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Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

The funeral Of George o. Robbins
Civil War veteran was held in the
East Woodstock chapel at noon or
Thursday and although he had not a
single relation to follow him 10 his
grave, a large company of friends
came to pay their last tribute Of re-
spect 70 one who had dwelt so many
years in their midst. The G. A. r.
representations from Putnam were
Chauncey Morse and A. A. buchanan.
Rev. II. D. Baker conducted the ser
vices and Alan Upham played selec-
tons on the organ The bearers
we're DR.. X. c. Paine Of Thompson.
John Child. George wetherell and
Arthur Morse. all Of Woodstock, and
all Sons Of Veterans. Burial was in
the Woodstock cemetery where his
parents were laid to rest. There
were many floral tributes.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
PUTNAM HIGH NEWS

Every Monday evening from seven
10 nine the High School gym. II given
over 10 the Israel Putnam school boys
for their athletics.
Friday morning. January 10, short
rally was held in the auditorium to
cheer for the boys and girls teams
that played Woodstock Academy that
evening.
At the last meeting of the "Agora,
the school debating club. the follow
ing subjects were selected for debate
at the next meetings:
January n, 1928: Resolved, That
ali students receiving an average Of
So per cent shall be exempt from final
examinations. Affirmative. Marjorie
Steere and Alice Perry; negative, Leo
Pominville and Russell Sherman.
February z: Resolved, That movies
can take the place OF general reading.
Affirmative, Elizabeth Bennett. John
Ash. and Harry Thayer; negative,
Philip Arnold, Judith Sabin, and Eva
Jane Coveii.
February 2i; Resolved. That the
honor system should be adopted in ex-
aminations in Putnam High School.
Affirmative, Edna Kent. Ellis Haines,
and Evelyn Kaminsky; negative, Dor
othy Whitehouse. Katherine Banahan,
and Arthur Kaminsky.
March 6: Resolved. That capital
punishment should be abolished. At
firmative. Ruth Dryden. Hazel Ames,
and Albin Vaida; negative. Maryland
Paine. Clinton Dawson, and Raymond
Brousseau.
March 90 Resolved. That a trip
abroad Is Of more educational value
than a college education. Affirmative,
Judith Sabin, Eva Covell. and Alice
Perry; negative, Leo Pominville, Rus
sell Sherman, and Marjorie Steere.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
Child, Ellis and Starry
AT Vocational Meeting

Judge Clarence II. Child of Wood
stock. II. r. Ellis director of the Put
nam State Trade School, and Ernest
starry. instructor in the carpentery
department of the Putnam school
attended a meeting Of the Connect
cut section Of the American Vocation
al Association at New Haven last
Thursday. Judge Child is director
Of the association, representing agri-
culture.
DR.. A. b. Meredith. state COM
missioner OF education, spoke at some
length on the national aspects of voca-
tional education. + j. Trinder, state
instructor Of the state trade schools,
spoke on Foreman Training new
and important phase Of the vocation
al work in this state.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

A Healthy Bladder Works Day
time Only

w. II. Durham. Brownfield, Me-,
says: II have suffered with bladder
trouble rs years being Obliged to
get up 4 or times nightly. Kel-
ler's Initiated Buchu has relieved
that terrible irritation and desire.
Wish | had found II years ago. Will
talk or write to anyone"
Initiated Buchu acts on the blad-
der as epson salts do on the bowels.
Drives out foreign deposits and les
sens excessive acidity. This relieves
the irritation that causes "Getting
up nights" The tablets cost &c each
al all drug stores. Keller Laboratory.
Mechanicsburg, Ohio. or locally at F..
II. Burt's drug store.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

did mt enter into conversation with
any Of the other men In the dock.
Daughter Did Not Appear
Arthur Armstrong of Thompson,
charged with incest and indecent as
sault. plead guilty TO the lesser Of
tense and was sentenced TO six months
in Jail. States Attorney Bradford
told the court that the crime involved
the man and his daughter, the only
witnesses, and it was doubtful II the
state could prove the greater crime.
Attorney Torrey, representing
Armstrong, said, "And Il saves hav-
ing his daughter in court"
'That's the main thing said the
states attorney.
Assaults Own Mother
Joseph Edmund LcClair changed
his plea to guilty Of criminal as
sault and was sentenced to from one
10 two years in states prison.
The states attorney said that the
defendant is a degenerate and that
his mother is given to drink. they
went to a friends house and both
became drunk and on the way home
LeClair made an attack on his own
mother. Ii was also revealed that the
Young man is suffering from disease
that makes him menace to society.
Adelard LaRock was arraigned on
complaint charging cruelty 70 an
imals. 1t is alleged that he sold a
horse lame and unfit to work to a
woman in Plainfield He plead not
guilty and elected to be tried by the
court. This case has been nolled
on payment Of costs
Probation Cases
The following probation cases
were disposed of by the court: John
f. Rose. charged with assault on fe-
male child, given six months suspend
ed sentence, discharged. Arthur Cor
der, common drunkard, discharged.
In this case il was stated that the
man was arrested and sent to jail for
intoxication but as the case had been
on the docket for nearly two years it
was well to dispose Of it. Gilbert Peller
in, abuse of female child, under year
suspended sentence, discharged.
Ronald Curan, statutory burglary,
discharged. Elmer Burdick and Bea-
trice f. Geer, discharged. They had
plead guilty to a statutory charge.
The woman's husband has since OBJ
tanned a divorce and the couple have
been married and are doing well. Al
fred Lariviere Of Willimantic. charg-
ed with the embezzlement of public
funds, who served part of a years
sentence in Jail and then was re-
leased on probation, was discharged.
Others released from further pro-
baton were Lyman Brettschneider.
Stanley Yezestriz, and Linwood Still
well. Court adjourned at half past
eleven o'clock until half past one o.
clock.
At the afternoon session Of the
court Arthur Tuomela changed his
plea to guilty and was given total
Of sixty days in Jail on two counts
for assault and two counts for viola
ton Of the liquor law.
Thomas Colburn Of Pomfret plead
guilty to indecent assault and to as
sault on female child and was sem
fenced to six months in Jail. Colburn
Is just finishing a sentence Of year
in jail for burglary in the town of
Killingly.
Court was adjourned at half past
two until Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock in Wiilimantic.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
OBITUARY



Mrs. Nancy Ellen Torrey, widow
of the late George Torrey died sud
denly on Thursday morning at her
home in Central Village. She had
suffered an attack of indigestion the
day before but had apparently recov-
cred and was sitting up in bed when
without warming she fell back on her
pillow, dead. The funeral service
was held at her late home nj
p. m. Sunday, Followed by a SER
vice at the Congregational church Of
which she was a valued member.
Mrs. Torrey was born in North Wood
stock. Dec. %, 1899, the daughter
Of Erasmus and Nancy Hubbard Raw
son. She was the last to survive Of
their five children. Mrs. Torrey en-
ioyed frequent visits to her child,
hood home in the English Neighbor-
hood now owned and occupied by her
niece. Mrs. Clara Rawson. She kept
her mental and physical faculties 10
a remarkable degree and just week
or two before her s6th birthday
went alone to Norwich and back on
the bus TO have her picture taken
for her children.
Mrs. Torrey is survived by her
sons George and Willis Torrey of
Central Village. daughters, Mrs.
Emily Walker Of Southampton, L. l..
Mrs Lucy Baker OF Putnam and Mrs.
Grace Stetson Of Central Village,
She also had four grandchildren and
three nieces, Mrs. Rawsan Of North
Woodstock. Mrs. Alcey 0stigay OF
Woonsocket, X. l.. and Mrs. Nancy
Beaudry OF Whitinsville.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
MOTHER AND SON IN FILM
FOR SUNDAY EVENING

The motion picture Her Honor
The Governor" starring Pauline Fred
erick will be used at the friendly
evening" meeting at the Second Con-
gregational church next Sunday at
Z p. m. This is strong drama deal
ing with the themes, Woman in Poll
tics and Parental Loyalty. II is a
story Of the present day that is both
powerful and appealing.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

Radio tests to determine the perma
nency of the earth's crust will be con
Quoted during October and November
by the International Astronomical
Union.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

A Moor considers il sin 10 cut
bread with a knife. declaring that
hands were given for that purpose.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

NoTE-It would be illegal to pub
lish this IL not true.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
Daughter Did Not Appear

did not enter into conversation with
any Of the other men In the dock.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19

when court was convened Tuesday
morning several defendants who had
previously plead not guilty changed
their pleas to guilty and were sen
fenced by the court
In the prisoners dock sat Saws
Mathwink of Willimantic Mathwink
is charged with murder in the first
degree. He was neatly dressed IN
dark blue suit. white shirt with
wide, soft. collar. black four-in-hand
tie and black low shoes. He has 4
kindly though expressionless face pd
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-01-19
Open. With Prayer

II was FIVE minutes after two o'clock
when Judge Yeomans and the Rev.
James F. English of the Congrega-
tional church came from the judges
room and mounted the judges bench.
Mrs. Yeomans had accompanied her
husband TO Putnam and occupied a
chair near the desk Of Miss Marion
lie Bradford, assistant clerk OF the
court. When the Rev. Mr.. English had
made short prayer both the civil and
criminal sides Of the court were opened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
FUN ON COMMERCE ST
4 ktWe10 Of Colds 'Hoboken Blues"

? he law sanctions it, is case in point.
| The smuggling of the "black bastard"
who has no money and no job explains
itself better. Likewise we could ex-
press the opinion that the play is
crowded with material and spreads
out more than is necessary, which
gives the effect of a little too much
diffusion; as though the authors
mind was packed full of incident and
satiric comment which he could not
save for another play and another
day. 1t seems to me also that the
cries of Sans mother, with her lynch
mania, recur somewhat too often for
the proper balance.
A Proletarian Playwright.
But all this is by the way. The
main impression left with me is that
here is emerging a playwright with
richer humor and sharper wit than
the Broadway wise-crackers and with
out their rotten and standardized Gym
icism. He wants to see people happy,
living in "Hoboken," where folks
don't work too hard, where there's
plenty of food and beer and music,
where both white and black are free
and equal and all men are brothers.
That's what he wants to see. And
if it appears in his own play only as
fantasy it is because the vehicle of
Chill McGregor's horse-car philoso-
ply is at best only dream-escape
from the stern realities of the exist
ing capitalist order. The failure of
Chill and Sam and the collapse of
their utopia is implicit from the very
beginning. Sam Pickens and his
friends belong to a by-gone age that
cannot return. They cannot cope with
the complex problems and difficulties
of the present or blaze the trail to-
ward a higher future. Booze is the
only answer Chill McGregor can make
to the automobiles and electric trains
(which have replaced his horse-car;
and even Little Joe" grows up to
seek refuge from the strident clang
of capitalist civilization in library
cooks" and poetry. The note of strug-
gle for the conquest of the machine
is entirely lacking. There is no social
understanding or fighting faith in any
of the characters of "Hoboken Blues"
and consequently their degeneration
and defeat was inevitable.
Underneath its laughing humor the
play RACES at the excresences of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
BnoadUay Briefs

The Vardi- Yoalit Theatre Studio, a
laboratory theatre, will give the first
of series of intimate performances
Saturday evening, February %, when
it will present the "Golden Peacock"
lyric drama of primitive people by
S. Anochi, and is at 425 Lafayette
Street.
Maya" a play that has been
playing in Paris and London for the
past three years, will be put on at
the Comedy Theatre this evening by
the Actors Managers. Simon Gantil-
lon is the author. Ernest Boyd made
the translation.
Another opening scheduled for this
evening is "Sh! The Octopus" a
mystery play, at the Royale Theatre.
"The Five O'clock Girl" has just
celebrated the 150th performance at
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
June MPL OYMENTIS'
SUBJECT AT BIG
Mil. WAUKEE RALLY
Negro Worker Runs for
Alderman


MILWAUKEE,, Wis, (By MaiD.
Growing unemployment was the prin-
ciple subject discussed at an Inter
racial labor mass meeting at the La
Dor Temple, Saturday evening Feb
II, 1928. The meeting was arranged
by the Labor Council for United
Political Action as a part of the
Municipal Election campaign to place
a Negro worker in the aldermanic
campaign. Several women and chill
dren with their parents were present.
Unemployment Grows.
B. Sklar of the Labor Council, j.
Ford, organizer of the American
Negro Labor Congress and Carlos C.
Del Ruy, a aldermanic candidate, were
the speakers.
"The upward trend of unemploy-
ment is growing more serious every
day, the total reaching over 100000
thruout the U. S." said Ford. "Un-
employment is taking on permanent
character as a result of speed-up
systems and the like" the speaker
pointed out. This situation affects
the colored worker more seriously
since he is the first fired and be-
cause of his low economic position
and condition he becomes potential
element to further reduce the work
ing standards of all workers." con-
tinued Ford. 1.-THE leaders of industry
admit this trend in American in
dustIies but offer no solution insofar
as the workers are concerned"
Therefore, concluded the speaker,
"the workers of all races must unity
their power in the coming elections
in order to place a worker in the
Council halls of Milwaukee to repre-
sent the interests of workers"
j. W. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

IL DRAMA III
"I'he Clutching Claw.
At the Forrest Theatre

ANOTHER mystery melodrama en-
II titled "The Clutching Claw is in
town; this time at the Forrest The
atre. The play, in a prologue and
three acts is by Ralph Thomas Ket-
tering, Ralph Morgan in the principal
role.
The plot of the play itself is best
described by it's title, for if one goes
to see "The Clutching Claw" one sees
exactly what the title indicates.
At midnight in the midst of a
thunder and Tightening storm an
elderly gentleman is murdered on a
darkened stage in the study of his
home outside New York. This brief
episode occurs in the prologue.
The play actually begins next
morning, when the usual stupid
police inspector has arrived to clear
up the mystery in the usual stupid
ways that stage police inspectors
have, until the noted reporter-crimin-
ologist, Gordon, played by Ralph
Morgan, appears and Immediately
sets at naught all the deductions of
the inspector with the usual comedy
relief.
Again as usual until the villain is
unmasked at tae end of the play with
every character acting as mysteri-
ously and guilty as possible. Suffice
it to say that in the end the arch
fiend is unmasked after doors have
opened and shut mysteriously, vari-
Gus characters have crept in and out
of the dark room on secret errands
and strong suspicion has been
directed first on the heroine's
brother then on the heroine and a
few other assorted characters.
Ralph Morgan does everything pos
sible with fat part. Robert Middle
mass plays one of his famous police
inspectors. The heroine is prettily
played by Dulce Cooper, while Minnie
Dupree contributes an excellent char
acter study as the old housekeeper.
Of course, there is big underly-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
MERCHANTS PLAN
FOR AID TO COAL
MINERS IS FRAUD
Revealed as Scheme to
Help the Bosses
Continued :.


of his national guard. The governor
is getting lot of publicity and much
public sentiment of a favorable char
acter is being created for his state
militia. This will come in handy later ,
on, in case the governor is called on
by the coal operators to order his
national guard to shoot down the
striking miners as was done by gov"
ernor Adams in Colorado.
The object of the fake capitalist
relief movements is to create the I'M
preston among the workers that big
business is friendly to the striking
miners and to create confusion In
their ranks. They know that their
spurious relief action will interfere
with the work of bonafide work.
ingclass relief organization like the
Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn Avenue, Pitts
burgh, which furnishes relief not as
charity or merely to feed the hungry,
but to help win the strike and save
the miners union from destruction.
Boss Propaganda.
The business relief committees,
wherever they exist, insidiously
spread strikebreaking propaganda
among the strikers. They advise men
to go back to work and in thousands
of ways attempt to undermine the
solidarity of the union coal diggers.
And the strikers can fight until
the victory is won, if relief is ade-
ouate and immediate. If their wives
and children are provided with the
means of existence they will bravely
face the coal and iron police and the
operators, deputy sheriffs on the
picket line. The Pennsylvania-Ohio
Miners Relief is giving food and
clothing to over one hundred mining
camps. Fresh applications from
other local unions come in every day.
More money, more food, more warm
clothing are needed. Be generous and
be quick about it. The fate of the
miners union and of the American
trade union movement hangs in the
balance. Strike blow for the work
ing class by contributing some money
Immediately to strike relief thru the
Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn. Avenue, Room
314, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Say Trade Commission
Helped Bread Trust

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Abram
e. Meyers, federal trade commission
er. must appear on Tuesday before the
senate judiciary subcommittee to eX-
plain his handling Of the bread ,ner-
ger case as assistant attorney general
in Federal District Court at Balti-
more two years ago, when consent
decree for the bread trust was en-
tered. Senator Borah, on the sub
committee, stated that Meyers viii
re called on to explain the fact that
ne had acquainted Federal Judge Soper
OF Baltimore with all the facts relat
ing to the bread merger case when
the decree was granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

machine age; the "noise and stink of
the leather factory" the speed-up,
the dollar-fever, the persecution and
exploitation of the poor man and the
black man. But the philosophy of
Chill McGregor which sets up against
this, the slow-moving south, the horse
car and the one-man truck-patch can
lead only to the escape from reality
to a mythical "Hoboken" and from
that back to establishment and de-
feat. "There amt no Hoboken"--in
this despairing cry at the end Sam
expresses the failure of all those who
fear to face the machine and struggle
for its mastery.
A Labor Theatre.
All who try to turn the wheel of
history backward come to the same
climax of futility. This was notice
able in "The Belt" The machine
breakers are all reactionary and
therefore hopeless. 1t is only with
and through the machines that hu-
mainly will win its way at last to a
"Hoboken" that is not an imaginary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Free Capmakers; New
Rift in Bosses Ranks

The locked-out Chicago capmakers'
union reports double-headed victory
week. Two members of the Cap
Ma afacturers' Association, the Re-
liable Cap Co. and the Star Hat &
Cap Co., have broken away from the
boss lineup and signed with the union
under the original contract which still
has over year to run.
At the same time 16 unionists, ar
rested for disorderly conduct, were
freed by the court. About 20 still
face contempt charges before Judge
Denis Sullivan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

ing motive for all the crimes COM
mitted, but who would be mean
enough to divulge' the outcome of a
mystery play and thus deprive future
audiences of the big punch.
Briefly, ''The Clutching Claw" may
be described as just another mystery
play of the school of "The Bat" and
"The Spider" wiShout the originality
of those offerings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
PIER LABORERS
BLED BY EASTERN
STEAMSHIP co,
Show Up Lead Poison
Conditions
(By a Worker Correspondent)

We would ask you as a public bene-
factor to send a representative to the
Eastern Steampship Docks, Nos, IS,
~ %. 90 and 81, North Rivel and
learn how the workers are tire, led
here.
Steal Workers Time.
The men are checked in from ten
to fifteen minutes before the time
they are paid for and told to quit
venty minutes before the hour they
are getting paid to. So each man
9erks over thirty minutes for nothing
o.. as the saving goes, working for
the church"
The majority of the men only get
one hours work, fas you know work
Is very slack, but they have to work
ore and one half hours for the one
hours pay at seventy-five cents day
work, and eight cents night work.
So in reality the men get only fifty
four cents per hour
The men have to truck in alone bales
and cases of ], 500 lbs. weight. Very
often the plank IS so steep it's at
right angles TO the dock. The same
conditions apply to unloading-truck-
ing 1900 cases Of paper, etc, with
trucks that are never oiled. This state
Of affairs has been going on nearly
eighteen months since the Eastern
Steamship Company amalgamated
those piers. Of course, they do what
they feel like now as work is slack
all over.
Rob Laborers of Thousands.
Just think, each man gives over
three hours work to the company
each week for no pay SO each man
loses SO per week, equal to $3.50 a
year. And as the company employs
over 500 men every day and more
in the busy season, the total robbed
from these peer laborers amounts to
more thar $4,000 each year.
You have no idea how these men
arc treated, The Uncle Toms Cabin
atrocities arc paradise in comparison.
We wrote the president of the COM
rany. He took action for few days
only and then let things slide back.
I guess he is more interested in the
slave-holding sharks.
Of course it is easy to say why do
the men work there. No worker
would if he could get work elsewhere
but everything is slack and so they
are treating the men worse than they
ever did.
The superintendent is one great
cause of trouble as it seems that all
under him are afraid of their jobs,
and are greater slaves than the rest.
Old Parties Enslave Workers.
1t is grand to talk of demo
cratic" president, but l for one won't
vote democratic or republican. What
help do they give the workers? l
guess our state is democratic" is it
any help to the working man? A lot
Of wind, especially when you have a
wife and family to support. The
workers should try to unite and stop
he flag waving.
A DOCK WORKER.
Ed: The correspondent who
sends us the above report asks us
tn publish it on behalf of the men
whom he represents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
ON TOUR TO TRAP YOUTH.

WELDON, N. c., Feb. 2O.-Clar-
ence Chamberlin, after being forced
down near here, took off today on
his flight across the country. Cham
berlin will stop off at various points
to lecture on aviation and attempt to
apture the interest of American
'th in military aviation.