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Evening star., 1925-11-23
MITCHELL WITNESS
WARNED OF DANGER
Says He Was Told He Might
Be Hurt If He Did Not
Withdraw Testimony.

Lieut.. H. w. Sheridan of the Army
Air Service, whose pointed criticism
Of the handling of the aircraft carrier
Langley during the Hawaiian ma
ncurerS featured the Mitchell court
martial hearing last week has report
ed to Representative Frank r. Reid,
civil counsel for Col Mitchell, that he
was Threatened" Saturday evening
by a mysterious parsonage claiming to
have had naval connections"
Lieut.. Sheridan declared that the
man, who refused to identify himself.
had a distinguished appearance and
appeared we'll VerSed in Navy affairs.
The stranger, Mr.. Reid was informed.
told Lieut.. Sheridan that he was in
danger of official wrath and physical
violence unless the retracted the teSti-
mOny he gave the court Thursday and
Friday.
No Inquiry Planned.
Mr. Reid said today that he con
templates no formal investigation of
the incident at this time, in view of
the lack of clues to the mans
Identify.
Lieut.. Sheridan appeared in the
courtroom and made a careful survey
OF the assembled spectators in the
faint hope of seeing the stranger there.
Ills scrutiny was unsuccessful, how
ever.
Here is Lieut.. Sheridan's account
of the affair as related to The Star to-
day:
Il was walking along the street Sat
urday afternoon near the Willard Ho-
tel, when | became aware that a man
was following me. | walked into the
Willard and sat down to read Il paper,
and the man, after staring at me for
moment, came over and sat down
beside me.
When l took cogniZanCe of his
stare he asked me If l was not Lieut..
Sheridan. l admitted it, and then he
asked me how l thought the Mitchell
trial would come out
Il didn't want to talk with him
and after Struggling my shoulders l
continued reading my paper.
Persisted i'm Talking.
But he persisted in conversing.
He asked me if l knew l was IN
danger. l said, What and he OK
planned that he knew l would have
to pay for the statements l had made
to the court about the Navy. He said
1t might cost me my job and might
lead TO other serious consequences.
He advised me to withdraw every.
thing I had said and told me [ should
nave kept my answers concerning the
Navy secret. as Lieut.. Wade had
done l asked him if he thought l
was in bodily danger. He replied.
You never can guess TO what length
they will GO
II asked him if he belonged to the
Navy and he said no Then | asked
him what he thought of Admiral Sims
testimony and he told me it was all
'bunn.' He proceeded to use a lot
of highly technical phrases in naval
terms in giving me his reasons for
thinking so. | said: You don't know
what you are talking about You
don't know anything about the Navy
anyway He snapped back: L ought
to know something about it. | was
connected with the Navy for years
Il laughed and told him ! had
thought so all along and walked off =
Lieut.. Sheridan's testimony was
Caustlcally attacked by Maj. Allen
Gulllon, assistant prosecutor Friday
afternoon. but after a spectacular de-
fenSe of his statements by the young
witness, the court allowed the testi-
mony to remain in the records.
a portrait painter invented the tele-
graph.
Evening star., 1925-11-23
CARRIERS OF L. S. FREIGHT.
Ninety Per Cent of Tonnage in 1924 in
L. S and British Bottoms.

Ninety per cent of the total cargo
tonnage in the foreign commerce of
the United States during 1924 was
carried in American and British ships.
the other 10 per cent being distributed
among vessels of 19 other nations.
The bureau of research of the Ship
ping Board, in making public these
Evening star., 1925-11-23

figures. showed that in the com
merce between the United States and
the British Empire, American vessels
carried AZ per cent and British AS per
cent, while in that with Holland,
American vessels carried 35 per cent
and Dutch ships A per cent of the
total tonnage.
The balance in direct trade" the
bureau said. lis highest in our COM
merce with China, of which we car
ried nearly so per cent, and lowest
in our trade with Norway, of which
Evening star., 1925-11-23

American vessels carried less than
4 per cent.
Vessels under the flag of Norway
stand above all others in direct trade.
Jas they handled more than 63 per
cent OF our commerce with that coun-
try; Italian flag vessels carried nearly
50 per cent of our commerce with
Italy, and Danish ships carried So per
cent of our trade with Denmark. The
fleets under all other flags carried less
than so per cent of our direct trade
with their respective countries
Evening star., 1925-11-23

a portrait painter invented the tele-
graph.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
PICNIC MAY 80
TO DRAW CROWD
OF MILITANTS
t. U. E. L. Group Gets
Altenheirn Grove

The first workers picnic of the
year. given by the Trade Union Edu-
cational League of Chicago, will be
held on May 80, Decoration Day, in
Altenheim Grove. to be reached by
direct route on the Forest Park
elevated line, and by transfer from
the Madison streetcar to a suburban
car.
Branches OF the Workers Party
are taking part in this picnic OF
the Chicago militant unionists,
and contests between the branches
are being arranged. Two language
federation groups are slated for to
put on a "tug.of-war," and some OF
the labor athletes are volunteering to
stage exhibitions.
Every party branch is supposed TO
get In touch with local headquarters
and to furnish some feature Of en-.
tertainment game or contest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
SOVIETS ARREST
OFFICIALS FOR
MISUSING FUNDS
Teapot Dome Methods
Not Allowed in Russia
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)

MOSCOW, May 1.-THE Transcau-
casian federal government has or
dered the arrest of a number of high
and other officials of the Nakhitche-
vansk Autonomous Republic, among
them being the peoples commissaries
of interior, of agriculture and of
finance.
This measure has been undertaken
as a result Of special revision eff
fected by committee Of auditors in
stituted by the Transcaucasian gov
eminent at the initiative of Rykoff,
president Of the council of peoples
commissaries Of the U. s. S. R., who,
during his recent tour of Transcau-
casia pointed out the unsatisfactory
economic conditions and the defective
organization of power in the Nakhitch-
evansk Republic.
This committee Of auditors discov-
cred numerous misdeeds and abuse of
power on the part of those new ar
ests, most of whom are wealthy Beks
and former czarist officials, with a
very bad reputation among the peas
ants.
The peoples commissary Of interior
had embezzled fifteen thousand
rubles of public funds, while several
Of the others had at the time lent &C.
tive support to the Turck anti-Soviet
faction.
In their report, the auditors recon-
mended to the federal government to
increase the credits to the Nakhitche-
vansk peasants, whose economy has
greatly suffered from civil war and
Intervention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14

caucasian Federation Of Soviet Social
list Republics.
Having to go thru internal difficult
ties, some of the neighboring states,
Frunze observed, were apt, under in
fiuence from without, to be tempted
by somewhat adventuresome combina-
lions.
Tho the Soviet government was well
aware, the peoples war commissary
declared, Of the irritation prevailing
in the public opinion turnout the
Union Of Soviet Republics at such in
tolerable facts as raids by regular
Polish army units on Soviet frontier
posts or the murder of Baginsky and
Weiczerkowicz, or, again, the sup
port openly extended by the Rouman.
laan government to Petlura's bandit
organizations, the governments main
object being, now as heretofore, tc
work for peace on all the frontiers OF
the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
CAL WORRIED BY
FRANCES DEBT
OF 2OO BILLION
Wall Street Wants Ger.
man Payments
Especial to The Daily Worker,

PARIS, May 12.-"I think that re-
paration receipts from Germany by
their nature should be applied to spe-
cial purposes Finance Minister Call
laux told the members of the finance
commission Of the chamber of depu-
ties this afternoon.
"They should serve in their entire
ly to complete the reconstruction of
the liberated regions devastated by
the war and to amortize allied debts
under such arrangements as will be
made.
"The government will float a loan
covered by expected payments from
Germany. These loans will be used
to restore the devastated regions and
for improving the state railways"
The. Coolidge government, thru
Ambassador Herricks, is constantly
dunning the French government for the
war debt to America, and Caillaux is
anxious to keep German payments in
France. frances domestic debt
amounts to 100000, 100000 francs" he
said. "The nation must bear an in
crease burden amounting to $780,
100000. This sum is indispensable"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
ANDY FURUSETH
SAYS SEAMEN
Reject TIPS
Subsidy Disguised as
Bonus; Draft Rumored
lspeoIaI 70 The Daily workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, May 12.-American
seamen will have none of the wage
bonus" scheme which T. v. O'Connor,
once head of the Longshoremen and
now chairman of the shipping board,
has proposed as a. camouflaged ship
subsidy grant from congress to the
shipowners. They. have protested,
thru Andrew Furuseth, president of
the International Seamen's Union of
America, against having a "tip" sys-
tenn forced upon them. AS free"
men they earn their stipulated wages;
they ask industrial justice thru fair
enforcement of the seamens act;
they refuse "the browning disgrace of
being known and considered as tip
sters'."
Andy Writes to Cal.
This protest has been embodied in
a letter from Furuseth to President
Coolidge, who was reported as being
interested in o'Connor's plan Of sub
sidy.
In his letter, the seamen's executive
points out that this is a revival Of
part of the Gallinger subsidy bill Of
many years ago. That bill, support
ed by republican administration, was
beaten in congress. It was strongly
opposed by the organized seamen.
1t is the seamen's contention that
this O'Connor scheme would be made
constitutional only by enlisting the
merchant seamen as naval reserves.
That is the French system, and would
destroy our merchant marine as sure
ly as it destroyed that Of France"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
TIKHON URGED
FOLLOWERS TO
BACK SOvIETS
Admitted Their Hold on
Russian People

MOSCOW, (Rosta).- The papers
publish a lengthy manifesto Of the late
Patriarch Tikhon, which bears his
facsimile, and which the deceased, a
day before his death, handed to his
first assistant. Archbishop Krutitzky
Peter, for publication.
In this manifesto, Tikhon calls up
on all the believers that, while they
should rigidly observe their religious
belief. they should maintain a sim
cere attitude vis-a-Yis the Soviet pow
or which, being true peoples power,
has strong and deep roots in the peo-
pie and is unmistakable.
In an important manifesto, appear
ing over the signatures of the Len
ingrad Archbishop Benjamin, presi-
dent of the synod, (head organ of the
reformed orthodox church,, other
archbichops and bishops and, also,
learned theologists, the synod explains
TO all the clergy and believers, in ref
erence to ex-Patriarch Tilshon's death,
that the movement that arose against
Tikhon and eliminated in his deposit
ton, In 1923, was aimed not against
HIS personality, but the tendency he
represented and his church policy,
which was detrimental TO the church.
Now, the death Of the patriarch,
whose name was the emblem of In
ternal strife within tho church--the
authors of the manifesto declare-lays
a moral obligation on all the orthodox
believers 10 work for the Identification
OF the orthodox church, which is &C
tually spll in two hostile camps.
In conclusion, the synod calls upon
all the clergy. without distinction Of
political tendencies, 10 work Jointly
10 prepare the church convention,
which is 10 be held in a near future
and whose aim is 10 put an end to the
internal strife Of the orthodox church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Rockefeller Invests
$625, 900 in Colleges
for u. S. Imperialism
(spseIaI 70 rhe paIIy Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK CITY, May 1s-The
committee that is carrying on the
drive to raise $2,5OO,OOO for the sup
port and maintenance of the five Am
erican colleges In the Near East has
announced thru its chairman, Cleve-
land H. Dodge, that John D. Rookie
Teller, Jr. has donated the sum Of
1925, 900 to the fund.
The colleges, which are maintained
by churches and missionary societies.
are located at Constantinople, Sofia
and Smyrna. The Standard Oil com
pany has a large plant located In
Smyrna and the connection between a
Rockefeller maintained college and
Standard Oil plants is very clear.
The near East countries, especially
Turkey, have since the war entered
upon period Of industrial develop
ment with the result that a strong
working class has come into existence.
Trade unions have sprung up and have
conducted campaigns for the improve
ment Of conditions.
The leadership over such young
movements generally fall into the
hands Of the petty bourgeoisie and
the intellectuals. And what better
place is there for the education and
development Of such intellectuals
than the American maintained col
leges, supported by the big American
capitalists?
The role and history OF the mission.
aries and churchmen in the colonial
countries is well known: the forerun-
nerB Of the capitalists seeking a place
for investment and exploitation.
Rockefellers' missionaries are fulfil
ling their task very well.
Cleveland H. Dodge, who is himself
well known banker made the follow
ing significant statement. "The col
leges have given fifty years Of service
in the Near East and are responsible
for many of the changes that have
taken place in that time"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Refute Lies Of U. S. Kept Press Against Russia

they are.
New Turkey pursues no aims other
than to live and exist in the limits of
her national frontiers and develop her
national economic and cultural re-
sources.
"As for revolutionary Russia, she
knows our national aims better than
any other state, since for the last
years she has herself been fighting
for the independence and liberty of
nations. Neither the Chicago Tribune
nor, for that matter, any other such
like organ, need worry about it; never
shall we forget the sympathies shown
and the support lent us by our great
neighbor not only in these days, when
the Turkish republic has grown
stronger, but also previously-when
we were fighting for our national in
dependence.
See Triumph over Reaction.
"The Soviet statesmen firmly be-
lieve that young Turkey will triumph
over and crush all the forces of re-
action. And" concludes the mouth
piece Of the Angora government, 1--WE
deeply appreciate such an attitude on
the part Of the Soviet"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
BRIBERY, BOOZE
CHARGES HURLED
IN KHAN FIGHT
Springfield Judge and
Police Chief War

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 10. -
Springfield's police department and
judiciary plunged deeper today into a
bitter warfare.
Justice of the Peace c. C. Bierman
carried to Mayor S. A. Billiard his
fight against Police Magistrate Frank
e. Early. Bierman conferred with the
mayor on means Of removing Early
from office. esf
II accuse Early Of unfitness for Of
fee and Of holding court while in
toxicated. His conduct in office has
caused everyone who knows Of it to
lose respect and regard for him and
his position" Bierman said.
The developments followed a bitter
arraignment of the magistrate in his
office by Bierman who hurled in
vectives bristling with personalities
and charges that Early had been in
dicted in Sangamon county for NAL
feasance in office, accepting bribe,
and criminal contempt of court, and
had been sued by the city of Spring
field for being an inmate of gam
bling house.
Meanwhile, further complications
arose when Austin Jones, free agent
responsible only to Chief Morris, a
klansman, said he would investigate
rumored liquor scandals and bribery
inside the police department "in-
volving high officials" The khan is
said to be in control Of the police de-
partment and attacking anti-klan
judges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Frances Note To Germany

PARIS, May 1.-THE Painleve
cabinet meeting with President Dou-
mergue, unanimously adopted the text
Of Foreign Minister Brands two notes
on Germany at noon today.
The first, dealing with alleged Ger
man infractions of disarmament pro
visions, will be handed to the council
of ambassadors Friday. The second,
the reply to the German security pact
proposals, will be sent to the allies
Immediately. The second note de-
mands Germany's entrance to the
league of nations, which is used by
the world powers to plumber the
weaker nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Rap at harrington in
Warning Purchasers
of Unions Property

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 1.-THE
membership of District IL, United
Mine Workers, have their doubts as
to the honesty of Frank Harrington,
district president, and in resolutions
being spread thruout the district, are
giving due warning" to all business
interests, bonding companies, mort
gage firms and corporations, that any
acquisition of property, moneys, IL
berty bonds and other securities be-
longing to the union, unless such are
acquitted by consent of the member
ship, will be at the risk of prosecu-
ton.
This movement must be made at
once to protect the property Of the
Illinois mine workers and also keep
the books and bonds intact so that the
membership will be able to investigate
the same should they desire to do so
to see what has become Of the re-
naming property and funds, and to
see If transactions by Harrington have
been legal or not" reads an announce
ment Of the miners.
ITO see what has become Of the
remaining property and funds" ap-
pears to indicate that the miners find
something missing which Harrington.
as president, was supposed to safe
guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
snolI roklo.Parls EIluht.

TOXIC, May 12.-Moscow's refusal
to permit the plane to fly over Russ
ian territory beyond Moscow has
temporarily disrupted the proposed
Tolio-Paris flight sponsored by the
Toxic newspaper Asahi Shimbun, II
was learned here today. The Soviet
government would permit a flight to
Moscow, it was said, but would not al.
low the plane to leave the Russian
capital for Europe. The flight, how.
ever, was expected to be continued
over China and India, starting within
a few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
COAL OPERATORS
BOAST end OF
union IN SIGHT
(Contlnued nom PaKe ID

Continued from Page ~
ners in plan to undermine their own
organization, and is so potent that
these same leaders still work Loyalty
to make the plan successful, ought
not to go unrecognized," comments
Coal Age on the effects Of the Jack
sonville agreement, which the editors
say increased nonunion mines against
union ones.
Coal Age draws attention to the
fact that operators who still uphold
the union agreement and. seek aid
from Washington to settle the indus
try are really blind to their own best
interests which would dictate their
following the policy of other former
union operators who have closed their
union mines and opened nonunion
ones or disregarded the agreement in
other cases.
Three Paths Open.
Three courses are open to the union,
according to Wooten's analysis of the
West Virginia and central Pennsyl-
vania situation: ~ the union might
fight for the scale, but If it does"
says Wooten, ut is foredoomed to de-
feat, which means the loss of its
hold on these highly important outly-
ing fields. To this end the Bittner
policy is leading"
(2) The union might permit these
outlying districts to make separate ne
gotations looking to the reduction of
the SCALE" If this is done it can hold
under nominal allegiance a consider
able block of tonnage in northern
West Virginia and some in central
Pennsylvania. The result of such au-
tonomy would be an urgent demand
from the central competitive field for
a corresponding reduction"
What the Operators Want.
The third course open to the union,
Wooten sees, would be to recognize
that the Jig is up and consent to the
negotiation of a lower scale. The
loss of Fairmont and central Penn
sylvania creates a dangerous salient
in the Pittsburgh sector of the union
line" Wooten continues. "In fact, the
Pittsburgh district itself becomes a
salient, which in time probably will
be pinched off by the pressure from
each side"
Drift Toward Disaster.
The probabilities pointed out by
Wooten and supported by other care
full observers Of the situation indicate
that the union will continue. thru its
officials, a drifting policy leading to
ultimate disaster The union cannot
afford to lose any more territory to
nonunion operators and must make its
fight in West Virginia real test of
its strength and endurance or 1t may
cease to figure as a power in the coal
industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
fContinned from naee 1l

CONTINUED from page IL
absurdity Of such an asseveration,
lest the reader may be inclined to
attach more importance to 1t than
it really deserves.
1.-THE American paper ought, how
ever, to understand that such stuff
cannot in any measure affect the
Turkish-Soviet relations.
Indeed, the Turkish people fully
realizes that, in the given case, the
Chicago Tribune is but vainly trying
to SOW discord between two great
nations. People venturing in this way
upon a discussion Of relations be-
tween Turkey and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics seems to forget
that the wishes and sentiments of
diplomats are not the only factors
that bring these two nations closer to
each other and determine their polit-
ical interrelations. Indeed, the poll
cies of the two great neighbor states
are definitely outlined by the history
of the recent revolutionary struggle.
In fact, the statesmen Of both coun-
tries could not possibly altar their
present policy while the feeling and
sentiments of the people remain what
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
The VOICE OF LENIN
TO Be HEARD IN CHICAGO
SUNDAY, M AY "a

Something new and different 10
being arranged by the Russian
branch Of the Workers Party FOR
Sunday, May "a, at the Workers
Home, 1902 w. Division ST. II will
be a Lenln Evening. with comrade
NleolsI Lenln as the chief speaker.
This 10 no Joke, as the talk by Com
rade Lenln will be heard from a
phonosraph record, az we'll as
speeches by comrade Lunachar.
sky, Trotsky and others.
corrade Alexander chramov, mn.
tlonsl organizer Of the Russian Sec
tlon w. p, who 10 touring the Unit.
ed States, will bring the reeords to
Chicago. He Will also speak on
Lenin as leader Of the masses. A
good musical program is also being
prepared. Tell your friends about
II. Let them listen to the .oIos Of
Lonlnl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
Like Soviet Pavilion at LEIPZIG.

MOSCOW.-The Tribune, leading
paper Of Rome, writes about the Leip'
zig fair that IAN excellent order
reigns in the Soviet pavilion, and the
Soviet halls at the fair are wonder
fully well arranged.
1.-THE show made at the Leipzig fair
by the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics further evidences that the
Union is an important factor Of the
economic life OF Europe and that II
Is in fitting order TO set out for the
winning over Of international mar
kets."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14
HERRIN UNDER ANTI
KHAN MAYOR CALLS IN
MUxERS' TIN STARS

HERRIN, H., May Irwin sew
eraI hundred tin stars, made by the
late Glenn Young out Of tomato
cans, called In, new badges Issued
and new osths taken, HerrIn was
under new city rule today by an
administration distinctly antl-klsn.
Mayor Marshall D. Mccormack,
whose store was bombed Just prior
% his election by khan forces, az
serted:
1--WE shall have a better and clean
or HorrIn under the new regime"