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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
The Sealed Trunk
BY Henry Kitehell Webster
Copyright BY The BobAs- Merui Co wNu Service

and had been eagerly awaiting her
arrival, both manifest impossible
tiles. that she felt like backing
away and saying It was all a mis-
take. She was fairly amused and
family frightened. but more than
either she was curious to follow
the adventure through and see
what happened. The clerk had
probably mixed her up with some
one else. Anyhow. Mfr. Forster
must be a pretty important person
in this hotel 70 evoke a zeal like
that. even though 1t was mistaken
The bell-boy. on getting instruc-
tons, conducted her over to the Ell
evatorS Right up" he said to the
elevator boy. "all the way" The
bell-boy followed her in and the
car ran all the way to the twenty
fourth floor. regardless or signals.
In the mixture or Rhoda's emo
tons the element OF fear gained a
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little az the expense Of amusement.
She began to feel that she'd start
ed something she might not be able
70 stop.
The twenty-fourth floor appeared
to be the topmost. There were red
Down lights only over all the
elevator doors II didn't appear
to be a regular hotel floor. either,
at least not the whole Of t. for
the broad corridor was cut of BY
q transverse partition OF oak and
ground glass. as Ia an Office build
ing. The bell-boy went over and
pressed the bell button beside q
solid door which had 10 legend o
numerals whatever upon its panel.
There was nc immediate response.
where are you taking me7-
Rhoda asked. trying 20 hide her
nervousness.
He seemed surprised At the cues
tion. "Mr. Forster doesn't come
down 10 his Office much he said.
Hes got q regular house I'D on
the roof OF the hotel. This little
private elevator takes you I'D to
IL. TIN be down In q minute"
Heavens J" Rhoda exclaimed.
Does he own the hotel7"
"And howl" said the boy.
The door opened upon n small
private elevator with a big man IN
I'll He was dressed not In the
hotel livery but in a blue serge suit
with a double-breasted coat. Rhoda
stared Where had she seen him
before?
Miss white" the beIl-boy said.
Its all right, miss the man
said. for she'd involuntarily
backed away nj the sight or him.
mr.. Forster's expecting you"
Reluctantly. beginning now 10
trembie q little. she stepped into
the elevator. denouncing TO herself
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ltcmD
Q.-what Is meant by debentureP A young lady
who has Just been introduced into society.
Q-What the Pyrenees? A-Bleeding gums.
Q-What is a brochure7 A small saddle horse.
Q-What is a streptococcus? Alt is q machine
for giving lectures with lantern slides.
Q-who is John Barton Payne2 A-composer OF
The star spangled Banner"
Q-what is the name Of the commander OF the
Graf Zeppelin? A-Herr Max Einstein.
Q-Wno was Salmon F. Chase? Am old Yankee
baseball player.
Q-What is a conduita A poisonous snake
found In India.
Q-What is a ~sybarite2 A legendary creature
that frequented dangerous bodies Of water and iured
n~avigatoTs 70 disaster.
Q-who is Sir Hubert wilkins? A.-The viceroy
Of india.
Q-DescriDe an autogiro? Alt Is an instrument
70 prevent ships rolling In rough weather.
Q-Who were the argonauts and what did they do?
A-They we're a group Of Americans who financed
Walter Wellman in his first attempt to fly across the
Atlantic in a balloon.
Q-What is a theosophist? A man who doctors
feet.
Q-who is WaIly Toscanini2 Leo Diegel? Jiddu
K~rishnamurti? Administer Of War for Italy. A mu-
steal comedy comedian. A japanese wrestler.
Q-What Is a filament? A strong attachment
between two people.
Q-what is sacchaTine? "A material from which
sacks are made.
Q-what is an abattis9 A place where cattle
are killed.
Q-Who were ScylIa and Charybdis? A-Two
dancers with one OF the early Morris Gest produc-
tons.
Nal the three musketeers9 A-Astroid. Por-
celain and La Argentine.
Q-What the troglodytes? A~.-Slow-witted persons.
Q-What is a fidicuary? A fellow who collects
stamps.
Q-For what was Tsarkoye selo once well known
-"Humores
Q-What is a curassier2 A person who is a
good judge Of food and liquor.
Q-Whst author won the Nobel prize last year and
what was the book? A.-Upton Sinclair. Sister Car
RE"
Nal four members Of the United States su-
preme Court9 A-Charles Evans Holmes. Dudley
Field Malone, Clarence Darrow and Owen Young.
Q-On what condition in American life was the
Wickersham Commission appointed to report2 A.
Government operation of Muscle Shoals.
Q.-Who was it that said. My son and I are in the
market now?' Alt must have been Clark or Nc
Collough.
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l. A population In 1891 Of over $4,000.
Z. a mean average temperature or Is.
= Bank deposits. 100000.
l. Four railroads. seven paved highways.
S. international airport. five air lines.
s. A s6.O00.O00 deep water port financed
Z. The best climate. soil In the world.
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Sixteenth lnstaliment
CHAPTER VIII


The Spider.
TT bad been the mere momen-
1 tum Of pursuit rather than nj
consciously adopted plan that had
caused Rhoda to dismiss her taxi
and follow Claire Cleveland into
the Worcester hotel She wasn't
more than a minute or two behind
her and what she expected. as far
ms she'd clearly expected anything,
had been TO see Claire at the desk
i~ncuiring for Mr.. Forster.
Claire was nowhere to be seen
Very likely she hadn't had to ask
at the desk but had ridden straight
up In one OF the elevators. Hav-
Ing lost contact with her quarry,
Rhoda sat down IN one or the
massive armchairs in the lobby to
think things out a little.
What ground had she for assum-
ing that Claire had come here to
e Forster Well. IL was quite
reasonable when you considered it.
Out OF the whole tissue or lies
Claire had told at lunch the one
emergent truth had been the gen.
uineness OF her hatred OF Forster
and her belief that he hated her.
He might be, Rhoda perceived.
Just ~ unpleasant q person as
Claire had painted him. or he
might be perfectly benevolent, a
pOtentiai friend The advertise
ment Ia the paper. that Rhoda
would learn something to her adj
vantage by applying to him. might
be true He couldn't be danger
ous-not physically da~ngerous--If
be couldn't even walk without the
aid Of two canes.
And II he was the nan who had
brought her and Babe downtown
this morning. as she didn't doubt
he was. he now knew where she
worked II not where she lived; and
this meant she couldn't avoid him
unless she moved out or the studio
and got a new job. RI she was
going TO see him. what better
strategic opportunity could she
have for the visit than while Claire
was there q~uarreling with hlm3
She started across the lobby to-
ward the desk TO ask If Mr. C. j.
Forster Lived there. She needn't
actually 90 up to Mr.. Forster's
apartment unless she wanted to.
An inquiry az the desk wouldn't
commit her to anything.
But. In the strangest way, Il did.
The clerk didn't directly answer
her question. whether Mr.. @. J.
Forster lived there or not. He
asked for her name instead. Bur
the moment she gave IL Gas Rhoda
Whltel his manner became alert
and deferentfa5.
AOh. yes Miss White" he said.
snd nodded to a belI-boy.
His manner % strangeI, sug-
gested that he knew all about her
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war We we're killing ny retail tut
next time we shall do it hy whole
sale. The next war. II Il ever should
come. viii be- fought by aircraft and
by aircraft using poison gas.
Every year our air force car
rieS out mancuvers over London.
Have you ever thought what those
maneuvers mean? They mean that
our staff. like every other staff, AN
now expecting that the operations
or the next war win be air attacks
against great centerS OF industry
and civilian populations.
1T II useless to protest that such
warfare would be ar international
crime. We have surely learned
that 10 is beyond our power to
humanize the conduct Of modern
war. Once war begins mo man and
no government can control IT, The
only way 70 stop such barbarities "
10 stop war itself"
He pleaded for the powers 10 ap-
prcach the forthcoming conference
with q view 10 obtaining an subGtmn-
tiaI reduction In national arTrlA-
mentS.
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The Once Over
ELMER TwIrcHELL TAKES AN INTELLIGENCE

cCoIumbia professors either refused to answer or
IN most cases made poor showings in an intelligence
test submitted to them by students. One professor
said Poincare was still premier Of France. another
that chromium was a kind Of spark plug."-News
item)
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Their Mistake

The staff az a certain picture theater could not
understand during the first showings of the movie.
BY Rocket to the Moon" the presence Of scores Of
staggering young men who had something Of the
g~angster in their makeup. 1t developed later that
the boys understood the picture was BY Racket to
the Moon"
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There was a club hostess named Belle
Who thought being arrested was swell
When arraigned in a court
She considered It sport
TIL she woke up n morn in a cell.
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IT'S THE HUMIDITY

MONTREAL=Wet summers In
India mean cold winters IN Canada
and dry summers i'm India mean
mild winters In Canada. 50 figures
gathered during the past IA years
prove. DR.. G.. =. Brooks. Of Clark
University. has used these figures
I'm predicting weather conditions I'm
Canada for the past six years.
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His manner 80 strangely sur
gested that he knew oil about her
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They are telling the story Of q shady bank director
Of whom a d~epositor demanded. Don't YOU know any
thing about Ethics7" and who replied. you mean
that show about Elizabeth and Ethics?"
Copyright. 1891. BY The Associated NewspapersO
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Way back when brokerage office men didn't get ex-
cited unless a stock went up more than a point?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
City Iron Workers
Pool Pennies and
Dimes for Relief

Workers Of Claremont. Madison,
and Builders Iron Works pooled their
pennies, nickels and dimes to send a
donation of $11.45 to the heroic min
ers who are carrying on bitter
strike against starvation in the mine
fields OF Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia and Kentucky
The 10000 striking miners appeal
to the entire working class to help
them defeat hunger. Rush funds,
ond tents to the Penn-Ohio Striking
Miners Relief Committee, Room $50,
1919 Broadway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
List New Stations
In Harlem For the
Relief Collections

There have been some changes in
the addresses of Striking Miners Re
lief Stations situated in Harlem. The
following are the correct addresses:
Hungarian Workers House, $50 E.
8lst St, Italian Workers Club 237 E.
LOG ST.; the Spanish Center, ITO w.
10th ST.; the Finnish Workers
Home. is W. 126th ST. Preparations
for the securing of relief station in
Upper Harlem are under way.
Rush Funds.
Workers are urgently requested to
collect food, clothes, tents and money
and rush to the above addresses for
the relief of the 10000 miners who
are in desperate need of relief. Work
ers should remember that the fight
of the miners against starvation is a
fight for the entire working class and
that the miners can win only if i'm
mediate relief is sent to them. If it
is inconvenient to send your collec-
tions to any of the above addresses
send them to the Penn-Ohio Striking
Miners Relief Committee, Room 800,
799 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
.NTWIUDRESSDEPT
OPENS SHOP DRIVE

NEW YORK.-With the approach
of the season in the dress trade, the
dress department of the Industrial
Union is organizing the rank and
file organization committee and
starting drive to unionize the open
shops.
"a call has been issued by the dress
department asking all workers to
bring their complaints to the union,
to organize themselves in the shops,
and on united front basis take up
the struggle for better prices and
union conditions. Workers are urged
not to leave their open shops to look
for better jobs but to report these
shops to the Industrial Union and
with the assistance of the Indus
trial Union unionize them.
The dress department is planning
a membership meeting during the
coming week where the plans of the
executive council and the trade com
nlittee will be acted upon and the
organizations drive launched.
Two pickets, Mary Britten and
Bella zepner. we're arrested yester-
day in front of a striking dress shop,
327 w. So st, Both workers were
released in the custody of the law
yer and will come up for trial on
Thursday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
REVOLT AGAINST
FUR CO. UNION
RISING HIGH
Furriers Rout Cans
of Guerillas Sent
Against Them

NEW YORK.-Yesterday afternoon
a group of gorillas sent by the Kauf
nian-Stetsky company union by pre-
vious arrangement with the boss
came up to Prince Bros, 325 Seventh
Ave, in an effort to terrorlze the
workers into paying dues to the COM
pany union.
The workers Of the shop arose from
their seats and drove them from the
shop. AS soon as the workers Of
other shops learned what was taking
place in Prince Bros, huge crowd
gathered in front Of the building de-
ternined to drive the gangsters out
of the fur center In order to save
the gang from the wrath of the
workers, the police arrested three of
them. Before they reached the police
station they were promptly released
This incident at Prince Bros. shows
the mood of the fur workers and
their readiness to fight against the
company union agents of the bosses.
After this incident occurred in the
shop. the workers came down to the
Industrial Union, held a meeting and
organized themselves to defend their
conditions in the shots against the
boss and his company union agents.
The movement against payment Of
dues to the company union has
spread out through the entire indus
try. The workers feel that the time
has passed when the boss could com
pei them to maintain the kaufman
ststsky gang Of parasites who extort
money from The workers
The rank and file opposition of the
Joint Council is arranging a mass
meeting in Irping Plaza Thursday
night. In their call for The meeting,
addressed to registered workers only,
they state that the meeting will take
up the question as to why the Stetsky
and Kaufman permit overtime for
single time when thousands Of fur
workers are unemployed; what the
Joint Council means by the fake slo-
gan zone Union; why the Council
is afraid to call membership meet
ings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
60 Year Plan,' Soviet
Film in Second Week
at Cameo Theatre

The Special Committee to Elimin-
ate Illiteracy has just published a
report showing the rapid disappear
ance of illiterate people in Soviet
Russia today under the Five Year
Plan. In Czarist Russia less than
one-fourth of the population could
read and write. BY 1880 the Soviet
Government had made two-thirds, of
the population literate, Last year
alone over ten million persons were
taught to read and write, and the
Five-Year Plan provides for the en-
rollment in hteracy classes this year
of twenty-five million more. Thou
sands of workers and peasants of
the cities and villages have been
taught to read and write during the
first half of this year, half of them
being women. AT this rate. the Five
Year Plan will be CRIED out laong
this line in about two nd one-half
yers, since the number of persons
trained this year will be higher than
that originally called for by the last
year Of the Plan, 1888.
This aim has been accomplished
through tn establishing Of travelling
schools, as well as high schools, and
the results of the cultural revision
being carried on in the Soviet Union
under the Plan are remarkable. The
building of clubs, libraries, and hos
pitfalls, and the freeing of formerly
oppressed nationalities from cent
uries of tyranny and superstition, are
other aspects of Soviet cultural dey-,
elopment fully provided for in the
Five-Year Plan, and are being car
ried out far ahead of schedule.
THE Fiye-Year Plan: Russias Re-.
making" synchronized with talk
in English which gives the back
ground and significance Of the vari-
Gus phses Of the Five Year Plan,
shows the amazing progress made in
the Soviet Union during the first
half Of the great Socialist Construc-
ton. 1t is now in its second week
at the Cameo Theatre, where it is
playing for the first time at popular
prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
TO PROTEST JIM
CROW CITY POOL
Elizabeth w or k err S
Demonstrate Sat.

ELIZABETH, N. IA mass de-
monstration will be held this Sat
urday against discrimination against
Negro workers at the bod Swimming
Pool The demonstration will be-
gin at 100 pm, and will be held at
the swimming pool East Jersey and
Front Street
The swimming pool is municipal
pool and is supposed to be for the
use of all residents in Elizabeth. I'm
der various pretenses, however, the
city authorities try to prevent the
Negro workers from using the pool.
A gang hired by the city to keep
order" at the pool makes it prac-
tice to attack any Negro worker who
tries to use the pool
Saturdays demonstration against
this vicious discrimination is called
by the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights, and the Young Com
munist League, with the cooperation
Of the Communist Party. These or
CARNATIONS are putting forward the
following demands on the ciyt au-
thorities
Free use of the swimming pool for
all workers.
No discrimination against Negroes.
Abolition of the city-employed
gangs at the swimming pool.
In their struggles against starva-
ton and evictions, the workers of
Elizabeth are learning that only uni
ted action by both Negro and white
workers can break down the boss
terror against the working class. The
white workers are rallying under the
leadership of the revolutionary
movement to the defense of the Ne
gro masses and the fight for equal
rights for Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
GARY NEGRO
WORKER SLAIN
BY POLICE
dubbed for Hours
Then Shot Down in
Cold Blood

GARY, Ind, Aug, ia Negro
worker was murdered by Gary police
last Saturday morning. The worker
was shot by Policeman Sam Bolden
after two hours Of brutal clubbing
and kicking by Bolden and his-feiiow
officers
The workers cries could be heard
in the neighboring houses and in
the streets, where hundreds of Ne
gro and white workers, attracted by
his cries, had gathered and witnessed
the police beat and murder this I'M
armed, defenSeless worker.
The workers of Gary are thor
oughly aroused by this outrage, com
ing shortly after the Chicago police
massacre of unemployed workers,
The Communist Party is planning q
series of demonstrations against the
police terror. The international La
Dor Defense has collected the names
Of witnesses to this brutal assault
A significant feature of the police
attack was that the police deliber-
ately opened the windows of the
house so that the workers could wit
ness the assault. This fully ex-
poses the terroristic nature of the
attack, which was plainly carried out
to terrorize the Negro and white
workers who have been uniting to-
gether in the struggle against I'M
employment, and have united to de-
fend Ulysses Mack, a Negro worker
framed up by the Gary bosses. Mack
was sentenced to burn in the electric
chair following farcical trial and
confession" extorted from him by
the most brutal third degree meth
DDS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

The strike of the Paterson silk
and dye shops which is three weeks
old on Wednesday, finds the work.
ers firmly united. Not one worker
has gone back to work except the
workers of those shops in which the
Associated-A. F. Of L. leaders are
maneuvering fake settlements. The
strikers led by the fighting National
Textile Workers Union are fighting
hard and for a real settlement. They
will not sacrifice their demands to
unfavorable settlements. They real
he that it is their fighting spirit
and determination that have pre-
vented the A, F. of L.-Associated
from more openly proceeding to SELL
outs.
Meanwhile the workers in the
shops in which the A. F. of L. has
settled are complaining openly to
members of the N. r. W. U. In the
case Of the York silk Mill the work
ers we're merely told by the off
cials TO return to work. without even
being told of the terms. The boss
called the workers in, asked them
70 show their Associated book and
announced his terms. The prices he
offered we're much below the union
demands. The workers openly ex-
press their disgust with the tactics
OF the A. F. Of L. and want to know
how to bring about unity with the
N.TWU.
To Form Unity Committee
The United Front General Strike
Committee has decided upon a de-
finite mode Of procedure to again
attempt to bring about unity with
the rank and file of workers who
are still under the domination of the
fake union. A committee Of fifteen
was elected by the strike committee
this afternoon to present a program
Of unity to the rank and file work
ers Of the Asscciated-A, p. of L., the
chief points of which are that a COM
mittee Of twenty-five rank and file
shop workers from each union meet
TO discuss mthods teo obtain unity,
that tn basis of discussion shall be
one united strike committee, one
united picket line and united front
shop committee in each shop. These
proposals will be issued in leaflet
form and given the widest distribu-
ton among the workers, after which
the workers will be approached by
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lief is becoming an urgent question
and the relief committee is success
fully involving the strikers them
selves in the collection of food and
money. However, the workers need
more support than they can rally
locally and appeal to workers
throughout the country for assis-
lance.
Weisbord Tries Deportation.
At the mass meeting this morning
in packed hall one speaker after
another soke of the continued need
for large and militant picket lines.
The meeting was proceeding peace
fully when an attempt was made by
an expelled member of the N. T. w.
u Albert Weisbord, to get the floor.
After short disturbance. the work
erS effectively showed their resent
ment at his presence and although
his fenchmen among the workers
tried hard to get the floor for him
the meeting proceeded peacefully to
the end in time to go on the picket
line this noon
In order to prevent any more such
disturbances. the strike committee
this afternoon elected an additional
committee of five which will pass on
all speakers who want the floor With
the exception Of actual strikers