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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

right? You're a good pilot, aint you? You could have made twice as much flying for my mob as you've got now, and you wouldn't be facing a shift for yourself, now either. Sure, Limp's split with you birds. I split with mine, too. Listen, you guys, I'll lay you five to one that I've split grands with my gang while Linp's been split ting centuries"
 Maybe so,' agreed the doubt ful one, who was apparently, one of the pilots of the amphibian. But your men get bumped off SC fast the money don't do them any good"
 'Pah!" Lucci's voice was con- temptcus. ~A few torpedoes and muscle men get too slow drawing their bags and the other pgu fogs away first. That isn't what I want you for I want you birds for the smooth stuff. The brain word see? Murphy here, will boss the flock of new flyers I'm getting to- gether. This aviation racket is a new one to me, but there are mil liens in t and I'm going to cop onto it good. The rest of you will be collectors and Tommy men. And" he added significantly, you can trust me never to lam out on you when things get hot and leave you to shoot it out with the dicks, see?"
 What do we stand to make if we come over to you?" This was from a man who had not spoken before.
 Copyright, Dial Press.)
 The gangsters plot an at
 tack on the house, in the next installment, and Jerry and
 Stevens strengthen their de- lenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

The per capita circulation of money in the United States increased $175 during the month of June Government statsticans announce with pride. If they are correct, somebody got away with $2 we ought to have had
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19
0 Gamblers Throw @V bH E1a1tace [. AdaA,tA-
bH E1t1tdCk '. A

SYNOPSIS: Jerry Calhoun and Nancy Wentworth are taunted after their secret mar riage by Limpy Ashwood, who has Kidnapped her and five men, one of whom has been murdered, and holds them on an island for ransom. Lucci, a gangster, one of the prison CTS, hopes to outtrick Ash wood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

Want Ad in The Empire-Lost, pair of baseball shoes and glove. Must be member of the Ameri- can Legion club It has lost everything except it's clothing since the second half of the season began
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

If and when Prohibition is repealed the country will get rid of lot of it's best celars.-( (Philade- phia Bulletin)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

A country can't very well prosper that is legally all dry and illegally three-quarters wet-(B Boston Transcript
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

What the Lausanne conference needs is Pro- hibtion issue to stir it back to lfe.-(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-19

And still nobody knows whether President Hoove s wet or a dry.-Lousvlle Courier -Journal0
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
TRUSTFUL BERRY
GROWER LOSES WAD
Meets Brown-Eyed Girl and 1t
Costs Him 1894.

Kansas City, Mo. - Strawberries
yielded abundantly on Walter Gro
forth's 40-acre Ozark farm, near ST.
loan Springs. Ark. this year.
The strawberries all In, Walter set
out to celebrate the occasion. In his
wallet was s264 In bills. And In his
soul was faith in humanity.
He proved that beyond the perad-
venture Of doubt when he turned up
at police headquarters.
Walter feared. with mountaineer's
wholesome. solemn anxiety, that the
brown-eyed young woman he met here
might have been kidnapped .or some
thing What brown-eyed woman7
Why. the one who went into the post
office TO mail letter to her mother.
She said she'd be right back, you
know.
An hour of waiting increased Wal
ter's anxiety to considerable propro-
tions. She'd been SO nice to him /,
warned him against the city slickers
lurking about to steal his money.
He encountered her crossing the
street in the downtown section while
his wallet and his enthusiasm were
still intact.
"She was loaded down with bum
dies" he told police. And she asked
me TO help her across. Then we kind
of got acquainted and she began tell
Ing me had better not show anybody
my wallet with the strawberry money
In II.
"Finally--she was really worried,
you know just told her we'd fool
the crooks by having her put the
money In her purse. And everything
was all right. That Is. until she went
In to mail that letter to her mother.
4Officer. do you think she's al
right?'
The officer thought she was; all
right, In fact, to the extent Of s264
But Walter scoffed. Hadn't he seer
her nice brown eyes? And didn't sht
60 In to mail letter to her mother
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
Confessed Murderer Is
Freed: Can't Find Body

Calhoun City, Miss. --Like a charac-
ter from fiction. Roy Edward Smith
has emerged from the yelled past to
return here and insist he murdered
man whose death never has been re-
corded.
But despite valiant efforts OF off,
GERS and Smith, no corpus dilecti
could be found and authorities refused
to hold him.
well, I'll stay around these parts
for awhile In case you find the body
and want TO indict me-" Smith said
and he went back to farm near Driv-
err, Ark, where he had been working.
Prodded by guilty conscience.
Smith surrendered to officers at Osce-
ola, Ark. with the story that he had
murdered Fred Davis. an itinerant
worker, near here. in April. 1929, be-
cause Davis threatened to kldnap the
daughter Of a friend.
The body of Davis never was recov-
cred, nor did any one ever hear OF
any sucn uuiuei. AHus uespltc uib
ready confession, Smith will remain a
free man, according to Sheriff Zach
Powell, because of the obvious--a cor
pus dilecti has not been established.
1t appears hopeless that 1t will be
established after three long years, dur.
ing which time Smith claims to have
served term for desertion from the
army
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22

to occur. provided | carry the load
indefinitely IL the stock keeps ad-
yanclng. the fellow who has sold five
thousand shares short faces the daily
job of digging up anywhere from five
to twenty thousand dollars additional
margin There's such a thing as
reaching the point where one has no
more margin available. and when that
point Is reached ones broker just nat
urally plays safe and sells one out
and one is busted"
Roberta came to the old man and
put her fair arms around his leathery
neck. I'm Uncle Toms heir. At
least he wrote me to that effect once
when he was very Ill
"The time he was shot by his fore
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22

sickness but his mother says. when
Leroy was Just little fellow, we
found his stomach and bowels were
weak. He kept suffering from con-
stipatlon. Nothing he ate agreed
with him. He was fretful, feverish
and puny.
"When we started giving him Cali
fornia Fig Syrup his condition I'M
proved quickly. His constipation and
bIliousness stopped and he has had
no more trouble of that kind. | have
since used California Fig Syrup with
him for colds and upset spells. He
likes 1t because 1t tastes SO good and
like 1t because 1t helps him 80
wonderfully !"
California Fig Syrup has been the
trusted standby of mothers for over
so years. Leading physicians recon-
mend it. 1t Is purely vegetable and
works with Nature to regulate, tone
and strengthen the stomach and
bowels of children so they get full
nourishment from their food and
waste is eliminated In normal way.
-Four million bottles used a year
shows how mothers depend on 1t. Al
ways look for the word california"
on the carton to be sure Of getting
the genuine.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
Nations Largest Ranch

The largest singly owned ranch
in the United States is the Kings
ranch, at Kingsvlle. Texas. which
comprises 1,2S0.00O acres of land.
This ranch borders the Gulf of Mex
leo for 100 miles and more than
100000 calves are branded on 1t each
season. Kingsville Is a town of
about 5000 people and is the center
of this vast estate, which Is largely
supported by the industries of the
ranch. Star.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
Truck Knocks Five
Cars OFF the Rails

San Jose. Calif.-Trying to emu
late the man who bit the dog. Mar
tin Boyajlan ran his truck through
"a signal and knocked five moving
freight cars off the tracks at O
crossing.
Boyajian was treated at hospi-
tai for a possible fractured skull.
1t took an emergency crew nine
hours to set the cars In motion
again.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
First Time at Wheel
Brings Jail Sentence

Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Helen
Chwal's first attempt to drive an auto
mobile brought her 30.day sentence
In the workhouse on an order not to
drive an auto for six months. She
lost control of the machine and struck
q pedestrian after taking "a couple OF
drinks" to steady her nerves for the
first solo trip.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22

Il patllellc mlSlil, SLOW
ly fading into the sun
set, should visit the
Blackfeet and their
c h lie f, 7 W o G u n s
White Calf.
Here is the most
travelled Indian in the
world today, and the
best known. His IA
Their, White Calf, the
last lineal chief of the
Blackfeet. was a
warm friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and Ii
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
You Loael

The teacher was testing the
knowledge of a kindergarten class.
Shaping half-dollar on the desk,
she said sharply.
aWhat Is that?n
Instantly, a voice from the back
row, Tails"
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
Los Angeles Boy
Needed Help

Leroy Young, 1116
Georgia St, Los An
geles, is a regular
f e IL o W." active In
sports, and at the
top In his classes at
school. To look at
him now, you'd think
he never had a days
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
TWO GUNS WHITE CALF

Those who think that the day OF
the Indian is done. and picture him as
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-22
mercoIizedWax
Keeps Skin Young

Get ounce aud directed. Fine particles OF AGED
akin peel of until all defects such pimpl1s. liver
spots. tan and ifeokies disappear. Skin ia then hot
and selvoty Your face looks Merooli.ed
Wax brings the hidden beauty of your skin. 10
remove wrinkles ounce Powdered saroiito
dissolved in onehal pint witch hazel At drug
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
Worker Defends
the Hunger MarcherS

QOBERT MINOR internationally known revolutionary
IL writer left for Washington by aplane yesterday to
port the readers of the Daily Worker directly from the
scenes struggle of the 5000 Hunger Marchers in Wash
ngton
The entire capitalist press has formed solid united
front with the police army and armed thugs sent out by the
Hoover hunger government to teoze the representatives
of the interests of the millions of starving unemployed
1t is only the Daily Worker the voice of the revolution
airy workers in this country and central Of the Com
munist Party of the u S. A. which is defending the Hunger
Marchers the representatives of these millions of a
ing workers and their families Workers everywhere
and women, young and DID, workers of all and natl
Qualities defend your revolutionary organ your spokesman
the Daily Worker
NPREAD the Daily Worker Line up behind the circulation
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mediate winter relief, for the right to live.
Order special bundles! Get subscriptions Counter
act the poisonous lies and vicious lynch campaign raised by
the capitalist press against the representatives of the mil
lions of unemployed now in Washington.
Demand your constitutional right to petition Congress
and let the representatives of the Wall Street government
know that you will not quietly but that you will fight
to the finnish for your rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06

gers dyin' here'bouts now"
81 dunno bout the dyin', but
there1l be niger stretched for
startin' this!"
Please, sub, Capn = l didn't
mean to start nothin'. 1 was jes
scairt slapped to death, suh----"
Wen see IL we kin scare you
enough to keep yo' damn mouth
shut in the future the warden
returned yIcIOusiy. Jesse, git
the cuffs an ropes.'
TIE night guard handed the torch
to a trusty and disappeared into
his shack.
"Bartowl SAM Git that Niger
out of the cage an put i'm in the
blacksmith shelter"
The two convicts carried the dead
boy from the cage.
You stay here!' Bill Irvine or
dercd the still trembling Negro
1.-THE rest O. you git back in there
an don't let me hear any mo Of
that God damned noise. The mex
time I'll stretch ev'ry one O. you'll
Ebeuezer approached Irvine.
"Capn, please, suh," he pleaded,
cain you put couple O. pennies
on Cons eyes SOS he won't look
at us wen we's sleepin'?"
TWINE AGREES
Twine's fists clenched, but there
had been enough trouble without
terrifying the Negroes more, and
he growled:
alright. III have a couple O.
coppers put on EN-"
Ebenezer scrapsd gratefully. The
night guard came with a pair of
shiny handouts. snapped them on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
INsTALLMENT 81.

TIMID ones, fearful OF punishment
1 ceased their cries. Others,
fearful of being singled out by
their voices, stopped Only an un-
dercWrent of whispers and indis-
tinct, muttered protests sounded in
the Negro cage.
Cit some torches an open that
door' the warden ordered angrily.
Two bright flares burst kissing
and sputtering, throwing weird
light on the frightened faces peer
ing through the bars.
THE night guard swung the door
open.
pile outl All o your he
shouted.
They came, barefooted, half
naked and huddled together in
front of the cage, silent and APP
prehensive.
What the hell happened?" Bill
Irvine demanded.
No one answered.
WIN Dual OCd JlllS = L dlh llONy
God damn you! or I'll stretch
y'alp
Il got scairt, Cap'n." the Negro
who had uttered the first cry said,
his teeth chattering. Hes daid
in dey!"
HOW TT HAPPENED
A rush of words came as though
he feared being stopped before he
explained why he had shrieked.
He had started for a pot. Cons
hand hung over the rim of his
bunk. While bending to avoid an
outstretched foot from an upper
bunk, his chest brushed the hand.
1t was cold, and the horror of be-
ing locked in with the dead had
terrified him.
so that's it, eh? That's why
you woke the camp an raised all
this hell"
II didn't mean to start all dat,
sub. was scairt. Dey'll be mig
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
Fred Beal, Gastonia
Strike Leader, Halls
New Novel of South

TIRED BEAL, Well-lcnoWn leader
L Of the Gastonia strike of 1929. in
a letter sent from the Soviet Union,
halls Gathering Storm, novel by
Myra Page, just published by In
ternational Publishers, as an OUT
standing contribution to proletarian
literature.
81 have been looking forward
to the time when some writer
would give us real working
class story about the exciting
class struggles taking place in the
South. Some books have been
written by sympathetic authors,
but they seemed to have failed
to take in the motive power and
guiding spirit behind the class
drama.
'Myra Page. in her novel
Gathering Storm, has done
this. A history of the lives and
struggles of these workers is
shown from the time they leave
the mountains and low-landS on
through the dark days of long
grinding hours in the mills at
pittance wages
II took part in the first major
fight in the South-the Gastonia
strike. All her characters are
real ones So real that when 1
turned each page I knew this
one and that l suffered along
with one and shed angry tears
with another until finally I
vowed to continue until the whole
ugly thing that caused this was
wiped out. FIRED BEAL".
The popular edition of Gather
ing Storm selling at $1o0 will be
ready in few days and will be
obtainable at all workers book
shops or direct from Workers
Library Publishers, Box 148, Sta,
D., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
Letters from Our
Readers
What Is the Communist
Stand ON COOperatives,
Is Workers Question
Deming, N. M

Deming, N. NJ
Dear Comrades:
1t has often been suggested that
we form ourselves into groups, CO.
operatives, and artels for the pur-
pose Of farming idle land, canning
and conserving foods and fruits
which are going to waste, and so
save ourselves from starvation. AS
know that these cooperative
ventures have failed in the past,
as is seen in conditions now at the
Llano Colony in Louisiana, yet l
have never seen the Communist
position as to artels explained
What is the correct answer
ANSWER.
Within limits co-operatives I'M
der capitalism are useful to the
workers; for instance cooperative
publishing houses to produce work.
ing-claSS literature. 1t is a danger
Gus illusion, however, to imagine
that by forming co-operativeS it is
possible to make inroads upon the
capitalist system, or to enable the
working class to escape the effects
of capitalist crises. Co-operatives
launched upon such a basis newt
ably degenerate into capitalist
ventures, with an individual or
group of individuals getting the
benefit. Co-operatives cannot grow
into a socialist society. Such vent
ures as the Llano colony are at
best utopias, at the worst petty
rackets Of such adventurers as
Job Hartman, the former S. P.
leader in California
Certain aspects of current agi-
tation for co-operatives are a
menace to the working class. Such,
for instance, as the demands of
Chambers of Commerce, Citizens
leagues, and the Socialist Party
that ting unemployed workers
should farm idle land. This is just
a deception to hold back the work
ers from mass struggle against the
hunger program of the capitalist
class. At time when hundreds
of thousands of farmers are being
driven by hunger from the land it
is criminal to propose to workers
that they get out of the industrial
centers and starve like stray ami
mails on the land
Of similar deceptive nature is
the proposal of Norman Thomas
that workers operate idle factories"
and exchange goods with each
other Under such procedure the
workers would get a few miserable
articles instead of money for thei
work, while the factory owners
would get their dividends, rent or
interest. 1t would be the worst
kind of forced labor, with Soci-
alist Party label.
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the Negroes wrists and tied a long
rope to the links between the cuffs.
Come on!" he said, yanking the
rope.
EBENEzzER turned to the warden
Il again.
"Cap'n, 'scuse me, please sub, but
ain you gonter have somebody set
up wild Con? He'll ha'nt us sho if
he ain walked, sub"
Alright. You set up with i'm If
you want to
Eyes, sub. Be glad TO, sub. Kin
1 git some salt an ashes FUN de
cook TO his sickness, too, suhP"
YEAH" Irvine said, and walked
to the stunted concrete post to
which the guard was already tying
the convict.
Through the bars figures could be
seen moving silently and swiftly
before the white post. The war
den, an absurd figure in his I'M
derwear, held flare high.
The unresisting Negro with his
bhNN w ollC PODOS was ldCGu W ~
from ankles to hips with a rope
and the one tied to the cuffs slipped
about the second post. The guard
pulled sharply. The conyicts's
torso jerked forward, bending at
right angles, his arms outstretched.
His head dropped between the arms.
The sweat on his back and arms
glistened in the light.
Stretch" the warden ordered
harshly.
The guard pulled until the rope
was as taut as tuned violin
string.
"Oh. Jesus!" the Negro screamed.
"Yo' pullin' my arms out!'
THE rope was wound around the
post and tied, leaving the con-
yict stretched so the slightest
movement threatened to wrench
his shoulders from their sockets.
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lone hour!' the warden said
CURLY and extinguished the torch.
Over the means of the Negro on
the rack sounded Ebenezer's cries.
He was a vauge shadow rocking on
his launches, waking the dead
while arranging the plateful of
ashes and salt under the body COW
cred with burlap bags. His voice
was indistinct, but as his emotions
rose it came clear:
'Po' Con!
Pc black boyl
You done lef' us n
No mo- cage. No mo- chains.
No mo- cough an no mo- blooo
Come on, Consumption, an GIT |
into dat salt an ashes an leave
dis po' black boy alonel
Leavem alone SOS he kin enter
&c bright gates o heaven all good
an whole.
Pc black boyl
Yo' free now
Like a red breaSt flynn In de
AN OLD LULLABY
From somewhere in the receSses
of his memory rose an old lullaby
he had crooned to his children:
or cow, oil COW,
Whey is yo' calf?
Way down y0nder in de meadow!
De buzZards an de flies
A-pickin' out his eyes
Oh. de po' iii thing cried 'M4mmy!'
Jesus Christi, voice from the
white cage shouted. Cant some-
body hush that nigger,"
Continued Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06

This comraoe name r. The land
lord sent the law to his home last
Saturday for taking his livestock
and crop while he was off from
home assisting with a diseased per
son that died in his community,
The indebtedness they claim against
r is 500. The claim was made In
1929. And r have went off and
serve a sentence in the peneten-
tiary, he say for the same indebt-
edness.
And many others outrageous
crimes is committed here against
the colored people that could
mention.
Yours as faithful worker fore
better condishuns.
THESE letters help to explain the
ScottSboro case, why orphan
Jones is being dragged to the gal
lows, and why only week ago Ed
Dunlap was brutally lynched when
he demanded his wages from
white foreman. They show that
the murdered Negro choppers of
Camp Hill did not go off to cut
wood for nothing. The wood they
have cut will destroy ultimately the
barearism that crushed them.
These letters show that Henry
Lowry did not suffer hell in vain
because he dared ask his landlord
for wages withheld from him for
two years. Burned like pine knot
TO an ash, his body in its last ag-
onies has thrown out a light to help
Negro farmers in their bitter strug-
giles. These letters show cleary
why Negro farmers will be at the
Farm Conference In Washington
shoulder to shoulder with the
oppressed white farmer, ready to
battle for their rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06

hour week-without reduction in
pay.
President Green called loudly il
his closing speech for some MN
tant union to take the lead' In tn
movement for it, He advoca "a
the use Of "forcibIe measures" 10
obtain it, He called for, not only
the maintaining CT living standards
Of workers but fer raising them.
Norman Thomas had already en-
dorsed the shorter work day and
week slogan of the A. F.. of L-lonr
before it wss amended.
This action places some new
problems before the Communist
Party and deserves the most ears.
full examination,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06

lican, Democratic AMI non-party
workers. But the Presidential
vote of the S. P. shows that 1t
has several hundred thousands of
worker supporters)
The launching OF the energetic
and widespread campaign on the
issue Of compulsory unemployment
insurance by the A. r. of L. and
the S, P. leaders makes the imme-
date application on a big scale of
the above directives Of vital i'm
pOrtance.
Since the above was written the
American Federation of Labor con-
vention has reversed its former
position, denounced the share-the-
work plan and endorsed the 30
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
A CORRECTION

An important typographical err
ror crept into one OF the quota
tions in Comrade DUNES third
article published Saturday, Dec. 3,
in the third column in the
quotation from Standard
Trade and Securities which should
read Easing of credit will make
possible the installation of speedier
and more efficient machinery
which will make II more difficult
for the re-absorption of displaced
workers"