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Evening star., 1928-12-25
WINTER SEASON ENDS
FOR PARIS FASHIONS
Spring Has Come So Far as Dress
World Is Concerned on
Continent.

PARIS (PD.-So far as the dress
world here is concerned Winter is over
and Spring has come.
The end of the Christmas holidays,
and sometimes the beginning, sees the
fashionables packing their bags for
points farher Souht, or above the snow
line. Places like st. Moritz, Nice, Can
mes and Monte Carlo become the stages
on which new fashions are shown. Once
the exodus of Parisians to other cli-
mates begins, the style makers start
work in earnest on their offerings for
the coming Spring.
Many large wardrobeS have been pur-
chased recently for wear in the south
of France, St. Moritz and Chamonix
One Rue de la Paix house boasts a
client who ordered 80 dresses in one
afternoon, most of them for evening
wear. She was bound for the casino
of Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo, where
dress is as serious as play.
Large dress establishments divide
their Paris stats at this season, sending
groups of saleswomen and mannequins.
with models of special design, to the
Riviera and European points where the
fashionable public is gathered. There
will be parades of Paris manneQuins
in the ice and snow bound resorts. They
will wear the newest skating, skiing and
toboganning costumes. Almost stimuli
taneously other nnannequins. along the
Riviera, where Spring flowers are bloom
ing, will be showing tennis costumes,
beach clothes and Spring wearables ia
light colors.
Evening star., 1928-12-25

officially recognized the importance of
co-ordinated effort to give the farmer
additional crops and to improve upon
those he had Instructions were sent
abroad to to all consuls, making 1t q
part Of their duty to collect and send
home the seed, root stock or cuttings
of all plants that might prosper on
American soil.
Seed Department Established.
In 1901 the Office of foreign seed and
plant introduction was created and DR..
David Fairchild, now acting in an ad-
visory capacity. was named director.
On funds supplied by a personal
friend he visited every known part of
the world, studying plant growth and
sending back to the United States the
things he believed economically promis-
ing. He was jailed in Corsica as spy,
but escaped with bulls of the citron now
grown in America.
Fairchild's experience is common to
the men who, unaided and alone, bur-
row into every corner OF the world to
find new or better plants for American
farms, gardens, orchards and forests.
Frank Meyer, who walked 10000
Evening star., 1928-12-25
BANDIT ROBS TWO
COVERED IN AUTO
Chain Store Collectors Victims Of
Hold-up Man, Who Escapes
in Alley With 81, 900.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, December 25.-
Two chain store collectors were forced
to drive their automobile about the
business streets of Baltimore for half
an hour yesterday morning while lone
robber transferred about 81 900 from
their bags to his pockets and then es-
capped.
The c. D. Kenny Co., from six OF
whose stores Saturday night receipts
had been collected, were unable to set
the amount of the loss definitely at
first. but estimated it would be more
than 81 900.
AS Milton Worthington and Charles
Bradley, the collectors, were moving
their car from parking place in the
business district the robber menaceo
them with his pistol. climbed in and
ordered them to keep driving and keep
quiet" After he had stuffed his pockets
with the money he ordered them to
stop near busy street corner, and, sti...
waving his pistol. escaped through an
alley before they could give the alarm
] to traffc policeman on the corner.
Evening star., 1928-12-25
death IS FACED
IN HUNTING SEEDS
u. S. Scientists Have Narrow
Escapes in Studying
Foreign Plant GroWths.

When efforts to obtain increased ap-
preparations for the Federal office of
foreign seed and plant introduction are
renewed Congress will hold in its hand
the destiny Of a service that is respon-
sible for about all the progress that
American agriculture has made today.
Long before the Government launched
its present practice of bringing the nu-
cleus of new crops from foreign shores
the agriculture of this continent de-
pended on the introduction of plants
from other lands.
All the Indian had was corn, tobacco,
pumpkins and various wild berries.
Cotton came from the West Indies,
wheat from Central and Western Asia,
barley and rye from Russia, the Aus
trian Alps and Turkey. the sorghum
crops, including milo and broomcorn,
from Egypt; melons from Persia, rice
from Madagascar and Japan, potatoes
and tomatoes from Peru and the nu-
merous other field crops, fruits and
vegetables from equally distant climes.
Even corn is believed to have originated
in the Andes and spread north by vir-
tue of barter or war between aboriginal
tribes.
AS early as 1927 the United States
Evening star., 1928-12-25
HAS OWN STYLE IDEAS.

Clothes and Mothers. Too.
PARIS lFl.-The debutante of to-
day picks out her mothers clothes and
her own, 90, says Jean Chtarles Worth
Paris stylist.
Its the young girl who is responsible
for the popularity of tulle today" said
NJ. Worth. Her second choice, after
tulle, is taffeta, and then lace or net, for
evening. But she doesn't want her
mother to wear clothes of the same
type. For her she selects satin, velvet
or chiffon"
Evening star., 1928-12-25
WOMAN FOUND FROZEN.
Body Discovered on lee of Lake
After Two-Day Search.

BIRMINGHAM, Mich, December Is
CE).-The body of Miss. Nettie Mann,
81, daughter Of A. A. Mann. wealthy
retired real estate dealer of Birming-
ham, was found frozen in the ice of
Quarton Lake, near her home, Sunday
morning by James Anderson. chief of
police. Miss Mann left her home
Thursday night to walk to the home of
a sister nearby, and an intensive search
had been conducted for her since Fri
day morning. She apparently drowned
when the ice gave way beneath her.
Announcement of the italian govern
ment's plan for $400, 100000 land
reclamation scheme has been enthusi
astically received by the people.
Evening star., 1928-12-25

miles through Northern China into
Siberia and Russia to send home plants
that now are so common they are con-
sidered native, was lined up to be shot
by a Russian firing squad. He never
told how he escaped.
Prosecuted I'm China.
J. F. Rock, now in the widest regions
OF China, has been prosecuted by tribal
chieftains and local governments that
could not understand why any man
would go prowling around among
plants. Still, his last word to civili-
zation was that he never expected to
return to. it, preferring to spend the
rest of his life in service that has
given the farmer soybeans. sudan grass
and 10000 varieties of every plant that
grows in the United States.
Knowles A. Ryerson, now director of
introduction, has asked for an increase
OF $4,000 in Federal appropriations
for his office. He seeks the additional
funds to extend further the $4,000, 600
soybean industry by seeking new varie-
ties In the Orient, to search Java for a
Evening star., 1928-12-25

cotics to an officer who posed as head
of narcotic ring. will appeal to the
Minister from San Salvador at Wash
ington for return to his own country for
trial or sentence. Salzar said yesterday.
Charges of possession and sale and
illegal importation of narcotics have
been filed against Salzar.
Boys of the Cornish Hall End School
at Essex England are making hand
looms on which the girl pupils are
taught to weave.
Evening star., 1928-12-25

legume that will do for the South what
alfalfa has done for the grain belt, and
to find in Australia trees that will grow
in the great plains.
Farmers need, he says, a soybean
that will mature In a shorter season
and another of lower oil content for
hog feeding 1t Is desired to continue
the development of sugar cane re-
sistant to mosaic, and to find a chest
nut that will withstand the blight that
has killed virtually all native American
chestnuts.
Evening star., 1928-12-25
SICKNESS SWEEPS TAHITI.

TAHITI, December Is P).-Many
deaths have been caused in Tahiti in
November and December by measles and
influenza. Almost every child has been
stricken and many adults have suffered.
Business was almost at a standstill
for two months. During December con-
ditionS improved.
Evening star., 1928-12-25
Protect Wild Animals,

CARSON CITY, New. CP).-A legis-
lative fight looms in Nevada because
the State Game and Fish Federation
has announced 1T will seek passage of
a bill declaring an open season on
mountain sheep and pronghorn ante
lopes. Heretofore Nevada has protected
the species.
Evening star., 1928-12-25
DRUG APPEAL PLANNED.

San Salvadorean Held in Texas
Narcotic Transaction.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December 25
R.-Roberto Salazar, self-styled COM
mercial attache from San Salvador in
Mexico City, who was arrested here
Sunday when he is alleged to have at
tempted to sell $4,000 worth of mar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
British Planes Prepare
Atmosphere

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE fake
air battle in which $50 army planes
participated has come to a. close,
after demonstrating to the inhabi-
tants of London the horrors of the
next war and the readiness of
Britain's army and navy depart
ments to fight.
Maneuvering about in the air,
squadrons of British planes, sup
posed to be the force of some "east-
ern power" dropped fake bombs on
London, which if real would have
wiped out the population of the
city. The daily press rang with
praise of the maneuvers and tried
in every way possible to arouse the
people into enthusiasm for war.
The decision was given to the
eastern power" with a warning
that unless England prepare" it
stands in danger Of being conquer
ed. In the meantime naval and air.
plane construction continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
LEAGUE QUITE
MUM ON QUERY
or COSTA RIGA
No interpretation of
Monroe Doctrine

GENEVA, Aug. 17.-Twenty-
four hours of "hard thinking and
discussing" have brought no fur
Their solution of Costa Rica's de-
mand for a league Interpretation of
the Monroe Doctrine than the sug-
gestion that no Interpretation at all
will be forthcoming.
A prominent British member Of
the leagues political section yester-
day stated it as possible that econ
tinued agitation of this matter by
the Latin American delegates to the
assembly over a considerable period
of time may induce the United
States itself to promulgate an in
depreciation clearly definite" But
this is all, he intimated, which can
happen.
The most that is expected is that
President Francisco Urrutia, of
Colombia, will be instructed to send
Costa RIGA an answer without re-
ferring it to the council. In that
event the matter will be considered
closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
Workers Party Urges
Women to Take Part i'm
Sacco-Vanzetti NJ e e t

The committee for work among
women of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, District 2, in a state
ment issued yesterday calls upon all
working women and workers wives
to participate in the Sacco and Van
zetti memorial demonstration to be
held in Union Square, at p. m.
August %.
"The working women must re
member" the statement says, "that
the Sacco and Vanzetti murder was
not the first black deed perpetrated
on the working class in America,
and will not be the last. They must
realize that the murderous hand of
capitalism will always reach out to
destroy the truest leaders Of the
workers. Only organization and
solidarity among the workers and
working women can make the muir
derous hand of capitalism power
less"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
MARINES PATROL PROPAGANDA FOR
FRENCH COLONY WAR IN ENGLAND
Six Officials Killed
in Guiana

PARIS, Aug. 17.-French ma
rines rushed from Martinique are
attempting to crush by force the
disturbances which have broken out
in French Guiana, following the
suspicious death of Jean Galmot, a
prominent political figure in the
colony, according to dispatches from
Cayenne, the capital.
The disturbances are alleged to
have resulted in the death of six
government officials.
Following the announcement of
the results of a coroner's inquest
that Galmot had died of poisoning,
crowds gathered in front of the
houses of various government Of
ficials demanding their lives.
The smouldering discomfort and
French misgovernment of the col
ony has found outlet in the attack
on the officials which the marines
are having difficulty in suppressing.
Brutal reprisals are expected on
the part of the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
IN
ELECTION RALLY
Gitlow to Speak in
Wilkes-Barre

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug. 16.-
The Workers (Communist) Party,
anthracite subdistrict, will open the
Party presidential election campaign
here on September /, with a red let
ter day.
In connection with the same a
picnic, which will be addressed by
Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential
candidate on the Party ticket, will
be held on the same date at Sans
Souci Park.
Great interest is being shown by
workers and by sympathizers of the
Communist Party in the mass cam
paign picnic. For this reason it is
expected that the rally will be a
huge success. The Party will make
special efforts to prove to the hard
coal miners that they will aid them
in all their struggles.
An endorsement conference of la
Dor organizations of the Party pro-
gram will be held here on August
Goth. At this conference an enlarged
campaign committee will be elected
to direct the open-air meetings,
leaflet distributions and other cam
paign efforts to reach the hard-coal
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
Philadelphia Workers
Arrange Huge Election
Picnic for September 3

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-THE
Daily Worker Freiheit carnival,
scheduled for August 26 at Maple
Grove Park, gives promise of be-
ing second only to the Labor Day
red rally, in extent and variety of
features that will round out a day
Of proletarian fun.
There will be a soccer game be-
tween New York Freiheit soccer
team and picked Philadelphia Soc
GER team.
For the young workers fine or
chestra will play in the dance
pavilion.
Other attractions will be the park
amusements, the swings, ten pins,
etc. Running contests will be staged
on the sidelines.
All workers present may have
cool, sweet watermelon, sodas, sand
wiches of all kinds, ice cream and a
variety of home made cakes.
To top it all two of the best
speakers in the revolutionary labor
movement will speak: Robert
Minor and S. Epstein, editors of The
Daily Worker and Freiheit, re-
spectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
LITHUANIA AND
POLAND CLASH
Disagree Over Place
for Confab

WARSAW, Aug. 1.-THE Polish
government received a note from
the Lithuanian government reject
ing the proposal to hold a confer
ence on the boundary dispute at
Geneva on August 80, and insisting
on holding the conference, as orig
inally planned, at Koenigsberg be-
tween August 16 and August 20.
The reason given by President
Valdemaras was that the shortness
of the time at Geneva would pre-
clude a satisfactory conference.
1t is generally believed that the
Polish government is anxious to
hold the conference under the juris-
diction of the League of Nations, or
at time when its influence could
be exerted, since it is confident that
such decision would be favorable
to itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
Will Increase Power
of Fascist Pilsudski

WARSAW, Aug. II (UP).-A re-
vision of the constitution, which In
some particulars would emulate the
United States constitutional pro-
visions, is contemplated by the gov
eminent, it was learned reliably to-
night.
The changes, vesting greater pow
er in the president, probably will be
presented to the Sejm (parliament)
in the form of a bill.
1t was understood that the bill
definitely will be drafted after con-
ferences which General Pilsudski is
scheduled to hold with party lead
ers prior to his vacation in South
ern Rumania. Pilsudski will leave
here August rs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18

The year 1927 resulted in still a
new record for General Motors.
There were manufactured and sold
at retail to users at home and
abroad, through branches, distribu-
tors and dealers, 1,554,577 cars.
This exceeded the previous record
year, 1926, by 33S,751 cars or an in
crease of 27.9 per cent. 1t is par
ticularly interesting to note at this
point that due TO unusual circum-
stances prevailing during the year
under review the total production
of passenger cars and trucks for
the United States and Canada de-
clined 20.7 per cent, as compared
with the previous year. The cor
poration's sales, excluding all inter
company items, amounted to ST.
269,519,673, an increase of SILL
366,335 or 200 per cent. over the
previous year.
General Motors Corporation is
primarily an operating concern own
ing the plants, properties and other
assets of it's manufacturing opera
tons, which are designated in this
list as divisions. 1t is also Hold
Company, owning part Nor all of
the capital stock of other COM
panies connected with it's activities.
1t produces the following cars;
Buick, Cadillac, and LaSalle, Chew
rolet Motor division, including sub
salaries, Oakland and Pontiac,
Oldsmobile. 1t also produces yell
low Coaches and Yellow Cabs. 1t
also controls the Fisher Body Cor
poration, with A plants, in all i'm
portant centers of the United States
and Canada; Fleetwood Body Cor
poration, Ternstedt Manufacturing
Company, the National Plate Glass
Company and Fisher Lumber Cor
poration. 1t also controls a number
of accessory plants where Access
SORES and parts are made.
The General Motors also maintain
number of assembly plants in all
important centers of the world.
Very material expansion took
place during the year in the Cor
poration's business in all overseas
countries. The Corporations over
seas sales aggregated 193,s30 cars
and trucks in 1927. This exceeded
the previous record year, 1926, by
1909 cars, an increase of 63.2 per
cent. During the year additional
assembly plants have been added at
Osaka, Japan, Batavia, Java; and
Stockholm, Sweden. At the present
time, total Of 20 assembly plants
and warehouses are in operation, as
indicated by the list shown on page
%, and more than $4,000 employees
are engaged in the corporations
overseas activities.
Number of employees.
The General Motors Corporation
now employ over $4,000.
8. Chrysler-D Dodge.
The enlarged merged company
will rank as the third largest motor
enterprise in the world, having total
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
TO CARRY ISSUE
TO WORKERSFOR
CONDEMNATION
w ar Preparation
Raises Protest Storm

BERLIN, Aug. 1.-THE Com
munist Party of Germany has met
the treachery of the social demo-
cratic vote for the battleship appro-
priation with demand for a national
referendum on the~issue.
The action of the Communist
Party has brought wildly before
millions of German workers the
policy of treason to which the So
cial democratic leaders stopped in
order to win the support of the
Catholic and Peoples Parties.
The vote for the battleship ap-
preparation, following the pacifist
phrases which played so large a
part in the electoral success of the
social democrats, has raised a storm
of protest from one end of the coun
try to the other. 1t is believed that
the Communist Party will have no
difficulty in mobilizing the ten per
cent of the electorate which is nee
essary to approve the referendum.
The revulsion which has swept
over the country in respect to the
social democratic party is unprece-
denied. Crowds of workers pass the
social democratic headquarters boo
ing and shouting, What about the
battleship appropriation and food
for the children" The latter refers
to the slogan, GOOD for the chill
dren, but not cent for armament"
with which the social democrats
rode into power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
By BEN LIFSCHITZ

One of the most important ac-
complishments in the production OF
cars is the gradual shortening of
the production cycle.
The cycle of Ford manufacture
begins in the iron and coal mines,
follows Ford owned transportation
routes and includes the conversion
and fabrication of the materials
until completed Ford products are
placed in the hands of the Gus
toner.
During the period of business de-
preston in 1920, the Ford produc-
ton cycle was cut from II to IA
days. 1t has been now further re-
duced to approximately 81 hours.
Of these 52>hours, Is are consumed
in shipping and handling. Even this
record-breaking cycle is often short
ened.
The Ford. Motor Company en-
ploys approximately 100000 men in
the U. S. and about 5000 abroad,
exclusive of Canada.
The Ford Motor Company is pro-
ducing passenger cars, Fordson
tractors and the Lincoln motor car,
which it acquired in 1920.
2. General Motors Corporation.
The General Motors Corporation
was Incorporated October, 1916,
succeeding the General Motors Com
pany, which was organized Septem-
her, 1908.
General Motors does not produce
all of the raw material used for the
manufacture of it's cars. However,
the production facilities of the car
manufacturing divisions have been
materially expanded. They were
gradually adding units and sub
salaries one after another.
During 1924 the Corporation
manufactured approximately one
car il every six produced in the
United States and Canada. In 1925
this was increased to one car in
every five. In 1926 a gain to some
what better than one car in every
four was made and in the year 1927
the Corporation produced Al cars
out of every 100 or little less than
one out of every two. The sales of
the Corporation during the year
under review represented by far a
greater aggregate value and a
greater number of total units than
those of any other automobile
manufacturer in the world.
The following tabulation shows
the sales of General Motors cars by
dealers to users which is approx
mately the number of cars produced
in the years:
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Value:

The year 1921 was a year of in
dustrial crisis, 1924 and 1927 were
years of partial industrial depres-
sion. These figures indicate the
fact that the automobile industry
fluctuates with general industrial
activity.
However, we must note the up
ward trend in the direction of the
motor truck and motor bus which
will make up for some of the down.
ward trend in the production of
passenger cars, also the fact, that
the captains of industry" are work
ing very hard to expand their ex-
port trade, as shown by the last re-
port of the General Motors.
Taking all facts into considera
ton, we can say that the automobile
industry has not reached the bot
tom of production, but it is un-
doubtedly approaching the satura-
ton point.
Three factors are working in that
directions:
l. The general condition of Ameri-
can industries, such as mining. tex
tile, shoe, already undergoing a
slump. Stiffening competition from
the European international trusts
has already resulted in great un-
employment here numbering about
four million. This, the figures have
shown in recent years, will have a
marked effect on the automobile in
dustry.
2. Sharpened competition in the
automobile industry from abroad,
especially from British manufacture
ers. The British automobile indus
try has launched an intensive cam
paign to hold it's own against an ex-
pected new offensive from American
automobile manufacturers. "Buy
British cars and be proud of it," is
the slogan credited with having put
the home industry on its feet, but
coupled with this is the 80 1-3 per
cent. import duty on foreign cars
and the one pound sterling annual
tax per horsepower. This latter
weapon undoubtedly put crimp~ in
American sales, as the annual tax
on Ford, for instance, amounts to
more than hundred dollars.
3. The replacement market does
not represent 100 per cent. of the
wholesale value. You will note on
the diagram that the replacement
is steadily growing, but we must
bear in mind that this replacement
market is being artificisiIy stimu-
lated and does not represent 100