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The Washington times., 1928-12-07
Lawyer Wins Reprieve
For SLAYER by Phone

Robert Percy Lotion has another
week to live. For the fifth time
Robert Young. of WASHINGTON, I1of-
toms attorney, has succeeded in
obtaining a reprieve from Governor
Bilbo, of Mississippi, after arguing
his case over the long-distance tela-
phone.
Lotion is under sentence of death
in Pike county, Miss. for killing a
police chief and his attorneys hope
to appear before the circuit court
Of Pike county next Monday, seek.
ing a new trial on the basis of new
evidence.
Lotions attorney hopes to con.
vince the court that he WAS so
weakened by loss of blood from
wounds inflicted by the man he
killed that he was unable to testify
adequately.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
Austrian Debt Plan
Is Put Up to House

The House Ways and Means
Committee was asked today by Og-
den Mills. undersecretary of Treas
ury, to approve the funding ar.
rangement for Austria's 35,00O,O 900
debt to the United States.
Austria agrees TO make five an,
nual payments of $2S7,555 each; 10
of $3.50. .O9s, beginning in 1884, and
rs of $743,047, beginning in 1915:
Under previous congressional
resolution Austria was given NnoI
1943 to start payments.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
Steam Roller Balks,
Breaking Mans Arms

Ambrose Carter, 43. laborer, living
in the $500 block of II st, N. w.
was severely cut on the face and
got two broken arms when he at.
tempted to start an asphalt steam
roller today in the 5000 block. of X
st. N. w. He is employed by the
Crawford Paving Company.
At Emergency Hospital. where he
was treated. his condition was de-
seribed a. ssrious.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
XANDR|A I D
FETE TEAM

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Dec. THE
South Boston High School football
team will be welcomed tonight at
the Union Station by the Citizens
Band and the local school team.
which PLAYS South Boston for the
state championship tomorrow in
Baggett's Stadium.
A mass meeting will be held in
the Armory Hall tonight. at which
local civic leaders and the athletic
officials of the high school will
speak.
Egine Kidd, railroad brakeman,
living at 1913 King ST., is in the
Alexandria Hospital suffering from
injuries received Yesterday when he
was struck by a bridge under which
the train was passing. He Is seri'
ously injured.
The drive against one-light auto
mobiles continued today when four
drivers forfeited So. Harry Bar
nett. former captain of the Alexan-
dria High School football team was
fined 50 for speeding.
Prohibition officer Virgil VIII
lians last night captured an au.
tomobfle containing 120 gallons OF
corn liquor after a chase which
began a few miles south of the
city and ended in Dumpries, Va.
The driver escaped after ditching
the car. n
The Mount Vernon Airways, In.
corporated, has been granted a
charter to conduct flying field
and airport at Hybla Valley, on
the Richmond Road below the city.
r. w. Robertson of r. +. d. No.
is president of the company.
The public schools will close for
the Christmas holidays December
21 and reopen January 2.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
ME ERGER' s DOOM
TAGS NAL TB|E
REPORT
CONTINUED from First Page.)

lLOnLluued ITOnH nlTsC EdgS.l
was highly praised by William Mex.
Clayton. chairman of the public
utilities committee. of the Fedora
tion of Citizens Associations. who
has fought the agreement tirelessly.
John w. Childress, chairman of
the Public Utilities Commission,
evidently did not think the report
would alter the situation much. So
far as / know the commission
stands on the recommendation it
submitted to Congress at the last
session." CLildress said.
The Maltbie report Is said to
have been very embarrassing to
the p. u. c.. which endorsed the
merger plan unqualifiedly last
winter.
Harley 2. Wilson, originator of
the plan. was inclined TO be sar-
castle. Il gather that the Bureau
of Efficiency abides by the court
decisions. while DR.. Maltbie thinks
his own figures better. Wilson
Sa10.M
The Washington times., 1928-12-07

as oppositely incomplete. TO the
statisticia'n, individuals do not exist;
he sees nothing but the crowd. To
the psychologist, with few excep-
tions, crowds do not exist; his inter-
est is to analyze the individual. The
engineer of human beings must make
neither mistake" he remarked.
Speaks for Steel
Schwab charged the new members
of the society with the responsible.
ties as engineers, and presented Ju-
lian Kennedy to the gathering for
his reception Of the A. s. NJ. E.
medal for his services to the iron
and steel industry.
Other speakers at the dinner In
cIuded DIR. Elmer Ambrose Sperry,
the new president Of the society,
and Alex Dow, of Detroit, the retir-
ing president. Col, Paul Doty acted
as the toastmaster.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
UNCONSCIOUS is MONTHS

LA GRANGE, KY. Dec. q
Luther Clay Ogg, 81, who never
fully regained consciousness since
being injured In an automobiis
accident Is months ago, died at his
h0sn0 here.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
Brains of Mechanics
Rated Highest

NEW YORK, Dec. Mechanics the nations most
intelligent class with engineers technical second
and business third DR. Edward 3. Free, New York
scientist declared the annual dinner Of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Washington times., 1928-12-07
Il TRADER
HIT As ST. OCKS
SLUMP
lcontinued from FIrst Page.)

Continued from First FageJ
wondering whether an old Wall
Street axiom that q bull Thanks
giving foreglladows & bear Christ
mas IL about to prove itself true.
II the decline In stocks continues,
the big losers win be the investing
public or the country, and not the
Wall Street brokers. The public
had plunged heavily IN the so-calted
Hover bull market" and there isl
danger that when the smoke blows
away they may be left holding the
bag.
Public In Market
Investigation today revealed that
thousands of Americans of ordinary
means are ''in" the market. Mr..
and Mrs. Ordinary Citizen have
been making financial "whoopee'
to the tune OF millions withdrawn
from savings accounts, and other
millions that never reached the
bank or Christmas club.
Thursdays slump hit the small
investors hard, prices of more than
100 stocks dropped from SIS to $22.5
a share as selling orders poured in
from all over the country. The de-
in call money rates to IL per cent,
the highest mark since July 2, 1920.
This morning the decline con-
tinued. In dropping to 381 for a
14-point loss Radio was selling 80
points below the 420 mark it had
attained earlier In the week. Gen.
eral Motors eased off only n to
201. United States Steel was only
fractionally lower and other stand
ard issues held fairly well, but the
general trend of the list was un-
mistakahIy lower. Sears, Roebuck
opened points down at 175h.
Amateurs Active
The bargain hunters" were on
the ground early. They were buy
ing on the decline, picking out good,
standard stocks that they feel will
rise after the "bear" movement runs
it's course. At the same time there
was evidence of shakiness and un-
certainty on the part OF the amateur
spectators, who number away up
in the thousand.
These amateurs are the ones who
have been withdrawing their saw
ings to speculate in the market.
There has been a decrease in Christ
mas savings funds for 1928 as
against those of 1927. according to
bankers.
An official Of one of the larger
New York savings banks said the
public has been specializing in the
market heavier than ever before.
They've been buying with their
heads down and their eyes closed"
he said. ''They thought the bull
market would run indefinitely and
they wanted to cash in big on the
profits" b
The Washington times., 1928-12-07

Detached, semi-detaeIsed and row
houses ideally located and mod
eFateIy priced are listed for sale
i'm today's Classified ads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
PROLETCOSM MEETS
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Will Discuss Plans For
Enlarging Capacity

Discussion of the plans for TRIPPING
the present capacity of the Proletcos
Cafeteria and Restaurant, now at 80
Union Square, will' be taken up at q
general membership meeting to be
held next Wednesday night, May 2.
The meeting, which will be held in
the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square, which is to house the cafe
terra after it is enlarged, will hear
reports from Hugo Gellert, revolu-
tionary artist, on plans for appro-
pirate decorations.
Three times as mank workers as
can now be served will be accommo-
dated when the new quarters are
completed, according to N. Polak, tex
ceeds our fondest expectations, and
all members are urged to come to the
meeting and bring friends who are
interested in workers cooperatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
Unemployed M eetin g
Today in Rutgers So.

(Continncd from Page One)
ton of the unemployed workers for
May Day.
In connection with important work
on May Day, all unemployed members
of the Workers (Communist) Party
and Young Workers League are in
structed to report Monday morning
at 10 o'clock at 108 E. 18th St.
The speakers at today's meeting
will be John Di Santo, secretary of
the Council, Louis A. Baum, secre-
tary of the Photographic Workers
Union; Hyman Gordon, of the Young
Workers League; Henry Bloom, of
the Unemployed Council; Morris
Taft, of the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, Local Al;
Harry White, of the Pioneers; John
Marshall and A. Gusakoff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28

enough. Every child should have
his own garden, to play in, to learn
Of nature and to develop sturdy
body" asserts the society. 1t will
install gardens for tots for $3.50 up.
Unfortunately it fails to provide
the garden space among the
crowded tenements.
IF CHEATED of outdoor play
space, then the child must have
a large playroom in the home, if he
is to expand normally. AS the typi-
cal New York family of five lives in
four to five rooms, there may be
some difficulty in finding a play
room. But no matter, once found,
it can be equipped for as little as
$500, although really desirable play
rooms, the furniture companies in
sist, should cost at least $3.50.
And then there's the little matter
of the child's education. All the
private schools at the Parents EX-
position are agreed that the public
schools are impossible" Glasses
Of 60 pupils taught by mechanical,
tyrannized teachers in dilapidated,
poorly equipped schools will never
give the child the breadth of
vision" needed for the truly educa-
ted person. Therefore worker-par-
ents are invited to send their chill
dren to schools in Weschester and
Connecticut. Fees range from
$1,000 to $1,000 for nine months.
Children can be sent to summer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28

will be launched at the Madison
Square May Day demonstration,
where John Di Santo will speak on
the subject of what Answer Does
May Day Give to Unemployment ?"
The plans of the council recall the
militant unemployment demonstra-
ton in Union Square in 1908, where
the unemployed assembled in order
to march to the May Day meetings,
and where they vigorously voiced
their demands for solving the unem-
ployment situation. The encounters
with the authorities which took place
at that time did not hinder the I'M
employed from participating in the
May Day demonstration; in fact, the
interference from the authorities on
ly made their spirit more militant.
This year the unemployed are re-
Stunning the old struggle, which will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
TRACTION union
OFFICIALS LEAVE
new YORK FIGHT
Succeed in Aim To
Check Organization

3 Abandoning all further efforts at
preventing the organization of the
New York traction workers because
they no doubt believe that all such
danger has now passed, the national
officers of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric Railway
Employees yesterday ordered James H.
Coleman, local organizer, to pack his
trunk and go home.
The order, it was learned, came
from Detroit yesterday following the
earlier abdication from the scene of
P. ]. O'Brien one of the vice-presi-
dents of the Amalgamated.
Coleman and O'Brien together with
P. J. Shea, an executive board mem
Der, VIM. B. Fitzgerald, vice presi-
dent, and VIM. D. Mahon, president
of the union for nearly two years,
have faithfully carried out the policy
of the Tammany-controlled city
officials in the attempt to prevent
organization of the traction workers,
This obedience to the Tammany
commands reached its climax in
the recent complete sell-out of
traction workers when Mahon
and Fitzgerald acted to prevent a
strike by calling off a regularly
scheduled meeting Of the union and
deliberately refused to protect mem
beers of the new union discharged by
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany in it's vicious campaign to break
up the organization.
Nearly hundred men discharged
in the campaign are still without jobs
Notwithstanding the apparent vic
tory of the traction interests, the
Tammany administration and the
union traitors, organization of tbs
traction workers is seen to be an in
evitable development in the near fu
ture. Workers committees have beer
formed in number of shops and ter
minals. These are reported to be di-
recting their efforts towards rank
and file movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
AExAMSV0RDERED
HERE FOR MAY |
M an euvre To K e e p
Pupils in Schools

After breaking up an open air
meeting called by the Childrens May
Day Conference before P. S. 81, the
Bronx, and confiscating leaflets dis
tributed by the organization bearing
the slogan "Out of School on May
Day." Tuesday, Mr.. Mcclure, prin-
cipal of the school announced to all
classes that important rating ex-
limitations will be given Tuesday and
10 absence will be excused"
"They can't make me go to schoo
in May Day." said 1. Gilman, stu
+arlt of the De Witt High School who
las suspended Thursday for distribut-
e leaflets calling upon the children
Q remain away from school on May
Wy.
VA committee composed of represen-
tives of the Childrens May Day
Inference, the Young Pioneers OF
itmerica, the Non-partisan Jewish
tyorlxers Children Schools, the Inter
oational Labor Defense, the United
ssouncil of Working Glass Women, the
Iorkers Party, the Workers School
Ind the Young Workers (Communist)
league, visited Mr.. Anthony, acting
principal Of the high school yesterday
protest the suspension. He refused
% receive them ard said the matter
entirely "out of his hands and was
to the board of Education.
y When the Committee reported tc
Mr.. Wright Of the board Of Education
they learned that he knew nothing
about the case and that the above
statement was not true. Wright
said, however, that there was nc
personal feeling" against Elfmar
and that if he took action it would be
against the organization that issued
the leaflets. Upon asking if the or
ganization had applied to the board
Of education for regular holiday on
MAY 1, he was told that the commit
tee was appealing to the children to
celebrate this workers holiday, it is
just as legal as the call to children
to stay home on religious holidays.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28

Duke, Tobacco
Man, Has Nice
Birthday Here

THOUSANDS of over-worked and
+ underpaid tobacco workers in the
plantations and factories of Ben
jamin N. Duke yesterday were
happy in the joyous news that their
master was spending quiet birth
day at his seth St. mansion in New
York City.
Surrounded by his immediate
family, which included his wife, his
daughter, Mrs. Anthony ]. Drexel-
Biddle, DR., and his grandchildren,
the tobacco magnate expressed the
opinion that things were going on
nicely in the United States.
Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Duke
had a personal fortune of $60,000,-
600. Living frugal life, however,
and walking to and from work in
stead of riding in the subway, Duke
is said to have doubled that amount.
He has regarded his fortune, )"
said one of Mr.. Dukes associates
yesterday, "as a divine gift placed
in his trust"
Some time ago Duke made deal
with an obscure college in the south
whereby the institution changed its
name to "Duke University" in ex-
change for $1,000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
Party to Hasten Drive

Contributions to the $4,000 drive
continued to come in yesterday to
1928 Union Square and 108 E. 18th
st. Among the new contributions
were: Section 5, Branch 6, $110; &C
F2, $45; Section A, 81, $34.50; 6B, $40;
I'D Of, $40; 1B IF, S35; Art Work
ers Cooperative Studio, $40; and the
Chinese Fraction, Workers Party, $40.
The ontinuation Of the $4,000 drive
to May 10 gives an opportunity to
Workers Party units throughout the
city and sympathetic organizations
to add to their totals and surpass
their quotas. Section 5, the Bronx,
has done unusually good work, and
unemployed workers throughout the
city have often shown the way to
their employed workers. The drive
during the next two weeks must be
intensified, it is pointed out, and all
workers must join in raising the $780,
900 that will establish the Workers
Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
CzAR'S 'CONSULS'
RAKE IN SHEKELS
Skvirsky Warns Against
Monarchist Takers

WASHINGTON, April 81. (FP).-
Boris E. Elwirsky, head of the official
Soviet Union Information Bureau in
Washington, has issued another warn
ing to the public against the so-called
Russian consuls"-all of them bogus
who still prey upon the ignorance of
other documents of Russian official
who still prey upon the ignorance of
persons seeking passports, visas or
character. These fraudulent claims to
being Russian consuls are based on
the fact that the claimants were in
the czarist consular service, which
was swept away more than ten years
ago by the Russian Revolution.
Three of the pretenders are: N. Y.
Bogoianlensky, consul general in
Rome and Seattle; P. Rojdestvensky,
consul in San Francisco" and M.
Oustinoff, $40 7th Ave, New York,
consul general in New York"
"As far back as 1929" Skvirsky
says, 81 was authorized by the Mos
COW foreign office to warn all Rus
slams residing in this country, that
those of the former czarist consuls
who still continue styling themselves
as consuls, did not represent the Sow
let Republic or anyone connected with
it, and that any documents, certifi-
Gates or passports issued by them are
not recognized by the Soviet authori-
ties or their representative aboard
This warning was repeated in 1924
despite these warnings, several in
stances were recorded of Russian
residents of this country having sent
to the Soviet authorities passports
and other documents obtained from
the so-called Russian consuls'. Such
passport was recently presented
by a Russian resident of California
who secured it, for certain fee, of
course, from the self-styled Russian
consul general in Nome and Seattle
"The fact that the individuals pro-
curing such documents send them to
the Soviet authorities indicates that
I
they apply to the so-called 'consuls'
in the belief that the latter represent
the Soviet Union, and that the docu-
ments are valid. The recurrence of
such cases and the fact that it is
usually the poorest immigrant work
ers who, through lack of information,
fall victim to false representations,
induce me once more, at the request
of the PEOPLES Commissariat of For
eign Affairs, to call attention to the
fact that these so-called Russian con-
suls' represent no one but themselves
and that the documents issued by
them are invalid.
Furthermore, the very act of APP
plying to these self-styled consuls is
being considered by the Soviet gov
eminent as an act hostile to the U. S,
S. R., which might in future consti-
tute bar to obtaining Soviet citizen
ship"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
WORKERS CENTER
GALA OPENING is
Celebrated HERE
$4,000 Drive Extended
to May Is
Continued from PAGE OneJ

from Alfred Knutson, organizer in
Bismarck, N, d.. and others.
All week two rank and file work
ers, Goldfield and Elbaum, had been
busy decorating the second floor Of
the building for the banquet under
the direction of the two revolutionary
artists, Adolf Wodff and Hugo Gel
lert. In the center of the wall oppo-
site the entrance to the banquet hall,
a great red star had been built, with
hammer and sickle in the center, bril-
liantly illuminated with electric lights.
International Affair
Beneath this star hung large pic
ture of the leader of the proletarian
revolution, Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin.
On another wall hung a picture of
Charles E. Ruthenberg, late leader Of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
Red bunting was strung from pillar
to pillar throughout the hall, and rev.
dictionary posters and banners, hung
on the walls, reminded the workers of
the significance of the establishment
of the Workers Center.
The banquet was a truly interna-
tional affair as workers of almost
every nationality were present. A
full-course meal was served by Pro-
letcos, which will occupy the ground
floor of the new building.
Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman
Workers Center, acted as chairman
of the evening. The keynote speech
was made by William w. Weinstone,
district organizer of the Workers
(Communist) Party, who pointed out
the great revolutionary significance
of the Workers Center and urged
that the drive for $4,000 to pur-
chase and finance the Workers Gem
ter be sent over the top. Bert Wolfe,
director of the Workers School, Rob-
ert Miner, editor of The DAILY
WORKER, Alexander Bittelmann,
Joseph Brodsky, Parmore, a Negro
worker, and others spoke.
It was announced that because of
numerous requests from Workers
Party units and sympathetic organic
atoms to be given more time to pro-
perly organize their forces, it had
been decided to extend the campaign
to raise $4,000 until May Is. This
will give all workers an opportunity
to contribute.
The evening was enlivened with
revolutionary songs played by an
orchestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
CHILDREN "UNPARDONABLE LUXURY"
EXPOSITION Recommends $500 Pianos and Artificial Light

camps for as little as $3.50 for 10
weeks.
Market Value"
After the child has weathered all
the trials and tribulations Of early
youth, he is ready for the labor
market, to be turned into profits for
employers. Then the vocational
schools get their whack at parents
purses. Illuminating broadsides en-
titled "Your Market Value" tell the
virtues Of turning children into
bookkeepers for $3.50 and up.
FULLY equipped for the labor
! market, the child who has by
hook or crook managed to escape
death, disease and disaster, be-
comes worker, if he can find a
Job, and soon after a parent. Then
he in turn provides more material
for the sun ray machines, the indi-
vidual play gardens, the private
schools and the children's encyclo-
pedia statesmen.
Barred from the Parents EXPOSE
ton at Grand Central Palace at the
demand of officials of the board of
education, the American Birth Con-
troll League is now the object Of
police interference.
Police visited the store occupied
by the League at 479 Lexington
Avenue and ordered the women in
charge to cease displaying in the
window pictures relating to birth
control. The reason given was that
the display caused crowds that
blocked traffic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
SwINDLED SERVANTS

Charged with swindIing several
Scandinavian servants by worthless
stock sales amounting to $180,0O0,
three men were held on $3.50 bail
each by Judge Aliens in General
Sessions, Wednesday. The prisoners
are: Tage Egnell, treasurer of the
Oak Mortgage Corporation, 1873 55th
Street; Charles E. Thorn, managing
director Of that company, and the
Scandinavian Exchange, the same ad-
dress, and Henning Aquilan, secretary
and treasurer of the Scandinavian
Exchange.