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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
SUMMARY

The disturbances over the south
ern Rocky Mountain regions yester-
day morning united, Increasing into
a severe storm area, and was EN-
trail over the middle Mississippi Val
ley this morning, followed closely by
a strong high pressure area and Sc
verely cold weather from the North
vest. Strong winds and gales pre-
vailed throughout the great central
valleys during the last "a hours
southerly TO the eastward of the
low" and northerly in advance Of
the high. Temperatures in the
northwestern high" ranged from SO
degrees below zero at Edmonton,
Canada, TO 10 degrees below zero at
Denver this morning, and has start
ed to fall rapidly in northern Tex
as. Moderate to heavy rains occurred
within the last "a hours from east
ern Texas n-ortheastward to the
Great Lakes, followed by sleet and
snow over the Immediate Northwest,
but fair weather in the crest Of the
high"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
OPEN FORUMS
PLANNED here
{. of c. Will Hold One
Each Month During
Next Year

Decision TO hold an open forum
meeting, which the public will be
urged to attend, once each month
during 1928, featured q meeting OF
the board of directors Of the Browns
vile Chamber OF Commerce Tuesday
afternoon ut 4 o'clock. The meeting
was held in the auditorium Of the
&. Of c. building.
For these meetings q speaker will
be obtained from the membership 20
discuss some topic Of general inter
est 70 the Chamber of Commerce
and the people Of Brownsville. The
first meeting Is to be held late in
January.
The meeting also talked at length
on matters pertaining to the pro-
posed municipal airport here ana TO
the Valley deep water port project
ct Point Isabel. No definite acton
on either. however, was proposed
pending the return here Of r B.
Creager. who is in Washington in the
interest Of both these matters.
A discussion Of financial arrange
ments and expenditures for the COM
ing year, also was q feature of the
session. Plans for Christmas cele-
bration in Brownsville also were
talked over.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
AGED DIES

NEW YORK. N. u. Dee. 7.-tPl-
Alfred Griffith, IS. known to fight
fans Of Is years ago ms Young Critic.
died suddenly early today in a base
menfr room on the west side. where he
hsd lived for several years. In the
absence OF a report By the medical
examiner. acute indigestion was be
lieved the cause Of his death.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

tive 10 white men and women Is said
to be in no dispute. Soon after be-
coming a member of the national
committee he announced the doctrine,
and Texas delegations to national
conventions have since been all
white.
The prospective ~contesting delega-
ton from Texas next year would be
no novelty TO the republican organi-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
Poets Daughter
Opens Gift Shop

ISpeciAI 20 Ike HerhId
SAN BENITO, Dec. AFTER trav-
els all over the world, during which
time she gathered n collection Of
novelaes in n score Of foreign lands.
Mrs. Jessamine Sigler Of San Be-
nito, daughter Of Judd Mortimer
Lewis. famous newspaper poet has
opened n gift shop in the lobby OF
the Stone~all Jackson hotel here,
to operate under the trade name
Of the Cape Jessamine Gift Shop.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

First figures lowest temperature
last night. second, highest yester-
day; thIrd, wind velocity at 3 q. m;
fourth, rainfall past "a hours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
CITY BRIEFS

Why pay Rentg Finance . home
of your own. your sery own Easy
payment plan. We also loan on bus
mess and farm property. Insurance
Of ell kinds. Todd Il Underwood.
State National Bank Building. Phone
lS3.-Adv. II.
To Honor Guests-The local Fed
Grafton Of Women's clubs will enter
tain next Wednesday at noon At Fl
Arco tea room honoring the visiting
state and district officers who will
be in the Valley to attend the semi
yearly meeting of the Valley Fed
GRAFTON that will convene az Edinburg
next Tuesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
CLUR

MISSION. Dec. Miss Marjory
Bliefuss Of this city has been Sc
lected as accompanist for the girls
glee club Of the University OF Texas,
according to announcement made BY
Miss Nell Thiele Of Austin, club
director. Her assistant is Miss Lois
Hart Of Palestine. Tie club IL prac-
Using twice each week and Is
planning for a concert at some time
during the latter part of January.
Once each month a representative
chorus from the club assists with
the musical program broadcast over
University radio station KUT by
musical organizations on the campus.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
Called meeting. Rio Grand.

a Called meeting, Rio Grande
"a Lodge number 81, A. +. and
IN A. NJ. Masonic Temple at
0GG z p. M. today, Wednesday.
NN Work in the r. c. and NJ. NJ.
Degrees. Visiting brethren
f~raternaIly invited. VIM. Ball Secre-
tary; r. d. Howard, W. M.-Adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

Longest Tow-Maurice Hugo, man.
ager Of FL Jardin garage. left We'd
nesday morning for Beeville to make
a TOW that is believed will establish
a local record. He will bring back
10 Brownsville for repairs a car that
Is out Of commission there. Mrs.
Hugo accompanied him.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

Beautiful Spring hats have arrived
az Amaya's Millinery Store. 1915
Adams Street.-Adv. z.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07
CUPID GETS A JOLT

CHICAG0.-Miss Amy Callan had
Peter Benham. her former fiancee,
arrested for sending her threatening
letters.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

Dickey's Old Reliable Eye Water
eools and heals red eyes. Doesn't
hurt. Red folding box. All drug
Yists.-Adv. 90
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

Athletic Courts Rushed-Work on
the tennis, basketball and handball
courts being installed at the high
school stadium is being pushed as
RAPIDLY as possible, and il is hoped
will be completed soon, those in
charge say.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-07

School Kids Itch vanishes after q
few days b. applying q piee;. Of cot
ton. saturated ins Imperial Eczema
Remedy. TO affected parts st bed
time. All druggists are authorized
to refund our money l. II falls
Adv. Cd
Your Christmas Gift-We have a
Christmas for you. Read our adver-
tisement in another part of this is
sue. Model Shoe Shop.-Advertise-
ment.
Our Object is 10 serve you and The
Valley in identifying the home with
genuine importations. The Oriental
Rug Shop. opposite the Travellers
Hotel.-Adv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
PROF. LEO THEREMIN HERE TO
DEMONSTRATE NEW MUSICAL
INVENTION

Professor Leo Theremin, heralded
for his discovery of 'Music from the
Air." development of hetrodyne
radio, will arrive aboard the Majestic
this morning. This young engineers
new invention by means of which he
changes the present "squeal" to
music by the aid of his hands, has
been demonstrated to audiences of
scientific men in Berlin, London and
Paris.
Professtr Theremin is thirty-one
years old and the head of the depart
ment of electro physics at the Russian
Institute of Physics of the University
of Leningrad. He is bringing his in
vention to the United States for
demonstration before scientific work
ers.
The first demonstration of this re-
markable invention was given at
Frankfort in Germany on August a,
at the International Music Festival
there. Professor Theremin is accom-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
" DRAMA ~
A New Norwegian
Dramatist

Has Norway at last got worthy
successor of Henrik Ibsen? Ask the
critics of Oslo-where the new drama
lists plays were presented-an for
the most part they answer in the af-
firmative The new dramatist is a
young man of twenty-five, Nordahl
Grieg, relative of Edward Grieg,
who wrote the music to "Peer Gynt. :"
Mr.. Grieg had his first book published
last year, "The Ship Goes On" and
achieved considerable success. The
novel has already been translated into
nine languages. This autumn he has
published volume of poems and fin
ished two dramas, one of which was
presented at the National Theatre in
Oslo and the other at the National
Scene in Bergen, and both were sue
cessful
The drama presented at the Ma
tional Scene in Bergen was called
"The Love of Young Man." and was
rather conventional, but that pre-
sented at the National Theatre in Oslo
marks definite break with the old
scenic technique. The play is called
"Barabbas,' with the description, "a
drama of Palestine two thousand
years ago, If China today, and Of
India tomorrow" There are no acts,
and the drama develops through
eight continuous tableaux. The pres
entation in Oslo was great success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22

Whipping Of twenty-five Negroes
with gun straps is officially admitted
in a statement by Capt. F, l.. Wright
of the Mississippi National Guard.
The Negroes were slipping from a
Flood Relief" he says.
The statement appears as part of
an expose of brutality to Negroe flood
refugees in Red Cross camps in the
Mississippi flood region last Spring.
They are appearing in a series of ar
ticles in The Crisis, official organ
of the National Assn. for the Adj
vancement of Colored People. The
first installment, appearing in the
number, is timed with the agitation
for flood control in the Senate and
House of Representatives
The brutality was committed by
Mississippi National Guardsmen, not
directly by Red Cross officials. The
guardsmen were the police of the
camps, the Red Cross furnished sup
plies, paid the bills, issued passes to
leave camps, furnished transportation
ana decided matters OF policy.
Inequality began as soon as the
refugees appeared in the camps.
ION numerous occasions" says the
report, Negroes were taken down the
hill and loaded on the truck and sent
on their days labor" At first they
We're paid nothing, later getting up to
q, dollar and half day.
Another national guard statement
admits, but seeks to justify the pos
sibly mortal shooting of a Negro.
Several Negroes statements tell of
the beating Of other men and women.
One woman being beaten by soldier
for "impudence."
Plantation serfdom was abetted by
the Red Cross.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
White Light Thrown on Squaor, Suffering of Miners
Miners Blood Stains Always Remain
AS Colorado Mine Strikers MementOs

soffice said the coal operators paid
the state 15c ton. In Las Animas
County, the state has turned over to
these robbers 4,154 acres, with coal
tonnage mined amounting to S80,559
with paid rental and royalty of $97,-
736, or about liz cents a ton.
Cheap Leases.
The other coal mining counties of
the states have the following areas,
that also figure to be leased at about
II cents ton to the companies:
FL Paso, 800 acres; $4,000 to state !;
Fremont, 800 acres; 180,685 tons;
S1S,06S.50; Jackson, $40 acres; $780,
90; La Plata, 1920 acres; 2,263 tons;
$3,138.80; Moffat, $50 acres: 1000
tons; S1,09750; Montezuma, $40
acres; $500 tons; S65020; Routt, $40
acres; 1851 tons; $4,000; Weld, l.
$50 acres; 711,211 tons; $S3,O29.00.
The total acres of school state land
leases are 14,034 with coal tonnage
mined in the last two years of l.
870,956 bringing rental and royalty
for the same period of $215, 23180, or
about 111a cents ton to the state.
Coal bought at lie ton, coal mined
below the Jacksonville scale in wages
and constant capital the same as
needed in any other coal field, coal that
sells for 50 a ton (average for BIZ
luminous, Ignite coal averages $50
Fortunes In Graft.
Like all great fortunes in Amer
ican history, these show graft, land
graft, coal to the operators at 10 and
II cents, repeating the game of giving
land to the railroads. Government and
state lands to private profits at the
expense of the miners and the con-
sumers. Naturalization of the coal
industry is the task of the miners
along with their demands for better
wages and conditions.
The coal operators of Colorado, led
by the c. F. and l., rob the people of
their land through their control of
the state, rob the miners Of their
wages, rob the miners at the tipple,
rob the miners through rent and gro
Gerry prices in many company towns,
and even rob them when they sell
dynamite to the miners Company
towns, company unions, state police.
national guards, gunner, spies, stool
pigeons and murder; these are for
the miners, and for the dear public, u
The third party" they have high
prices and in advance steal the land
from them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22

the following number of acres to coal
companies and each lease is rich in
coal:
In Las Aniams County, the Ma
tional Fuel Company holds 240 acres;
Home Fuel Company, 80 acres; C. F.
md I. has 378 acres; Prerry Land
Coal Company holds GAO acres; Victor
American has 720 acres; Royal Fuel
Co. has 200 acres. In Huerfano Coun-
ty, the Alamo mines &C. F. and ~
have 240 acres. The government
leases this land at the rate of Toe
a ton. Ten cents ton for the coal,
and the coal retails for $500 a ton,
The state is as liberal as the gov
eminent with it's valuable lands-lib-
eral to the Rockefeller outfits. The
report of the State Board Of Land
Commissioners, the Mineral Depart
ment on Coal Leases for 1926, shows
the following for the two south coun-
ties:
Big Gains.
In Huerfano County they have leas-
ed 1880 acres that yielded in the last
two years $3.50 tons of coal, bring
ing the state $18,O68.5O in return. or
about lie ton. The clerk at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
VIVID Picture
OF HARD FIGHT,
NEEDED RELIEF
Workers Skimp to Send
Money to Strikers
(CcRUlnued from Page One)
toward the miners, but the miners lost
their furniture just the same.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 21.-A meet
ing of the executive Of the Pennsyl-
vania Ohio Miners Relief Committee
is a cross section of the miners strug-
gle. The committee is made up of
miners from a number of locals in
Pennsylvania and Ohio; and the re-
ports the members give of conditions
in the striking fields make up vivid
picture of the logged fight of the
miners against the tremendous forces
lined up against them.
At every meeting more strikers
families destitute, more on the relief
lists, greater need, greater suffering
is reported. The bare recital of facts
by the men who see what is happen
ing day by day is tragic
Scimping Along.
At this weeks meeting Jacob Bell
Of Yorkville, Ohio, reported on the
situation in his section. At the York
vile local, No. 971, 120 members of
the local out of the 240 had received
$3.50 apiece-as a total-during the
nine months of the lockout. The rest
had received nothing. During the
summer months, he said, some of the
men had managed to get work in the
Michigan beet-fields. Now that was
over, and there was practically no
prospect of work during the winter.
Oliver Rigot, from Tiltonville, Ohio,
of local No. 397 at the Warren Col
ieries Company mine, told the same
story. Only 20 working Of the 14O
local members, and $500 the total
each member received since the be-
ginning of the lockout.
Children Barefoot.
From Bentleyville came a story of
the miner in charge of local relief at
the Gibson Mine, securing the nearest
town, going around begging all day
long from store to store because in
four families there were barefoot
children who could not go to school,
and he could not stand seeing them
like that in the cold, and made up his
mind not to come back till he got a
pair of shoes and stockings apiece for
them. And, after hours of travelling
around, he did get them.
Milan Sjever, Harmarville picket,
came into the meeting from working
on the barracks that have to be rushed
through because the Coal and Iron
police are putting the miners families
out of the company houses whether or
not there is any place ready for them
to go to. Evictions have made the re-
lief situation much more urgent, he
said, particularly the need for warm
clothing and bedclothes in the cold
barracks.
Pass the Paper TO a Fellow Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
Harrison, Well-KnOwn
Negro Radical, Dies

Hubert Henry Harrison, once WELL
known as radical leader in the Ne
gro liberation movement, died Sat-
urday night at the Bellevue Hospital,
New York, following an operation for
appendicitis.
Formerly socialist much admired
for his oratorical gifts, Harrison hest
tated and finally failed to join the
Communist movement, and in recent
years to a large extent lost touch
with the labor movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
WITNESS TELLS
VIVID TALE OF
MINE KILLING
Massacre Horror at
Colunbine Shown

CHICAGO (FP)-An eyewitness
account of the massacre of striking
Colorado miners at the Columbine
mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.
comes from former Herrin, ILL.,, min
er who was in the thick Of the sham
bles. This miners letter tells of the
horror in which strikers We're killed
and 81 wounded by gunfire while
others were dubbed and gassed. The
letter postmarked Lafayette, Colo.
says:
Orderly March.
81 don't know whether or not you
have heard the true story of the muir
der of my fellow workers here, but
I will try to give it to you in this
letter.
owe have been going to the Co.
lumbine mine every morning since the
strike started. We marched orderly
through the camp and in no instance
offering to do any damage Every
body is ordered not to carry weapons
of any kind and Monday (the day of
the attack was no exception.
Gas Strikers.
"When we marched up to the gate
we were met with bombs and clubs
and rocks. | received a good dose
Of mustard gas. We kept on how
ever, and these gunner who had been
drinking all night were prepared for
the trouble. They had their eye
witness at the mine at 5 a. m. They
wore steel helmets and running be-
hind d watertank opened fire with
pistols, rifles and machine guns. They
also used mustard gas. I tell you it
was horrible.
Stark Horror
Il have seen lots of horrors in mine
explosions as you know, but never
anything like this. Men were falling
around me and lead was flying every
where. We had no chance to defend
ourselves. Six are dead and two more
are expected to die at any time. rs
to 80 are injured badly. They are
described as shot through arms and
legs One of the men from Lafayette
who was killed leaves kids.
Now the governor has about one
half of the army out here to protect
the murderers. They have tanks and
every other kind of instrument of
death to shoot US down if we don't
like it.
There has never been a shot fired
from our side yet, and don't think
there will be. hope to God there
isn't, for those brutes will murder
more and consider themselves heroes.
please let the people know the
truth if you can get newspaper to
publish this. | was there and these
are the facts, so help me Cod. B."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
Mine ReIiet. Workers BEAT NEGROES IN
Send Clothing, Funds REFUGEE CAMPS

The Miners Relief Committee. 799
Broadway, is keeping its small staff
of volunteer help rushed packing and
shipping clothing to the Pennsylvania
and Colorado strike fields. Many in
dividuals and organizations have col
lected large bundles of clothing and
are holding them to be called for. The
Miners Relief Committee has no regu-
lar trucking service or other means
of collection, however, and in an ap-
peal issued last night the committee
urges all who are holding clothes to
wait until regular service for such
collection can be started.
Trucks Needed.
Should any one have a small truck
or large automobile which he can use
for such service for at least part of
the day the committee asks that he
communicate with it, the need for
more clothing being great.
Among the organizations which
have contributed are the Croatian
Home, of Farrell, Pa; Paper Plate.
and Bag Makers Union, Local 1O7;
Amalgamated Tobacco Workers
Union; Hungarian Workers Club and
the Jugoslav Workers Dramatic
and Educational Club of New York.
Sympathy Great.
"In spite of the fact that unem-
ployment is growing rapidly in this
district our sympathy with the strug
giles of the miners against their mas
ters is great letter to the com
mittee from the Croatian Fraternal
Union said. Therefore we donate
the sum of $42.16. This is not an ex-
ceedingly large sum, but we will do
the best we can to help these strug-
giles of our brothers in their class
war because we realize that their
struggle is our struggle. Their vic
tory is our victory"
Christmas Appeal.
The Miners Relief Committee, in
soliciting clothing and money for the
relief of the striking miners and their
families of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Colorado, is issuing a special Christ
mas appeal to individuals and organ
izations, mainly for the children of
the strikers. The plight of the chill
dren is terrible. These small victims
are bearing much of the brunt of the
struggle.
The committee is making a special
effort to cover meetings of workers
organizations and in its latest appeal
requests all such organizations to
send in the date and place of their
regular meetings, so that a repre-
sentative of the committee NAV be
sent to speak on the situation in the
mines.
Arrangements have been concluded
for a special miners booth at a g.
day bazaar at Grand Central Palace
beginning Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
More Contributions to
Ruthenberg ID ally
Worker Sustaining
Fund
Frank Dankhoff, Wynantskill,

Frank Dankhoff, Wynantskill, =
N. I. ................ LOO
Workmen's Sick & Death Benefit
Fund, Branch "a, Harlem,
N. Y. 2.9O
Justin Swartz, Dorchester, Mass. 400
Nathan Hechtman, New York. 90
Jacob Knapp, Newark, N. J. 1000
W. H. Argus, Norwalk, Ohio 100
Jos Horvath Binghamton, N. Y. 200
Asnowich, Pittsburgh, Pa. 100
J. Raymon, Pittsburgh, Pa. 100
M. Sienotsky, Wheeling, w. Va. 2.25
Labor Lyceum, St. Louis, Mo. 300
Frieda Sechtman, Chicago, ILL.,. 400
Bakers Local No. /, New York 400
Frank Anderson, Chicago, ILL., 100
E. Zeitlin, San Diego, Calf. 100
Ella Michoavich, st. Paul, MINI. 100
Fred Lagelbauer, St. Paul, MINI. LOO
L. Brodsky, st. Paul, MINI. 100
Claus Carlson, Santa Cruz, Calf. 400
Gustav Vossberg, Toledo, Ohio. 200
South Range Naisjaosto, South
Range, Mich. ............,.5 500
DR.. M. Mislig, New York 800
F. Uiin, New York = ~. :. LOO
j. l.. Cooper-SSlac ST, New
York City .s.....::''::,.ss......6 $50
Jack Prokop, New York 1000
B. Roider, I'D IF, New York lao
SIS 6B 1Y,New York ....... .5.75
S. Mikell, New York .5.75
Saotiop A Maui Vorl, On M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
JERSEY WORKERS HURT.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 81. - Two
workers were hurt at work here to-
day. The right arm of John Reeves,
machinist, was caught in a gear
wheel in the Standard Laundry, 551
Garfield Ave.
Struck and knocked down by Cen
trail Railroad engine at the johnson
Ave- yards, Adam Bziambo was TAX
en- to the City Hospital for treat
ment for scalp laceration.