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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
Workers Will Gladly
Watch Investigation of
Civil War of Alcohol
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

OF outlawry as workers speaking any
other tongue. It is clearly evident
that the Grove political machine,
that was victorious in the recent
primaries, supports the Irish boot
leggers as against the Italians, thus
placing at the disposal of these out
laws powerful section of the cap
dtalist government, that aids and
abets profiteering here as elsewhere,
in all its forms.
Assistant States Attorney William
H. McSwiggin was shot down in
company with Jimmie" Doherty,
west side beer king and gangster,
and Thomas Red" Duffy, bench
men with Doherty of the "Klondike"
O'Donnell gang. The Doherty-O'Don-
nell outfit have attained great power
in Cicero since the murder Of Eddie
Tanci, Italian beer baron, for which
Doherty was placed on trial but ac-
quilted. Doherty's acquittal was
probably due to the fact that Nc
Swiggin was the prosecutor. This
turn of affairs, however, broke the
power of the Italians, Johnny Torrio
and "Scar-Faced Al' Capone, alias
Brown, in Cicero vice, liquor and
gambling circles. But the crack auto
MATES have given way to the sput-
tering of machine guns and the war
goes on more bitterly than ever.
No effort is made to outlaw the
booze industry. The whole power Of
Cook county's legal machinery is
modified in support Of the Doherty-
O'Donnell gang against the Torrio-
Capone outfit.
Cicero is the location of one of the
huge plants Of the Western Electric
Co. 1t employs approximately co.
900 workers. Here is huge popu-
lation, exploited to the extreme, for
the vice lords, the bootleggers and
gambling kings to feed on. 1t is de-
clared that the syndicate seeking to
GUST the Torrio-Capone gang con-
tains names high in public and Off
cial life. "Pay-off" men are said to
collect $1,0O0,000 a month from al
cohol and beer dispensaries. Police
captains work under interlocking
agreements with detective bureau
squads. The U. S. prohibition de-
partment is taken care Of" Against
this power the Torrio-Capone com
bination had to resort to machine
guns.
The same warfare, on a different
scale has taken place in all Amer
ica's great industries. In oil, in steel,
on the railroads, and everywhere
else that offered an opportunity to
extract profits, the struggle has
gone on between contending groups
of ambitious profiteers. Thse groups
have always had their political back
ing, even as the warning factions
in the alcohol war have their sup
porters in the city hall, the criminal
courts building, the state and ma
tional capitols.
An investigation of the present
civil war in Cook county (Chicago)
would reveal these political afilia-
lions to the workers and farmers. 1t
should spur them to build politi-
cal power of their own, to wipe out
completely this whole foul mess of
capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
volsa overfIows.

LONDON, April 29-Eight persons
were drowned today in a flood caused
by the overlooking of the volga river,
according to a Moscow dispatch. Sol
diers are dynamiting the ice in the
river to prevent further overflow when
the warm weather sets In.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
We Have No Prejudices'
Say Bourbons as They
Knife Negro Memorial

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 29.-
mo, we have no prejudices," say the
southern democrats as they proceed
to filibuster the appropriation for $780,
900 to build monument in France to
the Negro regiments that fell in battle
lover there" The bill passed the
house and may get further. Many of
these bills are put up as mere GEES
lures by the republicans to hold the
Negro in line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
french DEBT
PARLEYS NOW
AWAIT PARIS
AwGit Further Orders
from BRAND
BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The
Franeo-Ameriean debt has been set
tied. The agreement was reached
rere late this afternoon between the
American debt commission and the
French ambassador, Henri Bereneer.
The terms Of settlement will be
published later as they will not be
given out until they have the formal
approval of Coolidge, who Is the
Iaekey Of Wall Street and Will agree
to anything that Mellon proposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
Bankers Lay Plans
to Further Enslave
the German Workers

LONDON, April 29-The Dawes
plan is to be extended to take mort
gage on all the industries of Germany
to the tune of $13,75O,OOO,OOO so that
Germany can pay the allies, so that
they can pay the American bankers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
THE PRIZE WINNERS!

IT would wish this week awarded all
prizes Correspondents May Day.
Join campaign
international Labor Day. Our Worker Correspondents
quite of and certainly better results will
shown year.
This week the first przea novel; December the Fourteenth
goes Pennsylvania
Industry
pze-UptOn sIncIaIrs being
to IN Ohio steel worker
third pzEght booklets from the Little Red Llbrayis
Woodarsky "May Day
little satisfactory gen.
eraI But writer making get
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ATTACK GROVE
POLITICS IN
MURDER PROBE
Saloon List MysteriOsly
YaniSheS

A drive is under way to take the
investigation Of the machine-gun triple
murder Of Tuesday night out Of the
hands Of States Attorney Grove by
impanelllng a special grand jury and
obtaining a special prosecutor.
The labor-hating, union raiding
states attorney, whose chief assistant
prosecutor, William H. McSwiggen,
and two notorious beer runners and
gangsters were murdered, is on the
defensive as all facts point to an al
lance between his Office and the Steve
("Klondyke") O'Donnell and James
Doherty beer-running gang.
Doherty and a saloon keeper. Tom
Duffy, who was Crowe-Barrett pre-
clint committeeman, were victims of
the machine-gun fire that also killed
McSwiggin.
Were Touring Saloons.
1t is definitely ascertained that the
Lincoln sedan containing the star pro.
secutor and his beer-running com
panions had visited a number of
saloons before they were shot down in
front of the booze joint operated by
Harry Madigan, 1915 Roosevelt Road.
The most plausible theory of the
affair is that McSwiggen and his COM
pan1ons were on tour of the saloons
of the district for the purpose of in
forming proprietors that they must
cease patronizing the opposition
Brown-Torrio beer-runners and throw
their business to the O'Donnell-
Doherty gang.
The leaders Of the gang that are
suspected of the murders are Alphonse
("Scar-face A1") Capone, alias Al
Brown, and Johnny Torrio, rulers Of
the Cicero vice, liquor and gambling.
Their supremacy was challenged by
the O'Donnell-Doherty gang, who are
alleged to have had the backing Of the
Crowe-Barrett political machine.
Hence the murders.
Evidence Disappears.
A list of saloons carried by the slain
Duffy, was found in his pockets after
his death and were probably those to
be visited by the ODonnelI-Doherty
committee" in company with McSwig-
gen. The list, which was carefully
checked, was found by a policeman
and turned over to the Cicero police
station. At the station 1t was report
ed that it was turned over to States
Attorney Grove. Then it vanished!
Grove denies that he ever had such
list and in an effort to frame an alibi
claims it was newspaper plot"
Supply Of Maehine-cuns.
Captain John Siege, chief Of Chicago
detectives, states that he knows that
the Brown-Torrio gang recently Sec
ured eleven automatic rifles or sub
machine guns of the type used in the
murders of Tuesday night, but thus
far he and his sleuths have failed to
locate even one of them altho they
claim that in raid they found a book
of instructions for operating one of the
Thompson automatic machine-guns,
which have two magazine, one contain
ing fifty cartridges and the other one
hundred cartridges and which shoot
at the rate of 1900 shots minute.
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Philadelphia Children
to Celebrate May Day

PHILADELPHIA, April 29.-Work-
ing-class children will celebrate the
First OF May at the mass meeting and
concert arranged by the children's
United Front Conference Saturday,
May First, at Broslover Hall, 7th and
Pine streets.
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A SUB a day ioiD help to drirr
cnpitaL GfcdN.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
TROOPS, TENTS
AND SUPPLIES
NOW ON WAY

LITTLE ROCK, Nov. 20 -
TOrnadOes, striking sharply at "a
half dozen widely scattered points
fn Arkansas and Missouri late to-
day and early tonight eXacted a tOIl
of "a lives and accounted for at
least 80 injured, seven seriously,
with reports still incomplete, and
turned Thanksgiving prayer and
joy into sorrow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
OF
MAINE ENGAGING
IN PARTY FIGHT

AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 25 R)-Ralph
Brewster, Names republican governor,
accused Arthur r. Gould, republican
nominee for United States senator with
violation of the law regulating expend-
itures in the recent republican primary,
in a letter made public tonight.
''The successful nominee was the
beneficiary of the expenditure of very
considerable sums in excess of the
legal limit" the governor write. "These
expenditures" said the governors let
ter, undoubtedly played an important
part in his success. He now states
that these were made in his behalf
by his friends without his knowledge
or consent. Such expenditures without
the knowledge or consent of a candi-
date are expressly forbidden under the
provisions of our statutes and a pen
atty of $500 is imposed for each Of
fense The nominee accordingly has
profited very materially by the whole
sale criminal acts of his friends and is
exactly in the position of a man who
is receiving stolen goods"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
/" BUM" ROGERS
TAKEN CAPTIVE
BY N. Y. POLICE

NEW. YORK; Nov 25 (P--Five min
utes before the tinkle of AM alarm
clock might have sent him out of reach
or re arm of the law John J. Bum"
Rogers, notorious criminal and escaped
convict, was captured today in his bed
in Bronx tenement house.
Retiring last night Is free, but
widely hunted man, wan led since his
escape shortly before Christmas last
year, the ex-convict awoke on Thanks
giving day to face an army of de-
tectives.
Questioned at police headquarters,
Rogers alias John j. O'Briea, and
Hughes, disclaimed having participated
in any robberies of recent months in
which his name has been a recurrent
symbol. He said he had not been out
side Manhattan and the Bronx since
his escape last December, and search
of the apartment in the tenement failed
to reveal any money or stolen goods.
The only objects in the pockets Of the
man who was believed to have par
ticipated in numerous robberies and
the sensational 100000 holdup of a
mail truck in Elizabeth, N. j., last
month, were cent and button.
His clothes were ill kept and ia
ragged moustache, grown apparently
for disguise, added to his character
istic down and out" appearance.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
Sergeant York Pounds School for Boys and
Girls Of His Mountains; Notable Americans
Giving Aid to Brave Soldier in His Fight
At right Sergeant York is

pert by squirrel hunting he picked
off German machine gunners one by
one as their heads showed above
their nest.
AS he fought he called to the Ger
mans 70 surrender. He wanted to
bring in his enemies alive
Stops BayOnet Charge.
Suddenly seven Germans with fixed
bayonets charged at him. York
picked off the rear one first, then
the next to the rear, and so on
until he got all seven. He knew if
he got the leading men first, the
others would turn back.
a German major then ordered a
surrender, and York and six COM
panions marched 1872 German pris-
oners back to the American lines.
1t was the greatest single deed of
the war, the greatest accomplishment
of any one soldier in all the allied
armies.
York's story is the story of 'con-
scientious objector" to war whose
name -lod all the rest. When peace
came, he returned to his beloved
Cumberland plateau in Tennessee
with the ambition to help his own
people. He refused all sorts of at
tractive vaudeville and advertising Of
ferS.
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
SUPER POISON
GASES A MYTH
STATES

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is
(AP) - War born popular
gossip Of super-pois 0 n
gases, discovered but never
used because they would
have wiped out whole popu-
lations at a breath, received
a sharp setback in the an
nual report Of no less a per-
son than Major General
Amos Fries, chief Of the
chemical warfare service,
and leading exponent Of the
use Of gas in war for Lu-
name reasons.
Scientific investigation" he said,
"is making it more and more apparent
that future developments in the use
of chemical agents will be concerned
more with the methods of use oand
the discovery of more powerful chem
ical materials, and further, that the
effectiveness of chemical weapons is
due more to the large number of tenn
porary casualties which may be pro-
duced than to the relatively small num-
Der of fatalities which may be caused"
General Fries said
'The chemical agents employed dur
ing the World war are probably about
as effective for the production of cas-
-ualties as any which may be discov-
cred in the future.7
General Fries also took issue again
with the idea that exposure to war
gases induced subsequent tuberculosis.
Another year of scientific study of the
question, he said, has shown con-
clusively that there is no relation be-
tween this disease and the effects
which may result from exposure to!
chemical agents.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
MRS. HALL TOOK
DINNER IN JAIL
WITH. BROTHERS

SOMERVILLE, N. j., Nov. 25.P)-
Mrs. Frances stevens Halls about to
follow her two brothers to the wit
ness stand in the Hall Mills case,
came to Jail today to have Thanks
giving dinner with them
Prepared to testify tomorrow or
Saturday, she was buoyant and smil :
ing as she reached the Jail, and is
sued one of her few statements for
publication when she told reporters:
81 hope you have a good Thanks
giving dinner"
Mrs. Hall brought several applause
cards to Willie Stevens. 1t was evil
dent that her cheerfulness was
caused, in part at least, by letters
that she has received from friends
telling of their enthusiasm over
Willie's ability to take care of him
self as a witness.
On the stand in his own behalf,
her 54-year-old brother Mrs. Hall
pender Stevens, very much at ease,
and offering sharp contrast to a
widespread impression of Willie Ste
vens, who had Jagged behind the
procession or dropped out altogether.
AS her brother testified, alertly
sidestepping traps set for him by the
prosecution, and politely correcting
the states lawyer when he fumbled
a pronunciation or term, Mrs. Hall
beamed her satisfaction. She saw
him justifying her Characterization of
him as "a very gallant gentleman
and coming strongly to the support
of the family physician, who testi-
fled that he was able to make a lot
of people look foolish"
Although two years younger than
her 54-year- bzrother, Mrs. Hail
has been more the mother than sister
of the man who carried into middle
age fondness for fire fighting
equipment. Willie stevens made no
secret of the fact that he has made
fire engine house his club, but Il
was developed by his testimony that
when he was in his room smoking
a pipe that Everybody objected to- y
he was reading books that made a
full man.
Henry and Willie Stevens and their
sis;'r ~ere joined at dinner by their
cousin, Henry De La Bruyere Car
pender. He, too, is under indictment
on charge of numbering Mrs Flea
nor r. Mills and the Rev. Edward
w. Hall, but was not brought to trial
with his relatives.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
w WASHINGTON.
HAS FINE DAY
THANKSGIVING

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 R-Wash-
ington, blessed today with exception
ally fine weather, made the most of
this to celebrate Thanksgiving day in
traditional fashion, the presidential
household setting the example in lay
ing aside customary activities and de-
voting the morning to religious OBJ
servance and the rest of the day to
quiet appreciation of the holiday.
Suitable attention, however was given
fine "a pound turkey at the White
House table.
President Coolidge, as "a matter of
fact, did not forget work entirely, since
the White House in the morning, and
in the late afternoon the executive
put in some further work on his annual
message to congress. Accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Stearns, of
Boston, White House guests. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge attended
morning Thanksgiving service at the
Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Epis-
copal church at the invitation of Bish-
op William F. Mcdowell. The latter
arranged a special service at which he
himself preached the sermon before a
capacity audience, including Chief
Justice Taft, Secretary of Labor Davis,
Senator Watson of Indiana and other
government officials. With only Mr..
and Mrs Stearns as guests, Governor
Bakers feathered gift from Missouri
fha of OF OF hn
White House upon the return from
church. -Four other turkeys, three from
Mount Pleasant, OHIO, and one from
Ipswich, Mass, took care of the White
House household.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
TWO GANGSTERS AND A
BYSTANDER INJURED
In CHICAGO GANG WAR

CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (P)-The rata
tat-tat of a gangster machine gun and
shot guns broke the Thanksgiving
quiet of the south side tonight, and
when the smoke of the battle had
cleared away two notorious gangsters
and a bystander lay wounded in the
street, the result of renewal of the
war of determination betweeM rival
bands of bootleggers and gangsters
The victims of tonight's outbreak
were Thomas ana Charles ODonnelI
bootlegging gangster brothers of Ed
ward spike" O'Donnell, who has en-
aged in the beer racket here. The
bystander who was wounded was
Charles Barrett and standing only a few
feet from the scene of the shooting
Continued IN Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26

PINE BLUFF, Ark, Nov.
25 (AP)-The known dead
in the tornado which struck
in different parts Of Arkan-
sas today was raised to %
late tonight, when eight
persons were reported to
have been killed in Moscow,
10 miles south Of here.
Thirty persons also were
reported injured at Mos
COW.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26

JAMESTOWN, Tenn, Nov. 25.-Ser-
geant Alvin C. York, the World wars
greatest hero, captor of a whole bat
talon of German machine, gun1ers, is
here in the Tennessee mountain
country.
York has "shouldered arms" against
the lack of education facilities which
long has been a blight on the lives
of mountain boys and girls.
He has founded the Alvin C. York
institute at Jamestown, for agricul-
turaI and vocational training. He has
enlisted the sympathy of business and
professional men of national promi-
nence in the project, and they active
ly are at work helping him "put it
over" Public subscriptions have been
solicited.
His First and Last Monument.
It's the first time York ever has
sought monument to his valor of
war days, and it doubtless will be
his last. He has had opportunities
without number to enrich himself,
but he consistently has rejected them
York's name swept over America in
a tidal wave in the fall of 1918 when
word of his daring exploits on the
Argonne front in France was borne
back to this country.
With Is other Americans he had
worked his way behind the German
lines. York and his party had taken
Is prisoners when machine guns
opened fire. The German prisoners
flattened on the ground. Six Ameri-
cans wore killed and three wounded.
York dropped prone behind some
undergrOMth. With an eve made eX-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
WELL GOWNED WOMEN
SEEK TO ATTEND TRIAL
OF FORMER OFFICER

MAIDSTONE, England, Nov. 25 LP
-Fashionably dressed women besieged
the court at the opening today of the
trial of Alphonse F. a. Smith. formerly
an officer in the Dragon guards, for
the murder of his lifelong friend, John
j. Derham. Admission to the court
room is by ticket only. Two elderly
women are on the Jury.
On August 10, last, Smith, his wife
and Derham We're together in the Smith
villa stella Maris," at Whitstable.
There was quarrel and Smith
emerged from the struggle badly
bruised. Derham was dead. The de-
Tense claims that Smith intended to
commit suicide and that Derham, in
attempting TO prevent him, was acei-
dentally shot.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-26
ARKANSAS TORNADO CLAIMS 81 LIVES
NAVAL AIRMEN
WILL CONTINUE
PANAMA FLIGHT.

WASHINGTON Nov, 25 lP)-The
shade of John Rodgers smiled en-
couragement today to his former mates
as they rested and contemplated their
failure to write new chapter to the
annals of aeronautics
The feat of the valiant commander
who had Is months before led an ex-
pedtion across the Pacific which
brought him and his crew down a
record distance of 1,S41 miles from the
starting point, to drift nine days before
submarine found them off the island
of Kauli, remains the greatest non
stop performance for navy fliers in Pm
seaplanes.
Two PN-1O seaplanes, improved in
design and construction over those
which Rodgers and his companions
flew, were down today They took off
at twilight Tuesday on nonstop ven
ture intended to take them 1900 miles
from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to
SOlOH, Canal zone.
That of Lieutenant Commander H
T. Bartlett the PN-10 No. ., was taking
inventory today of her flight at Sigu-
ana Bay Isle of Pines. preparatory
to resuming the voyage. Bartlett, with
Lieutenants H. c. Rodd and G H.
Schildhauer and Aviation Chief Ma
chinist Mate Charles ]. Sutter, went
down at Nueva Corona, Isle of Pines,
at $50 a. M yesterday, their oil supply
exhausted. He said today that repairs
could be made in time to take off at
6 a. m. tomorrow for the final 769
mile hop to Colon and requested a |
destroyer to stand guard along the
route. If none is available he will .
undertake the flight with the cruiser
Raleigh trailing him at 25 knots.
The companion craft, PN-1O No III
Lieutenant Byron J. Connell command
ingS was plowing salong today under
tow of the light cruiser Cincinnati IS /
miles south Of the point where she
was picked up last night by the Gin i
cinnati, headed for Guantanamo at the
speed of eight knots.
Lieutenant Connell reported that all I
of the crew were well. He
said the plane would need a new star
board engine and asked that equip
ment be sent him at Guantanamo to /
install the engine. A connecting rod
in his motor had broken after the
crew had struggled against a feverish /
oil pressure, forcing the ship down
245 miles south of the Isle of Pines.
Strangely enough, two of the crew of /
the PN-1O No. 1, which was hunted |
for 14h hours yesterday before the
Cincinnati picked her up at 9:35 last
night, had shared privation with John
Rodgers on the memorable Honolulu |
flight. They were Lieutenant Connell /
and Skiles r. Pope, aviation pilot
With only meager details in their
possession, aeronautic officials were at
a loss today to explain why the. No l /
ceased communicating oil. The navy
bureau of aeranautice was inclined to I
assign the failure of the PN-1O's to
of seapIane motor power
to meet the requirement imposed by
the staunchness and weight of hydro
aero construction.
So far as could be told from Iaconic
esignalled from the planes as
they sped south, the navigators were
doing all they could to get maximum
performance from their motors. Bart
lett steered his plane 1,1S6 miles be-
fore descending and when Connell was
forced down it was calculated he trav-
ersed LAS miles