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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02
KAY JAY
SPORT
CHAT

The management of the Clerk,
basketball team, winners Of the Gun
in the City League last winter. Ell.
IDENTIFY resented the Vickery and Hin
statement that many fans wouId
like to see playoff between the two
teams at an early date. In regard. IA
the writeup the xssnassment Of III.
Clerks makes the following state.
ment:
Referring to Vickery and Hill,
article in yesterdays Kennebee
Journal, many of the fans would liks
to see play off between the Clerk,
and Printers"
Surely there is nothing to play an
as the Clerks lost only one game Il
the city league and V. & H. who
were runners up lost two. Therefor
the Clerks won the cup. We do uos
believe there are many fans" Wiz
would like to see play off. There
may be a few fans who are IN
sportsmanlike enough to believe theF.
should be a play off. But why pick
V. d II. without considering the 9th
er four losing teams.
AC Oiily ACdS0S game tne Olefkg
lost was the first game Of the sea.
son. V. & H. had already PLAYED tws
games before meeting the Cfefks who
had not even had a practice together
However we consider that our own
hard luck. In the final game between
V. & II. and Clerks in which the star
forward Hinckley was disqualifes
because he made four personal fouls
The Clerks also wera handfra ny.S
by losing McCourtney In nine min.
utes of play. As for v. & II. play.
ing the last six minutes of the garns
with only four men. They were Of
fered a. chance to use five men but
refused it, perhaps because they
realized they were beaten and wanted
that for an excuse.
The Clerks won fair and square
this year and are looking forward 10
another year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02
Exhibition Baseball

Dallas. Tex, April 1--(AP)-St.
Louis (N) Hill; Dallas (Tex) 4
1914.
sherdel. Haynes and oFarrsll:
Warwick. Shunaan, Darrough and
Wicker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02

All of which evidently closes HI.
discussion as far as a playoff is con.
cerned. 1t is to be hoped that both
these teams enter the usual Twilight
Baseball League and in that event
both outfits should furnish some fast
and interesting competition and at
the same time settle tia little ques.
ton Of supremacy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02

Atlanta, Ga. April 1--(AP)-Tor-
pnto CD 2-7-2; Cleveland (A) To-
1870.
Faulkner, Carroll and O'Neiil;
Smith, Schaute and L. Sewell.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02

! Birmingham, Ala, April lap
Birmingham Is A. 1882; Boston
/ (A) 7-12-2.
Stewart, Friday. Judd and oBrien,
81 ariyan; Lundgren, Wingheld, Ruff
4rg. Somars and Ga4teu.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-02

Dover, n. j.: April 1.---(AP)--No
longer conscisnce-stricken, Thomas
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
Local Boy Scouts to Enter
Contest at Court Of Honor

Seven boy scout troops of the
county have entered the stretcher
bearer contest to be staged as part
OF the annual court of honor pro-
gram, Saturday evening, October 16,
at Twin Buttes, it was learned Mon
day.
Six scouts will make up the team
from each troop and will be required
to make an impromised stretcher, us
ing two coats, place a head bandage
on patient, place the patient on tho
stretcher by the three bearer method
and carry patient 25 feet.
Troop No. 2, of Bisbee, claims to
have completed the contest routine
IN less than one minutes time, which
means that real action will be seen
when the word is given to start the
contest Saturday evening
All teams have been working hard
during the past three weeks to cut
their time to the minimum. The
troops which have entered up TO the
present time are troops No. 5, OF,
Douglas; troop Nc 1, of Warren:
troops No. 2 and No. A., of Bisbee;
troop No. Z, of, Tombstone; troop N.
13, of Benson, and troop No 10, of
San Simon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12

the delegations will meet the trains
at Buckeye and Chandler. These
committees will ne composed or Is
members each. The train from Los
Angeles will be met at Buckeye and
the one from Eel Paso at Chandler.
After the joyous welcoming pro-
gram to be held at the Union station
upon the arrival of hte trains when
all the bells and sirens of the city
will be brought into service to spread
the news that the first main line
passenger trains have arrived, and
when special talks and music will
be given, plans have been mace to
escort the visitors to the chamber of
commerce building where large
room will be furnished with lounges,
tables and chairs to be used as their
headquarters during the day. Fifty
new automobiles furnished by auto
mobile dealers of the city viii be
made available at the headquarters
for guests who wish to make sight
seeing tours of the valley The heac-
quarters and valley excursions viii
be open to all visitors to the city,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12

through a rear window Newman
Joined Murchison when ne saw him
speeding toward the scene of the
robbery and the two officers ar
rived in time to catch the thief as
lie attempted to escape over rear
fence. About his person was con-
siderable amount of clothing which
he is said to have taken from the
house.
Newman, while investigating the
case, found a suitcase containing
clothing in nearby alley. Letters
found in the clothing traced the
ownership to G. o. Bowser, GIT F
avenue. Through Investigation in
the neighborhood Of Bowser's resr-
dence it was found that several per-
sons had seen Carter ih the neign-
borhood and it is believed that ne
first robbed Bowser's room, left the
suitcase in the alley and then at
tempted the robbery of the second
house.
Fingerprints of Carter and the two
men arrested in connection with the
robbery of Doctor Adamsons homo
were taken at the police station for
comparison with the impressions
found on the case in the Bache Jew
elry companys store, in the belief
that one or more of the men might
have been implicated in the jeweiry
theft.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
SUSPECTS HELD AFTER
SERIES OF ROBBERIES
HERE SUNDAY, MONDAY

The Bache Jewelry company suf-
fered the loss of several hundred dol
lars worth of jewelry and novelties
from their new store at 1925 G
avenue Sunday night in the first of
a series of three burSlaries which
occurred in the city within less than
"a hours.
Entrance to the jeweiry establish
ment was effected through winoow
in the rear of the building. D1a-
monds, watches and the more valu-
able pieces of silvcrware had been
locked up in the safes and the burg
lar, or burglars, took only an as
sortment of baby jewelry, wrist
watch bracelets, compacts, vanity
cases and novelties.
The robbery is believed to have
occurred between II p. NJ, and mid
right, Sunday, for George Cook, mer-
chant patrolman who, in cne com.
rany of other city officers, discov-
cred the robbery, stated that he had
made his regular inspection OF tine
rear door and windows CT tho estab-
lishment at IL p. m. and discovered
the robbery shortly after mldnignt.
Two heavy iron bars over one OF
the rear windows had been pushed
apart, providing sufficient space foy
a small man to make his entrance.
A shelf across the inside of the win
dow was torn away and q settee
from the front part of the store was
found beneath the window, appar-
emily having been used in effecting
exit.
Ffngerprints found on one of the
show cases were preserved and early
Monday morning, A. 3. MUrchison,
police sergeant, developed them for
future reference and later In the day
it was considered possible that these
fingerprints might connect a man
arrested on suspicion in another theft
case, with the jewelry store robbery.
DR.. e. w. Adamson reported Cne
second theft, stating that a gun had
been stolen from his home at 1850
Eleventh street, which is now peIng
redecorated. Joe and Arthur Stice,
brothers, tourists from Arkansas,
were arrested and held on a formal
complaint when painters engaged In
the work at Doctor Ademson's nome
identified them as having been in the
house during the morning.
In the third robbery, City Officers
A. B. Murchison and Gordon Newman
caught G. w. Carter, a tourist from
Oklahoma, as he was leaving a house
at 718 D avenue.
A woman residing near the house
on D avenue called the police station
when she saw a man enter the house
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
LOS ANGELES, Ell PASO
SEND SPECIAL TRAINS
TO PHOENIX GATHERING

PHOENIX, Oct. 11.-Lawyers Frank
O. Smith and f. ]. Elliot, acting as
honorary engineers, will pilot the
two special trade excursion trains of
Los Angeles and Ell Paso into the
Union station here Friday, the morn
ing of the Main Line exposition, 1t
has been announced by the execu-
tzve committee on arrangements for
the exposition.
The two lawyer engineers will
meet their respective trains at Buck
eye and Chandler and will assume
their places in the cabs of the loco
motives at those places.
Honorary conductors on the trains
will be E. H. Ferrall and I. N. Trim
BILE, members of the junior chamber
of commerce.
Special reception committees who
will hand the keys of the city to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
ROUTINE MATTERS UP
AT COUNCIL MEETING

The regular monthly meeting Of the
council was held at the city hall
Monday night, Mayor A. E. Hinton
presiding, and all counc'lmen being
present except Reay, who was out Of
the city. An invitation from the
mayor of Phoenix and another from
the Phoenix chamber of commerce., in>
viting the people of Douglas to at
tend the Main Line celebration in
Phoenix October Is, was read by the
mayor.
Routine business occupied the re-
mainder os the meeting. Reports from
the health, fire and police depar.-
ments for the month of September
were received and filed; bills were re-,
ceived and turned over to the audit
ing committee and other routine bus
mess Of the council was carried out
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
(By JACK o'CONNoR)

Friday morning broke with low
hung clouds and driving rain.
Startled amateur weather experts
Hastily sought Lydia Pipkham alma:
macs and eagerly examined the col-
umn containing the phases of the
moon. Triumphant, they informed
disgruntled fair visitors that there
had been a change of the moon on
October 6, hence the deluge. Later,
they still more eXultantly announced
that the new moon was a wet
one, horns pointing upward.
Bored, those of their auditors who
had even scant knowledge OF
meteorological science wondered at
such superstitution in year of grace
1925 and remembered in time that
only last year Texas and Tennessee
had decreed that even the mention
of the theory Of evolution must be
hanished from public school text
hooks.
( One of the commonest and like
wise one of the most unreasonable
weather superstitions, says the wealth
er bureau of the United States de-
rartment of agriculture, is the be-
lief that if the horns of the new
crescent moon tip downward. it Is
a wet moon, portendng rain.
The position of the, lunar crescent
depends upon the angle that the
moons path makes with the horizon,
and on any given date it is always
the same in places having the same
latitude. If this weather sign were
trustworthy, the same lIind or wealth
err either dry or rainy, would pre-
vail on any given date throughoue
a belt of latitude extending entirely
around the globe. OF course there is
no such uniformity Of weather in
relation to latitude. In the tenn
perate zones. where the weather
travels from west to east, the great
est contrast of wet and dry weather
conditions are likely to be found
along parallels of latitude rather
than meridians of longitude.
Near the equator the position of
the young moon meyer makes an
angle or more than 80 degrees with
the horizon, and it is. generally in
an even more horizontal position, so
that in a part of the world notorious
for regions of heavy rainfall, the
moon is, according to the proverD,
always "dry'' one. The final alb
surdity is the case of the crescent
moon as seen from the north ara
south poles, where it is always what
the proverb describes as wet" for
at these places the line joining the
tips of the screscent makes ar angie
of less than 25 degrees to the vercf-
cal; yet the polar regions are char
acterized by so little precipitation IN
the form Of rain and snow that they
rank among the arid regions of the
globe.
The man announcing the change of
weather as due to the changing of
the moon overlooks the fact that the
moon changes" four times every
month, these changes being designat-
ed as "new," 'first quarter" 'Iasr
quarter" and full These changeA
are nothing more than the changes in
the illuminated surface as a result
of the moons changing position with
regard to the sun, the moon making
complete circuit of the earth once
in 2S days.
In the year 1921, Douglas had
the experience of four summer
months, May to August, during
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12

and all cars coming in from over the
state will be asked to register at
the building so that everyone may
become acquainted.
In addition to the automobile trips,
band concerts in several different
parts of the city and a football game
between the Flagstaff Lumber Jacks
and the Phoenix Bears will be held
during the afternoon
The big two-mile pageant or prog
ress and parade held at o'clock
in the downtown section of the city
and a big street carnival ball. be-
ginning after the parade will marx
the close of festivities.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
POSITION OF THE MOON HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH RAINFALL, DECLARES JACK OCONNOR

which the weather did not change
appreciably, but remained dry, hot,
and practically changeless for II
weeks, yet in that period there had
been II changes" of the, moon. The
inference is clear.
But the myth persists. Likewise
credulous darl<ies believe in the eff
ficacy of a rabbits foot to ward of
i'll fortune, equally credulous whites
worry when black cat crosses
their path, shudder when mirror
is broken, fear to spill salt ana
avoid walking under Ladders.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
What Are You Doing
For Your Puny Child? p?
One boy gained II pounds in weeks
and is ROW strong and healthy.

For weak, frail, under developed
children-and especially those that
have ricketts,, and need cure build
er that promotes the growth of
teeth and bones, cod liver oil is the
one medicine upreme-nothing helps
like it.
But it is nasty and repulsive ana
evil smelling, and nearly always up
sets children's stomachs-so now up
todate chemists advise McCoy's Cod
Liver Oil Compound Tablets, sugar
coated and as easy to take as candy
One boy gained 111s pounds in
seven weeks and is now healthy and
happy-thousands of other children
have grown strong and robust.
Sixty tablets for 60 cents at Doug
las Drug Co. and all druggists and
money back if rot Observation-Disclosures
insist OH McCoy's-the original ana
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
oBsERyE CoLUMBUs DAY

NEW YORK, Oct II (AP)-TSe
New York stock exchange and all
other securities and commodities mar
kets as well as the banks, will ~
closed tomorrow in observance OF
Columbus day, a legal holiday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Ry ]. hi. a Ford Worker.

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 6.--Working
on the assembly line in the Highland
Park plant of the Ford Motor Co.,
one finds working men from all parts
Of the United States. Most of these
men just came to Detroit to work for
Ford because they heard that he was
good guy to work for. So they
threw up their jobs in their home
towns and came to work for the "best
boss in the United States"
Lots OF these fellows from farms,
heard Of Ford's eight hour day. 1t
had a special appeal to them, but it
didn't last long. For they learned
soon that in eight hours, Ford can
take more out of you than farm work
would. even in "a hours. Altho the
work is all-day work, the speed these
men have to work at is amazing. And
when they find that the men take
things little easier, they Immediately
speed up the line. Working on these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08

parts of the world. At least two
hundred thousand strong and able men
are directly in the employ of the Ford
Motor company or auxiliary institu-
tons. These men are automatons,
More so in the Ford industry than in
any other in the world Ford claims
that he thinks of his men always as
human beings. In all Of his publicity
works, books, pamphlets, magazine
articles, etc. written by skilled press
agents), Ford delivers himself of a
great deal of humanitarian, trying to
create the impression that his first
thought is for the men in his plants.
EORDs plants prove just the OPP
L posite. They demonstrate that
Ford thinks ever 50 much more Of a
penny or a minute saved here and
Continued on page p
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His Fake Argument About Management Thinks He Has Established In
dustra Monarchy Workers Have Right To Organize Ford
Workers Will Have Union Too ! When They FIGHT For It.

To a certain extent this is true, be-
cause the first ones to sing his praises
were trade union leaders whose bust
ness 1t is to organize just such open
shop plants as Ford runs. But the
five-day week is not going down so
well with the worker in the plant. He
knows that he is producing as much
and will later be called upon to pro-
duce more in five days than he for
merly did in five and a half There is
just as much, if not more, reason for
the Ford plants TO be organized from
roof to cellar as any other open shop
industry in the land,
EoRD doesn't want unions because
l he wants to maintain his status as
an industrial monarch. Ford personal
ly rules the destiny Of some million
persons who are directly or indirectly
dependent upon his industry in all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08

assembly lines is the closest thing to
what hell is described to be by a
baptist preacher
Can't Stand GAIT.
On this line, when there is no let
up the whole day through, where you
are forced ito work at full speed for
the whole eight hours under those
damnable blue lights, where to go
even to lavaEory you have to call
out number and wait until you can
be replaced, Where only fifteen min
utes is allowed fr dinner, and where
zone out Of every seven men is a straw
boss-makes all those fellows that
come to Detroit to work for the best
boss in the United States" last not
SO long. They cannot stand the gait.
Hence the big labor turnover. The
foreman expressed himself, by saying
that he has three gangs working for
him, one coming, one going and one
working.
Can't Wash Hands.
AS l said, only fifteen minutes al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Federal Judge Aided
Open Shop in Strike;
Forced to Fine Firm

DETROIT, Oct 6-FP) - Federal
Judge Arthur ]. futile, bitter enemy
Of organized labor. has been compel
led by the United States Supreme
court to recognize Wholesale fraud
committed by the John f. Koenig
Coal company in the coal miners and
railway shop employees strike in 1922.
Tho interstate commerce commits
sion charged Koenig, president OF the
company, with billing coal from Ken
lucky and West Virginia to Detroit
hospitals and receiving II himself.
Under the Elkin act hospital ship
ments had priority over Industrial
shipments. Koenig pleaded not guilty
and Judge futile exonerated him.
In the course OF the shop strike
Judge futile outlawed Pere Marquette
railroad shop strikers and said they
deserved no standing In court He
later imposed a four months SEN
tence for contempt OF court on the
editor Of a labor paper who criticized
him The federal court OF appeals at
Cincinnati reversed this decision also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Fifteen Minutes for Lunch
sPEEDUPcAL
ASLEEP sTRAPs-PRY INTO PRIVATE LIFE OF WORKERS

allowed to eat lunch in. Fifteen min
utes does not allow time enough for
washing the grease of ones hands.
So we have to eat grease and oil
along with our meals. And still Hen
ry Ford writes about keeping your
health by chewing food slowly.
And how hard is the eight hours on
a personi WE'LL get home from
work and the only thing l feel like
doing is to lay down and go to sleep.
Get on any of the cars that carry
Ford workers home from work and
you viii lind men who work only
eight hours a day, hanging on to the
straps sleeping-all tagged out
Pry Into Private Affairs.
But one of the most Objectionable
things about Ford is that he is al
ways prying into the private life Of his
employees. Every employee is made to
report to the educational office as to
what he is doing with his pay. Is he
saving any money? Does he buy
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strong collected 5000 and
the meeting One eomrade
The taking the
necessity than
the top with quota
amount Yesl we will
only English Daily the
revolutionary its bitter class struggle
before will let
banne Of DAILY WORKER fall.
rally break the
all,
Il do properly challenge
to us this drivel
In WORKER
ORGANIZER, NUCLEI DETROIT.
Keep the splendid pace by the Communists and the other
in the Ford factories Accept the Ford workers challenges
them today, and will KEEP THE DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
RY THuRRER LEWIS.

HENRY FORD is against trade
a unions. The reason he is against
them is, as he puts it, that they are
Limitations" upon a business. He
claims that he pays his men higher
wages than trade unions could ever
get for them. Trade unions would be
a hindrance to him. Such are Ford's
main arguments against the organiza.
ton of his industry. He would not
permit it. He would fight hard to
prevent unionization even to the
smallest degree.
Trade Union Leaders Praise.
NOW that he thinks he has startled
~ the world with the announcement
of the "fve-day week." he presumes
that he has added one more blow to
the possibility of unionizing his plants,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
Date Factory Workers
Spurn Compromise of
Employers on Strike

Begged by the bosses of the Maras
and company date factory to return
to work at the present scale of wag-
es, the 125 Negro women who went
on strike Saturday after a REDUCTION
notice was posted, voted Wednesday
morning unanimously to refuse the
offer of the bosses and to remain on
strike.
The virtual submission of the boss
es spurred the women to proceed with
their plans to form union organiza-
ton. They are determined to do this
before the strike is settled.
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor, was
scheduled TO address a meeting of the
strikers Wednesday afternoon. They
have asked the federation for aid in
forming a union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-08
FORD KEARNEY
WORKERS FEEL
RETRENCHMENT
tspeeIaI to rhe palIx Worker,


JERSEY CITY, N. J. Oct. Elm the
Ford Kearney branch we are begin
ming to feel the effect of retrench-
ment and reduction in wages. Five
days pay for six days work is now an
established fact according to the bull
letin board Yes-some increases are
to be given out, but only on merit!
One department had its force cut
down one-third and the rest We're told
to keep UP production in anticipation
of raise. This information filtered
down from plant manager Mr.. Hus-
sey and Supt. Gartha to all foremen.
This department got its reward with
only few pacesetters receiving five
cents increase per hour. Thus the
average man was held at $4,000 a
week and the star performers got
5000.
TO sum up, Henry Ford's profits
taking into consideration the number
of men discharged, the scale of pro-
duction kept at the saFe level and
similar methods applied to thirty
three branches, he does save a pretty
penny.
According to an article covering a
personal interview, he now intends to
drop the policy of minimum wage
and pay according to ones merit The
final blow is when he bursts with gen.
crosby and hands us five days a
week Ford forgets he exceeded that
record. We in "Kearney" worked
three and four days a week in the
past year-why keep his improve
ment" in the hours of labor under his
hat so long?
There is a general discomfort thru
out the plant No amount of publicity
in the Hearst sheets will change the
fact of shrinking pay envelope.