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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-16
100 Injured at
Gary Inferno Of
Illinois Steel Co.
Especial to The Dany workerl

GARY, Ind June IA terrific explosion
or more steel workers and injured 100 wrecked the coke
plant of the Illinois Steel Company $50 Monday morning
threw the whole openshop inferno of Gary and
OF the Great Lakes region into confusion families friends
OF the workers ocked to the mill gates trying the fate
of their loved
Immediately after the explosion, company officials threw
heavy armed guard around the plant
any information to the number of dead and injured
Workers from within the plant report that many
killed than officially admitted thru the Gary police department
The DAILY WORKER reporter is the gathering
authentic and detailed information permitted
to enter the plant but first aid workers police high
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-16
LA TOILETTE
PLATFORM TO
KILL LENROOT
Makes World Court the
Major Issue
Especial to The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, June IA. - The
block and the axe on which the polIti-
cal execution of Irvine L. Lenroot,
senator from Wisconsin, will be
carried out in the, statewide primary
on September z, are ready for action.
The LaFoIlette organization is to
challenge the present senator on issue
Of the woarld court and he has not the
slightest ground for defense because
IL was he who led the hosts of the
House Of Morgan who voted adherence
Of this country to the world court, the
baekdoor to the league Of nations.
The LaFollette candidate for Len
roots seat in Governor James J..
Blaine. Herman Ekern is the candi-
date for governor.
First Plank on Court.
The first plank in the platform, after
pledge to carry out the middle class
reform program of the late senior La
Toilette, states:
1--WE are unalterably opposed to the
entrance of the United States into the
league of nations, and we denounce
the administration and the members
Of the senate who voted to put this
country into the league of nations
world court as betrayal of a sacred
public trust. We favor resolution
by congress Withdrawing Americas
adherence to the world court.
Assalls Mellon Tax.
1.-THE platform also denounces the
foreign debt settlements, condemns
dollar diplomacy" favors outlawry Of
war, abolition Of CONSUMPTION, opposes
universal military training; demands
repeal of the Esch-Cummins railroad
law; Condemns MELONS revenue act,
which relieved "millionaire's taxes;
demands reduction In tariff monopo-
lies; demands justice for the farmer,
and declares for freedom of the west
from domination by eastern indus
tries and financial interests"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-16

steel fence surrounds the whole
plant.
The extent of the disaster is seen
in the fact that all ambulances in
Gary were rushed to the plant, while
fire department apparatus and police
patrol cars are used to carry away
the dead and injured.
The explosion was apparently
caused by ignition of gases in one or
more Of the huge coke ovens. Parts
Of the machinery steel and burning
coal were hurled with terrible force
in all directions, while deadly fumes
spread over the plant
Workers Burned Alive.
The blast dashed many workers to
death and injury against the brick
and concrete walls, breaking arms
and legts and skulls, while the fire
that started in the ruins burned many
bodies of the dead and cremated the
injured that lay dying before aid
/ reached them.
A great cloud 70 gas and smoke
which shot high in the air when the
explosion occurred, settled again in
the heavy, damp atmosphere, and in
the semi-darkness Gary flremen
worked with difficulty against the
poisonous gases, bringing out the vic
tins.
Meanwhile, at the mill gates and
held back by lines of armed steel trust
guards, the wives and families of the
steel workers waited. weeping and
wringing their hands before the mons
ter of steel that had swallowed their
loved ones only a few hours before,
now to disgorge them, unrecognizable,
charred pieces Of flesh and bone, or
torn bodies covered with grim and
blood.
A Veritable He'll.
Many of the injured were horribly
mangled and several of the dead were
thrown hundreds of feet by the force
of the explosion. The roof of the two
story by-products plant was blown off,
the debries crushing the workers in its
fall, while tons of acids and chemicals
were scattered among the workers
lying among the flaming ruins. max
ing veritable hell of burning acid,
steel fragments, and flaming building
wreckage while over all hung the
deadly fumes of poison gases and
| thick smoke.
AS usual, the company paid more at
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-16
BY n. M. WIcKS.
Especial to The Daily workerl

GARY 14-The explosion Of
fifty The plant is The
laboratory by-prod6s
bengal tOIuen naphene This material stuff
a byproduct
the explosion
Despite reporter in
undertaking establishment undertaking
shment Of r. E. block
children standing line admitted
identify the bodies.
ROPE OFF UNDERTAKING PLANT.
CHASTITY established
refuse permit However,
WORKER
the gates ateonsderabe refusing heed the
him o the yard
But succeeded in getting of the Fremen
police working removing
bodies the dead the almost impossible
wounded
IDENTIFY
being company hospital there
heavily guarded
police groups
and white assembled in the Vicinity waiting
portunity todenty relatives working
Not the police
yard.
At the undertaking establishment
orders not to those
the undertaking establishment waiting
the practice Of the
less workers who killed.
BRASS CHECK TELLS MUTE STORY
DAILY reporter succeeded In obtaining
from eoiored relative Klnbro, young
coored worker reporter
check number the workers
This number 26o2S That
being where
there white the
impossible " ascertain the number Of dead the establishments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-16
RENEWING
STAND
STEELTRUST DESPERATELY TRIES
TO HIDE TRUTH ABOUT DISASTER

The following received
Wicks Gary, Indiana,
story
The DAILY WORKER.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Fetzer Sells His Camp
Athletic Coach Makes an
Agreeable Turnover

Bill Fetzer, University athlet-
ic coach, has sold his summer
camp of about 500 acres, near
Brevard in western North Caro-
lima, for $125,O00. He bought it
four years ago. Including the
buildings and other improve
ments, the place cost him about
$4,000.
Mr.. Fetzer opened his summer
camp for boys IL years ago. For
eight years, however, he had
the ground only upon lease.
Then he found that he either had
to buy or move off, so he bought.
He was not anxious to give
the camp up, and when he was
approached by a would-be pur-
chaser last September he named
a figure that he felt sure would
not be accepted. However, the
man bought an option, and three
months later took title to the
land.
After the deal had been con-
summated a banker friend Of
Mr.. Fetzer's said to him:
"Why, you just gave that
place away"
"Well, never mind" he re-
piled. "I'm satisfed-I'm will
ling for somebody else to make
a profit on it if he can"
Mr.. Fetzer will not establish
another camp. He has bought a
farm about a mile away from his
former camp and, when he is not
engaged in athletic coaching,
will pursue his favorite occupa-
ton of farming.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Garage for the Inn
Building for Guests Cars Is Being
Built at Rear of Lot

The construction of a garage
for the Carolina Inn is under
way.
It is to be a long one-story
building at the rear of the Inn
lot, close by and parallel to the
railway, with stalls for eight or
ten cars. At the end toward the
state highway will be a store
room.
John Sprunt Hill, the owner of
the Inn, planned, from the be-
ginning, to have a garage for the
accommodation of guests, but
his absorption in other affairs
prevented him, for some time,
from giving the matter his at
tention. Now his son, Watts
Hill who graduated from = the
University two years ago and
afterward went around the
world on a honeymoon tour, is
on deck to help him and is in
charge of the garage project as
we'll as the development of the
recently acquired Noble proper
ty.
The garage is to be made of
sheet metal.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
A. C. Nash Building a House

Arthur c.. Nash, the Univer-
sity architect, has let to Brodie
Thompson the contract for his
new house in the colony estab-
lished by John M. Booker on the
old Battle place. The house
faces Battles Park across the
road which the University built
last year as an extension to Cam
eron avenue to connect with the
main street of the village, and
is separated from the Booker
home by a private roadway pro-
vided by Mr.. Booker and Mr..
Nash jointly. The design shows
a studio at the north end of the
house. Announcement has al
ready been made of r. P. Nc
Clamroch's plan TO put up a
home on the lot where this pri-
vate road joins Senlac road,
nearly opposite the Hibbards'
Thus, by summer time three
houses, besides Mr.. Booker's
own, will have arisen in the
colony. The four lots remain
ing vacant on Senlac road, which
runs down from the grove on
the west to the University's new
road, are owned by Kemp D.
Battle, l. H. Butt, C. T. Murchi-
son, and E. G. Hoefer.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
THE ENEWLAUNDRY
BEGINS OPERATION
Building at End of Cameron
Avenue Was Erected in
Eleven Weeks
PAULSEN HAS FULL VIEW

The University's new laundry,
out near the west end of Cam
eron avenue, opens for business
this coming Monday.
Building speed records here
abouts were smashed in the erec-
tion of the steel-and-brick struc-
ture. Ground for it was broken
just eleven weeks ago.
Superintendent G. H. Paulsen
moved his whole plant, from the
former laundry building on the
campus, in IL days. His regu-
lar crew did most of the work of
dismantling and re-installing,
only two extra men being called
into service.
The new laundry, which is 120
feet long and Is feet wide, cost
$4,000. Together with old and
new equipment, including a new
boiler, the investment is
$685.
One of the most interesting
features of the building is the
superintendent office. This is
on a mezzanine floor reached by
a short flight of steps from the
office. The partition between
office and mechanical depart
ment being made of window
glass, the superintendent can
view the whole works from his
desk. His quarters remind one
a little of the captains bridge on
ship. If Mr.. Paulsen should
decide to use binoculars he could
see, as he pivoted on his revolv-
ing chair, every hole in a stock
ing and every speck on a collar.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Bradshaw Goes to New York

Francis Bradshaw, dean of
students in the University, will
be in New York, studying in
Columbia University, from the
first of February until college
opens next fall. His stay there
is made possible by a fellowship
from national organization in
terested in the field of student
welfare. His studies will be pri-
marily in that field of psychol-
ogy concerned with the educa-
tional and personal problems of
students. His address will be
80 High street, Nutley, New
Jersey, the home of Mrs. Brad
shaw's mother, in the New York
suburban area. Mrs. Bradshaw
and the baby will live there.
Mr.. Bradshaw will have a room
in New York and will spend the
week-ends in 'Nutley.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Green Solves a Freeze
When Pipes Burst He Finds Comfort
in Writing a Play

Paul Green found a novel way,
last week, to solve a distressing
weather problem.
His brother appeared sudden
ly at Christmas time and an
nounced that he had come to
take the family back to Harnett
county in his. automobile to en-
joy a series of feasts and other
Publications. There was not a
minute to waste-he wanted to
be sure to reach home before
night.
The furnace was going full
blast, and there were other
things that needed to be attend
ed to if the house was to be
closed up. But the rush was so
great there was no time for
chores. They bundled the baby
up, threw some clothes into a
suit case, and were off.
/ The cold snap came, and Mr..
Green came hustling back from
Harnett county, ahead of the
others, to look after his pipes.
Too late. When he unlocked the
door and walked in, his eyes fell
upon a scene of wreckage.
Pipes had broken in two-radia-
tors had burst. Water had
poured over the floors and froz-
en-, so that the place had the as
pect of a skating rink.
Mr.. Green uttered an excla-
nation such as is permitted in
modern realistic plays but is not
to be quoted in a family news
paper. Then he turned upon his
heel and walked uptown. Did he
go to find a plumber? Not at
all. He bought him an electric
heater, hugged it under his arm,
returned home, connected the
heater up with the current in the
smallest and snuggest room in
the house, and sat down and
wrote a play.
When he had finished the play,
a few days later, he tackled the
problem of pipe and radiator re-
construction.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Ellery Rand Here
New York Times Writer Pays Short
Visit to Chapel Hill

Mrs. Martin Kohn, who, un-
der her pen name, Ellery Rand,
is Well-known to readers of the
New York Times through her
frequent articles in the maga-
zine section, was here with her
husband for an hour or so one
day last week. Her brother,
Emil Rosenthal, is here to pur-
sue advanced studies in the Uni
versity's school of commerce
this winter. With his wife and
daughter he has rooms in the C..
B. Griffin home on McCauley
street.
Mrs. Kohn, who lives in Balti-
more, received a telegram from
the Sunday editor of the New
York Times about two weeks
ago, asking her to go over to
Washington and interview a
United States senator. She an
swered, in effect: Nothing do
ing this time-we're going down
to Pinehurst to play golf in the
sunshine" But instead of find
ing sunshine she ran into freez-
ing Weather-the worst cold
snap the resort had known in
years. When she and her hus-
band tired of shivering there
they decided to take an automo-
bile trip and do little shivering
in Chapel Hill.
The father of Mrs. Kohn and
Emil Rosenthal is Albert Rosen-
thai, who was in the University
here 35 years ago, and Mrs.
Henry We'll of Goldsboro is their
aunt.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Hill Buys Noble Property for
$4,000; Faculty Club in View

John Sprunt Hill of Durham,
owner of the Carolina Inn, has
bought for $4,000 M. C. S.
Mobiles property on Cameron
avenue and Pittsboro street.
The plot fronts LAG feet on the
avenue and 200 feet on the
street, and runs alongside the
Inn grounds 200 feet. Upon it
are three frame dwellings,: Mr..
Mobiles own home, at the south
ernmost end of the Pittsboro
street side; the house on the cor
ner occupied by Carl Durham; /;
and the house next to the Inn
on Cameron avenue, occupied by
a fraternity.
Mr.. Hill acquired the property
for two principal reasons: first,
to aid in the project for a fac
ulty club; second, to protect the
Inn and it's grounds by insuring
the proper sort of development
of the remainder of the block.
Under the terms of the sale
Mr.. Noble does not have to re-
linquish possession until the
first of June. But he may
move out before then if he
chooses, since Mr.. Hill is pre-
pared to take over the property
at any time. Mr.. Noble has not
decided where his new home will
be. But he does not have to
worry about a place to build, for
he owns a ten-acre tract on the
north edge of town out beyond
fire headquarters at the end of
Columbia street, embracing
what the old-timers in Chapel
Hill know as the old Castleberry
farm.
II have had a great many Of
fers for my home and the prop
erty around it in the last two or
three years." said Mr.. Noble
yesterday, "from persons in
Chapel Hill and outside. But af-
ter Mr.. Hill erected his splendid
Carolina Inn / was particularly
anxious that the development of
the land should be worthy of the
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Filming SQUIRE"
Is TO BE TRIED
Man Who Held Roadside Courts
Indicted for Mishandling
of Funds
HIS SON Is ALSO ACCUSED

The former justice of the
peace and the former constable
of Orange county, S. D. Eubanks
and his son A. H. Eubanks, have
been indicted for the misappro-
priation of public school funds
and will be put on trial at the
March term of court in Hills
bOrO.
S. d. Eubanks is the man who
became known as the filming
squire" because of his fondness
for holding roadside courts and
the many fines he imposed upon
automobile drivers arrested on
the charge of speeding.
Under the law these fines, and
forfeited bonds, must be turned
over by magistrates to the
county school fund. The bill of
Indictment declares that in many
cases Mr., Eubanks kept the en-
tire fine or forfeited bond for
himself, and in other cases
turned over to the county treas
urer less than the legal proper
ton of the money.
The great number of ar
rests made on the Orange coun-
ty section of the central high
way caused a loud uproar among
motorists last year. Some of
them wrote to the newspapers,
and made protests in other
quarters, severely condemning
the officers. The legal depart
ment of the Carolina Motor
Club gathered evidence from
persons who had been arrested,
and presented it to the prosecut-
ing attorney of the district, Ma
jor l.. P. McLendon.
Here is the way the father and
son operated: Constable Eu-
banks would arrest the speeders,
and they would be hailed at once,
on the roadside, before Justice
of the Peace Eubanks. If a
motOrist was found guilty he
either paid a fine and costs,
which would usually amount,
both together, to around 1910,
or posted $40 as a bond to in
sure his appearance in court.
Many who gave bond, of course,
had no intention of appearing,
and simply let the bond be for
feited.
The justice of the peace and
the constable resigned several
VnOnfhC oUO
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08

Inn and its surroundings. That
result is now made certain.
Mr.. Hill has already had pre-
pared map which shows how
he plans to treat his newly ac-
quired land. A strip with a
width of Sc feet on Cameron
avenue, running back the entire
depth along the west line of the
Inn grounds, is reserved for a
faculty club. The remainder is
divided into two lots: one run
ming 80 feet on Cameron and 100
feet on Pittsboro street, and the
other Containing the present
Noble honey with a frontage of
100 feet on Pittsboro street and
a depth of 80 feet. Between
these two lots right of way is
to be reserved for a road from
Pittsboro street to the rear of
the faculty club.
There is a lively demand by
fraternitieS for land in this sec
tion of the village, and Mr.. Hills
idea is to sell the two lots for
fraternities. The lot on the cor
ner is priced at $4,000 and the
other, fronting on Pittsboro
street, at $13,500.
The Faculty Club
About the faculty club build
ing nothing is definitely settled
yet. The problem of financing
is yet to be solved.
For years there has been a
loose organization known as the
faculty club, nursed along and
kept alive mostly by Alvin S
Wheeler. Although nominally
the chairman of a committee
Mr.. Wheeler has been, to the
club, somewhat in the position Of
the hero of w. S. Gilbert's nauti.
cal tale, who sang the refrain
"Oh, am the cook and the cap
tain bold, and the mate of the
Nancy brig, the bo'sun tight
and the midshipmite and the
crew of the captains gig"
Whenever there has arisen
Continued on page tom)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Abernethy Cleaned Up

About two weeks ago John
Abernethy, who now lives in
Florida, telegraphed his father.
DIR. E. A. Abernethy: Wire me
$4,000" This shocked the doc
tor a bit. But he@was equal to
one fifth of the command and
wired $1,000. The next mes
sage from John said his use of
the 81, 900 had netted him
profit of $4,000. This so stirred
the paternal enthusiasm that
DR.. Abernethy got on a train and
went to Florida to examine the
pickings for himself.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Webb Family Reunion

Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Webb had
Christmas-time reunion of
their family. Of all their sons
and daughters only DR.. Louis
Webb of New Orleans was alb
sent. Besides the children who
live in Chapel Hill the gather
ing included Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Webb of Rocky Mount, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Webb of Durham,
and Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. Moore of
Beaufort. Several grandchil-
dren were on hand.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Miss Riggs to Give Recital

Miss Katherine Riggs of
Washington, D. c., will give a
harp recital in Memorial Hall1at
four o'clock Sunday afternoon.
This is one of the entertain
ments in the regular Sunday
concert series of the University's
music department, and the pub
lie is cordially invited, Miss
Riggs gave a recital here about
two years ago.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
MIR. Noble Was I'll, Is Better

M. G. S. Noble, dean of the
school of education in the Uni
yersity, was confined to his bed
for several days during the
Christmas recess. While he was
convalescing he sat up in an
armchair in his bedroom, clad
in a dressing gown, and re-
ceived calls from a number of
his friends. He is up and about
again now.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Chapel Hill Chaf

At various times l have made
sport of books of etiquette, but
the other night when l arrived
home and discovered one of Mrs.
Braune's tea-napkins in my
pocket had a feeling that I
might have profted from a
study of one of these volumes.
By the way, l wonder if any
book of etiquette provides a
graceful and witty letter to send
along when you return a tea
napkin? Would it let you down
easy to say something to the eff
feet that the deliciousness of
the supper had put you into such
a state of rapture that you were
not quite responsible for any,
thing you did? However, l did
not think of this until the nap
kin had started on it's way, back
home.
Despite E. C. Branson's ex--
tended stay in the land of the
Mormons, he came back with
only one wife-the same one he
went away with. I questioned
him about polygamy in Utah,
and he told me that, whereas the
men did not now contract plural
marriages, there were still some
living who had. acquired two or
more wives before the practice
was forbidden. They had got in
under the bar somewhat in the
manner of the canny citizens
who stocked their cellars amply
before the Volstead law went in
to effect. By a sort of compro-
mise, the Government does not
molest these old boys who be-
came polygamists when the
hunting was free and open. In
this fortunate position-or un-
fortunate, if you prefer to con-
slider it so-is a certain wealthy
Mormon bishop. This dignitary
of the church has two handsome
residences in Logan, the town
where Mr.. Branson spent the
fall, and another handsome resi-
dence in Ogden, each house occu-
pied by a family. In Salt Lake
City he maintains a spacious
suite in a hotel. Here, once a
year, the bishop has family re-
union; or, perhaps it should be
called a multi-family reunion.
He has AZ children, and / don't
know how many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. I wish
that Mr.. Branson would give
some present-day Mormon fam
lily statistics in an early issue of
the Newsletter.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08
Rummage Sale in CarrbOro

The missionary society of the
Christian church will hold a
rummage sale Saturday, begin
ming at ten o'clock in the morn
ing, near Neville's store in Carr
borO.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08

For immediate sale, an s.
room house; hardwood floors;
steam heat; tiled bath; sleeping
porch, Mrs. w. B. Neal. Tel.
147.-Adv.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08

Roulhac Hamilton, Jr. has
gone back to the Staunton Mill
tary Academy.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-01-08

If you wish to sell or to buy,
tell it in the Chapel Hill Weekly.
ADV.