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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

''The Duncan Theatre of Moscow
is one of the most valuable and in
teresting institutions of Soviet Rus
sia," declared A. Lunacharsky, Com
missar of Education, after seeing a
performance of the pupils of the
Isadora Duncan School.
The Isadora Duncan School was
established by the late Isadora Dun
can during the early years after the
revolution at the invitation Of the
Soviet Government. Duncan, con-
sidered the greatest dancer of mod
ern times, had come to the Soviet
Union and been carried away by the
spirit of the revolution and the new
life that was being built there. 1t
was in the first workers and peas
ants republic that she found at last
the atmosphere in which she could
realize her ideas Of the dance and
create a school where her theories
would be impaired to the new gen.
Grafton of Russian children.
During the past few years the
Isadora Duncan School has been
under the direction Of Irma Duncan,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
GRIM FIND IN SIBERIA
Discover Skeletons OF Lost Explorers

MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (UP).-Two
whitened skeletons, the separated
skulls grinning out against back
ground of virgin snow, are believed
to have solved the ten-year mystery
surrounding the exact fate of two
members Of the 1918-1919 Polar ex-
redition Of Roald Amundsen.
The skeletons were found recently
in northernr,cst Siberia. it was dis
closed today. Information which is
TO be published this weekend by the
newspaper lzvestia purports to show
that TIE skeletons are those of two
members of the expedition, who were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
KILL A WORKER
HUNTING Table
IN The AUTOMAT
Manager, Strong Arm
Gang, Throw Him Out
and Break Skull
Police Refuse Arrest
Victim Seemed Weary,
Called a Drunk
Police Refuse Arrest

A worker was killed last night by
the assistant manager and strong
arm squad of the Automat restau-
rant at 47th and Broadway, to the
horror of dozens of other workers
who were eating there at the time.
The restaurant was crowded when
a man, apparently a laborer just
from his job and moving YEARLY,
came in and walked about, looking
for a table. The manager appa-
rently took a dislike to his appear
ance, pounced upon him, accused
him of being drunk and ordered
him out. The man was reluctant to
go, but made no resistance. How
ever, since he did not move rapidly
enough, the manager called his
"bouncers" to help and the man was
nut out. He came back and was
flung ON the floor between the re-
volving doors at the entrance. His
skull was broken on the imitation
marble pavement and when the am
hulance arrived he was pronounced
dead. The manager tried to drag
the body out on the sidewalk, but
the crowd stopped him, so he took
it into the office.
Police Won't Investigate.
The police entered when they
heard the noise, but refused to make
any arrests, or to hear the stories
of witnesses, though many workers
there insisted on the guilty persons
being arrested, and, when the po-
lice refused, some asked in vain to
be arrested themselves, in order to
be able to testify in the case. Of
ficer No. 10,482, who was present,
angrily declared that he would take
no complaints, and with other police
chased away all witnesses and
cleared the room.
The body was taken to the
Morgue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
Woll Finds Cardinals
Bishop, Green, Oppose
Recognition of U.S.S.R.

Matthew Woll, president of
the A. F. Of L., in his capacity as
acting president Of the National
Civic Federation, an employers
strikebreaking organization which
has been boycotted in the past by
many international unions, has made
public letter written by himself to
President Coolidge.
"The insistent clamor of certain
groups for the recognition of Soviet
Russia" wrote Woll, has leo the Ma
tional Civic Federation to sound
public opinion in all parts of the
country on this ISSUE"
According to his own account he
then asked Elihu Root, John w,
Davis, Cardinal Dougherty, Bishop
William 7. Manning, William Green
and some others and they all said
they were opposed to recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
AVIATION MERCER
now new TRUST
Ford, Rockefeller and
Morgan Control

A gigantic S150,000,0G0 merger
of aircraft manufacture and opera
ton companies has just been put
thru under the auspices of the Ma
tional City Company of New York
and the Pacific National Bank of
Seattle, with officials of these COM
panies, the General Motors Cor
poration, the Ford Motor Co., and
the Standard Oil Co., controlling its
board of directors.
The properties of the Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft Corporation of
Hartford, manufacturers of the
Wasp and Hornet air-cooled air
plane motors, and the Chance
Vought Corporation, manufacturers
of the Corsair observation planes,
will be merged with the Boeing Air
plane and Transport Corporation of
Seattle.
The name of the new corporation
will be the United Aircraft &
Transport. 1t will own all the
stock of the Pratt & Whitney Air
craft Company, the Boeing Airplane
Company, Boeing Air Transport,
Inc, the Chance Vought Corpora
ton and more than 70 per cent of
the stock of Pacific Air Transport
which companies embrace all three
lines in the aviation industry-en-
gine production, airplane construc-
ton and transportation.
For the present the companies will
continue to operate under their owr
management and with the present
officials in charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
BUFFALO FLAYS
u. S. TROTSKyISM
Support EXpulsions by
Central Committee

BUFFALO, Dec. 16.-At its last
meeting the District Committee Of
District Four, with headquarters in
Buffalo, pledged its support to the
Central Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party in the
struggle against the Right danger
and Trotskyism. The following reso-
luton was adopted:
"The Executive Committee of Dis
trict 4 fully supports the steps taken
by the C. E. C. in it's struggle
against Trotskyism and against the
Right danger, and declares that it
fully realizes the necessity of purg-
ing the Party of all elements who
are attempting to lead our Party
away from the feminist line, into
the morass of Right Wingism or
Trotskyism.
"The D. E. C. further declares
that the danger confronting the
Continued on Page FiVe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
PLAN RADIO MONOPOL Y
BY AMERICAN EMPIRE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The U.
S. Radio Commission, while doing
its best to establish complete mon
opoly of this most important and
growing means of communication
and transmission of power, reports
to congress tomorrow that it is him
dered by the desire of capitalist ele-
ments in Canada, Cuba, Mexico and
other countries, which desire to do
exactly the same thing and want
enough wave lengths left for theni-
selves to build up their own trusts.
The layman, the commission
points out, thinks of radio only as
a means of entertainment. This
phase of radio development, it is
contended, is superficial when COM
pared with the possibilities of ra-
dos development along commercial
and scientific lines.
"Among the services being con-
tinued," the report states, "are the
following:
Communication between airplanes
and ground stations, communication
between ships and coastal stations,
police departments, marine-calling
frequencies, experimental work,
geophysical service, railway COM
munication, scientific expeditions
and yachts, portable stations, power
company emergency communica-
tions, television, experimental and
development work, picture trans
mission, amateurs and others
300 Channels.
Actually, the commission reports
there are thousands of applications
pending for these priced short wave
channels, radio experts at this time
do not know the exact number OF
channels available, but are positive
that not more than some 300 will be
available to the United States.
There are more channels than this
number in the spectrum, the report
said, but Canada, Mexico and Cuba
each must get a share. The short
wave channels in the point to point
band exist over the entire continent
Would Get Monopoly.
Consequently, if interference OF
the character that threw broadcast
ing into chaos two years ago is to
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
By HARRISON GEORGE.
Especial to the Daily Worker)

(SpecldL TO the DGttY W0TbefD
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 16.-
If you watch the capitalist news
papers, and carefully, for what is
going on regarding the Bolivia
Paraguay war, the more you read
the more you will be deceived.
You will get the notion that the
Pan-American Conference on Con-
ciliation and Arbitration here is
doing all it can to prevent war be-
tween two Latin American nations,
all of whom are inferred to be in
need of guardians in the form of
Charles E. Hughes and Secretary
Kellogg, that Bolivia and Paraguay
are unaccountably rushing into war
for no logical reason, and that it
is up to the United States to show
Strong guiding hand" and
"straighten out Latin America"
Recipe For Confusion.
You will get dizzy with "peace"
conferences, Cancellation" meetings,
arbitration" commissions. A whole
series of treaties may be given you
to digest. You will get steno-
graphic speeches of the delegates to
the conference (when Hughes wants
toy, statements of ministers of le-
cations, declarations by Secretary
Kellogg, and announcements by the
conference itself-and yet if you do
not read these things with a mind
sharpened with Marxist-Leninist
analysis, the more you read the
more confused you will be and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
STANDARD OIL OPENS BOLIVIAN WAR ON PARAGUAY
NEW YORK WORKERS PICKET UNITED FRUIT CO. SF1IF
Unmasks Mbenallst
Tricks at Washington

easier a victim for the war-makers
of American imperialism-who al
ways advance behind series of
"peace" conferences.
These war-makers, whom the
Daily Worker has compelled to
grant the writer equal rights with
the capitalist press correspondents,
including the use of the Pan
American Unions typewriters and
paper here in the building of the
Pan-American Union, have a sys-
tenn of protective coloring which
would make chameleon turn green
with envy.
What's SO-And What Isn't.
Let US take an example. Bolivia
withdraws from the conference
and then the next day, Bolivia re-
turns to the conference!" Now
what does that mean in reality?
The capitalist press tells you that
it means that Bolivia, after taking
an independent" attitude in the
conference run by Hughes, and
against the desire of the United
States breaking with the confer
ence, is placated by Secretary Kel-
logg, who is pictured as urging
peace and a return to the confer
ence"-it comes back to Uncle Sam
as the recognized boss of both
Americas under the Monroe Doc
trine.
But here are some other things
the capitalist press don't tell you
Bolivia, which is absolutely and air.
Continued on Page Tloo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
Harlem Tenants in
Mass Meet Tonight

Tonight at o'clock hundreds of
Harlem workers will rally at a
monster tenants mass meeting, to
be held at the New York Public
Library, auditorium at 103 w. 135th
St., under the auspices of the Har-
lem Tenants League.
Among the speakers at the meet
ing will be Arthur C. Holden, Mrs.
Florence Kicks, Juliet Stuart Poyntz
and Richard B. Moore. Admission
will be free. All exploited workers
and tenants of Harlem are urged to
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
CALL | RALLY OF
Shoe WORKERS
Meeting Part of Huge
Organization Drive

The Independent Shoe Workers
|. Union of Greater New York an
nounces mass meeting of all work
ers in the shoe industry for to-
morrow night at o'clock in Lor-
raine Hall, 100 Broadway, Brooklyn.
Some of the best speakers in the
New York left wing labor movement
are scheduled to address the shoe
workers and to urge them to or
ganize their almost wholly morgan
lied trade. Charles S. Zimmerman
Continued on Page TUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
Expect Whalen to OK.
Own Police Job Today

Grover A. Whalen today is ex-
pected to announce officially that
he has accepted the post of Police
Commissioner, left vacant by the
forced resignation of Commissioner
Warren.
A conference between heads of the
Wanamaker store, of which Whalen
is millionaire manager, and Mayor
Walker, will be held today to plan
the details of Whalen's new job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
Section 2 'Daily"
Agents Meet Today

An important meeting of Daily
Worker agents of Section of the
Workers (Communist) Party viii be
held tomorrow at 101 w. 9th st.
All unit and subsection agents must
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 16
P).-Herbert Hoover arrived
here tonight on a cruiser from
Buenos Aires. Troops lined the pier
to render military honors.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 10
Hoover spent most of his time
while in Buenos Aires hiding away
in the American embassy, where
ministers of state, Jose Canilo, the
mayor of the city, and the officers
of the U. S. battleship Utah, visited
him.
Guarded by Troops.
Aside from one official banquet,
an hour at the opera, which he at
tended under heavy guard, his only
other official act was the review of
special detachments of Argentine
troops, the armed fire companies,
and the police of Buenos Aires, also
drawn up in military formation.
Hoover cheered the heart of Presi-
dent Irogoyen by praising these or
gans of repression, on whom Iro-
goyen more and more relies for his
support.
President to Be Dictator?
President Irogoyen heads COM
posite Radical" party, which took
power from the great landowners
who had previously selected theii
cabinets by family intrigue in the
Jockey Club. He was elected by
eighty per cent of the votes of the
small landowners, small business
m en-, intellectuals, professiona
classes, and many workers, running
on a mixed but Liberal" platform
Since taking office he has appointed
a cabinet representing all of these
classes, and furiously divided against
itself. With the heightening of the
class struggle, labor is turning
away from him, and the old land
Continued on Page Three
The Communist Party is the par
~ of the liberation of the Negro
race from all white oppression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
MORE WOMEN PHARMACISTS

WASHINGTON (By Mail) The
number of women pharmacy work
crs has almost doubled in the past
year. Sixteen years has become the
--inimum age in many states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

The Communist Party is the par
~ of the liberation of the Negro
race from all white oppression.
NcrS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
Dor a Workers-Farmer Government
To Organize The Unorganized
For the 4O-Hour Week
For Labor Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-17
HOOVER CHEERS
IR0C0yEN ARMY
A pproves Presidents
Dictatorship Plan

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 16
(UP) Herbert Hoover arrived
here tonight on a cruiser from
Buenos Aires. Troops lined the pier
to render military honors.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17

lights. Men. women and children poured to the palace from the city all night. Musicians and dancers and picturesque performers of ev- cry description added to the festiv- ity of the preliminary performance and ceremony.
 Nancy Miller was formally ad- mitted to the Dhangar caste in the presence of hundreds of Dhangaos and the ceremony partly consisted of her partaking of food which pre- viously had been partaken of by Dhangars. and to be partaken of by Tukowi Rao. Later Nancy sat among her caste women and joined them in eating and drinking. She was then adopted into the Hokar family with due religious rites.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
WILLIS DEMANDS HOOVER
 STATE POSITION DRY LAW

lancaster. Ohio. Mar. IT. (P)- With what appeared to be an i'm direct shot at Hoover and prohibi-
 ion brought to force his stand in the Ohio Republican Primary cam paign. was today taken by Senator Frank Willis, who declared in his speech that the voters this year will stand for no dodging on the prohibition issue by the President iai candidates.
 Willis said: The campaign can not be won by evasion. consequent ly in the contest of 1928 it may be understood at the outset that the people demand and are entitled to receive definite aod unequivocal assurance of the positio"s of the candidates regarding the Eighteen tn Amendment and tt.e enforce ment of the law.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
NOME (. OF C. HOLD MEETING

The Board of Directors of the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce held noon-day lunch con meeting at Bahlke's Restau- tended.
 The matter of radio communica- tion referred from Candle was dis cussed and referred to special committee composed of Alfred J, Lomen, C. R. Jackson, O. s. Weav- CT. with power to act in the prem ises
 A telegram was read from Major Gillette in re furnishing pictures to be assembled for the Senate Ter ritorial Committee rooms in Wash ington. D. C.. was acted upon and J. D. Harlan and Chas. H. Milot were appointed as a committee to secure suitable pictures for the purpose.
 Two new members were admitted to membership at the meeting.
 The Mail and Aeronautics com mittee was instruated to study the proposal for bids for three trips of an airplane in April and May. and report at a future date.
 The Secretary was instructed to secure 16 cuts for use by the pub licity committee.
 Telegrams of invitation were or dered sent to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. and General Umberto Mobile to come to Nome during the coming summer.
 The Secretary reported having taken action in educational matters and letter was sent to all schools in the Second Division inviting them to participate in the Essay Con test. It was also decided that medal would also be given to the winner of the Elocution Contest sponsored by the Northwestern Al aska Chamber of Commerce. the medal to have the name of the winner inscribed thereon, as well as on the Cup offered for the same performance.
 The President, Geo. S. Maynard, was instructed to appoint commit tees for the annual election of of llcers and the banquet to attend the same. The President announc- ed that the committee would be named later.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
HICKMAN AND HUNT GO
 SAN QUENTIN PRISON

Los Angeles, Mar. IT, R-With a smile on his face for everyone in the crowd of press reporters, press photographers and movie men, Hickman today boarded Southern Pacific train for San Quentin pris- on where he has been sentenced to die on the gallows April 27th, for the murder of Marian Parke:. the eleven year-old school girl.
 In the prison party was also Welby Hunt. the accomplice of Hickman in the murder of drug sist Toms. and who faces l:ie i'm prisonnent.
 Hickman bade farewell to his brother Alfred. There was nc grief Instead the parting of the brothers was spiced with frequent outbursts of laughter.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
BLOWS UP HOUSE; KILLS
 MOTHER AND BROTHER

Hartford. Conn.,. Mar. Is, tP- Seemingly but dully to comprehend the enormity of the tragedy that brought a terrible death to his mo- ther and younger brother. Earl Jones, nineteen years old, admitted that he placed the charge of dyna- mite that killed and mangled them, but in the same breath he main tained that it was not he who ap- piled the fatal spark at dawn yes- terday, which resulted in the resi- dence of Robert B. Jones being tot ally demolished.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
VIM. BUTLER TESTIFIES IN
 s25.OOO BOND CONTROVERSY

Washington. Mar. 13, (R-Will- jam Butler. Chairman of the Re- publican National Committee today testified before the Senate investi- gation that Will Hayes met him late in 1923 in New York and at tempted to have him accept a pack age which Butler said he was told contained $25,OO0 in bonds. But Ter said he turned down the propo- sition fiatly. He testified that MT. Hayes asked him to give the $25.- 900 as a contribution toward wip- ing out the 1920 deficit. and did not disclose who the bonds came from. Butler said the package was not opened. and Hayes took it away with him.
 Hayes testified that he sought to have Secretary Mellon and Butler accept the bonds from him and in their stead contribute them toward wiping out the deiicit of the com mittee in 1890. Mellon had told the committee that he knew the bonds offered him came from Harry F. Sinclair after his lease of Teapot Dome. but said that when Hayes approa ched him he did not disclose that the bonds had come from Sinclair. Asked why he had not disclosed this discussion with But Ter and Mellon in testifying before the committee March 1st, Hayes insisted that the information was irrelevant.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
FIGHTS BLIZZARD
 TO GET SICK MAN FROM
 LIGHT HOUSE SCOTCH CAPE

Seattle, Mar. Is. (R-After fighting an Alaska blizzard for several hours. Captain W. B. Knight of the steamship Catherine D., took aboard one of the keepers of the Scotch Cape Light House who is seriously i'll. Through the heavy gale the task was extremely diNicult. The Catherine D. steam ed eighty miles westward from 1k- itan on the rescue trip at the re- quest of the United States Govern ment.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17

and predicted that he would be routed in the April 24th voting. He said that the opposition to Sem
 ator Willis. especially the vets. docked to Hoover as soon as he came to Ohio as a candidate" He declared that those opposed to Will lis and not satisfied with Hoover are looking around and beginning to see that tho nomination of Low den or Dawes might be achieved by voting for Willis, but would surely be defeated by voting for Hoover"
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
NANCY MILLER ENTERS FINAL. tCEREMONY BECOME HINDU

Barawaha. India. Mar. IT, R- Nancy Miller today entered upon the final ceremony which is to make her a Hindu and the bride of Tok- owi Rao, former maharajah of In- dore. The preliminary ceremonies began this morning amid scenes of the greatest splendor. The com- pletion of the ceremonies will re- quire the entire day.
 Baravaha is transformed by null ticolored buntings and festoons ad- orning the roadsides. The palace grounds are ablaze with electric
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
DOGS HEAT AIRPI4ANEs AND
 SNOW MOTORS WITH RELIEF

Sault St. Marie. Mich. Mar. 16. iP)-A team of seven dogs guided by two men brought the first relief to. the snow-bound village of De- tour, reaching the stricken settle ment ahead of the airplanes and the snow motors which set out also on an expedition in a race to pre- vent famine and death. The city was isolated sixteen days ago.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17

Washington. Mar. 13, R)-Sen- ator Norris. author of the resoiu- tion under which the Teapot Dome committee Is working. declared to- day that President Coolidge should demand the resignation of Secre- tary Mellon because of his failure to advise the Investigators that Will Hayes had sent part of the Sinclair bonds as a contribution. He de- clared: Mellon knew this was a crooked deal. He should have ad- vised the committee of the conver- sation Hayes had with him on the matter"
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-17
CAPITOL RECORDS SEVERE
 EARTH SHOCKS TO WEST

Washington. Mar. 16, (H- Earthquake shocks of extreme in- tensity. greater than ever before noted, were recorded on the Geor- getown University Observatory seiswograph. The disturbances were reported today by Professor Tondorf. The shocks lasted four hours.
 At Carson City, Nevada two se- were shocks were reported. will dows rattled and dishes fell aud were broken.
 .. London. England. reported that heavy earth shocks were recorded on their instruments.