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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
NEBRASKA C.P.P,A,
WORKS TO HALT
FL. P. TENDENCY
Dirt Farmers Are for
May 30

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Feb. 22.-
The small conference here of farm
ers and railway workers is re-
Election of the political chaos that
obtains in a state where Charlie
Bryan, the governor and other demo-
Gratis are fling in the coming pri-
maries on both the democrat and
progressive party tickets.
The state secretary of the Con-
ference for Progressive Political Ac-
ton and some of the railway union
delegates are here to capture the
meeting in the hope that they can
hold balance of power in the two
old parties. They want to put it on
record for a program Of endorsing
of candidates on the old party tickets.
The dirt farmers here are hostile
to this attempt to steal a conference
that was not called by the progress
sive party officially but by many indi-
viduals active in its ranks.
These delegates are heading now
or in the immediate future for a
farmer-labor party and participation
In the May Both conference.
This is understood by the C. P.
P. A. crowd and it is making them
all the more active in attempting to
prevent the logical development of
the Nebraska movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
MABEL COREY, STEEL
KINGS DARLING, MAY
Be BOURBON'S BRIDE

PARIS, Feb. 22.-"I admire
Mrs. Corey greatly, but appre-
ciate my freedom, at least for the
present" said Don Luis Ferdinand,
bourbon prince and cousin of King
Alfonso of Spain, referring to
rumors that he is engaged to
marry Mrs. Mabel Gilman Corey
of New York.
Friends say the romance be-
tween the divorced wife of the
former United States Steel head
and the youthful prince has been
ripening for Is years, since they
first met when Mrs. Corey came
here on her honeymoon. Luis was
but 10 in those days. He has paid
discreet court to the former ac-
tress ever since, friends said, usu-
ally while dancing in Chic res
taurants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
LOngIUOrth Hopes
to Jockey SurtGr
BeLOIU N Per Cent

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Nego-
tiations on a new compromise were
in progress today between House
republicans and progressives in a
final effort to reverse House action
and defeat the Garner income tax
plan in the new revenue bill.
Republican Leader Longworth has
offered to accept cut in normal in
come tax rates from three per cent
to two per cent on incomes less than
$4,000, if the progressives will ac-
cept the six per cent rate on incomes
above that amount, as proposed in
the Mellon plan. The maximum sur
tax rates would be fixed at 3715 per
cent under the proposed compromise.
The Garner plan as adopted fixes
maximum surtaxes at "A per cent.
Longworth conceded that the plan
must win at least ten additional
votes to put it over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Germany Must Pay
Millions IN AlO0rds
for LuSitGE1iu Claims

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Ger-
many today faced bill of $841 900
as part of the cost of sinking the
Lusitania during the war.
In making the awards in 81 cases
IN the Lusitania group, Judge Edwin
b. Parker, umpire of the German
American mixed claims commission.
denied 40 claims.
The cases came to Judge Parker
as a result of disagreement between
Charles P. Anderson, American com
missioner, and Wilhelm Kisselbach.
the German commissioner. His de-
cision followed the decision in the
Lusitania cases handed down in
November, 1923, when nearly s23.-
100000 was awarded to 278 claim
ants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Mellon Hammered
by FGrmer-LGbOr
Man In Congress

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Repre.
sentative Wefald, Farmer-Labor. az
Minnesota, denouncing the Mellon
tax plan during the house debate.
said that only 131 taxpayers in Min
nesota were rich enough to benefit
more by Melons scheme than by
the high surtax plan of the Demo-
Gratis. Of the 124,5O1 income tax
payers in his state in 1921, 124,37O
would gain more by the Garner
schedule of rates.
Who is Secretary Mellon?" asked
Wefald. "He is the man who fixes
the rate of interest to be paid on
government securities, of which
there are outstanding $21,500, 000,-
600. The law has given him the
right to do this, By fixing the in
terest rate on the whole crushing
burden of Understanding securities
upon the backs Of the American
people. Interest is tax. He has the
power to increase the tax load on
the poor. If interest is placed one
half of 19S higher than it ought to
be, that increases the interest load
thruout the land more than $780,
100000.
''Mr. Mellon sits on the federal
reserve board. They fix the dis
count rate and regulate credit.
"It is natural that one of the rich
est men in the world, having been
placed in such a position of political
and economic power, will try to con-
quer the one world that is yet left
to be conquered to tighten the
load of the rich. That is what the
Mellon bill intends to do, ana
nothing else"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Farrell, Pa, Police
Loot w. p. Hall
In LGULess Raid

NEW YORK.-Charging that the
raid on Workers Party headquarters
by the police Of Farrell, Pa, is part
of the attempt to "stop organization
among the steel workers." the Amer
lean Civil Liberties union announced
its intention of backing the fight
to recover the property confscated
by the police. The confscated prop
erty included SITS worth of litera-
ture.
"This raid" Harry F. Ward, chair
man, Civil Liberties union, declared,
sis further evidence of the pressure
brought to bear on local officials by
the federal department Of justice at
the dictation of employers and other
interests in West Pennsylvania to
stop organization among the steel
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
so Cents a Vote, Is
All Politicians Will
Pay in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 22.-
Price of votes in Kansas City has
been cut so per cent, political work
ers charged today following regis
tration for the city elections in
April.
Police arrested a score of men
who they charged with registering
more than once under different
names. Confessions of four of those
arrested were made public. They
said they had been paid so cents to
register under assumed names and
give fake addresses in workers
hotels.'
In former years the price paid by
the underworld for fake registra-
tons was 81, police said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
MGgnuS Urges Prof.
William Schaeper for
Trad e Commission

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Can-
didates for the vacancy on the Fed
eeral Trade Commission, which Presi-
dent Coolidge must fill as result of
his withdrawal of the nomination of
George B. Christian, secretary 10 the
late President Harding we're being
suggested today.
Senator Magnus Johnson, Mime
s7.a, asked the President TO appoint
Professor William Schaafrl, formerly
If The University Of Minnesota.
| Albert j. Germs, advertising man
Of Chicago, also was indorsed in
messages received at the White
House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Bosses Attempt to
Clean Up Laundry
Drivers Union

After locking out the laundry
drivers, the laundry bosses in
Brownsville, N. Y, are doing every
thing possible to force the laundry
drivers to give up their fight for
the right to form a union. The
bosses are lowering the price for
laundering, but the housewives, the
wives of workers, are in sympathy
with the laundry drivers, and are
refusing to send their wash to the
scab laundries. The bosses are hav-
ing a hard time finding scabs, as
the laundry drivers are noted for
their fighting spirit, and no "goril-
las" can brighten them in the fight
they are making against bosses and
scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Poisonous Gas from
Defective Furnace
Causes TWO Deaths

Carbon monoxide gas from a de-
fective furnace, not ptomaine poison
ing, caused the death of William I.
Rowland, n, retired Chicago tea i'm
porter. and Mrs. Herta Orne, his
sister-in-law, postmortem exami-
nation today revealed.
Howland's wife and daughter, Vir-
ginia, found unconscious in another
part Of the Rowland home, will re-
cover, physicians said. Both were
suffering from the effects Of gas
poisoning.
The bodies were found by How
lands son, William, Jr., on returning
from a party. All four were stricken
following the evening meal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
SnOU Avalanche
Buries Trolley PLOw
an d Automobile

STRoUDsBURG, Pa, Feb. 22.-
An enormous avalanche of snow en-
tirely buried trolley snow pillow,
its two occupants and an automobile
with Mr.. and Mrs. Z. C. Baird, of
New York, while the automobile was
following the pillow along the road
between Delaware Water Gap and
Portland, according to word received
here today.
A road gang saw the slide cover
the trolley and machine and rushed
to the rescue. Mr.. and Mrs. Baird
were nearly suffocated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
You're Greater Man
Than 1 Am, Says
Calvin to DenaDSeL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Pres;-
dent Coolidge today conceded the
nationwide popularity to Jack
Dempsey, heavyweight champion.
: Meeting Dempsey at the White
House Offices, by special arrange
ment, the president said he was
pleased to greet a man probably
more widely known than himself
The president added that Dempsey
had been before the public longer.
Told by his secretary, C. Bascom
Slemp, that Dempsey could knock
man out with a two-inch punch
the president remarked that was
two inches more than he cared to
experience.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
SINCLAIR MAY
NOT APPEAR
AS WITNESS
Also Refuse to Give Fall
Chance at Immunity


THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The
senate Teapot Dome prObers today
decided to issue subpoena at once
for Harry f. Sinclair, lessee of
Teapot Dome.
The decision was reached at a
conference between Senator Len
root, Wisconsin, chairman of the
committee, and Senator Walsh,
Montana, chief investigator for the
committee, who returned to Wash
ington today from a brief vaca-
ton.
IT OUGHT TO BE TAKEN.
Before the conference it was in
timated Sinclair might not be per-
mitted to testify, on advice Of the
Presidents special counsel, Atlee
PomereTS, and Owen ]. Roberts.
Walsh and Lenroot said, however,
that they agreed Sinclair's testi-
mony ought to be taken.
eve will have Sinclair on the
stand within a week." said Walsh.
A subpoena will be served on
Sinclair in New York today calling
for his appearance early next week
when the committee resumes public
hearings. He will be questioned
regarding stock transactions in
Sinclair oil and a reported $1,000
600 "slush fund" raised by oil in
terests for use in Washington.
DOCUMENTS NOT MISSING.
Committee members said they
had not been advised about reports
that Sinclair would decline to test
fly as did Albert B. Fall, former
interior secretary, who leased Tea
pot Dome to Sinclair.
Senator Walsh today denied pub
Iished reports that important docu-
ments bearing on the oil case pro-
secutions are missing. He said the
committee had the original or a
photostatic copy Of every document
that has figured in the investiga-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Dusky Namesdkes
of COuntry's Father
Celebrate Birthday

HOUSTON. Tex, F eb. 22.-
Twenty-one Houstonians today cele-
brated the anniversary Of the birth
Of Gee Washington with more
than patriotic pride.
They are all namesakes Of the H.
lustrious father Of our country altho
all of them have the complexion and
ancestry Of Booker T. Their occu-
pationS run all the way from laborer
thru boilermaker and bricklayer TO
porter on a train.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23

MILWAUKEE, Feb. %. - Arne
Swabeck win address the Open Forum
Of the Milwaukee branch Of the Work
ers Party at 8 .. m. on Sunday on the
subject What is the Workers Par
ty?" Discussion follows. The forum
is held at Miller Hall, State e. Avery
SITS. This Is tho last Open Forum
meeting Of tho season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Business AZ UsuaI.

SEATTLE, Feb. 22.-Failure to
read Presidents Coolidge's latest
statement that the country is in q
prosperous condition may have beer
partly responsible for the death Of
W. c. Nogler here. Anyway NogleI
got discouraged.
Penniless, out of work, and unable
to borrow money, he ended his life
BY turning on three unlighted gas
jets and going to bed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Philadelphia w. p.
Holding Important
IA e ting Monday

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. pa
general membership meeting of the
Workers Party is called for Monday
evening, Feb. 25, at the local head
quarters, 521 York avenue, near
Fifth and Spring Garden SITS.
The district executive committee
held an important meeting at which
plans for extensive work were out
lined. II is absolutely essential that
every member of the party of Local
Philadelphia shall attend this meet
ing and hear the interesting report
of the new district organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Lecture On Russian Schools.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 22.-Prof.
P. Tutyshkin, Of the Medico-Pedo-
logical Institute Of Moscow, will lee
ture Sunday at p. M, in McCollister
Hall, Forest at Cass avenues, on Rus
sia's Educational System under the
following general heads:
Mother and Child in Soviet Russia;
New Horizons in Education; The
Problem Of the Regeneration Of Man
kind; The Problem Of Religion; The
Problem Of the Family and Marriage;
The Problem Of the Eugenic School;
New Problems Of Psychology Applied
to Education.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
One Figure Sometimes
Causes a Good Deal
of Needless Trouble

The DAILY WORKER carried .
news item on February 10 giving
Painters Local No. 631 credit for
the donation Of $430 to the relief
Of the German workers. Now IL
happens that no such local exists
but the last figure in the locals
number should be az" instead of
~. The credit belongs to Local
No. 637.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Russian Workers in
Thousands to Join
Communist Party

MOSCOW. Feb. 19.-The drive for
100000 new members of the Com
munis. party has been responded
to by applications from 100000
workers and peasants. A campaign
for 100000 new members all To
be recruited from the ranks Of the
workers and peasants may be I'M
dertaken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Kate o'Hsre to Speak.

Mrs. Kate Richards o'Hare will
dsliver an address on Crime in
the lecture room Of the LindIar
S.nstsrium. 525 S. Ashland Blvd
a. 7t30 Saturday evening, Fsbru-
airy "a Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23

NEW YORK, Feb. 22-Twenty per-
sons were injured slightly today when
westbound Long Island passenger
train ran thru an open switch into
standing freight train near Hunting
ton, Long Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
Still improving.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
Frank l.. Greene, Vermont, near death
for several days, is slightly improved,
II was announced today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23

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EARLIER in THE DAY.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-
Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of
Teapot Dome, may be excused
from testifying before the SEN
ate committee on advice of the
Presidents special counsel in
the oil leasing cases.
Tho Sinclair is tentatively
scheduled to appear Monday,
Senator Lenroot, chairman of
the committee, said no sub
poena has been issued for him.
Lenroot has talked with Sim
clair by telephone, but de-
cined to say what arrange
ment was made with him.
Atlee Pomerene and Owen j. Ro-
berts, the special counsel, are under
stood to have suggested it might be
better not to permit Sinclair to test
ify. They advised the committee to
excuse Albert B. Fall, former interior
secretary, so he could not claim i'm
munity in court.
Return to Washington of Senator
Walsh, Montana, chief investigator of
the committee, is expected to remove
a lid of secrecy which has covered
the committees plans since he left
Washington.
Senator Walsh returned today from
his brief vacation in North Carolina
and Immediately went into conference
with chairman Lenroot and other
members of the committee.
1t Is expected that one Of the first
witnesses to be heard when public
hearings are resumed Monday will be
the New York investigator who re-
ported on stock transactions by attor-
ney general Daugherty. This invest
igator has other evidence also.
Z. B. Mclean, owner of the Wash
ington Post, is under subpoena to tell
more about the 100000 Fall got
from him and later returned. Nc
Lean also is to be asked whether he
know Of a $1,000,000 "slush fund" re-
ported to have been raised by oil in
terests for use in Washington.
Sinclair Loses Italian Leases.
ROME, Feb. 22.-Harry F. Sinclair
loses, for the time being at least, the
Italian oil leases he sought here.
The Teapot Dome scandal found
an echo in the Italian press, a strong
section Of which attacked Signor Cor
bone, minister Of national economy
for granting Sinclair's company a
monopoly TO drill for oil in all Italian
possessions
Signor Corbono accordingly decided
not to sign the convention and to SUBJ
init the matter to the personal con-
sideration Of Premier Mussolini, who
Is inclined TO favor the Italian oil in
terests.
Report Wheeler Resolution.
The audit and control committee TO-
day decided to report favorably the
Wheeler resolution calling for in
vestigation Of the administration Of
the Department of Justice
Because Of prior agreement by the
Senate not 10 transact any business
today, tho resolution will be formally
reported tomorrow and acted upon
Monday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24
OF MISSOURI
WOMAN PETRIFIED

FULTON, Mo-, Dec. 24.-While old
timers were recalling TIE days Of ,ae
Cardiff giant, those of an inqa.rng
mind now are seeking an explanation
for the petrification Of the body of
Mrs Nj. F. Guthrie, which has just been
transferred to HillcreSt cemetery, here,
flem its resting place Of twenty-four
years in the cemetery at New Hloorl-
field, a nearby village.
Mrs. Guthrie's body was found to
have TUNED into stone, although four
oilers buried near it had decomposed,
as is normal.
The removal of Mrs. Guthrie's body
and the bodies of Mr.. Guthrie, the son
and two daughters was requested by
Miss Cornelia Guthrie, daughter, on her
death bed here recently. so that the en-
tire family might rest in the same lot
in Hillcrest.
When the sexton and four assistants
opened Mrs. Guthrie's grave they found
the casket rotted away and the body
turned to stone. With enc CIR two
slight exception, the features looked
as they did a quarter Of a century ago.
The hairpins were still in place.
The body was so heavy that The five
men had great difficulty in raising it.
The ether five bodies we&a fond %
be in the normal state, with only the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24
S.P.ACREEMENT
STAYS IN FORCE
Rail Board Refuses to
Suspend Wage Hike
to Enginemen
(Bv The Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, nj, Dee. 24.--Petit.ons OF
the conference committee. of managers
OF western railways to have the United
States Railroad Labor BIO srd suspend
operation Of an agreement between the
Sontsein Pacific company asd its en-
~iree-s and fiiemen have been denied
by the board.
The western managers asked that the
agreement be set aside u7fer a pro-
vision of the transported on act govern
ing the board power to do so if q wage
or salary increase is likely to Increase
tn rates of the carrier.
The managers did not claim that an
Increase in rates asexpected on the
Southern Pacific. but made the plea
rat other western ROADS, who made
similar wage increases, might increase
rates. The board declared the carriers
have misinterpreted the law ia assum.
ing that it had authority to suspend
an agreement affecting a carrier, be.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24

City Woman, For
r,er Marvel, Has Reg
ular Baby
{NEA Servicep

SIOUX CITY. Ia. Dec. 24.-She was
. child prodigy herself
Bpt she Doesn't want her own child
to be cne.
Before she was 2. Viola Olerich. was
being proclaimed throughout the west
'stk4 ~cleverest baby on earth"
That was rs years ago.
She could read fluently. talk in poly
syllables, name all the bones in the
human body, identify hundreds of fam
eus men, solve difficult geometric prob
lens. talk i~ntelligently. about the planets
and do dozens of things that would
stump the average high school pupil.
.Outspelled C0llegians
At 0 she was taking dictation en- the
typewriter and turning out perfect copy.
At 4 she was out-spelling a group Of
piektd university students.
Under the tutelage CT her foster
father. Professor Henry Olerieh, she
made remarkable progress in her stu
dies gaining IN unusually broad gen
srat education,
Then she dropped cut of the lime
light.
Three years ago news of her mar
fiage to a young nan employed in the
offices of o n Omaha packing company
Leaked ont.
Then the world again lost sight Of
IT'S "cleverest baby
But now she has been rediscovered.
She IL living here. Has been for a year.
Virginia Plays with Dolls
And she has a little daughter of her
own-Virginia.
,Virginia is just 2-the age at which
her mother. was astounding scientists.
educators and medical men.
But Virginia is not a child prodigy
She's playing with dolls, a big rubber
ball and still talking baby talk. And
her mother is glad.
81 don't want, her to be a child pro-
dizzy" she says. 81 want her TO be
like ether children.
iiH.Tf the body is strong and healthy
row learning will come, easily when
school age Is reached.
Tim eserting no effort. to make her a
Prodigy OF course, / shall help her all
lean throughout her school career. But
ow j want her to be just like other
lissie girls. ~ ~
After all. taking care of a child's
physical netds, together with the ordin-
AIRY amount of discipline. seems to me
about the most important duty of a
mother during the first few years of
her ehild's life.
g"And that's what I am trying to do"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24

cause a similar increase extended to
: second carrier might produce a rate
increase for the secoad carrier.
The agreement in effect. the to,Y3
said. affects only one carrier and the
board las no right to assume that tie
same agreement is to be extended to
other carriers.
The Southern Pacific, which. notified
the board it was not . party to the i'll
ing OF the petitions granted n five
per cent INCREASE to is firemen and en-
gineeis. but dii not incist on cert lin
changes in working rules while the
other western roads did.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24
Holiday Seekers in
England Seek Cruises
by The Associated Press.)

LONDON; Dee. 24.-Following the ex-
ample set by many Americans, British
ers are developing the habit of going on
sea cruises. so much SO that several of
thssprincipa1 shipping companies are as,
figHing large steamers to carry parties
ouseraises for three weeks or a month:
Wpuid.be travellers gradually are
fealisirg that such trips are economical.
and that better weather generally can
be relied upon In 'the Mediterranean and
Scandinavia, than has been experienced
this !yeap in England 1
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-24
Commcn Colds Cost
HugelSum in England

LONDON, Dec. 24.-The costliest dis
case In England, in the aggregate. is the
common cold, and the Q 5000. 900 10 S0,-
0oo. 900 cases OF snuffles that will de-
velop in British heads during the COM
ing winter viii cost In the ne gibbs rhood
Of $1,000 900. according 10 . London
Medical Health Officer.
He bases his figures, on an average
cost in loss Ct time, lowe red working
capacity, medicines and doctors bills at
SIPS q cold. although in many cares the
costs amount up 10 $50 CT more.