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Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18
Milford Neck

Mrs. Howard Elliott, of Milford
spent last Wednesday and Thurs
day as the guest of her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. B. Lindale,
Revival Services are being held
at the Milford Neck M. e. Church.
Everybody is invited to attend.
The many friends of Mrs. David
Hall, of Frederick, will be glad to
know that she seems a little better
at this time.
A miscellaneous shower was CIV
en- to Mr.. and Mrs. Derrickson Mere
dith on Saturday evening. A large
crowd was present and they re-
ceived many beautiful and useful
gifts. The young people enjoyed
playing games until a late hour, and
they all departed for their homes
wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith
many years of happiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Lindale
entertained at dinner and supper
the following relatives and friends
on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James J. Moncrief,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Webb and chill
dren, Doris, Cecil and Marion, all
of Woodstown, N. j., Mrs. Thomas
Booth, of Wilmington, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. H. Robinson and son Charles,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. L. Lindale and
daughter, Dorothy Frances, Mrs.
John Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Elliott and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lindale and son Augustus, all of
Milford, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Will
cults and son, Walter Edward, of
Woodside, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Maloney.
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18

Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Richards en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dough
ty of Lewes on Saturday at supper
On Sunday evening they had as
their guests, Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Fisher, of Lewes.
Mrs. Carlin Reed is ill with in.
fiammatOry rheumatism at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Palmer.
Miss Gladys Deputy has accepted
a position as stenographer with Mr.
Jones, the holly wreath man, during
their holly wreath season.
Miss Gladys Deputy spent last
Saturday in Wilmington shopping.
Mrs. Theodore S. Hopkins spent
last week with friends and relatives
in Wilmington.
The following poem was dedicat-
ed to Milton by Miss Kathryn E.
Fisher, the daughter of a former
Milton boy, Capt. John H. Fisher, OF
1913 Lansdowne avenue, Philadel-
'phia, and a granddaughter of the
late Capt. Jno. F. Fisher, former
Miltonian. Miss Fisher got the in
spiration of her poem while on a
weekend visit with her aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. T. Vent of
Milton.
Where Father Was A Boy
There's a country town anestling
In the heart of Delaware,
Far from dusty, busy cities
With their crowded thOrOughfare
And when 1 came to visit
This town, 1 found great Joy
For it was the little village
Where my father was boy.
Oh. there's no big crowds arushing
Down the shaded, Swallowed
streets
And for rest and calm contentment
1t has city pleasures beat.
In the evening-stars start twink
ling
And it makes me sort of sad
To think of years ago when
My father was a lad.
1 can almost see him running
Down the road, beneath the trees
And I'll bet he had yellow dog
With lots and lots of feas
In the daytime he'd be runnin'
Toward the mill pond for swim
Stopping long the way to call
For frankie and for Jim.
Then just little farther on
Are hOuses-big and gray
And Herewith flowers round it
Is where he lived one day,
While through the trees, the moon
that beams
Is Just as blithe and coy
As in the years that now are gone
When father was boy.
There stands the same old school
house
Where he hated SOTO go
(The reason that I know this
\ He has often told me sol
Oh that little country village
Has it's memories, gay and sad
But the incest of them all are when
My father was a lad.
I would like to stay and live there
In that calm, contented town
Stead of coming to the city
And forever rushing round.
But 1 came away with memories
And they are so full of joy
That I know I'll ne'er forget the
town
Where father was a boy.
KATHLEEN EUNICE FISHER
ANzZNMA
FOR RENT-Store under theatre for
1928, now occupied by W. c. White. IDA
J. Fox, Milton, Del. INSIST
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18

Martin L. Davidson spent the
weekend with his parents at Har-
beson.'
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Ralston Davis
spent the weekend with relatives in
Harbeson.
A birthday surprise party was
rendered Mrs. George w. Simpler at
her home in Harbeson, Tuesday eve
ming. A large number of relatives
and friends attended and refresh
ments were served.
Members of Mrs. Hugo Kopple's
Sunday School Glass of Beaver Dam
M. P. Church, at Harbeson, will
hold a bake at Black & Lingo's
store in Milton on Saturday, Novem-
Der 18th, beginning at 10 o'clock
a. m. Pies, cakes, candy and chick
en- will be on sale.
-NzzzA-S
Wanted - Cabinet making and
furniture repairing. Herbert Vosh-
ell, Milton, Della. 11-4-2t
We know a lot of churchmen who
belong to the powers that prey.
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18
DIVIDENDS

On November 3Oth, the Imperial
Royalties Company will pay its seth
monthly cash dividend to all share
holders of record November 25th,
making a total of 1872 per cent paid
to shareholders since organization
in April, 1920.
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18

Steamship passenger rates are to
be reduced 10 per cent. Is the air.
planes competition felt so soon?-
New York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18

neighborhood, set his fathers hay
stack on fire Sunday. The fire was
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put out before much damage was
done.
Milford chronicle., 1927-11-18

We know a lot of churchmen who
belong to the powers that prey.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
KIDWELL REFUTES
AFFIDAVIT CHARGES
IN OIL JURY CASE

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1927-11-07
VICTIM OF SHOTGUN
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Elwood Volz Despondent Over
Lack of Work Say Police
Investigating Shooting.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


BLADENSBURG, Md, November z.
-Elwood Volz, % years old, Is in
Emergency Hospital, Washington, suf-
fering from a shotgun wound in the
face. According to the police he shot
himself about midnight Saturday, at
the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Julia X. Stack, here. He was
despondent because Of failure to get
work, the police say. He had left his
wife a short time before at the home
of her grandmother. Mrs. Catherine
Seauberlich, on the River road, the
investigation revealed. Raymond Nc
Dermott, a roomer in the Stack home,
where FolZ and his wife live, heard
Volz yell "Good-by, Mac" and the
report of the gun in the basement
under his own room. He ran down.
stairs and found Nolz unconscious
from the wound. lie summoned help
and VolZ was removed to Stanton Park
Hospital, Washington. from where he
was transferred to Emergency Hos
pital. Sergt. Hervey G. Machen of
the Prince Georges County police
force, Constable Andrew +. Gasch Of
Bladensburg and George Wiseman, a
town officer of Bladensburg. made the
police investigation. The victim is still
unconscious at the hospital, with little
chance of recovery.
Volz, whose mother lives in the
Lanham neighborhood, near here, has
a sister living in Washington. Mr..
and Mrs. Nolz were married in Rock.
Vile in May, 1925. They have no
children,
Evening star., 1927-11-07
FAILURE TO REPORT FIGHT
COSTS SLEUTH HIS JOB
Christensen Denoted to Patrolman
After Reported Wrangle-Other
Transfers Made.

Headquarters Detective Laurits
Christensen was transferred to duty
today as a patrolman in No. IL pre-
cinct, Anacostia. as the result of a
reported fight Friday night at the
Fourteenth street entrance to the Dis
trict Building.
Frank Mccormick, we'll known in
sporting circles, Is said to have en-
gagged in the fight with Christensen
over an alleged handbook operation.
When Christensen made no report of
the alteration, the police began an
investigation, and the shake-up fol-
lowed.
Detective Clarence Talley Of the
fifth precinct was promoted to relieve
Christensen. James w. Casey, pro.
hibition enforcement officer in No. 2
precinct, has been made precinct de-
tective and sent to No. IA. Fuller l..
Arlington, detective in the fourteenth
precinct, was transferred to the fifth
precinct to take Talley's place.
Mccormick is alleged to have ac-
cused Christensen of having falsely
stated that the former had said he
would pay $500 to have a reputed
handbook oprator caught, the police
report stated. Mccormick is reported
to have struck the detective.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
DR.. FELIX RIVAlLLES DIES
IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL
Funeral to Be Held in Metropolis
Wednesday for Former Resi-
dent Here.

Word Of the death in New York late
yesterday of DIR. Felix Rivailles. son
of DIR. F. T. Rivailles Of Washington,
and a former resident Of the Capital,
was received here today by Mrs. VIII
Lam Gilchrist of $500 Sixteenth street.
Tlster of DR.. Rivailles. DR.. Rivailles
was superintendent Of st. Joseph's
Hospital in New York City and died
at that hospital Of heart failure. He
had lived in Washington for several
years prior to going to New York.
Funeral services will be held in New
York Wednesday morning, with inter.
ment in a New York cemetery.
DR.. Rivailles was born in Clearfield, :,
Pa. and was graduated from the Una
versity Of Maryland in 1905. In addi-'
ton to Mrs. Gilchrist, he is survived
by Mrs. j. c. Donellan Of New York,
and Miss Marie Rivailles Of Washing
ton, sisters, and two nieces, in New
York. Il
Evening star., 1927-11-07
COLMAN MANOR FIRE
BELIEVED iNCENDIARY
Vacant House Partly Destroyed by
Blaze in Attic-Discov-
cred by Woman.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

COLMAR MANOR, Md, November
Fire at the vacant house Ill
Baker street early yesterday de-
stroyed the upper part of the struc-
ture, which is said to be owned by
Isadore CHASER. The fire started, ac.
cording to Chief V. A. Simmel of the
Cottage City Fire Department, in the
attic, apparently Of incendiary
origin.
Prompt response from the Cottage
CITY. Rladensburg and Hyattsvillo de-
nartments saved the adjoining prop
ertv. 1l3 Baker street. belonging to j..
Crank Iilard, Hyattsville. Damage
TO this house was estimated at $3.50.
Mrs. Joseph Moran, living on BAKER
street, saw flames emerging from the
burned house and gave the alarm.
AS result of the fire. Mayor John
s. White issued proclamation that
all vacant houses and garages in Col
mar Manor should be locked and safe
guarded after midnight.
Returning from the fire the auto
mobile of Robert c. Gallagher, former
Hvattsville chief of police, was in
collision with a machine occupied by
two negro men and two negro
women. Both machines were
wrecked. Gallagher, member of the
Hyaatsvile department, suffered
broken finger.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

him. the said detective, that he was
a good yes sand-no man.
"Petitioner further states that he
never knew any precinct detective
connected with No. 4 precinct and
that he Is not now acquainted with
any detective who is connected with
police headquarters.
Reputation Injured.
Petitioner finally says that he
served faithfully as juror in this
case, obeying all of the injunctions
placed upon him by the court; that he
has been gravely and grievously in
iured in his reputation and standing
in the community, which reputation
has always been above reproach; that
J. Ray Akers and Donald *. King in
approaching this petitioner and in en-.
deavoring to converse with him, and
then in swearing that they had con.
versed with him when as a matter OF
fact they had not, have been guilty OF
contempt of this court"
Evening star., 1927-11-07
COLORADO HOLDS
q. v. v. LEADERS
Troopers Stage Roundup of
Agitators at Scene
of Coal Strike.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, November T. - Every
prominent /. w. w. strike leader in
the southern Colorado coal fields was
arrested today by State policemen. AS
result OF the arrests there was no
picketing of mines by strikers in the
southern part of the State.
Twenty-Five l. W. w. leaders were
placed in Jail at Walsenburg to join
the group previously arrested.
Publicity Head Held.
Among those rounded up this morn
ing were Kristen SVanum, in charge
of I. w. w. activities in coal and metal
mines in the United States; Alexander
X. Orr, publicity director of the L. w.
W.; X. Clemens. chairman OF the strlke
committee in northern Colorado; A. 5.
Embree, national organizer for the
/. w. w, and Zacarias Ornelas.
Roger Francezon, chief of the /. W.
w. in the United States, and eight
others were arrested yesterday.
No charges were filed against any
of the 1. w w. leaders and State
policemen indicated that none would
be filed for several days. The men
were held without bond.
Mass Meetings Urged.
Earlier today orders from Industrial
Workers of the World for striking
coal miners to continue the mass meet
ing form of picketing found more
State police concentrated in the south
ern field.
With the strike due to enter its
fourth week tomorrow, the State
claimed progress in persuading
hundreds of miners to return to work.
This was supported by an announce
ment by the Colorado Fuel Il Iron Co.,
one of the largest operators, that ~
per cent of the 30.000-odd men laid
off at its Pueblo steel mills because of
shortage of coal would be recalled
today.
I. w. w. leaders, however, pointed
o. crippled mines in southern Col
ot<NIo, and declared they would con-
tinue to hold mass meetings until a
wage increase was granted.
Police Reinforced.
Informed that strikers planned to
extend their activities in the Walsen-
burg area, Gov. w. H. Adams sent 20
more State police to aid the Is special
officers who were unable to stop
scores of miners in raid on proper
ties in that district Saturday. The
governor said he had more police in
reserve.
Although the police were armed,
they used only pick handles and
pistol butts in attempting to disperse
the strikers Saturday. The only
fatality reported thus far was the
Staying of a miner in a brawl at Lud-
low Saturday. Tom Pettrucci. idle
miner, who admitted the shooting,
said he shot in self-defense.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

OXFORD. England, November Z
R.-David George Hogarth. keeper
of the Ashmolean Museum since 1903,
died Saturday. He was a noted arch
Biological explorer, geographer and
author. a fellow of the British Acad-
envy and president of the Royal Geo
graphical Society in 1925. He was
born in 1862.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
w. C. T. U. Delegates Chosen.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP SPRINGS. Md. November 7.
The following delegates have been
elected by Pyles Memorial Woman's
Christian Temperance Union to at
tend the meeting of the Prince Georges
County Community Council to be held
the latter part of this month in Up
per Marlboro: Mrs. J. r. Allen, Mrs.
Eva G. Biggs Mrs. Charles Hartman
and Mrs. G. G.. Wilcox.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
TWO VIRGINIANS DEAD,
ONE HURT IN CRASH
Train Hits Automobile at Meadow
view, Northeast of Bristol.
Condition of Third Serious.
By the Associated Press.

BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn., November T.
Bob Martin, 80 years old, and Cloyd
Childress. 20, both of Chilhowie, Va,
are dead and third man. j. l.. Mae
tin, 26, also Of Chilhowie, is in a seri-
Gus condition at the Abingdon Hos
pital as a result of a grade-crossing
accident today at Meadowview, Va. %
miles northeast of this city, when an
automobile was struck by a Norfolk
& Western passenger train.
Bob Martin was killed instantly.
while >Childress died a few minutes
later In the hospital.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Bishop Pendleton Dead.

PHILADELPHIA, November (A9.
Right Rev. William r. Pendleton, SO,
Bishop of the General Church of the
New Jerusalem, died Saturday. Born
in Georgia, he had served churches In
Wilmington, Del; Chicago and Phila-
delphia,
Evening star., 1927-11-07
CHAMBERLIN ON TOUR.
Transatlantic Flyer Starts Mid
west Trip.

CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, November
7 R).-Clarence Chamberlin. transat-
lantic pilot, left by plane at 11:03 am.
today for a brief tour Of Middle West
ern cities. His first stop is Akron.
Ohio, where he is to speak tonight at
a dinner of the Akron Chamber of
Co,n0norcp
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"Ihe board shall have power to
levy and collect assessments when ne
cessary, but no assessment levied by
the international executive board
shall be collected for more than two
months unless authorized by a refer
endum vote Of the members"
As amended by the constitution
committee this section now reads:
"The board shall have power to levy
and collect assessments when neces-
sary."
The Lewis machine now has the
power which the rising capitalist
class fought for four centuries to take
away from royalty--the power to tax
without consent Of the taxed. BY
the use Of this power it can secure
the funds with which to finance ig
army of organizers" and make war
upon the rank and file.
5. One Of the ways in which this
power is to be used has already been
made clear. 1t is to tax the men,
Continued on page p
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APGOOD'S LOCAL
DEMANDS SEATING
OF ITS DELEGATE
Proves Progressive Is
Real Union Miner

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 81
Powers Hapgood, progressive coal
miner of District No. 2, and active
in the Brophy campaign, has received
immediate aid from his local union
at Cresson, Pa, in his attempts to
take his place on the floor of the In
ternational Convention of the United
Mine Workers of America.
Hapgood was trappd alone by
agents of the John L. Lewis machine
a few days ago and slugged in an eff
fort to prevent his appearing as a
delegate. He is also barred by the
Lewis controlled credentials commit
tee on the faxed charge that he is not
a member of the union.
Local Refutes Charge.
His local union in a statement to
the Delegates of the Thirtieth u. M.
w. A. convention states that:
"The charge that Brother Hapgood
never joined the U. M. of A. either
by card or initiation is slanderous
lie of the meanest sort. Merely be-
cause Brother Hapgood has a mind
of his own and, while he was an or
ganizer for the U. M. W. of A. in the
1922 Somerset County strike for I'M
ion recognition, because he criticized
the international officials for allow
ing the very companies that they
were striking against in Somerset
County to be signed up in other fields
and put back to work, and because
he was an active supporter of John
Brophy for international President,
the international Officials determin-
ed to eliminate him. Not being able
CONTINUED on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-01
By WILLIAM F. DUNE

THE United Mine Workers of
l. America, so far as the Lewis ma
chine with the aid Of packed con-
ton can do it, at its thirtieth con-
vention, is being stripped of every
official and constitutional sanction
for policy Of class struggle.
The heritage of militancy and be-
lief in the ultimate supremacy of the
working class, providing it kept faith
and held to the line of solidarity with
all of its oppressed kindred, the ex-
preston of belief in the right of the
working class to free itself from eco
nomic and political servitude, have
been rejected and repudiated in In
dianapolis.
THE United Mine Workers, in its
L official policy, has been brought
into line with the prevailing reaction
in the upper circles of the labor
movement.
What is left of the mighty union
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ewis Dresses the u NJ W. Of A. for Wedding and Funera

the constitution most thoroly. Their
report recommends that every word,
clause or sentence which is reminis-
cent of the former militancy of the
United Mine Workers be eliminated.
In addition to castrating the con-
stitution the machine-riden conven-
ton has repudiated number of for
mer progressive measures.
The major preparations to turn the
back of the union on its glorious past
can be enumerated as follows:
/. The preamble to the constitution
has been fundamentally changed. In
its old form the second paragraph
said:
Believing that those whose lot is
to toll within the earth's recesses
surrounded by peculiar dangers
and deprived of sunlight and pure
air, producing the commodity which
makes possible the worlds prog
ress, are entitled to protection and
the FULL SOCIAL VALUE OF
THEIR PRODUCT, etc.
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which the pioneers of the American
labor movement welded together with
their blood, has been prepared for
burial in the muck-heap Of worker
employer cooperation and efficiency
unionism.
The war on the Communists and
the left wing in the union, the starv-
ing of thousands of the best fighting
elements out of the union with the
approval Of officialdom since the
Jacksonville agreement was signed
the steady barrage directed against
members who have dared to insist on
the preservation of the most elemen-
tary principles of trade union demo-
crazy, the expulsion of men like
Howat, Corbislly, Myerscough, Dun
can Macdonald, Freeman Thomp-
son and Hapgood--all have been part
of consistent plan and the rape Of
the union that is taking place here
is proof of it.
THE efficiency union" experts of
4 the Lewis machine have gone over
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The last five words have been
changed to read: EQUITABLE
FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR.
This change is of the greatest sig
nificance. 1t means that the official
dom of the U. M. w. Of A. accepts
both the viewpoint of the American
ruling class on the question Of the
reward to which workers are entitled
and the phraseology in which its
views are formulated. Equitable
fruits of their labor" is the formula
of the Civic Federation.
2. In Article 8, Section /, the Sec
ton dealing with qualifications for
holding office in the union, there has
been inserted a clause BARRING
ANYONE WHO is NOT AN AMER
ICAN CITIZEN FROM RUNNING
FOR OFFICE IN THE UNION.
This clause, in union like the U.
M. w. Of A., in which the majority
Of the membership is foreign-born,
places the leadership Of the union in
the hands of precisely 100 per cent
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DEMAND "HANDS OFF CHINA!'
Hudson Coal Co. Hits
Employees With a Lay
Off; Anti-UniOn Outfit

SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 31-More
than $4,000 mine workers Of Lacka-
wanna und Luzerne counties were
thrown out Of work today when thir-
teen collieries of the Hudson Coal
Company and several workings of
the Glen Alden Coal Company were
shut down because of the lack Of de-
mand for anthracite coal.
Notices posted at the various mines
throughout the valley explained that
the mines would be idle indefinite
"" The action of the companies is
taken to mean that half time opera
ting policy will be enforced because
of the dull condition of the hard coal
market.
The Hudson Coal Co. is one of the
largest in this district, and is a most
vigorous agitator for non-union con-
ditions. 1t has a contract with the
union, but forbids union organizers
to set foot on its property. 1t also
conducts dinners, at which it seeks
to form its employees into a more
or less organized opposition to the
union.
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government, came out openly in favor
of the tory government and the war
on China. So did Philip Snowden,
chancellor Of the exchequer in the
Macdonald government, who accom-
panied his prefer of support to Sir
Austen Chamberlain with a vicious
attack on Soviet Russia for its SYM
pathy for the Chinese nationalist
movement. Snowden charged the
Soviet government with seeking to in
jure the interests of the empire in
China and all over the Orient.
Blames Soviet Union.
He attributed the Chinese revo-
luton to Soviet intrigue and holds the
capitalists of Great Britain blameless
for the campaign of terror which has
evoked the present hatred of the
British in every section of China.
In harmony with the British gov
ernment's Vaccinations against the
Soviet union the right wing labor
leaders are renewing their attacks on
the Communists and on the Minority
Movement, the left wing organization
OF the British trade union movement.
Cable Is Confirmed.
My recent cable to The DAILY
WORKER regarding the conference
held between right wing labor leaders
and Winston Churchill in Lord VIM
borne's mansion has been eloquently
borne out by the action of the
Thomas-MacDonald reactionaries in
supporting the government policy on
China.
There is no doubt in the mind of
every left winger that a secret agree
ment was reached between the gov
eminent and the labor leaders for
united front against the Soviet union
and the growing anti-imperiaIist
movement which threatens the ex-
istence of the empire.