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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
Charge Evangelist In
Huge Swindling Game

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (UP).-
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, interna-
tionally known evangelist, was
charged in a damage suit today with
using her four-square Gospel and
members of her Angelus Temple
congregation as pawns in a real
estate game from which she netted
thousands of dollars.
The complaint, entered by S. S.
Hahn for Mrs. M. W. I'uryear, as
serted that Mrs. Mcpherson entered
into conspiracy with H. L. Henry
and c. E. Kenyon whereby she re-
ceived ten per cent commission for
all sales made through her in a
Lake Tahoe subdivision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
Office Boy, 90,
Poverty Tired,
Kills Himself

Richard W. Amin, so, who lives
at 457 Third St., Brooklyn, yester-
day got tired of struggling along
with his wife on the miserable sal
ary of S25 a week that he earned by
running errands for the Port of
New York, and jumped from the
tenth story of the building at rs
West St.
1t was not the humiliation Of his
job alone that caused him to put an
end to his drab life. His wife, after
the tragedy, explained that she and
her husband had been struggling to
"get by" on the $25 which he earned
as "office boy for the Port of New
York.
Across the court of the building
an office worker saw Amin step
out on the window sill, three floors
above the Port Authority headquar-
ters. Five times he stepped to the
sill, hesitated and stepped back
again. The sixth time he leaped.
Every bone in Annin's body was
broken, a bland inferno from the
Broad st. Hospital announced.
From 1915 until last year Amin
was a solicitor for a downtown con-
Germ. Then the old collection sys-
tenn was abandoned and he was
fired. For months he was without
work, but recently he succeeded in
getting the job as office boy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
BREAK Up PHILA.
CLOAK MEETING
Police, Sigmanites In
United Front

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30. -
Working frankly as the prearranged
agents 81 ssas reaGtionary officials
of the Sigman cloakmakers' local
here, police here halted a mass
meeting of more than 600 cloak and
dressmakers who had come to Bos-
lower Hall at the call of the Ma
tional Organization Committee to
take up the question of establishing
a local branch of the new Cloak and
Dress Makers Union.
The workers, thoroughly disgusted
with the continued betrayals of the
little local Sigmans, had decided to
join in the great movement recently
launched in New York for the estab-
lishment of a real union in the trade
Thugs Demand Entry.
After the hall was we'll filled,
about score Of right wing hire
lings, led by the officials of the
local, came and demanded admission
to the meeting. The committeeman
at the door denied them this on the
grounds that only cloak and dress
makers would be admitted, the Off
cials and any gangsters they may
bring were not invited, they were
told. But the police guardians" of
the meeting openly ignored the COM
mitteemen and helped the thugs
force their way in.
No sooner did Chairman S. Levin
open the meeting, when the small
group of disturbers in one corner of
the hall howled boisterously to
Continued on Page TaOo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
Believe Report That
Amundsen Plane Was
Sighted is Groundless

OSLO, Norway, Aug. 80 (UP)-
groundless reports to-
day that the wreckage of Roald
Latham airplane in
which the explorer and five COM
panions were lost while seraching
for members of the Polar dirigible
Italia's crew, had been found caused
great excitement here.
The reports, which were not con-
firm ID, apparently originated
through a correspondent of the
newspaper Aftenposten, who said
the wreckage had been found on
one of the three northernmost
islands of the Lofoten group, known
as Vesteraalans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
SCHOOL BUT NO SHOES
Issue Nation Wide Mill Strike Abbeal

line. But school and cool weather
coming soon mean that regular
clothes and shoes are needed, and
therefore the Workers International
Relief is sending out nationwide
appeal for workers and sympathiz-
ers to come to the aid of the strik-
ers' children. These children are
entitled to workers support not only
because of their striking parents,
but because they are real fighters
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
KENTUCKY MINE MEET
Build Ub New Union in Scab South

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug 3d.
Thirty delegates representing eight
cen mines attended the sub-district
conference in Hillside, Kentucky.
Mine by mine, local by local, the
situation was gone over. Most dele
gates have already been elected.
From now until the convention, rep
resentatives from each mine will
knit their fellow workers more
closely into dues paying locals affili-
ated with the new union, where this
has not already been done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31

Freeman Thompson spoke before
more than 800 at mass meeting
after the adjournment of the con-
ference. Many committees from
distant parts of the state came to
evening meeting, and told Thomp-
son that they were sent to request
him to come to their sub-districts
to outline the policies of the new
union and organic them. A large
number of miners joined the new
union at the end Of the meeting.
Thompson left today for West Vir-
ginia and Maryland. r5
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
MILL STRIKERS
ASK AID ABROAD
Cable to Red Union
International

NEW BEDFORD, August 3d.
Gables urging relief and aid for the
10000 New Bedford textile strikers
have been sent to the All Russian
Trade Unions and to the Amsterdam
international by Fred Biedenkapp
of the Workers International Relief
and Albert Weisbord, National Sec
retary of the Textile Committees.
The joint cable declares:
Thirty thousand textile strikers
in New Bedford and Fall River are
now in their nineteenth week of
struggle against wage cuts and the
speed-up system. We appeal to you
Continued on PAGE Ftue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 80.
The New Bedford textile strikers
are up against a new problem.
School opens in New Bedford on
Wednesday, Sept. 5, and strikers
children have neither shoes nor
clothes to go to school in.
1t is alright, the children find, to
run around barefoot in ragged blue
overalls during vacation days, al
though it has not been so easy
tramping up and down the picket
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
c CHINA WORKERS
ARMY ADVANCES

PEKING, Aug. 30.-A section Of
the workers and peasants army of
China, led by Communists, is near
Tainan-fu, seat of the Shantung
provisional government, according to
an. official report received here.
The workers and peasants army
has made considerable gains in the
Honan and Shantung provinces.
Its ranks are reported to be well
along it's route.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
LOvESTONE ASKS
the END OF U. S.
FRACTI0NALIS M
U. S. Minority Makes
Reservations Upon
Conintern Theses
Credentials Report

(Wireless to the Daily Worber)
International Press Correspondence
MOSCOW, Aug. 30.-Thael-
mann reported on the work of
the Political Commission at
the World Congress of the
Communist international. The
political theses were then un-
animously adopted plus all of
the amendments suggested by
the Commission.
Takes Exception to Theses.
Johnstone then made the
following declaration in the
name of the minority of the
United States delegation.
"The minority of the Workers
Party agrees with the political
theses except for the passage
concerning the United States
which fails to stress the United
States imperialist contradictions
and the progressive rehabilitation
of the American workers and
which also fails to condemn the
right wing policy of the majority
of the Central Committee of the
Workers Party, particularly
regarding the non-application of
the decisions of the Fourth Con-
gress of the Red International of
Labor Unions, and Negro and
anti-imperialist work"
Majority Supports Theses.
Lovestone answered for the
majority of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. He said:
"The majority of the Workers
(Communist) Party approves un-
reservedly the political theses
presented by the delegation of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union.
"The unanimous adoption of the
theses disproves the accusations
of the minority against the
majority of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party concerning the
alleged right wing policy, and
means that the Communist Inter
national supports the present
leadership. The best method to
fight against the undoubtedly
existing right wing dangers is
for the minority completely to
accept the theses, abandon frac-
tionanilsm and subordinate itself
to the majority"
The resolution recommending that
all Communist parties support the
International Red Aid was un-
animously adopted.
Honor HoraZ.
The forty-fourth session of the
Congress was opened with Remmele
acting as chairman. The delegates
rose silently in memory OF
Horaz, Czech deputy who died here
Piatnitzki then delivered the
report of the credentials committee
There were 515 delegates present
forty more than at the fifth con.
gress. There were 372 delegates
with decisive votes and 143 with ad-
visory votes. Forty-eight sections
of the International, representing
4,O24,159 members, sent delegates
The delegates at the Congress from
countries not previously represented
came from Palestine, Colombia
Syria, Uruguay, Ecuador, Paraguay
Venezuela, New Zealand and Chile
Thirty per cent of the delegates
were formerly members of Socia,
Democratic Parties. The report
was unanimously adopted.
Report on War Danger.
The forty fifth session was open.
ed yesterday afternoon with Jilek
Bell reported for the war commits
sion which unanimously adopted the
resolution on the war danger anc
the tasks of the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
Police Continue to
Harass Cabmen

Continuing the police persecution
of taxi drivers, 81 more cabmen
were hailed into Harlem Court on
Wednesday on charges of "crowding
O public hack-stand." The charges
we're made by owners of private
cara.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
DENGUE EPIDEMIC WANING.

ATHENS, Aug. 80 (UP).-The
Dengue epidemic, which has affected
80 per cent of the population of
Athens and Piraeus, was believed on
the wane today. due to the isolation
of those taken i'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
PLAN MORE CossACKs

An increase in funds for the pol
ice department of $2,000,0Oo for
1929 will be asked by police COM
Warren, it is reported.
An addition of over 200 new police
men is also planned by Warren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
Bandit Student win
Be Given Chance
By Governor

LANSING, Mich, Dec. 81
Gov. Fred w. Green viii.
find employment for Donald Bar
ker, 17.year-old Michigan State
College student who turned bandit
to get money to pay his tuition.
Barker was paroIed BY Judge p.
collingwood ID the governor.
The governor told the youth he
wanted him to return to his home
near Ionia and live there FOR the
next year, working at some en-
ployment that the governor viii
find for him.
Governor Green told the boy he
must live down the disgrace re-.
sulting from his robbery Of two
Lansing oil stations and that he
might as well live 1t down At
home among the people who
know him best.
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
SPRING CHORAL
FESTIVAL IS
PLANNED

Washington's big spring choral
festival concert is under way.
Frederick Alexander. noted Michi-
gan conductor. was In Washington
last week to meet the choral direc-
tors of the city and acquaint them
with his ideas on the program to be
presented as a feature Of Music
Week" in May.
A chorus of almost 400 voices al
ready is registered, with a number
of large groups yet to be heard from
whose directors have promised CO.
operation with the Church Music
Council and the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs. under
whose joint auspices another massed
chorus event of importance is TO be
given.
Alexander will be in Washington
once each month for two days or re-
hearsing until the May concert.
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
FIRST HUSBAND.
DIES, SECOND !.
JAILED
tcontinued from First Pagel

Continued from First Pagc)
D horne IN. the 200 block West
Cary st.
1t was several months later .ilat
Craig moved into the Liggon home.
I'VE. Liggen and I, worked to.
gether many nights he said, adding
that the two had been engaged in
the plumbing business. II have
helped him finish up a lot of jobs, =
he declared, in attempting to show
that nothing but friendly relations
had existed between them.
FisI1ed Together
1--WE used to go fishing on the
river frequently, and one time re-
call that we rowed as far as Dutch
Gap (about 20 miles below Rich
mond. Liggon told me that he had
had experience with boats, but |
didn't know whether he could
swim"
Here the young plumber related
the circumstances surrounding the
tragedy. He said the boat over
turned at the lower end of Mayo
Island, throwing both men in the
water.
''Liggon had on hip-boots. heavy
EW6dI6T. anu a fireman waterproof
uniform" he said. 1T was impos-
sible to save him with all that extra
weight"
Questioned regarding the insur-
srce said to have been paid Mrs.
Liggon upon the death of her former
husband, Craig denied any knowl-
edge of policy. He told how they
had been married in Washington,
ID. c., less than a month after the
tragedy and declared that they then
returned to Richmond.
Asleep in his cell when newspaper
men called to see him, Craig APP
peared little disturbed over his ar
rest. Hhe complained that he had
been refused permission to see a
newspaper and compared Richmond
cells with those of European cities.
Craig said he was not sure how
long the Liggons had been married.
but believed it had been "eight or
nine years"
In the meantime, Mrs. Craig is
living with a sister, Mrs. S. G..
Jones, at the latter's home on South
Fourth Street.
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
VA. COURT PAYS
To WE'D PAIR

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 81
The Alexandria Rotary Club will
hold it's first ladies' night celebra-
ton January Is at the Belle Haven
Country Club. 1t will be featured
by a dinner, entertainment and
dancing. A. NJ. Free, representative
from the Sixth district of California,
will be the principal speaker. Lau-
renee Roland is chairman of the
committee in charge.
Today is the last day for the pay
ment of property taxes to avoid the
penalty OF per cent which will be
added tomorrow. The State taxes
will also carry a penalty after to-
day. The office of city collector
Purvis Taylor will be open today
until o'clock tonight.
The city council will decide def
nitely whether to keep the present
city auto tax of Is cents per 100
pounds when it meetsl Thursday.
According to DIR. w. G. West,
there are several cases of flu which
have been reported to him and
hundreds of mild cases of the grippe.
There have been no flu deaths.
In police court today statutory
charge against James Fisher, col
ored. 90 preferred by Susie Walker,
colored. is, was nolle pressed when
on their decision to get married, at.
torneys in the courtroom chipped In
and bought a marriage license and
Justice French married themI
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
DR.. Maurtua's Condition
RenOrted as Improved

The condition of DR.. Victor H..
Maurtua OF Peru, suffering from
pneumonia in Garfield Hospital,
was said today to be greatly i'm
proved"
DR.. Maurtua, delegate to the
Pan American conference, and
chairman of the Bolivian-Para-
guayan special mediation commit
tee, was removed to the hospital
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1928-12-31

The total of traffic cases for IL
months and Is days Of 1928 with
an added estimate for the fipal Is
days, based on court officlala obser-
vatibn Of the preceding period, IL
41,475.
Estimates compiled by Cashier J..
A. Sanford and Assistant Cashier
w. s. Schantz on the same basis
show total of fines and forf&itures
for all branches of the court Of
s457, 1929, Of which $197, ,479.04 came
from Traffic Court.
All classes of law violations
brought to Police Court In the past
year totaled 91,150.
$I7O,776.fS Collected
In the District of Columbia branch,
reserved for trials of drunkenness,
disorderly conduct, vagrancy. and
similar offenses, S0,764 cases were
registered and fines and forfeitures
totaIed $170,776.73.
Fines received from the. United
States branch, W h ere assault,
threats, and charges of more Sc.
rious nature are tried, totalled
$S9,g73.46.
The outstanding personnel change
at Police Court in 1928 was the
appointment of Ralph Given, AS
sistant United States Attorney since
1902, to the post of Judge. filling
the vacancy caused by the death of
Judge George III. Mcdonald.
GawIer Promoted
William F. Gawler, deputy clerk,
WAS 'nrouofad m schief nf the
records and files section.
The handling OF moneys coming
into Police Court through fines and
forfeitures. which often amounts
to thousands of dollars day, was
expedited this year by the Install
ment Of modern equipment, SO that
the establishment presided over by
Cashier Sanford has come to take
on the aspect of a modern, well
equipped bank.
An urgent need in Police Court,
many officials believe, is the estab.
lishment of a fifth branch, to handle
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
West Pointers Stumble
In Mathematics Course

WEST POINT. n. z, Dec. 3l.-
Mid-term examinations of 40 cadets
who are deficient were completed
today. After being marked and
passed upon by the academic board.
they will be submitted to the Sec
retary of War for action. Upon the
result OF these examinations the
future military careers of the ca
diets largely depend.
Most of the deficiencies were
among the plebes who entered last
July. Out of 394 plebes, SO took
examinations in one or more sub
jects. Mathematics was the prin.
eipal troub Akeh
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
Woman Tries Suicide
AS She Faces Arrest

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-On learn
ing that Mrs. Theodore Alvarez. 20
years old, attempted suicide as de-
tectives called to arrest her, Magis-
trate Gotlieto characterized her as
foolish young woman" and held her
in $500 bail on a charge of petty
larceny. The charge originally was
grand larceny.
According to Henry Benurea. fur
rier, Mrs. Alvarez ordered a $475 fur
coat from him on December Il. and
two more on the 24th. which were
to cost an additional $640. On the
latter date, he said. she gave him
a check for $1.115 on the Eighty
sixth Street Branch of the Colonial
Bank, but it was returned marked
insufficient funds
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
NAME Winners
IN VA. PAGEANT

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Dec. 81.
Winners for the best decorated
trucks and automobiles in the pa
rade held Saturday at the celebration
Of the reopening Of the Lee Hign-
way, were announced today as fol-
lows: For the best decorated truck,
first prize, silver loving cup, the
Arlington Dairy; second prize, the
Potomac Savings Bank, and third
nrizA far the best decorated auto
mobile Keith A. Brumback. The
nrizes will be awarded at the annual
hano1let to be given Tuesday, Jan
nary %. at the Washington-Lee High
School.
After a two.weeks' vacation, for
the holidays, the public schools of
the county will open Wednesday.
The ST. Charles Catholic School will
open at the same time.
The January meeting OF the
Arlington County Civic Federation
will be held Wednesday instead OF
tomorrow. The meeting will be held
in the Lyon Park community house
at p. m.
President William C. Hull an
nounced that among the matters to
be considered will be the selection
Of representatives to attend the
annual meeting of the State high
way commission in January, when
allocations for State aid will be
made. The federation will urge the
early Improvement to Glebe road
by the State 1t will also consider
the resolution urging increases IN
county school teachers salaries
The Holy Name Society and the
Blessed Virgin Society Of St. James
Catholic Church at West FANS
Church will hold a joint meeting
and election of officers in st. James
Hall, Wednesday at p. m.
The town council OF Potomac has
announced an extension of time to,
March 1 for the payment of town
taxes. After March l, penalty OF
Der cent will be added to all un-
paid taxes.
Election of officers of the Co
lumbia Street Citizens Association
OF Falls Church will be held We'd
nesday night at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Byron Austin.
Judge Howard w. Smith, In the
circuit court of Arlington county
TODAY upon recommendation re-
appointed the following police force
for the year 1929: Harry l.. Wood
ward. deputy sheriff and jailor:
Archie Richards. deputy sheriff, and
John r. Burke, Raymond Crack,
James u. East, C. w. Carr and Ray
Cobean, special traffic officers.
The Washington times., 1928-12-31
POWER PAY To
COLLEGE len
RAPED
lcontlnued from First Pagel

Continued from FIRST RaGeJ
the many advantages We possess
today. Our Iuxuries, and our high
standard OF living. One man today
can accomplish az much as four
men did one hundred years ago.
This is due primarily to the ap-
piled knowledge gained through
scientific research.
Science has made democracy and
universal education possible be-
cause it has made leisure. As an
OF the economic value
OF science, 1 would call attention
to the statement of DR.. Whitney, of
the C. Ceneral Electric Company. who,
in an address at this convention,
told of discovery by DR.. Langmuir,
while engaged in a scientific re-
search. That was that the using Of
4 gas instead of vacuum in elec-
tric bulbs saves thu American peo-
pie 81, 900. 900 every night.