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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
VETERAN TAILOR
pneumonia VICTIM
Found Unconscious in Blazing
West Main Street Building

Pneumonia which developed after
. fire early Monday morning was
the cause of the death OF Raffaele
Pinto. 81 years old. OF lis Linden
street at the New Britain General
hospital last night. physicians say.
When firemen responded to an
alarm for q blaze in Bennett Nell
sons tailoring establishment at IS
West Main street. they found Pinto
sitting in a chair unconscious. He
had been overcome by smoke. He
was carried to the ground from a
second story window. Efforts to re-
vive him failed and he was taken to
the New Britain General hospital.
He developed pneumonia during the
forenoon.
Mr.. Pinto was considered the old
est tailor in the city. having work.
ed at that trade throughout the so
years he lived in New Britain.
Surviving him are his wife, four
daughters. Mrs. Virginia Ciazzo.
MrA Elvira Drew. Mrs. Lena Pala-
dino. and Mrs. Mary Pugliese. and
five sons. Joseph, Michael, Fred.
Henry. and Albert Pinto.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow morning at 9 o'clock at the
Church OF st. John the Evangelist.
Burial will be in st. Mary's ceme-
terry.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
City Items

Three Musketeers will give their
It'll annual dance at F'raternal hall,
Berlin. tomorrow night. Sat. Dec.
22nd.-Advt.
Mr.. and Mira Edward Hines OF
Monroe street will spend the Christ
mas holidays In Boston. Mass. Mr.
Hines as director Of sciencein the
Central and Nathan Hale Junior
high schools.
Members Of the Young Peoples
society OF the Second Advent church
will hold q Christmas social this
evening at o'clock at the home of
Miss Pearl Carr at 446 Church
street.
The executive committee OF the
Chamber OF Commerce will meet
this afternoon at 4:3O o'clock.
All games in the civic bowling
league have been suspended until
after New Years
Louis Croli OF 80 Sheffield street
was host last night to a dinner and
theater party given for his employees.
Rhinehardt Jeski Of 4S Prospect
street entertained Is friends In honor
of his goth birthday Wednesday
night at his home. Bridge was play
ed. Mr.. Jeski was the recipient of
many gifts.
Pay checks have been received for
headquarters company, First Bat
talon, 169th Infantry. Payment will
be made at the armory tonight at
1880 o'clock.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
Maxcy Condemns Maine
Fish and Game Heads

Portland, Me-. Dec. 2l R,-Robert
f. Maxcy Of Portland. who was re-
tired last January as deputy COM
missioner Of the state fish and game
department after his institution of a
new game warden service had arous-
ed protest. last night told members
of the Cumberland County Fish and
Game association that he had to
take definite stand or else close my
eyes to the wasting Of thousands OF
dollars Of state funds and become
myself a party to the system"
He strongly condemned the pres
ent administrative policy Of manag-
ing the fish and game department
and asserted that while a commits
sioner was the nominal head of the
department he actually was under
the domination of the governor
and council.
He cited instances Of alleged poor
management of the department. par
ticularly in the warden service, and
asserted that the system he had In.
stituted was being torn down and
conditions falling back to the policy
in operation when he assumed office.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
Georgetown Students
Offer Up Life Blood

Washington. Dec. Fl Up - More
than a score Of Georgetown univer-
sity medical students offered their
blood last night for transfusions ia
save the lives Of two motor truck
operators who had been overcome
by fumes from their Christmas tree
laden machines engine on a high
way near Washington.
The two truckmeh with their ma
chine laden with Christmas trees
had been found earlier in the day
unconscious In the cab of the truck
by q policeman at Falls Church,
Va. near here. He took them to
the police station In the belief they
were intoxicated and they remained
in a cell for an hour and a half
before . physician discovered their
real condition.
Then they wer6 rushed to the
university's hospital where physi-
clans were making a desperate at
tempt to save their lives. The men.
b. J. Cassort OF Woodlawn, Nd,
and Lester A. Linaburo OF Balti-
more. after fixing a tire were be-
lieved to have parked their machine
by the roadside with the engine
running in an effort to get warm
and were asphyxiated by the mo-
tors fumes.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21

1.-THE entire matter now is in the
hands OF the New York postal au-
thorities," United States Lines Of
fetal said.
He did not know that Captain
Cunningham had made the report to
the postal inspectors but said that
was the course which no doubt
would be pursued.
Work On Case
New York postal authorities have
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21

eral authorities and police searched
for mail gang that might have
reached the valuable mail parcels as
they were being transferred from the
post office to the Leviathan In port.
They finally decided q robbery
ashore would have been impossible.
SO closely was the mail guarded, and
the search then started abroad and
among the crew of the big United
States liner.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21

been working on the case ever since
the robbery first was reported when
the Leviathan locked at Southamp-
ton last June. Most OF their moves
have been secret, however.
When the robbery first was re-
ported in England the belief was
that the mail sacks had been opened
before the Leviathan sailed from
this port. For several days the fed
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21

Capt. Harold A. Cunningham, of
the Leviathan. was understood to
have prepared report on the rob-
berry for Postal Inspector Clarahan
of New York. where the liner arriv-
ed yesterday.
Rybar. who still is In custody in
Vienna, told the police when arrest
ed that he had accepted the Tokid
Electric Light bonds on the Riviera
last summer from a man who gave
them to him as security for loan.
When the loan was defaulted. he
said. he decided to sell the bonds.
Find More Bonds
The bonds were part. Of a ship
ment from the Guaranty Trust Co.
of New York. Three days after Ry-
bars arrest, Berlin police discovered
more OF the bonds In Berlin bank.
That was on Dec. I. The Berlin
bank had received the bonds from
Vienna.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
New York Angle

New York. Dec. II (UP)-Much
of the investigation into the theft OF
the 100000 in bonds from the Le-
viathan last June now centers In
New York. officials said today.
A complete report Of the recent
developments In Berlin has been
made at the Office of c. H. Clara
han, chief postal inspector in New
York. Captain Harold Cunningham.
master of the Leviathan, made
complete report Of the case to the
office when he came into port with
the Leviathan yesterday.
He had been informed OF the de-
veiopments reported to the United
Press today by tho Berlin police.
Officials Of the United States Lines
and the Guaranty Trust Company.
the company which owned the stolen
bonds, said they had not been ad-
yised as to the latest Developments
announced today in Berlin.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
PRODUCTION DROPS

Washington, Dec. n R-As a re-
suit of the usual seasonal changing
Of models and inventory. automobile
production during November show
ed a sharp decrease. The commerce
department. announcing the indus
trys production figures yesterday,
said that 256.936 machines. passen-
ger cars and trucks, were built In
the United States during the month,
which compares with an October
output of 397.O96. and with an out
put in November last year Of 1884,
$40.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
THINK LEVlATHAN
ROBBERY solved
CONTINUED from First Pase)

many and Austria coopented in
solving the mystery. An amazing
plot whereby = clever gang. dis
guised n members Of the Leva-
than's crew. got access to the mail
sacks while the ship was at sea, was
suggested.
CleveFly Done
The work was cleverly done, and
when the Leviathan arrived at
Southampton. the mail sacks were
still sealed and apparently un-
touched. 1t was not until tho mail
was opened for distribution In Eng
land and France that the robbery
was discovered.
At first It was insisted that the
robbery must have occurred before
the mail was put aboard tho liner
in New York. and fake seals, substi-
tuted. Today's announcement indi-
Gated that the robbery was commit.
ted while the liner was crossing the
Atlantic.
Berlin police said today that
Friedrich Rybar. who was arrested
In Vienna on Dec. l, charged with
trying to Sell bonds OF the Toxic
Electric Light Co. which were In
cluded in the LsHathan loot, was
acting on behalf OF Walter Ringer,
alias Long. a German stoker on the
Leviathan.
Long disappeared from Antwerp
on Dec. l. police claimed. George
Diedrich. a Berlin postal official.
mailed a photograph of Ringer to
the Leviathan for identification. 1t
reached the ship Just a. she was
sailing from cherbourg on Dec. ~
for New York,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-21
Confirms Identity

On Monday. Postal Inspector
Kuenhle, who sailed on the Levia-'
than working on the robbery, wire
lessed to Berlin confirming the iden-
tification OF Ringer and naming him
chief Of the gang which perpetrated
the robbery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25
Fletcher Supplements COOhdge's Message

When Coolidge delivered his message to the opening SEES.
sion of the conference he emphasized part OF
his goodw program necessity of establishing air mail
routes LatnAmerican republics Now comes Henry T.
Fletcher LatnAmeran expert the United States committee
at conference with supplementary explanations that reveal
the real motive behind the Coolidge proposition
Fletcher returned America from his post as am
bassado to tyranny Muson at Rome for the
specific purpose aiding the conspiracy at Havana announced
the conference that the United States could not accept the
proposed draft of commercial aviation treaty unless certain
changes made that would safeguard the United States naval
the Panama Canal from possibility OF air attacks
by other powers Fletcher specifically mentioned the necessity
of amendments to the general commercial air treaty that would
Guantanamo United States naval base just east
Santiago the southern shore of Cuba Thus the goodwill
drvel of President Coolidge translated by Fletcher into mill
Fechers proposals nothing else than that
the United States intends to utilize the present conference at
Havana that will force all other to
circle Panama by flying the and to avoid Guantanamo
in the The puppet governments of Cuba and
Panama will grant its imperiast master restrictions 1t de-
impose upon other that one of the conditions
of their existence
In spite of all the twadde about the non-potica character
the conference Havana and the deceptive claim that the
Union purely economic organization the veno
features of the the Unsuitable ravager OF ma
ons be clearly perceived The to LanAmerica
combined with threat to European nations that also have
mperiast interests in the southern republics The relentless
financial power that is slowly sitting British Influence IN Latin
Amerca supplemented with military preparations And such
preparations political just all political reexes
profound economic antagonsms Commercial aviation is only
thin disguise for the building of whole series of military
planes that mail also high
explosives to wreck death and destruction upon whole popua
This Fletcher does not attempt to gloss but
frankly in contrast to Coolidge discussed commercial aviation in
terms of military preparedness.
Pan-American conference warning to the American
working that the driving forward at
terrific world conflagraton which mil
lions of workers will be called upon to lay their
of the world to defend the farng imperialism of Wall
Street In this other respects the working class OF
the United States and the victims of Yankee ghulnes in
the LatnAmerican countries have task of fighting
with all their power against the Vaccinations of the mpeass
at the an-Amercan conference.
combined drive of the working class and impoverished
of this country with bloc of nAmercan nations
against American Imperialism is the only effective to
Coolidge Hughes Fletcher and the of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25
Rockefellers Clean Up
On st. Paul K. K. Loot

mon and less than $40 share for
preferred.
The stock market records also show
that transactions in st. Paul stocks
during 1925 exceeded those of any re-
cent year, involving the sale of more
than 100000 shares of common and
100000 shares of preferred. AS
there were actually outstanding only
about 1,170,000 shares of common and
100000 shares of preferred it is
apparent that the opportunity for the
big boys to gobble up St. Paul stock
on the bargain counter was practically
unlimited.
The preferred stockholders COM
mittee is practically 100 per cent
Standard-Oil Kuhn-Loeb. 1t consists
of chairman M. N. Buckner of the
New York Trust Co., President A. w.
Loasby of the Equitable Trust, Pres
ident John McHugh of the Mechanics
& Metals National Bank, Harold l.
Pratt of the Standard Oil Pratt
family and Milwaukee banker. New
York Trust, Equitable Trust and
Mechanics & Metals bank are recog-
nized instruments of the Rockefeller
Kuhn-Loeb outfit. The committees
counsel is Rockefeller corporation
lawyer. The common stockholders
committee is just as clearly repre-
sentative of the inner circle of this
banker-oil combination.
From this it is clear that the St.
Paul reorganization was pulled for
the benefit of this group. To the
millions in fees collected as reorgani-
cation managers they will add tens
of millions as result of increase in
the value of the stock which they Sc
cured for almost nothing in the period
of uncertainty when only insiders
knew what was to be done with the
looted railroad. The reorganization
is not satisfactory even to the ma
jcrity of the interstate commerce
commission who let it go through, but
it is eminently satisfactory to the
J hooters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25

Randall LeBoeuff appointed by the Tam
of New York investigate the scandals
involving lady republican politician Mrs Florence E. Knapp
has made his report which reveals the lady almost
in the traditional of American graft the best trained
Tammanye of the democratic party His report charges the
elegant lady, umnary of the Mellon forces in
New York state with undry high and misdeeanor
Guiding Juggling of paros by the old device of false aud MAX
ing cercaons forgery grand larceny of public
records and padding payos in behalf of whole list of relatives
mother cousins brothers, sisters various naws Criminal
prosecution recommended in the report and anticipated by the
actions the district attorney of Albany who that he
will consider the possibility of placing the whole before the
grand jury.
Mrs Knapp is the first to hold high state office
New York state and her record indicates that servants of
the capitalist in public office play the with the
female when ndugng in plumber of the socaed public treasury
entirely the spirit of the class he she Some
unfortunate enough TO be exposed.
Let imagine for moment though that the nvestga
on which has just been concluded by ammany politicians the
behest of AL Smith, indicative of the fact that
started by Smith counterast to the speech of
Teddy Roosevelt at the republican state convention which
agned Tammany still the old beast of prey waowng
rpon The burden of the Roosevelt speech that Tamany
had changed its stripes The speech instantly followed
by the investigation of Rooseves political associate Mrs Knapp
and the whole Knapp family
Such revelations becoming these days that
evoke widespread interest The public
part remains apathec taking for granted that of the
perogaes of politicians is to enrich themselves from the spo
of office.
The working class should study and learn the lessons of such
incidents the true meaning of the matter only it
fall for the bunk about honest business administration
working point of view the question of graft
cabre of the political lackeys of the master
parties mpes recognition of the fact that the
itself based it violence against the working class
maintain the right of the master plumber with
out hndrance must rely upon just such servants Whether hon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25

By JACK STACHEL, National Or
ganization Secretary, Workers (Com-
munist) Party of America.
THE tremendous demonstration at
L Madison Square Garden Saturday
evening at which $4,000 workers of
the city of New York gathered to
pay homage to the great leader, Len
in, on the fourth anniversary of his
death, shows the immense influence
enjoyed by the Party in the New
York district.
This achievement is particularly no
table in view of the fact that series
of very important meetings and af-
fairs have been held only short time
prior to the Lenin Memorial Meet
ing. Among them the Defense
Bazaar of the New York needle trades
workers, meetings of protest against
the Nicaragua invasion by the United
States marines, and only few days
before the splendid demonstration
which marked the fourth anniversary
of The DAILY WORKER at Mecca
Temple at which some four thousand
workers attended. Added to this
must be the fact that an admission
charge was made at the Garden meet
ing and in the face of tremendous I'M
employment existing here.
Fellows Surprised.
The enemies of our Party looked
forward with great Impotence to this
Lenin Memorial Meeting, for they
surely believed now that the struggle
in the needle trades has not yet come
to head, that the struggle is still
very sharp and that the conditions
of the workers in the factories are
not very good, that the open shop is
gaining ground; they believed that
this would enable them to lay the
blame for the Generalization of the
union on the shoulders of the Com
munists and left wing and that they
would find a response among the
masses.
This demonstration at Lenin Mem
orial is again proof of the fact thai
the masses understand that it is the
right wing Sigman machine, that il
is the right wing furriers, and the
right wing in the needle trades gen
orally that are responsible for the
present conditions in the needle
trades, and that it is thanks to the
fact that the left wing had been OF
the job fighting, raising the slogans
Quoting a struggle against the EN-
)loyers in the industry, that there il
still some unionization in the in
dustry.
This demonstration is proof of thu
fact that the masses in the needle
trades still follow and will continu
to follow the Communist and lief
wing leadership and succeed in com
pletely destroying the influence o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25

worker should fail to receive our
paper, The DAILY WORKER, sim
ply because he is unemployed. Those
of our comrades that come in contact
with unemployed workers or workers
on strike must send their names to
The DAILY WORKER and explain
that these workers are unemployed
or on strike and The DAILY WORK
Err will make provisions for them to
receive free copy of The DAILY
WORKER at the headquarters of the
DAILY WORKER or the district Of
flee. Also our Party members must
buy copies and distribute them free
to those of our sympathizers who are
unemployed or on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25

the right wing machine, drive them
out of the union, and re-establish a
strong and powerful industrial union
in the needle trades.
Party Influence Grows.
Not alone among the needle trades
can the Workers Party record its in
fluenee, but the last year has seen
the growing influence of the Party
among other workers such as the
waterfront workers, the traction
workers, metal workers, and many
other sections of the working popu-
lation of the city. This again thanks
to the fact that the Workers (Com-
munist) Party has been the only
force, which together with the left
wing, thru it's leadership, has sue
ceeded in bringing many sections of
the workers nearer to it and have
them adopt its slogans of struggle.
The Lenin Memorial demonstration
shows that the Workers (Communist)
Party of the New York district has
great possibilities in the Lenin and
Ruthenberg Memorial Membership
and DAILY WORKER Drive. This
influence of the Party must be
crystallized into organization.
Hundreds and even thousands of
those who attended the meeting are
ready to join the Party and must
be approached in every way possible
and drawn into our Party as added
forces for renewed and more intensive
struggle against the capitalist class
and against it's agents in the labor
movement.
Already at the meeting hundreds
of workers have signified their in
tention of becoming members of the
Party. These workers must be fol-
lowed up Immediately and brought in
contact with the Party organization
in the various sections of the city.
Every effort must be made to reach
those others that were not yet ready
to fill out the application on Satur-
day night, but who with additional in
formation and literature and agita-
ton will be ready to join our ranks
One of the means of drawing these
workers closer to our Party is to
make them regular readers of our
central organ.
This is the task of our Party mem
bership at the present moment.
Our Party thru its nuclei in the
factories, thru it's fractions in the
trade unions and fraternal organiza-
tions, must approach all sympathetic
workers with a view of having them
become readers of our DAILY
WORKER and finally with view OF
drawing them into the Party organi-
cation.
In approaching this membership
drive we had to take into account
the tremendous unemployment that
exists at the present time, and We
must make it our motto that nc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-25
By LELAND OLDs, (Fed. Press)

By LELAND OLDS, (Fed. Press).
How the Rockefeller Standard Oil
interests with their allied bankers of
the Kuhn-Loeb group, will reap mill
ions in profits from their reorganiza-
ton of the Chicago Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad is suggested in a scath-
ing dissenting opinion by Com
missioner j. B. Eastman. He objects
to the interstate commerce COM
mission ruling authorizing the bank
ers to proceed with the plan. His
discussion makes it clear that this is
just one more of the intensely profit
able financial juggles which the
dominant financiers have put over on
railroad and industrial corporations
in order to cement their control.
Eastman points out that .specula-
ton has been rife all along the line
and that the stock offered the best OPP
portunities. He says:
"Most of the large stockholders of
the old company unloaded some time
before the receivership. Immediately
CilGICd1Itl Lllc lGll 10 ABOUT
$3.25 and the preferred to about $3.50
share. The announcement of the
reorganization plan, providing very
generously for the stockholders,
stimulated the upward movement.
Present prices are around $40 for the
common and $37 for the preferred.
Transactions have been heavy"
The large stockholders, prior to the
reorganization, were the Rockefellers
and the other nabobs of Standard Oils
National City bank family. A study
Of New York stock market quotations
shows that these financiers could
have unloaded in 1928 at prices rang
ing as high as $26.37 for St. Paul COM
mon and $45.50 for the preferred and
in 1924 at prices ranging up to $18.75
for common and $32.12 for preferred.
Immediately following the announce
ment of the receivership March Is,
1925 they could have repurchased
and added enormously to their hold
ings at less than SIS share for com