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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
THREE CONGRESSIONAL
. VACANCIES TO Be FILLED
Rene de Rouen Elected to Succeed
DR.. Ladislas Lazaro
of Louisiana.

William Tyler Page. clerk of the
House, cndeavoring to esta blish the
official record in the Y" rious vacancies
in the House that have occurred
through death. He has i'ist been Of
ficially notified that Rene !" D1 Rouen
of Vile Platte, La. AZ elected in the
Sc enth Louisiana district on August
% to succeed the late DR.. Ladislas
LaZa'
He has also been ol.cially notified
that primaries are to be held in the
thirty.fifth New York district on Sep
TENDER 20 fill the vacancy caused
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
Will Celebrate Holy Communion.

Rev. E. B. Niver will conduct the
services tomorrow at ST. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Georgetown, when holy
communion will be celebrated at 7:30
am, church school at $50 am. and
morning prayer and sermon at II.
Rev. F. Bland Tucker is rector of st.
Johns Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
WILL UNDERGo,TEST.i
Neon Gas Tog-rsnetratins Light
Designed for ghius.

Inspection at the earliest oppor-
tunity to .deterrhine the practIeability
Of the new Neon gas fog penetrating
light Installed on the Leviathan will
be made by Dickerson N. Hoover.
supervising inspector general or the
steamboat inspection service.
Makers of the light. which Rlows
deep red. the Commerce Depart
ment said. claim that it has unusual
visibility. but owing to the feeling
that 1t might interfere with the EN-
cheney of the regular ship lights re-
quired by law. particularly the port
light. which also is red. the inspec-
ton service has prohibited its use
a. a.n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
DR.. Marshall Returns.

DIR. James T. Marshall, pastor OF the
Georgetown Presbyterian Church. has
returned from his Summer vacation
and will preach at the morning service
tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
BLOND SCHOOLGIRL
IS miss AMERICA"
"Miss Illinois," With Un-
bobbed Hair, Chosen Pref
test of II.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.. September
ia blond, hlue-eyed. unbobhed high
school girl of 16 today reigns as queen
of American beauty. with the title of
"Miss America Of 1927"
From a field of - aspirants, who
represented 81 States in the annual At
lantic City pageant. Miss Lois De-
lander of Joliet. H.. Miss Illinois, =
was chosen to succeed Miss Norma
Smallwood. brunette. from Tulsa,
Okla. who had held the throne as
"Miss America of 1926.
Miss Dallas" Miss Mozelle Ran
some, IS, Of Dallas, Tex, won second
place, the two having been selected
from FIVE semi.finalists.
$4,000 jam Ballroom.
Fifteen thousand persons jammed
the ballroom of the Million Dollar Pier
last night as the selection of Miss
Illinois was announced, The new
queen. attired in her royal robes and
wearing her crown. greeted her sub
jects from her throne beside king
Neptune" Eddie Bowling, musical
comedy star.
II am so excited that l can't say
much" she said Il am so thrilled.
shall try all through the year to do
honor TO the title which l bear.
shall hurry home now"
The new Miss America" is q slen-
der miss of 120 pounds. Her hair is
light brown and her complexion eX-
tremely fair.
Wins the Roller Chair.
Her measurements are: Height, 5
feet AZ inches; neck. 121a inches;
bust. S1lz; wrist. 512; hips, 36; arm
length, p; waist. esq; thigh, 20; calf,
l212; ankle, s.
Miss Freida Louise Mierse. as Miss
New York" won the grand prize in
the roller chair parade, feature of
the pageant.
The other three semi-fnalists for
the title of Miss America" were: Miss
Anne Howe. 20, of Hammond. Ind;
Miss Virginia Claire Howard, IS, of
Tulsa, Okla, and Miss Kathleen. Coyle.
is, of Philadelphia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

California uses more lumber than
any other State in the Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

TN this new era of elegance, FashionableS
choose velvet-the most sophisticated of the
fabrics for Autumn and Winter-realizing
that in its subtle, ustrous folds lies the greatest
smartness of the new season. introduced at
the Paris Fall openings by the hattie couture
velvet is offered by Woodward & Lothrop in
distinguished collection of gowns, hats, coats
boutonnieres and handbags.
Sheer transparent velvet gowns and velvet
trimmed gowns in the new modes, may be had
in sizes for Madame. Mademoiselle and the
Junior
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10
FLOOD PROBLEMS
STILL ARE PENDING,
HOOVER DECLARES

rontinued from First Page.)
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Presidents O. X. Seen.

Secretary Davis may submit the
problem Of finding funds to continue
the work to the Judge advocate gen.
eral of the Army for study of legal
possibilities. He. is satisfied .sthat
President Coolidge would Approve any
emergency measure that could abe
squared with the requirements Of law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Boosting Presidential Candidates

The hack writer's of the reptile press alert grovel
before the political agents the engaged
fierce contest effort to anticipate who the two
parties will choose for their presidential candidates
Governor Al Smith, President Coolidge, William c. Nc
Adoo United States Senator James A Reed and Ex-Governor
Frank Lowden of Illinois, all objects of euogums by the
Wallets of capitalism The slightest knowledge of politics and
history eliminates all but of the present outstanding cand
dates Smith Roman Catholic which makes his candidacy
the democratic impossible for the simple
the stronghold of democracy in the south the heart
protestant bible belt the of the Ku Kux Khan
1t is questionable if he could single southern state Then
again. Tammany Hail. the political parent of Smith for Wall
Street against the petty bourgeois elements in the democratic
party both the South and the Middle West Democratic
ddates particularly Wilson have been able hoodwnk the mid
die class elements but Smith cannot hope to do it. His nomna-
ton would sound the dathkne of that party and its leaders
outside of New York know it.
Coolidge automatically eliminated because of the
his candidacy will be interpreted seeking third term. He is
also in bad with most of the republican party leaders
The defeat of his William Morgan Butler in his
of Massachusetts exploded the myth that the president has
prestige anywhere His and the party leaders know it,
McAdoo the heir apparent of the Wilson dynasty fast
fading from the picture and the nomination
Lowden branded political swinder and corruptionst
the exposure his who caught buying
Missouri in effort to securesfor him the 1920 pres
Dental nomination.
Of the present candidates only Senator Reed of Missouri
probability But he viii almost insurmount-
able difficulties He has incurred the undyng enmity
section Of the democratic party because of his long fight
against the Morgan policy League of Nations and the World
Court He speaks for the middle class elements of the Middle
West and Wall Street will unquestonaby organize its forces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Stop the War on China

The international murderbund getting ready for
warshps paong the Chinese coast anchored
in the harbors and steaming up and down the rivers
There $4,000 foreign troops in Shanghai alone and
10000 the This will make total of two SOL
diers for every foreign resident.
According Thomas Willard China correspondent for
the New York World the mpeass considering two plans
) occupy the principal ports and river ports
far the Yangse Changsh above Hankow This is in
tended to place the principal river and industrial districts of
China under foreign control
~ Complete occupation and qualification China
stating army of half million to million troops and war
a ten fifteen year period.
The DAILY WORKER for weeks has been warnings it's read
that China the inevitable of the
of events eliminating in the codbooded bombarment of and
slaughter of the civilian population of Marking.
Every deed has its logic and the mobilization of troops
and navies the ceasees flood of lies and hafruts the
Indictment against Chinese liberation and
the Peoples INDUCED in by the capitalist
speaks just loudly and accurately of mperast intentions
Great Britain doing anything everything possible
unite around her program of wholesale the
of the United States France Italy and Japan The Amer
lean state department while publicly dcaming intention
of Joint action continues to dispatch troops and gunboa to
China.
1t is further established that the recent raids Soviet
Union embassies consuaes railroad and shipping offices
plotted jointly by the American and British representatives
Great Britain with the fascist bloc of Italy Hungary Rou
and Poland organized against the Soviet Union under her
auspices tries with the formation of mpeas bloc
crush the Chinese liberation movement and attack the Soviet
Union from the east.
This is counter-revolution on a world scale
Even tho United States and Japan because of their conflict
with Great Britain do not formally take part in such mOnsrous
bloody adventure they will nevertheless send huge forces
China Safeguard their national interests and ship and
soldier they will weight the scales against the work
and peasants of the Soviet Union and China.
Wall Street government in such situation will place the
whole country basis and the few liberties that survived
the last will disappear
The time to stop is before it starts-now.
Every union every workers fraernal society every
cooperative organization whose members have moth
with the financial and industrial potenaes and
warords demand continue demand the withdrawal
all China recognition of the Hankow gov
and public declaration by President Coolidge against
war China by any power combination of powers.
Wall Street government know that the American
will fight its battles and that they have nothing but sym
pathy the heroic struggle freedom waged
by the Chinese workers and peasants alliance with the
of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Detroit May Day Has
GitlOw and BrOwder

DETROIT, Mich, April 1.-THE
preparations for the greatest May
Day celebration ever held in Detroit
are we'll on the way. The largest
hall in the city has been secured, the
Arena Gardens, with seating capaci-
ty of over 5000.
Ben Gitlow has been secured as the
principal speaker. Earl Browder who
will have just arrived from six
month stay in Canton, Hankow and
other revolutionary centers of China
will deal with the latest revolutionary
developments of China.
The Arena Gardens besides being
the largest hall in Detroit is also the
most beautifully decorated and parti-
cularly suitable for huge Hands Off
China May Day celebration.
A first class program is being ar
ranged that will fit in well with the
great demonstration.
Over A000 tickets are in circulation
and unprecedented sales are report
ed. Admission of 25 cents is being
charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
The DAILY WORKER.

against him. Unless abandons the democrat the petty
bourgeois hopeless and concentrates republican party
Reed has no chance to secure the nomination
There is another candidate, however the capitalist
crbbers not playing He Fastener
but is of the pampered favoes Wall Street At the
same time his business connections with the LaSae street bank
houses in Chicago and his support by the Harvester trust
make him logical medium for uniting the antagonistic
forces in the republican party. That VcePresident
Dawes. His candidacy being cevery manipulated the
first place there public camor about it, Secondly he plainly
shows his disagreement with the Coolidge farm policy pre-
tends to look kindly the Lowden crusade among the
He will at the proper moment cash Lowden senti-
ment among the weltodo farmers Thirdly he is fascist
aborhate rkebreae who be depended upon to carry
through savage campaigns Of suppression against the workers
home and fight reentesy against any attempt of the
pressed colonas to rise against dollar despotsm
If capalsms candidate is not Dawes it will be someone
like him, matter which ticket he runs.
Within the two old parties there hope workers
Only party Of labor speak for US.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
~ DRAMA IN
Circus Opens at Madison
Square Garden This
Afternoon

Led by "Pahwah," the white ele-
plant from Burma, the grand entry
will take place this afternoon at Mad
ison Square Garden where the Ring
ling Barnum & Bailey circus opens
an engagement Of some four weeks.
Performances will be given twice
daily except Sunday.
Many new acts have been added to
the circus this year. The feature
acts of last season have been reju-
venated and revamped and the entire
program rearranged with many new
and spectacular ideas Incorporated in
to its entirety.
This year there are with the Ring
ling shows, 1000 persons of whom
$50 are performers, there are 1000
wild animals, the largest menagerie
in captivity, there are more than 900
horses used with the circus. The herd
of elephants includes az and camels
galore.
May Wirth and Lillian Leitzel are
again headliners with the big show
and their acts will again draw the at
tention of all in the vast Garden. Ber-
ia Besson is here again with that
aerial act. Then there are the sea-
lions that juggle; bears who ride
bicycles and trained tigers, lions and
leopards. And the freaks of course.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Pittsburgh to
Have Big May
Day Meeting

PITTSBURGH, Pa.,-The Workers
(Communist) Party and the Young
Workers (Communist) League are
arranging huge celebration for May
LIST. The celebration will be held at
the Labor Lyceum 35 Miller Street,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The celebration is of great import
ance to the workers in the Pittsburgh
district as it can be recalled that last
May Day, j. Louis Engdahl, editor
of The DAILY WORKER, and A.
Jakira, organizer of this district,
who were to speak at the May Day
meeting, We're arrested and served
five days in the Allegheny County
Jail, when they attempted to speak
after the police had closed the hall
and stopped the meeting.
Won Victory.
The Communists won a victory at
that time over the police, and since
then the police have made a ruling
that meetings can be held without a
permit and the halls cannot be locked.
1t is also important from the point
of view of the coal miners strike
which is now going on in the coal
mining region of Pittsburg district.
About $4,000 coal miners are out on
strike against the coal barons who
have started an open shop and wage
reduction campaign. The speakers at
the meeting will he Alex BitteIman
and w. j. White, members of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party. There
will also be Young Workers League,
Pioneer and Jewish speakers. Frank
Borich will speak in South Slav.
Letters of invitation are being sent
out to organizations asking them to
participate in the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Finnish Communist
Daily Celebrates
On 9Th Birthday

WORCESTER, Mass, April IL
Preparations are being made by our
eastern Finnish Daily "Eteenpain"
(Forward) for celebration of the
sixth anniversary on April 16 and II.
"Eteenpain" was founded six years
ago by revolutionary Finnish work
ers, who later joined into the Work
ers (Communist) Party, after they
lost their former paper "Raivaaja"
to reactionary socialists. During the
first year "Eteenpain" was published
in New York City and printed in the
same shop that The DAILY WORK
Err is printed now Five years ago
the paper was moved to Worcester,
Mass, which is more central loca-
ton for the circulation of "Eteen-
pain" Side by side with other or
gans of our Patty, "Eteenpain" has
struggled for the Liberation of work
ers and poor farmers from the in
fluence of bourgeois and socialist
traitors and creating Communist in
fluence amongst the masses.
ReactiOnary Frame-up.
Two years ago court action was
instigated against "Eteenpain" by
a certain Finnish preacher, Lillbacka,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, behind which were
all reactionary forces of Finnish white
government, ku klux khan, etc. And
eighteen months ago, a Boston court
gave the decision. by which "Eteen-
pain" is to pay $4,000 to this Fin
nish preacher. Since that case has
appealed, the Massachusetts State
Appeal Court, which has not yet
handed down a decision. All Finnish
reactionary forces down to the So
cialist traitors have reioiced in the
defeat "Eteenpain' suffered in this
court case. But the masses of Fin
nish workers and farmers have
flocked stronger than ever to support
our paper, so much so, that "Eteen-
pain" is financially on a firmer basis
than before.
This is sufficient cause of celebra-
ton. And Finnish comrades all over
eastern states are expected to gath
er here to take part in the sixth
anniversary. An excellent program
has been arranged. Main speakers
will be VIM. MARTHA, business man.
ager of "Eteenpain" and H. Puro,
secretary of the Finnish Bureau and
former editor of "Eteenpain."
A special publication, containing
brief history Of "Eteenpain" and
much valuable material about the
significance of revolutionary news
papers of workers, has been published.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Party Members of Los
Angeles Plan Campaign
To Boost Daily Worker

Los ANGELES, April 1l.-At a
general membership meeting for all
members of the Party and Young
Workers League, the political CAM
paign into which the party is enter
ing was discussed and plans for
mobilizing the party were laid out.
The drive for The DAILY WORK
Err was taken up in detail, with many
non-Party members of The DAILY
WORKER BUILDERS CLUB pres
ent and participating in the arrange.
ments. The concert to be given on
Saturday, April 10th, for the benefit
Of The DAILY WORKER, is expect,
ed to be a great success and net sew
cral hundred dollars.
Plans for the opening of a member
ship drive were also presented at
this meeting, in connection with the
Party activity in the election cam
paign, to be carried out jointly with
the Young Workers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
BY ARNE SWABECK.

The recent Chicago elections will
undoubtedly go down in history as
the closing chapter of one of the
greatest mud-slinging contests ever
staged by the Celebrated" American
political parties. But its pages will
also record the monstrous joke of the
present official political policy of the
trade union bureaucracy of reward
ing friends and furnishing enemies
translated into practice. When con-
sidering, however, the thousands of
workers who ultimately become the
victims of such jokes, the situation
rather stands out as a dismal trag-
edy.
Told On Each Other
Recriminations of which such in
vectives as crooks, rats, slunSs, ETC.,
were amongst the most moderate
used added filth to the sinking at
mosphere Of the whole campaign.
These invectives hurled may all be
true. At least the Sovereign" Amer
lean voter seems long ago to have
accepted the possibility Of it being
so-witness the record turnout of
almost 100000 votes cast.
The Workers Voted
This record vote clearly indicates
the extensive degree of working class
participation in elections. That this
participation is not. at all on class
basis or as a conscious section is
even more certain. The trade union
movement had its full share of the
general mud singing. Class issues
were entirely obscured and after the
net result of the weeks of feverish
activities, as far as the rank and file
trade unionists are concerned, is
merely the one Of tying them more
solidly to the kite of corrupt capital
istic politics. Their votes were de-
livered to the bosses in the interest
of the bosses.
Labor Split
The Chicago trade union leader
ship was divided into two camps,
each claiming to faithfully carry out
the American Federation of Labor
political policy. The Cook County
Wage Farmers League, headed by
Oscar F. Nelson, vice-president Of
the Chicago Federation of Labor, en-
dorsed "Big Bill" Thompson in the
name of the American Federation Of
Labor policy.
Another imposing" array of Of
ficials headed by Victor A. Olander,
Secretary of the Illinois State Fed
Grafton of Labor, endorsed William
E. Dever also in the name of the
American Federation of Labor policy.
John Fitzpatrick, the President of the
Chicago Federation of Labor took the
stump for Dever.
Dever With Lands
The Cook County Wage Farmers
League claimed that Thompson had
always given the working people and
all elements of the city a square
deal. He had been constructive. He
had widened more streets and paved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
CHICAGO ELECTION PROVES FAILURE OF THEORY
LABOR SHOULD REWARD OR PUNISH" OLD PARTIES

more alleys, and accomplished more
public improvement than any other
mayor ever did.
They charged that q members of
the "citizens committee" to enforce
the Lands Award were members of
the Dever Campaign Committee and
that Dever is controlled by big bust
ness.
Thompson Cut Wages
The other committee of trade un-
ion officials endorsed Dever claiming
he was a union man, a friend of
labor, that during his term Of office
no injunctions had been granted
against labor, and that business men
had confidence in his administration
and had, therefore, kept up the gem
eral prosperity.
They charged that Bill Thompson
had been placed on the unfair list and
that he had helped to cut down the
wages Of theA streetcar men, and so
forth.
Labor Votes Sold
The monstrous joke Of this cleo
ton campaign should now be clear
to all. The great mass of labor be-
ing fooled by its leaders has come to
occupy a miserable position. Their
votes were merely bartered as pawns
by one set Of labor leaders or another
to support their favorite candidates.
The policy of supporting friends
and Furnishing enemies has no con-
nection with working class issues. 1t
is not a class policy and is therefore
not labor policy. 1t is no longer,
and for that matter never was, a
question of friends Of labor as a
class, but the friends Of certain labor
leaders to be rewarded or their enc
mics to be punished.
1t is simply matter of personal
friendship between corrupt capitalist
politicians and their tools, the cor
rupt labor leaders. On that basis the
vote of the working masses was So
licited and as long as that policy ex-
lists these masses will remain the
victims.
A Corrupt Bargain
In trade union life similar cor
rupt practice has already set in.
Those labor leaders who have the
greatest pull with the capitalist poll
ticians become the favorites for trade
union positions who then have to re-
turn the favor and deliver the votes
to their political friends at election
time.
The trade union leadership thus be-
comes part and parcel Of the corrupt
capitalist political machines which in
the final analysi are controlled by
the big business institutions. 1t is
clear that as long as this policy re-
mains in practice there are no pos
sibilities of the trade union leader
ship leading a militant struggle
against the bosses, against the big
capitalist institutions for even the
everyday needs of the workers, not
to speak of freedom from the misery
of wage slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
Communist. Anarchist Debate.

CLEVELAND,---An interesting de-
bate will be held in Cleveland on a
question that is agitating the people
of the entire world. "Has the Russian
Revolution Been Success"
]. Amter, district secretary Of the
Workers (Communist) Party, will en-
deavor to prove that it has been a
full success, while Sh. Marcus, anar-
chist writer and lecturer, will con-
tend that is has not.
The debate will be held at the In
surance Center Building, Assembly
Room A, 1888 +. 18th ST., on Tues
day, April 26, at pm. Admission
Is cents. The debate is being held
under the auspices Of the Workers
Educational League.