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Smyrna times., 1929-02-06
PENINSULA HOUSE, SALISBURY,
BURNS; GUESTS WERE RESCUED
LOSS ESTIMATED AT s15O,OOO;
OTHER BUILDINGS MENACED
Four Persons Slide Down Ropes when
They Are Trapped in Rooms by the
Flames, Who Made Home There

Fire which broke out at 10 o'clock
last Wednesday night in the basement
Of the Peninsula Hotel" Salisbury,
Md, completely gutted the four-story
brick structure and caused damage
roughly estimated at $150,O00. Four
persons, three men and woman,
trapped in a room on the third floor,
were rescued by f1remen, who furn-
ished them with rope rown which
they slid to safety. The three men
are John Wetter, Charles Dashiell and
e. E. Palmer, all of Salisbury. They
made their home at the hotel The
building is located on the corner of
Main and st. Peters street, and ex-
tends back to West Church street. A
large department store adjoining was
in constant peril of the flames until
the fire was gotten under control
shortly before l o'clock in the morn
ing. Both the hotel and the depart
ment store are owned by the. J. E.
Shockley and Company. A number
Of other Office buildings in the immed
late vicinity were in danger of flying
sparks that were carried to distant
points in the town by high wind.
The origin of the fire is believed to
have been in the furnace room. The
flames spread rapidly from floor to
floor, up through the center of the
building. All Of the guests except
those trapped on the third floor, east
" made their way to safety. Fire
companies responded to telephone ap-
peals for aid from Laurel, Delmar,
Hebron, Pocomoke, Fruitland, Cam
bridge and Princess Ann. J. LWood-
cock, guest at the hotel, was believ-
ed for more than two hours to be trap
ped in the flames. He was located in
another part of the town while fire
men We're striving to reach his ROOM
After it was discovered that the build
ing could not be saved, firemen con
centrated their efforts on saving ad-
joining buildings. Streams of water
were played on the roofs Of the office
and the department store.
While many sparks alighted on the
roofs Of buildings several blocks
away, they were quickly extinguished. |
Smyrna times., 1929-02-06
C. G. NAPLES DIES IN HOSPITAL
Hit by Automobile While Crossing
Street-Had Punctured Lung

Charles G. NAPLES, one of the veal
thiest men in Sussex county, died IN
the Beebe Hospital last Tuesday from
INJURIES received the week before
when he was struck by an automobile
while crossing the roadway in front of
his home on Federal street. He was
SO years old, and one of the best
known men in lower Delaware. Mr..
NAPLES had just left his house and
started across the street when he was
struck by an automobile driven by
Earl Tyndall, of near Milton. He re-
ceived fracture of several ribs, one
of which punctured his lung and he
also suffered severe injuries about the
head. He was hurried to the hospital
where all efforts to save his life prov
ed futile. Tyndall is being held to
await the action of. the coroner Mr..
NAPLES is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Margaret P. NAPLES and two sons and
a daughter. The sons are Weldin C.
NAPLES, past grand master of the A.
F. and A. NJ, of Delaware, and Will
liam P. NAPLES. His daughter is Mrs.
Nell NJ Campbell. Funeral services
for Mr.. NAPLES were conducted from
his late home on Friday afternoon at
o'clock, with the Rev. C. N. Jones,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Of
fieiating. Interment was made in the
Methodist cemetery Mr. NAPLES was
one of the largest property owners in
Sussex county. He owned a large
number of houses in Milton and also
a number of farms throughout the
county He was a stockholder in most
of the industrial enterprises in Milton
and was director Of the Kent Coun-
ty Mutual Insurance Company. He
was a director of the Sussex Trust
Company since 1924 and from the
same date was vice-president of the
Milton branch of the same company.
He was at one time member of the
town commission and also of the
school board. The deceased was q
member of the A. F. and A. NJ, and
the Tall Cedars of Lebanon and
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-06

the President. This paper is expect
ed to go to the President in February.
IE addition to imports from Italy, the
industry in this country is also facing
competition from Mexico, and it is
suggested that a duty be laid on i'm
ported fresh tomatoes, which is the
form in which Mexican imports cross
the border
Smyrna times., 1929-02-06

Snow Hill, Md, appeared before the
committee. Since 1922, competition
from Italy has increased to a point
where domestic production is asserted
to be heavily handicapped. Complaint
long ago was made to the Tariff Com
mission, which has concluded an inves-
tigation, but which has not reported
its findings and recommendation to
Smyrna times., 1929-02-06

There is no 9ruly anti
knock" motor fuel being
sold, except at a premium
price. The best known anti
knock" fuel is ESQ, the
Giant Power Fuel. It is ac-
knowledged by engineers to
bein a class by itself-a gem
uine "anti-knock" fuel, spe-
cially made for use in high
compression motors, and in
motors that are carbonized
from long usage.
ESQ costs more to make
and has to be sold at a small
premium over Standard
Gasoline, but ESQ gives an
extra engine performance
never before experienced.
On sale only at the Silver
ESQ Pumps with the
ESQ Globes.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-06
ASK TOMATO TARIFF INCREASE
DELI Mar-Va Gamers Before Congress
Say Competition CrippIes Industry

IFUVINI0IT =
More tariff protection on tomatoes,
canned or in paste form, is necessary
to enable domestic producers of to-
matoes to make profit, the House
Ways and Means Committee was told
last week by Representatives of the
tomato growing industry in Delaware
and Maryland W. A. Trought, of
Laurel, Del; L. i. Layton, of George
town, Del; Col. 7. NJ. Tilghman, of
Salisbury, Md, and w. D. Cordrey, of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Defeat Move to Extend
US. Deportation Laws

The House immigration Commit
tees proposed amendment to depor-
tation legislation was shorn of it's
worst features and the Senator
Blease provision for voluntary reg
istration of aliens was struck out
before the bills to which they were
attached reached President Coolidge.
The proposed amendment to the
deportation bill provided for extern
sion Of the grounds for deportation,
removal of time limits within which
aliens could be deported after entry
and more severe penalties for IL
legal entry. The deportation bill,
as signed by the president, makes
it a criminal offense to enter the
United States by wilful fraud or
misrepresentation, at a place not
designated by immigration officials,
or after deportation. A further pro-
vision requires aliens to serve out
prison sentences in full before they
NAV be deported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Okanogan Indians War
on the "POcket Veto"

WASHINGTON, March ia
constitutional question which has
been undecided for more than cen
tury was placed before the Supreme
Court today in arguments on the
validity of pocket vetoes, weapon
used by many presidents to kill
Legislation passed just before con-
gressional recesses.
William S. Lewis, representing
the Okanogan Indian tribe of Wash
ington, assisted by representative
OF the house judiciary committee, at
tackled use of the veto as unconsti-
tutional.
Lewis that when congress took an
adjournment other than its final ad-
journment, it's legislative business
went on. Therefore, he said, the
president must comply with the con-
stitution by sending a veto message
if he opposes legislation, allowing
congress an opportunity to pass on
his action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Soviet Academy of
Science Elects Three
Communist Members

LENINGRAD (By Mail). = AS
was reported some time ago the
academy of science of the U. S. S.
R. recently held elections of new
members in accordance with the re-
vised constitution of the academy
which provided for the doubling of
its membership (S2 instead of 41).
During the election three of the
candidates who had been preliminar-
lily elected in the various sections
of the academy almost unanimously,
did not secure the required majority
of two thirds of the votes cast at
the general meeting of the academy.
The situation thus created was re-
garded as abnormal and the presidi-
UNI of the academy found it neces-
sary to apply to the government for
permission to hold a further ballot
in respect of the three unsuccess-
full nominations. On February 10,
the academy held a general meet
ing in the presence of the recently
elected members where the Com
munist professors Deborin, Lukin
and Fritche, who had failed in the
last election, secured the requisite
number of votes and were elected
members of the academy, thus
bringing up its membership to the
full number.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
LAY OFF MANY
Girl GROCERY
CO. CASHIERS
Clerks Will Have to Do
Their Work
(Bn Worker Correspondentl

10y worker C0freSp0ndent)
PHILADELPHIA (By Mail) =
Hundreds of girl workers were laid
off by the American Stores Co., the
largest chain grocery in Pennsyl-
vania and nearby states. The Amer
lean Stores Co. is controlled by
Drexel & Co., bankers, a branch of
]. P. Morgan & Co.
Scores of girl cashiers have been
laid off, and those who are still en-
ployed have been informed that they
had better seek jobs elsewhere, as
the company intends to do away
with the girl cashiers in order to
cut down expenses. The already I'M
derpaid, overworked clerks will be
forced to do the work of the cash
iers.
This is another evidence of cap
italist prosperity" and will end
only when the workers kick the
bankers and capitalist owners on
what they sit on, and take control
of the mills, mines and natural re-
sources. Then will the workers own
their jobs. W. c. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
3 Stenographers of
Swift Co. Poisoned
in Firms Kitchen

CHICAGO, March ~ (UP).-
Blood tests reveal that the three
Swift & Co. stenographers whose
illness baffled physicians last month,
were the victims of methyl chloride
which had leaked into their food in
faulty electric refrigerator, DR..
w. D. McNally, a coroner's physi-
clan reported today. The girls have
recovered.
eve established first that there
had been a leak in the electric refri-
gerator in the girls apartment and
that they had tried to repair it the
night before they became ILL.," the
doctor said. "Then we made exhaus-
tive tests for methyl chloride in
their blood and we found what we
were looking for, there is no doubt
now about what caused their i'll.
ness"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13

posted its millions of deadly germs
through sputum and expectoration
all day. At II a. m. they get thirty
minutes in which to eat their lunch.
This is a luxurious event.
The fact that lunch consists of
dry cold Sandwiches, that surround
ing the dining" tables are mops,
pals, brooms, dust clothes, oils,
polishes, and last, but not least,
cockroaches, is of little consequence.
The thing that count is rest.
Little, if any, conversation is had
at these "feasts," each woman is en-
crossed in her own worries and re-
possibilities. Time up. They file
out again to resume their tasks till
five o'clock in the morning, at which
time each wends her way home.
tired, alone, weary, in billiards,
frosts, and storms. Stray cats and
dogs find shelter and protection,
somewhere, somehow, sometime, but
the scrub woman's plight is not so
fortunate, She may be out always.
Six o'clock in the morning brings her
home just in time to prepare break
fast for her husband, who must be
on the job at seven in the morning.
Having prepared and served her
husbands breakfast, she drops off to
bed to snatch a few hours sleep and
nluch-needed rest. The children pre-
pare and take their own breakfast,
the elder taking care of the younger.
They go to school improperly clothed
and improperly fed.
After five or six hours sleep she
forces herself out of bed, shops,
cooks supper for the family, and for
several boarders, cleans house, and
hurries back to repeat the same
grind for wage of $2.25 per night.
Organize the Scrub Women.
Can they be organized into work
ers' unions and be made class con-
scious? A defeatist would say,
mol" "They are too ignorant, too
crude and undeveloped, and work in
small groups" With this attitude,
which | fear many comrades take, l
certainly take issue, and / say that
any wide-awake conscientious organ
izer Ia woman preferably should
give this matter three months of un-
divided, constructive, tireless effort,
and the results will be no less, if not
more, successful than any organiza-
tional work in a new field.
ALICE SMITH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Indict Republican Boss
for Defrauding Women

Norman Anderson, a real estate
broker, former republican candidate
for assemblyman in the ninth dis
trict, Brooklyn, was held to the
grand jury yesterday without bail
ON two charges of grand larceny
preferred by women.
Mrs. Emily Christensen, 876 53d
street, Brooklyn, said she gave An
derson a check for S164.40 with
which to pay her taxes and Miss
Hannah Sederberg, 205 East 58th
street, Manhattan, said she gave
him $500 to apply on second mort
gage. Both charged he converted
the money to his own use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Scrub Women Slave While
World SLEEPS, Wages Miserable
BIZ a Woman WORKER Correspondent

By Woman Worker Correspondent
| CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Nall.
Little wonder that the scrub wo-
man is looked up as just short of
being an animal. Little wonder that
she must continue to scrub the mire
tracked in by needless professionals
in office buildings and clean Gus
pidors, carelessly used by the afore-
said individuals, only two hours be-
fore her baby takes its first breath
in this world of milk and honey.
Little wonder that the scrub woman
must live through hel's suffering
and agonies of labor-pains while she
! is being carted around in a police
patrol, in zero weather for two
hours, covered with thin blanket,
while police knock at hospital doors
Of Cleveland only to be informed
that the hospitals are full, and be-
sides they have no provisions for
such cases, meaning scrub woman
confinements.
All this in the great metropolis of
Cleveland where councilmen and city
clerks pocket $4,000 and $4,000
"rake-offs" on land deals, with the
OK of the city manager. l say, little
wonder that these conditions exist
when even the class-conscious work
ers give the scrub woman little or
no thought.
The Scrub Woman's Plight.
While the world is asleep, she is
awake; eight o'clock in the evening
when offices are closed, the ''better"
class having departed for the day, a
conspicuously contrasting clas S
makes its appearance; shabby wo
men, stout women, thin women,
young, middle-aged, and not infre-
quently old women, all bearing
marks and evidence of a hard and
bitter life. They carry their lunches,
mostly wrapt in newspaper, their
faces are grayish pale, their hands
a purplish-red with rough and
shrivelled skin.
The freight elevator (although the
passenger elevators are empty car
ries them up to the top floor, where
they change from "street clothes
into working clothes, and each sets
/ to work on the floor assigned. The
work consists of cleaning offices,
sweeping, hopping, busting, wash
ing marble walls, scrubbing floors,
and the most detestable and un-
healthful of all-cleaning cuspidoTs
in which the ''better class" has de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Three WORKERS
ELECTROCUTED
One Dies in Brave Try
to Save Other Two

by q Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (By Mair.-The
arm of a derrick came in contact
with a power line and sent a high
voltage electric current through two
workers who, standing on wet
ground, were holding the end of a
hosting cable. Fred Wright, cement
worker, gave his life in vain eff
fort to save the other two.
The powerful current that took
the three lives, held the two work
ers, Salvador Narrez, %, of 1915
W. 105th St., Watts, and Floyd
Smith, 90, lineman, 5191a South
western Ave-, Los Angeles, glued to
the hook at the end of the cable.
Despite the sparks flying in
every direction from the twisting
cable, Wright, who was working at
a cement mixer so feet away,
seized the two men in an effort to
drag them away. The force of the
deadly current then went through
his body, too.
The three workers were employed
by Oswald Bros, contractors, laying
concrete tile on Aerdrome Ave-, $50
feet west of La Cienga, where the
accident occurred on Feb. 10.
The killed being workers, neither
the power trust nor other scabby
employers need fear any real inves-
LEGATION of this affair by the cor
rupt officialdom of this city.
L. P. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
u. S. Indicts Rothstein
Aid in Opium Traffic

Sealed indictments against Sidney
Stajer for smuggling a truckload of
gum opium were handed down by
the federal grand jury yesterday and
served to revive interest in the Roth
stein case. Staier was a close asso-
ciate of Tom Walsh, Rothstein body
guard, shot in Miami a few days
ago. 1t has always been freely
charged that the Rothstein ring
operated under the protection of
New York police. No arrests have
been made by the police, except of
one man against whom there was
no evidence, and who insisted on
being arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Memory Gone by Shell
Shock; Now Bigamist

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.-March
12.-Nelson F. Gray of Akron, Ohio,
is being sued for divorce by his wife
here. Gray has another wife in
Akron, and child. He is a shell
shocked war veteran, and all parties
agree that he probably contracted
the two marriages innocently, while
suffering loss of memory from being
gassed in war to make the world
safe for civilization, or something
like that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
MRS. FISKE TO RETURN HERE
IN COMEDY.

Mrs. Fiske is planning to return
to Broadway early next month. She
will be seen in "Mrs. Bumpstead-
Leigh" Harry James Smiths COM
edy, which has not been acted since
Mrs. Fiske produced it originally
and scored hit in the title role.
In recent seasons Mrs. Fiske has
been seen only in classic comedies
and modern plays of serious charac-
ter, such as "The Rivals" "The
Merry Wives of Windsor" "Much
Ado About Nothing" and Ghosts"
The comedy will be housed at the
Klaw Theatre and will open on Mon
day, April 1. Sidney Toller will
play the leading male role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13

LONDON, England (By Mail).-
Local boards of guardians through
out England are reducing relief to
the families of the great unemployed
munger marchers, declares Jack V.
Leckie, secretary of the Miners Re-
lief Committee of the w. 1. R. Es-
pecially in the poorer London
boroughs, families of the marchers
are victimized.
The w. I. R. is helping to allevi-
tie the distress in many of the fami-
lies till the marchers return.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Chicago Mattresses Sae 70 Hour Week Union Officials Hnob with
Hilarious Comedy by Sholom
Aleichem, Yiddish Art Theatre

A jovial folk-comedy, lavishly
produced and hilariously, if at
times too raucously, played, is the
new offering of the Yiddish Art
Theatre. "Stempenyu" is the work
of the master humorist-one of the
titans of Yiddish -Sholom
Aleichem. 1t is dramatization of
an early novelette, by Sholom Alei-
chem, and Maurice Schwartz, direc-
tor and chef actor of the Yiddish
Art Theatre, is responsible for the
present stage version.
The plot of "Stempenyu" is as
simple and obvious as on old wives
tale. Stempenyu is a self-taught
village violinist, the leader of band
Of musicians who play at Jewish
weddings. He is young and hand
some, has a weakness for pretty
women and an aversion for his
shrewish wife. While playing at a
wedding he meets and falls III love
with Rochel, the beautiful and SEN
sitive wife of the inane, common
place, egotistical Moishe Mendel.
She becomes enamored of the young
musician, but struggles with her.
self, appalled, and frightened by her
''unholy" desire. She is on the point
of yielding and running off with
her romantic lover when the dead
hand of traditional Jewish morality
reaches out and draws her back
back to her inane, commonplace,
egotistical Moishe Mendel
A simple, not too ingenious, tale.
But out of this material Sholom
Aleichem has woven a rich fabric
of comedy, tragedy, irony and
pathos. 1t was Sholom Aleichem's
greatness as an artist that he was
always close to the life of the
masses, and his characters are full
of the salt of a life whose roots
struck deep. In "Stempenyu," as
in most of Sholom Aleichem's work,
the comic elements predominant, but
there energies as an organic part
Of the play the tragedy of woman
in the traditional Jewish life of the
10th century-the Jewish woman
piously bought and sold and emo
tionally starved for the rest Of her
life. This tragedy, with its comic
and ironic innuendos, is subtly de-
lineated by Celia Adler, who plays
the role of Rochel.
AS the silly, garrulous Moishe
Mendel, Maurice Schwartz gives one
Of the most brilliant performances
Of his career. His playing is real
triumph of the art of the comic ac-
tor, reaching its high point at the
end of the second act with his side
splitting imitation of Jewish can
tor.
"Stempenyu" is expansively-at
times too expansively-played by a
notable supporting cast. Special
honors should go to Bina Abramo-
witz, Ben Zvee Baratoff, Anna Tel
telbaum and Gershon Rubin. The
versatility of the Yiddish Art troupe
is attested by the fact that the pres
ent prodr- IN is quite as distin-
guished II way as that of Chek-
hov's 9Th cry Orchard" which
is almost ne opposite pole of
"Stempenyu" in style and content.
The settings by B. Aronson are
imaginative, though little too OBJ
trusive. A revolving stage (some-
thing of an innovation in the Yid-
dish Art Theatre, I believe) is used
and with great success. The music
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Cleveland Councilman
Convicted of Using His
Office for Land Graft

CLEVELAND, March II (UP).-
Liston G. Schooley, former city
councilman, today was sentenced to
five years in Ohio penitentiary on
his plea of guilty to using his cleo
tive office for personal profit on a
city land deal.
His son, Attorney L. G. Scheqley,
Jr., was sentenced to one year for
assisting in carrying out the deal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
Rich Corner Rice:
China Peasants Starve

CANTON, (By MaiD.-A serious
shortage of rice supplies is reported
in Wuchow, and in consequence the
prices have risen to such height
that workers and peasants can get
very little Of this staple food. Great
privation has resulted among the
poor.
The rise in price is said to be due
to corner in rice by wealthy mer.
chants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
LAY OFF WAR YETERA ANS

SYDNEY (By MaiD "A number
OF returned soldiers employed at the
general post office have been dis
missed by the Australian govern
ment. The men were mechanics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
FUMES ENDANGER WORKERS.

LONDON, (By MALL Ten men
working in q large steel tank at
West India dock were overcome by
coke fumes, and six of them have
been detained in Poplar Hospital for
treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13

by Joseph Achron is decidedly ar
resting. Though it sounds in places
suspiciously like jazz, it never loses
its essential folk quality. Alto
gether "Stempenyu" must take high
rank among Yiddish Art Theatre
productions.
A. B. MAGIL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13

No sooner In the exploitation Of
the laborer by the manufactures.
so far at an end. that ne receives
his wages in cash. then he r. set
upon by the other portions Of the
bourEeoisie, the landlord, the shop
keeper. the pawnbroker. etc.-Knrl
Marx (COnmunist Mnnifest0).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13

WORKER STARyES TO DEATH
PITTSBURGH (By MaiD John
Finely, a worker, starved to death
here.