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The Washington times., 1927-06-28

Leo p. Flynn, who has rated
many a fighter in his day, ar.
rived and was commissioned
major dOmO OF the camp. Demp-
sey called his small staff to-
gether and told them Flynn is
the boss.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
SACCO, VANZETTI
WITNESS GIVEN
SECOND RESPITE

Boston.-Gov. Fuller has granted a
further respite to Celestine Madeiros.
confessed Wrentham bank murderer.
witness in the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
The respite will extend until April
q.
The action by the governor was on
the recommendation of retiring At
torney General Jay r. Benton. Ma
deiros has confessed to the murder
for which Nicola Sacco and Bartolo-
meo Vanzetti were convicted of COM
mitting in South Braintree when they
are alleged to have robbed a factory
paynlaster.
So Counsel for Sacco and N3nzettf
showed that Madeiros is necessary
witness for their clients IN new
trial if one is granted.
A previous respite granted Made
rios would have expired Jan. 27.
The producers news., 1927-01-28

Washington (FP)- VIM. Green,
in an editorial in the American Fed
erationist, just issued, voices the
views of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor on the
relations of the United States with
Latin-America. He declares it is
time to stop playing the imper1aiist
autocrat toward these weaker repub-
lies.
The American Federation of La
bor," says Green, "has long advocat-
ed the reference of disputes arising
between nations, which do not in
volve honor or sovereignty, to arbitral
tribunals for settlement. This is the
only method by which disinterested
decision upon a basis of facts can be
secured. Since judges are human the
term 'dlslnterested' must be under
stood as being relatively applied but
the decision of an arbitral court is
much more likely to be disintereste6
than the decision of interested par
ties.
"For the reason that the United
States is the oldest republic it must
assume an obligation to set standards
that may serve as guides to nations
less experienced in self-government.
The very essence of self-government
IS self-cOntrol and a proper regard
Tor the rights of others. Thus quick
~ do obligations supplement rights.
The people of the United States
believe that they have a right to de-
termlne the constitutionality of their
own laws; consequently they must
accord the exercise of the same right
TO the people of other nations. Should
there be dispute as to fact, in what
better way can such a DISPUTE he
settled than by an appeal to an ar
bltral tribunal? The fact that one
nation is weaker than the other puts
an additional test upon the quality
OF Justice of the arbitral tribunal
II the weaker nation makes the pro
posal OF arbitration to the stronger
can the latter refuse without serious
damage to its prestige and ideals?
Citizens of the United States firm
ly believe in the principle of self-de-
termination for nations. It is high
time to reach some definite under
standing of distinction between inter
ventlon and protection of the RIGHTS
and property of American citizens
These purposes permit wide latitudes
OF Interpretation which may some
times include the special interests of
questionable investments. There Is
The producers news., 1927-01-28
WALL STREET WHIPS ITS AGENTS
INTO LINE.
(From The Daily Worker)

The essentially imperialist character of the de-
mocrat party leadership differing little if any
from that of the republican party, has made it.
self clearly apparent in the clash over American
policy in Mexico
Southern democrat planters and northern middle
class republican spokesmen, to put the division in
It's crudest form, are lined up against big indus
t1allsts and bankers of both north and south
The division takes place also along religious lines
northern catholic splitting with southern pro-
testants on the Mexican question.
Hetlin, southern democrat and protestant
Wheeler northern democrat and protestant
Borah, northern republican and protestant
are IN opposition to Walsh, northern catholic
democrat and to Reed of Missouri, protestant
both leaders of the democrat party.
but the religious division serves only to obs
cure the real issue The forces aligned for and
The producers news., 1927-01-28
Exclusive Statement to the Feder-
ated Press.

WashingtOn-(FP)- Pensions by
the state governments to the aged
veterans of industry are proposed by
Sen. David l. Walsh of Massachu-
sets, democrat, and former governor
of the Bay State, in the following
statement prepared at the request of
the Federated Press:
81 have long been in favor of State
not Federal-old age pensions of
sufficient amount to enable men and
women of good character, who at
the age Of 65 or 70 have not accu-
mulated property sufficient for their
support, and no longer able to earn
a living, to be cared for in private
homes instead of public almshouses.
81 cannot agree with those who
argue that such a system disc0urages
thrift, nor with the suggestion that
old age in the pOOrhouse is common
ly the deserved penalty for idleness
or the indulgence of bad habits.
Those who have foresight and amb1-
tion enough to attempt to lay up a
provision for old age look for some
thing better than retirement on an
income that will barely secure for
them the absolute necessaries of life
as boarder in some private home.
And when we remember how large a
proportion of our industrial workers
can earn in the best of times only a
little more than bare subsistence
for themselves and their dependents,
and how often sickness and unem-
ployment interrupt even these small
earnings, we must wonder that the
proportion of those who in old age
must ask for public relief is not much
larger than it actually is.
"In fact, there is too much reason
to believe that very many married
sons and daughters, in order to spare
their aged parents the disgrace and
The producers news., 1927-01-28
WASHINGTON WEEKLY LETTER
SEN DAVID WALSH FOR OLD AGE PENSIONS

bitterness of pauperism, assume bur
dens which cannot be borne except
at the cost of depriving their own
children Of the rights of childhood
and the opportunities of success, and
of booming themselves in turn to an
OLD age OF HELPLESS dependence.
$50 long as our industrial workers
receive so small a share of the goods
that their labor enables our indus
tries to produce, it seems no more
than just that industry as a wnoie
should assume the relatively small
increase in cost that would result
from substituting the home for the
pooInouse Tor the wOrnout veterans
of industrial service"
This declaration is by far the most
clear-cut which has been made by any
senator from an industrial state since
the issue of safeguarding the old age
of the industrial veterans came to the
front two decades ago. In recent
years Congress has enacted old age
retirement laws for federal employ
es, and there is now pending a senate
joint resolution by Dale of Vermont
calling for an investigation into the
whole subject of civil service retire
ment pensions, by joint commission
of Congress.
Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts, in
his annual message to the state legis-
lature this month, attacked the exist
ing pension system for state en-
ployes, as being too costly, and de-
clareG that abolition of the pension
system must be considered by the
lawmakers. Spokesman for the re-
tired employees replied with figures
proving that their compulsory con-
tributions to the pension fund had
relieved the state of more than a
very small share of the cost. Fuller
declared that old age pensions en-
courage bad economic habits and are
a bar to thrift.
The producers news., 1927-01-28

Church, adopted by the K. of c.. as
beng an attempt to drive the Ameri-
can government into war to support
the Catholic church interest in Latin
America. Prompt denial of anv svm-
pathy with Mexican or Nicarapuan
intervention was voiced by such Cath
ollc senators as Walsh of Massachu-
setts, Ashurst of Arizona and Rams
dell of Louisiana, but their denials
gained less publicity than Heflin's
charges against the Knights.
The upshOt of the affair has been
decision by most of the senator's
that they must take action definitely
opposing any imperialistic war in
Latin America. They are glad of the
newspaper polls which have shown
such declarations as the administra-
i've committee of the Federal Coun-
ell OF Churches and the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor, have made in favor of ar
bitration in Mexico.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
YEA! PROSPERITY
is to be a prosperous year.

1927 is to be a prosperous year.
For whom? About half of the national income
Of the United States is now spent in the distribu-
ton of products This includes transportation,
advertising, merchandising, etc. Production alb
serbs half of our economic energy-distibution
the rest.
Bankers and business men are talking prosperi-
ty which is most evident in the wholesale and
retail trades in banking, financing and advertis-
ing. Chain stores and department stores are hav-
ing a banner year.
Farmers are also having banner year. They
nave produced a record crop of cotton. Corn,
fruit and other commodities are in excess of
normal. But with the rise in farm production
has gone a corresponding fall in farm prices
New York and Chicago banks and business
houses are declaring extra dividends and hiding
their surplus profits in building construction
But here is an Oregon farmer selling his apple
crop for less than it cost him. Railroad shopmen
are working in Illinois towns for $40 week; cot
ton growers who spent 16c a pound on their crop
are selling it for lie; and Illinois corn land that
sold for $500 an acre in 1920 has no takers to-
day at $50. The British coal strike temporarily
relieved the terrific situation in the soft-coa mines
"a situation that has continued for three years.
Prosperity IOr the Dig oankSI Prosperity for
stockholders in some of the big producing indus
tries. Prosperity for the small number of work
ers in some of the highly skilled locally important
crafts like building, printing and railroading Tex
tile workers, soft-coal miners boot and shoe work
ers enjoy no such advantage.
True, production was up in 1926 but the num-
Der of commercial failures was the third highest
IN Y. 5. history and work was down. Compared
with 1923 the number of employees in the textile
industry at the end of 1926 was 500; in the food
industry 94%o; in iron and steel 9296; in lumber
2@o The basic industries are generally under a
pale Of economic depression
Inc great mass of unorganized, unskilled work
ers and farmers in the United States are on the
edge of the subsistence precipice. Every wear =
goodly number drop.
The producers news., 1927-01-28

subcommittee. While it is unlikely
that the full committee will favorablv
empower the committee to subpoena
the New York Bankers to come be-
fore the senators and testify to their
operation abroad-the hearing will
expose some of the imperialist back
ground of the Nicaraguan and Mexi-
can policy of Mr.. Kellogg.
There continues to come to Sen
Tom Heflin of Alabama, who has
kept up a running fire of remarks
against the Mexican attitude of the
knights of Columbus, a great stream
OF messages of congratulation on his
performance. Heflin deliberately in
voked anti-Catholic feeling as a
means of checking the adnoinistra~
tlon's seizure of Nicaraguan terri
tory and its threats toward Mexico
lie represented the famous Phila-
delphia resolution on Mexico and the
The producers news., 1927-01-28

nal these 20 companies had combined 1876 pro-
fit of $76O,587 70OO compared with $654,595,OOO IN
1925 This is a gain of $1O5,992,OOO or more than
1696
The profits of these 20 concerns would have
provided a $3.50 increase in wages to at least q
100000 industrial workers If the owners had
been satisfied with a repetition of the generous
profits of 1926 the balance of the 1926 profits
would have provided a 1919 increase in wages for
100000 factory workers
General Motors leads, with profits increased
from $116,O16,OOO in 1925 to $183 674OOO in 1926.
a gain of about S67,OOO,OOO. This rich prize
money goes chiefly to the Dupont munition kings
and other millionaires affiliated with the house
Of Morgan.
U. S. Steel, another Morgan trust, comes sec
ond, with profits increased from $117,712,0OO in
1925 to $138, ,225,OOO in 1926, while American
Telephone & Telegraph, also Morgan monopoly,
increased its profits from $129,O36,OOO to $780,
125 900. Only of the 25 corporations failed to
show an increase in profits.
The following are the 20 companies with their
1QOS opd 1905 TrOfitcr
The producers news., 1927-01-28
II BOYS ARE KILLED
WHEN TRAIN HITS BUS
Texas Athletes Meet Disaster When
on Way to Play Basket BaII-Stu-
dents of Texas University.

Austin, Tex, Jan. % (AP\-
Eleven members of the BAYLOR TIni-
yersity basketball squad of Waco.
Texas, were killed, five were prob.
ably fatally injured and six were
less seriously hurt in a collision
between an autOmOmile but and a
Iast passenger train of the Texas
mternatiOnal-Great Northern rail
road at Round Rock % miles north
east of here today.
Inc toll of the accident was an
nounced by Milton Morris. general
agent for the railroad.
Inc bus was carrying the basket
pail team which was on its wav from,
waco to Austin, where Bavlor was
TO play the University of Texas to-
night.
Nurses and doctors were sent from
Austin and Taylor and at 1:1O q. m
the train which struck the automobile
was being held to carry the injured
TO Taylor, about Is miles awav. The
nurses and doctors were held AFT Tav-
ler to receive the injured.
Morris said the fast Sunshine sne.
clal OF his road and the bus. loaded
with students, crashed at an opdn
croSslngs ~ fssssf.s
All the occupants of the bus wersa
either killed or injured. accortjinp $
Morris information. The accidaD,
occurred at 11:45 a. m.
Names of the dead and injured
were not available at the railroad
offices here. ~
The nurses and doctors are Ywa;t.
ing at Taylor, and the injured viii
be cared for there" said Morris
Our information is that five Of n.
injured cannot live until they arrive
at Taylor"
/. K. Howeth, of San Antonio. saw
the accident while driving an auto.
mobile following the wrecked bus.
He said the bus driver apparentl,
The producers news., 1927-01-28

affair has created in South America.
American investments in all Latin
america amount to more than S3.-
OOO,OOO,OOO, and the bankers believe
That the income from these holdings
VIII be seriously affected by loss OF
confidence in the good faith of the
United States among the nations of
Latin-America.
Washington-(FP)- If President
Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg are
biting their nails in rage because the
country and congress refuse to see
that Mexico must be invaded or her
government Overthrown on the oil
land title issue, the country and Con-
gress are getting even more impa-
tlent with Coolidge and Kellogg.
There's no way to arbitrate con-
flscation of our property" says the
1rettul spokesman at the White
House.
Arbitration of the right of our oil
companies to their lands presents all
sorts OF problems" warns the state
department. "There is no knowing
That the two governments can agree
on what to arbitrate."
But from the capitol comes every
day more vigorous protest at the
mental ineptitude of Kellogg and the
norris introduces two resolutions.
The first requires that the commit
tee on foreign relations investigate
The charges that the Associated
Press story of a "Mexican-fostered
Bolshevist hegemony" in Central
America. This involves the news
paper account of how Assistant Sec
retary Olds tried to get the three
principal press associations to tell
the country that Mexico was trying
to establish Bolshevist federation
from the Rio Grande to Panama.
Next Sen. Norris asks for infor-
nation as to how many oil companies
nave complied with the new laws in
Mexico and how man oil companies
have played the defiant game urged
by Kellogg in Mexico. Mexican Of
ficials have reported that an over
whelming majority of the operating
companies have accepted the laws.
and that the ones holding out are
those whose claims to land titles will
not bear inspection. In this man.
euveFg of inquiry, Norris seeks TO q,
pose the hollowness of the Coolidge
pretense that actual confiscation a.
legally acquired property rights IS
involved.
Again, there is the Wheeler reso-
tuition calling for investigation of all
American concessions and invest
ments, showing how they were Sc
cured, the terms, and the effect thew
have had and are likely to have upon
the relations of the Washington gov
ernment to the governments of the
countries in which the concessions
ana investments are located. This Is
TO be considered at q hearing before
subcommittee of the committee ON
foreign relations within a few davs.
Sen. Shipstead is chairman of the
The producers news., 1927-01-28
DUN REPORTS 9,435
TRADERS IN MONTANA

Helena, Jan. 23.-(AP)-On Jan
uary 1, 1927, 9,435 active traders in
Montana were listed on the books of
the R. G. Dun & Co., commercial
agency. In letter to Barclay Craig
head, state director of publicity,
Dun's manager, w. E. Pierce, lists
166 commercial failures during 1925.
The number is two more than in the
previous year, but the total liabilities,
81, ,234, ,019, are less than the previous
year by. $34G,815, The number of
failures is identical with 1924 but the
liabilities $781,014 less than that
year.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
Montana Power Co. Sells
10000 Shares in S Hours

The Montana Power company's Of
fering of 10000 shares of its common
stock, to Montana residents only, ad-
vertised as available from January
10 to January 20, was taken up and
heavily oversubscribed five hours af
ter the sale opened at nine o'clock
Monday morning.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
TWO MORE DEAD

georgetown, Tex, Jan. % (AP)-
william Winchester and Robert Han
nah, who were injured in the train
and bus accident at Round Rock to-
day and brought to the hospital here
were dead when the ambulance reach
ed here. These two were the only
ones brought to this place, the others
being carried on the train to the hos
pital at Taylor.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
Wolf Point Defeats Saco

Wolf Point.-Wolf Point high
school boys basketball team defeat
ed Saco Friday night, 38 to 10. This
is the seventh consecutive victory for
Wolf Point boys. Wolf Point girls
defeated Bainville by a score of "a
to II, on Bainville's floor.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
LAW AND MOTION
DAYS In DANIELS CO.
Motion for Retrial in Kittock Case
POstpOned-Defense Attorney Re-
quests More Time to Prepare Show
ing.


ing.
Scobey. - Presiding in District
Court here this week on regular Law
and Motion days, Judge S. E. Paul
granted Attorney Thos. M. Keogan
ten days more time in which to pre-
pare a showing on his motion for a
new trial for his client, Joe Kittock.
now under sentence for from 5 to
10 years, having been convicted of
manslaughter, causing the death of
Carl Siegert.
A motion for new trial is the first
step Of an appeal which may be tax
en- in case a new trial is refused.
New evidence obtained since the trial
is usually the basis for such a mo-
ton. However, it appears that Attor-
ney KeOgan will attempt to show
that tn verdict in the Kittock case
was not in accordance with law or
the evidence submitted at the trial.
KOpsky Estate Aired
Anton Mark, administrator of the
estate of the late James Kopsky of
Madoc, filed his final report and
this case occupied almost half the
day.
Mark, a cousin of the deceased
and one other party We're made the
chief beneficiaries of the Kopsky will
A sister, a resident of Bohemia in
Europe, was to receive the balance
of the estate. Attorneys Geo. Cud-
HE and Paul Crum appeared for
her, holding that proper considera-
tion of her interests in the estate
had not been given.
Attorney John S. Nyquist, repre-
sented the administrator.
Other routine and ex parte matters
were taken care Of during the short
session.
The producers news., 1927-01-28

did not see the rapidly approaching
tram which was whistling.
!, When the bus reached the tracks
the train was almost upon it. the bus
driver turned suddenly parallel and
going in the same direction as the
tram; The crash came almost in
stantly. The bus was splintered.
The producers news., 1927-01-28
CORPORATIONs, HUGE PROFITS

How 1926 has showered profits on the owners
Of the big corporations is shown in a Wall Street
Journal analysis of the profits of the 20 industrial
companies which are used in making IN the Dow
Jones market averages According to the Jour-
The producers news., 1927-01-28
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Federatedpresg.

WashingtOn-(FP) - Asserting on
the basis Of official Diplomatic oDd
naval records that the U. S. govern
ment had made and unmade the gov
ernments in Nicaragua and had ne
gotated with itself the loan treaty.
ana canal treaty on which armed in
CerVentlon Is now excused. Sen. Bor-
an told the senate that the time had
come for fair dealing with Latin
America.
Either withdraw the marines who
alone keep AdOlfo Diaz in Nicara-
qua, or force Diaz to resign and
thereupon conduct a fair election
whereby the people may determine
their own government" was his fin
al demand upon Pres. Coolidge and
Secy. Kellogg.
IN passing, the chairman of the
foreign relations committee declared
that the United States should offer
70 arDltrate its dispute with Mexico
over the oil and land laws in Mexico
de added that the American govern
ment should embark immediately nm
on campaign of conciliation in or
qer to win back the good opinion of
Latln-America which recent acts of
the Washington administration have
destroyed.
his Nlcaraguan action of our
government" said Borah after he
had quoted Elihu Roots Indictment
Of its background, twas as uncon-
sclonable an act of imperialism as
ever disgraced any nation with
which we have exchanged criticisms. I"
Senators commenting upon the
"Bolshevik Policy" document made
public by Kellogg, said it was old
stuff. Sen. Wheeler called it a "red
herring rather than a red peril"
Because it finds that the object of
the recent aggressions and excuses of
Coolidge and Kellogg is military con-
quest of Mexico in order to exploit
the wealth of that country, the Wash
mgton Daily News, Scripps-Howard
paper, has started a straw vote to
determine whether the man in the
street wants this unprovoked war.
1t prints ballot with a space for
a Yes or No vote on the proposition
-"On the basis of the reasons pre-
sented to date by Pres. Coolidge and
z Secy. Kellogg, dosy you think the gov.
ernment is justified in assuming a
position that may lead. to war with
. Mexico 2" go
The total number of American citi-
sens IN Nicaragua, as set forth In
consular reports, is 362, of whom 96
are children. There are 116 in COM
merce, 100 in the lumber business.
81 missionaries, 26 professional peo-
pie, 16 farmers, etc. The total Of
American investments in Nicarapra
is about $9,500,0 900.
Rumors have reached Washington
that the Morgan and other big finan-
eial houses are disturbed bv the
unanimous reaction of hatred of the
United States which the Nicararuan
The producers news., 1927-01-28

Women Urge Outlawing of War.
Washington-(FP) - Adoption of
the Frazier resolution, proposing an
amendment to the federal constitu-
tiOn which would outlaw war and
war-like activities on the part of the
government of the United States,
was urged on a subcommittee of the
Senate judiciary committee at a hear
ing Jan. % by representatives of the
Women's Peace Union. Sen. Gillett
Of Massachusetts, former speaker of
the House, and Sen. Neely of West
Virginia, Spanish war veteran, lis
tened to the arguments.
In substance, the women declared
that war is known to be a crime
against humanity, and that the next
world war may result in the wiping
out of almost all of the members of
the races engaged. To prevent a
drift toward this possible suicide of
a large part of the human family, the
femlnlsts have seen that war itself
must be made illegal. Appropriations
for military preparedness, normal as
well as special, must be prohibited
IN the constitution. Politicians and
mllitarists must be deprived of power
to surrender the nation to slaughter.
Ehnor Byrns of New York intro
duced the speakers, who included
Sara Bard Field, Caroline Lexow
Babcock, Katherine Devereaux Blake.
Gertrude Franchet Tone, Mary B.
Orr, Laetitia M. Conard and Edwina
Stanton Babcock.