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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-16
Funny Jack

When Jack Oakie moved
from Oklahoma to New York
to attend school one Of the
accomplishments Of which he
was proud was the fact that he
was the only boy In the school
who could chew tobacco. Oakie
is just as funny as ever In
"Sweetie," now playing at
loves Palace.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-16
DOug-Maryy Film

For the first time on any
screen Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford are co-Starred in
q feature picture, an all.talking
version Of Shakesepare'S 1.-THE
Tanning Of the Shrew." It Is
now playing at Loew's Colum.
bia,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-16
Actors In Jail

Most Of the heads Of depart
H1aents at Loew's Palace were
locked In the District Jail last
week, but only Tor q short
while, when they brought in q
whit TO entertain the prisoners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-16

William Austin, who is now
appearing in "Sweetie" at
Loew's Palace, will never part
with he mouStache. A casting
director told him to grow one
and since that it has kept him
working.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

The first instalment of this
story of future war described the
coming of the enemy airpIanes
10000 feet above the city and the
bombardment of the city with tor
pedoes which contained deadly
lethal gas.
in the second instlment, pub
Iished in the Anniversary Edition
of the Daily Worker, the alarm
Seas" is given in the city. 1t
describes how in the rich sections
the people could escape to air
tight chambers thru which the gas
could not penetrate. In the prole-
tartan districts, however, the odor-
less and invisible gas took most
of its victims, for here the land
lords did not think it important to
build safety chambers or they
built Ineffective ones. In many in
stances workers dropped dead be-
fore they could make their way
to the scattered chambers, while
in other cases they met a grue-
some and slow death in chambers
thru which the deadly gas filtered
slowly.
The story goes on TO describe
in gruesome details the havoc
played among the workers and
contrasts this with the pleasures
OF the rich in the safety chambers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

night, we washed
up and were ready with ravenous
appetites for grub. The days work
was done. The roundup took sew
eral weeks; we went up one side of
the valley and down the other side.
Another roundup took place every
fall, when beef steers were gathered
for the market. 1t was carried on
in much the same way though we
used to take more care not to drive
the animals fast because of the
weight that would be lost from
marketable steers.
When beef was needed for the
camp, young heifer or steer was
killed. The cowboys as a rule used
to barbecue the head and other parts
of the animal. This was done by
heating rocks which were put into a
hole that had been prepared, the
head and pieces of meat being
wrapped in pieces of wet canvas, put
on top of the hot rocks and covered
with dirt. In the morning we would
dig it out, remove the canvas and
the hide, and with little pepper and
salt the main part of our breakfast
was ready.
Wild horses are more fleet-footed
than cattle and more difficult to
handle. After the roundup of
| horses, those that were wanted for
harness and saddle were kept in field
or corral until the slack season of
fall and winter, when they were
broken to work or ride. This was
the most exhilarating part of cow
boys life. There was much excite
ment in riding wild horses as well as
in handling them, not only for the
rider but for the onlookers. Some
horses were extremely vicious,
biting, striking and kicking fiercely
to say nothing of their bucking pro
pensities.
''I'm going to ride that roam colt
today" said Tom Minor, my brother
in-law, as we were rolling out of
led in the bunk-house of Hoppin's
ranch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
London Teachers VIII
Demand Higher Wag'

LONDON, (By Mail).-Adequ
salaries, better schools for
children of the workers, and .
versal education were demal
voiced by the Teachers Labor Z
que in a convention recently G
Guided at South Battersea.
Criticising the Labor Party
its refusal to adopt a progress
educational policy, spokesman
the League appealed to the meml
ship to support in the next Gem
Election only labor csndidstss :,
accepted the resolutions accepted
the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

to dissipate. However, three hou
after the attack the effect of Il
gas-laden air was still injurious
health.
a. The gas injured all organ
matter that it touched. Not sing
live plant or flower remained in t
lighthouses. Bread, meat and veg
tables were destroyed. Wood al
minerals remained unchanged.
5. The gas was of composite
not yet known to science.
AT 10 q. m. the work of taking o
n the dead bodies for burial COZ
menced. Both soldiers and the fs
tory proletariat were modified +
this purpose. A decree was issu
suspending work in the ammuniti
factories for three days. Nest
the factories were unable to &C
tinue operations, anyway. in cons
quence of damaged machines
the death of SO many workers.
At noon a proclamation ITO
Workers and Soldiers" issued
the Central Committee of the Co
munist Party, was being distribut
in the city. The proclamation
gan with the following words: u
greatest revolution against the CO
italist class would not have cost
hundredth part of the number
victims that have persisted DUR
the last night" The proclamat
ended with the following appe
"Scize ammunitions, arms, bait
les, radio stations, battleships.
form the workers of the enemy ca
of your deeds. Request them to
likewise. Put an end to the wa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
By MOISSAYE OLGIN.
(Concluded)

MUCH havoc was wrought by the
." attack among the labor organ
izations. During the war the gov
eminent ordered all labor unions
and other organizations of a mass
character disbanded. Meetings could
be held only under the Craftsmanship
of an army officer, with the proviso
that every speaker be photographed
beforehand and a radio record be
made of his speech, later to be
studied by commission of military
officials and secret service men.
Thus it became necessary for the
workers organizations to hold their
meetings under cover. Ordinarily
they were held in out of the way
places, in remote sections of the
suburbs, in workers private dwell
lings, often in the woods outside the
city where military vigilance was
less severe.
When the gas attack occurred,
numerous working class organiza-
tons were holding their sessions
under cover of night. Only a small
number of those gathered escaped
death. AS rule, the gas found the
workers engaged in transacting their
business and SO they remained: the
speaker in standing position, his
hands clutching the edge of the
table; the secretary, pencil in hand,
leaning over papers covered with
cipher; the assembled workers, men
with Manufactured faces and
scrawny hands, women and young
girls in khaki--the official uniform
of ammunition workers-everyone
in the corner where the gas had
reached him. On the surface would
seem as if the gathering had halted
for second in its deliberations
listening to something it could moi
comprehend. Afterwards, when the
dead were removed, documents with
names and addresses were found in
many places. Where the papers goi
into the hands of the workers squad
that removed the bodies, they as q
rule were shown to no one. 1t hap.
pened, however, that civil and mill.
tary authorities came into possession
of some such papers. This resulted
in great injury to workers organ.
izations, aside from the great losses
sustained by the death Of SO many
functionaries. So much so that the
! Central Committee of the Commun-
list Party found it necessary to war;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK

81 bet he'll pitch some," remarked
John White.
ooh, l don't know" said Tom, 81
think he'll be as easy as a rockin'
chair"
After breakfast six or eight cow
boys went out to the corral. 1t was
a bright, sparkling morning, the air
was clean with a light frost. John
White had a lasso on his arm and
moved toward the horses, saying,
They're full of ginger this morn
ing, Tom," as he threw his rope
around the neck of rangy colt, and
sat back on the rope. Two of the
boys ran up to help him, and Minor
started toward the horse, his hands
slipping along the taut lasso.
"Whoa, Rockin' CHAIR" he purred,
reaching out his hand to the colt.
which was used neither to it's new
name nor to the smell of human be-
ings. The horse reared and struck
out with both fore feet. After re.
peated efforts and much stroking,
halter was finally slipped over his
head, and a leather blindfold was
pulled down over its eyes. The lassc
was taken off and the colt stooC
quivering in every nerve. Tom kept
murmuring, "Whoa, Rockin' chair
With sidewise and forward motions
they got the horse near the fence
and tied him to a post. Tom tossed
blanket on him, but he kicked
snorted and bucked until he got
off. This was repeated until thu
colt came to the conclusion that h
was not being hurt. He was led GU
tc the open field, where, with mucl
careful persuasion, he was hacka
mored and saddled. Minor, fasten
ing on his big roweled spurs, with
quirt on his right wrist and reins il
the left hand, which was on the horl
of the saddle, placed his left foo
in the stirrup and was on. H
reached over and pulled up tn
blindfold, hit the colt on the shoulde
with his quirt, and Rockin' chair be
gan to buck, all four feet bunchec
his head down between his forelegs
His back bulged up like camel
hump, while Minor was gouging hir
with his spurs and whipping hir
with his quirt. White sang Out
Lovely Jesus! but can't he buck
Some Rockin' -chair!"
The horse twisted, corkscreweC
cavorted and did everything hors
could do except roll. When he wa
completely exhausted Tom rode hir
back to the corral and got dow
Then one of the boys took Rockin
chair and unsaddled him. Minos
said to the group who had come t
shake hands with him, "He's toug
gazabo. Well save him for tn
roundup"
The cowboys and miners of til
West led dreary and lonesome live
They had drifted westward frol
points of civilization, losing contac
with social life. Young and vigo2-
Gus, they were bursting with el
thusiasm which occasionally brol
out in wild drinking sprees ar
shooting scrapes. They were
prived of the friendship of wome
as the country was not yet settle
and when they visited the sma
towns on the railroad they gave vel
to their exuberant feelings.
In the neat instalment Hayacot
acrites of his life at Fort McDermat
a baby girl and aohat happened aOht
it came; Old jim, Horsehead; II
myth of Indian cruelty; saruey''
government land; Haywood q Jar
laborer; trying a 1ohirl at q gam
ling Joint.
to dissipate. However, three hou
oftor tho attach the effapt of IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
By WILLIAM d. HAYWOOD
SYNOPSIS

Haywood, IN precious chapters,
told of his boyhood among the Nor
mons; frontier shooting ARRAYS at
Ophir, Utah, mining camp; mine
yorker at nine gears of age; has
first school; his first strike as an
indentured child slaue; a messenger
boy; horror of Negro lynching;
odd jobs; secrets of the powerful;
off to Nevada mine at IS; taoo
sides to "Imdian fighting";; dcqair-
ing knowledge of classic literature;
the knights of Labor; the Great
Strike of 1886; Haya0ood mdrries; ;
romance of a co1Oboy's life de-
romanced; the duSt and dirt Of the
"round-up." No1U go on reading
EDITOR.
Meanwhile the chuck wagon had
moved on to the next camping
ground. If the horses had not had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

Since it is declared that under the Monroe Doctrine
Latin America the of defense of the United States
it not surprising that resolution in asks that
citizen of Panama be trained in the military academy of
West Point
cat may look at king but an unemployed worker OF
Great Britain got arrested for throwing stone at the house
of Premier Baldwin Of course he got jobbut in jail
From Bolivia we hear that u s. Minister Kaufman got
grand sendof when he left for the United States Bovas
president Ses paid fowery tribute to the effect that in
the dispute with Paraguay Kaufman brought assistance
with his counsel" That this counsel given in behalf
Of Standard Oil did not enter into the achymose parting of
these two of its servants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

Time stops. Time has disap-
peared. Nobody knows that day.
break is near.
WITH the first gray of dawn, a
" woman erawls out of a cellar
at the end of the city. Her hair
is white although she is not old.
She has eyes that have stopped in
their orbits, and her open mouth
seems to search something in tire
cold air. They did not want to let
her leave the cellar, but she insisted
on going. She goes. Her head
turns. Her feet are soft. Her in
sides feel like stone. The woman
bends to the ground, crawls on all
tours. She does not look at the
ground. Her open mouth is thrust
into the distance. Her body drags
itself forward. She encounters
something. 1t is soldier with his
face to the sky. She does not no.
tice him. She crawls on. Her hand
gets caught in stone. Her hand
is cut, but she feels no pain. Her
insides seem to grow heavier. The
woman lifts her white head. A gray
ness is sitting from the sky. She
sees house by the end Of the street.
She wants to get up, but her feet
do not hold her. She puts her white
head to the asphalt. The asphalt
is cool and moist. Her hand lands
on something soft. 1t is a kitten.
A black, small kitten, with an opened
snout and bristling gray mustsches.
The woman clutches the dead kitten
by its neck and crawls on.
She approaches her house. She
creeps up the stairs. She rolls
down, lifts herself, remains lying;
then she crawls on. She has en-
tered the corridor. She stretches
herself on the piece of carpet in
front Of the stairs. She is all loos-
cned; all her body is doughty mass,
flattened on the carpet. A head
turns over this mass; it turns, il
swims. So the woman lies for years
and years. Silence. Nothing is
there. Nothing has been. The
woman gets up and crawls on. She
holds the kitten by the neck in her
right hand, from which drops fall
on the dusty stairs. She crawls ur
to the fourth floor. She opens the
door. A man is seated at the table
She gets up, goes to him, puts hel
hand on his back. She says:
"Well, time to get up, you'll be
late to the shop"
She has no voice, but she hears
her own words. She says:
"Time for the children, too, to gel
up. Must go to school,"
| She goes into another room. She
puts her hand on straw-colored lit
tie head. She says:
"Well, fatty, you've had enough
sleep. One, two, three, up!"
She takes the child's hand off the
neck of another child. She says:
ooh, you lazy bones"
She takes him out Of the little
bed. 1t is boy of seven, with
fiaxen hair and puffy cheeks, nov
blueish green. She carries him tt
the adjoining room, puts him on {
bench. She says:
"Wait, we'll all be ready fol
breakfast in minute"
She goes into the other room. Sht
lifts the blanket off a girl of ten
The child's feet stick out from un
der her nightshirt like two waxel
columns. Her head is buried in tn,
pillow. The woman puts her heat
ON the edge of the bed; she becomes
flattened on the bed; she becomes
nothing. Only head is rolling
hither and thither. The head roll!
and swings, stops and swings on
The wSnan says voicelessly:
"Mary, you little sleepy head, ge
up"
| She drags the child out Of bed
they fall to the ground. She makes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

VII SyllHuel o--ullCoulI, uioucNCilSu
heaps of fabrics; they roll, swell up,
become heavier, thicker, more dis
arrayed, they receive new and ever
new clusters of fabrics; they fill
the rooms, get caught in other SIM
liar rolls, ensnare working women
who only recently ruled them, but
now are turning around and around
to the insolent play of mechanisms
become alive.
In the dyeing department streaks
of dye are issuing from broken watts;
red and green and blue and yellow
flow together, pour their liquid I'M
der the working women on the floor,
color their khaki uniforms in mot
ley of hues, bleach their hair, lift
them and carry them to the basin
at the lower end of the hall.
In the machine department the
central wheel has begun turning
faster. The colossal room is filled
with shrieking whistle. A vibra-
ton rings turnout the entire build
ing. A cutting wind slaps the blue
faces of the mechanics who sit look
ing with dead eyes. The wheel
means, groans, walls, shrieks ever
sharper, ever thinner; its note is
ever higher, the waile it is drawn
out into the infinite. The building
has torn itself loose from its foun-
dation and is rushing, rushing, rush
ing into space.
Explosions are heard. 1t was
never definitely established whether
the enemy had blown up few out
standing ammunition factories or
whether they exploded because of
lack of supervision. The explosions
and the ensuing fires caused the
destruction of number of chambers
where the workers had believed
themselves to be safe.
IN the center of the city, in the
safety chambers of apartment
houses and hotels, the crowd in the
meantime had recovered from its
first shock. They live! They are
safe! The lights are bright. The
floors glisten like polished ivory
Why not try and intensity this feel
ing of life?
/
A sly wink and servants carrying
large-bellied, squat square bottles
appear from nowhere. Corks pop
Amber and ruby liquids sparkle
Eyes smile. Heres for life! Here's
for life" Like wax in the sun, the
ball of horror softens even in the
hearts of elderly men. Youth lives
at the moment. What pity, there is
no radio music! Still, somebody hac
provided for just such emergencies
an old victrola with records. Old
fashioned is the music, sounds like
a voice from past centuries. But
this makes the unusual more quaint
"Have dancer"
"Sure."
Couple after couple glide to the
tune; the tension is lessened; the
pleasure-desire bursts forth. Scores
of couples are already turning about
and about in the softly allurine
whimsically sophisticated music. Liz
meets lip; arms clutch breasts
Hearts beat with novel violence. NJ
longer any shame. No longer any
restraint. Nothing more to thinl
of.
"Have dancer"
"Have kiss 2"
| "Have the thrill Of your life 2"
Wine dances from sparkling
glasses into red mouths. Red is tn,
fire cleaning in enflamed eyes. Body
no longer can stand the burden 0.
clothes. Song becomes scream
dance becomes hunt. Somebody
with a white shock Of hair over 6
ruddy face stands in a corner on 1
table, waves bunch of flowers t.
the rhythm of the music, recites al
old poem memorized in early youth
a poem Of = feast during the plague
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

a hard days work
we would start
for our supper at
a long, swinging
lope, S i n g i n g
ribald songs at
the top Of our
voices. Unsad-
ding the horses
where we were
going to make
our beds for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15


the child stand up, leads her to the
next room, puts her next to her
brother on the bench. She puts the
kitten with the open snout next to
them. She says:
"Kids, let's say good morning to
day, and let's all wash. One, two,
three. Ready"
A PALE day is creeping in through
"A the windows. The man sits bent
over the table. The children's eyes
are closed in their blue-green faces;
their hands are lying in their laps,
where the woman put them. The
bare feet loow yellow and bloated.
The woman passes her hand
through her white hair. Red stains
remain in the hair. She puts her.
self on the bench where her man is
seated. She leans with her back
to his. She puts her head On his
shoulder. She says-and no words
are heard:
cts good to be with your owp
I am SO glad. You must have
thought something had happened to
your Ann. What could have hap
pened, you foolish MANI. You
didn't have to worry at all. It's all
well now. It's all well. No worry
any more. Our children are well
and strong. ALPS WE'LL"
The woman shuts her eyes. The
clear light of day is pouring in
through the window. The woman
stretches her arm and touches the
dead kitten. Soon she becomes mo-
tionless. Her head has moved for
the last time; her head swims on to
a distant corner. She says for the
last time, without words: "Alls
WE'LL" The woman is at peace.
WITH the coming Of day the rescue
" battalions started their work
The size of the damage had to be
ascertained first Of all. A commits
sion of doctors and technicians, un.
der the supervision of military com.
manders, made an inspection tour
of the city. They learned the fol
lowing:
1. The percentage of the victims
varied, according to the district
from Is to 81 per cent Of the total
population.
2. The number Of victims dimin.
ished with the distance from the
street level. In buildings rising
above 500 feet there were no vic.
Tins in the upper stories.
3. The gas was most deadly dur.
ing the first hour. Later it began
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Copyright, 1929, by Imterna-
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Published by the National Daily
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Inc, Daily, Except Sunday, at
1928 Union Square, New York,
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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-04-12
Longview

Z Z Il 4 y u < 4 Il Z & =
Those having perfect attendance
FOR the past month r Iva Breum
Phyllis Breum, Virgil Bilyeu, vi
Wan Bilyeu, Evelyn Bilyeu, Hazel
Bilyeu, Leo Bilyeu, Elaine Ny
yard and Burle Nygaard.
The primary grades + making
booklets of Spring activities for
language work.
Our literary program Friday
consisted of book reports on the
books read the past year.
Mrs. A. P. Bilyeu and Leslie Wis
tied school on Wednesday. She
gave us two plants for our school
room. for which w are very
grateful.
Burle Nygaard was absent from
school Friday due to a swollen
eve, received while playing Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shumway
and Mrs. A. P. Bilyeu were visi-
tors at the Ivan Breum home on
Monday.
The Maytag washer was dem
o~nstrated at the Bilyeu ranch on
Monday evening.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-04-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Hammer and
son called at Hans Siljenberg's on
Thursday evening.
Anton Jensen called at Sjur
Tjon's and Emil Nelson's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hanson and
daughter Orlene were Sunday Wis.
itors at Hans Siljenberg's.
Pershing School Notes
The following pupils had perfect
attendance for the first month
ending April 5th: Violet Nelson,
Allen Nelson, Ida Wagner, Gustav
Wagner, Alfred Wagner, Philip
Wagner, Alta Mann, Wilbur Mann
and Darlene Campbell.
AT the first business meeting of
the Pershing Y. C. L. the follow
ing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Gustav Wagner; vice presi-
dent, Roland Nelson; secretary
treasurer, Irene Campbell.
Pershing school has an enroll
ment of seventeen pupils this
years eighth graders, 2 fifth, 2
second, 4 third, and l first grader.
The following people have Wis
tied Pershing school this month:
Mrs. e. l.. Campbell, Mrs. Milton
Siljenberg, Emma and Doris Mann,
County Agent w. A. Warden, Mr..
and Mrs. Wagner.