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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
AMERICANS PAY
BANDIT RANSOM
$3.50 Frees Two in Mexico
After They Beat Down
Demand fer SIS 600.
RY the Assnciated Press.

By the Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, January 5.--han'
som OF $3.50 effected the release OF
the two Americans, j. w. Wiley ana
r. r. Connors, employees of O BIT
ish mining company at san Francisco
Del ORC. chihuahua state, who were
kidnapped by bandit gang last Tues
day
The bandits, after Selling the two
men, took them to a camp in the near
by mountains and informed them they
would be held until they or their
fr ends produced $1,000. The Amer,
cans dickered with their captors ana
finally barSalned the sum down 10
$3.50.
One Goes for Money.
Connors. paroled by the bandits
Saturday, went to San Francisco Del
Orc. obtained the money and re-
turned to the bandit camp, where
upon he and his partner were re-
leased. Dispatches make no men
ton of ill-treatment by the oanaits,
Mexican government troops had
been searching for the kldnapers'
on representations from the American
embassy here.
Further bandit activity was re-
ported yesterday on the highway De
tween Mexico City and CuernaNacd'
scene in September Of the kidnapping
and murder of Jacob Rosenthal,
wealthy retired American business
man.
Six Autos Held Up.
Thirty five armed men calling them
selves revolutionists and saying they
needed money with which to nght
the government held up SIX aueoliIo,
biles. They took all money ana
Jewels, but did not otherwise molest
the motorists. A number of foreign
ers spent the holidays in Cuernavaca,
but it was not known early To-Day
whether they were i'll the autoiilo-
biles held up.
The bandits escaped into the noun
tains and are being pursued py
federal troops.
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a Senator-elect. If the Senate agrees
with this argument, then it will. of
course. act accordingly.
POSSIBLY the most conspicuous ad.
vocate, outside of the Senate, of the
claims of Messrs. Smith and Ware is
James NJ. Beck, former Solicitor Gen
eral of the United States. In recent
article Mr.. Beck says, The issue is
not a matter which public opinion
should decide. And yet Mr.. Beck,
who, according to the public press, is
attorney for at least one of these
claimants, has been devoting a great
deal of his time and energy in an eff
fort to influence public opinion. He
has written a book upon the subject.
Mr.. Beck's principal argument
against giving the Senate the right to
pass upon the question is that the
Senate might, If it had this right, ar
bitrarily keep men out of the Senate
without any valid reason whatever.
1.-The truth is, 1t is an impossibility
to confer power, upon any body of men
without at the same time comforting
upon them the right to abuse that
power.
Cites Past Records.
1.-THE Senate could be unreasonable.
It has had the right to be unreaSona-
BILE for nearly $50 years and the Gov
eminent still lives. There has never
been a time when the Senate, If it
wanted to be as unreasonable as Mr.
Beck fears 1t might become, could
have brought about the absolute de-
struction of the Government, but
! there never will be a government, and
never has been a government, where
those in authority do not have this
same power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
STORE SAFE RIPPED OPEN.
$1,000 IN CASH TAKEN

A safe in the Peoples Durg Store at
Tenth and F street. was ripped open
by burglars, between closing time last
night and opening time this morning,
and between 81, 200 and 81 $50 in cash
was stolen.
Employees of the firm discovered the
robbery this morning. Detectives
Sweeney and Waldron conducted an
investigation.
Entrance was gained through a win.
dow opening in the areaway, where a
lock had been snapped from the
grating.
An electric drill and several new
tools were left on the premises.
Detectives Frederick Sandberg, in
charge of the Bureau CT Identification
Of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, conducted an examination of the
damaged safe in an effort to obtain
prints of fingers of the robbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
To-day in Congress
Senate.

senate.
Senator Gerald l.. Nye of North
Dakota, who served at the last
session on an appointment by the
governor. was sworn in again to-
day for the term 70 which he was
elected in November
Presentation of the credentials
Of Senator Nye resulted in Senator
Reed. Democrat. of Missouri,
raising the technical point that
all credentials should be examined
by the committee on privileges
and elections before a Senator is
sworn in Senator Reed made it
plain he had no objection to the
seating Of Senator Nye, but merely
wanted to restore the original rule
requiring reference OF credentials
TO q committee.
This move was regarded as an
indication of what may occur
when Col. Frank l.. Smith pre-
aents himself as Senator-designate
from Illinois After Senator Reed
had raised the point. he agreed TO
substitute motion permitting
Senator Nye to be sworn in with
cut referring his case 20 u com
mittee.
Senator Capper introduced a bill
authorizing the Commi sa'oners to
acquire "a site for a new tanners
market al the Distrs
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new manager, and was certain that
he would be completely INDICATED:
/. NJ. Howe, who was at that tiihe
statistician for the American Leasue
and an Intimate of many OF the play
ers in the Johnson circuit. said last
night that he had heard the Boston
version of the Sox pool years ago
from members from the Sox team ana
particularly recalled the grudging CON
tribution OF Edtie Collins to the pot
Collins, according to Risberg's am
davit TO Lands, finally put IN ms
S45 share OF the $1.l00 pool, but de-
clared he never would do such a tnins
again, as he did not believe in it.
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cities for information concerning the
apparatus in use there.
A transmitter which will give a
daylight range of 400 miles is pro
posed by Maj. Hesse, because it couiu
he used in an emergency for calling
police authorities, sheriffs and con
stables in Maryland Virginia ana
Pennsylvania and other States IN the
Eastern section OF the country. The
station also might be used. he SAD,
to broadcast general orders to the pre-
cincts when it is desired to get them
out expeditiously.
Maj. Hesse also announced the ar
rival at police headquarters OF 5000
tear gas bombs for the use OF pollce
in case of a riot. These bombs VIII
be distributed to the police stations
and carried in patrol wagons along
with the recently adopted Thompson
rapid-tirse guns, which are capable or
shooting a continuous stream of buck
shot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
COURT SUPPORTS
PLAYGROUND PLAN
Justice Van 0rsdeI UphoIds
Program for Western High
School Athletic Field.

Western High School may have its
athletic field in squares 1907 and 1911,
adjacent to the building near Thirty
fifth and T streets, despite the coming
OF the property as residential. The
District Court Of Appeals, in an opin-
ion by Justice Van Orsdel. today re-
versed the decision of the District Su-
prene Court, which had declined to
entertain condemnation proceedings
brought by the District Commission
ers because the land was zoned ex-
clusively for residential purposes.
The case was remanded. with direc-
tons to proceed with the condemna-
ton.
Opposition was voiced by certain
owners of property in the vicinity, IN
GLIDING the Shannon & Luchs Con
struction Co. and A. II. Shillington,
whose land was sought to be con-
demned.
Ground Is Necessary.
TIE appellate tribunal adopts the
contention Of Corporation Counsel
Stephens and his assistants that the
proposed athletic field is being &C.
Quired for use of the high school and
as O. part of the educational insitu-
ton and for educational purposes.
which are permitted in residential
zones.
IAN educational institution" says
Justice Van Orsdel, consists not only
of the buildings, but OF all the grounds
necessary for the accomplishment of
the full scope of educational instruc-
ton. It is not the modern concep-
ton of a public school that it be erect
ed on lot merely large enough in
area to contain the school building.
In addition to the buildings, there
should be playground space, basket
ball stops, Ginning bars, room for
calisthenics, all in the open air. 1t
Is also for the general welfare and
safety that the school children be
furnished q place in which to play re-
moved from the dangers Of street
traffic.
Uphoids Physical Culture.
1.-THE physical development of a
child" continues the justice, 'is as
essential to his well-being as is his
mental development, and physical
development cannot be had without
suitable places for recreation and ex-
ercise. Numerous decisions of the
courts hold that physical culture and
development are essential parts of our
educational system and that grounds
uSSu AOr tHiS purpose All CoIiHeCLloIi
with an educational institution become
and are part of the institution
itself"
The court reaches the conclusion
that the property is being condemned
for a public use and that it may be
condemned without violating any zon-
ing regulation.
I'VE are of opinion" concludes the
court, that the mere act OF appro-
priating the money by Congress for
the purpose specified in the act is
sufficient to authorize the exercise of
the power of eminent domain by the
Commissioners to carry out the pur-
pose of the act"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
ANTHONY TO RETIRE.
Will Not Seek Reelection if He
Survives Present Illness.

Representative Daniel Il. Anthony
of the first Kansas district does not
intend to ask for election again
should he survive his present serious
illness, it was learned here today.
Mr. Anthony. who is ranking. Repub-
lican member of the House appropri-
atoms committee. is spending the
Winter at Tucson, AriZ., on the order
Of his physicians. WoN+ received
here is to the effect the. ras health Ii
not improving. n
Several candidates. to succeed Mr..
Anthony have developed. The first to
announce is Ewing Herbert. publisher
Of the World at Hiawatha. Wilbur
Hawk of Atchison also is candidate.
while Topeka may have two cand-
dates, Fred Voiland and j. ID. NJ
Hamilton. member Of the Legislature
and prominent candidate for speaker
OF the House.
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over the letterhead and the signature
of letter written in Russian, the
commandant said the letter inclosed
$100 and would Chevalier please sign
. receipt. The only clue to the donor
was a line which Chevalier glimpsed
between the warden's pudgy fingers
American Red Cross"
(Mr. Chevalier's experiences in Solo
vetzky Prison will be recounted in to-
molrow's dispatch.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
QUAKE CITIES DIG
OUT FROM RUINS
Damage Estimates in Mexi-
cali and Calexico DWindIe to
Less Than 100000.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CALEXICO, Calf, January 3.-The
rap of workmen's hammers supplant-
ed the ominous rumble Of earthquakes
today as Calexico and its sister city,
Mexicall, across the international
boundary in Lower California, began
to repair damages aggregating almost
| 81 900, 900 wrought by temblOrs which
| started early New Year day and con
| tinued intermittently until yesterday.
Rehabilitation started yesterday as
workmen mingled with the crowds Of
| sightseers who poured into the shaken
cities from other points of the i'm
| perial valley and as far away as Los
| Angeles. Removal of debris from the
| streets was the first step taken.
| Work will begin in earnest tomor.
row with the arrival of the California
| housing commissioner. who will make
| the first official survey. of damage and
decree which buildings are to be
| condemned.
Damage Figures Vary.
There is some variance in the un-
official estimates of the damage. The
| Calexico Chamber of Commerce placed
| it at s250,000, while Y. D. Agnew.
| police commissioner and building con-
tractor. estimated $1,000 loss from
| the quake, not including fire losses.
| This, with minor damages not report
| ed, is expected to bring the total TO
nearly a million dollars.
Minor quakes, which came at irreg-
ular intervals yesterday, did not di-
rectly increase the property loss, al
| though one of them may have been
responsible for fires in Mexicali which
destroyed buildings valued at SIS. 900.
A short time later a fire threatened
a Calexico hotel when stove tipped
over. Volunteers Joined the firemen
in extinguishing the flames, while
guests, already clothed to flee any
major shake. hurried out of the build
ing.
Youth Held As LOoter.
Civilian guards and police in Calex.
| leo and the military in Mexicali have
been effective in preventing footing.
\ The lone case reported was q Mexican
/ youth who was arrested as he at
| tempted to take a few bottles of per-
fume. Mexicali was put under mar
| tial law.
The remarkable feature of the tre-
/ mors. according TO persons who have
studied earthquakes and who have
hurried to the scene, has BEEN that
despite crumbling walls and topplei
chimneys and the fact that the first
and most severe shocks came during
| the height of New Year revelry, there
have been no deaths or serious in
juries.
Reports reaching here today that
Black Butte, a volcano south of the
border, was active, as was the case
during the earthquake here in 1915,
could not be verified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
Conviction Is Upheld.

PHILADELPHIA, January CP).-
The Supreme Court today sustained
the conviction of John A. Bell. Allie
gheny County banker, on charges of
embezzling and misapplying more
than 100000 of the funds of the
Carnegie Trust Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03

Archibal Hattemore, who won fame
recently when his painting done on a
picce Of calico apron was bought by
an art committee in London, is to
continue his studies at the Bethnal
Green Workingmen's Institute OF
England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
REVEALS HORRORS
OF SOVIET PRISONS
Chevalier Relates Expe-
rienceS in 22 Russian lnsti-
tutions, Including SoIovetzky.

The inside story Of 22 SoUiet Russian
prisons through which he haS been
shna'ed IN ne 'ost Tree years RS 6e ail,
american born American erer 10 be i'm
priSoned at terrible S0loUetshp Island
and 9ciE be Yerounted In a series Of dtS-
patches. Of ackich this is the first
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Lands TO HEAR
ACCUSED PLAYERS
NEXT WEDNESDAY

CONTINUED from First PageD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
The Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalsm in China

tionary labor was not entirely with
out effect.
TT was through little efforts like
4 this here and there throughout
China that the Chinese labor move
ment was built. Those students who
neglected their studies more or less,
devoted their time to this kind of
work like martyrs, under the sneer-
ing and contemptuous criticism and
prosecution of their conservative tea
cheers and sober" fellow students.
Little did they realize that within a
decades time they could witness the
almost unbelievable Transformation
of their humble efforts into a gigan-
tic Labor movement. OF course
their enemies had very graciously
prepared the ground for them. For
eign Imperialism and militarism had
impoverished the workers to such an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
Working Women and May Day

economically weakest--ths women
will be hardest hit in the coming
wage-slashing campaign.
THE labor bureaucracy, allied with
1 the capitalists will blur class
lines. They will as in the past, plead
charity from the capitalists and at
tempt to keep the workers from
fighting for their demands.
Even now the official American
labor leaders are preparing to sell
out the workers to the bosses. They
are throwing out from the trade
unions the militant workers who ex-
pose their DISQUALIFICATION poll
cies.
TO the millions Of unorganized
women, women bending under the
weight of the speed-up system, TO
the millions Of housewives, living a
life of privation, Shaving long hours
at domestic work.. this May Day is
but another day of monotonous toll.
Only the warm hand of conlrade-
ship can lift these millions of wonl-
en- out of their detection. This task
belongs to the awakened women.
Women Comradesl Are you ready
to accept this taskl
The eyes Of women from other
countries are upon usl
THE women in China expect our ac-
tive support. What are we doing
to arouse the American working
women to fight against the sending
of marines and battle ships into
China? To fight the efforts of
American imperialists who are at
tempting to crush the struggle Of
the Chinese workers for liberation?
The women of the Soviet Union
are holding up to US the shining ex-
ample Of their liberation.
WOMEN Comradesl On this May
"Day let us pledge ourselves to the
task of working more actively among
the proletarian women.
We must go to the women with
whom we work and get them to join
the Workers (Communist) Party.
We must convince them that The
DAILY WORKER is their friend.
We must mobilize the masses Of
women for the defense of those
workers who were railroaded to pris-
on because they held the fort during
the most trying days in the workers
struggle for a better existence. We
must bring the working women into
the unions.
We must be the pioneers in the
everyday struggles of the working
women. Struggles, that in sub
stance, are in the words Of Conlrade
Clara Zetkin, streamlets, riverlets
swelling into rivers that will even
tually surge into the great ocean Of
proletarian revolution and ultimately
free women together with the entirs
working class from capitalist ex-
ploitation and men and women will
rise to their full stature and live
life free and glorious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

ample Of the courageous, intelligent,
and tactful leaders Of the rising rul-
ing class of China. He represented
one and a half million organized
workers of China at the Brussels
Congress. He is one of the leaders
of the Chinese Seamens' Union which
is the cementing force and directing
spirit of the movement. He also
represented the General Labor I'm
ions and the Canton ongkong strike
Committee. He was very active
leader in the famous Hongkong
strike and I was told that he was
badly hated by the British imperial
lists. From the boundIess confidence
and pride with which he talked of
the Hongkong strike, you can build
up fairly accurate mental picture
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
BY ALFRED KNUDsoN.

MAY Day, the international work.
ava ers holiday, should serve as an
inspiration to the working farmers
of America to fight more energeti-
cally against the capitalists who ex-
plot them. May Day is created for
them as well as the city workers.
Both the farmers and the workers
have the same interests as producers
Of wealth and they have common ex-
ploiters, and must, therefore, solve
their problems together. On May
first they can well demonstrate to-
gether.
WHILE it is true that the city
" workers for various reasons,
must take the leadership in the rev.
dictionary struggles against the cap
italists and their government, no
successful revolution in America is
possible without the support and CO.
operation Of the American working
farmer. The city worker must get
a clearer notion about the signifi-
canoe Of the support the workers on
tho land render him in the win
ming of these struggles Through
Joint demonstrations Of farmers and
workers on May Day the worker will
learn to appreciate the Importance
of the farmers and vice versa.
I WAS at Kief, the Soviet Union, on
May LIST, 1925. Here the farmers
and workers, over 100000 of them
demonstrated together, fully con-
scious Of their solidarity. Children,
workers, students, teachers, journal
lists, red army men, all workers,
marched together, six abreast on
both sides of the street. The parade
lasted eight hours. From Minsk in
the west to Vladivostock on the Pa
cific tens Of millions Of the new and
free Soviet citizens are on the march
on this May day.
These parades are educational
and international and not national
istic, serving immensely to steel the
minds and the nerves Of the farmers
and workers to fight with greater
vigor for their interests. They are
a necessity.
TWo-THIRDS Of the population Of
1 the world are farmers and peas
ants. These millions of land work
ers are being more and more tightly
squeezed by the landowners and
banks and the capitalist govern
ments. Tens Of millions Of, farmers
in the advanced industrial countries
in Europe and America are rapidly
losing their land and groaning un-
der a heavy burden Of taxation and
hundreds of millions of peasants in
the. colonial and senni-colonial coul5-
tries Of the East, Near East, Africa.
Mexico and South America are in
a condition Of abject slavery, ground
to dust under the blody and rapa-
cious heel of capitalist Imperialism.
1t is beginning to dawn on these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
DIV MARGARET GOWN.

W
EFAY Day! The Workers Interna-
AVA tional Holiday!
May Day, the day on which the
workers moro than ever, bare the
sham of democracy for all" The
day on which the workers demon
strate that they are the producers
of the worlds wealth. The res
olute tramping feet Of the great army
Of workers is a defiance to the rule
Of the employing class. 1t is day
when the class note vibrates thru
the universe.
WHAT message does this May Day
" bring to the working women?
To the awakened working women
in the Soviet Union May Day SYM
bolizes the fact that they are an in
tegral part of the world revolution
airy movement for the emancipation
of the oppressed in every country
The women in the Soviet Union, to-
gether with the whole working class,
have loosened their bonds. The old
traditions binding women have been
shattered and they stand on an equal
social and economic level with the en-
tire working class of the Soviet
Union that is shaping the country in
the interests of the workers. Won
en- in Russia engaged actively in the
fight for a Workers government
and now they share in the victories
TO the awakening women in China
( this May Day brings hope and in
spiration to fight more actively
against the yoke Of imperialism
which bears down more and more
heavily on the backs of the doubly
enslaved women.
On this May Day what do working
women in the United States look for
ward to?
The capitalist press and capital.
list agencies are carrying on cam
paign of propaganda to the effect
that workers in this country are
growing rich, that the hours of labor
are short. Foreign commissions are
coming to this country to find out
the reasons for this prosperity" OF
the American workers.
NOT only the church, school, press
~ and the movies-a powerful in.
fluence in the hands of the employ
ing class to lash the minds Of the
workers7-but also the labor bureau
cracy helps to disseminate this pro.
paganda.
/ WHAT is the real situation of the
T" army of women in American in.
dustries?
/ Taking 100 as the index number
for the cost Of living and 100 fol-
women's wages in 1914, we find that
for the last quarter of 1925 the cost
of living is Ill and women's wages
are 1913. The average working week
for women is Sd hours and more.
The year 1926 did not bring i'm
proved conditions.
The unslilled, the socially and