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The Washington times., 1929-12-17
Reporter Of Lincoln
Speech Celebrates
9lst Birthday

Washington's oldest news
paper man. William H. Smith,
Of the 400 block Perry Pl., is
celebrating his ninety first
birthday today.
Smith began his newspaper
career on the indianapolis
Atlas, one Of his best remem-
bered assignments being the
covering Of a Lincoln speech.
His newspaper career since that
time has been most closely
linked with the indianapolis
Journal and the Indianapolis
Times.
Hundreds still remember his
dynamic magazine articles, one
of which stirred up enough
national agitation to have the
body of John Paul Jones
brought to America.
He is the sixth descendant
from William Smith who came
on the ship Welcome with Will
liam Penn. He was born in
Noblesville, Ind, December II,
1883.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
DEATH
ACCIDENT

Funeral arrangements are being
made today for James C. Black
well, clerk to the Board of Com
missionerSk of Prince Georges
County, who was shot and killed
in a duck blind below Alexandria
yesterday under mysterious cir.
cunstances. Coroner C. C. Ran
son, of Fairfax County, issued a
certificate of accidental death.
Deputy Coroner j. P. Gore and
Police Lieut.. A. w. Hepburn, of
Prince Georges county, viewed
the body as it lay in WheatIey'S
undertaking parlorS at Alexan.
dria. Hepburn stated that. while
there were conditions in the
county which might have led
BLACKWELL to take his own life. he
and the Maryland authorities ARE
happy to accept the finding of
the Fairfax county coroner"
Blackwell was to have lost his
lucrative political job today as
result of public opinion in the
county since he was arrested in
HyattSville ID month ago charged
with driving an automobile while
intoxicated County officials
stated that his accounts were in
perfect shape and that he was an
excellent clerk and executive.
There were no witnesses to the
tragedy. Marshall Tony . Wood,
well Known football player Of the
Alexandra Celtics. who was care
taker sOf the duck blind rOWed
Blackwell to 1t about 8 o'clock
yesterday morning, and then went
back to the shore, he said. He
was accompanied BY Randolph
Inscoe, IA, his helper.
Blackwell fired three shots at
ducks, Wood said, and they saw
one duck floating down the river.
AS the boys set out in boat to
retrieve the duck. they said. they
heard muffled shot from the
blind. Rowing nearer, they saw
Blackwell crumpled up in the
bottom Of the blind.
= They rowed back to shore and
telephoned for the Alexandra pc,
lice. Sergt. George Eberly re.
sponded and removed the body
to the undertaker's. Sergeant
Eberly said the dead man was
lying partly on his left side. with
the stock Of the gun under his
face and the n1uzzle near his
feet.
The gun had fired with the
muzzle pressed against the dead
mans breast. Powder marks
scared through his hunting coat.
two sweaters, shirt and under
wear. The charge Of buckshot
took a downward course through
the heart.
Wood said that Blackwell com
planned of being sick just before
he went to the blind. He said
Blackwell told him he "had been
sick for three weeks" and he
looked pale and distraught
Blackwell was at the same duck
blind the day before.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
Three Jailed Writers
Upheld By Priest

Father James M. ellis, editor
of the New York Catholic World,
today in letter to the managing
editor Of The washington Times,
formally denied that an article by
him recently in The Baltimore
| Catholic Review was intended as
an attack upon the three Times
reporters who were sentenced to
IS days in jail for refusing to
be prosecuting witnesses against
speakeasy proprietors whom they
had investigated.
Intended Only as Irony
Father ellis says he is amazed
that his article was misconstrued,
as it was intended as irony.
IT confess" he says, that /
had some suspicion that the pro-
hibitionistS, who, it seems to me,
lack not only logic and common
sense but humor, would fail to
see that wrote with tongue in
cheek, Sc I deliberately inserted
one sentence about little Willie
Br0okhart and the over-ripe to-
mato for the precise purpose of
preventing anyone,s taking the
article seriously. / can only re-
peat that regret the irony was
not caught.
4 am sorry. too. to know that
the reporters gave any infornla-
ton whatsoever to the police. It
seems to me that It is not the
business of q newspaper reporter
ito play detective. ! can see all
kinds Of possible dangers arising
when neWspaperman, who, after
all, is q private Citizen takes upon
himself the duties that properly
belong to the police.
Sick OF Non En40rcepaent
OF course, ii q private citizen
accidentally stuInbles across some
information which he thinks the
police should have, it may be his
duty to communicate 1t. But
when q reporter goes out for the
purpose Of collecting information,
+ think 1t is sufficient that he
present the information to the
readers Of his paper and let 1t go
at that.
1T is quite obvious to any in.
telligent observer that the police
know where the Speakeasies are
just as well as the reporters
and better. The chief difficulty is
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
MOB MENACES
ANNAPOLIS BOY

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. H.--Annapo.
lis police were alarmed last night
by an alleged attempt to lynch
Andrew Holland, 17-year-old ne
gro,- who Is in jail here charged
with assault on Albert Glover
"a, q store-keeper of Anne Arun.
del county, and his wife, Olga
Glover, 81, early Saturday morn.
ing.
Last night q crowd Of approx.
mately 35 persons from the sec.
ton Of the county in which the
Glovers lived gathered about the
jail with threats of violence
Mayor Walter e. Quenstedt or,
dered extra patrolmen to the Jail
and the crowd finally was dis.
persed.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
COUNTY K|DDIEs
MEET SANTA

BALLSTON, Va, Dec. IT,
Christmas cheer was brought into
the hearts Of SO unfortunate chill
dren of Arlington county, wards
of the county welfare board, as
they were ushered into the gym
nasium of Arlington Hall Girls
College last night and as their
eyes saw the huge Christmas tree
provided by the faculty and stu
dents. State Senator Frank l..
Ball played the part Of Santa
Claus.
AS the children flocked around
him he distributed to each one
q large box or basket filled with
toys and other articles,
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
8 staff Photo

that neither the police, nor the
district attorneys. nor the munich
pal governments. nor the State
governments, nor the Federal
government, has any sincere in
tention Of enforcing the Prohibit
ton Law. am 50 convinced Of
this, and so sick of it, that might
easily have written with q more
mordant irony than ! did.
A Voluntary Abstainer
"For fear that my earnestness
in the matter may be nlisinter-
preted, / beg leave to inform you
that ! am, and always have been.
a voluntary total abstainer and
that the enforcement or non-en-
forcement Of prohibition means
nothing TO me as far as my per-
sonal haoitS are concerned"
The Washington times., 1929-12-17

The Hancocks were arrested
and held pending settlement Of
a $75 damage bill and costs Of
prosecution.
Officers said the brothers mis-
took Hockersmith's car for that
of a sutton of a young neignbor
girl whom the younger Hancock
courted until eliminated by his
rival.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
CIAL REPORT ON CAMP MEADE Staying Is QUESTIONED
Youth Held as Rivals
Car Is Damaged

-HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. II.
Mistaking the automobile Of Carl
F. Hockersmith, of Shippensburg,
for the car of a rival in love,
Harper Hancock, %, and his
brother, Charles Hancock, riddled
the radiator Of the machine with
rifle bullets while Hockersnllth
was hunting, police allege.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
SPEED RECORD FOR WOMEN

Mrs. Joan Chetwynd success
fully broke the women's speed
record at Brocklands, England,
when she covered 996 miles at an
average speed Of 1927 miles per
hour.
The Washington times., 1929-12-17
HORSES TRAVEL IN STYLE

Race horses owned by Mrs.
Payne Whitney now travel in a
de luxe notorious powered to do
IS miles an hour. The bus ac-
commodities six horses and has a
bed for the groom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
Washington's Greatest Bargain Celebrat

The Kings Palace Anniversary Sale always the years
merchandising reaches the pinnacle of bargain
this Below miniature reproductions of three of
circular recently mailed thousands of regular
All these groups sale hundreds of other
offerings equally remarkable Be here!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
"CaucaSian Lone " Premiere
at the Film Guild" To-Day

New Babylon is stated in terms
Of well-defined, articulate film Ian
guage. The various episodes are
charged with meaning and not with
cheep and profitable .notionalism.
1t is the epoch that makes it pos
sible to construct the epoch, to re-
veal history instead of staging it.
The historical fact hero ceases to be
al anecdote and becomes part of
system of presentation which reveals
the meaning and the nature Of the
historical fact. The clarity and eff
fectiveness Of every situation are
brought out by the method of non
coincidence characteristic of the style
Of the "Feks."
The "Feks" are not only group
Of people producing good films.
Their work is characteristic Of the
Soviet cinematography as a whole.
They began by shattecing tradition
with no other apparent purpose than
the SCATTERING. They ended by pro-
ducing work Of art and an effective
instrument of enlightment. New
Babylon" is film Of great style on
d large social scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
,NaCDONALD AIDS
N. c. BOSSES
Int'l Protest Against
Labor Party Action

Continued from Page One)
ers Aid, to address British textile
workers on the Gastonia strike and
trial.
The British organization had in
vited the l. L. D. of the United
States to send Gastonia strikers to
speak in the Lancashire area of
cotton mills and at various other
sections of the country. Including
Trafalgar Square in big demon
stration on behalf of the Gastonia
defendants.
Scotland Yard Spies.
A Scotland Yard man spying for
the British Labor" government is
believed to have been the person who
telephoned the international Labor
Defense under the guise Of a repre-
sentative of a British newspaper, The
London Daily Mail, and tried to fer
ret out information concerning tie
visit of Gastonia strikers to England,
last Tuesday, The l. L. D. having
given out reports concerning the
facts to all the press some weeks
ago, repeated that Gastonia striker
had been sent to Europe and had at
tended the twelfth anniversary o. the
Russian Revolution in Moscow.
The Gastonai striker is K. o. Byers,
one of the original sixteen who
faced the electric chair for five
months in prison until charges were
dropped against him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

Commencing today, the Film Guild
Cinema will present the American
premiere Of the first all-Caucasian
film, Caucasian Love-" a drama
depicting the wild, colorful life Of
the tribes living on the edge Of the
Russian domain.
Caucasian Love- represents the
first production of the Georkino, the
producing company in Russia de-
voted. to film-naking in the Cau-
casian region.
The picture deals with an episode
taken from the epoch Of the compul-
sorry emigration Of the Tsheshens
(Moslem sect) from their native
Caucasus into Turkey at the direc-
ton of the Gar, whose plan was to
settle his Cossack tribes in their
place. The film is based on the story
"Eliso," by the wel-known Georgian
novelist, Kazbek, and revolves around
a Mohammedan maid who falls in
love with Christian admirer. One
of the interesting highhghts of "Cau-
casian Love" is the "dance of DEATH"
a remarkable demonstration of fren.
zied mourning.
In the cast are l. Mamporia, Kira
Adronikashvulli, T. Tsutsunava,
Kokhta Karashvili, A. Imadashvilli,
N. Tshminshkyan, l Galkin and K.
Guryakov. The film was directed by
N. Shenelai; photography by V.
Kereselidze, with costumes and set
tings by D. Shevardnadze and N.
Nagorny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
20 Mine Locals Confer
at Pana; Want Fight

Continued from Page One)
special meetings during the coming
week, at which delegates to the
Zeigler Tri-State Conference be
elected. That committees be elected
to serve notice on the coal COM
panies that no more dues are to
be checked off and that the coal
companies recognize the N.M.U. and
its demands as adopted at the Belle
vile N.M.U. Convention"
The conference further decided
that locals Of the N.MU. mobilize
all their forces to pass motions at
the locals Of the UNIV. of A. to
take down the U.M.W.A. charters
and declare the mines under the iur-
isdiction Of the National Miners
Union.
Tri-State Conference.
The conference also adopted a mo-
ton endorsing the Tri-State Con-
ference, and the decisions and reso-
lutions of the BelIeville Convention.
George Voyzey, district president
Of the N.W.U., opened the Confer
ence and reviewed the general stu
alton in Illinois and the tasks con-
fronting the miners. He showed
that naturalization and mechanical
ton are going on not only through
out the country in the coal mines,
but that the very same process of
naturalization is going on in every
other industry. Prepare to strike"
was the keynote struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
A.F.OF |. GUSTS
NEGRO WORKER

Continued from Page One)
luck, we WON'T admit him and you
can't employ him." Jones then
went to the union office with $500,
the. sum demanded from the other
workers for working privilege cards
and which is hall the initiation fee.
He was met by flat refusal from
the union manager, Warrick, who
boasts that he is Socialist"
Jones said: "If you throw me out
of work and eend me and my fam
lily to starve, l will have to take
other steps"
"Take any damn steps you
please" was the callous ami brutal
reply of this reactionary labor
fakir and yellow socialist mis-
leader.
Not knowing the connection be-
tween corrupt union misleaders and
the parties of the bosses, Jones then
appealed to Irwin Isaacs, a demo-
cratic lawyer who was running for
Assemblyman in the elections just
passed. "This is against the law,
| will see that you are admitted to
this union within five days." was
the glib promise of this political
tool of the bosses. Being chal-
lenged while campaigning in Har-
lem, the socialist misleader, Frank
Crosswaith likewise assured Jones
that they would force the issue.
But Jones was driven off the OBJ
at the end of September.
A campaign to force the union to
admit and reinstate this Negro
worker is being organized by the
left wing labor forces. "A mass
protest meeting will be held Tues
day, December 8, at p. M, at st,
Luke's Hail. 1875 w. 130th St., be-
tween Lenox and Seventh Ayes,
under the joint auspices of the
American Negro Labor Congress,
the international Labor Defense and
the Trade Union Unity League.
This meeting will also protest
against the recent discrimination of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
SHOE WORKERS
IN TWO MORE
SHOPS STRIKE
Trial of As Postponed;
Judge Prejudiced

continued from Page One)
ing and are demanding that the
boss put up a bond to keep the
peace in his shop.
Monday, at l p, H., in Irving
Plaza, the La Vale, the Dan Potter
and Goldstein workers will hold
meeting to plan their struggle.
These are all Manhattan shops,
manufacturing "beneh made" ex-
pensive shoes.
Two more strikers have been ar
rested.
Contempt Case Postponed.
The trial of As striking shoe
workers who appeared in Judge
James Dunn's court in Borough
Hall, Brooklyn, yesterday was post
poned by agreement between attor-
neys until next Wednesday. Sew
eral hundred strikers crowded into
the court room and the hall way
to witness the trial. The police
drove those in the hall away.
During the 10 minutes argument
over the case, the attorney for the
Metropolitan Shoe Manufacturers,
the bosses association, produced
pictures of the pickets, which COM
pany spies and bosses have been
swapping during the last week or
so, and argued that all of these
men, and. all those in the court
room, in fact the whole Independent
Shoe Workers Union, were guilty
of destroying $4,000 worth of shoes
in the Bressler shops"
This is one Of the widest charges
of the bosses, and marks an increae
during the process of litigation of
the Bressler damage claim from the
first amount claimed, $4,000 for
shoes, to Is times that much"
When one of the workers in court
smiled at this peculiar charge,
Judge Dunn called him up and de-
manded whether he was citizen.
The worker said he was, and Dunn
thereupon declared: "If l had any
thing to say about it, l would de-
port you all. This is a free country.
That is not the way to use your
At another point the Judge de-
clared openly, IF this were up to
me | would give the decision to-
day"
The real reason for the postpone
ment of the trial, according to the
attorney for the union, is that the
bosses with their legal staff of
seven got only about go affidavits,
most of them from scabs, saying
that they were satisfied with their
work, whereas the single union at
torney got 400 affidavits from the
showing conclusively that
there was a lockout of the bosses
as a result of conspiracy between
the U. S. Department of Labor and
the employers. This lockout was
for the slack season and
was preceded by a policy of dis
by the bosses, to try
and cause friction among the work
ers. The trick failed.
Four other shoe workers, charged
with violation of the injunction come
up for trial Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
NEW BABYLON" AT
CAMEO THEATRE

Messrs. Kozintsov and Trauberg,
the authors of the film which opens
at the Cameo Theatre today, do not
hide behind their heroes. They speak
in their own names. That is why
New Babylon" succeeds in con-
structing the portrait of the Paris
Commune of 1871. The picture has
no personages with historical names.
In point of style it is purified, dis
titled. 1t is interesting not because
Of its historical data but because of
their treatment. The episodes are
generalized, made to stand as SYM
bols.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

the Liberal Club of George Wash
ington University against Roths-
child Francis, militant Negro
leader from the Virgin Islands, who
was sent there to speak as the rep
resentative of the l. L. D.
All class-eonscious workers, black
and white, are called upon to unite
in this mass protest. The follow
ing speakers will address the meet
ing: Richard B Moore, chairman;
John H. Jones, Rothschild Francis,
Gilbert Lewis, J. Louis Engdahl,
George Siskind, Stephen Graham, L.
Ahiter, and Theodore Gibbs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Communist Activities
Y.C.I. Dance Upper Bronx ?.

vel. Dance Upper Bronx ..
An entertainment and dance Will be
given by the Young Communist
League Of Upper Bronx 2. for the
benefit of the Defense of the Gas
tonia prisoners The affair will be
held at 1890 wilkins Ave, Bronx, on
Saturday, Nov. 80. Moving pictures.
Music by spartacus band, Admission
IS cents
Harvest Dance.
A Harvest dance will be held under
auspices of Section of the Commu-
mist Party on Nov. 80, 5 p. M, at SO
Manhattan Ave Admission 85 cents.
Unit A. section 4, Dance and Concert.
Unit 4. Section 4, is having concert
and dance on Saturday evening, Nov
30 at the Italian Workers Club. 8l4
r. 104th St Admission 35 cents. All
comrades invited.
Glass in Trade Union Problems.
The class in. American Trade Union
Problems conducted on Mondays at
p. IN. is open to all interested in
the various phases of trade unionism.
% cents Next Mondays class will
hear Obermeier on Organization of
Food Workers"
Industrial Registrations.
All industrial organizers and al
section organizers are instructed TO
complete the registration of all Party
members. Those who are not as vet
registered should do SO Immediately.
This registrG ton is of utmost import
ance In the building Of the T.U.U.L.
District Industrial Department.
Unit IL. section 3. Executive.
The Executive Committee OF Unit
., Section 3. win meet Monday, Dec.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
LABOR SOCCER GAMES SUNDAY

Some of the championship games
in series being played tomorrow by
the Metropolitan Workers Soccer
League are: Division "A"-Scandi-
navian Workers A. G. VS.. New York
Eagles, Croton Park, Btonx, IL noon;
referee G. Gottdiener. Italian F. c.
VS.. Prospect Unity S. c., Central
Park, w. 62nd Street, P. NJ;
referee: F. Tenyi. Bari F. C. VS..
Freiheit S. c., Crotona Park, Bronx,
3 P. NJ; referee: j. Brownfield.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

of work for the section will be work.
ed out A district representative will
also be present, All members of the
Section Committee must attend and
be on time.
II -
Social Today in Harlem.
Harlem Unit. No. 2. of the yell
Is holding a thanksgiving social this
evening at 235 w. 129th st. Music
and refreshments. Admission free
everybody invited
Unit AZ. section q.
Discussion on the c. c. Plenum and
short business meeting, Monday, $50
,. m. l2y Myrtle Ave.
s. y
G. j.. Open Forum In Bronx.
Com Schnies will lecture on "rhe
old Unions and the New Unions" at
1890 wilkins Ave. Mt Q p. m, Free
admissions.
~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations


Scott Nearing win lecture on Edu-
cation in the Soviet Union Sunday
evening, Dec. I. $50 y. m. sharp. In
the auditorium of the Cooperative
Colony, 200 Bronx Park East
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

The newly organized Gastonia
Branch of the LID. will meet Tues
day. Dec. 8, at 1179 Broadway. All
workers are invited to come and par
ticipate in our activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Nenring Mt Roro Park.

Scott Nearing will speak on Amer
lean Imperialism at p. m Sunday
at Boro Park Workers club. 1873
43rd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
FURNISHED ROOMS

1873 FAST 10th ~. Heated rooms, large
and small; nll improvements, near sub
way. Tel. Lebigh 1890.