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Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
BELIEVE ILLINOIS "KIDNAP
FARM HAS BEEN LOCATED

little Billy Ranieri was held cap
tive for l3 days was believed
found today.
Deserted, the house, a two
story frame structure answer
ing descriptions given by the
boy, was found at Bourbonnais,
ILL.,, 80 miles south of Chicago.
The house also is believed to
have been used by Malta eX-
tortionists for imprisoning other
young victims of kidnapping and
extortion plots.
Prosecutors who held Angelo
Petitti as a ringleader in the
KIDNAPPING, had declared it of
utmost Importance that the farm
be found. 1t will form link in
the evidence of the prosecution,
in which the death penalty, pro-
vided by Illinois law, will be
asked.
The Ranieri boy was liberated
near Lockport, H., ON Sept. 10
after Judge Frank Comerford
had said he would hold Petitti
as hostage.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Sept. 90
The boiling of old line party
leaders in both political camps
has become so pronounced in
the presidential campaign that
Herbert Hoover intends to de-
vote IA liberal portion of his fu-
ture speeches to party patrio-
tism.
The subject will be the text
of the speech the Republican
nominee is to deliver in Madi-
son Square Garden, New York,
the night of Oct. 13.
Importance of the boilers
activities has been called to
Hoover attention previously
by his managers and advisers.
Every speech he has made thus
far in the campaign has men
toned the record of the Repub-
liean party and the necessity of
continuing that record as par
ty principle. But his advisers
do not believe he has gone far
enough.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Kelley Hanging
Date Postponed

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29-The
date of the hanging of Leo p.
Kelley, butcher boy found guilty
of the murder of Mrs. Myrtle Mel
lus, society matron, automatically
was postponed today when Superior
Judge Wilson approved a motion to
submit transcript of the trial pro-
ceedings to the state supreme court.
His action followed request of
Defense Attorney S. S. Hahn who
cited so asserted judicial errors com
mitted during the time Kelley was
battling for his life.
Kelley was sentenced to be hang
ed November 90 at the conclusion of
his trial
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
u. S. Ready TO
Hear Proposals
On Disarmament
Nv United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The
United States government stood
ready today to listen to any new
disarmament proposal, fully pro
tecting American naval interests and
national needs. But it opposes the
Anglo-French naval pact because
that obviously is intended to limit
American sea strength while mater
tally enhancing Tranco-British of
fensive power.
That was revealed today as
America S position on the Anglo
French navaI pan, following publ
cation of identical notes Secretary
of State Kellogg sent France and
Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Seek to Break
Flight Record

san DIEGO, Calf, Sept. 20 -
William Brock and Edward Schlee,
round-the-world flyers, took off
from Rockwell Field at 6:45 a. m.
today on an attempt to break the
world s sustained flight record, now
held by German aviators.
Their Bellanca plane left the
ground easily with its load Of 600
gallons of gasoline.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
CARDINALS WIN
LEAGUE PENNANT
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Sept. 29-The st.
Louis Cardinals won the National
League pennant today, when the
New York Giants were eliminated
from the race by losing to the Chi
cago Cubs, 6 to 2.
Even should the Giants win from
the Cards in the, final game at the
Polo Grounds Sunday, New York
would still fall few points shy of
tying st. Louis.
The Cardinals will meet the New
y ork Yankees in the World Series,
opening at Yankee Stadium Thurs
day. This year rs World Series will
be a renewal of the 1926 series in
which the Cardinals won the world
pionship by taking four out OF
seven games from the Yankees.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29.-St. Louis
cut loose this afternoon.
When word was flashed that the
Cardinals had clinched the National
League pennant, things happened on
the split second.
Storms of ticker tape were snap
ped up from office windows and
wound serpentine course through
the downtown district.
Automobile horns raised a long
awaited din, and newsboys shouted
the familiar "Cardinal victory.'
Within 0minutes the city was
enjoying a complete case of bed
lam.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Postpone Jury
Report in. Ohio
Shooting Case
by United Press Leased Wire

ELYRIA, o., Sept. 29,-The Lo.
rain county grand jury today post
poned until Monday the report of
its findings in its investigation into
the shooting of Miss Betty Hey
wood.
Miss Haywood was shot through
the head early in the week, alleged.
ly when three special prohibition
law enforcement officers fired into
an automobile in which she rode
after the driver of the car refused
to obey "halt' command.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Major Lanphier's
Plane Damaged
Nv United Press Leased wire

CHICAGO, Sept. 29.--An airplane
piloted by Major Thomas Lanphier,
of Selfridge Field, Mich, was dam.
aged in an attempt take'off al
Municipal Field here today. Major
Lanphier escaped injury.
A report that Col Lindbcrgh was
in the plane proved false. Col
Lindbergh was not at the airport,
officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
MISS KING ANNOUNCES
DATE OF MARRIAGE
ny United Press Leased Wire

HOLLYWOOD, Sept 29.-The
marriage of Miss Bradley King,
scenario writer, to John Griffith
Wrav, film director, will take place
at Riverside, Oct. Z, Miss King an
nouneed today.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
MAY HOLD
HARDY IN
CONTEMPT.
Order Requesting That
Action Be Taken Is
Signed by Daney.
RESENTS A C ITO N
Judge Declares State Bar
Association To Regret
Its Steps.
ny United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.-Su-
perior court will be asked to hold
Judge Carlos S. Hardy in con.
tempt for his refusal to answer ques
tions today at the State Bar Com
mittee's examination of his receipt
of n $2500 check from Aimee Sem.
pie Mcpherson and her mother Mrs
Minnie Kennedy.
The order requesting he be held
in contempt was signed by Eugene
Daney, San Diego, chairman of the
committee.
The action of Judge Hardy in re.
fusing to be sworn in and question
ed came as a surprise since he pre-
viously indicated he welcomed the
probe.
The investigation was ordered ar
ter Mrs. Kennedy told of giving
Judge Hardy the check for $25oO
and after Judge Hardy admitted
receiving that amount.
Mrs Kennedy and the jurist said
the check was for services to An.
gelus Temple preceding the assert
ed kidnapping of Mrs. Mcpherson.
1t was dated August II, 1926
which was some months after Mrs
Mcpherson $ temperance in Ari-
zoIta but before she was given
hearing on criminal charges Arising
from her disappearance. Judge
Hardy was on the superior bench at
the time.
Hardy Resents Probe
The first indication that Judge
Hardy res.ptcd the probe of the
rheck came when his attorney, Joe
Scott, started to speak ut the hear.
ing today.
Scott said the State Bar Associa.
tion was headed for disaster if it
intended to conduct public hea.'ngs
TO investigate rumors and newspaper
reports.
The attorney asked If the com
mittee proposed to conduct the probe
of Judge Hardy as judge of su
perior court or as practising at
torney.
In the first instance, the Bar
Association was without jurisdie'
ton, he said, and i'll the second
Judge Hardy should have been no
titled of the specific charges.
Shortly thereafter Judge Hardy
Nsfused to be sworn and the hear.
ing broke up.
Jesse W. Carter, of Redding, and
Davis NJ. Burnett, of San Jose
were the other members of the com
mittee headed by Daney.
Judge Hardy and his wife were
close friends of Mrs. Mcpherson
both before her desert trek and dur
ing the time she stood trial on
charges of conspiracy to defeat
justice. ..
The matter of the check first
came to public attention about two
months ago although it had been IN
the hands of the Los Angeles dis
trict attorney since the kidnapping
Mrs. Kennedy, who signed the
check, and judge Hardy both stated
that it was for legal services render
ed Angelus Temple before Mrs. Nc
Pherson's disappearance.
Judge Hardy said there was nc
ruling which refused him the right
TO accept fees for legal advise even
though he sat on the superior bench
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Royal Marriage Solemnized

the
States which omnized Sep
Miss
Msudaira thoroughly Amercanzd girl having attended school
excellent tennis
She with Prince in the inset
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
RumOr Declares
Italian King
Will ( Abdicate
by United Press Leased Wire

PARIS, Sept. 29.-The anti-Italian
newspaper Quotidien carried a story
today which said that gossip in
"court circles discussed a rumor
that the King of Italy intends to
abdicate shortly after dissolving the
chamber of deputies.
The rumOr was not received with
credence here.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
COMPROMISE ON NAME
by United P-.ss Lensed Wire

by United P-css Leased Wire
GLOBE, Ariz., Sept. 29.-George
Massey is a Democrat and Mrs.
Massey a Republican so they com
promiscl today and selected "IIer-
bert Alfred' as the name for their
eight pound boy, born yesterday,
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
TRAINS COLLIDE
By United Press Leased Wire

MADRID, Sept. 29,-Two express
trains collided today at Baieza, in
the province of Jaen. First reports
said three persons had been killed
and II injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-29
Smith TO STRESS
MODIFICATION OF
18TH AMENDMENT.
To End Milwaukee Trip
With a Bang; Given
Enthusiastic Welcome.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent


MILWAUKEE, Sept. 29.-Gov-
crnor Alfred f.. Smith will close
his western tour here tonight by
opening up the issue which is fore
most in this state and which many
voters are making the outstanding
one over all the cOuntry-modlflca-
ton Of the Nolstead and eighteenth
amendment.
From all indications, the Demo
cratic candidate will end his first
campaign trip here with "A verita-
Bile "bang.n Milwaukee citizens
received him last night by turning
out almost bodily. People here said
It was the greatest gathering IN the
history Of the city, the New York
governor waved his brown derby to
a crowd which lined the streets for
over two miles along Wisconsin
avenue, the principal thorough-fare
their smiling faces Lighted by the
welcoming glow OF red fire.
Smith comes here on an important
mission, and to this he will turn his
attention during a series of confer
ences with state political leaders
today-winning of the large vote
that has endorsed the policies of the
LaFollettes-father and son, for
many years The elder LaFollette,
who carried only this, his own state,
as an independent candidate for the
presidency III 1924, was an anti
prohibitionist. SO is his son,
"Young Bob who fell heir to his
father 5 political machine when the
senator died.
Makes Appeal Tonight
Smith will make his "wet' ap-
peal tonight. But he comes here
with program, Of which the wet
issue is only one phase, designed to
win the LaFollette support.
His program already outlined in
his western speeches, is similar i'll
many respects to that of the La
f'ollettes. 1t embodies water power,
farm relief, inland waterway de,
ss-iepments ts-s-sa-----A---as----
He is expected to review his stand
on these issues tonight before turn
ing his attention to his ma jor topic
here, and is expected as well to pay
tribute to the late Senator LaFol-
lettc.
Shortly after he entered this
state, the New York governor ear
RED his waterpower stand Il step
further i'll "A newspaper conference,
a step which brings him nearer to
the stand of Senator George Norris
of Nebraska, leader of the fight in
Congress for government operation
of Muscle Shoals. Norris, who has
"a large following in Wisconsin, re-
Gently commended Smith for his
waterpower stand.
81 believe,' the Democratic
candidate said, "that the govern
ment ought to keep the control of
the plant and operate it where it
is feasible to do it and deliver the
energy to the company under con
tract that gives the government
something to say about the rates. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

What will happen to him there it
is unnecessary to state. The Bel
grade authorities now wish to pre-
pare the same or worse fate for
Mavrak.
Although the accusation on the
basis of which the request for the
extracition of Mavrak was filed, has
completely collapsed, the Vienna
court has decided to grant the ex-
tradition. This fact has caused the
indignation of even a section of the
Vienna bourgeois press. The So
cial democracy, by the way, takes
up a completely indifferent attitude
to the whole scandal.
The Austrian Ministry of Justice
has now to decide upon the fate of
Anton Mavrak. Should it ratify
the decision of the court, then
Mavrak will be handed over to the
brutal vengeance of the Yugoslav-
ian bourgeoisie. 1t is the duty of
the international proletariat to pre-
vent in the last moment this new
breach of the right of asylum by the
Austrian authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
MANY ACCIDENTS
IN Anthracite
National Mine Union
Needed to Save Men

Especial to the Daily Worker
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Dec. 10
Safety rules are sufficiently ne
elected by the mining companies in
the anthracite to make working
here a very dangerous proposition.
Here is a list Of recent fatalities
and serious accidents, not a full list,
but just cases that are well known.
Stanley Turkawka, of 1888 W..
Union St., Nanticoke, Pa, died in
the Nanticoke hospital from in
juries received when he was caught
underneath a fall of rock in the No.
2 shaft Of the Susquehanna Col
lieries Co. He left his wife and
four children. This mine is known
as very dangerous. The company,
of course, is not interested in the
safety of it's employees, but in their
product. Many of the miners in
this mine are joining the National
Miners Union.
Michael Gurto, "a, of LOOMS
ST., Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was injured
in Mine No. IL of the Susqueh ma
Galleries Co. He received injuries
on the legs and ribs when he was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
LEWIS And BOSS
CUT AvELLAP PAY
New Strikes Coming If
Policy Is Continued

AVELLA, Pa, (Bp Mail) Al
though operating large number of
the biggest mines in the Pittsburgh
district, the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. has singled out one of its
operations for a ten per cent wage
cut and this goes into effect imme-
diately, according to notices posted
at the T. and w. mine at Avella,
Pa, which is operated by this COM
pany.
However. the men employed at
the mine feel differently about the
matter, and fight is in prospect
if the company does not back down
on its threat. Short-time work and
starvation earnings are already the
rule here, in fact, it is the rule all
over the district, and new star is
imminent in the mine fields.
This latest wage cut, which re-
duces the pay of day men from
S4.75 to $4.25, machine leaders from
GS cents to 81 cents ton, pick
miners from IS cents to rs cents a
ton and machine runners from IL
cents to 10 cents a ton, is believed
to be move on the part of Lewis
and his henchmen to create situa-
ton favorable to the establishment
Of real company union over which
they can exercise control and to
find out what the lineup is in the
strong local here of the National
Miners Union
The same thing is contemplated
at the other mines operated by the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., if it
works in this mine, and it goes with
out saying that other companies
will follow suit, but there is fight
left in the miners yet. This is more
true now than ever, because all of
them realize that they have not a
thing to lose now but their misery,
and that is plenty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
NICARACUAN JOB
ENDED, DEP ARTS
Diaz Praises Rule of
Imperialism

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 16.
Having completed the work of
running Moncada into office and
guaranteeing the war base and
canal for the Yankee imperialists
with the help of 1000 marines and
sailors, Gen. Frank Mccoy, presi-
dent and manager of the election
board and his aides have handed in
their designations as token that
Wall Streets work has been taken
care of.
They will depart for Panama to-
morrow, leaving the Yankee i'm
perialist interests in the hands of
the marines and the Nicaraguan
traitors who have surrendered body
and soul to the striped banner of
dollars.
The United States government
was fully assured that the Nicara-
guam regime would not betray the
imperialists when president Diaz, in
his message to the new congress,
saw nothing but peace and pros
perity for Nicaragua under the DOM
nation of the United States. His
speech could very well have been
the identical one that Kellogg would
have delivered to the new congress
which had been ushered in with the
boom Of marine guns.
The new congress is all set for
manipulation from above. The SEN
ate is conveniently composed of IL
conservatives and IL liberals, an
ideal condition for pulling strings
and making the puppets jump to the
tune of independent action. In
the house the conservatives have "a
seats and the liberals 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
EXTRADITES
WORKERS TO TERROR
Tmprecorr Press Seruice)

VIENNA, (By MaiD Austria,
which for a time granted proletar-
ian political fugitives a certain
right of asylum, is now continuing
its recent fascist policy in all forms
of political servility towards the
terrorist governments of the Balkan
states. A court in Vienna has de-
cided to hand over a Yugoslavian
revolutionary named Anton Mavrak,
to the Belgrade government.
The extradition is to take place
in the next few days. Mavrak is a
well known worker in the Yugo-
slavian movement. For a long time
the Belgrade government has sought
for some excuse to get him into it's
hands. About a year ago a strike
took place in Agram (Zagreb)
whereby collisions occurred between
the strikers and strikebreakers. As
result a strikebreaker named
Stjepan Misic was killed. The po-
lice made great efforts to arrest
those responsible and arrested
worker named Ivan Konrad who was
accused of manslaughter.
This capture was, however, not
sufficient for the police who wished
to involve leading officials of the
movement. The police therefore
systematically tortured Konrad I'M
til in his despair he made the neces-
sary confession" and declared that
the prominent comrades, Bartol
Burcul and Anton Mavrak, had in
structed him to kill the strike
breaker.
Burcul and Mavrak, however,
were living in Vienna where they
were arrested at the request of the
Yugoslavian government. Despite
strong protests from other coun-
tries, Barcul was then handed over
to the Yugoslavian authorities.
When the trial of Konrad took
place he declared that the "confes-
sion" which he had made had been
forced from him by bestial tor
lures and that the confession" was
nothing but fabrication. Under
the circumstances Burcul could not
be sentenced for the crime but he
was nevertheless, as is the custom
in Yugoslavia, banished to little
out of the way village for ten
years where his every movement is
watched by the police and military.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
After Waiting Days Search Berth Hoaxed by US Shipping
Sign of Leopard, at National
Is Facile MMYde7. MelOdYun1a

THE new play that opened at the
National Theatre this week,
"Sign of the Leopard" is one of
the detective and murder stories
that the facile Edgar Wallace turns
out in England as often and as cas-
lily as Owen Davis here. 1t was
about as original, in construction
and execution, as Fire Commission
err Dorman's admonit.on re the
nearest exit.
1t was somewhat of a pleasure to
have everything work out exactly
as one expected-it was 'unneces-
sary to wriggle the tail of the
smallest nerve cell connecting with
the brain. Only here and there a
stale prohibition or newspaper
joke broke the calm.
Many of those who had come to
see and hear a real imported play
must have been thrilled, for at regu-
lar intervals one could hear awed
whispers inquiring what this or
that englicism meant. This despite
a vocabulary appended to the pro-
gram.
The tale briefly is one of crook
meeting battling detective and al
most losing his fiancee to him.
Later the dick helps the girls uncle
to shoot the villain, chivalrously
realizing that saving the girls hap
piness would justify the slip of the
trigger finger.
A high priced brother, silent au-
tomatoes, sly reporters, whiskey and
sodas, and all the secretive grim
aces of detective story are scat
tered fullsomely through the play
and they make pretty thin garnish-
ing.
So that, with an obvious play that
is quite representative of the boiler
plate turned out by dramatic cor
respondence schools, with acting to
match, and bromide comedy relief,
one is relieved when the evenings
entertainment comes to a close,
A. G.. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

caught under a fall Of rock in this
mine. He is in the Nanticoke hos
pital.
Adam Penchosky, So, of 78 North
Empire St., Wilkes-Barre, suffered
a broken back when he was caught
under a fall of rock in the Hollen-
back Mine Of the Lehigh & Wilkes
Barre Coal Company. He is now
in the General Hospital and is ex-
pected to die any minute.
Aloysius Plochek, 20, of SO West
Chestnut St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa, had
several fingers of his hand smashed
when caught between cars in the
Dorrence mine of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. He is now in the General
Hospital. This work is very dan
gerous and is done mostly by young
miners.
llartin Smith of Fellow ST., Bres-
lau, Pa, had his hand smashed when
run over by a motor in No. II mine
of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal
Co.
John Mccormack, age %, of
Front ST., Nanticoke, was killed a
few days ago by fall of rock in
Truesdale colliery Of the Glen Allen
Coal Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
over 100 OTHER
men FOOLED IN
same MANNER
Demand Pay, Showed
Down Gangway
lBy Seaman Correspondent

(Bg a Seaman Correspondent
After spending days and endless
hours in the shipping office of the
United States Shipping Board,
standing amidst crowd of unem-
sBfoyed seamen who rushed in body
to the counter every time a job was
called out, like a pack of hungry
wolves, I was at last rewarded with
a job on a ship. Then | found I had
to pass a doctors examination. An
other hour was spent waiting for
the doctor to examine me. The
examination consisted of getting
YOUR family history and filing it,
then being shipped into the doctors
room like sheep going to the
slaughter.
The specification necessary to
pass this horse doctor was
physique like a prize fighter. I
managed to pass him after a lot of
pounding and got an o. X. slip.
Then I was instructed to see Joe
the fink shipping master. I was
to report aboard the S. S. George
Washington with my clothes for the
Chief Engineer. This was Saturday
morning, and the chief engineer
told me to come aboard Monday 8
a. m. Monday l was aboard bright
and early full of expectations of the
job, but to my dismay I found over
100 other seamen waiting for the
same job. The engineer in charge
came and looked us all over; we all
made dash to him with our slips.
He calmly waved them back and
proceeded to pick the huskies out.
! He hired 20 men. l was not one of
them. Then we were told we were
not wanted and when / began to de-
Inland my wages for waiting two
days for the Job I was roughly
pushed down the gangway. Now I
lam back in the shipping office of
he United States Scabbing Board,
"orced to go thru the same process
~ order to get a job. These condi-
tlo-1s would be remedied if the sea-
lmpe were organized in the Marine
'.ile asers Progressive League, the
terer fighting union on the water
herelt.
OFT j. F. G.