The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CHINA PACT ON TARIFFS IS FADING Armies Take Positions Around Shanghai SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 16.—Pros- pects that the question of Chinese tariffs will be settled by force of arms and not in the conference of imper- lalist powers with the Peking govern- ment at the capital, incre with the war tike movements of Chinese mili- taty commanders threatening to seize the Shanghai area and drive the Fengtien troops northward. Strawn Train Held Up When Silas H. Strawn, Standard Oil attorney and American delegate to the Peking conference tried to leave Shanghai for Peking late Thurs- day, his train was first delayed by troop trains of the Fengtien forces moving out of the Shanghai area to . take positions along the Shanghai- Nanking railroad, and the Strawn train was later nearly wrecked when the line was cut at Wasih and the train seized by soldiers, Upon orders from Peking the train was released, hoWever, and allowed to proceed. ‘ Fengtien troops to the number of 8,000 are withdrawing from Shanghai area to shorten ‘the line of expected attack from the @hekiang and Chihli forces from the south and west. These torces evidently aim to drive the Fengtien troops out of the Shanghai area and northward out of Kiangsu province, seeking to control the Yangtze valley with its rich income of customes and to hold it as an ac- complished fact before the much talked of tariff conference has any- thing to say about it. * May Create General Warfare The fighting, if persisted in, may extend into Honan province to the west and up the Yangtze valley to central China. It has possibilities of completely disrupting the tariff con- ference and creating conditions that will force direct dealing with the na- tionalist movement by the rhigeraaliat powers. Both railway lines out of Shanghai are in the possession of Fengtien troops, who are said to’be preparing to make a stand to the west near Soochow. N.Y. WORKERS DENOUNCE GITLOW BAN (Continued from page 1) elections board to reverse its deci- sion, the workers of the city of New York will be asked to write in the name of Gitlow on the ballot in de- fiance of the action of the elections board. Communist Issue a Statement The Workers (Commanist) Party, in a statement, points out that in real- ity “Gitlow is barred because of his activities on behalf of. the -workers, just as he was jailed because of his activities on behalf of the workers. His activities in coal strike, his fight against injunctions and the use of the courts aganst the workers, his sery- ice to the noedle trades workers, his defense of the foreign-born, and his long record of milftant working class activities—these are the true reasong for his exclusion. The workers will take up the fight to compel the elec- tion board to reverse its decision.” Gitiow’s Views on Ban Gitlow has issued ‘the following statement on the action of the elec- tions board: “A government whose courts enjoin picketing, whose police are used as strike-breakers, a government which has jailed me as it has jailed hun- dreds of other workers for their pol- itfeal activities on behalf of their fellow-workers, is to be expected, to take such action as it has taken to day in barring me from the ballot after I had been placed on it by the -Tequisite number of petitions. Real Reason tor Discrimination “Excuses for attacking the workers are always to be found. Injunctions and the use of police against picket- lines are defended under the pretext of ‘protecting freedom of contract,’ Saklatvala was barred from exposing British and world imperialism under the pretense that the immigration laws were being enforced. I am bar- red as a ‘felon’ after being convicted for the ‘crime’ of defending the workers. “I shall not abandon my campaign. On the contrary, I shall intensify it, for our work in this campaign is dir- ected precisely against this use of the government machinery against the workers activities. This is not an attack against me. It is an attack against the workers of the city of New York. They will know how to answer it.” If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- mounist literature OT Pe yalong with |LABOR PARTY, WORLD TRADE UNITY, AMALGAMATION, ALL PUT OFFICIALS ON DEFENSIVE By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 16.— Altho it had the great majority of delegates with it, the Green regime in the A. F. of L. ‘convention here visibly felt itself fighting on the de- fensive in its struggle against the labor party resolution, introduced as a challenge to the “non-partisan” pol- icy of supporting the two Wall Street parties. Not only old reactionary, wheel horses like President Lynch of the Printers’ Union and John P. Frey, edi- tor of the Moulders’ Journal, and pres- ident of the Ohio Federation of La- bor, had to rally to the support of the resolutions committee, but Presi- dent Green himself took the floor to apologize for the political policy urg- ed by the executive council, and ad- mitted that the labor party policy would some day be adopted. Rejected After Big Fight. The labor party resolutions drew most blood from the administration and secured most support among the delegates of all tha progressive pro- positions that came before the gath- ering. It was rejeoted, of course, resolutions demanding world trade union unity and recogni- tion of the Union of Soviet Repub- lics. Terrible Mistake of Printer. Progressivism rose to taunt the Green administration immediately af- ter the day’s session got under way, when it was discovered that the print- ed report of yesterday's proceedings showed the resolution attacking class collaboration concurred in by the committee and adopted by the con- vention. “The chair knows that the resolu- tion was defeated. I was watching that resolution very closely,” declar- ed President Green and ordered that the printed minutes be changed. The labor party resolution was at- tacked by the committee as contain- ing “revolutionary philosophy”. be- cause it sought political co-operation with the socialist and Communist parties and because it inferred that the government was a thing apart from the American people. Fitzsimmons Fights for Labor Party. Delegate Fitzsimmons of the Can- ton, Ohio, Central Labor Union, open- ed the discussion by declaring that the labor party was something that labor needs. He pointed out that delegates had already confessed the non-partisan policy was a method by which promises were secured from politicians who considered such prom- ises merely fish hooks to cateh suck- ers. He declared the labor party idea was making progress and that steps must be taken to’“get our own men in congress.” Hayes Supports Revolution... Delegate Max Hayes of the Print- ers’ Union, next got the floor and tried to ‘quiet the fears of the ad- ministration as to the revolutionary character of the resolution. Hayes declared it was. necessary to have an opposition as well.as an administra- tion group in the convention in or- der to secure clash of conflicting views on vital issues. He declared the labor party resolution fundamey- tally correct, “and I'll support it if 1 have to stand alone. “It may be that the workers right now are too interested in movies, prize fights, dog fights, tin lizzies and the manufacture of hootch; but that is no argument against the resolution. This labor question is not going to be solved on the industrial fleld alone. We must back up our industrial with our political power.” Sooner Or Later. He reviewed the strike of the an- thracite coal miners and showed the power of the non-producing parasiti- cal class thru its ownership of na- tural resources, concluding that “Sooner or later you will find it nec- essary to establish an independent political movement. instead of follow- ing your non-partisan policy that con- tains a lot of beautiful rheotoric that gets nowhere.’ Hayes denied the results claimed by the executive council in its report for this policy. Any Time, But Not Now. Delegate Lynch said conditions were better in this country than any where else and therefore, the labor party was not needed. He raised the fake argument that this was an at- tempt to substitute the labor party for the trade unions, He said, “The time for the labor party is not now. The report of the committee is sound for its time,” confessing that the time will come when the labor party will come into being. Delegate Frey confessed he had had Karl Marx's “ ‘Capital’ in his Hbrary for the last 25 years.” It did not seem to have done him any good. He told the delegates with great ado that the Marxian philosophy seeks to destroy the wages system, leaving the impression that he was for the wages system, Green Boosts Young Bob. President Green declared the ma jority did not believe that progress could be made now thru independent political action. He claimed thg election of young LaFollette was a victory for the A, P..of L. policy and claimed the A, F, of L. had won bet- ter conditions for the workers of this country than had been achieved in other countries where labor parties were in exi r “There may a tlme when we can organize a labor party” declared Green, claiming that that time would come when, “we become an indus- trial nation like Great Britain, when this country will have changed from an agricultural to an indus- trial nation.” No Need for Class Struggle. “Mm America we have no need of force or revolution. No need of class war or the class struggle.” He said: “We will employ the instrumentalities at hand,” evidently meaning non-parti- san action thru the old parties, Delegate Kutz of Pennsylvania, wanted to know what stand the non- partisan policy would take in Minne- sota where there is a farmer-labor party. Green thereupon claimed credit for having helped elect Ship- sted and Magnus Johnson, stating the A. F. of L. would continue support of independent political action in such instances. Woll Astonishes All with Confusion. Delegate Woll, secretary of the reso- lutions committee, then opened up a long harangue, declaring that the A. F. of L. had never declined to do what it could to mobilize the political power of the worker. He tried to make capital out of the alleged dif- ferences in the decisions between the Scarborough congress of the British trade unions and the Liverpool con- gress of the British labor party. He jointly condemned Great Brit- ain, the present so-called “socialist” regime in France and Soviet rule in Russia. They all looked alike to him, The delegates failed to follow his deft reasoning and remained quite dumfounded altho they recovered in time to vote against the resolution, Unity Called Impudence. The resolution on world trade union unity was declared an “impudent pro- posal” by the resolutions committee. It was denounced as a new united front proposal by Moscow, declaring that the A. F, of L. would not yield itself to this treacheorus proposition. Tt declared that as the United States resisted aggression from abroad, thru the Monroe doctrine, so the 4. F. of. L, would resist this aggression by Moscow thru propaganda. Attack Soviet Russia, When this declaration repudiating the efforts of the British and Russian workers to bring about world trade union unity had been defeated the at- tack was started on the resolution de- manding recognition of the union of Soviet Republics. After denouncing the Soviet Union and Communists gen- erally, the committee’s report de- clared: “The American Federation of Labor urges the government of the United States to maintain the position it has taken in favor of non-recognition of the Soviet regime and we commend our government for its courage. Its adherence to fundamental principles of democracy” and concludes with “we stand for America, for democrat- ic America, and we want the world to understand that fact.” President Green took the floor once more and lamented that this proposi- tion was always being brot up in A. F. of L, conventions. He shed a few tears for the counter-revolutionists in prison in Russia, and the “social- ists” in the needle trades’ delegation applauded. When he thot he had talked the convention to death and flattened out all opposition he put the question, but a scatterifg of hands was raised against the committee's report. The delegation of the Journeymen Tailor’s Union, Sweeney being ab- sent, joined in the demand for So- viet recognition. Green was there- fore unable, as he had evidently hoped, to announced the vote unani- mous, Flivver Magnate Sends Check to U. S. for “Junk” WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, — Henry Ford’s check for $1,522,450 was receiv- ed by the United States shipping board, completing the auto manufac- turers’ payment of $1,952,470 for the 199 old ships that he bought as junk from the shipping board, AVUOUTUEUGONOVOUUUOTOEDUGAUOUOeG AOU eN AO eeNH AOU TEEAENANAAH ENN Famous Russian Poet Mayakovsky Comes Back to Chivago _ To Co Ocoee a He will speak at Schoenhofen Hall, Cor, Milwaukee and Ashland Aves, TUESDAY, OCT.20 An Entirely New Program. Come and listen to him. Tell Your Friends About It. Beginning at 8 P. M. ya in 50 Cents, Green Weeps for Counter Revolution. THE palny WORK ENDORSED BY FRENCH PARTY Caillaux to Talk to the Radical Socialists (Special to The Daily Worker) NICE, France, Oct. 16—When Joseph Caillaux, French foreign minister, ap- pears today before the congress of radical socialists in session here he will not only have to defend his failure to get a satisfactory debt settlement out of his recent trip to the United States, bu he will be confronted with a demand for a capital Jevy, eloquently advocated yesterday by Mr. Edward Herriot, former premier. The. congress, early today, passed a resolution insisting tht France shall not pay debts to the allies in greater amounts than she receives from Ger- many. This action followed the con- clusion of Herriot’s speech, started yesterday afternoon and finished this ER ‘ PAUL CROUCH DEFIANTLY REFUSES TO TAKE PARDON FROM PRES. COOLIDGE +ALCATRAZ, Cal., Oct, 16—Despite the iron bars that surround him, Paul Crouch, one of the two American soldters sentenced to long terms at Alcatraz for belonging to the Communist League of Hawaii, refuses to accept any pardon offered by President Coolidge, “Regarding the proposed release thru the president, I must say emphat- ically and bluntly that, if it is offered, I will indignantly refuse it,” declared Paul Crouch. “I would spend every before accepting a favor trom Presi-+ dent «Cavin Coolidge or a reléase upon personal grounds. If I were to do as proposed, my very name Would be a stench in history (if recorded there in the list of rascals) and in company with men like Berger, Hill- quit, Ebert and Abromovich. I would be known by all class conscious work- ers as a yellow, cur-hearted and selfish traitor. Men have given their lives for less noble causes than the ideals fér which I am a prisoner. I do not, in any way consider myself a hero, for if I had done less I would have failed to do my duty. My body can be imprisoned, but my mind is always free.” Crouch received a check from the International Labor Defense which he intended to use for a correspondence course in the Russian language. The jail authorities refused to give him permission to transfer the money to morning, urging that, France make ®4be used for that or that purpose. heroic effort to pay her war debt. “We are besieged on all sides by debtors,” said Herriot. “Why not face the music with an honest desire to pay up, resulting in healing this gaping wound?” Party Controls Chamber. The resolution on war debts is especially significant in view of the fact that it was introdiiced by Henry Franklin-Bouillon, president of the COOLIDGE URGED COME TO AID OF BEVERIDGE BOOM foreign affairs committee of the cham-/(G, ©, P, Worried Over ber of deputies. His resolution reads: “The congress invites the present government and all future govern- ments to enter into an undertaking never to pay the allies any more than France receives from Germany.” May Challenge Government. The raising of the issue of a cap- ital levy at the congress is inter- preted to be the opening gun of a campaign to oust the present govern- ment and bring Herriot and the rad- ical socialists again into complete power, The Locarno deliberations are to come before the congress and resolu- tions that will form the basis for an attack upon Briand, the foreign min- ister; may be accepted, FRENCH NO-POKER PLAYERS; THEY TALK TOO MUCH Lausanne Gives. Version of Debt Parley (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PARIS, France, Oct,” 16——Stephane Lausanne, one of the iabompors of the Caillaux debt mission to the United States, and famous editor of the Paris newspaper Le Matin, criticising the deliberations conducted at Washing- ton before the American club of Paris at a luncheon here yesterday. The Paris editor evidently respects American ability in one respect— at the poker table. He admitted that he was willing to play almost any game with them except poker,’ bat he draws the line there. As poker players, Americans have no peers. French Too Speedy. “Second, the French delegation was in too great a hurry to finish the game. One cannot definitely fix the closing hour at the start or stipulate the exact hour of departure. Dele- gates to such-a conference cannot work with their eyes on the clock. “Third, the French mission’s hands were tied at the start by a pledge to hold out for an agreement. making France's, part of the eontract entire- ly contingent on German payments to France. Too Much Jabbering. “Fourth, we were inclined to talk too much. Good poker does not mean jabbering. M. Theunis (former Bel- gian premier), when hé returned with the Belgian debt mission, gave M. Caillaux excellent advice when he told him to speak for publication twice on hig visit to America—once upon his arrival and once upon his departure —hello the first tts antl good-bye the second.” M. Lausanne severe] ly criticised the Americans for disguising the truth concerning the treatment the French commission would receive in Wash- ington, and intimated that had/they known the real attitude of the gov- ernment of the United States, it is doubtful whether they would have journeyed there. to try to achieve an understanding on the question of French debts to the American govern- ment. Dawes Plan Slaves See Jobs Fade as Factories Close !BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 16—The decline in the numbér of factory shut- downs during the past few months was succeeded bye a considerable reversal during the, two weeks pre- ceding September “1, 1925, during which 54 shut-downs were reported as against 32 during “We preceding half Mn er ww 1926 Election (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct, 16.—If ‘Gov. Ed. Jackson of Indiana, pays any heed to the flocks of telegrams and long distance telephone calls that are going his way from republican lead- ers in the capital he will appoint Al- bert J. Beveridge to the senate va- cancy caused by the death of Sena- tor Samuel M. Ralston. President Coolidge was being urged today by these same republican lead- ers to exert his influence in Beve- ridge’s behalf, but with what success is not known. The president, while very friendly to and with Beveridge, has some embarrassment in the mat- ter because his. secretary, Everett Sanders, also is regarded as an as- pirant for the honor. Fear Factional Fight. The republican regulars want to see Beveridge named not because they ave any deep or abiding affection for he “boy orator” df fifteen’ years ago, but because they believe his selection would forestall what promises to _be a factional republican fight in Indiana next year that may cost them seats in the senate they can ill afford to lose. ~ Fear Defeat Next Year. Republican leaders are viewing the senatorial elections next year with considerable foreboding anyway, and they desire harmony wherever and whenever it is obtainable. Thirty-three senators are up for re- election next year, and control of the senate hingés upon the results, Or- dinarily the republicans would not be unduly concerned, but it happens, that an odd twist in the electoral wheel has so arranged it that of the 33 seats at stake only eight of them are demo- cratic, and of these eight all but one are from the solid south where repub- licans cannot possibly hope to gain a seat. The eighth is in Indiana. Thus, the democrats stand to lose virtually nothing, and the republicans day of my sentence here in Alcatraz LOCARNO PACT INITIALED BY SEVEN NATIONS German Nationalists are Pessimistic (Special to The Daily Worker) LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 16— The farce is ended! The imperialist flunkeys are departing. The so-calleg European curity” pact and the ac companying arbitration treaties were initialed here late this evening. The word “initialed” is used to designate this act in the sense that the min isters representing the various gov- ernment place their signatures on the documents. The delegates explained that by Initaling the pacts they will not become immediately effective but must be ratified by their various gov ernments. The pact accepted is vastly differ- ent from the one contemplated when the conference was called. A two- fold motive was involved in calling) the ministers together for the pur-| pose of devising a security pact. The principal one ‘was the desire of the tory government of Britain to con- solidate a European bloc against So- viet Russia, The other motive was the desire to do away with strife among the European nations so that the colonial wars now raging and the new ones that .are threatening can be prosecuted more effectively. Neither of these aims can be realized thru the present pact, as explained exclusively in yesterday’s dispatches to the DAILY WORKER. Mussolini Arrives. At the last moment and just in time to sign the documents, which one of his agents helped formulate, Benito Mussolini, the. bloody monster of fascism, arrived from Italy. He re- mained last night/in a border town under heavy guard on, Italian soil and only ventured into. Locarno when the day dawned. Despite unusual precau- tions for his safety the craven butcher feared the Italian population of this place, who are one hundred per tent antifascist. : When he reached the Palais de Justice, where the conferences were held Mussolini spied the correspond- ent of the London, Daily Herald, a labor newspaper and walked up to him saying, “Well how about your Communism, is it still on the march?” “I don’t know,” replied the eorre- spondent. “Why not?” queried Mussolini. “I am not a Communist” replied the correspondent, “I have made a mistake,” Mussolini. “That happens to you quite often,” shouted a Dutch correspondent. Mus- solini then walked from the lobby apparently surprised. Whole Crew Signs. The documents initialed’ here to- night center around the Rhineland security pact, which provides that neither Germany or France will go to war against each ether or violate the present boundaries, without sub- mitting their differences to arbitra- said stand to lose control of the senate | tion. should there be such a wave as that in 1922, which carried many republi- can senators into the political discard. Soldiers on Special Job at Panama Zone, Says State Secretary WASHINGON, Oct. 16.—Secretary of State Kellogg explains that the sending of American soldiers into Panama City, from the Canal Zone, to shoot down rent-strikers who refused to disperse, was police duty author- ized in the Panama treaty of 1903. That treaty provides that whenever, in the opinion of the Washington gov- ernment, the Panama government can- not maintain order in Panama City, Colon and waters adjacent, American troops may be used for the purpose. On this occasion the president of Pan- ama asked that they be sent in. The strikers had demanded that landlords be satisfied with 12 to 18 per cent of the vdlue of the rented prop- erties, as rental. The owners refused. Crowds gathered and speeches were made, Then the soldiers appeared and fired at the leaders in the crowd of strikers, Several deaths resulted. * Teachers’ Meeting Saturday, On Saturday morning, Oct. 17, at 10:80, the regular meeting of the Chi- cago Teachers’ Federation will be held in Corinthian Hall, 17th floor, Capitol building. Matters to be discussed are salary schedule, board rules affecting teachers, adopted and pending, the new pension commission and the Platoon schools, — re A good book on Communism will make you a better Com- munist. Co-ordinating arbitration are also provided. Czecho-Slovakia and Poland are brot into the agreement by way of separate arbitration treaties with Germany. The documents were initialed by Austen Chamberlain for Great Brit- ain, Aristide Briand for France, Pre- mier Mussolini for Italy, Herr Stresg- eman for Germany, M. Vandervelde for Belgium, Dr. Benes for Czecho- Slovakia, and M. Skrynski for Po- land. treaties eee German Nationalists Skeptical. BERLIN, Oct. 16—Altho the allies may hail the creation of a zone of perpetual neutrality along the Rhine as the greatest step toward European peace in years and possibly even more momentous than the Versailles treaty, the German nationalists were inclined to view the edings with pessi- mism today. The nationalist press denounced the allies’ optimism regarding the out- come of the Locarno deliberation as a “false alarm” designed to silence German opposition to the agree- ments. The newspapers warned their readers against premature il- lusions, Arbitration Hokum Practiced on Steel Workers of Spain (Special to The Daily Worke.) MADRID, Spain, Oct. 16—The re- cent strike of seventy per cent of the iron and steel workers of the Bilbao arbitration by a committee appointed by the department ‘of labor, which will study wages and H¥ing costs. \ alge 8: region has been made the subject | INSULT TO BRIT LABOR BY ALF.OFL Farrington, n, Hutcheson, “Fraternal” Delegates (Continued from page 1) gence test and the junior high schools in the public education system, and to aid the Bakers’ Union in its war on the “open shop” Ward Baking company, known as the bread trust, were among the decisions of the clos- ing sessions of the convention here. It is planned to secure the co-opera- tion of all unions involved in the drive against the Oribben-Sexten plant against the metal polishers, who came out on strike several weeks ago. The resolution endorsed by the convention reads as follows: Whereas, This is the only stove shop that has taken this onistic attitude towards organized ta- bor; and Whereas, If an adjustment Is not brot about, It may develop into an other strike of the magnitude of the Buck Stove and Range company of several years ago; therefore, be it Resolved, That the American Fed- eration of Labor, in convention as- sembled, direct the secretary to give this matter full publicity to all or ganizations affiliated with the |Ameri- can Federation of Labor by clreular; and, be it further Resolved, That the American Fed- eration of Labor refer the matter fo the executive council for the purpose of making every effort to adjust this strike. | Olander Worrled Over Education. Delegate Victor Olander, secretary of the Illinois Federation of Labor, spoke at length against the platoon or Gary plan. “We are playing with fire in delaying the securing for our selves of information as to what ts transpiring in the educational system of the United States,” he said. He declared that the so-called “Mental measuring or intelligence test tend- ed to produce a caste system as rigid as that of Indiana.” In the committee report against the Ward Baking company, if was shown how this great corporation kept up the prices of bread on “fe one hand and reduced wages on the other. Among other measures congressional investigation was urged. At the same time, however, newspaper reports de- clare that the department of justice has dropped its probe “for lack of evidence.” large Many Promises. The convention also voted to help the Moulders’ Union keep up the fight against the Holland Furnace com- pany, of Holland, Mich, a struggle which has been featured by sluggings, mobbings and kidnapings in attacks on the workers; to continue the fight against the non-union Crowell Pub- lishing company, of Springfield, Ohio, publishers of the American Magazine and Colliers’ Weekly; to aid the Jour- neymen Tailors’ Union in its strug- gle with the National Woolen Mills:of Parkersberg, West Va.; to condemn the efforts of the police commission- er of New York to introduce the photographing and finger-printing of everybody as methods of fighting crime, to investigate the Bell Tele-. phone system, to station a permanent organizer in Porto Rico, and to aid the railroad shopmen in their strike against the Pennsylvania railroad. — All Satisfied But the Seamen. An attack on the railroad labor board was endorsed and a cable mes sage put into the proceedings from! Havelock Wilson of the British Sea, men’s Union expressing “satisfaction” with the A, F. of L.’s attitude against the outlaw strike of the seamen. ; Measures Rushed. ‘ The convention authorized Green continue to relation with I. F. T.°U. on El Paso convention basis, declared for further co-operation Pan-American federation, asked, A. F, of L, repre- sentation on Pan-American Union, authorized Green to make personal presentation Gompers’ memorial to international labor office. The world court question was referred to the executive council. The convention asked of the investigation of U.. 8, troops entering Panama and slaughter of workers in Nicaragua. It was also asked for the release of Rangel and Cilen, It commended Calles for: or- anizing Mexican workers in the U.S. / sailers Get Jailed, Sheriff Peter M, Hoffman, of Cook county, was fined $2,500 and sentenc- ed to 30 days in the Du Page county jail, and former Warden Wesley Westbrook, of the county jail in Chi- cago, was sentenced to four months) in the jail of Dekalb county today, following conviction of contempt of court in permitting two bootleggers, Terry Druggan and Frank Lake, ted- eral prisoners to come and go vir tually at will, while in their custody and permitting Lake to be discharg. ed 82 days before his sentence would have expired.” 7 Marine Engineers’ Head Dead. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—George A. Grubb, secretary-treasurer of the Marine Engineers’ Beneficiary Associa- tion for the past 27 years, died Oct. 10 in Washington, mational head- quarters of the union, He was 63 years ‘old and bn lived in Chk cago: Aha wats