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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
FREEDOM GRANTED
TO MRS. PANTAGES
Judge ReScinds 10-Year Pro-
baton After AcquittaI in
Auto Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 24.-Mrs.
Lois Pantagas, wife of Alexander Pan
tags. wealthy vaudeville impressario,
was free today, expiated for a man
slaughter conviction 10 months ago.
The l0-year probationary period
granted Mrs. Pantages after her convic-
ton in the death of Joe RokomOto
Japanese gardener. In an automobile
collision, was terminated yesterday by
Superior Judge Carlos Hardy.
After approving recommendations In
the pre-C Christmas report of the county
probation board for the release from
supervision of 149 others convicted Of
felonies, Judge Hardy took up the case
of Mrs Pantages, for whom the board
had made no recommendation.
Judge Hardy revoked Mrs. Pantages'
probation, entered a plea Of not guilty
for her end dismissed the case.
District Attorney Buron Fits asserted
Judge Hardys action was "travesty Of
Justice" He said the reasons advanced
by Mrs Pantages were so weak they
were sickening"
Within two months Of Mrs. Pantages'
conviction, her husband was found
guilty of criminal assault He is at
liberty under bond awaiting final dis
posal of an appeal of his case. Mrs
Pantagss said in her letter that be-
cause of her husbands conviction and
her inability to leave Los Angeles be-
cause of the terms Of her probation. she
had not been able to regain her health.
impaired by INJURIES suffered in the
accident that killed Rokomoto.
She also asked that she be released in
order that her children and Miss Beryl
Sweeney, the bride-to-be of her eldest
son. Rodney, might move in society
without embarrassment.
Mrs: Pantagss said she had paid
S78.500 to the family of the japanese
gardener as she had been directed by
Judge Hardy and felt she had paid
her debt to society in full"
Pantages. speaking for his wife. said
now that she no longer would be forced
to remain within the State. she would
accompany Rodney and his bride on
their honeymoon to Europe and the
Orient. He said the date of his sons
wedding had not been set, but it prob
ably would take place in the holidays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
M'CRAY RESTORED
TO CITIZEN STATUS
Indiana'S Former Governor,
Sentenced in Fraud, Among
Those Officially Pardoned.

Warren McCray, former Governor of
Indiana, who was free on parole after
conviction of using the mails to defraud
was pardoned yesterday by President
Hoover Similar action was also taken
by the President in restoring the civil
rights to several other Federal prisoners.
McCray was released from Atlanta
penitentiary in 1927 after completing
one-third of his l0-year term for using
the mails to defraud
Restores Civil Rights.
The Presidents action will have the
effect of restoring the civil rights of the
former Indiana Governor. 1t was said
at the White House that McCray'S pa
role period would have ended early in
January and he would have regained
his civil rights automatically at that
time. The presidential order went into
effect Immediately and was described
as the regular procedure except that the
date was advanced slightly on account
of Christmas.
Prison Inmates ParoIed.
At the same time announcement was
made at the Department of Justice yes
terday that the Parole Board had taken
favorable action on the re oommenda-
tons of Chairman Arthur B. Woods of
the board for the release of 30 in
mates Of Leavenworth penitentiary be-
tween December % and &c.
The names of the prisoners to be
paroled, all of whom were described as
eligible for parole, were withheld from
publication. 1t was said none of them,
however, came within the class of hard
ened or notorious criminals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
MRS. ROGERS HON0RED

A reception In honor of Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu-
sets is to be given by the Edith Nourse
Rogers Chapter, No. a. Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans, January z. in Stanley
Hall of the United States Soldiers
Home.
At the same time officers Of the chap
ter will be installed by District Comdr
z. c. Rabcock.
Distinguished guests who have ac-
cepted invitations to attend include
Representatives Wright Patman Of
Texas, Mary T. Norton Of New Jersey,
William p. Connery, IT.. Of Massachu-
sets; j. E. Rankin of Mississippi and
Harold Knutson of Minnesota. Gen.
Frank T. Hines. director of the Vet
Grams Bureau: DR.. w. l.. Kline. regional
medical ofii"er Of the Veterans Bureau
'and Capt. Fred Kochlie are also in
vited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
EXPECTS GREAT CHRISTMAS"
McCray Was Convicted on Charge of
Mail Fraud.

KENTLAND, Ind, December "a P.-
His civil rights restored by a full
presidential pardon, Warren T. Nc
Cray, former Governor of Indiana,
who served more than three years in
Atlanta Federal Prison for using the
mails to defraud, today anticipated a
happy Christmas.
It's going to be a great Christmas
for us he said. when word came that
President Hoover had granted the par
don late yesterday. McCray has lived,
since his parole in 1927, on his stock
farm near here. where he once had
a herd of 600 Herefords, trying to
regain his position as successful stock
raiser.
A millionaire when he took Office
as Governor in 1921, McCray suffered
financial disaster in the collapse of
farm values in 1923. His efforts to
reorganiZe his finances led to his in
dictment on charges he misrepresented
his holdings in letters to banks re-
garding loans. McCray denied intent
to defraud and entered prison May l..
The stockman held his gubernatorial
duties partly responsible for inatten-
ton to his farm and for his financial
difficulties. On his return from prison
he found himself States witness in
the trial of another Governor, Ed
JACKSON, testifying. as to events oc-
curing during McCray's tenure of the
office McCray said Jackson offered
him $4,000 bride. to make a GER
tain man Marion County prosecutor,
but he refused. Jackson invoked the
statute of limitations to win directed
verdict of acquittal.
McCray and his wife will spend
Christmas with his two daughters and
two grandchildren in indianapolis. ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24


Pastoral Symphony" with great
reverence, there were moments scat
tered hsre and there through the
performance that were commend
able, if not distinguished. The So
pranos and the contraltos did well
with their stretches of melody and
would have done more so if the score
been more familiar and they could
have kept themselves from browsing
so continually within it's folds. And
Mr.. HetZel tried valiantly to sus-
tain the tempo, the creScendos and
the minusndOs, and accomplished
much by them in the lighter
moments.
: There was never, however, in the
first half, at any rate, any of the
great emotion" that one likes to
associate with the Messiah" and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
MRS. HOOVER DRESSES 3 DOLLS
EXACTLY LIKE GRANDCHILDREN
Women of Capital Adopt Idea Latest Fad and Send
Toys to Charity Shop.

carried out in blue knitted sweater and
cap with shori white trousers.
The idea started by Mrs. Hoover Of
dressing dolls like ones own children
or grandchildren was taken up by many
Capital women. Mrs. Arthur O'Brien
sent TO the thrift shop an entire we'd
ding party of dolls dressed In materials
like those worn by Mrs. OBrien's
daughter and her bridesmaids.
Mrs. Hoover says she has great fond
ness for dolls because they are a part
of child life. Last year she purchased
at the Thrift Shop a doll which re-
sembled little Peggy Ann. This year she
conceived the idea of dressing dolls
herself to resemble her grandchildren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover has dressed three
Christmas dolls in exact duplicate OF
costumes worn by her three littis grand
children.
While the real children--Peggy Ann,
Herbert, Sd, and Baby Joan-are having
Christmas i'm the White House tonight,
some lucky little girl will b. taking their
doll duplicates from stocking or a
tree.
The Presidents wife carried four dolls
which she dressed to the Thrift Shop,
conducted for charity. Pinned TO the
white skirt of one of them was a card
designating the names and signed by
Mrs. Hoover
The fourth doll, Carmencita. is quite
the gavest of the lot In dressing her,
Mrs Hoover cast aside all h usual
conservative tastes in colors. Carmen
cita was arrayed in bright tints of
orange. yellow and brown, with a silk
dress and a little short jacket bordered
with a bit of fur and lined with gold
brocade. A perky little hat of brown
malina trimmed with flowers and a
touch of gold was psrched on the dolls
long black hair and orange -colored
shoes were put on her feet.
The Peggy Ann doll got pink knit
ted sweater, white linen skirt and tam
matching a Summer costume of the
little girl who has come to the White
House. Mer brother dolls costume was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
ANNUAL PARTY is HELD
BY TELEPHONE WORKERS
Christmas Tree Is Dismantled and
Taken to Children's Hospital
for It's Show Tonight.

A Christmas tree, music end other
features marked the annual Christmas
party and dance Of the Telephone So
ciety OF washington in Almas Temple,
1915 K street, last night.
Presents on the Christmas tree were
distributed among the children of the
members of the society and marion
cite show was pres ented for them. The
Telephone Glee Club sang and THE
Night Before Christmas" was recited by
Doris Rock An address on the work
and needs of the Washington Com
munity Chest was delivered by Eugene
r. Woodson.
The Christmas tree used at the party
was dismantled today by telephone COM
pany employees and set up at Chill
drens Hospital for use there tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
Mmsic and Musicians
Reviews and News of Capitals Programs.

this one must attribute not so much
to the artists as to the lack Of re-
hearsal time that seems to have
been allotted them.
Among the soloists, Louis Annis.
the tenor, and hence the first to be
heard from, seemed the most out
standing. His voice had more of the
lyric and soaring" quality than
most of the others and came out
with little effort and much sweet
ness. Dorothy Sinnott, contralto,
was excellent in her He Shall Feed
the Flock" interlude, and Anne l..
Wilson, without any great volume,
handled her difficult numbers most
pleaSingly. while Daniel Thew
Wright, jr., whose voice is not of
bass caliber. rollicked on and off
key, mostly off. and would have done
much better by not trying so hard
In spite of these lapSeS from the
straight and narrow, these singers
and their instigator must be COM
mended for having offered the
Messiah" at this time, and for
having tried valiantly, and sue
cesded valiantly every now and
again-especially the lady members,
who eclipsed their male consorts
completely. E. de S. NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
"The Messiah" Presented
At Central High School.

"A K ANY things happened to
M Handel'S Messiah" as
V given last night at the Gen.
1 1 trail High School auditorium
by the Washington Choir.
under the tutelage of Kurt Hetzel.
In the first place, the choir had
shrunk to a third of its promised
size; in the second the pianist was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
ORPHANS LOSE TURKEYS
IA Birds Ready for Feast Taken
While Children Slept.

Fifty children at the German Orphan
Asylum learned yesterday that the IA
turkeys which were being fattened for
their Christmas dinner had been stolen
while they slept last night.
A M Hoffman, an official at the
home, which is located at 2100 Good
Hope road southeast, reported the theft
to the eleventh precinct police station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
GIRL FOUND STRANGLED
IN CHICAGO APARTMENT
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. December 24.-Strangled
to death, Miss Mary Judkins, 20, was
found in an apartment last night, q
silk scarf around her neck.
Jack Antrim, who shared the apart
ment with her, the police said was
arrested for questioning. He attributed
the death to thieves, declaring radio
had been stolen.
Further mystery was added by a
physician who said the girl had s::s-
fered from an internal golfer and that
it was possible that the growth caused
strangulation. Antrim said the. girl
came to Chicago from Alluwe, Okla,
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24

at home with a
monumentalcold
and finally the
singers W e r e
placed too far
into the lap of
the stage, so
that TIE male
voices W e n I
straight up into
the rafters and
never came out
to the audience
at all.
However, with
the able assist
ance of Char
lotte Klein at
the organ, who,
In cid { n ia lily.
Ia-f l. =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24

Shrapnel was invented and named
after British general of that name
in 1874.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
HUGE TRACTOR PLANT
is VICTORY IN SOCIALIST
UF'BUILDING IN u. S. S. r.
D9erjinski Plant in StaIingrad Has Capacity of
$4,000 Tractors
whole Tremendous Undertaking Was Com
pleted in Little Over One Year

MOSCOW PS)On June II the Djerjinsk
Stangrad opened This giant tractor works the
largest industrial undertakings built within the
FveYear Plan and ranks Importance with the
railroad The will large international Tractor"
production of $4,000
thus representing of the largest industrial undertakings in the
world The production of the works will have horse
Dneprostroi power its originally
build factory with capacity 10000 tractors
but with magnificent development of Soviet industry the plans
number which the
down number of occasions At
1892 then fixed for October this then
July the decided everything ready by
the of the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union
The whole tremendous undertaking completed little
instead of the calculated by the American engineers
their plans little the building site desert
the industrial undertaking employing
socialist house them and their families
hospitals 80 kilometres of railway line.
built in the Putov works in Leningrad
building works Kharkov These tractor de-
that the Putov tractor depart
production of 10000 tractors and the depart
works annual production OF 1000
giant tractor factories will be built in the
Khkov with
respectively The building operations
these two giant commenced Both factories to
be completed inside Is months.
Al be end of the Five-Year Soviet Union will have
tractors socazng agriculture In two at the most
production of the Soviet Union will be
than the United States production
The building agricultural machinery also being forward
factory for the production of agri
cultural machinery few days in Rosov the Don
and pour modern machinery into the Russian steppes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
CALLS PLUMBERS
HELPERS TO join
UNITY LEAGUE
Eisenman Calls for
Fight on Renegades

New York.
Dear Editor, Daily Worker
About five months ago there was
formed the United Association of
Plumbers Helpers. The group was
formed through a strike that arose
out of a wage cut. The plumbers
helpers who partook in this small
strike realized the necessity of an
organization and Immediately start
ed the United Association of Plumb
ers Helpers which they thought
would fight for their demands and
give them better conditions. But
these helpers did not realize that
they were putting their trust into a
group of misleaders, three reaction
arr Cannonite renegades.
These renegades Unanswered the
group in such way and they forced
the comrades out of the group be-
cause the militant comrades who
were in there fought to affiliate
with the Trade Union Unity League,
the only organization that is organ
izing the unskilled as we'll as the
skilled workers. The T.U.U.L. is
not selling out and betraying the
workers as the takers in the A. F.
of L. are doing and whom these
Trotskyite misleaders are trying to
affiliate with.
The plumbers helpers can not ex-
list as an isolated little sect COM
pletely disassociated from the rest
of the revolutionary working class
that is organizing under the Trade
Union Unity League. The renegades
who are keeping the plumbers help
ers from joining the T.U.U.L. are
yelling their heads off Don't joir
that organization, it's Communist
they're out to mislead you" These
are the words and many other re-
dictionary slogans that come from
the mouths of the renegades who
claim that they are the good Com
munists in existence.
The helpers have long carried or
their struggle under the American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27

Association of Plumbers Helpers and
have long carried on their struggle
to get into the A. F. of L. They
know that it is losing fight; they
have had that experience. The help
ers are also beginning to realize who
their misleaders are. At the last
election they elected plain rank
and file worker as president Of the
organization. The A. F. of L. has
many times before told the helpers
that it is not interested in organ
i2ing the plumbers helpers.
Plumbers helpers, don't let your
selves be misled by the takers like
Sperigan and his clique who are
trying to line up the helpers into
the A. F. of L. so that they will
be misled. The only way that You
can get organization is to join the
Plumbing Section of the Building
and Construction Workers Industrial
League, the only section of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
Toledo, Ohio.


Daily Worker
Just little information about
working conditions for women in
Toledo. In the Mercy Hospital here
conditions are just like hell.
OrderIies are worked II hours a
day, days a week, with four hours
a week off for recreation.
Kitchen help work 8 hours day,
6K days a week, under the most
miserable conditions. Their sleep
ing quarters are without ventila-
ton and it is like sleeping in an
oven.
The food is rotten and not enough
of it.
Being a Roman Catholic institu-
ton, it is dominated by priests and
nuns, who treat the help like species
of animals.
Civility and courtesy to the help
is entirely unknown here and from
what little is paid in wages deduc-
tions are being made for commu-
nifty chest and other Charitable
institutions.
PAY 81 A WEEK IN LAUNDRY.
The Reliable Laundry of Toledo
did employ a large number of
women and girls, but have cut down
forces considerably. Those retained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
RED SPEARS ARE
ACTIVE IN CHINA
They Are Essentially
Discontinued Peasants

Capitalist press reports state that
Red Spears are overrunning a great
portion of Shantung." In fact, they
have been active in North China for
years. Who are the so-called cred
Spears?" They are armed peasants
organized in bands, partly for self
defense against the ravages of gov
eminent troops and heavy taxation,
etc. Such bands are prevalent in
North China. Although essentially
organizations of the peasants, the
Red Spears are partly dominated by
rich peasants or even small land
owners, and are politically very
backward. They are entirely diff
ferent from the peasant Soviets and
peasant guerilla troops in South
China which are 100 per cent class
organizations of the peasants, led
by the proletariat, and are politically
very developed.
However, militant workers are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
Hunger Wages, Humiliation
Toledo Women Workers Lot

work like hell to make 81 or So a
week. They get fired on the slight
est pretext and the boss struts
around like a bully, raving and
shouting at them like monster.
The help is constantly changed and
everybody in the place is most I'M
happy and miserable. e
Woolworths, Toledo, is no better.
In fact, every girl employed here is
considered a potential thief, for
every morning when they go to
work their pocketboOks are searched
and the money counted. This is re-
peated at quitting time, to preserve
and protect the WoolwOrth millions.
ORGANIZE FOR FIGHT.
How much longer are the work
ing women and girls of Toledo GO
ing to tolerate all these humiliat-
ing conditions?
Why don't you organize into a
mass industrial organization and
learn how to fight for a human
standard of living. Get in touch
at once with the headquarters OF
the Trade Union Unity League
2011h Canton St., where all infOr.
nation and assistance will be giver
to you. Now is the time, for delay
will mean more misery and suffer.
ing.
TOLEDO GIRL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
MUSTE'S union
OFFERS PAY CUT
Hosiery Clique Ready
for 50 P. c.. Slash

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June &c.
An open proposition for wage
cut which will amount to from 20
to so per cent on different classes
of work was made yesterday by
the bureaucracy report to the an
nual convention of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Ho-
siery Workers, in session here. This
union is controlled by the Musteite
Budenz and his gang, and is a COM
ponent part of the United Textile
Workers, also a Muste-owned outfit,
with a reputation of outrageous
sell-out of strikes in Elizabethton,
Marion and other places.
Fake Insurance.
To make the wage-cut offer a
little more palatable to the union
rank and file, it is connected with
a proposition for unemployment in
surance. However, it is made clear,
though not emphasized in the re-
port, that there will be no struggle
with the employers over the insur-
ance feature. All the Music gang
asks is that the bosses accept in
principle" and no attempt is to be
made to force them 10 contribute
to the jobless during this mass un-
employment in the industry.
The wage scale is so highly COM
plicated, being different for each
of $50 styles, with about ten SUBJ
divisions to each style and with diff
ferent rates for the various crafts
and divisions of crafts (toppers,
leggers, helpers, etc., that no one
can understand IL, and the boss
can pay any rate he sees fit.
Trick Already Exposed.
The National Textile Workers
Union and ARTICLES in the Daily
Worker have previously warned of
exactly this trick. The whole story
of the deal between the employers
and the Full Fashioned officials
and the bargaining over whether
the cut should be 10, 20 or more pei
cent has been explained. The pres.
ent convention Greatly conference
of hand-pGked officials) will prob
ably accept anything. 1t is up tc
the rank: and file of the Hosiery
Workers to put a stop to this, by
disregaiding their officials, elect.
ing mill committees and making
connection with the National Tex.
tile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27

Together with the drive for sig
natures, an intensive campaign is
being carried on for delegates to
the state ratification conference,
which will be held in Duluth, Min
nesota, at Camels Hall, IL East
Superior St., on Sunday, July IL.
This conference will expose the
Farmer-Labor Party, which has
given effective proof of its char
acter as an agent of the employing
class, in its attack upon the unem-
ployment campaigns of the Trade
Union Unity League, its open APP
peal to small business men, its COM
plete failure to raise its voice
against the wage-cutting, speed-up
campaigns of the bosses in Mime
sofa. The struggle against social
reformism and open fascism, i'll
which the farmer-labor party and
A. F. of l.. officials, the l. W. W..
leadership and the Trotskyites are
united, is one of the principal is
sues in the Minnesota election cam
paign.
All workers organizations are
urged to elect their delegates and
send credentials Immediately to the
office of the Communist Party,
District 9, 424 Kasota Building,
Minneapolis.