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CHAPEL DOORS CLOSE BODY 0F. VALENTINO;
 CROWDS DISPERSED
PUBLIC VIEWS BODY OF MOVIE STAR FOR THE LAST
 TIME

NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (P)-Valen- tino's public saw him for the last time tonight. The doors to the funeral chapel where the body lay in state were closed at midnight and police dispersed crowds that fought to get a final glimpse of the stars body. Thou sands who stood in line for hours hop ing to pass by the casket were turned away. When midnight came a group of several hundred attempted to rush the police lines after the doors were closed. Police estimated S0,0O0 passed through the chapel in two days. The decision to exclude the public came after the stars manager asserted the crowds had failed to show proper reverence The body was returned to the gold room of the chapel to await transferral to Saint Malachis church for services on Monday.
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SEARCH SAND DUNES
 0F RED DESERT FUR
 MAIL JAR BANDITS
AIR PILOTS PRESSED INTO SERV. ICE SCANNING WATER
 LESS DESERT

WAMSUTTER, Wyo., Aug. 26. (P)- The waterles sand dunes of the Red Desert in Southwestern Wyoming late yesterday were being searched by sheriffs and cowboys for the two band its who early Tuesday robbed a Union Pacific mail car of 23 pounches of registered mail. With apparently we'll laid plans for the robbery, the bandits at the point of revolver, bound and gagged the two postal clerks while the train was speeding through Wyo- ming. Waiting at Wamsutter, a con. federate changed the railroad signal so the train was slowed down. The robbers are then believed to have jumped off, and escaped with their confederate.
 Air mail pilots flying between Cheyenne and Salt Lakel City were asked to scan the desert for the fug- itives.
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ASK REPUBLICANS
 ID GIVE COOLIDGE
 WORKING MAJORITY
CONGRESSMAN TESS URGES RE. ELECTION OF SENAT-
 OR WILLS

COLUMBUS, Ohilo, Aug. 26. (P)- Senator Fess told the Republican State platform convention to insure a continuance of American prosperity by giving President Coolidge a Re- publican working majority in both houses of congress, that "there never has been more brilliant chapter in American history than the genius which restored American industry and prosperity after the worlds war. By the touch of this genius liquid assets flowed to industry and business be- gan to thrive; government credit went to par and unemployment disap- peared.'
 Urging the reelection of Senator Willis, republican of Ohio, Congress- man Fess declared 'If the stability of American institutions bring happi- ness to the American people they are objects worthy of public effort. Then the Republican administration under it's present leadership should be commended"
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COTTER|LL DECIDES ID WITHDRAW FROM
 THE SENATE RACE
DISBELIEVES HIS CANDIDACY WOULD ADVANCE CAUSE
 OF PROHIBITION

SEATTLE, Aug. 26. (P)-The with drawal of George Cotterill, candidate for the Democratic nomination to the Senate at the September 14th primary left Cleveland Longstreet of Port townsend, opposing A. Scott Bullitt of Seattle. Cotterill explained he dis believed "my candidacy would ad- vance the cause of prohibition or pro- gressive democracy with retirement of the particular candidate against whom my filing was urged. There is nothing to be gained by injecting wet dry contest in the Democratic pri- mary"
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Ketchikan was branded In the Hearst press as "the worst pest hole in America" "the wickedest city be- longing to Uncle Sam," and the Bris- tol Bay region was said to be on a par with it, with the approval Of Delegate Dan Sutherland, and on information furnished by him, according to letter from Merrill Goddard to B. M. SWasey, editor of The American Weekly, the Sunday supplement section used by the Hearst newspapers throughout the country.
 MT. Goddard is understood to have written the article under the head lines, Gamblers, Liquor Dealers and Red Light Women, Uncle Sans Ten ants," which appeared in the Seattle P. I. under date of April A. last, and in other Hearst papers from the Allan tic to the Pacific coast either prior to or following that date.
 Too Much Money
 The prime causes for so much wick the plentitude of money among fisher edness, said the Hearst article, was men frequenting Ketchikan, the readi- ness of business men of the town to pander to their vicious tastes and the willingness of Federal officials to al low criminals to ply their iniQuitous callings without interference.
 In lurid cOlors the alleged deprav- ity of Ketchikan was set forth for the nation to read. It was told that the city was a rich seaport, great fish ing center, made extraordinarily pros porous by the wealth which the ocean yields" and gone degenerate.
 Part of it, called Indian town" was set apart flor the occupancy of native Indians, who are civilized and decent folk. A disreputable and criminal ele- ment has invaded and occupied Indian town, establishing there a red light district with 200 or more bad women, making it colony of bootleggers, dope sellers, gunmen, and low-class Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans, and Fill ipinos, who are crowding out the gentle and inoffensive Indian" whose property rights "are submerged in a flood of vice-not merely defiant but arrogant in Ketchikan"
 Is Worst Pest Hole
 Answering the question flor what reason does Ketchikan continue to be perhaps the worst pest hole in America?", the Hearst article said:
 There are three reasons. One is the failure of Federal officials to en- force the law-Another is the indif. ference of the Department of Justice at Washington-The third is the will ingness of the commercial interests in Ketchikan to allow things to run along as they are. Plenty of vice stimulates business. Bad women buy expensive clothes and jewelry; and so on with other things.
 
 Bad women are the bartenders The brothel is a ginmill with dope
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CONVENTION KEYNOTE
 SUGGESTS FUSION WITH PROCRESS|VES
CONGRESSMAN MCCALL, BORAH AND CHAPMAN ASKED AD-
 DRESS CONVENTION

WEISER, Aug. 26. (P)-The Repub. lican Idaho convention yesterday re- jected the motion of Senator Good ings manager to invite Gooding, Borah and four Congressman to address the convention but invited Borah, Con gressmen Mccall and w. Orr Chap man of Twin Falls. The keynote of the Idaho Democratic convention sug. gested fusion of the Democrats with the Progressives in the state cam paign.
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COUNTY HOSPITAL
 BURNS IN EUREKA
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PA
 TENTS WERE REMOVED SAFELY

EUREKA, Calif. Aug. 26. (P-A fire which started when a gasoline stove exploded on the third floor des. troyed the main building of the county hospital here, causing loss of more than $15O,0OO.
 All of the 150 patients, 15 of whom were bedridden, were carried safely from the building. Some of the pa- tients and nurses narrowly escaped death. Heroism and untiring efforts of the nurses were the outstanding events of the fire.
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HENRY F. SA|MUELS
 NOMINATED IDAHO PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION SEN. ATE CHOICE OVER E. G.
 DAVIS

EMMETT, Aug. 26. (P)-The Pro- gressive Idaho convention by vote of 66 to 3S, nominated Henry F. Samuels to the senate over B. c. Davis, of Malad. Following the nominations the same as the Democratic, L. L. Burten- shaw of Council, was nominated for Congress and James G. Gwinn, of Saint Anthony for the Supreme Court.
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COAST
Oakland z, 5; Portland 3, 2. Sacramento 6; Seattle 8. Missions z; Hollywood 5. San Francisco, Los Angeles rain.
SCOUT MEET FRIDAY

The first regular meeting of the To cal Boy Scout troop for number oi weeks will be held tomorrow evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock, at the s. A c. hall. All members are requested tc attend as special business, pertaining to the future work of the organization will come up for discussion.
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Sutherland Responsible
 for SlanderouS Article
 on Alaska, Says Writer

selling as a sideline Liquor, narcotics, and wild women form one big indus try.
 "As already said, Ketchikan is a great fishing center; it is also an inn portant port of call for sea traffic. All ships going north or south stop there. The town is rich, with quantities of money flowing through hands of busi- ness men, many of whom, for the ake of direct and indirect revenue they de- rive from vice, are satisfied with exist ing conditions. Every vessel that stops at Ketchikan finds on the wharves bootleggers and other solicitors of trade in illicit wares"
 Pander to Fishermen
 The degeneracy of fishermen, eager to squander their supposedly easily and quickly acquired riches, was giv- en as the lure which made business men and officials forsake decency and honor for the sake of financial gain to be reaped through pandering to their lewd appetities. For, said the same article:
 '"The plentitude of money is large ly accountable for the mischief. Fish ermen make big pay. It is not usual for vessel to come in from ten days trip loaded with halibut or other fish that sell for enough to allow $500 or $500 for each of the ten or dozen men composing her crew The men get the cash when the fish are un- loaded; then, their pockets bulging with dollars, they go ashore for a spree.
 The money does not last them long. They spend it quickly in the brothels and gambling places. There is need less to say, much gambling, in which, as rule, the chances in favor of the houses are increased to certainty by card-sharping and crooked appar- atus, But there are other ways. An or ganized robbery with knockout drops to help on suitable occasions, cleans out the victim who cannot be per- suaded by easier means to part with his cash"
 In attributing similar conditions to other parts of Alaska, notably the Bristol Bay district" the Hearst ar ticle made an attack on the Alaskan salmon packing industry which re- suited in sharp protests from some of the canners, Not few of the work CTS in the canneries, actually em- ployed in the putting up of food are diseased in horrible degree" was tha charge made.
 Delegate Furnished Facts
 Some of the protests made reached the editor of the American Weekly the article about his alleged facts who inturn questioned the author of In reply he said the facts" used fo1 the story were furnished by Delegate Sutherland and, that after the article had been completed and was roady
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SOUVENIR HUNTERS
 STRIP THE NORGE
WAREHOUSE CLOSED TO PUBLIC; SILK COVERING WAS THE
 GOAL OF MANY

SEATTLE, Aug. 26. (P)-After the dirigible Norge had slowly begun to disappear before the ravages of souv- enir hunters, the waterfront and sware- house in which it was stored was closed to the public. The silk which covers the airship, wings and rubbers proved especially attractive to col lectors.
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ATTORNEY ELLIS IS VISITOR

Clyde R. Ellis, United States assist ant district attorney, with offices at Anchorage, came over from the Inlet town last evening to await in Seward the arrival of the steamer Starr from the Westward on which vessel it is be- lieved the court officials will return on. During his brief stay in Seward, MT. Ellis is a guest at the Sexton hotel
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GIANT SEAPLANE |S
 CAUSE MUCH GRIEF
PB NO. I ENGINES BE DISMAN. TILED PACKARD MOTORS
 INSTALLED

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26 (P)-The giant seaplane PIE No. 1, which arrived here a year ago after it's first start from Seattle, will receive new Packard mo- tors and the old ones will be scrapped. Officers said her engines have been changed, modified and repaired more than any other aircraft in America.
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SKYScRAPER FOR FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. R- Thirty stories high and towering 360 feet above the street, new apart ment building is to be erected at a cost of six million dollars here next year.
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WILL BANtSH SEASlcKNESS

PARIS, Aug. 26. R)-The widening and deepening of the channel to per init larger boats on the Dover route is expected to banish seasiskness in channel crossings.
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OIL SHORTAGE IN PROSPECT

! WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. P-The Oil Conservation Board will report to the President that serious oil short age is in prospect in a few years, un- less better production methods are followed.
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EXPORTS TO OFFSET EXPORTS

EXPORTS TO OFFSET EXPORTS
 WASHINGTON D. O., Aug. 26. LP)- Dr. Julius Klein of the Commerce De partment says that the enormous in. crease in American exports of manu- factured goods will offset partially the slump in exports of foodstuffs.
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EXTENDS LOTS OF COIN

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26. (P) The Year Book of the Carnegie En- dowment Fund for International peace shows expenditures of S1,7O0,000 since 1911.
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The steamer Starr is expected to arrive in port Saturday, according to the latest advices.
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Mrs. L. V. Ray, Miss Patsy and son Lee returned home last evening from delightful outing at Moose Pass, Sunrise and Hope.
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Don't overlook the Liberty The- ater fer tonight.
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BASEBALL RESULTS
NATIONAL
 Boston 3; St. Louis 4. Brooklyn 2; Pittsburg 1. Philadelphia 2; Chicago New York 2; Cincinnato 1.

Detroit II, q; Boston 4, 6. Cleveland 6, New York O. (Second game rain.)
 Philadelphia, Chicago rain.
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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15
The .
Hired
Digest
Can't Come Too Soon
. s.s
WITH
APOLOGIES

Mr.. A. Nelson Dodd, manages
of the Newark Chamber 0
Commerce, hits the nail square
on the head when he says New
ark is one of the most beautiful
cities in the state, and with al
effective and ornamental stree,
lighting system could easily be
made the finest city in the
state"
This question of a decent and
effective mode of lighting our
business and residential streets
has been discussed and argued
times without number during
the past several years, and no
conclusion has been reached, ex-
cept the universal verdict that
we need an improvement over
the present plan, and need it
quick.
The "Hired Man" rejoices to
learn that the Chamber of Com
merce has taken an active inter-
est in the solution of this i'm
portant problem and that a live
committee is at present engaged
in working out and adopting
plan which will transform our
present poorly Illuminated
thoroughfares into avenues of
hrilliancv which will he q source
of pride and pleasure to us all.
At a recent meeting with the
city officials held in the Mayors
office, proposed plans were gone
over in detail and discussed
fully, and from present indica-
tions it appears that something
is apt to be doing soon in the
way of improved street lighting.
May the Lord hasten the
happy day.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15
Disarmament
OF the World
Again Asked
League of Nations Wants New
Conference to Be Held
Within a Year

Washington, D. C.-Following
the breakdown of the recent
conference at Geneva that was
called to prepare a program for
a world disarmament confer
ence, the League of Nations pro-
poses a general disarmament
conference to be held within a
year.
The value of this proposal is ques-
toned by administration spokesman,
who ask how unity of action is pos
sible when the nations failed to agree
on program of action.
The various nations disagree on the
submarine, airship, on the reduction
of armies and on the potential mill
tary power of various industrial ma
tions. These differences caused the
split in the preliminary conference.
Military authorities no longer con-
slider an army and navy the sole mill
tary strength of nation. Geograph-
ical location, raw material and the
ability to change industrial machinery
into munitions factories are now con-
sidered. The rapidity with which
commercial airplanes can be changed
to war craft is also a factor. AS the
nations could not agree on these
questiones, the preliminary conference
failed.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15

uine remedy, shorter hours, to re
lieve the monotony of routine opera
tions required in modern industry"
The vital clause Of the. shorter
hour resolution, which was amended
as indicated, originally read:
Resolved, that this convention go
on record as favoring the shortening
of working hours in all industries to
40 hours week; and be it further re-
solved that the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor is
herewith instructed to inaugurate a
vigorous campaign in every industry
throughout the country for the intro
duction of the five-day and 40-hour
week."
Ebert H. Gary, chairman ob the
board of the United States Steel cor
poration, came in for caustic comment
concerning the interview he granted
a day or two ago when questioned on
the economic soundness of the five
day week, James Wilson, vice-presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, seized upon this point, saying:
"This is the same Gary who, until
driven to it by pressure of public opin-
loH, HeId InaC the elghC-hOur day was
uneconomic."
Among other supporting shorter
working hours was John P. Frey,
president of the Ohio Federation of
Labor. He said per capita production
in steel plants had increased so per
cent since 1914.
James Duncan, a president of
the A. F. of L., took exception to the
wording of the amended resolution be-
cause it advocated beginning" a
campaign of education on the matter
of working hours and wages. He
contended this campaign had been
waged by the federation since its in
ception and urged substitution of the
word Continue" His point carried
by consent of the chairman of the
committee on shorter working hours.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15
Shorter Week Not Revolutionary
Many Industries Can Make Change

Detroit, Mich.-The mining
building and automobile indus
tries are ready for the short
work week, according to a state
ment by President Green.
"Our conception of the policy of
the A. F. of L. is to make it suffi-
GENTLY elastic to meet the develop
ments of industry. That is especially
true as applied to wages and hours"
President Green said.
"The policy calling for the gradual
reduction of hours is not revoluntion-
ary.
"The pronouncement of our aims in
Atlantic City last year were in line
with our traditional policy. The pol
icy of Henry Ford of establishing the
five-day week is the direct conse-
quence of the foresight shown by
American labor.
Perhaps unnoticed by the public,
this policy has established the short
er work week in some industries.
Labor will not sacrifice wages to
secure the shorter work week. We
will not get it until productivity is in
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15
Action on the
N-Hour Week
By A. F. Of L.
The Convention Adopts Resolu-
tiOn After Earnest
Consideration

Detroit-The American Fed
Grafton of Labor, earnestly con-
sidered the five-day week of 40
hours as definite goal of trade
unionism in this country.
Instead of demanding, specially, the
five-day week, a resolution on the
shorter work day, finally was amend
ed so that it merely urged that the
executive council be instructed to con-
tinue campaign of education upon
the subject of shorter hours of labor
and a shorter work week.
The amending action was generally
construed by neutral observers not as
evidence of any weakening on the
part of labor, but, rather, as indica
ton that it does not want to place
any limits on its efforts to gain
shorter hours; that it may not be con-
tent with 40-hour week.
William Green, president of the A.
F. of L., closed an extended discus
sion on the subject with compre
hensive statement of the aims of lab
or in matter of shorter hours.
"We want to reduce the hours of
labor in direct proportion to increas-
ed productivity" he said. "We offer
this proposal as partial solution to
the problem of unemployment. When
production is more nearly in line with
the needs of the consumer, there will
be more work for all.
"We want to extend this hour
shortening move, but not in revolu-
tionary fashion; it must be progress
sively achieved, when industry and
the workers seem ready for it.
"The five-day week has been in ef-
feet for some time in many indus
tries, and everywhere it has vindicat-
ed the claims made for it. Eff
cheney and productivity have been in
creased. I believe the great mass of
the people are coming to understand
this, which is gratifying to know"
Henry Ford gained recognition as
"the only man in the automobile in
dustry who has applied the only gen
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15
Educational Course of Union
Will Train Workers to Think

New York-In it's latest bulle-
tin the educational department
of the international Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union explains
it's purpose and announces it's
policy for the coming year.
"The function of workers educa-
tion," it is stated, "is to assist in the
all-important task of making our
world better place for all. The
truth is clear that it is the mission of
the workers themselves to abolish the
inequalities and injustices which they
suffer, and that they can accomplish
this only through organization. But
it is equally clear that economic
strength is much more effective if di-
rected by intelligent, well informed,
clear r-thinking men and women.
"The purpose of the educational ac-
tivities of the |. l.. G. w. u. is to pro-
vide the labor movement with such
men and women. The courses ar
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15

creased. We propose to establish the
shorter work week as industry is
ready for it."
President Green said that the pro-
ductivity per worker is so great in
the automobile industry that the per
capita output has increased 25 to so
per cent.
"The shorter work week is made
necessary by the nervous tension un-
der which industry is carried on, by
the unprecedented specialization and
Standardization of industry and the
monotonous and stereotyped nature
of many industrial processes in our
great plants.
"The grinding roar and noise in
modern plants affects the workman
IN every way. If he is to live at all
we must reduce the number of hours
to conform to his strength.
"If long hours are continued the
manufacturer will suffer, as he will
have large labor turnover. Men
simply will not remain in places of
employment where they suffer ply
slcal degeneration and nervous ex-
haustion."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-15

ranged for the educational depart
ment are designed to give the mem
bers of the union those facts of the
social sciences which may serve as
basis for sound conclusions, may help
create true social and spiritual values
and may train them for active and
successful participation in the labor
movement as leaders and workers.
"The members of our union who at
tend the lectures and courses learn a
great deal about matters connected
with their industry, their organiza-
tion and the labor movement. They
learn some of the psychologist laws
which govern the relations between
human beings. They are inspired by
literature which deals with life, hopes
and sorrows of other men and women.
knowledge of conditions outside
the union is essential to those who
would be of the greatest usefulness to
their union and the labor movement"
Fannia M. Cohn is executive secre-
tary of the educational department.