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n n OPENING

NEW ORLEANS, July 2.-(P-
Cotton opened steady. Jan. 1923;
March 19.43; May 1884; July 1890
bid; Oct. 1899; Dec. 1920.
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Opening: Jan. 1928; Mar. 1913;
May 1854; July 17.90-B; Oct. 1879;
Dec. 1920.
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y Y. CnrrnNsEEn

NEW YORK, July 2.-tP)-Cot-
tonseed oil closed steaedy; prime
summer yellow 955-o75; prime
crude 750-T75.
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n. O. o

NEW ORLEANS, July 2.-(PH
Cotton futures closed steady at net
advances Of 8 to IA points.
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TExAS sPnTS

DALLAS, July 2-tP1-Spot cot
ton 1890; Houston, 1885; Calves
ton, 1910.
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DESERTER MAKES TWO WILLS
LONDON.-Leon Strawoaum, VINO
deserted from the amy IN 1918 and
disappeared, left behind him two
wills and the courts must daaide
who gets his estate,
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FORT WORTH, July 2.-LP-
Hogs: 900; slow, tp 1O.40; better
grades 180-24o truck hogs 10000
1925.
Cattle and calves: 1900; steady;
slaughter steers HOO and less; top
yearlings 1865: COWS up to 800 and
above; calves Its to 1925.
Sheep: 1900: steady: lams 1850
to 1900; ? year old wethers $50;
aged wethers 7.50; goats 500.
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CITY BUYS, DESTROYS JAIL

G~LASGOW.-The city Of Carlisle
has purchased the local Jail from
the government and Is tearing it
down.
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n. Y. FUTURES CLOsI

NEW YORK, July 2.-(PJ-Cot-
ton futures:
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LIVESTOCK

KANSAS CITY, July 2.-(P-
Hogs 1900; slow and uneven; top
$11.00 On choice 1S00230 lbs; pack
ing sowS 3.75@10.00.
Cattle, 1000, calves, 800; fed
steers and yearlings strong to Csc
higher; other classes firm; slaugh-
ter steers, good and choice 1000
1900 lbs 13.25@15.00; 950-1100 lbs
13.O0@15.25; fed yearlings. good
choice 750-950 lbs 13.O0@15.25; heif-
ers, good and choice $50 lbs down
12.00@14.75; COWS. good and choice
g.50@11.50. Vealers (milk-fed) me-
dunn TO choice 9.00@13.50.
Sheep, 1900; lambs good and
choice (92 lbs DOWN 13.50014.75;
ewes, medium to choice Q50 lbs
down 5.00@6.75.
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CHICAGO, July 2-tP-Hogs &c.
600; steady to strong, to 11.40 for
160-210 ID. weights.
Cattle, 1000; calves 2,50G slaugh-
ter steers 1300-1500 lbs. 14.25@
1900; 11O0-13O0 lbs. 14.10@16.O0;
950-16.0o lbs. 13.65@16.00; vealers
I3.5o@16.25.
Sheep, 10000; natives 14.50;
westerns 14,75915.0O; ewes 6.0O0
$50.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
PHO 7 TOGRAPH|C
EXHIBIT DUE
IN D. {.

Richard n. Speaignt, +. X. p. s.,
the distinguished London court pho
tographer, will bring to Washington
January 81 a collection of the out
standing portraits from his own
archives and those OF 40 other out
standing European photographers.
They will be exhibited publicly for a
period of two days in the ballroom
of the Hotel Willard. Mr.. Speaight
arrived on the Berengaria January
for tour of 1S American cities.
For more than 80 years Mr..
Speaight has photographed members
of the royalty and the nobility in
England and continental European
countries.
The exhibition will contain a num-
ber of the most successful portraits
of his royal and titled clientele, with
emphasis on child portraits, in which
he has specialized.
The exhibition is sponsored by the
Eastman kOlak Company. The
Washington committee consists OF
George Harris, past president of the
Photographers Association of Amer
lea; W. II. TOwles. past president of
the Photographers Association of
America, and Grant Leet, past presi-
dent of the Mid-Atlantic Photog-
raphers AsSociat tion.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
ZOO GASSED BY
GASLEAK At
LAUNDRY
Continued from First Page)

Continued from First Page)
Alberta Turner, also colOred, "a.
year-old laundress, of the 200
block of X St. S. w.
Mrs. Mildred Beavers, %, of the
900 block of G St. S. W., was the
most seriously ill of the four vic
Tins taken to Emergency Hospital.
Others there are:
Mrs. Margaret TheakOs, 81, of
the 400 block of Second 81. n.
W., who just returned to work
today after recovering from an
attack of influenza.
Miss Grace Studs, II, of the
1900 block of NJ St. n. w.
Mrs. Altee Bennett, coIored, IS
years old, Of the 200 block of D
St. n. w.
Fireman Price was later taken to
George Washington Hospital after
he had collapsed at the firehouse
upon returning from the laundry.
Hospital authorities said that he
was very ill from the effects of the
gas, but that they do not expect
him to suffer any bad after-effects.
He remained at the hospital.
Police were aided in keeping back
the crowd by the gas itself. The
contents of the tank were poured
out in the c Street gutter.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
THE HONEYMOON
THEN ONE DAY they
sailed happily away to Ha-
waii on their honeymoon.

lis, went to the Rehmeyer farm.
house, bludgeoned the old man to
death with a chair, choked him
with a rope and set fire to his
body.
Only an insane man, or a man
egged on by hallucinations of
witchcraft, could have inspired such
a killing, according to Defense At.
torney Cohen who contends that
Blymyer is insane and has been
practically insane all his life.
Cohen tried to prove this by
placing on the witness stand EN-.
manuel Blymyer, the aged father
of the defendant, poor, hard
working basket maker. He looked
like a scare crow as he sat in
scared fashion on the stand. his
clothes almost in tatters and his
shirt devoid of collar.
The lawyers started TO ask
question or two regarding the sons
sanity, but the old man was not
allowed to answer because the court
sustained objections by the State,
So the witness who could tell so
much about the early environment
or the defendant was temporarily
withdrawn.
1t was brought out by Blymye s
father-in.law that when Blymyer
married his daughter he behaved
SO peculiarly that he took him to
a York aims house for observation.
Il intend to show today" At
torney Cohen told International
News Service. "that Blymyer held
such a strong belief in the powers
of witchcraft that it colored his
conceptions of right and wrong.
I will show further that he is IN.
sane, has been practically all his
life and that his mentality is that
of a child"
The district attorney, Amos W.
Hermann, contends that witch
craft had nothing to do with the
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
FOOD SHOW ON
TONIGHT

The Food Show. staged annually
by the Retail Grocers Protective
Association, will open tonight at
1880 o'clock in the Washington
Auditorium. The show will con-
tinue until January 10, and will be
open from 2 to o'clock in the
afternoon and from 1880 to 1880
o'clock each night.
One of the features of the show
will be a cooking school, which will
be in session every afternoon dur
ing the affair. Thousands of sam
pies of food will be distributed to
visitors.
All arrangements for the show
have been made by a committee of
officers of the association, headed
by John Brayshaw, president.
Among the exhibitors at the
show will be: Worcester Salt Com
pany. Crescent Manufacturing Com.
pany, j. B. Ford Company, France
Milling Company, Burger Brothers
Company, the Hoover Company,
Browning and Baines Company,
wilkins Rogers Milling Company,
Maryland Biscuit Company, Dixie
Annite Company, Mavis Bottling
Company, Wolfe Engineering and
Manufacturing Company. Megs Com
pany, Feeser Macaroni Company,
M. E. Swing Company, Keane-
Loffler Provision Company, Charles
Hansen's Laboratory, c. F. Mueller
Company. United Provision Com
pany. Palmer Bottling Company
Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company, c. F. Sauer Company.
Carpet Company, Pabst Cheese
Company, j. w. Beardsley's Sons,
Mccormick Company. John H. Viii.
,kins Company, Washington Gas
Light Company, Martin Gillet Com
pany, Pale Moon Company of
America, ]. c. Harding Company,
Royal Baking Company, Louis H.
Rettenberg, Inc, Alderney and
Fairfax Farms Dairy, Libby, Nc.
Neill and Libby, N. Auth Provision
Company; Southern Cotton Oil Com.
pany, Steuart and Company, La.
Choy Food Products Company, Gel.
fand Manufacturing Com any.
Brewer.Snyder Company, Potomac
Electric Power Company, A. T.
Schroth Company, SOS Manufac.
turing Company and Breyer Ice
Cream Company.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
Chamber of Commerce
Backs Civil War Reunion

The annual meeting of the board
of directors of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce last night
went on record approving the
House of Representatives bill that
would provide for the handling of a
joint reunion of Civil War veterans
in Washington.
The bill. which was introduced by
Representative Edgar Howard of
Nebra ska. was lauded by the mem.
bers of the board and the chairman
Of the convention committee of the
chamber was ordered to transmit
their views on the hill to the House
committee that Is handling the pro-
posed measure,
The Washington times., 1929-01-09

THE RETURN
WHEN THEY returned
from Hawaii, AL hoped
into his car and drove
away-alone.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
Continued from First Page)

kNOnIInueu from + ITSL IdSJ
Germanic demonology is filled
with brutality, a ferocity, an
intensity not found in the history
of English or Basque cults. Like
the French pursuance Of witch
worship, the German, or northern
European, is sOmbre, brOoding,
shadowy. The German hex"
sometimes spelled "hexe'O occurs
in ancient authorial works in a
double form "hagedisse," and the
hagedisses were forest nympha Of
AmaZonic types, akin to the Nalky-
ries, distributors of hail. thunder
and chief participants in the devils
carousals. Dark tradition. lingering
in medieval Germany days, marked
all witch ceremonials.
Out of such surroundings came
the York rituals and the Faust
legend. In the first half of the
sixteenth century the real his
torical parsonage, Faust lived.
Contemporaries mention him as
early as 1907 and continuously until
154O. He was born in Knittlingen
in Wurtemberg, according to some:
at Rhoda near Weimar, according
10 OInefs. Az IIsI pool. he A"'Et
inherited money and studied medi.
cine at Cracow, where he began to
dabbIe in magic He was called
eorgius Sabellicus. "Faustus
Junior"
He was vagabond; a braggart,
with many aliases; a pompous and
exotic person. proclaiming his skill
in necromancy. astrology. and chiro'
nancy.
In 1909 he was known as Johann
Faust; he took the degree of BACH
elor Of divinity at Heidelberg. In
1928 he was expelled from Heidel-
berg on a sorcery charge. In 1S3"
the famed doctor. Philip Begardi,
of Worms. suspected him of quack
cry, though he had never seen him.
The Protestant divine, Johann Cast,
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
Set Fire To Body

BlymyeH also got 1t into his head
that Rchmeyer was "hextnS" the
Hess family of York county.
The upshot was that finally, on
the night Of November -. last, he,
Wilbert Hess, Is, and John Curry.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
Photo by International

killing. Every now and then he
checks the defense counsel with
the remark:
"Hexing is not on trial"
But it is, according to the de-
fense. and Blymyer's aggressive at
torney is determined to dangle the
witchcraft phase of the case be.
fore the jurors as long as the trial
lasts. He also plans to put on the
stand several doctors. and perhaps
a physychiatrist or two, to bring
out the mental turmoil that exists
in the mind of the strange de.
fendant.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09

! magician was attended by a dog
and a black horse, both believed to
! be demons in disguise.
Death Supposed Terrible
He is supposed to have diet: a
terrible death. History vaguely re.
peats he was found one morning
with twisted neck, his face turned
| black and swollen and distorted
| His face was turned upwards five
| successive times, but each time
| automatically the corpse reverted
to a position that flattened the lace
| on the bier.
The legends clustering about his
name were numberless, but it fol-
lows that these legends of com.
pacts with the Devil and unholy
proficiency in malefic arts must
have collected from some source
or sources.
If they were grated to the
memory of a sOrceror of extrava-
CANT reputation and really had no
direct connection with his life, they
were quite likely the result OF
witchcraft times-days of gloomy
superstition-and give something OF
an angle on the customs of the
medieval Germans.
Thus it is noted that back OF
the York case lies the smolderins
witchcraft fires of Faust and a
German frenzy of fancy which pro
duced one of the most revolving
criminal records Of Europe. Luther
was Faust's contemporary, and fol
lowing his secession from Catholic
unity a wave of fanat!cism swept
Germany with hurricane fury. The
tail Of that storm has not spent its
fury; York. Pa. Is feeling it.
A tale of weird unrest and dis
quietude can be found in the little
sixteenth century town Of Waldsee
on the Steinach in Wurtemberg
This tales significance is one OF
terror:
Elsa Pae4fin and Elsa Khunlin
found guilty of sorcery, were con
demned to burn. The wife OF
Simon Thausser was condemned t.
the stake. Ursula Wachin, burned
as a witch. Elsbet Mullerin burned
as witch. Three begsar women
burned as witches, notorious ones
too. Appollonia Buckh sent to the
fires for sorceries. Madlin Isolin
Maria Rosch. Brigida Wunsill
Catharina Einseler and Anna File
ger burned on multiplied charges
of sorcery.
Fourteen persons put to death
for socery in SO years. Even York
with all the sensations it is now
producing. has never eQualled that
record. But that, after all, as a
record. is a part of the family tree
of the Tork beliefs.
Interesting as a high light in the
York case Is the accepted dominance
of the devil as a power of evil. The
devil is feared and fought; yet re-
spected and appealed to through the
ritualistic business of breaking the
spell by the acquisition of a sor-
ceror's hair.
Despite the brutal aspects of the
York Staying, the residence of witch
craft in that section of the country
indicates that magic (of which witch.
craft OR black magic is a branch
still continues to be what it was in
the dtabolical days OF IIermes Iris
megistus: A bridge between ortho.
dOx science and religion.
Eliphas Levi puts it this way
Magic is the traditional science of
the secrets of Nature which has
been transmitted to us from the
Magi. BY means Of this science the
adept Is invested with a species ol
relative omnipotenCe and can oper-
ate superhuma ply--that is, after a
manner which transCends the normal
possibility of men"
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
REFUGEES FLEE BY AIR

VIENNA, Jan u.N.S)-Two
JuSoslavian airplanes, which, ac-
cording to an unconfirmed report,
carried political refugees, were
forced to land near Budapest today.
The planes are said to have been
confiScated.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
York Sorcery Is of
German Origin
AL JOLSON

B Nsupped with Faust in 1914; the
magician was attended by a dog
and a black horse, both believed to
be demons in disguise.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
BOTANIC SOCIETY MEETS

The Botanical Society of Wash
ington will meet at the Cosmos club
at ? o'clock Friday evening. H. H.
Mckinney, NJ. B. Mckay and George
H. Godfrey will discuss plant studies,
with stereopticon illustrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Necessity for Auto Workers

workers. The growing competition
in the auto industry means a fur
Their intensification of the speed-up
mania. The employers are prepared
to throw overheard every consider
alton fop the safety and health of
the workers. The workers must build
up an industrial union for their own
protection. They must fight to
abolish the bonus and peace work
systems. Now that workers are get
ting wise to the gang bonus schemes,
the bosses are preparing new rack
cts to fool the workers. One of these
schemes is aptly named the "Kilo-
Man-Hour Basis"
The workers must fight for a
minimum wage of $40 week, a six
hour day, five-day week and double
time for overtime. Special consider
alton must be given to sprayers,
sanders and other operations danger
Gus to the health Of the workers.
Only a strong union can insure the
establishment and enforcement of
safety and sanitary regulations. The
workers must have something to say
about the speed on the line and
along the belt. These are only some
of the most vital demands for
which automobile workers should or
ganize and fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27

States to teach them how to make
their own workers more willing to
work faster and to die when called
upon, for the protection of their in
terests.
We. the workers, must demonstrate
against further speed-up and ration
aGEation. The automobile workers
Of Detroit are unorganized. We need
powerful industrial union to help
US fight for better conditions, the
shorter work-day, increased wages,
unemployment insurance, old-age
insurance, accident insurance.
Detroit must send large repre-
sentation to the Trade Union Unity
Convention, which will be held in
Cleveland on June LIST, where steps
will be taken for the organization
Of industrial unions in all the unor-
ganized industries. The automobile
workers need an industrial union.
We must fight for a powerful indus
trial union of all auto workers.
All these demands and slogans
must be raised in the May Day DEM
onstration. Detroit's demonstration
must be proof that the workers
are willing to rally in masses to
raise these demands and to begin
to organize to put the mimic prac-
tice.
Auto Workers Must be at Cleveland.
On June 1st, in the city of Cleve-
land, there will be held a mass Con-
vention of militant workers, repre-
senting the basic industries in the
country. This is the Trade Union
Unity Convention called by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Center Of Speedily System Must Renew Fight
Against Exploitation

Trade Union Educational League.
The purpose of the Convention is
to create a militant trade union
center which will be a powerful
weapon in the hands of the trade
union movement. At this Conven-
ton, workers of all industries will
be united into one fighting organ
ization and a working basis will be
laid for the organization of all I'M
organized workers into revolution
airy unions. Glass conscious workers
from all over the country will meet
and will work out a fighting pro-
gram, in order to stop the bosses
from cutting wages and from further
speeding-up the workers.
This will make it possible for the
working class to have a fighting
instrument in their hands against
the open shoppers, that is, against
the millionaires and billionaires, as
well as against their agents, the
misleaders of labor in the old Amer
lean Federation of Labor. 1t has
been made more clear than at any
other time in the past, that the Of
ficials, such as the Greens and Mar
tells, are nothing else but tools in
the hands of the United States gov
eminent, which in turn is the agent
and defender of Wall Street.
The workers in the auto industry,
which is the biggest and most highly
rationalized industry in the country,
certainly must be represented in the
front ranks at this historical gather
ing.
The Communist workers who are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27

On May Day-ray to the struggle against imperiaist
Uar All to the defense of the Soviet Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Necessary for Labor to Intensity Fight Against
Capitalist Naturalization

year and a half. All workers receive
a thorough medical examination be-
fore being employed and undoubted-
ly these two workers contracted the
disease while working for the Chew
rolet Motor &c.
Thousands of workers are being
sacrificed for the greater glory of
the automobile magnates. But, one
of the most dreadful consequences
Of the constant wage-cutting and
speeding-up is, that the vitality Of
automobile workers will be so much
drained that they will not have suf-
ficient reserve energy to resist the
ravages of a terrible epidemic.
Auto Manufacturers Only Interested
In Profits.
Reports from all factories speak
of an ever-increasing speeding up.
Ford's Canadian factory boasts that
with 1000 fewer workers they are
turning out 100 cars a day more
than last August. Hudson Motor Co.
reports the largest first quarter
earnings in its history, $4,400,000,
Chevrolet broke all monthly records
in March with an output Of 147,274
cars and trucks. Yet the Chevrolet
Co. has plans to speed the workers
up 20 per cent. What this will mean
to the workers can be illustrated by
H. A. Coffin, of the Cadillac Motor
Co., who cites an instance where,
under a forcing system, production
was increased 80 per cent at the ex-
pense of a 100 per cent increase in
accidents. All the companies, with
few exceptions, report an increase in
production by the workers.
Workers Must Organize.
The organization of the automobile
industry has become life and death
matter for thousands Of automobile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
May Day for Detroit Workers
By Fred Ellis

organized into shop nuclei in the
auto plants, call upon all the work
ers to get together now and organ
ize into shop committees, so as to
be represented also at this Conven-
ton, which is called by the Trade
Union Educational League, in order
to express the rotten conditions, the
miserable speed-up and the huge
profits made by the auto companies
thru the sweat and blood of the
workers.
By organizing shop committees in
the factories, we will be in a position
to send representatives to this his
torical gathering and to help in
working out a policy which will
make it possible for US to organize
a Union, embracing all workers in
the motor and auto industry. AL
ready beginning has been made on
the part of the Auto Workers
Union, which in the past, and much
more so in the future, will be in the
forefront, leading and directing the
battles of the auto workers against
our enemies, the employing class.
At the Fisher Body plant No. Il,
under the leadership of the Auto
Workers Union, the trimmers sue
ceeded IN stopping the wage cut and
therefore, realizing the Importance
of organization, lined themselves up
and became part of the Auto Work
ers Union. All other workers in the
auto industry must do likewise, and
follow thealead of the Auto Workers
Union.
We must welcome the call of
the Trade Union Educational
League for organizing revola-
tionary trade union center, in or
der to fight effectively against
our enemies, the enemies of the
working class.