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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
CHURCH Al NJ 5.
BOXES TAKEN

a church. . private home and :
doctors office were selected BY
thieves last night as sites for their
activities. In addition. q judges
automobile was stolen ana colored
man was beaten end robbed BY
thugs.
Three silver communion vessels
ana the aims box were stolen from
the Pinlney Episcopal Church, in
Hyatfsville, Md. The vessels had
an approximate value Of $500. The
aims boxes are thought to have
contained between $40 and SIS.
Other articles Of unknown value
were taken. The theft was re-
ported to local police by Rev
Henry L Durrant, rector.
From the home Of Shelby s..
Robert, 1928 Garfield st. N. W..
thieves stole jewelry worth $185.
The loot consisted of rings, watches,
several strands Of beads. earrings
and cuff links.
DIR. George Monaco, Childrens
Hospital, told the police that he
entered his quarters to find two
negroes ransaclxing them. His APP
pearance caused both men to flee
before they had time to take any
thing. DR.. Monaco furnished de.
ecriptions of both.
Judge Katherine Sellers, Of Juve-
nile Court, reported the theft from
In front Of 1717 r st. N. W., of
her automobile, q late model sedan.
Lee A. Simpson, colored, ~. 915H
Second st. s. w, reported that he
was held up on ! Street between
Third and Four-and-a-half st. s. W.,
when he was held up and beaten
by four negro bandits. They stole
$3.50 from him. He got on a street
car and went to Emergency Hos
pital, where he was treated for
scalp wounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
Excess Wife Gets
Divorce From r. Z. Hicks

/ There are Xix and Hicks.
One Is the kind OF clever young
cartoonist who works on The Wash
ington Times and the other kind
IL the guy that unarries the second
time without the formaIity Of 8
divorce.
Mrs. Roxie b. Hicks, wife Of the
latter kind, was in court yesterday
and told Justice Siddons that she
married Robert L. Hicks, In 1918,
but that he married Effie. Gaines In
Florida In 1926. without first OBJ
tanning q divorce.
Justice siddOns granted the wife
one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
Arms Group or League
Recesses Until April u

GENEVA. April 1.-THE League
of Nations preparatory commission
for a disarmament conference adj
journey today until April q when
the discussions viii be continued.
The American delegation expressed
the conviction that the conference
would be able to make concessions
to meet the American objections
against control OF disarmament pro-
cedure by the League of Nations.
Delegates from Belgium, Rumania,
Poland and Jugo-Slavia made
speeches lauding the spirit Of con-
Citation through which It Is hoped
to overcome the present difficulties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
Mrs. Coolidge Gets
Flowers BY AirpIane

Flowers sent by airplane from San
Francisco to Washing ton-a gift
from the children Of the Salvation
Army home at Lytton Springs, Cal.
were presented today to Mrs. Cal
vim Coolidge In the temporary White
House on Dupont Circle.
The presentation was made by
Staff Capt. Ernest r. HoIz, Potomac
divisional commander. A Letter from
Mayor RoIph Of San Francisco came
with the flowers and the children
sent this message:
Dear Mrs. Coolidge: We are send
ing you these flowers because we
love you"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
Dodge Mystery Man"
Is at Honolulu Hotel

HONOLULU. T. H. April IA.
The mystery surrounding man re-
ported to have been Horace e.
Dodge, IT., remained uncleared to-
day. The man who crossed the
Pacific on the liner WilheImina.
under the name Of Jack Kennedy,
and who was reported TO have been
the Detroit millionaire, was regis
tered today at the Hotel Moana
under the name Of Jack Long, but
all attempts to locate him failed.
His baggage bore the name Ken
nedy." 1t was said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-14
HIT By HUSBANDS CAR

HAGERsToWN, April IA
warrant. issued by Justice o. "
MiddIekauff. was served on James
Long, Hagerstown restaurant
proprietor. charged with running
down his wife. Mrs. Clara Long.
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A thumb operated sliding lever on
= new kitchen fork removes food
from its tines without breaking ana
saves it's owners fingers from being
burned.
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KATHERINE MEARLS. BOs-
toms new athletic sensation. is .
member Of the Boston Swimming
Association and stars on the track
rs well as in swimming events.
She holds IL New England cham
pionships.
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with an automobile in smithsburs.
Mrs. Long told the police her
husband deliberately drove the car
toward her ana that she was
thrown to the ground and injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
The Letter-Box

International Falls, MINI.
Editor, Daily Worker-The New Masses recently went
through castigation at the hands of several
Of "hard-boiled" comrades and while personally
believe that the criticisms trife unjust and in
few instances, absurd, l find that has yet
taken Mike Gold the mat for statement made in
LOUD SPEAKER and OTHER ESSAYS.
Personally have only the highest regard for Com
rade Gold. He seems to be the only revolutionary
writer the New Masses has that feels hate, and
presses this hate in fiery words But what about this
statement? Respectable heads borne bloody poles
are not as revolutionary hundred typewriters
drumming out statistics and manifestos."
Has Comrade Gold become peaceful evolutionist?
Has he fallen for the bunk that has seduced Albert
Jay Mock Upton Sinclair, Charles E. S. Wood, James
Onea and multitude of other "revolutioniss by bal
lot and for peaceful evolution? Lenn has said
thing about the writers who analyze from the outside
and Marx declared in the Communist Manifesto 'they
(the Communsts) openly declare that their ends
be achieved only by the forcbe overthrow of all exist
ing social conditions"
l do not underestimate the value of manifestos and
revolutionary propaganda They will help to bring
about the ultimate revolution But the final
of the proletarians will not be by manifesto 1t is
easy declare that the existing putrd social order is
at end but unfortunately the capitalists and their
lackeys have also mind the matter.
What did Lenn say afterword to his State and
Revolution? 1T is more pleasant and useful to
live through the experience of revolution than to
write about it."
Joseph Kala, International Falls, Mimi.
Peonage In The Golden State.
Editor, Daily Worker.-The unemployment situation
is extremely acute in the agricultural districts of Cali
fornia especially the cotton belts. Many Mexicans,
whites, and Negroes working for what they can
eat Some ranchers taking advantage of the situation
and the general Distress refuse to pay any money
at all. They make arrangements with the local store
keeper to allow the employee limited amount of credit
This practically ensaves the worker since he is unable
to get enough money together to leave the district
Where cash wages are paid, they generally the
is keen that from slips to S150 per diem is offered
for nne-hour day in the Palo Verde Valley.
Cotton pickers urged to into the valley in
the fall. They usually given just about enough
work to keep themselves going until the cotton is
harvested When the cotton is gone (about February
horde of broke, stranded agricultural aborers is on
hand for the spring planting. Hence, although the
ranchers pay $150 per cwt for picking, the crop is
planted for practically nothing the labor expense being
practically negligible.
JOHN OWENS,
Ripley, Calf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05

We notice that in 1926 together
with an increase of the met for
stock" from 8.07 for the period 1920
"a to 1876 went a decrease in "Ia-
boris share" from 44.71 to 1882. The
corporation points out that this was
due not to lower wage but to "high-
er efficiency Of labor" because of reg
ular employment and labor-saving de-
vices, in other words to more intense
exploitation Of labor. In fact, accord
ing to the company's data, the aver
age wage in 1926 was slightly higher
than in 1925, $1S44 against $182S.
This would mean an increase in wages
of less than 1 per cent, whereas the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
Economic Notes

ket) on the other--was in itself a ruse
to reach an agreement with the Eng
lish industiialists. The matter is
still pending, but curiously enough it
developed lately an American angle.
WHEN the news of the formation
W of the steel cartel was published
in the American press Mr.. Gary, the
chairman of the U. S. Steel Corpor-
alton made a declaration that the car
tel would probably help the steel pro-
ducers in the U. S. and surely would
not harm them. A few months later
Mr.. Gary complains of severe and
menacing competition of the Euro
pean steel manufacturers "whose la
Dor cost in production and transpor-
tation cost in delivery were mater
tally less than those Of the mills in
the United States" The significance
for American labor of this declaration
was already pointed out in 1.-THE
DAILY WORKER" of March II (see
article "Drive Against the Wages of
the American Workers") and it is but
accentuated by the simultaneous an
nouncement of the same gentleman
that mo wage cuts were planned.
Mr.. Gary is apparently considering
at present the advisability for the
steel trust to join the cartel. A side
show of the affair is offered however
by the stand of the head of the sec
ond largest steel producer in the u.
S., Mr.. Schwab of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, who has only words
of praise for the cartel and refuses
to see in it any source of worry to
the American producers. 1t is be-
cause of his probable large invest
ments in companies that are a part
of the cartel?
WHETHER the foreign inroads in
" the steel trade of the U. S. pro-
ducers are already of Importance or
not, the truth of the matter is that
the world (chiefly European) COM
petition begins to let itself felt and
that it will constitute a new problem
for American industry and commerce.
1t is already "thorn in the side" of
the iron pipe industry. Just recently
Coolidge had to raise the tariff on
iron ore from IS to 112h cents per
ton (this time the competition comes
from British India), whereas Mr..
Gary complains of sharp price cutting
in on various steel lines because of
the German competition.
However, the earning of the steel
companies in 1926 (as we'll as those
predicted for the first quarter of
1920 prove that the home market
is as yet capacious enough to guar
antee high profits. Steel consumption
in the United States is many times
greater per head of population than
in any other country and is steadily
increasing. 1t grew from $50 pounds
per head in 1900 to about $50 in 1926.
The United States produced in 1926
100000 tons of pig iron out of a
total world production of 100000
tons (51.3 per cent? and 4s,000,O00
tons of steel ingots and casting out
of total world production of 81, 000,-
900 tons (52.7 per cent?.
TIE net profits of twenty eight
iron and steel companies, including
the largest ones, for the year ended
December 81, 1926, totaled $202, 282,-
1877 compared with S154,593,750 in
1925, an increase of $47,6S9,147 or
30.S per cent. Journal of Commerce
March 23rd). Several of the smaller
companies show losses, but the few
giant corporations make fabulous
profits. Here are the figures:
Not profifs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
By T. LOAF.

by Il LOAI.
THE lessened rate of steel produc-
l ton that developed in November
and continued into the first weeks
of the new year has changed during
March to a new production peak that
gives rise to belief that March
steel production would exceed the
high figure of March '26 with it's
production of 4,44S,362 tons.
According to the leading authori-
ties of the trade, the steel industry is
still pointing toward prosperity and
showing a substantial expansion of
business. The industry is working
around 90 per cent. capacity while
the U, S. Steel Co., has reached its
capacity.
To give a correct explanation and
estimation of this new activity, one
would have to study the various
consuming lines that form the out
let's for the present high production,
chief among which are the building
operations, agricultural implements,
railroads, automobile production, oil
and gas industry, etc. Moreover, one
would have to investigate how far
the production tonnage Of the last
two years was keeping in line with
the other industries and with the
general growth of the country.
The nearest but necessarily merely
partial explanation for this expan-
sion of steel operation is given by
the probable policy of stocking up in
anticipation of the bituminous coal
strike. Steel companies operating
open shop mines in Pennsylvania re-
port an influx of union miners seek
ing employment: they fear or pro-
TESS to fear that this rush might be
aiming at Stirring up trouble" among
their" mine employees. Reason
enough, by the way, for "steel prices
to show firmer tendencies"
MANY remember the great jubila-
=" ton demonstrated by the spokes-
men of capitalism and the entire
crowd of capitalist scribes over the
conclusion of the Franco German
steel agreement. 1t was greeted as
step toward the reconciliation" not
only between France and Germany
but between all the other European
countries with the notable exception
of the Soviet Union) and was linked
to that abortive congress" at Vienna
that was supposed to do away with
the trade barriers between these
countries and to inaugurate Euro
pean Federation"
Hardly was the steel cartel es-
tablished and the "high political and
economic aim" of the cartel was not
only forgotten, but the cartel was
sharply attacked by the German par
Elephants who considered themselves
to have been "tricked." Gone were
the pretensions that the cartel would
moderate trade competition, still more
that it would foster international
harmony" The Germans now pointed
out what the Communists had been
maintaining from the very start that
the steel agreement did not mean
economic peace, but merely a truce
between the struggle for markets and
the struggle over quotas. In other
words, it is but shifting of the fight
into an internal one, within the cartel
itself.
Now, the German attack-though
1t has been caused by the changed
condition of France and Belgium
more or less stabilized currency
on the one side and the changed con-
dltion of Germany Expanding mar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05

earnings increased more than % per
cent.
We call the attention of the A. F.
of l.. Executive to this fact and re-
mind them of their noble resolution
at the Atlantic City convention { 925)
on labor's share in profits from in
creased labor efficiency. We see
how splendidly it works in the case of
the steel trust. 1t is because all the
aggressive spirit that is forthcoming
from the A. F. of L. burocracy is di-
rected only against the left wing in
the labor unions, while any resolution
supposedly aimed at capitalist ex-
ploiters is mere cant or better a love
serenade of an impotent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05

U. S. Steel Corp.
Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
Inland Steel Co.
Crucible Steel Co.
Republic Iron & Steel Co.
Wheeling Steel Corp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
More MilIionaires.

WASHINGTON. April 4.-"Pros-
perity" and deep slashes in taxes have
produced the greatest crop of mil
lionaire incomes" ever known, income
tax figures made public by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue disclosed.
More than 5000 persons strobe into
the ranks of Americans boasting an
nual incomes Of $4,000 and over dur
ing 1925.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
Scab Bus Company Tries Welfare.

NEW YORK (FP),-Bus drivers
and dime collectors for the Fifth
Avenue Coach Co. are to have 1879
of the company's net earnings as an
annual bonus, announces President F..
I. Wood. The company's policy is
definitely anti-union. The bonus will
amount to only 100000 for 1850
workers, or about a dollar a week If
it were paid in the form of wage sd-
vances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS

The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters
from its readers stating their views the issues con-
fronting the labor movement. 1t is hope to de-
veop Letter Box department that will be of wide
interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family
Send in your letter today to 1.-THE Letter Box" The
DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
Net Profits
INNI I IUIILs
Years ended

1926 only 81 per cent, the balance
going to surplus, improving proper
ties, etc. Very illuminative is a com
parative table showing the diversion
Of the U. S. Steels dollar for 1926
and for the four six-year periods
from 1902 to 1925 wall Street Jour
nal. March 26thl:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05

A FEW words about the U. S. Steel
" Corporation. 1t is known in the
business world for its Sound finan-
cial policies" and conservative dis
tribution of profits. 1t paid out in
the period 1920-25 in dividends only
&c per cent. of the net income and in
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26

School shoes for boys ana girls, Urbach's.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
DOUBLE VISION PROVES
 HANDICAP, DEPARTMENT

Wild Irish" Rose, Pfc, may leave Steward about the 18th of next month owing to peculiar fault. He sees double.
 It is said that when payday rolls around instead of slipping him $325, his monthly stipend girls, he is hand ed but $1625O for on account of his double vision he believes he is get ting what is due him.
 But in many ways he has it all over his fellow playmates for he can see the same show twice for the same amount and at the same time.
 Then again, friend Clancy chortles. not so good, for the other day while they were out motoring in the family bus Rose came to fork in the road. He took the wrong one and ran half way up a hemlock tree.
 Wait till the forestry department hears of that!
 This isn't the first time Rose has gone Outside for eye treatment but he hopes it will be his last for having been born in Sitka-a real Alaskan he is better satisfied in the North.
 But then he isn't gone yet.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
ALASKAN FOx HAS | DAINTY APPETITE. MUST
 HAVE BELT HEARTS

Alaska foxes are becoming epicures. Their appetites are getting so dainty that Alaska cannot supply all their de- mands, it was indicated in a cable gram received recently in Seattle by the Alaska department of the Cham Der of Commerce from F. w. William son, who operates a large silver fox farm in Kenai peninsula. Williamson asked Charles D. Garfield of the Chamber to send him at once prices on 2000 pounds of beef hearts and tripe. Fish and rabbits, Williamson indicated are palling on his charges Prices on beef hearts, tripe and other dainties immediately were cabled to Williamson.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
NOTICE OF SUBMITTING FINAL
 PROOF

U. s. Land Office. Anchorage, Alas ka, September 26, 1927.
 Notice is hereby given that Frank ID. Burke, entryman, together with his witnesses, Thomas William Flaw kins, and Thomas Babcock, all of Seward, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his homestead entry, serial O6181, for the northeast quarter, section 35, Township 1 North, Range 1 West, Seward Meridian, and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, at Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office, at Anchorage, within the peri cd of publication, or thirty days thereafter, said final proof will be. accepted and final certificate issued.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. Date of first publication Oct Is, 1927. Date of last publication Nov. P, 1927.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
MORSE 8. o. s.

Anohter member of the Quarter masts. department under the weath- CT these days is Sergeant Morse, who recently received the benefit of a crank kick from his car and as such is labeled among the popular mem bers of the department on the dis- abled list His hand is badly sprained.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
FELL OFF OF CURB

Technical Sgt. Evans, of the U. s. Q. C.. fell off a curb the other day spraining his ankle so bad that he is forced to use a pair of crutches in or der to get about.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26
LIZZIE KICKED BACK

Staff Sergeant Reed, of the U s. Signal Corps, almost suffered brok- en hand the other day when in crank his car the engine 'rared back at him. So he has joined the ranks, tempor- arily, of the noncombatants.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26

MT. Snider, formerly in charge of the local cable office, who left here for the Seattle office and later going to San Francisco, is said to be look ing forward to returning to the Ter ritory, this time to Ketchikan.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-26

Norman Lack, assistant to General Manager Smith of The Alaska Rail- road, accompanied by Mrs. Lack, will be southbound passengers Saturday on the s. s. Alaska, it is reported.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-28

The Progressive Womans club
held a very pleasant meeting last
Friday at the home of Mrs. Lum.
Mrs. E. C. Tagg, former resi-
dent of this community, but now
of Wassaco, Mich, and Mrs. C.
w. King, were guests. The after
noon was spent in a social way.
Ice cream and cake were served
by the assisting hostesses Mrs. H.
N. Anderson and Mrs. A. j..
Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Swayze and
family left Saturday for Spokane
and other points.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McManus
and family and mother and Miss
Eta McManus of Walla Walla,
spent Sunday at the home of Mrs.
VIM. Kilt.
Mrs. VIM. Morford of White
Bluffs is a patient at the Linn
hospital.
Mrs. S. Jones of Prosser was a
guest Tuesday at the Linn home.
Miss Alma Gleich of Paba is
spending the summer with her sis
ter Mrs. Manual Hillie.
Homer Egbert of The Dalles,
Oregon, spent last week visiting
old friends and was a house guest
at the j. /. Hill home. He returned
home by way of Walla Walla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Puderbaugh
had as week end guests Mrs. Pu-
derbaugh brother and family Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. John and two
daughters and Mr.. and Mrs. Birch
of Palmer, Idaho.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-28

Curtis were Prosser business WIS.,
itors Tuesday.
Mrs. j. w. Poolton has been
confined to her bed for the last
week with bad case of tonsilitis.
1t is now reported however, that
she is well on the road to recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Willis of
Oakland, California are visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Ross, for few days. They say
that they may take the aoId folks"
back with them.
X. G. Compton is home with his
parents for few days.
Miss Thelma Meredith eturned
Monday from Seattle where she
has been attending the summer
session of the u. of w.
r. p. Lyle and family left last
Thursday for Portland and Sea-
side, Oregon.
Mr.. Woods of Kennewick is tax
ing care of the McClendon home
during their absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Lyle and
family spent Sunday in Benton
City, with friends.
Mrs. Sarah Smith was a bust
ness visitor in Prosser Monday.
Jack Ambacker spent Sunday
at G. E. McC1endon's, on his re-
turn home taking load of sheep
to: pasture for Mr.. McClendon.
Mrs. r. r. Mcintosh has been
very i'll for the past week.