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The Washington times., 1928-07-20
IA Novel Of
College
Life

Linda WaldrOE goes Cd Mar
bury University from her hume
In RedhIll. Mo-. under mysterious
circumstances. She is mistaken
for Lucy WIlItIOck. daughter 81
simon WhftlOclx, 3 millionaire,
both ~ = sorority which wanted
her and ~ Thomas Maugl1nm.
youth whom she met on the way
to school.
Dulcy EIIis, her neIghbor IN tho
boarding house. Is very much III
love with Doyle HOsIkfIis. captain
OG tIl6 football team, and native
III RedhiIl, whom Linda has re-
iected.
Tom introduces Linda 10 Pro-
fesaOr Prime, considered an ecceH-
tFfc ON the campus. Later she
becomes acquainted with Leonard
Van Horne. queer. concelted
& youth and goes on . few dates
with him.
Linda has an unfortunate epi
s0do with Doyle. who continues
TO annoy her. Professor Prize
comes 10 her rescue but as lie ID:
taking her home On his bicycle
they knock down the Dean ON
WOnlem. Mrs. Ella Steuef. Later
Mrs. Steuer aees Linda II Toms
arms.
DOYLE. drunk tells Linda'a
friends That She WINS formerly III
waitress. Tom knocks him down.
Linda receives telegram from
Simon WlIffIOcIx and goes 10
near BY town 10 meet him.
Linda went into the dingy
waiting room TO examine the
blackboard train schedule.
Simon WhtIock s train was
marked On time, 4 IL AS,
Denver to st. Louis.
She left the station and
walked across the dusty road
to tie Junction Hotel, 4 two
story frame building with
great glass cuspidors and
leather armchairs visible
through the fly-specked win
dows Of its lobby.
A weary clerk assured her
that supper was ready il the
dining room, and Linda
found ! table. 1T was not j
\ good dinner wooden roast
beef pale, AasteIess gravy
mashed potatoes full of
Jumps. Three travelling men
in d corner argued hotly
about the Ku Klux KIan.
She walked slowly back to
the lobby and deposited her
bag at the desk. s. / won't
know till midnight, She told
the clerk, whether 4 m stay
ing overnight or not. Then
she went out To explore.
There was little to explore
in Wayland junction Al
main street boasting possibly
IL stores, q movie theater
and bank The side streets
branched off from it like
the legs of a centipede. They
were lined with montonous
CONTINUED on Fiction Page)
The Washington times., 1928-07-20

Up to the present time very little
opposition to the Majors propose
has been expressed. His recon-
mendation win be ready next week
for submission to Commissioner
Proctor Dougherty on the return Of
the Commissioner from his vacation.
The only definite opposition to
the Majors plan has come from
William III. Harland. Traffic Direc-
tor. who probably will offer a
counter proposition which will have
the effect of the California parking
light law.
This law provides for no parking
lights on streets sufficiently well
lighted for person or object to
be seen for distance of 200 feet.
The Washington times., 1928-07-20
Guard Engineer Officers
To Be CITY Club Guests

Officers of the One Hundred and
Twenty-first Engineers. District Ma
tional Guard, will be guests OF the
City Club Saturday Nighters at the
country home OF the organizatio
Landover. Md. tomorrow night.
A special feature of the program
will be favorite war time songs.
Col. and Mrs. John Oehmann will be
host and hostess.
The Washington times., 1928-07-20

The real estate columns Of fOday's
Times and Herald have listed for sale
attractive houses In all Necti0ns o. the
city and subuFbs--bMy your home To-Day!
The Washington times., 1928-07-20
: '''l|VELESS'
GIVEN As
CAUSE

u Il
Miss Dorothy Hilleary, 19-
year-old girl who shot herself
lin the abdomen last night be-
cause no one loved her, Z is
holding her own, Z officials
at Georgetown University Hos
pital said today.
The girls condition still is ex-
aremeIy serious, it is said.
Left alone In the home Of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ambrose Poore. Of the $500 block
sof Dent Place. N. w. with whom
she IS visiting. the girl fell vic
tim to lit Of melancholy. fol
lowing disagreement with her
girl chnm earlier IN the day.
Found By Child
Dorothy obtained revolver and
sent 4 bullet crashing through her
sabdomen. Her cousin. Mary Vir-
sinla Poore. six.year-old daughter
Of her hosts, was playing with
neighborhood children In front of
the Poore home. The child rushed
into the house to find her cousin
lying on her bed her clothes
saturated with blood.
The little girls screams brought
sneighbors hurriedly to the scene
Police Of the Seventh precinct were
called and they sent the wounded
girl to Georgetown University Hos
pital in the precinct patrol.
On the way to he hospital, police
said, the girl told them she shot
herself because no one loved her. 4
May Need TRANSMISSION
An operation was performed on
the girl and it was said d blood
transfusien might he necessary fiji
order to save her lifes
according to the police. Dorothy
told them she had q falling OUT
with her chum, Miss Betty Plarr.
lot Ballston, Va. although the latter
denied this when she called at the
xhespital last night.
Miss HilIeary lives with several
sisters in Ballston. She underwent
an appendicitis operation some
months ago and has suffered from
complica tons arising from that 0p-
eration since, ii was said. Her father
Fred Hilleary, lives in Dawson. Va.
Her mother has beeH dead for some
H 2 e -
The Washington times., 1928-07-20
Marine Band to Play
AL Community Center

The second open-air concert of
the season at East Washington
community Center will be given
this evening in the new Eastern
High School stadium by the United
States Marine Band. conducted by
Capt. Taylor Branson.
The series of concerts was ar.
ranged by Mrs. Il. w. HARDY, super
visor OF the center, and Mrs. Ella
scott, secretary in charge.
The Washington times., 1928-07-20

Look for the Be "sehwartz', cIoek
New Britain herald., 1928-07-13
FATAL
To WEALTHY MAN
Alexander R. Peacock Of Steel
Fame Dies Suddenly

New York July 10 lP}-Alexan-
der r. Peacock, one of Andrew Car
negie's young men" whom the steel
king led to fortune in the nineties,
died suddenly yesterday of pneu-
monia at st. Nincent's hospital. He
was 66 years old.
The rapidity with which Peacock,
Charles NJ. Schwab and other early
associates of Mr. Carnegie made
their millions caused many legends
10 spring up about them, some of
Them true, some of them false, most
Of them exaggerated. Stories about
Mr.. Peacock painted him as a man
Of violent Whims and probably the
most eccentric Of the early Pitts
burgh millionaires, but his associates
say most Of these stories are I'M
true.
1t is generally admitted, however,
that the Scotch burr on the tongue
of the young linen clerk in ! Pitts
burgh store, attracted the attention
Of Mrs. Carnegie and led to Pea
cocks association with the steel
king. He and Mr.. Carnegie We're
born in the same town in Scotland,
Dumfermline, Fifeshire.
After making a loan of $500
from Mr.. Carnegie which he is said
10 have put in a bank and paid back
promptly on schedule, paying the
interest out of his own pocket, Pea
cock was given a place in the credit
department. of the Homestead Steel
Works
Sent to settle a matter of credit
with Thomas, later Sir Thomas
Shaughnessey, president of the Ca
madam Pacific railroad. he returned
reported the successful completion
of his mission and threw a piece of
paper on his superior's desk saying.
And here is little order for YOU
The order was for 5000 tons of
steel rails. the largest received at
the Homestead plant at that time.
He was taken out Of the credit de-
parment and put IN the sales force.
later duplicating the order with one
from the New York subways. Even
tually he became a junior partner.
He built a mansion in the High
land Park section Of Pittsburgh,
Rowenlea, which was one of the
show places of the city. Forty SER
wants were needed to keep the house
in order.
When butler served him cold
storage egg one morning he ordered
construction started on a $4,000
chicken farm, so that he might al
ways have fresh eggs. He also con-
structed a well stocked trout pool
on his grounds so that he might
have fresh fish when he wished.
A story is told that when he dis
covered some employees in his office
had squandered about $3.50, 600 of
company money N gambling and
drinking he called them into his Of
flee one by one and soundly thrash
ed them. Again when he was able to
secure only upper berths in crowd
ed train at San Francis he hired
a special train in which to return
home.
When the United States Steel Cor
poration absorbed the Carnegie COM
pany Mr.. Peacock branched out on
his own account but was never very
successful. He moved his family to
New York several years ago and
since had engaged in real estate ac-
tivities. At one time he VIZ said
to have been worth between $40, 600.
600 and $50. 900 GOO but he is bolicv-
ID to have left an estate Of only a
IRA ction of This amount
New Britain herald., 1928-07-13

The American Legion was organ
Ted in Paris In 1919.
New Britain herald., 1928-07-13
Chicago Gangsters Hurt
Hotel Business in City

Chicago. July 13.-lP)-Chicago S
gangsters have hurt Chicago's hotel
business. according to Clifton l..
Corpening. senior assistant manager
OF the Palmer house and president
Of the Hotel Greeters of America.
THE rest of the world Corpen-
ing told Chicago hotel men last
night. 'is Just a bit afraid of Chi
cago. II is up to the hotel men to see
TO it that when the rest of the
world visits here it has a chance to
change it's ideas"
New Britain herald., 1928-07-13
4 POLISH VERDICT

Przemysl. Poland-A peasant jury
acquitted Michael Szybiak of a
charge of killing his wife, explaining
that she was a poor housekeeper
and it was no wonder he lost his
temper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
FURRIERS CALLED
TO A MASS MEET

A mass meeting of all the regis
tered workers in the fur manufac-
turing industry has been called by a
Committee of five" registered work
ers, who announce in a leaflet issued
for this meeting that "the time is
ripe for the workers to again rebuild
their union" The meeting is to be
held tomorrow afternoon at p. m. at
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th st.
Need Left Wing.
Describing themselves as the
Executive Council of the Registered
Fur Workers, and giving their names
and ledger numbers of their member
ship books in the right wing dual
union, the committee states further
that, although they were among the
first to begin the fight against the
left wing, they have finally come to
the conclusion that a strong union
cannot exist without the devoted serv-
ice of the left wing.
1t is expected that the meeting will
be well attended.
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LEWIS MAKES BID
TO COAL BARONS
Will Speed Up Workers
If He Is Accepted
to The Daily WorEer.)

(Speciol to The Dnily H'orEer.)
DENVER, Feb. 81. In long
plea to the Colorado State Industrial
Commission, officials of the United
Mine Workers of America in coopera-
ton with officials of the Colorado
S ate Federation of Labor confirm
their betrayal of the miners. Their
efforts take the form of request that
they be permitted to 'organize the
sta.e of Colorado"
The brief begins with the state
ment: "We deeply regret that the coal
mining industry has again been sub
jected to recurring strife and disor-
der" Regret is expressed by the
union officials over the great eco
nomic loss" suffered by the mine own
ers. They call the employers atten-
tion to the fact that 'labor production
costs are lower in organized dis ,ricts
than in non-union districts. We in
vite survey of these facts. -"
Mere Gesture.
The gesture in the direction of or
ganization of the non-union mine
fields of Colorado comes at the mo-
ment when he strike of the Colorado
workers has just ended in a defeat
for which the officials of the United
Mine Workers, Lewis, Murray, Fish
wick and others are known to bear
the greatest share of direct response
bility. The Lewis machine failed to
do anything 10 help the strike, but on
the contrary assisted in it's betrayal.
This view is confirmed in one Sec
tion of the plea to the Industrial COM
mission by an attack on the Indus
trial Workers of The World who on
October 18, called the strike:
"The l. w. w. seeks to destroy trade
unions," the statement charges. "This
organization and the l. w. w. have
nothing in common" After fur her
pointing out that the United Mine
Workers is constructive whereas the
l. W. w. is revolutionary" the state
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AGENTS TO HEAR
RAVITCH ADDRESS
MEET SATURDAY
Plan Free Distribution
of Paper

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27. - In
spite of scores of subscriptions which
the Pennsylvania District has been
sending as its quota in the national
drive to collect 10000 new subs for
The DAILY WORKER, the workers
of District No. are not sa isfied
with their results and are preparing
to extend their activities.
The drive in Pennsylvania which
has been ably directed by Leo Lem
ley, supported by the full strength of
the Party organization under H. Ben
jamin, the organizer of District 5, is
to be intensified and efforts will be
made to reach thousands of workers
in the Philadelphia industrial Sec
ticrs.
Plans looking to a distribution of
The DAILY WORKER on huge
scale are being perfected and the only
militant English labor daily in the
world will soon be brought to wide
groups of Pennsylvania workers which
are only slightly familiar with it.
A. Ravitch, circulation manager of
the DAILY WORKER will address a
meeting of all the DAILY WORKER
agents in Philadelphia at o'clock on
Saturday afternoon. Ways and means
for extending the drive and drawing
all elements into the subscription cam
paign in Philadelphia will be discussed
after Ravitch's address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
ARREST G PICKETS
IN newark STRIKE
Cloakmakers to Appear
in Court Today

Six cloakmakers were arrested
yesterday while picketing the shop
of the Main Cloak Company of Pas
sale, N. j. where a strike. had been
declared by the Joint Board of the
Cloakmakers Union. The firm had
locked out all of its forty employees
for refusing to register in the dual
union established by Morris Sigman,
president of the International Union.
The workers declare that the strict
union conditions maintained by the
left wing Joint Board irked the boss
sufficiently to have him reach an
agreement with the right wing of
ficialdom to break the contract with
the Joint Board and sign one with
them.
A picketing demonstration carried
on all day yesterday, in which the
other Passaic labor unions joined,
led to the employers to call for the
notorious Passaic police.
Those arrested are to come up for
trial in local magistrates court
today. They are Malkinson, Feitlin,
Walkowits, Vominick, Meltser, Fin
kelstein.
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The union"
COMMITTEE GIVES
LIST OF DEMANDS
Ask Abolition of Coal
and Iron Police

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 27-The
abolition of the coal and iron police,
the elimination of the state constabu-
larry, demand for open hearings, the
voiding of anti-strike injunctions, 9
shorter work week as a solution OF
the alleged over-manning of the Goa
industry and the diversion to strike
relief of the huge appropriation made
by congress for naval construction
are the major demands made by the
"Save the Union Committee" of the
United Mine Workers of America in
an open letter to the United States
subcommittee, now in the Pittsburgh
district in the first few days of its
investigation of the coal strike.
The complete statement reads:
Letter to Senator.
Senator Frank R. Gooding, chair
man, United States Subcommittee
of Interstate Commerce Committee
investigating the Bituminous Coal
Strike, William Penn Hotel,
lttoDuI gu, L a.
"Sir:
"The Save the Union Committee,
representing thousands of active
members of the United Mine Work
ers of America, organized for the
purpose of prosecuting the strike to
successful conclusion and to rebuild
the union which is the main protector
of the interests of the miners and
their families, desires to present the
following proposals for the considera-
tion of your COMMITTEES:
Makes Demands.
81. In order to secure the max
imum results from the investigation,
all hearings should be open to the
public and representatives of all
shades of opinion in the labor move
ment generally, and the United
Continued on Page Tqco)
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Police with challenging clubs
posted themselves in front of
the mission and refused entrance to
hundreds of jobless workers who came
to hear the mayor.
With the whole affair staged for
the purpose of making Tammany
propaganda, Walker, who had just re-
turned from joy ride to the Mardi
Gras at New Orleans, palmed off
platitudes and "wise-cracks
During the entire winter Mayor
Walkers police and public welfare de-
partments have been conducting a
campaign of persecution against
homeless workers seeking shelter at
the Municipal Lodging House.
More Demonstrations.
Unemployed workers will gather in
Union Square at 2 p. m. today to de-
mand a specific program of relief
from the city administration and to
organize. This is the first of series
of open air mass meetings that have
been arranged by the New York
Council of the Unemployed, 60 st.
Marks Place. Another will be held
Friday at p. m. in Rutgers Square.
An indoor meeting at 715 E. 138th
st. will be held at 8 p. m. Thursday
under the auspices Of the Lower
Bronx Section Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
The enlarged executive committee
of the New York Council of the IN
employed will meet tomorrow at 2 p.
m. at 60 st. Marks Place. 1t is es-
sential that all members of the Execu-
tive Committee be present, according
TO John Di Santo, secretary of the
Council.
Youth To Organize.
The newly formed Youth Section of
the New York Council will hold the
first meeting of the unemployed
youth of this city Thursday at 2 p.
m. at the Church of All Nations, 8
Second Ave. The unemployed young
workers will be organized and their
demands formulated.
The Council has begun making
preparations for city-wide confer
ence on unemployment Saturday,
March II, at p. m. at Webster Hall,
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
SHOE WORKERS
MEET TONIGHT
Miller Co. Workers Ask
Organization

An important mass meeting OF
shoe workers called to take action
will take place tonight at Lorraine
Hall, 100 Broadway, Brooklyn, near
Flushing Ave. The meeting is being
called by the Shoe Workers Commit
tee of 40 which has been responsible
for calling a number of recent meet
ings, at which there has been consid-
cradle discussion ablut conditions in
the trade and plans to organize the
workers.
Plans which affect the future of the
25,000 workers in the trade will be
submitted for the approval of the
membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
U. S. Companies Refuse
Payment of Claims to
Soviet Union Citizens

Claims of $30,00o,000 are involved
in two test cases of 81 900 each now
before Justice Myron Sulzberger, in
the Municipal Court, First District. G.
Frank Dougherty, attorney, is the
American representative of two Rus
sian claimants who are demanding
that the New York Life Insurance
Company pay insurance. policies ac-
cording to their contracts. The COM
pany tried various legal moves to
evade the issue but higher courts
ruled that they were unconstitutional
since they impaired the obligation of
contracts.
So far nothing important has been
brought up at the trial where the tes-
timony has had to do only with fluc-
tuations Of the ruble and certain
Soviet Union DEGREES.
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munist) League, Dist. z, that a
counter-campaign would be launched
Immediately by the league demand
ing full months vacation with pay
for young workers a.nd exposing the
anti-labor and militaristic character
of the C. M. T. Camps.
Offer Vacation-But?
While applications for the camps
will be taken for 5000 young work
ers and students, the recruiting Of
flee is already beginning to raise the
cry of insufficient vacancies" In
it's annual drive to attract larger
proportion of young workers to the
camps the recruiting office is work
ing closely with the Military Train
ing Camps Association, the employ
ers' organization that boosts the
C. M. T. c., to provide large num-
Der of Stree vacations with pay"
This offer is made as a bribe by
the bosses in collaboration with. the
war department according to a state
ment by the Young Workers League,
which will fight for real vacation
with pay for young workers instead
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of the officials of
the Amalgamated
Union if in the
next few days
these officials do
not take immedi-
ate action to pro-
tect its members
who have b e e n
fired by the Inter
borough R api d
Transit Company.
Such is the indica-
ton from a num-
Der of terminals
and barns on the
traction lines where
the workers are
speaking openly of
their intention to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
BEGINS
NATIONAL TOUR
Pittsburgh Meeting to
Attack Frame-Up

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27.-Prepara-
tions are completed here for the open
ing meeting of James P. Cannon, ma
tional secretary of International La
Dor Defense, under whose auspices he
is making a coast to coast tour
against the anti-labor frame-up sys-
TEN.
1t is expected that hundreds of
workers will fill the Labor Lyceum,
35 Miller ST., Wednesday, at p. m.
to hear Cannon tell the story of the
working of the system that has i'm
prisoned hundreds of workers in the
past 10 years alone, sent number
of them to their death and deported
hundreds of others. A program for a
national fight against the frame-up
system will be outlined at the meet
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28

secure action from their officials at
all costs. Thirty workers are reported
to have been discharged by the l. R. T.
Futile Confabs.
Union leaders spent yesterday In
two futile conferences with city Of
ficials in an attempt to secure "jus-
tice" for their cause from them. In
the morning, James H. Coleman, Or
ganizer for the union accompanied
Nathan D. Perlman, counsel for the
organization, to the office of Judge
Isador Wasservogel, who recently
denied the application for an injunc-
ton sought against the union by the
Interboroughs At this meeting with,
Wasservogel the spokesmen for tle
union, it is understood, sought to
secure an injunction against the
company to restrain it from dis
charging a. more of its union mem
bers. The basis of the request, it is
reported, was the so-called favor
able decision by the jurist. Wasser-
vogel refused bluntly to do anything.
'As citizen and not as judicial
officer" he later stated, 81 reminded
the union spokesmen that the great
third party, the public, should be up
permost in their minds. They told
me that they had taken this posi-
tion from the beginning"
In the afternoon union officials
lost valuable time in a conference
Continued on Page Five)
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FALL RIVER Mill
STRIKE ON AGAIN
Strong Sentiment for
Action After Cuts

FALL RIVER, Mass. Feb. 27.-The
500 workers in the Arkwright Mills
will go out on strike again this
morning due to the refusal of the
mill management to make any con-
cessions on the grievances under
consideration. This action had been
decided upon after the Fall River
Textile Council had received letter
from an official of the mills con-
tanning their decision.
The Arkwright workers had gone
out on strike several weeks ago, after
the mill owners had announced q
wage reduction of 10 per cent, but
had apparently returned to work
after seeing that their strike was
not spread by the Textile Council Of
ficials to other mills where wage re-
ductions had been put into effect.
Wages Cut.
After the wages of nearly all tho
workers in Fall River mills had been
cut by the textile manufacturers, a
powerful general strike sentiment de-
veloped, with the workers in several
mills, such as the Arkwright and
Stevens Mills going out with the
posting Of the reduction notices. The
officialdom of the United Textile
Workers, however, refused to per-
nit general strike action.