The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1927, Page 1

— The Daily Worker Fights: | For the Organization of the Un- | organized. | For a Labor Party. | For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 51. SEE EE EMOTE SEEN TR CURRENT’ EVENTS By T. J. O’)FLAHERTY. INCLAIR LEWIS has written him another book and has set the whole country babbitting about his “Emil Gantry,” which is the name of the preacher who is set up in the pillory to receive the sneers and jeers that Lewis pours out on his offend- ing head. Some say there is little of art inthe book but tho we have not read it we are williny to siag the praises of anything that is anathema to the eyes of Dr. (Cock) Roach Stratton and Billy Sunday not to mention the sluggishly moral edi- torializers of the New York Times, * * * EWIS is a good propagandist, so far ahead of Upton Sinclair that few people think Le is doing any- thing except telling a story in ‘rigorous language’ It is good to see the capitalist press and the clergy and the higher strata of capitalist functionaries shudder over the pros- nect of impending doom that looms up before them as a consequence of the moral deterioration that follows in the wake of debunking literature. As a matter of fact this debunking literature is an effect rather than a cause, tho the kind of an effect that spurs deterioration along. * * * ELIGIOUS fundamentalists‘elaim that “Emil Gantry” is vulgar and ebscene. Another reason why in- telligent people should read it, be- eause there is as much difference be- tween the conception of decency en- tertained by a fundamentalist and a civilized person as there is between the favorite smells of a prima donna and a hog. Disappointed critics may say it is not art, but art is not neces- sarily something that cannot be en- joyed, something that cannot be un- derstood except with pain and sorrow and cerebral strain. In our humble opinion if Sinclair Lewis made as good a job of lampooning the clergy as we hope he did, it is the kind of art we like and the kind of art that will live. * od * RISHMEN are disgruntled with Henry Ford because he has failed to acknowledge the offer of an L.L.D. from Dublin University. Irishmen are supposed to be realists and to be dlessed with that sense of the ridic- nlous without which people are bores and pompous asses, ¥ And yet, if we are ‘correctly in- formed, they blame Ford for not taking his pen in hand and inditing a tetter of thanks for the proffered jhonor when they might have excused ‘him on the ground that his favorite ‘steno who writes his. English was ab- sent. Conferring an L.L.Dship on the ‘nan who said history is bunk, is on a par with giving the Nobel peace prize to Austen Chamberlain. Per- haps the owners of the Dublin Uni- versity want another flivver factory in Ireland! BS Mh oR URING a lull in the Tlinofs civil war, Gov. Len Small invited Cal- vin Coolidge to visit the state, which was described by the governor as the heart of America. Evidently the president thought it came closer to being America’s chief burial ground as he put hastily to sea in the-May- « flower. Hardly had the gubernator- ial invitation been put on the wires than two rival Chicago gangs called off a two-day truce and again the streets were running red with the Liood of the dead and wounded. Things have not improved there since The DAILY WORKER moved to New York tho a large number of ‘perfectly good citizens blame the Communists for every social mis- | fortune from suicide epidemics to rum | seizures. . * } i had local socialist weekly ad- vertised a meeting t® be held here _in honor of Alexander Kerensky, | short-lived premier of Russia that | was, before the Communists turned | it into the heart of the Soviet Union. The editor of the Jewish Daily For- ward is one of the prime movers in the meeting. The socialists pretend that their hatred for the Soviet Union is due to the imprisonment and alleged persecution of political dis- senters and the execution of alleged socialists who took activé part in the machinations of foreign countries \ eninst the Workers’ Republic. It is . historical fact, however, during the short period Kerensky was in power he sent more workers and peasants io certain slaughter in an offensive against the Germans at the behest sf the allies than the sum total of all venegades that were killed and im- | yrisoned by the October revolution jyom its inception until today. ‘ * * * HE moist democrat, Mr. James A. TGattvan, Massachusetts, de- livered a ty’ frothy oratorical (Continued on Page Two) \ merican Consul Knifed ' Fighting a Compatriot SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 13.— Herndon W. Goforth, assistant Amer- ican consul here, died today as a re- sult of stab wounds received at the consulate yesterday, inflicted by an American giving the name of David Canfied. Canfied was arrested, Arrested Soviet Citizens Safe Says Peking For Nanking Opens PEKING, March 13.—Mme. Boro- din, wife of the Soviet adyiser to the Nationalist government and her three companions arrested by Chang Tso- Lin’s generals are reported to be safe andthe Soviet ambassador has been given assurances that their execution is not contemplated. The arrest of the Soviet Union citi- zens has increased the ferment in the ranks of the northern troops and re- bellions against the rule of the mili- tarists are reported daily. Generals Lukewarm. One of Chang Tso-Lin’s highest of- ficials admitted that there were only a few of his generals that could be trusted to accept battle with the Na- tionalist forces. The first serious engagement be- tween Chang’s troops and soldiers under the command of Wu Pei Fu generals is reported from the north- ern border of Honan province. Wu's generals have positively refused to allow the northerners to pass. The position of Chang Chung-Chang is now precarious with the Nationalists | preparing for a drive on Nanking and his foes to the north springing up like mushrooms in his rear. Unless Chang steps lively he may be step- ping into a Nationalist dungeon be- fore long. Workers Demonstrate. Millions of Chinese workers and peasants participated in the Sun Yat Sen celebrations all over China. Work- ers quit the factories and demon- strated in the streets, even in Cities held by the northern militarists. Leaflets were distributed by the hun- dred thousand and speeches were made denouncing foreign imperialism and pledging the Chinese masses to the task of freeing the country and the world from imperialisni. The speech_of Chan Kai-Shek in which he af: his loyalty to the Revolutionary Koumintang Party has set at rest for the moment the circula- tion of yarns concerning the alleged anti-Soviet animus of the Nationalist general. Lan *. * * | Seamen Threaten Strike. HONG KONG, March 13.—A gen- eral strike among seamen was threat- ened here today following the seizure of revolutionary posters aboard the steamer Fatshan by police. The crew of the Fatshan, about to clear for Canton, refused to sail until the posters had been restored. The posters advocated an alliance with Russia, praised Communism and every effort to further the aims of the laboring classes. WORKER CLUB RAISES MONEY FOR DEFENSE As a result of an enthusiastic meet- ing of the Progressive Workers’ Club of Williamsburg, held on Friday night at Royal Palace, Brooklyn, both the Cloakmakers Bond Issue and the Cloakmakers and Furriers Defense Committee are today many hundreds of dollars richer. Against Reactionaries. The union members and others who were present pledged themselves to carry on an aggressive campaign for funds, in order to show concretely their protest against the heavy sen- tences of Judge Otto Rosalsky, and the deliberate attempt of the reac- tionary officials in the needle trades to put some of the left wing leaders behind prison bars. Prominent Speakers. Joseph Goretzky, manager of Cloak- makers” Local 35, who is one of those against whom the right wing has been campaigning and who is at present out on bail of $25,000 on a frame-up charge. was one of the speakers, An- other was A, Schiller of the Furriers Joint Board. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Chief Engineer Saved, But Laborer Killed x hel wiry ut 2 BS pone sr ose} A an employe the Bivacheed Tce Co., was crushi to death here today when a coal con- veyor overturned and he was caught beneath it. Brodsky was assisting Andrew Broawa, the chief engineer adh ea Ral alirgree oh ed wa. and evade the falling machine, Wu Fights Chang as Battle SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Bill to Withdraw Jim Crow Law of Maryland Is Before Legislature ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 13 (FP).—Repeal of the Jim Crow law of Maryland, which requires that white and Negro passengers ride in separate railway cars or compartments on cars and steam- ships where tickets are sold between two Maryland points, is proposed by a bill offered in the state legis- lature by Senator McCardell of Frederick county. Negroes holding tickets for inter- state rides cannot be compelled to take Jim Crow cars or seats, federal courts have held. Bis Meeting in Needle Trades Detense Joint Campaign by Furriers And Cloakmakers Opens That the imprisoned cloakmakers and fur wokers are not to be forgot- ten by their fellow workers was shown unmistakably by the thousands who crowded Cooper Union on Satur- day afternoon for the official open- ing of the Joint Defense Committee of Furriers and Cloakmakers which is undertaking to raise a huge fund to bring about the release of those in jail, and to care for their families until this is aceomplished. Betrayed By Sigman. These men, who for their strike activities, were given such unprece- dented sentences by Judge Otto Ro- salsky, and other representatives of the law, are undoubtedly the victims of the right wing’s union smashing policy in the needle trades. Accord- ing to Isidore Shapiro of the Fur- riers Joint Board, who was a speaker on Saturday. “Sigman could have saved the cloakmakers from jail if he had not wanted to use them as pawns in his attack on the left wing. He let them be railroaded to prison for such long terms hoping that this would frighten other workers and prevent them from supporting the Joint Board. But the result has been just the opposite.” Di Mola Back. The failure of the terrorist tactics of the reactionary officials “was proven even more vividly by the ap- pearance of Joseph Di Mola on the speaker’s platform. | Di Mola had just returned from his | weeks of convalescence in the country following the attack upon him by right wing gangsters who nearly killed him by fracturing his skull. Di Mola was attacked in his shop for refusing to register with the Interna- tional officials of the I. L. G, W. U., and for days his life was despaired of. He celebrates his recovery by re- turning to the fight once more, and to the workers who greeted him so enthusiastically at Cooper Union Sat-| urday he pledged his continued sup-| port of the Joint Board and the struggle against the reactionary foes in the International. I. L. D. Defends, Patrick Devine, who spoke as a representative of the International Labor Defénse, said the I. L. D. is behind the Defense Committee, and he urged all workers to become mem- bers of the I, L. D. so that “we can prepare in advance to fight the Rosalskys and and others who help} to put class war prisoners behind the bars.” | The chairman of the mass meeting, | I. Brauner, chairman of the Cloak-| makers’ Shop Chairman Committee, / announced that on March 27th, the | motion picture “Breaking Chains” will be shown at the New Star Casino, 107th street and Park ave-| nue, for the benefit of the Defense | Fund. He also announced a bazaar for the benefit of the Defense Fund to be held on May 12, 13, 14 and 15th. | Tears Off Medal. One speaker, Sam Ginsberg, who is a shop chairman, stated that he, had a medal awarded to him for dis- tinguished service in Palestine but the actions of Judge Rosalsky, who, is a noted Zionist, made him ashamed) to_belong to this order and he dis-| carded his medal as an indication of his disgust. The chairman urged others who were members of this order to visit Judge Rosalsky and follow Ginsberg’s example if the judge refused to do all in his power to release the im- ed |Prisoned workers. Gangsters Known. Louis Hyman, general manager of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board, spoke of the notorious gang- ,|sters who are being employed by the just managed to jump aside|right wing of the cloakmakers’ and (Continued on Page Five) | tions. | gate to Albany, with the Central NEW. YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1927 <a> NUMBER OF ORGANIZED WORKERS IN 12000 Do Honor SOVIET UNION OVER NINE MILLION, > Memory Cleveland Holds an Impressive Memorial 1 Ruthenberg Is Remembered | Where He e Joined Fight CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Mem- erial meeting in honor of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg held in this city, where our fallen leader first joined the revolutionary movement, was most impressive. A portrait done by Com- rade Sadie Amter was placed on the platform surrounded hy a mass of red and black, and aboye it the emblem of the Soviet Government, the ham- mer and sickle. | The speakers at the meeting were | Comrades Max’ Bedacht, Herbert Zam, John Stieglitz, John Brahtin. | Israel Amter, presided, | The Freiheit Singing Society and | the Lithuanian Workers Chorus ren- dered funeral songs and the Inter-| national. Sound Note of Ghallenge PUBISHING WASHINGTON, March 13. — Trade unions in the Soviet Union had |a total membership of 9,278,000 on} July 1, 1926, according to a report) ‘of thé seventh general congress of) trade unions of the U. S. S. R., quoted by the Soviet Union Review,| \of Washington. This represented a gain of about 3,000,000 members since the sixth congress, held in 1924. THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. building industries than elsewhere. Union membership among farm workers had increased by 624,000, or 164 per cent, in two years; in the building industry it had increased by 326,000 or 35 per ¢ent. About 33.4 per cent of the total trade union membership consisted of clerical and other office employe, while 66.6 per cent were manual workers. It is among the manual workers in the in- According to the report, 89.8 per! dustries that growth is how most {cent of the wage workers in the| notable. |countries comprising the Soviet! Expenditures of the trade unions Union were enrolled in the trade; for the year 1925 amounted to $36,- unions in 1926, On July 1, 84 per jcent of the trade unionists were em- | ployed and 1. per cent unemployed, | while 2.5 per cent were learners and| | apprentices. Unemployment was} }more serious in the farming and 000,000, of which current expense. Funds on hand in 1926 amounted to $20,000,000, of which the metal workers’ had a larg- er sum per capita than any other trade. 47 per cent was Marie and Her Sick | Old Man Struggle for | Power ‘in the Balkans| BERLIN, March 13.—While Buch- | arest is celebrating Italy’s recogni- tion of Bessarabia as Roumanian Insanity Charge, Wild Parties, Adultery, in Augusta High Society AUGUSTA, Me., March 18. — So- |eciety here stood aghast today when |James W. Skene, the new father-in- | Tho the meeting was in honor of ‘territory with riot flags and joyous |law of Eugene S, Labar, millionaire Comrade Ruthenberg and was filled | street parades just as if the country | Pennsylvania coal operator, filed in with grief over the early demise of|/had won a victory at war, a new| Kennebec County Court a_ petition our leader, yet the note of challenge | and silent battle is going on inside| asking that Ernest L. McLean, last to the capitalist system-—-a challenge in the everyday struggle and for the | overthrow of the system—reflected the spirit of militancy and revolution that permeated and signalized the life of Comrade Ruthenberg. The police were in evidence at the meeting, evidently cnticipating that the meeting would threaten the exist- ence of the government. “They speak of freedom of speech in this country, and yet even this meeting must tolerate the pregance of the police,” said Comrade BeGacht. There were no untoward incidents, but the 1200 workers. present demonstrated that they are heart and soul with the revolutionary move- ment and will help to build the only lasting monument to our dead leader -~by building up the Workers (Com- munist) Party. (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS DEMAND FAIR VOTING IN GARMENT LOCALS Reactionary Officials of 48 and 89 Warned A demand for impartially super- vised elections in Locals 48 and 89) of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is voiced in a resolu- tion which will be forwarded today to the right wing officers of these locals by members who met last Fri- day night to discuss union problems. Warn of Election Steal. This group of Italian workers, members of Locals 48. and 89 who are loyal to the New York Joint Board, state that from their exper- ience in former elections in these lo- cals they “have né confidence that the proposed election of various lo- cal officers will be conducted proper- ly and honestly, if controlled by the present mal-administrators”. Want Fair Meetings. Therefore they demand that: “1, The shop chairman’s council | the royal palace. King Ferdinand announced his in- | tention -to go to Sicily in April in order to recuperate, but Queen Marie has suddenly come out against the trip because she learned that Prince Carol is to visit his father | the limelight when investigation of by | there. The arrangement for the meeting was made by Prince Wilhelm of Ho- henzollern, a rother of the former \king and chiet of the family, be- |cause he believes Carol’s restoration lis the only way to keep at least one | branch of the family on a throne. Marie is silently opposed to a re- | conciliation because she hopes that if Carol is kept out of the country |she might become empress of the | Balkans. \Chicago’s Armored | Car. To. Be Kept In. ‘The Labor District CHICAGO, March 18 (FP).—New equipment for the Chicago police de- | partment includes a steel armored car. | It is to be assigned to the central dis- trict, says chief of police Morgan Col- |lins, to answer emergency and riot \ealls. The reeord of the police in | charging and clubbing girl pickets in | recent needle strikes in Chicago’s cen- tral district and in brutally breaking up picket lines in other labor disputes indicates that the principal use of the armored car will be to ride down junarmed and defenseless strikers. “If the first one proves practical we | will buy armored cars exclusively | hereafter,” Collins says. U, S. BUILDS BIG WAR BALLOON AS GAL TALKS PEACE | democratic candidate for governor, be | appointed Labar’s guardian. Skene, |in his petition asserted that Labar was mentally unfit to look after his wealth. | Just a year ago Labar came into | “wild parties” at his mansion, with liquor coming from the county store- house, resulted in the removal from office of High Sheriff Henry F. Cummings by Governor Ralph 0. | Brewster. | Subsequently, Mrs. Grace R. Labar secured a divorce from her husband. Tn a counter suit the husband men- | tioned her alleged “affair” with Lawr- , {ence E. Purintoon, wealthy Augusta | | coal dealer. BUY THE DAILY WORKER | AT THE NEWSSTANDS “ON DEMOCRATIC. - CLUBS NET 150 ‘MeGuiness, Ward Lead- | er, Is Arrested Charged with gambling, threc| | democratic clubs were raided.’ Among | |the minor ward politicians arrested was Alderman Peter J. McGuiness, Democratic leader of, the Fifteenth | Assembly District, who was caught | “bookmaking” in the Peoples’ Demo- cratic Club, Meserole and Manhattan , Avenues, Brooklyn. Simultaneous raids on the three | ; clubs in the Williamsburg and Green- | | point districts resulted in the arrest | | of 150 men, all of whom were charged | | with disorderly conduct. | | It is an open secret that Republican | {and Democratic Clubs of most As- |sembly districts serve as hangouts | |for gamblers, criminals—-and ward | GAMBLING RAIDS. “ag FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Of Sun Promise to ‘tk On Fight For China’s Freedom More than 2,000 Chinese and American workers packed the Chinese Theater, Bowery and Delancey street, yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to the memory of Sun Yat Sen and to pledge their support to the Chinese emancipation movement. A touching tribute was paid to the memory of the Chinese revolu- jtionary leader when two thousand men, women and children, white and yellow,;all of them wearing little red buttons carrying his picture, made the customary three bows to his por- trait and to the Nationalist flag. Workers’ Revolution. William F. Dunne, editor of The |DAILY WORKER, voiced the senti- ments of the audience by indicating clearly the class character of the Chinese struggle. “The Chinese movement is not merely a Nationalist movement,” he said. “It is not a struggle between the East and the West. It is the fight of the Chinese workers -and peasants against ex- ploitation by foreign and native capi- talists and against their tools, the war lords.” Contradicting the statement made Professor John Dewey, the pre- ceding speaker, that the Chinese movement was purely natidhalist, Dunne pointed out that the struggle of the Chinese masses was inex- tricably linked with the struggles of workers and peasants throughout the world. “The Chinese workers and peasants,” he said, “are leading the masses of the East in a fight against world imperialism and exploitation.” Liberal Interpretation. Professor Dewey, who has exer- cised a good deal of influence over Chinese liberals, declared that the Chinese nationalist movement was merely an attempt to set up a demo- cracy like. that of the United States, and that it was “untainted by Bol- shevism.,” The international and ¢lass char- acter of the Chinese revolution were emphasized by Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School. “Sun Yat Sen is a common leader in a common struggle against capitalism throughout the world,” Dr. Sun’s parting message to his people, which was read by T. W. Chu, an outline of the Chinese situation |by H. Linson, editor of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, a brief sketch of Dr. Sun’s life by A. K. Hu, a denun- ciation of British aggression by State Senator Loring M. Black and brief addresses by David S. Ogino, A. Frankfeld, Miss K. Y, Loo and Sui Peng were other features of the pro- gram. Lead Struggle. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in whose honor the meeting was held, led the Chinese struggle for emancipation from 1896 to the day of his death, March 12, 1925. He was born in 1866 at Hsian- , Kwangtung and educated at the Hongkong Medical College. The Sino-French war of 1885 and the | politicians, many of whom combine | Sino-Japanese war of 1894 convinced Monsters of England | WASHINGTON, March 13. — The | fluences have hitherto prevented raids on district clubs. Saturday’s raids came after police call under its complete junjsdiction| pious declarations of American capi-| had discovered by wire-tepping that membership meetings of Locals 48) and 89, where nominations for the! various officers of the locals will} take place in an orderly, legal, and legitimate way; “2, All members of these locals, regardless of whether they have! registered with the International or! not, be permitted on the ballot; “3, All Italian members, regard- | less of whether they have registered | talism, represented by the Coolidge | administration, that it is striving to | preserve world pence is given the lie | by the announcement: jtist made that the U. S. navy department has _re- ceived designs and specifications for the largest rigid dirigible ever con- ceived by aeronautic engineers. Larger Than Any. The new monarch of the skiés, the initial finances for which the congress | or not, be allowed to vote; ‘just adjourned appropriated most “4, The shop chairman’s council | generous! il be 720 feet long, with be allowed to invite an impartial|a maximum “sausage” diameter of | bedy to supervise the actual elec- | “Only in such a manner can the) elections of Locals 48 and 89 be the) real exprersion of the membership.” | Also Use Injunetions. The glaring inconsistency of the reactionary right wing officials was) pointed out by Anthony Ramuglia, | one of the speakers, who told of the) fact that Local 89 had sent a dele- Trades and Labor Council, to wege the legislature to pass the Lipowiez- Hackenburg bill for regulating the issuing of injunction; yet the man-} ager of this local, Luigi Antonini, had just taken out a most vicious in- jurction in the capitalist courts against the members of the Joint Board who were fighting for the in- terests of the workers. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS The cubic #olume of its gas | ehamb 1! he 6,000,000 feet, | against 00 in the “Los An- geles” the 1: st dirigible now in service, The latter is but a puny 660 | fect fron) tip to tip and 91 feet through its greatest breadth. ste was piven to 130 feet Frantic the peace-loving program of the American empire working through the official- dom at Washington by the announce- | ment made the other day by the Brit- ish, Air Ministry that it had com- pleted plans for the building of two new sky monsters of 5,000,000 cubic feet capacity. Cannot Find Ship TOKIO, March 13. — Destroyers sent to search for the missing train- ing ship Kirishima Maru, returned to port today without having found trace of the vessel. It is feared the ship foundered in a gale off Cape Inuboe. The vessel carried a crew of 22 men and 30 cadets. McGuiness and others had been ac- cepting bets on horse races over the telephones in the three club houses The Wigwam, the Fifteenth As- sembly and the Peoples’ Democratic Clubs were those invaded by ‘the police. Priest Expresses Fear Capitalism Is Doomed Unless It Feeds Worker Twenty-three thousand Hudson Coal Co. miners have resumed work after a week's idleness caused by overproduction. Frequent layoffs in the anthracite this winter have brought consider- able distress to the workers. In a | bitter comment on conditions from {the Roman catholic pulpit at Oly- phant, a Hudson Coal town, Rev. P. |J. Murphy said: ° “Men, impelled by idleness, are thinking very seriously on the un- just, unscientific and stupid, econom- ical system of capital and labor as it exists at present. . . Is capi- tal in this country blind, deaf and dumb? Can it not see an invisible hand writing its doom on the wall unless it relent and make the work- ing men and women happy, peaceable and contented by sharing its profits in prosperity with the wage earn- ers?” Read The Daily Worker Every Day \One-Fifth Larger Than gambling with politics. Political in-|him that the foreign powers were |bent on the exploitation and possibly \the dismemberment of China, | As early as 1894, Dr. Sun realized |that a revolution which would de- | stroy the corrupt Manchu government |which had been handing out conces- {sions to foreigners, Would alone stop he exploitation of China by foreign | imperialists. ‘had actually planned the overthrow ‘of the Manchu dynasty led to the execution of seventy of his followers and to his fligh’ to Japan in 1896. | 1911 Revolution. He returned to China a number of times to organize popular opposition to the Manchu and foreign imperial- ism only to meet with failure. In | 1911, however, a series of foreign | loans, the annexation of Korea by Ja- | pan, rising prices and heavy taxation | by the corrupt Manchu gove ent | brought about a revoluticn which Dr. Sun directed. The revolution resulted | (Continued on Page Two) ‘Old Woman Killed In Brooklyn Hotel Fire Because of her determination to return to a burning building to rescue some valuables, Mrs. Reva Solomon, 60 years old, perished yes- terday in a fire which destroyed the Hotel Fort Lowrie, a four-story frame structure at the foot of 17th Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklyn, Many guests were overcome by smoke, and a score of firemen were cut by glass and badly burned in the course of the fire. The ruins are still being searched for other possible victims. he declared. * The discovery that he.