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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
BEBE DANIELS AT
 COLISEUM, CHRISTMAS

This story is net intended to save it's reader some money. Rath- er, as Manager Gross of ths Ce,i- scum puts it, 'The tale is printed Il the hope that it will excite
 ufficient interest in the readers mind to make him spend the. price of an admission"
 The following paragraph gives just a slight idea of what Miss Brewster's Millions," the Para mount picture coming to the Coli scum Tuesday and Wednesday, is Ill about
 Before stopping to give further details it is only fair we credit Clarence Badger with some fine Erection; Bebe Daniels, the star with premier histrionic powers; :; and bequeath a laurel wreath to each of the featured players Warner Baxter and Ford Sterling. Now-for our synopsis: A little movie extra finds her self heiress to a million dollars which can not be spent, due to a aelause in the will She is in a errlble predicament, till an uncle urns up, who seemingly shows her he way out. He promises an ad-i litional five million if she'll make t her business to spend the one she already has.
 Picture the scene in which Bebe IS a movie extra, rides through he streets Of Hollywood, dressed medieval costume, on the back )f a mule. Think of her as the patron saint of a bunch of fake inventors. This film contain iaughs and-more laughs. Para mount claims, it's as good as a laugh tonic and blues cure com bined
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
THE CHORUS KiDn
 NOW AT PALACE

A story of stage life, with vlr' ginia Brown Faire as the chlorine is the feature at the Palace to- night for the last time.
 The Chorus Kid,' is the name and it lives right up to the title
 Bryant Washburn, Hedda Hop- per, Tom O'Brlen, John Batten fhelma Hill and Sheldon Lewis Ire in the cast.
 The high kicking chlorine is a 1ancing hoyden who tries to tor off her career. by attending a fashionable boarding house. The scenes "back stage" are always in- teresting and they certainly are n "The Chorus Kid"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24

lures, story of burning lnten- sity.
 "The Desired Woman" at the Coliseum tonight, tells the story Of cultured English woman, who accompanies her husband to a desert outpost in India. of which he is commandant. A youth from home is sent to the desolate camp and is at once the cause of jeal- ousy On the part of the brutal leader. A desert-crazed lover of the lady attacks the youth, who in self defense is compelled to shoot him
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
UNDER THREE FLAGS

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Jean Maigret, one of the University of Michigan's new professors, saw service during the World War in the air forces of Canada, Great Britain, France and the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
Hungary Adopts Prayer For Country's Welfare

BUDAPEST, Dec. 24.-W it h permission of the Cardinal Arch bishop of Ezstergom, Hungary has adopted a new prayer, which is taught at school to the chil- dren and is termed the "Credo" of salvation. The prayer reads; T believe ia God I believe in my country, l believe in an endur- ing divine justice, l bellevr-fn The resurrection of Hungary. Amen. ,
 
 Dell E. Sheriff, Alaska's tuner. Call or write Phone 602 adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
NOTICE

My office will be closed until January 2nd adv. DIR. GEO. l.. BARTON.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
ATTENTION

For Carpenter Work of any kind-shop or city-Call Handy Andy, Phone 49S.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

c d a r roping for Christmas decoration purposes at JUNEAU FLORISTS. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-24
Attractions At Theatres

A desert picture which is diff fefent from all other desert pie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-02
/" Communist f"
Must Be Put on
N e.w S Stands
BY D. BENJAMIN.

Very soon the election campaign
will be in full swing. The Workers
(Communist) Party will be on the
ballot. Our party will be pointing
cut to the workers Of this city the
real significance Of the unemployment
situation, the attack on the unions, the
war danger Our party will be ham
mering away at the capitalist parties
and the capitalist system.
Many workers and students will be
hearing from our party and about
our party at that time. Many of our
charges and many of our points will
strike home. The workers will want
to know more about our movement.
Some of them will see the DAILY
WORKER on the news stands and
read it. That will help our fight.
Others will want to go deeper into
the question. Our Party should surely
meet them half way, should make it
possible for such to know more about
the Communist movement. We can
more than meet them half way if we
put the Communist on the news
stands.
More attention to this important
task. Over rs news stands in New
York have already been covered. Let
US make it 100. Then let US make
it $50. After that still more.
Every literature agent on the job,
every unit on the job. Every comrade
or the job.
Let us make every news stand, at
least every one in the working class
sections of the city, a small fortress
Of Communist propaganda by putting
the DAILY WORKER and the Com
munist on the news stands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-02

ton. The typical opposition slogans
of this period are: Lewis Must Go"
and Miners, Take Control Of Your
Union"
The present policy of open struggle
lis based upon four general considera-
tons:
(a) The union is in the most criti-
cal danger of being destroyed. Dras-
tic measures must be adopted to save
it.
(b) The Lewis machine, hopelessly
lreactionary, is wrecking the organiza-
ton and there is no hope of it volun-
tarily adopting policies that will pre-
serve the union.
(c) Only the policies advocated by
the opposition can save the organiza-
ton and relieve the pressure on the
miners.
(d) Democracy being completely
wiped out in the union by the Lewis
autocracy, it is futile to try to func-
ton through elections and conven-
tons corrupted and dominated by the
Lewis machine. The only means left
to put into effect the fundamentally
necessary policies Of the opposition is
by an open clash and contest with the
Lewis administration for the leader
ship of the miners.
Strike Strengthened.
The immediate general objective of
the opposition in the struggle against
the coal operators who are deter
mined to smash the union and of
whom the Lewis bureaucrats are the
agents, is the mobilization of all pos
Isible forces to win the Pennsylvania
Ohio strike, it being manifest that if
this great struggle is lost tremen-
dous obstacle will be placed in the
way of unionism generally in the coal
industry. This strike, the most i'm
portant in the history Of the Amer
lean working class, can and must be
won with correct policies. The min
lers involved are making the most des-
perate struggle in the face of unpre-
Icedented difficulties, and they can
win the victory provided they are
given real support. 49,
Incredible though it may sound, the
strike has been considerably strength
ened in the past three months, due
principally to the swift development
of the opposition movement which
gives the miners the first real ray
Of hope.
TO win the strike the opposition is
working on the following general
strategy:
(a) The strengthening of the strike
itself through mass picketing, viola
Ition of injunctions; the extension of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-02

guise of union leaders, Systematically
betrayed them for years into the
hands of the operators.
Everywhere district Save-the-
Union Committees have been created.
These have behind them vast net
work of Save-the- Union Committees
in innumerable local unions. The or
gan of the movement is the Coal
Digger with rapidly growing mass
circulation. 1t is this whole machine
mechanism which will send forth a
large delegation to the Pittsburgh
Conference.
The effect of this great mass move
nent has been to stimulate the fight
ing spirit of the miners in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio. A weakness of the
.progressives was that almost unani
mously for several months they held
the position that it was wrong to
criticize the Lewis machine during
the strike. The result of this was
TO give Lewis free hand to destroy
the strike.
Mass Attack Strengthens Strike.
The left wing, however, firmly
maintained that especially during the
strike Lewis and his policies had to
be attacked. Now progressives and
all are agreed that the mass attack on
Lewis has vastly strengthened the
strike and gained it it's first real pros
pect of success. Should the strike be
successful Lewis will, of course, try
to claim the credit. But the opposi-
ton must know how to instruct the
rank and file in the real truth.
The evident determination of the
Lewis machine is to hang on at all
cost in the face of the opposition of
the majority of the union, securing
the support of the operators and the
government in order to retain con-
troll of the union.
The Importance of the Struggle.
The Importance of the struggle now
going on in the, coal industry can
hardly be overestimated The coal
operators are aggressively attempt
ing with the active assistance of the
government and the treacherous mis-
leadership of the Lewis machine. to
break up the United Mine Workers
and to put through their wage-cut-
ting policies. The loss of the United
Mine Workers of America would deal
most destructive blow to the trade
union movement as whole. and give
an enormous impulse to the open-shop
movement in every industry. The
saving, rebuilding of the United Mine
Workers and the driving out of it's
corrupt leadership is of Fundamental
Importance to the whole labor move
ment
The situation turns around the
struggle between the Lewis machine
and the opposition. The defeat of
the Lewis machine by the opposition
would have far-reaching consequences
not only in the miners, but in the la
Dor movement generally. 1t would
put the present strike on the road to
victory and would lay the basis for
real unionisnl amongst the miners.
But more than that, it would give a
SCATTERING blow to the corrupt
bureaucracy Of the A. F. of L. in all
its qualifications. On the other hand
a defeat of this movement would
plunge the trade unions deeper into
the mire of reaction. The strike
against the coal operators and the
struggle in the union against the
Lewis machine mark turning po;nt
IN the history of the American labor
movement.
*Active campaigns of relief should
be initiated everywhere and money
Should be sent to Penn.-Ohio Miners
Relief. Gil Penn. Ave. Room 3O7,
Pittsburgh. Pa.
Evening star., 1928-12-19
BOWIE MAN. HELD
IN FRIENDS DEATH,
CLAIMS ACCIDENT 7

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they sat around the table talking for
q few minutes. Then Kreitzer arose
and went to cupboard to get the
records of the sale of the automobile.
There he found .45-caliber automatic
pistol, but not the papers. He took the
gun out and started flourishing 1t.
Four Flee After, Shooting.
The four young men told Nichols that
Kreitzer jokingly pointed the pistol at
the feet of the youngest of the party,
Robert Walker, H. The action fright
ened the boy, and his brother, Bernard
Walker, 26, warned Kreitzer not to re-
peat it. Ryon is reported to have then
said to Kreitzer. Lets see how much
nerve you have" With the shot the
others ran from the house.
The Walker brothers and Lisle Sim
mons, %, of Mitchellville, the fourth
witness to the shooting, ran to Nichols
home in Bowie. Nichols was out, but
returned a few minutes after the youths
arrived Together they went to Kreit-
zers home, where they found Mrs. Elsie
KreitZer, the mans wife. According to
Nichols, she denied any one had been
shot in the house and said her husband
was in town. The Kreitzer home is on
the outskirts of Bowie.
Nichols went to the town and found
Jones at a church rehearSing a play
AS he was talking with Jones, Kreitzer
drove up and halted when the police
man Signaled him. When told he was
under arrest, Kreitzer said, i've been
looking for you to give myself up"
In response to questions, he told
Nichols that Immediately after the
shooting, he placed the body in the
dead mans automobile and drove to a
point about a mile away, where he
turned of the road about rs yards and
left the car, with the body sprawled
across the front seat, hidden by the
trees.
Kreitzer described the spot to Nichols,
who turned his prisoner over to Con-
stable Robert Showalter and found the
machine just where the man had said
Is was. KreitZer, taken to the jail at
Marlboro, has not been charged.
Father Believes Death Accidental.
j. w. Ryon, father of the dead man,
said today his son and Kreitzer were
was accidental.
Ryon is survived by his parents, two
brothers, j. Wilson Ryon and Frederick
E. Ryon, teller in the Merchants Bank
& Trust Co. of Washington, and two
sisters, Miss Edna and Miss Hilda Ryon
Ten years ago another brother, Nor
gan Ryon, was fatally shot while duck
hunting.
The funeral will be held Friday after
| noon at / 80 o'clock at the Methodist
Church at Bowie. Burial will be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery,
Evening star., 1928-12-19
FILMS PORTRAYAL
OF u. S. CRITICIZED
South Americans Visualize
Nation Seeping in Crime and
Scandal, Uruguayan Says.
BY WILL IRWIN.
BY Wireless to 'Th Star and the Nortl
American NEWSPAPER Alliance.


American Newspaper Alliance.
ABOARD U. S. S. UTAH, EN- ROUTE
TO RIO JANEIRO, December 19.-I
may be talking shop, but the remarks
of DR.. Gaglieni, the eminent Uruguayan
editor, at the banquet given on Monday
night by the press of Montevideo to the
correspondents accompanying Presi-
dent-elect Hoover seem worthy OF a
wider audience.
"One main obstacle to the proper
understanding and esteem between the
United States and South American
countries" the doctor said in effect, us
the picture of your country our people
are drawing from the movies and from
the kind of news We get from North
America. The movies are all cabaret
life, the sins of society and crime. The
news is filled with bank robberles,
Hollywood divorces, gunmen and
lynchings.
IT have studied your country and ad-
mire it greatly" DR.. Gaglieni continued,
"but in that respect am not the aver
age man. The average man this side OF
the Equator has a wrong and hectic
picture of the United States. 1t does
not answer the question to say such
matter sells on this side of the Equator
because people want It, We journalists
know it is possible to lead public taste
in news upward or downward. Nor VIII
I presume to say who is responsible. l
only know it Is creating an unfortunate
picture"
I may add that I have heard the
same criticism in almost every South
American city we have visited and from
many eminent. thoughtful leaders IN
politics, education, business and art. IN
minds which have formed this picture
of the United States anti-American
propaganda finds ready listeners.
(Copyright, 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1928-12-19
TWO AT FCHAN FORTS
REPORTED SEIZED
British Plane Shot Down.
Two Occupants Report
''Safe and Well"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India. December 49,
Rebels were reported today to have
seized two forts overlooking Kabul,
capital of Afghanistan. They were
awaiting re-enforcements to press their
attack.
A British aeroplane was shot through
the radiator and made forced landing
near Kabul. The plane had been at
tempting to establish communication
with the British legation with view TO
the evacuation of British and Indian
women and children If necessary.
The two British airmen, who were
forced down and about whom there had
been concern, sent q telegram stating
that they we're "safe and we'll"
Telegraphic communication with
Kabul by way of Quetta was improved
today and belated messages for India
were arriving.
Large quantities of arms and am
munition were understood to be in the
two forts reported seized.
The question of the safety of the
British legation was having the closest
personal attention of the viceroy, who
was in constant touch with develop
ments
Another aeroplane which flew over
Kabul this morning returned this after
noon with the news that all was well
at the British legation in the Afghan
capital
Evening star., 1928-12-19
Sd BROUGHT TO SURFACE
AFTER NAVAL MEN ENTER
SUNKEN SUBMERSIBLE
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two huge pontoons, the engine room
and The ballast tanks was given at 7:45
O'Clock last night Thirty-fiye minutes
iaGer, alter series of turbulent erup-
lions OF the water over the sunken
craft, the pontoons and the great grav
bow OF the ship loomed into the bril-
liancy OF flood lights on nearby NAVY
ships and the experiment seemed over.
But something had gone wrong. De-
| spite efforts to drain every available
! noatlng chamber, the ship would not
| bulge its stern from the bottom.
The fight to bring the submarine. of a
negative buoyancy of less than 100 tons,
TO the surface with the pontoons of
combined lifting power of 100 tons,
| took place while a wind of near-gale
! force lashed the water and falling tenn
| perature drove every one free from SAL
wage detail to shelter.
To most of these men of the sub
marine rescue ship Falcon, from which
the work was carried on, this salvage
| assignment was only another job. Their
| view OF the task seemed to be indicated
IN the casual observation of one of the
sailors, Its beautiful night for this
| job"
Up on the bridge the procedure ap-
peared calm and casual, but behind the
seemingly matter-of- fact orders was an
intensity of purpose that seemed to
match the anxiety of those aboard the
Falcon those long months when they
labored to bring the S-4 up from a
depth of 102 feet off Provincetown, Mass,
where it was sunk in collision with
the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding.
New Problems Must Be Met.
Lieut.. Norman Ives, now in command
of the S-4, stood with Lieut.. Carlton
Shugg salvaging technician, who had
his hands on valves controlling the
| flow of water out of the vessel below.
Give her shot in the engine ROOM -
Ives would command. Give em little
toot on the after end only" Shugg
ordered. Ives again speaking, Are you
still blowing the aft end of the pom
| toon?"
| So it went for about four hours last
night, but still the stern stayed down,
and Lieut.. Comdr. Palmer Dunbar or
dered the submarine tender alongside to
| tie line to the submerSible to keep it
| from crashing against the Falcon.
The bow of the submarine was car
| ried against the Falcon by strong
wind soon after the forward part of the
vessel was raised, but no damage re-
suited.
| The commander said the test of the
| lifting hooks was designed to determine
their accessibility to divers, and the un-
expected delay In the raising would
point out new problems which would
have to be solved before submarine res
cue and salvaging methods were COM
plete.
Evening star., 1928-12-19
GRANT C|TESPARK
SAVINGS METHODS
Provision of Lump Sum for
Land Purchase Held Mat !
ter of Economy.

Provision of lump sum to be used
In the acquisition of land for park pur-
poses would result in a saving to the
Government of about per cent in
the increases in values of properties
which would be expected If the pur-
chases are made piecemeal, according
to the annual report today of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. made by Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, Sd. executive officer.
Col Grant points out that real estate
values throughout the District have
been increasing annually at an average
rate of more than 8.86 per cent during
the last eight years. He cites that an
advance from the Federal Treasury to
be amortized by annual payments from
the combined revenues of the District
of Columbia would save both money
and park values for the people of
Washington and of the United States.
This savings, he continues, is repre-
sented by difference between rate of
per cent of the money advanced by
the Treasury and the percentage OF In
crease of land values, to which should
be added the value of natural scenery
which could thereby be preserved in
stead of creating later and larger ex-
penSe.
Col. Grant says thaJ program IOr
the immediate acquisition of park lands
within the District at an average rate
of almost $3,000.000 year for five years
seems to be about the least that would
reasonably meet the needs Of situa-
ton that has been allowed to get great
ly In arrears.
To finance any such program on a
30-year amortization basis, which seems
entirely reasonable when dealing with
so permanent an investment as land
purchases, would be to assume an obli-
CATION OF annual appropriations for 80
years at the, rate Of $56 per 81 900 Of
land purchases.
He adds that such plan would have
the advantage that the local taxpayers
Of the District would not be obligated
to a greater burden for park acquisition
than the share which they pay under
the present arrangement, which is an
annual disbursement Of not less than
100000
Evening star., 1928-12-19

make a convenient municipal airport
for smaller planes" he said.
1t was only the realization that the
Gravelly Point airport would only meet
part of the Capitals needs that led
him and others to take steps to estab-
lish the George Washington air juno
tion ON 1000 acres just below Alexan-
dria, he told the committee.
I'VE felt that we would meet the
deficiency" he added. The big air
liners viii land at the air junction, and
the passengers who go to the District
will fly to Gravelly Point airport in
smaller planes. Thus Gravelly Point
will become the air shuttle of the Dis
trict and for travel South"
Offers Free Use for While.
Woodhouse told the committee that
he would be willing for the District to
use the land temporarily free of cost
until Gravelly Point was developed,
which would be about three years, ac-
cording to estimates. On the other
hand. he offered acreage at cost for a
6OO-acre airport which would provide
9000-foot runways.
representative Bowles OF Massachu-
setts. who Is developing an airport OF
his own, made arrangements to inspect
the site below Alexandria this after-
noon. Other members OF the commit
tee may accompany him.
Mr.. Woodhouse said that the Vir-
ginia site was free from the fog and
flood menace that made flying and
conditions hazardous at GraveIly Point
and also at Boiling Field. He also sug-
gested that the site could be utilized
BY Army planes when Boiling Field is
fog bound, as it is 40 days in the year
The committee inquired into the
proposition the city Of Richmond, Va
is confronted with in providing an air
port. Woodhouse explained that nc
had made the same kind of an offer tC
Richmond as that which he has made
to washington and that Richmond had
bought from him at cost 100 acres OF
land for an airport and has acquired
an option on 200 more acres.
Evening star., 1928-12-19
$1,OOO,OOO,OOO BILL
WORK ENDS In HOUSE
Treasury-Post Office Conference Re.
ports Approval Comes Without
Formality of Record Vote.
BY the Associated Press.

Congressional action on the billion
dollar Treasury-Post Office supply bill
was completed in the House yesterday
after the Senate proposal to increase
by $257 100000 the prohibition enforce
ment fund had been finally cast into
the discard. This action came with
approval of the conference report on
the measure which now goes to the
President
The most heated debate of the House
this session was precipitated by the dis
cussion, but the conference reports ap-
proval came without the formality of
record vote. 1t served only to get
the views OF dozen members into the
Congressional Record.
The debate, however, brought from
the vets the challenge that the drys
did not dare to enforce prohibition
upon their constituents and revived
upon the floor some of the cortentions
that were fought out in the recent
elections.
When the discussion approached at
times the limits OF debate fixed by
the House rules Speaker Longworth
admonished the members to watch
their utterances.
This came during speech of Chair
man Wood of the House appropriations
subcommittee in charge of the meas
ure when in defending the action oi
the conferees he declared that the
voters in the last election had register.
ed their approval of the prohibition
laws,