The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1924, Page 2

Page Two EHE DAILY WORKER FALL HALTED THE FIGHT ON LAND FRAUDS Letter To Daughorty Is Made Public In Probe (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April — Former Secretary of Interior Fall called a halt on prosecu- tion of the Miller brothers in Oklahoma Indian land fraud cases in which they were in- volved, according to a letter introduced in the record of the Senate Daugherty Investigat- ing Committee today. — Edwin S. Booth, solicitor of the Interior Department, ‘gave the committee a letter from Fall to Att’y-General Daugh- erty, dated April 10, 1921, in which Fall asked postpone- ment of action against the Miller brothers until a later term of the Oklahoma court. Fall wrote Daugherty that “the public interest would not be jeop- ardized by withholding the cases” until a later term and said that Indian Commissioner Burke wanted to go éver them. Two days later, according to tes- timony of H. M. Peck, then U. S. district attorney in Oklahoma, was ordered by the department of jus- tice to postpone the cases. Tried to Prevent Scandal. i Senator Harreld, Oklahoma, today told the senate Daugherty investi- gating committee that he took a hand in the Miller Brothers Okla- homa Indian land fraud to prevent a “scandal.” When Harry Daugherty, then at- torney general, served notice in Au- gust, 1921, that he intended to re- move H. M. Peck as United States district attorney in Oklahdma before the case came to trial, Harreld said that he went to Daugherty and told him “a scandal would surely result.” The case revolved around all®ged procurement by the Miller Brothers of 10,000 acres of Indian land val- ued at $500,009 thru fraudulent means. McCray Lawyers Try to Take Big Case from the Jury INDIANAPOLIS, April 7.—Pres- entation of evidence by the defense began today in the trial of Governor Warren T. McCray on a charge of embezzling $155,000 of the funds of the Indiana state board of agricul- ture, The testimony of I. Newt Brown, former secretary-treasurer of the board, that he gave the money to MeCray for deposit in the govern- or’s bank at Kentland, Ind., was the center of attack, Several other members of the fair board who had knowledge of the MoCray transactions were ready to take the stand as defense witnesses, them McCray’s attorneys ex- ; sea Sp gag declaration that rown loaned the money to McCra: Personally, ws f A motion to take the case of Governor McCray from the jury and instruct a verdict of not guilty for the defendant was made on behalf of McCray by George Barnard, one of his attorneys, when the defense eres Fi case Rien in the trial Cray on charges otf la: and embezzlement, Mg acs —_—.. More Bills for Germany. WASHINGTON, April fiat The mixed claims commission adjudica- ind claims growing out of the war with Germany today decided that Germany is liable for damages for the sinking of 10 American ships during the war. The decision was a oenasy one and did not touch ¢ question of value of the ship in- volved. a amMNNN CON AO, Sold Piggly Wiggly. DAYTON, Tenn, April 7.—Clar- ence Saunders, former head of the Piggly Wiggly Corporation, was al- lowed to sell $2,000,000 worth of stock in that organization without complying with the state “Blue Sky” regulations, Dr. John R. Neal, demo- cratic candidate for governor charged in a speech here toda: Albanian Bandits Busy, NEW YORK, April 7.—George B. De Long of New York and Robert Lewis Coleman of San Francisco have been killed by bandits on a high- ‘way between Tirana Af Scutari, Al- bania, according to a radiogram re- ceived by the Albanian consulate here today. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Ss. LIGHT 2445 LINCOLN AVE, Men’s Overalls, Union made, double stitched, swing pocket Special, $1.25 Limit 2 suits 6 pair limit +e a pair (Continued from page 1) every trade unionist in town and march down to the picket line in a body. “Let the trade union officials of this city mass their forces,”. he said. “The injunction is being used to break your strike and keep the workers in subjection. If twenty- five thousand organized workers | would march down to the picket | line,’ they wouldn’t have room! enough in the jails to put them all. Injunction Not New Weapon. “The use of the injunction in this | strike is no new thing.’ The strug- | gle of the workers for the right to | their self respect and manhood is a long hard tight. The government always uses its cops and soldiers in j the ihterest of the employers against the worxers, It is the same story in Chicago, The bosses have asked the cons to beat up the strik- ers. That’s been the history of this country for many years.” Howat told the strikers the story of the industrial court law of Kansas. “If we had submitted to Allen’s pet inethod of chaining the workers to the employers,” Howat declared, “the industrial court would have been a success and unere would have been no more strikes in Kan- sas. The injunction here in Chi- cago as well as in Kansas was cre- ated to chain the workers to their jobs like a pack of slaves, “After the miners strike, and after some of, us had served six- teen months in jail the industrial court law was declared unconstitu- tional. I would be glad to serve another sixteen months rather than surrender to the bosses. We showed them in Kansas that the injunction could not ston strikes, and you have |p, to do the same thing here in Chi- cago.” “Kill the Injunction,” “Kill the injunction,’ Howat con- cluded, “The day is past and gone when the workers can be tied to the bosses. Get into the Farmer- Labor Party on June 17 and mako the labor leaders wake up, and in the next strixe the bosses won’t try ‘to put an unlawful injunction over on you.” Howat Urees Strike Support - HAMON SPENT came at tho suggestion of the Workers Party and that all the Workers Party members were solid- ly behind the strikers in their fight. Politics Halts Attack On Strikers. _ Politics is the most engaging sub- ject of all political hangers-on just now. Even the city police and state’s attorney Crowe’s men are so busy over politics that they have neglected to make their usual number of arrests in the Market and Jackson strike zone, Yesterday morning only one girl was picked up for picketing, altho the usual number of pickets appeared in front of the shops. The injunction cases have been put over till Wednesday, when 60 or 70 j will come up. The union, expects to deposit more than $100,000 bonds for appealing cases this week. About $40,000 was put up last week. Today's electioneering will prob- ably hold the attention of the police and the courts until final results are established. Picketing has to go on, politics or not, and no one expects politics to interfere long with police activities. The bosses won’t give the strikers respite. One of the faithful pickets was pointed out by a boss whom she had never seen and was hailed into “Dennie” Sullivan’s injunction court for contempt. The girl is Clara Croughan. She claims that this is the first time she has been run in dur- ing this strike. Busy at Northwestern. Hull House settlement workers who were interested in the strike may not be involved in politics but they have turned to quieter activities than picketing and taking officers’ num- ers. Northwestern University’s little flare against the pacificists has diverted the settlement worker’s eyes from the garment strike for the time being. Miss Helen Tippy, one of the Hull House residents who first picketed the struck Evanston dress shops with the garment workers, reports that “everything is quiet” in the suburb at present. She was seen at strike head- quarters, 180 W. Washington street, yesterday, getting the latest develop- Howat told the -strikers that he ments of the fight here. Walsh Seeks Witnesses to Back Story Presidency Bought For Harding for $1,000,000 In 1920 (Special to The WASHINGTON, April 7. —Senate Daily Worker) 3 $ oil investigators are marking time while Senator Thomas J. Walsh prepared to spring new sensations when the committee reopens hearings Tuesday. Walsh, thru his new national investigating agency, has been checking up witnesses thruout the count: testify concerning alleged “deals” at the 1920 republican national con- vention. ‘ Since Al Jennings told the commit- tee that the late Jake Hamon had told him he spent over $1,000,000 to get the late President Harding nomi- nated, with the expectation of becom- ing his secretary of the interior, Walsh has been busy ferreting out witnesses who will shed more light on the story. Walsh has located a number of per- sons who are willing to come on to Washington to corroborate Jennings’ story. , Walsh told the committee he will prove that a conspiracy existed a- mong oil interests before the last re- publican convention to obtain the appointment of a “complacent” sec- retary of the interior who would lease the naval oil reserves. _ * Walsh will also push his investi- gations into contributions to the re- publican campaign fund both before and after the election and Senator Spencer, Missouri, will endeavor to bare full details of contributions to democratic party funds. Trachtenberg Speaks Here Friday, Apr. 18, at North Side Hall Alexander Trachtenberg, whose re- cent tours thru Soviet Russia and Europe qualify him to speak with au- thority, is to lecture in Chicago on whom he will bring on here next week to MOVIE ‘STARS’ COT PLAYED FOR SUCKERS ’Twas Good Scheme For Producers More “movie” fame hopes were blighted in Judge Charles A. Wil- liams’ court when the Popular Motion Picture Production Company's of- ficials pleaded guilty to playing the confidence game. The court might have been “loca- tion,” for all an onlooker could see. The whole cast was in attendance upon his honor; “quétn”, ingenue,” numerous “heroes” and the “villian,” who conducted the prosecution. Alt of them had told the same tale. Vice-president William Bauer, of the Popular concern, had found each one of the “perfect type” and had contracted their services for $100, paid down by the aspiring stars. In addition, most of the misguided hope- fuls had paid $35 for a course in “make-up”, or “how to sling the paint”. “The International Situation” on the night of Friday, April 18, at the North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark street. j Comrade Trachtenberg has just completed a triumphal tour thru New York State, where he met with large crowds and much enthusiasm. Com- rade Trachtenberg will analyze, in his Chicago talk, the effect of the re- cent wholesale recognitions of Soviet Russia on the International situa- tion, and will relate some of the leading events leading up to the es- tablishment of the Soviet govern- ment as the most stable government of Europe. Give Fall Another Chance. WASHINGTON, April 7—Ten en- tire glacier bay of Alaska together with public lands approximating 2,- 560,000 acres was temporarily with- drawn from settlement and homestead entry today by an executive order is- sued by President Coolidge upon,rec- ommendation of Secretary, of the In- terior Work. The object of the withdrawal is to permit investigation as to the ad- visability of including the whole or | part of the within as a national monument, because of thé important | glacial formations in the bay. Postpone Walton Appeal. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Counsel for former Governor Walton of Oklahoma has filed with the supreme |court a motion to postpone hearing of Walton’s appeal Beet his impeach- ment by the Oklahoma legislature. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Salaries were to be paid the mem- bers of the cast when the production was released. Some of the “leading lights” had been promised as much as $75 a week, plus their share of the profits, There was nothing wrong with the scheme; only Bauer pocketed the dough and failed to produce the picture, The case had first come before a jury, but was later taken from them y the change of plea, Judge Wil- rane will pass sentence within two weeks. Corrected List of Nations That Now Recognize Soviets To the Daily Worker.—In the DAILY WORKER of March 31 you carried a box listing the countries which have recognized the Soviet Union de jure. Your list was in- complete. According to a cable re- ceived from Rosta on March 19, 1924, the Soviet Union had on that date been recognized de jure by the fol- ae d Italy, Ni ngland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, ‘Austria, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia, Greece, Turkey, Pers’ Afghanistan, Mon- golia, Khiva, hi and Free City of Danzig. lew York City. “Playfully” Kills Friend, CAIRO, il, April 7.—Sam Harr, 60, restaurant owner, was killed here bree under « truck driven by jam Will Stokes. Stokes playful swerved his truck toward als Friend Harr and lost control. $400,000 FOR 6.0, P, WIN Didn't Expect To Get Into The Cabinet WASHINGTON, April 7.— The late Jake Hamon spent $400,000 “for a republican vic- tory” in the election of Presi- dent Harding, J. B. French of! Oklahoma City, Okla., friend of Hamon, told the Senate Oil Committee today. “When Jake. came back from the 1920 convention I | asked him if he was going to! get in the cabinet,” French said. “He told me that he would not, but he said, however, that he had spent too much money —about $400,000, for a repub- lican victory.” Marsh Forgets. French said he knew nothing of re- ports that Hamon swung money and votes to the late Mr. Harding at the convention in return for a promise of the secretaryship of interior. Wilbur W. March, treasurer of the democratic national committee, was the first witness called when the ses- sion opened. Marsh resigned Jan-; uary 15 this year. Marsh said he could not remember the amounts con- tributed by E. L. Doheny to the party fund but he said the records are ac- cessible at national headquarters here. W, L. Kistler, president of the pro- ducers and refiners corporation of Tulsa, Okla., was th® second witness. His testimony failed to develop any facts concerning the reported attempt of oil men to put over a “complacent” secretary of the interior at the last republican national convention, about which he was questioned. Walsh then put French on the stand and asked if Hamon had ever told him how much money he had spent at the Chicago convention. French said that. Hamon told him that he had given $25,000 “so that Mr. Harding’s hotel. bill could be paid.” Pays Harding's Bills, “Who did he pay that inoney to?” Walsh asked, “Bill Miller, former attorney gen- eral of Ohio and campaign manager for Harding in Oklahoma.” “How did he come to pay Mr. Harding’s hotel bills?!” “T don’t know.” “T told: the boys I would take care of Oklahoma,’ Hamon told me,” he continued, Senator Spencer then began cross questioning the witness, “When you say that Hamon paid Mr. Harding’s hotel bills, you mean—” “T mean the Lills of his commit- tee—his headyuarters—not his per- sonal bills.” Senator Stanfield, Oregon repub- lican, then asked how the $400,000 Hamon contribution was disbursed. “By bank check, I think.” “Then there probably would be a record of his expenditures in Ok- lahoma banks?” “TI imagine so.” French was then dismissed, Robert F. Wolfe, of Columbus, Ohio, was next called. Asked about the Ohio tion campaign Wolfe sau “I supported General Wood in the campaign. We elected 11 delegates out of a total of 38. I went to the convention—but not as a delegate.” “Do you know ‘anything about the offer made to Wood by the late Jake Hamon at the convention?” “Senator, I know nothing about that except what I've read in the Papers.” + “What part did you nave in at- tempting to get Wood nominated?” ‘My friends and I decided that Mr. Harding being a newspaper. publisher—we would take no vigor- ous action against him. That was the course we followed. I was never in the Harding headquarters and T was in the Wood headquarters only once in Chicago, J stayed in my hotel room most of the time.” Heard About Harding Nomination, “Did you Sethe byt before Mr. ig Was nominated that be nominated?” Mad “Oh! I read somethi in the pa- pers about it. George larvey said something about it, but I just read it in the papers, “Sometime before I took the train home Saturday, I heard that an ar- rangement had been made by which Senator Harding would be nominat- bit Wolfe on “T received a wire le enroute home that he had won. That’s all I know about it.” Walsh Has His Dope. Walsh told Wolfe that “informa- tion has come to me from a number of sources that the night before Mr. Harding was nominated you stated that it would he impossible to nomi- conven- and which the animals nate Mr. Wood and that a deal had Fires »made to nominate Mr, Har- ing. “f don’t think I made that state- ment,” Wolfe said. “I told the dele- oan dam before I left to stand by 00 “The information that has come to me fd exactly opposite to that,” Walsh said, “I couldn't have made any such statement,” Wolfe declared, Wolfe was then excused, BURNS MUST Go! Tuesday, April 8, 1924 Indecent Housing Of Packing House Slaves Reflects Sordid Domination Of Slaughter Houses In almost any section of Chicago, when the wind is blow- ing from the South, the all prevailing odor which spreads like a darkening nimbus cloud over the city serves as a none too gentle reminder that Chicago is nick-named Packingtown. There is no of the yard” place in Chicago more famous than the “Back section where the packing-house slaves live. There have been many investigations of this section at inter- vals in the past. Let us see what the conditions of the homes of these « stockyards workers were found to be by the latest investigator, One investigator, after looking over the homes of the stockyards workers, refused to go on with the investigation because, “The appear- ance of the district showed it to be so neglected and conditions were, in general, supposed to be so extra- jordinary that it was regarded as un- ‘suitable for purposes of intensive in- vestigation. The unpaved streets, lack of sidewalks, indescribable ac- cumulations of filth and rubbish, to- gether with the absence of sewerage, made the outside sanitary conditions as bad as any in the world.” Dominated by Slaughter-Houses. “The district remains an extra- ordinary one,” says the report of the | latest investigation, “No other neighborhood in this, or perhaps, any other city, is dominated by a single industry of so offensive a character, Large numbers of live animals, as- sembled from all sections of the country, processes of slaughtering and packing, the disposition of ‘of- fensive animal waste, constitute an almost unparalleled nuisance. South Chicago lies under the smoke sha- dows of the steel mills, and in those mills are dangers to life and limb, blinding glare from the furnaces, meretricious exposure and terrible peril; but the influence upon the neighborhdod is rather terrifying than degrading.” Me Death and Disintegration. “In the stockyards, on the other hand, are mingled the cries of the animals awaiting slaughter, the pres- ence. of uncared for waste, the sight | TY of bleed, the carcasses naked of flesh d skin, the suggestion of death and disintegration—all of which must re- act in a demoralizing way not only upon the character of the people, but the conditions under which they live.” When an attempt was made in 1906 to apply modern sanitary stan- dards to the yards, provisions for maintaining cleanliness and decency were found to be so shockingly inade- quate that employment there was be- lieved to have a demoralizing influ- ence_on the men and women em- ployed. Slimy Malodorous Streets, The Niell-Reynolds Report, a little later, called attention to the “unsani- tary conditions prevailing at the yards, the use of Paving material which would yot be properly cleansed, and were slimy and malodorous when wet, yielding clouds of ill-smelling dust when dry.” “The pens are neglected,” the re- port states,” as are the viaducts over ss. The rooms in which the slaughtering is done are dark, unclean, ill-ventilated. There are vaults in which the air is rarely changed, windows clouded by dirt, walls and ceilings so dark and dingy that natural light pentrates only twenty feet, and a lack of sanitary arrangements, with the consequent odors e/d fumes. There no provi- sions for ordinary decencies in the way .of toilet accomodations for the workers.” Surroundings Blight Workers, We learn from the most recent in- vestigator that “This territory back of the yards is unfortunate in its blighted surroundings.” The records of the United Chari: show that a large proportion of the applicants for relief come from this territory, and the very poor are usually found liv- ing in the most unsanitary houses, More Death and Disease. There is mere tuberculosis here than any other part of the city. A map published by the commissioner of health shows that large numbers of babies die here every year, and tuber- culosis, high infant mortefity, pover- ty, and bad housing and unsanitary conditions are generally found to- ether. In addition, as we learn from the report of Miss Breckenbridge and Miss Abbott, of the University of Chicago. The Lithuanian and Polish families in this neighborhood take large numbers of lodgers, which al- most invariably leads to a violation of the law against overcrowding. “The homes of this district have always been workmen’s homes,” says the above mentioned report. “And they are dominated by the packing industry.” einstein Just Have to Do It. One hundred nurses of the Evan- ston Hospital will present a petition this week to the board of hospital trustees asking for permission to bob their hair, hovels of the workers never 400 Coal Miners’ Delegates Meeting In West Virginia FAIRMONT, W. Va., April 7.— About four hundred delegates are as- sembling here for the miners’ con- vention which opens tomorrow. There is considerable discontent concerning the agreement and also dissatisfac- ition with officials. An enthusiastic DAILY WORKER ‘Teader has volunteered to take a ‘bundle order for distribution among ithe delegatbs. The comrade will try to boost the subscriptions among the miners’ representatives. Coolidge Gets One In Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE, April 7.—Only ‘one Wisconsin delegate to the republi- jean. national convention will be pledged to President Coolidge it was vindicated today by the almost com- plete count from Wisconsin’s primary election, All the other delegates, pledged to Senator Robert M. La- Follette, won by two to one over the Coolidge slate. Delegates at large pledged to Gov- ernor Al Smith at the democratic con- vention in New York had a big lead over McAdoo delegates and every in- dication points to this lead being in- creased as additional returns from outlying sections of the state come in, A Belated Discovery. - WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April 7— If you train young men to be savages and fight as soldiers in war they car- over their barbarism into peace time, is the belated discovery of Maj.- Gen. John F. O’Ryan. “There came a complete change in the psychology of the young soldier,’ the former divisional commander lamented in his speech here to the Westchester cham- ber of commerce. He urged a cam- paign of education to rid the ex-sol- dier’s mind of this irresponsible atti- tude. A safety week campaign is planned for the purpose. Catholic Paper Objects. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 7—Too much noise is being made about the two American Roman Catholic arch- bishops who have been made cardi- nals by the pope at Rome, declares the Catholic Citizen, a church organ of Milwaukee. “Let us not talk of ‘princes of the church’ in this free land of democratic institutions,” the Citizen editor writes, ‘and let us curb the secular reporter in his man-milli- ner chatter about. the cardinal’s robes.” Cards To Help Children. MOSCOW, April 7.—If you want Back-of-the- Yards i aur BACK-OF-THE-YARDS living quarter of the city — reflects the sordid, ill-smelling conditions which sur- round the workers in the slaughter houses. This district is dominated by the packing house industry. The work- ers live in indecent, insanitary hovels, investigators have found, with the pavements constantly blowing the smell of death and. disintegration into the nostrils of the help- less and hopeless packing house slaves. The most primi- tive toilet arrangements are the rule, light and cleanliness are rare, both in the homes of the workers and their place of employment. Poh the ee gp yay to the back ag. e is as dreary and fou} as the animal odors from which the workers are to play cards in Russia you will have to pay for this luxury in the form of a contribution to the mothers and children’s welfare fund. That is the import of legislation declaring the manufacture and sale of playing cards a state monopoly, laying cards are to be manufactured only in state owned or state controlled fac- tories. The profits will be added to the mothers and children’s welfare fund. Princess After Gest’s Coin. NEW YORK, April 7.—Princess Maria Matchabelli of Rome, Italy, to- day filed suit for $510,000 damages in supreme court here against Morris Gest, theatrical producer, alleging breach of contract and damage to her personal standing as an actress. The suit grew out of ‘alleged “contracts entered into between the actress and the producer whereby Princess Matchabelli was to appear in Gest’s production of “The Miracle.” Man Refuses to Stay “Dead.” CLEVELAND, 0.,_ il 7.—Adel- bert D. M. Pratt, prominent Norwalk, O.,‘stock buyer, for whom impressive funeral services were held Friday in Norwalk, has been found alive and well in Cleveland, Pratt was “buried” after the body of a man found floating in Lake Erie near Toledo, had been “identified” by Pratt’s wife and daughter as that of Pratt. Against Capital Punishment. DALLAS, Tex., April 7.—~An ag- gressive campaign for p reform jand the abolition of capital punish- ment is being mapped out under the leadership of Rep. T. K. Irwin of this city, the author of the~present elec- trocution law. Irwin has changed his views on capitel punishmenty ‘HUNT RELATIVES OF UNION MEN WHO ARE SCABS Miss Agnes Nestor Tells _ About Strike Plans “The Women’s Trade Union League is co-operating with the Federation ‘Committee of 15’ and we will do all we can to find out the scabbing women related to trades union men,” asserted Miss Agnes Nestor, Presi- dent of the league, to the DAILY WORKER in reference to the women’s activities for the garment workers strike, “From the beginning we have been sierening citizens, in the strike sit- uation an we participated With them on the Citizens’ ommittee,” said iss Nestor. “With that committee we held numerous conferences and attempted to get employers to con- sider conciliation or arbitration. We conducted investigations and with the committee made a final report to Mayor Dever, with recommendations concerning strike police,” Miss Nestor stated that the Bul- letin of the Women’s Trade Union League had given the facts of the garment workers’ strike to their na- tion-wide public, “We have sent our: women down to see conditions for themselves on the picket lines,” Miss Nestor stated, “and we have supplied the strike meetings with speakers when request- ed. Thruout the strike we have at- tempted to help wherever the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union desired.” No particular demonstration of co- aparece with the strikers has been planned by the Women’s Trade Un- ion League, according & the presi- dent, No action of any kind is con- templated. Children Go On Strike at Cregier School; Two Arrests The heralded “strike” of pupils at the Cregier school, Selden and Woods streets, broke yesterday with over a hundred children joining the protest against the cruelties charged to Miss ary Tobin, principal of the school. Bernard Weil, leader of the par- ents of striking children, and Mrs. Rose Spiesman were arrested and charged with “disorderly conduct” when they mingled with assembled students before school hours and at- tempted to keep the youngsters from going in to their classes when the bell rang. Both Weil and Mrs. Spies- man were later released from the Marquette’ police station on bonds, Two boys, Harry Tattlbame and Gilbert Fuerst, were taken in charge by the truant officers for their part in the strike. Police guarded the en- trance of the school all morning. Several children carried ‘banners bearing inscriptions demanding the removal of Miss Tobin, calling for “Fair Play,” “No More Rough eat- ment,” “We want Kindness.” It was planned to parade these children with their signs thru the district last night. A protest meeting of parents met at 4 p. m. to discuss the situation. The police broke up the earlier meet- ing which had gathered about Mrs. Rose Ruer when she attempted to ad- aon the “strikers” of her neighbor- ood, Miss Tobin denied that any more than the usual number of students from classes today, Su- it McAndrew of the Board of Education, was not even informed of the “strike” situation. He has re- fused to remove Miss Tobin or take any action against her. ' IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Coolidge Comnutes Sentence of Rumely, Pro-Kaiser Editor. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Presi- dent Coolidge today commuted to one month the sentence of one year be- ing served by Edward A. Rumely, former editor of the New York Eve- ning Mail, and two other defendants in the case convicted under war-time laws in connection with the purchase of the newspaper. The other defendants serving with Rumely were: S. Walter Kaufman and Norvin R. Lindheim, Rumely’s attorneys. The three recently began serving their sentences in the West Chester, N. Y., jail. Jap Sop To Labor. KOBE, Japan, April 7.—The de- cision of the Lp Japanese cabinet to show a more tolerant attitude toward labor organizations is taken as an in- dication that the militarists are some- what alarmed at the growing power of the ‘workers and the endeavoring te buy them off with small conces- ions, Another Small Pardon. SPRINGFIELD, Il., April 7.— Governor. Len Small today commuted the sentence of William Brims con- victed of conspiracy in Cook County and sentenced to seven months’ im- risonment. The commutation is ef- fective immediately, ) Ford Has Skids Greased. WASHINGTON, April 7.—;An un- official poll of the senate. culture committee on the subject of the Mc- Kenzie bill P sachin ed acceptance of Henry Ford’s offer for Muscle Shoals, indicates that the bill will be are favorably by a vote of 9 oO } IMPEACH COOLIDGE *