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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
PROMINENT MEN
HAULED IN AS
KHAN MURDERERS
Two More Are Dying
After Khan Massacre

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, April o.
Twenty-four members of the Ku Klux
Khan are under arrest here today
charged with rioting and murder dur
ing a Khan demonstration at Lilly,
Pa, Saturday. Two more of those
shot by the Khan murderers, Patrick
Bradley and Frank Miasco, are ex-
pected to die from their wounds.
State constabulary are still patrol
ling Lilly today, while influential
Klansmen are trying TO get their riot
ing colleagues out on writs of habeas
corpus.
Governor Pinchot announced that
he would govern his future COURSE by
reports received from state cossack
Major Adams. Attorney General
Woodruff declared at Harrisburg
that unless further disorders are re-
ported the state is not expected to
interfere with local authorities.
OF the twenty-four Klansmen who
participated in the massacre, some
are prominent business men, two are
constables, and one is councilman.
investigation Continues.
Authorities today continued their
into Saturday nights
fatal rioting in Lilly between citizens
and the Ku Klux Khan.
The death Of Frank Miasco of Lilly
brought the total dead to three today
and a fourth man. Patrick Bradley
Of Lilly, Is reported dying in an AL
toona hospital.
Six more Lilly citizens have been
arrested in connection with the out
break and will be arraigned today.
Additional arrests are expected.
klsnsmen Get Hearing.
Twenty-six Klansmen will be taken
to the Ebensburg court house from
the police station here today for a
hearing on a writ of habeas corpus
TO determine whether they can be
admitted to bail. The men are
held on charges Of rioting and MUIR
der.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
Wheeler Call. 1t Frame.up.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-De-
.nouncing the indictment against him
as a "frame-up" by the republican
national committee to balk the un-
covering of "a great conspiracy"
Senator Burton X. Wheeler, Montana,
today declared investigation Of the
department of justice and Harry NJ.
Daugherty would not be stopped by
the indictment.
Wheeler, chief prosecutor Of the
Daugherty committee, was indicted
late yesterday by a federal grand
jury at Great Falls, Montana, on a
charge of illegally accepting a fee in
connection with oil land cases for
the Gordon Campbell interests since
he became a member of the senate.
Wheeler prepared to 60 back to
Montana to dIland an early trial.
He decided this was the best thing to
do, after a long conference last night
with Senator Walsh, his colleague,
and other democratic leaders. Mean
time bond for Wheeler's appearance
in court is to be arranged by wire
today.
Ddugherty rays innocent.
Wheeler's indictment was like a
bolt from the blue. Wheeler had no
warning of it, altho he had charged
that he was being investigated by the
department of justice.
Altho dispatches stated that the
indictment was the result of evidence
secured by department of justice
agents before Daugherty resigned as
encouragement, Daugherty said
that he never heard of the case"
while he was in the department. He
was inclined to believe it was a small
fraud case worked up by the post
Office department.
Republican Heads Knew.
Wheeler told the Senate he had
been informed that the republican
national committee several days ago
knew he was to be indicted. Depart
, ment of Justice sleuths have been in
vestigating his history for months,
he declared.
The young democratic progressive
made a complete denial of all the
charges, and insinuations that have
been made against him since he began
the investigation which preceded re-
, signation of Attorney General Daugh-
erty from the cabinet.
This was done solely for the pur-
pose of injuring me, and detracting
from the work of our investigating
committee which has unearthed con
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
JAKE WILLING.
EVEN TO Give.
COOL MILLION
Witness Not Sure As to
OkIahOman'S Motives
Special 10 Tn, Daily WORKER

WASHING ION, April B.
Further testimony concerning
alleged IDEALS" to secure the
republican nomination for War
rem G. Harding, was given the
Senate Oil Committee today.
j. F. Baughn, Harrington,
Texas, the first witness called,
declared that Jake Hamon
told him that he signed the
check that nominated Harding
for president"
Farmer Is Witness.
Baughn, formerly a farmer at
Duncan, Okla, said he had known
Hamon for 18 or 20 years and that
he talked politics" with him after
his return from the Chicago 1920
convention.
He told me then that he had mo-
Itiyes' for supporting Harding and if
need be that he would spend $1,000
600 to carry Oklahoma republican.
He never explained what his mo
tives' were"
Investigation Will Proceed.
The Senate Committee, in a brief
executive session this morning, de-
cided to push it's inquiry.
Senator Brookhart, the chairman,
drew cheers from a crowd of specta-
tors when he announced at the end
of the executive session that 1.-The in
vestigation will proceed with a force
and determination that it never had
before"
Harding's Campaign Fund.
After Baughn was excused, VIM.
H. Miller, former assistant attorney
general of Ohio was called.
j. B. French, friend of Hamon,
testified Monday that Hamon said he
gave Miller $4,000 to pay the Chi
cago hotel bills of the Harding head
quarters. Miller, French said, was
the pre-convention Harding manager
in Oklahoma.
Miller denied that he accepted any
money from Hamon to pay Harding's
hotel bill.
81 paid out no money and l took
in no money. was neither q cam
paign manager nor a sub-manager, +"
he said.
Miller declared Harding's cam
paign had been poverty campaign
all the way thru" and said he had
heard no reports at the convention
that Hamon had paid any Harding
expenses.
He was then excused.
Probe California Reserve.
Senator Walsh read several COM
munications from Secretary of In
terror Work, in connection with
which various leases in California
nava reserve Number 2, and an
nounced he will shortly begin a thoro
investigation of this reserve which
previously had been neglected by the
committee.
The committee then adjourned un-
ill Friday.
Witnesses who will appear Friday
are: VIM Nichols, Oklahoma City po-
lice chief and General Edwin r.
Glenn, chief Of the Wood headquar4
tiers in Columbus. Ohio, in 1920.
Mrs. Hamon, widow of the Okla
homa politician, has not yet been
served with a subpoena. She prob
ably will appear Saturday, Walsh an
nounced.
d. Of J. Refused Aid.
George w. Stork. a department
Of justice accountant, was the first
witness.
After presenting letter from
the department refusing 20 furnish
files in the Bosch Magnto case. and
the Green stock case asked by the
committee, Stork went into lengthy
details leading up to the sale of
the Bosch Magnetic company prop
critics by the alien property custo-
dian during the war involving Jo-
J seph F GuGey, of Pittsburgh, for
mer democratic national commit
CONTINUED on page ~
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
CLAIM JUDGE.
"DENN|E" HAS
BROKEN DOWN
Faced By Forty Strikers Who
Defied His Injunction

Judge "Dennie" Sullivan is
going to be ousted from his job
of using the machinery of his
court in making war on the
strikers of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
This was one Of the develop
ments that became known in
the courtroom of the American
prototype of the British labor
oppressor, Judge Jeffreys, of
two centuries ago, when he
was faced by 40 strikers yes
terday who had defied his in
junction.
He's Just Worn Out.
The excuse is made that the Hon
orable Dennie" is just worn out,
and that he needs vacation. Others
say that his spirit has been broken
by the defiance of the strikers.
Anyway, it is claimed that he is
making arrangements with the law
yers for both sides to have the strike
cases transferred to the court of
Judge Fels.
Cant you go in and see if Judge
Fels will take these cases?" Sullivan
is reported as saying YEARLY to the
lawyers. 81 am going out Of town
for a few days to rest up. Just go
into Judge Fels' court and tell him !
sent you"
Over forty pickets were in court,
filling the jury box and the lawyers
chairs as we'll as benches around the
room. 1t has finally dawned on Judge
Sullivan that in spite of his looks, his
threats and severe fines and SEN
fences, there are as many strikers on
the picket line as there were when
the strike began.
Dunno Addresses Strikers.
The strike meeting of the garment
workers was addressed yesterday
afternoon by William F. Dunno of
the DAILY WORKER staff. He
urged the strikers to continue their
picketing and pay no attention to
the injunction saying that this was
no time for the workers to show any
sign of weakness. He pointed out
that obedience of the legal fictions
of the employers courts would end
, in the complete destruction of the
labor movement.
Preparations are being made for
the monster parade of strikers and
sympathizers thru the loop district
which is planned for Monday with a
mass meeting in some loop theatre
yet to be selected.
Altho the officials Of the union are
prohibited from ordering or arrang-
ing for picketing voluntary picketing
is keeping the strike lines tight. This
is a remarkable feature of the strike
that has even aroused the admiration
of the thugs and police.
Nelson IL Still Mum.
Alderman Oscar Nelson was still
as mum as ever at Wednesday after
moons meeting of the city council.
He said that he had not been
asked to bring up the question of
the strike, neither by Vice President
Meyer Perlstein, in charge of the
strike, or by the Committee of Is"
of the Chicago Federation. He was
not inclined to start anything him
self
While the city council was in SEES
sion in the city hall the COMMITTEE
Of 10" was also meeting, but at the
Offices Of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor in West Washington St.
Late in the afternoon Judge Sui
Ivan sent five Of the strike cases TO
Judge Fels, carrying out the report
that he was planning TO turn all Of
his anti-strike activities over TO
Judge Fels, and leave the city tempo
rarily.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
extraordinary! TRIAL
DATE OF B00TLEGGING
CONGRESSMAN is SET

CONVICTION, KY, April e.
The trial of Congressman John w.
Lwingley Of Kentucky and his al
legged associates, charged with con-
spring 10 withdraw liquor from a
government warehouse was set to-
day for April is at 9 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
MAY OUST SULLIVAN
WHAT DAWES EXPERTS
ARE EAGERLY HOPING
FOR THEIR PROPOSALS
WHAT THE EXPERTS PROPOS-
AIS ARE SUPPOSED TO MEAN
TO GERMANY:

Relief for two years from repa-
rations payments; these to be taken
care of by a foreign loan and
tax on industries at present nom
productive.
Return of economic interest in
the Ruhr and Rhineland.
Sterilization of her currency by
means of loan of 80O,00O,000 gold
marks and creation of a gold bank
of emission.
A return of German capital that
has flown the country" with col
lapse of the mark.
TO FRANCE:
Priority in reparations payments
insofar as the cost of her armies
of occupation are concerned.
Assurance of slowly but steadily
increasing payments by Germany
under allied supervision.
Protection against an adverse
exchange or trade balance that
might result from incautiOus Ger
man payments.
TO THE UNITED STATES:
Provision for payment of the
costs of the American army that
was four years on the Rhine.
TO THE WORLD:
Probable settlement of the repa-
rations problem that has kept
Europe in turmoil since the signing
of the Versailles treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
WALL STREET Offers SCHEME TO 'SAvE'' EUR
Hamon Wrote the Check That Elected Harding
Morgan's New Mortgage

NNIHEN Brigadier-General Dawes house of Morgan
w henchman, appointed a member of the
mee of experts to determine Germanys capacity pay
PREPARATIONS, stated that the first step in the
underwriting of the Preparations account by the finance
capitalists of the United States and that international
committee of bankers dominated by the Morgan
would become the receivers of Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10

Workers. Farmersl Demand;
The Labor Party
Amalsamatien
Organization of Unorganized
The Land for the Users
The Industries for the Workers
Protection of the Foreign-Born
Recognition of Soviet Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
Washington, D. c., Refuses Memorial
Tree For MkoLai Lenin---But Wait!

WASHINGTON, D. c., April "a request received by the
authorities here that memorial be planted Street
the Of Noa Lenin has been refused In spite the
fact that exoldier j. Bentley milford made
pointed that memory of Washington veterans
planted this and the fadious spirits these
object the company immortal enin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-10
OIL
INDICT MENT
HITS WHEELER
Got Fees For Oil Permits. His
Enemies Are Charging
Special to The Daily work.r)


GREAT FALLS, Mont, Apr.
9.-Charges and counter
charges fell fast on one an
other today following indict-
ment of Burton K. Wheeler,
Junior United States Senator
from Montana, for alleged I'M
lawful receipt of money in con-
nection with the issuance of oil
and gas prospecting permits.
Wheeler, who is prosecutor
of the Senate Daugherty Inves-
tigating Committee, was in
dicted by the Grand Jury with
Gordon Campbell, oil operator,
and l.. G. Stevenson, promoter.
U. S. District Attorney SIattery
said a warrant for the sena-
tors arrest has been tele-
graphed to Washington.
Campbell, who the indictments
charge, paid Wheeler $4,000 in con-
nection with permits, Immediately is
sued a statement denying the aliega-
ton and declaring his dealing with
the senator "open and above board"
Friends of Wheeler denounce his
political foes as responsible for the
indictment.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
Segregation Bill
i'm Maryland
Legislature
(Lincoln News Service)

Baltimore, April 1, 1924-A bill has
been introduced in the General AS
senibly attempting to legalize segre-
CATION by contract when 75 per cent.
of the residents of any block in any
city in Maryland agree not to sell or
permit occupancy by Negroes except
as servants. The bill seeks to evade
constitutional barriers by a rubber
like provision applying segregation by
contract among Negroes against
whites as well as whites against Ne
groes. This will deceive no one, how
ever. If the bill passes the House and
Senate it will be fought to a finish
in the courts. Negroes of Maryland
are going to demand and fight to the
last ditch for the same rights accord
ed to all citizens of choosing their
own domiciles, paying for them, buy
ing them, and occupying them. If
there is any belief in the mind of any
persons not of the race that they will
submit to segregation of any sort
without contesting it every inch of
the way, those persons will need to
revise their beliefs.-Baltimore Her
aid.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
Colored Singer 30
Years at Fashion
able White Church
of New York
N. Y. Evening Post Pub
fishes Biography of Harry
Burleigh, Noted
Musician
On. A. A. C. P. Press service)

IN. A. a. C. P. Press Service)
The New York Evening Post of
March % published biography of the
noted colored musician and singer,
Harry 7. Burleigh, who has just COM
pleted thirty years service as bari
tone soloist at the fashionable st.
Georges church in Stuyvesant square
The biography recounts that Bur-
leigh is the grandson of a slave, with
Scotch and Indian ancestry. Left
fatherless, the boy earned his own liv-
ing until he found the New York Con-
servatory of Music, where he was
awarded scholarship. AT. the con-
servatory, Burleigh saw much of the
noted composer, Dvorak, whose man.
uscripts he used to copy; and sang
for him plantation songs which may
have given some of the inspiration for
the New World Symphony.
In 1894, Burleigh applied for a po-
sition vacant in the choir of st.
Georges church. He was the only
Negro to apply. He got the position.
He has sung there Sunday after Sun
day since then. Mr.. Burleigh, whose
voice became widely known, recalls
having sung for Prince Harry of Prus-
sia, for paderewski, and Col. Roose-
Welt, for the Archbishop of Canterbury
and the famous orchestra conductor,
Anton Seidl.
Mr.. Burleigh is best known for his
of the old Spirituals and
plantation songs. He received the
Spingarn medal in 1917 and has re-
ceived two degrees, from Howard and
Atlantic Universities. On the after
noon of the first Sunday in April, st.
Georges program is being made up
entirely of Negro Spiritualists as ar
ranged by Harry Burleigh, in recog-
milton of, his thirty years service.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
COlOred Frater-
nifty HOnOrs
Colonel Young,
(Lincoln News Service)

Washington, April 1, 1924.-More
than 1000 members of the Omega Psi
Phi fraternity and their friends paid
tribute to the memory of Colonel
Charles Young, deceased member of
the organization and one of the out
standing military figures of the col
ored race, at services held last week
in Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard
University.
Chaplain o. J. w. Scott, U. S. A.,
retired, told of the military record of
Colonel Young. He related his serv-
ice from his graduation from West
Point, through the Spanish-American
war and the Philippine disturbances
until his retirement in 1917 and his
death, January s, 1922. Alston Bur-
leigh read a poem to commemorate
the dead hero, and other appropriate
tributes were paid by those who re-
vered the memory of our greatest
soldier.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
White Actor Does
Not Like to Play
Part Of Negro
Halter, He Says
IN. A. A. G. P. Press service)

New York, April Arthur Hohl, a
white actor, playing in "White Cargo"
recently gave an interview to the New
York American in which he said he
did not like the part of Negro-hater
which he had to play.
"There are some parts that won't
permit n man to be democratic" said
Mr.. Hohl. Here L am trying to be a
good American in private life, while
in Leon Gorden's new play 1 am COM
PEELED to imagine myself a Negro-hater
eight times a week. It's inconsistent
with my past life, even through the
play is a powerful study of African
life
"You see, it isn't very easy for me
to forget a few things about the col
ored race, particularly the part it
played in the World War. Yes, hap
pened to be in it.
I'm not anxious to tell you what L
did in the war. Nor shall 1 tell you
of what the colored troops did there.
That's what we've got history books
for, and if the compilers are not ve-
hemently clannish they have set down,
or will in due time, all pertaining to
the heroism of the colored troops. l
saw it, as did many others; 1 should
like to remember it and L am sure
others would, too.
''That is why it requires extraordi
nary effort to play the part l am
playing in White Orange
But try as L might / cannot act
Witzel without completely exhausting
myself. 1 guess I'll have to get rid of
this costume. It's part of my service
togs, worn for whole year on the bat
tlefield. 1 took it from the body of
one of my colored men-a hero, of
course-and it's bloodstained."
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
Hayes i'm
Recital at Queens
Hall, London
Especial from Monitor Bureau)

Especial from Monitor Bureau)
land Hayes emerges from the ruck of
the many good into the ranks of the
few outstandingly fine artists. His re-
cital at Queens Hall on February 30
here so far. With Sir Henry Wood
and the new Queens Hall orchestra
to accompany him, his pure tenor
voice and refined methods held their
own as easily in the large spaces as
at former times in smaller halls. The
ringing enthusiasm of the audience
showed their opinion, and only great
determination on his part kept the
singing Endure, Endure" from the
"St. Matthew Passion" (Bach) "Thy
Hand, Belinda" from "Dido and
Aeneas' PurcelD, and "Un' aura am
zart) Rather surprisingly he did the
Bach in French; a new experience but
interesting. With all rough edges
banished from the words, Bach's
phrases flowed like liquid silver; for
Roland Hayes has a breath control
and production that are analogous to
the effortless phrasing of violinist.
If one grants that it is permissible for
a man to sing this Purcell "air," then
one has nothing but admiration for
the pathos and beauty of Roland
Hayes rendering. But is it permissible
to wrest soprano solo into the tenor
register Purcell was always very
careful over vocal color.
In the little known "Repos de la
Sainte Famille," by Berlioz, Roland
Hayes showed himself master of
what one may call the Fra Angelica
mood The three Shakespeare songs
by Roger Quilter that followed are
charming at all times, and the reso-
nance Roland Hayes got into his voice
in ''Blow, blow, thou winter wind"
was a well calculated contrast to the
mezzo voce of the Berlioz.
But his Shakespeare readings, as
well as his Mozart, had an underlying
vein of sadness; like Jessica in ''The
Merchant of Venice" he is "ne'er
merry" when he hears sweet music.
Though of different races, he and she
both belong to peoples who have been
oppressed Was his usefulness the
emergence of some instructive MEM
ory?
The group of Negro spirituals that
closed the concert seemerd an affirm
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
ST. LOUIS CITIZENS HELP
THEMSELVES; GIVE $l2O,OOO

one to pay for any part of their main
tenance.
ST. Louis colored citizens have made
it possible, in a pure spirit of charity
and self-help. Circulars addressed to
some of the people who gave included
this quotation: 81 shall pass through
this world but once. Any good thing,
therefore, that 1 can do, or any kind
ness that l can show to any human
being, let me do it now" And if they
don't do it now, they are being urged
to provide for so worthy an institu-
ton, guaranteed $4,000 this year from
the community chest fund, in their
wills.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-05
Klan Seeking to
Divide Negroes
Planned Body Hostile to
N. A. A. c. P.

New York, March 2S.-The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, 60 Fifth avenue, today
made public quotations from Hearst's S
International Magazine for March,
showing that the Ku Klux Klan has
for some time been considering plans
to set up and finance an organization
within the race, which would be hos
tile to the N A. A. C. P. and would
divide the forces of coIored people in
America.
A direct quotation from letter
written by the Klan's Imperial Kleagle
is given as follows in the March num-
ber of Hearst's International
"We also have in mind, for some
time in the future, for consideration
the possibility of picking out the good
Negroes (for there are some) and or
ganizing them, or at least financing
an organization for them, and thus
split the force of the Negro itself.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People has in
suited and ignored the memory of
Booker T. Washington, and while do
not approve of Booker T. Washington
in some ways, he was better than some
of the rest of his gang. If we were to
foster under cover an organization of
the Negroes to honor the memory of
Booker T. Washington, we would have
spring up a strong organization to
fight the National Association for the
of Colored People, and
you know sometimes the best policy is
to divide your enemy by getting your
enemy to fight among themselves"