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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13

WASHINGTON March IL P-
Spreading the nets of its inquiry, the
senate Teapot Dome committee to-
morrow will reach into President
Coolidge's cabinet for a. witness for
the first time since Edwin DENLY,
then secretary Of the navy, was called
in 1928.
Andrew w. Mellon, secretary of the
treasury, accepted the committees call
today and will submit I<Tl~Slf to
questioning as to why he declined
to use the $4,000 of Continental
Trading company liberty bonds sent
to him by Will H. Hays in 1928 for
employment in helping to extinguish
the republican national committee
deficit.
the treasury secretary why he did not
volunteer information as to his
transaction with Hays, who is also
under committee call, his third sum-
mons from the oil investigators.
A third witness placed under sum-
mons is. William NJ. Butler, of Massa-
chusetts, chairman of the republican
national committee, and manager of
President Coolidge'S campaign in 1924.
Butler has informed the committee
by telegraph that he never received
any political contributions from either
Hays or Harry F. Sinclair, lessee OF
Teapot Dome, who turned over
$260,000 in liberty bonds to Hays in
1923 for use in securing the debt of
the republican party.
PlitInrhc fnIpUroII1 InoUac still a Y11yc-
terry the identity of the Butler" re-
ferred to in the Pratt memorandun
produced before the committee ;ast
Saturday and which drew Mellon into
the committee picture with its similar
reference to ANDY"
For the first time in recent weeks,
the Oil inquiry developments broke
into proceedings on the senate floor.
The democratic leader, Senator ROB-
inson, of Arkansas, brought it up with
the declaration that recent testimony
before the committee "discloses PEI
culiarly disgusting and revolving COZ :
ruption,"
Referring specifically to the Sin
clair Hays liberty bond transactions
in connection with republican party
financing, Senator Robinson said that
"such records as were kept warrant
the conviction that the whole transac-
ton was corrupt"
"The testimony of Mr.. Hays before
the committee in 1924 warrants the
conclusion that ne deliberately con-
cealed the use by him, as political
chairman, of bonds obtained from
Mr.. Sinclair and in that sense sub
jected himself to the possible charge
of perjury" Robinson said.
Reviewing Hays testimony that the
bonds had been parcelled cut as
security among several contributors
to the party deficit, the Arkansas
senator demanded to know the pur-
pose OF thus attempting to dispose
of the bonds"
"Why did Mr., Hays then make
no mention OF having sent bonds
/ tc either Mr.. Mellon OF to 'Butler?''
/ the democratic leader asked OF well
| filled senate chamber. who is the
| Butler referred to9
when will Mr. Hays divulge the
whole story? Will he contradict OF
corroborate the testimony of Secre-
tarv Mellon? How can he restore
himself in re public confidence and
respect or relieve the party ne repre-
sents OF the odium OF having sold
itself to the despoilers Of the nation?'
Secretary Melloc, already has in
! formed the committee by letter Of
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13
MAYOR HINTON
RECEIVES BOQUET
FROM KEN TUCKY

Mayor A. E. Hinton Of the city OF
Douglas acknowledged the receipt yes
terday of beautiful toquet of flow
ers, the gift of the mayor Of Louis
vile, KY. The occasion, according to
the message received with the boquet
is the annual Louisville flower show.
Mayor Hinton said that the flowers
were a very pleasing present and
that he appreciated them very much
not only as gift from one mayor to
another but the inspiration that such
a gift gives for advertising city. 1t
is supposed that such gifts were wired
to a majority of the mayors Of cities
throughout the United States as they
were to Mayor Hinton.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13
72 Bodies Already Taken
From the Landslide of
Saturday
DISEASE FEARED
1000 Workers Are Engaged
In Clearing Wreckage
OF Houses

SANTOS, Brazil, March IL up -
ForebodingS verging on panic spread
through this stricken city tonight as
new fissures were opened up in the
shifting sides of Mount Serrat by re-
newed heavy rains.
Rescue workers were ordered away
from the vicinity of Santo Rosa hos
pital when the earth began sliding, al
though the movement there was not
SO extensive as in the slides of Friday
and Saturday The Casino, one of the
city's show places in the club district,
was abandoned for it was regarded as
being in the lirect line of any fresh
landslides from the mountain
Plltrefaction of bodies recovered from
the debris has led to fears of an out
break of disease. The sanitary cor
don around the ruins has been
strengthened.
The entire situation was such that
neighborhoods comparatively distant
from the mountain were being evac-
uated Streets leading from the enigh-
borhood OF the mountain are congest-
ed VIII itrefugees and their belongings.
SANTOS, Brazil, March II Up -
While rescue parties dug at the huge
mass of debris deposited by Saturdays
slide, residents of other adjacent sec
tions of the city fled from the menace
of Mount Serrat.
Two thousand workers now are en-
gagged in the almost futile task of
clearing the wreckage of cottages and
huts and the great public hospital. Up
to noon today 70 bodies had been re-
covered, of which % were those of
children.
Viewing the wide seams" opened in
the slope of the mountain by recent
rains, the police authorities roped off
wide sections of the lower town and
cleared out the inhabitants for fear of
an even greater catastrophe.
Mount Serrat is visited by many
tourists, who reach the summit by
means of funicular railway An al
most impenetrable forest covers part
of the mountain, which is dotted with
rustic houses. The Holy House OF
Mercy, which sustained great damage
Saturday, stood out in bold relief. 1t
had been used as a hospital since the
days of the Portuguese domination,
having been established in 1913. Most
of the patients were removed without
injury and transferred to other in
Stitutions. The house had lately been
modernized and completely equipped
for the care of the sick.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13
HOUSE PASSES
ACT WITH
DRASTIC CHANGE.
Would Apportion Stations
Among States Accord
ing to Population

WASHINGTON, March II o.
With an amendment proposing a
drastic change in the existing
broadcasting system-an equal dis
tribution of stations among the
states and territories upon the basis
of population-the house passed a
senate bill today to extend for one
year the life of the federal radio
commission.
The measure now must go back
to the senate for consideration of
the house revision Under it's pres
ent grant, the commission will cease
to exist Thursday,
Just before final passage, the
house approved the amendment by
vote of 236 to 1873. This vote
found the membership split in a
general way along country and
city lines, the former support
ing the proposal TO distribute sta
tions according to population.
For two days a stormy debate has
been waged over the amendment
and the final vote today was pre-
ceded by an unsuccessful effort of
opponents to eliminate the pro-
posal, on the ground that it raised
AN issue not covered by the bills
enacting clause-extensio of the
commissions life.
Representative Chindblom, repub-
lican, presiding, sustained this con-
tention, but an appeal from his de-
cision Immediately was noted by
Crisp a Georgia democrat, who,
after a brief speech, demanded a
vote and succeeded in reversing the
decision, 168 to 140,
The extended debate touched
upon virtually all uses of the radio,
including reference to that made
by politicians Representative La
Guardia, republican. New York, one
of the few members representing
city districts who supported the
proposal, urged his New York
democrats to take a national view
point when the eyes of the nation
| are turned to our state" presum-
ably referring to Governor Smith.
Supporters of the amendment,
which was sponsored by Represen-
tative Davis, democrat, Tennessee,
charged the concentration of the
radio stations in New York and
other large cities was to benefit
an alleged monopoly in the industry
which they cited consisted of the
General Electric, the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph, and West
inghouse companies, and the Radio
corporation.
! In addition to the Davis proposal.
! two other changes to the senate bill
were adopted. They would provide
! for the reduction of the term of
broadcasting licenses from six to
three months and other stations
+ from one year to six months and
elimination of a provision whereby
+ the commission could be continued
i by appointment of its members.
The house, however, discarded by
parliamentary maneuvering three
other proposed amendments. One
by LaGuardia sought to limit ad-
vertising over the radio to six min
utes out of every hour another by
+, Griffin, democrat New York, sug.
gested equal ALLEGATION of stations
by population "as far as practi'
cable" while a third, by Celler
y another New York democrat, pro
Continued or Fage Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13
ENTOMBED MEN in MEX. MINE PERISH
Panic Seizes Santos When Mountain Moves
War Department Chiefs
Complete First Leg Of
Air Journey To Panama

* PENSACOLA, Fla, March IL
X d9-F Trubee Dawson, assistant
* secretary of war, and Major
* General James E. Fechet, chief Of
X the air corps, arrived here late
y. today from Montgomery, Ala
* en- route to Panama. The fliers
X said they would remain here over
* night as the guests of Rear Ad-
* miral F. B. Upham, commandant
* of the naval air station.
X
y * 81 * * y * * * * * y * *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-13
FARM RuREAU PLANS

PHOENIX, Ariz, March Il o.
Officials TO the Arizona farm bureau
federation were making final ar
rangements today for the part - icy
will take in the conference program
Of the southwestern regional gather
ing to be held at Las Cruces, N M,
on Thursday, Frday and Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
FOR SALE

Special Misunderstanding Monday, October Sh this Theatre
will Open Every Monday, Tuesday Friday and Saturday
with pOcy-OnIy the Outstanding Pictures Of the
Season and Read Shows will be shown
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
THE SMYRNA TIMES
SMYRNA, DELAWARE

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN
AGEBIENT. CIRCULATION. ETC. of The
Smyrna Times, published weekly. at Smyrna,
Delaware, required by the Act of August "a,
1912.
EdItor-Robert d. Hoffecker, Smyrna, Del
Managing Editor-Robert d. Hoffecker,
Smyrna, Del
Business Manager-Robert D. Hoffecker.
Smyrna, Del.
Publisher-Robert d. Hoffecker Smyrna
Del.
Owner-Robert D. Hoffecker, Smyrna Del.
Known bondholder mortgagers and other
security holders. holding 10 or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages or other securi-
ties-None.
ROBERT D. HOFFECKER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
LIST day of October, 1923
CHARLES HANRATTY.
(SeaD Notary Public.
my Commission expires March 10, 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
fuckers SHOP
CHAIRMEN Meet
Taft Will Report on the
Union Situation

All shop chairmen of the fuckers,
pleaters and hemstitchers shops have
been called to a meeting which will
be held at the headquarters of their
union Local Al of the l. L. e. W. U.
tomorrow Immediately after work.
Manager NJ. f. Taft will report on
the present situation in the union and
on plans for future work.
Taft declared that in spite OF the
locals expulsion from the Interna-
tional, by Morris Sigman, the presi-
dent, and Notwithstanding the fact
that the employers association mad
withdrawn recognition from the union
and had recognized the dual local es-
tablished by the right wing leader
ship, the union was nevertheless be-
ing supported by the overwhelming
majority of the membership. As
proof he said that the dues payments
at this time were as large as at any
time in the unions history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
COLD WILL SPEAK
AT SCHOOL MEET

Ben Gold has been added to the
list of speakers at the concert and
mass meeting to be held at the Irv-
ing Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St.,
Wednesday night. This reception l.,
arranged by the Workers School TO
welcome the students of the N e
months national day training course
Some of the students who have
been selected and who will be on the
platform are: Thomas Foley, Work
ers' School Director, Philadelphia;
Nathan Shaffer, Trade Union Educa-
tional League, member of the Cleve-
land Central Labor Union; Carl
Hacker, Cleveland secretary, Interna-
tional Labor Defense; Edward Tor
unen Of the Finnish daily newspaper
Tyomies, Minneapolis; Roy E
Stephens, Omaha, Nebraska section
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance; Morris Poberes-
ky. Agitation Propaganda Director
Minneapolis District, Workers Party
Arthur Starr, an agricultural worker
White Marth N. D., V. V. Dart OF
Oakland and a former prisoner al
Alcatraz, California for resisting the
draft. Also Tom Fleming who is the
Trade Union Educational League or.
ganizer Of San Francisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
OFFICERS
IN A.('.W.A. LOCAL ;

About 1000 members of the Oper-
ators' Local S, Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America, filled Coop
er Union last Saturday afternoon to
celebrate the installation of newly
elected officers. Previously the in
stallation meetings in the Amalga-
mated unions had been very small
affairs, being confined to the friends
of the officials elected The change
has been brought about by the cleo
ton of several progressives into the
new executive board.
Cheer Progressives.
When |. Jackson, the chairman,
opened the meeting and introduced
the right wing speakers, the workers
displayed a decidedly cool attitude.
However the GOODNESS was dispelled
Immediately upon the introduction Of
B. Leder, one of the progressives on
the new executive board. Thus en-
lightened as to the sympathies of the
workers present the chairman decided
to hold as the last speaker another
newly elected progressive, A. Pollack,
whose speech was enthusiastically APP
pretended. The other speakers were
j. Hershkowitz, of Local 5; Peter
Montet, of the Vestmakers Union,
and H. Halpern, of Local 161, who
officially installed the new officers.
Whenever reference was made re-
garding the organization of united
front of the various groups in the
union for the purpose of loosening
the grip on the organization which
the reactionary Beckerman maintains
it was greeted with loud applause.
BeclIerman had made several I'M
successful attempts to stop the cleo
tons from taking place when he
learned that progressives would be
permitted to run on the slate. Even
the right wingers in control of this
local could no longer endure the in
creasing dictatorial powers assumed
by their manager, and decided to GO
thru with the elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
NO PROGRAM FOR
MILITANT FIGHT
AGAINST BOSSES
Want Regulation" Not
End of Injunction
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the frantic efforts of those on the
stage to secure order.
At the end, quite obviously un-
nerved, Green suffered: "Wel, / hope
you feel better now"
At another moment, the mention of
the words, "Sacco and Vanzetti' by
one of the speakers in an attempt to
appear friendly to the audience, was
greeted with an outburst of perhaps
five minutes duration. Shouts could
be heard in the hall: "The A.. F. of
L. never put up a fight to save Sacco
and Vanzetti." "Where was Green
when they murdered them 2"
No Real Proposals.
Throughout the three hour session
of speech making, not single funda
mental proposal was made for the eff
fective fight against the injunction.
The prediction that only verbal"
challenge would be issued against the
menace was more than born out. Prac-
tically every speaker emphasized the
announcement issued by Joseph P.
Ryan, who acted as chairman of the
meeting: eve are not opposed to in
functions. We only want to regulate
them"
The purpose of the A. F. of L. Of
ficialdom to prevent at all costs any
rank and file expression was manifest
from the first when brass band of
some twenty performers with a
steady crash of musical thunder main
tanned an intermittant bombardment
whenever any clouds appeared on the
scene. At the end of the meeting,
the band was seriously taxed to drown
out the jeering and booing aimed at
Green. Nevertheless, above the thun-
der, could be heard the cat calls and
boots of the outraged workers.
The meeting was late in getting
under way at 2:45 p. m. Consider
able of the audience had arrived at
2 o'clock. For fully forty-five min
utes members from practically all
unions in the city appeared absorbed
in reading copies of The DAILY
WORKER which contained what was
said to be particularly appropriate
news report on the meeting. and
which predicted precisely the methods
by which the labor officialdom would
proceed to "enlighten" the workers.
When the labor officials appeared
on the stage and when chairman Ryan
was about to begin, a member of the
Young Workers League, Sol Berman,
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ClOakmakers to Hold
Meeting Tonight
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been marshalled by the Joint Defense
and Relief Committee. These SEN
fences had been imposed by Judge
Rosalsky after their arrest during
the 1926 cloakmakers' strike.
Vow to Aid Struggle.
After the prisoners had declared
their intention of intensifying their
activities for the union, Louis Hy-
man, Joint Board manager, acting as
the POSTMASTER welcomed them back
to their ranks in the name of the
union. Speeches were also made by
Ludwig Landy Of the Joint Defense
Committee, r. Salzman, manager OF
the "Freiheit," and Joseph Borocho-
vich, manager of Local 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Singers Wages Good

That Marion Talley, the youthful
opera star, earned $334,892 in the
past two years for concert appear
ances alone, not including her opera
salary, has been brought out in a
disagreement between herself and her
late manager, F. C. Coppicus. Miss
Talley claims that this is "gross
breach Of confidence"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
U. C. w. C. w. Theatre Party.

The United Council of Working
Class Women will hold theatre par
ty at the Yiddish Art Theatre on
Feb. 16. Tickets are obtainable at
the council office, 80 E. 18th St.,
Room $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Lecture in Lower Bronx.

C. Marmor will lecture on "The
Change in Family Relations and the
Role of the Woman in Industry" Fri
day, Feb. II, at It's E. 138th St., un-
der the auspices of the United Coun-
Gil of Working Glass Women, Council
q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
+. L. d. Bazaar.

The annual bazaar of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will be held for
five days beginning March 7, at New
Star Casino, Park Ave. and 10th st.
All articles and contributions should
be sent to 799 Broadway, Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Bronx I. L. d. Meeting.

The Bronx Branch of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will meet to-
night. The order of business will
include report of the bazaar com
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Labor and FYateymaI
Organizations
l. L. d. Bazaar Committee.

The next conference of the l. L. D.
Bazaar Committee will be held to-
night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th
st. at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

are still living in the company
houses"
Patch will speak at the relief con-
ference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
81 Organizations Take Part
In Women s Relief Conference

Plans for the relief of the striking miners of Pennsylvania Ohio and
Miners Relief held Yesterday afternoon the Irving Plaza Irving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Night Workers Meet Tomorrow.

A regular meeting of the Night
Workers International Branch will
take place tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock, at Down Town Labor Centre,
60 ST. Marks Place Eighth ST.
A definite plan of how best to dis
tribute the Daily Worker during this
Party campaign will be outlined and
adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

for Miners Relief held yesterday a
Place and 18th st. One hundred and
five delegates were present, repre-
senting 81 'women's organizations in
GLIDING 26 councils Of the United
Council of Working Glass Women.
The delegates raised $245 in cash
for relief and pledged an additional
$3.50. Rose Wortis, Joint Board,
Cloak and Dressmakers' Union, pre-
sided. Ray Ragozin, secretary of the
conference and Mrs. A. Hoffman Of
Boston were among those who rem
dered reports.
A motion was adopted to call con-
ference on March to form a per-
manent federation of women's organ
izations.
Conference Saturday.
Elaborate plans are being formu-
lated by the Pennsylvania Ohio Colo
RADIO Miners Relief Committee, 799
Broadway, Room 233, for the order
of business as the enlarged, city-wide
miners relief conference to be held at
the Labor Temple, 244 E. 14th St.,
Saturday at p. m. Several striking
miners from various strike areas will
present picture of the conditions
prevalent in their sections, and min
er's wife will talk on the women's
work in the strike, especially with re-
gard to the newly formed women's
auxiliaries Of the miners union The
International Workers Relief is CO.
operating with the relief committee.
Situation Is Critical.
''The situation in the strike fields
is critical" said Fannie Rudd, the
secretary of the committee yesterday,
"and unless all organized labor and
workers clubs combine to send relief,
there is grave danger of the destruc-
ton of the miners union. This would
mean that the rest of the organized
labor will be subjected to the same
open shop drive of the employers in
other industries"
Steve Patch, striking miner from
the Jefferson Coal Company mine in
Avella, Pa, said yesterday that every
miner who worked there walked out
when the strike was called and that
not man returned, despite hunger,
cold, disease and the terrorist activi-
ties of the coal and iron police.
"The union only gives me $3.50 each
week for 1875 miners and their fam
lilies to live on" he said "Most OF
the boys have large families, too. Our
barracks are terribly overcrowded and
they are evicting the families who
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okrs Shout for Labor Party at Cooper Uou y at President Green
Socialists Join Bosses
ON Anti Strike Law
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anti-strike law, according to the an
nouneement of Cohen is only the
Communist Party. "We expected their
opposition" Cohen declared.
Considerable evidence which has
been growing during the past few
days, indicates, however, that scores
of unions and thousands of trade
unionists, aroused by the campaign
of the Workers (Communist) Par y
against the menace which faces the
very life of the trade unions if this
bill becomes law, are preparing a
country wide opposition to the at
tempt to hand over their organiza-
tons to the employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Y. w. l.. Dance

The Young Workers League, Dis
trict 2, will hold dance, Saturday,
Feb. II at Harlem Casino, Lenox Ave.
and 10th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Mitchell to Speak Tomorrow.

Robert Mitchell will speak on the
membership campaign at joint
meeting of Branches 2, 3, A and 5 of
Section 5 tomorrow at 8:15 p. m.
at 2075 Clinton Ave, the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
2F Id Meet.

Ray Haimowitz will talk on William
z. Fosters book, "Wrecking the Labor
Banks" at the meeting of Unit Of
I'D tonight at $3.50 o'clock at go St.
Marks Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Be, IF.

Unit BE will meet tomorrow at 6:15
p. IN. at 101 W. 9th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Concert to Greet Students.

A concert and mass meeting to
greet the students who will attend
the three months National Day Train
ing Course of the Workers School,
108 E. 18th St., will be held Wednes-
day, Feb. 8 at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza,
Irving Place and 18th st. The speak
ers will include Jay INvestone, Will
lam 2. Foster, w. w. Weinstone, Ber-
tram d. Wolfe, Ben Gold and a stu
dent. Dorsha will dance.