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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
Heavy Rain i'm New York.

NEW YORK. July % CP.-A little
more than half an inch Of rain fell
within a few minutes here today. Two
points nearby--Stapleton and New
Brighton on Staten handicapped
0.6S of an inch in a seven-minuts
downpour. Hundreds OF automobiles
were stranded in the rain section OF
Staten Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
ST. STEPHENS CLUB
HOLDS ANNUAL OUTING
Excursion Goes to Marshall Hall.
Program Includes Athletic Con-
tests and Entertainments.

The St. Stephens Club is holding its
annual excursion to Marshall Hall to-
day. The program includes athletic
contests and other entertainments.
Thomas L. Bromley is general chair.
man, with the following committees
under his charge: Athletics-Michael
J. INLAND, chairman; Thomas Mcguire,
James Parrot, J. w. Davis, Patrick
Gallagher and Felix Murphy; advertis-
ing, William Robert and Thomas Nc
Donough: prizes, John Holloran,
James Mcdonnell, Matthew O'Calla-
CHAN. Laurence INLAND and Thomas
B. Stanton; tickets, Matthew Noone,
William Robert. James Mcdonnell
and Harry Frank; reception, William
V. Griffin, Michael E. Buckley, Rev. T.
Vincent Fitzgerald. Thomas Noone.
Victor Schulz. Patrick McDermott and
Laurence Conner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
SUBWAY STRIKE
PEACE PLAN FAILS
President of marlborough
Refuses to Attend Farley
Called by Mayor.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 23-The specter
OF another subway strike in New York
doomed today.
After Mayor Walker had arranged
to hold a conference with union Off
Gals at City Hall this afternoon,
Frank Hedley. president of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Co, wrote to
the mayor declining to attend. Mr.
Hedley asserted that the membership
Of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
was too small ito cause any serious
strike"
Belong to Company Union"
The employees OF the company
belong to "a company union spokes-
men for the amalgamated organiZa-
ton, which has the backing OF the
American Federation of Labor. de
clared that Is per cent OF the Inter
borough employees belong to the
Amalgamated.
The attitude Of the officials Of the
Brooklyn Transit Co. in
regard to attending the conference
To-Day mas not vet Deen ndue knOWH.
The Amalga mated claims that 6S per
cent of the Brooklyn employees are
members Of the organization.
Letter Follows Threat.
Mr.. Hedley's letter followed a threat
Of James II. Coleman, general or
ganizer of the Amalgamated, that the
failure of Mr.. Hedey and William
Menden, president of the B. NJ. T., to
appear at the mayors conference
would result in an immediate demand
that they recognize the Amalgamated
or a strike would be called.
Mr.. Hedley declared that the failure
of the Amalgamated to muster more
than $50 persons last night 'in-the-
much.heralded great mass meeting
in Brooklyn proved the correctness of
his view. He declared that not more
than eight /. r. r. employees were
present, excepting others there to OBJ
serve what took place.
He declared that he was advised
that the injunction obtained in the
Supreme Court during last years
strike, enjoining interference with the
relations between the Interborough
and its employees, was still effective
and any one aiding or abetting inter.
ference with those relations would be
in contempt Of court.
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Births Reported.

Leo and Mary Capone boy.
Charles F: and Iva Daley. boy.
Maurice + and Bernice L. Flynn. boy.
Robert and Bessie Greenfield, boy.
Gerald G. and Ruth Gross. boy.
Thomas F. and Mary l.. Heath boy.
Frank and Gertrude Hoffman. boy.
Walter and Ida Long. girl.
Paul I. and Mae r. Mcdaniel, girl.
Edward r. and Alice L. McKenna. boy.
Harry D; and Ida J. Randall, boy.
Max and Annie Raphelson, boy.
Robert and Simmons, girl.
Charles l.. and Bertha Smith. boy.
Nathan and Sarah Walker girl.
Lloyd W. and Isabel Wineberg. boy.
Green and Ruby Mitchell; boy.
George ", and Geneva Brown, girl.
Thomas c. and Villa M Corbitt. boy,
lanes and Louise jackson. boy.
eAeTlea and Mary Vincent, sirt; rxr
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HIT
BY SEVERE STORM
Cloudburst Washes AWaN
Bridges--Three Counties I
-. Suffer Damage. S@g:.I
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa. July 2s.-TraN
flc was tied up and damage RUNNING
well into the thousands of dollars REL
suited from the storm which swept
the north part of Dauphin and rarts
OF Cumberland and Perry Countiea
early today.
In the vicinity Of Duncannon. &c
miles northwest of here, cloudhursS
caused the new station OF the SusJ
quehanna River and Western Railway
Co. 10 collapse. and also washed awaT
a number OF bridges on the line, which,
it is said will tie up traffic for severAl
months at least. The line operates
between Duncannon and Jew Bloomi
field.
Tho Juniata River rose several feet
within a short time. overlooking it3
banks and cutting off six houses in
the lower part OF Duncannon The
waters reached the second stories of
the houses before they began to
reCede.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
LOS ANGELES FLIGHT
TO HAWAII CALLED OFF
Diribible Ordered to Continue
Training Operations With
Lakehurst as Base.

By the Associated Press.
The crew Of the airship Los An
geles must forego the thrills of a
flight across the continent and then
overseas to Hawaii this Summer, 1t
was announced today by the Navy
Department.
Orders are for the big dirigible to
remain based on Lakehurst and to
continue the training operations in
which she has been engaged. Reports
that the craft would sail for the West
Coast on August /, prompted the de-
partment's announcement.
The Los Angeles now is being re-
conditioned at Lakehurst with the
overhauling of her engines and the
building up of her gas cells.
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Kenilworth Council, No. 10, Daugh-
ters of America. with Woodrow Will
son Council. No. IL. Junior Order of
United Mechanics, will hold the last
Of their series of lawn fetes on the
carnival grounds at Kenilworth ave-
nue. and Douglass street, for the bene-
At Of their building fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
SMITH AND BRONTE SAIL.
Flyers Who Crashed on Molokai
Leave for Mainland.

HONOLULU. July % OP.-Ernest
l.. Smith and Emory B. Bronte, who
crashed on an island go miles from
here in their recent San Francisco,
Honolulu flight. today were en- route
to the mainland aboard the President
Jefferson. They were rendered n
series of farewell receptions yester.
day.
Salvaged instruments, charts and
other parts OF their wrecked mono,
plane, City of Oakland, were slowed
away aboard the President Jefferson!
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Storm Hits PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA. July % R-
Traffic suffered serious delay. streetA
were covered with water. many Gel.
lars were flooded and thousands of
dollars damage was done when
severe electrical storm accompa MED
by an unusually heavy rain swept
Philadelphia and vicinity today.
In Philadelphia sewers were choked
and many streets were under water
for short period. Hundreds OF auto.
mobiles We're stalled.
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Marriage Licenses.

Edwin $. Randall and Mabel s. Sanders.
Fred Henson and Beatrice Reid.
George A. Grebe of Baltimore. Md, and
Linnie Preston OF Hampstead Md:
John r. Lillard and Emily c. Ross.
George A Bradford of Boston. Mass. and
sabna H. Williams OF. Attleboro Mass.
Sanford H. Brown of BROOKLYN. n. Y. and
Euzabeth H KendrIck Of this city.
David Lazarus and Esther Klivltzky.
. Robert n. Ridgeway and Mabel M, Doug.
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Kenyon Election Landslide.

The election Of Kenyon was a land
slide. He piled UP II votes to 10 votes
for Capt. Harvey L. Miller, the Navy
candidate" The slate of nominees for
other officers contained no contests,
and the convention went through the
formality of electing them.
The new commander of the Legion
in the District served in the military
intelligence section of the Army in the
World War. He was rendered an ova-
ton as he assembled the rostrum after
election. He is 81 years old, native
of Saratoga, n. Y, and came here IN
early life. He was educated at George
town University, the University of
Virginia, the National Law School and
New York University Law School.
For many years he was associated in
the practice of law here with the late
Henry B. F. Mcfarland.
The boxing resolution was victory
for the man Kenyon defeated. Capt.
Miller sponsored the boxing project,
whereby the Legion would be desig-
mated to carry on bouts on the floor OF
Miller's ''home post" Costello, and had
it brought before the resolutions COM
mittee of the convention. The resolu-
lions committee rendered it "disap-
proved" to the convention. William F..
Franklin, retiring adjutant of Costello
Post, moved to rescind the, action Of
the resolutions committee and TO adopt
the resolution. A compromise was
agreed upon whereby the specifica-
tons Of personnel of the proposed box
ing commission were eliminated and
the resolution was adopted, placing
the department on record a faVoring
bill for regulation Of boxing in the
District Of Columbia under an athletic
commission Of three members.
Other Officials Chosen.
In addition to Comdr. Kenyon, the
new officials of the Legion in the Dis
trict for the ensuing year, elected at
the convention last night, are:
J. Thad Baker Of Sergt. Jasper
Post, senior vice commander; Will
liam Morrell Of Lincoln Post, second
vice commander, and Miss Beatrice
Bowman Of Jane A. Delano Post, third
vice commander.
Delegates to the national conven-
ton in Paris are: Thomas J. Frailey
Of Sergt. Jasper Post, Col. William
Mitchell Of Costello Post, Miss Mar
jorie Dice Woodsell Of Jane A. Delano
Post, Howard S. Fisk Of George
Of Stuart Walcott Post and. Miss
Esther V. Hall of Jacob Jones Post,
in addition to Past Comdr. Amos A.
Fries and Comdr. Kenyon, who were
elected by reclamation.
Alternates to the national conVen-
ton are: Thomas d. Walsh of Cos
tello Post, Stephen B. Miller Of James
Reese Europe Post, Walter NJ. Walsh
OF Beauchesne Post, Robert. NJ.
Zacharias and James F. Pierce of
Cooley-NcCullough Post, Richard
Seelye Jones and Malcolm Coles OF
National Press Club Post and Thomas
Edward Jones Of James E. Walker
Post.
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Mor0nes Returns Home.

An election of officers was held last
night to permit Luis Morones to re.
turn to Mexico Immediately. Morones
was reelected vice president, and
Santiago Iglesias was chosen secre.
tary TO fill the post which has been
held by two officers. an English speak
ing secretary and a Spanish speaking
secretary, and Matthew Woll was
elected treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
BRITISH DELEGATES
TO MEET CABINET
AGAIN ON MONDAY

Continued from First Page)
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OUTGOING STEAMERS.

OUTGOING STEAMERS.
SAILING TODAY.
Transy1vanla-Moville and Glasgow.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Liverpool.
veendam-Plypouth. Boulogns and Rot
BaitieMoueenstown and Liverpool.
Hellig olav-Christiansand. oslo and "OPENS
sibonsy-Havana.
Arapahoe-San Juan
Dorothy-Santo Domingo City.
Zacapa-Santiago. Kingston and Puerto
San Jose-santiawo. Kingston and Puer4a
Nerissa@St. Johns. -
Fort Victoria-BermudA. .
Uiua-Havans. Cristobal and Port Limon.
Alban=Para.
Commercial Pilot-Buenos Aires.
Gronlsnd--Monte Christi.
Howick Hall-Buenos Aires.
\ ordfarer-Nassau
Clan Macnair-Capetovn.
SAILING TOMORROW. |
Kansan--Cristobal and Pacific Coast.
SAILING MONDAY. JULY rs.
Blue Triangle-Piraeus.
SAILING TUESDAY. JULY 20.
Cristobal-Port au Prince and Cristobsl.
ada. Trinidad and Demerara.
SAILING WEDNESDAY. JULY 27.
Cristobal and Santa Marta.
Maracaibo--San Juan. La Guayra and
ManTetania~C and southampton.
President acknowledgements. Cherbourg
and Bremen.
and Genoa.
SAILING THURSDAY. JULY 2s.
American Trader-Plymouth and London.
Observation-Disclosures Southampton and
Thomas. Martinique and Trini-
dad
ProEreso. Vera Crus and
Tampico.
San Lorenzo-San Juan.
suffren-Havre.
SAILING FRIDAY. JULY 90. -
Colombia and Cartag
Flora--La Guayra. Puerto Cabello and 4 Ia
caibo.
Trinidad and Demerasa,
4llnATEQ.-SaDea f.EENy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23

tween the British and japanese dele.
cations.
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REDS DENOUNCED
IN LABOR CONGRESS
AS "CONTEMPTIBLE"

Continued from First Page.)
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EFFICIENCY BUREAU
ABOLITION IS URGED
American Legion Department
Elects Kenyon Commander.
Boxing Is Favored.

After hearing charges that the
United States Bureau Of Efficiency
was depressing from the course
mapped out for it by the law the de-
nartmental convention Of the Ameri-
can Legion OF the District of Column
bia at the concluding session OF the
Interior Department Auditorium last
night went on record as faVoring the
abolition OF this bureau and allied Of
fees and transfer Of the functions to
the Civil Service Commission.
The convention also elected j. NIL.
Ter Kenyon, Army candidate ana
local attorney, to head the local de-
partment for the ensuing year, and
adopted a resolution which IN effect
sponsors legalized boxing in the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Charge of Negligence.
The discussion regarding the Bureau
of Efficiency was the outstanding
event of the concluding session. 1t
started when Harlan Wood of Victory
Post. chairman of the resolutions
committee, presented, as approved, a
resolution charging the Bureau OF Ell
ficiency with having been grossly
negligent and utterly Indifferent IN
performing the duties required by law
in establishment and maintenance of
a system of efficiency rating based
upon fact, whereby eX-service men
and women may have the protection
afforded by law"
He asked that the convention adopt
the resolution. District Auditor
Daniel ]. Donovan. spokesman for
the Costello Post delegation. was on
the floor Immediately, demanding evil
dence TO support the charges.
Wood replied in a half-hour speech.
In which he indicted the Bureau Of
Efficiency for failing to carry out the
provisions Of the law which gave 1t
existence by not establishing ratings
in fact" but rather establishing
abstract" standards Of rating.
Cites Concrete Case.
He cited a concrete case bearing on
an employee of the Government Print
ing Office, which he said was l. vet
eran out of % dropped from the rolls
without regard TO the preference given
by law to veterans whose rating in
cluded such things as cooperative
ness, alertness. dependabilitv and
adaptability." He said these abstract
qualifications were sufficient to bring
the veteran below the grade necessary
for his retention in the premises.
whereas he was in the first rank of
linotype operators in the Government
Printing Office if the facts" as to
quality and quantity of his work alone
were considered.
Wood declared that the bureau had
departed from its legally charted
course in going into the District gov
eminent offices for Investigations.
Browns investigation in the Dis
trict government was unwarranted,
and outside of the scope Of the generic
act Of the bureau" he said.
The resolution favors congressional
legislation to consolidate the functions
of the Bureau OF Efficiency, the Per-
sonnet Classification Board and. the
United States Employees Compensa-
ton Commission as far as personnel
matters are concerned, and transfer
of all these functions to the Civil
Service Commission. The resolution
was adopted with few dissenting
votes.
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Continued from Page -.
if war between the countries was I'M
avoidable. The demands of the So
Wet Union, tho presented with firm
ness were reasonable and Poland ap-
parently came to the conclusion that
her own best interests would not be
served by continuing to be a head
quarters for gangs of assassins
operating against Soviet leaders, but
by more peaceful policy, based on
mutual commercial interests.
THERE is reason to believe that Po-
lands negotiations with the Soviet
Union are not conducted without the
knowledge of the French foreign Of
flee. French diplomacy is not well
satisfied with the present political
situation on the continent. Italy and
England are too close for French
comfort and Downing Street has been
flirting with Germany ever since the
last gun was fired in the world war
England is trying to bring Germany
into the anti-Soviet bloc and it is
doubtful If this arrangement will
prove satisfactory to France.
THE Polish minister to Moscow is
now visiting the Caucasus where
he will have an opportunity to see
The gushing oil wells, for which the
imperialist powers would sacrifice
millions of lives and the self-deter-
nination. of half dozen small ma
ions. Perhaps Poland may earn a
'2w zlotys by acting as middleman
or the distribution of this oil! At
any rate the last shuttle has not been
given to the diplomatic cards. The
Soviet Union is willing to go long
way to help maintain peace. Given
ten years more of peaceful develop
ment the Soviet Union would be
strong enough to stand off the I'M
perialist world, which by that time
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Current EOentS By :: J. 0TIzHEE77

will be much more rotten than it is
now and more susceptible to the revo-
lutionary axe of the workers.
THE danger of war against the So
4 Wet Union might seem like the
cry of wolf! Wolff" in Aesop's
fable, but the danger is very real in
deed and as inevitable as anything
could be. The main question is:
when will the imperialist powers now
led by Great Britain think the time
ripe for the offensive? The intensifi-
cation of embellishments &C
tivities inside Russia speaks for it.
self. Nevertheless a soap-box orator
for the American Labor Party stated
last Saturday night that there was no
danger of war, and quoted Marshall
Foch of France, Real Admiral Bliss
of the UnitedaStates and other mill
tary celebrities in proof of his con-
tention. A workingclass orator is
hard up for props for his premise
when he must call on professional
capitalist militarists for assistance.
THE same speaker informed his
a audience that he and his party
were against every other working
class party in existence. This adj
mission would seem superfluous,
otherwise his party would have no
excuse for existence. He wants a
Labor Party because we must get all
the workers into it. But it appears
that there will be first and second
class citizens in this Labor Party. It
must be run by native sons, for tho
the foreign workers are alright in
their own place the slogan of "Amer-
lea for Americans" seems to be the
slogan of the American Labor Party,
if the soapbox was correctly voicing
the opinions of Messrs. Salutsky and
Lore, the parents of this 100 per cent
American political miscarriage.
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CO-OPERATIVES
CONGRESS OF THE BRITISH COOPERATIVE UNION

many cooperatives supported the
strikers during the general and coal
strikes, whereas some trade unions
endeavored to cause strikes in coop
eratives.
For Joint Meetings.
Swales spoke on behalf of the Cen
trail Council of the British Trades
Union Congress. He argued that "the
joint consultations of representatives
Of the Cooperative Union and the Gen.
eral Council of the Trades Union Con-
gress will have to formulate policy
which will be beneficial to both bod
les in the future. Never was there
greater need for these two wings of
the working class movement to work
in unison"
"a resolution was adopted in which
the congress affirms its belief that
attacks on cooperative societies must,
if successful, injure every section of
the working class movement in Great
Britain, and it therefore welcomes the
decision of the Cooperative Union and
of the Trades Union Congress to APP
point joint committee to formulate
proposals intended to promote closer
harmony between the two movements
to prevent the repetition of events
which occurred during the general
strike of 1926"
1t should be added to this resolu-
ton that the British cooperatives, are
participating very effectively in the
mass demonstrations against the anti
trades union bill, they lend their motor
lorries, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-03

This congress was held on June 6
and 7, in Cheltenham. 1t met in an
atmosphere of political excitement.
The Tory government is making big
attack on the labor movement through
the anti-trade unions bill and in the
sphere of foreign politics, it is mo-
billing all the forces of the interna-
tional bourgeoisie against the first
workers and peasants state and rev.
dictionary China. If in spite, or per-
haps just because, of the severance
of diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and the U. S. S. R., the con-
gress decided to send greetings by
wire to the Soviet cooperatives (by
100000 votes against 955, this was
certainly a good omen for the trend
of the congress.
War Menace.
In accordance with the special eco
nonic and political situation three
questions doomed big at the congress:
the menace of war, the anti-trade
unions bill and the. agreement between
the cooperative and the Labor Party.
The resolution on the question of
war, which was adopted unanimously,
has already been published and criti-
cized in the "Coopa Inform" No. 8.
In his opening speech the chair
man, Jackson of Gloucester, pointed
out that the methods of the govern
ment are bound to create bad blood
and to cause class strife and that a
better connection between the coop
eratives and the trade unions is essen
tial. He reminded the audience that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-03
Medicine-Man Seen as
Type of Capitalists
Quack Social RefOrmers
By ROY E. STEPHENS.
(Worker CORRESPONDENCE

Thru curiosity few evenings ago
| stopped to listen to a medicine faker
selling his ware on a street corner.
AS listened to him and observed the
crowd watching his every move with
mouths open, | thought how typical
they were of the yokels who still
believe in the capitalist system.
Holding chart showing the xari-
Gus organs of a mans body he stated
that of all life man is the most per-
feet. He evidently never studied
about insects, some of which far out
class man in perfection and do
things instinctively that are far more
wonderful than anything. man could
hope to do. He also forgets or
doesn't know that the greatest phy-
sicians in the world say that we
have organs in our body that are not
only useless but positively harmful
to our well being. But he backs his
statement up with the bible, saying,
isn't god perfect and didn't he
make man after his own image?"
Takers Cure Anything.
Drawing his body and face into
various shapes he then goes on to
describe those who have been cured
by using his medicine, adding: after
they had taken 'cure-all powder for
two weeks they were as well and
strong as l. There isn't any need
of having bad health. Look at the
Chinaman. He lives long because he
uses this plant. Just note this root
shaped like man; that's why it's
valuable. It's gods gift to man.
And SO the show went on. walked
away in disgust wondering how long
people will continue to believe in fake
medicine men and fake politicians
and labor leaders.
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w . E n
OF WOMEN WORKERS VICTIMS OF EXPOSURE
TO BENZOL POISONING IN THE new YORK FACTORIES

Benzol, as used in SIX factories in
New York State, is declared to pro-
duce chronic poisoning in virtually
one out of every three women work
ers exposed to it's fumes, according
to the Women's Bureau of the U. S.
Department of Labor, quoting from
report just made public by the
New York State Bureau of Women
in Industry under the title Chronic
Benzol Poisoning Among Women In
dustrial Workers"
The New York bureau states that
benzol, distillation of coal tar, pois-
ons through the inhalation of its
fumes, which are heavier than air.
Where it is used as a solvent, and the