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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17

ANNA LOUISE STRONG
well known writer and journalist, who
is assisting Madame Sun Yat-sen in
an appeal to the workers of the United
States for funds to aid the Chinese
Nationalist soldiers, wounded and
crippled, in their battle for liberation
from oppression. Money can be sent
directly to the committee in charge:
Madame Sun Yat-sen. HankOw, China.
or to international Workers Aid.
See below.
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Chicago Hands Off
China Conference
Elects Executive

CHICAGO, June 16 (FPl.-More
than $4,000 Chicago trade unionists
were officially represented by dele
gates at the Hands Off China confer
ence June y. Pres. John Fitzpatrick
Of the Chicago Federation of Labor
was elected chairman of the perma-
nent executive committee, Clarence
barrow, vice chairman, Atty. VIM. H.
Holly. secretary and Christian Mad
sen of the painters, treasurer.
The conference voted to present a
protest against American policy in
China to Pres. Coolidge when he stops
off in Hammond, Ind, June IA on his
way to the summer white house in the
Black Hills Of South Dakota. The
resolution to be presented to Coolidge
demands withdrawal of American
forces from China, abolition of the
unequal treaties and protests against
any Intervention in China direct or
indirect.
. 1t was voted to make the conference
permanent. with an executive COM
mittee to arrange mass meetings and
cooperate with similar bodies in other
cities.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16

ran into a brick wall and was
killed.
Gossip was aroused by the fact
that at varying intervals his
young widow got sums OF money
from New Zealand. This came to
the ears of the insurance COM
pany. A quiet investigation was
started with the cooperation of
the New Zealand police. AS re-
suit a woman who was teaching
school out there was arrested and
brought back to England, charged
with being the Mrs. Bevan who
had died four years ago.
The attorney for the insurance
company, in outlining the case,
alleged that Mrs. Bevan, far from
drowning, had turned up that day
in the ancient town of Exeter.
Here she is said to have gone to
the Girls Friendly Society, saying
she was member of similar or
ganization out in Australia.
They believed her hard luck
story and got jobs for her as cook
IN various families. These she
held until February IL, 1925,
when she sailed for Auckland,
New Zealand.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16
Dead May Come to Life
Insurance Men Find

A WOMAN went ont to take a
bath in the sea and she
never came back. In a cove by
the seashore, they found her poor
clothes, and they concluded her
mortal body was adrift some
where, battered and beaten by the
pitiless sea. So they declared her
dead.
For four years Mrs. Susannah
Bevan was dead. Her relatives
put on mourning.
And now with all the neighbors
and friends having forgotten the
tragedy of the sea, the dead wo-
man is charged with being very
much alive.
How 1t Happened
A frail white-haired woman of
So faces charges of conspiring to
defraud an insurance company. of
manufacturing false evidence to
mislead the courts, and of obtain
ing money by false pretenses.
And it all happened because her
daughter-in-law received money
from New Zealand. It's the most
extraordinary dead woman case
the British courts have ever had
to deal with.
Until 1922 Mrs. Bevan had been
living in Cwmllynfell in Wales. In
December. 1920. she had taken
out policy on her life. In Febru-
ary. 1922, she made will, leav-
ing all her estate to her son,
David.
In the spring of 1922 she had a
motor accident and in June, still
suffering from the bad effects of
it, she went to IlfTacombe to take
the sea bathing. She stayed at
lodgings there and on June 20
she disappeared.
After her clothing was found on
the beach and after prolonged.
search was made, her relatives
gave her up for dead. !.
IN the following November the
British High Court granted an APP
plication for leave to presume her
legally dead. Accordingly, in the
following March the insurance
people paid over to the executor
some $4,000.
The Voice of Gossip
Bad luck seemed to pursue the
family. In 1924 her son bought a
motor car with part of the money
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16

Kimes began life as a plowman on
his fathers farm near Van Buren,,
Ark. When IS years old he went to
the nearby Oklahoma oil fields to
work. There he was implicated in
the robbery of an Okfuskee county
bank and with his older brother,
George, served two years in the state
penitentiary at McAlester.
In the late summer of 1925 he and
his brother robbed the State Bank of
Dewey, for which they were convict
ed, and killed Perry Chuculate, Sal
isaw deputy sheriff, in making their
escape. They were tried and convict
ed, George being sentenced to serve 25
years and Matt drawing life term.
The day following Matt's sentence,
his pals stormed the Jail and freed
him and for period of more than
eight months bankers of the state
We're terrorized Robbery followed
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several counts of robbery by firearms
punishable by death in Oklahoma.

several counts of robbery by firearms
punishable by death in Oklahoma.
Determined to send Kimes to the
chair, prosecutors from the state
banking department and Okmulgee
county declare that if they fail to get
death penalty on the murder charge
they will try Kimes on the remaining
counts against him until they do.
Warrants have been issued for
Kimes in connection with the follow
ing holdups: Robbery of State Bank
of Sapulpa in which $4,000 was tax
en-; Pampa State bank of Texas, $32,-
900; First State bank of Bristow,
Okla, $4,000; State Bank Of McCune,
Kans., $4,000 and other robberies at
Mannford, Gushing, Davenport, and
keystone, Okla.
At most of these places he already
has been indicted on charges of rob-
berry with firearms.
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Storm General
Over The State

Showers and continued cool weather
were predicted for Arizona by Robert
@. Grant, of the Phoenix weather bu-
reau, in a report which showed that
practically every section of the state
received rainfall Sunday and Mon
day.
Flagstaff reported a precipitation
of 1.22 inches, the greatest in the
state. Tucson reported rainfall of
SO of an inch, one of the heaviest
precipitations in recent months.
No property damage was attributed
to the storm, although lines of tele-
graph and telephone communication
to the west and north of Phoenix
were broken at times.
Phoenix Monday morning expert
enced sharp relief from the contin-
ued warm weather of the past month
the temperature there being 73 de-
grees at a. m.
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robbery The peak was reached when
four banks were "knocked off" in
one week
Kimes was captured late in June
as he was escaping toward the west
coast.
A "whim" to see the Grand Canyon
caused his downfall. Forest rangers
recognized him and Kimes was taken
after the exchange of a few shots.
He had only $500 in his possession.
II had a foolish idea | could play
blackjack" he told officers.
Kimes has declared he ''would not
mind the pen for life"
Il am afraid they are going to put
me on the hot seat electric chair)
this time"
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Highway Budget
Is Not Changed

The highway budget remain un-
changed, the highway commission
stated after a lengthy discussion, all
items standing as originally mapped
out.
The absence of the transcript of the
public protest hearing at which dele
gates from many counties of the state
appeared to request that various pro-
jects be included in the budget, tend
ed to slacken its final approval,
which it had been hoped would be
passed.
Having gone over the budget thor
oughly and finding no changes neces-
sary, the commission upon receiving
the transcript of the protest hearing
will begin consideration of the vari-
GUS projects which it contains.
The transcript is being prepared by
the clerk Of the court who stated that
he would have it ready to turn over
to the commissioners at two o'clock
this afternoon, the time for the meet
ing to reconvene.
Requests of the delegations for the
inclusion of their desired projects in
the highway budget Of construction
will be gone over and investigated
and it was stated several minor ad-
ditions might be made, although no
major changes were expected.
Changes in the highway depart
ment personnel, consisting primarily
of the shifting of a number of high
way department employees from one
post to another was also to be taken
up by the commission. 1t is said the
commissioners propose to place the
purchasing agent in their office, and
have the buying under their immedi-
ate supervision. and also that they
will have an auditor Of their own to
check departmental work for their
information.
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Kilnes Facing His
End Murder Trial

Okmulgee, Okla. Matthew Kimes,
one of the last of Oklahoma's real
"bad men" will face his second trial
for murder Oct. II at the Okmulgee
county court house
The 21-year-old youth, the states
most colorful bandit since the days of
Henry Starr and since Al Jennings
Joined the purity league, faces spe-
cific charge of Staying w. j. Mean
nally, Beggs, Okla, police chief last
May.
McAnnally was shot down during
the robbery of two Beggs banks by a
gang of eight men, in which Kimes
was alleged to have been recognized.
The youthful gunman also faces
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WOMAN FOUND PINNED
IN GULLY FIVE DAYS

After having lain pinned in the bot
tom of a gully in the sacaton grass
of great swale wash on the border
five miles east of Douglas for five
days and nights without food or wa
ter, Mrs. Lena Brown was found and
rescued at $40 o'clock Friday after
noon. She was extricated from the
gully and rushed TO the county hos
pital where attendants reported late
last night there was every hope for
the aged woman's recovery from her
terrible experience.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16

Layton Mitchell, chief of police at
Pawhuska, Okla, is believed to be the
youngest police chief in the United
States. Paw-huska started young and
must have quite family now if he
lives up to his name.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16

Study of $4,000 felony cases by the
New York crime commission shows
the most important crimes are mostly
by males under 25 years Of age. Evi-
IDENTIFY they are postage stamp males.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16

The ~Pinal county fair will be held
in Casa Grande on December Is, 1e
and II.
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children. Dorothea took care of the
house and the two children. That
way Arthur had a place to sleep
and something to eat.
Walser worked a few days in fac
tories at Gas City and Marion, near
by, but couldn't hold a job. He
could eat, but there was no spend
ing money.
Dorothea, the useful tool, was
brought into play.
He sent me out to beg again
not to beg for ourselves, though. He
made me go out and beg money for
flowers for dead people. He made
me go out once,and tell people my
mother had to go to the hospital.
I got $40 off a neighbor woman.
Begged for Money
"That worked pretty we'll and
finally he sent me out to get money
for flowers for a boy who had not
yet died"
The girls mother. Mrs. George
Cox, heard about this. She threat
ened to call police and Walser took
this money back.
The girls father paid back all
the other victims.
Ito Be COntiued)
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Exterior Lighting Is Safeguard
for Homes on Summer Nights

Lightly fastened screen doors and
windows with screens in them, the
usual condition of most homes in
summer, present problem to fam
lily heads when they desire to leave
the house alone for a brief time in
the evening.
The surest safeguard against in
trusion is, Of course, to bar the outer
doors and lock the windows, but
that results in a hot house greeting
one on returning. Yet, with the
average house comparatively wide
open" in the summer months, care
should be taken to avoid the APP
pearance of its being totally I'M
guarded.
This, for the family without a
servant or with one who is away
at night, is vexatious question.
But it. is best answered by the use
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of exterior lighting, such as an out
side lantern, swinging light or wall
light, illuminated by button from
within and kept burning as late as
one is absent from home, say the
Nations police officials.
Thieves, like wild animals, fear
light. They seldom modest places
so Illuminated. due to natural Sup
position that some one is at home.
And the average sneak-thief, con-
trary to popular impression. is not,
say experienced police officials, so
brave-hearted as to court danger
and discovery.
Exterior lighting equipment has
the added virtue of identifying the
exterior of the home and extends a
CHEEKY welcome to friends.
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BY HENRI BENDEL
For NEA Servicp

rot NEA OtINACC
NEW YORK, June 8.-Vacation
time means travel time to many
women. And of course travel time
and new travelling coats are posi-
lively synonymous. Therefore it
seems an appropriate moment to
discuss the topic of just what is
what in coats at this season.
The steamer coat of tweed, home
spun or cameIs hair, is good as al
ways. But I find this season that
women are demanding something
different" The well-groomed, smart
woman of exclusive taste wants her
coat designed for her very own ocean
trip, nobody elses.
Moreover, I feel that the mascu-
line ncSa sounded by strictly tai
lored twee& is a bit off-key for the
feminine harmony or softer lines
and graceful curves this season.
w SveIte Lines
Today I am showing first of all n
Paquin model which has Individual
ity in the soft, svelte lines of its bois
de rose kasha loneliness. 1t features
a back yoke with a tiny cape eX-
tending from it and also has a
unique touch in the manner in
which it uses cross fox to edge it's
collar so that it stands away from
the face-appropriately softening
the features without adding too
much warmth.
This coat calls for a lighter shade
of tan hat, Giglio model, with a
small brim turned smartly down all
around and nothing trimming it
save machine grosgrain banding
that fastens in a buckle on the
right side.
For the Smartest
None but the smartest can wear
the next coat shown. For it is of
the type Of aristocratic article that
calls for a woman with dash and
assurance to wrap its circular full
ness smartly around her form, or
let it nonchalantly hang open as it
lists. I designed it primarily for
youth-for who could have more
dash and assurance than youth it
self?
1t is made of tan kasha velour,
trimmed with brown and white
American broadcloth forming an al
Turing striped facing around the COL
larless neck and extending from
hem to hem. A single, large, brown
velvet flower emphasizes its collar
lessness. 1t has slightly up-in-the-
front effect, with cutway, rounded
corners. A light tan hat tops it.
Some women, even if they are
coolish i'll Englanid's moist atmos-
phere or suffer chills when France
gets rain, just insist on silk coat
for travel. Theirs is the vote of
Fashion, too, this season. For,
though the silk coat has been smart
for several summers no D. the 1927
silk coat is sliaxier, Iovs3r and
more afAuring than ever.
- I am showing a black fiat crepe,
imported from Paquin, which is in
terlined with softly padded SHIN
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Tering silk and yet gives slenderiz-
ing lines in its entirety.
Many of the seasons smartest
touches are incorporated in this
coat. 1t has a square back yoke. a
pointed front one, its sleeves fac at
the cuff line and it adapts three
black foxes in its trimming in uni
que manner. Two hug the bottom
of the coat, with their heads almost
meeting in back and their tails ex-
tending towards the front, gradual
ly coming up until they meet and
cross at the hip-line where the coat
faStens with a fur button.
. An entire for fur fashions the col
lar and is so attached that it seems
to have been thrown around the
throat and across the left shoulder
with studied careleSSness.
Silk coats are not only smart, but
by all odds the most useful coats
when the vacation trip is by train
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LOUe NeUer
Dies While
Ages Wane
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
There is a fascination about the
past that holds us enthralled. How
did these long dead men and women
differ from us? What thoughts did
they ponder? How did they live,
love and die?
Today all that remains to us of
those ancient civilizations, Egyptian,
Assyrian, Roman, Greek, Persian,
Maya, Aztec and scores Of others,
are the masses of ruins that speak
eloquently of the impermanence of
all works of man.
Ancient Angkor has long since
been swallowed by the jungle and
its magnificent temple is the home
of bats and owls. The hanging
gardens of Babylon live only in song
and story. The glorious palaces of
the Imperial Caesars have crumbled
into dust. The might of the Phara-
obs is swallowed up in the shifting
sands of three thousand years. Nine
veh is but a name, and Troy
memory. Herculaneum and Pompeii,
once so splendid and so beautiful,
were buried for eighteen centuries
and forgotten of all men.
But if delving into the past
teaches us anything at all, it is
that certain fundamental things in
all civilizations have never changed.
These men and women of the past
did not have motor cars nor tele-
phones nor airplanes. They dwelt
in houses that differed strangely
from ours. The god to whom they
prayed was not our God. But three
things they cherished and died for,
three great things which we also
hold most dear.
Marriage, home and children. The
union of two hearts, the faithful
love that endures to the end, the
sacredness of the family circle, the
pride of parenthood. These things
are neither ancient nor modern.
they are the foundations upon
WHICH men have built and sustained
every civilization. They are the true
things of life which outlast all peo-
pie, all change, all destruction. II
we hope. also to endure for more
than morrsnt in the vast space OF
time, we must mot cast them away.
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or automobile. The smartest ones
are Of fat crepe this season, con-
trasting with the shiny materials
used last summer. Crepe Roma and
Elizabethan crepe comes next in
popularity for material.
AS for colors of the separate silk
coats this season. dark shades or
plain white should be chosen. In
between. all coats should be fash
Toned of Powered or printed mate
rails to match costumes. The sepa-
rate coat stands on its own. 1t in
fluenceS the hat and accessories
but it calls for deep blues, black
dark browns or the deepest of wis
terra puppies. Black still is best
with blue second.
While summer georgette and soft,
unlined silk coats cen be as wispy
and moody as possible in their in
terpretations. the separate coat
must have practicability combined
with its chic.
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Gone, but Not FORGOTTEN

Automobiles reported, stolen to po-
lice belong to:
Allen White, 1880 S. New Jersey
st., Overland, taken from Southern
Ave. and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Everett Threlkeld, New Ross, Ind,
Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Market
st.
Marion o. Griffith, 2158 S. New
Jersey ST., Essex, 537-81S, from 300
N. Capitol Ave.
Clarence Ross, MillerSville, Ind,
Ford, 509-140, from w. Morris st.
John Brewer, Southport, Ind,
Chevrolet, 535-355, from Virginia
Ave. and Washington st.
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One day Dorothea had the advan-
tages of any American girl whose
parents live clearly and scrimp fol
the sake of the children.
Another day Dorothea was
snatched from this. Dorothea was
married. Her parents say, Arthur
Walser lured her away.
Contrast Is Startling
The contrast between the old life
and that to be was stark and i'm
mediate.
For the. honeymoon, Arthur
Walser, fourteen years her senior,
borrowed an ancient automobile
from his sister. They drove to Ell
wood, fifteen miles away.
Dorothea, dry eyed, tells the story:
I'VE ran out of gasoline and Ar
thur didn't have any money. He
made me get out and beg on the
streets. I got enough to get gaso-
line to get back Ito FairmOnt on"
Dorothea, completely submissive
to the older, hardened man, slipped
on down the ladder. p.
Husband Wouldn't Work
Arthur, whose record for industry
is practically blank, took her to the
home of a widowed man with two
- - :.
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After a man has spooned
around he gets married and
starts forking over.
Singleton on Council

Chairman Frank Singleton of the
public service commission was noti-
fled Tuesday of his nomination as
director of the National Safety
Council. The term extends to 1880.
Singleton has been actively inter
ested in safety promotion in
Indiana.
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WRIGHT IS SKEPTICAL
Air Wizard Doubts if Commercial
Ocean Routes Safe Yet.

ocean hSouteS Safe Yet.
BIZ United Press
DAYTON, o., June s.-Orville
Wright, the airplane father, be-
lieves passenger and commercial
service to Europe is a long way off,
despite the two flights across the
Atlantic.
Planes must be absolutely safe
before any such routes are estab-
lished," Wright said today in COM
menting on Chamberhn and Levine.
Developments CT the last few
years, perfecting motors and build
ing planes have been such that
ships such as used by the two fliers
are the ultimate at this time for
such purposes" he said.
The greatest need for successful
transatlantic flight at present is a
new type of drift indicator, which
will give the pilot his location when
out of sight of land or water, he
said.
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He JUST CANNOT DIE
Los Angeles Grocer Receivers From
Multiple Suicide Attempt.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, June "a null
tiple suicide attempt on the part of
Felike Mezzini, grocer, was a failure,
physicians. said today.
At sunset, Mezzini entered a hotel
and slashed both wrists. At mid
night he stabbed himself three
times. At dawn he cut his throat.
Then he hurled himself out Of a
window landing on top of a parked
automobile and bouncing through
a window. He is recovering.
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BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by
police belong to:
Bernard Eckstein, Jasper, Ind,
Ford, at Court, and Liberty SITS.
A. H. Davis, Martinsville, Ind,
Ford, at Applegate st. and Pleas
ant Run Blvd.
Chevrolet coup, 536-827, in rear
of 4O8 N. Jefferson Ave.
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Hospital Work Begun

BIZ Times SDccldI
MUNCIE, Ind, June 8,-Work on
the new million dollar Ball Me-
mortal Hospital, to be erected near
Ball Teachers College as gift of
the Ball brothers to the city, was
begun Tuesday. DR.. L. L. Ball OPP
Grated the steam shovel that turned
the first dirt when excavation was
begun.
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n IT ARION Ind, June "a
Vl not have dreamed of committing murder
impressed vsibly with the horror Of the
med helping poison
dred dollars in insurance
Dorohea intelligent result of six
month illness with brain fever when surrounded
by all the safeguards home guarded by God fearing
parents.
Dorotea clothing friends food She entered
into the social life of her small community, She went %
occasional parties lust the bother
of her
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SOUTH BEND NIPS MOVE

Park and Boulevard System Plan
Rejected.
BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, June g.
Mayor Chester r. Montgomery Tues
day lost his campaign to adopt a
park and boulevard system as pro-
vided by law when the proposal was
defeated in a special election.
The mayor had hoped to heautify
the st. Joseph river banks with
boulevards and to provide additional
parks and Fairgrounds from funds
provided by assessment on city prop
erty to one percent of the city's total
assessed valuation.