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thing happened; it grew and grew
and grew. 1t had come TO a
dead standstill. DIR. Greasy was
almost up TO it, where It stood
stationary on the border OF q
sprawling village Of darkened
houses, when it shot ahead again,
but at more sedate pace.
The next moment he under
stood, for he himself was stopped
by the bawling voice of q village
constable--one of those petty
officers who lie in wait at all
hours for speeding machines, for
they are allowed by their coun-
ties one.half OF all fines collected
from breakers of the speed ordi-
nance.
He thought for a moment OF
appealing to this officer OF the
law; but to explain, to get AID
from the village, would be only
to give Lecay and Drake time to
get off the main road. to hides to
be lost altogether. He must keep
them in sight at all costs.
Don't you see my Red Cross
sign?" he called oack. I'm hur'
rying to sick patient"
He caught q CLINT OF moonlight
on q revolver handle in the con-
stables belt.
Say Constable, do you want
to sen that gun? I'll give you
$50 for It. =
He dug into his pocket and
held out two $40 and one SO
bill where they were temptingly
lit up by the light of lamp
that the constable. like q mod
ern Diogenes, carried.
What d'you want it fer?"
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By Stella Wynne
Whose Stories Of Mystery and
Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment


spread Comment
The two heard, turned their
heads, and, catching sight or DR..
Cressy and the paipitating coupe
behind the oak boughs, put on
full speed and shot ahead down
the main road, headed toward the
south. The physician leaped into
his own coupe and followed.
Moonlight.
The complexion OF the night
had changed as it drew toward
IL O'Clock. The sky had been
flushing silver in the east, and
now the late moon rose, full.
round white. It's light fell on the
Pacific and upon the county high
way whose black oil had over 1t
q light sprinkling of seasaT1d.
Upon this road; under the mid
night moon, the two cars raced.
IL seemed to DIR. Greasy there was
nothing in the world but the
cleaning, silver sea and the DARK
soft land. separated by the rid
bon Of road on which they went.
Although he pressed down on
the foot throttle until 1t was lever.
with the floor, he saw with sink
ing heart that he was steadily
losing the long, dark car ahead;
only where there was a slight
ascent did he come near holding
his own. Mile after mile passed.;
the touring car became smaller
and smaller, until It was only a
dim. black dot ahead. Then some
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beauty And one night, the night
OF her marriage, gazing at the
moon, seeing the moon and all
love, all beauty floating away In
q golden mist
Suddenly the yearnfng for the
child; the music and the sweetness
of its coming. It's little cold body
laid in her arms. Lying so cold;
SO very still because of that violent
thing her husband did.
Somewhere in the audience a
woman cried out shiveringly: THE
brute-oh, the brutei"
The prosecutor waved his fist
He began objecting explo-
sively. But at this, eyes blazed
with antagonisn. A man shouted:
Let her talk-let her tell ir.''
And Sandy with her two hands
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bit Of paper between thumb and
forefineer. "You didn't tell the
defendant you wanted Worth out
OF your way, but YOU admit that
Won felt it necessary to leave the
city-you felt that you could not
continue to go out with the de-
PENDANT. is this true?"
az wanted to get away"
because Ramon Worth had re-
turned and reproached you-be-
cause he became bitterly excited,
Won were afraid = afraid to go
out again with the defendant"
''I wanted to get away"
''You preferred the defendant to
the deceased?"
ST object"
objection sustained"
Very well, then-it. was clear to
lou, Mrs. Murillc. that the re-
turn of the deceased made a con.
n nWE n < ~
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BIZ EJe1aOTe MeheTi11

"Then ne sent me this letter
Monday he sent me this letter.
was afraid. I told Douglas
Ramon had returned.
But before / saw Douglas
again, Ramon phoned. This was
Monday night about 8 o'clock.
He phoned. His voice--it told me
told me what he was planning
the tone of 1.-THE desperation
of it. I pleaded with him. Then
I VENT went because he seemed
so to need me-because he had
been so good to me. vent
left q note for Douglas ana
He was whittier than flOur-he
swayed as he opened the door to
me. He said: Why did you come!
Now + must take you with me.
Now we are going away together
you and +
The two of them standing in
each others arms. She begging
him to think--she caressing MIN.
The pistol turned against her
breast. Thunder in her ears
thunder and terror-and a stag
gering flight across the room,
Ramon following, Ramon sobbing.
':Sandy-Oh, God-killed you
I've killed you"
Blackness and thunder in her
heart.
She found herself creeping
along the housekeeping and
moaning. She saw black
shadow lying therr-Ramon--
That made her cry
She wanted to reach the door
Call someone in to help him
She reached the door. There
was Douglas. He lifted her
"He came then-only then
and he went over and
kneeled at Ramon's side and he
said: oh. good God!
HE went and kneeled again
He came back and lifted
ne--He carried me away--he
said: 'Sandy-Sandy-- and put
his handkerchief where the blood
was-right here.
"And he told me nothing. No
one told me anything. Only this
morning / heard And
he would have died, tool would
be to blame for this too
"And all of you would have,
punished him d IS But it is
IL who am all to blame
because Of me Ramon Is dead
This is the way he died-just SO,
he died"
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Eyes! This whole thing begins
with my marriage years ago and
the death OF my little boy a year
later. Because Of this, things be-
tween Ramon and me became what
they were and because of this re-
lationship, Ramon is. dead
"Then tell it--briefly as you
CAN
She did. Simple words-words
that had brought pictures filling
with such harassing vfvidness
through her own fevered brain all
these weeks of the long, s!eepless
nights when she rehearsed her life
for Judith. The pictures flashed
through the courtroom now
q young girl in a brilliant Spanish
shawl standing on pier in the
Notwithstanding love--wanting
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A Story of Swift Adventure, Tingling Romance,
And the Youthful, Pulsating Thrill Of True Love

tinuance in your then present
mode Of living inpossible?'
IT wanted to get away
I.es-I--weoh-I had to leave.
You had to leave the defend
anti"
And she nodded she nodded
with q desperate tormented look
making her dark eyes enormous.
II had to leave him."
''The deceased Ramon Worth's
return compelled you to plan .
farewell with the defendant?
?''
Nodding helplessly doing as he
wished.
"But before you had q chance
to get away you received the
phone message from the deceased?
And his tone told you he was des,
perate?''
ITO BE Continued Tomorrow.
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on the receding car. ahead, was
in a fever Of impotence which
he didn't dare show.
The constable, duly satisfied
by the Doctors answer, gripped
the bills greediIy and passed
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Grant that

his heart pounding like an en-
gine-but the car ahead grew
smaller and smaller. Then. to
his infinite joy, the road began
definitely to ascend. 1t lifted
and lifted, beginning to skirt
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she didn't awake -

! up the revolver to the doctor.
d "s'Iong." he said, waving a
genial adieu, well pleased with
his midnight bargain.
Once again DIR. Cressy sped
along, his throttle wide open,
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"Gr0w cid along with me-
The best 10 yet Co Be"
With her children grown up. the
middle-aged woman finds time to do
the things she never had time to do
before-read the new books, see the
new plays, enjoy her grandchildren,
take an active part in church and
civic affairs. Far from being pushed
aside by the younger set, she hnds
full, rich life OF her own. That is,
II her health is good.
Thousands of women of middle
age, say they owe their vigor and
health to Lydia e. Pinkhan's Vege-
table Compound. Those who have
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questioned the officer dutifilly,
his eyes on the bills.
I'm afraid OF robbers on
these lonely roads. Some OF
my friends were held up re-
GENTLY" The physician, his eyes
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CHAPTER lis

a LAST ray OF the afternoon
"A sun fell across the witness
chair. It touched on Sandy's
face, giving an unearthly bril-
lance to her eyes. lighting up her
pallor. She leaned forward. Now
and then she raised. her hand as
though she were in pain, as
though her breath was hard to
draw. Now and then she looked
to Douglas.
But he never raised his head.
He never met her eyes.
Her voice. that had been clear
and high and sweet, like flute
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Follow the Mystery of the Blue Scarab
and the Love Affair of the
Beautiful Heroine
THE STORY THUS FAR

Kent Gendennng Ctenden found dead
u taxi in which they have just arrived Katheens hotel
trough suspecng Kathleen police only been able establish
that quarrel had preceded the shot DR. Crey hotel physician
detective investigation that kaheens
ssers Hazel and Mrs Echard in some way involved
of Glendnnings
stimulates the search for information Dr. Grossly locates
- naiDoy who snoay ~
hind the killing Kathleen has already surprised Greasy by giving
him this scarab for saekeepng declaring she fears violence she
keeps it. 3
just Kathleen reganng her usual compOsure after series
Of trying days. however Kelly hotel taxi starter who found Glen
Kathleen that
after
had hotel He explains he told his Bert and that
$4,000 has been missing
Cressy dsmayed learn kathleen has disappeared He
searches high and low in frantic haste
finally discovers the unconscious form of Kathleen lying
In the mummy
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The Most Sensational Detective Story
Of the Day, Penned By
Clever Writer
Writer

the wheel with one hand. picked
up the constable's revolver with
the other, and, regting u on the
wheel. leyeled IL It the other ma
chine He didn't care how u.
accurate his aim was ali ne
wished was to hit the road. lie
didn't even dare try for the back
tires Tor fear his bullet might ~
too EAR and hit the ease ~
Annon.Ta He fired The con-
stables gun was an honest Colts.
and its roar rang out sharply ~
the night and reverberated among
the moolllit crags.
But DR.. CressY did not hear
h--fOr at that moment LEGAL
leaped to his fete The movement
violently tipped up the mummy
case on his knees. IL slid over
the edge OF the car and out
Though the moonlight over tho
cliff edge.
TX
Unconscious Of what he wap
doing, DR.. Cressy brought hia
coupe 10 = stop and Ieaped out
Almost fainting with horror, b
watched the case Of Anon-Ka
hurting on down from rock tO
rock. through inhy shadows and
silver-gray moonlight. The graf.
ing sound Of disIodged rocks filled
the air, together with the crash
Of the descending case as it hit
each new ledge. The physicians
nails dug through into the palms
OF his hands and blood trickled
between his fingers. Would II
never. stop The tender body
within bruised, broken killed. -
there could be no hope that IL
would not!
oh. God. he found himself
praying, may she remain I'M
consciousl'
And when 1t last the case came
to rest in some dark pocket 0f
shadow, below and ii shroud Of
silence fell again apon the night
he rushed to the side of the road,
murnbIing over and over:
oh, Godgrant that she didn't
awake!''
He started to descend the cliff.
But the thought In his Wl1irIing
brain that maybe she had waked.
that ma there was still some
bruised ffeFing life in her, sent
him clarnbering up again to his
car. bbed his physicians
satchel always III hts coupe, and
started down again with Il. There
might he d naiFnmer OF l1opei But
his medical brain told his trem-
bling heart that &c lied.
(Tos Be Continued Tomorrow
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,rggr first bridge Aerica wooden suc
sre aracad over he Mohawk Schenectady New 1oIA
between 1905 and 1903 BY Theodore Burr brother ct aaron D
was Il 1873.
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Atsste.s = ! y. ~Sttsn So sFv..A 'Se
Nice Smaller Than Bees

MICE smaller than bees received recently at the onah
YA from Africa dozen of them escaped during e
trip through hole smaller than that made by ordinary lead
pencil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Philadelphia Lenin
Memorial on Saturday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 18.-The
Philadelphia Lenin memorial meeting
will be held on Saturday evening, Jan
%, at 5 p. M, in the large auditorium
Of the Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring
Garden streets.
An excellent trio of nationally
known speakers has been scheduled.
Jay Lovestone, of the Central Execu-
tive Committee, Workers (Commun-
ist) Party, Ben Gitlow, who was only
last month released from Jail, and M.
j. Olgin, the prominent Communist
journalist compose this trio. Norman
H. Tallentire, the district organizer of
district three will also make a short
talk as will Morris Yusem, district
organizer Of the Young Workers
League
In addition we will hear the Fret
heit Gesang Verein and the Young
Pioneer chorus in revolutionary songs,
supported by an International orches-
ira, and the Workers Theater AL
lance will present a pantomime of
Lenin's funeral. The admission charge
has been placed at rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
A VISIT TO ARMOUR
BY NANNY MANKiN.

When you enter the Union Stock
Yards, you see the big building of Ar
mour & Co. The front is like jail,
and so is the inside. There are guards
and policemen at every entrance and
exit in and outside of the building.
The guides are careful and see that
you do not stray from the beaten path
which is made for visitors but bright
young Communist can see things
which ordinary visitors would NOT
care to look at
In the first place, the workers are
not allowed to go from one depart.
ment to the other. Even II they have
to go on account OF something hap.
pening, which cannot be explained,
the guards just say, Get the hell back
to your work" This is what they
call liberty The Armour plant is
just a slave joint and jail.
Let all workers unite and break the
bonds of tyranny.
Unite against the owners of Armour
& Co. and make It less like a prison.
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Organization
Meetings
BY ARNE swABEcK.

MYTH the present rapid reorganiza-
w ton Of the Workers (Communist)
Party to the shop nuclei basis thru
out the main industrial centers, the
question of the fuCctioning of these
units becomes one demanding immed-
late attention. A practical question
and yet quite a problem indeed.
Leaving the street nuclei units aside
for the present the problem could per
haps be formulated as follows:
l. How can shop nuclei become the
basic political party units capable of
mobilizing the working masses for
demonstrations, election campaigns
and for greater and more decisive po-
litical struggles?
O. How can shop nuclei become
expressive of the everyday needs of
the workers in the shops, become a
living part of their fight for better
conditions, win their confidence and
furnish organized. conscious leader
ship to attain our definite objects?
8. How can the party based on the
shop nuclei form Of organization more
effectively penetrate deeper into the
organized masses within the unions
and win them for the revolutionary
struggle against capitalism?
These are some very important
parts of Bolshevization made many
times more difficult due to the nu-
merically small size Of our party. In
many trade unions the party has not
yet succeeded in approaching a real
penetration or raised the issues which
will win the workers. Millions of I'M
organized workers subjected to the in
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Workers Communist Party
Social Affairs
Resolutions
Opportunities for Shop Nuclei Work

plants heat exposures are dangerous
and intolerable during the long work
ing hours, the hammering and deafen.
ing screeches when white hot steel
hits the rolls or-the cold saw bites
into steel plates, become a strain on
the workers. In one mill, visited by
the writer, nail making department,
called the "nuthouse," endless rows of
machines hammered with lightning
speed, each chopping off 800 nails per
minute.
Accidents are daily occurrences in
large plants due to lack of safety
devices on heavy dangerous machin-
cry. Compensations are sometimes
nil, always insufficient and as a rule
difficult to obtain due to. network
of red tape and graft OF petty politi-
clans. A fight led by nuclei mem
bers to show this up in dts true light
and help the victims actually to OBJ
tain compensations will not only ex-
pose the capitalist industrial and po-
litical system in all it's corruption,
out also gain the confidence of the
workers and assist to organize the po-
litical struggle for Improvements.
The substitute for real safety de-
vices, resorted to by big industrial
corporations in giving safety lee
lures" is primarily another means tC
increase workers efficiency and thus
increase exploitation on the job.
1t need hardly be mentioned that
the practice of child labor and ex-
cessive youth exploitation, wherever
it exists, becomes the basis to broad
en- the activities on the political field
in the fight for its complete abolition.
There is no better place to start than
in the. shop.
(To be continued)
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creasing pressure of capitalist exploit
tation have not yet recognized the
need of uniting against this pressure,
not to speak of rallying to the stand
ard Of the Communist Party
Leadership Must start From Practical
Basis.
The undeveloped condition Of the
huge American industrial army makes
particularly imperative that the party
should first of all become a much
more active participant in solving the
problems of the everyday life of the
workers and fight for their simple
economic needs as they appear within
their place of work. A few sugges-
tions how to make a beginning in
this sphere may not be amiss.
= 1. The Speed-up System and Long
Hours of Work.
This obtains in most industrial en-
terprises whether workers are en-
ployed at individual tasks at the ma
chine or in gangs. Production is so
standardized that workers are COM
PEELED to make the same motions day
by day; the standard of individual
production being ever increased, cum
ming devices applied, clockworks in
stalled to increase the speed of the
motions and in addition foremen driv-
ing the workers to the point of ex-
haustion. Where a shift system ex-
lists, sometimes even double shifts, ne
extra pay for night work. In steel
mills usually no time is allotted for
lunch, the workers being compelled to
swallow a sandwich during spells.
Such conditions are naturally injur-
ious to the health of the workers.
Yet when work is slack the speed
does not diminish and seldom are
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the hours reduced but the workers are
put on part time employment while
the industrial reserve army waits at
the gates for a job The profits of
the employers are thus kept intact
while only the workers suffer Still
very often workers are compelled to
pay cash to some foreman or agent to
get such miserable jobs. In many of
Pennsylvania steel mills a particular
type Of CRATER is "in with" the plant
officials supplying workers, green
horns" or foreigners" who cannot
use English very well, at SO much per
head, paid by the workers.
Here is a field for shop nuclei mem
bers by individual propaganda, fac
tory papers, ETC., to show the workers
what is wrong, point out the needs of
reducing hours which also helps to
give jobs to unemployed, get rid of
slave driving bosses, show how to or
ganize to attain it and extend the sol
idarity of the workers by properly ap-
preaching the whole problem of the
unemployed. In this manner the po-
litical side of the' problem is brot for
ward.
2. Health and Safety Conditions.
In this respect improvements are
needed in every industry Improve
ments which can only be secured thru
the workers fighting for it. From the
very simplest needs of ventilation in
factories to safety devices on danger
GUS machinery the nuclei members
must lead the fight for improvements.
In many factories poisonous material
is not guarded against. In coal mines
many lives are lost for lack of meas
ures against explosions. In steel
mills and many metal manufacturing
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Attend The Lenin Memorial Meetinos

oaissytown-Home Theater, Tom Ray,
Jan. 81, Q. m.
New 5riehton-D. E. Farley, Jan. 81, 2
p. m.
WEST VIRGINIA
Irladelphia-Tom Ray, Jan. "a, p. m.
PursgloVe-Tom Ray, Jan. 81, 2 o. m,
KENTUCKY
Ne"port-Robert Minor, Jan. 81.
OHIO
Lima-Robert Minor, Jan. 18.
Cineinnatl-Doyle's Academy, Court
and Central SITS, Robert Minor, Jan. %,
1880 p. m.
columbus-Robert Minor, Jan. %, 8
Akron-zieler Hall, voris and Miami
Ave, Robert Minor, Jan. "a, 2 p. m.
Canton-Canton Music Hall, $40 e.
Iuscon ST., Robert Minor, Jan. "a, 8
p. m.
YorkviIIe-Miners' Hall, J. Williamson,
Neffs-J. Williamson, Jan. "a, 2 p. m.
Toledo-Robert Minor, Jan. IT, p. m.
Lorain-Jan. II p. m.
Liyerpool-5rahtin, Jan. "a, p. m.
Notwithstanding, Jan. "a. 8 o. m.
lSei'aIre-s. Amter, Jan. "a, p. m.
INDIANA
Gary-Turner Hall, IA and WASHINGTON.
TOM O'FIaherty, Jan. 24-7:3o .. m.
South 5end-Workers' Home, 1916 HoI-
fax Ave-, Tom Bell, Jan. "a, 2 o. M
E, chicago-columbia Hail, Mccook
2 p m.
MICHIGAN
Detroit-House of the Masses. 264e St.
Aubin, J. J. BALKAN, Jan. "a, 2:SO o. m.
Grand Rapids-Workmen' Circle Tenn
pie, 345 Mt. Vernon Ave-, J. J. BALKAN
and Nat kaplan, Jan. %, 8 p. m.
INSTRUMENTATION Woodmen's Hall.
10 N. Terrace ST., J. J. BALKAN and Nat
kaplan, Jan. %, p. m.
F.~. ILLINOIS
chicaeo-coliseum, Wabash and 10Th
ST., c. {. Ruthenberg and William r.
Dunno, Jan. "a.
christopher-French Club near East
Mine, Jack Johnston, Jan. 49, 7 D. m.
Wauke gan-Workers' Hall, 5f7 Helm
hoitz Ave., J. J. BALKAN, Jan. 81, 2;3o p.
m.
zeiger-Jack tombstone, Jan. 10.
West Frankfort, Lithuanian Hall. &.
9Th ST., Jack tombstone, Jan. 20, 7. D. m.
MISSOURI
Kansas city-Muscians' Hall. 1917
Washington St., w, F. Dunno. Jan. 81.
WISCONSIN
MiIwaukee-Freie Gemeinde Hall. sth
and Walnut St., Earl Browder, Jan. "a.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco-Jan. "a, Workers Par.
~ Hall, 225 Valencia ST., 300 D. M, Tom
Fleming and w. Schneiderman.
Oakland and Berkeley-Jan 81, Work.
ers' Hall 1919 10th St.. w. Schneiderman.