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The Washington times., 1927-05-17
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BY International News Service
OSSINING, N. Y, May IT,
Mrs. Ruth Snyder did not rest
well during her first night in
Sing Sing prisons death house.
She was nervous and sleepless
and the nearness Of the fatal
electric chair depressed her.
Four Bare Walls Now
Mrs. Snyder has cried a good
deal since she entered the grim
portals of the prison at noon yes
terday.. Her nerves have been on
edge. Her plain bare cell is 10
feet by IL. It contains a cot and
shelf to write upon and it is
lighted by an electric light hang
ing outside in the corridor.
Sobbed to Leave Mouse
She cried when she left Queens
County Jail. chiefly because she
had to leave her pet cell mouse.
Unlike most women, Mrs. Snyder
rad no fear of the tiny rodent. In
stead she petted the little creature,
feeding it bits of food from her own
meals.
Gray Shows Fortitude
Gray has borne up with more
fortitude than was expected of him,
once he became an inmate Of ''mIlr,
derers, row." Fourteen other con.
demned men are in the wing which
contains Gray's cell. His neighbor
in the cell next Is Charles ]. Doran,
of Albany, N. Y, who Is under
sentence to die in the electric chair
In the week of June Is for murder.
But Doran win not actually die
at that time, for his execution will
be delayed by an appeal, just as
the execution Of Mrs. Snyder and
Gray, one week later. probably will
be delayed for the same reason.
Put As Far Apart as Possible
Gray and Mrs. Snyder, who are
under sentence to die in the week
of June 20 for the murder Of the
woman's husband, Albert, will not
see each other in prison.
Warden Laws took care to put
the two prisoners as far apart as
possible.
There can be no communication
between them, even IL they wished
to communicate with each other.
Mrs. Snyder has taken \ initial
steps to embrace the Catholic faith.
Hitherto she has not been a MEM
Der Of any church nor has she be-
heved in religion.
It was reported that Mrs. Snyder
collapsed after being placed in her.
cell and was unconscious for q
time. but the prison officials refused
to confirm this report.
The Washington times., 1927-05-17
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OF FLIGHT
FEARED
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mitchell FIELD, New
York, May 1.-THE Bellanca
plane Columbia may be def
nite1y out Of the race to Paris
because of new discussion
which rose to alarming proper
tions today.
g. w. Mutt, attorney for
Lloyd Bertaud, who with
Clarence w. Chamberlain was
to fly the Bellanca plane in
the epochal air race, has adj
vised his client not to sign the
new contract offered by
Charles A. Levine, president
of the Columbia Aircraft Cor
poration. The document was
expected to adjust all former
difficulties.
Sees Trick in Contract
Today 1t appeared likely that
court action. would be resorted to
to straighten out the differences
between thu, hackers and the
fliers. m
Because of what he calls trick
clause inserted in the, flight con-
tract, Mutt is said to be ready to
seek damages from Levine and was
reported ready to ask an injunc-
Continued on Page 2. Column ~
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Florida House Passes
Anti-EyOIutiOn Measure

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, MAY IT,
BY . vote Of 81 to "a, the FLORIDA
house Of Representatives today
passed an anti-evolution bill after
attaching to 1t an amendmen pro-
hibiting the teaching OF evolution
or kindred theories .'as fact.
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Sees Trick in Contract
ADVERTISEMENT
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Slightly in excess Of one fare for
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service. Coaches. drawing room sleep.
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Tickets on sale May 21st., June 4th and
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widow, Dorothy Macltaye, to the
young screen hero's rooms.
Asked how many times Miss
MaclSaye had visited aKelly's apart.
ment, Jungle" said that before
she left for Ssn Francisco for q
Continued on RASs .. Column 50
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Like the Shepherd of old, DR..
Jason Noble Pierce, the Presi.
dent s pastor, and defendant i'll
q $4,000 libel and defamation
suit, will stand watch over his
flock and II shall answer
when I am reproved.'' N
In substance, this is DR..
Pierce's reply to the SUD filed
Continued on Page 2, Column II
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DOROTHY MACK YE


X Los ANGELES, May 17More testimony about pajama
breakfast parties and gin fixes in the apartment Of
Paul Kelly promised today at the film actors trial forhe
r.urder of Ray RAYMOND, musical comedy star
Ssssrds itod Of Visits d ss.s
The Washington times., 1927-05-17

IL you can earn living you can az
ford an autOmohiIe-,the Used Cars
listed for sale IN The Times and Herald
Of purchase.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
Big Four" SwindIe 40 Million
The TWO BILLION DOLLAR INSURANCE
FRAUD EXPOSE STARTS TODAY
Daily Worker Bares Cold Facts of big Four"
Fraud Hidden Twenty Years

Twenty years ago the country was startled by the
now famous Armstrong Insurance Investigation The IN
vestgatOn committee consisted Of eleven members headed
by Charles Evans Hughes The life insurance business
was rotten with graft and corruption But the most cor
rupt and odorous branch of the business what is
known as industrial or weekly payment life insurance
There are 40 million workers in the United States who
covered by this form Of petty larceny insurance
The day before the Industrial companies to
for investigation it moved that the committee adjourn to
draft its report Industrial weekly payment
never Investigated.
Ihe Big Four industrial life companies and
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company the Prudential
Life Insurance Company the John Hancock Mutual Life nsu
Company and the Colonial Life Company These
companies still running rampant We know that capac
looters do not reform of their free will.
After the hulabaoo died the cleared this
what happened Charles Hughes the the
committee made counsel for the Equitable Life Insurance
Company.
James McKeen the assistant counsel afterwards
general counsel for the Company with
salary of $4,000 per year for life.
Senator William j. Tuly Of the committee made solicitor
(whatever that may be Metropolitan Insurance
Company salary of $4,000 for life It twenty years
the notorious investigation Tuly
raised 100000 This faithful "Bg
Four has nov drawn upwards of half million dollars for his loyal
work the smnite The Metropolitan upual"
Of the We wonder how this S00OO should be dtd
mutual" policyholders.
Assembyman Robert Lynn Cox also member of the committee
made counsel general the Association
Presidents novel lobbying device Mr. Cox
Apparently $4,000 the union scale
Twenty long time, much
Bridge much working of
big FOurthe time ripe for investigation
these companies. Demand it!
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
SACCO AND VANzETTL HEADS HIGH, SPIRIT UNBROKEN BY
SEVEN YEARS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TORTURE, meet
THE DEATH SENTENCE WITH WORDS OF FIRE THAT MAKE
"A GLORIOUS PACE IN HISTORY OF THE WORLDS WORKERS
I hey Shall Not Die!
They Shall Be Freed!

Wall Street Hggnson
ee textile aons the shipping interests and the decaden vicious Back
Bay world Saturday
deva torture dned the the electric chair which Judge
Iher symbol OF the
brutality and arrogance of American plutocracy
zet
blow blow tho
manaced capitalism
its agents
spoke quietly the world heard Thru
the assembled
Vant
magnied billion by gigantic the struggle
hundreds millions all
Chinese the indictment
above the battle All continent echong and
pred words
heard by the workers and the workers answered
the Soviet Union
further appeal bring the Russian their assistance From
sody backed
the labor
The Workers of the United States behind the workers other
of the victims American justice
battle the fight freedom
shall this struggle The labor
challenged bodies of Sacco
Vanze bakned chard lightning hned for murder the
labor offering the altar of Wall Street
There sacrifices Vanzet shall not die
solid front of American labor free these workers.
the world capitalism that this American labor fights
them to the ranks of the working class-W. F. D.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
Conduct a
Bloody Riot On
Paterson Streets

PATERSON, N. j., April 10.-Sev-
eral busloads of fascist male and fe-
male hooligans, armed with loaded
canes, whips and clubs arrived here
this afternoon and started a melee
outside the Alexander Hamilton Ho-
tel. One man was stabbed during the
disorder and a number beaten. The
local police made six arrests.
The fascists, dressed in black shirts
and the other grotesque regalia Of
their kind, drove up in busses and a
number Of them were shouting fascist
slogans in Italian. An Italian work
ing man on the street replied to a
remark made to him by one Of the
occupants Of bus, whereupon num-
Der Of other hoodlums piled out and
began beating him with their weapons.
Workers Storm Fascists.
A group of workers who were on
the street to watch the detested black
guards who were scheduled to hold
some sort of meeting in the pluto
Continued on Page Tvo)
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

Vanzetti-Yes. What l say is that
| am innocent, not only of the Brain
tree case, but also of the Bridgewater
crime. That l am not only innocent
of these two crimes, but in all my life
have never stole and / have never
killed and l have never spilled blood.
That is what want TO say. And it
is not all. Not only am l innocent
of these two crimes, not only in all
my life l liave never stole, never
killed. never spilled blood, but / have
struggled all my life, since l began
to reason, to eliminate crime from the
earth.
Everybody that knows these two
arms knows very well that | did not
need to go in between the street and
kill man to take the money. l can
live with my two arms and live well.
But besides that, ! can live even with
out work with my arm for other
people. I have plenty of chances to
live independently and to live what
the world conceives to be a higher life
than not to gain our bread with the
sweat of our brow.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

and therefore cannot make their
premium payments quarterly or even
monthly. So the insurance COM
panies argue. This type of petty
larceny insurance is sold to that un-
fortunate portion Of the public which
buys many of it's necessities on what
is sometimes humorously called the
"easy"-payment plan.
The four companies referred to
above are namely, the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company, the
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the Colonial Life IN
surance Company. For purposes Of
easy Identification we propose to re-
fer to this valiant little band as the
big Four"
The rich have their tradcspeople
Continued on Page Tico)
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
U. S. S. R. RECALLS
AMBASSADOR AT
NO WAR
Nationalist
Rush Troops North
RULLETIN.

bOLLE IN.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Offi-
cials in the war department said here
today that if the northern Chinese
troops fail to hold their own, U. S.
regular army divisions will be moved
to China on privately owned mer-
chant ships now standing by for that
service. There are no more marines
not occupied elsewhere, There are
two divisions Of the regular army in
the Philippines.
MOSCOW, April 10.-The Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics virtually
broke off diplomatic relations with the
Peking government last night and re-
called its entire embassy staff at Pek-
ing. Despite the unparalleled provo
cation Of the raid on the Soviet COM
pound, the Soviet government will
take no military action.
"Any imperialist government" says
the note of protest delivered to Chang
Yen-si, Peking charge d'affaires, here,
would resort to cruel reprisals, but
the Soviet government, while possess
ing the technical means for repressive
measures, nevertheless declares it de-
finitely rejects such STEP"
Asks Release of Officials.
The note, signed by Max Litvinoff,
assistant commissar for foreign af-
fairs, makes the following demands
without fixing any time limit or MAX
ing any threats against the Peking
government:
"1.---Inmediats withdrawal Of Pelx-
ing troops who are occupying the
buildings in the Soviet Embassy COM
pound.
"2.-Release of all Soviet officials
arrested in the raid.
"3.-Immediate return of all docu-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

Above are the official figures for
1925 recently published by the New
York State Department of Insurance.
They are true to a varying extent for
the past twenty years. There are no
bad years in the life insurance busi-
ness. The even death rate takes care
of that.
Life insurance may be divided into
two groups. These groups are tech
nically known as industrial" and
Ordinary" life insurance. "Ordin-
airy" insurance premium payments
are paid weekly at the home of the
insured to the company's collecting
agent. .,........
Industrial" life insurance is so
called because it was designed for the
industrial classes--people who lack
the nice conveniences of the capital
list and middle class, banking facili-
ties for instance, and money to hank,
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
By CHARLES YALE HARRISON.
WORKERS TeeneElTs

Every week six million workers in the sovereign state
of New York pay two millions of dollars in premiums what
is called industrial" life insurance commonly known
weekly payment life insurance When the year has
rolled around they have paid One Hundred Million Dollars
into the Golfers of the four gigantic insurance companies
which specialize in the sale of this form of life insurance
At the end of the year this army of workers
have received in return for this premium payment
only twentytw million dollars in death claims losses etc.
etc Or in simpler terms the industrial life insurer only
ceves in value about % cents for every hardeaned dollar
he spends on his familys life insurance
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
PLAN VANzETTI,
SACCO PROTEST
NATIONAL SCALE
New York Workers to
Strike for One Hour

The first mass demonstration in
the renewed campaign to free Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from
death in the electric chair will be held
this Saturday afternoon at o'clock
in Union Square.
Plans are now also under way for
one-hour work stoppages in all the
trades of the city.
The Saturday open-air demonstra-
ton is planned as a preliminary to
hundreds of similar meetings in every
large city of the United States.
Defense Plans.
DEDHAM, Mass, April 1O.-Fol-
lowing Judge Webster Thayer's death
sentence yesterday of Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defense
forces were today considering all pos
sible resources to save them.
Thus far these two Italian work
ers, framed on charge Of payroll
robbery and murder as a sure method
Of disposing Of them as radicals, have
been kept from death by the unceas-
ing agitation on their behalf by mill
lions of workers throughout the
world for over six years.
Never did a modem Pontius Plate
listen TO such contemptuous, scar
ing, and loftily ironic speech as that
which Bartholomeo Vanzetti, "unlet-
tered" Italian immigrant laborer, ad-
dressed to the marble-f faced, fright
ened little judge who sentenced him
and Sacco to die.
Vanzetti did not dwell long on his
innocence. That has too long been
taken for granted by millions Of
workers throughout the world; by
humanitarians who have been re-
volted by the fragrant injustice and
class persecution which the trial dis
played; and by numerous distin-
guished and disinterested lawyers.
Fought Official Crime.
He said, simply, that he never COM
mitted a crime in his life. He has
struggled ever to eliminate crime
from the earth--not merely the
crimes "that the official law and the
official moral condemns, but also the
Continued on Page f1oo)
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
Could Have Escaped.

My father in Italy is in a good con-
dition. / could have come back in
italy and he would have welcomed me
every time with open arms. Even if
I come back there with not cent in
my pocket, my father could have give
me position not to work but to make
business, or to oversee upon the land
that he owns. He has wrote me many
letters in that sense, and other we'll
to-do relatives have wrote me many
letters in that sense that | can pro-
duce.
Well, it may be boast. My father
and my uncle can boast themselves
and say things that people may not be
compelled to believe. People may say
they may be poor when they are to
consider to give me a position every
time that want to settle down and
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
SaccO-V -Vanzetti Protest
Demonstration at Union
Square, This Saturday

A Sacco-Vanzetti protest demon
stration will be held Saturday,
April 18th, one p. m. at Union
Square. The list of speakers will
be announced later.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

lad John Thompson of Phoenix,
III Arizona the good fortune to live
few hundred years ago he would
not only become famous suddenly but
he would also have an opportunity of
becoming fabulously wealthy. The lad
actually set a lake on fire. What a
splendid opportunity to pose as a
miracle worker, even as god? This
Continued on Page Taco)
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW ssTANDs
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
Introduce Measure To
Compel United States
Open the Vanzetti Files

BOSTON. Mass. April 10.-The
letter written by Congressman
Emanuel Celler, of New York, in
which he plans to introduce a mes-
sure at the next session of con-
gress to compel the U. s. attorney
general to open his files on the
Sacco-Vanzetti case to the Mass
achusetts courts, was received to-
day.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11
Arrest I PiCketS
At KuIQCk'S Shop;
Two Held for Trial

Seven workers were arrested yes
terday morning when picketing Kul-
ock's shop, Eldridge and Canal
streets.
When brot to the first district
magistrates court, five were released
with suspended sentences, the other
two being held in $500 bail for trial
Friday, April is, being charged with
disorderly conduct. They are Rose
Nevin and Amilia Stiska. Isaac
Shorr Of the International Labor De-
fense appeared as attorney.
The strike at Kulock's is a protest
against Beckermanism in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Of Amer
lea.
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

rHE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION or THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
The daily worker., 1927-04-11

DEDH Mass April lOa and vanz who were sentenced to death by Judge web
factors mobNd vamttrs speech follows:
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
FINAL COOKING
SCHOOL LESSON
THIS AFTERNOON

AS the final lesson in the free
cooking school which the Arizona
Edison company has been conducting
with Miss Marguerite Ovens as the
lecturer and demonstrator, there will
be a complete menu discussed this
afternoon starting at 3 o'clock in the
rooms Of the Arizona Edison company
The lesson is open to all women OF
Douglas and those who take ad-
vantage OF it by attending will also
have a chance to make a guess that
may get a gas range that otherwise
would cost $3.50, free of charge.
The course has consisted OF five
lectures, this afternoons lecture MAX
ing the sixth and final. Those who
have attended have been enthusi-
astic about the work and have de-
clared that Miss Ovens has made
it well worth their time to attend.
The recipes are developed and the
practical value of the recipe tested
by actually using it in cooking the
food on the gas range while the
ladies watched the work Then, as
a final and happy feature OF the
demonstration, the ladies have been
permitted to eat a portion OF the
article prepared and thus to know
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
GOOD YEAR COMING,
&. ONE GOING BROUGHT
NEW. TRADE TOTALS

When the present year becomes
history, it will show that Douglas
business firms are out upon higher
levels than they occupied at the
opening of the year, in the opinion
of John Mohr, wholesale grocer OF
the city. Mohr says that business
has been good all. year with him
and that it has been better tnan
it was the previous year. He does
not yet know the exact percentages,
but he says there has been a healthy
growth and that the indicator of
business in his field still points up.
ward.
Conditions generally ever our state
have been good,' said Mohr. my
business has shared in the general
effects of an era OF prosperity and
7 shall close the year with a sa5is-
factory gain over the total OF the
previous year. The future looks
promising. Handling the necessaries
of life, we should profit by generally
satisfactory business conditions be-
cause of being prosperous they buy
more freely in all lines and especially
in the comforts of life. / forecast
another year of good business Every
thing suggests that OUTLOOK The
handsome returns to our stocKmen,
the generally active trend OF the
tmetal market and the other factors
that enter into the business life OF
this part of the southwest all are so
favorable that we shall enter the
new year confident OF setting new
records all along the lines in business.
What we do will be merely what
every other business in this section
will do because business is going
to be good"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
ARIZONA CHAPTER
ELECTS CLARK AS
ITS. NEW GOVERNOR

At the meeting OF the Arizona
chapter OF the American Mining
Congress held in Phoenix on last
Monday, Harry A. Clark, of Bisbee
general manager of the Calumet and
Arizona Mining company, was selected
governor of the chapter, succeeding
F. H. McLennon, OF Miami head OF
the Miami Copper company, president
during the past year. Other officers
chosen by the chapter were, G. A
Smith, Hayden, manager OF the
Nevada Consolidated Copper COM
pany, first vice governor; Thomas H.
O'Brien Miami, general manager OF
the Inspiration Copper company
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
CHILD ISHIT
BY CAR; DRIVER
MAKES REPORT

Marcelino Sandoval, small son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Alberto Sandoval, OF
231 E avenue, was struck by a car
driven by Manuel Enriquez on G
avenue between Seventh and Eighth
streets late Thursday afternoon and
was seriously injured. The lad re-
ceived a broken arm and cuts oil
the head with possible Internal in
juries.
According to reports at the police
station Enrique, who is Mexican
federal official stationed in Aqua
Prieta, picked the injured child from
the street. rushed him to a hospital
and reported the accident 1t was
understood yesterday that the ques-
ton OF blame for the accident was
not settled and that il the child
recovered, which is probable no action
would be taken against the driver
who is said to have volunteered to
pay the expenses of the childs care
and medical attention.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
RED CROSS OUT
TO RAISE S45O
FOR ROLL CALI

At the meeting yesterday OF the
Douglas chapter of the American
Red Cross, definite steps were taken
to complete the work of the annual
roll call subscription next week. This
posed of d. G. O'Neil and H. W.
Williams, the purpose OF the COM
mittee being to secure the amount
necessary to put Douglas in the class
of 1000 memberships by having the
total amount gathered to be $1,000
There yet remains something more
than $400 to be secured 1t will be
the purpose OF the committee to see
that Douglas makes the record set
for it if the canvass has to be carried
to the point OF house to house.
The chapter also took up the
problem of having used clothing and
bedding gathered for use among the
worthy poor and publicity for this
work was assigned to Mrs. A. W..
Cotton, who will make her plans
for securing the desired results. Mrs
E. I. Agney will have charge Of
directing the cars collecting the
articles.
One OF the topics under considera-
tion was that OF doing away with
the charity which has had charge
of feeding the itinerants who come
SO frequently with a hard luck story
as they travel through the city.
There was a sentiment that a good
percentage of that work is an I'M
position on the meritorious cases Of
unfortunate people and that there
should be a very positive curb put
upon it if not the actual abolition
of the practice