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CHAPTER 20

Comics face became family
stubborn.
81 want to know about you,"
Z she declared, land. I'm not as
ec1sEentional as you think-nor
/ Is easily shocked. i You've got
! to tell MEL
Carson gazed rnoodily into
the lily pool.
I Did you ask Kitty about
me2n
- 1t didn't question her closely;
I no"
"She told you nothing?"
Nothing"
well, she couldn't nave told
you anything, anyway, except
Z my reputation. She doesn't
know any Of the facts behind
the reputation"
"She didn't tell me your repu-
tation, except that you were
what they call a square
shooter,
"I don't suppose I ought to
: take advantage of your hos
pitality and leave you in the
dark about my classification as
a citizen" Carson said, slowly.
81 don't, like to meet people
socially-under false colors.
What did you think I was
when YOU first met me?"
She hesitated briefly.
II thought you. were what
you seemed to be-a crook.
But 1 can't believe that now"
well, you guessed right the
first time. That's my labor--a
crook. Kitty might have told
you that, if she cared to; Kitty
or any plain clothes man in
the district"
An icy cold pang struck Con-
MES heart. It seemed $3.50
cheap-so contemplate. There
was no trace of romance in
greed. dishonesty, cowardly vio-
lence.
"Oh!"
Ill at Ease
b. His eyes turned straight to-
ward her, but now she had no
impulse to look at him. There
was an unpleasant lump and
Tightening in her throat.
st told you you wouldn't like
me if 1 talked about myself"
Carson said. II might 81 fur
Their and try TO justify myself,
but it's unlikely I'd succeed.
However, you needn't fear that
you have been entertaining q
jailbird. I'm not that. There's
not a conviction. not even an
arrest against me. For instance,
if a newspaper printed my name
as a crook, could sue for libel
and collect. Legally, my status
is as unblemished as your own
yet there is quite a differ
ence in our regulations"
His words brought a pervad-
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A Note of Sympathy
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:

1 am a young girl just Is and
I met young man this sum-
mer who took me around quite
lot. When he was leaving to
go back to college he asked me
to write to him. In the mean
time his oldest brother was
killed in an automobile acct
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
Answsrs To TodGy's Test

ARswers To TodGys Test
Questions On Editorial Page
/. Richard B. Bennett. 2.
Major Kingsford-S m it'll. 8.
Thomas Upton. 4. Bishop
william Manning. 5. Lord
CORVALLIS. 6. Bonheur. Z
Sea. 8. Honor 8. Watts. 10.
24.900 miles. IL. Rampant. IL.
Truce. IS. Diffident. "A. De
pertinent. Is. Tribulatiof1.
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FOUR-DAY WEEK

The Yonkers plant of Otis Ele-
vator Company, has been put on
a four-day week, as compared
with q five-day week heretofore.
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Continued from FIrSe PdgeJ
here revealed that STAIRS sister,
Elizabeth, was here on June 8,
the day Starr's body was found
on Long Island.
Elizabeth, it was stated, negO-
tiated a loan for S5 with the
hotel management. In signing
receipt she was said to have
given the New York address of
the FaithfullS.
Identifies Picture
The hotel clerk was said to
have stated that both Starr and
Elizabeth haT been frequent
guests at the fashionable hos
telry.
He identified the photograph
of Elizabeth as the girl who had
signed the receipt "Sylvia" Faith
full.
At the time of the report If
the hotel clerk, the theory was
advanced by investigators in the
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'P|NKY' g CHUM
ADHERES To
FIGHT TALE
Calvin Insists play Boy Told
Of Quarrel When Body of
Nurse Was Found in Lane

NEW PORT, r. I. June 18
GN.SD Cool as ice under a blis-
tering crosS-examination, Vernon
V. Calvin, chum and confidante
Of Elliott R. "Pinky" Hathaway,
on trial for the murder of pretty
Miss Verna Russell, adhered
firmly today to the essential de-
tails of the story he gave on di-
rect examination that the de-
fendant told him he had quar-
relied with the girl when she said
she was engaged to hospital
inferno and that he had struck
her. He declared:
That's what he told me-
that they had quarreled and he
hit her."
Snaps at InquiSitor
Calvin snapped at his inquisi-
tor, Defense Attorney George
Hurley, whenever the latter
pressed point in an attempt
to corner him or cause him to
change his version of what
"Pinky" told him when he took
him in his car in the dead Of
night on March % to show him
the body of Miss Russell in a
lonely lane at Tiverton, r. I.
Under a scorching attack by
the defense lawyer, Calvin stuck
to the recital he gave under di-
rect examination when he de-
scribed the happenings of the
night of March %, when Hatha-
way drove him to Winward Lane
and showed him the girls body.
In this account, Calvin linked
Hathaway with the Staying of the
girl.
Shows Murder Motive
The witness also disclosed an
alleged motive for the murder.
Calvin said that after he and
11dIlAdWdS IAdu 1C1U GIlc SCCLlC dLlu
were riding along the roadway
in the dead of night, Hathaway
turned to him and said:
"She told me she was en-
gagged to an inferno at the hos
pital and / hit her."
Fails to Shake Him
Attorney Hurley tried to break
down this assertion by Calvin
without avail.
The story Hathaway told Gal
vim about striking Miss Pussell
contradicted an earlier version he
gave at the Calvin home to Gal
vim, his wife and mother to the
effect that he and Verna had
been attacked by two robbers
when they were in the lane 2nd
that one of the robbers told him
at the point of a pistol to beat
it,"
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SPREADS
SIX ARRESTED

KITTANNING, Pa, June 18
GNSD The bituminous coal
strike spread today to Armstrong
county, where disorders broke out
among $50 striking miners of the
three mines of the Buffalo and
Susquehanna Coal Company at
Sycamore, near here.
An automobile was stoned,
man was cut on the head by a
rock. and six men, who were al
legged to have hurled the rocks.
we're arrested and lodged in the
county Jail here.
Sheriff George w. Shaffer swore
in six additional deputies and
armed them with riot clubs. They
will patrol the strike district and
picket lines.
The three mines regularly en-
ploy 750 men, but are now op-
Grating with greatly reduced
crews. The striking miners ask
recognition of the National Miners
Union, insurgent group opposing
the United Mine Workers of
America. Also check-weight men
claim they have not received fair
treatment,
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s FLIGHT
To Be LARGELY
OVER WATER
Hudson Bay Route Favored
But 3 Others Considered,
One of Which Spans Atlantic

NEW YORK, June 18.-While
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has
tentatively decided on the route
he will follow on his forthcoming
flight to the Orient with Mrs.
Lindbergh, he has plotted four
courses and definite decision
will not be made until he has
given more study to the respective
advantages of each.
The colonel said today the trip
is to be in the nature of vaca-
ton and that no definite
schedule is to be followed.
The route which appears to
be 0St favored now would take
them nOrthward to Hudson Bay,
over to Point Barrow, Alaska, on
the Arctic Ocean, down Bering
Strait to the Aleutian Islands
and along them to the coast of
Japan.
Flight over this course. how
ever, will depend on number of
things, including ability to ar
range for fuel depots along the
way. The route actually followed,
he said, will be governed by local
conditions.
The four possible routes being
studied by Lindbergh have this
in common, that the flight must
be over water most of the way,
since the ship is fitted with pom
tOOnS and has no wheels. Alight-
ing on land, while feasible, car
ries with it the possibility of
damage to the undercarriage.
Facilities for repairs would be
lacking in the more isolated
| regions.
Other Routes Considered
Other routes being considered
include crossing the Atlantic to
Greenland, then to Spitzenbergen,
and across Siberia to Japan; or
the cutting across from the north
ern border of Alaska to Siberia
instead of southwark to the Aleu-
tians; or a flight up the Pacific
coast to the Aleutians and then
over to Japan.
The plane is carrying a power
full wireless set and since both
the Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
have become proficient operators,
they will be able to keep in con-
slant touch with ships and land
stations.
Ralph A. Loman, of the Lo-
man Reindeer Company, of Alaska,
has sent information that the
fliers need have no worry re-
garding fuel supplies if they wish
to follow the Alaskan Arctic
coast en- route to Japan, as prac-
tically every settlement maintains
supplies of aviation gasoline.
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To BARE
TRANSACTIONS

Edmund D. Rheem tomorrow
will bare his personal business
transactions during the months
preceding the crash of Swartzell,
Rheem and Hensey, of which he
was the executive head.
Creditors examinations in
recent weeks have been held up
through Rheem's refusal, on ad-
vice of his counsel to answer
questions of a personal nature.
Attorneys representing Rheem's
forme-' customers appealed for a
review of the bankruptcy referees
ruling uphoIding Rheem's stand
and the question was being
studied by Justice Jennings Bailey
hen Rheem'S counsel withdrew
objections today.
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PinchOt Lieutenant
Hurt in Auto Crash
Photo by Internatfona

THOMPsONTOWN, Pa, June
18 Q.N.SO Lieut.. Gov. Edward
Shannon and Mrs. Shannon were
slightly injured today when their
automobile was side-sWiped by
another on the William Penn
Highway near here. Mrs. Shan
non suffered decorations and the
lieutenant governor suffered in
juries to his right hand. Their
chauffeur was shaken up, but
wasn't hurt.
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SHAPIRO TAKES
STAND TODAY

Jacob B. Shapiro. president of
the Joseph Shapiro Realty Com
pany, will take the stand in his
own defense today against
charges of using the mails to
defraud in connection with the
sale of real estate incumbered
with ground trusts.
Attorneys Alden L. Newmyer
and David Wiener, representing
the accused realtor, have called
a number of character witnesses
also.
Evidence to show that the
accused has paid off each trust
without loss to a single purchaser
was presented to the jury during
the morning session through wit
nesses and records.
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so Given Teachinq
Diplomas at Wilson

The course to pedagogical Ca
reer lay open to so young women
last night as they received their
degrees from the Wilson Teachers
College, presented by DR.. H. Bar
rett Larned, president of the
Board of Education.
Twenty-one of the graduates
completed the kindergarten pri-
mary course and 20 qualified in
the intermediate course. DR.. Ed
gar C. Higbie, new president of
the institution, delivered the ad-
dress and DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of schools, presid-
ed. Ruth King Molyneaux, presi-
dent of the class, addressed the
graduates.
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Starr Posed In Nude
For Mother Spirit
Famed Artist Says

NEW YORK, June 18 GN.SO
How Starr Faithful, who died a
strange death, had posed for him
in the nude was told today by
Charles Logasa, internationally
known artist, formerly of Daven-
port, Iowa.
Logasa, noted for his portray,
ais of beautiful women, related
how the neurotic Greenwich Vii,
lage beauty pleaded for chance
to act as model.
She first came to his studio
here six months ago. He told
her to return. She again visited
him a month ago.
Overcome BY Shame
This time he told her he re.
quired a model to pose for his
conception of the mother spirit
and that it would be necessary to
pose undraped.
Starr agreed to do so, but as
she proceeded to take her pose
she was overcome with shame
the artist said. He explained:
Starr showed herself to be
of a sympathetic nature. She
looked upon the mysteries of
human life with such wonder
ment. She appealed to me as
a model because she had such
evident refinement. The girl
had a MadOnna-like head. 1t
was beautifully contOured from
which an artist might be able
to evolve masterpiece.
Charming and Silly
"While 1 painted, Starr kept
up an incessant chatter. She
was alternately charming and
silly. She observed that a
mothers love is the only unset
fish love a woman is capable
Of"
"Then suddenly she demanded
to be admired. She depended
on the plaudits of others.
told her she was the best model
I had had in years. She
seemed appeased, chiIdlike.
"She would enliven her rest
periods with gaiety and laugh
ter. When she returned to
pose, she sank into seriousness.
She told me much about her
life and experiences, but I was
too engrOSsed in my work to
pay a great deal of attention.
Must Practice Deceit
"She told me her family
would not understand her pos
ing in the nude. She said she
only lived to get out of this
country. When she got over on
the other side, she never wished
to return. Because she did
come back she attributed this
to her futility.
"She said that life holds so
little for a wOman-that they
are deceived about everything
and in turn they must practice
every deceit.
"She would say: Il have had
rotten breaks from lien all
my life. l cannot find one
who has cOnstancy.' She ad-
mitted she was tickle"
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Dartmouth Graduate
Ends Life With Gas

DETROIT, June 18 I.N.SO.
Maurice j. Kendall, tutor of Ian
guages at the exclusive Country
Day School here and Dartmouth
University graduate. today was
found dead in the gas-filled
kitchen of his fashionable apart
ment. Police said the man had
committed suicide.
Kendall left a short note, say
ing, This is the end" He turned
on the gas and after it had filled
the room lighted a match. A muf-
fled explosion occurred.
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Man Facing Sentence
. Accused as FHQitiUe

Leonard ImboCen, who yester,
day was convicted by Police
Court Jury on two charges of un-
paid board bills and one bad check
charge, today was arraigned be-
fore Judge John P. Mcmahon on
fugitive from justice charge
from Baltimore.
The Baltimore charge also con-
Germs an unpaid board bill. This
latter case was continued until
June 80 to secure extradition
papers. Imboden will be SEN
fenced on the local convictions
Saturday by Judge Isaac r. Hit.
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Alexandria Erecting
School For COLOred

Workmen began excavating yes
terday for the new parochial
school for colored children of St.
Joseph's Church in Alexandria.
The structure will be a one
floor, U-shaped brick building
with four class rooms and Of
fices, and will cost $4,000.
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ARTIST CALLS
GUNPLAY
ABSURD
Cornelius Says He Was Be-
trayed by Friend for Whom
He Did Many FavorS
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ing special dispatch from Reno,

(Continued From First PoRe)
ing special dispatch from Reno,
New;
With a smile on his face
and a catch In his throat-Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt, jr.. reluctantly
talked about himself and his
marital affairs today.
After a day of lodging inter
viewers and of refusing requests
for statements that poured in
upon him from London, Paris,
New York. and a score of other
distant cities, the Vanderbilt heir
revealed something of the situa-
ton that impelled him to seize
a revolver and attempt to "get"
Peter Arno, Cartoonist.
Meant To Kill
Make no mistake about it.,
"Nealy" Vanderbilt was in ear
nest when he pointed the re-
volver and pulled the trigger
on an empty chamber. He wants
that understood. Emphatically
he declared:
eff the gun had been loaded
I would have killed him."
It was not question of chang
ing his mind" Vanderbilt in
sisted. The revolver was empty,
so he returned home and now
'Well, I've decided upon q
Saner and more logical course"
he announced. Just what that
course may be, he declined to
say.
Deeply Loves Wife
Disillusionment pervaded young
Vanderbilt's conversation. This
has been going on for weeks" he
said, husklly. But under no cir
cumstances did he desire to cast
any reflection upon Mrs. Wander
bilt. Only alphabetically would
he discuss the situation.
Under stress of visible emotion,
Vanderbilt lapsed from the hypo
thetical and plunged into the
actual. In a voice that belied the
fixed smile, he asserted:
81 got Peter ArnO his first
job. / introduced him to Mrs.
Florence Rice Smith-whO is a
cousin of mine by marriage.
brought him into our group
here. I helped him in a hun
dred ways"
Wife Threw Party
He reflected for a moment and
then hurst out:
Il noticed a number of things
that convinced me this thing
has been going on for some
time. A week ago Sunday
left Reno with my step-daugh-
ter-my wife's girl by her for
mer marriage-and went to
Sacramento to have dinner
with Governor Rolph. Mrs.
Vanderbilt stayed here. I
learned afterward that she held
= house party during my abb
sence."
He made cryptic references to
things that happened on Mon
day and Tuesday a week ago."
Then he resumed:
'T'd been broOding over it,
wondering just what l should
do. Perhaps taking this direct
action was not the most logical
thing-but there are times when
a person can't control his emo
tions."
He seemed to gulp down a sob.
looked away. and said:
I'm very much in love with
her. And since my outburSt 1
have decided upon a saner and
more logical course"
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Telegran1s Hunted In Probe
Of Faithful Staying

Starr Faithful case that Starr
either fell, jumped or was thrown
from one of the coastwise steam
ships plying between New York
and Boston. New York and Fall
River and Newport and New York
and this port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

N.MU.!" shouts the District Com
mittee, and the miners, knowing that
they have at last their own union,
are responding in whole groups. Lo-
cal unions are being chartered daily
at the mines on strike and some that
are not. Meetings OF the members
only are called at once, and officers
elected. The local Immediately pro-
ceeds with the organization of the
women members of the miners fam
lilies into the Womens Auxiliary of
the NMU. The women are especially
active in relief, of course, but they
come in force, some of them carry
ing their babies, right onto the picket
line. The young miners, equally &C
tive, are called together in separate
meetings, in addition to their full
participation nj the regular local
meetings of the NMU, and in these
youth meetings delegates of the young
miners are elected to the union ex-
ecutive committees. The local unions
are linked up into sections and dis
trict organizations somewhat like the
strike committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
seed" at jefferson
Theatre ]. go, e. !.

Charles Norris novel, "Seed, has
been transferred to the screen and
is to be seen at the Jefferson The
atre from Saturday until Tuesday.
John Boles, Genevieve Tobin and
Lois Wilson fill the three major roles.
On the stage the Vercelle sisters
and company, the Donatella brothers
and Carmen, Wilton and Weber,
Nanny King, VIII Aubrey and
Worthy and Thompson.
wednesday to Friday, Good Bad
Grip is the screen attraction, with
James Hall and Mae Clark in its
leading roles. On the stage: Lew
Pollock, Hal Nieman, Ruth Sherry
the Kellys, Jim and Nancy, George
Libby and Hap Farnell.
Stockholm, Sweden, which is Wis
tied by the camera in "Nomadie."
now at the Cameo Theatre, shows
the Gotta Canal, which was built
about a century ago. 1t is 240 miles
long and it takes two and one-haif
days to make the entire trip. At one
point of the canal ship is raised
300 feet above sea level.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
LYING PRESS BOSS
LAYS OFF Is MEN
Bloch Talks Prosperity
But Fires En-

NEW YORK. Paul Bloch, own
err of chain of capitalist newspapers
who has been printing a lot of bunk
about prosperity coming, and who
publicly announced he would not lay
off any of his workers during the
present crisis, last Saturday fired rs
of his news writers. An ad manager,
who had been with the paper As
years, was thrown on the streetA
Salaries of other employees were eus.
Over Is per cent of the Park Ave.
Office staff were laid off. Besides
firing office workers and news writ
ers, Bloch kicked out number Of
janitors and porters, many of whom
had been working for the papers from
20 to 40 years = - e
Yet every day in his, editorials this
faker writes about keeping workers
on the payroll prosperity return
ing, keeping up wages, and such
lies which all the capitalist papers
spread to keep the workers from
fighting against capitalism.
A news writer's league is being or
ganized by the Trade Union Unity
League to fight against wage cuts
and the rotten conditions Of the
news writer's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
AFL INJUNCTION
AGAINST THE FWIU
Racketeers, Court in
Attempt Smash Drive

NEW YORK. - Cooperating with
the breaking A. F. of L. Groc-
cry Clerks Union to smash the Or
ganization campaign of the Food
Workers Industrial Union among the
fruit clerks. The Supreme Court of
the Brond granted a temporary in
junction against the revolutionary
union.
The injunction is sweeping one
and is intended to cripple the or
ganization drive now in progress
among the fruit and grocery clerks.
Technically. the injunction forbids
the industrial union from organizing
shops under the jurisdiction of Local
1888, Dairy, Fruit and Grocery Clerks
Union, A. F. of L., but in reality it
applies to all shops in the city
A. F. of L. Strike Breaking.
Wherever the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, Fruit Clerks Dept. or
ganize a shop, the A. r. of L. gang
breaks in, and concludes an agree
ment with the boss ousting the F.
w. I. u. This already has occurred
in about ten shops which the latter
succeeded in organizing.
Hearings on the injunction are now
held before Judge Black of Special
terms, Supreme Court Of the Bronx.
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NEW YORK on the defen-
sive, a representative of the Bank
of Athens, which sued the editors
of the Empros for publication of
facts on the conditions of the bank,
its assets and resources, at Traffic
Court yesterday
When cross-examined by defense
attorney, Jacques Buitenkant, the
bankers man said he could not an
swer on the financial condition of
the bank.
At this point workers in the court
room exclaimed at the reluctant
confession, which so angered the
Judge that he ordered them evicted
Protests at this high-handed proce-
dure arose from the crowd, but they
were forced out of the room.
Testimony wormed out of the
Bank of Athens representative re-
vealed the precarious situation of the
bank, and the fact that the Empros,
rather than overstated the situation,
underestimate it.
The bank resources had constantly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
WIN STAY IN GA.
LEGAL LYNCHING
Court Allows Appeal
for DoWner

MACON, Ga. June ia stay Of
execution has been granted in the
case of John Downer, Negro worker
railroaded to the electric chair on a
framed-up charge following protests
to the Governor of Georgia from
many organizations throughout the
country. Execution had been set for
today. Among the organizations pro-
testing this new legal lynching were
the Communist Party, the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
International Labor Defense.
Severa Georgia Negro organiza-
tons are enlisted in the right to
save Downer. At hearing Saturday
Federal Judge .Bascom S. Beaver de-
MED a writ of habeas corpus on be-
half of Downer, but allowed an ap-
peal. This had the effect of staying
the legal murder of this worker.