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The Washington times., 1928-09-14
ALEXANDRAM|AN
LOSES $40

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Sept. IA
Stopped at the point of a pistol by
two men in a car bearing District
of Columbia tags, Roy Hollis, Of
Fairfax, Va. was robbed of $40.
according to a report made by him
to Sheriff Kirby early today.
Howard Lewis, 10, OF 800 South
Patrick ST.. was struck by car
driven by Kermit Malletis late yes
terday. The boy was treated by DIR.
II. A. Latane and taken home.
Miss Julia Ballenger, % years old.
Of Fairfax county. died al the Alex
andria Hospital from burns re.
cefved by the explosion of kerosene
in her home on Telegraph Road
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
The Veterans Smith Robinson Vic
tory Club of Washington has Seen,
granted permit TO hold u demon
stration at King and St. ASaph
Streets this evening at o'clock.
An anti.Smith meeting win be
held in the Armory Hall next Tues.
dAy ONCA4Auk 0A1uCT 4AAIC aU0IltCGC Oh
the Hoover. Curtis Democratic Club
of this city.
In police court Nelson Price col.
ored, charged with throwing Charles
Robinson. also colored. overheard
In q quarrel. was fined IS and costs.
Robinson was fined IS for fighting.
The city schools yesterday en-
rolled more than 5000 students.
There were A13 beginners entering
school for the first time. At the
high school a faculty shaks-up has
RESULTED in 10 OF the q members
Of the staff being newcomers. The
actual class work will begin Mon.
day.
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BALTIMORE PRODUCE

BALTIMORE, Sept. 14-Poultry;
Chickens-Old, lbs and over,
2I@29c; old. and 31z lbs. 20024c;
leghorns and other light stock. 22W
25c; old ROSTERS 1661Sc. Young
chickens-Springers colored. as TO
size, 30@34c; springers, leghorns,
as TO size. 28d 32c. Ducks-Whlte
pekings, young. 4 lbs and over,
z4W26c; puddle, young. lbs and
over. 22425c; muscovy, young. 4
lbs and over, 24Q26c; all kinds, old,
15@20
Eggs-Market quiet On the Bal
timore . Butter and Egg Exchange
there were no offerings today.
street. sales, small lots. nearby fresh
Rathered, firsts. candled. 34Gy sec;
few higher. Receipts-Butter, 497
tubs; eggs. 921 cases.
The Washington times., 1928-09-14
BY b. c. FORBES


Surely, foreigners must be re.
tising their ideas regarding Ameri-
cans. Too often in the past we
have been looked upon as brag-
CARTS, noisy, clustering, domineer-
ing; always swanking and swag-
gerfng, superciliously patronizing.
'Concededly. we had lots of money,
thanks to an indulNant Providence
who had endowed us with fabu-
lously rich resources. But, apart
from our money bags, we were
nothing but windbags.
Well, proof to the contrary has
lately been offered in abundance.
Tunney Wins Praise
This weeks newspapers tell of
the very fine impression made in
Paris by Gene Tunney. One. talk
he made in London before
learned audience was unanimously
voted a literary Knockout" His
department in Ireland won every
one. Everywhere he has been
seen as a young gentleman of eX-
IRENE modesty and of mental at
tainments surprising most young
college graduates.
Lindbergh captivated all Europe
Just as he later captivated Latin
America. The deluge of unprece-
denied honors, from royalty and
rulers down, did not turn this
young Americans head one jota.
Everywhere he compcrted himself
with innate modesty. Every
where he did and said exactly the
right thing, proving himself the
worthiest type of young manhood
to be found anywhere on earth.
Jones Added to Great
Recall. too, how the unassum-
ing bearing of Bobby Jones de
lighted the English and the Scots.
Never did hero wear a crown
more modestly. And. like Lind.
bergh, he demonstrated his in
herent sense of courtesy and
gentlemanliness when, on being
presented with the championship
trophy at classic st. Andrews, he
asked them to accept custody
Of it.
Recent events suggested that
''Bill'' Tilden has as many ardent
Admirers in Europe as at home.
And what finer specimen Of
young womanhood has Europe
ever seen than Helen Wills?
Who in all the wide world is
making worthier impression upon
nation after nation than John d.
Rockefeller. jr.? Could any human
being be less of a boisterous swag-
gerer than this phiIanthropic
American. whose intelligently di-
rected bounty goes forth TO succor
and benefit mankind all over the
globe? Even the harshest critics
of America and Americans admit
thHt the Rockefeller millions are
being employed more usefully than
any other great fortune was ever
employed,
By and by foreigners will
know us as we are. And this
knowledge will be. among other
things, a priceless asse. 10
Americas business activities in
international markets.
Copyright 1928. by B. c. Forbesl
The Washington times., 1928-09-14
Ransom for Rumsted
Said to Have Been Paid
Photo by international

/The State Department today was
still without definite Information as
to the fate Of E. ]. Rumsted. mine
engineer of Los Angeles. who has
been held by Mexican bandits since
August Is. ~
1t was explained that the HUN.
boldt Mining Company. which en-
ployed him, had sent the demanded
ransom of 23.000 pesos to Mon.
camera, in the Mexican state VI
Nayarit. where the abductors have
an agent. The money was to have
reached there yesterday and his
release was supposed to follow i'm.
mediately.
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ROthschild Named
Business Delegate

Louis Rolhschild. manager Of the
Better business Bureau, was ap,
pointed at recent meeting of
the executive committee of the
Bureau To he its delegate to the
National Convention of Better Bust.
ness Bureaus, which will be held in
Chicago from September u to %
Rothschild will leave today for
Chicago driving overland in his
automobile.
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BALTIMORE GRAIN MARKET

Wheat-Firm; No red winter,
UarIicky. domestic. $13212; receipts
81. $50 bushels; shipments, 9,IG7 bush.
els.
Corn-Steady; No yellow. do.
mestic, SIZES; receipts. 1887 bushels:
shipments, 3,340 bushels
Oats-Fifmer; No. 2 white dOmes-
tic 1880 cents: No. . white. t70r4S
cents: receipts. 1,&0S bushels; ship
uents. s ,454 bushels.
Rye - Nominal; receipts. none;
nhipments. 28l bushels.
FIolr- Quiet ana steady.
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HUGHES SET To
TAKE HOOVER
STUMP
By LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
international News service #

NEW York, Sept. 14.-Increasing
daily in Intensity and bitterness,
the Presidential campaign IN the
Solid South today reached the hot
point Of open charges Of Carpet
bagging's by the Democratic mana
gers, and their immediate denial by
members of the Republican eastern
strategy board.
.'The campaign in avery southern
Stats is entirely In the hands o.
the State organization, = said
Representative John .. TilsOn, d.
rector Of the Eastern speakers
bureau, following i conference with
Chairroan Hubert Work of the Re
publican National Committee.
g. o. r. Denials
Repeated charges from various
Democratic sources that northern
speakers were being sent into the
South and that considerable cash
collected in northern Republican
stFOngholds was being diverted to
encouragement OF the revolt 81
Democratic drys in the South. were
discussed in the conference be-
tween Tilson and Work.
Ne spea keFs have been assigned
In the South. save at the specific
request OF the Republican man
ayers Of the various States, Tilson
declared ].
Even when speakers are -
Quested, the national organization
offers wide selection Of nauneas
for the consideration Of the local
committees, and the subject OF the
speeches Is in every case left Tor
the approval Of the local committee.
The same principle governs the
campaign expenditures In the South.
Everything is handled through the
local committees"
Chairman Work returned 10
Washington this morning after 4
crowded one-day visit to Eastern
headquarters here. He took back
with him. according to TilsOn, as-
'surances from POLITICAL intimates
Of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden
Of Illinois that Lowden would take
the stump for Herbert Hoover In
the Middle West whenever called
upon.
Hughes For six Talks
He also carried back 20 Hoover.
definite word that former Secretary
Of State Charles e. hughes, elected
last week IS . member az the
World Court OF international JUS
tice. would make at least SIX cam
paign speeches, three In the East
and three in the West. II has
been intimated previously that
Hughes election to the international
tribunal would prevent his particle
patton In the Presidential campaign.
Hughes is now en- route from Eu-
rope. His assurances 10 Tilson
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Wine Philanthropist
Pays Custom Penalty

NEW YO$&, Sept. 14.-Customs
officials smashed 80 bottles of as
sorted liquors and champagnes
against the side of the United
Statse liner Leviathan while hun
dreds of incoming passengers
looked on. The bottles had been
found in an old trunk belonging
to l. II. lsaacs: passenger.
A denomination was at once
ordered on Isaacs' other baggage,
and $1,000 worth of undeciared for
eg!n purchases were discovered. He
was tined $3.50 for the undeclared
goods and the liquors. He said he
wanted the liquor to give to A
hoSDital
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DANCE IS HELD
SANS GROOM

KELNERSVILLE. Wis. Sept. a.
Hundreds of villagers got their
moneys worth" here few days
ago when they danced at party
riage ceremony-but didn't. When
the time came for the wedding the
bridegroom Emit Patsorick. was
absent He has not been seen
since.
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Sailor Is Rescued
After 10 Hours in Sea

CHI ADHESION, s. c., Sept. IA
After battling 10 hours with waves
and sharks. John Wollnger, mem.
Der OF ~the crew of the Inflated
tanker Shreveport. destroyed by
blast off Cape Hatteras, N. c..
killing five, today was safe In q
hospital here.
Wolfinger dived overheard and
swan into the sea though terribly
burned on the arms and body.
The Clyde line steamer Mohaw
picked him up and brought him
here.
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Nitrate Explosions Rock
Brooklyn Water Front

NEW YORK. Seat. IA terrific
explosion caused an uproar along the
liroaElYn water front hate yesterday,
a few minutes after fire had attacked
a cargo Of nitrate Of soda aboard
The steamer Aconcgagua.
AS the flames cut through To the
lower hold there Were half dozen
smaller blasts that rocked the water
front for several blocks
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: BRIDES MADE
At SIXTH HOLE

AMIGO. Wis. Sept. 14.--Harry
Gibbons. local golfer. can claim
new golfing record. While play.
ing the sixth hole at the Amigo
Country Club recently he got two
brides"
His first came when a crow
intercepted screeching brassie
shot His second came when he
holed out for four on a par five
hole
The Washington times., 1928-09-14
CLEARING HOUSE REPORT

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.--Clearlns
house statement: Exchanges, 81 10
300 900: balance, $137, 100000: Fed
elal Reserve Banks credit balance
Sl25, 100000.
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LOS ANGELES. Calf, Sept. "A.
Police today reported that = search
had been started for Albert La Huis'
wealthy retired banker, and his VIE.
OF Zealand. Mich. They are reported
10 have been missing since August
ts. Nothing has been heard nom
the eounla since they len here Tor
Seattle. ..lI.si
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AlbinO Buck Deer Seen
BY Tourists in Oregon

ASTORIA, Ore. Sept. IA pure
white Albino buck deer the first Of
its species ever reported in Oregon.
has been seen bv tourists along the
Roosevelt Highway in the vicinity OF
Black Ridge.
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RUKEYSER SEES
FARM PRICES
TOO LOW
Bv MERRYLE STANLEY
RUKEYSER

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-At pre-
vailing prices for wheat and other
small grains. producers of such
crops in the agrarian West are in
effect contributing their services
to consumers without compensa-
ton.
The depressed prices for wheat
and potatoes constitute the princi-
pal clouds on the agricultural
horizon. and demonstrate the wis
dom of diversifying crops. One
crop farmers are, in effect, gam
blers. whereas those who di'
versify their crops better spread
= the business risks incidental to
tilling the SOIL Live stock and
hog prices and quotations for
poultry and dairy products are
distinctly favorable.
Will Buy More
Commenting on the prospective
buying power of the farmers in
Iowa and Illinois, George G.. Will
liams, vice president and treasurer
of the Chicago Joint Stock Land
Bank. in a statement prepared for
this column, pc out:
THE small &. am crops in Iowa
and Illinois are good, but present
prices are below the cost of pro.
duction. The district has the
best corn crop in years. both in
quality and quantity. The sup
ply OF cattle is below require
ments and prices are good. Com
pared with the cattle situation
the supply of hogs more nearly
approaches the demand. How
ever. the supply is short enough
to make profitable selling price
for the farmer.
The status of the corn crop
will assure volume of money,
and buying will be in greater
volume that for several years
past. regardless of the market
prices of corn. which apparently
will be low"
Interest Rates High
As for credit tendencies in the
Middle West. Williams added:
Speculation in stocks continues
and interest rates are increas-
Ing dS Idpluly DIS Ob.ASdllOi1S lIid-
ture. Rates have been immedi.
ately raised on demand paper"
In pointing out the most sig
nificant business trend in his dis
trict, Williams said: "Consolida-
ton in both business and banks
is being accomplished in increas-
ing numbers and volume"
a new trend in the human
reaction toward business is a
growing appreciation of the value
of leisure. Men in increasing
numbers are voluntarily getting
out of harness in the evening of
their careers.
Waldo Frank, the social critic.
in abiding to this tendency. at
tackled those who make money
accumulation their major interest
even after permanent economic
security has been won, saying:
The animal expends its en-
ergy in the business of personal
or race nutrition. Mankind is
still an animal The man who
boasts that all his time goes
into business is the equal of the
COW, all of whose time goes
into grazing.
The Washington times., 1928-09-14
ATE NEWS OF FINANCIAL MARKET
TAXREGULATION
SOUGHT BY
TREASURY

Drafting OF regulations which
will govern the preparation OF cor
poration tax returns representing
IN income of more than q billion
dollars annually 10 the Govern
n1ent was started by the Treasury
today.
Following a series of hearings
in which the views Of big corpora
tions, trade associations and the
American Bar Association were OBJ
tanned , an analysis of testimony
is being made by Assistant Secre-
tary H. II. Bond, Internal Reve-
nue. Commissioner p. III. Blair and
other experts who will revise the
system of assessment and collection
of the taxes.
The regulations will be issued the
middle of November and under
the terms of the 1928 revenue act
will be applicable to tax returns
on the income of this year. They
apply to corporations having sub
salaries. or in the other words
the largest OF the vast industrial
groups of the country
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Have Huge Income


Illustrating the Importance to
bushes of the system to be worked
out officials explained that the
corporations affected have q gross
income of nearly 100000, 600 900
annually, although less than 10 per
cent of this income is taxable by
reason of legal deductions.
The chief obstacle to be over
come by the Treasury is determine.
ton Of a basis Of gain or loss in
cases where the subsidiary Of q
parent corporation sewers its con-
nection with the affiliated group.
One group OF experts advocated
that in determining gain or loss
on disposal of an affiliated com.
pany by u parent corporation, the
cost of the stock at the time the
subsidiary was absorbed should be
employed. Another group contended
that the value of assets should be
made the gain-loss basis.
This involves the cost of good
will purchased, a factor which
complexities the Treasury's problem
and one on which Industrial tax ex-
perts agree.
Official View
Officials thought 1t probable that
the regulations will provide that In
all tax matters the Treasury should
deal with the parent company In
an affiliated group making q con-
solidated income tax return. This
would be a departure from the
present system. In cases where
DEFICIENCIES were found in the tax
or where refunds were TO be paid
the Treasury would look 70 the
parent company which in turn
would deal with its subsidiaries.
Corporations with subsidiaries,
represented before the hearing,
were asked to submit detailed mem.
oranda as to their views on the
gain-loss question. The information
must he in the hands OF the
Treasury within two weeks.
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silent corridors deaf to his entrea-
ties.
Then began the endless pacing.
The dull, gray floor stained with
hundreds of filthy excrements. The
driveling drain that carried it's fluid
away to where it mattered not. The
uneven cobbles worn by his and count
less other feet that had worked out
their penance on the tread-mill that
never moved except within their
swirling brains maddened by the des-
pair of solitude.
The light faded from the little
opening and the rats came from the
west wall and he needed them not;
and the noises 'creaked teasingly from
the south wall. But he was trying to
sleep again and he stared at the cell
ing that pressed down upon him like
weight of lead. The top of his
cage that hid the sun and moon and
stars. Up there they said was God;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-15
BY ALBERT GLOI'zER.

A statement issued by the Peabody
Coal company, which was recently
printed in the Illinois State Register
thoroly exposes the present agreement
between the operators and the Lewis
Fishwick machine. The statement is
not only the statement of the Peabody
company but is the voice of the organ
lied operators in the state. Peabody
has spoken for them and has laid
down the program that will be fol-
lowed by the operators in Illinois.
The content can be summarized as
follows: The passing of the major
part of the coal production to the I'M
organized fields must be dealt with.
This one outstanding condition does
not allow the operators here to con-
tinue paying the present Jacksonville
scale of wages and still derive their
enormous profits. In order to meet
this competition the operators are
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lis instituting, we find these young
workers coming back into the strike
movement and more and more taking
an active interest in the strike. The
New Bedford Textile Workers Union
in recognition of the Importance OF
the young workers, has adopted list
of special youth demands which are
as follows: "a Minimum wage of
SIS a week for all young workers.
(2) Equal pay for equal work for
young and adult workers. (3) Com
plete abolition of child labor under 10
with state maintenance for all those
now working under that age. az No
night work for young workers under
81. No overtime for young workers
under IS. (5) Two fifteen-minute
rest periods day for all young work
ers. (69 7-hour day, 5-day week for
young workers under IS. (7) One
hour for lunch and washing up on
company's time. (S) Work schools
for young workers under Is and Is
on working time under union and
young worker control.
The New Bedford Textile Workers
Union in the eight weeks of strike is
as strong as ever. Picket. lines are
growing daily, and mass meetings
likewise. The workers know that a
real union has come to stay in New
Bedford. The young workers know
that they now have union to fight
for them, which IS worth while fight
ing for. The young workers will
fight like hell. They are chipping
III their all to build union of the
New Bedford Textile Workers affili-
ated with the National Textile Mills
Committee in New Bedford. All
young workers organizations are
asked to support this militant strug-
lgle of these workers.
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BY JAMES A. MILLER.

He paused in the endless pacing.
Grey walls, cold walls. 1t seemed he
heard something in the far corner,
something that was alien to the place.
He dragged himself slowly to see
where it seemed to come from, but
there was nothing. He resumed his
pacing, backwards and forward,
ceaseleesly like an endless shuttle
weaving the loom of fate, tireless, in
exorable, dumb-time like worn out
don was threading her way, forgotten
ard discarded.
The endless pacing.
The west wall with it's crack run
ming diagonally across; wall where
the rats came from at night, scurry-
ing hither and thither until he chased
them away with curses he had almost
forgotten how to utter. Curses that
oozed with the slime of iniquitous
divinities Of the world without these
four walls: these four walls that CON
tinually pressed in upon him, over and
around him like grim, forboding
ghosts, that shrieked their silence
when the little patch Of sunlight dried
up and went to sleep. Heavenly sleep
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and who went on the picket line. Last
week the loom fixers' local of the A.
F. 7. 0. paid out its last strike bene-
fit of $500 per member, and is now
advising it's own members to go to
the citizens and mayors committees
for relief. The Workers International
Relief has announced that it will give
relief to all workers regardless of
what union they belonged as long as
they go on the picket line.
S. P. Aids Takers.
The socialist party has been giving
active assistance to the misleaders of
labor running the A. F. 7. o. The
Boston district of the socialist party
recently in convention adopted reso-
luton supporting these bureaucrats.
Mr.. Norman Thomas spoke at the
mass meetings of the strikers, and
the S. P. has been raising relief, APP
pealing in the name of the 10000
workers but turning this relief over
to Batty for his two thousand union
members. j. Manning of the Y. P.
S. L., who carries the distinguished
title of Confidential secretary of the
strike committee, has been giving the
Ibureaucrats active assistance in their
fight against building a real textile
workers union in New Bedford. The
S. P by all these actions once again
shows itself in its true role as the
agents of reaction.
The young workers make up over
rs percent of the textile workers in
New Bedford, and it therefore be-
comes very important that the union
pay special attention to them if the
strike is to be won. Due to the lack
of militancy, these young workers lost
all interest in the strike, but now with
the growing militant policy which the
New Bedford Textile Workers Union,
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THE PRISONER

that ne craved, sleep that never came.
Then began the endless pacing.
The south wall where the strange
noises came from. Some ghost of old
time doing its penance in the cell. He
wished it would go away and never
bother him again: that word again
was like the walls, monotonous and
gray. Gray walls, gray days, gray
thoughts
Then began the endless pacing.
The north wall where the cold
winds came from in winter, the winds
that froze him to the bone and made
him screech until the turnkey ratified
his keys at the great door and de-
manded silence. He wished the wind
would freeze him up forever like he
had read of travellers in the far
north being frozen, swiftly and sill
emily in the vast grayness-
Then began the endless pacing.
The east wall where the door was,
the outlet to that vague unimagina-
bic liberty that had been his, it seem
ed cons ago. The door against which
he had battered his knarled fists
Intellectual times, sending
dull echoes reverberating through the