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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
BY GEORGE PERsHING

The imperialists of Wall Street
and Washington have been able to
keep the natives of Hawaii, Guam,
Samoa and the Philippine Islands
in submission only with an impress
sive show of armed force.
The Hawaiian Islands are termed
by military strategists the Second
line Of defense" On the island of
Oahu Of the Hawaiian group there
are approximately $4,000 regular
army men. Oahu is only 598 square
miles in area yet it is fortified so
as to be termed "the Gibralter of
the Pacific"
To enumerate:
l. Fort Shafter-eight batteries
of Anei-Aircraft artillery.
2. Fort De Russy-Coast de-
Sc batteries equipped with rapid
and heavy artillery.
8. Fort Kamehameha-14, IL, 8,
6, and 8 inch guns, mobile and en-
placed and two batteries of railway
mounted IA inch guns.
A. Fort Armstrong-Light coast
defense guns.
5. Fort Weaver-Huge 16 inch
guns of the latest type.
6. Fort Ruger-With four bat
teries of IA inch mortors mounted
in the base Of an extinct volcano
crater. This fort is said by author
tiles to be impregnable.
7. Sheffield Barracks Huge
powder shell gas, liquid-fire, bomb
and grenade storehouses and maya
zines; ,3rd Engineer Regiment, 35th,
9th, 10Th and 21st Infantry Regi-
ments; 9Th, 18th and 18th Field Ar
tillery; 18th Tank Corps; 9th Gas
Regiment; 18th Signal Corps; Or
dinanoe Department; Motor and
Mule Pack Train Regiments.
s. Wheeler Field - Adjoining
Sheffield barracks and equipped
with fast pursuit and bombing
planes.
9. Luke Field-Adjoining Pearl
Harbor Naval Base and equipped
with seaplanes, bombing and pursuit
planes.
10. Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Submarines, sub-chasers, mine
layers, mine-sweepers, torpedo boats,
cruisers, battleships and observa-
ton balloons.
II. Marine Detachments-Out-
lying munitions depots, native mil
itia, arsenals, ETC., etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

In 1924 the men who slave in
these Notifications and barracks
were instigated by the officers t. at
tack the natives. The massacre
which followed was known as the
"Kalihi Riot" Many natives were
killed, but after an Official investi-
cation" no action was taken!
Army officers in extending their
apologies" stated that the civilians
would have to be more courteous in
their treatment of the armed forces
or it might happen again! In this
manner the warlords of American
Imperialism found another means of
terrifying the natives into complete
submission.
After this statement I did not
gasp in surprise when the natives
ran from me if l appeared before
them in uniform.
Company Police.
In addition to this huge display
Of armed force the plantation own
ers maintain special police to init
midate the workers in the fields.
1t is common sight to see children
Of eight to fourteen years crawling
in the burrows, turned by a tractor
gang-plow, laying the sections of
cane end to end while a company
policeman stands nearby.
In times of strikes these COM
pany police forces are turned into
a fascist strong-arm force of the
plantation owners to club the work
ers because they dare attempt to
improve their conditions of abject
slavery.
A cane-field worker wrote after
the strike in 1923: "There Isl no
security, no safety, no libert4 in
Hawaii while this power Ell is.
Whenever one shall come foF I'd
and speak with the voice Of "a
boring thousands, crying out st
injustice, greed, tyranny ana, ex-
ploitation, then the devilish power
that turks invisible behind the ma
chinery of the law, will reach out
and crush him."
In Hawaii as in other depart
ments of the army, soldiers are spied
upon, driven also to slave work with
picks and shovels in bitches and
sledge-hammers on the rock piles.
Soldiers are continuously subjected
to barrages of propaganda intended
to make them better and more eff
ficient murderers for the sugar
barons of Hawaii.
During my period of service in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Taxi Bosses Haze Their On Racket Men Must Waive Rights To Cobeut
USSR RATS MINUS TAILS
Decisive Experiments in Hereditary
Especial to th: Dqilu Workerl

Especial to thc Daily Worker
KRASNOYARSK tBy MaiD.-
Interesting experiments, carried on
by the young Soviet scientist, Tro-
fimov, in Krasnoyarsk, have given,
decisive proof for the first time of
the transmission of hereditary mod
ifications imposed from the outside.
Trofimov experimental with white
rats. Instead of cutting their tails,
as was previously done, he freezed
them off. He applied solution Of
ice and sulphuric acid, which in
chemical combination gave a tenn
perature of 10 degrees below zero,
70 the tails of rats five days old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
By FRED G. BIEDENKAPP
/E1ccutive Secretary, Workers m
tcrnationaI Relief

iEDccutive Secretary, Workers m
tcrnationaL ReI;ef)
While The capitalist world is busy
trying to fool the masses with the
old story of Christmas and peace
on Earth" millions of workers and
their children are facing starvation
IN this land of plenty and so-called
prosperity.
1t is not necessary to go outside
the limits of New York City to find
poverty, hunger, restitution and
despair. 1t can be found in cry
workingclass section of the five
boroughs. But to see it on a mass
scale one must go into the mining,
steel and textile centers throughout
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, and the "Solid
South"
Poverty in Proletarian Centers.
There poverty reigns supreme and
Christmas will bring with it heart
aches and tears. There laughter
and happiness are unknown and
peace on Earth" is branded as a
lie. What will be found is con-
slant struggle for a crust of bread
and an almost hopeless attempt to
keep the body warm and hunger
from the door.
will never forget the sight that
met my eyes when / travelled thru
the soft coal regions before the big
strike broke out. 1t was a time
when the miners were working two
days a week living on credit and
never knowing what the next day
would bring. Women had forgotten
how to smile and looked at you with
eyes that could no longer shed tears.
Bitterness could be seen in every
line of their face as they tumble
with o hard slice Of dry, stale bread
while children cried for drink of
milk, children whose little bodies
were cold from exposure-little tots
whose hands, legs and feet were
numb.
So they existed before the strike,
and then came 10 months of bitter,
relentless struggle for the right to
live. Eighteen months Of strike,
during which the workers united in
a common struggle against the mine
owners and then the sellout on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Nicaragua Vote Farce
Over; Mission Returns

WASHINGTON, Dec. II (UP)-
The state department YVES informed
today by The American minister at
Managua that the American Elec-
toral Mission in Nicaragua has COM
pleted it's work, and General Franz;
R. Mccoy, president Of the board
of elections, has resigned.
The American Electoral Mission
held elections in Nicaragua under
guard of U. S. marines, with ballots
on which only two parties were al
lowed to run, both in The pay of
Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

As result the tails were frozen
and came off themselves.
In the first generation of the rats
experimental upon. six of the new
horn rats lost their tails within the
first week.
These experiments are considered
by the scientific world to be o con
elusive proof Of the transmission pf
hereditary changes imposed from
the outside during the life of the
parent. The experiments are re-
corded in photographs and extern
sive Recommendation. Trofimov in
tends to continue his experiments on
a wider scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
The lmperialist Army In Hawaii

the islands l learned that one soldier
becomes insane every two days and
one is sentenced by courtmartial
every day to sentences ranging from
six months to life Imprisonment.
Every month there is a shipment of
these criminal" and insane soldiers
to Alcatraz and st. Elizabeth This
from Hawaii alone.
The prison stockade in Schofield
barracks and the guardhouse in Fort
Shafter are institutions Of terror to
the soldier. Beatings, assaults Of The
sex-perverted prisoners, guards
armed with sawed-off shotguns, the
Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull
frame-up and trial, courtmartial
sentences of ten, twenty, thirty, forty
years and life. These are the meth
DDS that the imperialists emplov
to force the soldiers to dc their bid
ding.
Soldiers are compelled to work
from II to ID hours per day at a
salary of $21 per month. Food con-
sists, primarily of "spuds" (pota-
toes) and gravy, it is found on the
mess tables on an average of eighty
times of the possible ninety meals
per month. From the minute salary
Of $21 per month the soldier is forced
to buy and pay for laundry, shoes,
uniforms, toilet articles, books,
tickets, tailoring and repairs, mess
fund assessments, and courts-martial
fines besides paying for government
property he might damage.
Mote; Heavy shoes and cheap
uniforms are issued but special uni
forms must be purchased and placed
in the battery storeroom for use
during parades.)
Finally l want to support Walter
Trumbull's statement in the April
18th, 1928, issue Of the Young Work
er and restate that soldiers are
framed by officers of the army and
sentenced by court-martials to
long terms of Imprisonment in the
military prisons of Alcatraz, Fort
Leavenworth and Governors Is
land.
Were it possible to evade the
long arm of the imperialist army
in Hawaii and get off the island not
soldier would remain there!
Alcatraz is a military prison at
San Francisco. st. Elizabeth is a
mental defective hospital at Wash
ington, d. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

the Monroe Doctrine and it's domin
ation over Latin American peo-
ples?"
Senior Medina grinned cynically
and replied, ooh, yes, l suppose so,"
adding an eloquent gesture that
spoke as clearly as words that he
didn't care what the peoples of
Latin America think. Thus having
proved the whole case Of Standard
Oil and Yankee imperialism gen
orally being back Of Bolivia in its
war on Paraguay, from the lips of
the Bolivian minister at Washing
ton, we departed.
We add only tina. if you read the
capitalist press you get a confused
mass Of misinformat.on, and the
only in the Daily Worker will yop
find facts such as here given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Office Workers Union
70 Meet This Thursday

OFFICE WORKERS HIM HIM M
Encouraged by it's recent success
full mass meeting the Office Work
ers' Union has arranged another
mass meeting to be held on Thurs
day, s p. m. at Labor Temple, 14th
st. and End Ave-, where Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, noted labor le,.urer,
will be the principal speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
6 KILLED IN AUTO CRASH.

WINDFALL, Ind, Dec. II (UP).
Six persons, members of one fam
lily, were killed and two others were
injured seriously near here, when
the automobile in which they were
riding was struck by a passenger
train at a crossing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
WRECK IN POLAND.

WARSAW, Poland, Dec. II C,D.
-Four persons were killed and six
seriously injured today when two
freight trains crashed on the
Kalety-Pclzamcze line. Forty four
cars were wrecked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
HOLD RANK CRATER

Charles w. O'Reilly, cashier of the
National Bank of Ridgewood, was
held in $4,000 bail on charges of
embezzlement and classifying ac-
counts of the bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
White Guardist Chief
Lost Illusions, III

ANTIBES, France, Dec. IL
Grand Duke Nicholas, leader of the
Russian white Army" around
whom has circulated plots and cam
paigns of villification against the
Soviet Union, who has looked for
ward to counter-revolution so thu
tsarism could again be enthroned, i
very ill here and he may soon die.
His friends state that Niehol"
had given up hope of ever seem
counter-revolution in the Sovio
Union and it is believed that this j
one of the chief causes of his sudden
contraction of pneumonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
PICK Eek ISLAND

ROCK ISLAND, III. by MaiD.-
The 1929 convention OF the Illinois
Federation of Labor will be held in y
this ety. Reactioneries rule the
state federation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
STANDING OF BROOKLYN
WORKERS SOCCER LEAGUE

REGISTER YOUR PROTES
AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR. VOTE
COMMUNIST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

" Alcatraz is a military prison at
San Francisco. st. Elizabeth is a
mental defective hospital at Wash
ington, d. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
WOMAN CRITICIZES
MRS. WILLEBRANDT
Democratic Congress Member OF
New JERSEY Says She Uses Pc
sltion to Promote Politics.

by the Associated Press,
NEW YORK, August 3l.~-MrS. Mary
r. Norton Democratic New JERSEY Con-
grssswoman, in an address yesterday
charged Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandt.
Assistant Attorney General in Chal OF
Prohibition Enforcement, with using csr
position for political effect.
Mrs Willebrandt.' she said AZ 4
luncheon OF the City Federation Of
Women's Clubs, has come to New YORK
after eight years This might be serious,
not amusing. II the distinguished lady
had come here a year or several years
ago instead OF at time when New
Yorks most distinguished citizen has
been selected to lead the Nation.
AN eighth grade school child could
not fail to understand why Mrs. VILE
hfs ndt became so ardent in New YORK
and seemingly failed to take note of tn,
fact that in Washington, Philadelphia
Chicago and many other cities the law
Is ignored to much greater degree, &C.
cording to population, than In NsW
York
Mrs. Norton said that the Democratic
party was known as the wet party ana
the Republican as the dry, but no per-
son living in Washington close to trs"
seat OF the Republican National Gov
eminent. as have been for the past
three years, would think so"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
HOOVER CAMPAIGN OFFICES
ARE SPACIOUS AND "SWANKY''
Waiting Room Is Draped, Gilded and Gay
But Chiefs Private Chamber Contrasts
With Cool and Austcre Appearance.

velvet and taffeta draperies has groups
of narrow. white curtained windows
through which the sunlight pours 10
gid the rows of fiimsy French gold
chairs. decorously expectant OF guests
to q Washington musicale and all TOO
frail for the impressive figures OF Re-
publican chieftains soon to mount the
curving white stone stairway from the
entrance hall below.
Both the cideyant ballroom and the
similarly gold-hung corner reception
room, with Its circle OF rounded win
dows, which will house Hoover's secre-
tary, are ceilinged in white. with rococco
fittings and filigrees at every cornice,
both lend gala air of festivity to the
house quite In keeping with the elabo-
rate French style Of its exterior. Only
the inner sanctum Of the nominee, by
a curious chance, retains the plain
simplicity that has followed him since
his Quaker hoyheod.
Although he himself commented on
the warmth OF the sunny, glaSs-inclosed
room where business-like typewriters
and mime0graph machines are now es-
tablished, it Is an airy, pleasant room
end the high ceilings all over the house
make II far cooler than most Washing
ton homes.
Especially in the Stone-paved. square
entrance hall below, welcome cool
ness greets the arriving guest inlne-
diately on the opening of the tall, iron
grilled doors, and the downstairs re-
ception ROOM soon to be converted into
a news room provides a cool retreat
from which newspaper men can COM
mand view Of the iron-railed Sweer
of stairway to the floor above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31

Job of fanailiarizing himself with ell ths|
details Of the Republican campaign or
ganization and ironing out the rough
spots, which frequently are found after
the setting up of such an extensive hu-
man machine.
soon he will b. able to devote . great
er part of his time to larger matters Of
policy and his own work in the fight
he Is waging for the presidency. How
ever. he will continue TO keep close con-
troll over the party organization and will
hold frequent consultations with those
directing the various parts Of II.
with william II. Hill, chairman Of
the Hoover Curtis campaign committee
In New York, and II. Edmond Machold.
chairman Of the Empire State Republic
can committee, the nominee yesterday
went deeper into the New York situsr
ton. Machold, who recently was Selech
ed to succeed the late George K Nor
ris, said he told Hoover New York
State could be counted upon to GO Re-
publican despite the claims OF John j.
Raskob, chairman CT the Democratic
national committee.
Asked about the effect OF the prohibit
ton issue In New York State. MaChOld
said that unquertionablv this ISSUE
would loom larger in New York City
than in any other section of the coun-
try However. he expects the up
state dry voter to countersct the down
State wet vote.
Hoover also received further ASSURE
ances about MINI. sot; from Represent
alive Newton Of that STATE. These sup
Dlemented those given To the nominee
during III visit last week 10 Cedar
Rapids.
Flour will extinsuish the flames Of
burning oil or fat,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
SAYS BUTCHER BOY
|. ADMITTED BEATING
Witness Testifles Kelley Told
OF Thrashing Mrs.
MeIIuS.
~ tn. Associated Press,


LOS ANGELES, August 3l.~Leo r.
Kelley. handsome butcher boy, on trial
for the Staying Of Mrs. Myrtle Mellus,
prominent society woman. today was
eonfrented by testimony that ne had
declared. Il gave her darn good
bsatinS." when he was taken from A
closet In the Mcilus home shortly after
her body had been found
w NJ Mcknight. friend OF the
Mellus family, testified yesterday that
when he reached the Mellus home be-
fore police officers late Sunday after
noon. August 5. h. found Kelley with
blood on his shirt. Kelley, he said, de-
elared he did not Kill Mrs. Mellus, but
admitted beating her, and explained the
blood on his clothing came from her
lacerated lips.
Mcknight identified several State eX.
hibits. including a water glass, alleged
TO have been used by Kelley for drink
ing liquor; his clothing worn at the
time Of his arrest whisky bottle, bed
spread and Mrs. Msllus' silk Daiamas.
On cross examination the witness DE-
el9red he found no evidence Of liquor In
the home except an empty beer brittle
He did not search the closets or base
men'. he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31

Spacious, high-ceilinged rooms deco
rated In the most elaborate French
stvle is what Herbert Hoover found
when he inspected his personal cam
paign headquarters at 231S Massachu-
sets avenue.
A vast library will be his ONCE.
cilded ballroom will harbor waiting
politicians and a long -windowed sun
room, the secretarial stan.
THE library OF 1.-The chief" aS his
associates call him. is the only dark
room in the big gray stone Massachu-
setts avenue house. It's three huge,
arched windows open to the north,
letting in only a cool, gray light on
the dull gray-green papered walls and
dark mahogany woodwork.
The plain mahogany business furnl"
tlre emphasizes the austerity OF the
general style of the room. Immediately
IN front of the wide fireplace, above
which hangs huge mirror, is Hoover's
own desk. with bronze lamp and writing
fixtures
Ranged along the side under the
broad windows are mahogany benches
and at the far end of the room ma
hogany table around which Hoover and
his advisers will sit In the innumerable
conferences he must hold as the d.
reotins head of great political organi-
zation.
In sharp contrast to the candidate
Office are the other wide rooms on the
second floor all done in white and golo
and flooded with the western sun.
The central ballroom, carpeted in gay
aubuSson and hung with heavy old colo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
PRISONER TRIES SUICIDE
IN POLICE STATION CELL
Lueius Butler, Cclorsd, Found
Hanging by His Belt, Is Res
cued by Policeman.

An attempt TO hang himself In his
cell at the first precinct station house.
made yesterday afternoon BY Lucius
Butler, eolored. 80 years old, la4S s
street. was frustrated before he was m
tursd. He used his belt in the attempt,
Butler was discovered by Policeman
O. l.. Curtis, He had attached the belt
70 the top bars OF the cell and then
tsstenad moose about his neck Cur
tis took him down and then called the
Emergency Hospital ambulance. Or.
Leon Gordon could And no injury.
Capt. Thaddeus Bean said today that
the order requiring the removal al bslts
from prisoners applies only tn those ar
rested for intoxication. Butler is held
on theft charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
FORMULATES PLAN
FOR AIR RESERVE
Brig. Gen. Bjornstad Makes Rec
concentrations for Develop
ment OF Service.
81 the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press
OMAHA. Nebr, August 3l.--A day
before his retirement frem active duty
with the United States Army Brig. Gen.
Alfred W. B'ornstad recommended yes
terday = plan for The adequate de-
qelopment Of an sir reserve.
Some Of his suggestions follow
Every airplane in the United states
should be a potential machine Of war
Every commsrcial air pilot should
be a potential Army or naval reservist.
Every man connected with the air.
plane industry should he trained for
war service
Aircraft design 10 b. controlled so
hat passenger planes viii become bomb
ing planes, or photo or other special
service planes.
"Airplane factories to be- equipped so
they can be taken over by the Govern
ment on a moments notice In case Of
war notice
Gen Eiornstad has been assigned 10
the 7th Corps Area for number OF
Years. with headquarters in Omaha.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
CIVIC PROJECT EXTENDED.


NEW YORK Up Alfred c. Bosom,
English architect, formerly of New York.
soon will start a movement in English
schools TO interest students in preparing
for future citizenship, the cooperation
in government committee announces
from headquarters here.
Awards are 10 be made to those stu
dents who are judged to have done most
In their term To cooperate with the
school and local authorities
Getting parents to vote, reporting
tardy disposal of garbage and suggesting
park improvements are among the val-
urtary deeds which have won more than
1000 medals in the New York high
schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-31
HOOVER SEES SELF
IN TALKING FILMS
Attends Private Showing
Here of Movies of Speeches
in the West.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
Herbert Hoover took time out toay
from his campaign work to see himself
in the act of delivering political
speech and to hear his own voice as
recorded in the talking movies.
Leaving his headquarters early in
the day with his son, Allan. and his
secretary. George Akerson. the Republi-
can presidential candidate drove to a
downtown theater for private show
ing Of both his notification ceremonies
at Palo Alto. Calf, and his appearance
before the people OF his native State
under big top" at West Branch,
Iowa Returning to his headquarters,
he attacked an accumulation OF business
so as to clear his desk before the ar
rival Of r. M Prince OF Boston, a
friend of the late George Harvey, who
was the only caller on his list for the
day.
+. ror rapidly is finishing up the