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The Washington times., 1926-10-09
.AlJGHERTY
WATTS ON
VERDICT
BY DAVID p. sENTNER
international News Service staff
CoRwaannnhamf

NEW YORK, Oct. ga
half-hour sooner than sched-
uled, the jury-room door
swung closed today on the
fate of Harry M. Daugherty,
former Attorney General, and
Thomas w. Miller, former Alien
Property Custodian, charged
with conspiracy in connection
with the return of the 81, 0OO,-
900 war seized assets of the
American Metals Company.
The jury returned to it's de-
alterations at 10 o'clock this
morning. They were not due
to reconvene until 10 80 a. m.
In the jury chamber was a
mass of exhibits requested by
the talesmen last night before
they adjourned from a two
hour consideration of the case.
Jury Asks Papers
These exhibits included the prin-
cipal claim papers filed by Rich
representing the claimant, the
Swiss society; the letter approving
the claim in 1921, signed by Guy
d. Golf, formerly first assistant
to the Attorney General, now
Senator from West Virginia; the
rejected claim of Edward Greu-
teri, a Swiss, for 20 shares of the
American Metals Company seized
stock, made a few months before
the $7,0O0,00O claim was passed
the report submitted in 1922 t.
Daugherty by Golf and A. r
Johnson, special assistant Attor
ney General, answering a com
plant regarding the claim.
passage, which was sent to Presi
dent Harding, and other records.
Bribery Is Charge
The defendants were charged by
the Government with Conspiracy
to defraud the United States Gov
eminent of their honest and un
prejudicial services" by taking {
bride to pass the claim. Testimony
showed that Richard Merton, tn,
German industrialist paid SAL ,0Ot
to the late John r. King, Con
necticut politician, for helping pu
the claim through.
The Government alleged Daugh
erty and Jesse Smith. his ICON
| fidential man." received 1924 .O0
between them, Miller, $4,000; King
$4,000, plus $4,000 advanc,
| fee.
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Voids Writ He Obtained

The decision to go voluntarily to
New Jersey, it is said, will auto
matically void the habeas corpus
proceedings brought by Di Martini
in the strange crabapple tree muir
der mystery.
He is held without bail in [
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business opportunities are open to
those who are aeeking some kind of
attachment with reliable concerns. The
Times and Herald will reveal this
information TO- you through QlHplAssAT
fled RoetaOA 0G theaR paperSs ~ 81 ..5sGf'. :
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By DAVIS. J. WALSH
international News Service

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Fate
the grim arbiter of all things
mortal, will don the sombre
robes Of the judiciary this
afternoon, view the evidence
strictly on its merits and then
with the sardonic smirk of a
born mountebank, decide the
probable outcome of the world
series by the logical expedient
of tossing a two-headed coin.
For that is fate's fantastic
way and its slightest favor is
worth far more than a base hit
in a pinch.
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LOATHES BROWN|NG'S
TOUCH AND CALLS
WEDDNG|N|STA
BY Frances Heenan Browning

ny Ea 80 mo~ ~. 8. nrs. synaiea. me,
My dream of happiness with Edward West Browning
Unlike the Cinderella of childhood legend, back
to my ashes days.
What have endured in my six months OF married NE
will not AXE pretty reading for toollsn girls VINO,
ambitions fired by the widespread publicity attending
my flight from my wealthy real estate are enter
tanning wild hopes of succeeding me IN ms
After six months of married life am bitterly dlSap-
pointed and separated from my husband Edward West
Browning for good.
blasting of my happiness publicity stunt How could
from my husband for such sordid motive?
Not ResentfuI Against Browning
We came inevitably to the parting of the ways and the
underlying causes of my action of last Saturday will
be told in this series of articles
in marrying Edward West Browning: Neither am at
lacking the character of my husband do not wish to
convey way the impression that am resentfuI
against the man who won my love.
But have been maigned and crucltled by the news
papers, and sensitive girl with very little experience
in the world will undertake to answer gossip and theory
with fact.
In the first place. when married Edward Browning
I thought I marrying man who was going to make
a home for me. thought marrying man who
would keep the comfortable circumstances to which
I am accustomed, at least.
It was not long after the confetti stopped futtering
however that was disillusoned on that point Instead
of living in mansion led to believe would be
my happy fate shunted from set of furnished
rooms to another
Think of my feelings when came to know that my
husband pictured his romantic promises to as just so
many words, to be spoken-and promptly forgotten.
was blind to the chances that was taking with my
youth when that April morning took Mr.. BrOwnngs
hand and promised to be wife to him, and to love him
"'Ti death do us part"
My marriage was big mistake and there Is OBJ
ject lesson in the story of my married life that
young and pretty girl would do well to take to heart
In this first instalment will tell you of one little
awakening that helped to tear the film from my eyes.
I only write this now and without passion, because
from time to time stories have been printed in the New
York newspapers in which Mr.. Brownings great gen.
erosity in the matter of gifts of jewels to was
featured.
Most of Her Diamonds" Paste
In all of my married life with Mr.. Browning he gave
very few jewels. Take bracelet for instance:
have discovered that although it glstened like polished
ice in the sunlight although it trimmed with stones
that sparxled with binding glare, there only
stone in the circlet that real. One diamond in
diamond bracelet
Can't you that my faith for my husband Was being
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PEACHES TELLS
It To TIMES
Special correspondence to The
Washington Times
Copyright, 1926. by Washington
Times Company,)

SOMEWH HERE IN TIE
UNITED STATES, Oct. g.
Frances WPeaches") Heeran
Browning, child bride of Ed
ward w. Browning, the
"Cinderalla Man, is in hiding,
with her mother, at the hone
of a friend, within a hundred
miles of New York City.
She Is Resting
While hundreds of detectives,
reporters, and camera-men are
securing the eastern United States
and nearby Canada for the girl
who ran away from her million
aire husband, the center of all
the hub-bub is resting quietly.
Only one newspaper worker has
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Goes To MEE7
HALL CHARGE

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Felix
Di Martini has waived extra
dition and is expected to be
taken to Somerville, N. j., To-
day for questioning regarding
his activities as a private de-
tective for the Hall family.
He is charged with being an
accessory after the fact in the
Hall Mills rn11rdnr.S
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RICHARD IS WE'D,
REPORT SAYS
BY International News Service

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Officials
at the office of George l.. CTeX'D
Richard. noted promoter in Madl-
son Square Garden said today that
they had heard a report that
Richard and Miss Maxine Hodges,
of New York, had been married
in Lewisburg, w. Va.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-CIear and
cool weather prevailed here this
morning, with fair weather prom
ised for this afternoon when the
Yankees and Cardinals clash In
the sixth game of the worlds
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Yank Win Would End It

Before nightfall, the darling of
its momentary fancy will be known
to all and if it should happen to
be the Yankees, the 1926 world
series will have passed into his
tory and New York will have It's
first world champion in three
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Furnished rooms are available to
those who take the trouble of looking
To the classified section of the Times
and Herald.
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An Elastic Policy.

Carmi Thompson COoidges special envoy in the
Philippine Islands, reports he quite enthusiastic the
development of the rubber industry
the Oriental possessions of the United States.
This that the Fipnos whistle for their indie
pendnce United States able prevent it, Had
devoid of anything under ground
that would tempt the acquse instincts of capitalists
than likely than would free the Fpnos
without much ado.
The Fpnos however, unfortunate in being natives of
country promises fertile rubber producer people
inhabting where oil gushes forth when
the earth with his walking stick Now understand
why the poet the savage who loved his native home regard
of the soil In fact that's why he liked it He
nobody would away from him. Wise savage
might have been given few for the
determination Philippines
queror Imperialism
they threaten the Fpnos hop
they accept their fate in truly christian
tried trusy that the American
mperiaists their tricks 1t is the
divisions among those they the process of robbng
vory Soap governor general of the islands, got hold
injected every conceivable prejudice
them loose the
of the population.
Moro leaders paid that they
United States protection would be happy
daddy Sammy and left them The wicked christian
Fipnos would poor little MOros So and forth.
That's bum dodge tho it is old the empire
Divide conquer Oh yes We have growing
rubber in the Philippines We protect the heather
the savage christans 5st.c
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A New Threat Against Mexico

believe the correspondents who have removed with
president White Pines hang the gate of the summer
White House golden that drop seldom from
great and much often from someone high
councils etc. the administration believes there is no sent
ment country intervention in Mexico And we might
add there has never been any simple matter to start
propaganda mill going create the embence it to serve as
intervention whenever it is desired This is what
happened United States played hide and seek
in Mexican desert with Pancho Villa.
quite probable that the administration will think
The antcatho sentiment in this
strong make it altogether safe to exploit the
conflict Then there is the flame OF
protest that sweep thru Latin America.
other One of them not withdrawal Of
recognition generally agreed that Gales and his followers
sleep the withdrawal of Sheffield who must
tany anyhow. There is much sinister way to
bring protecting the
properties of Wall Street The withdrawal of the
embargo will the precipitation of Mexico into another
will severely weaken the labor movement
American claims be pressed
with much than at present
gate hangers White Pines making open statements
embargo religious fight SUBSIDIES said
one
There is Sheffield has become very
inability much consideration for Amer
Mexico his predecessors And doubt the
represents rked than their
high that the ackey home his
both American and Mexican workers to be the alert
such the lifting of the embargo.
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districts in increasing numbers. al
ready imbued with some political
knowledge, and the farm laborers, and
to a limited extent the middle-class
type Of peasant.
Picking and Training Members.
TINE party makes no secret of the
l. fact that the direction in which
its membership shall grow is not left
to chance, or to individual applica-
ton, but is carefully directed by the
central committee in order to control
the type of elements that shall be in
the party. Such has been the special
attempt to enlist factory members and
the special bars placed against mem
bers from Office employee groups.
But far more important than growth
in numbers is considered the growth
in quality Of members. Every Com
munist is expected to continue con-
stantly expanding his knowledge and
training in politics and economics. so
as to be able TO answer all kinds Of
questions and do all kinds OF party
work" At present there are $1,000
special party schools and courses with
nearly 100000 students; in other
words, almost three-fourths OF all
members are enrolled in political
courses. Every Communist group in
a factory or mine or even on river
steamer maintains such courses.
training are maintained in county cen.
tiers, and members showing that they
can make use of such training are
sent to these schools on scholarships
which pay their living expenses. This
past year $4,000 students were taking
the work Of these schools, many Of
them being the young village Commu-
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sity in his fourth year and president
of the Students Federation.
Alfredo Lopez, as all the rest of the
prisoners at that time, was kept in
Jail and denied all bail until the 18th
day of the hunger strike Of Julio An
tonic Mella, who thus forced the pro-
secution to set bail for him.
After this long struggle of Mella for
liberty, Alfredo Lopez and all the rest
Of the prisoners got out on $1,000
bonds each. In the latter part Of
April, 1926, they all went on trial and
received an acquittal.
THE courts declared the function Of
L the factory union legal and de-
clared that the syndicate did not
violate any law of the republic, there
fore reversing the decree of the sec
rotary Of the interior, Zeyas Barzau,
who had previously declared the func-
ton of the union Illegal.
After the decision handed down by
the court in favor Of the factory union
the local Federation met and decided
to reorganize the union (Which was
a member of the Federation) and ap-
pointed Alfredo Lopez to do the work
This Lopez at once started.
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Life and Work i'm the Soviet Union

nists who are expected to go back for
work in rural districts. Besides this,
5000 students are attending special
Communist universities, organized for
the special purpose of training higher
organizers for party and government
work.
Nor is this education merely handed
down from above to passive hearers.
The general lines of it are indeed pre-
determined, but a very large element
of the education consists in stimulat-
ing self-expression, not only among
Communists but among all elements
Of the working class and peasantry.
Thus one of the things on which the
Communist Party prides itself is the
growth of the workers press" mean
ing not press written for the work
ers, but press written by the work
ers themselves.
There are now 100000 worker and
peasant correspondents scattered all
over the land, investigating, observ-
ing, writing about good work or
abuses, making exposes, Suggestions
thru the various printed organs. Only
some 40 per cent of these are Commu-
nists, and the party is making no
attempt to increase its percentage in
this field, but, on the contrary, to
draw as many non-partisan workers
and peasants as possible into this work
! Of self-expression regarding public
conditions. The young correspondent
starts by writing for his factory wal
newspaper, OF which there are tens OF
thousands; as he gains confidence and
selfexpression he produces some.
thing worth sending to his trade union
newspaper Already these worker cor.
respondents are passing into the field
Of book production, and there are now
hundreds of new authors who do not
leave their Industrial job.
This Is what we call free press,
says the report OF the Communist
party, that in our land every worker
and peasant has the chance TO take
part in his own press. This Is differ
ent from the so-called free press OF
bourgeois countries, where only those
rich enough to own newspapers are
free to express themselves.
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But, should Alfredo Lopez destroy
all the work done by the fascist gov
eminent of Cuba? Should all the
thousand of dollars the beer magnates
paid to the fascist government for the
destruction of the union be lost?
Should Alfredo Lopez have. more
power than the fascist government
with all it's tools of degenerate. mil
itarists, assassins, and the rest of its
hungry horde? No and thousand
times No! "Lopez's head trst"'-so
said the fascist government,
nUE to the governments repres-
- sion against the railroad brother
hood of Camaguey. repression which
eliminated in the complete destruc-
ton of the railroad workers organ
ization, destroying its locals and in
generating its members in similar
manner to that of the destruction of
the factory union, the railroad labor
leaders, who have been in Jail since
last May, published and circulated a
pamphlet-(this was discovered after
the murder of lopez against the Pres
ident Machado. This pamphlet appear
ed on the 18th of July, and as said
above, the government always blam-
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Soviet Union, large numbers of whom
are still completely unqualified for
party duty. None the less, it will con-
tinue to be the policy to keep indus
trial workers in the majority. The
party contains about s per cent of all
the trade union membership in it's
ranks. and rs per cent Of the workers
in the heavy industries, which con-
stitute the center OF Communist
strength in Russia as elsewhere.
Success among the peasants has
been small There are only 100000
peasant Communists, only one in
every $50 adults in the rural districts,
and one Communist circle to every 26
villages. This is regarded as a serious
problem and is being met by sending
into the villages large numbers of
responsible Communist workers to in
huence the peasantry. Their work,
however has not proved very sue
cessful, as they lacked all contact with
village ideas. Hence the method
adopted by the past congress was to
give special training to young, bud
ding village Communists in party
schools. rather than to rely exclu-
sively on town workers sent to the
villages
In spite OF the need Of influencing
the village, the Communist Party scru
tinizes peasant applicants for member
ship much more carefully than indus
trial workers. on the ground that the
peasant is an indlvidualistic owner of
property, connected with the market
In trade relations. and much less or
ganized than the worker" Chiefly
the peasant elements desired in the
party are the dem4bilized red sol
diers, who are going. pick to the rural
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ed these pamphlets on Lopez and they
did this time, as we'll
After the circulation of this pam
phlet, the government arrested Lopez
and took him to the judicial police
headquarters before the Chief Detec-
tive, Alphonse L. Fors (the William
]. Burns of Cuba) where he was ques-
toned about the pamphlet and after
he had been told to quit his activi-
ties-otherwise his head would smell
powder" he was taken before the Sec
cretary of the Interior where the au-
thorities held the same ceremonies
that had taken place in the police
headquarters. Lopez's answer in re-
gard to the pamphlet was in the ne
gative and in view of his negative
answer, Lopez was turned loose-but
only for a short time.
(To be continued.)
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Has Case
Like Murder
of MatteOtti
(sy a Cuban worker)

THE reaction of Cuban fascism is de-
- veloping its white terror to the
highest degree Alfredo Lopez, the
secretary of the local Federation of
Labor of Havana, has been the latest
victim of Cuban fascism.
Alfredo Lopez, secretary Of the To-
cal Federation of Labor ever since it's
foundation in 1921, when there was
more freedom in Cuba than there is at
present, disappeared mysteriously on
the goth day of July, 1926.
T OPEz'S disappearance has caused
IL horror in the ranks of labor, but
little surprise. Cuban workers are
fully aware of Cuban fascism and its
white terror and we'll know the
names of its victims, names we have
engraved in our hearts, and also know
that Lopez was not the first victim
of Cuban fascism, neither will he be
the last one. That is why one more
victim is no surprise to any Of us.
Alfredo Lopez was a Cuban, native
born, and so is his wife and his five
children. Lopez was a typographical
worker. During the latter part of 1916
when the Havana workers began to
see the necessity of an organization,
Lopez organized printers union, Of
which he became the president and re-
NAMED in that office for four years.
TN the first part Of 1924, during the
presidential term of Alfredo Tx
Zayes, when there was more freedom
of the press, speech and assembly, the
labor movement started to develop
and the different unions formed what
is now known as the Havana Fedora
ton of Labor, of which Alfredo Lopez,
became secretary, due to his good con-
duct and his activities in the labor
movement. He was reelected to the
secretariat ever year, and every night
except the nights he passed in Jail
after eight o'clock he was in his office
at the Labor Temple doing his duty
until the night of his assassination.
Lopez had been arrested several
times on framed charges and two or
three imaginary charges S well
were placed against him. Three life
sentences were asked by the prosecu-
ton in one of the cases, but he fought
this case and won it just the same as
the others. In some, the charges were
dismissed and in others he was tried
and got an acquittal.
The last persecution and incarcera-
ton he suffered was last August, a
year ago, when the Cuban fascist gov
eminent started an open shop drive
against The factory union. This fac
tory union was organized 100 per cent
strong in all the beer and refreshment
manufacturing plants, and the govern
ment started a series of atrocities
against the members of this union
which / will describe later on.
T OPEZ never was member of the
II factory union. Neither had he
anything to do with the said union ex-
cept that the factory union was a
member of the Local Federation of
Labor of which he was secretary.
Nevertheless, Alfredo Lopez was ar
rested with the leaders of the factory
union and charged with the same ina
ginary charges, and so was Julio An
tonic Mella, student of the univer-
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BY ANlSE.
Special TO The Daily Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
6. Behind the Scenes Of the Russian
Communists.
July 29. What are the Russian
y Communists doing among them
selves? What do they talk about in
heir closed assemblies? Outside Rus
ia it is often assumed that this is diff
icult to know, that their plans are
Mysterious and hidden. But actually
he problems, intentions, efforts,
achievements and even failures of the
Russian Communists are an open
book to anyone who takes the trouble
to read it. A book printed in editions
of $4,000 copies and sent out broad
cast. 1t is the book / have chosen
for Soviet Primer No. 6, and is called
From the 18th to the 14th Congress-"
It sums up what the Communists were
doing all that time.
In spite Of the difficulties of enter.
ing the party, its membership has
more than doubled in the year and a
half since the last cleaning" At the
l4th Congress, held last December,
there were more than a million mem
bers, of whom $4,000 were fully adj
mitted members, and $4,000 were can
didates. The Young Communists form
another block of 100000 members,
and the Pioneers, budding Commu-
nists in their early teens, number
100000.
81 Per Cent Industrial.
THIS growth has been largely from
the entrance OF Industrial workers,
following the death of Lenin. At pres
ent 81 per cent are Industrial work
ers, 25 per cent peasants and Is per
cent other classes. There was an at
tempt made in the last congress by
the Leningrad delegation to raise the
percentage of industrial workers to 30
per cent, but this was declared not
only absurd, but impossible. as II
would involve either a cleaning out Of
the majority OF peasant and intellect.
ual elements, or else such a sudden
expansion to a membership OF Ave or
six million, By the admission Of al.
most all the Industrial workers in the