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Evening star., 1927-10-31

w YITH Mohawks getting a TT
draw with Homestead A.
wv c. eleven of Baltimore, and
Apache A. C. handing a 13.
Evening star., 1927-10-31

n VIEW YORK, October 81
~ Whether or not the Army
| VI develops form sufficiently
Y formidable to defeat Notre
Evening star., 1927-10-31

Catholic University could not make
much headway against the Marines
and it was not to be expected that II
would. Marines are far too good for
the average college eleven. and they
are experienced and well COACHED.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
TO TAKE SUMMER
COURSE AT OXFORD

Mrs. William Wolff Smith. wife
of the general counsel of the Vet.
eerans' Bureau, will sail for Eu.
rope Wednesday. Mrs. Smith Is
one of the small group of Amer
lean women admitted to Oxford
University for the summer term
where she will study the entire
Shakespearean program offered
there. Her work will include a
weeks stay in Stratford-on-Avon.
the home of Shakespeare. Major
Smith will join Mrs. Smith later
in the season when he goes to Paris
as a delegate Of the American Leg
ion convention.
A bridge tea will be given by the
Woman's National Democratic Club
at its clubhouse 1926 New Hamp.
shire Ave. Tuesday, July 10. the
special feature of which will be a
lecture on the game by Mrs. Der.
tram Chesterman, well-known ex'
pert.
The lecture will begin at 2:30 and
will be followed by the bridge game
at the conclusion of which tea viii
be served. All members of the
club and their friends are invited
and large or small parties may bt
arranged for by communicating
with the club.
Lewis Pierson. of New York city
president Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce, is a guest
at the Mayflower.
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GENERAL WOOD
BOUND For NEW YORK

Major General Leonard Wood
who, with his wife and daughter,
has been at the Willard since last
Wednesday, has left Washington
for Fort Hoyle, Md. where he plans
to remain until tomorrow after
which he will return to New York
for short stay. Later he plans
to pass a few days in the Black
Hills with President Coolidge before
returning to the Philippine Islands.
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TO SAIL SOON FOR
EUROPEAN HOLIDAY

Mr.. and Mrs. John Walsh and
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Walsh. will sail on Saturday on board
the President Harding for Europe,
where they will spend two months.
Among the countries which they
will visit are England. ireland. Hol-
land. and Belgium. Mr.. Walsh is
n brother Of Senator Thomas Walsh.
k& \
Miss Tina A. Ankenbrand,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
j. Ankenbrand, of Mt. Carmel, Ill.,,
and Joseph V. Walsh, of Everett,
Mass. were married in st. Martins
Catholic Church Saturday morning.
by the Rev. Francis x. Cavanagh.
The bride wore a lace-trimmed
gown of white georgette crepe.
with a large picture hat of white
georgette crepe to match, trimmed
with orange blossoms. She carried
a shower of white roses and lilies
of-the-valley.
Mr.. Walsh is an examiner in the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
He is a graduate of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and George.
town University, also a member
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and member of the bar
of the District of Columbia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
AN ELIOTs NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF
OFFICIAL
FOLK
Mrs. Jardine Has young
Visiters"; DR.. Work
Away

Mrs. Jardine, wife of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, with her daugh-
tiers, the Misses Marion and Ruth
Jardine, and her guests, Miss Alice
Houston and Miss Katherine Hous-
ton, of New York, have left town
for a three-day motor trip, but will
return on Wednesday. The Misses
Houston, friends of Miss Marion
Jardine, are daughters of David
Franklin Houston, who was Secre-
tary of Agriculture in the Wilson
Administration and later Secretary
OF the Treasury. The young WISH
tors will remain for some time,
swimming, playing tennis going on
picnics and enjoying themselves in
gay but informal fashion.
Mrs. Jardine, who had at first
intended to accompany Secretary
Jardine on the Western trip on
which he is now embarked, de-
cided to remain at home, but after
MIR. Jardine's return they will go
to the North Shore to remain sew.
eral weeks and for a time will be
guests Of Mrs. Jacob L. Loose.
DR.. Hubert Work, Secretary. of
the Interior, has started West for
tour of inspection and will spend
some time in Denver, his old home.
+ y \
SENATOR WALSH
RETURNING FROM EUROPE
Senator Thomas ]. Walsh. who
has been travelling in Europe for
several weeks. is sailing for New
York tomorrow on board the Levia-
than. His daughter, Mrs. Emmett
C. Gudger. who accompanied him
abroad. will remain a fortnight
.onger and. with Mrs. Irene T.
Hoag, of Detroit. a friend from
school days, will sail for this coun-
try the latter part of the month
on The George Washington. Mrs.
Gudger viii join Captain Gudger in
Newport. r. l.. where the latter is
! stationed at the Navy War College.
Senator Walsh will go to his home
in Montana. where the children of
Captain and Mrs. Gudger are estab-
lished for the summer.
$50
Mrs. Robert Nelson Stanfield will
| sail August / from New York for
| cruise up the st. Lawrence River
to Quebec. She will be away for
about a month.
| 4 Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Porter Day.
idson will leave Washington on
Wednesday or Thursday for the
Adirondacks, where they have taken
a camp for the rest of the summer.
They will have Mr.. and Mrs. John
Francis Shaw and their children with
them.
!
Mrs. Stanley Rinehart Mary
Roberts Rinehartl has left for her
ranch in Wyoming. after making a
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tators a memorable view from the
veranda of the boat club. On Sat
urday night there had been a dance
at the club house, with many other
visitors from Washington, among
them pretty Harriet Huntress.
The Gibson Island Club was or
ganized by the late Judge Stuart
Symington, of Baltimore, and was
originally intended as a playground
for his immediate circle of friends.
Since his death, however, it has
been decided to enlarge a bit and
Gibson Island has discovered Wash
ington while Washington was dis
covering Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
MUSIC NOTES
OUTDOOR MUSIC FOR ALL
WASHINGTON THIS WEEK
BY JESSIE MacBRIDI

The three service" bands of the
United States, with an additional
concert Of great interest on Thurs
day evening, which will be broad
cast from the esplanade of the Pan
American Union, provide the ''mu-
sic for Washington" this week un.
der the spreading trees of the Ma
tional Capitals beautiful parks.
The schedule is as follows;
Today, at 4:3O--U. S. Marine
Band, Taylor Branson, leader, Ar.
thur S. Witcomb, second leader,
Marine Barracks.
Today, at 7:30-U. S. Navy Band,
Charles Benter, leader, Charles
Wise, second leader. The Capitol,
Tuesday, at 6:3O-The Army
Band, William J. Stannard. leader,
Thomas F. Darcy, second leader.
Walter Reed General Hospital.
Tuesday, at 7;3O-U, s. Navy
Band, Meridian Hill Park, Sixteenth
and Euclid Streets.
Wednesday, at 1901. s. Marine
Band. At the Capitol.
Wednesday, at 7:30-The Army
Band, Sylvan Theater.
Wednesday, at 7:30-U. s. Navy
Band. Band stand. navy yard.
Thursday, at 7:30-In honor of
French Independence Day. U. s.
Marine Band. Sylvan Theater.
Thursday, at 7:30-The Army
Band. Capitol steps.
Thursday, from s to 9:50-Con-
cert of I4atin-American music, by
l.. S. Navy Band.
Esplanade, Pan American Union.
Thirty-sixth of series. Will be
broadcast.
Friday, at 7:00-U. S. Navy
Band. Mt. Alto Hospital.
Friday, at 7:30-The Army Band.
tuberculosis Hospital, Fourteenth
and Upshur Streets.
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All types Of services and commoditiea
are listed In the who's who" Direc-
tory ON next to the last page Of tOday's
Times and Herald
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
FAREWELL TEA PARTY
FOR GEN ROCKENRACH

Major and Mrs. Robert c. F. Goetz
are entertaining informally at tea
this afternoon in compliment to
Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach and
Mrs. Rockenbach. who will leave
Washington soon for Fort Bliss,
Tex, where the former will be in
charge of the First Cavalry Division.
General Rockenbach's successor
here will be Gen. George c. Barn
hardt, who has come from Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11

Mrs. Stanley Rinehart (Mary
Roberts Rinehartl has left for her
ranch in Wyoming. after making a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
Ewing Photo.

short stay at her home here. DR..
Rinehart will remain in Washington
until the latter part of the month
supervising some alterations in their
house on Massachusetts, Avenue.
Mrs. James F. Curtis, who has
been in Washington for the last few
days, has left to return to her sum-
mer home at Roslyn, L. I.
X X
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Freling-
huysen Dumont. who have been on
a visit to their country home In
Pennsylvania, have returned to their
apartment at the Mayflower.
ADD SOC
James Hamilton Lewis, of Chi
cago. former Senator from Illinois,
win arrive in Washington today,
and will be a guest at the May
flower during his stay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11
We MUSIC EDITOR SOON
TO BE IN HARNESS

The silence on music, in The
Washington Times, is now to cease
with the music editor emerging
from summer attack of FLU"
So, from time to time, Wen chat
again of memories of the past sea-
son or promises of the future.
TO have missed all those ''hopes
! of The future" that the June music
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recitals meant, has been keen dis.
appointment
But If there has been a chance
of "being missed" that may COM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-11

pensate a bit. For those who miss
us care for us.
May they care even more for The
Times Music Column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
ILL. MINERS ASK
HOWAT TO SPEAK;
BOO Lewis NAME

Especial to The DAILY WORKER.)
PEORIA, Ill.,, May Silk hundred
delegates of Illinois miners at con-
vention today by overwhelming vote
invited Alex Howatt to speak at con-
vention after repudiating president
Lewis recent acts Of persecution Of
Howat.
Lewis expected to speak the same
day with Howat.
Hindmarsh started the attack on
Lewis when he said at is high time
that the Miners Union run their own
affairs.
eve have been the slaves too long
Of those whom we pay. We should
let them know we are the bosses and
not they. We have had too much
autocratic rule under harrington and
should go on record as not intending
to stand any more czarlike actions"
international board member Dob
bins and George Mercer, an appointee,
tried to defend Lewis but the dele
gates booed them. James Walker,
brother Of ]. II. Walker, president Of
the Illinois Federation of Labor, also
launched into an attack on Lewis with
what he called "The Iron Rule Of
President Lewis"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
NORMAN HAPC0OD HITS VOL EASLEY BURNS RING
Abe BarOff Quits Job
As |. |. G. W. Secretary;
Sees Cash Running Low

Abe Baroff, secretary-treasurer
of the international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, has quit
cold.
With cash in the treasury run
ming low, Abe has handed in his
resignation to President Sigman
and left the union definitely.
81 won't work for love-" he is
reported to have told Sigman when
funds ran low.
The two reactionaries, who have
had leading hand in the effort
to wreck the Joint Board Of the
Cloakmakers in New York City,
got together and arranged to have
enough checks signed to last the
reactionary international for a
couple months, and then Baroff
shook the union dust off his feet.
Baroff has not yet announced
which cloak and suit employer he
will hook up with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
SACCO CASE AT
CLIMAX; FULLER
WILL ACT SOON
Especial to Daily WORKER


BOSTON, May 5. - The world
famous Sacco-Vanzetti case reached
its climax today on the seventh ami
versary Of the arrest of the two
workers.
Tho gress aefsHse plQay wilson By
Bartolomeo Vanzetti on behalf of
Nicola Sacco and himself, lay upon
Governor Fuller's desk today, backed
by five affidavits and one statement
proving Judge Thayer's venomous
bias against them.
Back Of the overwhelming swing
of public opinion to the side Of the
two humble Italians, who seven yeah.
ago were practically friendless a.
wholly unknown, is the gresI1G
demonstration on the part of Y &
labor against upper class justicSlng
the days of the Moone case
20. THUS
With every body of Amerio.,ocs
Dor from the aggressive WolCSS
(Communist) Party to the conse-ha
tive A. F. of L. lined up in unA'N
front behind Sacco and Vanzetti, win
the Red International of Trade
Unions and the Amsterdam interna-
tional, somewhat tardily, on record
for their freedom, and with powerful
labor groups in every nation on the
globe battling fiecely for seven years
against the legal murder of their fell
low-workers, Sacco and Vanzetti at
last seemed near hope for soma
poor excuse Of delayed justice.
1t took labor six years to make the
upper classes in Massachusetts and
America sit Up and take notice. When
the Boston Herald switched from OPP
position to defense last October, the
great tide of public opinion began
flowing definitely toward the framed
Continued on Page TlOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06

With this paragraph, professional
Patriots" a book edited by Norman
Hapgood from material assembled by
Sidney Howard and John Hearley,
scorches "this practical alliance be-
tween big business, organized labor,
and the government secret service"
as unparalleled in the history of the
labor movement here or in any other
country"
The book was placed on the mar
ket today by Albert and Charles Boni,
New York publishers. 1t processes
to be "an exposure of the personali-
ties, methods, and detectives in the
organized effort to exploit patriotic
impulses in the United States"
Ultimate With Burps.
"Mr. Easley made common cause
with the czarist opponents Of the
Soviet government and was on init
mate terms with William J. Burns,
while he was head of the Bureau of
Investigation of the Department Of
Justice" states the book. Although
the American Federation of Labor is
bitterly opposed to private detective
agencies and to Mr.. Burns lifetime
activity against organized labor, Mr..
Easley furnished a link between Mr..
Gompers on the one hand and Mr.
Burns on the other. Each of the
three had precisely the same interest
in attacking Communism and Soviet
Russia.
"Glance at the Who's Who of the
National Civic Federation and you
will find from the day of August
Belmont, the former president, down,
the names of a goodly assortment of
'hard-boiled' employers. Belmont,
himself, it will be remembered, tes-
titled before the Industrial Relations
Commission that the majority of the
companies he represented opposed the
right to organize and maintained spy
systems
"The list of present executive COM
mittee members, both from the en-
ployer and the public group, includes
directors of dozens of open shop con-
Germs that have made no effort to
cultivate the collective bargaining
with the American Federation of
Labor which Mr.. Easley processes to
approve.
Indeed, many Of them are ruth
less anti-labor concerns permitting no
union organizations in their plants
and employing spies and stoolpigeons
to rout any attempt at unionization.
Nicholas F. Brady, president Of the
New York Edison Company, Elon H.
Continued on Page Fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
union SO. RALLY
TO Hear Chine Sc
STUDENTS SPEAK

Boycott Of American goods in
China is planned as the next step
unless the United States refuses to
support the British policy of war
against the Chinese people, according
to a letter received today from the
National Students Union of Shang-
hal by H. c. WI, chairman of the Ma
tional Affairs Committee of Chinese
Students in America, an organization
Of 1000 Chinese studying in this
country. Protests against the dis
patch of marines and battleships to
China and plans for the boycott will
appear in the next issue Of New
China, edited by the National At
fairs Committee.
WI and five other Chinese tudents
of Columbia University will protest
against United States Intervention
and speak about the boycott at
mass meeting held under the auspices
of the Hands Off China Committee
at Union Square this Saturday at
twelve o'clock noon. C. H. Tsai and
Wa are Boxer indemnity students.
The other speakers are C. w. Chiu,
who will return to China this sum-
mer after seven years study of poll
teal science in this country, T. L..
Yuan from North China and w. Y.
Peng from Kiangsi Province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06

to sell two dozen DAILY WORKERS
every day. Now Mrs. Bort sells more
than the news agency can supply to
her.
Buys Daily Worker.
Every day at two o'clock a trusted
employee of the Civic Federation
comes down from his nest in the
Metropolitan Tower and buys 200
copies of The DAILY WORKER.
Mrs. Bort is pleased.
The nattily dressed employee goes
up to the offices of the Federation;
there the papers are done into pack
ages of two and three and sent down
to corporations which come under the
fire of The DAILY WORKER insur-
aice attack.
Thus the Federation serves the
purpose of being the watchdog of
Big Business.
Such A Labor Leader.
Think of it! Matthew VOL, a So
called labor leader, using his efforts
in keeping his bosses informed of a
genuine effort to expose the fraud of
weekly payment life insurance by
means of which 100000 American
workers are defrauded of their life
savings. What a picture it is to see
Matthew Vol cringing and toddying
to Wall Street in an effort to show
how loyal he is to system which
pauperizes the class which he is
pleased to say he represents. CA lit
tie soda and rhubarb, please.)
There is move afoot to crush The
DAILY WORKER because of its
militant stand against the corruption
of the "Big Four" and the American
Federation of Labor. A so-called I'M
patriotic poem is the pretext this
time.
Mr.. Vol is the president Of the
Union Life Insurance Company. We
warn Mr.. Vol, labor leader and life
insurance president, that The DAILY
WORKER attack on the insurance
trust is successful and the day is not
far distant when he and his toney
associates will be standing in the
courts defending their swindling
practices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
Heckshers, Pere ct Fills
In Loves Money Tolls
As Women Flee to Courts

Frieda Hempel, the opera star,
is suing August Hecksher, the phil
anthropist and real estate dealer,
for $4,000 a year for not fulfill
ing some sort Of pre-nuptial con-
tract.
Just what the relations were be-
tween the old boy and the 4s-year
old warbler are not disclosed in
court procedure, but it is assumed
that Hecksher had made some
promise to pay $1,000,000 to Hem
pei in return for a consideration.
Hempel got a divorce in Paris
last summer from big silk and
cocoon man and rumors of engage
ments with Hecksher floated across
the ocean several times. Attor-
neys claim the million-dollar set
Element was not made for breach
of promise to marry.
Hecksher's son, G. Maurice, is
also in the tolls of busted love, or
something like that. His wife sued
yesterday for divorce in Paris. He
has been involved in financial diff
ficulties since the bursting of the
Florida boom. The Industrial
Squad guarded him last winter
when he received threats from an
CRY investors" in his enterprises.
The young Hecksher is slated to
marry Luella Gear, an actress, af-
ter he is rid of Mrs. Hecksher, l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
By CHARLES YALE HARRISON.


Perched atop the Metropolitan
Tower are the headquarters Of the
National Civic Federation, Americas
guardians of sweetness and light and
official watchdogs Of the big Four. "
The acting president of the Fedora
ton is one Matthew Vol, vice head
of the A. F. of L., thorogoing bah
bit; a man, let it be understood, who
makes good regardless of cost; man
who is determined to be successful
even if it means the betrayal Of the
class that spawned him.
The Watch Dogs.
The Civic Federation is a collection
of avowedly disinterested public spir-
tied citizens who desire to put the
American worker fright" on such in
volved questions as why our marines
are in Nicaragua, why American g.
inch shells poured in bloody carni-
val into the teeming streets Of Nank-
ing; in short, to prove that, much as
radicals may rave, these things are
done to keep the Old Glory waving
and for the peace and security OF
the world.
Incidently of course, the Civic Fed
Grafton looks with a kindly paternal
eye on the company union and other
evidences of 100 per cent American
ism. The Federation naturally does
not frown upon the attempted smash
ing of a genuinely militant labor
union.
But the ultimate purpose Of the
National Civic Federation is to see
that attacks on the powers-that-be
are rendered abortive.
Vol Leads The Pack.
Mr.. Vol, in hiss capacity of acting
president of this labor-baiting organ
ization, must keep his newly-found
classy associates au courant.
Members of the executive commit
tee of the Federation are as follows:
Haley Fiske, President,
Metropolitan Life; Morgan
J. o'Brien, director Metro
politan Life; Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, director New
York Life; William r. Will
cox, director U. S. Life ms.
Co.
In addition to these insurance mag
mates there are the usual crowd Of
presidents and directors Of the COM
panies in which the insurance COM
bine invests its mutual" funds.
At the corner of 4th avenue and
23rd street stands Mrs. Ellen Bort.
Mrs. Bort is a widow who is COM
PEELED to run newsstand from early
in the morning until late at night.
A few months ago Mrs. Bort used
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
PROFESSIONAL PATRIOTS BAND WITH
BIG BUSINESS, LABOR REACTIONARIES
New Book by Famous Publicist Traces Alliance
of Civic Federation With Detective

"The National Civic Federation, though carries few
labor officials its etterhead and allegiance to the
American Federation of Labor clearly big business organ
zation and has been since Ralph Easey its chairman,
learned which side could write cashable checks.
1.-THE organization is supported wholly by the contribution
of the than wetodo No labor organization voted
it nicke Many like the United Mine Workers and the In
ternatona Ladies' Garment Workers have openly condemned
it and forbidden their members to join it.
"This however did not affect Mr. Samuel Gopers, form
president of the American Federation of Labor who
years vcepresdent of the Civic Federation and of
its supporters Nor does affect the activities of
Mr. Matthew Wo Mr. Easeys acting president"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
Demand Liberty for
SaccO and Vanzetti

BERKELEY, Calf, May 5. -
Full pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti
was demanded of Gov. Fuller by
about $50 students and faculty of the
University Of California at Berkeley
today.
Accompanying the petition was q
letter signed by Florence c. Thomp-
son, chairman Of the student commit
tee for the Sacco-Vanzetti petition,
wherein Miss Thompson states Gin
the name of civil liberty and justice,
we ask you to release these two men
Internationally"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-06
kidnapping, Beating
Plotted in Strike
Against WGiSbOrd
Especial to The DAILY wORKER)

Especial TO The DAILY WORKER)
PASSAIC. N. j., May 5.--Sensa-
tional disclosures Of how the mill
owners during the recent strike gave
orders for the kidnapping and beating
up Of Albert Weisbord, strike leader
and now labor candidate for city COM
missioner, has been disclosed by Cap
tain Ben Turner, chief of detectives,
who is also a candidate for commits
sioner.
Turner told Weisbord Wednesday
evening after he refused to allow him
to speak at a Negro campaign rally
on Chestnut St. that you should be
grateful for what done for you +"
Turner is now delivering his heaviest
political blows against Abram Pres
kiel, commissioner of public safety,
Continued on Page Tt0o)