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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-09

PERYL felt suddenly very sorry
- for her. Perhaps she was sui.
fering In silent disappointment
too loyal to Irene TO complain.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23
Island NeDs of Interest

Marion Magrath came over from
Seattle to spend the weekend with
her family who are among the sum-
mer campers at Vashon Landing.
Mrs. Mae Naugle, though much I'M
proved in many ways, will not be able
to return to work in the Sweet Shop.
This is indeed disappointment, as
she was enjoying her work there. and
realized from the remarks of the
many satisfied customers that her
efforts in serving them were appreei-
ated.
Fred Naugle arrived home this week
from Wenatchee, where he spent sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Arnold, and
son, Wilson, are occupying their sum
mer camp at Cross Landing. Mrs,
Arnold is a sister of Mrs. Alex Stewart
Mrs. Bess Godsey spent the week.
end on the Island, the guest of Mrs
Agnes L. Smock. She came over to
attend the dock dedication and the
carnival
Mr.. and Mrs, John Bunker and son
of Payette, Idaho, who have been
guests in the G. j. Denny home left
Monday morning to visit friends in
| Bellingham, before returning to Idaho
| W. H. Clark, of Seattle, spent Tues
day visiting his children here, and
looking after property interests. Dur
ing this weeks vacation Mr. ClarA
will go to Vancouver, B. c., and take
in the horse races. He says this il
his first trip out of the United State.
since before the war.
Captains Snyder Magill and Ram
age were luncheon guests at the HON,
of Capt. Snyder's mother at the Nortl
End on last Saturday.
A Our attention was recently callet
to the fact, and we pass it on to on
readers, that very clever tally card
can be had for the asking from Mrs
L. D. Houghton. These are provide,
through the courtesy of the Carnatiol
Milk Company.
One of the most welcome callers thi
office has had in long time was Mr.:
F. A. Weiss. who is able to be abou
again, just as though she had neve
been confined to her bed for lon
weeks and months.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23

up 81 quarts already and they will go
forward to the hospital next week
Miss Mary Dysart will be calling
many Island women TO help in this
important service-when she calls be
ready and glad to do your part, or
better still, call her first and surprise
her with your offer, and learn about
cans. sugar, etc.
Mrs Harris Ward will represent the
Vashon Auxiliary at the Corner Cup
board on Tuesday, July g. If you in
tend 10 be in town that day, drop in
ut the Corner Cupboard for lunch,
opposite the olympic Hotel across 5th
Avenue.
Mrs. Wallace Beall reported that
the Young Girls Guild is going to
visit the Orthopedic on Friday the
26th. The party will have lunch at
The Corner Cupboard and go up to
the hospital with Mrs. Carl Homer,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23
HANER IN CHARGE
OF JOB AT LEsCHI


Victor Haner started work at
Leschi Park on Tuesday and will be
iii charge of the county job there.
The wooden approach to the Leschi
dock will be replaced by O fill, max
ing it permanent. It is the policy of
the county engineers office to follow
this plan in ell docks under the super
vision Of that office, obyiating the
necessity Of replacement or repairs,
whenever possible, for years TO come.
Mr.. Haner proved through the re-
suits obtained on the North End dock,
where he was in charge of the work,
that he is fully qualified to supervise
any work of this nature for the
county.
Mr. and Mrs. Haner expect to con-
tinue to live on the Island during the
summer, returning to their Seattle
home iii the early fall.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23

Fielder Beell arrived home this week
from a Seattle hospitNl where he re-
Gently submitted to an operation for
appendicitis.
Mrs. Bess Godsey and Mr.. Gustave
Schunke were dinner guests of Mrs,
E. F. Agren Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. Godsey has been spending her
vacation at Bellevue and will return
for the opening of school. Mr.. Schunke
has resigned from his position on the
high school faculty and will again
enter school this fall, taking up the
study OF medicine.
Mrs. Nina Van Vert and two chill
eren arrived Wednesday from Brem-
erton, and will spend some time
camping at Dilworth.
Hilmer Nelson decided to let the
busy Center store worry along one day
without him, and on Tuesday visited
Seattle.
Helene Olsen is spending several
weeks at home before taking up fur
Their work in beauty culture.
Mrs. Ernisse and Fred are among
the summer visitors recently arriving
on the Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter woeck were
among the former Islanders who visit
ed the Island or Saturday, and at.
tended the dock opening. Mrs. Woeci
is much improved in health since go.
ing to the city.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23

members of the board of trustees, who
will show them thru the institution.
Adult members of the Vashon Aux
iliary are invited to go along.
Mrs. George W. Shields, sewing
chairman, reported that the beautiful
crib quilt, made by Mrs. Florence
Damn, had been purchased by
Madame Beall for $40 and the money,
Mt the request of Mrs Damn was sent
directly to the hospital to be used for
the patients. Mrs Shields also re-
ported that while few articles made
by members of the Vashon Auxiliary
in March had not quite come up to
the regulations not then fully under
stood, all our sewing since then had
passed as first class.
The next meeting will be held on
the third Friday, in August at the
home of Mrs. George Park at the
North End.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23
ORTHOPEDIC NOTES.

The Vashon Orthopedic Auxiliary
held its regular meeting last Friday
at the home of Captain and Mrs. Wi
man at Quartermaster. Mrs. Wallace
Beall and Mrs. T. Hansen were assist
ing hostesses. Twenty seven members
and guests sewed busily for the bene-
fit of the hospital from eleven o'clock
until four with q brief interval for
lurich served on the porch over look
ing the harbor. The sewing went on
during the business meeting conduct
ed by Mrs. Bert Stanley, president
The chief subject for consideration
was that of canning fruit and vege-
tables for the children in the Ortho-
pedic. 1t is well known that the Or
tlopedic is feeling the pinch of hard
times too, for many parents of
patients are unable to pay even part
OF cost of care that in better times
they are able to meet. The children
need the care the hospital offers, thei,
needs may not be put off for better
times, the child who has been Grip
pied by accident or disease must not
wait for care Canned fruit and
vegetables, especially tomatoes, form
an important part Of the diet of sick
children, and realizing this, the wash
on friends of the orthopedic viii
make an earnest effort to keep up, OF
excel their record for previous years
Canned sour cherries are very vel
come, canned applesauce, berries
Bartlett pears are all acceptable. Mrs
Covey is providing the small tomatoes
not suitable for market, Mrs. Dam
and Mrs. Cephas Ramquist have can
ned them so far Mrs. Damn has pu
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23
LOVELY WEATHER FOR
DEDICATION OF DOCK
Continued from page y

tCOntinueu from page ~
sap County Transportation Company;
Tom Wiltsa, road supervisor for the
South District; Archie McKinnon, our
representative in the state legislature,
and Samuel Humes, state engineer
who announced that in a short time
the contract for the South End road
would be let.
Mrs. Hartley was presented with ali
armful of rosebuds from the Beall
greenhouses.
Gov Hartley then spoke, congratu-
lating the Island on the achievement
the new dock represents, its varied
charms and possibilities, and particu-
larry on the youngsters present on this
occasion Just as he closed his re-
marks the ferries from Fauntleroy and
Harper neared the dock, their whistles
drowning out the governors voice. AS
the Fauntleroy boat landed the rib
bon across the span was cut, and the
fine structure was officially opened
for use.
AS the cars of the visitors left for
the city the governors was the first to
leave the dock.
The traffic at the dock was handled
by Capt Earl Ramage, and he is de-
serving OF much credit for the effic-
lent and quiet manner in which he
managed, so that there was entire alb
sence of confusion or accident, even
| though the dock was lined with cars
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r. Hoax were
among VIE Island visitors on last
Saturday
Mrs Francis Gully, of Calgary is
visiting her parents, Nh. and Mrs
Arthur Ganley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Gorsuch and son,
Howard, of Ferndale. are visiting
home folks this week.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23
BURTON NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. F. w. Green and baby left for
Seattle Friday after weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. Phil Green in
Burton.
Mrs. Paul Hitchcock and sons, Jack
and Walter and little Janice are here
from Ocosta, Wash, to spend the
week at the Hunt home.
Miss Irene Case lately returned
from Chicago, where she has been at
tending a school of art, specializing
in interior decoration She will be
with her folks at Magnolia Beach for
the summer.
We are glad to not much improve
-'ent in Mrs. j. B. Corbet afte: mare
than ten weeks confinement to her
bed with heart trouble. Mrs Corbet
is able to be about the house, and
enjoy walks among her beautiful
flowers where she labored before be-
ing obliged to turn the care over to
other hands.
+ Mr.. Walter Suffer motored over
from Tacoma, Sunday for the day
with his mother, Mrs. Ada Suffer, at
her Burton home. He brought with
him Mr.. and Mrs. Hokum, Mr. and
Mrs, swartz and daughter, Rodella.
The first of the week, Mrs. Frank
Akehurst and daughter, Viola, drove
down from Longmire for short
visit at the Charles Akehurst home,
and with Ellen Akehurst near by. For
some years Mr.. Akehurst has been in
the government employ in charge Of
construction crews up at the noun
tain.
Mrs. Chas. M Taylor from Ketchi-
kan, Alaska, and Miss Margaret Tay-
lor from Seattle were guests last
week of MIR. and Mrs. j. F.. Shaw
MIR. Sturgeon and Award Whitman,
former residents of Burton, we're week
end guests of the Cooks at their new
home and attended Burton church
Sunday morning. We understand
thy both are taking a summer course
at the State University. Spurgeon has
been, for several years, teacher in one
OF the Spokane high schools, and
Award teaching in Phoenix, Oregon,
high school.
The ladies OF the Island Community
church, numbering over thirty had q
busy day Monday ut the home OF Mrs.
Geo. Spinning at vashon where they
worked and planned TO carry out their
pledges to furnish a certaina mount
monthly for the support of the church.
A midsummer bazaar will be held in
Burton some time In August.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-23

Our want ads bring results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Klansnnen in Robes and
Masks Parade to Back
Up Stretch Out

city officials. police and local bust
ness men formed especially to try
and break up the unemployed coun-
ellis and to prevent Negro and white
workers from meeting andsorganizing
together.
This aatack was followed by the
new xxx. parading i'll full regalia
through every mill village near here
Sunday night, with 40 automobiles
driven by white robed and masked
figures. The villages visited, Mon
Afghan, Mills Mill, Woodside, Bran
don, Duncan, Poe and Sampson, are
all places where another stretch out
was given recently.
After that, fourteen automobiles OF
klansmen drew up in front of a
workers hause where they thought
the unemployed council was meeting
and masked KKK.'s paraded up and
down the street.
This Khan group is led by Mayor
Mann of Greenville, and Chief of
Detectives L. w, Hammond, and is
the same which filled the empty
seats at the city council meeting
April z. to try and intimidate the
delegation of the jobless who were
there to make demands for relief.
Following the Klan's activity in
Greenville, Is new members Joined
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Steel Bosses Get Pointers How
to Push Wage Cutting DriVe

CINCINNATI, April 16. - Wages
must come down and the bosses viii
do all they can to make them come
down was the main slogan of speech
made by Magnus w. Alexander pres
ident of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board before the annual
meeting O. National Metal Trades AS
ISOLATION.
Steel Workers Get Cuts.
The Metal Trades Association COM
prises the leading metal bosses in the
United States, and Alexander gave
them some pointers on how to cut
the wages of the hundreds of thous-
ands of steel workers.
Alexander used the lying argument
that the cost of living is coming down
and therefore wages must come down.
The Department of Labor figures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Build NeW Fleets of Bombing
Planes for Coming Boss War

War preparations are being con-
centrated now on building new fleet
of bombing planes for the United
States Army and Navy. Millions were
given to the army and navy for gen.
eral ornaments and a good part of
it is going for plane construction. A
special story from Buffalo, N. Y. to
the World-Telegram tells about rush
ing the building Of war planes. The
Curtiss- Wright Corp. has constructed
new plant at Kenmore for army
and navy machines"
Boost Aair feet For War.
To bolster up propaganda for big
ger air fleet for war, Assistant Sec
rotary of War, F. Trubee Dawson
made a speech on Wednesday at the
New York Society of Military and
Naval Officers of the World War urg-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Enthusiastic Send>Of Given
May Day Delegation to USSR

by starvation and wage cuts the facts
of socialist construction in the U. S.
S. r.
A tremendous ovation was given
Julius Meisenbach, a farmer delegate
from Montana. Dressed in the same
clothes in which he tills his rented
farm, he told of the stir his proposed
visit aroused in the farming COM
munity where he lives. Il put bug
in their ear about the Soviet Union"
he said, and when I get back they
will be following me around the
corners asking questions about the
Soviet Union. My landlord wants
me to patch things up here. But
don't believe in patching up an old
suit with older patches. We want to
build something new. I'll ten them
all about it when / get back"
Lydia Bydell, one OF the women
members of the delegation said she
was anxious to go TO a land where
the women, as well as the men are
at last freed from capitalist exploit
tation, and will come back with an
inspiring message for the American
working women.
A young Negro worker, Robert
Turner, next spoke, telling of lynch
ing of Negro workers in the United
States and the lies the Negro intel
lectuals spread about the Soviet
Union.
r. Gonzales Solo, representing %
Latin American workers organiza-
tons and the agricultural slaves of
the Imperial Valley, told of the en-
thusiasm of the atin-American
workers for what is going on in the
Soviet Union.
you are going to a place where
the workers are building a new
world" said William z. Foster, the
concluding speaker. mo matter
what you do" Foster said, study the
Communist Party, the party of the
workers, the party that made the
revolution"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

protests are plaStered all over the
southern newspapers and are accom-
panied in many cases by editorials
raving against interference from the
''outside" in southern affairs"
The telegram was sent from the
Hotel Walden in Chattanooga, adj
dressed to the Negro Labor Defense, :"
and reads as follows:
Brazen Declaration of Murder0us
Intent
'You Negroes are invited to Ala
bama. We want your scalp along
with the nine we already have. And
we'll get as well as any one else who
is a party to the kilograms sent South
in behalf of the nine Negroes to burn.
Read this to your entire body
XXX. of Alabama"
This brazen declaration of murder
Gus intent and discrimination to car
ny through the legal lynching of nine
innocent Negro boys framed and
being railroaded to death by the boss
lynchers operating through their
courts is representative of the atti-
tude of the white ruling class of the
South, their A F. of L. tools and
their northern capitalist allies. The
huge wealth of this class is distilled
out of the blood and agony of millions
of Negro and white toilers shaving at
starvation wages il the southern
mills and factories, of hundreds of
thousands Of poems and share crop
pers held in actual slavery on the
plantations.
Workers Must Answer Boss Terror.
The workers must give 8 smashing
answer to this expressed determine
lion TO carry Though the legal muir
der of the Negro youths by vigorous
preparations for the May Day dem
onstrations, by intensive mobilization
of the entire working class, of white
and Negro workers. and loor farmers,
native born and foreign born, to ire
mendous protest against this duplica
ton of the Sacco and Vanzetti Off
cial murders on a mass scale!
The protest wires and resolutions
which have aroused the ire and fear
of the southern slave drivers must
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

An enthusiastic send-of was Civ
en- the group of workers, farmers and
professionals who will be present at
the May Day celebrations in the
Soviet Union. The delegation which
was organized by the Friends of the
Soviet Union, were cheered repeated
ly at a mass meeting, held in Irving
Plaza, 18th Street and Irving Place,
Wednesday night.
THE purpose of the delegation"
said John j. BALKAN, national sec
rotary of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, lis to express the solidarity
of the American workers with the
workers in the USSR who are build
ing up socialism while the capital
list lands are in crisis which rocks
them to their foundation
Frank Palmer, manager of The
Federated Press, and a member of
the American trade union delegation
which visited the Soviet Union three
and a half years ago, was the first
speaker. He told of the determine
ton of the workers to fight to pro-
tect the victories of the revolution;
he told of their enthusiasm in build
ing up industry, even before the s.
Year-Plan became effective.
mo one can take those factories
back from those workers until every
one of them had died besides those
walls defending them"
j. A. McCorkel, of Los Angeles,
the chairman Of the delegation,
member of the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Jointers said he would
start off by completing his five min
ute speech in two and one half min
utes.
j. z. Snyder, delegate of an A. F.
Of L. truck drivers local, in San
Francisco told of travelling from the
Pacific to the Atlantic coast and
seeing breadlines stretched all across.
He said he was going to tell the Rus
sian workers the facts of the con-
ditions in this country and return
to tell the American workers beset
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Bosses Fldnnt
Intention to Burn 9 Negro
Youths, Victims of Frame>ub

NEW YORK.-The answer Of the Alabama
boss lynchers to the rising Indignation of the
white and Negro masses against the murderous
frame-up and attempt to burn nine Negro
youngsters in the electric chair is threat wired
to the international Labor Defense last night fling the
chared bodies of the nine working class youths into
of the protesting working class and lynch all parties to
protests which flooding the governor Alabama and
ing the bosses than they wish to admit These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

ing the speeding-up OF sirplane build
ing.
without air corps operations on
large SCALE he said, "such as VIC
are planning this year, We will not
be practiced In the handling of
large numbers of planes and flying
personnel"
He said the object was to get 1888
planes, mostly of the bombardment
and pursuit types, to plunge into the
coming war.
Against these war preparations the
workers must give their answer May
Day. There are plenty of funds for
building war planes, but the bosses
refuse one cent TO the millions of I'M
employed. Demand that all war funds
go to the unemployed for immediate
relief!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

show that while wholesale prices are
falling rapidly, the price of the ne
cessities of life hardly go down at all.
The price of milk, for instance, is
higher than ever.
Drive Is On.
But Alexander gave the steel bosses
the cue i'll their argument for wage
cutt'@r as follows:
ut is ever more fallacious to ar
c"e that wage rates must be main
tened despite reductions in the cost
of living, in order to protect the
standard of living Of American wage
earners.'
1t is with this type of talk that
the wage cutting drive is proceed
ing, affecting every worker in the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
FINAL MAY DAY
CONFERENCE MON.
All Workers E | e c t
Delegates

NEW YORK.-The final United
Front Conference for the organiza-
ton of the May First Conference will
take place Monday, April goth, at the
Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E. 4th ST.,
7:45 p. m.
This conference will still further
expose the socialist party and its al
lance with the police department and
will call upon the rank and file work
ers who are still under the influence
of the socialist party to boycott their
demonstration" and join the work
ing class United Front May Day
Demonstration which will assemble
at Madison Square, 23rd st. and 5tll
Ave, 1890 p. m,
At this conference final organiza-
tional steps will be taken in regard
to the parade and rallying points for
each organization.
We call upon the revolutionary
union, Industrial Leagues. Unem-
ployed Councils, A. F. of L. locals
fraternal sports and language organ
izations, as we'll as workers from
shops to form May Day Shop Com
mittees and send delegations to the
April Goth Conference.
Workers of New York, rally at
Madison Square, 23rd st. and Fifth
Ave, May First, 1890 p. m.
Participate in the march from
Madison Square to Union Square
Elect delegates to the United Front
Conference, if you did not elect them
yet.
Executive Committee, May Day
United Front Conference Com
mittee, John Lemke, Secre-
tary, B. ID. Amis, Chairman.