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beautiful woman. brutally slain
The body is identified as that of
Sylvia Gaines.
JUNE 18.-Seyeral suspects are ar
rested by the police but freed on
proven alibis. Gaines. the father,
is taken to headquarters and
quz2ed about his daughters dis
appearance.
JUNE l9.-ro run down startling
rumors that Gaines had made
confession of the deed to his
friend. Louis Stern Prosecutor
Ewing ID. Colvin announces that
he will conduct an Independent
probe Of the murder. Gaines'
brother County Commissioner
Williem A. Gaines joins in the de-
mand for full investigation of
his nleee's death
JUNE 21.-Colvin is granted un-
limited financial backing by the
County Commissioners. His first
act in the Independent probe is to
confront Gaines with Mr. and
Mrs. S. o. Stokes, the couple who
claimed to have seen a strange
man lurking near the murder
scene the night Miss Sylvia was
slain The Stokes say Gaines is
not the man. Gaines is eXonerated
of all suspicion by colyin and
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CAMPAIGN FUND
COM. RECESSINC

CHICAGO, Aug. 6. - Having dis
closed within the last two months
that expenditures in the Pennsyl-
vania primary were $3,000.000 and
that 81 100000 was spent in the Hi
nois campaign, the Senate campaign
funds committee has adjourned to
meet subject to the call of Chairman
James A. Reed, United States Sen
ator from Missouri
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times in this respect
The courage and calmness of the
king has long attracted attention.
When a bomb was thrown at his
carriage during his first visit to
Paris, the king remarked: 81 have
received a baptism of fire without
going to war"
The king has a jagged part of this
shell which missed him only a few
inches Another relic in his collec.
tion is a feeding bottle which was
used in an attempt to poison him as
a baby Another is the skeleton OF
day he married Princess Ena, grand
daughter of Queen Victoria.
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EASTERN CITY
WANTSJ0HNSON;
WARRANT WIRED
Minneapolis Authorities Want
Confessor, In Seattle, of
: Fourteen Murders.

SEATTLE. Aug. 6. - Reading that
Thomas Johnson, eonfessor of IA
murders, had killed a Minneapolis
railroad engineer II years ago, John
White said the slain man was his
uncle. an enc meer who disappeared
from Minneapolis 12 years ago
Minneapolis authorities have tele-
graphed a fugitive from justice war
rant, for Johnson. two Minneapolis
detectives, now here, questioned
Johnson regarding the murder of
Leonard Erdall. lawyer for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad.
Johnson claims that he shot and
killed Erdall in the Lake of Isles
district, December 10, 1925, because
he would not obey a command to
put up his hands
He told police detectives he killed
two railroad workers during a rob
berry at Hazelton. b. c., in 1914,
when they declined to remove their
shoes r. whi they had secreted $4,-
600, but British Columbia police said
they can recall no unsolved double
killing in the province.
Seattle police said they had re-
ceived similar reports from Mankato,
Mimi where. according to Johnson's
confession" he killed a policeman.
johnson said he started his career
of blood in 1906, when he shot a
partner in San Francisco.
Other killings to which the man
confessed" included the following:
1916, Sioux City. Iowa Killed
short heavy-set man." who resisted
during holdup near large concrete
abutment four blocks from Jackson
Street
1917, Wichita. Kansas Mortally
wounded two railroad detectives
when they tried to search him near
the outskirts of town.
1919, Valley CITY, n. D-Partici-
pated in a mix up" between his
gang and another gang of bandits,
both trying to hold up some harvest
hands. A number of shots were fired
and at least two men were killed,
Johnson said.
1925, Peoria, Ill. Murdered
policeman on July 3. when the Off
Ger cornered him after a daring day
light robbery.
In Sioux City, Iowa. the prisoner
he killed tall man whom
he lined up against stone wall and
shot down, afterward laying the
shells with which the man was killed
on the back porch of the home of
Police Chief Harmon in Sioux City.
Iowa.
Policeman Victim
After staying policeman in
Peoria, ILL.,, Johnson related, he fled
to Mankato with a pal. The two
went to Kansas City and held up an
insurance agent, according to the
mans story.
The agent was shot in the stomach
when he called for help during a
street holdup.
In Sioux City, Johnson said, he
shot another man and threw his
body into a river after weighting his
clothes with rocks.
Father Doubts Boasts
SALMON ARM, b. c., Aug. g.
Thomas Johnson, alias Thomas
Smith, who gave himself up to the
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biggest Elk in
" Orld' Dies In
Georgia

WAYCROSS. Ga, Aug. G.-W.
T. Crimson, known as the big
gest Elk in the world, was
buried here yesterday in a spe-
cially built casket, Crimson
stood six feet, four inches. His
weight was 800 pounds. He died
of apoplexy last Wednesday. Ten
pallbearers were used in carry
ing the easket to the grave.
Crimson was a member of the
local lodge of Elks.
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C0v.PEAY LEADS
Tenn, PRIMARY

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Aug. 6. In
the Democratic gubernatorial contest
in yesterdays primary. Gov. Austin
Peay, who was a candidate for the
third term, is leading. With returns
in from 1000 out of 2,3OO precincts
in the State, Gov. Peay had 1907
votes and Hill McAlister 1889.
Judge John r. Raulston, who pre-
sided in the Scopes evolution case,
was running slightly behind Leslie
Darr for the Democratic nomination
for Judge.
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STATE PRESENTS CASE AGAINST
GAINES; TESTIMONY INTRODUCED
Vomam Szeims English Channel; Breaks Record
HEEL7.s5 CHRONOLOGY
or MURDER MYSTERY

SEATTLE. Alg. Where does
fact leave on, aud fiction begin,
in tie Cams murder case? VIII
the prosecutor be able to supply
the links of evidence needed for a
jury 10 return verdict Of guilty?
Or will the defense be able to prove
as it has contended. that the States
case is merely the weaving of imag-
inatlon around a few unfortunately
eireumstantial incidents?
Whatever the outcome may be
every Seattleite is Interested that
justice be done in this strangest
of local murder mysteries. Here
in nutshell, are the salient de-
velopments in the case from the
time Miss Sylvia Gaines, twenty-five
year-old Smith College graduate,
left home for a walk. after an alter
cation with Bob Gaines, her father,
until Gaines was arrested and
charged with her murder.
JUNE l6.-After a quarrel with her
father. Miss Sylvia leaves home
ostensibly, according to her faith
er, for a walk. She fails to re
turn to her home that night
JUNE l7.--On their way to work
J. L. Reynolds and O. b. Rip
ley, laLorers, make gruesome
find ON the shore of Green Lake.
They come upon the body of a
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Prosecuting Attorney Makes
Statement to Jury In
Murder Mystery.
FIRST WITNESSES ARE
CALLED FOR EVIDENCE
Defendant Breaks Down with
Emotion when Garments
Are Presented.

SEATTLE. Aug, 6.-Immediatelv
following the acceptance of the IL
Jurors and Two alternates in the
flames case yesterday afternoon.
Prosecuting Attorney Ewing d. Col
vim began his statement to the Jury
lie declared that Bob Gaines killed
his daughter Sylvia, in an intoxi-
Gated rage.
John ID. Carmody, one of the at
torneys for Gaines, demanded a de-
tail OF the proposed evidence or
that the charge be quashed.
Judg Jones overruled the reouest
of tho q fense.
Unnatural Affection
prosecutor Colyin then declared
that a strange unnatural affection"
grew between Gaines and his daugh-
ter. He declared that he would
prov shat on the night of the ,nur
der Gaines, who was a chronic user
OF alcohol, after a quarrel, followed
the girl from home, talked with her
and tried to persuade her, but that
She stood hrm. a blow was struck.
II was her father. She made no
outcry. He deliberately and pre-
meditately murdered her, then dis
posed of her body in way to di-
vert suspicion
Alleged Confession
GOWN said after the first visit
To the scene Of the tragedy, Gaines
went home, rapidly changed his
clothes, and then went to the home
of Louis Stern and asked for a
drink. Gaines said Colvin stated:
You know what I've always said.
Eve told you | would so when |
wanted, to come when | wanted to-
and drink when | pleased, and that
would be master of by own house,
and il anybody interferred | would
kill him"
Colyiu declared that Gaines de-
voted the rest of the night creating
an ailbi. Except for his own state
ment that he was riding the streets
Looking for his daughter, We do
not know where he was, except by
until $3.50 o'clock. but
the body, after he left ii at about
0 o'clock on the night of the trag-
edy, was again visited, the cloth
ing WIS torn of, and the dress
ripped until the girl virtually was
bare"
Colvin said Mr.. and Mrs. S. O.
Stokes saw Sylvia at S:5S O'Clock on
ha f,rb ~ ba 10 utn
in the vicinity and they will de-
scribe the mans profile
Witnesses Called
John l.. Reynolds, gardner,
witness for the State. told the jury
the first thing he noticed when he
found the body of Miss Sylvia
Gaines, on his way to work, was the
position of her shoes. The State
had previously told the jury the
position indicated the girls slayer
after attacking and fatally assail-
ing her then returned to the scene,
moving the body and arranged ap-
pearance to indicate an attack was
made by a wandering tiend.
Gaines gave no sign OF emotion
as his daughters coat and dress,
the latter torn, were presented SO
Reynolds could identify them.
Mrs. Gaines placed her hand on
her husbands arm at times during
the testimony.
Signs of Emotion
Under Colvin's statement of con-
dtions IN the home between Gaines
and his daughter. the defendant
showed his first sign of weakening
noted by observers since his arrest.
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Thousand Young Chinese
Are Dying from Cholera

SHANGHAI Aug 6. - II Is esti.
mated that 1000 young Chinese are
dying of cholera and excessive heat.
The temperature has reached 1922
degrees.
Flood deaths in the vicinity of
Hankow on the Yangtze River are
put at 5000.
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Muir Leading Davis for
Dem. Nomination of Gov.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 6. - Donald
Muir is again in the lead in the
closely contested race with former
Gov. Jonathan Davis for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. With
returns from 1874 precincts ont Of
2,641, Davis had 2l,903 and Muir
22,779, giving Muir a lead Of 876.
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President Goes
Fishing; wife
Picks Berries

PLYMOUTH, Vt. August 6
President Coolidge went fishing
today in Piney Hollow brook,
quarter of a mile from the Cool.
idge farmhouse. Mrs. Coolidge
went blueberrying today.
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California Districts
Shaken by Quake Today

VENTURA, Cal. Aug. "a sharp
earthquake lasting nearly half a min
ute was felt here at 9;43 o'clock
this forenoon. The shock lasted for
two minutes at Santa Barbara. No
damage has been reported from any
section.
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Knights Of Columbus
Meet in Portland, 1927

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 6. The
Knights of Columbus, in annual SEES.
sion here, chose Portland, Oregon,
for the convention next year.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6. - Senorita
Dolores Lemus, stenographer in the
City Hall, has been indicted for
plotting against the life of President
Gales. on account of the recent re-
ligious regulations, and is held in
jail
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MISS EDERLE
SWIMS ACROSS
ENC. CHANNEL
Is First Woman to Accom-
phsh Such a Feat-She
Is an American.

BULLETIN = DOVER, Eng
land, Aug 6.-Miss Gertrude
Ederle, of New York City, the
flst woman to swim across the
English Channel, accomplished
the feat tonight. She made the
distance in exactly fourteen
and one-half hours and broke
the record. The best previous
time, made by a man was in
sixteen hours and twenty-three
minutes which Sebastin Tira-
boshi, of Argentine, made three
years ago.
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CAPE Girls NEZ, France, Aug. 6.
Miss Gertrude Ederle started at
7:09 O'Clock this morning to swim
the English Channel Weather con-
ditions were fine when the little
American swimmer entered the
water
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Getting Closer

DOVER, Aug. 6. - Miss Ederle
was off here about miles at Z: :43
o'clock this evening
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Closer Yet

DOVER, Aug. 6. - Miss Ederle
was five miles north of Dover and
two miles from the English coast
at o'clock tonight.
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Nearing Dover

DOVER Eng Aug. g. Miss
Ederle was seven miles off here at
4 As o'clock this afternoon, and two
miles northwest of Goodwin light
ship.
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Father Doubts Boasts
SALMON ARM b. c., Aug. g.
Thomas Johnson, al las Thomas
Smith, who gave himself up to the
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Signs of Emotion

Under Colvin's statement of con-
ditions IN the home between Gaines
and his daughter. the defendant
showed his first sign of weakening
noted by observers since his arrest.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-22
Election Night Ball
in New York, Nov. 2

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O--on Tuesday
night, Nov 2, the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party campaign committee will
hold a monster concert and ball at
New Star Casino 10Th street and
Park Ave. All workers after voting
should come to this concert and ball,
where in addition to a first class con-
cert, you will be able to dance your
cares away, and have a good time.
Come and meet the candidates OF
the Workers CCommunis) Party. They
will be present at the concert and
ball and the election results will be
announced as they are received Ad-
mission. to the concert and ball will
be so cents, the concert alone being
worth twice the price of admission.
Tickets can be procured at the Work
ers Party office, los East 14th street
at the office OF the Freiheit, 80 Union
Square and at the Jimmie Higgins
Book Shop, 127 University Place.
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Can Still Join
Discussion Group
on Class Struggle

On Wednesday nights class in the
A B C of the class struggle holds its
sessions at 10 S. Lincoln street. AL
ready two interesting sessions have
taken place, where a discussion oc-
CURED on the economic basis of CAPT
talism.
The course will concern itself with
Imperialism, the allies of the proleta-
rian and with the dictatorship of the
proletariat. But in addition to this
the course will take up. the practical
phases of party work in other working
class organizations.
The course is aimed particularly for
members Of the. Workers Party who
have Joined the party during the past
year Comrade Simons is tho in
structor.
Enrolment OF interested workers
will still be accepted until Wednes-
day, October %.
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Rebecca Grecht.

Rebecca Grecht, who has just COM
pleted a tour in Ohio. will cover a
number of cities in Minnesota and
Michigan this October in connection
with the election campaign of the
Workers (Communist) Party. Com
ra6e Grecht will speak on: what Do
the Elections Mean to the Workers."
Her tour follows:
Minneapolis, Mimi, Wednesday. Oct. 20,
Finnish Hall.
Chisholm, MINI, Thursday. Oct. q,
Karis Hall.
Virginia, Mimi, Friday Oct %.
Superior Wis, Saturday, Oct. 3d.
Workers Hall.
Duluth, Mimi, Sunday. Oct. "a. Work
ers Hail.
nish Hall.
Hancock Mich, Tuesday Oct. &c
Kausankote Hall.
Ishpemlng. Mich. Wednesday. Oct o.
Flint, Mich. Friday, Oct. 20.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Saturday, Oct. 30
Muskegon, Mich, Sunday. Oct. 81.
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Workers Children to.
Run Chic Convention

Working class children engineering
their own Organization at a district
convention isa sight for sore eyes.
Such conventions held in New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, ETC., won the en-
thusiastic response of the militant
labor movement. Now in the Illinois
district mo. 81 Of the Young Pioneers
there will be held the first district
convention on November &c to %.
A statement issued by the local
Pioneer leaders declares in part: Con
ventions have been held in Chicago
twice already, but never before on a
district scale. Some three years ago
the building of Pioneer groups was
started in Chicago and today We have
groups not only in Chicago but in six
important cities outside of Chicago.
Groups are allotted representation
on the basis of one delegate for every
ten members. Funds to send the dele
gates in must be raised locally and
the Y. w. L. must help the Pioneers
in this.
Let us make this convention a
start Off for more work in the schools,
on the streets, in the Fairgrounds,
everywhere where there are working
class children to win for the cause"
District Pioneer Committee.
Minnie Lurye, Director.
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Workers Communist Party
Splendid Program
Is Arranged for the
II Lavoratore Affair

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-A fine pro-
gram has been arranged by the New
York Italian comrades for the affair
that is taking place on Saturday night,
October %, at the New Harlem Casino,
116th street and Lennox avenue, un-
der the auspices Of II Lavoratore.
The committee has engaged a we'll
known Russian singer Miss Celia
Schactman. Miss Schactman, who
has given various successful concerts
in the city, has been praised by those
who have had the opportunity to enjoy
the clearness and power of her voice,
which is enhanced and colored by the
peculiar passion and sentiment which
is possessed by most of the Russian
artists.
Besides, another number of special
attraction is on the program. Young
Comrade Sara Nemser is going to play
few pieces on her violin. We re-
member Sara Nemser when she played
at the Italian affair for II LaYoratore
of last March, and We cannot forget
the fine impression we had Of her on
that occasion.
Other numbers in Italian will be on
the program and the committee has
promised few surprises which will
certainly enliven the atmosphere.
Comrade Grecos orchestra will play
the most modern music, and those
who come can dance and dance. They
can dance until 2 o'clock, after mid
night, if they wish to.
Well, how could one afford missing
this occasion to enjoy yourself among
the most cosmopolitan and revolution
airy crowd which will gather numer-
ously at the Harlem Casino the eve
ming of Oct. %?
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been spent by the federal government
for educational purposes. This has re-
suited in a dire lack of schools in the
rural sections and overcrowding in
the city and town schools.
8. Child labor is on the increase.
Whereas in the 1920 census there were
slightly over a million young children
below the age of Is who worked in
the factories, mills and farms thruout
the country, we find in 1926 that this
million has been trebled, thereby Great
ing dangerous situation. To merely
demand the abolition of child labor
is not sufficient; we must also demand
that the government maintain the chill
dren and those who depend on their
labor.
4. The growing danger of militarism
is pointed out and the need for strug-
Cling against it. The appropriations
for military purposes have steadily in
creased. The standing army has in
creased to about 175,OOO men. The
auxiliary military forces are increas-
ing tremendously. The burden of tax
alton to support this military machine
is crushing the already suffering work.
ing people. The youth is particularly
affected by militarism and wars The
issue of reducing military expendi-
lures and forces is therefore raised
in the elections.
5. If, however, points out the state
ment, we are to accomplish these pri-
mary elementary tasks to better the
conditions of the young workers, it
becomes necessary that those of us
who are engaged in productive work
and are faced with the problems be-
given the right to vote. If we are old
enough to work, we must be old
enough to vote. The slogan, therefore,
that all young workers and farmers
over 1e must have the right to vote is
raised.
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iuSilL tOt LuC yOQlHs
To-day an ever larger number Of
young people are thrown on the labor
market and that at a very early age,
because of the poor economic condl-
tions of their parents. Out of a total
Of $4,000, 900 workers In this country,
100000 are young workers under the
age of rs, working In factories, farms
and mines under very bad conditions
and even worse pay"
The Young Workers League consid-
ers there are five basic problems fac
ing the young workers in the coming
congressional elections. These are:
l. Today in the industries there is q
greater need for unskilled than skilled
workers, because of the development
of machinery, an over supply of skilled
workers, etc. Before the war, when
immigrants were still flowing into the
country, the industries had a full sup
ply Of unskilled labor and the local
governments paid some attention to
the vocational training Of the youth in
schools, etc. Now the local govern
ments are reducing expenses by cut
ting the size of vocational courses, or
abolishing them. This denies the
youth the opportunities supposedly
guaranteed them in our country and
they are forced into the ranks of un-
skilled labor and work under mis-
cradle conditions. Therefore, the
league raises the slogan of: More
vocational training with trade union
supervision.
2. The need of greater approprla-
ticns by the legislative bodies for edu-
cational purposes is the second big
issue. The schools today are over
crowded and unable to accommodate
the large number of entries. Over a
billion dollars has been appropriated
by the federal government alone for
military purposes, as contrasted to
the fact that almost no money has