No petty-capitalist
interests can get control of either Of
the old partieN this year as the Bry-
antics got control of the Democratic
party in 1896.
But from all signs it appears that
the Wall Street dynasty thinks at the
present time that it's best bet is on
putting Coolidge. tried-and.true strike.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04

breaker, farm-robber and silent re-
tainer Of the inner ring of high fin
ance, into the White House. 1t seems
to be the smoothest way, using the
advantage that is always held by the
politicians in control OF the govern
mental machinery.
However, since Harding died and
Coolidge moved up, a new second
butler must be chosen-and there
comes the chance to give a show.
The only excuse for circus at Cleve-
land is found in the uncertainty Tin
the public mind) as to who will be
the vice-presidential nominee. The
chances are that this, too, is all set
tied. But the public hasn't been told.
The public is to be allowed the luxury
OF some suspense on this minor point.
The suspense is probably only for
the public, and very artificial.
There is much reason to think that
General Hell-and-Maria Dawes has
already been slated for the vice-presi-
dental nomination, tho it is rash to
guess. The newspapers have very
obviously been manufacturing a
Saturday-Evening- -Pogt-hero reputation
for Dawes during the past few
months. The Dawes report is not all
report-it is also reputation. Modern
capitalists use all by-products, and a
useful fame could surely be foreseen
Tor the man selected to go over to
settle the European tangle.
Dawes is ideal for the campaign
'Hell-and-Maria" will make a good slo-
gan among meek ladies and gentlemen
with a repressed desire for he-man
swearing. Dawes carries all the requi-
sites. He is a military man-that is.
OF the army purchasing-agent type.
He is a cold-blooded financial manipu-
The daily worker., 1924-06-04

later, a professional banker. He is a
typical public-franchise corporation
head, with some training as a legal
shark. And, above all--he is one of
the Old Guard of the Standard Oil
McKinley-Mark HANNAH Penrose-F -Forak-
er school-a fact that few will re-
member. Hem case of any event
making him president, would be CON
tinuation of the dynasty founded by
Mark Hanna with Standard Oil money
in 1896, with William Mckinley as the
figure-head.
OF course it is possible that the Wall
Street powers will not choose Dawes
They may think it wiser to befuddle
the brains of petty-business men and
timid workers and farmers, by using
radical reputation in the running
mate Of the conservative" Coolidge,
In such a case the. vice-presidential
nominee might be the wild horse,
Borah, come tame to eat out of the
hand Of a master who appreciates at
times a spirited steed But at the
pA0SChb WAAtiH6, appear dACSSt ohaAh VI
real, indicate the choice Of Dawes.
The platform of the Republican
party this year will be-the Dawes
Report, and the Daugherty injunction.
Nothing else. This is one of the straws
that indicate that the wind blows
toward the real intention of Wall
Street to nominate Dawes.
For the deepest of all political and
economic necessities of the capitalist
system today is to consolidate and
stabilize the hegemony of American
Wall Street over Europe, and to break
the backbone Of the Labor movement
at home and abroad, destroying its
will to independent action and reduc-
ing it to a corrupted vassal to be used
in subjecting the colonial world and
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
SCAB BOSSES GRAB RADIO in TRUST

liberal publications, and the workers
slave and die.
Western Electric, like the Pullman
Company, likes to puff out its chest in
the brassy company magazine "for the
employees" about it's sick benefits and
pension system. 1t is a benevolent
system and works out most advantage
ously-ON PAPER-for the employees.
In practice, the workers seldom get
anything, unless they slave silently for
years and years and years.
Pensions on Paper Only
theoretically the Western Electric
pays sick benefits, but the first stipu-
lation is that the worker must have
been employed two years by the com
pany Then he may get benefit to the
extent of four weeks full pay and nine
weeks half pay-according to the pa
per formula. For 10 years service, if
he is taken i'll, the Western Electric
Company magnificently offers to keep
him on full time pay for 1S weeks and
on half-time pay for 80 weeks!
But if Western Electric wants to ex-
cuse itself from the paying Benefits, it
whines times are dull' and lays off
the men and women without allowing
them a whimper.
Pensions are supposed to be deter
mined by age and length of service
and the Western Electric Company
generously refuses to pay less than
$50 month to any pensioner. But if
he doesn't warrant that much, accord
ing to his service, the poor worker is
likely to be let out without anything
at all.
No Chance for Intelligence
The rate of pensions is supposed to
be determined by taking one per cent
Of the annual salary Of the worker for
the past ten years times the years of
his service. SALARY" may mean that
wage workers are excluded from the
long service pension. Few of them
manage to stick thru all the ups and
downs of industrial depressions when
men are laid off right and left, as at
present.
The workers who are lucky, or un-
lucky enough to get pensions have to
have a clear record of slavery to the
Western Electric Company. my COM
pany right or wrong" must have been
their motto thruout their years OF servi-
tude And when they at last are given
pensions, they are still in bondage to
the company.
They must not speak against it.
They must hold themselves ready to
return to the job in case the company
thinks it necessary ito avert labor
trouble" or to spy on workers sus-
pected of having an idea of organizing
their fellow slaves.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04

ness and dissipation and our back
alley criminals produced by po-
verify and hatred"
The capitalist press ladies' out every
detail Of the gruesome crime and cir
culation managers were not so happy
in weeks. Nothing helps to induce
the public to buy papers so much as
a spicy murder reeking with sex.
What was the compelling motive
behind the murder Of the young
Franks boy?
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb,
two 19-year-old university students
murdered Robert Franks, son of
multimillionaire pawnbroker. The
fathers Of the Leopold and Loeb boys
are also multimillionaires. The MUIR
der was planned months in advance,
according to a confession made by the
two prisoners. They had several boys
listed as possible victims. The Frank
boy happened to be the first.
The murdered lad was educated in
the Harvard school, which is reputed
to be a nest Of perversion. One of
the instructors, Mr.. Mott X. Mitchell,
admitted being a sexual degenerate.
Nathan Leopold made an exhaustive
study of degeneracy and supplement-
ed the knowledge acquired from books
by varied personal experience.
The murder was committed in a
most cold-blooded manner. The vic
tim was inveighled into an automo-
bile and while one Of the murderers
drove the car, his companion beat the
Franks lad over the head with a chisel
until death resulted. The body was
then taken to a railroad culvert in an
unfrequented spot, stripped naked and
concealed, but not sufficiently. It was
discovered by mere accident and clues
leading to the apprehension of the
murderers were found near the body.
1t appears from the confessions of
the youths and intimate stories of
their activities that both were sex per-
verts. Psychiatrfsts ascribe the mo-
tive Of the crime not to the ransom
theory as suggested in a letter writ
ten to the father of the dead boy. but
because the two boys, petted and pam
The daily worker., 1924-06-04

European continental Europe.
The Dawes Report and the Daugh-
erty Injunction are the Republican
platform and the Democratic platform.
That is, in reality. There is some
frightened protest from Republican
senators-not against the platform,
but against REVEALING the platform.
Those senators with restless farmers
and workers at home are crying that
Coolidge can stand on that platform,
but we can't" They need some cam
outage, some words to twisu-some-
thing to hide behind. They may be
granted some fiowery words-but the
platform will be the Dawes Report and
the Daugherty Injunction.
Among these senators is-our old
friend Bob La Follette For La Fol
lette will crawl into the back door of
the republican convention with Lag
arus PLATFORM platform begging
few crumbs for the beggar at capital
ism's door, the small business man.
La Toilette is still a Republican
Frightened by the great light in the
skies-the light of the coming storm
of class action of the workers and the
impoverished farmers-La Toilette
crawls back in the Republican fold.
La Toilette will be cast aside, as he
was in 1912, to run as an independent
on his own egotism with only the aim
of sabotaging the farmer-labor effort
to form new class party. The other
frightened senators may or may not
be granted few confusing words with
which to cover the real platform.
Hell and Maria" Dawes as vice
presidential candidate, looks like the
chief outcome of act of the show at
Cleveland. Morgan's He'll for Europe
why not maria" Dawes for Amer
ica?
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
By ROBERT MINOR.
written Especially for the Daily
Worker.)

\
Worker.)
NATHICH particular individual is
wv chosen by the great dominant
group of lords of finance and business
as their servants in public office, is Of
slight consequence to the masses who
have no real voice in the choosing
and no hope in the choice. But If
there is little difference to us in con-
crete results, there is much illumina-
ton to be had by watching the proc
ess by which the great billionaires
choose their Simon Legrees as over
seers Of this giant plantation.
We have just gone thru a rehash
Of the Republican convention of 1920,
brought out in the Teapot Dome in
vestigation. Those with sharp eyes
and especially those who read the
DAILY WORKER-have gazed with
astonishment on the process by which
the last president and vice-president
(now President Coolidge) were picked
and placed m the White House by the
boards Of directors Of oil companies
and banks. The great Republican
convention Of 1920 looks like lame
puppetshow, now, in retrospect, when
We know that the voting on the con-
vention fioor was all a farce and that
Harding and Coolidge had been Sc
lected in advance, not in Chicago by
the delegates. but in an office in Wall
Street (or was it 26 Broadway?).
and that the managers of the show
at the last minute received from Boies
Penrose, bribe-taker of Standard Oil.
long-distance telephone call instruct
ing them to stop the fireworks and
to nominate Harding and Coolidge.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04

pered and having nothing to do but
satisfy their desires, committed the
murder to hide their degeneracy from
the public.
This horrible crime dramatically
brings the rottenness inherent in cap
italist society to the front. On one
side Of the social scale we have pow
erty and misery, millions of workers
going without enough to eat, children
without enough clothes to cover their
bodies, mothers undernourished and
fathers overworked or unemployed
On the other side, we have the idle
rich, rolling in luxury, produced by
the workers, their children brot up
surrounded by servants and flunkeys,
their smallest want attended to. To
them the only problem is to escape
boredom. Having no outlet for their
normal energies, they turn to dissipa-
ton and perversion.
States Attorney Grove rubbed his
hands gleefully after the boys con-
fessed and said, 81 have a hanging
case here" More laurels for Grove,
even If two lives must be blotted out
A dog eat dog society. The capital
lists prey on the workers and prey on
each other. The workers live in
misery, ignorance and disease, thru
poverty. The capitalists stated with
wealth degenerate thru debauchery
and vice.
What is the solution? Not merely
the hanging of victim or two Of this
rotten system, but the abolition of
the system itself The preachers will
say we must go back to the Bible
Nathan Leopold is a confessed atheist
but he believes Gods are useful for
keeping the working class submissive
with their eyes on the next world,
while Leopolds robs them on this
earth.
It is not expected that the two
young millionaires' sons will go to the
gallows. Had they been workmen
and committed the same crime, moth
ing could have saved them. But there
are millions behind them and for
those who have money, justice is just
what It says.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
UNITED FARMER-LABOR
Of new YORK STATE
SUPPORTS JUNE II

NEW YORK CITY, June Son
to st. Paul, June H." Is the word
send out by the United Farmer-La-
Dor Party Of New York state, to all
its connections. In a statement by
the executive committee, selected at
the convention Of May 1s, at sche.
neetadN, all organizations represent
ed there are called upon to renew
their efforts for the ST. Paul eonven-
tlon as the answer to attacks now
being made upon that gathering.
The daily worker., 1924-06-04
Cleveland Quits
Talking Thrift to
Hungry School Kids

CLEVELAND, o., June 3.--Thrift
instruction, given to the pupils in the
Cleveland public schools for about
four years, has been ordered discon-
tinued by the board OF education.
Superintendent OF Schools r. G. Jones
is quoted as saying that the teaching
Of thrift has not proved OF sufficient
value to pay for the time taken from
regular classes"
Perhaps one OF the reasons for this
action is the widespread unemploy-
ment and short-time work in this city.
II is rather a joke to speak OF thrift"
to thousands OF Cleveland workers
under present conditions. large num-
bers Of whom are eithor unable to get
work at all or else can scarcely get
enough time in to provide the bare
necessities.