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The Washington times., 1927-05-10
LATEST NEWS AND QUOTATIONS OF THE FINA
HEAVY SELLING
HITSSTOCES

NEW YORK. May 10.--IndustrIal
stocks in all sections OF the market
were under selling pressure In the
early trading today. The motors
and specialties which rose apectacu-
laFly In the last two or three SEES.
fsions were under profit taking,
while the oils and coppers felt the
weight OF further price reductions.
The Standard on Company of In.
diana and the Texas Company re.
duced gasoline prices in their re-
spective territories cents q gallon.
simultaneously with the announce.
ment Of q new 46,000.barrel daily
increase in crude oil production.
Independent oil stocks suffered q
mild collapse at the outset, but buy.
ing demand was in evidence at the
lower price ranges. and part OF the
lost ground was recovered.
A further increase Of about $37,.
100000 in brokers' loans, bringing
the total to within hailing distance
Of last years peak. was generally
accepted az an evidence Of the pill
iug up Of marginal buying, and the
consequent passing Of stocks to
weak hands"
A few low-priced speculative ran
stocks sold slight higher, but the
market as . whole was dun and
featurelesg in the first hour. After
an early depression. Hudson Motors
rose above 81. United States Steel
was inactive while awaiting the
monthly report on advance tonnage,
due at noon.
The cotton market was off about
five points, while wheat and corn
declined fractionally in the New
York end Chicago markets. Other
conmodity markets were quiet and
slightly irregular. Call money re.
newals, 4 per cent.
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
BANK SESSIONS
PLANS PUSHED
BY RICHARD HATTON

Preparations for the ninth annual
convention Of the District of Co.
lumbia Bankers Association in June
ere progressing rapidly with the
general convention COMMITTEES and
the several subcommittee reporting
daily progress in arrangements.
The convention, as has been the
case for the past several years, will
be held at Hot Springs, Va, from
June 9 to IL, inclusive, and the
largest attendance in the history of
the organization is expected
A particularly large number OF
bank directors, in addition to the
usual large attendance OF bank
officers is expected.
The second call for the conven,
ton win be issued in the near
future and it is expected that this
will bring forth q flood Of requests
for reservations as in previous
years many have waited until the
convention date to determine their
ability to attend.
The final meeting OF the commit
tee on publicity and the press, I'M
der the Craftsmanship Of Frederick
p. II. Siddons has been called for
Friday, May Is, in the rooms Of
the District Of Columbia Bankers
Association. At this meeting the
final arrangements for pre-conven.
ton publicity and for handling the
convention news from Hot Springs
viii be outlined.
Loans amounting to more than
&40.000,000 have been made by over
1000 banks on the security of the
adjusted service certificates issued
to the veterans of the World War
and Gen. Frank r. Hines, director
Of the Veterans Bureau, estimates
that the total during the year will
reach $4,000 900, it IS stated in an
article by Reuben A. Lewis. jr.. in
the current issue Of the American
Bankers Association Journal.
It is no longer necessary for a
bank to make these loans as q
means of accommodating the vet
Grams. as Congress- passed q law at
the last session authorizing the
Veterans Bureau to make loans -di-
rect to the holders of these service
certificates. General Hines regards
the bureau loan fund as supple
Inentary to bank loans to be EN-.
ployed only where banking accom-
n1odations are found unavailable.
President Howard Moran Of the
District of Columbia Bankers Assoc
citation and vice president Of the
American Security and Trust Com
pany. has returned from the meet
ing OF the executive council OF the
American Bankers Association
which was held at Hot Springs,
Ark, from May to 5. Mr.. Moran
Is a member OF the executive com.
mittee of the Savings Bank Division
Of the American Bankers Associa-
ton.
Those who attended the Hot
Springs meeting had some interest.
ing experiences in the flooded sec
tion OF Arkansas and other river
sections.
Eliot H Thomson. publicity d.
rector of the Washington Loan and
Trust Company, Is expected back
Thursday from a weeks vacation.
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
Van Sweringens Renew
Efforts for Merger

The Van Sweringen brothers,
Cleveland financiers. today renewed
their efforts before the Interstate
Commerce Commission to obtain
Federal approval OF their proposed
1000 100000 railroad merger.
Hearings were begun on the
application Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio. which is TO be the nucleus OF
the proposed merger under the new
plan, to acquire control Of the Erie
ana, Pere Marquette through stock
ownership and to issue $50. 500, 400
OF additional common stock Of the
Chesapeake & Ohio for the enhance.
ment OF the capital structure.
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
LOCAL STOCKS

FURNISHED by W. B. Hibbs & Coz
Potomac Electric list Is, $1,000
101.
washington Gas 6s B. 6Oo@105 4.
Capital Traction Co., 4@1o5.
Potomac Electric, pfd., 10@10s Y,
1@108M.
washington Railway and Electric,
pfd, 5@92K.
District National Bank, 1O@24o,
6@240.
Continental Trust Co., 5@112, 10
@112, 10@112. 10@112.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 10110K,
10@110N,
Natl. Mtg. & Inv, pfd., 50@SA.
After call-Seventh Street Saw.
1ngs Bank, 1920.
Money-Call loans, to s per cent,
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
LIBERTY BONDS
Coolidge May Review
u. S. Fleet at Norfolk

President Coolidge may 60 to Nor
folk late this month to review the
United States fleet. It was said at
the White House today.
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
SHORT TERM SECURITIES
TREASURY STATEMENT

The daily statement Of the United
States Treasury shows:
Income to date this year. $3.26S..
201. 1888.
Income to date last year. $3.50
057. 362. AZ.
Increase, $S3,144, 1924.
Income over outgo this year. $780,
356 .600.13.
Income over outgo last year,
$165. OIL .271.39.
Balance general fund today. $21s.-
246. SS2.66.
Decrease. 1850. 1858.
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
ON STOCKS
lFurnIshed b. W. B. Hibbs 4 Col

Bid Ask.
Anglo-American OF co neWl 10 1914
Borno-Scrymser Co ........I BSH S3A
Buckeye Pipe Line Co.....l SAX b5h
Cheseborough Manuf Co....sl 9I %
Continental OIL Co..........l 18Ml 1s&
Cumberland PIPE Line. .....i 90 50
Eureka Pipe Line. So 81
Galena Signal oil Co com. AL 10
Illinois Pipe Line Co...,... .lfl6 q HAT g
Indiana Pipe Line Co......l ee 81
National Transit Co.........l 1871 Is
New York Tran Co.s....s.l az 33h
Northern Pipe Line Coed n so
Ohio OIL Co .............i $50 Sc
Prairie oil q Gas Co.. l7Xl l7M
Prairie Pipe Line co....... il6S1k if64 u
Solar Refining Co.........l1sa l1sB
Southern Pipe Line co.....i 1874 17H
South Penn Oil Co........I o6% IS a
Southwestern Penn L Col GeN 10
standard OIL Co (Ind) .... 66R 81
Standard Oil Co (Kan1 ,..j 1871 II
Standard Oil Co (Ken1 -. .lll31k l114
Standard OIL co (Neb) &c 4BM
Standard OIL Co (Ohiol .l312 1870
Standard Oil Co (Ohio) pfdll11Ml11
Swan and Finch Co........I 1871 16A
Vacuum OIL Co. ..........e.il11El liz
PennByl yania- Mexican Fuel. is Is
Sun Oi .:ssss.ss...s.s.f.si e1M s6
aumpls OH s..s*..ss-.s..s 55H %
The Washington times., 1927-05-10
CLEARING HOUSE REPORT

NEW YORK, May 1O.--Clearing
house statement: Exchanges. Sl.,
163 100000: balances. SOS. 900, 900
Federal Reserve Banks credit bal.
ance, $4,000. 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
MEXICAN FOUL
PLAY is DENIED
BY AUTHORITIES
Abandoned Graveyard
Uncovered, Claim

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10-Declar-
;.tion by Deputy Sheriff Walter Keat
ing of Los Angeles that MeXicali,
Lower California, is a town where
many Americans have met with foul
play and were buried in shallow I'M
marked graves, have been met with
quick denials from both American
and Mexican authorities.
Heating returned here yesterday
from a fruitless search 1or three
missing men from Los Angeles, and
reported that he had 1ound the sanO3
of the Colorado Madura River below
the Mexican town strewn with bod
les. Many Of the dead he believed to
be Americans.
Persons killed in MeXicah were
frequently buried without any at
tempt at Identification by the auth
critics, Heating charges.
Francisco Deralga, inspector of po-
lice for the northern district of Lower
California, explained that what Keat-
ing had discovered was an abandoned
graveyard in the old river bed and
that bodies had been exposed by flood
waters. He said his office had. COM
plete records of every alien who had
died and had been buried there. In
the last three years only two Amer
leans met death in his district, he
added, and but one American has dis
Louis Manss, customs inspector at
the boarder, supported Deralga's
statement. He could recall only one
case where an American had disap-
peared in Mexicali. Deralga said his
records contained no descriptions of
missing persons such as Heating is
seeking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Textile Interests
Express Optimism

LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. TO-
Representatives of the various tex
tile corporations of this city, in a
meeting with the newly appointed In
dustrial Commission, expressed their
belief that conditions of their indus
try will improve in the near future.
This follows an active campaign on
the part Of these corporations for the
past number Of years to negate the
forty-eight-hour law for women and
children. They are also asking the
state to favor them by lowering their
taxes, so as to "save them from
ruin" The two theories of "impend-
ing ruin" and good year ahead"
were not correlated by the commits
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
MASS MEETINGS
IN PORTO RICO
DEN0UNCE NAVY
visit of ODpressOrs'
Fleet No Honor"

PONCE, Porto Rico, Feb. 1o-ln q
vigorous protest against American
aggression in Nicaragua, the Ponce
Local Of the Nationalist Party OF
Porto Rico has unanimously voted
for a resolution that denounces the
Coolidge-Kellogg foreign policy, and
protests AGAINST the visit of Amer
lean warships TO Porto Rico.
The fleet whose movements were
l;eps secret in North America by the
state department, is expected to an
rive here any day The Nationalist
have issued a special edition of their
paper, "The Nationalist" in which
the fragrant high-handed methods Of
Yankee paternalism are exposed.
Fleet Visit No Honor.
The resolution, copies of which
have been sent to the insular and
municipal authorities. the senate, the
house Of representatives. the mayor
of Ponce and the municipal assembly,
says: "The Porto Rican people con-
slider the visit Of the American ma
rines and war fleet. announced by
the press, undesirable, and hereby
inform the legislative bodies that
they do not consider it an honor to
be visited by the armies that aid in
the exploitation of the small repub-
lies of Central America, and do not
want invitations extended to them"
The strong resentment of the Porto
Pican workers against American
imperialism is being further aroused
by the visit Of the American fleet,
end it is expected that many mass
meetings will be held in protest.
Municipal police expect much trouble
if the marines are given shore
leave, because of the prejudice
against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Master Mechanics
Get Gold Buttons;
Wages Unchanged

Sixteen master mechanics were
rewarded for their services in the
construction of the Central Mercan-
tile Building at Fifth Ave, and Forty
Fourth st. on Monday.
The N. Y. Building Congress be
lieves that labor has not previously
been sufficiently recognized for its
part in building construction, or for
its superior craftsmanship, and so pro-
ceeded to remedy matters with gold
buttons and diplomas. Mr.. William
G. Ludlow, who made the presen-
tation said nothing about an increase
in wages, or the hazards that make
building work particularly danger
Gus.
The men who were awarded these
trinkets are: V. Hartnagel, bronze
worker; II. N. Hotchkiss, sheet metal
worker; John Hayes, plasterer; AL
bert Wurth, electrician; James
Hunt, marble setter; James Breen,
roofer; James Hall, plumber; Will
liam Mosher, glazier; Edward Ken
nell, stone carver; Ernest Falken-
berg, elevator constructor; John
Hawkesworth, tile setter; Louis
carpenter; James Kerr,
stone setter; James Downey, metal
lather; Otto Ruzicka, painter; Peter
Coleman, bricklayer.
The building was recently sold at a
profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
UNIONS DENOUNCE
M ASS. CRIMINAL
SYNDICALISM BILL
Big Employers Appear
For 1t at Hearing

Boston, Feb. 10.-A hearing before
IA senatorial committee on Senate
Bill No. 1862, the criminal syndical-
ism Bill, brought unanimous protests
against it's passage from all labor
unions in the state, the Civil Liber-
ties Bureau, the Association to AbOl-
ish War, the Community Church, and
others.
The head of the state federation of
labor, J. j. Van Wearnyck, denounced
it as only camouflage to say it was
for the purpose of preventing a revo-
tuition by force and violence. He told
of experiences in other states where
such laws were always invoked in
time of strike, to throw strike leaders
into prison, and sometimes to rail-
road them to long sentences for
what, after all, was matter of opin-
ion.
Who Uses Force?
Van Wearnyck was scornful of the
argument about force and violence
anyway. He lifted the veil from the
deeds Of those who talked so glibly
of the horror of force and violence,
and showed these same people using
every form of violence on the workers,
in the coal regions of West Virginia
and Pennsylvania and in the Law
renee strike Of 1919.
Would Jail Washington.
The representative of the Civil
Liberties Union called the bill I'M
American, and said that under this
law, if it were passed, George Wash
ington could have been arrested and
imprisoned for plotting instruction.
He would be jailed today, if he came
to life again, and by his own sons
and daughters. This last was a shot
at the Sons and Daughters of the
American Revolution, which organi-
cations are behind the present GRIM
inal syndicalism bill.
Unions Object.
Speakers from the Amalgamated
Clothing. Workers, the International
Ladies' Garment Workers, the Up
holsterers union, and other unions
took the floor and criticized the mo-
tives Of the proponents of the bill.
Speakers for the bill were Mr..
Sherwood of the Master Builders
Association, and Mr.. Squaly, a big
building contractor. Their argu-
ments consisted largely of abuse Of
the Workers Party, and reading of
excerpts of cases from criminal syn
dicalism trials.
Like California Law.
Senate Bill No. 162 is almost an
exact copy of the familiar measures
used in California and other states.
1t is said to have been directly sug-
gested by the Michigan bill. 1t starts
with a definition of criminal syndi-
calism as any doctrine which advo-
Gates force, violence or crime, or
sabotage to accomplish industrial or
political reform.
Plain Murder All Right.
According to the wording of the
bill, advocating crime, force and vio-
lence for private purposes, or any
other reason than desire for re-
form, would be all right-at least ia
the absence of other laws. The bill
then goes on to prescribe penalties
Of ten years Imprisonment, and S5,-
coo fine, or both, for any one who
commits criminal syndicalism, by
written or spoken word, or who joins
any organization that does so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
SUIT FOR FALSE
ARREST AGAINST
ALIQUIPPA COPS
Postmaster Admits He
Stops Daily Worker
BY ABRAM JAKIRA.


PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The attorneys
for Peter Muselin of Woodlawn, Pa,
who is suing the Aliquippa Chief Of
Police for ten thousand dollars DAM
ages for false arrest, rested their case
today after bitter legal battle'which
lasted several hours. Four witnesses
testified for the chief of police when
the court adjourned until Tuesday
morning.
Chief Was Sure.
Several witnesses testified that
"Ham" Brown, the Chief of Aliquppa
Police raided, on the night OF July
9th, 1926 a peaceful meeting of
picnic committee of the Croatian
Beneficial Lodge to settle the accounts
for a picnice which was held on July
18th. When he was asked for war
rant he stated: 81 don't need no god
damned warrant for you" Several
men were arrested and then released
without even being questioned after
having spent in Jail for some time
Question About Party.
Attorney w. D. Craig, who, together
with attorney Richard S. Holt, repre-
sent Brown, questioned the witnesses
at length as to their utilization with
the Workers (Communistl Party, and
their personal beliefs on the question
OF the overthrow of the American gov
c1nment and the establishment OF a
Soviet form of government in. the
United States. Numerous objections
raised by attorneys George j. Shaffer
and Henry H. Wilson, who represent
Peter Muselin, the plaintiff, were con-
tinually overruled by Judge Wm' A.
Mcconnell.
Legion Communist Committee.
The arbitrary rule in Woodlawn OF
The Jones and Laughlin interests came
to light today when Mr.. Simson, the
postmaster Of Woodlawn, was called
upon to testify for Mr.. Brown. lie
was compelled to admit that he was
n member of the American Legion
and is the head of the special COM
mittee appointed by the legion to IN
vestigate and to combat Communism
in Woodlawn. He was formerly an en-
Move of Jones and Laughlin Steel
corporation.
Censored the Mail.
He used his office of postmaster
to further the interests of the Amer
lean Legion. He had to admit that
he was watching the mails coming
from the Workers Party headquarters
and addressed to the radical workers.
/ He toolS~it upon. himself to stop the
delivery Of the issues of The DAILY
+ WORKER Che was reading The
/ DAILY WORKER, he testified, every
day before delivering it to the sub
scribers) which contained the article
about Queen Marie, entitled Cotzu-
fanista. He testified that Muselin has
a "bad character" and when pressed
by the attorneys he was compelled
t. admit that this was his own opin-
ion. as Muselin favored the Soviet
form of government in the L. S.
Witness after witness testified that
they lost their jobs at one time OF
another while working in the Jones
and Laughlin steel mills just because
Il was discovered that they were
radicals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Mhiteman at E. Liyernool.

E. LIVERPOOL, Ohia.-Under the
auspices of the American Negro La
Dor Congress, Lovett Fort Whiteman,
it's national organizer, delivered an
address here in the Colored Elks
Home.
This was the fourth and most sue
cessful talk delivered by Fort-White-
man in this city. People of many
classes and types were drawn to the
meeting and Judging by the undivid-
ed attention given the speaker, they
were informed of things of an inter-
esting and vital character that before
they had given too. little attention.
The police, the politicians, the
workers who had assembled to hear
the lecture, were held to close atten-
ton by Whiteman masterful. analy-i
sis of present world conditions. He
also gave a clear conception of the
Negro and his position in the impe-
rialist society of America. The evils
of segregation and Jim Crowism were
barred to the people. The relation of
the Negro to the 18th and 18th
amendments to the constitution Of the
United States was shown.
Only. rats act cowardly and run
to their holes when one of their num-
Der is trapped and burned. We Won
der when. Negroes will stop initiating
rats and demand the rights Of men,
said Whiteman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11

Map the Van Swerngens Nickel Plate if all merger
plans approved white lines show Wheeling Lake Erie
The Van Swerngcn rothers-M. J. and o. P.of Cleveland
o. operating through their Plate railroad system have fur
the increased their huge railroad odngs by purchasing
troll in the Wheeling Lake Erie railroad Other which Joined
in the obtaining of working control through spectacular market
coup and private deal with John d. Rockefeller the New York
Central and Baltimore Ohio systems. Reports New York have
it that plans have been considered for probable combination Of the
Van Swerugen S New York Central Baltimore Ohio
the greatest railroad system of a35O00 miles capital
662 237 In the meantime minority Stockholders of the Chesapeake
Ohio oppose the Van Swengen groups petition the Interstate
Commerce Commission for Tint road purchase majority
interest in the Pere Marques and Erie railroads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
apeaehesn Show TO BE Reopened.

Possibility of new and startling
development in the Browning separa-
ton case doomed today when it was
reported that one of the witnesses at
the recent trial at White Plains had
signed a confession that he was
forced" to enter a conspiracy to
blacken the character of Peaches
Browning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Students Newspaper ~
Retreats Red Charge

The Exponent, student newspaper
Of the Purdue University, Lafayette,
has retracted in an editorial on Jan.
81 the charge made in an editorial
Of Nov. l6, that the Civil Liberties
Union is "the official organ Of the
Third international, of Russia prim-
arily, but worldwide in scope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Big Haul On Vessel.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1O.-Fifty
one thousand dollars in currency dis
appeared from the strong box Of the
S. S. Colombia while the vessel was
enroute from New York to Los
Angeles harbOr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Mass Meeting al Passaic.

PASSAIC, n. IA mass meeting
is arranged here for Monday night,
Feb. IL, at 1880 =. NJ, at which
Lovett FOrt-Whiteman will speak un-
der the auspices of the American
Negro Labor Congress. The lecture
will be at Workers Home, q Dayton
Ave-. near Monroe ST., Passaic, n. j.
Problems of the Negro workers will
be the subject. Admission is free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
Colorado Coal Miners
Drift Around Looking
For Some Organization
CBv Worker Correspondents

AGUILAR. Colo, Feb. 10.-The
miners Of this coal field. District IS
of the United Mine Workers of
America, are rapidly becoming mi
gratory workers. They drift aim
less1y from camp to camp, trying to
find the conditions that used to be,
and trying without result.
Officials Watch Games.
The district officials spend their
time watching the baseball games
81 town, and there is practically no
organization work going on.
But Just ubefore the last election
December, 1926 for international
officials of the U. NJ W., the district
officials here got busy, and formed
a lot of little locals, mostly with only
two or three members. to send in
election returns for John L. Lewis.
These locals also sent delegates to
the international convention on Jan.
25.
Real Organizers Idle.
There are plenty of good, honest
organizers in the state that will do
well in organizing, but these are
not wanted by John L. Lewis. He
must have his confederates on the
payroll.
Some meetings were held in indie
pendent outfits. They did not dare
to appear in Colorado Fuel & Iron
coal camps, which are the key of
their district.
l would be ashamed to accept my
check from the union unless I got
new members for the pnion in re-
turn. They do not dare to attack
the coal companies in their lectures
but do not spare other organizations.
There are at the present time
three locals in Aguilar, Colo. with
a total membership of $50 men. All
of these men that voted, with the
exception Of three, voted for John
Brophy. That proves that the miners
wanted the progressive candidate.
They wanted something new and
better.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
John ID. Gets Reckless

DAYToNA BEACH, Fla, Feb. 10
John ID. Rockefeller started run
on his dime bank today. While golf
ing with Father Leonard he came
across the son of an old friend, Mr..
1olle, Go years old, and gave him a
fist full of bright ten-cent pieces.
81 guess that breaks my bank" the
oil magnate mischievously remarked.
81 didn't count them but | hope
there's enough to care for yourself,
children and grandchildren, along
with your brothers"
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