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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
PRISON WHIP
BRANDED MAN
FOR ALL Time
And Ford Had No Work
for Ex-Convict
Especial to The Daily worker)

CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail) In
one Of the recent issues of The DAILY
WORKER noticed an account of how
two men from Pittsburgh, Pa, were
sentenced to Is years and 40 lashes at
Wilmington, Delaware.
Well, was sentenced to five years
and 20 lashes in Canada and sent to
the Kingston penitentiary to receive
them. The lash is a most terrible tor
ture. was stripped to my waist,
blindfolded and tied to a post. Then
was given the first installment Of 10
lashes and salt was applied to the
wounds. My back was a mass of
welts. Then / was led back to my cell
and given nothing to relieve the pain.
Holy Man sanctlfies Lash.
I recall that about a month after
ward was sitting in my cell when
the chaplain, the "holy man of Cod"
came to see me. His first words
were: well, boy, how do you like the
cat?" Cmeaning the whip used, the
AUTOMATICALLY
WhS angry anu JOlQ MIN TO go
away. But he asked to see my back
and threatened me with some sort of
punishment, l don't recall what at this
time, and l was forced to show him
my back. Then, just day or two
afterward, was taken out and given
the, other ten lashes, while my back
had hardly yet healed from the first
ten. This is the regular thing, and the
most brutal cruelty to any living be-
ing, man or beast.
"onee ! Applied to Ford"
Once / applied to the Ford plant at
Detroit, needing job. But when the
Ford doctor saw my back, all SCARED
and slashed from the lash, he said:
"Oh, my, you got your peaches! But
no work for an ex-convict who has
been lashed."
l hope The DAILY WORKER will
continue to expose this brutal treat
ment, as no other paper will. Signed:
A Victim of the Lash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
WEAVERS STICK
0 n STRIKE IN
TEXTILE TOWN
New London Workers
Fight Wage Cut

NEW LONDON, Conn, June 8. -
The strike OF the weavers of the Ed.
Bloom Co. is now in it's eighth week
The weavers all walked out on Mon
day April IL. Their wages had been
cut % per cent in December, but due
to the lack of organization they did
not strike till April, after they had
decided that they had suffered from
low pay long enuf. It was so low
that some of them had to work 70
and more hours to make a living
wage.
A picket line was Immediately es.
taIblishd in front of the shop and reg
ular mass meetings were held. The
strikers put forth the following de,
mands:
l. Restoration of the wage cut and
lie per yard increase.
2. No discrimination against the
strikers.
3. Recognition of their union.
4. Time and a half for over time.
The company in the sixth week of
the strike tried to open the mill with
scabs, but in spite of all the efforts
of the foremen to scare the strikers,
the attempt fell fiat. The strikers
now feel that victory is very near
and that Mr.. Bloom must settle or
go out of business. They are being
supported morally and financially by
all the labor unions and other organ
izations. A collection among the bust
ness people was also very success
full.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Government Lawyer
Denies Use of Force
to Get Confessions

WASHINGTON, June 9. = Charges
that third degree methods were used
by department of justice agents in try
ing to secure confessions in the Usage
Indian murder cases in Oklahoma,
were denounced by Assistant Attorney
General Oscar Luhring as "false and
ridiculous"
The charges were made by VIM. X.
Hale and John Ramsey, who said they
had been subjected to electrical treat.
ment" by federal agents in an effort
to force confessions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Chihuahua Congress
Limits One Priest to
5000 Inhabitants

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, June 9.
The Chihuahua state congress pass
ed a statute limiting one priest OF
minister to any religion to every
5000 inhabitants. The governor was
authorized to Immediately put the
law into effect.
The clergy, in an attempt to defeat
the law, are attempting to get the
peasants, whom they have held in
slavery for years, to revolt against
this law Of the Chihuahua congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Plan New Road from
Chicago to Aurora

Steps in securing land for building
a 2O0foot highway between Chicago
and Aurora have been taken, according
to officials of Du Page county.
The road, which will relieve the
great traffic congestion to the west
Of the city, will lie in a straight line
across the southern part Of Du Page
county and will adjoin Seventy-ninth
st. here. M.
Numerous Parks will be set of
alongside the highway. The road will
be completed in about four years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Mellon Nephew to
Go Before Election
Slush Fund Probe

WASHINGTON. D. c.. June s.-w
L. Mellon, nephew of Secretary Mel
Ion, is among the sixteen witnesses
that are to appear before the special
senate investigating committee into
the funds spent in the republican pri-
mary at Pennsylvania in an attempt
TO nominate United States Senator
Pepper for reelection. The three
candidates will also appear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Three De Kalb County
Youths Plead Guilty
to Assault on Girl

SYCAMORE, ILL.,, June 8. Emer-
son Wilson, Stanley Sims Hurt and
Leonard Rich, DeKalb county youths,
pleaded guilty to an attack on Miss
Dorothy Westervelt, pretty northern
Illinois Teachers College coed. Judge
William ]. Fulton took the pleas un,
der advisement and 1t was indicated
sentences will be passed on the de-
PENDANTS in the next few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Pastor Is Ousted
for Evolution Talk

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, June 8.
Rev. Arthur G. Lyon, pastor of the
Union Congregational church, has
been ousted as president of the Min
istertal Association of Greater Palm
Beach for making a sermon in which
he spoke favorably of the evolution
theory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Curb Market Seat
Is Sold for $4,000

NEW YORK, June 9.--Peter p. Nc.
Dermott's seat in the New York curb
market sold for $4,000 to Paul G..
friedman. This is an increase over
the price paid for the seat sold Just
ahead Of McDermottaaloo 9s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
MONTANA COPPER
TRUST BACKING
SPLIT IN union
Withdrawal from /. u.
M. M. S. Is Urged
81 J. G. S.

GREAT FALLS, Mont, June 9-The
chaotic condition Of the labor move
ment of this state may be cleaned
from the contemplated action of the
Smelter Union of Anaconda, Mont.
This union is affiliated with the Inter
national Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, which is part of the
A. F. Of L.
To Withdraw From international.
A call for special election is being
sent out for next week, for the purpose
of taking referendum on the ques-
tion of continued affiliation with the
International. The officers of the To-
cal union claim that the call is the
result of dissatisfaction among the
members as to the afiliation. The Of
ficers themselves are what is known
out here as Company men,"
MeArdle Makes Statement.
George McArdle, recording secre-
tary of the union, issued the following
statement to the copper collared
press of the state, which was publish
ed promptly:
Anaconda smeltermen have been
paying an average Of $4,000 year
into the treasury OF the interna-
tionaI, for which they never have
and are not now receiving and bene-
fit, according to George McArdle,
recording secretary.
1.-THE situation has reached point
where the local union has either to
consider dispensing with sick and
death benefits for its members or
drop the International" he eontinu-
ed. "of every dollar collected In
Anaconda so cents is sent to the
major unit, cents to the state fed
Grafton and IS cents is used to carry
on the work of the local union"
Discussing another angle Of the
smeItermen's grievance, Mr.. Nc
Ardle said that three Montana I'M
ions are now contributing rs per
cent of the money paid into the in
ternatlonaI treasury, affiliated I'M
ions from all other sections Of the
United States paying the balance.
During a greater part of the period
between biennial elections these un-
ions outside of Montana are dropped
from the rolls of the international
but are reinstated a month or so
before election day, with the result
that the Montana unions have been
outvoted in their efforts to bring
about change In executives at Dem
yer, he declared.
Is Move of A. c. M.
This action is undoubtedly prompt
ed by the Anaconda Copper Mining
company. Recently the unions of
Anaconda, Butte and Great Falls,
presented a joint demand to the com
pany for $500" increase per day in
their pay. This was a rank and file
move in the unions, especially here in
Great Falls, where the workers went
over the heads of the officers.
The company seeing that the rank
and file is moving little, would I'M
doubtedly prefer having all the locals
isolated from each other, and put on
a strictly company basis.
The dual unionists help to compli-
cate the situation greatly by their I'M
sound tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Leolonnalres Seek Favors.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-world war
veterans are to be given free trans.
portation in shipping board vessels to
the American Legion convention at
Paris in 1927, under resolution in
troduced by Representative Taylor,
democrat, of West Virginia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Son of Sun Vat Sen
Appointed as Mayor
of Southern Capital

CANTON. China, June s.-Sun 70,
the son of Sun Vat Sen, famous leader
Of the Chinese national independence
movement, has been elected as the
mayor of Canton to succeed DR.. c. c.
WI. DIR. WI has departed for
Shanghai.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Angora Assembly
Accepts Mosul Pact

CoNSTANTINoPLE, June s.-The
national assembly at Angora ratified
the treaty between Great Britain and
Turkey on the Mosul dispute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
PLANS
MERCER With
Wesley firm
To End Competition in
South America

LONDON, June 9.-Louis and Ed
ward Swift are here carrying on nego-
tiations with the Wesley packing in
terests for merger of the vesty
South American combine with the
Swift International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Alfred Decker and
Coin Shop Donates
$3.50 to Daily Worker

Following a distribution OF II
DAILY WORKER before the Az
Decker and Cohn shop with an
ticie on the conditions in that
the workers took up a collecty
The DAILY WORKER. A
$3.50 was collected, which v
ed over 10 The DAILY WON Il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
Armour and comnanv.

In a report issued by Armour and
Company May rs, to its stockholders,
F. Edison White, president of the COM
pany, declares that quarterly divi-
dends of the firm will not be paid as
the company has suffered severe
losses in its South American trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.

Dad and his young son, both dressed
alike, and richly, are motoring over
smooth and hawless concrete road to-
wards a barrier Of purple mountains
The boy sits next to his father, eager
eyed, alert. His father is his hero. They
reach the mountains and climb higher
and higher. Then down the other side
speed cops, whom Dad hates, As Dad
drove he unused TO himself. He used to
be Jim Ross, teamster, then he was J. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
ENGINE BLAST KILLS
3, WRECKS2 TRAINS
Flyer Crashes Into Remains
of Freight Scattered
Across Two Tracks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KINGSTON. II. l.. June 26.-Three
railroad employees were killed today
when the boiler of a locomotive haul
ing 60 cars exploded while passing
over marshland near here. The
wreckage OF the freight train was
thrown onto the passenger tracks and
a few minutes later the New York,
New Haven and Hartford's Cape
Colder" from New York for Cape
Cod points, crashed into the wreck
age.
The locomotive of the passenger
train was thrown from the rails and
the first car dived into the swamp.
Several passengers were slightly hurt.
The fact that none was seriously in
jured is believed to have been due
to the fact that none of the upper
berths on the flyer was occupied. The
train, which runs only on Saturday
mornings. was making its first trip
of the sea son.
The dead:
William Moulton, engineer of the
freight.
George Hathaway. fireman.
James J. Muvaney. a spare man,
riding in the cab of the freight loco
motive.
The engineer of the express train
was injured.
The boiler of the freight locomotive
was hurled many feet into the swamp.
Many of the shattered cars of the
freight were filed with finished cloth
and with bundles of American flags
being shipped from the textile cities
for the July 4 celebration. For a
great distance the track was strewn
with oilbedraggled flags and bolts OF
cloth.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
LIGHTNING KILLS NINE.
Terrific Storms Visit Lake Constance
Region Villages.

BERLIN. June 26 P).-Nine per-
sons have been killed by lightning in
the Lake Constance region which was
visited today by terrific lightning
storms. The fatalities occurred in va
rious villages on the shores of the lake.
Among those killed was the mother
Of five children. The Nevakr River
overf1owed it's banks near Rotten
burg and drowned herds of sheep and
swine and large numbers of chickens.
Efforts to fill in the crevasse in the
Oder River levee near Raduhn thus
far has been unavailing, notwith-
standing the hard work of emergency
laborers.
All the parties of the Reichstag
have agreed that substa ntial funds
for the relief of sufferers from the
food must be voted today.
Twenty thousand troops, one-fifth
of Germany entire regular army,
were under relief service orders today
to repair the damage done by the
worst floods in Germany in a cen
tury.
Saxony was the heaviest sufferer.
with $4,000, 900 damage to crops and
property out of $30,0OO,O0O damage
throughout Germany. Fifteen dead
have been counted.
Every able.bodied civilian available
along the Elbe and Oder Rivers
labored to prevent new breaks In the
levees. The city of Madgeburg was
on guard against new and more
serious rise in the Elbe River. which
would imperil railway communication
with Berlin. The Elbe River dropped
a little yesterday.
Inland inhabitants of the Elbe Val
ley. in northern Prussia. kept watch
on the hillsides for beacon fires warn
ing them of any breaks in the dam.
Approximately 100000 acres OF cul.
tivated land were under water and
some villages near Halie were en-
tireiv surrounded and depended upon
food dropped from airplanes for sub.
sistence. Extra guards watched at
railway bridges and 5000 extra track
walkers patroled the rights OF fay
of the national railways to prevent
wrecks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
GAVE WOMAN A LIFT.
Tucson Man Says Mrs. Mcpherson
Looks Like Same One.

TUCSON Ariz.. June 26 R).-Ac-
companied by police. b. L. Greenwood
.,tv building inspector, met aimee
Sarnple Mcpherson, Los Angeles
evangelist. as the train on which she
was homeward bound stopped mere
briefly this morning, and declared she
resembled very closely a woman ne
had given a ride in his automoplie on
the Douglas-Tucson highway Sunday
aftarnoon Greenwood did not, how
ever. identify her as the same woman
Mrs. Mcpherson stepped to the rear
nlatform of her car here ana au-
dressed a crowd that had gathered TO
catch a glimpse OF her. she men
toned tracing her tracks In Mexico
through the desolate country IN Whlch
she declared she had escaped from
kidnapers She implied that the hnd-
ing Of these tracks corroborated her
story, and expressed gratitude to COD
for her deliverance.
The search for Mrs. McPherson
suunosed kidnapers continued una
bated today.
Posses. both official and unofficial,
struggled through the desert south
of here in hope. of finding trace OF
tho three persons whom Mrs. McPher-
son saws kidnapped her at Ocean Park,
Calif. on May IS. They were spurred
in their efforts by rewards offered by
Mrs, Pherson and a Los Angeles
newspaper.
Saw Cabin Yesterday.
One posse early in the field this
morning was headed by o. A. Ash,
Douglas constable, who reported late
Yesterday that he had followed Mrs.
McPherson's tracks for several miles,
and had sighted a cabin in the dis
tance. but had been prevented from
going further by oncoming darkness.
The lonely cabin has been the OBJ
iect of search since Mrs. Mcpherson
was brought to a hospital here We'd
nesday morning, telling of an escape
from three kidnapers and a wild flight
n,ontinued ON Page 4. Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
Point Died Trying
To Save Officer,
Farmer Asserts
6y the Associated Press.

ny tne Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 26.-Cadet
William Point, West Point senior.
son of Lieut.. Col. William H.
Point of Washington. who was
burned to death Tuesday in an
airplane wreck near Mitchell
Field, died attempting to rescue
Maj. William l.. Moose, who was
in the plane with him.
The story of Points heroisp.
was told yesterday to Maj. Stan
ley James of the signal corps by
a farmer who saw the crash. He
said the cadet was thrown clear
of the plane when it fell to earth
and that three times he attempted
to rescue Maj. Moose from the
flaming plane. The third time he
was overcome and his burned
body was later found near that
of the ma jOr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
Ambitious Sleuths Spy Overseas Cap
On Officer and Try to Cause Arrest

Capt. Drayton and the agents, re-
fused to lock him up without better
reason than that given by the agents.
Capt. Drayton flew from Mitchell
Field to the Sesquicentennial grounds
and was under orders TO continue on to
Washington.
Capt. Drayton said he intended to
make report of the incident to his
superior officer. and the agents said
they, also, would make a report to
their department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
PISTOL SETS FIRE TO BOY
SOAKED WITH GASOLINE
Death Follows Prank of Playmate
in Spraying Victim at Filling
Station in Massachusetts,.

By the Associated Press.
WATERTOWN. Mass. June 26.-
His clothes soaked with gasoline In a
boyish prank. 7-year-old William
Lindsay shot off a toy pistol near his
home yesterday. A spark ignited his
clothing and he inhaled flames. he
died in a hospital late last night.
William and comrade, Wilfred
Igoe, were playing together in front
of a gasoline filling station. While the
attendants attention was directed
elsewhere, Wilfred snatched the noz
zle from the tank and doused the
Lindsay lad. William dashed away
laughing, but a few minutes later he
fired the toy pistol and his clothing
burst into flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
NEW DISCLOSURES HI\TED.
Los Angeles Detectives Gather I'm.
portant Data.

Los ANGELES. Calf, June % dP).
Additional developments in the in
vestigation of the alleged kidnapping
of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, evan
geliSt. may be expected on her arrival
here this afternon, 1t was indicated to-
day at the district attorneys Office
and at police headquarters.
Joseph Taylor, police captain, in
charge of the local investigation. said
he understood Chief of Detectives
Herman Cline had gathered some i'm
portant data in his interviews with
the evangelist and officers at Douglas,
Ariz. District Attorney keyes has in
structed Joe Ryan, deputy. assigned
to the case at Douglas, to withhold all
statements on his investigation until
he has reported here. He arrives with
Mrs. Mcpherson today.
According to plans of her congrega'
ton. Mrs. Mcpherson will briefly ad-
dress those assembled at the station.
Street to Be Draped.
She will then be escorted through
fiag-dra ped streets to Angelus Temple.
which has been elaborately decorated.
She will enter the temple over path
of roses.
Although religious services will be
conducted at the temple Immediately
on the return of the pastor, the real
celebra tion in the nature of thanks
giving services, will be held Sunday.
1t is doubtful that the religious
leaders return will receive any official
cognizance. Mayor George f. CryeT,
who two days ago said he saw no rea-
son why he should not extend the
city's welcome to Mrs. Mcpherson,
will not be present, due to a previous
engagement. An expected police es-
cort also will not be forthcoming, 1T
was indicated by Chief of Police
Davis. Chief Davis said he could see
no reason for an escort. lie sald ne
would be glad to furnish an escort II
it appeared there was any danger 10
Mrs. Mcpherson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
MRS. STOKES APPOINTED
GUARDIAN OF CHILDREN
Move Made in Denver Preparatory
to Contesting Will of Millionaire
New York Hotel Man.
nu The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, June 26.-Mrs. Helen
Elwood Stokes, widow Of W. E. D.
Stokes. New York hotel man,
Yesterday was appointed guardian of
the estate of her two minor children,
James A. and Helen Muriel, by the
County Court. The appointment was
sought for the purpose OF laying the
proper legal foundation for a contest
of the Stokes will, in which she and
the children were cut off, according to
her brother, Arthur e. Miller, who act.
ed as her attorney.
An order for her to petition the
County Court for letters of guardian
ship was entered by Ben B. Lindsey,
Juvenile Judge of Denver.
Samuel Untermyer, New York attor-
ney for Mrs. Stokes, will contest the
win Immediately, Mr.. Miller said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
Assorted Snakes
Found i'm Bottom
Of Chinese Still

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 26.-Snakes
may be more or less common as
an aftermath of drinking alcoholic
liquor, but it remained for a Chi
nese to include them among it's in
gradients.
Police noticed that a number of
the patrons of lie You's Mott
street store emerged carrying bot
Ties. Investigating. they found a
number of bottles containing a dark
brown liquid which, they said,
when tested showed Al per cent
alcohol. Further investigation
disclosed a still-and in the bot
tom among a mixture of various
herbs a siX-foot Black snake, very
dead. and portions of assorted
smaller snakes.
lie You advertised the brown
liquid as "A medicine good for
weakness, lassitude and mental
fatigue" He was held in $1,000
hail for hearing by United
states commissioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
Rudolph Honored
With Flowers on
His Goth Birthday

Amid a profusion of gladioli and
fragrant roses, Cuno H. Rudolph,
chairman of the Board Of District
Commissioners, observed his sixty
sixth birthday anniversary today
at his desk in the District Build
ing.
Mr.. Rudolph was the only Com
missioner who toiled today. His
two colleagues. Commissioners
Frederick A. Fenning and J.
Franklin Bell, are out of town.
Mr.. Fenning went to Portsmouth.
va, with Mrs. Fenning for the
week end and Col. Bell is a mem.
Der of the boosters party" of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-26
BRITISH OFFICIALS SAIL.
Weymouth, England, Group to
Bring Gifts to Weymouth, Mass.

WEYMOUTH, England. June 26
R.-A deputation headed by Mayor
Councillor Percy J. A'Court left here
for Southampton today to board the
Aquitania. bound for Weymouth,
Mass.
The party is carrying a number of
gifts, including silver mustard pot
used by George II. a. silk banner and
an autographed portrait of Thomas
Hardy, who Is sending a message to
the American Nation.