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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-24
I'm Memory of Eva voikhanskaya and
katya AntipoVa.)


1t was autumn-autumn' golden
glow pervaded-the Autumn leaves
'drifted down onto the corridor of
pines, along these beautiful lines fan
tastically picturesque. A group was
standing motionless and all the more
restless and the life of our train
seemed even the more noisy, deserted
as we were here, remote from the
village.
1t was only yesterday that we
emerged from the fight. Everyone is
overjoyed at the temporary repose
and tries to utilize it as fully as pos
sible.
But there is no rest for the sisters.
There are only two of them in our de-
tachment. There is Evinka, as they
call her here, so serious and with
such wise eyes, and the lively, man.
nish Comrade Antipova.
There are ten men waiting to be
bandaged in their wagon. But they
also have a wagon with seriously
wounded cases, with whom they must
remain all the~time.
"Evinka, come and drink some tea, !"
came the cry from the campfire. But
even while these words were being
pronounced the others UNDERSTOOD she
would not leave her work.
And so they went on working until
the evening. And tomorrow, perhaps,
there will be more fighting, and Evin-
ka, without having had time to rest,
will go out with the detachment right
into the front line. She conquered
this place from Antipova, and was
always there. She is making herself
manly.
Sister Antipova is there and we
rarely allow her to enter the front
line. .. ~.
Around the campfire there is great
noise and joviality. They are drink
ing tea and making jokes. They also
fry potatoes. Many of them, idle by
habit and simply through this mono
tonous hard life are swearing coarse
ly. That is, if Evinka is not too
near. When she comes, woe betide
he who forgets. She shames and
scolds him like a child. And the
guilty one remains silent.
She alone is able to reprimand in
such a reasoning way, to explain the
barbarity of coarse lack of self-re-
straint.
Many of us in this section are Tar
tars, among whom there seems to be
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voice of Melnikov shouting away in
front: Quickly, sister, sister"
But Evinka was already there. We
saw how her silhouette appeared sud
denly against the embankment, and
in a minute or two, with somebody's
help, she drew Melnikov onto the
bank.
Melnikov and a few others who
had been in the forward line, had
come up against the entrenchment
of, the Whites who had fired on them.
Melnikov was wounded.
This thought deeply touched me.
l began searching in the dark for
one Of the platoon commanders quiet
ly calling out, so that Melnikov could
be quickly replaced.
Comrade Dmitriev took over COM
mand.
The cross-fring became yet more
intense. But the night is not terrible.
We only fear that the youth will not
first time they have come under fire
these Bashklr volunteers.
The Whites have an armored car.
Eva returned to the firing lines. She
conspires and consults with Dmitriev.
She is as decisive as ever.
Il will go down to the station.
will bring along the armored train
Hold out"
The armored train, narrow and built
Of boards, with double wall between
which is a bank of sand, is at the
station. l think to myself: Suppose
it will be difficult for the engine to
bring it along here. 1 don't know
whether the crew is ready.
"You had better take Taroshin with
you"
mo, it does not matter; I will be
able to manage"
And she departed.
Groans can be heard in the firing
line. Most of those operating in front
are wounded.
The groans have a bad effect on
many
SEND down TO the line asking that
the. wounded be sent behindrto Anti
pova, who has already come down and
is working behind the sandbank.
The minutes go by slowly. No one
can tell what will be ahead. viii
there be strength to hold out? In the
morning we still will be too weak.
The Whites will be able to notice our
lack of numbers.
Dmitriev sent the news down to the
firing line that the armored train will
soon be along.
On those rare occasions when be-
tween the volleys of rifle fire, when
there came sharp minutes of pause,
we tried to listen anxiously. From the
Whites side can be heard from afar
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Negro Labor Congress Asks for Artistic Talent

American which will MetcpoI
tan Community Center s1s Giles Chicago Sunday Oct
25 white workers participate
the which will evening week
October 81. tfas s i, s.rteg.if IS. ~.
white eoored worker called aid in the
ing the be given the held
during the evening sessions Of the Recon monooaus
classical dancing
will be welcomed by the arrangements committee
desiring assist In this work will please get
committee
American Negro Labor s6
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With Arms in Hand - As1oRY OF THE RED ARMY

some kind Of special attitude towards
Eva.
The simple tyeptyars from the Ufa
Gubernia call her "Ivunka." And in
this distorted name there was kind
of honorary admiration. Anyone of
them who fell under Eva's eye while
doing something silly, or swearing,
would blush and feel ashamed, just
like child, and afterwards would
apologize to her somewhere on the
quiet.
In this respect, Comrade Antipova
in no way resembled Eva. She was
heroine. There were few fighters
like her, and many time she bore
the brunt of the front line fighting
together with us fellows, but she was
exactly like all of us. she was com
rade among us.
We loved her also, in heroism and
self-restraint we did not distinguish
between them.
Eva made all Of us keep order, even
including Antipova.
GLOW shameless you are" she
would often say. Instead of raising
the peasantry up to your own level,
you are descending to- their level,
you are extinguishing any aspirations
they have towards perfection"
The commander of the detachment.
the worker Melnikov, energetic and
fearles, was an example to us in
everything. But Eva sometimes
found it worth while arguing with
him and we began to wonder whether
we ought to initiate him in swearing
Evinka was sleeping, lying against
the wall of the wagon among the
wounded when we woke her up.
We had to go to an attack on the
line. Under shelter there was an
armored wagon boarded up and rein
forced with sand. Eva had to go
with us.
The raw, dark night came on. Care
fully spreading out along both sides
of the line, we went down towards
the village occupied by the Whites.
Eva went with her inseparable car
bine, keeping to the left flank of the
line. She always chose to place her
self among the most indecisive men
and those that were most susceptible
to panic. l listened how her neigh
bors in the line, who were Tartars,
whispered to each other about her in
their own language, astonished at her
manliness and at the same time in
fected by it.
We had already gone a few versts.
Suddenly a sharp noise, mingled
with the cries of people, could be
heard in front of the line. Rifle fire
burst forth, Nobody fired. After a
few seconds we heard the hoarse
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the putting Of engines. Their train
has arrived, but they are frightened
to move away as they do not know
the line.
Will we be able to give the warning
in time? Our armored train is per-
haps on the Sarapool branch line
These thoughts seemed to set the
head afire. Everyone is thinking the
same thing. can hear them whisper
ing about it on the right.
Slowly, from behind indistinct
sounds arise. The whisper runs along
the sand bank: 1.-THE train is COM
ing"
We feel in the dark that the ar
mored train is drawn up behind the
firing line. There is general liveli-
ness. The line increases its fire.
Eva is in command. "Bravo!" they
whisper in the front line.
Eva is on the engine. The COM
mander of the armored train is shout
ing across to her
When we crept out in front of the
line, the machine guns from the train
did their work.
In between the flashes in front, we
see the thin line of the Whites. Their
train is silent.
l send Eva along to Dmitriev. Dawn
is approaching.
The morning started with a fight
between our armored train and that
Of the Whites. We move forward.
l did not witness their death. But
they fell beneath the hands of the
White Guard beasts. This is what
was communicated about them during
the last days.
Antipova in the last fight for the
occupation of Ijevsk was all the time
in the firing line. She did not wish
to leave it. There were not many
men in the company, and the Whites
were lighting stubbornly. When she
was hit in the chest by bullet she
succeeded in crying out:
Il am only wounded, comrades, you
go forward, don't waste time oyer
me-" 500 geas-ss. - 49,
Eva arrived safely in Ufa. 1awsf
In March, 1919, Kolchak, renewing
his attack, threatened Ufa. Eva, who
left town at the last minute, was
caught by the Cossacks.
An exasperated Cossack officer
dared to ask her:
"You are a Communist"
Yes, Communist" firmly replied
Eva.
These wild beasts fell upon her
with coarse invective, and with blows
of their swords they terminated Eva's
life. -
And thus they are no more.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Scopes Defense Angry
AS Court Bars Scientists
AIRCRAFT PILOT
HELD UNDER BONDS
FOR MANSLAUGHTER

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
ver-Foxcroft, July 17-F'rank
w. Sullivan of Parkman was ar
rested this afternoon by deputy
sheri Fernald Whitman on the
charge of manslaughter. The ar
rest followed the investigation of the
airplane wreck which Sullivan was
plotting in Parkman July when
Francis Leighton of Parkman was
instantly killed.
Investigation which was conducted
by county attorney Jerome B. Clark,
secretary of the State Frank w. Ball
and aircraft inspector Lieut.. Paul
Slocumb, showed that Sullivan had
neither a pilots license or a license
ito carry passengers in this state
Sullivan was brought to Dover Fox
croft this evening but was released
on temporary bond of $4,000 for his
appearance in the municipal court
hearing tomorrow. Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Tuttle, grand parents of Sui
livan, acted as sureties. Sullivan
has engaged the council of w. A.
Burgess, Esq, of Dover FoXcroft.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Shepherd Strikes
Snag in Probate
McClintOck's Will

Cmcago, July William
Darling Shepherd. recently acquitted
of the murder of William Nelson Nc
Clintock, millionaire orphan and his
ward. today lost his first legal skirm-
ish to gain possession of the million
dollar estate left him by McClintock' S
WILL
Probate Judge Henry Horner re-
FUSED to admit to probate the will,
leaving to Shepherd all of the estate
except for an $4,000 annuity to Miss
isabelle Pope, young McClintocks f.
ancee; probation was refused on the
grounds of presumption of undue
lnf1uence." Judge Horner decided II
was the duty of proponents of the will
to disprove undue influence in the
higher courts.
Immediately after the dicision, the
litigants-Shepherd on the one side
and nine Iowa cousins of McClintock
and Miss Pope on the other-started a
second contest over the administration
of the estate. Attorneys for the con-
testants were unable to agree on an
administrator and the hearing finally
was continued until next Tuesday,
when if an agreement is not reached,
the court will name a custodian.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Riddles Tender
POsies to President
On Way to Devens

Swampscott, Mass, July 17.-(AP)
President Coolidge returned to the
summer White House early tonight
from Camp Devens, where he review
ed the Goth National Guard Division.
Motoring back from the camp. SO
miles from White Court, the Pres-
dent stopped for moment at historic
Concord Bridge. At Devens. the
training camp during the war of the
10Th National army division. Mr.. Cool
idge stood for an hour while various
units of the old Yankee Division,
which saw valiant service overseas
and once before was reviewed by a
President-by Woodrow Wilson In
France in the winter of 191S-1919-
filed past.
The President on his way to Camp
Devens traversed part of the route of
Paul Revere on his memorable ride.
Returning he paused at Concord to
take into his automobile Pauline Eve
lett. 10 years old, who presented him
with a bouquet of field flowers and
accompanied him to Concord bridge.
There the President was approached
by another shy youngster. Elizabeth
Wentworth, seven years old, of Con-
cord. who handed him a bunch of
sweet peas.
Mrs. Coolidge did not accompany the
President on his trip. Prior to his
departure while he was comforting at
White Court with Secretary Davis,
she motored to Lynn to do some shop
ping and visited for the first time the
executive offices there.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
President a n d S e c,
Davis Agree. Upon
Course to Follow
at White Court
Conference
L a Dor Secretary Off For
Europe But Plans Return Be.
fore Possible Break in Nego.
tiations-Reticent Over Part
Federal Government Would
Play in Case of Emergency
Presidents Attitude Kept
Secret

Swampscott, Mass, July IT.
(AP)-While hoping that a strike IN
the anthracite fields will be averted.
President Coolidge and Secretary
Davis determined today upon a pro-
gram to be pursued in case of an
emergency.
Secretary Davis called at White
Court to confer with the executive
on pending department of labor
problems prior to visit to Europe.
The conversation centered on the
anthracite coal field wage argument
now pending.
Mr.. Davis declared that though
two representatives of the depart
ment of labor were taking part In
the negotiations, If a strike develop
ed the government was ready to take
hand. What part the government
would play in the possible strike was
rot disclosed. =
The secretary made 1t known,
however, that he would return to
tins country on August 25, six days
before the present wage agreement
between the anthracite coal opera
tors and the miners expired.
The attit'- e of President Coolidge
was not disclosed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Govt Prepared
To Act In Event
Hard Coal Strike
ONE KILLED AND
3 HURT IN CRASH
OF TROLLEY CARS

Portland. Me-. July 17-(AP)-One
man Is dead and six women and two
men are in hospitals in Portland and
Biddeford as the result of injuries re-
ceived when a trolley car, Old Or
chard bound, crashed into a line Of
three empty open cars at the Port
land end of the turnout on the Old
Orchard road tonight.
William H. Davis, of Portland, op-
orator of the Old Orchard bound car,
died in Webber Hospital, Biddeford.
Simon Levine. who is reported to
have been riding on the front end of
the car with Operator Davis, is in
Trull Hospital, Biddeford, with SER
ious injuries. Four of the women in
jured were Ohio delegates to the Ma
tional Convention of the Business
and Professional Women, who were
on their way to join other delegates
at the annual prankfest at Old Or
chard. Four Brooklyn, N. Y, passen-
gers were slightly hurt.
The cause of the accident has not
been fixed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Trail of Wreckage
In Moving of Steam
Shovel Near Bath

Especial to the kennebec JournaD
Edgecomb, July 17.-Crew of Con-
tractor Murtagh Hughes, Bangor, en-
gagged in making the big fill in the
cutoff for the new State highway from
the east end of the Edgecomb-Wis-
casset bridge, moved the steam show
ell equipment from the Damariscotta
road to Davis island today and the
caravan left a trail of wreckage. Two
poles of the New England Tel. & Tel.
Co. were broken off and wires hung
onto the highway while primary
wires of the Central Maine Power Co.
were also littering the highway and
guy wires of the company wrecked.
f. p. Proctor, Wiscasset, an employee
Of the Central Maine Power Co, came
here and cleared the wreckage from
the highway so that traffic was held
up but a short time. Telephone and
power company officials are investi-
eating and further action in the mat
ter is limited.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Aged Bay State
Judge browns
While Swimming

Eastman. Mass, July 17-(AP)-
Judge George Field Lawton of the
Middlesex Court and court of in
solvency, was drowned while swim
ming in Heron Pond here early to-
night. From shore his daughter Ida,
who is his only survivor, saw him go
down but was unable to summon
help in time. The body was recov-
cred.
Judge Lawton who was 30 years
old, was born in Lowell and before
his appointment as probate judge
was city solicitor and superintendent
of schools there for number of
years. He was a graduate of Will
Jams college and was admitted to the
Massa chusetts bar in 1874.
He was the presiding justice at the
Russell Identity Case, which at
tracted wide attention when "Dako-
ia Dan" represented himself to be
Daniel Blake Russell. the long lost
son and heir of State Senator Will
lam Russell of Melrose, who died
leaving an estate valued at 100000.
Fresno Dan" subsequently appeared
from Fresno Calf, and proved he
was the real son.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Judge Could Not
Do Otherwise, View
Of ATTORNEY BRYAN

Dayton, Tenn, July 17.-(AP)-
Statements and counterstatements
prevailed today when court ad.
journed until Monday following the
exclusion by Judge John T. Raul
ston of expert testimony in the
evolution case.
William Jennings Bryan declared
the Tennessee laws of evidence bar
red admission of such testimony and
asserting that Judge Raulston could
not have done otherwise, brought
from Clarence Darrow the charge
that Mr.. Bryan had fed from an is
sue of his own creation to seek the
protection of technicalities."
Personally / am anxious to see
the fullest discussion of the subject
of evolution but 1 cannot ignore the
laws of the state of Tennessee rela-
tive to the Introduction of evidence.
The court could not act as a
mock trial or debating society.
The statement of Mr.. Darrow in
reply said:
HIS dltltuuS VI MI. anu
the prosecution throughout the past
week has shown the country that
Mr.. Bryan has done everything in his
power to prevent the discussion in
the court of the subject of evolution
and the Bible"
Mr.. Bryan knows perfectly well
that the court would not have ruled
out the scientific testimony If Bryan
had not opposed its admission.
Bryan Is willing to express his
opinions ON science and religion
where his statements will not be
questioned. But Bryan has not dar-
ed to test his views in open court
under oath in contest with the tes-
timony of great educators and scien-
lists.
Bryan made the issue and then
when he found that no reputable
scientist and no e-eminent theo-
logian could be found to support his
views in a court of justice Bryan
fed from the issue and sought the
protection of technicalties.
Bryan, who blew loud trumpet
calls for a battle to the death has
fled from the field, his forces dis
organized and his pretentions ex-
posed"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Owners Say Reduction Will
Stimulate Business-Believe
Will Remedy Stagnation of
Past 1S MOnths-Cut Effec-
tive July 27 in 3 Mills-One
Other Will Lay Matter Be.
fore Shop Councils Next
Week

Lawrence, Mass, July 17.-(AP)
"A wage cut of ten per cent affect
ing some $1,000 operatives were an
nounced today in the American
Woolen Company, Arlington, and
Kuhnhardt Mills, while the Pacific
Mills management indicated that
similar action will be laid before the
shop councils early next week.
The cut in the first three mills is
effective July %. The American
Woolen and kuhnhardt Mills an
nounced the ten per cent drop while
the notice posted in the Arlington
Mills said that "a new and lower
scale of wages" would be inaugural
ed on that date. The American
Woolen Company operates four mills
in this city and one in Shawsheen
Village, Andover. They normally
employ more than 1900 operatives
while the Arlington employees include
normally 5000 and the Kuhnhardt
Mills have 500.
While declining to quote directly
the mill managements indicated that
they expected by this cut to stim-
ulate business and find their way
out of the situation in which the
business has stagnated for the past
eighteen months. 1t was said that
in viev of the fact there have been
such long terms of idleness for many
of the workers, union opposition to
the cut is not likely.
Increases during the war brought
the wages up more than 100 per
cent. In the latter part of 1920 cut
of about ~ per cent was made. In
192; ar attempt at deduction failed
when a strike of several months
duration forced continuance of the
Their wage scale.
The kuhnhardt Mills was the only
one to assign reason for the cut.
say, present businesso conditions
were the cause of the reduction.
Later the Nj T. Stevens and Sons
Ccmpan at their headquarters in
Andover also announced cut of ten
per cert effective July ~. This in
creased the number of workers af-
:ected by 2CGO for the company has
mills ir North Andover, Andover,
Haverhill Franklin, n. H., Peace
dale, r. /.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-18
Great Victory for
State Word Atty.
Stewart at Dayton

Dayton, Tenn, July 17.-(AP)-
The greatest victory that possibly
could have come to the state was the
description Attorney A. 7. Stewart, at
tached to the exclusion of scientific
testimony from the evidence in the
Scopes evolution case in a statement
to The Associated Press tonight.
The state considers that it has won
the greatest victory that possibly
could have come to it in the decision
of Judge Raulston this morning, when
he properly withheld the evidence of
the so-called experts so vigorously
insisted upon by the defense.
With, these experts the defense
hoped to show that the theory of evo-
luton which teaches that man de-
scended from a lower order of ami
mails does not deny the story of di-
vine creation of man as told by the
Bible
This evidence is patiently not ad-
miSsible under a proper construction
of the act. The court so held.
THE state was fortified to the end
that the so-called experts and their
pet theories would have been blasted
and so far as the question involving
such testimony might be concerned l
want it distinctly understood that the
state had no fear but that 1t would
take care of it's side; but courts must
be conducted in accordance with the
rules of evidence known to jurispru-
dence
Il know that the defendants coun-
sci highly desired the testimony of
the experts because of the added rea-
son that it would so admirably carry
out their plan of publicity ! know
that they are anxious to educate the
people and the controlling reason for
the desire of such testimony is to
further cause of a theory that dis
putes Gods accepted word"