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THE DAILY WORKER VEILED THREAT TO POINCARE Ramsay MacDonald in Open Diplomacy LONDON, March 3.—Ramsay Mac- Donald and Premier Poincare have made public correspondence dealing with the strained relatigns that_now exists between the two former allies. France has the most powerful air fleet in the world, the largest army and is bending every effort to build a fleet of submarines for the pur- pose of blockading England in the next war which is considered here to be brewing. ; England knows that France is building her armament against her. Ramsay MacDonald the pacifist, be- fore he came into office is now Ram- say MacDonald the militarist, build- ing warships, increases his King’s air forces and supplementing this preparation for war with France by a diplomatic barrage with which he seeks to put France in a bad light as his predecessor Lord Grey did with Germany in 1914. MacDonald Backs Lords, France and England are quarreling over the bleeding carcass of Germany. England fears Germany may finally surrender to France and that the economic masters of both countries may come to terms thus forming a combination that will put an end to England as a world power. But Britain does not intend to let the mastery of Europe and of the world slip from her grasp. The old lion is mow growling at Fran@ as she led at Germany before 1914. icany MacDonald the pacifist is now the mouthpiece of British capi- talism as Lord Grey was before the world war. It was said here before MacDonald assumed office that his job would be to arouse the workers of England egainst France, the opinion being that the Tories and Liberals could not win the masses to their side for another war. It now appears that MacDonald lost no time in carrying out the wishes of the imperialists. It is believed that the reformist laborites will be allowed to remain in office so long as they can be found useful in pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for the employers of Brit- ain. MacDonald has already lost fifty per cent of his popularity with the masses since his sumption of wer. cinias wh tayo " a csp sot eve! ciple that he ever gavs iy sk Bag to. Without the backing of the workers he cannot last long. MasDonald Suspicious of French, / Premier Ramsay MacDonald. Kas Weittes "to Premier-Poincane Sabout British suspicions of France, of the vast aerial fleets and of French inten- tions “to gain what she failed to gain during the pegce negotiations.” Poincare, in a personal letter equally outspoken, defended France’s militaristic policies. The correspondence is to continue. Two letters, MacDonald’s to Poincare of February 21, and the French Premier’s prompt reply a few days later were published today. Previous letters were exchanged in January. — Altho the correspondence consti- tutes a blunt statement by MacDonald that the British are growing suspi- cious of France and explains the rea- son why the large French air force is not understood across the channel, it was Poincare who suggested publi- cation, according to a semi-official an- nouncement from Paris, MacDonald’s letter of February 21, 1s in part as follows: “My Dear Premier: “T am encouraged by the friendly nature of the reply which you re- turned to my letter of January 26 to try and carry to a further stage the exploration of points that have raised some difficulties in the relations be- tween our respective countries, France Spills the Beans. “It is widely felt in England, that to the provisions of the treaty of Versailles, nce is en- deavoring to create a situation which gains for it what it failed to get dur- . ing the allied peace negotiations. The view of this section of my coun- trymen is that the policy can only perpetuate the uncertainty and dan- gers of a condition not of peace, but of war and that in the end it will destroy whatever temporary security ean gain. “To my mind the question of se- curity is not merely a French prob- lem, it is a European problem, “The position of this country is entirely different. Our security on land and sea remains unmenaced, but our economic existence has been ive owing not to the inability of fermany to pay a certain sum in reparation, but to acute and persist- » ent dislocation of the markets of Eu- occasioned mainly by the uncer- tainty in the relations between France and Germany. The continued economic chaos in Germany and the ultimate uncertainty of the relations between France and ourselves.” Finally, MacDonald said, the Bri- tish people are disturbed by France’s attitude towards her debts. GOOD CLOTHES for Men and Boys Lincoln & Wrightwood Avenues Lincoln Ave. & Irving Park Blvd. Open Thursday and Saturday Evenings. Strike-Breaker Daugherty Must % Go, Labor Defense Council Cries War on Harry M. Daugherty had been declared by the Labor Defense Council long before his oil spots were bared. The Defense Council fought him as the supreme strike breaker of the nation and the arch persecutor, for the employers, of the labor movement. There must be no delay in casting him out of office the Council says in the following demand: Burns, His Defender. For once Congress is voicing a popular demand, Daugherty must go! Everybody wants the oil- bespattered Harry M. Daugherty to resign from the cabinet except Harry M. Daugherty ... and, of course, Super-dick William J. Burns. The Democrats are calling loudly for the head of the Republican at- torney-general. The Republicans) themselves are anxious to get rid of him. Daugherty grimly hangs on, sticking his fingers up #0 his mose at enemies and frienis alike. He is innocent, he protested! But alas, such is the reputation of the exalted attorney-general that none will believe him, Made System Stink. Aside from the strictly Party purposes of the coming presidential campaign, the principal reason why the capitalist politicians of both Parties want Daugherty to go is that he has “contributed to the uublic disillusionment,” as the New Fork Times puts it. As a result of the notoriety brought on by his exploits the whole stinking rotten- ness of the federal Department of Justice has been exposed to pub- lic smell, Working men and women all over the country are also demand- ing that Dackuaey. be removed from his present position, but their reasons are not quite those of the old-party politicians. The workers object to Daugherty on fundamen- tal class issues. But the workers have a deeper quarrel with Mr. Daugherty— which is at the same time a quar- rel with many of the gentlemen who are now hurriedly endeavor- ing to disassociate themselves from him. From the very begin- ning, Daugherty has personified the fundarhental class character of the so-called Department of Jus- tice. He has devoted himself whole-heartedly to the task of shielding the ill-gotten gains of capitalism on the yy hand and persecuting labor on the other. Broke Shopmen’s Strike. The old-guard Republicans have been blocking every move to in- vestigate the conduct of the at- torney general’s office under the regime of Daugherty and Burns. If a fair hearing is given the evi- dence, the Defense Council Bulletin points out, “the country will learn how Daugherty happened to break the railway shopmen’s strike by his injunction and propaganda; why his stool pigeons were discovered here and there and everywhere in American industry, plotting and in- triguing with big corporations. The gunmen in industry will be re- viewed and their relations with Daugherty’s office will be traced.” Brushing aside all legal consid- erations of state jurisdiction, he permitted his ‘Department of Justice” agents to direct the famous raid on the convention of the Com- munist Party of America at Bridgeman, Mich., in the summer of 1922. Not only did the “Depart- ment of Justice” cause the Berrien County officials to undertake the raid, but notorious federal stool pigeons actually participated in it. Joseph Sipolansky, the leader of these stool pigeons, betrayed the ulterior purpose of the raid by ad- mitting that it probably would not have taken place if it were not for the railroad and coal miners’ strike, then in progress. Foster-Ruthenberg Frame-Up. “Department of Justice” men took an active part in preparing for the trials of William Z. Foster and C. BR. Ruthenberg, which fol- lowed. They did everything in their power to “get” Foster. Now they are exerting every effort to defeat the Ruthenberg Appeal, which is to come before the higan Su- preme Court this:spring. Record Too Rotten. Daugherty’s record is so rotten that even the members of his own party are afraid of a hearing. The workers’ memory is not so short, however, that the issue can he ob- seured so easily. Whether or not there is an investigation, the mon- strous career of Harry M Daugh- erty is known to all. Daugherty must go! And not only Daugherty but everyone responsible for his regime .. not forgetting Presi- dent Coolidge. Those who might be inclined to damn the Republicans and this a little more highly of the Demo- crats have only to call to mind the name of A, Mitchell Palmer! HEARST JOINS JOE DANIELS, OLD GUARD AID’) DRY LAND GOB, TO DAUGHERTY) IN OL TALK Sex-Angle Publisher in Sweet-Smelling Crew William Randolph Hearst has joined the old guard of Harry M. Daugherty’s defenders. It is a sweet smelling company: William J. Burns, Daugherty’s right hand man in breaking the shopmen’s strike and himself involved in the oil scandal since the leased wire dis- closures; Senator Willis, Big Busi- ness man’s represéntative from Ohio who admitted that he had advised the defendant attorney-general re- garding the personell of the senat- orial jury that was to try him, and now rst. The sex-angle publisher “ireing} the same argument that his hireling Brisbane put forward several days ago,—that the foes of Daugherty are the friends of the war profiteers whom Daugherty was alleged to be prosecuting. In the name of baby foolishness what big profiteers is Daugherty attacking? Has he touched the billion dollar graft of the Aircraft fuc- tion Bureau; the fabulous prices for copper, which advanced three times over the pre-war figure. Or was there one hint of prosecution for the well named “Hog Island” steal, Art Young’s old cartoon of the fat trusts applauding the prosecution of peanut venders comes to mind. The six million dollars which Daugh- erty’s friends boast that he and his predecessors recovered for the gov- ernment from war profiteers is pea- nut like to the billions which Bris- bane himself admits were stolen during ape war, NDI In support of aughert; Hearst is Fae revealing ps at f in his true reactionary light. The publisher of sensations at the crucial moment is found lined up with the worst crooks in the capitalistic world, Hearst supports Daugherty, the Rockefellers, Hiram Johnson, enemy of free speech in California and tacit supporter until now of the steal of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1, The question arises: how deeply it’s own foot bogged in this 8 What ssure, financial or otherwise, has Hearst brought on administrations towards a coercive policy in Mexico where he has im- mense interests? There's a reason for the support of Daugherty, his former enemy, and for the oil companies, whom he assailed im the days when he was publishing the Archibald correspond- ence, : The DAILY WORKER serves you EVERY DAY. How have you served| moment that these o the DAILY WORKER today? IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Another Dome May Come to Judgement (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.— Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy who is here writing a book on his former master Woodrow Wilson had something to say on the oil scandal. The gentleman with the biblical cognomen seems to think that in the difficult search for an honest man in the ranks of the donkey party to the Democrat banner to victory in the next election, that ape 4 may have to pick on Mr. Daniels who has not yet been convicted of selling the navy to a junkman tho nothing posi- tively meritorious seems to have ap- peared on the record to his credit. An honest man today, however, ap- pears to be the noblest work of God and should the army of Diogenes now scouting the country for a Democrat politician who never wore the striped uniform of a-penitentiary or who was an accomplice of thieves fail to land anybody else Daniels is holding himself in readiness, It is true his ambition is badly handicapped in having William_Ran- dolph Hearst as a friend. That, with his intention to write a book about the greatest failure in American his- tory should prove Gas heratel obstacles, but a politician is hopeful if anything and the very fact that his name is even mentioned for the pres- idency will enable his publisher to me a little more kick in the adver- tising. “The deplorable truth about the present situation is,” said Daniels, “that the people have lost all faith in their government. The govern- ment itself has been shamefully in- volved thru the use of confidential government codes, the secret service, the very men that should be used to run down the crooks.” Jap Police Disarm Workers Resisting Fascisti Assaults TOKYO, March 3.—The workers of Japan are highly indignant over the dastardly action of the polfce in Kyoto recently in disarming the workers when they were defending themselves inst a pogrom maae upon them Japanese Fascisti. hen the workers were disarmed the marauding Fascisti could burn and murder at their will. This action of the police is in keeping with the eral attitude of the reactionary anese government which encourages such massacres of the workers the ers show any signs of dissatisfaction with the frightful conditions in which they are held by the ruling class, FEAR SULTAN MAY ESCAPE WITH HAREM Eunuchs Who Guard Wives in: Hysterics CONSTANTINOPLE, March 3.— Guards surrounded the palace of the Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi and supervised tha household and the imperial residence today, under or- ders from the Angora government. The purpose was to prevent — the | Caliph from carrying out his re- ported intention of fleeing into Egypt, with the palace treasures. ’ Eunuchs Excited. The activites, which are said to have caused consternation among the odalisks—commonly called wives—of the caliph and to have startled the chief eunuchs of the harem followed word from Angora that the National Assembly soon will vote to suppress the caliphate and expel the caliph and his considerable family. Mus- tapha Kemal, president of Turkey, has determined that as a step to- wards modernizing and westernizing, his country, religion must be entire- ly separated from the state, The sultan of Turkey united the temporal and spiritual headship in himself in the sixteenth century. The title of caliph indicates a suc- cessor of Mohammed. Abdul Hamid was the last sultan} to enjoy full autocratie powers, Since! his time, the imperial harems, about which the western world has won- dered for centuries, have lost much of their charm. Must Have Heavy Laundry Bill, The bill before the National assem- bly at Angora provides for exiling and depriving of Turkish citizenship all members of the caliph’s family. Just how many wives Abdul Medjid has is not known. The ex-sultan Mehmed IV, who died towards the end of the world war, had 300. A press correspondent was informed concern- ing life in this harem ‘by Gulfen pressed work- “ Hanoum, one of the ex-wives of Ab- dul Hamid and by a palace doctor who treated Mehmed Rechad fy his last illness. The harem was divided tnto djariah (slave women) and odaliska (concu- bines). Had an Eye to Beauty, Novices or virgins were known as adjamis, These were gathered tYom afar by many of the more aged women of the harem, whose partic- ular function it was to select beauti- ful_wives for bao sultan. en one of the adjamis attracts the sultan, she becomes a guesdeh (near to the eyes, is the closest Eng- lish translation) and is favo’ fi -agwhile. If the sultan’s tove se is relegated to Lone peg of ikbal. ie same principles and methods apply to the households of the sul- tan’s sons, altho the latter have less Women at their disposal. en Sultan Was Independent. omen of the harem who bear th sultan children are known a pr dines, or legitimate wives, being married to the master by the “ni- kiah” or moslen marriage ceremony. Polygamy and the perpetual infer- iority of women, are established by this ceremony. Outside the harem, leaders of the new Turkey attempted to reform this marriage ceremony recently, but it exists within the walls of the caliph’s palace. Minnesota Leads in Contracts for Co-op Marketing of Potatoes ST. PAUL, Minn., March 3.—Min- nesota has far exceeded all other states ih contracts for co-operative marketing of potatoes. Aaron Sapiro; co-operative mark- eting expert, said the Minnesota ex- change, just organized, has four times. as many members and three times the acreage of the Maine Po- tato Growers’ Exchange, which here- tofore was the largest co-operative potato marketing body in the world. Minnesota has 12,000 growers signed ae Sa more than 155,000 acres w contract. The koal of the campaign which started four cre bs was 120,000 acres or commercial a of the state. sib: IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Johnson Runs in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 3.— A petition asking that the name of Hiram Johnson, candidate for the Republican nomination for president, be placed on the Indiana primary. election ballot was filed today with the secretary of state. Coming! must join in this effort. Chicago, Ill. him and took him to the crimi- nal court building whee he was questioned and threatened. Again on Picket Line. ‘When Litwinsky refused to answer questions the dicks let him go, after an hour, angrily warning him that he would be arrested again if he went back to the picket line. Litwinsky went back to the picket line in spite of their threats, but no further attempt was made to arrest him that day. Exposures of the methods employ- ed by State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe's police, in ther attempts to break the garment strike, which have been made at the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor and in the DAILY WORKER, has forced Crowe’s police to change their meth- odg slightly. They try to avoid making the actual arrests. They ask the reg- ular police to arrest the people who they want removed from the picket line. The lawyers of the union have forced the police to book persons arrested as soon as they are brought into the station x No arrests were made during the day on either the north west or west sides. More than two dozen pickets were arrested in the strike district along S. Market street, Attorney Arrested. The police in their anxiety to do all they could to bother the union pickets became indiscreet and told Martin Gordon, an attorney with of- fices at 127 N. Tfarborn street, to “move on.” Gordon told the police- man to mind his own business and ‘was arrested. It was not till he was takento the S. Clark St. police sta- tion that it was found he was not a striker. Gordon vis very indig- nant and threatened to see that Judge Trude before whom he will be arraigned today is told just what the police are doing in this strike. Gordon has no connection either with labor ‘organizations or» with the strikers. Will Ask Jury Trials. The following pickets were ar- rested and released on bonds when they were taken to the S. Clark St. police station: Dorthy Schukman, Goldie Tessel, Marya Nachel, Ben Silver, Sidney Weiner, Rose Luxom- borg, Minnie Wilbohn, Bessie Finkle, Lizzie Green, Lena Moritz and Kate Schenski. They will all be arraigned before Judge Trude today in S. Clark St. police court and will demand jury trials. All the union pickets who were ar- rested Saturday and who were ar- raigned in court yesterday demanded jury trials and were released on $400 bonds each. Members of the Young Workers League who are on strike with the dress makers were busy all day yes- terday selling the DAILY WORKER to the strikers. Y. W. L. Pulls Out Shop. Several members of the Y. W. L. went to a shop at 26 W. Quincy street and convinced about 15 workers that they should come out on strike with their fellows. The new strikers were led from their shop to the strike headquarters at 180 West Washing- ton street where they were registered and given strike cards, As the Y. W. L. members led the new strikers into the strike head- quarters they were heartily cheered by the other strikers. One of the Leaguers who was too modest to give his name said that the Y. W. L. who were on strike were going to consider themselves the shock troops of the strikers. They were ready to do any work assigned to them by the strike committee he said. Workers from the fifteen shops which settled last week returned to their work after holding shop meet- ings where the representatives of the strike committee gave them instruc- tions on how to conduct themselves in the shop till after the other shops have settled with the union. Mass Meetings Continue. ' Enthusiastic mass meetings were held at 180 W. Washington street and 20 W. Randolph street. Meyer Perl- stein told the strikers about the set- tlements made with the fifteen shops last week and urgpd the strikers to gos until the victory which was sure come, H f shop-mntes read the DAILY WORKER Get one of them to subscribe today. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! EMMI > This special edition of the DAILY WORKER will contain articles analyzing the % investigation that is taking place in Washington. The facts will be marshalled in orderly # array, so that all labor will clearly understand the meaning of this far-reaching political % explosion. There will be smashing cartoons and sketches by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis and our other artists. This edition will be the biggest effort we have yet put forth. Send in your orders today for this special issue to THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Crowe Aids Bosses By Arresting Expelled Militant On Picket Line; Young Workers League Palls Shop _ Continuing their efforts to break the strike of the dress and waist makers the special police of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe’s office arrested Israel Litwinsky yesterday morning. Litwinsky, who is one of the expelled militants, was taking part in the picketing on S. Market street, near Jackson Blvd., when three members of Crowe’s strike-breaking squad seized he Teapot Special! The DAILY WORKER announces it will issue a Special Teapot Edition, dated % Monday, March 17th. This will be the first attempt on a large ecale to get the real 7 meaning of the oil scandal before the American working class. Hundreds of thousands 7 4 of copies of this issue should be distributed. Party members and sympathizers, alike, EXPECT T0 NAME PROBERS OF CROWE'S ANTI-LABOR ACTIVITIES IMMEDIATELY The committee which will in- vestigate the an’ bor activities of . Robert E. Crowe, for the Chicago Federation ef Labor, has not yet been pointed by President John patrick. At the Sunday m: of the Federation the preshie: instructed to appoi of three to investigate Crowe's rec- ord, When asked by a DAILY WORKER reporter when the com- mittee would be appointed, Fitz- patrick said, “I will have to con- sult the secretary of the federation, Edward N. Nockels, before appdint- ing the committee, Nockels is sick at home and I hope to be able to see him about the matter of the committee soon.” It is expected that the appointments will be announced some time today. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! CROWE FLAUNTS LABOR RECORD IN NEW PAMPHLET Boasts He Convicted-42 Workers State’s Attorney Robert F, Crowe, arrester of girl strikers, is flaunting his anti-labor record in the face of the public in a pamphlet which he is issuing to voters under the title “Winning the Fight Against Crime.” The pamphlet, unfortunately, went to the printer before the close of the trial of union upholsterers who were convitted on the sole grounds that they had urged build- ing tradesmen to refuse to work with scab upholsterers during a strike. 42 Labor Convictions. Had tH been ineluded in the record of labor convictions ‘owe could have boasted of 47 unionists successfully prosecuted. As it was he has to content himself with 42. Crowe’s own part of the pamphlet pats himself on the back for “sup- pression of vice and gambling,” “gun-toting” it is to laugh), “de- linquent tax collections” and so on. The hurrahing for the labor con- vietions fills a large part of the back of the pamphlet in the section re- served for quotations from persons and newspapers praising him. Only Shaffer Praises. Here we find seven quotations from the Chicago Evening Post, pa- per of oil-stained Shaffer. Four, or a majority of these boosts, are for his prosecution of union labor—‘a remarkable record”the Post pro- claims. The Herald and Examiner hails “the greatest record in the number of convictions of labor con- spiracy charges ever obtained by any prosecutor in the history of Cook county. Scab Herder Donnelley, of strike breaking printing trades and Citi- zens’ Committee fame joing the hurrah crew. Railroad officials, clergymen, manufacturers and psy- cophantic politicians say amen. ie is a mae af nh wares We the open shop employer apne that will Snciaripe the DAILY WORK- ER, the Chicago Federation of La- bor and all other workingclass forces to work for his speedy re- turn to private life, ‘ Girl Stunt Performer Killed. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 3.— Mrs. Bertha Horchem, “stunt” per- former with an airplane circus own- ed by husband, was killed here during a circus Sunday when a wing of her plane broke while she was go- ing into a nose dive. She was only about 1,500 feet above the ground when the wing broke. The plane crashed in the midst of a large crowd gathered to witness the cirqus. 1 had rushed to safety, however. Horchem collapsed after lef hig wife's lifeless body re- from the wreckage. Z Prime Tuesday, March 4, 1924 MCADOO RIVAL APPEARS IN SAINT JOHNS Gets $250,000 from Notorious Besco By ROBERT SCHAEFTER. (Staff! Correspondent of the Federated Press) ST, JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 3.—-While the United States has its oil scandal, this province is being shaken Ivy @ political graft expose of its own which is now before the leg- islative council. Sir Pichard Squire, former pre- mier of Newfoundland, is charged with accepting approximately $250,- 600 fom: various industrial corpora- tions, in return for which he misused his official position in favor of those firms. Outstanding among the corpo- ,ratioms concerned is the notorious “nti-labor British Empire Steel Cor- poration. 2 December, 1921, Squire is said to have sent a mediator to obtain “campaign funds” from the president of the British Empire Steel Corpora- tion amounting to $100,000 in addi- tion of $51,000 paid on previous oc- casions to Squire. §quire pledged himself to bring about modifications of a contract of the Dominion Iron and Steel Co, with the Newfoundland government. This firm was a subsid- iary of Besco and the contract called for the expenditure of $3,500,000 in Newfoundland in a specified period. The same mediator testified that he was commissioned to negotiate with the Commercial Cable Co. of New York “on matters affecting the com- pany’s cable system in Newfound- land” and that his instructions “in- cluded a request for a $15,000 fund which -was to be used in connection with the Newfoundland general elec- tion in 1923.” ‘The exact amount of money re- ceived in this way by the premier probably will never be known. Altho this graft probe, still in process, has already uncovered over- whelming evidence against’ Squire, the public here fears the grafter will not be prosecuted and that big busi- ness will be able to hush up the scandal. Verra Verry Sorry to Share Ellis Isle Fleas with Rabble (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 3,—James Royce-Garrett, alleging that he 1s a Russian baron, and his wife, Mme. Verra Loorra, a singer—both of whom arrived here on the steamer Antonia from Hamburg—are illustra- tions of the old adage that a rolling violet usually gets pelted with mossy stones. Royce-Garrett, who wants to’ be- come a hyphenated American, be- lieves he has strong claims to Amer- ican citizenship, e says he used to be one of the richest landowners in imperial Russia. He flicks the ashes non-chalantly from a cigarette, as he mentions casually his former palatial home in Leningrad—pardon, Peters- burg—-and his summer estate in the Crimea, near the royal domains. When the Russian revolution began to interfere with his pleasurable pur- suits, Royce-Garrett joined the forces of General Wrangel, the White Hope who scorched his fingers. When Wrangel scurried from the sinking interventionist ship, Royce-Garrett scampered away and didn’t pause un- til he reached the coast of Africa. Later, he returned to Europe. A Tear’s Darling. His wife, Verra Loorra, describes herself as an operatic star. She also tells us that she was a social favorite in the days of Tsarist monarchy. Verra was not accompanied ‘by her operatic press agent upon her arrival in New York harbor. She deemed him a luxury. _A vigilant search of chronicles of titled personages fails to disclose the name of “Baron” Royce-Garrett, who states that his English forebears emigrated to Ru: But perhaps he merely tossed in the “Baron” for me? measure, feeling assured that ‘is political record as a Tsarist counter-revolutionary would entitle him to honorary citizenship in the United States. They Gave Good Qualities. The Russian immigration quota be- ing filled, the noble Russian couple are being detained at Ellis Island, where they are confronted with de- portation. They complain bitterly that Ellis Island lacks the comforts of their lavish Feiroprad home, and’ that they are obli to rub elbows with plain Russian working men and similar riff-raff. They have appealed to the American authorities to make an exception to ii ition rules in their case, in view of their us sacrificenon behalf of civilization. It is believed that their chances of en- tering the United Statts are excellent, figs ek pend Bie bere of the ‘ughesian Departmen’ its sympathizers. Z Move to Sell Country A La Teapot Dome Riles Australians (By The Federated Pross) : SYDNEY New — i yy Se bac Minister of Au Phe _ that the public utilities be over to private enterprise has met with a storm of protests from all sections of the Australian people, ‘All public utilities in ‘Australia, are gov- boon tiga Run tid ‘use and not or profit they are cl conduct- ed, Railway fares and eights for instance, are the cheapest in the English speaking countries, while the government owned steamers act be} the privately a check on steamers, aii

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