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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-30
PROGRAM
IN RADIO DIX
TESTS

Saturday nights program in the In
ternational Radio Week tests will be
slightly different from the performance
of Friday night, in that the first 70
minutes of the radio week hour will
be taken up by Canadian stations,
with all other stations in North
America and Europe off the air.
From 1O:15 to 10 80 broadcasters
in the northern part of the United
States will give special programs for
European and South American listen
ers; from 10 80 until 10 :45 stations
in the southern portion of the United
States will broadcast and from 10 40
until II O'Clock stations around the
earth will strain their cans to catch
the music from Mexico and Cuba.
HEARS FLIER'S VOICE.
San Antonio listeners, in spite of
an unusually bad night so far as
static was concerned, heard many
stations they had never heard before.
Reports poured into The Light office
of reception Of 50-watt and 100-watt
stations never before heard by local
listeners.
OHr VI Tue lubsl lnttlTsAlhe VI or
the reports came from II. X. Gross
kops of 400 East Huisache street. who
was listening in with his Page 6 Fri
day night and heard distinctly the
voice of Captain Murphy flying an
airplane 5000 feet above Dayton,
Ohio, and talking with European sta
tons. One of the things Captain
Murphy said was: I'VE aviators must
stick together, or we'll fall separate
~" After a bit. he said: I'm go
ing to talk TO WLW now" and Mr..
Grosskops heard the conversation be-
tween the flier and the Cincinnati
station. The conversation terminated
with the statement: Well, Ill have
to come down now"
MEXICO FILLS AIR.
San Antonians reported a particu.
lsrly amusing feature of Friday
nights broadcssts when they told Of
the earnest announcement of Station
CZE. MEXICO City. This is G Zed
r. Education. Mexico City, Mexico,
Mexico, Mexico, Mexico" the en-
thusiastic announcer said. Our mot
u is Europe or bust" be continued.
I'VE want reports from the Z. s.,
Canada and Europe; this is Mexico,
Education, Mexico, Mexico. Mexico.
Mexico he continued, repeating his
earnest request for reports until
blanketed BY United States stations
at II O'Clock.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-30
HAVE FIFTH FLOOR.

The fifth floor, which extends only
( over the central portion, will house
the appellate court, offices for the
/, judges and large law library for the
use of local attorneys.
The basement will contain storage
vaults for the offices. garage room.
cells for holdover prisoners and the
, mechanical equipment for heating and
tventilating the building.
Rest rooms will be provided on each
floor.
Prisoners brought TO the sheriffs
trffice for examination and 10 the courts
/, for trial viii be conveyed through a
driveway 20 the basement under the
ssheriff's office, where the holdoyer cells
tare located. An elevator will convey
them direct 10 the sheriffs office and
10 the entrance to each Of the criminal
courts above.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-30
WILL BOAST
FINEST COURTHOUSE

(Continued From Page One.)
Evening star., 1926-03-31
DOUBLE OPERA BILL
TO Be PRESENTED
Company Plans Perform
ance April IS as Tribute to
Jacques SamaSSoud.

The Washington Opera Co, as a
tribute to the devotion and ability of
Jacques Sanassoud, conductor, whose
excellent work has raised the per
fornnances of the company to high
level artistically, will give "Pagltacci
and the Secret of Suzanne" as a dou-
bic bill on April Is in co nplimentary
performance to Samassoud.
The mastery with which the score
of "Lohengrin" was read and the or
chestra and singers correlated has
brought much praise for the conductor
and a demand for symphonic pro
gram by his orchestra. 1t is not
practical to give the symphonic pro
gram this season and the company
will give the double opera bill instead.
Patronage Is Assured.
These operas are being given with
no guaranteed financial backing as
were the others during the season.
The realization by music lovers OF
this city that Washington has an
opera company of the first order has
been made general by the high
standard maintained all season and
particularly after the unusual success
in 'Lohengrin," an opera which called
for the best that singers and orches-
ira could give. General Director AL
bion has been assured of patronage
by a number of organizations in this
city for this complimentary perform
ance and believes that the public will
show its support.
The Washington Opera Co. is not
only a source of great civic pride,
he points out, but also. economically.
the best way for Washington to get
its opera. The low overhead expenses
permit d much lower admission
charge than is usual for grand opera.
There is no war tax charged for the
performances and all the money
spent in the production, with the ex.
ception of the salaries of the guest
artists, stays in the city.
Paul Althouse to Sing.
Paul Althouse, dramatic American
tenor. who has placed himself as a
favorite among music lovers here by
his excellent work in Samson" and
''Lohengrin," will sing the leading
tenor roles in the double bill. The
postponement from April s to April
Is was made in order that his services
might be obtained. because of the de-
mand for his appearance.
An organized drive. is being made
for the support of this performance
by many club anS CIVIC leaders who
believe that it is time that support
for the company should become more
general.
Evening star., 1926-03-31
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

National-"No, No, Nanette." musi-
cal comedy, at 500 pm. Matinee at
2:2o pm.
Wardman Park-"The Servant in
the House." drama, at $50 pm.
Keith's-Blossom Seeley, vaudeville,
at 2:15 and SIS pm.
Earle = Chas. Ahearn, vaudeville,
continuous from 1870 to II pm.
Strand-"Fifty Miles from Broad
way" vaudeville, continuous from
1890 TO II pm.
Gayety-"Wine Woman and Song"
burlesque, at 2:15 and Sis pm.
Palaee-"Miss Brewsters Millions"
at 11:10 am, 1880, 2:35, 4:25, $40, 7:55
and $50 pm.
Metropolitan 1.-THE Dancer OF
Paris" at 11:45 am, 1:40, 3:45, $40,
$40 and 9:45 pm.
RialtO-"Combat," at HAS am,
1:45, $50. 5:45, 7:50 and $50 pm.
CoIumbia-"The Untamed Lady" at
11:20 am. 1, 2:4o, 4:30, 6:15, 7:55 and
$50 pm.
Tivoli-"Torrent," at 2:25, 4:o5, 5:45,
8 and 10 pm.
Ambasador-"The Wanderer,' at
8, ESQ and $40 pm,
CentraI-"Just Suppose" at 1890,
2, $50, s. $50, and $40 pm
Evening star., 1926-03-31
HEROES
Sea Food Cafe and Restaurant
18th & Potomac River
IORSTERS

Br0iled. baked or fried shad and shad roe :
variety Of fresh fish In season; snapper
turtle soup and clam chOwder: deviled and
imperial crabs. steaks, chops. chicken. etc.
We Close at 9 PM. During Winter
Closed Sundays Phone Franklin 1929
Evening star., 1926-03-31
New Style of Passport, Out Next Month,
Will Be Printed, Vest Pocket Edition

The State Department has decided
10 stop issuing the old-Style engraved
passports and within the next month
or SO will publish neatly printed
substitute OF west pocket dimensions.
Underlying the change of style are
two chief factors. safety and economy.
Departmental officers expect the
new form to give the Government
absolute protection from counterfeit
products, a source of constant worry.
Then, too, they say, the Government
will save much of the expense that
went with the production of the en-.
Evening star., 1926-03-31

graved parchment, and by using less
expensive paper.
AS a further step in the direction
of economy the new passport will be
embossed and sealed in colors by ma
chinery rather than by hand.
To insure safety FROM counterfeited
passports the department plans to
change the form from time to time,
to publish them on a specially pre-
pared paper and to use distinctive
type, the first being printed with
Tiffany type, closely resembling en-
grav wing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
American Labor Wants
Deeds, Not Words

pRESID9NT GREEN of the American Federation of Labor
is in respect at least different the late Samuel
Gompers William Green is takatve than the cold
man" and resorts often than his predecessor to the
use of NICE WORDS to conceal his ugly purposes
1t is for this that the forysxth annual
ton of the A. F. of L. which its sessions Detroit
October 4 may be expected say words and pass resou
tons which under Gompers would not have been possible
But the practical results will be the The bureaucracy
in control of the convention hopeless far progress
concerned in the American labor movement.
This fact should the left wing and the progresses
to greater activity and strenuous efforts Above all
these elements must strive toward better organization and
unified action The opportunities for successful drive
against the reactonare in the trade unions becoming
more favorable very day.
Do not permit Green and company to get away with
mand concret practical deeds And American trade
unioniss where Green stands that There par
tcular matter which the bureaucracy always
destroys automatically 1t is the question of organizing
the unorganzed The reactonares do oppose
openly but their opposition and sabotage Just
if they had proclaimed it from the housetops.
just the organization of the unorganzed
workers into unions large scale is becoming practical
possibility The conditions industry are favorable for it
The masses want it. What is needed organized effort and
leadership The left and progressive elements
issue in such that would make impossible
reaconares forget about it the after the
vention.
ALEX BITTELMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Maritime Trades.

tEdQCbs
THE marine workers were at one
L time well organized. The Inter
national Seamen's Union in 1921 had
membership of 10000, while the
1920 membership Of the International
Longshoremen's Union was $4,000.
Now, however, the longshoremen are
down to $1,000, while the seamen have
been almost annihilated. reporting
5000 members to the 1875 conven-
ton. There Is also a small union of
masters. mates and pilots, with
membership Of $500. There are,
therefore, only $4,000 workers organ
lied in this very important industry,
once powerfully organized, in which
there are almost 100000 workers.
Lumber.
A SIDE from the short-livaA and weak
"A Timber Workers Union that had
at it's peak 10000 members. was ami
lated to the A. r. OF L. and died in
1874, the Industrial Workers Of the
World Is the only organization that
has made consistent campaign to or
ganize the loggers. But at the present
time It is doubtful II the timber work
ers carrying I. w. w. cards number
much over 1000, the sole organization
in the field. The industry Is a huge
one. In 1923 the number Of lumber
men and wood-choppers employed
thruout the country was 2o5,315.
Communication.
TvfK powerful telegraph and teas-
4 phone companies employ 343.ssT
men and women. OF this number It
has been estimated that not more than
Is per cent are members OF the Elec-
trical Workers Onion, the only one
In its field ana one Of ths largest in
the building trades industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Food.
By Jerger

TOO0s
THE membership of all unions in the
i food industry total some $4,000.
There are four, the International
Union Of Bakery and Confectionery
Workers, 1880; the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
of America, 1920; the International
Union Of the United Brewery, Flour,
Cereal and Soft Drink Workers OF
America. 10000. and the unafilated
Amalgamated Food Workers, not over
5000. The industry is one Of the big
gest In the land, employing almost q
half million workers.
Leather.
THHE heather industry is given credit.
\ for having in its employ 38S, 209
workers. OF this number the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union has $4,000
organized. There is a small unafil-
lated Shoe Workers Protective Union
as well as a glove workers union, a
pocketbook workers union and a
leather workers union, al with a few
thousand or less members. Amalga-
nation is a crying need in the boot
and shoe section of the industry, the
largest branch, in addition TO extern
sion of organization.
Such are the figures. They show
that NO serious attempts are being
made by the American Federation Of
Labor TO extend itself in these basic
industries. A more complete survey
would show that what unions there
are In these industries have declined
rather than grown in recent years.
The question Of organizing the unor-
ganized workers in these great slave
markets Is paramount one for the
delegates Of the Detroit convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
On the Organization of the Unorganized

an insignificant number of workers are
so organized. The unafiliated Auto
and Aircraft Workers Union now has
no more than 1,50e members in its
ranks. The industry can be looked
upon as completely unorganiEed.
Textile.
FIGURES for 1928 credit industry
4 with 1927, se4 workers. But Of
this vast number Of workers in
an industry in which positively the
most degrading conditions of work
prevail the United Textile Work
ers' Union has 10000, to which
must be added the recently acquired
5000 from the Passaic strike, while
the unafiliated Federation OF Textile
Operatives has no more than 10000
members. In 1920. when there were
three times as many members In the
U. T. w. al there ara now, the per-
centage Of organized workers to unor-
ganized was placed at 10 per cent.
Metal Mining
THE Mine. MIL and Smelter Work
= ers' Union, the unworthy successor
to the militant Western Federation of
Miners, has now a membership OF
some $500. Available figures for the
metal mining industry, which includes
adj mines except coal and corresponds
to the Jurisdiction of the above union,
are 151,792.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Automobile.

DECENT estimatesNfor 1926 give the
~ number of workers In automobile
factories alone as 32s.5SS. while 3oo,-
900 more are engaged in the manufao-
ture Of parts and accessories. There Is
no union in the A. r. Of L. with juris-
diction over this industry. The theory
Is that each of the crafts engaged in
the automobile plants ore to organize
on their own hook. The result Is that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Metal Mining
Rubber.

TN 192S 1t was estimated that $4,000
L workers we're employed In the man
ufacture OF rubber tires. 1t Is esti-
mated 1880 was the number en-
gagged in 1928 IN the production of an
rubber and composition goods. None
are organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
BY THUR5ER LEWIS.

TNHE comparative figures Of the num-
Der of organized workers to the
total number of workers employed in
ten of the largest and most import
ant industries in the country tell a
graphic story that is Of an the more
interest because OF the convention OF
the American Federation Of Labor,
now in session in Detroit. The dele
gates to this convention have it In
their power to apply the remedy that
can go q long way towards changing
the sorrowful story told By the
figures below.
Iron and Steel.
TN 1920 there were $4,000 workers
4 in the steel mills OF the country,
while 1880 shaved IN the blast fur
naces. A total estimation In 1928 gives
the number Of workers in the steel
industry as 1889. In this keystone
industry of American capitalism "a
safe estimate now "a a half million
workers) there are IL, 400 workers or
ganized into the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin work
ers, a union composed almost excius-
lively OF skilled men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
TO
seek SLICE OUT
OF u. S. TREASURY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The big
corporations, thru the United States
chamber of commerce, are preparing
to stage tax raid on the government
The chamber has issued a statement
In which it announces its opposition to
the plan OF the republican majority
OF the house ways and means COM
mittee to block all tax reductions this
session.
The corporations are demanding
that corporation taxes be reduced
from the present 1914 per cent to not
more than 10 per cent. They declare
that the expected surplus in 1927 of
100000 would make corporation
tax reduction safe" 1t is not neces-
sary to reduce taxes generally, they
declare, but they claim the present
rate of taxation on corporation profits
is unfair and tends to limit expansion
OF business"
Because OF the great surplus that
the treasury will show 1t is no longer
necessary" that corporations should
pay such heavy tax, they say, and
for that reason they should be af.
forded relief from the excessive bur-
den"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
T.U.E.L. Frolics New
Year Despite the New
Drive of Bureaucrats

The Trade Union Educational League
OF Chicago, against which has been
directed the campaign of right wing
fascist reaction in the needle trades
Unions, is nevertheless taking time to
furnish a joyous New Year to all Gho
come to its sixth annual New Years
Eve ball, which begins Friday night,
December 81, and will last until $3.50
a. m, New Years day.
This annual affair of the T. q. z. L.
is a Chicago institution, which always
attracts big crowd. This year, as be-
fore, there will be many diversions, be-
sides dancing, and prizes are to be
given for masquerade costumes, tho
you don't have to masquerade if you
do not want to. There viii be other
games, too.
This New Years Eve ball will be
held at the Italian Hall, SAB N. Clark
street. All workers are invited. The
program insures all happy New
Years Eve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
ELECTRIC BELT
is PIE CARD FOR
SOCIALIST FAKER
Health Department Hits
Fraud in Seattle

SEATTLE (FP)- Gaylord Will
shire, former much advertised So
cialist, has been exposed by the
Union Record evening daily here)
as a faker in connection with the
I-ON-A-Co cure-all electric belt which
he is promoting.
After Wiltshire had been operating
in this city for several months, oc-
cupying an expensive suite of rooms
and spending much money for bill
board advertising, the Union Record
began to make an investigation.
A statement from the Commissioner
Of Health and q committee of cleo
trical engineers was secured declar-
ing emphaticafly that thorough ex-
animation Of Wilshire's electric belt
disclosed it to have no healing vir
tue, other than the mending of its
inventors lame finances.
This committee stated that the
wholesale cost of the device would
approximate S. and that anybody
could make one. Wilshire's price Of
s65 indicates the tremendous profit
he Is making.
Wilshir- literature abounds in
scientific sounding terms and he uses
the name Of such men as David Starr
Jordan, Bernard Shaw, and others to
create the impression that his horse
collar" has their endorsement.
Ben Wilson, another ex-socialist,
has also been using tn "horse-col
lar" as a life preserver. He special
ICES in I-ON-A-CO lectures over the
radio. Some time ago he was on the
promotion staff of the Brotherhood of
Engineers Bank. j.. Stitt Wilson,
former socialist mayor of Berkeley is
his brother.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
WEALTHY MORON
ADMITS MURDER
OF CHICAGO BOY

Another heinous crime has been
added to the list committed by scions
of wealthy Chicago families by Harold
]. Croarkin, who has confessed to
killing 6-year-old Walter Schmith in
a riding stable here at 2100 Devon
avenue. Croarkin is the son of a
wealthy loop flour broker.
A striking similarity between the
murder of the boy by Croarkin and
the murder of Bobby FRANKIE by two
other sons of rich Chicagoans, Leo
pold and Loeb, is seen.
Croarkin has confessed to enticing
little Walter into the stable barn and
forcing him to submit to indecent at
tentions. He said he struck the boy
with hammer and killed him to pre-
vent him from telling OF what hap
pened.
Other offenses.
Croarkin had been under police sur
veillance for some time because OF
approaches he has made TO young
girls and other boys. He was ar
rested once before, but released,
charged with inducing a 12-year-old
girl to go horseback hiding with him.
Five lawyers have already been re-
tanned by his family to fight the de-
mand of the states attorney that he
be hanged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
Job Fight Breaking Up
Wreck of Nonpartisan
League in North Dakota
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

nISINTEGRATION is rapidly de-
- veloping in the Frazier-Nye-
Sorlie wing Of the republican party
in North Dakota, just as it is des-
troying what is left of the LaFollette
movement in Wisconsin.
The biggest SCATTERING factor is
the struggle for jobs, with every
loyalty to principle thrown complete
ly overheard.
In Wisconsin the LaFollette move
ment, under the bob" LaFollette-
Blaine leadership, commonly dubbed
"the Madison gang" has scuttled
the middle class LaFollette pro-
gram, with which 1t attracted work
er and farmer elements, and has put
place-seeking first upon the order of
the day.
The same is true in North Dakota
that gave Gerald P. Nye to the
United States senate as a non-parti-
san league senator. Nye has not
startled the nation with any fight
for the workers and farmers. He
revealed his real political character,
however, when he descended on
Coolidge in the White House and de-
manded he be allowed to appoint the
United States marshal for North Da-
kota as part of his political machine.
After the death of the elder La
Toilette, the LaFollette family made
it's alliance with Governor John
Blaine. 1t was compact based on
the distribution of jobs. bob" La
Toilette, Jr., was to be allowed to
fill out the unexpired term of his
father. Blaine was to be promoted
to the senatorship, thru the defeat
of Lenroot this year. The program
thus far was carried out to the let
ter. The break came over the gov
ernorship. Fred Zimmerman, secre-
tary Of state, originally LaFollette
follower, broke with "the Madison
gang" came out as candidate for
governor and defeated the La-Fol-
Blaine candidate, Attorney Gen.
eral Ekern. The result will be that
the foe of "the Madison gang" Zim-
norman, will occupy the governors
chair in Madison next month while
LaFollette and Blaine are marooned
down in Washington, far from their
home political fences. 1t is not diff
ficult to foresee the disaster that
will overtake those fences.
The divisions within the Frazier
Nye-Sorhe section of the republican
party in North Dakota, that styles
itself the nonpartisan league, are
also based on the senatorship fight,
forcing civil war between the Fra
zier and Sorlie factions. The sem
atorship is a much more desired
plum than the governorship.
Both Frazier and Nye have always
considered themselves republicans,
but they spread their nonpartisan
league sails to catch the discomfort
of the farmers with the republican
rule of the bankers, landlords and
grain gamblers. II the protest had
been strong enough and crystallized
itself ultimately in farmer-labor