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The Washington times., 1928-04-17
SPECIAL PRIZES OFFERED IN
TIMES-ZAIN ATTEST

CHAS. SCHWARTZ AND
SON offer q handsome ladies'
compact or a ROnsOn cigar.
cite lighter winners chOice),
for the hest ad ON their store
during End and 3rd weeks
(c0mbined.)
CARRY ICE CREAM co.
will give a gallon of ice cream
for each of the five best ads
submitted on their product.
exclusive Of the first five win
ners selected by The Times.
each week.
SIMPLEX PISTON RING
co. offers to install simplex
piston rings i'm any 4 or 8
cylinder auto motor for the
writer Of the best ad submitted
on their firm during entire nd
test.
CHAMBERS F1RELESS
GAS RANGE CO. offer a credit
of 500 on their Model 374l
Range to the writer ut the
hest ad on their product DUR
ing the remainder Of the cam.
paign.
co. win give a gallon Of their
naint or varnish products and
n brush, to the first winner:
and a quart and brush TO each
of the next four winners every
week.
offer a credit of 500 on a new
Nash car for the hest ad on
this make .Of auto or their
firm each week of canpAign--
only one prize tnon-transfer.
able to a winner. Also. they
will give a used car for best
ad on FUSED cars sent in dur.
ing entire campaign-if win
ner desires. value Of this car
can be applied Oh any new or
used car in stock.
STANLEY CRANDALL THE
ATERS offer a twO-party pass
for the ten best ads each week
of ad test.
NATIONAL ELECTRICAL.
SUPPLY CO. offer q credit Of
SIS on retail price Of a Gen.
eral Electric refrigerator for
the best ad each week for re-
nlainder of campaign.
The Washington times., 1928-04-17
1ES erdl0
@ClnSSllg FED 0dS
RkTEs Per LINE PER DAY

these rates ere Sor consecutive m
sertIons for updlsplay twantI ads
All ads are restricted 10 their
proper classification and to the
reg1laF Times ana Herald style u
tyre.
ads must be made before the second
insertion. No allowance VIII be
made for more than ane aneOsFected
Ads ordneed for more than one
day and stOppea before that time
will Ne CHARGED for the actual Mufn-
her 81 fIlleO the M appeared ehafgs
tng the rats earned.
Situation wanted and elaffe0yant
ads accented On eaah basis only
Count six average ,WOrde to the
line. An average word has az let-
ContracS rates furuinhsd On ap-
TIE washington Times ana Herald
a = member o. the Association Of
NewopaDeR Classified Advertising
Managefa. which includes leading
mewsnmnsPD thEough0ut TIE country
and has 4OR one Of tte alma the
elimination or fraudulent and mis-
leading classified advertising. The
WaehEmgf0m Times ana Herald 40
well 40 every other member Of the
asg0ciatlom, ondeav0FD to print emily
truthful classified advertisements
ana viii appreciate having liz ~.
fentlOn called to any advertisement
not con9OFmlne TO the highest stnnd-
ards Of honesty.
The Washington times., 1928-04-17
Library Association
To Hear Two Speakers

The District of Columbia Library
Association will hold its April meet
ing tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in
the National Museum Auditorium,
Tenth and b Streets Northwest. The
meeting will be addressed by DIR.
Cloyd II. Marvin. of George Wash
ington University, and Joseph l..
Wheeler, of Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1928-04-17
Bids and Proposals

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.. office of the
Supervising Architect, Masnlngton, p y;
win is received at this office until 9 p. m,
May 2, 1923, and then opened, for furnish
ina and installing two air exhausting sys-
TENS in rooms Az, AID and 421 at the u.
8. Treasury Department, washington. ID. O.;
in accordance with the specification and
drawing Drawing and specification may
be obtained from the supervising architect,
Treasury Department, washington, u. z.
JAS. A. WETMORE, Acting Supervising
Architect
The Washington times., 1928-04-17

PLUMBING and heating: reasonable prlcees
work guar. Fred G.. Frost. All. S2lq~s
, 1928-07-02
COLONIAL COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Continued from 18t page J

The Chairman: If you will notice under
General Provision you will see The hair
man read the following:
The amounts herein specified COR
salaries are the maximum amounts that
may be- paid out for the positions desig-
mated. The Governor may use his dis
erection within the amounts specified"
and said: All the Council has to do is to
reject such a provision. Don't put any
provisOs in the law.
3rd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (ARderSen) Mr.. Chairman. from
the beginning this Council tried to fix sa-
laries by law. 1t was not the intention to
give big salaries 10 employees unless that
employee is giving useful service. When
the Code was under discussion it was said
the one Clerk would be able to DO the
work in both municipalities I cannot see
why the Council is not paying heed to
that today.
End Member for Christiansted Town
(Chabert): Mr.. Chairman, you can com
ply with the Code ii you have the coop
GRAFTON of ST. Thomas they must agree to
pay half of the Clerks salary. When the
Code was under discussion it was the in
tention to have one clerk do all the work
, 1928-07-02
MERRY WIDOW"

Jul IL HAS III OCI1 ~ @A CAJ ''AN- 49,,
change it you must get S., Thomas to
agree to pay half Of the Clerks salary.
The Chairman: 1t is not left with St.
Thomas it is left with the Judge Of the
District Court.
4th Member for Christiansted Country
District (PeRtbeBy): Mr. Chairman, This
increase is so small we should not bubble
over it. | believe Jhe salaries OF the other
employees who are under paid should be
increased also.
Bird Member for Frederiksted Country
District Andersen. asked PERMISSION
to withdraw his amendment.
The Council gave its consent the amenu
ment was Withdrawn.
Bird Member fer GhrjstiaNsted Town
(Fa5j0) Mr.. Chairman, [ do nos see that
the District Court is 10 session often II
we pass the amendment we would be
living mo to the Law. Let st. Thomas
pay half Of the Clerks salary
list Member TO- Cbrjsrlao5gad Country
District (AIeraHder,: Mr. Chairman,
St.Thom4s passed a similar '.~ lhat sh.y
would pay hall The salary b. taa Clerk
4th Appointed Memoir lHo)t ".
Ske0cd): Mr.. Chairman, IS n p'as.5 i1r
one clerk TO do the work al b,tl manlc,
palities?
3rd Member for Fradesih5 ed Country
District 4 RderSeH): Yes
2nd Member Tor trederiksted Town
(BrOaU): Mr.. Chairman, | don't DeIleValt
is possible for one clerk t. do the work
of both municipalities, / voted that the sa-
larry of the Judge remain III the budget
because the Code provides for it II / am
to be consistent in one Ila ant [ must BE-
in another. 1 recommend that me Clerks
13. AaNt LN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Reaction Fails to Halt Chinese Peasant Movement

month on loans and to recognize the
villages self-government on an
elective basis. The militarists have
to be destroyed to permit the peas
ants to continue their agricultural
activities unmolested. The govern
ment found that before it could helm
the peasants to improve their prim-
tive agricultural methods, to build
up the irrigation system-so i'm
portant for Chinese agriculture
and give the peasants cheap credit,
China would have to be ridded of
the imperialists who controlled the
basic industries and railroads, who
had enslaved the country with fl
nancial obligations which meant that
the Chinese people were continually
paying them tribute. Kuomintang
called on the peasantry to help to
struggle against the militarists and
imperialists. This call was enthusi-
astically hailed by the peasantry.
Millions of peasants organized them
selves in peasant unions, aided the
Kuomintang troops on the front
lines, bringing them supplies and
struggling against the country-re-
volutionaries in the rear.
(To Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Millions Starve Serfdom Rife, But Sovietism
Spreads

of the gentry. For ages past large
communal lands and great sums of
money have been preserved in the
Chinese villages. These lands and
financial resources are managed by
cliques, who are never elected by the
villages, pass on this common hertz
age of the peasants to their own
descendants. Neither do they ac-
count for their actions to the peas
ant masses, but administer the COM
mon property as if it were their
own. They maintain armed bands
of hooligans, with whose help they
are now virtually masters of the
villages. With outrage and violence
they compel the peasants under
various pretexts-and indeed with
out them-to make them gifts, to
entertain them, and so on.
The third cause is the tyranny of
the usurer. Plundered by the land
owner and the gentry, the Chinese
peasant finds that he never has suf-
ficient products to tide him over
until the next harvest. There is no
cheap credit in the Chinese villages.
The peasant therefore has to make
his loans with the local usurer, but
the interest that he is compelled to
pay on them is stupendous even for
this Asiatic country. Fifty per cent
interest on the loan is considered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

normal, but in certain localities il
is as high as 100 per cent and zoe
per cent, especially if the loan was
made in seed. During the bad years
Chinese peasants are frequently
compelled to sell their wives or chill
dren to the usurers to save them
selves from starvation.
Millions Starve.
The incessant warfare that be-
gan between the militarists after
the 1911 Revolution, is running the
whole country and completely under
mining agriculture. The militarists
requisition the peasants grain and
force them to enter the army and
act as beasts of burden for their
officers and masters. The soldiers
pillage the village and rape the wo-
men. But when some catastrophe
(such as flood or draught) is added
to the exploitation and plumber OF
the militarists the situation becomes
so critical that millions of peasants
are doomed to hunger and death
At the present moment there are
100000 peasants starving in the
Shantung province alone.
When the Kuomintang govern
ment arose it promised the peasants
to lower rents by 25 per cent, to
prohibit usurers from charging
more than 2 per cent interest per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Rumania FasCists Torture

Translated from "Inainte," Ra-
manidn Workers and Peasants Bloc
Newspaper
rOMRADE Vasile Dodan, a shoe
v worker was freed the first week
of October from the Jail of Doftana.
Arrested in December, 1924 by the
"siguaranta" of Bucharest, he was
subjected to all known tortures, tried
by military judges and sentenced in
June, 1925 to years in Jail for
Communist propaganda. He served
his term in the jails of Jilava, We
carest, Galati and Doftana. He tells
Us of terrible conditions; disgusting
meals, airless rooms, without heat or
light, dirty, and damp. He tells of
savage punishment, fettered, and
solitary confinement, beatings; not
permitted to read books, news
papers; refused visitors.
II came out very sick man."
says Dodan, but all I have suffered,
far from frightened me, on the con-
trary it instilled in me the convic-
ton that the ideas for which I
fought were correct and true. Only
against the truth and against force
they take such savage measures. We
are force today and we have on
our side the historical truth. Capt.
talism that sends against US all it's
strength will soon see the formidable
power of the working class rising
against it.
How a Political Prisoner is Given
Freedom.
"Three days before / was freed
they send me in the patrol, from
Doftana to Vacaresti. This time
nothing of significance happened to
me. During the cold nights | had
to sleep on the floor. 1 shivered,
but l was used to it. Another time
when 1 passed thru Vacaresti, not
only did SILVER, but I was beaten
up by the guards. When l came to
Vacaresti l was put in the prisoners
passenger section to sleep. There
were no beds at all, and l lay all
night on the dirty floor. Some kind
of black Soup was given to me. 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Number of British
,Jobless Continues
to Grow Steadily

LONDON, Nov. 27.-The number
of unemployed workers in England
is steadily increasing, despite all the
promises of the Baldwin government
and the DISQUALIFICATION schemes
of Lord Melchett and Ramsay Mac
Donald.
The registered number of unem-
ployed on Nov. 10 was 1,364.40O,
which was 1922 more than on Nov:
~ and 238,146 more than in the
corresponding week Of 1927. If the
unregistered unemployed workers
were to be taken into account, the
figure would probably reach over
100000.
All recent unemployed meetings
led by the Communist Party have
been broken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Many Cruelties, Unknown Outside, Practised
in Prisons

The comrades remained very short
time in the hospital. Besides the
regime in the hospital is not any
different. The food is rotten. They
give us kind of borsch of beans
or potatoes with 'mamaliga' (corn-
meal pudding). We have meat there
three times a week. And what kind
of meat? When it's hard it is all
bone and senew, when the meat is
soft it swarms with worms. Many
times we had to refuse the meat
They feed US mamaliga, but since
the last hunger strike which took
place about three months ago we
won the right to 400 grams of bread
daily and now we have 600 grams.
For this we fought and won. For
drinking we have water directly
from the river. 1t is abominable,
Linen and clothing is not given by
the government. The political pri-
soners sleep in the cell on straw
mats.
"The flooring of the cell is of
asphalt, and the ceiling is of iron.
The window panes are broken and
during the winter it is very cold,
Last winter we made ourselves a
kind of stove, from pieces of iron,
bricks and earth. We got five kilo-
grams of firewood for "a hours.
Much smoke, but no heat. We are
not permitted to read newspapers.
Books, only the ones that the pri-
son authorities approve. They are Sc
afraid of books! The prison guards
are very brutal. The present head
guard is former detective and he
hates the political prisoners. The ex-
court recorder, Popescu swears at us
and sometimes beats us up. Fol
whole days we were punished at Sec
ton "H" cells, with chains on hands
and on feet. These horrible cells are
without beds, lights or heat. Former
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

ly the unfortunates WHO happened to
get the III" were deprived of any
food. The prison authorities tried to
force hard labor upon the political
prisoners. There were many furious
fights. Many of US were punished in
"H" in chains. From the first of
January, 1927 to October, 1928 there
were five hunger strikes in which
all of the hundred comrades partici-
pated. Sometimes the hunger strike
lasted 10 days. Today you do not go
to prison for rest. The fight begun
outside must be carried on inside
with more strength even. They used
to say that the prisons are the work.
ers' university of learning. Maybe
they were, but now they are prole-
tartan battlefields, thru and thru
revolutionary colleges.
Workers and Others in Jails.
''In prison we learn to fight our
class enemy. 1t is too bad that the
fights within are not helped by work
ers from outside. The International
Labor Defense which in Rumania is
illegal would be of great help fight
ing against the terror. The workers
must fight to legalize the Rumanian
l. l.. d. that will lead the fight for
general amnesty and for a political
regime in prisons. what I told YOU
above is what our comrades are suf-
fering at Deftana only. Our COM
rades in prisons must fight desper-
ately. Some of the events are I'M
known outside. We must without
fail fight for the freedom of polit-
ical prisoners, otherwise, slowly the
flower of the Rumanian proletariat
will be extinct"
"Did you see Comrade Bojor?"
Dodan was asked.
eyes, l have seen him, he looks
more like dead body. More bar
barous vengeance could not be
conceived by the bourgeoisie. They
want to drive him crazy. With an
iron will, Comrade Bojor lived
through all these. The proletariat
must not wait till this iron will has
been broken"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Blame Clean Mayor,
Officials for Typhoid;
Demand Resignation

CLEAN, N. Y, Nov. 27 (UP).-
The designations of mayor George
H. Pierce, William MacDuffle, city
health officer, and three water COM
missioners will be demanded here to-
night in a resolution signed by 100
Clean residents which will be pre-
sented to the city council, it was
made known today. The designations
Of the officials will be asked in con-
nection with the typhoid fever cpl
demic which took 20 lives.
The council, it was said, will be
petitioned to appoint committee of
not less than five to investigate con-
ditions in the epidemic, the commit
tee having the power to Subpoena and
administer oaths to witnesses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Gambler, White SLAYER
Is Surprise Witness i'm
Phila. Graft "PrObe"

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. PA
prisoner serving a term for embez-
zltmert was brought before the
special grand jury investigating
Pfiladelphia's widespread gambling
interests as today's surprise witness.
He was Charles F. Toomey. form
er assistant secretary of the Fidelity
Trust Company, who was brought
from the York, Pa, prison. Toomey
is said to have embezzled S342, 900
from the Fidelity Trust Company in
1920 and gambled it away on horse
recing and dice games. which, it is
alleged, had police protection.
It was said by examiners that
Flick Kaelker, ward leader implicated
by D. English Toomy" Gilchrist, as
one of the clique's leaders, and
Joseph Fletcher had gambled with
Toomey. "White Slave" activities
were also indicated by another part
Of today's investigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
By WANG-JO

BLOODY reaction continues una
y bated in China. Telegrsphic COM
munications are received daily re-
porting new executions of Commu-
nists and young Communists. Not
only are Communists and other &C.
tive members of anti-imperialist
movements being butchered, but all
unreliable" workers and peasants,
even those who are suspected OF SYM
pathizing with the labor-peasant
movement, are being tortured and
shot by the infuriated Kuomintang
warlords. But besides these new
exploits" of the White Terror now
rampant throughout China under
the Kuomintang flag, we read daily
of new peasant risings, of the cap
ture of new villages and whole dis
tricts by the peasant partisan de-
tachments.
Of the root-causes that compel the
Chinese peasantry despite the
bloody repressions, to rise over
anew against the National" Kuo-
mintang government, the first is the
exploitation of the landowners. The
vast majority of the Chinese pea
santry have no land of their own
and are forced to rent land from
the owners. Rent is paid in kind
and is as high as 80 per cent of the
harvest, and nowhere is it lower
than so per cent. Besides the claw
full" rent, the landowners extort adj
ditionally acquisitions and gifts,
cheating the peasants when harvests
are being divided, and so on.
The second cause is the tyranny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

was so infected that I could not eat
it. OTIS about four years since have
eaten decent meaD. I had the
occasion to hear insults addressed to
political prisoners.
"The one who was swearing was
The guard captain Of the prison.
Finally the day of freedom had ar
rived. In the evening I was sent to
the courthouse, thence to the central
police station. AS soon as 1 got into
the police station, an officer of law
and order jumped upon me and
started to beat me up. I protested
a tumultuous noise was raised. Then
he let me alone. Next morning an
other officer came, for the same pur-
pose; he hit me once, and with that
l found myself in the street.
Sensations? Do you think
that is nothing in itself, that there
is no more at your back the sentry
with the bayonet? The sentry is
gone, and now I have plainclothes
man and, as before, l am under
guard. The only difference is, that
when | was in Jail I had to &c
where the sentry wants me to, now il
is the plainclothes man who must
follow me. Who knows how long he
will follow me?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
JERUSALEM BAKER

JERUSALEM (By Mail) AS a
result of a strike of bakery workers
in Jerusalem, during which Arabian
workers stood solid with the Jewish
workers, a minimum wage and a
10-hour day were won. The bakers
had a IL to IA hour day before the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
A "BENEFACTOR."

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.-The
will of the late c. X. Eagle, exploit
err of thousands of women and girls
in his Pennsylvania silk mills, pro-
vided for a 'home for girls provid-
ing they are of American paren-
tage." The girls in the Eagle mills
receive less than SIS a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
NEW SOURCE OF RUBBER

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.-A
new source of rubber in about 1000
acres of bitumen has been discov-
cred beneath the water of the Great
Salt Lake. 1t is said that the state
politicians will hand the discovery
over to some private corporation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Courts Deny Pension
to Dead N. Y. Teacher

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 81 (UP).
The estate of Frederick w. Mem.
mott, a New York City scht oil
teacher who died March 16, 1926, is
not entitled to $4,000 pension due
Memmott from the retirement fund
for which application was not mailed
until one hour before he died, the
Court OF Appeals held this after.
noon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
DENIED NEW TRIAL.

TORONTO, Ont, Nov. PA
new trial for DR.. C. J. Withrow, do
ing long term for fatal illegal
operation on Ruth Dembner, has
been denied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Doftana's Regime.

what are the politicals suffering,
you ask? A four-page newspaper
would not be sufficient for the story
that have to tell. All the comrades
are sick. Of the 100 political prison
ers that remain now at Doftana,
over so of them are sick with tuber-
culosis and rheumatism. The others
are suffering of different illnesses.
Stomach, bronchitis, kidney, etc. The
prisons doctor at the visit found
that SO comrades need hospital care.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
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Seward daily gateway., 1928-12-27
GHOsTLY SISTERS
 TERRIFY MANILA
 AFTER N|GHTFA!L

MANILA, Dec., 27, (P)-Fear of three black-robed, headless sis- ters, who, superstition says, are spreading death in Manila and =; suburbs, has caused thousands ci Filipinos to mark front doors of their homes with white crosses.
 The story of the headless sis ters,who are called the Tatlong Marias, or Three Marys, began to circulate few weeks ago. It spread like wild fire, and today fully 75 per cent of the homes in and around Manila are marked with crosses.
 According to those who have placed The crosses on their d0ol5, the sisters are making nightly calls, and the person who an- swers their knock at the door will be stricken with a fatal illness. But, if a white cross is upon the door the sisters will pass that res idence by.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-12-27
MAKES VIOLTNS

STOCKHOLM, Dec, 27. (P)-C. P. Friberg, traffic officer of the police department, in his spare time has developed into 8 violin maker of wide fame Jan Kubelik and Misha Weisbord own violins made by him.