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The Alaskan., 1927-09-30

Prince of Tempters came to town, 1,O01 loves-too many.
 Monday and Tuesday. She plays
 Several thousand men, women and children were costumed in the color full garb of Spain to make up a DOT tion of the population of Barcelona in the huge mob scene in Mae Mur rays new Metro Goldwyn Mayer starring vehicle, Valencia" which will be on the screen Monday and Tuesday
 The true story of a champion thrilling epic of the prize ring is "Blarney' coming Wednesday and Thursday. Women and wine had beaten him when opportunity knock ed. Then Fascinating! The big gest fight scenes ever filmed. You will enjoy Renee Adoree in this big picture.
The Alaskan., 1927-09-30

Ketchikan stands first in school enrolment this year with Junear and Seward following in order.
 Judge Reed is reported as hand ing out some pretty stiff "jolts' this year.
The Alaskan., 1927-09-30

Production and shipment of oil and fertilizer from herring fell be- low shipments of August last year. It pays to advertise in The Alaskan.
The Alaskan., 1927-09-30

Sunday eveniug Salvation mee. ins at ' o'clock
 Tuesday evening and Frida evening at o'clock.
 Captain Kenny and Lieutenap NcEachren, in charge
 Bright meetings, Everybody we come. Come and meet your friend:
The Alaskan., 1927-09-30
Presbyt erian Church

Sunday morning services at lo'3O am, Atornoon services at ? rm. Wednesday evening prey CT meeting.
 Mrs. WM Tamaree, Lay Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Rayna Prone, Who
Aided Revolution
In China, Now Dead

MOSCOW, Nov. 22.-Rayna Prone,
young American journalist who de-
voted five years of her life to the
Nationalist movement, died in Mos
cow yesterday. The German embassy
physician who attended her ascribed
her illness to cerebral abcess.
Rayna Prone edited the Peoples
Tribune. a militant Nationalist paper
at Canton and later Hankow. Her
husband William Prone managed the
Nationalist News Agency.
Paying tribute to the valuable SER
vice which she rendered to the Chi
nese revolutionary movement, Michael
Borodin declared, "This young Amer
lean rendered invaluable service to
the highest traditions of America. She
spared no sacrifice to help slaves to
freedom"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
L@nia Saids-

Politics is science and that did down from
Heaven and not acquired gratis If the proeariat wishes
defeat the bourgeese among ranks its
prOarian class politicians who should the
bourgeois politicians"
And he proceeded to organize the Boshek Party
without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible
We must organize strong party in this country that will
able to organize and lead the masses.
The Workers Communist Party asks you join and help
in the fight for:
Labor Party and United Labor Ticket 1928 elections
The defense of the Soviet Union against capitalist wars
The organization of the unorganized
Making existing unions organize militant struggle
The protection of the foreign born.
Application for Membership in Workers (COmmunst) Party
this blank mail Y
Address
one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Fascist TerfOrists
Seize I Two On Anti
Government Charges

GENEVA, Nov. 22.-The latest vic
Tins in the fascist reign of terror,
now gripping Italy, are Ponzio San
Sebastiano and General Roberto Ben
civenga. San Sebastiano, who was
expelled from the fascist party for
denouncing the murder Of Matteotti
and fascist "justice" is accused of
corresponding with anti-fascist ele-
ments abroad, who are plotting to
overthrow the Mussolini regime.
Letters, substantiating these charg-
es, are said to have been found in his
possession. He is further charged
with aiding the escape of anti-fascisti
from Italy. The fascists state Off
cially that San Sebastiano has made
a full confession, declaring that his
acts were inspired by hatred of the
present tyranny. General Benciyenga,
who was brought to the attention of
the fascist police by frequent mention
of his name in San Sebastiano's cor
respondence, is also reported to have
confessed in full
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Picture of a Chinese Countryside

at its greatest diameter. The puller
then drags this stone the length of
the furrew to pack the earth i'm
mediately over the wheat The entire
field is then narrowed with a wood
en-, horse-drawn harrow, or else raked
by hand. The reaping of the wheat
is done entirely by hand. Men,
women and children take part in this
work. In the height Of the harvest,
men get as much as one Mexican dol
lar a day (45 United States cents).
When, however, a man hired out as a
farm hand by the year. he received
from $18 to $50 (Mexican) per year,
beside his room and board.
After a crop like millet, wheat or
black beans had been reaped, it was
stacked, dried, and taken to the
threshing floor. In this district most
of the households had their own
treshing -floors-a level piece of land,
dry, clay-covered, and beaten hard.
The floor was carefully swept. The
material to be threshed was spread
in a circle. If animals were to do the
threshing, a bullock or pony, mule or
donkey drew a stone roller round and
round over the stalks. Quite fire.
quently the threshing was done by
hand with sticks or fails. The stalks
were then forked to one side; the
floor was swept and the grain separa-
ted from the chaff by throwing it in
to the air with a shovel The wind
blew the chaff away and the grain
fell to the earth. Finally the grain
was sifted, and the cleaning process
was then complete. Again the floor
was swept. the stalks were spread
out, and subjected to second thresh-
ing process.
After the grain was cleaned, it was
either bagged and stored, or else it
was taken to the nearest marllet-vil-
lage on a market day and offered for
sale. When q buyer was found and a
price was agreed on. the bag of grain
was taken to the official measurer
of the market, who had an official
measure. The measurer measured
the grain, collected his fee, and the
customer paid his reckoning and went
off with his purchase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
w aslington States 1t
viii Only Look On at
Disarmament COnfab

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. %. -
The United States will be merely for
mally represented at the Preparatory
Commission for an Armament sLimi-
tation Conference, which meets Nov.
30 at Geneva, it was said authoritat-
lively in Washington today.
The meeting was called to take up
the appointment of a special commit
tee to decide the security question:
that is, the matter of interlocking
guarantees for defensive warfare. It
was on this question that much argu-
ment went on in the last so-called
disarmament conference"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Japanese Soldier Tries
To Petition MikadO; He
viii Get Year in Jail

TOXIC, Nov. %. - For attempt
ing to draw the attention Of the
emperor to the sufferings of the
lowest caste soldiers in the Japan
csc army, Taisaku Kitahara, him
self soldier of the outcast class,
has been court martialed.
The incident occurred during the
recent maneuvers when Kitahara
tried to reach the emperor with {
ton stuck on the point of his bay
onet. The soldier was instantly
seized and the emperor passed cold
ly by.
Kitahara's act violates an ordin-
ance providing a years imprison-
ment for the offender and it is be-
lieved that the victim will be made
to serve an additional year in the
army, besides.
The officers of the soldiers regi-
ment instantly resigned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Natives Hit Taxes;
British Murder Two
Solomon Islanders

LONDON, Nov. 22.-Two natives
were killed and one seriously wounded
by British marines landed from the
cruiser Adelaide to crush a native re-
volt in the Solomon Islands, according
to dispatches received here from Well
ington, Australia. Forty-five natives
were arrested.
The natives revolted several months
ago, charging brutal exploitation and
excessive taxation. A British tax col
lector is alleged to have been killed
by the natives.
Premier Bruce of Australia declared
several weeks ago that the despatch
of the adelaide" was not intended
to be punitive, when Australian labor
protested against the expedition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Soviet Union Makes
New Contact With
N. Y. Standard Oil

A contract for large purchases of
Soviet oil has been concluded between
the Standard Oil Company Of New
York and the Soviet Union, it was
learned yesterday. The contract
which stipulates the delivery of a
minimum of 100000 tons Of oil over
period of six years, was concluded
in spite of the attempts of the Royal
Dutch Shell British oily Company to
prevent it.
The new contract, the third signed
by the Standard Oil Company of New
York and the Soviet Union, viii! bring
the amount of Soviet oil purchased by
the Standard Oil to more than AGO.
600 tons a year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Arrest 81 Militant
Workers in T urkGy;
Police Fear Strike

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. %. -
Fifty-seven Communists have been
arrested in the new "red raids" fol-
lowing the arrest of nine labor lead
ers and intellectuals yesterday. The
arrests were made at Smyrna and
Adana.
The Communists are charged with
having instituted an organization
contrary TO law" The recent to-
bacco strike at Constantinople which
followed the refusal Of tobacco work
ers to pay days wages to the gov
eminent aviation fund, has alarmed
government officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Foreign News By Cable and Mail Special Correspondents
Extra Guards for House
OF Commons as JObIess
Miners Demand Relief

LONDON, Nov. 22.-Extra
guards were thrown around the
houses of parliament yesterday
when it was announced that
deputation of the jobless miners
who liked with their leader, A.
j. Cook, from south Wales 200
miles to the capital, would lay a
demand for alienation of their suf-
ferings before Premier Baldwin in
person.
Arrangements for Baldwin's re-
ception of the miners delegation
are being handled by the labor
representatives from South Wales
and it is expected they will be COM
pleted soon.
The marchers are being cared
for during their stay in London by
the Bethnal Green community in
London's East End
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
POWERS ASK THAT
.LLTHUANIA DROP
POLISH PROTEST
Want Strong Poland to
Menace Soviet Union

GENEVA, Nov. 22.-The govern
ments of Great Britain, France and
Italy are reported to have made
pressing requests that the Lithuanian
government drop it's recent appeal to
the League of Nations concerning the
mistreatment of Lithuanian nationals
by the Poles. The three powers wish
to support Poland as buffer against
the Soviet Union, at Lithuania's ex-
pense.
The Lithuanian complaint grows
out of the alleged arrests and depor-
tations of Lithuanians and the clos
ing by the Poles of 4S Lithuanian
schools, and a training school in Vii
ma and Grodno.
Polish countercharge that the
Lithuanian white government has in
termed % Polish school teachers at
Varnia, in Lithuania, is regarded as a
preteXt.
Commenting on this desperate ap-
peal from the Varnia concentration
camp to the Polish people," the Polish
educational organization at Kovno,
Lithuania, states that it knows moth
ing about them. While there are I'M
questionably some Poles at Varnia,
there seems to be no record of any
school teachers among them.
1t is expected that Premier Waldo
maras will argue Lithuania's case
before the session of the League of
Nations which opens here in Deem
Der and that the Polish foreign minis
ter Zaleski will also appear to state
the Polish point of view.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
TROTSKY GROUP
HIT BY MOSCOW
PARTY SECTION
"Must Liquidate Their
Faction, '-Bukharin

Especial Cable to DAILY WORKED
MOSCOW, Nov. 22.--The policies
of the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party were upheld and the
policies and methods Of the OPPOSE
ton severely condemned at the open
ing of the sixteenth conference of the
Moscow organization of the Commu-
mist Party yesterday.
The members of the Moscow or
ganization unanimously condemned
the Opposition, realizing that the
Communist Party was successfully
pursuing the policy of building up So
cialism, without in any way strength
ening the position of the boss-peasan-
try and "Nepmen" as was charged by
the Opposition, declared Uglanoff.
Cheer Bukharin.
AS Bukharin, speaking on behalf Of
the Central Committee stepped to the
platform, he was greeted by cries Of
Long Live the feminist Central
Committee"
Characterizing the Opposition's
policy as "Neo-Menshevism," Buk-
HARM declared, "The Fifteenth Party
congress will put the question square
ly; either the Opposition must liqui-
date their fraction and repudiate
their ideas which are contrary to
Bolshevism or the Party will push
the Opposition aside and continue on
its path toward Socialism.
''The Party" Bukharin continued,
"has had enough of the Opposition
and will no longer waste time with it.
Urge Cultural Work.
In closing Bukharin urged the
necessity of further developing Gull
tural work. Lunacharsky proved Buk-
harms statements and showed that
the Soviet Union is the only country
in the world where the schools have
increased. The huge reduction in the
number of illiterates is one of the
best examples of the cultural achieve
ments of the Soviet Union.
Nine. Krupskaya energetically con-
demned whose policies, she declared,
were inspired by personal motives and
not the interests of the working class.
Rukharin's speech was followed by
a lively debate in the course of which
all speakers, particularly representa-
tives from factory nuclei approved of
Leninism and the proletarian line of
the Central Committee and ener-
getically condemned the Opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
.USSR WILL ASK
DISARMAMENT AT
Geneva Meeting
Will Remove Capitalist
Armament Excuses

MOSCOW, Nov 22.-The Soviet
Union will advocate complete and
immediate disarmament at the Geneva
arms conference at the end of this
month, declared Maxim Litvinoff, As
sistant Commissar Of Foreign Affairs
in a statement issued late last night.
If capitalist countries propose
gradual disarmament such a proposal
will also be acceptable to the Soviet
Union, Litvinoff said.
No More Excuses.
The Soviet Union will participate
in the conference, Litvinoff indicated,
less in the hope that the capitalist
countries will consent to disarmament
than in an effort to deprive the
enemy of a chance to attribute pos
sible failure to Russia's reluctance to
disarm"
=
Capitalist countries have long used
as an excuse for their failure to seri-
ously consider any disarmament pro-
posal the refusal of the Soviet Union
to participate in the Geneva confer
ence. The Soviet Union refused to
participate in meetings at Geneva
because of the unpublished murder of
Vorovsky, Soviet delegate to the Lau-
same conference. The Vorovsky in
cident was settled between the Soviet
Union and Switzerland early this
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23

20 minutes to make that hundred
feet.
and heap mounds Of earth over the
graves. The farmer out of respect
for his ancestors, must not disturb
these mounds, which serve to break
up the little fields into still smaller
patches.
We visited the place in September.
The farmers We're harvesting corn,
millet, sorgum and beans. They were
planting wheat. All of the harvest
ing was done by hand. The ears were
broken from the corn stalks; the
stalks were cut about a foot above
the ground and stored Tor fodder and
for fencing. The corn stubble was
then dug up, the dirt shaken off the
roots and the whole bundled and
stored for winter fuel Sorgum and
millet stubblc were treated the same
way. Even the corn leaves and the
weeds, lying about the fields and the
grass and weeds from the waste
spots along the roads were raked or
cut for fodder and fuel.
As the summer crops came out. the
land was ploughed and sowed to
wheat. The plough had a single
handle, and was shod with an iron
point which dug a trench very much
like that made by shovel pillow. 1t
did not throw a furrow, so that there
was no possibility of turning the top
of the soil under
Wheat is planted in rows. Accord
ing to one plan, burrows are run
about 20 inches apart. On another
system 2 burrows are run 20 inches
apart space of about feet is left,
then come more 20-inch burrows,
and so on. The wide space Of this
latter plan allows for cultivation and
makes it possible to sow second
crop Oceans, for eXample) while the
wheat is still in the ground
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Fail to Check Plague
AS Indian Masses Die

SECUNDERABAD, India, Nov. %.
A serious outbreak of the Plague
here has been taking a toll of 20
lives daily. While health camps have
been erected outside the town, the
British officials have done little be-
yond ordering the masses to sleep in
the open fields.
Almost nothing has been accom-
plished towards reducing the rat
population which is carrying the
plague.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
White Slavery Among
BLESSINGS" of u. S.
Rule in Philippines

MANILA, P. l., Nov. %. - Finan-
cial returns from the municipal treas
uries of the suburban towns near
Manila show that 40 per cent of the
municipal revenue of these towns
comes from licenses granted to cab
arets and roadhouses the insular gov
eminent therefore has decided to take
into its own hands the maintenance
of proper decorum" in these towns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
BY SCOTT NEARING


PEKING, China, (FP) (By MaiD
We ran out of Picking to the end
Of the railroad; took bicycles, and
started across the fertile plain. can
other month, and we might have gone
with a Ford" our guide explained
But it is out of the question now
The bridges have not yet been put
in"
Were they washed away"
"No, taken up for the summer
You see," he went on, 1--WE get most
of our rain in July and August
the bulk of it in July These rivers
rise fast and spread across the plain
If the bridges they build here We're
left up, they would wash away, Sc
they take them down. You will see
for yourself in a moment"
We turned out of the road; dis
mounted; waded ankle deep through q
sandbank; crossed a mud-flat, anc
found ourselves beside a fast-moving
stream less than hundred feet wide
Men were at work on the bridge
They had put in wooden bents o.
piers at intervals of about ten feet
Timbers were laid across these bents
the long way of the bridge. Cross.
wise on the timbers were bundles OF
cornstalks, covered with about 8 OF
10 inches of dirt. That was the
bridge good for 9 months, and stored
for 3.
AS this bridge was not yet in work
ing order, we made our way to q
point on the bank where a flat boat
was ferrying passengers and freight
Two carts drove on the flatboat, fol-
lowed by A loaded donkeys. When
the load was on, and the passengers
properly distributed, the boatmer
polled to the middle of the stream
stuck for few minutes on a bar
waded waist-deep till the boat was
again free; collected about one-quar-
ter of an American penny from each
passenger, and then held the boat
against the bank while the passengers
and freight went ashore. The ride
was inexpensive, but it took US about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Mine and Unemployment
Questions to Be Taken
Up in Commons Tuesday

LONDON, Nov. 22.-The mine
and unemployment questions will
come up for discussion in the
House of Commons next Tuesday
afternoon, Premier Baldwin an
nounced at today's session.
Baldwin evaded the discussion of
the mine question last week, leav-
ing the Tory defense to Sir Philip
Cunliffe-Lister president of the
board of trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Establish Argentine
To Brazil Air Service

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov.
%. - A regular mail service was es-
tablished today between Buenos Aires
and points in Uruguay and Brazil to
expedite mail deliveries to the United
States and Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
STORMS IN SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 22.--Many deaths
and enormous damage to property,
crops and shipping were the outcome
today of severe storms of hurricane
intensity W h rel swept Southern
Spain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Die-Hard Government
Is Likely in Belgium

BRUSSELS, Nov. ga Liberal
Catholic Coalition Government for
Belgium was in prospect today fol-
lowing the resignation of Premier
Jaspar's Cabinet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23

After the wheat has been dropped
in the open furrow by hand, a boy
or woman is hitched to stone,
shaped like lemon-about 18 inches
long and perhaps 10 inches through
New Britain herald., 1927-03-14

the lawful heir of the wonder working powers of primitive figures.
 "For ages significant images have been made by man. These images are called dolls, word derived from the old Saxon dol, whose relation to the Greek eidolon, likeness or image, is apparent.
 Tt would seem that from the obese 'Nenuses' of the Aurignacian epoch, the oldest recovered fgurines and first known sculptures in the round, there has been gradual and tremendous ln- crease in the number and assigned mean ing of images large and small, having so far as we can see, developed around the idea which cropped up in the Aurig nacian period.
 "The meaning of the most ancient figurines IS conjcctural, but that they were cult objects is beyond question. Their great importance Is that they are the first tangible evidences of mans at tempt to control the unseen. Subsequent images bear the accrctions of the beliefs of growing culture.
 Tn this view, the little images of the Stone Age are ancestors to the multi tudinous idols of the Pantheon.
 Perhaps the first great problem to
New Britain herald., 1927-03-14

received them through commerce and association with people advanced in civilization.
 "Dolls are not normally found among people in the lower planes of culture. This is fact of great importance, espe- cially as it might be inferred, perhaps popularly believed, that all races have a community of instinct which would lead them to give dolls to their offspring and that tender infants of all times and races must naturally demand them.
 "On the contrary the history of the doll is most complex and leads quickly back and away from childish hands to idols, which are the representations in the sense of presentations of spiritual beings or diyinized ancestors, back again to the images commanded to do the bid ding of sorcerers and medicine men. to charms, fetiches, household gods, objects of witchcraft and so forth, to the rude sticks and stones of undeveloped tribes, with their crude ideas of mysterious life in inanimate objects working veal or woe to man.
 Among civilized peoples dolls awake no thoughts of their former import, but before this stage was reached there were
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