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Evening star., 1929-06-10
q. S. WATCHES CONFERENCE.
Hammond TO Act as Unofficial OBJ.
server During Proceedings.

Hammond to Act as Unofficial OBJ
server During Proceedings.
BY the Associated Press,
American officials will follow closely
the deliberations of the Council of the
League of Nations.
Ogden H. Hammond, the American
Ambassador to Spain, has been instruct
ed to act as unofficial observer for this
Government during the Council pro-
ceedings.
American officials expect the Council
to accept the Root plan, which already
has received the approval of League ex-
perts If the Council sanctions the pro-
tocol, it will convoke conference of
the World Courts member nations on
the proposal simultaneously with the
next League of Nations Assembly in
September.
1t is believed in official circles here
that the approval of the protocol by the
September conference is certain. The
next step would be for the League sec
retariat to forward a formal notice of
the conference approval to the Ameri-
can Government.
While the other nations, which are
members of the World Court approve
the protocol, however 1t is unlikely that
the question of American adherence to
the tribunal will come before the Sen
ot
Evening star., 1929-06-10
EMPRINGHAM'S DIVORCE
PLEA TO BE UNCONTESTEO
Hearing Is Set for Today, With No
Action Yet Taken by Wife,
the Defendant.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
RENO. June 10.--The divorce ne
tition filed Saturday by James Empring-
ham against Ethel M. Empringnam is
scheduled to be heard in District Court
here today. Attorneys said the case
would be decided early in the day, since
Mrs. Empringham had not contested
the action.
Although facts in the divorce COM
plant identify Ernpringham as the cele-
brated figure in the prohibition move
ment, his counsel today continued to
profess ignorance of his former con-
nections
DR.. Empringham is believed to have
spent the three months sojourn at
ranch near Pyramid Lake, 35 miles
from here, and could not be reached
yesterday
Empringham charges his wife with
desertion in New York in 1925. Mrs.
Empringham asks $50 month alimony
and $40 month for the support OF
minor son.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, June
10.-There Is an epidemic of towns
trying to claim the birth Of the Re-
publican party that almost equals in
importance our problem here, Who
was the first white child born in
Beverly Hills?"
All they have to do to find where
the Republican party was formed is
find where the first corporation was
formed. 1t was incorporated for the
sole purpose of taking over the man
agement and finances of the United
States. 1t meets in Washington and
its sole business is to listen to and
veto minority report submitted by
the Democrats. It's slogan is, Stay
with us: we can afford to pay more
than our competitors"
Evening star., 1929-06-10
FLYER BROMLEY PLANS
NONSTOP HOP TO JAPAN
Is in Los Angeles Overseeing Con-
struction of Specially Designed
Plane for July Hop-Of.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 10-Harold
Bromley, Takoma, Wash, flyer, who is
here inspecting construction of a spe-
cially built airplane in which he pro-
poses to make nonstop flight to
Japan. said he planned to hop of from
Takona about the middle of July, de-
pending on weather conditions.
The monoplane, an atwood Lock-
head machine with a 420-horsepower
motor, will be completed in about IL
Gays.
Bromley said hazard of the flight
would be lessened by the floating quail
tiles of his atwood plane, coupled with
the installation of sending and receiv-
ing radio set which will have a trans
mitting radius of 5000 miles
The flight, backed by Takoma busi-
ness men. is planned as forerunner of
mail and passenger service between
Takoma and Japan, Bromley said.
Evening star., 1929-06-10

ance tonight at the Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street.
After visiting Arlington Cemetery,
where wreaths were deposited, the dele
cation, led by Grand Chancellor A. Her.
man Woody. went to Congressional
Cemetery and laid a floral offering on
the tomb of Past Supreme Chancellor
Edward Dunn.
The principal address at the service
tonight will be by former Gov Richard
Yates of Illinois, who is supreme repre-
sentative at large from that State,
Evening star., 1929-06-10
GRADUATES ADDRESSED
BY REV. c. l.. RUSSELL
Baccalaureate Sermon Delivered
Yesterday Afternoon to Glass of
Frelighuysen University.

Rev. Charles L. Russell, president of
the National Interdenominational Min
isterial Alliance of America, delivered
the annual baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of Frelinghuysen Uni
versity in the John Wesley A. NJ E.
Zion Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran
streets, yesterday afternoon.
The Negro race excels all other races
in sentimental religion, DR.. Russell de-
Clared, but it is necessary also to equal
other races in knowledge, which can be
done only by persistent study. He ad-
vised the graduates to pursue scientific
knowledge and bring forth inventions
that would add to the welfare Of hu-
1nanity.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
GIFT FOR FELLOWSHlPS.
Guggenheim Foundation Announces
S1.oOo.OOo U. S.-Latin Fund.

NEW YORK, June 10 LP).-Trustees
of the John Simon Guggenheim Me
mortal Foundation yesterday announced
gift of 81 100000 from Simon Gug-
genheim, former United States Sena-
tor, and Mrs. Guggenheim for the es-
adjustment of a system of exchange
felloWships between the United States
and Latin America.
The fellowships will be open to citi-
zens Of the United States, Argentine,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and
IJrIlQ1leV
Evening star., 1929-06-10
GAS WELL BLAZE QUELLED
Fire Following Explosion Caused
Loss of $3,e4o,ooo.

BUFFALO, June 10 LP).-After a bat
tie of several days. the giant fame
which had burned since the explosion
of gas we'll at Golden, Erie County,
was extinguisf1ed last night. Steam and
carbon dioxide were used to put out the
fire. The Iroquois Gas Co. of Buffalo,
driller Of the well, estimates it lost So
$4,000 worth of gas.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Chief of Army Chaplains Honored.

Col. Edmund ]. Easterbrook. chief of
Army chaplains, returned to this city
today from a visit to Little Rock, Ark,
where he received the degree of doctor
of laws from Little Rock College and
also preached the baccalaureate sermon
to the graduating class.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Medical Examination Urged.

NEW YORK, June 10 CP).-"A gen.
eral medical examination once a year is
the soundest kind Of insurance against
serious illness and possible DEATH" says
Gov Roosevelt
Evening star., 1929-06-10
YOUTH HURT IN FALL.

James c. Harrison May Have Frae-
tured Skull.
James Harrison, 2O-year-old fire.
man at st. Matthew's Catholic Church.
ana nvlng at llO7 Seventeenth street,
was seriously injured last night when
he fell from the second to the first floor
down a flight of steps at his home.
Physicians at Gallinger Hospital said
he may have suffered a fractured skull
and neck.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
SPECIAL NOTICES.

HORACE H wEsTCoTT & CO., sle nth
Glllist has Withdrawn from the Arm OF
HORACE H. WESTCOTT e. CO., as Of May
2l, 1929. HORACE H. WESTCOTT.
HARRIET HOLTHER
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
lid. And N.T.W.U.
IN RAPID GROWTH
Increase Surprise d
Even Organizers

The past week, and particularly
the last several days, have seen a
tremendous growth of the National
Textile Workers Union and of the
International Labor Defense. This
expansion in these organizations ex-
ceeded even the expectations of the
local organizers ar til, representa-
tives of the national offices them
selves. 1t indicates great swing
of popular sentiment in favor of the
union and in defense of the strikers
and union organizers jailed and
awaiting trial next Monday for the
murder Of Gastonia's chief of po-
lice. Various liberals as well as
newspaper reporters have come to
the local offices of l. L. D., express
ing their amazement at the rapid
change that has taken place.
'In 25 years experience as a news
paper man." one stated, II have
never seen a greater and more pro-
nounced swing of public opinion.
Even men who told me a few weeks
ago that they thought that the
strikers and union organizers should
be convicted simply because they
are Communists and atheists, are
now saying that there must be fair
trial, that there should be change
of venue, and many express doubt
as to the guilt of the defendants, and
even approval oof the union"
There come into the new Gastonia
office of the N. T. w., just establish
ed, many mill workers daily who
have hung back hitherto, waiting to
sc what would happen, some of
them imported by the Manville- Jen-
ckes Company as strike breakers,
without their realizing it - who are
applying for membership and ex-
press themselves as satisfied that
the union is good thing, that it is
necessary and that it is here to
stay.
Since the arrival of Hugo Oehler
to replace Fred Beal until he and
the other prisoners are freed, to-
gether with William Murdoch, vice
president of the union, Ben Wells,
Clarina Nicholson, and others to in
crease the forces of the N. T. w. u.
and the l. l.. D., both organizations
can now claim confidently and truth
fully that they have the active sup
port of a great majority of the
workers in Gastonia and vicinity,
and are constantly reaching out and
expanding in r,w territory in both
Carolinas and Tennessee - even as
far as Rome, Ga. This constitutes
the strongest possible defense of
the strikers and organizers whom
the mill owners are trying to get
rid of by railroading them to the
electric chair and the penitentiary.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
.BL AMES MAYOR
FOR June I RAID
Says Mayor, Mill Boss,
Feared Strike

The mayor of Gastonia is directly
blamed for the shooting the night
OF June by local deputy sheriff.
United Press dispatch states that
has been received at the office of
the International Labor Defense, at
80 E. 11th St., New York.
The United Press report reveals
an inside story of the bourgeois in
trigue, personal enmities and true
conditions of the Manville- -Jenckes
lackies, the police and city authori-
ties.
The reporter, who was given these
facts by a disgruntled deputy sher-
iff, writes as follows:
"There is no one in Gods world
to blame for the death of Chief Ad-
erholt but the mayor said the irate
officer as he beat his fist on the
table in emphasis. It's like this,
Ill the first place there was no reason
to call out the national guard. The
trouble here didn't warrant military
protection, but Mayor Rankin. who
Is president of other Gastonia mills.
was afraid that the strike would
spread to his organizations and for
that reason and one other he asked
for protection from the governor.
The other reason was political. As
soon as the troops arrived the mayor
told people that the sheriff had
called them and that he had nothing
to do with the matter"
Turning to the newspaper man:
Don't think for one minute that
| am in sympathy with the strike
leaders who are the cause of this
strike. / would like to see them all
IN the pen, but l am disgusted with
the way this thing has been handled.
You know, for you live here, that
the power of Governor Morris was
shot by sending troops to Concord
while he was in office. The same
thing was in the mind of the mayor
when he called for troops here, only
he was not man enough to carry the
blame himself. He put it on the
sheriff and the sheriff was fool
enough to not see what was in his.
MING"
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
, -H fs
STEADY GROWTH
IN ALL CLASS WAR
CASES KEEPS Up
LID Aids Many Beside
Gastonia Strikers

Gastonia, N. c., leads the long list
Of number of tremendously i'm
| portant class war cases that the IN
ternational Labor Defense is defend
ing today. Prisoners in all sections
of the United States are dependent
entirely on the help of the working
classes rallied by the I. L. D.
The Mineo1a frame-up victims.
Rade Radikovitch, of Arizone, i'll Of
tuberculosis at Ellis Island, who
may be sent tc face certain death
in fascist Jugo-Slavia. the Wood
lawn case, the Centralia prisoners,
Mooney and Billings, the Tapclchani
case, the Cheswick case, all of ut
most Importance to the masses of
workers, are a few of the present
class war Instances.
The International Labor Defense,
working at all hours of the day and
night to defend these class war pris-
| oners, calls on the great masses of
the American workers to get in
touch with their district secretaries
of the |. L. D. or the national office
at 80 E. 18th St., New York Citv.
Send immediate funds and be-
come members at once. Remember
the Gastonia case is one of vital i'm
portance to the entire working class.
Today, that is the foremost case be-
lore the American workers.
The district secretaries Of the
various I. L. D. sections are:
New York, Rose Baron, 799
Broadway, Room 422, N. Y.C.
New England, Robert Zclms. 113
Dudley St., Boston, Mass.
Philadelphia, Jennie Cooper. 1914
Spring Garden st.
Ohio, George Lloyd, 266 West
Superior Ave, Room 3O6, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Detroit, Arnold ZiegIer. 1882
Woodward, Ave-, Detroit, Mich.
Chicago, Isadore Feingold, %
S. Lincoln ST., Chicago, III. ar.
California, F. Firestein, lib
Stimson ST., Los Angeles, Calf.
Buffalo, Charles Berger, 200 Ell
licott ST., Buffalo, N. Y.
The National Office is at so F.
l1th St., Room 4O2, N. Y. C.
The I. L. D. must grow to 100000
members by the end of the Gastonia
trial. They must receive $4,000 for <
greater aid of the Gastonia and e
other class war prisoners. All work
ing class fraternal organizations and
unions must build up a mass shield
from below for the class war pris-
cners.
Get one million names on the
mass protest petition and fill out
the coupons on this page and send
them at once to the designated ad-
dresses. These are the duties of
every worker during Gastonia De-
tense and Relief Week, July 27-Au-
gust 8.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
POLICE CLUB AT
CASTON MEET
Workers to Continue
Demonstrations

Police broke up Gastonia protest
demonstration at Tenth Street and
Second Avenue, attended by 500
workers.
Carl Reeve, Harriet Silverman and
Raymond Clark, Gastonia striker
had addressed the meeting, and Pol
lack, editor of Solidarity, the w. l.
Il. organ, was telling of the Gas
tonia police, when the New York
police, evidently resenting what was
being said, informed the speaker
that st. Marks Hospital, which is
two blocks away, had complained
that the speaking was too loud, and
sailed into the crowd, manhandling
many of the men and women work
ers.
open air meetings are being held
all week by the international La
Dor Defense and the Workers Inter
national Relief to prepare for the
Defense and Relief week which
opens Saturday with the Solidarity
demonstration at Pleasant Bay
Park.
Beautiful Program.
A musical program will be pre-
sented by an orchestra of so men
lead by Yascha Fishberg, at the Sol
idarity demonstration.
William z. Foster, William w.
Weinstone, Alfred Wagenknecht and
Juliet Stuart Poyntz will speak at
the demonstration. Entertaining fea-
lures include sports program pre-
sented by the Labor Sports Union
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
new SLOGAN IS
100000 T0ILERS
into the Ill, D, !!
G. a stonia and Other
Cases To Be Fought

The International Labor Defense:
fighting the mighty battle against
the powerful, brutal textile lords
in Gastonia, N. c., who seek the
blood of Is militant strikers, is
also vitally concerned with three
cases of harshest oppression against
workers in Western Pennsylvania,
the heart of the Mellon -Grundy coal
and steel realm.
These Pennsylvania cases are of
national Importance also and de-
serve the utmost consideration Of
the working class everywhere. They
deal with fundamental rights of
the working class the right to
hold opinions, the right to assemble,
the primitive right to live as civil
lized humans.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
AGAINST BOOZE FOR WORKERS

Henry Ford yesterday assured the
religious that none of his workmen
are permitted to drink "on or off
duty" Ford controls the lives of
his workers even "off duty"
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
Songs
Show Spirit
0fMU Hands

The bitter hatred displayed by
the capitalists and their spokes-
men, the press, government and
pulpit, against the Gastonia strik-
ers, has imprinted itself so indel-
ibyl in the hearts of the south
ern working class, that their chill
dren are singing folk songs that
have arisen spontaneously from
their struggles.
A collection of them has been
composed by an 11-year-old child
of a striker, tiny, half-starved
Odell Corley, since the strike be-
gan.
The children of the Gastonia
strikers have put her words to
tunes, and any evening in the tent
colony you can hear them sing
ing in the typical "blues" mel
ody of the South. Here are two
of the songs:
May l sleep in your tent tonight,
Beal?
For it's cold lying out on the ground
And the cold North wind whistlin'
upon us,
And we have no place to lie down.
Manville- Jenckes has done us dirty,
And he set us out on the ground
We are sorry we didn't i,in you
When the rest went out and Joined.
D, Beal, 0 please forgive us,
And take us into your tents;
We will always stick to the Union
And not scab on you no mo-.
Union, Union, you OF top,
Keep it up, keep it up, don't you
stop,
Don't you worry, don't you fret,
The Union, the Union, gonna win
it yet.
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty,
Stole our grub, bu. still got pIen-
ty;
If you got swee heart, pin her to
your side,
Don't let deputy take her to ride.
Stand him on the head, stand him
on the feet,
striker, can't be beat.
IN little Union girl, net so very
fat,
f you dirty policemen come around
headquarters
We're goin' to give you some of
that.
bought scab for fifty cents,
parlie VOC,
bought scab for fifty cents, par
lie VOC,
bought scab for fifty cents.
The son of gun jumped over the
fence,
tinky D.nky, pariie WOO.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
FREE the 23!"
WORKERS CRY IN
VAST PROTEST
Elect Officers for LID
Work

Scress of conferences represent
ng taalrt,'s of thousands of pro-
e5tl"s voir rs are being held thru
1ut he United States to complete
ne machinery for Gastonia Defense
40 Rc"si Week, July 27 to Au-
y2:t 8, when $4,000 must be
r.":8 - save the IS members of
" National Textile Workers
! lion fr;,,l the electric chair.
ire language sections, workers
ID thair organizations in the North,
Eost, South and West all report un-
easing activity. Letters were re-
ceivcd at the International Labor
Defehse office, at 80 E. 18th ST.,
.odsy fropl every part of the coun-
try in which funds were sent from
many diverse workers organizations
'nd unions.
Mother Bioor writes from Bis
MACK, North Dakota, that the re-
sponse is splendid.
Checks have been received from
as far west as the Finnish Working
Women's Club Of Eureka, Cal, from
Mesa, Ariz., from the Sacco-Van-
zetti branch of the International
Labor Defense, of Los Angeles, and
many other western industrial sec
tions.
A typical letter was received
from Mesa, Ariz., in which $25 was
enclosed, The letter stated:
Enclosed you will find S25 you
can use for the defense of all in
nocent workers that have falsely
been accused of crime. With best
wishes and hoping you can do every
thing possible for the Gastonia
class war prisoners, am, F. H.
Peterson, Mesa, Ariz."
The Philadelphia conference, al
v'hich many workers, fraternal cnd
her organizations sent delegates
az hell in Grand Fraternity Hell,
1926 Arch Street, last night.
Defense Week will be opened in
New York by giant solidarity fes-
tival today, at Pleasant Bay Park,
at which $4,000 workers will pledge
their solidarity with the Gastonia
textile strikers who go on trial
Monday.
Weinstole, Poyntz, Wagenknecht,
Foster, Biedenkapp, and Hymaa will
be the speakers. Fireworks, spe-
cial dancing, fifty piece symphony
orchestra will be other features of
this mass festival, two days before
the Gastonia' trial.
The workers delegates at the var
ious conferences are making definite
organizational plans to secure the
million signatures for the mass pro-
test petition, for raising the $4,000 |
by house to house campaign, by
tag days, by street and shop col
lections, by every possible manner.
At many of the conferences, Of
GERS are being elected to serve as
II committee in order to have a
central point from which to carry
on the manifold activities to save
the Gastonia strikers, and the other
class war prisoners of America.
These members call meetings from
time to time to give directions in
this drive for 100000 members, for
$4,000, for 100000 signatures on
the petition.
TIE campaign is chiefly that of
a uoited front from below. The
workers, and only the masses of the
workers, alone, can save the class
war prisoners.
Send delegates to the conferences!
Elect officcrsl Meet regularly! And
il this manner will the organiza-
tional plans be made to get the
100000 members, the $4,000 and
the 100000 names.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
MEMBERSHIP BLANK

INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
National Offce so E. St, New York
No Death Sentences for the Gastona Strikers!
n Prison Sentences!
L'iend the right of workers to defend their lives and their
rc against the attacks of the forces of the bosses
sove, nMent.
ne International Labor Defense must reach membership
OF 100000 by the end of the Gastonia trial
Enclosd please find either 25 cents for initiation fee or
81 90 for initiation fee and five months Dues
- :
AGallS3 ....................: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
CONTRIBUTION BLANK

INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
National Office: so E New York
No Death Sentences for the Gastonia Strikers!
No Prison Sentences
Defend the right of workers defend their lives and their
union against the attacks of the armed BOSSES
government.
$4,000 is needed at once to defend these militant srkers
hereby enclose s. S...... for the Gastonia Defense
1AuuieSS
City and State.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

The GastOnia Textile Workers
trial starts July 20! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 3! Sign
the Prote-t ~oll. Rush funds to
international Labor Defense, so
East 18th Street, New York
The daily worker., 1929-07-26
VOIUTEER WORKERS ARE
WANTED BY THE /. L. d.

The National Office of the In
tefnatiooal Labor Defense is car
ry.sg en- its new drive for the
dea-nse Of the GastOnia strikers
who go on trial on July 20. Com
rades arc wanted to help. The Of
fice 10 open from 9 a. nj. to IL
p. m. every day, including Sun
days Comrades should apply to
ROOM 402, so e. 18th st.
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

After every revolution marking n
progressive phase in the class strus-
gle, the purely reprcssiye character
0f the state power stands out in
bolder and bolder refief.-Mnrx,
The daily worker., 1929-07-26

T.'s Gastonia Textile Workers
t.i.: starts July 20! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
ssse them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 8! Sign
tfe Protest Roll. Rush funds to
international Labor Defense. so
East 11th Street, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-13
CREDIT MAN SOUGHT
AFTER DISAPPEARING
Woman Says Husband Has Not
Returned Since Leaving
Sunday.

The police and friends of Thomas N.
Meunier 80 years old. credit manager Of
Colds store, at 1914 F street, were asked
to institute a search for him today. He
left his home at 1924 Park road Sunday
morning, presumably to attend early
mass at st. Patrick's Church, according
10 Mrs. Meunier, and has not been heard
from since.
Mrs. Meunier is uncertain If her hus-
band had more in mind than the visit
to church when he left home. She said
he had been in bad health for several
months past, and was unable to sleep
more than few hours each night,
Meunier, howSver, gave no hint of any
intention of leaving home.
The employer OF the missing man, /.
w. Burdick, manager of Colds. said
that Meunier occupied position of trust
in the establishment and that his &C
counts would be checked over as a mat
ter of policy, although there was no in
dication of irregularity.
Although Mrs. Meunier has position,
she and her children, Mary Louise, 9,
and Robert, T. will be hard put to 1t to
make ends meets in the event Meunier
does not return soon.
Meunier was described as feet
inches tall, weighing about $50 pounds
and of sallow complexion. His hair
was black and he wore small black
mustache.
Relatives in Indianapolis have been
notified Of his disappearance. Hospital
records here have been searched with
out result.