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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
new FLIGHT TO
ARCTICPLANNED
Ford and Rockefeller to
Finance Member Of
Amundsen Party
(By The Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 3e.-An
independent expedition to explore the
Arctic from the air is being organized
by Lieutenant Commander Richard E.
Byrd Of Winchester, Pa, who command
ed the navy section of the Macmillan
expedition last summer.
The enterprise will be financed by
American citizens, among those who
have already pledged support being
John d. Rockefeller, Jr-, and Edsel
Ford, each Of whom have offered $780,
OOO
While it is not the plan to compete
with the expedition of the Detroit avi-
alton society, which intends to hop off
from Point Barrow, Alaska, for the north.
pole this year. the airns~of the two are
in certain respects similar. Each will
look for land sin the unknown region
between Alaska and the north pole, and
Byrd may also attempt to reach the
pole.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
BURKETT IN AUSTIN
MAY GO ON STAND

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 3o.--Jce Burk-
ett, former highway commissioners.
charged with "connivance in effect in
letting the Hoffman Construction CONF
pany topping contract, Is in Austin to-
day. Last week the defense issued q
subpoena for Burkett. Hoffman COM
pany attorneys said today they did not
know whether he would be placed on
the stand in the states road suit against
the Hoffman company. Burkett said he
did not know whether he would appear
in the trial in which the state is seeking
$421 900. His deposition taken in De-
cember. has been admitted as testimony
in the case.
S. B. Moore, La Porte, consulting en-
gineer, declared 80 cents q square yard
was reasonable for the state to pay un-
der Hoffman company specifications:
He defended his estimate at length TO-
day using blackboard and chalk to DEM
onstrate his calulations.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
HEAR COMMANDER

Twenty five Knights Templar Of
Brownsville, and several visitors were
present last night when Grand Com
mander William G. Bell, from Austin,
inspected the local commandery.
Mr.. Bell made talk on the work Of
Knights Templar, mentioning the bene-
fits that come from this work. He told
of the plans for the 1923 national con-
clave in Detroit, and mentioned other
important events in Knights Templar
work.
In addition to Mr. Bell several local
Knights Templar talked at the banquet
which was presided over by w. w. Ball,
grand commander here
Mr.. Bell left Brownsville for Austin
this morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
new TRAVIS JURY
TO CONTINUE PROBE
(By The Associated Press.)

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30.-Following
in the wake of the most exciting grand
jury session in many months the names
comprising the grand jury for next
court term have already been called.
The grand jury will meet Monday to be
charged by Judge James R. Hamilton
Recommendations that state affairs be
further Investigated were made by the
retiring body.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
PASADENA VOTES AID TO
VICTIMS OF GRANDSTAND
CRASH AT ROSE TOURNEY.
(By The Associated Press.)

PASADENA, Calf, Jan. 30.-A
bond issue Of 100000 was voted here
yesterday to aid needy victims Of
grandstand collapse during the tour
nament Of roses New Years day.
An additional $4,000 previously had
been appropriated by the city council.
More than $50 persons were injured
in the accident. Nine deaths result
ed. Although the grandstand which
crashed was a private venture, the
city held itself morally responsible
for the accident. The vote on the
bond issue was 5.274 TO 616.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
Deny Publishers Entry
To Hearing on Postage

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 30.-A pc
tition of the American newspaper pub
fishers association for leave to inter-
vene in the proceedings by which rail-
roads pay for carrying mail will be fix
ed was denied today by the interstate
commerce commission.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
Wills Wins Hard Game
From Englis Net Star

CANNES, France, Jan. 30.-Mrs. R..
E. Haylock of Norfolk, England, today
gave Helen Wills the hardest struggle
she has thus far experienced in her ten
mis- invasion of the Riviera, carrying
their first set to deuce and forcing the
American champion to work hard to win
at 81, 6-2.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
BOYS SHAVE IN CLASS

BERKELEY, Cal-Several boys are
going to get grade for taking Prof.
Ira B. Cross at his word. Annoyed by
co-eds beautifying their faces in class,
he said boys had equal rights and then
several bright young men shaved them
selves rs he lectured.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
Universal Sufferage
Instituted in Japan

TOKYO Jan. 30.-An imperial edict
today promulgated enforcement of the
regulations of the 1925 universal suf-
frage Law passed by the diet. It will be
applicable at the next election.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
Freight Agent to Move
Family to Harlingen

HARLINGEN, Texas, Jan. 800. X.
Dowell, formerly of the S. A. U. & G..
railway at Corpus Christi, who will
move his family here soon, has been
appointed travelling freight agent un-
der the jurisdiction of the Harlingen
office, of which w. C. Adams is head
in the capacity of district freight agent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-30
CAVE-IlNl KILLS 4
in OKLAHOMA Mine

MIAMI. Okla, Jan. 30.-Four miners
were killed today in a cave-in at velie
number 4 lead and zinc mine at Cardin.
First information was meagre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
CREEK WORKERS
PROTEST STEAL
OF RELIEF FUNDS
National Herald Grab of
$33,557 Is Exposed

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.--In spite OF
rain and sleet over 1000 Greek work
ers gathered in the Terrael Garden
here to protest the misrepresentation
of S33,557 by the National Herald, a
Greek newspaper, from the fund OF
s25O,OOO that this paper collected for
the relief of the widows and orphans
of the Smyrna catastrophe during the
Greek retreat from Asia Minor.
The National Herald fearing the ex
posture that would result at this meet
ing, published secret letter from the
Near East relief the day before the
meeting in which it declares that the
S3S,557 were the Expenses of the
campaign"
In spite of this effort of the Ma.
tional Herald to. whitewash itself
Cleanthes Yassardakis of Ridgewood
N. j., who was associated for many
years with the National Herald and
was the former Greek consul in San
Francisco, proved that the chief edi
tor, Rev. D. Callimanchos, used many
of the funds for his private use and
in order to prove his statement, he
had photographs Of documents flash.
ed on the screen branding the Ma.
tional Herald with Incorporating
SS3,557; Callimanchos of taking $4,000
from the relief fund at S120 per week
at the same time drawing wages from
the National Herald He also show.
ed that money collected for the war
veterans of Greece was never sent
across and that $4,000 from Bishop
Rodostolan to be sent to Constantine
Ople was kept by the National Her.
aid. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, S. Soulo-
mas George Arvanitsi spoke at the
mass meeting exposing the nature OF
the steal and also of the military die
tatorship of Pangalos.
The misappropriation of funds was
first exposed in the Greek Commun-
list paper, Empros. The meeting that
was called in New York, was a united
front affair in which many Greek or
CARNATIONS took part. The National
Herald in its desperation is now
screaming that this meeting was a
Communist attack on the National
Herald, but the Greek workers that
took part in this demonstration know
that the National Herald is trying to
hide its guilt by shouting Communist
persecution" and they continue to de-
mand that the National Herald pub
fish a. strict accounting as to how the
funds were used.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
MANY WORKERS
LOSE LIVES IN
UTAH SNOWSLIDE
Death Toll May Reach
Ninety-Five

BINGHAM, Utah, Feb. 1S-Ninety-
five dead is the probable toll of the
snowslide which rushed down a noun.
tainside here yesterday, crashed tons
of snow, trees, huge blocks and tim
bers over a dozen houses and buried
10 men, women and children under
the wreckage in the Highland Boy
mine district of Doty's Gulch.
Thirty-five bodies had been removed
from the debris; 20 persons suffering
more or less serious injury were be-
ing treated in the Bingham and sew
|eral emergency hospitals, and more
than 40 others were known to be miss
ing. The property damage in the dis
aster will be about $4,000.
1t is probable that it will take many
weeks before all of the bodies are re-
covered. Only the spring thaws will
allow rescue workers to get at the
heart Of the tomb of ice and snow in
which many of the dead are sleeping
Miners of the Utah Delaware, the
Apex and others of the largest copper
mines in the world, worked thruout
the night in almost vain efforts to
reach the dead. For the first time in
many years, only skeleton crew was
kept at the great mines, which never
close, and every available man of
Bingham, Salt Lake City and a half
dozen surrounding towns Joined in
the efforts to reach the victims of the
disaster. Men from the Highland Boy
were the first to attack the great
snow mass. Digging frantically with
pick and shovels that a few moments
before they had been using in the
mine, they made little progress. From
the edges Of the mass could be heard
the cries Of the injured and the shieks
Of those who faced in a snow pile the
flames Of torture as the fires began
and flames leaped toward them. More
than a score, it is believed, died in
their prisons pinned down by debris
and helpless to move as the flames
advanced on them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Italian Discovers New
Way to Gold Extraction

ROME, Feb. IS - An Italian en-
gineer, according to reports here, has
discovered new gold ore which will
greatly increase the world supply of
gold. Dalfornite is the name given to
the new mineral. 1t is found in rocky
formations both in Europe and in the
United States, Mexico and South
America.
1t comes under the head of a super
refractory ore, and gold can only be
extracted by special processes. Unless
the ore contains at least thirty to fifty
grams of gold per ton, the process of
refining is of no use, but the inventor
claims that the deposits of dalfornite
already discovered contain higher
quantities than those just mentioned.
AS much as a kilogram OF gold has
been obtained from ton of dalfornite
after the refining process. The inven-
tor, who has already obtained patents
from several governments for his pro-
cess Of refinement, proposes to go
shortly to the United States to start
prospecting there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Soviet Explorers Find
Tribes Cut OFF from
the World for Ages

LENINGRAD, Feb. 1S.-An explor.
ing expedition of the Russian Acad-
envy of Sciences has returned from a
trip into the sandy wilderness of the
Kara-Kum desert, in Turkmenistan
Soviet Central Asia. They report find
ing several tribes, the members of
which had never heard of the Soviet
government or the revolution, and
were even ignorant Of the existence of
the. czars. The scientists brot to
these remote peoples the first news
Of the outside world they had re-
ceived for several hundred years.
The whole phenomenon of modern
civilization was totally unknown to
them.
The expedition was the first to PEN
citrate the Kara-Kum desert, as far as
Russian records go. The scientists,
headed by Academician "A. e. Fers-
man, expected to traverse only unpeo-
pied sandy wastes. They were sur
prised to find, within fifty miles of the
railroad station of Geok-Tepe, the first
of several GASES inhabited by primitive
tribes akin to the Turkoman race. The
desert jewellers lived in the simplicity
of biblical times, tending their flocks
of camels, sheep and goats. They
were amazed at the appearance of the
scientific caravan, but received the
visitors Hospitality. Well-worn trails,
used for hundreds Of years, connected
the various GASES.
Within the desert. about It's miles
from the railway, the scientists discov-
cred rich sulphur deposits with an
estimated reserve Of 100000 metric
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Form Chinese Society
of Sunyatsenism

CANTON, Feb IS - The Society of
Sunyatsenism has been organized
here to propagate the revolutionary
ideas of the late Dr. Sun Vat Sen.
Over 10000 people attended the open
ing session which was held in the
open air on the drill ground of the
National University here. Represent
atiyes Of the nationalist government,
M. Borodin, who is the Soviet ad-
visor Of the various armies, together
with students and teachers from the
National University and fifty other
schools, participated in the ceremo-
MES. The unions and the local mer-
chants had delegates, as did the
Whampoa Military Academy. Repre-
sentatives of Chinese colonies in Jap
an and American also attended.
The "Three Peoples" Theory.
The society will work to popularize
the Three Peoples Theory" of ma
tional revolution This slogan, laid
down by Sun Vat Sen, ascribes to
the revolutionary struggle three phas-
es, distant and yet intimately connect.
ed. The political revolution aims at
the establishment OF a republican
state in which the masses actively
participate; the national revolution
seeks to drive out the foreign powers
and unity China; the economic revo-
luton has as its object an equity in
land rights with the recognition OF La
Dor unions and the legalizatlon of
their activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
|. W. A. OPENS UP
FIRST Miners
RELIEF DEPOT
Suffering Children Need
Clothing Badly
Especial to The Daily worker)


WILkES5ARRE, Pa Feb. 1s -
The first of a series of relief stations
for the striking miners by the Inter
national Workers Aid has been OPEN
ed up in the Liberty Market building
Of this city. Clothing and other help
for the miners may be sent addressed
to the "Miners International Workers
Aid, D. r. Edmunds, secretary" at the
above address or will be forwarded
from the Chicago office of the Inter
national Workers Aid, at 1853 Mad-
son ST, Chicago, III.
Relief will be collected for some
weeks at least, regardless of the
unions decision on the Lewis agree
ment. There has been much misery
among the helpless women and chill
dren who have unflinchingly stood by
their menfolks in the struggle. This
must be alleviated Immediately.
The Miners Relief Committee.
The relief committee organized by
the general grievance body consists
Of the following members: Treddis.
local union 1913; Osbourne, 1888:
Hurley, 1856; Garrahan, 1855; Mer.
riell, 311; Selinski, $685. Schaufen-
berg, 1407; Delaney, 1898; Tanitus.
4S4; Lair, 1892; Clune, 996; Bro
bieski, 1853; Sobers, $685. Isaacs.
14O7; Lewis, 500; and Moran, 1856
James Hurley is chairman and D. H.
Edmunds, secretary. These two, with
F. G. Biedenkapp, national secretary
of the International Workers Aid, con-
stitute the publicity committee. A
food and stores supervising committee
and a relief executive committee were
also elected District committees have
been assigned to handle the relief &C.
cording to the various mining sec
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20

convention. He was pictured as
demanding ten per cent wage in
crease and being especially loud in
his demands for the tive-hour work
day.
He then mimicked another dele
gate as declaring, in commenting on
the radicals speech, "Well, he's a
good union man" That brought
forth an unexpected burst of ap-
plause that almost put a serious ex-
preston on the smiling face of the
clown. 1t caused the officialdom to
squirm. Yet that is the real pur-
pose Of clever clowns sallies.
Lewis clown was doing his very
best. There was much more of the
same.
Then the funny man tried to turn
serious and recite poem that
waved the flag in every line and
denounced the Bolsheviks in every
syllable. The catholic priest had
put in his oar for god. The come
dian proclaimed, I'm boosting for
Uncle Sam" That either one of
them got a hearing indicates that
the miners have some distance yet
to go before they rid their gather
ings of these stage trappings that
are presented by their officials to
get the minds of the delegates off
the real problems confronting them.
GON MaCole did pretty well and
- Lewis will no doubt reward him
for it. Out west the miners officials
make even better use of their come
dams. Their latest pet is Oscar
Ameringer, who performed for a
long time in the socialist party, and
has even been substituting for Vic
tor L. Berger on the Milwaukee
Leader, the official mouthpiece of
the Wisconsin congressman. Ame-
ringer parades as Adam Coaldig-
SOL I'LL INC SOAuAuuS VI INC ILL
nois Miner, the official organ of
the Harrington machine in the Illi-
nois Mine Workers Union. Anne
ringers ambition, self-admitted, is to
become jester to the great American
working class. But he has not real
lied, and will never realize that an
awakened working class will not
laugh at his jokes when the workers
learn that he is trying to get them
off the main track in the theory of
"get something now"
Ameringer has taken some job on
his hands when he attempts to put
a radical coating on Lewis ally in
Illinois, Frank Harrington, who
wants to become president of the
United Mine Workers of America
when John L." joins Coolidge's
cabinet as secretary of labor.
DUT the workers will find the
- right time to laugh and the
right time to be serious. They will
learn that the best time to be SER
ious, and act accordingly, is when
their officials are trying to put
something over on them. Serious
ness is always required to fight
BLACK Friday" surrenders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Cooperative Groups
Condemn Fascism

ANGORA, Mimi, Feb. IS. - The
Northern Farmers Cooperative So
ciety at its annual membership meet
ing adopted a resolution protesting
against the fascist terror in Italy and
calls upon the International Cooper
ative Alliance to call an international
conference with delegates Of the Red
international of Labor Unions and the
Amsterdam International Federation
Of Trade Unions in attendance to draw
up program of action to combat fas-
cism.
McKINNEN, Ca, Feb. IS. The
Wayne Producers Association adopted
a resolution condemning fascism and
calling on the International Cooper
alive Alliance to call an international
conference to plan measures Of COM
batting fascism.
ROCK, Michigan, Feb. 1.-THE Co
Operative company Of Rock at its an
nual membership meeting adopted a
resolution condemning fascism and en-
dorsing the call for an international
conference.
IRoNWoOD, Mich.f, Feb. 49, The
National Cooperative Co. of Ironwood
in a resolution expressed its indigna-
ton against the violent occupation Of
the Lega Nazionale by the Italian fas-
cisti and endorses the universal de-
mand Of the international cooperative
movement demanding that the Italian
cooperative movement be given free
dom OF action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Purcell Says u. S.
Labor is on Wrong
Track for Victory
CONTINUED from page II

CONTINUED from page u
you don't get the solidarity we do"
he told The Federated Press. "Take
the strike on the transport lines here
in London. The streetcars stopped.
People switched over to the buses.
But the busmen refused to cary them
so the buses stopped. Then the whole
crowd took to the subways. The
subway men then struck. You see we
have developed over here routine
of solidarity.
There is one thing that should
be said," he concluded. "Pres. Green
of the American Federation of Labor
issued circular letter under date of
Dec. "a which begins: TO all organ
lied labor etc: Information has reach
ed me that central bodies and local
unions have been asked to contribute
to fund to be used to send a COM
mittee of alleged labor representatives
to Russia for the same purpose that
a committee of communists from
Great Britain visited Russia and
sought to make the world believe that
the soviet government was representa-
tive Of the people,
Green All Wrong.
Let me say that not one of the
men who went with our delegation
was a communist" Purcell insisted.
Take the list-Bramley, secretary Of
the British Trades Union congress;
Finley, general secretary of the
Patternmakers; Smith, president of
the Miners; Bromley of the .Amalga-
mated Locomotive Engineers & Fire
men; Ben Tillett of the Transport
Workers; John Turner of the Shop
Assistants, and as president of the
Init Federation of Trade Unions.
How could you get more representa-
tive group of men? All are we'll known
and all have been for years active in
the leading British unions. AS for
our three experts, they were men all
of whom had worked in the British
public service and none of whom
was or is a communist.
1T is folly to accuse the British
delegation of being communist. We
looked at Russia from the viewpoint
Of British labor and we saw many
things there that impressed us nigh
tily."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Lewis Had Clown AS an
Ally to Put Over Black
Friday Surrender Pact
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


COURT testers are not a thing of
~ the past. They have only
changed their clothes. In the days
of kings and queens, the jester
danced about, in his cap and bells
and vari-colored uniform, cracking
his jokes at the expense Of those
high and low.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
in his court just held at the Town
Hall, in the anthracite coal town of
Scranton, Pa, had his jester, pro-
vided for the occasion, one Con
MaCole, who claims to have been
miner at one time. But that must
have been long time ago.
NON MaCole was presented to the
- convention shortly after the
catholic priest, Father j. ]. Cur
ran, had finished with his more
serious business Of throwing the
fear Of god into the delegates If
they did not accept the BLACK Fri
day" surrender. God still rules as
something to be more feared than
the mine barons in the anthracite
coal fields. But the Jester, COMMA
Cole, also had his purpose.
He was presented with Is minutes
of the time of the convention by it's
temporary chairman, Chris ]. Col
den, president of District No. 9. So
this is the way he started:
Fifteen minutes isn't a very long
time. And you say you are union
men. Well, Is minutes ought to
make up days work anyway"
That brought a good hand all
round. Even the anthracite min
ers, stung with the latest sell-out
by President Lewis have dreams of
a shorter workday.
THEN the clown of President
4 Lewis court took over the
chairman's gavel and announced
that he was going to run a conven-
ton of his own-a mock convention.
Here was his opening:
you know what we are here for.
We are here for the Miners Annual
Convention to accept nothing.
IF there is any man in the hall
satisfied with his wages, let him get
out now while he can walk out"
and then when the laughter had
subsidized, the comedian concluded,
'If he doesn't wen be walking slow
behind him in four nays
LIE then told the story Of the
IL miners who had come up to
within 10 feet of the surface in
900 foot shaft, when the car broke
away and they were plunged back
to the bottom again.
He asked: How can you expect
st. Peter to raise YOU 900 feet if
you can't make the corporations
raise you ten per cent"
This sally was greeted with a
burst of applause. the coal diggers
hardly realizing that they were
laughing at themselves.
THEN there was an imitation of a
4 radical making a speech in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Wife Asks Husbands
Workers to Pay Alimony
lspeolaI 70 Lie paIIy W0rIkerl

ROCKFORD, H., Feb. 1s.--James
E. Allen, manufacturer, was found
guilty today on charges of adultery
preferred by his wife, Mrs. Mildred
Allen, of Chicago. Sentence will be
passed later. Mrs. Allen has instituted
divorce proceedings against Allen de-
manding $4,000. AS his income is
derived from the exploitation of his
workers, they are the ones who will
pay for the alimony.