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The Washington times., 1929-10-02

Inc DlSIrlct commissioners rnuS
far seem to have ignored the criti-
ecism which the grand jury leveled
at the coroner's jury which pro-
nounced the young woman a suicide
after hearing only three witnesses,
while subsequently more than so
were called before the grand jury.
The coroner's inquest, the report
declared, was merely a matter Of
form. On several occasions in the
past the method of selection Of cor
ioner's juries has been attacked, and
it is probable that the report of the
grand jury will again focus atten-
ton upon this matter.
Plays In Cell
In the meantime the young bank
clerk. Mcpherson, sits lonely fig
ure In his cell at the District Jail.
Because Of the city.wide activities
which have grown out of his case
he is almost lost sight Of except by
his relatives and friends.
With a stolid Hollander he sits
and plays chess, waiting for the
hour today when William e. Leahy,
his counsel will see him for the
first time and go over with him the
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
Trial and Promotion LeaUe
Allen UnWOrried, He States

Robert J. Allen, Of the Third pre-
cinct, who was promised q detective
sergeancy in the event he proved
Mrs. Virginia MCPHERSON was the
victim Of a stranger, and then in
the middle Of the murder investiga'
ton was suspended, this morning
declared that getting the promotion
10 the least Of his worries. Z
The man who caused the police
theory Of suicide to collapse and was
responsible for the indictment Of
murder being reported by the Grand
Jury-resulting In Inspector William
8. Shelby and Lieut. Edward ].
Kelly being removed from their COM
mands-announced that he IL sitting
tight. ,.
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
nHE WASHINGTON

T HE WASHlNGTON
IL TIM E s has as
sembled q notable staff
Of sports writer's to
cover the world series,
starting next Tuesday.
Heading the staff will.
be Kirk Miller, Times
sports editor, who will
write colorful sidelights
and report the amusing
side of the series. His
lifting, bubbling "Sport-
orial" is a daily feature
Of The Times.
Assisting him will be
Bob Thayer, Washing
toms oldest baseball
writer in point Of SER
vice, who viii report the
technical side Of the
series and write the
running play-by-play ac-
count.
The Washington times., 1929-10-02

II merely acted as I thought
proper in clearing the name of Mrs.
Mcpherson Of the stigma of sui.
eide" Allen declared.
ST am not in the least concerned
over reports that Major Pratt does
not intend to promote me to the
post that Inspector Shelby offered
me If I proved murder had been
committed"
Allen added that he is certain his
friends win not stand idly by and
see him done an injustice. He radi.
ated confidence when talked to this
morning ana declared that the
charges he Is facing in the Police
Department do not In the least
tSouhle him.
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
PRINCESS IS EXPECTING

LONDON, Oct. 2 Q.N.S).-The
Crown Prince and Princess of Nor
way are expecting a happy event
about Christmas, an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen re-
vealed today. The Crown Prince
and Princess, formerly Princess
Mathe of Sweden, were married
with great pomp early in the spring
in Oslo
The Washington times., 1929-10-02

them shook hands with Kelly. The
veteran DETECTIVES hat was perched
on his head at jaunty angle as
he walked rapidly through an outer
office, telling the men there "I'm
going to get to work on the new
job"
Kelly exchanges places with
Lieut.. Joseph c. Morgan, who was
llaison and complaint officer of the
dana pfy,aesA4
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
Lyon Park Club Women
Are Giving Card Party

LYON PARK, Oct. 2.-The Lyon
Park Woman's Club will give card
party tonight at $3.50 in the COM
munity house.
Committee members are: Mrs. A.
T. Rowell, chairman; Mrs. Fl. c..
Young, Mrs. c. !. Kephart, Mrs.
Edgar w. Humphrey and Mrs. Ar
thur Orr,
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
Lyon Village Women
Hold Meeting Tonight

LYON VILLAGE, Va, Oct. 4
The meeting of the Lyon Village
Woman's Club will be held tonight
at the home OF Mrs: George A.
DeVaughan on Key Boulevard, in
stead of at the home of Mrs. o. R.
MCGUIRE on Virginia Avenue 81
previously announced,
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
Lieut.. Kelly Defiant, Bids
GOOd-by TO Old Command

Lieut.. Edward J. Kelly, deposed
head Of the homicide squad, stood
outside the roll call room at Detec-
tive Headquarters as his chief,
Inspector Shelby, babe farewell to
the men who had been under his
command.
'I have no statement Kelly
defiantly told reporters. IT feel
fine"
AS the detective filed out after
hearing ShelhY,s sneech. many Of
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
DISTRICT Government
SHAKENBY Staying
CONTINUED from First Page)

will be relieved of any further investigation that be
required and that the bureau of investigation of the
partment Of Justice will take the case and
assign experts gather murder evidence which
may be obtainable
Demand is also being voiced that the District AT.
torneys office shall withdraw from the case and that
special attorney of the Department Of Justice be des
mated to carry on the prosecution of Mcpherson.
Thus far District Attorney Leo A. Rover whose office
also drew the fire of the grand jury has named
Of his assistants to take charge of the and
probable he is waiting if the department which
controls his office will take any action.
The Washington times., 1929-10-02
LICENSED TO WED

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Oct. "A marriage license
was issued today to Thomas ]. Nc
williams, Of washington. and Emily
!. e. Susan, OF Clarendon.
The Washington times., 1929-10-02

vestigation of the staying of Mrs.
Virginia Mcpherson.
King declared that he will speak
before every organization in Wash
ington in behalf OF the two police
The Washington times., 1929-10-02

officials.
The board also approved the
changing Of the date for the com
munity chest drive until after Jan
uarv l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
Majority yThreatens Gag
Rule in House to Jam
Hoover Tariff Thru

WASHINGTON, May 5.-An at
tempt will be made either tomorrow
or soon thereafter, according to Rep
resentative Longworth, speaker Of
the house of representatives, to es-
tablish the gag rule on tariff dis
cussion and rush through the senate
bill. Democratic members who have
policy opposed to that of the re-
publican party on certain schedules
only, especially textiles, metal and
chemical products, have declared
that an attempt to apply the clo-
ture to discussion of tariff rates on
these materials will provoke rough
and tumble fight on the floor of the
house.
The senate bill raises the tariff
on a few products, but leaves it
otherwise substantially unchanged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
.FENC MANEUVERS
TO TAKE PEk|kG
War Near, Chang for
Anti-USSR Hatred

SHANGHAI, May 5. - The rift
between General Feng Yu-hsiang
and the Marking clique has reached
the stage of open war. Chang Kai
Shek, fearing that further delay will
give Feng the opportunity of en-
trenching, and realizing that his
own position is becoming daily
weaker, hopes through precipitating
the situation to achieve the double
purpose of uniting his own forces
and defeating Feng.
1t is expected that in view of the
fact that postponement of hostili-
ties is now impossible Feng will
march his troops toward Peking via
Shansi. Shansi is now under nation
alist control, but is poorly defended
The Peking defenses have been
weakened recently by the removal
of 10000 troops, who were sent to
Shantung against possible oceupa-
ton by Feng. In both these areas
there is great mass opposition to
the nationalist government, which
Feng undoubtedly hopes to capital
ize. Tt is not unlikely, therefore,
that Feng will complete the first
phase of his military program
against Chang successfully.
Unconfirmed rumors have it that
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
THOUSANDS WILL
join FOOD STRIKE
PICKETS TODAY
Mass Demonstration at
Noon

Strikers of the Hotel, Restaurant
and Cafeteria Workers Union will
again rally thousands of New York
workers to support the food strike
at the mass picketing demonstra-
ton in the garment section at noon
today. Expressing solidarity with
The strikers will be members of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, the United Council of Work
ing Women, the New York Districts
of the Communist Party and the
Young Workers (Communist)
League, and large number of other
sympathetic organizations. Strikes
f;'l at the same time be declared
tgainst ten cafeterias in the down.
town section, the union reports.
25 Shops UniOnized.
With 600 members working under
conditions in 25 restaur-
ants because of the strike, the union
is meeting with weaker resistance
in its program of extending the
walkout to the entire downtown sec
ton. Within one hour after picket
lines We're organized outside the
Morsel, 81 E. 9Th st. and the U. S.
Cafeteria 63 E. 8th St., the owners
were forced to sign union agree
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
.S|NCL AIR Gets
3-M0NTH REST
Court Directs the Oil
CRATER to Serve

WASHINGTON, May 5.-Harry
Sinclair, New York oil CRATER, will
have to spend three months in jail
after all. The gentle tap on the
backside given the man who got
away with millions for refusing to
answer embarrassing questions put
to him by an indiscreet senate COM
mittee has been upheld by the Su-
preme Court and mandate to this
effect was issued late yesterday
The official charge is contempt Of
the senate.
The mandate declaring Sinclair
must serve will be officially in the
hands of Associate Justice Hitz of
the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia tomorrow.
Sinclair's attorney has announced
that there is no moral turpitude"
involved; he has rented an expen-
sive house in fashionable neigh
borhood for his family; he will re-
main head of all his companies, and,
when he actually takes up his abode
in the Washington Jail, early this
week, he is expected to have as much
consideration as any other business
man who retires to a sanitarium for
few months rest from the hard
night life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
POSTPONE 5-DAY
Bull DING WEEK
Trades Council, Bosses
Put It Off to Aug. 2A

Progressives in the building
trades unions pointed out last night
that the loudly heralded "five-day
week with ten per cent increase in
pay" granted by the Building
Trades Employers Association after
a friendly meeting with the Building
Trades Council, does not accomplish
much yet.
In the first place it comes six
months late. Last year, while many
more buildings were going up, a
course cf negotiations was entered
upon by the Building Trades Coun-
Gil, under rank and file pressure, to
get the five-day week. Negotia-
tions dragged along comfortably for
well-paid and happily situated heads
of the Building Trades Council.
Injunctions.
Internal intrigue soon split their
forces to the extent that Secretary
Broach of the Electrical Workers
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
WOMEN Endorse
TUEL UNITY MEET T
Conference PledgesAid
to Mill Strike

Support for the Trade Union
Unity Conference to be held in
Cleveland, June 1, and the striking
southern textile workers, was voted
by over 200 delegates, representing
about 1G0 shops, who Saturday at
tended shop delegates conference,
called by the Women's Department
of the Trade Union Educational
League. 1t was held at Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th st.
The wide representation of shops
included women from the dress, mil
linery, fur, shoe, knitgoods, mems
clothing, umbrella, handkerchief, un-
derwear, hosiery shops, also domes-
tic dayworkers, hemstitchers, cafe
terra workers and many others.
Rose Wortis, one of the leaders
Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, was chairman. She
opened the conference by pointing
out the significance of the Trade
Union Unity Conference, to be held
in Cleveland on June /.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz spoke on the
exploitation of women workers,
especially Negro women, of the sea-
sonal nature of their work, of the
naturalization system and of the
Importance of the women's dele
gate conferences as a means of or
ganizing women workers to fight
against their inhuman conditions of
work.
Tells of Struggle.
Gladys Schechter, of the Millinery
Workers Union, gave an account of
the militant struggle Of Local 43,
of the betrayal of the right wing
bureaucracy and of the expulsion of
the millinery handworkers from the
union because of their militancy.
Jeanette Pearl, field organizer,
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
'S75O,O00 MEXICO
LOOT IN new YORK
American Officials Aid
"Rebel" Chieftains

What is said to be only part of
the millions stolen from Mexico by
the reactionary clerical insurrec-
tionary chiefs, who were furthering
their nests by looting banks while
their Indian soldiers were being
slaughtered by machine guns and
airplane bombs at La Reforma and
other battles, was found today. 1t
was in the custody of the "rebel"
general Escobar's financial agent,
Salvador Ateca, and his secretary,
Antonio Maquero, who had the COM
pany of Russell B. Mathews, assist
ant U. S. director of emigration at
Ell Paso, and w. H. Prayer, former
assistant U. S. attorney, and con-
sisted of merchandise and money
amounting to $750,000.
The four men with their quantity
of valuables were arrested in the
Hotel McAlpin, as they came thru
New York on their way to Spain.
Ateca and Maquero were formally
charged with being fugitives from
justice, and the two U. S. officials
with assisting them. Ateca and Ma
quero are under indictment and on
bail in Kansas City for breach of
the neutrality laws, charged with
transporting military weapons to
the clerical insurrection in Mexico.
They are held without bail, while
Mathews and Fryer are free on
$4,000 bail each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
May DAY BOOSTS
MINNEAPOLIS C.P.
Workers Demonstrate
Despite Ban

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. (By Mail)
-Organizational gains are expected
by District 8 of the Communist
Party because of the successful
May Day demonstration held at
Bridge Square in defiance of police
and detectives who attempted to
break up the meeting. Later sue
cessful indoor mass meeting was
held in hall at Glenwood and
Humboldt Aves., at which Pat De-
vine, district organizer, spoke.
Fighting for the right to parade,
the Party opened negotiations with
the mayor one week earlier. When
the mayor and chief or police issued
edicts declaring there would be no
meeting, counter statement was
issued by tho Communist Party,
which declared that May Day cele-
~ Continued IN Page Two) I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
.PICKETS BATTLE
SCkBS IN BOMBAY
GENERAL STRIKE
British Arrest 300 and
Incite War of Creeds
as Aid to Bosses
Import Strikebreakers
20 Killed in Three-Day
Fight; Rush Troops

BOMBAY, India, May 5.-An of
ficial announcement said 20 persons
had been killed and more than 200
injured in the street fighting which
started last Friday when British
government officials rushed Pathan,
Mohammedan scabs into the city to
take the places of Hindu strikers in
the textile mills.
Over 100000 have quit work in
answer to the call of left wing unions
for a general strike to stop victimi-
zation of workers who took part in
the great textile strikes of this
spring.
The reactionary officials of the
textile union are opposing the gen.
erai strike, and the British govern
ment has followed its traditional
policy of attempting to change a
class VI INTO a religious war. Brit
Continued on Page Tl0o)
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'these tonight. This is the at
tempt of the brutal officialdom
to revenge itself for the Com
munists' successful defense of work.
ers' right to demonstrate on May /.
The latest count of the casualties
showed that at least 27 persons were
killed and about 27O injured in the
Neu Koelln district alone, during
the attacks of the police on the
workers. The police announce that
36 of their number were wounded,
and 20 of these remain in hospitals.
Firing Continues.
Heavy police details are guarding
the district from behind barbed
wire fences thrown across the Her
mann Strasse and adjoining streets.
Under rifle guard they have begun
to remove the barricades which the
workers had constructed to defend
themselves.
Communist deputies in the Reich
stag introduced an Interpolation de-
manding the removal of Police Chief
zoergibel, the punishment of the Of
ficers who ordered the shooting of
the workers and the withdrawal of
the orders forbidding demonstra-
tions.
Workers Aroused.
The Indignation against the bru-
tality of the police is spreading to
every quarter. Several thousand
workers Joined the general strike
movement in sympathy with those
who fought on the barricades. These
include Neukoelln subway construc-
tion gangs, steel plants, and shoe
workers. The liberal press is excus-
ing the murders by declaring that
the police 'lost" their heads. The
social-democratic press has rallied
to the defense of the police chief,
Zoergibel, who is one of the leaders
of the social-democratic party.
The bourgeois press is raising the
cry of Russian instigation." To
substantiate this they have manu-
factured story, out of the whole
cloth, that the U. S. S. R. sent three
well known "Cheka" organizers and
three members of the Red Army
general staff to Berlin to organize
the demonstrations. The social
democratic press is giving every
support to this fable in the hope
that it will turn attention from the
of the police.
For this same purpose an attempt
is made to forget" the massacre of
the workers and to center attention
on the death of Mackay, a reporter
from New Zealand, who was shot
by the police while he was crossing
the street. Even in this connection
some bourgeois papers asserted at
first that he was shot by Commu-
Continued on Page TVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
PLANS LAID FOR
FURRIERS' STRIKE
Delegates Cheer
Gastonia Workers

Hundreds of shop delegates, rep
resenting thousands of fur workers
in union and non-union shops, were
present at the conference on Satur-
day at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St., under the direction of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union.
The conference laid plans for the
coming general strike in the fur in
dustry which will be called soon to
unionize the fur shops of New York
City.
Strikers Are Cheered.
One of the high points of the con-
ference was the entrance into the
hall of two textile strikers from
Gastonia, N. c., Viola Hampton and
Raymond Clark, accompanied by
Jeanette Pearl, field organizer for
the Workers International Relief.
Their appearance was a signal for
thunderous applause and cheering
from the delegates. Hampton,
Clark and Pearl addressed the dele
gates, after which collection of
$100 was taken up for the striking
textile workers, which will be used
to purchase food for the Workers
International Relief store at Gas
tonia, N. C. A basket of flowers
was presented to Miss Hampton.
The conference was opened by
Aaron Gross, manager of the fur
of the New York Joint
Board of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union. After brief
talk he introduced Ben Gold, secre-
tary-treasurer of the union.
Gold pointed out the changes in
the conditions of the fur workers
during the last two years and stated
that decisive action to better the con-
Gition of the fur workers is now
An important meeting Of all
needle trades workers will be held
after work today, at Webster Hall
All furriers, dressmakers and cloak
makers are urged to be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
DAWSON IN court
in newark TODAY
Textile Strike Leader
Faces Federal Frameup

NEWARK, N. j., May 5.-Ellen
Dawson, Gastonia strike leader and
organizer, will appear in the Fed
eral District Court at 1915 tomor-
row, on the federal charge of ire
gularities in q her naturalization
papers. In an interview with a
Daily Worker representative today
Dawson characterized the proceed
ings as crude frame-up, in which
she had not even been notified of
the specific accusation against her.
But it appears to be, from state
ments by the prosecution, to be the
same naturalization paper charge
on which she was arrested while
active in the New Bedford textile
strike. At that time she was held
cne week in jail, and then the
charge was dismissed by federal
judge.
How the case can now be re-
opened, just when she becomes ac-
tive in another strike, at Gastonia,
is one of the mysteries of United
States capitalist law.
Dawson was re-arrested by fed
eral officers at huge mass meet
ing in Gastonia, on the day that the
masked mob wrecked with axes the
strike and relief headquarters.
After being held in Charlotte jail
for four days she was released on
$4,000 bonds obtained by the Inter
national Labor Defense, whose at
torney, Isaac Shorr, will defend her
tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
FORM U. .S.LAbOR
SOCCER GROUP
Support Relief for the
Southern Strikers

A Workers Soccer Association
was organized yesterday at ma
tional conference which was held in
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Place. The conference was called
by the former National Soccer De-
partment of the Labor Sports Union.
Thirty-five delegates took part in
the conference, representing soccer
teams and leagues throughout the
country. An executive committee of
II members was elected and plans
were laid out Cor the organization
of workers soccer teams in New
Bedford, Fall River and in other
parts of the country.
Greetings were received from the
New England district of the Labor
Sports Union, Pittsburgh, Chicago
and Detroit. A cable from the Red
M Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
new MEMBERS IN
COMMUNIST DRIVE
Organization Campaign
in Industrial Cities

CLEVELAND, May 5.-In re-
sponse to the call of the Central
Executive Committee of the Com
munist Party for intensive organ
ization efforts, the Cleveland organ
ization has already established six
new shop nuclei. This makes a
total of Is in this city, and more are
in process of formation.
Ten shop bulletins for as many
different shops are coming out this
week. Shop bulletins have been
started in Warren and Canton, Ohio,
big steel and ion centers. In the
near future there will be one in the
WHY'S Overland automobile works.
Negro Workers Join.
CHICAGO, May 5.-Nucleus 27
of Section 6 here, of the Commu-
mist Party of America, has had con-
siderable success in gaining mem
bers among the Negro workers. A
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
Negro Family Slaves to
Southern Land Owner,
State Hushes Case Up

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May s.
The case of land owner who al
legedly paid the debts of Negro
family and in return became virtual
owner of the nine members of the
group will come before the Federal
Grand Jury which convenes here
next week.
Authorities would reveal no names
but intimated more than a dozen
Negroes have been summoned to
testify in the case. They said the
family was lodged at the Mont
gomery county Jail for protection,
yesterday, after conference between
Judge Henry D. Clayton and officers
from the district attorneys office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
s1HpK9E ey EE9R9E
Translated by A. S. Arthur and c. Ashleigh
AU Rights Reserrcd-InterlationaI Publishers N. Y.

Gleb ChumaOv Red Army village
after three absence find the
and village with and soth His
forgets herself momentary joyful greeting but quickly
herself and acts with that bowls him
His friends Savchuk his wife, Motia
other to pieces in bitter hopessness The factory
had worked mechanic he found tomb the Waterman
around like ghost The and locks
work mdewed cobwebbed Ge the workers. well
white guards for the devastation that had
pASSNG down long black tunnels Geb the
The peaceful light filtered from the sky revealed the
pie the engines The floor is of cessboard tiles And
engines like black marble idols beded with gold
Firmly and sody they stood in regular ready
just touch and their polished metal limbs would start dancing The
wheels appeared be alive fght Geb felt the
laden with geast sulphur rushing
Continued Page TWol anf