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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11
Albanian Helped Win
Fight Against Merger

Atlanta, Ga.-Lindsey Hopkins, a
member of the committee of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad minor
ity stockholders, which successfully
blocked the merger of that road with
the Nickel Plate interests, and wide
ly known Atlanta financier, has re-
turned to Atlanta from New York.
Upon his return Mr.. Hopkins was
congratulations upon the effective
greeted by friends and showered with
ness of the fight made by the COM
mittee before the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
1t was the Interstate Commerce
Commission which refused to sanction
the merger of the Chesapeake and
Ohio, the Hooking Valley and the Erie
Railroads under plan evolved by the
Van Swearingen brothers, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who were associated with
the financial interests of New York.
The recent break of the New York
Stock Exchange is said to have been
due to the fact that the merger did
not go through, following the decis-
ion handed down by the commission.
All of the five members of the mi
nority committee of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road are Southerners. Four
of them reside in Richmond, and Mr..
Hopkins, the fifth member, lives in
Atlanta.
''The decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission contains moth
ing to which serious objection can be
advanced, and the victory won by the
Chesapeake and Ohio minority share
holders involves no principle to which
honest promoters can object" Mr..
Hopkins said. 'It is, of course, graf
flying to have achieved success in this
particular instance, for arrayed
against our committee were many of
the most powerful financial influ-
enccs in America
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11
Hoke Smith Explains
His Remarks on Race

Atlanta, Ga.-United States Sem
ator Hoke Smith stated today that
reports that he would run for COVER
nor in the event road and school bond
measures passed the legislature were
without serious foundation.
81 did remark in casual converse
ton with a close personal friend, a
member of the legislature, that l
might feel disposed to run if bond
bills passed." said Senator Smith. "1t
was after he had been urging me to
enter the race. But the remark was
absolutely casual and l attached abb
solutely no weight to it.
Certainly / did not wish it to be
construed as committing me to make
the gubernatorial race, and such an
intent was far from my thought"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11

to Georgians. The legends on the
pedestal of the statue reads as fol-
lows:
"Georgia's tribute: Crawford W.
Long, M. D., discoverer of the use of
sulphuric ether as an anaesthetic in
surgery on March 3Oth, 1912; at JEFF
ferson, Jackson county, Georgia, U.
S. A"
"My profession is to me a ministry
from God. DIR. Long.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11
Cordele May
Harness Flint River
GOVERNMENT CONSENT HAS
BEEN SECURED FOR COUNTY
OWNED POWER DEVELOP
MENT.

Washington, March 3.-The Fed
eral Power Commission today
granted preliminary power project on
the Flint River in Georgia TO ]. j.
Williams and others Of Cordele. The
project involves the development of
fourteen thousand horsepower.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11
THE ONLY WAY

Young Thing-''Doctor, will you
vaccinate me some place where the
scar won't show?"
Doctor (noting al | present day
styles worm We'll, | guess We'll
have to give it to you in capsule"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-03-11
THAT'S THE COUNTRY

"Ah, in the East, in the wide open
places where men are men, drinking
bootleg, and the women also have
their necks shaved"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-25

TWO OIL the DOCK laDorefS pc executed
n punishment for the murder; If this
demand is not acceded to by nine
o'clock the next morning the ships
guns will be turned on the city.
Again the waiting siren can which
heralds each scene-the dark, curtain
less stage grows light. The workers
are sitting about eating bowls Of RIGA.
Street takers, peddlers, beggars and
opium vendors pass to and fro. An
old peddler, his wares dangling, comes
down into the audience. The student
appears with the terrible news: two
Of them must die. But whyi They
have committed no crime. And which
two7 They try to hide from one an
other, to escape. The student resolves
to send telegram to Shanghai for
help, but two marines bar the way.
Meantime, the foreigners in the town
are taking refuge on the steamer and
all is being prepared for the lombard
ment-
Once more the mayor and his inter
prefer board the ship, bringing a rich
silk robe as a present. The robe is
accepted, but their efforts at concilia-
ton fail. As the dawn approaches the
white figure Of the cabin boy appears
on the forecastle. He is singing a
plaintive, almost inaudible lament
while adjusting rope about his neck
With sigh he slips over the railing
and hangs lifeless before the door OF
the cabin. But his sacrifice Is in vain.
The workers on the dock finally de-
cides to draw strawa The two So
lected for the sacrifice by this-agoniz-
ing method are young man and old
man. The young man has a wife and
child whom he cannot bear to leave,
and life seems just as sweet to tho
old man.
With all the ceremony OF a religious
rite the executions take place on the
dock next morning. All the foreigners
are there, including three sisters from
the mission, an English clergyman, an
American girl in smart knickerbock-
ers and tourist with his camera
ready to take the most narrowing
scenes. The wife comes with her child
to plead for mercy. Tell her to ask
God for help" suggests the captain
II viii not tell her. replies the stu
dent. but as II she understood, the
woman tears from her neck the cru
cifix which she received at the mission
and tramples it on the ground. The
stocks are removed from the necks OF
the prisoners. who make last effort
to escape. Then .calmness comes at
last and they submit to being tied to
the posts; covers are drawn over their
heads. mercifully hiding their faces
When the grewsome details are car
ried out to the end. the mood OF the
Chinese workers begins to change. A
subdued roar rises. At this moment,
a telegram is brought to the captain
summoning his ship to Shanghai.
WHARF, an uprising has taken place.
With drawn revolvers, the captain and
HIS crow back OF the stage followed
by the workers, who brandish their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-25
Meierhold Theater in Moscow
By Ruth Epperson KenneII.

deputation of the car, the removal of
the senile old general from mis- post,
the forming Of the Petersburg Soviet,
a stirring meeting of the central com
mittee at which Trotsky was chair
man, and as a climax the arrest of
the central committee, who sang the
international as they were led away.
The production was viewed by tens
Of thousands Of Moscow workers.
AT the Meierhold in January ap-
peared new play which is de-
cidedly the most artistic its ingenious
director has produced. If one marVels
at the mechanical construction of the
Meierhold stage, at the rapidly shift
ing scenes and the acrobatic feats Of
the actors, at the combination of mo-
ton picture technique with the spoken
drama and the prof1igate use of the
spotlight (Which is sometimes indis-
criminately directed at the audience
as we'll as the actors, in characteristic
disregard of the formers comfort) !,
one feels that here is an art as yet
in its experimental stage. But in
Roar, Chinal" there is a toning down
and discriminate use of all these ele-
ments to create something beautiful.
The one set used thruout-that Of
British battleship at dock in Chi
nese river port, with body Of real
water lying between the dock and the
steamer-lends itself admirably to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-25

Meierhold and a synthesis Of his
scenery showing machine and factory
forms used in dramatic representation.
TNOR contrast with the old literary
4 forms Of the conventional written
drama, we turn to the Weierhold thea
tiers, where an entirely new theatrical
art is in process Of development. The
avOwed purpose of the director, Meier
hold, is to make the theater a living
part Of the peoples lives; not to pro-
duce the literary works of men of let
ters, but to be dramatic chronicle
and interpreter of social events. Art
has only an incidental value in the
social purpose of the theater. There
fore the plays produced here are not
printed dramas, read by the public
they are simply events which live on
the stage and which in many cases
have only temporary interest. Striv-
ing to satisfy that need which is driv-
ing the people OF the west from the
theater to the cinema, Meierhold en-
ploys the devices of film art on the
stage. His theaters are in theatrical
circles what the Communist Party
is in political circles-agitator for and
constructor of new society.
During the celebration of the TWEEN
t1eth anniversary of the 1905 Revolu-
ton In January the Theater of the
Revolution presented a play, "The
Barometer Indicates a Storm" which
wildly depicted scenes from that
bloody period The Meierhold stag
ing was particularly effective for this
subject: the great curtainless stage
and on it plain wooden walls with
steps leading above, which could be
anything from factory to a railway
station, and contained within their
mysterious depths interiors of the win
ter palace, offices, meeting halls and
other scenes disclosed when a sec
ton of the wall opened, or when a
set came rolling out on a platform
with the actors placed for action.
Such devices, including a screen on
which were flashed stirring slogans
and photographs of the heroes, made
possible the rapidly shifting scenes
and swift action essential to the re-
production of 1905 events. The incl
dent Of Bloody Sunday was made a
living reality again. The workers, led
by the Priest Gapon, carrying ikons
and portraits of the car and singing
hymns, passed across the stage on
their way to the winter palace. A
moment later sounded the rattle OF
machine guns and the people came
running back, only to fall dead or,
wounded, to be lifted and carried away
by their comrades. At last, the terri
flying rattle of the machine guns gave
way to the sprightly music of a mill
tary band. Then followed the futile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-25

display and senseless chatter, strikes
a Earring note. for it is not possible to
contrast realism with burlesque.
A British battleship is unloading it's
cargo, which is in charge of an ener-
getic American The coolies, directed
by a cringing Chinese foreman, are
carrying the heavy bundles on their
backs, in an endless procession of
bent, straining bodies. A strange
jargon rises as they speak in their
own tongue. The foreman drones out
his orders, the workers take up the
cry and make ii into a song, and in
rhythmic motion they move the heavy
machines. Finally the dock is cleared
and the perspiring laborers are ready
for their pay. But the American bag
giles with them, finally refusing their
demands, and in scorn losses them
few coins
On deck, the fat lady and her ex-
travagently dressed daughter are try
ing to amuse themselves. The orches-
ira, in queer Scotch kits, is playing
above and the girl and her mother
dance with the American and a young
officer; glasses clink and champagne
flows-in short, typical Meierhold
scene. Thru the doors leading to the
deck slips a Whitehead figure, the
little Chinese cabin boy, with face
like a flower Across the water, of
stage, shouting is heard: it is the ris-
ing murmur of the discontinued work
ers. The cabin boy is called upon to
interpret it: the dock laborers demand
more money; they threaten. The Of
ficer draws his revolver, and the cabin
boy falls on his knees and begs him
not to shoot his people.
II is night and the ship looms up in
the shadows. The American is on the
dock bargaining with an old boatman
to take him across the narrow stretch
OF water. On the docks are lounging
several Of the disgruntled workers,
who watch the alterations with sym
pathetic interest The American re-
fuses the boatman's price. The boat
man. in turn, sits on mis- airs and re-
fuses to move The American attacks
him. the boatman lifts his oar; there
is a struggle. splash. and darkness
hides the scene. A little later the
workmen fish out Of the water the
Americans funny panama hat and
laugh at t.
The alarm is sounded-fhe Ameri-
can has been drownedl The crowd
grows. the Chinese police appear and
the boatman escapes in the crowd. A
long. stiH form wrapped In a sheet Is
carried in. The terror-stricken people
try to creep away, but are held back
by tho British marines, who have
quietly assumed command OF the town
The mayor of the town comes on
board the ship with his interpreter,
Chinese student. to offer regrets and
apologies for the accident. The cap
tain will accept no apologies; moral
recompense must be made for this
outrage to the British flag. But he Is
an American" suggests the student
IL Is all the same" replies the cap
tain. ''ho "a ours" He demands that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-25

changing action which in one scene is
on board the ship and in the next on
the dock effected by the transfer Of
Of light from the front to the back of
the stage), making possible a striking
contrast between the degenerate rich
foreigners on the deck and the Chi
nese workers on the dock. The scenes
with the Chinese are POLITICALLY realis-
tic, catching the sympathetic natures
of the people, but on board the
steamer Meierhold's usual exaggerated
burlesque of bourgeois society ex-
pressed In jazz and the fox trot vulgar
Evening star., 1926-12-09
BANDIT KILLS GIRL
BEARING YULE GIFT
Young Woman Shot on Way Home
With Present for Invalid
Father.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Emily Collins, 18, was shot and
killed last night on a dark road near
her home, in Linwood, Pa, by negro
when she refused to give him Christ
mas presents she had just purchased
for her invalid father.
News of the shooting brought hun
dreds of men. to the scene in a snort
time. In groups they took up the
search for the negro. Police later
arrested two negroes on suspicion.
One of them was said to have con-
fessed and to have attempted to com
NIT suicide while being questioned.
Miss Collins had made some pur-
chases at a store while on her way
home from the viscose plant at Mar
Gus Hook, where she worked. Less
than a half a block from the store
a negro stepped out of the darkness.
Drop the bundles and throw up
your hands," he ordered.
When she refused he fired tnree
times. the bullets entering her body
With a cry, Miss Collins dropped her
packages in the snow and ran back
to the store, where she collapsed. Sne
died without regaining consciousness
while being taken to a hospital.
AS news of the shooting spread, 1t
developed that several other persons
had been accosted by a negro. De-
scriptions furnished by these persons
led to the arrest of Ollie Strickland
25, who is charged with the glris
murder. A revolver was %ound IN MS
possession.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
SPANISH OFFICIAL
M0BBED IN MEXICO
Crowd Attacks Him After He
Hits Policeman for Traffic
Arrest.
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, December 9.-Pedro
Gual, Spanish charge d'affaires here,
was saved from possible serious injury
at the hands of an infuriated crowd
by Aaron Saenz, Mexican foreign min
lister, late yesterday. The Spanish
diplomat was being mauled mercilessly
by the crowd for striking a traffic
policeman in the face and knocking
him down because the policeman stop
ped his automobile for violating a
traffic rule.
Gual was driving his machine
through the commercial district dur
ing the peak of traffic and failed to
obey a stop signal. ,Thereupon the
policeman ran after the car, stopped
it and attempted to arrest Gual.
Indignant, Gual jumped out of the
car and struck the policeman in the
face. Passersby who had witnessed
the incident rushed to the rescue of
the officer and were showering blows
upon Gual when Senior Saenz happen
ed to come upon the scene.
The foreign minister, recognizing
the Spanish charge, rushed into the
vortex of the melee and loudly shout
ed to the crowd that the man they
were beating was a Spanish repre-
sentative to Mexico. Thereupon, the
hostile element Immediately ceased
their attack and Gual was taken away
from the scene.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
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1000 to Attend Oyster Roast.

Plans for the accommodation Of
1000 guests at an oyster roast and
outing at Buena Vista Park, at the
foot Of Portland street southeast, near
the site Of the steel plant, will be
perfected tonight at a meeting OF
Vincent B. Costello Post of the Ameri-
can Legion in the boardroom Of the
District Building.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

The Central European Federation
for Inland Navigation, which was or
ganized by Germany, Austria, Hun
gary and Switzerland before the war
may be revived in order to protect the
waterways from the strong competi-
ZION Of railways and motor trucks.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

By Old-Established
Real Estate Firm,

Man capable of assuming
general supervision of Office
personnel. Must have compe-
tent knowledge of mortgage
loans and possess executive
ability. The matter of COM
pensation will be determined
when the man qualities. Ad-
dress, Realtors, Box l99-V, Star
Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-02
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, July . Omitted States
Department of Agriculture).-Hogs
Receipts, 1000 head; slow: early
trading mostly to shippers and yard
traders; fully steady with yesterdays
best time; bulk, 40 to 100 pound
averages, 1490a15.00 $50 to 210
pound kind sorted, 14.S0al4.90; 225 to
240 pound averages mostly 1i.40a
1855; ESQ to 800 pound butchers.
l3.90a14.15; early sales. desirable pack
ing sows mostly, 12.00a12.50; packers
buying few butchers and sows I'M
evenly 10 to 90 cents lower; heavy
weight hogs, 13.25a14.40: medium,
14.o0a14.6o; light. 14.00al4.9o: light
light. 14.15a15.00 packing sows. 1l.40a
1850; slaughter pigs, 1i.25a15.00.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000 head: gen.
orally steady to strong trade; uneven;
light yearlings and desirable heifers
in broadcast demand, due to week S
sharp advance, apparently top heavy:
best matured steers. 1875; light
warnings. 1910; most fat steers. 9.o0a
1915; grassy kind, SIS downward;
feeders slow: little change in she
stock: grassy cows weak; vealers fully
steady at 1850 downward to HOO.
Sheep-Receipts. 1000 head: fat
lambs strong to Is cents higher: bulk
natives and Westerns showing adj
vance: native Gull lambs and sheep
steady: five doubles of Idahoes with
$50 out. 1910: bulk natives. 14.75a
Is. 90: culls. 11.10a11.5O: bulk fat'ewes.
5.0Oa65O; late yesterday three dou
bles So pound Idaho. Oregon and
Washington feeders. 1850; one deck
20 pounds, 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-02
WALL STREET BRIEFS

NEW YORK, July 2.-Increases in
the operating program of General Mo-
tors Corporation over the coming
months involves an expenditure in
plant and equipment Of about $40 900, :
900, Alfred p. Sloan, president. has
Uniformed stockholders. About IS 900, :
1000 will be used to provide additional
capacity for the Chevrolet motor di-
vision; $4,000, 900 for the Oakland mo-
TOR car division at Pontiac; $1,000 900
. for Buick motor division at Flint;
/ $l2, 100000 to double present plant
FACILITIES of Delco Light Co. Dayton.
; for refrigerator expansion, and per
maps more than $4,000, 900 for manu-
1acture of busses and trucks.
~ Salt Creek Producers Association
declared an extra dividend of 81 a
share in addition to a regular
quarterly of 6212 cents, which places
the stock on an annual basis of $3.50
a share. Both are payable August
~ / to holders of record July 10. Pre-
,vious payments We're regular quar-
terly dividends of 20 cents with addi-
tional extras of 4212 cents.
Commercial failures in the United
States in June and for the second
quarter of this year We're fewer than
in the corresponding periods last year,
, compilation by r. &. DUN & Co
placing June defaults at LOS, against
. ! 100 in May and 1,745 III June. 1925,
and for the quarter 1895, against
5.+51 a year ago. Failures for the
FIRST half of 1926 were 11,476, with
liza bilites of $2o9, S9S, sol. compared
with APO in the first half of 1925
and liabilities of S239, 39S, 450
T.. 3. Reeser, president of Barnsdall
Corporation, reports to stockholders
that net income for the first half of
1926, with June estimated, increased
TO S3.15O,1SO. equal to S2.77 a share
on the 1,l37,561 shares of capital
stock outstanding. This compares
. with S1,226,0 96 for the same period
= last year, equal to $1.54 a share on
= 910952 shares outstanding at that
time Dividends paid in the six
months this year We're S1,137, SCI. No
dividends were disbursed last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-02
MERGER RUMORS LINK
N. Y. c. AND w.. B, & A

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, July 2.-The Western
Maryland Railway and the Washing.
Ton. baltimore and Annapolis Electric
railroad figure prominently in re-
ported plans for the inclusion in one
OF the larger railroad systems now
under consideration.
Both the New York Central and the
baltimore and Ohio have been men
toned in that connection. Under the
Ripley plan the Western MARYLAND
was allotted to the New York Central.
but there have been intimations that
the local line may pass to the control
of the Baltimore and Ohio.
Financial circles here link the West
ern Maryland with the Washington.
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Rail
road and the turning over of the com,
bined properties to the New York
Central. thus affordng the latter
entrance into the Capital as well as
into Baltimore