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Evening star., 1924-01-11
RAIL- ACT SUCCESS,
CONFERENCEHO[DS
No Change Should Be Made
/ Until Further Trial, Say
Trade Leaders.

improvements in railway service
and the handling Of an unparalleled
tonnage during the last year have
demonstrated that the transportation
act of 1929 embodies a national
transportation policy that. Is con
structive and. sound" the. national
transportation conference held yes
terday at its concluding session at
the New willard. -.
mo change should be made In any
important provision of The trans
portation act until 1t has had fair
trial, which as yet 1t has not had,
said the report. Tho conference Ina
ciuded representatives Of transpor-
tation, Industrial, farm and labor
interests throughout the country
assembled under the auspices or the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States. Phases OF the transportation
problem considered by the confer
encs included consolidation OF car
riers. rate readjustments and LABOR
relations. -
With respect to the. latter. the
conference expressed the "hope that
conferences may be arranged be-
tween the carriers and their en-
ployes and the public looking to the
development of q constructive plan
for perfecting the existing ma
chinery" for dealing with the labor
question. -L-...--u-...,-.
ON the question OF railroad con-
solidation the conference took the
: position that no changes shedld- De
made IN that provision -Sof the trans
portation aot except such as may be
necessary to facilitate oonsolida-
tions and to enable the consolidated
= companies by voluntary action to
Incorporate under federal law"
Asserting public interest requires
that American, railroads be privately
owned and operated under compre-
hensive system of government super
vision, the conference held such regu.
Iation should be accomplished
through administrative agencies"
rather than through "inelastic legis-
lation dealing with rates or other
specific problems OF railroad opera
ing cooperation between state and
federal commissions, the report said.
gives promise OF such coordination
OF their activities as will protect the
public interest and preserve the ad.
vantages of competition"
a whole, to be not 'unreasonabfy
high" the conference declared the
present problem waB one Of better
adjustment of relative rates--not a
general reduction of all rates"
ON the subject of relations of mo-
for transport to other agencies, the
conference concluded that the motor
truck offered the best means of relief
for increasing railroad terminal con-
gestion in large cities and indorsed
"store-door delivery" as the greatest
contribution to that end.
Evening star., 1924-01-11
PRESIDENT PRAISES
THRIFT. WEEK PLAN
Calls Effort to Bring Habit Of Saw
ing to Public Attention Laud-
able Enterprise.
COMMITTEES MAKE REPORT
Speakers for Grade and High
Schools Assured.

Praising efforts Of the Thrift week
committees to bring the habit Of saw
ing to the, public as a. higaly COM
mendable service. President Coolidge,
in a letter yesterday to Adolph Levi
sohn, national chairman Of the thrift
movement, Endorsed the work of the
committees and wished them every
success" President Coolidge's letter
follows:
The American people. taken as a
whole, have been very quick to grasp
the benefits that result from thrift
and industry and the cultivation of
a saving disposition. They have not
only deposited money in banks, but
invested 1t in all kinds Of business
enterprises.
Those who have started in this
direction have always found that real
satisfaction arises. not from indul-
gence, but from achievement. Those
who save regularly find an increas-
ing power, not only OF finances, but
of character. 1t is through the use
Of such power. for wise and just
industrial and commercial establish
ment.
1T Is not too much to say that the
growth of America, as we know 1t,
has been the result of these agencies.
1t has been. not only the vision and
the high purpose OF our forefathers
but. likewise, their work and their
savings. which have created our
country, and on the continuation OF
which the whole future and welfare
of our people rests. The habit, OF
saving is a constructive virtue. Your
efforts to bring this to the attention
of the public, with reiterated en-
phasis, is q highly commendable serv-
ice. ! fndorse your actions and wish
you every success in this laudable
enterprise"
Reports Of the various committees
were made yesterday, which indicate
that Thrtft week: which begins Janu-
Evening star., 1924-01-11

ary II and ends January %, is to be
tntensively pushed
De. E. g. KimbaH reported that
arrangements had been made for
speakers in. the grade. schools and
that arrangements could be made for
speakers to address the high schools.
George c. .Shinn. chairman of the
Make-a-Will day, reported that booths
would be established in all the banks
and trust companies, at the public
library, in the Offices of the Bar Asso-
citation at the court house. In the cor
poration counsers Office in the Dis
'trict building. the Y. M. c. A., the Y.
NJ. II. A. and in the X. of c. hall.
Prominent attorneys have volunteered
th cir services for that day and advice
VIII be given free.
Eewbold Noyes, chairman OF the
publicity committee, reported the
adontion of the slogan idea and an
nourhced that the slogan committee
would give prizes of $50, $40 and $40
for tine best three slogans of not more
than ben words. All replies should be
Addressed to the Thrift Slogan Com
mittee, Masonic Temple building.
Evening star., 1924-01-11

publishers in February. March and
April. ~ -
Evening star., 1924-01-11
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
PLANS LADIES' NIGHT
Four New Members Enrolled at
Luncheon Meeting Held
Yesterday.

!. Four new members were admitted
to the Cosmopolitan Club at it's
weekly luncheon at the Franklin
Square Hotel yesterday. Prepare.
tions for Ladies' night" to be OBJ
served on February IL were made.
The new members admitted were:
Frank p. Fenwick. Raymond Rocca,
z. Z. Downham and Orville B.
Drown. A visitor from Los Angeles,
and former resident OF tho Dis
rtcit. Aron r. Neff, as q guest OF the
club yesterday.
The booster prizes for the day
awarded to Robert McChesney and
Jack Merklins. Milton Hopfennaier
invited the club to attend q meeting
at his home, 2135 Wyoming avenue,
the night of February 2.
Evening star., 1924-01-11

70 eat one inside SO I could write
back to the folks in Iowa that I have
}gst hnished lunching in the White
This story Is similar to that Of the
many people who wait outside the
FIRST congregational Church on Sun
days. When Mr.. Coolidge approaches
they rush in for a moment or so,
then rush out and 60 to a souvenir
store on 9Th street A card is pur-
chasedi which Is soon flled out in
this manner:
Just attended church with Presi-
dent Coolidge" and signed with the
authors name.
Evening star., 1924-01-11
PEN WOMEN TO MEET.

The National League of American
Pen Women today extended an invita-
tion to Washington writer's to at
tend an address on Making a Best
Seller" to be given tomorrow eve
ming at o'clock in the lounge of
the Shoreham Hotel, by c. c, Shoe
maker, president of the Penn Publish
ing Company of Philadelphia. This
address is to be the third Of a series
arranged by the national organiza-
tion for writer's of Washington, Mary
land and Virginia and will be fol-
lowed by similar talks by American
Evening star., 1924-01-11
NEW OFFICERS ON DUTY.
Sergt. Jasper Post. American Le-
aion, Holds Installation.

Installation ceremonies were held
last night by Sergt Jasper Post, Amer
lean Legion, at the City Club, when
the newly ehected officers of the post
were installed by Department Com
mander Paul J. McGahan.
The officers INSTALLED were: Ralph
A. Cusick, commander; w. r. Gould.
first vice commander: H. A. Kelly.
second vice commander; r. II. Hetzer,
third vice commander: DR.. Hugh Full
ton, chaplain; Russell Clemson. his
torian; Ira Evers- adjutant; F. Jo-
seph O'Neill. financs officer: Leo COL
lier, publicity officer; Thomas J.
Walsh, color bearer; Joseph Miles.
athletic officer.
Evening star., 1924-01-11
CREDIT MEN AID THRIFT.
D. G.. Association to Hear Report
on Plans for Week.

THE Evil of Purchasing on Others'
Accounts and procedure Followed
in Methods of Collection of Overdue
discussed at the first mesting in
1924 Of the Associated Retail Credit
Men of Washington at the Raleigh
Hotel Monday night. Dinner will be
served at $50 o'clock.
Stephen II. Takes. secretary OF the
association, recently returned from
New York, where he attended meet
Ing of the National Thrift Commit
tee, will outline the program for the
Forthcoming Thrift week to be OBJ
served throughout the country jan
uary II to 23. Mr.. Takes is chair
man OF the speakers bureau of the
local Thrift week committee.
Evening star., 1924-01-11

he asked II he
could just step in
side for a moment
and finish eating
q cracker he held
in his hand.
The on1cer, be-
fore 6 o mpl ying
. with or denying
the unusual re-
quest, asked the
In dividual why he
wished to do this.
The man replied:
You see, I am
8 u I II r ing from
dyspepsia, and all
i eat for lunch is
q coupie of crack
Evening star., 1924-01-11
WOULD PENSION NURSES.

:. Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald Of
Ohio yesterday introduced a bill to
place on the pension rolls on the same
basis as widows Of civil war soldiers
every nurse in the National Soldiers
Home who has, been engaged for
period OF thirty years in n,Ir sing
civil war soldiers and who has, at
tained the age Of sixty years.
Evening star., 1924-01-11
]. WIEDMANN BURIED.
Private Funeral Services Are Con-
Quoted at Residence.

Funeral services for Joseph VIE
dmann, sixty, former we'll known
restaurant proprietor of this city,
who died Wednesday az his home,
212 Indiana avenue northwest, were
held this afternoon at the family
home at 2 o'clock. The. funeral was
private.
Mr.. Wiedmann was native of OK
burg, Germany, and had been a resi-
dent of this city for thirty years
He is survived by his wife
Mrs. Barbara Weidmann, and
two daughters, Mrs. Josephine Tom
ainson of Washington, and Mrs. Helen
Bockover of Norfolk Va
Evening star., 1924-01-11
IN OUR TOWN
..

A man entered the White House
grounds the other day and walked
up to a policeman on guard at the
entrance. In an appealing manner
The daily worker., 1924-11-20

cluding the Lafayette school, took
place in the Folkets Hus, in Hirsch
Blvd.
AS far as the impressing the minds
of the school children against the
Communists is concerned, "Educa-
tion Week" in Chicago is fiat fail
ure. Thru the anti-education week
propaganda, the junior groups of the
city have gained many new members.
representatives Of the Young Work.
ers League. distributing invitations to
the children to come to the children'F
mass meetings, found that the chill.
dren knew more about the junior
groups and their activities against the
jingoistic program than about capital.
ist Education Week"
When the Young Workers Leaguers
questioned the children about what
the teachers told them of Education
Week" the children answered, "They
told us the old stuff about the flag"
Many Of the children spoke OF the
junior groups. and promised TO come
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
USE OF MAILS DENIED
TO MANIPULATOR OF A
GET T-RICH- QUICK PLAN

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 19.-
Glen D. Freyer, "a, who Is said to
have made 100000 In two years by
Inducing women and girls TO 'work
at home" buying materials from
him, was prohibited from using the
malls In an order from the United
States postofiee department re-
oeived here today.
Freyer, two years ago a drug
clerk is charged with using the
mails In a scheme to defraud, be-
Ing accused Of deVlslns a scheme Of
operations which In a short time
amassed him a fortune by circular
king women, particularly lnvaIIds
and "shut-Ins-v
INDECENT women bought the mater
laIs to make lampshade sets, pillow
cases and embroidery, which they
expected the Nile Art company,
Freyer's concern to market.
Thousands Of women, the govern
ment charges, found to their sorrow
after making the required purchases
Of materials and spending long
hours Of tedious toll that their work.
manshlp did not como up to the
standard Of specifications required
and could not be accepted"
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
COMMUNISTS IN
BIG conference
HIT DAWES Plan
Call 1t a Tre0cherOus
Attack on Workers

Especial 20 The Daily Worker)
COLOGNE, Germany, Nov.
1o.-The international Com
munist Conference held here
with representatives of many
European Communist parties
and Of the Communist Inter.
national, described the London
agreement, based on the Dawes
plan, as nothing more or less
than a treacherous attack upon
the vital interests Of the world
proletariat."
Outline Demands.
The Communist conference con
cluded that the execution Of the
Dawes plan will shortly make itself
felt in the economic circles Of the
three main countries. France, Germany
and England.
The participators in the conference
:have therefore consulted upon the
best means Of helping the workers IN
their countries in their frightful social
and economic position. The whole OF
those present were fully convinced
that the London plan must be opposed
by an entirely different plan.
This other plan consists OF social
ization, of the appropriation Of the
mines. banks. and big industrial I'M
dertakings, Of the naturalization Of
large land estates and housing. These
socialized undertakings are then 10
be placed under the control Of work
ers' and employees organizations.
This socialization can only be secured
by the dictatorial power Of a workers
government, and by an alliance with
Soviet Russia.
I'm order to insure immediate So
curity for the existence Of the work
ing class in face of the capitalist Of
fensive and the devastating results Of
the experts policy" the conference
decided the following demands are
to be striven for:
A minimum eight-hour work
day with a minimum wage, security
Of employment for all workers, habit
able living Accommodations for all
workers, adequate nourishment for all
the population. and security from the
brutal taxation of capitalism.
Many Countries Represented
The Communist Parties Of England
France, Germany, Holland. Belgium,
Switzerland, Italy and CEecho-Slovakia
were among those represented. Com
rade Francois represented the Com
munist International.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Police Can't Decide
If Minister'S Wife
Committed Suicide
Especial to The Daily wOrker)


COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 19.--Altho
admitting possibility that she might
have committed suicide, County Prose
cutor King and Lieutenant Of Detec-
tives Shellenbarger at noon today, con-
tinuing their probe, were a unit in
their refusal to relinguish the belief t
that the mysterious death Of Mrs. G.
v. Sheatsly, wife Of a Lutheran pastor,
may have been due to a murderer who
showed her body into the furnace in
the basement of the Sheatsley home
where her charred remains were found
Monday evening.
After viewing the remains OF their
mother, Prosecutor King. behind
closed doors at the court house. ques-
toned Milton. 20, and Clarence sheats-
ley, aged 16.
Coroner Murphy announced that he
had turned over to local chemist for
analysis the stomach and liver OF Mrs
Sheatsley. II was asserted by mem
bers of the sheatsley family that
bottle OF carbolic acid was missing
from the medicine chest, that they de-
tected fumes similar to carbolic acid
in the home late Monday.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Machinists' Local
Union No. 800 Backs
Flow-Meters Strike

Local Union No. 800, of the Inter
national Association of Machinists do
mated $4,000 to the striking machin-
lists in the Flow-Meters company ma
chine shop at their meeting Tuesday
night.
The members Of Local 800 showed
this solidarity with the Flow-Meters
employees after several members spoke
of the gallant and determined fight the
strikers were putting up against a
drastic wage cut which the company
tried to put over on the employees.
The men were not organized, but
Joined the Machinists' Union after go
ing out on strike. They have been
faithfully picketing every day regard
less of snow and cold.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
caII ItaIIan pueI "praw.v

ROME, Nov. 10. - Deputy Eugenio
Chiesa and Signor Tamborini, mem.
Der Of the Florentine Legion volun.
teer militia. tough a duel of fourteen
rounds with swords here, without any
blood being shed. They called it &
draw on the advice Of doctors, altho
both parties were as sore as ever at
the end Of the fourteenth round.
Chiesa, who was challenged by Tam
borino in consequence of attacks on
the militia by Chiesa, wanted to con-
tinue, but the militia man had enough.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
BARNEY BARUCH, WALL STREET
GAMBLER, HANGS OUT SHINGLE
AS ADVISER TO BIG BUSINESS
tey The Federated Pressl

NEW YORK CITY, Nov ia court before which us
with
0 Armistiee
problems
which should business the
peaIs
regulatory
would "lnqustora BODY which term
hs applied to the commission.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Pennsylvania Road
Refuses to Deal
With Clerks Union

The Pennsylvania railroad is con-
tinuing to break the provisions of the
transportation act. and refuses to deal
with representatives Of the Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and
Station Employees in a labor dispute.
The railroad labor board ordered
the railroad to deal with the union,
but the Pennsylvania railroad con.
tinues to defy the board and ignore
the union. The board has asked At
ttorney General Stone for a decision,
thus passing the buck to the Cool
idge administration.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
WATER SUPPLY
OF LOS ANGELES
is ENDANGERED
BIoodshed Threatened
Over Owens River

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Nov. 49,
Sheriff Charles Collins Of Inyo county,
has asked Gov. Friend w. Richardson
to rush state troops to Lone Pine,
where a band of 100 Ownes Valley
residents yesterday seized the Los
Angeles city aqueduct. according to
word received here today.
The appeal for troops followed un-
successful efforts of Inyo county Of
flcers to disperse the valley party,
which opened the headgates of the
aqueduct, turned into the Owens river
and placed an armed guard on the
gates.
According to a telegram received
here by city water bureau officials
from Sheriff Collins, bloodshed will
only be avoided by the arrival Of state
troops.
The officials here said the water
being wasted was worth $4,000 daily
and should the headgates be kept
open long this city's supply would be
greatly endangered.
The seizure of the aqueduct is the
latest chapter in bitter feud be.
tween Los Angeles and Owens valley
farmers over the waters of Owens
river. Three months ago the aque-
duct was dynamited and damaged
Los Angeles officials said seizure of
the headgates was another attempt to
force the city to purchase extensive
property holdings in the Owen valley
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
TermInsI Men Maintain scale.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19.--Employes OF
st. Louis Electrical Terminal Railway
Co. rescinded their strike vote and
accepted the corporations compromise
offer. The men, receiving 5Sc an hour,
had asked for &c hourly increase.
The company demanded cut Of &c
an hour. The 5Sc scale remains in
effect until Nov. 1, 1925. The action
involves motormen, conductors and
shopmen. The wage dispute had been
pending since Oct. /.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Had stronu eeIIef In Property.

LINN, Mo-, Nov. 19-Selection OF a
jury to try State Senator Tilman w.
Anderson, charged with stealing an
adding machine, typewriter and other
Office equipment from the labor depart
ment Office in the Missouri state CAPT
tol at the close OF the 1928 legisla-
tutre, has been completed and the
lawmaker will face second trial AT
the first trial the jury disagreed.
standing to 4 for acquittal. Inves-
tigators say they have uncovered
evidence Of wholesale theft OF state
property following the adjournment OF
the general assembly. 1923. Other
Legislators face charges.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE
ACTIVITIES.
LOCAL CHICAGO.
Friday November II.

Activity Meetings Of Area Branches.
No. l., 5 p. M, at 166 w. Washing.
ton St., 9Th floor; No. 2. s D. m, at 722
Blue Island Ave; No. 3. s y. m, at
S142 8. Halsted st., (basement); No
A. p. M, at 1922 Douglas Blvd; No,
s. p. M, at Northside Turner Hail
$40 N. Clark st.; No. 6, s D. m. al
1913 Hirsch Blvd.
Saturday November 2a.
All social managers to report with
their supplies at 27aS Hirsch Blvd AZ
$3.50 p. mg to make final arrange
ments for the affair.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Several Thousands of
High School Teachers
Meet at Urbana, Ill.

URBANA, ILL.,, Nov. 10. - Several
thousand high school teachers from
all parts of Illinois will arrive tonight
to attend the annual sessions of the
Illinois high school conference open
ing tomorrow at the University OF
Illinois.
Three hundred editors of high
school publications also are expected
to be here for the fourth general con
ference of the Illinois State Hight
School Press Association and high
school journalism conferences.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
IBANEz DODGES ALL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR
OUTBREAK AT POMPTONA
tspsoIaI t0 she DaIIy werksrl

especial to the Daily Workerl
PARIS, Nov. 1e.--5lasoo Ibanez
and Rodriguez sorIano, leaders Of
Spanish republican thought, again
emphatloally denied In Interviews
today that they had any connection
with the Pomptona rebel outbreak,
as witnesses at the Pcmptona court
martial testified.
MADRID, Nov. 10. - Disagree
ments between the military court
trying fourteen radicals for the
Pomptona outbreak and the captain
general Of the district will result in
the review Of the case by the SUI
preme war council, the directory
announced today.
The daily worker., 1924-11-20
GROVE is STILL
SILENT ON DEATH
OF dean O'BANION
Police Make Much Fuss
But Do Nothing

states Attorney GROVE, VINO LOOK
such an active part In breaking the
garment workers strike last spring,
has not said a word since the murder
Of Dean O'Bannion, which has reveal
ed the connection between the under
world and the so-called law enforc-
ing authorities of Cook county.
Big business uses the crooks to
break strikes, but In between such
employment, the crooks do not always
display their best qualities. They in
dulge in robberies and other sprees,
including stealing from banks, getting
away with heavy payrolls and other
acts which bring uneasiness to the
employers
Washed Hands Of Murders.
After every murder the police usual
ly say that the culprit viii be arrest
ed within "twenty-four hours" but
there was no time limit set in the
O'Bannion case. Indeed, Chief Of De-
tectiyes Hughes threw up his hands
and said that the probability was the
murderers would never be apprehend-
ed No effort was made by the police
or the states attorney.
On the day after the O'Bannion mur-
der, information leaked into the capi-
talist press that the dead gunman
aided States Attorney Grove in the
elections, turning over normally de-
mocratic ward to the republicans This
fact is generally considered respon-
sible for O'Bannion's death.
Dropped Grove clew.
Since then, however, the capitalist
press have not commented on that
phase Of the case. There are other
connections between the states attor-
ney's office and the underworld, which
may shed some light on the reason
for Groves strange silence since the
murder.
It is stated that William Engelke
who was arrested in connection with
the Duffy murder, was allowed to
plead guilty to a larceny charge be-
fore Judge Lindsey, at the request OF
States Attorney Robert e. Grove.
The orgy Of arrests in which hun
dreds were gathered in for the pur-
pose of making a showing to big bust
ness, means nothing. 1t is noted that
none of the real tuxedo gunmen were
arrested Like similar police raids,
nothing viii come Of it.
Spies Of Capitalist Press.
The Chicago Tribune, The Herald
Examiner and the Daily News are In
the rotten mess up to their ears. Each
one Of these papers has spies, and
criminals on its STATS.
There is a move now on among anti
Dever democrats to get rid OF Morgan
Collins, chief of police Michael
Hughes, head of the detective bureau
is also slated to go. This is not q
move to clear up crime, but an cleo
ton dodge. A certain faction In the
democratic party is not satisfied with
the way Dever played the game since
he was elected, and they are after his
scalp.
According to letters Of administra
ton fled today, Dean O'Bannion, re
puted millionaire, left an estate only
worth $4,000. It is believed the rest
of his earnings" went to the poll
ticians for protection.