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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
MERCURY HITS 81
At { Street KIOSK
Government Employees Hours
Are Cut in Spite of Prom
iSe of Relief.

Although the Weather Bureau prom
ised slight relief this afternoon from the
heat wave, which mounted to an official
temperature 70 81 yesterday, hundreds
of Government employees again were
expecting to be dismissed shortly after
noon. Most of them were employed In
the wartime temporary buildings, al
though the State Department also per-
mitted its workers to leave at 2;3o
o'clock.
Early in the afternoon the kiosk al
registered 81 degrees. Yesterday the
Pennsylvania avenue and e street
kiosk reached l03 degrees.
Only two prostration cases were re-
ported at hospitals up to noon today
one of them a street car motornnan, who
was overcome at his controls during the
morning rush hour, creating a traffic
snarl at Eighteenth street and Colum-
bia road.
Although the high mark at the
Weather Bureau was only 81, the ex-
treme temperature to which crowds or
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BRINGS IN OPIUM
VALUED AT million
Vice Consul's Wife's Luggage
Searched by San Francisco
Customs Men.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-Eleven
pieces of baggage brought from China
to San Francisco by Mrs. Susie Ying
Kao, daughter of the Chinese Minister
to Cuba and wife of the Chinese vice
consul here, disgorged a fortune in
opium when opened late yesterday by
customs officials.
The baggage, which was seized last
Friday as the result of reports received
from representatives in China of the
United States Treasury Department,
was opened upon instructions from
Washington that Mrs. Kao was not en-
titled to diplomatic privileges.
Customs officials opened the trunks
and suit cases in the presence of Mr..
and Mrs. Kao and their attorneys, who
protested that the act was a violation
of a Chinese-American treaty. Mrs.
Kao was not detained.
Value Fixed at Million.
The value of the opium was fixed
by customs officers at 100000. Three
other trunks, said to contain only per-
sonal property of the diplomats wife,
were not opened, but were held by
customs agents pending further in
structions from the Treasury Depart
ment.
Mrs. Kao declared the opium was not
her property and that she had not
known the trunks contained the drug.
She said she had been persuaded by
wealthy and influential friends in
China" to bring the IL pieces Of bag
gage into San Francisco under diplo-
matte status and believed that they had
contained presents for friends in this
country.
Asked to name the persons in China
to whom she had referred, Mrs. Kao
refused, saying that since she now knew
the trunks contained opium her life
would be endangered by revealing the
owners names.
Customs agents declared the opium
was the property of huge smuggling
ring. They said it had been made in
Macao, Portuguese China, and was the
most expensive and desirable brand OBJ
tainable. This same brand of opium
figured in a seizure several months ago,
they said, as the result of which VIII
liam Rosa, clerk of the United States
District Court of Hawaii, and two
wealthy Honolulu Chinese were sent
to Federal prison.
LOWMAN ORDERED SEARCH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Major Submarine
Disasters in Past
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Srisma-
rine disasters have taken a .Leavy
toll of life in the navies O. the
world. Some OF the major :cl-
dents to undersea craft follow
March "a, 1Sl5-United St yes
submarine F-4 sunk in Honoidlu
Bay. Loss of life, 21.
March %, 1922-British sub
marine sunk by another British
sub of Gibraltar. Death toll, 70.
August 81, 1923-Japanese SUB
marine foundered beside a dock
at Kobe. Japan. Eighty-five dead.
January 10, 1924-British sub
marine L-24 sunk by British bat
tleship off Portland, England.
Death list. 43.
March 10, 1924-Japanese sub
marine sunk by japanese battle
ship off Sasebo, Japan. Forty
nine dead.
Safes submarine S-51 sunk of
Block Island, R. l., by steamer
CITY of Rome. Thirty-three dead.
December II, 1927 = United
States submarine S-4 sunk of
Provincetown. Mass. by Coast
Guard cutter Paulding. Forty
dead.
August 6, 1928-Italian subma-
rine FLA sunk in Adriatic Sea
in collision with destroyer.
Thirty-one dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

buildings visited today caused the
beaver board ceiling panels to sag In
their wood frames above the desks oc-
cupied during the school year by chill
dren.
Complete absence of roof cutters and
downspouts was noted at all of the
structures today while trenches varying
in depth from inches to inches and
running the length Of the building
indicated where the rainwater caught
by the roofs drilled their undermining
and Sill-rotting course. II Yesterday
the inspected buildings showed evi-
dences Of rot in advanced stages, to-
days portables seemed remarkably free
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

Sultry interior OF the makeSn1C STRUCTURE
Cracks caused by the shrinkage of
the timbers in the frame structures and
in some instances by the removal en-
tirely of the paper and composition
board sheathing panels permitted broad
beams of sunshine to penetrate into
the one-room houses.
It was through these same cracks
Winter blasts pierced to chill the air in
which little boys and girls attempted to
study their lessons during the past and
preceding Winters. Weather stains
caused by rain, which had beaten
through these openings, were noted on
the side walls of the interior, in some
instances causing the paper composition
blackboard to bulge outward. SINH
larly roof leaks in practically all of the
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whenever it went into action and trotted
proudly at its head on the march into
Germany. The dog was slightly wound
ed by shrapnel and severely shell
shocked He died natural death, and
Book purchased for him satin-lined
casket, about which he wrapped an
American flag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

"They are much better educated than
the other prisoners" she said, "and
nearly halt of them are supported by
their families Only a very small pro-
portion of them had ever been arrested
before.
Many of them told me that they
were in an extremely nervous condition
when they did the shoplifting. 1t Is
possible that many Of these individuals
could be better treated by the medical
profession than by the methods of ths
courts"
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she mingled with her subjects and got
their stories first hand, Miss Butler for
warded her report to Commissioners OF
Corrections Richard G. Patterson, jr.
Nineteen appears to be the dangerous
age for women who are apt to get into
trouble with the law, according to Miss
Buffers report In the various classes
of feminine prisoners she found the per-
centages of the 19-year-olds TO range
from 10 to 80 per cent. Most of the
others were under 10.
OF all the woman offenders she said
she found ci,crhftere rn"st hefiiy.c.
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Stick 'Em Up Bad
Man Says; Victim
just Simply Can't
BY the Associated Press.

by IIIE hkSUCIHVCU KICoos
SALT LAKE CITY, July g.
w. G.. Wells of San Francisco
likes watermelons and is good at
repartee. AS a result, a hold-up
man is nonplussed.
Carrying a good sized water
melon along the street here last
night, Wells was confronted by
man with a drawn revolver.
"Stick 'em up," the latter de-
manded in bad man fashion.
Wells glanced at the melon.
"Sorry, but I can't" he replied,
and passed on.
That retort wasn't in the book.
The bad man lowered his weapon
and walked away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
BISHOP GIVEN AUDIENCE.

Pope Plus Receives Iowan-Twc
Others Arrange Meeting.
VATICAN CITY, July 9 CP.-Pope
Plus today received in audience Right
Rev. Henry p. Rohlman, bishop OF
Davenport, Iowa.
Archbishop Michael j. Curley of Bal
timore and Right Rev. Bernard J. Ma
honey of Sioux Falls also have arrived
and will be given an audience by the
pontiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, $780,
039.05.
Treasury balance, $279, ,204 ,235.5s.
New York clearing house exchange,
Sits. 900 900.
New YORK clearing house balance,
Alan nNO0N.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Only Two Escape From British
H-47 After Collision With LIZ
i'm St. Georges Channel.
HEAVIER CRAFT LOSES ONE MAN
WHEN VESSELS COME TOGETHER
Tugs Dispatched for Rescue Work, but
Admiralty Abandons Hope of
Saving Doomed Seamen.

By
LONDON admiralty announced
could
tertained of the submarine HAT
could rescued alive.
the
LONDON July British submarine Hal with p of her
trapped within her. today sunk in 270
St Georges Channel off the Pembroke Coast to the
west of Fithguard
craft struck by the submarine larger
of %
R.
in her coming tower.
LIZ
The lost Edward Bull chief gnaler
critical cond
ton from he suffered in the crash.
disaster received the dock yard
Grappe hurredly with
gear Portsmouth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
REPORT CALLS 1o DANGEROUS AGE
FOR WOMEN OF CRIMINAL BENT
Social Worker Finds Shoplifters Most Battling OF
All Feminine Offenders
RY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK sn girl gets safely
criminal
social work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Royal Couple Escapes Injury.

LONDON, July 9 LP).-The Duke and
Duchess of York narrowly escaped a
collision today as their automobile
swerved and pulled up suddenly just
averting skidding bus in Park Lane.
The bus swung on to the sidewalk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
KING TO SEE MOCK WAR.

Alexander of Jugoslavia to Attend
Maneuvers in Czechoslovakia.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July 9 Up.
1t is reported that King Alexander of
Jugoslavia will attend the Czechoslovak
Autumn manoeuvers, which Will be the
greatest of their kind since the war. He
will be accompanied by officers of the
Jugoslav general staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

The lone mourner at his funeral yes.
terday was Joseph L. Book, q retired
member of the East Orange Fire De-
partment, to which Rags had attached
himself during the years following his
return from the war.
Book said the dog Joined the 18th
Engineers one morGing in the Argonne,
-rcrnrared aiorsE with the reg''-'ont
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
DAVILLA ASSIGNED TO U. S
Rumanian Minister Transferred

From Warsaw to Washington.
at Warsaw, has been appointed Minis
ter to the United States. He is ex-
pected to arrive in Washington in about
two months time.
George Cretziano, the present Min
lister to the United States, will sail for
Europe on the lie de France July 26 to
assume the Warsaw post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
LEAKY ROOFS. CRACKS IN WALLS
FOUND IN DECREPIT PORTABLES
Charges of Indignant Parents Are Upheld
After Investigation by Special Com
mittee Reveals Conditions.

ndgna of
buildings
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EX-FORElGN MINISTER
ILL WITH SEVERE COLD
Sir Austen Chamberlain Is Confined
to Bed in London With
Temperature.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 9.--Sir Austen Cham
berlain, former Conservative foreign
minister, is sick in bed with severe
cold and with high temperature. The
Daily Express stated this morning that
his condition was not alarming, but In
view of his severe illness q year ago
complete rest and quiet were thought
advisable as precaution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
STRAY DOG, WOUNDED IN ACTION
WHITAKER, LIES IN MILITARY GRAVE
Rags" Joined 18th Engineers in Arsonne and
Proudly Led Corps on March Into Germany.
By the Associated Press.


"a stray dog that became oatescarreo
Of the
eptaph "g-Wounded Action win tne
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MAN, INJURED TRYING
TO SAVE DOG, IS DEAD
Arthur S. Halsey Succumbs to
Injuries Sustained at Chesa-
... peake Beach, Md.

peake Beach, Md.
Arthur S. Halsey, 45 years old, OF
1886 Quincy street, died at Emergency
Hospital at noon today from injuries
suffered on the evening of July S, when
run down between North and South
Chesapeake Beach, Md, by an automo-
bile operated by Clyde Jones Of lilo
Columbia road. Halsey was hit while
trying to save his pet dog.
Halsey, who was taken to Casualty
Hospital the evening the accident oc-
Cured and treated by DR.. Louis Jimal
for fractured skull and body bruises,
was transferred the next day to
Emergency Hospital, where he has
been confined up to the time of his
death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
WEATHER AND WIND
HELP ROME FLYERS,
BELIEVED NEARING.
COAST OF EUROPE
No Fear Is Felt for Safety of
Yancey and Williams De-
spite Lack of Word of
Progress; Pair Not Sighted.
FUEL LOAD LIGHTENS,
INCREASING SPEED

Americans, Who Expect to Land in
italian Capital Tomorrow Morn
ing, Should Be Approaching Land
Again if All Is Well, Observers
: Say, as France Prepares to Watch
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WEATHER.

10. g. weather Bureau Forecast)
Local thundershowers tonight or TO-
morrow; continued warm; somewhat
cooler late tomorrow afternoon or night.
emperature-T1ighest, 81. at 5 pm,
yesterday; lowest, "A, at 6 am. today.
Full report on page 8.
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CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
World Tourists, Soviet
Travel Agency, Moves
to Larg er Quarters

World Tourists, American repre-
sentatives for Sovtorgflot, the of
fetal Soviet Government travel de-
partment, vesterd ay announced
through Milton Goodman, MANAGER,
the removal of offices to ITS Fifth
Ave.
The new quarters are much larger
than those occupied last year, in
anticipation of record numbers of
American tourists expected to visit
the U, S. S. r. this season.
Goodman stated that possibly TO-
900 American tourists will have en-
tered Soviet Russia by the end of
1929 Figures were based on ap-
plications for visas, requests for
travel information and last years
tourist traffic to the Soviet Union.
AS there is no diplomatic rela-
between the Soviet Union
and the U. S. A., visas must be Sc
cured in Berlin. Because of its
semi-official character World Tour
lists obtains visas before the traveller
leaves this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Blast Kills
Coal Miner
IN Ontario
by Worker Correspondent }

by Worker Correspondent
COBALT, Ontario (By Mail)
Almost every day miners who
slave in the northern Ontario
mine fields are killed or MANNED,
mostly through the company S
blame, through lack of proper
safeguards and safety appliances,
and also on account of the vicious
speed-up system through which
the mine operators grow richer
every day.
To show how dangerous the
low-paid miners work is, the fol-
lowing accident will be a good
illustration.
In a blasting accident at the
Kelley Mine in Silver Center, Ar
thur Hardie, a drill runner, and
his helper, Oscar Provencher,
were so badly injured when they
drilled into a missed hole that
Proyencher died soon after his
leg was amputated, and Hardie
will prbably lose his eye. Both
men are married, with small chill
dren to support. The drill was
blown to pieces and the men
thrown a distance by the force
of the explosion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Austrian Workers Send
Letter of Support to
Anti-Fascist Congress
(Red Aid Press Serpieel


BERLIN, (By Mai).-The fol
lowing letter has been received by
the Preparatory Committee under
the Craftsmanship of Henri Barbusse
of the International Anti Fascist
Congress from Austria:
"a mass-meeting of Austrian
workers meeting on the 9th of
February as demonstration
against fascism sends it's fraternal
greetings to the International Anti
Fascist Committee. Austrian fas-
cism is attacking the workers as a
part of international fascism and as
an organic part of the general i'm
perialist preparations for war. The
Austrian workers now that only the
international proletariat can defeat
fascism, they therefore join the
international anti-fascist front with
enthusiasm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Workers in Hungarian
Jails Die of Disease;
Many Lives in Danger

BERLIN, (By Mail) This time
from Prague comes the brutal
treatment of political prisoners by
the Hungarian Government. Re-
Gently an exchange of political pris-
'oners took place between Czeeko-
slovakia and Hungary. These pris-
oners were members of the national
minorities in the two countries. The
prisoners handed over by Hungary
were all in bad condition, and one
of them, a young man named Luius
Grendl, has now died in Bratislava
hospital of consumption. Grendl was
young man of 20 when he died.
At the time Of his arrest he was
perfectly strong and healthy, but
seven years Of Hungarian prison
life ruined his health and broke his
constitution. He contracted con-
sumption as direct result of the
conditions under which the Hun
garian authorities keep their prison
ers.
There are still numerous proletar-
ian political prisoners in Hungary
who are threatened with the same
fate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
One SHACK FOR
g Men IN Mine
CAMP IN CANADA
Hard Boiled Foreman
Runs Vicious Speedup

(By a Worker Correspondent
YMIR, B. G. (By MaiD.-About
five miles from this town, Ymir, the
Consolidated Mining and Smelling
Company of Canada operates an out
fit named the Hunter U Mine, The
Consolidated Company is the richest
in Canada. 1t operates nearly all
the mines in British Columbia and
is sprawled all over the other prov
inces and the far north as well.
The richer this country gets, the
worse it makes the conditions of the
workers.
At the Hunter U Mine nine men
are given a shack about foot by a
foot and half, and in this thing,
called clubhouse, they have to
sleep and wash themselves and their
clothes, 1t is a horrible place, and
not fit for animals, let alone human
beings.
Steals Your Breakfast.
The foreman is a hard-boiled egg
named Dan Matheson, called BLACK
Dan" by the men, He lives alone
in tent of his own.
"Black Dan" is cruel slave
driver. Often he fires man in the
early morning, so that the company
may save giving the miner break
fast. The hike to the nearest sta
ton is five miles, and that's pretty
tough without breakfast.
There is cruel speed-up at the
mine supervised by Matheson. If
a man works at Hunter U long, he
loses most of his strength, leaving
half his life at the mine camp.
The slaves at this mine are all
lmorganized, and this is the reason
why the huge Consolidated Com
rany. has its way with the men.
Only after they organize into
fighting union, led by honest men
who can't be bought, will they be
able to put men like "Black Dan"
where they belong, and force decent
conditions and wages out of the
Consolidated Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
LETTERS FROM U. S. S. r.
Daily to Publish Correspondence Soon

The Workers Correspondence De-
partment of the Daily Worker can
now announce, after months of pre-
liminary preparation, that it will
begin the publication of workers
correspondence from workers in the
Soviet Union.
The Daily Worker has often re-
ceived requests, from both American
and Soviet workers, to establish an
exchange of workers. correspondence
between the two countries. By ar
rangement with the Workers. Cor
respondence Department of the Mos
COW Pravda, organ Of the Commun-
list Party of the Soviet Union, we
have received letters directly from
workers in Soviet industry adj
dressed to American workers.
In our turn, we have forwarded
letters to the Pravda from Amer
lean workers to be published in the
Soviet press and shop newspapers
in the U. S, S. R.
Among the letters received, and
shortly to be published in the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

release, only to get before law
less judge. | appealed to the SUI
preme court. After a considerable
Delay decision was rendered. Jam
uary rs, effective at once, but the
district judge would not release me
for 20 days.
Sixty per cent of Iowa prisoners
are illegally held, convicted under
some old freak law or statute that
does not cover their offenses.
/ am entitled to a compensation
for seven years OF hard labor and
false imprisonment. Because ! am
a foreign-born worker, born in
Jugoslayia, l never stood chance.
Maybe some comrades could help
me little, because l am penniless
and need clothing badly.
4. JOE DRAZICH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
INCREASE HOURS
OF OIL SLAVES
IN WEST. TEXAS
11-Hour Day Is Set Up
by Bosses
(By a Worker Correspondent

| w " ~ Nf''Nf WI toPNftNeCVts/
CRANE, Texas (By MaiD.-The
oil companies in West Texas have
decided to abolish the nine-hour
day, and are now forcing the work
ers in the oil fields to work two
hours q day overtime-making an
11-hour day for the oil workers
with no extra pay for the over
time.
One company has announced an
overtime program, to also include
Sundays.
The labor takers are calling this
action by the big oil bosses unfair
practice and utterly against the
principles of the American labor
movement" but they do nothing.
The oil workers in West Texas
are pretty poorly paid, and they will
be as poorly paid under the 11-hour
cay. They are weakly organized.
Many OF them are migratories.
The A. f. of L has never cared
about trying to organize these
slave-driven oil workers, and the
men here have practically no way
of protecting themselves against
the bosses.
A real Oil Workers Industrial
Union, under fighting leadership, is
needed here, and then the bosses
won't be so ready to increase hours.
OIL DRILLER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

Homecoming" Mow Showing
at the Film Guild Cinema

Homecoming is the first direct
result of on insurgent dissatisfac-
ton with Hollywood" states the
Film Guild Cinema program in a
eulogy of it's current UFA produc-
ton. 1t adds that because of it's
simple truth in Interpretation" and
STARK reality in incident" the pic
ture enables the w. 9Th st. Cinema
to realize "its announced function
of being haven for superb foreign
films which are non-commercial."
If Homecoming" = an insurgent
production the instruction is not
entirely successful. Certainly it is
not superb, and whatever shots
there are of stark reality" are
counterbalanced by a weak senti-
mentality common to a hackneyed
theme which even Hollywood, I'M
purged by the fire of film insurrec-
ton, produces periodically. Never
theless, the firm is better than most
American efforts, and the acting of
the three characters is more human
than the mechanical attitudinizing
affected by native screen "stars."
The triumphs of the film lie main
ly in the photography, and the scene
which showed long lines of weary
prisoners of war being towed across
the ferry by the two German pris-
oners around whom the theme is
developed is one of the fine points
of the film. The concluding scene
at the waterfront is good, too.
The two prisoners are Richard and
Karl, played by Lars Hansen and
Gustav Frohlich. On the desolate
Siberian frontier they YEARLY count
the days of exile, till Richard de-
cides to take a long chance at es-
cape. Karl agrees, Richard col
lapses en- the Siberian desert where
the two had sought to make the trail
across the border in the hope that
they would escape the Cossack pa
trolls. Richard is captured while
Karl is. getting water at an oasis.
He is taken to the dreaded lead
mines, while his former comrade
reaches Germany and accepts the
of Richards wife Anna
(Dita Parlo). The inevitable "prob-
lem" develops as Richard returns.
But rather than spoil the better
match he seeks escape by going back
to the life of the sea.
All the charactes indulge in the
freight musings; but the
shot of Anna writhing on the bed
in the throes of desire shows good
acting, 1t is relief from the bed
scramble peculiar to American pro-
auctions of this type.-M. M.