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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Crossword Crank
Sent to "Bug" House

Warren. Pa, Nov. 21-(P)--An Erie
man, an inveterate crossword puzzle
enthusiast, has been admitted to the
state hospital for the insane here.
It was said his detention would not
be for long, as doctors observed his
trouble in time to prevent a complete
nervous breakdown. He is the first
such patient to be brought to the in
stitution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
claw Of Slain Pastor
Ith Brother Willie
! Claim Were in
g,me Night Killings
..sr Henry's Abb Heard
|, saturday Session-De-
,.,s Was on Fishing Trip
a Niles from Murder Scene
!, Night in Question-Holi-
n Recess May Carry Trial
.m 10 Next Week

..,7iIle. y. j.. Nov. 21.-(P)-
rsons will tell court and jury
n, rs4k where they were on the
4 September IA. 1922. This
-, has been asked many times
2u DAYS of the Hall-Mills trial
L. vIll be repeated again and
+. Witnesses are presented In
. using days to support what the
ia claims to be perfect alibis"
,m Frances Stevens Hall and
Esr and Willie Stevens.
4, sster and brothers are charged
]. es murder Of Mrs. Eleanor R.
/, ,hin with the Rev. Edward ".
ashland of Mrs. Hall, about
ttock on the night of Septem-
ggl22.
n. license opened its case with
rns or less perfunctory witness
Thy afternoon, after the state
! dared 81 witnesses in an effort
! Ag that Henry Stevens shot Mrs.
! Vhle Mrs. Hall and Willie Ste
b HTe near.
N isfense started to prove its
I Wien Henry Stevens took the
|zAin his own defense and fatty de-
!! that he was within so miles of
I gOt where the choir singer and
zsl we're killed. He was fishing
lie leach at his Lavellette, n. j.,
b. be said, until about the time
RI b. the state for the crime, and
|Ea exact hour may have been split
ri bottle of~gf9ger ale with a
saG e1'he neighbor came to the
siga stand to support this state
VA nd Lavalette fishermen during
fAftfnoon made the courtroom into
F'k Walton League meeting with
|'T aller story Of how the bluefsh
II running on the evening of Sep
'a IA, when one outstanding
vas made, six-pounder, which
|fzg NeVens weighed on his pocket
~s as an admiring crowd looked
EM struck matches to see the num-
ksG The scales.
aasA court adjourned yesterday
Egio0n, minus a too frivolous
P.-sas which was dismissed by the
Ea' lai unseemly conduct, the de-
w Fl 10 not Introduced all the fish,
s''Inued on Page 7-Col. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Friday Fixed asDate to Hear
Charges Republican Nom
inee for u. S. Senator, Ex-
ceeding Legal Limit in
Primary Expenditures

Rev. A. F. Leigh of Randolph Files Last Min
ute Petition with Secretary of State-GOuld
Invites Inquiry, Declares Has Not Exceeded
$500 Limit Fixed by Law = Already Filed
Statement Spent 1924 = Party L a d ers
Hold to Confidence in Aroostook Man, See
Hand of kilograms of prominent"
Maine Citizens Sent Sen. Reed of Senator
ial Campaign Committee Urging Atten-
dance in Maine and Claiming Excessive
Sum Expended by Gould
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Crushed to Death
Bv Wheels Coal Cart

PASSPORT, Maine, Nov. 81 w
Hollis, five year old son of Allie
Sutherland, was run over and killed
this afternoon whcn an empty coal
wagon on which he was playing
started, the boy falling and pelhs
crushed under the wheels.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22

New York, Nov. 21.--(P)-American
women are obsessed with the idea of
thinness, DR.. Adolph Lorenz. famous
surgeon of Vienna, who arrived on the
liner Berlin today for visit, declared.
IT think American women tried to
be far too thin" he said. IF a person
is going to be fat, she will be fat, pills
Notwithstanding"
DR.. Lorenz believes that beer Is the
best medicine to keep the stomach in
good working order. For himself he
considers on glass fine" two mot
necessary" and three possibly harm
full"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Candidate Gould Serene
AsKlansmanAs Probe
Throws Light
On 100000 ''Bribe"
To Premier of N. B.

Given Without His knowledge by Business
Associates as Contribution to Political Par
ty Of Canadian Province Evidence Before
Royal Commission at Time When He Was
Trying to Collect 100000 Owed Him by
Province of New Brunswick Brands Move
as Cheap Political Trick of Democrats
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
General Forecast

Pressure is low over the Canadian
maritime provinces.
The indications are for mostly FAIR
weather in the Washington forecast
district Monday and Tuesday, except
local SHOWS are probable in northern
New York and northern New Eng
land.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Fresh westerly and fair weather
Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22

Hearing has been set by Secretary of State Frank W.
Ball for 10 o'clock Friday morning at his office the
State House the petition filed Saturday with the secretary
by Rev. Arthur F. Leigh of Randolph asking nvestiga
ton of the primary campaign of Arthur Gould
of Presque ISLE Republican candidate for United States
tor st the special election November 20.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Fair Monday and Tuesday; not
much change in temperature. Mod
crate westerly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Gangsterism in Chicago

Photographs another page odays DAILY WORKER reveal
clearly between the leading politicians of the
city Chcagos gangand 1t is this alliance the abherdng
aborhang attorney other officials with the angers
that enables the capitalist political machines
power this CITY, The gunner used to erorize
whole of their people Their protection from the office
the attorney unqucsonaby based upon the they
deliver the republican party in the election Were able to learn
the inside of this alliance there fractional
fight raging within the republican party this city, gang
is exposing the other
More sinister than the actual alliance however, is the fact that
politicians using the preext of eliminating the of the
launch drive against the foregnbo workers this
city assang directing
drive deport undesirable aliens have started crusade against
railroad aborers being
as preparatory depong of them and rorg the
others This assault if arrested will be extended include all
foreign-born workers
The Chicago authorities will extermnate these of
deperadOe because to do would be equivalent committing
political suicide They need them for ballot box sung
peatng other stealing pracd
ulary in this superlave democracy
The gangsters be eliminated by the foregnorn
themselves rising against them and refusing to be hed like voting
cattle the polls the demand of professional
murderer who is soopigeon for capitalist political
Only class party labor following program
struggle against the parties of capitalism against
the rotten conditions now existing in Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Fascist Agitation in Detroit

The renegade editor of the Detroit
probably that he is fascist Probably he
dsike fascism Italy. like Sgman, of the Interna
tionaI Ladies' Union who supports resolutions
against ITALY, its practice the American
labor movement.
February &c about four columns of
space devoted episode at the Detroit Labor
previous Sunday Heery of the John L. Lewis
gang regarding the anthracite settle
instead of replying and admitting that Lewis traitor
disgrace the labor movement tried assault the
TONER paper Detroit printed distorted
story affair would do credit to the yelOwest of the
publications. endeavorng depict the pugugy Hefe
The question regarding the Lewis betrayal charac
slanderOus inference In spite of the
every unonist the anthracite settle
contemplate piece treachery the history of
The article further that the
auestioner baheke Heery and disappeared in
the crowd the hall This plain unadorned lie
CLOTH the queoner remaining cOnspcuousy in the
audience until the close of the meeting
Edoray the Labor Ncws editor stgmazes the qusoner
who unanswerabe questions of labor takers cir
responsible individuals and concludes with open Indictment
fascsm:
HeHery fighting unonst
protect guilty making
charges voluntarily
effective general protect itself from
campaign of SANDER"
low very low, this sestyled revoutions
has sunk!
The honor sulied by
lieuenants capitalism rank fe
endangered that rank file protests against official be
follows the critics of takers Uolun
tdy discontinue their practices the labor must take
e6cctire and general steps etc.
Mr. Dennis f. Bait forges that faker the payroll gang
number usually aby inactive and weak if he
imagnes carry the contained his
he will quite likely change his opinion the first attempt his
his threats action few Outbursts
character Bait professional takers will
bodyguard protect his from the
Detroit labor who their paper being used fascist
agitation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

on hooch are the strongest support
ers of the sort of prohibition enforce
ment we have now, and which is spon-
sored almost exclusively by the anti
saloon league. r
IETE are not prohibitionists. nor are
w we in favor OF saloons, We draw
no moral conclusions whatsoever from
the present situation, but simply ex-
plain It as a part and parcel Of the
corruption of a decadent capitalism.
Prohibition was enforced during the
war period by industrialists who want
ed wage slaves that could be depend
ed upon to slave every day; it was an
experiment In efficiency, and 1t didn't
work. The demand for booze in
creased after prohibition and people
began to make II and sell 1t and as
a result a whole class specializing in
that business has grown up until to-
day that there are more alcoholics
in the United States today than ever
before.
Only. today the coroner OF Cook
county Issued statistics that prove
that SIX Chicagoans now die OF alco-
hollsrnS where one died of that cause
in the year preceding prohibition.
Does that fact mean anything to Mr..
Ratliff? Probably he will blame II
on the devil who quite likely. is trying
10 discredit the sanity leaders OF the
antisaloon league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

on the subject or as perverse as the
devils own.
Respectfully,
81. d. Ratliff."
WITH the delightful elegance and
w self-festraint of the religious cru
saders the venerable gentleman
strives to refute our argument. AS
is usually the case with christians
and other spook-worshippers, the cor
respondent states his. case with an
assurance that makes, August Comte,
the founder of the positivist school,
appear exceedingly amateurish. Con-
GLIDING his learned argument he as
serts that we are either ignorant or
"as perverse as the devils own" The
old gentleman must be losing some of
his crusading spirit or he would have
accused us Of both and consigned us
to the lowest cycle OF his christian
hell.
Unable to escape the individualism
Of the mode of production under
which he grew to manhood, Mr.. Rat
lift distorts our assertion that the
huge mysterious sums that the anti
saloon league collectssiand the source
Of which II refuses 10 divulge, come
from those who benefit by the prohi-
bItion laws-the bootleggers. He
thinks it applies toiall individuals
who contribute to the league and
hence considers II a personal insult.
THE indignant Californian asks MS
l. what evidence we have to back our
assertion and then answers the ques-
ton himself: ''None." We reserve
the privilege, accorded TO people
everywhere outside churches, jails,
capitalist COURTS, and asylums, to an
swer the question as we see fit. We
will recite one incident In the case OF
Mr.. William II. Anderson, former
head Of the anti.saloon league in New
York. When that worthy was being
tried for swindling, concealing funds,
and various other forms Of graft, 1t
was revealed that asmysterious Mr..
John It. King contributed fabulous.
sums to keep the l4gue operating.
Mr. Anderson, clergyman, did not
know Mr.. King he only knew the
money came from such person. In
spite of the sensational publicity CIV
en- the case MIR. King" remained
anonymous. When his friend, Mr.. An
deson faced the penitentiary. the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
BY H. NJ. Wlcks.

AN old caterwauling prohibitions
n of California became indignan
when he read a recent editorial, com
menting rather disrespectfully on the
motley aggregation of peculatint
christian gentlemen and ladies that di
rect that institution known as thu
anti-saloon league. and mailed us th'
following scholarly letter:
"San Fernando, Cal, Feb. 81, 1926
editor The DAILY WORKER:
"Your screed against the anti-sa-
loon league exhibits a stupidity
equal to that of the wet asses in
congress. You announce the prin-
ciple that only those who benefit
will support a cause, that is, "ln
determining the source Of income
It is necessary to discern which
group is benefited" And since, as
you allege, only the bootleggers are
benefited by the prohibition law
they supply the funds of the league?
What evidence have you? None.
A certain man in Kansas, you say,
collected funds for claw enforce
ment" and kept the money. What
evidence have you that he collected
It from bootleggers? None. have
been in great meetings in which
collections were taken. hundreds OF
them, pledging so much a month to
the cause. Were these pledges by
bootleggers? Only fool would
say so. The principle you announce
is contradicted everywhere every
day in the year. You know that, and
your screed is pure malice-or is II
paid for by those who benefit" the
bootleggers?
more recently spent thirty dol
lars printing a leaflet and sending
It to congressman giving some his
tory of prohibition development in
this country and contrasting pres
ent with past conditions as to red
light Districts etc. have spent
thus for the cause for forty years,
with what beneft2 None, except
the satisfaction OF helping in a
worthy cause. And there are hun.
dreds Of thousands actuated in lika
manner.
Evidently yor are an ignoramus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
An Infuriated Prohibitionist
Sample of Non-AIcohoIic DeIir1m Tremens

philanthropic gentleman did not re-
veal his identity and endeavor to de-
fend the anti-saloon crusader. If any
one, except a prohibitionist, in his
toothless and tottering dotage, can be-
lieve that "Mr. King" was other than
the agent of a bootleg ring, he ought
10 be taken to psycopathic ward and
have his Uranium examined. That is
Part of the evidence we can readily
submit.
A S to the Kansas case, where the
"A anti-saloon league official collect
ed funds for Flaw enforcement" and
kept the money, the California prohi-
bitionist asks us If we have evidence
that he collected it from bootleggers,
and then answers it in the negative
himself. Again we insist upon an
swering 1t with a decisive Affirmative.
Mr.. Fred L. Crabbe, one of a num-
Der of family of prohibition takers
has been for five years the head of
the anti-saloon league in the arid
state of Kansas-the original dry"
state. He 1t was who collected the
money for "law enforcement" Mr.. J.
e. Broggan, A DRUGGIST, of Coffey-
vile, Kansas, contributed 5000 to the
"cause" and the competing dispens
ers of booze were not cleaned out as
had been promised, so he raised a
howl about 1t.
Even that expose was not sufficient
to cause the removal of Crabbe and
at an investigation behind closed
doors in the presence of DR.. f. Scott
Mcbride, national superintendent OF
the antisaloon league, the swindler
was white-washed.
XTTE do not expect this evidence In
w reply to his questions to be sufii-
cient to convince Mr. Ratliff. One
who has been for forty years a prohi-
bitionist could not possibly be con-
vinced by any argument.
We do not intend to imply that all
those who have In the past or do now
contribute to the anti-saloon league
are bootleggers. VBat we do hold that
the amounts received from legitimate
sources are not sufficient to maintain
the vast army or parasites that make
up the staff of.sihe league. We fur
Their insist that prohibition has not
been enforced and THAI bootleggers
who grow fabulously ris > ielling pois-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
WYE exDOge the facts regardlng such

ME expose the facts regarding such
w institutions, not because We favor
a return of the saloons, but in order
to expose the vileness and the hypoc-
risy OF capitalism, so the workers will
come to despise the system under
which they live and the class that
dominates this system
HOWEVER, as between getting
IL drunk on whisky and getting on a
religious jag, we prefer the former.
One can recover from the effects of
booze II one takes the proper pre-
cautions. But when one becomes
thoroly saturated with the poison Of
religious superstition, recovery is
doubtful, and where possible, IL takes
much longer time, and its effects in
general are far more devastating.
AS to Mr.. Ratliff's forty years sun
port OF the prohibition movement and
his donations to the league, we doubt
very much whether his total contribu-
lions would be sufficient to pay the ex-
penses-of prohibition agent for one
nights investigation" Of bawdy
house. Nor do we believe that Mr..
Ratliff is a bootlegger or that he
drinks moonshine. He Is chronic
inebriate Of the religious variety and
there " absolutely no hope for him.
We sympathize with him but are DOW.
erless TO do anything further.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

reasonable and Is exhausting every
means to come to an understanding
while the Mexican government is
showing that it is not amenable to
reason. That is the significance of
the present play-acting.
But the state department has al
ready announced its stand. The stu
alton calls to mind Woodrow Wilson'S
"watchful waiting" which eliminated
in the military occupation Of Vera
Cruz. Never was Mexico in greater
danger from Americana Imperialism
than at the present time. American
workers must not allow themselves to
be lulled to sleep by the "negotia-
ton" lullabies of therkept press. II
they do they are likely to be aroused
to find that war clouds have come up
on them suddenly, out of a blue sky,
with no one able to sayshow or why.
II.
OECRETARY KELLOGG is demand
~ ing what he knows the Mexican
government cannot grant without los
ing all support among, the Mexican
masses. 1t is not simply a demand
for modification of two, laws, but for
virtual annulment of the one article
of the Mexican constitution that most
clearly expresses the triumphant
claims of the Mexican revolution. Nor
have the great masses of the Ameri-
can people anything to gain from
such an outrage. 1t is in the interest
solely of handful of oil, mining and
banking monopolists who wish to con-
inue and extend their plundering op-
erations in Mexico without being sub
ject to Mexican law. The U. S. gov
eminent is their government. No
more conclusive proof of this fact
could be desired than the present pol
icy of the state department.
American finance-capital already
controls about half of the total ma
tional wealth of Mexico. In the oil
industry alone the American invest
ment exceeds half a billion dollars,
the dominant factors being Standard
Oil, Sinclair and the oTexas company.
Doheny, formerly the leading Ameri.
can operator in Mexico, recently
merged his companies with Standard
Oil. ]. P. Morgan &qCo. are also di-
rectly interested in the Mexican oil
industry thru their control of Mar
land Oil. The GulfpOil corporation,
which is an important Mexican pro-
Queer, is controlled by the Mellon in
lerests. 81
Oil Magnates Advocate Armed
Intervention.
Some years back the American oil
magnates formed an association of oil
producers of MexicoS which, under
the active leadershipg0f Ed. Doheny
and Albert B. Fall, (the Teapot Dome
ex-secretary of the inteTior), has been
a frequent advocate of armed inter
vention by the United States govern
ment. A similar organization, not
restricted to oil magnates but taking
in the mining, railroad and other in
terests, is the so-called National Asso-
citation for the Protection of American
Rights in Mexico. The unholy trinity
is completed by the international com.
mittee of bankers, in which the Ameri-
can group led by Thomas w. Lamont
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
By Manuel Gomez

situation obliges them, unless they
are ready to renounce the juicy pro-
fits Of Imperialism, to assert their i'm
perialist purposes, to commit direct
assault upon the sovereignty Of Next
co. Their agent, the United States
government, may give out stories that
1t is trying to harmonic the differenc-
es by negotiation with the Mexican
government, but this is only method
Of preliminary warfare. There is
nothing to negotiate that does not d.
rectly involve the notification Of ar
ticle q Of the Mexican constitution.
U. S. Not conclIatory.
That Wall Street need not fear any
conciliatory flexibility on the part of
the state department is evidenced by
the following despatch from the
Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune, published last Monday:
The government of the United
States has not modified its position
in the matter of the recently pro-
nulnated oil and agrarian laws Of
Mexico. These laws, it insists, are
both retroactive and confiscatory
and in violation of the agreement
between the two governments which
were the basis for the recognition
by President Harding of the gov
eminent of Gen. Alvaro obregon.
This paragraph is extremely inter-
esting, first because it reveals the un-
derstanding Cat least on the part of
the U. s. government on which Obre-
gon was recognized, and second, be-
cause it indicates the seriousness Of
the present crisis.
All the documents in the u. S.-Mexi-
can controversy have not been pub
lished. This was frankly admitted by
Senator Borah on Monday, when the
issue Of secret diplomacy was raised
in the senate.
Danger Imminent.
The danger is imminent. What ac-
ton American Imperialism will take
against Mexico will depend to a con-
siderable extent upon the American
workers. The workers are against i'm
perialist aggression in Mexico but
thus far they are not aware that any
serious crisis exists. They must be
aroused to the seriousness of the sit
uation.
President Green of the American
Federation of Labor sent letter of
protest to the state department a
couple of weeks ago. This was a
mere formal protest and formal pro-
tests do not mean anything to Ameri-
can Imperialism. If the A. F. of L.
recognizes its responsibility in this
emergency it will take steps to create
council of action with full power to
declare nationwide strike If the
situation should develop into active
plans for war or armed intervention.
1t was a similar move by the workers
of Great Britain that forced the Brit
ish government to give up its plan
to aid Polands war scheme against
Soviet Russia few years ago.
The wide masses of the Mexican
people can be depended upon to stand
as a unit against American imperial
ism. The American workers must
help them. We too have an account
to settle with Wall Street.