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from the woman's horrible face.
You know about 1t, don't your"
Claire was saying You must know
something about it. Why, there wasn't
hardly anything else in the papers at
the time-especially the San Francisco
papers. You don't want to take a thing
like that too hard, though. dearie."
At that Rhoda managed to drag her
hypnotized eyes away and turn them
on her empty coffee cup.
"Of course, to hear people talk-dirty
hypocrites-youd think a thing like
that had never happened before. It's
happening all the time, only they don't
happen to get caught. But your father
. Well, of course, all I know is
what he told me from time to time.
But I've a sort of bunch that they put
something over on him. OF course"
she fastened to add, II wouldn't want
to be held to anything couldn't prove,
and naturally couldn't prove one sin
gle thing about this. But, II there was
niger in the woodpile, 1t was this
Forster. And you can play that right
across the board. There's no way that
you could get back at him that can
see. because it was all over and done
with long ago. But there's one thing
you can do, and that's lay of from him
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hotel. up in the little hall bedroom OF
her first boarding house, had been to
seal that trunk with strips of gummed
paDer all around the lid.
Her fathers dying reference to his
~ nreVonted her from destroying
the thing. She kept 1t under her bed,
~ n l daily glimpse of it when she
course, by no emotional disturbances
va - .er. After the burglary she'd
looked at it, to make sure 1t was un-
disturbed, but at that time, preoccupied
nv the loss of her $500, she hadn't
thought much about it.
Sned got much worse jolt when
Martin, in the course Of q burleSque
burglar hunt after he'd brought her
home that night, had encountered it,
and having, no doubt, thought 1t con-
tanned hats, had tried to move 1t and
been patiently perplexed by its great
weight. If she'd tried to explain that
sharp emotion-which she didn't do
the explanation would have been that
she didn't want Martin to have any
contact, however unconscious, with the
secret that had clouded the last years
of her fathers life, the thing that had
driven him into hiding and made a
broken man of him.
And yet, up to now, until she heard
Claire Cleveland pronounce the word
California, she'd been able in her SEN
sibls>momentS to remind herself that all
she'd ever seen in the trunk had been
laboratory notes and diagrams, to argue
that in all probability it contained
nothing else, and to promise herself
that some day she would open it up, go
through it methodically, and make an
end of her nightmare once and for all.
But now the nightmare was true.
These people-certainly Claire, and
probably Forster and his nephew-had
their connection with her father back
in the days of the horror and for some
unthinkable purpose of their own
wanted the thing dug up.
She sat there frozen. 1t was seconds
before She could even turn her eyes
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II he tries to come around"
Rhoda heard her move her chair back
little and that broke the spell.
CHANGING up, she saw the woman gazing
thoughtfully at her watch.
well, guess I've said my say" she
concluded. And know you must be
wanting to run along. I'm going to
order a taxi. can't take you anywhere
in it. can -" She hadn't quite said her
say, though, for as she rose to leave the
table she added, You won't forget to
look up that paper of mine, will you,
dearie?"
Despite her panic, Rhoda was able to
note that this had been a clear after
thought, and Soe4 complete one, either.
Claire hadn't told her where she lived
Rhoda went home. She didn't know
how she got there. Nor did she plan
what she'd do when she did. She had
no clear expectation of what she'd find
But, by the time she had climbed the
long flight of stairs and let herself into
the studio with her latch-key and flown
straight up to her little ballroom in the
loft and looked under the bed, she was
not really surprised to see that the
trunk was gone.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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SYNOPSIS.

Fhodo McFdriand calls herself Rhodd
White after the death Of her father. phose
meets Martin Forbes. a reporter. Dho has
seen in the papers an dd asking for intoTma-
tiOn regarding a Rhodd Mcfarland. He has
heard man named Mar LesDis talking 10
fgomGr about Rhodd aud he feelS certain
that her real name is Mcfarland. Rhodd
finally admits that 10 is, She receiues
letter from a stranger. Claire Cleueldnd, mhO
claims TO hare porked for her father and
saws that at his death certain uaIudble
papers belonging to her Uerc IN his pos
ReSsiOu
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EIGHTH INSTALLMENT.

w YHEN Claire returned from
n making her phone CALL she
NV talked between and during
mouthfuls all through the
rnst Of tho rnnnal about anN.
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Crew Or Wee Neck
Sweaters, $2.95

OF Fleisher yarns in plain navy,
maroon, brown and tan and numerous
jacquard effects. Many with border
combinations. Sizes to Is.
Boys Wear shop-street Floor.
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inmates must talk to their friends
and relatives from behind iron bars
in their cells or across long table
with a guard looking on from either
end. Sinclair may receive his friends
in private in the medical office. His
first visitor was permitted to stay
overtime. Then he may have his
attorneys visit him at almost any
time and such a long line of counsel
as has trooped in to consult with the
oil CRATER has never before lightened
the day of any "jail bird" No one,
not even his wife, is supposed to
visit Harry except on Sunday even
ing. 1t can be recorded that the rule
has been scrupulously observed in
the case of his wife, a privation
which Harry seems to be thriving
under in view of the fact that work
ing beside him every day. is a pretty
nurse assigned to the. medical office.
The pharmacy is a sunny neat
room in charge of cheerful, young
physician who understands evidently
that his bread may be fairly we'll
bnttered by being nice to the old Man
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Private Room to Sleep in; Soft Job; Special
Food, Special Rules

room low-ceilinged, stuffy and vile
smelling. Why the private room for
Harry? "No special reason what
ever" the Major assures us. "Mr.
Sinclair's room is just handy to the
infirmary where he works. That's
ALL"
So Harry has a private room.
Probably not as lavish as his Fifth
Avenue Mansion apartment, but iff
you live in the average shack. in
Montana or in a workers tenement
on the East Side of New York, you
will agree that Harry's room is not
so bad.
Food! There is another important
item. Harry has been placed with
the detail staff, a group consisting
of office workers and others. This
small number receives a special
grade of food. The regular law
breakers, when well behaved, eat in
a large mess hall which contains the
electric chair among other objects of
encouragement to the appetite.
In the matter of visitors, Sinclair
is again more than fortunate. Other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
By PENMAN SLAVE.

WASHINGTON, May 80. - Stone
walls do not prison make, nor iron
bars cage. So sang the ancient
bard. The sentiment is more than
apt in reference to one Harry F. Sin
clair, multi-millionaire oil CRATER
and modest democrat, detained here
temporarily in the district Jail. The
poet, as you know, had reference to
the supposed ability of the spirit to
transcend its material confines. But
Harry has modernized the ancient
truth. Behind the spirit everywhere
according to Sir Harry is the cold
cash, and it all depends on Who's
Who In TIE Hoosegow!
Of the more than five hundred
wretches entombed here, running
against time, cursing against fate,
miserable products of vicious social
order, none can boast of any special
accomplishment. A few have broken
safes, some have blackjacked silk
hated money bags, others have so
far forgotten their identity as to
write the names of lesser men on
bank checks-robbers of the rich,
you will note. Only Harry Sinclair
has plundered the poor. Why should
this fact not entitle Hary Sinclair
to first place among the five hun
dred of the hoosegow. Among the
four hundred the procedure is the
same. Turn to T. regular Who's
Who-the same forms are observed
With a private room to romp in,
with a pleasant and pretty nurse to
gaze upon, with a safe full of liquor
to draw from, with his wife pro-
hibited by the rules of the prison
from calling upon him more than
once a week-why shouldn't the
master of Tea Pot Dome exult! Jail
is for the poor, like lice and religion,
starvation and virtue.
Harry is the Jail pharmacist. What
use has Jail for a pharmacist, you
may have wondered. That shows
how dumb you are! No use, of course,
but it's Harry Sinclair and what's a
mere office more or less between
jail superintendent and a multi
millionaire customer who is to board
with him at most for only ninety
days? N"It's true,' we never had
pharmacist before" Major w. IL.
Peak, head of the Jail affirmed in
reply to pointed question by your
low brow correspondent, "but the
Jail has always needed one" Fair
enough! So Harry was made phar-
macist.
Then Harry was provided with a
private room to sleep in. "Why the
discrimination, MAORI" The others.
the safe blowers, pick-pockets kid
nappers, check artists, those of the
profession generally, are packed in
together in one huge dormitory, with
cots almost piled on one another, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Six "Sandhogs" Smothered in Mud.

CANDHOGS" is the applied to workers who go down
into the silt and mud of river beds to tunnel for sub
ways excavate for huge piers The this cynical
preston itself out of the utter indifference with which
the profakng capitalist social order looks upon the lives
of workers condemned to the most dangerous kind of toll
The caLousness with which workers murdered out
right their jobs revealed again Wednesday in the Kill
ling of six sandhog tong 80 feet below the bed of the
Hackensack river under twenty-five pound air pressure e
cavatng for the third pier of the joint Pennsylvania railroad
and state highway bridge, in Jersey City.
Worker correspondents this job had already written
in to the Daily Worker and described in detail the dangers
and the agones of their toll This showed that the sand
hogs themselves keeny alive to the dangers threaten
ing them But they poweess to remedy this cond-
ion The Compressed Air Workers Union like other trade
unions of its kind is job trust and does not wage
class fight for real protection for the lives members
The Tammany Hacontroed Central Labor Union is lust as
immune to any such effort
The explanations advanced for the disaster show the
careessness exercised protecting the workers These
follows:
First-That the bucket into which the sandhogs
muck to be hoed the might caught air
valve and broken it. Why the air valve exposed?
Second-That mixture of oakum and had been
instances leaks special cement
generally used such jobs few thus by
substituting mud for rubber numbering
and manning than dozen workers
Thrd-Another opinion that the
which hit Jersey City at the time had
wise should during storm until everything
was found again to be in order.
The indifference revealed by these futile efforts to offer
an acceptable for the death of these workers shows
mat the calsson IN which they oed but execuioner
chamber that awaited only the fatal hour when death would
rush in to snuff out the lives of the condemned
Capitalism itself is the executioner that numbers it's
victims IN industry by the hundreds of thousands The EN-
poyers demands for increasing rofits for the speed
up resulting in the worsening of the conditions of
labor and the standard of living the driving cause of evils
inflicted labor including the death sentence invoked
against the six workers whose remains lie buried in 25
feet of mud in the Hakensack river Labor must struggle
against this murder by wholesale through developing the
Droade5t demand for all forms of protection against accident
DEATH unemployment occupaona diseases industry to bear
the entire This latest disaster should create tre
ndous support for these all too meager demands sst
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Has a Gay Time in Jail

of Tea Pot Dome. No one is saying
that the ambitious young doctor is
taking any graft, but who would not
pave his way to ,-omotion as the
physician of some rich man later.
Both the doctor and the nurse say
that Sinclair is "a nice man." and
so he is. Against their word you
have only the testimony of some
hundred thousand workers employed
by the oil CRATER whose average
pay is about $26.00 a week. Some
receive less than $4,000.
In the pharmacy safe is large
supply of liquor held in readiness for
emergency such as snake bites,
poison ivy infection and similar mis-
haps. No one is saying that Harry
would violate the Volstead Law by
conveying liquor from the safe to
his stomach. Harry is now a law
abiding citizen. But under doctors
orders and in the event of being bit
ten by cobra, surely the law may
be winked' at. In this case Harry's
long experience in society will stand
him in good stead.
You will recall that Harry was not
sent to the local workhouse by
means of the popular conveyance en-
ployed for other so-called law
breakers, namely, the patrol wagon.
They sent Harry an invitation which
he had some sixty days to answer
and when he chose to come, it was
by means of his own automobile. 1t
is true he is not allowed out at night
so far. But no one will regard
this as great hardship. He does
not need to wear a prison uniform.
The occasional pill rolling which he
does is hardly strenuous task. No
sweeping, no cleaning, no mental
tasks. Newspaper men may not visit
him except as he chooses and only
recently the bar was removed
against preventing them even into
the prison headquarters.
And this they call "the retribution
of society, visited equally on the rich
as well as on the poor" Some may
insist that Sinclair, nevertheless was
sent to Jail, is being punished, at
least in principle. What a farce!
Something had to be done to cover
up the scandalous shame of Lady
Justice else these who run and
read might have begun too widely
to question the virtue of the hussy.
If you have any doubt OF this, and
if perchance seeing that the gay life
of Sir Harry is considerably more
desirable as prison pharmacist
than your own, let us say, as an
unemployed oil worker, and if,
further you should venture to test
"even-handed justice" by helping
yourself to loaf of bread to revive
an empty stomach-Most surely you
will learn Who's Who in the Hoose-
goWl .lA.sxp,6xal lsssnsinfs briEASrz fI11li
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A Mist Over America

BY c. E.
The long low cry of children
Rises like mist over America
You can hear them from Happy Valley
Past the brick towers of the east
To the Golden Gate.
The low cry of children
Carries with it
The dry rat-tat-tat
Of machine guns.
See the great American words
Steel
Railways
Motors
Prosperity
Sky-high words
Crumble and cave in
When the low cry of children
Rises like mist over America.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
Marty Gallagher Plans
To KayO Weiner Monday

Marty Gallagher hopes to admins.
ter the kayo punch again to Her.
man Weiner in their 12-round box
ing collision Monday night at the
1O4th Medical Regiment Armory IN
Baltimore. The Washington boy
floored Weiner for the count in
their last meeting and is resolved
to repeat the performance.
However. he will meet a greatly
improved hoxman in Weiner, who
put away Battling Levinsky in the
first round OF a bout a few weeks
ago at HagerstoWn Gallagher Is
working out daily with Joe Proctor
In Goldie Ahearn's gym on Ninth
Street. Jimmy Lake has been en-.
gagged as the announcer.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
Lincoln Nine Faces
Stern Competition

With nearly so candidates round
ing into mid.season form, Coach
Burrs Howard University baseball
team will be in tiptop form when
the Bisons open their 1922 ,eason.
April -. against John c. Smith
University of Charlotte, N. c.
Beginning the first season AS a
member of the Colored lntercol.
legiate Association after an absence
of four years from the circuit. the
locals have a heavy schedule ar.
ranged. meeting Virginia State
College. Hampton, St. Paul. North
Carolina Aggies. Lincoln and Shsw.
The team this year will he led
by Capt. Henri Gasltins, Of Ma.
nassas. Va. Among the veterans
from last season out are tohn
Hun. Clifford Davis, Mercer Nance,
James Allen, Edward Johnson,
David Mack. Parlett Moore. Harry
Payne and Dennis Simpson.
With 80 candidates out. the track
team is getting into shape for the
annual Howard meet here on May
4. Howard will send teams to the
Penn Relay. the Hampton and Lin
coin University meets this year.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
VERMONT HERE
TOMORROW

Continued from First Sports Page
while Rock didn't show any too
much familiarity. handing himself
or the bah around first.
With a few more games these
fielding faults should be RENE
died and the boys also should
get their hitting eyes cleaned
ont when they look at more
pitching.
The Maryland track team leaves
for Lexington. Va, late today for
dual meets with '. NJ. |. tomorrow
afternoon and Washington and lie"
Monday afternoon. Coach Geary
EppleN is taking the following men
on the trip: Quinn, HaVell. Warfel.
sprinters: kinnamon, E,llitoor, hur-
dlers: LinZey, Ladd, 440: Rensban,
Savage. $50; Plumley, Zeigler, mile;
Myers, Bowman Wallet. two miles
Insley. Held. II. Mcdonald, Elliott.
high jump: White Waescho. Ladd,
Warfel. broad jump: j. Mcdonald.
II. Mcdonald, DyOtt. shot put;
Ellitoor. White. IIeintZ, II. McDor.
aid, javelin, and Aman. Suter and
II. Mcdonald, pole vault.
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Entries for Women Water
Meet Close on April "a

Entries for the women's swim
ming meet which tho Washington
Swimming Club will hold April q
at the Marjorie Webster School.
will close with Florence SHADING
on April "a. Entries should be for
warded to Miss SHADING at the
Marjorie Webster School sixteenth
and Kalmla Road n. w. Six events
are programmed for the mermaids.
The 200 yards breaststroke and
150-yard backstroke will he South
Atlantic championship events. The
open events listed are so yards free
style for juniors, IA years Of age
and under; 100 yards novice, free
style and 200 yards relay. The low
board fancy diving is open only to
residents OF the District.
Only registered women amateur
swimmers will be eligible to com.
pete.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
FIGHT


At Chicago-Tommy Loughran, Of
Philadelphia, worlds ight-heavy.
weight champion, defeated Mickey
Walker, of New Jersey. middleweight
champion % rounds). fluffy Grit.
fiths, Chicago ELECTROMAGNETIC. de-
feRted Leo Lonski, Aberdeen, Wash.
90 rounds). Jack Gross. Philadel-
phia heavyweight, defeated big
Boy" Peterson, New Orleans (six
rounds). Al Fay, New Jersey heavy
weight, won on a technical knockout
over Franks Cawley, Philadelphia
(ftur rounds) George Kerwin. Chi
cago lightweight. defeated Jackie
London. Chicago (six rOunds).
At White Plains, y. Y.-Battling
Clemens, Kansas City lightweight,
outpointed Buck Olivia, soldier boxer
40 rounds).
The Washington times., 1929-03-29

1t Is amazing to me that the
bobbed head Of Miss Hicks, whose
Irish eyes seem ever to be smiling
roguishly, has not been turned by
the wealth of publicity that has
been her need.
Helen Hicks. whom her intImates
call Billie because of her lively
spirits, lives at Hewlett Park, l.. l.,
a small development in one of the
recesses of Jamaica Bay. Helen
only recently was graduated from
Lawrence High School where she
played No. on the boys golf team!
She Ii now 18. OF medium
height. Helen is strong and
very athletic. Until last summer
when she defeated Marion HOI.
Inns in one Of the Long Island
district tournaments. Helen had
fretted good deal because she
was not able to make her nerves
behave as well as she was able
to exact obedience from her
woods and irons.
Having acquired fine style from
her association with golfers OF skill
Helen couldn't make progress In
tournament play. In practice rounds
she would play we'll enough to de
feat anybody she was likely to meet
among her women friends: but when
she got embrOiled in the heat ot
tournament play something invari
ably went wrong. a condition that
ia not unknown to any OF us who
have succeeded
Miss Hicks. like many another
Of the golfing family, was merely
troubled with anxiety. She went to
10 her best but the more she tried,
the less chance she had Of realizing
her aims.
After she had beaten Miss Hollins
however. Helen's entire mental at
titudp changed. Since then she has
aiken the measure Of Ada Mac
kenzie the skilled Canadian: Mau.
reen circuit. runner-up in the ma.
tional two years ago: Virginia Van
Vie, who afterward was to defeat
her twice: and Glenna Collett, the
national champion.
Miss Hicks is not the finest"
golfer among the women yet,
hut I think she will be in
year or two. Her game needs
polishing. but. so strong Ii It.
she In even now more than
match for IS per cent Of the
women golfers.
Off the tee she is longer than
either Virginia Van Vie or Glenna
COllett. both of whom are reputed
for the power of their wood shots
But through the fairway Miss Hicks
has not the confidence she displays
when driving. She appears to be
still a little uncertain OF her Rbility
The Washington times., 1929-03-29

morning. An exhibition four-ball
match is being proposed between
Diegel. Barnett. Sandy Armour. and
Freddie Mcleod. 1t may take place
tomorrow afternoon at Columbia
Country Club. -
Bill Wood. who handles many
Never Davis enterprises. will be
host to four District dignitaries Of
golfdom in an indoor putting match
tonight at the King Pin Country
Club. Fourteenth and Monroe Streets
Northwest
Bob Barnett, of Chevy Chase. and
The Washington times., 1929-03-29

to hit with spoon and long irons. l
noticed habit Of slicing that
seemed to be due to a desire to see
whether the shot just made had
come off right.
Miss Collett Is still the best
woman golfer-perhaps the finest,
day.in.and-day we have today,
although l do not think she Is going
to hold her supremacy long.
Copyright 1929. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
BOND BREAD DATING

The Bond Bread baseballers are
searching for games with unlimited
teams. especially Berwyn, Riverdale,
Mt. Rainier Herndon. Hyattsville
Stars and st. Marv's Celtics. Call
Business Manager Guhisch. Franklin
$3.50 during the day or Atlantic
APP after $50 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29

Arthur Thorn. of Town and Coun.
try will be paired against }.
Monro Hunter and George Diffen.
baugh, the Indian Spring duet.
Wood states that his indoor course
is receiving heavy patronage. as
1t provides the expert and novice
the chance to better his putting
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
BURDINE REPORTS

Sonny Burdine is due to report
today to the Evansville club of the
Three-Eye League at their training
base at GAINESVILLE, Tenn. Burdine.
who has wintered at Balboa. Canal
Zcne, visited his folks in Miami on
the voyage nOrthMard.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
McDlARMlD PLAYS

Hugh McDiarmid. former Western
High athlete, Is being counted
strongly by the Swarthmore Col.
lege tennis team. McDiarmid was
the captain and leading scorer II
the Swarthmore basketball five.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
NOT AN OLD SPORT

The first intercollegiate basketball
game dates back to 1897. when
teams representing Yale and the
University of Pennsylvania met. The
sport has been played by the Ellis
since 1896.
The Washington times., 1929-03-29
Helen Hicks to Top Women
Golfers Within 2 Years
BY Johnny Farrell
National Omen Champion

1t my pleasant privilege to wander about the country
club links St. Augustine recently and the styles Of
two of America finest golfers with that of Miss
Helen Hicks who has made herself famous faster than Horton
Smith SaraZen did