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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

wine. Both suspects later are re-
leased. Police disclose for first time
that the automobile used by the
slayeS had been found abandoned
and had been placed under surveil-
lance in the hope the killer would
return. Councilman Carl jacobson,
in meeting of city council demands
investigation of what he terms
cumbersome sets" which caused the
death of the kidnapped girl.
December 19 (night): Police make
fingerprint Identification of slayer as
Hickman, but withhold announce
ment while attempt is made to To-
cate him at addresses where he had
lived School teacher Identifies Hick-
man as kidnaper from photograph.
Posse hunts suspect who leaped from
northbound train at SauguS, north
of here, when officers searched train.
December 20 CTuesday): Police
announce identification of William
Edward Hickman as kidnaper and
slayer of Marian Parker and broad
cast description of fugitive. They
revisit the apartment house of the
Sunday raid and make certain that
he had lived there under the name
of Donald Evans. Police learn that
for three weeks preceding the kid
mapping Hickman had staged Sc
ries of drug store robberies to obtain
anaesthetics and sleeping portions
and in one case forced the druggist
at the point of a gun to give in
Structions for using them.
December 21 wednesday,: Two
persons are found who saw Hick-
man and another man leaving his
apartment on Saturday night carry
ing bundles. A third man waited
in an automobile outside. The po-
lice chemist finds that stains in the
Hickman apartment were blood
County chemist finds that no an
aesthetic had been given small vic
tim
Man identified as Hickman pays
clothier in Seattle, Wash, one of
the seventy-five $40 gold certifi-
Gates which had been paid as ran
som to the kidnaper of Marian
Parker.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
HICKMANS CAPTURE CREATES
LIVELY INTEREST In DOUGLAS;
EXTRA DISPATCH SOON SOLD

expression of the wish that speedy
justice might be administered to the
prisoner and many forecasted that
ne would never get into Los Angeles
alive and would never 1--we TO face n
court for trial on the charge OF
numbering the victim. But there
we're Others who took quite as positive
view that the fact OF Hickman
accusing others might operate to
his advantage and result in holding
the temper of the populace about
Los Angeles in check until he could
be tried. There was almost llnanim-
Gus expression OF the view that he
will surely pay with his life for
the deed he has confessed.
1t was pointed out by some who
took the view that he will be brought
INTO court to face the charge. that,
there are good many factors ia
voring that view when it is re-
membered that he will be brought
TO the city OF Los Angeles where the
Jail is several stories above the street
level and where there is an ample
police force to handle the case. 1t
was suggested too, that officers will
probably not attempt to hurry him
back but that he will probably DO
confined at San Quentin if conditions
suggest that as ADVISABLE.
The capture, without question, also
demonstrates the effect of general
and accurate publicity as means
in helping wage the fight against
criminals and also establishes the
newspapers OF the country as one
of the forces helping. to check and
punish crime. 8
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
KIDWELL STICKS
TO HIS STORY OF
INTIMIDATION

WASHINGTON, Dec % #)-Though
enmeshed in a maze of contradictions
of his own testimony, Edward j. Kid
we'll Jr., today stuck to his story that
he had been intimidated and threat
o'ood nv the district attorneys office
as witness in the criminal contempt
proceedings against Harry F. Sinclair,
yvInam d. burns and tnelr four as
sociateS.
Counsel for the. defense agreed that
the investigation into their charges
against the prosecutors office could
be combined with the contempt hear
ing, but Justice Frederick L. Siddons
ruled that the Kidwell charges must
first be cleared up by the government
Similar allegations by other witnesses
then will be taken up as the contempt
hearing progresses.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
'CORONER'S JURY FINDS
BODY IS AGED RANCHER

TUCSON, Dec. % H1-A coroner's
jury, after a few minutes of delibera-
ton this afternoon placed the seal of
official Identification on the skeleton
unearthed here as that of A. j, Mathis.
missing rancher, and declared the man
had met his death through foul play
Eva Dugan, housekeeper of the slain
rancher, was declared by the jury TO
have been instrumental in causing ms
death. Mrs. Dugan is now IN the
state prison at Florence, sewing
term of three years on grand larceny
charge in connection with the theft of
an automobile which had belonged to
the rancher.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
Mothers Easier
(ConJinued from Page One)

Down in the heart of the bust
ness district, jaInmed to capacity
with Christmas shoppers, pande-
.monium broke out. Crowds STAN
peded here and there, hanging OH
the lips OF any and every person
who had word to say about the
case, or seemed to know anything
concerning the capture.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

his father in the anguish of both,
if you are implicated in the crime,
Ii you were, then God forgive you
and have mercy upon the soul of your
father, mother and your brothers and
sisters"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

Joe Tobish, 8, returned from
abroad on the S. S. Paris, all logged
out in the latest of French juvenile
fashion. But it was admitted that
he'd have to put that topper on the
shelf before he met any of the
friends back home in Trenton, N.
j., where rocks are plentiful and kids
have unerring aim.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
Chronological

Continued from Page OneJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
IT, MAENgV G0gygg92ggVagNGg -
PASSAIC STRIKE DISTRICT TO SHOW
GRATITUDE TO DAILY WORKER; BEHIND
WORKERS. PRESS BALL AT GARFIELD

gle Many a worker who could read
English became a regular reader or
subscriber OF this splendid workers
newspaper. To those who read for
eign languages, the Elore, the Tribune
Rabotnycza, the Lavoratore, the Fret
heit, the VOlkzeitung, the Novy Mir
came to have the same value.
Will Show Gratitude.
Therefore the workers are paying a
debt of gratitude when they arrange
for a splendid ball for Jan. Is, by
which they hope to raise at least $3.50
for The DAILY WORKER fund. There
will be a frst-class speaker at this
ball to explain the meaning of the
workers press for the workers. There
will be the best OF music and some
surprises which will not be announced
yet.
With the slogan: 1.-THE Workers
Press Helped Passaic, Let's Help the
Workers Press" all woI king class or,
CARNATIONS in the city are at work to
make this affair huge success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12

ing American lives and property in
Nicaragua. He read the declaration
made by Secretary Evarts in 1878
with reference to intervention on the
Mexican border as being his own
rule of policy. This declaration was
that governments must first protect
lives and property, else they are
worse than useless" and the United
States would not permit its citizens to
be injured thru their neglect.
Senators Wheeler, Norris, LaFol-
lette and other progressives are agi-
tating at the capitol for an immediate
discussion Of the raid on Nicaragua
and the threat of a war of conquest
of Mexico. Editors on magazines and
newspapers are bombarding the
White House with questions as to the
legal pretexts for the Nicaraguan ex-
petition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
WORKERS FIGHT
IN PASSAIC NOT
YET COMPLETED
5000 Mill Workers Are
Still on Strike
BY LEON 5LUMENFELp.
(Worker correspondentl

PASSAlC, IN. j., Jan. 10.-The great
epoch-making labor struggle in Pas
sale is by no means at an end. This
despite the report in a number of
newspapers to the contrary. Garfield.
Botany, Passaic Worsted and Dundee.
which comprise the more important
mills have already settled, more or
less favorably. The partial victory for
the strikers merely signifies that so
per cent OF them will eventually go
back to their jobs, whereas the re-
naming 80 per cent are still out. The
Forstmann-Huffmann company, the
biggest Of them all, has not yet come
to decent terms with its employees.
5000 Still Out.
At this very moment there are 5000
men, women and children in Passaic
who are on strike. They are lighting
for a principle that has for centuries
been disregarded by the all-potent
scions of power. These workers are
human. Yet an outsider would be
forced to think different, judging
by the harsh tactics they are sub
jected to. How long the worker must
submit to this is a question of how
soon he acquires the rights that are
due him. Picket lines will continue
to be formed until justice has been
given. Hired men with guns and hid.
den weapons, cut-throst dogs and long
prison terms cannot brighten him. He
is marching right on!
Not a Local Flight.
This fight Of the textile strikers is
not a local event. 1t is a fight for
unorganized workers the world over
To allow such state Of affairs to
continue would be distinct blow to
organized labor and would make way
for continued use Of such atrocities
against organized labor in the civil.
lied state Of New Jersey in these
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
BY a Worker Correspondent.

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 10.-Tacoma
is at present governed by commits
sion of five members, fairly typical
of the commission plan city govern
ments which replaced the old sys-
tens modelled after state govern
ments. But it is not altogether
adapted to present day needs, so a
commission of fifteen is drafting a
new city charter.
Labor has no official representative
among the freeholders. One man,
member Of the Typographical union,
had the endorsement of the labor
council, but the workers failed to
elect him. One man, Homer 7. Bone,
who received by far the largest vote,
is very friendly to the workers, and
tour or five more are mildly so. The
business interests possessing the class
consciousness which the workers
lack, elected several representatives
who are fighting to the utmost for
their class interests.
Municipal Ownership.
The city owns a municipal railway
serving the industrial district Ga
private line serves all the rest Of the
city), power plant and the water
works. The sale Of light is a city
monopoly, but the sale of power is
lot. The city cannot make long
ERIN contract with any business de-
iring large supplies Of power, at a
reduced rate based on quantity serv-
ce. One reason for needing a new
charter was to remedy this. But, it
appears that either the state laws
must be changed or a new and favor
ably supreme court decision must be
had. At present, the city is severely
restricted in the extent to which it
may compete with private business.
The government of capitalist state
exists for the protection of private
businessman the government OF this
state knows it. Any one familiar with
local conditions knows that not ten
members Of the Legislature, nor one
of the supreme court, would do any
thing to offend the private power in
terests. They have been carefully
selected.
At present the city employs large
amounts of day labor. Not only is
there the usual paving, grading, water
main and sewage construction, but
the rapid extension Of municipal cleo
trio activities requires much labor.
There was some trouble when the
Cushman dam was being built, but
the city finally paid the Tacoma wage
scale. This hiring Of day labor direct
ly by the city, interferes with the
profits of contractors. This is true,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Christmas Is Over;
Employment Offices
Swamped by Jobless
LILLIAN GREENsWEiG
(Worker Correapondentl

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.--The employ
ment Offices are again swamped with
applicants who were employed as ex-
tras during the Christmas rush. But
there is no work for them. The holt
days are over and so the prosperity
illusion.
These workers will have to walt
for the next Christmas season to get
employment. All of them may not
get jobs again, since every day
brings with itself improved manufac-
turing methods, consequently less
need for human labor.
Steady unemployment grows. The
bosses don't mind this bit, for they
will use this for lowering wages. It
also affords them every chance to sift
out those workers who do not work
fast enough. as well as the "disoon-
tented" and trouble makers"
Only the organised workers enjoy
security on the Job. The employ.
ment sharks do not like unions sithsr
s--<t spoils their business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Gary Editorials Full
of Nauseating Bunk
ny a Worker correspondent.

! GARY, Indian attentive reader oil
the editorial page of the Gary Post
Tribune will inevitably notice that the
editorials seldom touch upon ques
tions vital to the residents of the city
or the state.
AS an example, let US consider the
editorials of today January 4, 1920
The first one philosophers on the
menu of the queen and king of Eng.
land. The workers will probably read
the first few, lines, which will make
their mouths water, and will turn in
disgust to some other page.
How to Use a Fork.
The second editorial Is on Good
Form and Geography" bringing out a
very important conclusion that "eti-
quette and good form seem largely a
matter of good form!"
: The third is on changing Vaca-
ton Time"-this tonic which is a
closest approach TO something that
would interest the reader is taken
from the Newcastle Ties.
Then comes Eat Your Bunk and
Laugh" which is an addition to the
bunk contained in the previous three.
Last comes the Sea Doctors Testi-
mony"-more bunk.
Real Money for This STUFF.
Someone is paid for writing bunk
editorials for the Gary Post-Tribune
in order that the citizens Of Gary
shall not by chance dwell on real
problems, the conditions in the steel
mills, the housing conditions, the ques-
lions of rent and taxes, the rule OF
the ku klux khan, corruption in poll
tics, racial questions, and so and so
forth.
Tho lovers of bunk will continue to
read the Gary Post-Tribune.
Intelligent workers and citizens Of
Gary will read The DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
BY VERA BucH.
worker correspondent)

PASSAIC, N. j., Jan. 6.--The work
ers Of Passaic know the service rem
dered them by the workers press,
that is, by The DAILY WORKER and
similar papers in foreign languages,
and they are now getting behind The
DAILY WORKER drive with a mon
ster Workers Press Ball which is to
be held Saturday, Jan. 18th, at Bel
mont Park Hall, Garfield.
Know Real Friend.
The strike taught the workers which
newspapers are their friends. In
times when to other papers the
strike was a source OF sensational
news merely, The DAILY WORKER
pointed out it's real and deepest sig
nifcance. When the bosses newspa
pers distorted the strike, The DAILY
told the truth. 1t gave out news
when other papers had grown tired
and neglected or sabotaged the strug
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Los Angeles Council Says Those Who
Don't Wish to See Woman CARRIED in Axle
Grease May Look in Opposite Direction

LOS ANGELES, Cal.--while Mrs.
Charlotte Moore Schoemmell who ar.
rived here from New York was an
nouncing that she would not wear any
bathing suit in the Catalina channel
swim, the city council issued a state.
ment in which it declared that 1t was
without jurisdiction to keep the con.
testants from entering the swim clad
only in an axle grease bathing suit.
The councils action was taken fol-
lowing the receipt of a communication
last Monday from Robert NJ. Smith
ers, Los Angeles resident, in which
he demanded that the council take
some action to ban tho axle grease
suit ION moral grounds and also to
protect the swimmers from the giant
barracuda"
On the accommodation Of the COM
mittee, the communication was filed
without further consideration.
Mrs. Schoemmell, mother OF two
children, was emphatic in her defense
OF the axle grease bathing suit.
There is nothing immodest about
IT," she declared. "A ten pound suit
OF axle grease Is really more modest
than tho one-Taeoe bathing sudt now
commonly worn"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Unorganized Labor at Great Disadvantage
in Tacoma in Fight With Business Interests

not only Of Tacoma, but OF other
cities and of counties also.
Contractors Oppose Day Labor.
And the contractors object to inter.
ference with their profits. They are
conducting campaign of thoroly dis.
honest propaganda, claiming that day
labor is expensive and contracting for
projects is not. Contractors of the
Pacific northwest held a convention
at Vancouver, B. c. (where most bust.
ness groups hold their conventions
since it went wet AGAIN. and laid
their plans. When the 1927 legisla-
ture convenes at Olympia they expect
it to pass laws which they want
and it probably will. They want a
law that on all public work bids must
be called. This will prevent day la
Dor at union wages being empoyed
direct and not only make more profits
Tor contractors, but give them addi-
tional advantage in trying to reduce
wages.
The contractors, their representa-
tives in the legislature, and their rep
resentatives among the Tacoma free
holders drafting new charter, are
thoroly class conscious and are fight.
ing for their interests. Organization
and class consciousness, possessed by
the contractors, will win the victory
for them. Lack of these two things
will cause the workers to lose. And,
as present, the workers seem blind to
heir interests and their needs.
There is one other group putting up
a strenuous fight for special privil-
eyes. The ex-soldiers. They demand
that in all civil service examinations
ex-soldiers must be granted a pre-
ferred place, higher rating. They
will not win all they ask for. But
they will win part of it. They have
organized and fought for what they
want. They win. Labor, unorganized,
enslaved by the lies of class-collabo-
ration, loses.
Business VS.. the Workers.
The business interests want a city
manager, but will probably be unable
to put it over this time. They feel
that that is a more efficient method
of having the city look after THEIR
interests. 1t is. 1t is even less re-
sponsive to the people than the pres.
ent system OF delegated government.
Seattle and Victoria, B. c., have re-
Gently refused the city manager idea
But organization will win in the end.
and again the business interests win
have one more shackle on the worker.
OF course, a city manager could act
in the interests of the workers. But
of course, he will not. Like judges.
preachers, editors, statesmen, etc, he
will be carefully selected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
U. S. ARMADA
HENS IN ARMY
OF DR.. SACASA
Coolidge War Policy
Goes ForwGrd

Especial 10 The Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1o.-The van
guard of the American special fleet
organized for service In Nicaragua,
reached their destination as the chain
lockers of the destroyers Borie and
Edwards were paid out and anchors
cast at Puerto Cabezas, the headquar-
tiers Of the rebels under DR.. Sacasa.
They steamed out OF Hampton Roads
four days ago for record run under
full speed orders. Close on their stern,
the cruisers Cincinnati and Marlbo-
rough head flying wedge of more
destroyers conveying the transport
Argonne with an unknown compile
ment of landing troops.
Rush Arms to Diaz.
On the Pacific side, fast boats are
rushing consignments of arms and
ammunition from California ports to
the beleaguered forces of the Diaz
government surrounded in their CAPT
tai, Managua, by the victorious liberal
army. A blockade of both coasts by
American warships is preventing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Two SPECIAL ISSUES!

TWO Special Editions preparatIon
They be given Wi circulation.
They will be issued Anniversary Of the
starting WORKER 49, 1924 and to
the death Of Lenin, Jan.
But these special editions these
events They will be dedicated
fronting the workers Of America
THE BIRTHDAY I will be dated Thursday Jan "a
and will contain special now
appeal again the
Is being made activities
Of the department of justice
everywhere lts
THE lENIN EDITION: This edition. JAM is.
be dedicated to the working will
be AntEmpeais War Edition. present
ton Mexico, Nicaragua viewpoint and
constitute valuable ousIng the
against war; II must receive wide distribution.
Order bundles Of both these Issues
rate Of three cents copy; SO
Address: The DAILY WORKER. ttfs Washington blvd, CHI
ytk&a
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Pittsburgh to See
Passaic Picture on
Thursday Thru c. L. u.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 10.--The
Passaic strike film, which made big
hit thruout the country will be shown
here Thursday, Jan. 10, 1880 .. M, at
the Moose Auditorium, 62S Penn Ave.
Admission is so cents.
The picture is shown under the
auspices OF the Central Labor Unton
and is receiving the wholehearted sup
port of the organized labor movement
of this city. No worker or person
friendly to labor can afford to miss
the opportunity to see this splendid
picture of the Passaic strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
SHOWDOWN NEAR
ON SCRAP over
BIG NAVY PLAN
Navy Partisans to Ask
Three Cruisers


WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.--A show
down ON President Coohdge's policy
toward Central America may over
shadow an anticipated fight against
his navy program when the new 1924
100000 naval appropriation bill
reaches the floor OF the senate, 1t was
learned today.
Would Stop Warshlps.
Opponents of American interven-
tion south of the Rio Grande were
threatening today to- inject the issue
into debate on the navy bill by an
attempt to forbid the use of American
warships and American marines in be-
half of the Diaz faction in Nicaragua.
This could be accomplished if the
senate were willingly forbidding
the use of naval appropriations for
that purpose.
Want Cruisers.
The senate naval affairs committee
met this morning to begin cousidera-
ton OF the bill, which the house
passed Saturday adter UNFOLDING the
presidents small navy" program. As
the measure reached the senate, it
provided s2S,S50,OOO for increased
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12

strength for the navy, but no funds
for building three cruisers authorized
in 1924. 1t carried S19,000,00O for
naval aviation and a 100000 ap-
preparation for a new dirigible, which
the president had opposed.
The big navy" men Of the SEN
ate meanwhile planned to reopen the
fight for an American navy equal to
the 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington arms
conference. They will seek the SEN
ate's consent to the immediate con-
struction of the three light cruisers,
which the house rejected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
REPEAL OF LAW MEANS
THAT JUGO-SLAVIA is
FRIENDuIER TO SOVIET

BELGRADE - The cabinet has
decided to repeal the Extraordinary
Defense Of the Realm act which was
passed in December, 1924, and was
directed chiefly against the Conn
munists, and under which Stephen
Radlteh was sent to prison. Rad
itch has since been released, his
son-ln-law, August koshutich, is a
member Of the present cabinet, but
the law has been allowed to re-
main.
Its repeal means closer afflIla-
ton with the Union OF Soviet Re-
publIcs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
HYena Has Twins

PERU, Ind, Jan. o. - A hyena
which has just given birth to triplets
was the center of attraction at a
circus winter quarters here.
The baby hyenas are believed to be
the only ones ever born in America.
They weigh about a pound each.
Both mother and the youngsters are
doing we'll. The babies now about 10
hours old. must stay In q dark room
for II days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-12
Pest Danger Not Immediate.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. o. The
present situation in regard to the in
vasion of Illinois by the European
corn borer does not constitute an
emergency and there is at present no
need for alarm, state director of ag-
riculture, S. ]. Stanard, declared to-
day. The borer has been expected in
this state for some time and steps
will be taken to combat it, Stanard
declared
The situation cannot become seri-
Gus within two or three years at the
earliest, he said.