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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
MOVIE WORKERS
RISKS SHOWN IN
TWO BIG BLASTS
Explosives Stored in
Leaky Sheds
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 2S.
Another movie blast, the second
studio explosion in two days, oc-
Cured in the Metropolitan Studio at
1040 Las Palma ST., Nov. 10. This
blast injured Jack Summers, a prop
e1ty man, who was standing % feet
away. That two carpenters, who
left the powder room only a few
minutes before the explosion, and
numerous stars, extras and workers
ESCAPED death or injuries is de-
scribed as another miracle.
The blast at the Metropolitan lot
was caused indirectly by the rain,
it is believed. Fire department Of
ficials believe that rain water
trickled through the property room,
became mixed with sulphuric acid
and caused the explosion.
But why not have a waterproof
house for explosives? The movie
barons have the money and thou
sands of idle workers are looking
for all sorts of jobs.
In the Burbank explosion, Nov.
Ia, one man was killed on the spot,
another died in the hospital, a re-
port stated, and third may die.
All three worked in the plaster
Shop. This explosion, studio Off
Gals say, was caused by "spontane-
Gus combustion" (rain dripped on
smoke tombs). An act Of God, I
suppose.
Deputy Fire Chief Olchvary, Bur-
bank, near here, is said to be con-
Quoting complete inquiry" to de-
tcrmine whether the First National
Studio had official permission to
handle and keep high explosives, and
whether the blast was due to Grim
inal negligence.
L. P. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

estimated my powers; but what a
term that was. Certain conditions
were in my favor. I was single, was
accustomed to live a simple and
poor life, was Independent in
thought, and had a complete disre-
gard for popular conventions and
responsibility; but my economic
position was insecure q was a
worker), and on this rock my ship
was wrecked.
$18 To Live On.
My fifteen dollars a week was IL
ready increased to $18, and from
this I had to pay about five dollars
a week to the school and to main
tain myself. My father is a work
err in clothing shop, making only
about 25 dollars a week, so that ]
could not depend on him. I got
along without a winter coat hat
year, having an old spring coat.
My hat, when hats were necessary,
was the joke among the boys of
the school. Of course, working by
day and taking five subjects in the
evening was mans job, and l
could only catch up with the home
work by staying home Saturday
and Sunday. Besides, entertain
ment in New York is expensive,
and where was I to get the money?
Of course, this being a true con-
fession, l must also admit that, be-
ing a young fellow, some girls
looked very attractive to me, but
was practiced in suppression.
In the meantime, however, the
fur season ended and I was out of
work, which l did not regret so
much, but the lack of the $18 a
week proved a calamity. In the
middle of the second term. my edu-
cation came to an abrupt end. |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
American Printing Co. Eues Workers with 90 Hour Week at Starvation Wage
Craig Creates ColoJul
Production OF "MQCbeth y

cratic contempt for the lower
classes. Harding's Macbeth even
adds little more than usual to the
oily ease with which that noble lord
tells of his casual killing of the
two grooms, SO sharply in contra
diction with the qualms he had
about stabbing Duncan.
Douglas Ross plays a Duncan
that anybody would like to kill. / do
not know whether this is part of
the general policy of softening the
horrors of the original, or merely
accident, but anyway, more I'M
heroic, sleek, snivelling little fox of
a king there would be hard to i'm
agine. And he, too, is regular
peacock for colors; not the militant
Scotch plaid, either, by no means;
Duncan's court dresses in silks and
satins, gowns, and if not turbans,
then something like them.
Florence Reed is good in parts,
and ranting fool in others. One
neat trick at least she works; Lady
Macbeth's lean bloodthirsty, pas
sion-wrecked, red-robed, vampirish
effect in the first two acts fades
away in the next, prosperity and the
royal table have evidently done her
good, and she looks quite plump and
comfortable as a queen. The next
change, the period of the Sleep
walking scene, gives her an oppor-
tunity for her best work, and here
curiously enough, there is notable
absence of the Mysteries she in
dulged in earlier in the play. The
sleep-walking was done as though it
might really have happened, was
not overdone. There are light eff
fects, changing the robe of Lady
Macbeth to duller and more neu-
trail hue as she walked lower and
lower down the stairs, sinking low
er and lower into her delusions.
Macduff is type that admits of
little originality; there is apparent
ly only one way to act that part,
and Basil Gill does it we'll enough.
The same may be said of most of
the rest of the caste. They get by.
They are not great. The origin
ality in the production is mainly
matter of treatment of the text,
and of stage setting. Minor faults
show; the witches are too heavily
material, humorously exaggerated
in makeup Though this may be
willful, part of the same general
policy of toning down. and what is
surely an accident, the fact that in
this play stone walls flap in the
breezes.-V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

THE Tyler, Craig, Ross production
of Macbeth" is different, al
least, whether better or worse thar
others. For one thing it is fan
more colorful. The Gordon Craig
stage settings are in the newer
mode, neither entirely realistic non
entirely impressionistic, but some
thing of both: for example, gray
ness, gray costume, gray lighting
for the sleep walking 4cene, but real
stairs, real walls, nevertheless. A
powerful, menacing, solid looking
castle exterior to welcome the
doomed Duncan to his last banquet
but with an entrance guarded by
pretty maidens dressed in peach col
or, and light green, etc.
1t seems indeed, that rot only
has Craig determined on making
Macbeth" pretty if possible, but
that some of the despair and ira
gedy of the title character, some OF
the brooding fatefulness that
Shakespeare put into the play has
been definitely eliminated through
the use of advertisements; Banquo's
ghost is preceded by a bagpiper;
tumbler rolls along the floor dur
ing the banquet scene; dancers
come in queer iuxtaposition TO Mac
Icyh's outbursts of conscience.
With this general atmosphere es-
tablished, it is no wonder that the
best scene is that one which Shake
speare himself evidently meant
as comic relief: the knocking at the
door.
This production is not a psycholo-
gical study. The internal conflict
in Macbeth's mind is played down,
the edge is taken off of it, the solil-
oquys are shortened, one act is lost
in the Encouragement of the whole
into four acts and fourteen scenes.
This has the effect of Tightening
the spectacular effects, speeding
the action, concentrating more at
tention on the minor characters, and
less on Mr.. and Mrs. Macbeth. (Lyn
Harding and Florence Reed. In
this light Banquo (William Far
num) comes to the front, simple, I'M
affected, dignified, restrained in his
suspicious, but never fooled for a
minute, except that he did not think
his old friend Macbeth would move
so fast towards his own murder.
The scene of the murder of Banquo
is played on the stage, but in dim
light, and is not very effective, for
some reason, though it seems as
though it should be. Perhaps it is
too noisy; the amount of yelling
done would not seem to fit in with
murder, as we know it in New York,
and maybe we read into the scene
a sense of unreality on that account.
Perhaps when men were killed in
Shakespeare's time or earlier, every
body conversed loudly meanwhile.
The scene outside of Duncan's
death chamber does not minimize
Shakespeare's well known aristo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Cash Register Trust
Icons in Combine

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Nov. rs
(UP).-The National Cash Register
Company of Dayton will apply to
the Federal Court here Saturday
for permission to buy the capital
stock of the Ellis Typewriter Com
pany of Newark, N. j., it was re-
ported yesterday.
The Dayton Company is restrained
by an injunction, issued in 1916,
from acquiring control of other con-
Germs manufacturing cash registers.
Saturdays petition, it is said, will
be presented by Emory Buckner,
former district attorney of New
York City, and Ezra M. Kuhns, gen
eral counsel for N. C. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

The Workers tCommunIst) Party
fights for the enactment of the 40
h0ur. 5-day week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
BAN DAYLIGHT SAYING

WELLINGTON, N. z. (By MaiD.
Daylight saving has been defeated
in New Zealand. Clocks, however,
will be set half hour ahead per-
n1anently, so as to keep New Zea-
land time Il instead of IL and
half hours ahead of London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Jail for Starving
Milwaukee Worker;
Socialists r ul e

MILWAUKEE, (By Maid. -
George Valenti, starving and unem-
ployed, was sentenced to so days in
Jail for stealing a SIS leather coat.
The socialist administration in MI
vaukee has long boosted that pos
perity" existed here, but unenio|py-
nent mounts daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Schooner Sinks; Crew
Reported Rescued But
Not Seen Any More

BRBMERTON, Wash, Nov. 28.-
Nothing further has been heard here
Of the condition of the crew of the
gasoline schooner Prince of Wales,
five miles south of Wrangell, near
Heceta Island, last night. A radio
message intercepted shortly before
midnight stated that the ship had
gone down in 20 fathoms of water,
but that all members Of the crew
were saved. 1t is thought that they
may be floating in a small boaat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

was out of a job, did not know
where to find work. Everywhere
l went there was long line wait
ing for the job, and here I was Of
fered job as a grocery clerk,
which meant long hours in spite of
the little pay, and, of course, no
study. Since then l left the gro
Gerry store, or rather it left me,
and changed to another job which
brings me a few dollars more, but,
alas, the hours are still too long
for study. But even if l could find
time now for education, I am
through with formal dry-as-dust
education. I am being educated
now in the ranks of the work. 6
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Sign Service Becomes
Daily's New NeighbOr

The Daily Worker recently ac-
ouired a new neighbor, bordering on
the editorial department to the east.
1t is the Union Square Sign Service,
responsible for most of the posters
and decorations of the many affairs
that the left-wing labor movement
has held.
The new neighbor announces that
it executes cloth banners, show
cards and other color advertising
work. The work is strictly union.
Those interested should apply to
the office of the Service at &c Union
Square, 4th floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

MAY CUT IRISH r. r. WAGES
BELFAST by il).-The Bel
fast and County Down Railroad has
made applications to the Irish Rail-
way Board to reduce the workers
wages 10 percent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
HEADS GOoSE-STEP SLAVES.

BUFFALO, N. :, Nov. % W.H
C. Carl Alverson, superintendent
of schools at Syracuse, was elected
president of the New York State
Teachers Association at its annual
meeting today. Inez M. Naples. of
Binghamton, was named vice presi-
dent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
WORKER ARRIVES TOO SOON

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Nov. 81
U,D. An apparent attempt to
wreck Baptist church at Pittston
near here, was discovered today
when a ianitor found a burned-out
fuse that had reached to within two
inches of a cache of II sticks OF
dynamite placed against a wall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
SENATORS ROW
over RECOUNT
IN ware CASE
Sergeant farms Gets
Two Orders on Opening
of Ballot Boxes.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-SergeanG-
alarms Barry of the Senate pro-
fessed to be somewhat perplexed to-
day at the course to follow in the
matter of delivering ballots Of the
Wilson-Vare election in Philadel-
phia and Allegheny counties to the
Senate elections committee.
His perpleXity arose from the fact
that the elections committee wants
the ballots for the ordered recount
in the Wilson-Vare contest, while
Chairman Reed of the Senate spe-
cial primary investigating commit
tee has sent letter ordering Barry
to withhold them unless a Reed
committee representative is present.
Reed is dissatisfied with an cleo
ton subcommittee procedure. He
wants Philadelphia ballots counted
first, maintaining this will show ir-
Irregularities as charged by the Reed
committee. The elections commit
tee, however, insists on starting its
recount alphabetically, beginning
with Allegheny County.
At Reeds Office. it was said the
letter was merely to insure respect
Of the Reed committees rights in
the recount. 1t ordered that none
of the ballot boxes be opened I'M
less A. G. Clapp, committees SUI
perviSor, is present.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
STATE RACE
'0ne GaIIuS' Miller Is Out
for Attorney General.

Thomas D. Miller, who styles
himself the "one-gallus Hoosier
lawyer from Muncie," visited the
Statehouse today and announced
that he is a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Attorney
General.
At the same time he denounced
the present administration and de-
clared his platform is "leSs govern
:nent, less laws and less taxes"
"The State of Indiana is overrun
with a multitude of vicious, brutal
insulting spies, sneaks and inform
ers," Miller asserted. They mask
behind the star of legal authority
I favor getting rid of this crew and
getting back to the Constitution.
I'm regard to corruption. favor
turning the raScals out, auditing the
books and sending the culprit's to q
felon's cell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
SCHOOL TOTAL LESS
Highs Show Increase,
Grades Are Down.
J. E. POtzger

Decrease of sixty-one pupils in to-
tai enrolment of Indianapolis pub
lie schools is shown in preliminary
reports filed by principals with SUI
perintendent Charles F. Miller to-
day, at the close of the first week
of the spring semester.
High schools showed a total en-
rollment of 11,752, an increase of
294 over last semester, while grade
schools showed 40,448, a decrease
of 1855.
Gains were shown by Washington,
CriSpuS Attacks and Shortridge
High Schools.
Enrolment Of high schools an
nounced was: Washington, 1854, in
crease of 101;, Manual Training, L.
IT'S, decrease of five; Broad Ripple,
1886, decrease of nine; Crispus At
tucks, 1901, increase Of 81; Short
ridge, 2,469, increase of lat, and
Arsenal Technical, 1888, decrease of
q.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
SEEKS SLAYER'S
SANITY HEARING
Killer of Wife, Sons Claims
Mind Is Right.

By United Press
FARMINGDALE, N. Y, Feb. g.
Application for appointment of a
lunacy commission to examine
Claude H. Priddy, former pastor.
who admitted killing his wife and
two sons with an AK, will be made
Saturday by District Attorney Hill
dreth.
The examination probably will be
made Monday in the county jail,
where Priddy is confined.
Funeral services for Mrs. Clare
Noyes Priddy, slain wife, and her
sons, will be held at the Methodist
Episcopal church. They will be
buried at Anityville.
Priddy still insisted today that he
was not insane and that the killings
were an act of mercy because he
had a communicable disease.
II am not by nature murderer -
he told visitor to his cell. IT never
before this. had heart enough even
to kill a chicken. My nature would
have revolteC against it,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
CLYDE WALB TO BE
ARRAIGNED' TO-DAY
indianapolis Attorney to
File Motion for Bill of
Particulars.

BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Feb. Sat
torney Homer Elliott, of Elliott
Weyl 81 Jewett, Indianapolis, was
in Federal Court here today, pre-
pared to file motion for a bill OF
particulars, together with an aft
davit. at the Arrangement of Clyde
A. Walb, former Republican State
chairman, on Federal embezzle-
ment indictment.
Walb, former vice president, and
Valentine D. Weaver, former presi-
dent of the defunct First National
Bank of La Grange, jointly indicted
were to enter not guilty pleas.
The motion will ask bill of par
ticulars showing by what means
Walb prof1ted from alleged forging
of notes, false entries and other
overt acts, charged in the indict-
ment, and in what way he aided
and abetted Weaver.
Walb'S affidavit declares that
while vice president and a director
of the bank, he was engaged pri-
marily in the construction drainage
business, with the Walb Construc-
ton Company, La Grange, and as
Republican State chairman from
1923 until the close of 1927, and thus
had no direct knowledge of trans
actions of the bank.
Walb and Weaver were indicted
jointly in twelve counts of an in
dictment returned by the Federal
grand jury. Dec. 81, 1927, after a
two weeks investigation of the
banks failure.
In general, the indictment charges
Weaver and Walb appropriated
thousands Of dollars of the banks
money, Weaver for himself and Walt
for himself and the Walb Construc-
ton Company, covering these alleged
thefts by alleged false entries ir
the banks books and forging notes
Walb is charged with frequent
heavy ovedrafts on personal anc
company checking accounts, Weaver
covering up for him with false en-
tries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
Struck by Locomotive; In
juries Cause Death.

James w. Plummer, So, OF 2427 n
Gale ST., Big -Four Railroad cross
ing fiagman, died at Methodist Hos
pital this morning of injuries suf-
fered Thursday night when he was
struck by a westbound locomotive
while tagging an eastbound train at
Massachusetts, Ave. and Olney st.
While tagging the eastbound
train, Plummer failed to notice the
other engine and stepped on the
track directly in front of it.
Plummer, who was born in Law
renee, Ind, had lived in Indianapo-
lis for more than fifty years and had
worked for the Big Four Railroad
forty-seven years.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Jane Plummer; two sons, Ross and
Earl Plummer and five grand
children.
Funeral services will be held at
p. m. Monday at the home. The body
will be taken to Spring Valley, Ind,
for burial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
HOOVER PLANS
TO ENTER OHIO
PRIMARY RACE
Fails to Reach Harmony
Agreement With Forces
Backing Willis.
BY LEO r. SACK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.--Herbert
Hoover is considering entering the
Ohio primary as candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination,
as a result of failure of harmony"
conferences here between his friends
and Colonel Carmi Thompson, man.
ager for Senator Willis.
At these conferences, Thompson
would not say that Willis after the
first few convention ballots would
retire in Hoover's favor.
II am in the race to win," Willis
insisted.
Want Fifty-One Delegates
The secretary's friends would not
concede the fifty-one Ohio dele
gates to Willis without a struggle.
With more national delegates than
all other candidates combined, they
think the large Hoover sentiment in
Ohio will produce enough additional
delegates to convince the Kansas
City convention that he is the
peoples choice.
Senator Willis was willing to COM
promise somewhat on his original
anti Hoover position. He is now
willing to permit Hoover's friends
to seek second choice" Ohio dele
gates.
The Hoover-Willis fight in Ohio,
which now appears certain, prom
Uses to be the worst since the Taft
Roosevelt split of 1912.
'FavOrite Son" Warning
The State committee, dominated
by Willis, is expected to indorse the
Senator and deplore a fight.
Hoovers entry into Ohio would
be interpreted here as notice that
the Hoover movement is not. to be
stopped by "favorite son" maneu-
verS to deadlock the convention,
which would permit small group
of OIL a. M" politicians to pick
the candidate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
CATHOLICS OBSERVING
THROAT BLESSING DAY
Ancient Custom Is in Honor of
Feast Of st. BIasius.

Catholics throughout the city as
sembled in their parish churches
during the day and will continue
to.do so tonight for the annual OBJ
servance of the blessing of Threats.
Although not obligatory, this Gus
tom is an ancient rite of the church
observed each Feb. 3, in honor of
the feast Of st. Blasius, bishop of
Debaste, Cappadocia, martyred in
316 A. D.
Hundreds of early morning work.
ers stopped at SIS. Peter and Paul
Cathedral to receive the blessing.
The ceremony involves the placing
of two lighted candles crossed be-
meath the throat and the saying of
the blessing by the priest. 1t is to
implore divine protection against
throat infections, particularly preva-
lent at this period of the year.
st. Blasius is said to have saved
the life of a boy with a fishbone
caught in his throat and tradition
has made him guardian against all
throat diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
BOY HELD AS CAR THIEF

John Boat, IT. of 2118 N De
Quincy ST., was charged late Thurs
day with vehicle taking He was
arrested in Richmond, Ind, where
he was driving an automobile
stolen from Walter S. Moss, 432 N.
Beville Ave, charge Detectives Trick
and Fletcher. who returned with
him and gained a confession. they
declare, that caused the arrest Of
Walter Johnson, 81, of 202 Detroit
ST., on the same charge.
They admitted taking an aut0mo-
bile owned by Harry Forbes, 300 N.
Dorman ST., Jan. 18. Boat said he
stole the Moss automobile to FILL
date"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
COSDEN PUTS
new FORTUNE
into OIL DEAL
Re0oupS Losses; Interests
New York FinancierS in
Texas Project.
By United Press

ny OntteU PfeSS
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Joshua
S. Cosden, for years a leader in the
oil industry, has recouped his for
tunes and has interested New York
fnanciers in backing new extensive
ol project, it was reported in Wall
Street today.
A corporation to be known as Co.'S
den g. Co., with an initial
capital Of 100000 is being organ
lied and will have it's headquarters
at FIT. Worth, Texas. The company
will buy producing oil properties in
the Southwest and later may branch
out to other business activities.
Cosden met reverses two and a
half years ago and virtually retired
from the oil industry. He sold his
handsome estate at Port Washing
ton, Long Island, where he was host
to the Prince of Wales in 1924. He
also disposed of his villa in Palm
Beach.
Since then the f1nancier quietly
has been regaining a fortune to use
as a nucleus for his new company