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Evening star., 1929-05-20
RITES FOR MRS. THOMAS.

Funeral services for Mrs Mary Ann
Thomas. who died Saturday night at
her home in the Chatham Courts
Apartments 1907 Columbia road, after
a long illness, will be held at the resi-
dence at O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
Interment will follow at Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Mrs. Thomas was a widow of Morgan
Thomas who for many years was a
builder and architect in this city. She
had resided in Washington for the
past 40 years
Mrs. Thomas is survived by five
daughters, Mrs. Howard w. Thayer of
Garden City, Long Island; Mrs E. L..
Biglow of Long Island, Mrs. George w.
Tyer of Seattle, Wash Mrs. Edith
Thomas and Miss Lillian Thomas of
this city, and two sons. Richard w.
Thomas of Seattle. Wash, and Nor
gan Thomas Of Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
PLAN HISTORIC SERVICES.
Front Royal Citizens to Commemo-
rate Civil War Battle.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ND DnhIT DnVAT Uo NHoU

FRONT ROYAL, Va, May 2O.-Me-
mortal services will be observed here
Thursday, commemorating the battle of
Front Royal. fought here that day. when
Stonewall Jackson moved against Banks
and captured this town from a Union
force under Col. Kenly. May %. 1862.
This was the beginning of Banks re-
treat, and this day is always observed
with befitting ceremonies, decorating
the graves of the veterans at Prospect
Hill Cemetery. OF the 572 men who
left Warren County to fight in the Civil
War only II are left to tell the story.
The Warren Memorial Association. as
sisted by Warren Rifles Chapter, u.
D. c. will serve dinner to Confederate
veterans at nooA
Evening star., 1929-05-20
Man Found Rolling
Hoop Across Park
Gets Dry Law Fine

The sight of small children
rolling hoops through Lincoln
Park is not an unusual one, but
when Policeman T. D. Lewis OF
the ninth precinct observes a full
grown man engaging in the
youthful pastime he investigates.
Yesterday he arrested Frank
Freeman, colored,, as he rolled
hfs hoop across the park.
Arraigned in Police Court on a
charge of intoXication, Freeman
was ordered to pay a fine of SIS
by Judge John P. Mcmahon TO-
day.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
Bank Calls Firemen Twice.

Firemen yesterday afternoon received
two calls from Commercial National
Bank Fourteenth and G streets. The
first call was for small blaze in the
elevator shaft, while the second call,
less than an hour later, was for a blaze
in closet on an upper floor. Origin of
the fires was not determined and the
damage was slight.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
Four Rail Workers Perish.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 20 up.
-Four railway employees were burned to
death yesterday and three others Sc
verely burned when a freight train of
benzine tank cars toppled down q steep
declivity and caught FIRE.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
Railway Official Dies.

LYNCHBURG, Va, May 20 Up).-
Ernest Williams, vice president of the
Norfolk Southern Railway and presi-
dent of the Durham and South Caro-
lima Railway. died this morning at his
home here. r.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
Marriage License Issued.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, May 20
(SpcciaD A marriage license has been
issued here to Frank Paul Ragen. 2l,
637 H street northeast and Miss Marie
Poole. 81, 633 H street northeast, Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1929-05-20
REED HITS
COMMERCE GROUP
Criticizes Chamber Commit
tees Attack on Origins
'. OiduSGs -.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Sharp criticism of the report of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
immigration committee recommending
repeal of the national origins restric-
tive quota basis. is, made by Chairman
Reed of the Senate immigration COM
mittee in a letter to william Butter
worth, president of the chamber, and
made public yesterday by the Senator
Senator Reed, who is advocating re-
tention of the national origins basis,
in opposition to President Hoover, de-
clared the Chamber of Commerce COM
mittee's report is biased, based on a
false premise, and unsound in its con-
clusions"
Quotation From Report.
The committees report, indorsed by
the Chamber of Commerce, declared;
1T seems relatively unimpoFtant
whether the desired result is arrived at
by the 1890 census plan, basing quotas
on foreign born residing here. or by
the national origins law counting not
only the foreign born, but the native
whites living here in 1920.'
Never in my contact with this ques-
tino," wrote Senator Reed to President
ButterWorth, have / seen so superficial
and unsound a statement by any one
purporting to have any knowledge of
migration, or to have made a study
such as that in which your committee
has been engaged.
Interprets Committee Views,
"If this line of reasoning means any,
thing, 1t means that the United States
Chamber of Commerce, speaking
through its immigration committee, be-
lieves that SO long as immigration is
restricted it is immaterial what types of
immigrants are admitted where they
come from, or what they do after they
get here. II that is their attitude.
why. not admit 10000 Abyssinians and
be done with it?"
Evening star., 1929-05-20

More automobiles are being produced
In Canada than a year ago.
Evening star., 1929-05-20

Frances hydroelectric resources are
now. estimated at 100000 horsepower.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Another Militant Ordered
Fired by HllIman Machine

ly the owners of the Amalgamated,
the bosses, complied with the re-
quest of their agents in the unions
offices, and Freedman was ordered
out.
This is the method thru which the
Hillman machine hopes to stifle the
tremendous move-r1t now afoot
among the rank and file for their
elimination from leadership of the
union. A few days ago, Anna Fox.
chosen by the two-day conference to
act as its secretary, was also driver
by the bosses, acting under union
instruction" from the shop in which
she worked.
The executive committee elected at
the conference, however, declares
that this oft-used method of terror
ism against rank and file protest,
will fail. Plans are being completed
for the calling of mass meetings of
tailors, who viii take up the dis
missals of the leaders of their re-
volt against betrayals.
Freedman had acted as chairman
at the two-day cor Herence Of shop
representatives, which represented
over 5000 workers in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

The Hillman machine in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union,
powerless to maintain union condi-
tions in the shops of the mems
clothing industry, directs its weak
ened resources to a campaign of a
reign Of terror against its members
who protest against the transforma-
ton of their organization into a
company union. Yesterday another
worker lost his job for participating
in the conference of shop delegates
which met to find a method of com
batting sweat shop conditions.
Bacchi~ Freedman, an active mem
Der of the union since before 1917,
and who served three months in Jail
for the Amalgamated when that
union was militant, was ordered
thrown off the job by the Hillman
administration yesterday noon.
Freedman, who in the course of his
active work in the labor movement
has been union organizer, was one
of the victims of the Palmer Red
Raids in 1920.
A phone call was received by the
Chaplin Shirt Company, asking for
Freedman's instant dismissal. Eager
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Fine Production of Andyeyeu
Play Of Decadence at ClUlc

The theme of the a." an 81" of
the ruling class of tsarist Russia,
headed for certain death, COM
pletely debauchod and destined to
die in depravity, is the central one
Of 'Ekaterina," the latest Andreyev
play to be produced by the Civic
Repertory.
Andreyev is masterful play
wright, the Civic has produced the
play well and Nazimova acts the
role of the first pure, then de-
bauched Ekaterina. with all her
violent twists of character, with the
passive surrender of the debauched
woman going to a certain ard de-
praved death. This is the role for
Nazimova-with her peculiar vocal
talent and capacity for sudden
change which yet appears consist
emit with the character.
The play opens with violent ac =.
tion-seemingly inconsistent with
the pre-revolutionary traditions of
the Russian stage. There are sounds
Of a quarrel through half-opened
door, three pistol shots, and Ekate-
rina flecs from 6 jealousy mad
dcned husband. George, member of
parliament, goes through all the
self charges and doubts and coun-
ter-charges of a Russian nature
suddenly thrown into an abygs-a
Russian nature such as Dostoievsky
liked to draw Of the pre-revolution-
ary Russian.
But Ekaterina was innocent.
Overcome by the unfounded charges
of a distraught husband she actu-
ally gives herself once to the non
entity, Metchnikov, so fearful a
thing that she feels her life has
heen ruined. George comes to take
her back and she tells him all. They
go back to their home, but it proves
to be he'll. He feels as though he
| is to blame for the blemish on her
life-she feels, well, she cannot say,
but there is a void created in her
and she continues her affair until
she becomes a virtual prostitute,
giving her body to anyone who
strikes her fancy--the brother of
her husband, his closest friend. If
only the brother Alexei would take
her, she would be saved, she says,
for he is her conscience" In the
final scene her debauchery has gone
the limit. She dances the death of
the seven wells, and half-naked goes
on an automobile ride with another
who has hit her fancy. Too weak
TO kill herself, her husband too weak
to kill her or himself, the play ends
with the certainty that she will die
a depraved death, that her husband
will waste away and that all her
friends will live for the rest of their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
| n t ern a t iOnaI Issues
New Book of Stories,
Poems by Michael Gold

Under the title of 1920 Million"
the collected short stories, sketches,
poems and mass recitations Of Mich
ael Gold, proletarian writer and ed
itor of the New Masses" have just
been issued by the international
Publishers. A number Of these, in
Guiding a recitation on Sacco and
Vanzetti. have never appeared in
print before.
A number of the short stories and
sketches, which had appeared in the
'Jiberator" and other working class
publications. have been published in
a small volume il, Soviet Russia
about three years ago by the State
Publishing House.
The present series of EAST Side
Memoirs" by Michael Gold. the
latest of which, "a Gang of Little
Yids," appears in the February is
sue of the "New Masses" will be
published in the fall under the title
of "Jews Without Money" These
sketches of proletarian life are
attracting widespread attention and
are proving a great factor in the
growing success of the New
Masses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

lives with a dark veil drawn over
them.
Death, desolation, depravity-
complete decadenee of family of
the ruling class. That, however, is
not what Andrevev wants to show
so much as the tragic self travelling
to it's doom with nothing to lean
upon, nothing to stop it, course
charted, predestined unalterably.
The complete passivity and help
lessness of Ekaterina's nature, her
acceptance of a course thrust upon
her by circumstances and iminedi-
ately followed, all che more terrible
because she does it consciously
that is meant to be more than the
individual Ekaterina---it is meant
to be the aspect of a whole class,
sunk in all sorts of debauchery, yet
not wanting to be, feeling tragic
about it, yet continuing. Ii was the
point of view of the landed nobility
and upper bourgeoisie Of tGarist
Russia, black, pessimistic, with its
sense of travelling toward unalter-
able destruction. 1t is The point of
view of a decadent class.
1t is play of weakness, gloom,
decadence, death. And Andreyev
makes you feel it.
There is violent contrast, con-
tinued action, colorful seeming in the
production of the Civic Reportory.
The acting is good, and you will
enjoy the play if you remember that
you are viewing the play of an ar
fist of tsarist Russia, a member of
decadent class, overcome by what
seems to him the all-important prob
lem of the tragic self, perplexed by
the picture Of individuals gone
awry, lost, not knowing where to
turn while their class dies, seeking
for the meaning Of life seemingly
without purpose, looking in the self
for solution-but all given in sharp,
unmistaken and incisive lines.
| S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Honduras Govt Rules
Against United Fruit
Co. and for Rival One

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, March
1.-THE railroad company, the Stan
dard Ratification of the United
Fruit Company, which operates in
Honduras, has been condemned by
the national assembly to pay the
government 100000 damages for
noncompliance with its contract
with the government.
Besides, the company is fined ST.
600 mile for the trackage it has
failed to construct. Payment must
be made on March 6. The parliament
refused on February %, to renew
the government contract with the
Standard company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
TOSCANINI TO CONDUCT AT
CARNEGIE TOMORROW

The Philharmonic Orchestra, IN
der the baton of Arturo Toscanini,
is spending the coming week on
tour. appearing Monday in Phila-
delphia, Tuesday in Washington,
Wednesday in Baltimore, Thursday
in Rochester and Friday and Sat-
urday in Pittsburgh.
This Sunday afternoon the orches-
ira will give the following program
at Carnegie Hall: "Iphigenia in
Aulis" Overture, Gluck; Concerto
dell'Estate, Pizzetti; Sorcerer's APP
prentice, Dukas, and Symphony No.
2, Beethoven.
Next Sunday afternoon, at Car
negie Hall, Toscanini will offer the
program with which he opened his
season. comprising the Mozart SYM
phony in D, Respighi's Roman Fes-
rivals, Debussy's iberia and the
"Tannhauser'' Overture. Ernest
Schelling will be the soioist of the
concerts of March ID and Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Two SoUkino Films at the
Cameo Theatre This Week

Sponsoring the better cinema SO
judiciously that two of the photo
plays which it originally exhibited
were chosen as among the ten best
Ct the year, the little Cameo The
stre is sponsoring special showing
Of beth these films during one week.
They are both Russian pictures, AM
kino presentations: "Ten Days That
Shook the World" which will be
shown Saturday to Tuesday (March
o, 8, and 81, and "Czar Ivan the
Terrible" to be screened on We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday
March 6, and 81.
Except for the fact that both is
sue from the Sovkino studios, there
is no resemblance between the two
notable productions. In theme and
treatment they are widely diversi-
fled. "Ten Days That Shook the
World" shows the fall of the pro-
visional government which under
Kerensky's leadership held the reins
of power between the abdication of
the Car and the birth Of the Soviet
Republic. 1t is a drama of masses,
of movement and modern histor-
ical pageant in pictures.
Gear Ivan the Terrible" is dis
tinguished most for the quality Of
it's acting and emotion; Leonidoff
Of the Moscow Art Theatre heads a
support of the best talent available
on his native stage and screen. As
the title indicates, this is histor-
ical drama of the mad car and his
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
The Neu Plays

INDSCRETION by Myron Fagan will have its premiere at
the Mansfield Theatre Monday In the cast Minna
Gombe Harold Elliott Betty Lancaster and Dantha Pat
WHAT SHE WANTED" by George Rosener, will be
offered Walacks Monday evening. Gaina Kopernak,
Alan Brooks and Franklin Ardel head the cast
The Comedy Company begins
Of Joson's Monday. The program in
cludes the following "Tros Jeunes Files Nues by Raou
Morett "Passionnement by Maurice Hennequn and Albert
Wllemetz "Comte Oblgao" by Morett, and eta Bouche
by Maurice Yvan
THE EARTH BETWEEN by Vergl Geddes, twoact play
open Provinceown Playhouse Tuesday evening
Before Breakfast" by Eugene ONel is also the
gram Mary Blair plays the solo role in the ONeil play.
CONFLICT work of Warren F. Lawrence will at the
Wednesday night In the cast will be Peggy
Anby Spencer Tracey, Edward Arnold and Frank Mcugh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
UssR VENEER PRODUCE.

MOSCOW, (By aiD.-Produc-
ton Of veneer in the Soviet Union
in the fiscal year 1929, ending
September 80, 1873, amounted to
$4,000 cubic meters, exceeding the
program of 74,800 cubic meters. The
larger production was made pos
sible by the increased procurements
of raw materials for veneer produc-
ton, which totaled 225,400 cubic
meters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
kRASSlN FILM CONTINUES AT
FILM GUILD.

The Film Guild Cinema is con-
tinuing the Krassin picture for a
second week at the little theatre on
Eighth st. Another film being held
over is the Tolstoy picture taken in
Russia some years back on his
eightieth birthday. The Krassin
film has been drawing interesting
comments from the many onlookers.
Although news picture, the screen
ing holds the audience spellbound
in its tense action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Theremin, Soviet Union
Scientist, Will Give a
Big Program Tonight

Ether wave music instruments
and their development during 1928
in America will oe demonstrated by
Leon Theremin, Soviet Union scien-
list and inventor, in recital at
Carnegie Hall at $50 o'clock to-
night.
Theremin, who first startled
American audiences into the posi-
bilities of mis- instrument in 1928,
has since his first appearance made
rapid progress in his program of
applying scientific principles to the
problem of producing classical mu-
sic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Lithuanian LID Will
Give Entertainment

Songs in Finnish, German and
Ukrainian, athletic displays and a
Russian Mandolin Orchestra will be
leading features of the concert which
will be given by the Lithuanian
Branch No. II of the International
Labor Defense at the Labor Lyceum,
GAO Willoughby Ave-, Brooklyn, on
March "a. Dancing will follow the
entertainment.
The group will supervise a booth
at the International Labor Defense
bazaar, March Clio, at the New Star
Casino, 10th st. and Park Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
KREYMBORG PLAYS TO BE
GIVEN TOMORROW.

A bill of comedies, opera and PAN,
tomime around the work of Alfred
Kreymborg will be given by the
Louise Clifford Players at the New
School Tor Social Research this Sun
day evening and ON Sunday matinee
and evening, March 10. This will
include two of Kreymborg's latest
comedies, UNEASY Street" and
Jane, Jean and john" and an oper-
attic version by William Spielter of
the old comedy, Lima Beans" This
American opera and the plays will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Theatre Guild to Pro-
duce New Shaw Play

Bernart Shaw's new play, "The
Apple Cart" will be produced by
the Theatre Guild early next sea-
son. The Guild has just received
word from Shaw that a copy of the
play is on its way.
"Saint Joan" was the last of
Shaw's new plays to be produced
here. That was five years ago. Two
seasons before that, "Back to
Methusaleh" was staged by the
Guild, while in the organizations
third season, "Heartbreak House"
was given its world premiere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

be performed for the first time on
any stage. There will else be mu-
steal interludes: Kreymborg's tone
poems On the mandolute and song
cycle by Mildred Gardner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

Christian Socialism is but the holy
water with which the priest conse-
crates the henrtburnings of the aris-
Marx Communist Man
ifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

The proletarian movement is
the self-c N C o u s, Independent
movement of the immense major
ity.-karl Marx Communist Maui
festO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

The Musical Art Quartet at the
concert tomorrow night at the John
Golden Theatre will play Glazou-
now's quartet On. 10 with the fourth
movement of his OPP "a, and Beetho-
ven's quartet OPP. SO No. 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

Valentino Aksarova, Russian So
prano, will make her debut at Town
Hall Saturday afternoon, March 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

NEW DIARIES IN CAUCASUS.
BAKU, (By MaiD.-In the North
ern Caucasus 43 butter and cheese
factories are being constructed by
the local daily cooperatives union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

August Werner, baritone, will
give his recital Wednesday evening
in Town Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

Max Rosen, violinist, at his Sec
ond recital at Carnegie Hall, SUM-
day evening, March 10, will play
the Tartini Sonata in G minor, the
Bruch Concerto in G minor, the
Bach Sonata in G minor and group
by Chopin-Auer and Paganini-Auer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
Music Notes

Rudolph Gruen will give his piano
recital at Town Hall on Thursday
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02

Martha Graham will give another
dance program at the Booth The
atre tomorrow afternoon, when she
will offer a special request program
and three new creations.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-20
Brilliant Heavenly Visitors

Flash Of meteors that blaze their way for short
distances across the heavens have been noticed in re-
cent nights; and their appearances have been more
numerous, and more brilliant than is the rule. To ac-
count for this DR.. Willard J. Fisher Of Harvard uni
versity says the earth has passed into the realm Of
"the tears Of st. Lawrence" a field filled with many
fragments Of comets. which, when they come within
the earths atmosphere, flare up with brillance as
they speed much faster than the earth IS travelling.
These are fragments from comets. radiating from
ths constellation Perseus, says the professor. and the
meteors will be observed for the next two months.
Rarely do meteors reach the surface Of the earth.
Atmospheric friction causes them to blaze up; and
they arc soon destroyed.
The only authentic case where a human being was
killed by a falling meteor was that Of a Franciscan
monk killed on Sept. 4. 1911, according to DR.. Fisher.
But many narrow escapes have been reported; and
some meteors have been dug from the earth. where
they became embedded when they hit the earth.