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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
HURRY TO Get
RID OF ALIEN
PROPERTY NOW
Investigation c ause S
Change In Mind

WASHINGTON, Nov, 10, -FP)-
~Why so sudden2" was Sen. Borah's
Caustic inquiry when told Of Speaker
Longworth's postelection announce
ment that the first thing the regular
republican organization in congress
will do is to pass a bill restoring all
property taken from Germany or Ger
man citizens during the war,
Borah has been urging for the past
six years that this property be given
back to its owners, but Longworth and
Coolidge and their organization seem
ed unwilling to let go the rich per.
Quisities Of the allen property custo-
dams of1oe.
Senate Investigates
When Borah was asked whether he
meant to imply that the administra-
ton was now IN hurry to wind up
the business because Borah's special
senate committee is about to investE
gate the graft In the alien property
custodian's office, he smiled and said
he did not.
But Longworth's discovery of the
need for haste comes Just after the
narrow escape Of his friends Harry
Daugherty and Thomas w. Miller
from conviction In the federal court
In New York on charges Of conspiracy
In one alien property case.
And It comes rather soon after a
visit by Miller to powerful friends in
the administration. It does not tech
nicaTly interfere with the federal pro-
secution promised for Dxugherty and
Miller on their second trial, nor with
the promised prosecution of A Nit
chell Palmer and Hornblower and
Weeks and others In the case OF the
Bosch Magnetic Co.. whose assets were
sold for about s5,oO0,OoO less than they
were worth But 1t does raise a ques-
ton Of motive.
If the administration is ready to
leave the well-picked bones Of this
property, someone must be afraid Of
the coming investigation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Reports Show Some
Candidates Comply
with Spending Law

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. - A new
batch OF campaign expenditure reports
were filed with the secretary of state
today showing candidates in six diff
ferent states had complied with the
$4,000 slush fund limit
Senator George E. William, repug1
lican Of Missouri, reported that he
spent $500, of which $500 was con
tributed.
In Wisconsin, Thomas NJ. Kearney,
democrat, reported he spent SS,s59.02.
while Charles W. Ross Independent
progressively told of spending S3,144.
10, with unpaid bills amounting to
S1,38785.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
10 KILLED WHEN
SCHOOL BUILDING
is HIT BY WIN D
Homes Also Demolished
Near Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.--A terrific
wind and electrical storm struck
Charles county, Maryland this after
noon, detnOlishing a county school.
house and number Of residences at
La Plata, the county seat.
The roof OF the frame school house,
a two story structure, collapsed on
more than so pupils, burying some
of them In the wreckage and causing
numerous injuries.
AT Ais o'clock, a physician at the
scene reported that at least three
children had been killed in the crash.
Frantic efforts were being made to
remove the debris covering some OF
the children.
A report to the Red Cross at 4:30
said that between four and ten chill
dren were killed. Fear was expressed
that other persons may have died IN
the buildings and homes which were
demolished in the town.
The wind attained velocity Of be
tween 80 and so miles and hour, 40
cording to telephone reports from Ia
Plata.
The crash Of the school house was
heard over the village above the roar
OF the storm. and frantic parents were
soon on the scene. Some of the chill
dren emerged unscathed, but others
were not so fortunate. So much con
fusion attended the parents efforts TO
extricate their children from the
wreckage that the local authorities
had difficulty in obtaining an accurate
check on the injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Filipinos Bury Their
Scores of Dead; Storm,
Tidal Wave Victims

MANILA, P. l., Nov 1o.-Batangas
was burying its dead today, victims
Of the typhoon and tidal wave. Headed
by municipal officials and teachers in
the province schools, natives were
clearing the debris of the storm and
burying the 1876 identified victims of
the storm. Sixty-fve persons were
still listed among the missing.
1t is estimated today that 5000
houses had been destroyed in the
typhoon belt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Attempt to Withhold
Evidence in Case of
Lake Diversion Fails

WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. - An at
tempt by the defense to confine the
Chicago-Great Lakes Diversion case
to narrow limits failed today.
Special Master Charles E. Hughes,
who is taking evidence for the SUI
preme court, ruled that all official
documents bearing on the effect of
the water diversion on the level OF
the Great Lakes and the Illinois wat
erway system would be received in
evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Held for Murder.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1O-Because he
answers the general description OF
one of three bandits who killed 4
Chicago policeman during a payroll
holdup there July Is, 1924, George
Dempsey, of Union City, N. J., was
held at police headquarters here to-
day.
Dempsey, who said he was a real
estate man, admitted being resident
Of Chicago at the time of the holdup
but denied any knowledge Of the rob
berry or murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
| FASCIST DEPUTIES PASS
BILL EXPELLING MEMBERS |
OF OPPOSITION PARTIES
tseeeIaI . The oaIIy Workerl

ROME, Nov. io.-The italian
chamber Of deputies today voted
measure which In effect Will mean
the expulsion Of some 1870 opposl-
ton members.
The motion declares all members
Of the AventIne opposition and
Communist deputies who absent
themselves from the chamber shall
be expelled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Extradite MenonneII.

COLUMBUS, o., Nov Governor
Donahey today honored a requisition
from the governor of nliRois asking
for the return to st. Clair county.
that state, of Brice Mcconnell, now
held at Akron. Mcconnell, according
to the requisftion, is wanted for rob
berry while armed with dangerous
weapons"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
CAPITALISTS
CHANGE MINDS
ABOUT BENITO
Disclosures Justify All
Labor's Charges

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -(FP) -
Disclosure of the shameful treachery
Of Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson Of the
italian lfberator, to the million italian
exiles in France whom he had pre-
tended to lead, and the realization that
Mussolini has drawn perilously near
to break with France by his plot
tings on French soil, has brought
home to Washington the meaning Of
fascism.
Highly Praised.
Judge Gary had praised Mussolini;
returning diplomats had proudly re-
lated their acquaintance with the die
tator; Dawes was envious Of his
power. Suddenly he was revealed as
an international criminal, who bribed
the leaders Of the liberal refugees
abroad to foment plots against him.
self and to deliver the plotters into
his pitiless hands,
Labor Justified.
At the same instant MussOlini justi-
fies the worst fears expressed by or
ganized labor as to his purpose of
enslaving the Italian nation. Having
made strikes crime and regular la
Dor unions illegal, he DEGREES death or
long terms Of Imprisonment for any
one who seeks to impair his iron rule,
directly or indirectly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
Elizabeth VIII Have
Great Celebration on
Sunday, November Ia

ELIZABETH, N. J., NoY. 1o.-This
industrial town VIII celebrate the
ninth anniversary OF the Russian Rev
olution Sunday, 1880 D. m, November
IA, at Labor Lyceu1n, SIT Court St.,
with elaborate program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12

thusiasm. The German social demo
Gratis in Cecho-SloYakia viii follow
suit and 1t is expected that a com
mon basis of unity between the two
will soon be found. Like master, like
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12

Why not a small bundle Of The
DAILY WORKER sent to you regular.
Iy to take to your trade union nsetIng7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
A NeuC Phenomenon in
CSechO-S ioVdkia

THE latest development Of the sltua.
4 ton In ozeHhe-sieSai,s- 4 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
SPANISH UNREST
is Great WORRY
FOR GOVERNMENT
Reds Arrested, Army
Officers Ousted
tspeoIaI 70 The paIIy Workerl

MADRID, Nov, 10.-Persistent ru-
mors of unrest turnout the country,
especially in the ranks Of the army,
is driving the government almost hys-
terical. About rs arrests were made
in Madrid, principally of Communists,
by police under orders Of the govern
ment, altho no charges have been
placed against them except "suspi-
cion."
Army officers ousted.
Seventeen army officers have been
denoted and placed in remote sta
tons as precaution, It Is announced,
against possible mutiny. Resentment
In the army is being expressed be-
cause of the governments delay in
granting amnesty to those involved in
the September pilot" Army officials
no longer trust their own subordi-
mates, attaching suspicion upon every
one.
Censor Everything.
Everything is being censored thru
out Spain. Innocent kilograms are
held up for days while the intelli-
gence department inspects their con-
tents. Telephone conversations be-
tween Spanish cities and France is
almost impossible because the lines
are tapped and government censors
are continually interrupting.
Police in every city have been re
inforced by army rifles for patrol duty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Recover Body of
Navy Filler Killed
Near Norfolk, Va.

WASHINGTON, Oct 81. - ZAP - The
body of 1t. Frank H. Conant, Jr.,
crack navy fier and Schneider Cup
entrant. who crashed with his plane
while flying over Winter Harbor, 80
miles north of Norfolk, Va, yester-
day, was recovered today and return
ed by seaplane to Hampton Roads, the
navy department was informed.
The message, which gave few de-
tails, said Conant's body was recov-
cred at $50 o'clock this morning and
taken to the Norfolk naval hospital,
where a board of inquest will meet.
The body will be taken by boat to
Washington tomorrow night and burial
will be in Arlington cemetery Tues
day morning at IL o'clock.
Discovery of the body of the 81
year-old aviator. who was practising
for the Schneider cup speed races at
Norfolk, November IL. blasted the
hopes of his comrades at the Anacostia
naval air station, and of his mother,
Mrs. Evelyn Conant, who lives here,
who. recalling his escapes from many
previous accidents, had held out to
the last that he would turn up safe.
Conant was en- route from the Ana
costa station here to Hampton Roads
when his plane fell about 100 feet in
the afternoon about a mile off shore,
near Mathew, Va. News of the crash
was not received in Norfolk until it
was too late to send out a searching
plane. and the search was put off I'M
til this morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Exhibits in Case
Evangelist Aimee
DESTROYED by Fire

Los Angeles, Oct. 81 - (Pl - The
sixth batch of documents connected
with the Aimee Semple Mcpherson
criminal conspiracy case disappeared
here today.
This collection of exhibits, negative
films of papers which have figured in
the preliminary hearing of the evan
gelist, were burned today in fire of
unknown origin in the Photographic
room of the Los Angeles Times.
Some of these pictures destroyed
today in negative form figured in
hot court battle last week when Tie
defense undertook to prove by
chirography expert that originals of
written papers credited to Mrs. Nc
Pherscr by the prosecution, had been
retouched.
Arguments will be heard before
Judge Blake next Wednesday. The
accused evangelist preached her
usual Sunday sermon today to a
crowded temple, the seating capacity
Of which is more than 5000. Her
references to her case were confined
principally to caustic and humorous
remarks concerning the trunk seized
recently in New York and said by the
prosecution to be owned by Kenneth
G.. Ormiston. her former radio oper-
ator who, it is alleged, spent ten days
with her in a Carmel, Calf, cottage
during the period she says she was
held for ransom by kidnappcrs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Begin Trial Today
Of Pastor Norris
For Killing i'm Texas

Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 3l.-td1-
A Baptist preacher who came here
in 1907 and started a tabernacle
church with thirteen members, is to
face trial tomorrow on the third of
three criminal indictments naming
him during his climb to a place of
power in militant reform and funda-
mentalism.
Such brings to date the hectic
career of the Rev. DIR. j. Norris,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
schedule to face criminal court on
charge of murder for killing d. e.
Chips, lumberman, last summer.
Chips was shot to death in pas
tors church office July II following
a quarrel between the two concern
ing the preachers utterances against
city officials, notably H. c. Meacham,
mayor.
DR.. Norris got to be known out
side of Texas during his revivals in
New York a few years ago. and more
recently through his championship
of absolute fundamentalism. His
stand on this issue, including at
tempts at legislation against the evo-
luton theory drew him into contact
with the late William Jennings Bry-
an as an adviser and confidant.
Inc preacher iTSL Cdule illLo liio
limelight in Texas back in 1911 and
1912 when he was indicted and &C
quilted of charges of burning his
church and perjuring himself in con-
nection with the arson trial. AT that
time the prosecution charged that
Norris wrote himself threatening let
ters and hired a private detective to
shoot at him.
The preachers difficulties with
the city authorities. eliminating in
personal attacks on Mayor III. c.
Meacham, friend Of the slain Chips,
began last year when the city tried
to tax revenue-p producing properties
of the First Baptist Church. The
church has not paid the taxes yet.
Norris attacked Mayor Meacham in
connection with city purchase of
land for a street widening project
from st. Ignatius Academy. Cath
Ole institution.
In the Searchlght, organ OF his
church, DR.. Norris declared the city
was paying $4,000 to the academy
for land to widen a street affording
better access to the Mayors depart
ment store Meachame reply was
that the project antedated his eleva-
ton to office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Champion Spud
Grower Tells How
He Does the Trick

Bloomsbury, Pa, Oct. 3l.-(RD-Ray
Briggs, "a year old champion potato
grower, said today his success in OBJ
tanning bumper crops was due partly
to mathematics and partly to scien-
tific methods. Friday an acre selected
at random on his NescopecK farm,
yielded 6SS bushels, which specialists
from Pennsylvania State College who
witnessed the digging said was a
worlds record.
when it is time to plant potatoes,
I plant potatoes" Briggs said. when
it is time to spray, / spray, whether
it is o'clock in the morning or s
o'clock at night. / set my hills IL
inches apart and allow but "a inches
between rows. The average farmer
leaves IS to 20 inches between hills
and SO inches between rows. MY
method gives me 2.27 times as many
hills to the acre as the state average.
Few farmers have the nerve to
cultivate between rows so close to-
gether as mine. ! cultivated the field
five times and sprayed / 10 times"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Would Halt Practice
Salesmen Treating
Customers with Booze

New York. Oct. 31.-(P1-As a new
step in prohibition enforcement, the
citizens committee of one thousand
has sent to 1900 of the leading
manufacturing executives of the
country a communication urging
them to prevent their statesmen from
using liquor in promotion of sales.
This means of cutting off what the
committee considers one of the i'm
portant markets for bootleg liquor.
was suggested by General Lincoln c.
Andrews, assistant secretary OF the
treasury in charge of prohibition
enforcement, the committee an
nounced. In a letter to the commit
tee which was organized to promote
law observance, General Andrews
said in part:
Il know from personal experience
that the big sales agencies for large
manufacturers often make it prac-
tee to supply generous quantities of
liquor by way of entertainment up
on all manner of occasions, where
their customers are meeting togeth-
er for one purpose or another.
Big manufacturing business,
through allowing. or rather foster
ing these expense accounts for large
quantities of entertainment liquor,
is making considerable part of the
market for liquor, which in turn
brings into existence and supports
the organized liquor traffic which
furnishes the liquor.
How inconsistent on the part of
these big businesses who claim they
want the law enforced"
A photostatic copy of his letter
was included in each communication
TO the $4,000 manufacturers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Bandit and Three
Others Are Killed
During Detroit Fight

Detroit, Oct. 31-{P)-"Jimmy"
Cuniffe. notorious eastern bandit, met
death here today at the hands of an
associate, during a savage brawl
which cost the lives of three other
persons and resulted in the wounding
Of two more.
Cunliffe, wanted In connection with
the recent staying of John En-. Eliza
beth, n. j., mail truck driver and
Frank E. Kierney and the latter's
son. Robert, of New Brunswick, N
j., was shot down by a man known
here as William Olson. reputed bank
robber, during what police believe to
have been quarrel over division of
loot from recent holdups here.
Police who rushed to the. rooms in
a fashionable apartment house here
where the shooting occurred. were en-
gagged in a pistol battle by Olson, who
killed Patrolman Ernest Jones and
wounded Ephraim Rancour. another
officer. and Earl Burns, a resident of
the apartment house, before being
shot to death himself by Rancour.
Cuniffe and an unidentified woman
companion We're found dead in the
apartment when the wounded police
man gained entrance. He had been
shot half dozen times and the
woman was similarly wounded. Oh
sen. according to police apparently
had emptied his gun at Cunniffe and
reloaded it before killing the woman.
The room bore evidences Of ter
rife struggle. Approximately ten
thousand dollars in currency. believ-
ed by police to have been obtained in
series of Detroit bank robberies was
strewn over the floor. A table on
which a champagne supper had been
set out was overturned.
Police tonight communicated with
eastern authorities in an endeavor to
establish the identity of Olsen. 1t
was at first thought he was Bum"
Rogers, notorious eastern criminal
and associate of Cuniffe, but his
measurements failed to correspond
with those of Rogers on file at police
headquarters here.
The police, however, are Of the
opinion that Olsen was an accomplice
in the New Jersey killings. The two
men with the slain woman came here
shortly after the New Jersey killings
and $150.O00 mail robbery at Eliza
beth, in which Cunniffe was accused
Of participating.
Shortly after their arrival half
dozen daring holdups were staged
here and police believe the dead men
participated in them.
A complete description of Olsen
and the dead woman were sent to
eastern officials today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
PLAN TO WELCOME
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
IN HOME TOWN VOTING

Northampton, Mass, Oct. 31-(P)
Plans for a public reception for
President and Mrs. Coolidge when
they come home TO vote next Tues
day We're made today at a conference
between Colonel S. a. Cheney, White
House representative, and North
!. ampton citizens.
Arriving at about 9 o'clock Tues
day morning, President Coolidge
will go at once to the polls under
escort of a reception committee of
twelve citizens. Then the first citi-
zens of the land will visit their old
home on Massasoit street where Mr..
CoolidSe'S mother, Mrs. Elmyra
Goohue, will be waiting.
At 1910 public reception will
be held in the high school hall which
will last until the presidential party
goes to the return train at 11.30.
John Coolidge has three recitation
periods at Amherst College election
day and since he is making particu-
larry close application to his studies
this year it was thought here that
he would not be in Northampton to
see his parents.
The reception committee will be
headed by Acting Mayor Samuel
Eyre and other members are Judge
H. p. Field in whose law office the
president studied; Judge Richard w.
Irwin, who is popularity credited with
having started the young lawyer on
his political course; Judge +. l..
Shaw, president of the Coolidge Club
of Northampton: William H. Gore,
president of the ReRpublican City
Committee: Ralph w. Heminway.
law partner of the president, and
former mayor Harry Bicknell, presi-
dent of the chamber of commerce.
who was twice defeated in the may
orally race by Mr.. Coolidge.
Five women, old friends of Mrs.
Coolidge. or leaders of the Repubii-
can women of the city. will also serve
on the committee. They are Mrs. r.
B. Hills, Mrs. r. ]. Hammond, Mrs.
Joseph +. Dickerman, Mrs. w. A.
Sheldon and Mrs. Charles Ely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Dry League Counsel
DeplOres Straw Vote
Prohibition Question

Washington, Oct. 31.-(P1-Wayne
3. Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League, asserted in an
address here today that the two is
sues which would confront voters at
the polls in most voting districts
Tuesday were constitutional anarchy
or law enforcement"
The straw vote referenda in New
York, Illinois and Wisconsin are an
attack upon our whole system of rep
resentative government" he said.
The first two of these ask that n
federal law necessary for the enforce
ment of the constitution be altered
at the request of these states, per-
hitting the states themselves to OBJ
serve or ignore part of the consti-
tuition.
THE Wisconsin 2.75 percent beer
proposal in it's referendum is equally
antagonistic to representative govern
ment.
The bootlegger and moonshiner are
to be guaranteed from any local po-
lice action in California, Colorado,
Missouri and Montana il the referen-
da in these states. repeating the state
enforcement codes, are won by the
vets"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
II Hurt in Crash
Motor Bus and Truck

Woonsocket, r. l., Oct. 31.-(P1-
Seventeen persons, passengers on a
bus bound to Worcester from Provi-
dence, were injured tonight when the
vehicle collided with a heavy motor
truck on the Louisquisset Pike in
North Smithfield. Four physicians
were called from Providence to tend
the injured.
Nelson F. Find of Providence,
driver of the truck, was hurled
through the windshield, and suffered
severe cuts. Arthur J. McDermott
of Worcester. driver Of the bus. was
cut by flying glass. None of the
passengers were injured seriously.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01
Topsham Driver
Held for Illegal
transportation LIQUOR

brunswick, Oct. 31.-Charles H.
aastle of Topsham is being held at
us police station and will be given
nearing In the Municipal Court
a n,onuay morning charged with the
S %vsai transportation of intoxicating
, nuuor, following which he will be
s %.hea over to Sagadahoc county
ao.norltles to be tried for the illegal
ruSsesslon of liquor. Thistle was ar
, v.u at midnight last night as he
vas urivlng along Main street and
,,t anali quantity of alcohol was
h. n"sn from the Essex coach which
, .s was driving. Later Sheriff Hor-
mi rb,,: MeLure of Bath. accompanied
n ,''T =. towards to Thistle's residence
IA, iopsnam, where a larger guam
~ OF liquor was seized.