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FOUR BANDIT CALLS
RECEIVED IN HOUR;
CLERK FOILS THIEF
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twice during the day making small pur-
chaSes Of candy each time Those in
the back room were Mrs. Holzers som
In law, Gustav Huter. his wife and their
two small daughters. Virginia and
Bette.
Trace Telephone Cali.
As DR. MicaIah Walker. colored, 200i
Eleventh street. was about 10 enter the
house at 92i r street in response TO a
cell for assistance received over the
telephone, a colored man stepped from
an areaway adjoining the house, placed
pistol against the doctors side and
ordered him to move back into the
darkness. After robbing him the
bandit commanded him 10 climb the
fence at the rear Of the house, The
physician obeyed and found he was
directly In rear Of the eighth precinct
station.
Policemen s B Meyers and o. r.,
Beale were assigned TO the case, They
traced the telephone call to the
physician from drug store At Ninth
and II streets.
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COST OF RAIL PAVING
BEFORE CONFERENCE
Proposed Removal of Burden From
Companies to City Creates
Division Of Opinion.

A provision in the revised transit
merger agreement. which would trans
fer from the traction companies to the
taxpayers the burden Of paying three
fourths OF the cost of paving and the
maintenance OF pavement between
street car tracks and feet on either
side, was discussed at a joint confer
ence Yesterday afternoon between the
District Commissioners and the Public
Utilities Commission.
The commission, 1t was said. failed
to induce the Commissioners to with
draw their objection TO this provision,
which would take approximately $780,
900 a year out OF the revenues OF the
District,
The Commissioners. however, do not
propose to register their opposition 10
the Budget Bureau. to which the uues-
ton will be passed for ruling whether
Il Is In accord with the financial pro-
gram OF the President.
The merger agreement as originally
drawn. contained a provision that the
companies be relieved Of the entire paw
ing expense between the tracks This
was modified by the Utilities Commits
sion, so that the company would be re-
quired TO bear one-fourth OF the cost.
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The chase continued for a half block
before Flowers was caught At that
point the fugitive slashed Leach on the
hand with the knife and again ran.
At Fifth and G streets Leach again
caught the quarry and fired second
shot before Flowers would submit to ar
rest. H was finally subdued by Leach
and Policeman Jonn Cronie OF the
Traffic Bureau. and Policeman M. p.
Lewis Of the sixth precinct.
At the station house a search revealed
that Flowers had IL pairs Of silk stock
ingS in his coat pocket. He later ad-
mitted that he was arrested in 1919 by
Detective Patrick O'Brien for house.
breaking and served three years In the
District workhouse at Lorton. His pho
tograph and finger prints were found
In the identification bureau revealing
that at that time he gave his age as 10
years Last night he claimed TO be
but 81.
A search Is being made for the driver
OF the car In which he attempted TO
escape.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
WILBUR INDORSES
HOOVER CANDIDACY
Navy Secretary Third Mem
ber of Cabinet to Support
Commerce Head.
BY tire Assoc ated Press

BY Tire Associated Press.
Secretary Wilbur is The third member
OF President Coolidge's cabinet to
indorse openly the presidential candi-
dacy Of Herbert Hoover Secretary
Work of the Interior Department, and
Postmaster General New are the Others
VINO have lined up definitely for the
Commerce Secretary.
Secretary Wilbur. in Omaha yester-
day. said that he indorsed Hoover as
the Republican party's presidential
candidate. He made the declaration
upon his arrival there TO speak before
the Chamber Of Commerce.
This is the first time that I have
given an Endorsement, but I'm going
70 say more about IL later when pre-
pare statement" the Secretary said
Jardine Seen Supporter.
In addition. Secretary Jaroine Of the
Agricultural Department Is regarded as
Hoover supporter, although he has
withheld definite commitment because
u Is understood. Kansas Republicans
are supporting Senator Curtis as q
iayorite SON Jsrdine Is from Kansas
Work. who Is particularly close t6
Secretary Hoover, has had large par;
in mapping out his preconvention cam
Daien. while New was Consulted b.
Hoover before he entered the Indiana
primaries. and has been ing In III.
recting the primary campaign In his
nome State against Senator Watson
Mellon Keeps silent
Thus far there has been only specula
ton AZ 10 where Secretary Mellon viii
cast MS lot Both he and Secretary
Davis Of the Labor Department will be
delegates at large from Pennsylvania "a
the Kansas City convention. Mellon Il
a political power in Pennsylvania and II
IS regarded as certain that he will b.
big factor IN determining where many
II not ali of the 10 uninstrIcted dele
gates from that State go in the ballot
Wilbur Is from California, HoOyer'i
home State. The Commerce Secretary
IT. the only Republican entered In Lhs
Nay primaries there and Is assured sup
port 81 California s % delegates IN the
convention
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7(6 FACE POLICE
BOARD IN 3 YEARS
Statistics Giving Names and
0ftenses Charged Prepared
for Senate.

Seven hundred and six members OF
the metropolitan police force have been
cited before the police trial board in
the three-year period from April !,
1925, to March %. 1929. according to
report sent to the Senate yesterday
by the District Commissioners in ac-
cordance with the Caraway resolution,
which was adopted about 10 days ago.
OF this number. 5s2 are still members
of the force.
The report also showed that g. of
the 706 cases were reviewed by the
Commissioners, and as a result 13 Of
the findings we're modified. one appeal
is still pending annd the remaining so
were sustained.
The report itself was not made pub
lie but was sent direct to Edwin p.
Thayer. secretary of the Senate The
Commissioners. however. gave out for
publication a brief summary which &C
companied the document.
Three detailed schedules are con-
taincd in the report. The first shows
the dates. the names Of the members
OF the force who have been charged
before the trial board in the three-year
period. the offenses charged and the
action taken by the board
Schedule sets forth the cases in
which the Commissioners have re-
viewed the action of the trial board.
showing in detail the names of the Of
ficers. the ofYenses committed. the ac-
ton of the trial board and the final
action of the Commissioners.
The third schedule shows the police
officers now on the force who have been
charged with offenscs before the police
trial board for the three-year period.
the names of the officers, nature of
offenses and the punishment inflicted
The data in the report we're complied
by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent
OF police, with the assistance of Harry
D.. Luckett. chief clerk OF the Police
Department. and Lieut. l.. /. Edwards.
assistant personnel officer.
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SIMMONS CHARGES KLAN,
CONTROLLED BY ITS FOES.
MARKED HIM FOR DEATH
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legged conspiracy and charged that he
had reason to believe Evans was made
imperial wizard by enemies Of the Khan.
into whose hands he had played and
wrought its sure wreckage"
Simmons said that while he was nj
the head OF the order there never was
riot involving the Klan. He alleged
that he had knowledge OF the whole
sale squandering and misappropriation
OF Khan funds under the present admin
iStration
During the day attorneys for the Klan
appeared before Federal Judge w IL. S
Thomson and moved that a deposition
BY Stephenson, previously entered. be
suppressed The court announced 1t
would rule on the petition Monday
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Boss Rcscues 100 Men and so Horses
Marooned on Ice Floe in Canadian River

The foe with It's freight was carried
nearly q mile downstream hy the cur
rent and was separated from shore hy a
channel of water nearly $50 feet wide.
Smith volunteered 10 swim ashore. A
rope was tied around his waist, and he
plunged into the Ice torrent, fully
clothed
Reaching shore. after several narrow
escapes from oareenlng Ice cakes, smith
huge foe toward land, A soon as the
lee grounded the men Jumped ashore
and drove the haFaea lN safety,
g kAxa than lA minutes altar the Zoe
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DU POINT BUILDINGS BURN

WILMINGTON, Del, April Z t4N --
Grass fires today destroyed three build
mgs at the dye works of the Du pont
Co, and threatened the SmokeleSS pow
der plant of the company at Deepwater
Point In New Jersey across the Dele
ware River from Wilmington.
The FIRST fire, said 10 have been started
from bonfire spread rapidly toward
the dye works, In which finished dyes
were stored
While flremen were fighting this blaze
flre started near the SmokelesS powder
plant about mile and a quarter away
This fire was believed late today To be
under control
Evening star., 1928-04-08
SMITH ssa. MEREDITH -.
Governor Has Commanding Lead
Iowa Primary.

DES MONIES. Iowa. Apyil 7 lPl.--
Gov. Alfred E. Smith OF New York
gained the favor of Iowa Democrats
in county conventions today over the
Hawkeye State "favoTite SON Of The
Progressive dryS." Edwin T Meredith.
former Secretary OF Agriculture.
Gov Smith had a comman6irg lead
over Meredith in instructed delegates
to the State convention here April 20.
when reports were complied from 90
of the 90 counties. which have I.24S
Of the 1881 delegates 10 the State con-
vention.
Five Of the counties reported. having
50 delegates. had to postpone their con-
vengionS because of impossible roads
following last nights storms, Two
counties, Polk and Woodbury., put the
selection Of delegates up 70 the State
convention by choosing two sets OF dele
gates, one for Smith. the other for
Meredith Reports from the other nine
counties were DELAYED by wire trouble
The delegate score in the 90 counties
heard from, counting instructions or tn
dorsements only for the candidates
named, follows:
Smith. $50: Meredith. 90. uninStrlcs-
ed, 4S9: contested. 81; choice postponed.
50. Total l.245.
Foreign cosmetics. powders ard
creams used in this country last YEAR
were valued at 81 70T. 600, an increase
OF nearly $9l 900 over that of 1925
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SANOlNlSTAS ESCAPE
CONTACT WITH MARINES
More Patrols will Be Sent 70
Nicaraguan Area for Rainy
Season Campaign.
nv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
MANAGUA. Nicaragua, April All
though Marine patrols In the northern
area have invited contacts with bands
OF "Sandinistas." the rebel troops. there
have been no clashes In the last three
DAYS.
Marine headquarters have announced
that additional patrols will be scattered
over the affected area In order To keep
the campaign at maximum heat during
the rainy season. which starts In May
Air patrols now are operating out OF
Ocotal as well as ManRgua thus short
ening greatly the distance they must
nv In order 10 cover the area In which
the flghting has occurred
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Colored Us Plan Tribute.

NEW YORK April Z tA1. An annual
Julius RosenwaId day" planned by
eoiored 4 NJ, g. AS IN ali partA0f The
United States, IN tribute 70 - CHI
eago phiisnthropisl, said 10 have given
$40 900 300 for e0l0red welfare, Was an.
T0uneed today T'he suggestion cams
from the Cincinnati association he
Evening star., 1928-04-08
ny the Assnolaletl Press

~ the Associated Press
PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan,
April 4 Charles Smith, straw boss OF
Camp "H" of the Pas Lumber Co,
north of here. today was the hero Of a
tale which Is without parallel III these
parts,
While 100 men and 80 horses were
eneamped on the north hank OF the
saskatchewan River near Nipawln,
prior 10 crossing the river into the
village, the Ice heaaaI TO move The
men decided to 0hAnds q crossing The
horses were driven through the fast ris-
lng water, and after great dtEiaeulty,
roth horses and men Aupnnesied In gain
lIse 4 position nn one pf The lATRs
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SEEK UNIFORM CLOTH.

In 81 effort " find cotton cloth
suitable Tor Army uniforms, Lieut. Col.
john s. Chambers and Lieut., Harry
Klrsner 0f the Quarternaster Corps
are oonfefriug In New York @ith Of
fscials ~ the Cotton Textile institute
~ America and representatives of sonpe
~ the leading textile manufacturers
One Of the leading American aye
manufacturers mar assured oinclSs mar
0y August they expect 10 have a dye of
he proper shade which Nill stand ali
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Friday. viii continue through Thursday
On Friday afternoon fnf BOYS and
CiTls Club we're guests Df The Rotary
Club on i Trip around the Speedway
Tomorrow afternoon the children 0i the
dsy homz Wlll hold a picnic on thh
Capitol grounds
Other features NJ the holiday program
include = musical and story hour for
ths boys and girls by pupils of MRS Il.
C. Miller and members Of the story
Tellsrs Iksgue on Tuesday, Wednesday
a visit of the Mothers Club ~ Potomac
PARK 10 see the cAefFy blossoms and =
talk on Women of japan" by Mfs.
David q. Carl snd Thursday supper
under tlae cherry DloseoME ~ the girls
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Cold Beats German Swimmer.

HAMBURG. Germany. April Z LA'l ,.-~
Otto Ksmmerieh, German duration
swimmer, abandoned projected 80
circus busch tonight after he had heen
IN the NateT only twa hours. Low tenls
peFatslIaa prevailing m The Tank gI1Eeea
Evening star., 1928-04-08
BUYS LEGATION SITE.
U. 3. Acquires Land Opposite Ca
madam Parliament Building.

madam Parliament Building.
Chairmsn Porter OF the House for
elgn affairs committee announced yes
terday that the American embassy and
consular buildInge' commission, OF
which he is chairman has acquired a
site for diplomatic building In Ottawa
directly opposite the Canadian P6rlla-
ment Buildings,
lie said that n 908 900 once building
will be erected and that IN addition
the commission plans 10 purchase a
residence Of the American Minister.
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AL SMITH SCORES
ANOTHER VICTORY
IN IOWA PRIMARY

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ELECTION CHANGES
CITIZENS COUNCIL:
FIVE NEW MEMBERS

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D. C. HEADS BALK
BLANTON'S PLAN TO
RETRY POLICE CASE

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in and it is easy to find impurities.
This continues till the end of every
month. seae
District No. II is paying from $13
to SIS per month between dues and
assessments. Where is all that money
going to? The men deprived of work
since last April got very little of it.
Company stores exist at nearly every
mine. You can purchase any thing
from lamp to an automobile. If you
have produced enough coal you can
get $1,000 sticker. Or you can get
scrip if you are willing to trade it
off for rs cents on the dollar. Scrip
is issued at Buckner. And yet Fish
wick, Nesbit, and Eneed will holler
there are no company stores nor
stickers or scrip issued in District IL.
Ninety per cent of the miners in
Illinois are dissatisfied, conditions are
unbearable. They are bled to death
paying dues and assessments, ais }
dock fines without realizing any bene-
fit. But, brothers, there is a reason
our officers are not trying to protect
us against this damnable unjust dock
ing. All fines, (blood money! goes
into the sub-district treasury 70 be
Isquandered and used to keep the gang
in power. Previous to the expiration
of our last agreement there was
$4,000 dollars collected for docks for
3 months from the miners of No. is
Peabody mine, West Frankfort. Good
God, the docking system is a gold
mine for the sub-district officers. Will
they try to remedy this injustice, No
not as long as we fools stand for it.
Is the car of coal that is locked
dumped on the refuse pile? Bless
your soul no, it is sold to the public
for clean coal
Can we remedy these humble cordi-
tions we are compelled to work under
while our present officers control our
organization I say no, they have
been feeding. Too long in idleness
and luxury, they will have to be
kicked out and their places filled hy
officers that will take their orders
from the rank and file that pay them
their salary.
Brothers, the United Mine Workers
of America is on the rocks thru in.
competent officers. When Lewis he.
came president we had membership
of 650,000. Today we have less thar
275,000 and if the miners of Illinois
continue scabbing on their brothers
in Pennsylvania and Ohio and West
Virginia, it will only be short time
until the 275,000 membership will b.
reduced JOHN BROWN.
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fIGHT AGAINST
WAGE SLASHES;
SPEEDUP SYSTEM
Bosses Ship Machines,
Men to Scab Plant
by Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By MaiD.
The striking hosiery workers of the
Ajax Hosiery Mill, at Jasper and Or
leans St., in the heart of the Ken
sington district, are feeling the re-
suits of the recent conference of the
hosiery manufacturers.
The strikers state that the Ajax
company is playing a shrewd game
sending the machinery and some of
the workers to Phoenixville on con-
dition that they will work with the
scabs there and in this way break
down the union.
The bosses have also tried to force
the workers to operate from two to
six machines in place of the one they
worked formerly. This would result
in increased production and more
profits for the bosses and more work
for the workers.
The pickets on strike are beginning
to feel the effects of the bosses tools,
the police, who arrested three of the
pickets, among them a militant girl.
After taste of this kind of oppres-
sion, they were released with a lee
ture.
The scabs are protected by willing
tools of the bosses, but the strikers
can expect not only lectures but, as
with the miners, the clubs of the
police.
There are rumors of the bosses
securing an injunction against the
union. There is unrest among the
hosiery workers here in Philadelphia
as the exploiters, the capitalist own
rs of the hosiery. mills, have in their
scent conference formed plans to de-
roy the hosiery union. They also
AN to slash wages and speedup the
-ockers so that the owners can make
IRE profits and by. the speed-up
Eliminate some of the workers who
.4ill thus find themselves among the
Iaillions of unemployed.
The strike has been on for two
weeks and is beginning to- convince
the hosiery workers that their in
terest is with all other workers who
are fighting the bosses wage cuts,
speed-up and the breaking up of their
unions.
The hosiery workers of Philadelphia
can look forward to other attempts
to break down their unions if this
strike is lost.
W. G.. P.
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of several billion in excess of Great
Britain. 1t has ousted Great Britain
from first place as supplier of CAPT
tai to Canada and Latin America
Latin-American securities underwent
ten in this country were $359,000,000,
compared to $118,000,000 by Great
Britain. And now, buddies and ship
mates, comes the very reason for war,
the ever important outlet for our sur
plus goods or capital must be fought
for.
In Africa, the Far East where
Great Britain leads the U. S. in points
of investment, our capitalist owners
of this great wealth are challenging
Great Britain for her markets. VIII
Great Britain give up these markets :?
We workers know that the capitalists
of Great Britain won't and can't.
Now we, who are in the service and
out of it, who are asked to murder
each other to keep in power the CAPT
talist owners of the mills, mines, in
dustries, what are we, knowing in ad-
vance the cause of the next war, to
do? Are we to allow our bosses to
plunge US into war on some flimsy
pretext and kill our fellow workers
and see our children die like dogs
from effects of germ bonds, gas, etc. +?
Are we going to see our class slaught-
cred like animals? Are we, the work
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lure CASSED MAN
TO ARMY PRISON
ON PENSION BAIT
Jail Ex-Soldiers For
Life as Insane"

WILMINGTON, Della, (By Mail).
Another example of the reward of
the capitalist government of the
United States for those who fought
and were gassed on the battlefields of
France has just been discovered by
The DAILY WORKER correspondent
here. 1t is the case of Herman Brad
ford, who was lured, like wild ami
NAL, into the cell of military prison
on the pretense that a government
pension was waiting for him.
Bradford, young Delaware
worker, was an orphan boy. When
the war began, he went overseas for
''his" country-'to make the world
safe for democracy" While in the
service of Wall Street, he was gassed.
AS a result, he occasionally becomes
practically unconscious and wanders
away with no knowledge of where he
is going. After he had helped "save
the world for democracy" and returned
W AulGIlCdS DIdu4OAQ CAlOAShb lO AASAA
finished his job and returned to his
home without waiting for the formal
certificate OF discharge.
No attempt was made to arrest
Bradford until short time ago when
he made application for pension as
a result of his injuries in the war.
He was instructed by the military
He was instructed by the military
post for his pension. Arriving there,
he was Immediately placed under ar
rest and is being held in the guard
house and will soon be court
martialed.
This case is typical of the treat
ment given ex-servicemen who are no
longer useful as cannon fodder for
American imperialism. p. G,
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DAM DISASTER
KILLED NEARLY 400
Most All of Los Angeles
Dead Were Workers
(By a TVorker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, May 18.-Accord-
ing to complete and official tabula-
ton just announced, the st. Francis
dam catastrophe, March IS, took a
total of 378 lives. The majority Of
the killed were workers employed in
Edison construction camps or as farm
''hands" OF the number 297 bodies
were recovered.
Lives lost in Santa Paula, 81; Fill
more, u; Ventura, 81; Oxnard, 10;
Moorpark, II; PRO, 10; Edison COM
pany camp at Castaic, 10; in another
Edison camp 40 and in the Newhall
district 81.
= No one has been held responsible
for the disaster. 1t was all san hon.
est error of judgment" on the par5
of William Mulholland, chief engineer
of the Los Angeles power and water
bureau, said the prosecutor.
Mayor Cryer is still keeping his
expert" dam-builder on the job with
"a smile, they say.
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Candida Active Chicago
Worker Leaves For n Y

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 18.-The Ital-
ian Party fractions, together with the
local of the Anti-Fascist Alliance.
were to give farewell party Satur-
day evening at 2301 West 22nd Place.
in honor of L. Candida, who is leaving
for New York to assume the secre-
taryship of the Italian Bureau of the
Workers (Communist) Party.
Candida has played a leading role
in the Chicago Anti-Fascist Alliance
and also within all the activities of
the local Italian Party fractions. He
was a member of the Chicago district
executive committee, in which he
served as member of the political
bureau.
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ers, who have no foreign investments
going to allow this damned inhuman
system to exist?
You servicemen, you workers of the
mills and mines, you farmers, mus
study for your class, and fight fol
your class, to overthrow this cause Of
poverty, unemployment and misery
and wars, the capitalist system. You
must establish a workers government
for there is no other real solution fol-
our existence. SERVICE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-19
Worker Killed by Fumes
In Textile Factory

NORTH BROOKFIELD, Mass,
Fsy 1S.-According to DR.. Frederick
=. Baker, Worcester medical examiner
dward NJ. Revane, who with seven
,ther men collapsed some time ago
while employed in the North Brook
field factory of the Asbestos Textile
Co., died of benzol poisoning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-19
AMERICAN FIRM BUYS DOCKS

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 1S.-Re-
ports persist in spite of denials that
The docks of the Santos Co., the
strongest privately owned company
in Brazil, have been sold to an Ameri-
can syndicate. The docks are at Sac
Pao.