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The Washington times., 1929-03-06
NOTE
RAN|ED,'
IS CLAIM

Ardent love missivss which
preeipitat ted the trial Of Guy
Burlington 9n charges Of
con- beeon an g
ceI and prejndicia1 to the
good order, reputation and
discipline OF the police de.
partment, we're branded "syn-
thetic" by the veteran police
official before the extraordi-
nary police trial board today.
The captain, under cross-exarni-
nation by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Waiter Fowler. gave the
first explanation of why Mrs. Helen
F. Blalock- dictated part of three
of the nine love letters now in evil
dence against him.
According to Burlingame's story,
another woman had stolen her
man. and was Dragging about the
conquest. The palnist wanted 20
bA able to produce letters with
which she could show that ''her
man. had not thrown her over, but
that. she had dismissed him, &C.
cordirg to the captains story.
Burlingame took the stand when
the board reconvened today TO
start his second day Of testimony
before the body which holds in IT.
hands an answer to the question
Of whether or not he viii contilIie
in the service OF the Police De-
partment with which he has been
connected for s3 years.
Regains His COmpOsure
Burlingame was visibIys nervous
as he went to the stand. but under
Vigorous questioning. OF Fowler ne
seemed to regain his composure
instead of losing 1t.
He frequently laughed as did
members of the board over various
points upon which Fowler ques'
toned him, notably during an
ANALYSIS of the love rnissives.
At one point everybody m the
trial room laughed or smiled broadly
when Fowler asked, 'D0 you know
much about love letterss
"My experience is very limited,
laughingly replied the bulky stis'
pended captain.
Rurlingame stuck to his story
that the letters which he wrote
were written at the dictatlon OF
Mrs. Blalock. He elaborated on
this. however, with the explanation
of why she wanted them and votun'
teered the information that during
the writing of the letters he IRE.
quently laughed at her ana teased
her.
This laughing and teasing. ac.
cording to the witness. exasperated
his redhaired friend and caused
her to remark. You're too damned
smart. I'll write them myself. l
know what want and how
want it"
just a Feminine Row
Burlingame then explained to the
board how the woman compiled the
letters from series of memoranda
ans letters which she brought to
his office with her. He said that
she had numbered tabs on the let
ters and that she would dictate
paragraph from No. / and then
skin to another number and dictate
another paragraph.
IT never became suspicious aDou~
the thing" said the witness, "be-
cause it seemed to me to be just
another case Of two women fighting
over a lover.
Fowler then took the letters and
attempted to show the close analogy
between events related IN them and
the captains own life. Buriingau1e
steadfastly refused to c0ncede the
analogy and insisted that the let.
! ters concerned only ''the other
man."
Burlingame testified that while
Mrs. Blalock had never given him
the name Of the other man, she
Continued on Page 2, Column II
The Washington times., 1929-03-06
Lew Wallace's Grandson
HOnors Famous Author

CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind. March
6 (I.N.S.l--Lew Wallace. jr., grand
son OF the famous author Of ben
Hur."t has sent a check for 81, 900
to the Culver Union Hospital.
I The money is to be used for
eouipping rooms at the hospital in
honor OF Gen. Lew Wallace, the
donors illustrious grandfather,
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TO Be
lJRGED[)V
SAL Is

CONVINCED thai Federal
taxes on earned incomes are
unjust and discriminat tory,
Washinoton's business and
professional men are ready to
fight for downward revisfOlf
Of the levy, Edyard .. Shaw.
executive secretary OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, said today.
The movement now sweeping the
country insthe interest of lifting
the tax-burden from the saiaried
man is strongly favored in Wash.
ington and needs only an agency
OF coordination to unite the holders
Of these sentiments, 1t was stated.
Stephan For Sales Tax.
Shaw said the subject would be
brought up for discussion at the
next meeting of the association.
While he would not predict what
action might be taken, it is sbe-
1ieyed proba BILE that the organiza-
ton will lay the groundwork for
a group to work with other
Washington interests in behalf of
the tax slash program.
Gen. Anton Stephan, president
OF the association, joined Shaw in
the opinion that the present sys-
fem OF Federal and State taxation
is unsctentific, and unwieidly and
unfair TO the salaried man. Both
general sales tax, such as now
is placed on gasoline inv the Dis
trict, providing painlessly an an.
nual fund for street and road i'm
proyements.
Rate Would Be Low
I'VE are heartily in favor OF any
equitable plan for taking the tax
load from earned incomes, Shaw
said. I'VE would go further than
approving downward revision in
this class of tax, and advocate a
general sales tax on all commodi-
ties.
Such tax. at a rate of two
mills per dollar, would not be felt
by the consumer as he paid it.
The rate would not seem prohibi.
tive.
when you consider the fact that
nobody complains about the ex-
tremely high rate of the gasoline
tax. which is 2 cents on a yallon
in the District, 1t will readily be
seen that a rate of two mills per
dollar would scarcely be noticed"
Shaw said he was, not unaware Of
many cases in which salaried per.
sons had been subjected to unfair
ness in collection Of the Federal
income tax.
Years Of Annoyance
He pointed out that under the
present system. tax returns are not
completely audited for three or four
years. In the meantime. the tax
law may Jhange, or a new set of
tax officials may interpret the law
differently
The result is that years after the
honest taxpayer has apparently met
his obligations to the Government
he receives notice from the cGllec.
tor of taxes that he owes the Treas.
ury money on an old income tax
return. the deduction on which had
not met with the approval of the
new set of auditors.
ATLANTA. March g. Raising Of
income tax exemption to so per
cent on earned income would ''give
the working man and the profess
sional man an even break" in the
opinion OF DIR, George Brown, Full.
ton county legislator.
''The working man and the pro.
fessional man form the vast ma.
jority of income taxpayers, and on
them the real burden falls. They
would benefit immensely by the
increased exemption" ,--d.
The Washington times., 1929-03-06
BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$5. .972, ,O42.72.
New York Clearing House bal.
ance. SI77.OOO, 900.
New York Clearing House .ex-
change. S1,7S5, 900, 900.
Treasury balance, $6S,595, ,513,54.
Customs receipts, S4,672,S ,Sa1.9S.
The Washington times., 1929-03-06

IunChrOOm at Aenla aMu UedIlHg dII
old.fashioned gong when the trains
pulled in,
FrecIIe Faced Kid 81
TIe was Just a plain. uninterest.
ing, freckie.faced youngster when
the freckles could be seen under
the foreign substance John B. Stoll
described the boy Taggart in a bio
graphical sketch. "One thing the
boy freely admitted, that he was far
from caring whether his face ever
was washed"
But young Taggart learned how
iContinued on Page 2 Column g
The Washington times., 1929-03-06
Mexican 7roopsMoUe
On Rebel Forces
Times staff Photo

With heavy forces of Mexican federal and rebel troops
moving towards each other points, the prospect Of
violent fighting within the next a hours developed today
The Washington times., 1929-03-06
Grandchild of Sn1oot
Is Runa,uay Bride

Frederick H. Chambers Of the Wardman Park Hotel today
neymoonng ''somewhere with his bride, the former
Alice Smoo granddaughter Of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah.
The Washington times., 1929-03-06
OLDEST INHABITANTS

The Association of Oldest In.
habitants will meet at the Union
Engine House, Nineteen and II
streets N. w. at 1880 o'clock tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
FIRST Number at "W0ykexs'
Sports" Is a Lively Issue

of the National Executive Board.
An article in the magazine by Les
ter Weiss describes in detail how
these elements were aided by the
New York Volkszeitung.
But, as in other phases of the la
Dor movement, these elements have
been swept aside and all agents of
the bosses have been expelled from
the ranks OF the Labor Sports
Union. The second convention of
the organization. held last summer,
was attended by As delegates, who
represented over 800 members.
The movement already has to its
record long list of achievements.
Outstanding among, these are the
second National Working Glass
Olympic Meet, held last summer in
Brooklyn, with 500 worker athletes
participating and 1000 spectators
looking On; the formation of a SOC
GER league in Detroit composed of
ten teams, another in New York
with 26 teams, Chicago teams,
Brooklyn 10 teams. New Jersey 10
teams. The magazine is replete
with a record achievement in such
fields as track, wrestling. gymnas-
tics, jumping, basketball, soccer,
winter sports and the formation of
girls and boys sports clubs. All of
these activities are conducted on
strictly working class basis.
With the straining of all efforts
on the part of the bosses and their
agents to make good Americans"
through the medium of sports and
TO detract the minds of the young
workers in particular from the eff
fects of naturalization in industry
through their participation in boss
controlled athletics, all class-con-
scious workers will see the need of
organizing their own sports organ
izations as well as economic and po-
litical organizations. Class-con-
scious workers athletics viii play
no small role in the class struggle,
under the banner of the Labor
Sports Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
Company Avoids Issue
in Struggle Against
Censorship of Talkies

An attempt to censor the spoken
parts of talking moving pictures in
New York has resulted in the COM
pany distributing the picture ask
ing for an injunction. The supreme
court has ruled that censorship can
be applied to ordinary silent motion
pictures on the ground that it is
regulation of a business and not CEN
sorship of communications. The
present attempt to apply the sa-
preme court decision to the talk
les" IS an extension of this right,
which, if allowed to go through UNI
challenged, could logically be fol-
lowed by censorship in advance Of
photograph records and street
speeches. Civil Liberties offers to
defend the case, but the company
seeks to avoid fight on principle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
DRESSMAKERS To
LAUNCH STRIKE.
At meet TONIGHT
Thousands to Rally at
Big Demonstration

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and their socialist" allies on a
large scale.
The right wing takers have been
thrown into CONSERVATION by the
preparations for tonight's meeting
and for the dress strike, Schles-
niger has begun to boom, in the
columns of the Forward, his fake
Organization drive and drive for
bonds to rehabilitate his bankrupt
company union in an effort to cover
up the panic in the scab camp. In
addition, the Forward has engaged
in open provocation, making insin-
uations about police commissioner
and mayor who have not yet been
bought up by the Communists" 1t
is evident that the bosses and $50
cialist" lackeys are using their in
fluence in the police department to
secure faithful cooperation in at
tempts to break the strike.
Picket Committee of LOCO.
The Needle Trades Industrial
Union is preparing to meet these
attacks by the united front of enc
mics of the workers A picket COM
mittee of 1000 is being organized
that will be in the front-line
trenches of the coming struggle. The
union urges every active cloakmak-
er, dressmaker and furrier to join
this special committee at once.
Speakers at the huge demonstra-
ton tonight will be Louis Hyman,
president of the new union; Ben
Gold, secretary treasurer; J. Bora
chovich, Charles Zimmerman, Rose
Wortis and other leaders of the
union.
All out for the big mass meeting
in Manhattan Opera House tonight,
is the union call. The meeting will
complete the organization of the
strike machinery and formally
launch the great fight to establish
union conditions in the dress trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
HUNGARY WHITE
TERROR HIT BY
LABOR DEFENSE
Urges Protest Against
Torture of Rakosi

An appeal to all ss-conscious
workers to protest against the con-
tinued Imprisonment and torture of
Matthias Rakosi and the other vic
tins of the Hungarian white terror
was issued last night by the New
York District of the International
Labor Defense thru its secretary,
Rose Baron. The appeal states:
"The Matthias Rakosi and his
comrades have won their hunger
strike their lives are still in danger.
They are being kept in dark, ice
cold cells, they are being subjected
to all the devices of torture per-
fected by the murderous Hcrthy-
Bethlem regime.
at was the organized protest of
the workers of the world in 1925
that saved the life of Rakosi who
was on the verge Of being condemned
to death for the part he played in
the Hungarian proletarian revolu-
ton in 1919. In that great mass
protest the International Labor De-
Tense played a leading part. The
New York District modified the
workers of this city in October,
1925, in one of the biggest outdoor
demonstrations held up to that
time.
"Now Rakosi's life and the lives
of his heroic comrades are again
in danger. A slow death by torture,
death by starvation and disease has
been decreed for them. Only the
mass protest of the entire working
class can force the hangmen's gov
.rnments of Hungary to free them.
The workers of New York, whose
Tamnany city government last year
welcomed with open arms the ennis
saries of the Hungarian white
terror, must join in demanding the
immediate release of our brave COM
tades. Down with fascisml Free
Rakosi and the other victims Of the
Hungarian white terrorp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
PRAISE FOR new
ORGAN or PARTY
IN PORTUGUESE
Workers Party GEO.
Issues Statement

The Central Executive Committee
of the Workers (Communist) Party
yesterday issued the following state
ment regarding the appearance of
the Portuguese working class paper.
Vanguardia:
"The Central Committee heartily
greets the appearance Of the new
Communist paper, of the new fight
ing organ of the working class in
the Portuguese language, Nanguarda,
The scores of thousands of Portu-
gese workers in the United States
have shown their mettle in the strug-
giles Of the American working class.
The heroic spirit of the New Bed
ford strikers, the resistance to ex-
ploitation in California are only the
latest proof that the Portuguese
workers in the United States can be
counted upon to fight as valiant, in
tegral section of the whole working
class army in the United States.
Every effort must be made to
draw into our Party ranks the pro-
letariat of Portuguese origin. These
workers are engaged largely in the
basic industries of the country. They
will prove a source of great strength
to our Party organization. To
realize this end, the Portuguese Com
munist paper is indispensable
Vanguarda will not be merely a
Portuguese paper but will be a Com
munist organ bringing the message
of the Communist Party and the
Communist International primarily
to the workers in the United States
whose mother tongue is Portuguese.
1t will be a Communist Party organ
in the fullest and best sense of the
word.
In welcoming the appearance of
this new spokesman for the Party,
Central Committee calls upon every
Party member to be ready not only
to keep this fighting organ in the
field but to develop it, in the spediest
possible time, into a mass organ
which will be source of inspira-
ton andi power for our Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
MILLS
ARE PICKETED
Men, Women, Children
Demonstrate in Cold

PATERSON, N. j., Jan. 90
More than fifty men, women and
children, chiefly members Of the
National Textile Workers Union
yesterday threw a picket line around
the Peggy silk mills on Dale Ave.
here and demonstrated against the
bosses violation of the eight hour
day for one and one-half hours in
the bitter cold.
The workers in the mill have been
forced to work ten hours a day
and the demonstration is one of a
series which the National Textile
Union is planning against the long
hours in the silk mills.
A general membership meeting of
the National Textile Union will be
held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at
Oakley Hall. The membership will
be modified at that time for the
organization campaign and for the
fight against the long hours in the
mills, organizer Russak has an
nounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
Shoe Workers Union to Garlin to Conduct New
Hold Mass Meeting in Worker Correspondent
Bklyn. Tomorrow Eve Class at N. Y. School

Sender Garlin, city editor of the
Daily Worker, and active in Factory
Newspaper work, will again be the
instructor in Worker Correspond
ence," to be given at the Workers
School this coming term on Tues
days at $3.50 p. m. As the term is
scheduled to begin the week of Feb.
4th, all are urged to register at
once.
Last term this course developed
many workers correspondents whose
articles were accepted regularly by
the Daily Worker for publication in
its Workers Correspondence Dept.
Many articles were also prepared in
this class for the various shop news
papers being published by the Shop
Nuclei of the Workers Party in diff.
ferent factories in this city.
This course aims to train workers
to report the day to day news in
the class struggle from shop. mill
and office. Special emphasis Will
be placed on the Wi ing of simple,
clear and short accounts of the
events and problems in workers
lives. 1t is the intention to have
students prepare actual material
for shop papers which will be cor
rected in the class, students join
ing actively in the discussion. 1t is
hoped in this way to stimulate old
shop papers and develop new ones.
Members of Shop Nuclei in the
Workers Party are urged to regis
ter for this course, also those work
ing in factories where shop papers
are being issued. Worker Cores
pondents, who wish to improve then
writing should also take this course
For details regarding the other
courses that the Workers School is
offering secure copy of the Spring
Term announcement at the office OF
the Workers School, 1928 Union
Square, 9Th floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
CONVENTION FOR
&C. C. or PARTY
New District Commit
tee Elected

Continued from Page One)
discussion as we'll as in the report
on the necessity of proletarianiza-
ton, the decided change in the social
composition of the Party to the in
dustries directly related to the war
danger, to the necessity of decided
increase in shop nuclei and the
building of shop papers, to increased
attention to winning over the Negro
masses.
Turn to Factories.
The keynote of the Convention
was everywhere the turning to the
shops, the fight against the Right
Danger and Trotskyism. In the
discussion as well as in the reports
it was pointed out that short
comings and Right errors must be
overcome in order that the Party
may make further progress in the
district.
A healthy note of self-criticism
was evident throughout the conven-
ton. The discussion centered about
the central tasks of the Party to
fight against the war danger and
the work of the Party was reviewed
in all departments from that stand
point.
This convention was marked by
the most thorough discussion of
district activity and problems yet
recorded at a convention in District
9.
Minority Maintains Difference.
The Opposition maintained its
stand regarding the primacy of the
inner contradictions in the U. S. and
it's charge that the Central Execu-
tive Committee is Right wing. While
maintaining that rehabilitation was
general, the Opposition admitted an
error in failing to note its uneven
ness. The line of the Opposition
against the Central Executive Com
mittee was overwhelmingly repu-
dated by the vote of the convention.
The convention elected 80 dele
gates to the National Convention,
as follows: Anderson, Briggs, Bal
lam, Bentall, Benjamin, Dmitrieff,
Edwards, Foster, Greenberg, Git
low, Heino, Hall, Gordon, Horst,
Hoffbauer, Herberg, Koppell, Smith
(Paterson), Kalfides, Lifshitz, Luz
pin, Manken, Nemser, Rosemond,
Trachtenberg, Taras, Stachel, Vein
stone, Williams, Zaslawsky, Zim-
norman, S. Ziebe and the follow
ing candidates: Sazar, Schefchuk,
Powers, H. Fox, Pasternak, Anna
Fox, Markoff, Gussakoff, Litvin,
Koppell, Manger, Gross, Moreau,
Leib, Bascoff, Bydarian, Reeve, Mar
COILS, Golden, Adams, Kurtis, Yu-
ditch.
Comrade Miller proposed the fol-
lowing nominees for the District
Executive Committee. The nominees
were all elected except Comrade
Aronberg, against whom there was
decisive opposition: Hoffbauer,
Anderson, Bentall, Heino, Taras, Ed
Welsh, Edwards, Sazar, Koppell,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
SCIENTISTS IN
USSR SEEK TO
REVIVE DEAD
Experiments Show Big
Advances
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
DR.. Brukhanenko said that the ex-
periments have shown that the body
of a animal lives for at least three
minutes after the heart stops beat
ing. If the blood can be kept from
cong~.'ling by chemical methods, he
CONT. ed, there is the possibility
that the animal may be revived
This is the theoretical basis Of the
experiments.
Death Process.
The process of death, according to
the experiments, is active rather
than passive; that is, Il is con-
tinuous process in which different
cells and tissues cling to life longer
than others. III testing this active
process, the scientists point out that
the fact that a dogs head has been
kept in state of life after severing
it from the body. proves that the
brain retained life after the body
was dead and only needed to be
fed blood and air again to awake"
The records at the institute show
in detail how the artificial heart
worked when attached to the sew
cred head of the dog. The expert
ment has been repeated several
times before such scientists as Pro-
fessor Fursikoff of the Brain Insti-
tute. The results have been re-
ported in detail to the All-Union
Congress of Psychologists and have
been published in scientific maya
zines here and in the journal Du
Physiologie in Paris.
The experiment, however, is con-
sidered as only the small beginning
Of the work, which aims to reveal
the laws of death.
DR.. Brukhanenko conducted the
United Press correspondent to the
laboratory and demonstrated the ap-
paratus. The artificial heart is
prosaic looking affair of glass. rub
her and metal, attached to dynamo.
It's very simplicity is impressive to
the layman.
Show How Machine Works.
DR.. Brukhanenko poured water
into the central glass reservoir and
turned on the current. Soon the
heart was visible beating" and the
water was pumped into one set of
glass arteries" passed through a
breathing apparatus" where it alb
sorbed oxygen and completed the
circuit, being pumped back into the
reservoir through another set of
arteries" The entire action is
automatic.
Of course, in the actual expert
ments real blood is used instead of
water and the two sets of ARTERIES"
are joined to corresponding real ar
teries in the severed neck of the
dog.
Dr.. Brukhanenko showed the cor
respondent detailed records of sew
eral experiments. every movement
having been recorded. He also
showed photographs of the subject
of the experiment during the ire
vival."
In 1907 Professor A. A. Buliabko
of Russia made human heart beat
for 30 hours and also restored the
functions of isolated kidneys,