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Imperial Valley press., 1928-12-14
INCREASE INDIAN FUND
By United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON. Dee. 13.-Tho
houS" adopted an amendment to the
PENDING interior department appro-
priation bill increasing an arPro-
priation Of So GOO to 100000 for
supprcssing labor and drug traffic
among Indians.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-12-14
Local Woman's
Father III

Mrs. George W. Rcasonvcr left
Wednesday for san Angelo. TcNn~.
where she was called to the bedside
Of her father. W. s. McDurmitt, who
is seriously i'll. Mr. McDurmitt Suf-
fcrcd a stroke Of paralysis several
months ago and recently was taken
i'll with the flu which has develop
"a into double pneumonia.
He is well known in FL Centre, he
ing associated with Roy Womack
for about two years. He is also
known in Baptist church circles. as
he and Mrs. MeDurmitt were loyal
church members while in this city.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-12-14
IDENTITY OF man
WHO TOOK LIFE
NOT ESTABLISHED

Although a corners Jury at Cal
oNjco yesterday returned verdict
that a man known as j. L. Mathews,
about - wears old, committed sui
eide with IS caljbrc revolver
there ON Tuesday, the identity of
the dead man was not established,
according to Coroner B. +. Lemons,
who conducted the inquest.
In an attempt to learn his name
and the whereabouts of relatives,
descriptions will be sent to Bisbee
and Nog1lc>. Ariz. and to Naco,
Sonora, Mexico. where Mathews was
reported to have worked.
The body WAS found about l:&0
o'clock tuesday afternoon in Il
>ma}l tent hou>c beside the CaHfor-
MIA apartments. The man had
registered ii the hotel under tho
name Of !. K. Matthews and original
reports >aid he WAS from Bi~hce and
had at one time been % card dealer
.- Naro.
p,>pondrnry over adverse imam
rial matters Wa~ first believed to
lave prompted the suicide as, it
was said, Tire man had wired to his
home for money but did not receive
it hecauSa he was in jail at MeNi-
cali Whom il arrived. The money
was said To have been returned.
An investigation bv Coroner
Lemons and >hcrift'S office opera
tivcs Yesterday disclosed that no
man had been confined in any Of
the McNicai iailS under the name
Of Mathews during the time he was
supposed to have been held hv
Mexican authorities ON drunk
charge.
No Foul Play
Employees Of several saloons and
clubs in tie Mexican town were
questioned during the inquest. but
none seemed to have definite in
formation rs to the man 5 identity
although most of them were
acouaintcd with him.
There WAS no possibility Of foul
play, Lemons said. Mathews was
we'll dressed and when seen earlier
in the day by one or two acquain-
tanc-s. nothing unusual was noted
ahoU, him which might have led to
lis ending his own life.
On July l. Henry Foster com
mitted suicide in the same bed in
which the man supposed to be J.
t. Matthews was found. according
10 Coroner Lemons. Foster shot him
self through the head. as did Math-
c'yS. and used IS calibre pistol of
practically The same model IS was
found in the latter : hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-12-14

4 short course in aricultural cngl.
nocring will be given at the Univer-
sity Farm, Davis, December 10-12.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-12-14
PRINCIPALS IN
NOTED TRAGEDY
MEET AT CLUB
By United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Dee. Hillary X.
Thaw and Evelyn Ncsbit frolickcd
at night club early today, Just as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
UNCOVER HUGE
BOSTON CRAFT
Is City Officers Accused
In Sensational Charges

BOSTON, May Sensational ex-
posures of graft were made here to-
day, in charges against at least IS
officers of this city made within
prison wall where John F. Mullen,
member of the rum and vice graft
ring, is incarcerated.
Mullen, who brings these charges
of misunderstanding against the city
officers, is one of the five against
whom indictments were returned late
yesterday afternoon on charges which
included conspiracy to steal goods
from John Sullivan, manager of the
Ritz Hotel, obstructing justice, cor
ruptly soliciting police officer to
accept a bride, and conspiracy to OBJ
struct justice.
Now that his fellow-grafters in the
city administration have been allowed
to go scot-free, Mullen is bringing
charges that, it is expected, will I'M
cover official swindling in Boston.
equal to the sewer graft in New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
DERIDE spy IN
ALSACE trial.

PARIS, May IA complete I'M
masking of the French governments
methods in their endeavor to trap
the Alsatian autonomists on trial at
Colmar was revealed in a neat turn
ing of the tables on the prosecution
yesterday.
Riehb chief Of the agents which
the government has brought forward
against the autonomists, has been
compelled to admit not only that he
characterized Premier Poincare as
"the gravedigger of France" but that
he wrote frequently in the most in
sulting way of France and leading
Frenchmen.
81 was living among wolves" Riehl
said when derided by the defense
lawyer for insulting his country
while the court rocked with laughter.
The government is being forced to
eliminate some of it's army of wit
nesses in order to speed up the trial.
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our struggle" the delegates said
Besides we are building union SO
that they will not have to work for
the wages we do, or under the condi-
tons we are forced to endure"
Meanwhile the need for relief is
becoming unbelievably acute. Grim
famine is spreading through the
strike fields. The men are firm. The
women and children are with them
They take their places on the picket
lines, willing to endure unheard of
privations. Their objective is too
great to permit wavering.
The striking coal diggers are fight
ing one of the greatest battles in la
Dor history. And they are fighting
CALAMITY. Do not thrust them aside!
Stand by them! Send as much as YOU
can to the National Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn Ave, Pitts
burgh, Pa, SO that food and clothing
can be rushed to them!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
KANSAS POLICE:
ATTACK UNIONIST
Attempt Made to Frame
Kansas Organizer

KANSAS CITY, May II (FP).-
National officers of the Brotherhood
Of Sleeping Car Porters are aroused
by the attack on Ashley L. Totten,
Kansas City representative of the
union, whose office was rifled by
hugs believed to have been inspired
BY the Pullman Co.
Six men, masquerading as police
officers, descended on Totten's office.
threw files on the floor and ruined
valuable organization records in a
hunt for opiates. Some of the thugs
tried to plant dope in the office and
then hustled Totten down the street
while others remained to examine
Brotherhood documents at leisure.
The thugs scattered after the office
had been looted. Totten rushed to
he police station, where officials de-
MED any connection with the outrage
Totten is an assistant general or
ganizer of the Brotherhood stationed
in the important Kansas City district
for the past two and a half years.
At national headquarters in New
York, the attack was interpreted az
another chapter in the Pullman Coz
INSCRIPTIONS war to discredit the
Brotherhood.
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worker -PEASANT
ARMY TAKES CITY
IN CANTON DRIVE
Japan BUSHES Troops to
Tientsin
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Continued from Page Qne)
The Kuomintang troops are reported
to have taken the towns of Paotingfu
and Chochow.
4
SHANGHAI, May lin spite of
the efforts of the police and soldiers
to break up any demonstrations
against Japan, protest meetings and
boycotts are still in progress.
c. T. Wang, of the diplomatic com
mittee of the Nationalist Government,
declared today that the Kuomintang
government would halt all "propa-
ganda and hostilities against Japan"
and that Kuomintang troops had been
withdrawn from the areas in Shan
tung specified by the japanese.
Reports from Canton state that
fighting has taken place between the
troops of LII Chai-sum and Che
Ming chu, Kwangsi war lords in con-
troll of the city over the question Of
pay. The town of Shilling near
Canton has been taken by worker
peasant troops, according to reports
received here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
ILLINOIS SCHOOL. S
HIT BY Strikes
500 Children Take Hand
in Administration

CHICAGO, May 17.-Six hundred
children were on strike in two Illinois
schools today bocause authorities dis
missed school officials. Three hun
dred students of the Hall Township
High School near Peru went on strike
in protest against the dismissal Of
their superintendent, j. w. Sullivan.
The other 300 students are striking at
Carbonate following the board of
education's failure to reflect their
principal and music instructor.
The students of the Peru school
have arranged to start picketing to-
day if their demand for the reinstate-
ment of Sullivan is not met.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
KHAN FLOeGER IS
NOW PROSECUTOR
Charge Still Pending
Against Appointee

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May II. -
Capt. Ira B. Thompson, exalted cy-
clops of the ku klux khan for the
Luverne realm, who was among those
indicted by the Crenshaw County
grand jury in its investigation of
floggings, has been appointed prose-
cutting attorney of Crenshaw county
by Gov. Bib Graves.
Capt. Thompson, who was never
placed on trial on the indictment, is
now the prosecuting attorney in the
county where the charge is still pend
ing against him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
CALL OUT TROOPS
AS PERU HARBOR,
R. R. MEN Strike
Force Sailors to Scab
Under Guns

CALLAO, Peru, May 17--Troops
have been called out and are patroA-
ing all docks and railroads as a result
Of the strike of the dock workers of
the port of Lima which has spread to
all harbor and railroad employees.
Efforts are being made to rush
strikebreakers to the scene of the
strike where sailors under the guns
of the patrolling military are being
compelled to scab on the harbor
strikers.
In spite of the efforts Of the author
tiles a number Of vessels lay idle with
.cargoes unloaded yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
SANTA FE JOINS
ROSARIO STRIKE;
TIE Up HARBORS
Buenos Workers De
mand Sympathy Strike

BUENOS AYRES, May IT, - The
trike of the dock workers, which
spread from Rosario where it has
Ieen in progress for several weeks,
tieing up all marine transport in
he harbor of Santa Fe, reports from
hat city state. Santa Fe is large
tort to the north of Rosario. The
nen are reported to have walked out
1000 in sympathy with the dock
workers. in Rosario.
The unions in Buenos Ayres are at
present demanding a general strike to
support the Rosario stevedores. In
went the strike vote is taken tonight,
is expected that virtually the entire
Ihipping Of the Argentine will be tied
Up within twenty-four hours.
ROSARIO, Argentina, May II. -
Ieartened by the news that the dock
workers. in Santa Fe have joined them
a sympathetic strike, the picket
ines here were firm yesterday in
pite of police interference.
The authorities are frankly alarmed
~ the proportions the walkout is as
nming and the police have been Civ
N a free hand in an attempt to ter
.orize the strikers. While no new
Killings were reported, the funerals of
he recent victims of police outrages
gainst the dock pickets have been the
occasion for intense feeling among
he Rosario workers.
The government and the owners
continue to ship in strikebreakers tho
he complete nature of the strike has
prevented any effoctual loading or
Unloading of the vessels tied up in the
port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
z WORKERS, THREE
CHILDREN DROWN
Barge Heavily Loaded
With Stones, Sinks

BALTIMORE, May 1.-Two work
ers and their three children were
drowned early today when the barge
Calvert, being towed by a tug sank
in Chesapeake Bay, five miles of
Annapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Insley and
heir three children were asleer
board the barge when portion
the bottom fell out and the craft dis
appeared. They had no chance
escape.
The barge, loaded with stone, Il
being taken to Urban@a Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
TIE-UP LOOMING,
IN MEXICO CITY
Bakers Strike May Lead
To General Walkout

MEXICO CITY, May ia
general strike looms in Mexico
City as the result Of the walkOut
of bakers. Trade unions have
pledged their support TO the bakers
who have closed down almost every
large bakery in the city.
The differences between General
Obregon and Luis Morones, head of
Crom, the national labor federation,
have been considerably widened.
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strike area is marked by an intensi-'
fication of mass picketing. The eff
forts of the coal diggers to knit them
selves into a solid labor organization
is being met by bludgeoning, bully
ing and clubbing them in an attempt
to end mass picketing, weaken their
morale and force them back to work.
on the part of the police. But to no
avail.
The troopers are on guard every
morning, pretty Elsie Rupnic,
daughter Of the storekeeper at White
Valley says. "They ride all around
the hill and if you even come out Of
your house, they club you. They think
it all belongs to them. That fat cop
who beat Tony up rode on our porch
with his horse. He was swinging his
club some, I'll tell you'll"
"And that isn't all" she continued,
indignantly. "They insult the women,
too. A lot of the women here say
they won't stand it any longer. They'll
have them arrested" But the strikers
and their wives of White Valley have
learned on what side the courts in
variably side.
Club Women Picketers.
eve don't want women and kids
on the picket linew is the decision Of
the heavily armed rulers Of West
moreland county who come to guard
the mines and fight the pickets ar
rayed in solid cork ''riot" helmets.
Mrs. Mary Capretti and seven other
militant wives of strikers we're at
tackled by a group of coal and iron
police and state troopers before the
Westmoreland Coal Co. mine at
Yukon. First one of them came. Mrs.
Capretti tried to grab the club from
him, and while they We're fighting
the other yellow dogs jumped on US,
and I'll tel you, they walloped us as
hard as the menl" the pickets later
related "But if they think they can
brighten US away, they got another
guess coming. We're gonna win this
strike"
Many Pickets Beaten.
In Vandergrift, ten more pickets
were severely beaten when hundreds
picketed the Mill mine of the Pine
Run Coal Company Clyde Scott, SUI
perintendent of the mine, who
brought four state troopers in his au-
tomobile, engineered the job.
In the face Of this intense terroriza-
ton, the coal diggers are forging
ahead. The Westmoreland County
Strike Committee, of which every
striking miner in that county is
member, held it's second conference
Sunday afternoon, May 10. Provisions
for a thorough organizational cam
paign in every subdivision were out
lined.
For the first time, the women's
auxiiaries are coming into their own.
The executive committee Of 16 was
enlarged to II so that one represen-
tative of the women's groups may
participate in their bringing their
men into the ranks of organized labor
Strikers Children Organize.
The children weren't forgotten. A
motion was unanimously passed tc
organize the children Of Westmore-
land county into junior strike groups
"Their stomachs are just as empty
as ours, and they must understand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
RUMOR REVOLT In
CHILEAN FORCES

BUENOS AYRES, May II. - Ru-
mors Of unrest thruout Chile received
substantiation yesterday when the
Chilean government officially insisted
that revolution had taken place in
the country.
Reports received here earlier stated
that an outbreak had occurred under
the leadership of a number Of military
men.
The Ibanez government has sue
ceeded in preventing any details of
the outbreak from leaving the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
Fire Menaces Workers
in Canning Factory

EASTPORT. Maine, May IL
Three hundred employees, most Of
these women, had narrow escapes yes
terday' when fire of unknown origin
totally destroyed sardine factory No.
3 of the Seacoast Canning Company.
The loss was estimated at 100000.
The Holmes Sard.ne Company, ada
cent to the destroyed factory, was
slightly damaged by the flames.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
Expect Verdict in
Bishop Trial Today

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May IT,
The fate Of Bishop Anton Bast, on
trial here beh' nd closed doors for mis-
use Of mission funds Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Denmark, is ex-
pected hourly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
NO REST FOR CLERKS.

The New York Stock Exchang
will be closed on Saturday May IS
to allow offices to catch up with THEN
I clerical work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
By LELAND oLDs Federated press).

The commercial interests Of financial garc behind
of
ogarchy States behind Nicaragua
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
TERROR INTENSIFIED
AS MINERS ORGANIZE
(SnecioL tn The DniI,, TVorl.oy)
PITTSBURC

70
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May IAlhough families
clothing barely their little bodies the the
New Britain herald., 1928-01-26

days.
 Neither Mir. Simpson nor hls wife showed any indication-of advancing age. except in their silvery hair.
 Both enjoyed the program as en. Enthusiastically and as actively as anyone in the room. T Love to dance the old dances" explained Mrs. simpson. who confessed . life- long love of the waltz. 'I think they were much nicer than these dances they have today which they call jaxx."
 Because of the fact that the young woman selected to do a high land fling was unable to be persent. g Miss Grant from Hartford, . pro- fessional dancer. gave an exhibition of fancy dancing at the close Of the program.
 The officers and committees in charge were as follows:
 President. James Pattison: vice. president. Henry E. c. Hill: secre- tary. John Pattison: treasurer. Ed ward Ramage. Reception commit tee. MT. and Mrs. Fred Stingle, MT. and Mrs. w. c. Gibney, MT and MrA. Alec Gordon Banquet comimttee, Henry E. c. Hill. chairman: Ed ward Ramage. treasurer: John Pat tison secretary. Table assistants. Miss Grace Macarthur, Miss Ruth Gibney, Miss Elizabeth Gibney. Miss Jeannie Pattison, Miss Virginia Gordon. Miss Dorothy Potts. Miss Eleanor Potts. Miss Jessie Galbraith. Miss Margaret Alexander. Miss Jessie Alexander.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-26
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY, JANUARY 2s 1928

introduced to the guests by Jamea Pattison. president. Mir. Sloan recall. ed the first banquet 20 years ago in Judas hall and gave a brief resume of the growth of the club from that time. Ever since that night the club has had an annual Burns banquet, although in 1918. he explained it was 'Hooverized" when there was no speaker. no sugar and small eats"
 He traced the progress Of the club, tnterjecting here and there a few typical Scotch jokes. which seemed to take rather we'll. He told of the fact that the club, which meets once . month, has never had g. small attendance, He concluded by expressing his pleasure at the fact that Mr. Robb was in the room, saying that five or six weeks ago. when the latter was critically i'll in the New Britain General hospital, and for a while his life appeared to hang in the balance, that 1t was feared the goth annual dinner and concert would be one of gloom in- stead of joy. His announcement that Mir. Robb was on the road to com plete recovery and was present at the time was greeted with much ap- plause.
 Events in the early life Of Robert Burns were cited by the Rev. Mir. Archibald. He commented upon the fact that it was just such a wild windy night as last night that the Scotch poet was born 169 years ago. He spoke of the poverty and early hardships in the Burns family, and recalled what he said was not gen. erally known that Robert Burns had actually started on his way to Amer ica when the success of his first book of poems caused change in his life plans.
 Burns was lyric poet, a man who fitted words to music and an-
New Britain herald., 1928-01-26

An appeal to New Britain men and women of Scottish ancestry and their friends to emulate the work of the poet Robert Burns in elevat- ing and cleansing the language of the day or any tendency it may have to fall below the highest stan. dards of purity, was made by Rev. Warren s. Archibald of the South Congregational church of Hartford last night at the goth annual ban- Quet of the Burns club of New Brit ain.
 The banquet was held at the Bur- ritt hotel and was the largest gath sring the club has ever had. Nearly 900, fully 25 per cent more than had been anticipated. attended.
 The entire program, the atmos- phere, the music, the menu, the ad- dress, everything possible was rem iniscent of Scotland. As the guests entered the ball room they were greeted by the sound of the pipes and highland music floated from the orchestra stand, where Pipe Major William Miller, clad in picturesque kits piped welcome. On the tables were found the short breads, scones and oat cakes for which the Scot tish housewives are noted. These were baked by the women of the club and brought to the hotel to be added to the menu.
 A group of young "lassies," dress cd in white. with wide sashes of Scotch plaid running from waist to shoulder. and bits of imported white and purple heather in their hair, augmented the regular hotel dining room force. by providing for the guests those little attentions a busy waiter sometimes is unable to give. Members of the general com- mittee greeted guests. also wearing in their lapels bits of heather.
 Parker's orchestra, with one or two musicians who play annually for this banquet, was renamed Ben Parker's Ain" for the occasion. The quartet from the South Congrega- tional church listed On the pro- gram as The Tilliecootree Quar- tette" with Carl Bloom. organist and
New Britain herald., 1928-01-26

choir leader, confined its program to familiar songs of the heather and highlands. Bert F. Armstrong, song leader. selected none but Scotch mu- sic for the yocalists present, while M. J. Kenney. who directed the dances afterwards, scorned the in- novations of the ball room for the waltz and the two step of an earlier generation.
 Songs of Scotland were rendered with gusto and throughout the lobby of the hotel other guests stopped and listened as they heard the strains of The Banks and Braes," Bonnie Doon." "Roamin' in the Gloamin' ," "A Hundred Pipers," T Love Las- sie," Just a Wee Deocn an Doris," Wen All Go flame the Same Way" Annie Laurie," and "Auld Lang Syne."
 The menu, written by Stephen Robb. a charter member of the club.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-26

cient melodies" he said. He satd
 the melodies used in songs by Barnl came down through the ages iron, centuries before the birth of the poet but that their words had degenerat- ed to the level of the low tavern and the brothel. ''They had sunk to the level of the gutter. so that no decent and clean lips would re- peat them." he said.
 It was these songs, tie minister declared. which Burns took. saving the catching melodies, and discard ing the words for those of higher standard. "Auld Lang Syne" called ''The Worlds Anthem" he said was one. and 'The Red. Red Rose" was another which Burns rewrote. The poet, according to Rev. MT. Archi- bald, took the supreme emotions such as the love of man for man. the love of a man for maiden or the love of a maiden for a man, and the love of man for his country. and immortalized them in his songs.
 "All men praise Robert Burns be- cause most of all he took the songs of his country and lifted them and exalted them to lyric heights of the sublime and noble until he made the words and melodies worthy Of a great people.
 T call upon you to emulate the example of Burns and help to cleanse the language of the sordid and the commonplace. You are not worthy of him if you do less than this"
 In the grand march. which was led by Pipe Major Miller and M. J. Kenney. considerable attention was to the presence of an ac- tive couple whose snow white hair indicated that they exceeded in years anyone in the room. w. J. Simp- son and Mrs. Simpson, both 75 years of age, and residents of Plainville. recalled later the dances of earlier