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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
Young Defenders Have
Observation-Disclosures

The "Young Defenders" club has
arranged the following program for
tomorrow at its meeting place, 1400
Boston Road, the Bronx:
Esperanto class at p. M; an i'm
portant meeting to arrange for In
ternational Labor Defense work at
7 p. M, and a package party at 5
p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
10 YEARS AT HARD LABOR.

ST. GEORGE, S. l., Jan. 25 (UP).
Albert G. Oxley, who two weeks
ago pleaded guilty to second degree
forgery, was sentenced today to 10
years in prison at hard labor. Judge
Tiernan pronounced sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
Herbert Fam Speaks at
Observation-Disclosures

Herbert Fam, executive secretary
Of the Young Workers (Communist)
League Of America, will speak on
"Youth and Imperialist War" at the
Bronx Open Forum, 1880 Wilkins
Ave., tomorrow evening at o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
STUDENT NURSES STRIKE

CRESTON, Iowa (By MaiD.-
Fifteen student nurses of the
Greater Community Hospital of
Creston struck as the result of the
dismissal of a nurse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26

We have seen above that the first
step in the revolution by the work.
Ing class is to raise the proIetariat
to the position OF ruling class, to
win the battle of dcmocracy-kari
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
DEMAND BRITISH
FREE TOMBSTONE
Chicago Labor in Mass
Protest Meets

The workers of India are being
told that American workers are de-
manding Of their British oppressors
the release of Jack Johnstone, for
over twenty years active leader in
the American labor movement. who
was arrested at the recent conven-
tion of the All-lndia Trade Union
Congress and who has since not
been heard from. The following
joint cablegram was sent yesterday
to the All-India Trade Union Con-
gress at Bombay:
american workers, in mass meet
ings throughout the country. de-
nand the release of Jack tombstone,
arrested in Jharia, at your Ninth
Convention while representing the
International League Against I'M
perialism and for Colonial Inde-
pendence. We are protesting against
the terrorism and suppression of the
Indian masses by the British gov
ernment. Please inform us what
action you are taking to obtain
Johnstone's release. (Signed) U. S.
Section, Anti-Imperialist League;
the Trade Union Educational League
and the International Labor De-
fense."
Chicago Workers Picket British
Consulate.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25-The arrest of
Jack Johnstone in India by the Brit
ish police resulted in an immediate
protest demonstration in Chicago,
where for many years Johnstone had
been an active militant trade union
list and one of the most prominent
left wing figures in the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
Despite sub-zero weather, several
hundred workers responded to the
call of a group of organizations,
headed by the Chicago branch of
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
FALLS DEAD ON STREET.

DIR. James T. Mackey, principal of
the Henry Synder Junior High
School at Jersey City fell dead in a
Jersey City street yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
RAIN FAILS TO
REACH SOUTHERN
PART OF STATE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. U.H--
Southern California basked under a
brilliant sun today while residents
wondered what had become of rains
predicted last night and today as an
end to long drought.
Federal weather observers studied
the heavy showers which were gen
eral over northern California and
Washington and Oregon and the
word was given out that the rain
clouds were moving southwark.
Some of the clouds did arrive last
night but dispersed under the first
rays of the morning sun as ranchers,
irrigation men and power officials
joined in lamentation.
Colonel II. B. Hersey, chief of the
local weather bureau, has not given
up completely as yet but said today
that the rains probably will not fall
over Southern California for several
days.
A trace Of rain sprinkled Bakers
field and surrounding vicinity last
night, according to reports. Mild
falls also were registered at Big
Creek, Shaver Lake and parts of
Tulare county, but no moisture was
reported from points further south.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Japan Delegation
Reaches Canada

VICTORIA, B. c., Dec. II. tU.P)
Headed by Reijiro Wakatsuki ana
Admiral Count 7. Takarabe, Japan's
delegation to the January Londol.
five power disarmament conference,
which arrived here last night
aboard the Siberia Maru, will sail
today for Seattle. From Seattle
the delegation will entrain for
Washington to visit President Hoo
yer.
Japan's demands for ratio of
seven to 10 for glo-American
parity on auxiliary vessels, espe-
cially regarding the eight inch 10,-
coo ton class, represents the mini
mum defense requirements, Admiral
Takarabe said.
He added that the japanese gov.
ornment is anxious to conclude an
agreement at the London confer
cnce regarding reduction of strength
of new capital ships to replace those
which will be obsolete in the near
future.
The real work of the conference,
Admiral Takarabe declared, is posi-
tive reduction of armaments and
the feeling of general security.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
LONG BEACH IS
GIVEN WARNING
BY BUR0N Fits

LOS ANGELES, Dec. II. U.p)-
After several weeks of investigation,
the county grand jury let it be
known today that no action will be
taken against officials of Long
Beach.
The beach city executives were
warned by District Attorney Buron
Fits, however, that they must REM
edy conditions now existing there.
Fits said that although there was
not sufficient direct evidence un-
earthed to warrant prosecutions at
this time that there were ample in.
dications Of undesirable conditions in
municipal affairs in Long Beach.
Bootlegging, reduction Of law in
fraction charges and violations by
persons prominent in Long Beach
were noted, Fits said.
The mayor, chief of police, city
manager and members of city coun.
ell of Long Beach were present
when Fits told them of the grand
jury's decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
SPARK BLAMED
FOR new YORK
STUDIO BLAZE

NEW YORK, Dec. II. W.I-A
tragic combination Of circum
stances, seemingly trivial when sep
arated but fraught with horror III
their entirety, emerged today as the
background Of the Pathe movie
studio fire.
Four of the 10 who were crushed
and burned to death in a wild
scramble toward the exits were
chorus girls-young dancers from
Broadway musical shows who were
seeking extra Christmas money by
pirouctting in q gay sound picture
of night club life.
In this setting of youth and aban-
don and tinsel, tiny mishap-,
probably the splitting out.by an are
light of n chip of incandescent ear
bon-proved the difference between
life and death, between q days
work at the studio and New York's
worst fire disaster of recent years.
Whether the arc light was actual
" the cause of the fire may never
be known definitely, for the elec-
trician who had charge Of it lost
his life. 1t was certain, however.
that n bit of glowing carbon did
fall from the lamp-and minute
later 4 great velvet drape at the
rear of the stage was ablaze.
Fire officials were convinced
many lives might have been saved
if automatic sprinkler equipment
had been installed in the old studio
which dated back to the days when
Pearl White made her thrillers.
An order for installation CT
sprinklers was issued by the fire
department last spring, but there
is no law to enforce such orders, 50
it amounted to little more than a
suggestion.
Richard Stradling, electrician, in
hospital with severe burns, told
of seeing the glowing bit of carbon
drop from the lamp. He was stand
ing on the balcony on which the
dressing rooms and studio offices
were situated.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
CH|AN(;'S s
POSITION
ASSURED
National Government Is
Confident Despite Re-
bel Attacks.
FOUR WAY DRIVE
Fierce Battling Reported
On Several Fronts In
Chinese Revolt.

SHANGHAI, Dec. IL. W.H-Cqfi-
nese revolutionists pressed fierce
offensives in four sectors of China
today, threatening the capital Of the
nationalist government at Marking
with drives to the north and south
east.
With General Chang Kai-Shek
concentrating thousands Of his
troops for a determined defense Of
Marking, rebels were reported to
have launched ofensives at Chu-
chow, important rail point 40 miles
north of the capital. Wounded az
ready were arriving in Nanking al
was unknown.
Reinforcements were' being rushed
by the nationalists to the scene of
the offensive begun by the Anwhei
rebels. Chuchow is slightly north
Of Pukow where the serious mutiny
in the nationalist ranks occurred
last week.
With American, British and Jap
anese warships converging here and
preparations being made for evacu-
alton of foreign residents from the
capital, there still remained no
other word from Nanking regarding
foreigners except the declarations Of
the government that all would be
protected and that the rule of
Chang Kai-Shek was not seriously
threatened.
The second rebel drive near
Marking was to the southeast, in
the region north Of Lake Tai-Hu,
midway between Marking and
Shankhai, while the third rebel
drive was reported from Hankow,
where the rebel general, Tang Seng-
Chi, whose arrest was ordered yes
terday by Chang Kai-Shek, clashed
with government troops in the vi
cinity Of Wusingkuan Pass on the
Peiping Hankow railway.
LONDON, Dec. IL. WH-A fierce
battle was being waged between
Cantonese government troops and
revolutionary Kwangsites today
short distance from Canton, an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from
Hongkong said.
The scene of the fighting was APP
proximately 20 to % miles north.
east of Canton, where the army Of
General Chang Fa-Kwei and his
revolutionary "Ironsides" have head
ed the drive on the city.
Preliminary results of the battle
indicated slight gains for the gov.
ernment troops, dispatches said, al
though the main body of the "Iron-
sides" division had not yet arrived
on the scene.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
PEACE REICNS
IN HAITI WHEN
LEADERS FREED
Last Weeks Flare-Up
Practically Ended As
Serious Threat.
BY SAM LOVE
United Press Staff Correspondent

OulICu ACoo otdAA WI
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec.
II. U.P)-Release of SO political pris-
oners, including 26 arrested as in
stigators of the street riots last
week, coupled with word that ma
rine reinforcements enroute here
had been diverted to Guantanamo
bay, caused great rejoicing through.
out Haiti today and served to dispel
considerable fear of further blood
shed in political revolt.
With only q few prisoners re-
manning in confinement and with in
fluential business leaders insisting
that the disorders were ended, the
prospect of lifting of martial law
which was declared last Wednesday
was widely urged by native leaders.
Even the opponents Of the admin
istration of President Louis Borno,
against whom last weeks revolt was
directed, showed willingness to
accept peace, assuring the United
Press correspondent that they would
welcome a marine supervised cleo
tion such as was held in Nicaragua
and Santa Domingo.
Despite the fact that news Of the
clash at Aux Cages in which from
five to IL natives were killed, had
penetrated throughout the Island,
Haitian, Garde officials reported
there had been no hostile reaction
and that all indications pointed to
speedy return to normal peaceful
conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
DEBATE ON WAR
BUDGET AR0USES
FRENCH CHAMBER

PARIS, Dec. II. W.P)-France's
fear that Germany secretly is pre-
pairing for another war was revealed
clearly today in the prolonged and
at times disorderly debate on the
1890 war budget in the chamber of
deputies.
Suspensions of the chamber was
necessary on several occasions when
the debate led to disorderly scenes
between the right and communist
benches.
To the statement of Bouilloux La.
Cont, budget reporter, that the 1880
program represented 10 per cent
reduction and great sacrifice to
pacifism, nationalist deputies retort-
ed that Germany now is preparing
chemicals and secret Notifications
which necessitate larger expenses on
the part Of France.
The extreme left led by Edouard
Daladier contrarily declared that
the present budget was too large and
asked what Germany could do with
1000 officers and $4,000 soldiers
against Frances $4,000 officers and
2S2, 900 men. Daladier said France
possessed the worlds largest army
and should reduce its total number
of divisions from Is to le.
Other deputies complained of
military bureaucracy"
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
STRIKERS TAUNT
CUARDSMEN WITH
DARES TO SHOOT

TAYLORVILLE, ILL.,, Dec. II. W.n)
The din of revolt roared across
the Central Illinois coal fields to-
day.
With bayonets fixed, national
guardsmen patrolled mining COM
munities and properties near here
today, amid the taunts and dares
"to shoot" Of pickets.
Groups Of strikers, members of
the recently formed National Min
ers union, gathered at mines near
Springfield, in Sangamon county,
and at many places in Montgomery
county, determined to carry the
strike onward and tie up mines
throughout the state.
Almost 1000 miners in the Tay-
lorville district had gone over to
the strike today and none of the
four mines of the Peabody Coal
company was working.
Four strike leaders were under ar
rest today in various parts of the
central Illinois coal area and other
arrests were expected to result from
demonstrations planned for today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Fox Stock To
Be Protected

NEW YORK, Dec. IL. U.P-Class
A stockholders of the Fox Film cor
poration have formed committee
to cooperate constructively with the
board of trustees in the reorganiza-
tion of the Fox Film interests, Far
rar Lazarus, chairman of a stock
holders committee, announced today.
The committee will protect the
interest of the Glass A or non.vot-
ing stockholders who elect five of
the IL members of the board of di-
rectors. They will make certain, he
indicated. no action is taken that
would subordinate the interests Of
stoekholder or increase the out
standing 100000 shares of A stock.
The Fox interest were placed under
a board of control consisting of
William Fox, Harry Stuart of Hal
sey, Stuart and John Atterson, pres
ident of the Electrician Research
Products Inc, last Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
MUSCLE SHOALS
RESOLUTION TO
GET ATTENTION
Senate Leaders Agree To
Take Action Upon Norris
Plan.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dee. II. W.H-'
Off-stage arrangements have been
quietly completed to put the Norris
optional government ownership res
olution through congress as soon as
important matters pending are out
of the way.
The plan for developing Muscle
Shoals, the nations greatest power
mills, on. the Tennessee river, has
been kicked about in Washington
for 10 years. The same Norris res
olution was passed by both houses
of congress two years ago, but for
mer President Coolidge spiked it by
refusing his signature, multiplying
action which was upheld by the su-
preme court.
President Hoover is more kindly
disposed toward the resolution ac-
cording to information which has
been passed along to the senate and
house leaders by Mr.. Hoover's
friends, particularly Claudius Hus-
ton, chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee.
In his message on the state of
the union at the opening of the
congressional session Mr.. Hoover
urged early action. He said he was
opposed to government operation Eek
cept as an unavoidable by-product
of some other major public pur-
pose" He urged appointment of a
commission to negotiate lease.
The Norris resolution does not
quite follow this recommendation
but under the arrangement negoti-
ated among the leaders, amendments
may be adopted which will make it
more pleasing to him. A third dam
will be completed to aid power de-
velopment and the government
would experiment with the manu-
facturc of fertilizer under direction
of n Muscle Shoals board. Power
to lease surplus electric energy is
given the board.
Government operation would fol-
low only if leases fail, but the whole
project would continue under strict
government supervision even in case
Of lease.
The resolution will be brought up
in the senate as soon as the tariff
bill is out of the way, probably late
in January.
Meanwhile debate continues ON
the tariff, the senate working seven
hours each day, hoping to complete
the measure as soon as possible.
The house still is enrapt with the
first appropriation bill making funds
available for the interior depart.
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
WITNESS SAYS
PAN AMERICAN
AIDED COUNTRY

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. WP)-
The Pan-American Petroleum was
described as savior of the nations
oil and gas stored in the Kern
county naval oil reserve when j. G..
Anderson, former vice president
and general manager of the com
pany, testified today at the hearing
where the government is seeking to
cancel certain leases.
At the time the leases were grant
cd by former Secretary of the In
terror Albert Fall, other companies
were engaged in big-scale drilling
operations in neighboring tracts, ac-
cording to Anderson.
This drilling, the witness said, not
only threatened to drain oil from
the reserve but was a menace to the
gas pressure in the naval reserve.
1t would have been possible, ac-
cording to Anderson, for the drill
ing to affect the pressure to such
an extent that flow of oil would
lave been impossible even if pump
ing was employed.
Anderson supported the conten-
tion of the company that the leases
were granted without fraud and
conspiracy on the part of Fall and
L. l.. Doheny, oil magnate, by say
ing the government constantly was
losing money because of the idle
ell fields and development on the
part of other companies in nearby
fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
ARIZONA WILL
BE REPRESENTED
AT RIVER MEET

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dee. IL. WH-
The Colorado river commission is
considering advisability of sending
an Arizona representative to the
meeting of the upper basin states
conference OH water rights in Janu-
ary.
Governor Phillips received a for
NAL invitation to attend the meet
ing, but said he preferred to have
the commission decide whether to ac-
cept, and, if they do, to appoint a
representative.
The upper basin states formerly
included Utah, Wyoming, Colorado
and New Mexico. At a recent meet
ing in Denver of representatives of
these states, it was decided to in
clude Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Hero OF Wreck
Like His Father

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Dec. H..
U.R-One of the three trainmen
who lost their lives last Monday
in flames caused when a Southern
Pacific passenger train struck a gas
oline truck, was to have been mar
ricd New Years day, it was said
here today.
Little was known here regarding
j. III. Christensen, 25 year old bag
gage clerk, whose body was found in
the burned baggage car, but railroad
friends said he intended to wed q
Los Angeles girl. His father, the
friends said, lived in Gibson City,
Ill.
Engineer r. Toland, regarded as
the hero of the wreck, stopped the
train and saved 100 passengers al
though he and his firemen We're fat
ally burned by the spraying gasoline.
Toland followed in the footsteps
of his father who was killed at the
throttle of his engine many years
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Floods Threaten
Great Britain

LONDON, Dec. IL. W.H-Rising
flood waters, following in the wake
of week of devastating storms,
which claimed 166 lives at sea and
on land throughout the British Isles
and western Europe, threatened ad-
ditional damage to Great Britain to-
day.
The storms, which ragged for a
week with destructiveness unparal.
leled in century, had abated con-
siderably today although isolated
distress calls continued to trickle in
from the sea. Preparations were
made to search by airplane for un-
reported fishing boats and trawlers
which might have survived the bat
tering of the waves.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Lyman King To
Succeed Heron

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. IL.
U.H-The resignation of A. r.
Heron as director of finance, and
appointment of Lyman NJ. King of
Rcdlands as his successor, was an
nounced today by Governor c. C.
Young.
Heron, one of the youngest men,
bers of the governors cabinet and
holder of one of the two $4,000 a
year dictatorship, is leaving the
state service to accept an executive
position with the Crown Zellerbach
Company of San Francisco.
AS chief of the state division of
service and supply, King has been
preparing for the finance post for
more than year, the governor dis
closed in his announcements.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Prompt Trial
For Wrecker

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. W.H-
Immediate trial will be asked for
Tom Vernon, former cowboy and
ex-convict, charged with wrecking
a Southern Pacific train near Sau-
gus, Calf, and robbing passengers.
District Attorney Buron Fits said
today his office will ask the death
penalty.
Vernon, who was arrested in Ok
lahoma, confessed to the California
wreck and robbery but denied he
committed a similar crime near
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
PATIENTS
AS NIGHT BLAZE
BURNS HOSPITAL

Hill LLSBORO, Ore, Dec. II. U.nf
Twenty-Five patients removed
from the Washington county hos
pital near here when the structure
was destroyed by fire last night,
were today being given temporary
shelter in private homes.
Only clear headedness on the part
Of seven nurses on duty prevented
a panic among the patients.
The fire originated in the base
ment, where janitors had been work
ing. Dense clouds of smoke imme-
diately poured through the hospital.
The nurses on duty Immediately
rushed to the wards on the second
floor, wrapped the frightened
patients in blankets, and guided
them through the acrid smoke to the
doorways. Many of the invalids
were young children and women.
Meanwhile, motorists passing on
the highway, saw the flames and
aided in the rescue work, pending
arrival of the Hillsboro fire depart
nent apparatus from the town som Q
three miles away.
By the time fiermen arrived, the
building was a mass of flames, and
many patients were still trapped in
the upper wards, their escape cut
eff by the rapid march Of the
flames.
Ladders were quickly raised to
the windows, and firemen in smoke
helmets ran through the wards, res
cuing several patients, including one
blind man who had groped his way
to balcony and narrowly escaped
being overlooked.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Let Contract For
Valley Pavement

SACRAMENTO, Dee. II. W,D--
Among three Southern California
highway contracts totaling ap
rroximately $355,000 which wera
awarded today by the state depart
ment of public works was:
Imperial county grading and
paving with Portland cement con
crete l0.4 miles between Brawley
and four miles west of Westmoc'a
on the San Bernardino- Centre
road; A. NJ. Teck company Of Los
Angeles; contract price $312,-
057.05.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-11
Sniff The Good
Old Ozone Boys

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. W.H
Three reporters who preferred
Jail to naming the source Of con-
fidential information contained
in certain news stories they
wrote, were at liberty here today
after serving 40 days Of a As day
sentence for contempt Of court.
The three, Linton Burkett, Cor
man M. Hendricks and Jack
Nevin Jr., Of the Washington
Times, were released shortly af-
ter midnight last night. They
had had five days clipped from
their sentence for good behavior,
on recommendation Of Lieutenant
Colonel William Peak, superin-
tendent Of the District of Colum-
bia jail.