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The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
SEEK REWARD
 FOR ALASKAN
Seward Chamber of Com. merce Starts Move
 for Kotof

SEWARD. Dec 16 The Sewarl Chamber of Commerce has adopt ed a resolution to secure some recognition for Walter Kotoff, for aid in saving the life of Bessie Howe. Ninilchik school teacher, who accidentally shot herself. Al fidavits are being secured and will be sent to the Carnegie In- stitute.
 Kotoff left Ninilchik in a rag ing storm and made his way to farmers house where he sent out call from an amateur radio set The faint signals were pick ed up at Anchorage and an air plane with a doctor went to the aid of the girl and returned with her to the Anchorage hospital where she is now, having a fight ing chance for her life.
 Kotoff stumbled on through the storm and finally reached Sel- dovia where he later found his efforts in seeking aid had been successful.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
TAX MEASURE IS PASSED BY
 LOWER HOUSE
Tax Reduction Bill Goes Through by Vote of 366
 to 2l-Amendments

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-With the Democratic and Republican coalition holding the whip hand, the House has passed the Tax Reduction bill with threa major amendments which were vigorous ly opposed by the Republican Party leaders.
 On the final showdown. how ever, only 21 Republicans were willing to go on record against the measure after exhausting every Parliamentary means to eliminate the three contested amendments.
 Among the amendments was one for the repeal of the sales tax on automobiles.
 The vote on the passage of the tax bill was 366 to 21.
 The passage vote on the amend ment to repeal the sales tax on automobiles was 245 to Al.
 Democrats and about score of Republicans supported the other two amendments which provided reduction in taxes of small COZ. poratlons and requiring corpora- tions and subsidiaries to file. sap crate Instead of joint returns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
ORCANIzATION
 OF SE N ATE IS
 NOW PERFECTED
Republicans Able to Con
 trol Senate by Margin of Few Votes

L
 WASHINGTUl<, DGus It Draw ing support of both the 1rregilars of their own party and one Farm er-Labor member, the Republicans are able to hold control of the Senate organization by margin of a few votes.
 The Senate reelected Senator George H. Moses, of New Hamp- shire, as President Pro Tempore; ]; Edwin Thayer, of Indiana, as See retary, and David Barry, of Rhode Island, as Sergeant-at-Arms.
 Moses was elected by vote cf 42 to 49. Thayer by vote of 43 to Il and Barry, 42 to 40.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
Bed Spread Indicates Coolidge Mope

WASHINGTON. Dec. 16--A knit bed spread. the product of the skillful hands of Mrs. Coolidge. reveals mute prophecy that Presi- dent Coolidge will leave the White House in 1929.
 The spread was finished by Mrs. Coolidge year ago and bears in the center coat of of the United States, with prophetic weaving in side pieces. One kn:i- ted name, that of Lincoln. dates 1861 and 1865. appear in ona piece. and on another is the name of Calvin Coolidge. 1923-1929.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
MORE FLIGHTS PLANNED

NEW YORK, Dec. -lndlca- tlons are that Col. Lindbergh' $ flight to Mexico City has inten- sified interest in aviation. This is seen in proposals for three cross seas flight for the extension of commercial routes.
 The proposal includes plans for two hops from New York to Rome; the offering of $25, 1000 prize to the first aviator to make nonstop flight from New York to Cairo, Egypt; international air meet between the United States, Canada and Mexico, and coastal air service in each side of the country.
 Harry Guggenheim, President of the Guggenheim Fund for Pro motion of Aeronautics, declared that air travel will soon be avail lble at cost no greater than that of the automobile. He said an air passenger service will be inaugurated between Los An geles and San Francisco within few months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
NECO HATING FOR PURCHASE
 SEATTLE CLUB
Seattle and Portland Syn dicate May Take
 Over Indians

SEATTLE, Dec. 16.-Confirma- tion of reports that a syndicate of Seattle and Portland men is negotiating for the purchase of the Seattle Baseball Club of the Pacific Coast League was given in a telegram received here by Virgil Garyey, Business Manager of the Indians, from President Lockard, now in Los Angeles.
 The prospective purchasers are reported to be William Klepper, former owner of the ball club: pr. Earl Morrow. of Portland, and John Savage, of Seattle.
 Klepper is reported willing to give $30O,OOO for the team.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
GOVERNMENT
 WINS POINT
Cross Examination of Burns
 Detective Denied in Contempt Case

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The Government today won a victory over counsel for Sinclair and his associates in the contempt of court trial, when Justice Siddons ruled the defense could not cross examine Frank O'Reilly, Burns detective, regarding conversation he had with the parents of Ed ward Kidwell. juror in the Sin clair-Fall conspiracy oil, trial.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
Madden Will Fight
 Funds for Doheny

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-Pros- poets of passage of a congress sional appropriation bill, reimburs- ing E. l.. Doheny's oil companies for $13,009,507 spent in construct ing oil storage tanks at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, base were col- siderably dimmed by the opposi- tion of Representative Martin B. Madden. Republican. of Illinois, chairman of the house appropria- tions committee.
 Madden occupies strategic po- sition to block bill to this end, which must originate in his com mittee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
OKLA. SENATE
 TAKES RECESS
Will Give line io House Leaders to Prepare
 Impeachment Case

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Dee. 16-The State Senate, which con vened to hear the impeachment charges against Gov. Henry <. Johnson; President Cordell, of the State Board of Agriculture, an1 Chief Justice Branson, adjourned late yesterday until December 2e.
 It was stipulated, however. the Senate could be called into ses. sion any time in the interim by Senator Williamson, presiding of ficer
 Adjournment was, taken to pro. vide time for the summoning of witnesses and give the House leaders opportunity to prepare the cases as prosecutors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
COMMUNISTS
 ROUNDED UP
Chinese Authorities at Hankow Stage Demon
 stration with Troops

HANKOw. Dec. 16-Chinese authorities have raided the Soviet Consulate and arrested all Rus sian and Chinese occupants. The authorities Z then proceeded tn round up all Communists in Han kow.
 The scene caused intense excite ment when the Chinese troops occupied the former Russian an German concessions and carried out a systematic house to house search for Communists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
soBs HAIR AT ss

FORT WORTH. Texas, Dec. 16 Mrs. Abigail Sadler. Texas pioneer, had her hair bobbed tw3 days before her 99th birthday
 q am going to curl it, just like the flappers do," she said.
 Grandma" Sadler hopes to ride in an airplane before she is 100.
 If frivolties of young people seem more conspicuous nova days she says, defending mod ern youth, fits because there are more young folks.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
Crude Oil Is Mined
 On Farm of Texan

JACKSONBORO. Tex, Dec. lC --On is mined" not pumped, on the w. D. Stinehouse farm near here.
 Stinehouse's mine is believed to be the only one in the country producing oil in paying quantities. It is 30 feet deep. At the bottom of the shaft is reservoir, and a seepage process is used to get the oil from the sand into the reservoir.
 Instead of a derrick. the symbol of an oil well, a crude tripod of oak logs stands above the large hole in the earth leading to the shallow oil sands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
QUEBEC FIRE
 DEAD NOW 50

QUEBEC. Dec. 16--A civic funeral will take place Sunday for the victims of the Orphanage fire here yesterday morning. Burial will follow group of funeral services. On Monday mass will be celebrated for the victims.
 Search of the ruins continued for bodies. Thirty-three bodies have been recovered. There are still seventeen persons. all chil- dren, unaccounted for.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
PUBLIC DEBT
 CUT BILLION

WARRINGTON, Dec. 16-The tills of the Treasury gained ap- proxinately $4OO. 100000 at the close of the regular quarterly fis- cal operations. The transactions represented 8 turnover of approx imateIy $1.z50, ,000,0 900 and com pleted operations that made it possible for approximately S1.- 000, ,OOO,O00 reduction in the Ma tional debt for the calendar year, leaving 1t now about $1S,00O, ,0O9,- 900.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
AIaskon on Way To isit His
 Dad Aged lO5
tInternationai Nswsrssll

CHICO. Cal, Dec. 16--John Patching, aged 73, from Re- villagigedo Island, Alaska. has left here for Darlington, Tex, to visit his father, John Patching. Sr., 105 years old.
 "When l arrive home there will be five generations of us 4pn hapdp said Patching. Jr 1hn1'e ~ss1ll De a is.inily re- union in Darlington on Christ mas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
Prayer Book Reuisi0n Is Rejected

LONDON. Dec. 1G- Con trary to all expectations, tha House of Commons has re jected the revision of the Prayer Book, despite the fact that Premier Baldwin reconl- mended it's adoption.
 The revision scheme was approved by the House of Lords by a vote of 241 to S3.
 The House of Commons re- iected the measure by a vote of PAT to 205.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS;
 VOTE FOR FIRST LARGE MEASCR]
Extraordinary Honors
 Giuen Col. Lindbergh
 By the Mexican Nation

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16-Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has receiv d the greatest honors Mexico and the Congress can pay any person. Mexican or foreigner.
 The Chamber of Deputies went into solemn session yesterday af- ternoon and received Col. Lind- bergh.
 Such session is called rarely and only for the most important Government officials.
 It has never been held for a private citizen.
 The Chamber of Deputies. how. ever, by a formal vote, decided Col. Lindbergh was not a private citizen but an Ambassador of Goodwill to the Mexican Peo. pie" and therefore entitled to re- ceive the highest honors.
 The President of the Chamber of Deputies presented the Ameri- can Aviator Ambassador with a gold medal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
BETTER HOMES FOR NEVADA

CARSON CITY. New. Dec. D. Womens civic organizations throughout the state have formed a Nevada unit of the better homes in America movement and here after will direct the work whic1 national headquarters. Nevada is the third state to take on such local autonomy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
NEXT CONQUEST

MEXICO CITY. Dec. 16-Cen- tral America is schdeuled for the next air conquest by Col. Lind
 bergh unless his present plans are changed. Col. Lindbergh intends to fly from Mexico City to Guatemela City, San Salvador, Honduras, Panama and possibly Nicaragua, then he will probably visit Ha- vana.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
I W0 TITLE BOUTS ARE
 ON TONIGHT


 NEW YORK. Dec. l6- Tod Morgan will defend the junior lightweight crown against Joe Click, and Newsboy Brown will struggle with Ixzy Schwartz for the flyweight fltle, in a double championship bill at Madison Square Gardeh tonight.
 Both bouts Ire scheduled for 15 rounds.
 Morgan ia aS 6 to , favorite over Click.
 Among those on the Alameda booked for Junehu is A. A. Bass, representative of tDe Fur-Farmes Magazine. publiahed in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
DEMOCRATS
 IN SESSION,
 KETCH H|KAN
Organize and Committees Named-Planks Are
 Controversies
Special to Empire)

KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Dec. 16 : The delegates to the Democratic First Divisional Convention or- ganized yesterday afternoon with the election of Ed C.. Austin as Chairman. and Tom Smith ds Secretary
 Committees were named The platform committee consists of J. J. Connors. John w. Troy. George B. Grigsby, N. R. Walker an1 James Verdin. The committee was in session all afternoon and until midnight, and is meeting again today.
 The chief controversies are tho herring and fisheries blanks anii also the Controller Bill.
 The convention may not nom mate a Legislative ticket.
 Delegates attending the conven' tion are practically unanimous for Gov. A. E. Smith as Presidential nominee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-16
Aareement Is Reached

KETCHEY !, Alaska. Dec. 16- The convention this morning ap- proved of the report of the Gre dentiaIs Committee and gave the Platform Committed until 2 o'clock this afternoon to report,
 The Platform Committee has agreed upon controversial mat ters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
Personal RecOllectiOns of
Arthur McManus

school represented principally the
decay-the partly conscious desire to
escape from reality-of the middle
class intelligentzia of Britain. In
discussing fiction, he was equally at
home. And then, perhaps, casual
remark from someone would reveal
that our "Mac" also possessed an
unusually complete layman's knowl-
edge of astronomy or biology!
1t was this wide acquaintance with
the culture of our times which some
times won McManus friends from
those outside the Communist camp
writer's, artists and others, who,
while not opposed definitely to Com
munism, thought but little at all on
political subjects. Often, these good
people would try to adopt McManus
as one of their own clan. "He is not
like the rest of the Bolsheviks,"
they would say hopefully, after the
first half-hour of acquaintance, hear
ing him discuss new symphony,
just then being performed in Lon
don. Usually, of course, they had
never met the crest of the Bolshe-
viksw But a smashing disappoint-
ment awaited them. "Mac" was just
feeling around his man; and then, at
some remark by the hapless intellect
ual, "Mac" would pounce ferociously
upon him, and pin down fallacy after
fallacy with the steel points of his
relentless Marxist logic, And, be-
sides dialectics, there would be Bit
ter passion and derision in his words,
if the comfortable intellectual ven-
tured some remark anent the work
ers which revealed the snobbishness
of the academic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
Astounding Mental Energy.

Conspicuous in McManus was his
Astounding mental energy, and the
versatility Of his interests. Besides
his political work, and his organiza-
tional labours, he had an uncommon
knowledge of literature and the arts.
During one Of those long evenings
in London, when a group of COM
rades and sympathisers were gath
cred in somebody's apartment for
supper and talk, the conversation
would range widely. Perhaps the
subject would be the occupation Of
the Ruhr, and "Mac" would deva-
state, with mastery ease, the argu-
ments Of some learned liberal, who
had been invited TO meet him. And,
without effort, from this, he would
turn to q consideration of modern
pootryj and he would show, with CO.
pious quotation, how this or that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
BY CHARLES ASHLEIGH.

By CHARLES ASHLEIGH.
r FIRST met Arthur McManus when
/ arrived in England, in 1922, after
being deported from the United
States, at the expiration of prison
sentence. The annual Congress of
the Communist Party of Great Brit
ain was being held in the town hall
Of st. Pancras, in London, and
McManus was chairman. At that
time, he was also chairman of the
Party--an office that was subse-
quently abolished. He has been a
member Of the Central Executive
since the Party's formation.
After thirteen years. absence from
England, including three years in an
American prison, I felt a stranger
in London, the city Of my birth. But
the welcome l received from the
British revolutionists speedily dis
persed any sense of strangeness.
And, among those who tried so hard
to make me feel that I was indeed
among comrades, was McManus. He
was busy and harried at the time,
and not in the best of health, but he
had time and inclination for the cor
dial extension of his friendship to
the returned exile. Since those days,
we have been close personal friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
My Country IT'S Of Thee
By NAT KAPLAN.

Our Friends The Socialists.-Over
5000 women workers of Mississippi
work more than 10 hours a day for
an average wage of $3.50 per week.
Can't our friends, the socialists, have
law ag'in it passed, or is the New
Leader too busy hailing the Alger-like
rise of "Roxy" to fame and fortune :?
The Holy Men Are HOwling.-With
the appearance of ELMER Gantry,"
the story of a small-town youth who
goes through a christian college, a
christian seminary and a christian
minister's life as hypocrite, crook,
liar and seducer, Sinclair Lewis bids
fair to knock the ministerial snug
ness and security for row of Gideon
bibles.
Representative of the consecrated
cloth of all creeds are criticising
Brother Sinclair's methods and man.
ners. The Reverend William Stidger,
erstwhile Kansas City friend of Lewis,
predicts the failure of the book be-
cause Of it's unfair, irreverent treat
ment of deep religious emotions"
Every knock from the holy men will
act as a boost as far as the books
sale is concerned. But our friend, the
flapper, will find it only mildly it'll
lating, the sophisticate will yawn and
turn to psycopathic sex studies, and
not a few nice people will be pleas
antly shocked.
The Literature OF Sensation.-One
often has vague notion that come
Of the writers of sensational stories
are actuated by the same urge that
produces the cruder type of literary
expression encountered on the walls Of
subway comfort stations. Personally,
we find commercialized sin almost
wholly unpleasant.
TabIoid.-Which reminds us, now
that the party's getting rough, of the
"art" editor of the filthiest tabloid,
one of the newer school of Greenwich
Villagers. He habitually wears a
windsor tie, long hair and a bored, al
most vacuous, expression that be-
comes slightly animated when he
glances over the layouts submitted for
his o X.
Laugh This .Offl-For the protec-
ton of the 1000 Americans within
the oriental danger zone your Uncle
Samuel has 80 warships, 4,159 uni
formed men and about 100 officers pa
trolling the war area.
Well, well.-145 Princeton students,
sans sense of shame and a belief in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
The Daily Symposium
THE QUESTION.
Conducted by EGDAMLAT.

THE QUESTION.
Should the United States government recognize the
Soviet Union?
THE PLACE.
Fourteenth street between First and Sixth avenues
THE ANSWERS.
Max Gronich, First Ave-, Manhattan neckwear
worker: 1.-THE state department maintains diplomatic
relations with the black shirt governments of Italy,
Hungary and Roumania, it therefore has no right to
discriminate aginst the workers government of Russia
Recognition of the Soviet Union would offer EMPLOY
ment to thousands of American workers in the basic
industries"
Paul Roster, Church Ave-, Brooklyn, postal employee:
The United States government cannot lose anything
by granting de ure recognition the Sovets 1t would
undoubtedly stimulate trade between the two
countries, and help check unemployment here"
Fred Mirsky, fremont Ave-, Bronx druggist: "Wall
Street has recognized the Sovets Russia imports
from the United States than from any other country
in the world is nothing short Of hypocrisy for the
state department to deny recognition to the Soviet
eminent"
Samuel Ravin, 167th St. Bronx traction expert: at
would be immoral well as unsafe, for our govern
ment to recognize the present regime in Russia until
tho Communists change their attitude toward religion
women and property"
Miss Becker, White Plains, teacher: ~ agree with
Senator Borah that the Soviet Union should be recog
nzed It has been in power for ten years and proven
itself to DO stable Most powers have granted de ure
or do facto recognition to the Soets and there is
reason why we shouldn't"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
Knew Life of the Poor.

Born in one of the poorest quar-
tiers of Glasgow, McManus knew the
life of the poor, the slow crucifica-
ton of the proletariat on the cross
of profit. And he was always con-
scious Of this. The passion of pro-
test and pity, which possessed him,
when speaking of the children of the
workers, and their limited, unful-
filled lives, was wrought from ex-
perience. His eyes had seen a thou
sand tragedies, and his soul was
scared with suffering. In the midst
of his enjoyment of painting, a
theatrical performance, or Of beauti-
full Landscape, he would remember
the millions who could not enjoy; and
he would point out how the enjoy
ment of beauty is mainly a class
privilege.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
In Wage Disputes Early.

As an engineer, wage-earning
machinist, in the great industrial
centre of the Clyde, he early became
involved in wage disputes, and won
to a position of trust among his fell
low trade unionists. He was prom
inent in the shop stewards move
ment, and, during the war, was one
of those, with GALLAGHER and others,
who organized an effective resistance
to the attacks of Lloyd George. So
effective, in fact, that the British
government deported him and sew
eral colleagues from Glasgow.
This early experience of the indus
trial struggles of the workers, COM
bined with excellent theoretical train
ing, fitted McManus for the part he
was to play in the formation of the
Communist Party of Great Britain.
The Russian Revolution, the triumph
of the Bolsheviks, and the establish
ment of the Communist information
al. this was the insuperable logic of
events which his mind-elastic, dialec-
tic and earnest-immediately ack-
nowledged and proclaimed.
Of his work, both in the Com
munist international, as a member of
the Communist International and as
leader in the British Communist
movement, l need not speak here. |
wish merely to give some inkling of
the personality of the man, whose
death is such loss to the workers
of all countries.