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are working on the case. WedneSs
day, she says, she went as usual at
8 o'clock to clean the house and get
the baby.
CDR. Houck was sitting In the
front ROOM" she said. He looked
like he had been crying. Mrs. Hotck
wasn't here, but she was here the
day before. He told me to 90 out
in the kitchen and clean up"
The girl says mat she went to
the kitchen and started to wash
the dishes when DR.. Houck rushed
out, grabbed up the waste basket
under the sink and ran downstairs
with it.
HE was strange looking and was
in a terrible hurry" the girl said.
Wanted to Burn Waste
The Houck home is above a drug
store. 1t was this waste" that DIR.
Houck asked permission to burn In
the furnace.
r.. E. Varty, owner OF the drug
store, would not give permission.
He told him to leave the trash for
the porter to burn. Instead OF Civ
ing it to the porter, Varty saved Il.
This is the trash out of which
detectives have fished a nightgown
and a teddy, both torn to shreds
The garments are Spattered with
reddish substance which has not
yet been identified. -@-t
Four good portraits OF the baby
boy also were in the trash and q
broken pair Of gold spectacles.
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|NGERS(lL
TRAGEDY
PFND
By JAMES 1. KILcALLEN

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NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-Wal-
lace MacLean Probasco, shot
three times by Mrs. Robert H.
Ingersoll, estranged wife of
Robert H.. Ingerso1l, the man
who made the dollar watch
famous, was in a critical condi-
ton today at Bellevue Hos
pital, and may die. After
shooting him, Mrs. Ingerson
shot and killed herself.
The tragedy occurred in Mrs.
Ingersolls luxurious apartment
on Park Avenue.
Both victims are members Of
famous families. Mrs. Ingersoll's
husband, Robert H. Ingersoll, the
watch king" is the hero of one
of the most fascinating romances
of the business world. Probasco,
whose name is in the social regis
ter. is son-in-law of the noted
agnostic, Col. Robert Ingersoll.
The two Ingersoll families are not
related, however.
jealousy Is Motive
jealousy was established by the
police today as the motive for the
tragedy. The police said Probasco
told them that as he was leaving
the apartment, Mrs. Ingersoil
walked toward him with his hat.
He did not know she had a 80
caliber pistol, until she drew it
from behind the hat and fired.
Two bullets struck him in the
chest, the third in the right arm.
Mrs. Ingersoll then turned the
revolver toward her breast and
Continued on Page 2, Column So
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RICH YOUTH
PREYED ON
CHI DR[N
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by international News Service
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Harold
j. Croarkin, 26, son Of a
wealthy flour broker, broke
down today and confessed he
slew 6-year-old Walter Schmith
because of fear he would be
"sent to the penitentiary' for
making improper advances.
Since his arrest, Croarkin
had maintained he killed the
boy "because he was mad, /"
but after an all-night grilling
he admitted he feared Walter
would tell about an attempted
act of depravity.
Made Improper Advances
Croarkin admitted making inn
proper advances to EIGHT or ten
children, half of them boys and
half girls" since last September,
when, he said, he began his I'M
proper practices.
r Francis E. Croarkin, uncle OF
the accused, and former school
board member and attorney, de-
clared today the family would
make only a 'Loeb-Leopold" de-
tense.
Mentally UndeveIoped, Claim
The 'slayers of little Bobby
Franks, Nathan Leopold, jr., and
Richard Loeb were defended by
Clarence barrow. who based his
arguments on psychological reasons
why they were unable to restrain
their impulses for thrill"
Croarkin's uncle declared that
mentally Harold has never been.
more than ten years Old
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NATE HELD FOR
W|FE'S HURTS

In an effort to clear the mystery
surrounding the serious injury TO-
day of Mrs. Margaret Deegan, IS
years old, 1718 Twelfth st. n. w..
police of the First precinct have
arrested her husband, Thomas
Deegan, AZ, and are holding him
for investigation.
Mrs. Deegan was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital today and treated
for possible fracture to the right
shoulder, cuts on the head and face
and bruises on the body, sustained,
they say, in an alteration in her
home about a. m. today.
In his cell at the First precinct
station house, Deegan refuses to
discuss the case with police, wish
ing only to talk with acquaintance.
Mrs. Deegan's injuries, although not
critical, are said to be serious.
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8 DIE IN LAUNCH,
70 MISSING
BY international News Service

NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-Eight per.
sons are known to be dead and 20
more are reported to have persisted
as the result Of the capsizing today
of the 60.foot launch, "Linseed King"
in the North River after it struck
an ice floe in mid-stream.
Capt. James Rowland of the
launch, who was rescued. expressed
the belief that so were drowned. He
said there were so men and women
aboard at the time of the accident.
Up to shortly before noon, how.
ever. only eight bodies had been re.
covered:
The known dead:
James Bassett, New York.
Continued on Page .. Column So
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j. Cannon, Milwaukee attorney,
announced here today.
8 Firemen Injured
In S5OO,OOO Blaze

FLINT, Mich, Dec. 20.-Nine
firemen were slightly injured in &
100000 fire which for a time
threatened the entire business sec.
ton here today.
The fire destroyed the Monterey
Cafe, four-story building and the
Barnes store, a three-story struc-
ture. next door.
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Mrs. Houck was last seen Tuesday
night, the day before her husband,
now admittedly violently insane,
wrecked their home at 1927 Nichols
Ave. s. E., and tried to burn a box
Of her torn and spattered garments.
He disappeared the same day, only
to be arrested in Hornell, N. Y. pa
rading the streets in his underwear,
and violent.
Calm now, according to DR.. D. p.
Hicklin, Of Gallinger Hospital. the
insane husband appeared willing to
talk this morning.
He staunchly denies that he knows
where his wife is, and denies that
he has harmed her.
DR.. Houck, according to On. Hick-
ling, says he last saw his wife in bed
last Tuesday night. He says she dis
appeared that night.
DIR. John Damgaard, of st. Eliza
beth's. who went to New York and
brought DR.. Houck back here, con.
ferred at length with Police Captain
Wilson, Of the Ninth precinct, today.
After their conference, which took
place at the Houck residence, Cap
tain Wilson announced to news
paper men that 1--WE have hopes Of
finding Mrs. Houck alive.
Pressed for an explanation of
the facts on which this "hope"
was based, DIR. Damgaard said Mrs.
Houck is alive, that she is well, but
is out of the city.
Prevent His Removal
A half hour later. at Gallinger
Hospital, both Captain Wilson and
DR.. Damgaard admitted that they
knew nothing definite and both
stated that they had no idea where
Mrs. Houck is or whether she is
alive.
It was at this time. shortly before
noon. that Captain Wilson, in con.
ference with DIR. Hickling, of Gal
linger, ordered DIR. Houck under
arrest.
This step was taken to prevent
DIR. Houck from being removed to
the Shepherd Pratt Sanitariun1, at
iowa son, Md. His mother, DR..
Mary Piper Houck. also physician
from Lacrosse. Wis, wanted to take
him there.
Meanwhile, the 4-year-old son of
the missing wife, her father, J. w.
Walter, of Canton. Ohio, and her
brother-in.law, Capt. B. E. Clarke, OF
the Identification bureau of Canton
police department, are at the Houck
residence, waiting.
Soldiers Search Futile
DR.. Houck is 80 years old, and is
described by DR.. William A. White
SUPERINTENDENT of ST. Elizaheth's. as
an excellent physician and student
of psychiatry. He is graduate OF
Northwestern University. He has
been at st. Elizabeth's II months.
Eighty soldiers from Boiling Field
have searched the woods OF Ana
costa without finding a clue OF the
missing woman. Anacostia also has
been searched. Police have gone
with flashlights through the garnet
of the Houck home.
Story Told by Friend
Fourteen year old Marguerite
Wines, pretty housemaid in the
Houck home, has a story regarded
as important by Detectives Harry
Wilson and Benjamin Kuehlins. who
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- u. HOUDk A HE APPEARED IUDA1
Suit May Gust Guard
For Coolidge s Son
D. In.ernatlonaI SOL service

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20
An action will be instituted in
Federal Court, at Washington,
to deprive John Coolidge, son
of the President, of his secret
service bodyguard at Amherst
College, on the grounds it is
unlawful for the Government
to force taxpayers to stand the
expense of personal protection
for young Coolidge, Raymond
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Girl Believed Suicide
After Visit to Grave

LONDON, Dec. 20.--The mystery
surrounding the disappearance more
than week of Miss Una Grove.
daughter of the late Sir Eyre
Grove, was at least partially
cleared up today when the girls
body was washed up from the sea
at Swange. The authorities believe
her a suicide.
Miss Groves father was Buried
at Swange and it is believed the
girl committed suicide after Il
secret visit to the grave.
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HELD VIOLENT
. MANIAC, BUT SPOUSE
IS ALIVE, De

Two hours after he had been brought back Washington
by doctors from ST. Elizabeth Hospitals Dr. Knut Houc
Of the hospital staff today placed under arrest by police
technical charge of investigation He being held at
Ganger Hospital while police search with leenng hope Of
finding her alive for Mrs Gladys w. Houck his pretty 81
year-old wife.
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LAY PLANS FOR
DAILY WORKER
BAZAAR HERE
Ashland Auditorium on
February IL, IL, Is

More than two score delegates from
labor unions, Workmen Circles,
branches of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party and other labor organiza
tons met at the Worker Lyceum yes
terday to complete the plans for the
huge $4,000 Workers Carnival Ba-
zaar to be held in the Ashland Audi
torium from February IL thru to the
18th. The bazaar is being given for
the benefit of The DAILY WORKER
and the Jewish Daily Freiheit. At
the conference yesterday it was de-
cided to donate one-third of the net
profits to International Labor Defense
for its work. Fraternal delegates
from l. L. D. were present.
A good deal of the time of the con-
ference was taken up with plans to
draw into the work the scores of
working-class women whose enthu-
siasm has been aroused by the ba-
zaar. A women's committee was Sc
lected to organize working women
. and housewives to sew articles for
he booths in the bazaar. One Of the
eatures there will be a women's
booth, where the articles will be dis
played and sold. In addition, the
women plan to organize children's
corner, in which the children of those
who come TO the bazaar can be left
in charge of a capable nurse. This
corner will serve as model exhibit
of workers nursery, and demonstra-
tions Of workers health methods and
means of nursing working-class chill
dren will be frequently given during
the course Of the bazaar.
Committee will be formed to solicit
articles for the bazaar from sympa-
thetic friends and merchants so that
there will be plethora from which
to choose when a worker enters the
hall. Lists for this purpose have al
ready been distributed. In addition,
efforts will be made to obtain adver-
tisements for the souvenir programs
that will be distributed.
Tickets for the beautiful Chrysler
sedan which will lead the list of
prizes at the bazaar have also been
distributed and are being sold in
numerous organizations. The auto
mobile is on exhibit at Burnstine
Sales, Michigan avenue and 25th
street.
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Finnish Women in Minnesota

Also, the conference decided that
youth courses lasting several weeks
should be arranged, and the sections
promised to do their utmost to finance
them. A plea was issued to the Fin
nish Federation to organize such
courses. This conference also designed
some instructions for the work of the
sections, also secretary was elected.
This first short conference of women
proved to many comrades that organ
izing of these women's sections does
not bring up any sex line or problems
merely of a sex nature into the move
ment, but, on the contrary, new fields
of work and propaganda had been dis
covered that had hitherto been neg
lected and overlooked. The women's
sections were getting respect and APP
prevail of all serious-thinking COM
rades. se
A year later, in March, 1925, the
next conference of women's sections
was held with little larger delega-
ton than the first one. The education
and organization of the youth and chill
dren was the main issue at this con-
ference; also it was decided that a
woman organizer should be employed
to assist in organizing and educating
the sections. The result of this organ
ization work was to be seen in the
next conference in November of the
same year. When the sections con-
vened again In November, the day be
fore the Minneapolis district conven-
ton, there were delegates from 20 Sec
tions, in all about 35 delegates.
Last May the sections convened in
semi-annual conference in Chisholm.
Several minor matters were discussed.
Also resolution was passed to sup
port the farmer-labor party activities.
The sections convened in their an
nual conference observation-disclosures 8
in Superior. There were about 125
delegates from the % sections of our
district. This was the best conference
we have yet held. Many Of us have
been a little worried as to what spirit
the meetings In our district would
display after a year Of reorganization.
This women's conference at least
proved that there has been no reason
for any fears. The clear-sightedness
and revolutionary spirit displayed
during the discussion Of the long
~agenda was wonderful.
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.153 Miners Injured
Within wenty Days
BY a MlNERIcH.

ZBIGLER, Ill.-There were 1873 min
ers injured in the Zeigler mine of the
Belle and Zoller Coal Co., in the first
20 days Of August, 1926, according to
the coal company reports. Two OF
these injuries proved fatal.
This report that 153 were injured
means that one out of every 10 miners
got hurt in 20 days.
Now what is the cause of all this
1t is a question that the Zeigler min
ers can answer. The Zeigler local was
one of the most progressive in ILL
nois few years ago. Under the lead
ership of Henry Corbishley the min.
ers had built up a good local and had
won fairly good conditions in the
mines.
But the coal companies, together
with the Ku Klux Khan and the reac
tionary leadership of the subdistrict
in the persons of Lon Fox, D. B. Cobb
and Loden, decided to get rid Of the
militant leaders. SO there came the
now famous Zeigler frame-up case
and the combination scored against
Henry Corbishley and the other pro
gressives. Every miner knows the
story.
The zeigler miners, too, know the
result. Conditions are very bad. They
are so bad as to mean the injuring o.
153 men in 20 days.
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Workers Communist Party
Famous Dancer Will
Entertain at Workers
School Xmas Affair

NEW YORK, Dec. 81. - "Dorsha,"
the famous danseuse, has been secur-
ed by the committee as one of the en-
tertainment features of the Workers
School Ball to be held on Christmas
Eve. Her numbers include the East
Indian "Nautch" and an Algerian
Street Dance.
The event is the annual Christmas
Eve ball of the Workers School 10
be held at the New Star Casino, lot
ST., near Park Ave. on this Friday
night, December "a.
Admission to the ball with enter
tainment features included, is S1.00
The entire student body of the
school is being modified for the sale
Of tickets and the preparation Of en-
tertainment features and not only has
the largest available hall been secured
but an additional hall in the same
building is being arranged for.
The Workers School holds only one
big affair a year and that is the big
Christmas Eve dance. The working
class organizations of New York City
are already accustomed to this insti-
tuition and no rival affairs are arranged
among progressive workers for that
day.
Celebrate Expansion.
This year, the dance is in the ma.
ture o ia celebration of the rapid ex'
pansion of the school which makes II
the largest working class educational
institution in the entire country and
one of the largest in the world.
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TRIES TO ENROLL YOUTH
IN NON-STRUGGLE CLUBS

The Workmen's Circle, under the
cloak of organizing Young Circle
Clubs, is trying to build up the
strength of the Young Peoples Social
list League. The idea is that once
these clubs are organized they can
be directly influenced by the Y. P. S.
L. The Friend, organ of the w. c.,
points out that there are already two
good groups in Denver, Colo, and
Philadelphia. 1.-THE latter group con-
sists of college students or young in
structors in the high schools and col
leges." The purpose Of these circles
will be to rally the Jewish youth who
are interested "in cultural and spirit
ual" pursuits. The circles will not
interest themselves in a struggle to
better the conditions of the young
workers or in struggle against CAPT
talist militarism.
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Miners support Howat.

MULBERRY, Kansas.-The indie
pendent here, non-partisan local news
paper, points out that Alex Howat is
the choice for president Of the over
whelming majority of the 5000 mem
bers of the United Mine Workers in
District IA. The Independent states
Zone thing only is apparent, and that
is Howat is still the unreserved choice
of practically every miner in the dis
trict, John Lewis to the contrary not
withstanding'
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r!!g tie ,y,g6Il;. WORKERS
CONDUCTED B~ TAsM&k ,SpuNG NoakE0 LEAGUE
Firestone Workers
Must Organize, Too

AKRON, Ohio--The following let
ter has been sent to the Rubber
Worker, labor paper in this city, by
a worker in the Firestone plant:
Rubber Workers Must Organize.
1 am interested in the organization
Of the rubber workers. / read your
paper, the Rubber Worker, and think
it just fine, for it upholds the very
thing that am interested in. l am
steadfast union man, having belong
ed to the United Mine Workers. But
want to say that / never worked in
an industry that needed union as
badly as the rubber industry.
have worked in the rubber shops
of Akron for nearly years, and can
truthfully say that I've never worked
any harder than l have here for such
wages. All you hear is speed and
more speed" This has become so IA
miliar that if one talks union to the
men they say, saw, that's not fast
enough for me-" This they say more
by mere force of habit.
. Wants Decent Wages.
] am willing to do a good days
work, but want fair wage, but il
seems that you can't get the wage in
an unorganized shop. Being a single
man, am not compelled to look for
any certain kind of employment. But
have been thinking lot and believe
THAT it would be best for all the boys
to get together and see what we can
do.
So come along boys, let's get into
the union. That's the place for all Of
us.
Rubber Neck.
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7ACTIONAL STRIFE IN HUNGARIAN
FRACTION is DONE AWAY WITH AND
ORGANIZATION HARMONY is GAINED

2The convention of the Hungarian fraction held
important the unicaon of party The
onasm which reached unpermisse proportions
discussion reached by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
Studio Life Too Much
for Church Choir Man

NEW YORK-Charges that Green
witch village had corrupted James A.
Mason, choir leader of the First Pres
byterian Church OF Metuchen, N. j.,
was made by his wife, in seeking the
custody of their Swear old daughter
Mrs. Mason also testified that her
husband had taught her to smoke
and drink.
The husband admitted having az
tended parties in the Greenwich VIII
lage studio OF a brother-in-law, but
denied that he there met strange
women" as alleged by his wife.
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Pay Roll GUARD steal, chIekens.

WASHINGTON, Pa After for
years having been trusted with guard
ing pay rolls, sometimes amounting
10 $4,000, A. Farley was arrested
here for the theft OF eleven chickens.
He was granted a parole OF four
months, during which he must pay
s162,27.
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BY MAIJU NURMI,

by MAIJO NOhMis
Secretary of the Finnish Women's
Sections Of Minnesota District Of the
Workers (communIst) Party.
Article /.
1t is really deplorable defect that
we foreign-born workers, especially
women, do not write more about our
activities in our American daily. Thru
our daily we could speak to each
other, tell about our efforts, our strug
giles, our achievements. Thus we
could make our experience and knowl-
edge gained in the class struggle a
mutual benefit. Well, at least We arc
now getting over the hitherto prevail
ing fractionalism that has prevented
us from attempting to get in closer
contact with the non-Finnish COM
rades.
Working women all over the country
are becoming more and more awak-
ened to their class interests. They
are setting the question to themselves
and others: what should we do to
arouse other working women to come
into the class struggle and the Com
munist movement? What can women
do in the movement? In many locali-
ties women are working full speed in
the movement, but many more are
just instinctively asking themselves
whether they also should be doing
something. This letter is a diff1dent
attempt to offer what little experience
and knowledge we Finnish women in
the Minnesota district have gained in
the practical work of education and
organization.
For the first two or three years the
womens sections in our district, as
well as elsewhere, were only reading
and sewing circles. We chung to the
prevailing idea that we must be able
to offer some financial profits to our
local In order to get approval of our
sections existence. Therefore we
sewed and arranged sales and bazaars.
But we also studied theories and prin-
ciples and discussed the matters that
We learned to confront working women
and we did learn a lot. Soon we dis
covered other practical work that ex-
banded beyond mere self-education.
We learned that it is the working
women-the mothers-who must take
charge Of our children's class educa-
ton.
We had held Sunday schools here
and there occasionally, but this work
was unorganized, depending mostly
on the inspiration of interested indi-
viduals. The truth was clear to every
sincere socialist mother that our
American-born children can do much
more in the class struggle than we
can, and that they are the ones who
will be called upon to bring our strug.
gle to its goal.
We realized that we must join our
working forces to achieve something.
So in 1924 the Superior Women's Sec
ton called a conference OF all the
women's sections and sewing circles
in our district. Seven such sections
and circles sent delegates; in all there
were IA women who took part in the
meeting. Tho the first conference
lasted only four hours, many impor-
tant matters were discussed, good res
olutions passed and work outlined. All
the delegates had instructions to get
something done for the education of
the youth and children, and the con-
ference did try TO find some practical
way to do It. Plans were made for
organizing children's Sunday and sum
mer schools.
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6y MAIJO NOhMts
Secretary of the Finnish Women's
Sections Of Minnesota District Of the
Workers (communIst) Party.
i. Ar4i1la