davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
QUIZ To Be ONLY.
ONCHARGE Of
.EXTORT|ON
(cOntinusd From Page y

Continued From Page -
q policeman and recognized De.
tectiVe w, F. Burke, also Of the
Third precict, who with Gravely,
was planted" on her house in
an Investigation Of o recent
robbery.
Other Witnesses e
Frances OBrien, another occu.
pant Of the First Street house,
also was prepared to take the
stand after several police officials
were to testify. It is understood
that her testimony will be in sup
port of that of Miss Foster.
Major Henry G. Pratt, Superin.
tendent of Police, declared today
that he will not seek any informa-
tion from Assistant United States
Attorney Charles @. Murray re-
garding an incident in which De.
tective Burke is alleged to have
sought q nolle PROSE- in the. case
against Miss Foster last Novem'
ber.
In aHlpILlCdLlOu Oh GIle SGdCS-
ment, Major Pratt said:
Il have had nothing official
from Mr.. Murray and do not
intend to call upon him for any
written statement or report
against Burke or anyone else but
will have him subpenaed before
the Police Trial Board when
Burke's case Is called"
e Burke Trial Not Set
:. Pratt then stated that he had
no idea when Burke will be tried.
Meanwhile Detective Burke re-
iterated that he has done nothing
of which ito be ashamed" and
that both he and Gravely will be
completely eXonerated.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

ALL Times staff Photos
REX is THANKFUL
PLUNGING into a blaz-
ing wOOdshed at COZ Forty
ninth St. N. E., yesterday
afternoon, Fireman G. w.
Dove, of 1922. A st. N. E.,
connected with No. u
Engine Company, rescued
Rex, a pet dog, after Ed
ward Hackett and Ruth
Mccullough, both cOlOred,
had failed in an attempt
and were slightly burned.
Dove was slightly singed.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

con t a i n ed
within Paris
and that he
is getting use
full informa-
ton regard
ing the rest
Of the coun-
try, former
Premier Her
riot yesterday
greeted tn e
A m eric a n
diplomat at
an informal
! u n C h e o n
here.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

AMDWs8auOF LuB0 11IG IUIWICI
premier stated that the atti
tude taken by Ambassador
Edge is one which will promote
better relations between France
and the United States.
In reply, Edge thanked Her
riot, who has been mayor OF
Lyons for 20 years, stating that
his mission in visiting French
industrial areas is to secure
data.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
RKES ALLEGED TRICKERY NOT OFFICIALLY BEFORE PRATT
Of YEAR
IS SEEN LIKELY
FOR PARLEY

CONTINUED From Page -
create theoretical equalities which
In reality will prove dangerous
inequalities.
I'VE have not yet obtained
what we want for France, but
open conversations have not yet
ceased. We still hope for a salts
factory solution for all concerned"
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

today as the
result Of an
a irp ] a n e
crash n e a r
A In a mbra,
Calf.
Those who
fell to their
death in the
plane owned
by w al lace
Beery, film
actor, W er e
G e o r & e
M q v e s, %,
Beery'S pilot;
C y n t h / a
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

the supreme
Court h er e
yesterday for
alleged breach
Of contract.
M isS Brice
asks $155.000
d a m a g e S
from the Art
Cinema Cor
poration.
In her suit
the star de-
clareS tn a t
the Art Gin
ema Corpora
tion failed to
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

DOUGHERTY OPERATES MACHINE
installed Metropolitan
precincts and the hbr police detective bureau woans bureau and %
Shelby Police Chief Inspector William H. Harrison lin
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
Senator Edge Visits
Ex-Prenier Herriot

LYONS, France, March 25.-
Declaring that Ambassador
Walter E. Edge has taken the
view that all of France is not
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
Percy H. Skinner to Talk
Before Secular League

A talk on the Decay Of Parlia-
mentary Government will be
given by Percy H. Skinner at a
meeting Of the Secular League
Sunday afternoon, In MusiciSns'
Hal 4Q0e bloCk Z et n, n.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
FANNIE BRICE

FANNIE BhICE SCar ner In q
talking picture for which she
was to receive $4,000 and
$4,000 a week if any picture
in which she appeared ran for
more than ID weeks on Broad
way.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
CANS WILL SPEAK

Isaac Cans will speak on "BuSi-
ness Ethics" at luncheon meet
ing Of the ProbuS Club to be held
tomorrow at the Ambassador
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

ture was moved from her
apartment in West Seventy
third Street yesterday and
taken to auction rooms to be
disposed Of.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
Fannie Brice Files Suit
For $155,OOO Damages

NEW YORK, March 25.-
Fannie Brice and her husband,
Billy Rose, today filed suits in
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
Three Killed as Beery
Plane Is Wrecked

LOS ANGELES, Calf, March
IS Q.N.S0.-Two pilots and the
wife of one were dead here
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

storm when
she appeared
out of a town
in the Mid
die West, an
nounced to-
day that she
in t e n dS to
forsake tn e
com plicated
life Of the
city and re-
turn to the
i'm pie at
moSphere of
a w e S t ern
farm.
AI1 PH1~VAi
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
MEET IN LIBRARY

The Southeast Washington Citi-
zens Association will meet tonight
in the Southeast branch public
EhraYZ, Seventh and p StS. s. z.
The Washington times., 1930-03-25
PEOPLE
Who. Interest You and the
Things They Do

Marion Tally Prepared
To Quit N. Y. for Farm
NEW YORK, March 25.-
Marion Tally, grand opera
singer who took the nation by
The Washington times., 1930-03-25

Photo by International
GEN. CHARLES p. SUNIMERALL
HAS NOTHING TO SAY"
Of the incidents that marred his
informal visit to the Aberdeen,
Md, Proving Grounds to witness
gun tests last Friday. Sum-
neral left in disgust but only
rumOr hints at what occurred.
Mock Salutes are bruited and an
over ambitious officer explain
ing the gun tests in detail to
the General who is an ordinance
expert are highlightS Of Still
another story. Meanwhile, Sum.
neral r. silent.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
To the Rebel Guard:

To the Rebel Guard:
On leaving the armory a few Of
my friends and myself, who are
members of the 244th Coast Artil-
lery, received copy of the Rebel
Guard. On our way home we read
and discussed the contents and
found it very interesting.
After reading yo;::r Rebel Guard
| am beginning to realize what the
National Guard is. Now | see that
we are being trained to fight for the
bosses against. the workers on strike
or else against workers in other
countries whose bosses have inter-
fered with the markets of our
bosses.
l think our duty as workers is to
unite against all bosses.
Like all the rest of the young
workers in the 244th Coast Artil-
lery, I am anxiously awaiting the
next issoe Of the Rebel Guard.
Yours truly,
A National Guardsman.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12

My step-father never did fully re-
cover.
We Go to Gastonia.
At the age of 13 there came news
from Gastonia that money grew on
| trees. We sold out our furniture,
our hogs and cows and everything
we had. Me and my brother left
for Gastonia. We sent for my
mother and step-father and sisters.
Me and my brother went on about
two weeks ahead, not having
enough money for all to go by train.
We left the rest of the family in
a little town called Murphy, N. C.
We caught freight train to Gas
tonia.
After we all got to Gastonia my
step-father got worse and worse.
Then he lost his mind from the
wounds he received. Then the poor
fellow died. We had to work 10
and II hours per day or night. We
could make $15 to $50 per week for
fifty-five hours work.
l was running a drawing frame,
making $22 per week regular then,
and in 1925 the speed-up hit the
Loray mill where l was working.
The N. r. w. U.
1t began in a small way, but
gradually grew worse. In 1927
workers were having to run to keep
their jobs up. During that time
my lungs were in a very bad shape.
The doctor told me if l didn't quit
the mill | would have tuberculosis.
The stretch-out grew worse and
wages lower. In March, 1929, |
was running ten drawing frames
and working II to 13 hours per
day-making SO per week.
Then Fred Beal came to Gastonia
as leader of the National Textile
Workers Union. l joined the union
and have been active in the class
war ever since. And now | am act
ing district organizer of the Young
Communist League.
Dear workers. Awaken and or
ganize and fight for your emanci-
patton like our fellow workers in
the Soviet Union. Karl Marx said:
Workers of the world unite! You
have nothing to lose but your
chains. You have a world to gain"
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
BOOKS
Reviews and Notes of
Interest
("The Soviet War on RcligiOn"") }
By V. w. p.

C"The Soviet War on RcligiOn"")
By V. w. p.
Here is a pamphlet of fifty pages,
we'll printed, on good paper, with IL
lustrations, at the ridiculously small
price of ten cents. In plain, worka-
day language, it gives the real facts
about religion and the State in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
and exposes the real nature of the
anti Soviet campaign being waged
beneath the cloak Of religious per-
secution."
All the noxious lies disseminated
against the U. S. S. R. are taken,
examined in the cold light Of facts
and blown sky-high. Particularly
effective is the exposure of the I'm
yaslavitsi,' the "Feodorvski" and Of
other so-called religious bodies which
carried on counter-revolutionary ac-
tivities in the U. S. S. r. until they
were put down by the Government.
It deals with the oft-repeated
question:-If religion is free in the
Soviet Union why do the priests
want to go back to the old regime?
and shows that they sigh for a
return to tsarist rule because in the
good old days" they were free to
exploit the workers and peasants to
their hearts desire, that capitalists
and priests were fellow robbers in
arms, but that now, in face Of the
growing literacy Of the people, their
power is waning, and they foresee
extinction facing all forms of stu
pidity and superstition.
Finally, the pamphlet drives home
the point that religion is dope to
keep the workers in subjection, and
shows that it is being used now in
an attempt to stir up the necessary
war psychology against the Soviet
Union, and appeals to the workers
to break down the barrage Of lies
and to line up in defense of their
real Fatherland-Soviet Russia.
The value of the pamphlet is en-
HANGED by an appendix containing
the Soviet decree re Church and
State, published in 1918 and, all in
all, should be bought and read by
everyone desirous Of acquainting
himself with the plain facts of the
situation.
*"The Soviet War on Religion
published by Workers Library Pub
fishers, New York.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
AmboyW WorkerAthletes
Prepare Bigger Year

PERTH AMBOY, N. 1.-THE
Workers Athletic Club here having
completed another year of sports,
will look ahead this year with a
much bigger goal to reach.
During the year which has just
closed, the Workers A. c. soccer
team compiled a good workers rec
ord by playing at various labor af-
fairs. Our team also finished in
second place in the New Jersey
Workers Soccer League. We also
participated in the L.S.U. Metro
politan Workers Soccer League Cup
Competition. The second taam of
the Workers A. C. was formed about
the middle Of August and are now
compiling a great record considering
the short time they have been play
ing soccer.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
Weekly sYoungW Worker
Starts on May First

The young Worker" organ of
the Young Communist League of
U. s.. A., will begin to appear week.
ly from May 1. The May First issue
viii be an enlarged 16-page one with
special features and articles on all
sides Of the life Of the young work
ers, including letters of young work.
ers directly from the shops, sports
and q short story. These special
features will be kept up in all the
following issues of the weekly.
Subscribe now and get the weekly
"Young Worker" from the begin
ming. Subscription is $1.50 for a
year and Is cents for half year.
Send your sub to the "Young Work.
err" 43 East 125th Street. New York
CITY
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
Bosses Try to Distract the
I0bless by Their Fake
Athletic Meets
Labor Sports Union Calls for Struggle for
"WOrk or Wages"

Sports is one of the means that
the bosses are using now to fool
the unemployed workers with. Spe-
cial departments are being set up
by the various cities for increasing
sports activities on the athletic
fields during the day so as to at
tract the unemployed workers into
participation and get them to for
get their misery. ..
But the workers are refusing to
fall for that bunk, as can be
proven by many of the unem-
ployed workers joining the Labor
Sports Union and the Councils of
Unemployed for struggle
against bosses sports and for
Work or Wages. All unemployed
worker sportsmen should join the
Labor Sports Union in a strug-
gle against capitalist sports.
Baseball.
The baseball season is due to
open in a few days and we can rest
assured that this year the worker
sportsmen will be out on the fields
from the factories and trade unions
playing baseball under the banner
Of the L. S. U. All organized work
ers' baseball teams should immedi-
ately get in touch with the L. S. U.
for the formation Of workers base
ball leagues. In the very near fu-
ture we shall announce through this
column scheduled baseball games of
the workers.
The Boxing Racket.
Mike McTigue, the eX-champion
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
INTERVIEWS
With a Communard and an
Jraq Rebel

Gustav Inar, one of the veterans
Of the Paris Commune, who is living
in Moscow at the present time, gave
the following interview to press
correspondents:
II have been living in the U.S.S.
+. since 1925. 1t was with feelings
Of the greatest sympathy that / and
my. comrades came to this country,
our second fatherland. Reality has
surpassed all our expectations. Even
the widest dreams of the Commu-
nards Of Paris did not come up to
that which has been achieved and
is still being achieved in the Soviet
Union.
'f"The fortress of the old life and
the old social relations is being re-
lsntlessly undermined by the col
lective forces Of millions. There is
going on the construction of new
socialist life, a socialist society,".
= ~ rejoice that l have lived to see
these happy days, and have seen
the dawn together with the revolu-
tionary peoples of the U.S.S.R.
am living through the morning of
that bright sunny day which will
bring so much, not only for the
people of the U.S.S.R., but for all
the world"
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
National GMaydsmeu,S Letters

The Rebel Guard" is a paper
published by the Young Com
munist League of the New York
District for the workers in the
National Guard. The following
letters received by the Rebel
Guard indicate that more and
more worker servicemen are lining
up with their class brothers for a
mighty demonstration on the
workers International Day of
struggle-May Day.
To the Rebel Guard:
In the last issue of the Rebel
Guard you asked all National
Guardsmen to write about their ex.
periences. want to tell you about
the 212th C. A. A. We drill or
the anti-aircraft guns. Each one OF
US is taught to be like a cog in a
machine. We're supposed to learr
our own detailed operation and moi
to worry about what the other fe!.
low is doing.
When we go to camp the pieces
used for practice are so old that
they may burst open at any time
More than half Of them have fireo
far more than the allotted number
OF rounds.
We are not allowed to come late
to drills. If we come a few min
utes late we have to drill q half
hour or so more. Besides, when the
drill period is over the officers keep
us a half hour longer to talk to US
how to be good soldiers, to obey
orders without asking questions, and
more bunk like that.
| think that the Rebel Guard is
right when you say that the young
workers in the National Guard
should learn everything they can so
they can use it for the workers
against the bosses. That's what Pm
going to do.
Yours for the workers,
A National Guardsman.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
Plan Eastern District
Cross-Country Run

The starters gun for the Eastern
District Cross-Country Race will be
heard at 3 p. m., April Is at $40.
Union Hall Street, Jamaica, Long
Island.
All Labor Sports Union members
of the Eastern District, and those
members outside Of the Eastern
District boundaries, who wish to
participate in this three-and-a half
mile run should Immediately send in
their entries.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
Break Running High
Jump Record of LSU

CHICAGO, Ill.-On March /, 1880,
at the Illinois district indoor jump
ing meet of the L. S. u, Comrade
Kiiskanen of the Vilkas A. C. estab-
lished new L. S. U. Illinois district
high jump record of IT'S en-. At
this meet clubs representing the L.
S. U. from Waukegan, Chicago and
Milwaukee were present. Although
only fifteen comrades participated
in the jumps the meet was success
full.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
FORM WORKERS CAMERA
CLURIN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. April 11.-A work,

CHICAGO, April ia workers
camera club has been organized
here to take pictures of working
class life and revolutionary work
ing-class events. c. 0. Nelson is
secretary. A meeting will be held
Sunday, April Is, at IL a. m. at
10 S. Lincoln st. All workers in
terested are invited 10 join.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
Labor Sports School
Organized i'm Detroit

DETROIT, Mich.-Like last year,
the Labor Sports Union will have a
five weeks physical training school
at Loon Lake near here. The school
last year developed some good ply
sical instructors some of whom are
now taking an active part in the
local leadership of the L.S.U. And
although there were many short
comings in the work, it was sue
cess
The daily worker., 1930-04-12

lots and lots of times with guns
and bayonets, blackjacks and clubs
have seen old women, IS years OF
age, beaten black, thrown in auto.
mobiles and taken to Jail for just
walking the streets peacefully pick
eting.
At the first day of the strike my
furniture was thrown out in the
street by the capitalists and it
stayed out in the rain, sun and
wind for four weeks, until the
Workers International Relief got
tents sent down from New York
to put the striking families in.
The police brutality lasted for
weeks and months. On June 7,
1929, Chief Aderholt was shot and
later died. About 95 or 100 wo-
men and men were arrested and
thrown in Jail. My husband was
one of the number.
was in New York at this time
working for the Workers Inter-
national Relief to feed the strikers.
was forced to leave New York at
once and come home. And when I
arrived in Gastonia l found l had
no home. Ny children and my moth
er had been driven from the tent
colony out into the woods or streets
or any place they could find to 60
and the tents torn down and demol-
ished. My furniture was locked up
in a city warehouse and locked up
by the city. Finally / found my
children, 18 miles out in the country.
Not having a home nor furniture
I rented a room from a friend and
borrowed a quilt from one other
friend and spread the quilt on the
floor and | got my children together
again. They slept on the floor and
/ covered them with my coat.
My husband spent 16 days in jail
then the International Labor De-
fense got him out on bail Later the
capitalist courts dismissed his case
along with many others so they
would have better chance to rail.
road our union leaders to the elec-
trio chair and life terms in prison.
want to say it is very important
for women to organize along with
the men, especially women with
children who have to carry the burd-
en- of child bearing, rearing and all
the responsibilities of herself and
children. l know by self experience
just what it means to women to
support their family on such small
wages and long hours as have al
ready written in my story. I hope
this story reaches every working
woman that has to.work long hours
for low wages. I hope every woman
will consider it her duty to fight
side by side with her husband in
every struggle that may come
against him in any industry.
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
BROOKLYN AND METROPOLITAN WORKERS SOCCER
LEAGUES INTERLEAGUE CUP GAMES. ---e

APRIL IS, 1890.
AT DYCkMAN OVAL.
III 100 M Spartacus 69th S. c.,
lZ:3O p m Barcelona VS.. Bari 4. c., Simon
200 p. m. Prospect International Bassi
AT THOMAS JEFFERSON BROOKLYN
1880 Olympic Hungarian Workers. referee KapIan
1880 p m. Mohawk VS.. Trumpeldor referee York
200 p M Rangers Ehonian referee Korenways
$3.50 Hungarian Workers Bronx Kkers referee Scb,
AT CROTONA PARK.
dOo p m Bronx Worker VS. Olympic, referee, Szanta
2:SO p m. Freiheit vs. Olympic, referee Austin
400 M Freiheit Sparacus referee Getzkin
The daily worker., 1930-04-12
By ALBERT TOTHEROW.

In this article you will find many
facts concerning the workers of the
South; about conditions in the
Southern textile mills and true
account Of the life of the young
workers.
Settle yourself down and get ac-
quainted with the facts of one
newly-recruited Bolshevik.
The workers of the world will re-
member April /, 1929, as the first
step Of the awakening Of the South
ern workers.
In the year of 1919 l was eight
years old, my brother just a little
older and my sister younger. My
mother had very little help. The
only thing US kids could do in the
way OF help was to keep the fire
burning around the pot where
mother was boiling the clothes
Then times got so hard that mother
couldn't make living. At the age
of 13 my brother got job at the
smelter pushing mat. The job was
so hard, and the hours so long, that
my brother could hardly make it
working II hours per day.
Then my mother remarked, as
my father got killed when l was
two years old. We began barely
to live again, but still the wages
were SO low that all the workers
began talking about union. Twas
so small that l didn't know what it
was all about.
A. F. of L. Fakers Try to Fool
Workers.
In few weeks l heard that there
was a union and my brother and
step-father had joined. | happen
to have my brothers union book
now. They were organized in the
International Mine, Mill and Smell
ter Workers Union. 1t was affili-
ated to the A. F. of L., and they
pulled the strike at the smelters of
the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and
Iron Co. The workers kept on
strike for four or five weeks. Then
they were sold out. The workers
were left with damn "yellow
dog" contract, just like any other
strike led by the A. F. of L.
The workers in Tennessee were
such good fighters that the A. F.
of L. takers were afraid to try to
slip out without doing something.
In five or six weeks the contract
was broken and the workers were
making even less than they did be-
fore the strike.
"Oh, Lordy."
My step-father went to work one
morning, just like always. Then
about 10 a. m. wagon drove up
to the hut where we lived, and l
heard mother say, "Oh, lordy," that
being her favorite words when ex-
cited, and l ran around the corner
of the house to see what was the
matter. l saw three men carrying
my step-father into the house. He
had met with an accident.
At the furnace where he worked
there was a crane or elevator that
raised the 1,000-gallon pot of mol
ten copper from the furnace or pit
and conveyed it over the heads of
the workers to bed, where it was
poured to cool.
This morning one of the hooks
from the crane slipped off the car,
and the pot and the molten copper
spilled on my step-father. That
was what made mother say "Oh,
lordy"
After months and months of suf-