The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1 % Report Mexican Reactionary Clerical Army Fails to Await ‘Boasted ‘Decisive Battle’ “REBELS” RUN FROM MASIACA; RETREAT NORTH Report Half of Clerical Forces Have Deserted GENEVA, April 25.—With the U. S. delegate, Ambassador Gibson, leading the hue and cry, the League of Nations Preparatory Arms Con- ference today voted down. another of the Soviet Union’s proposals for arms limitation. Delegate Litvinoff, for the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, had moved that the number of airplanes and dirigibles in the war fleets of the various nations be appreciably reduced below the number in use Jan. 1, 1929. Upon the direct insistence of Gib- son, this proposal was rejected. The Working Women Members of Soviet Militia DAWES PREPARES FRENCH RULERS WAY FOR ARMED BUILD BIG NAVY ALD TO PUPPET FOR REXT WAR . Pee ere of Domingo Japanese Miliaeteta| Sells Out to Bankers Silent on Arms Meet PORTO RICO, April 25.— A PARIS, April | The next time |tighter hold has been secured by that the delegates of the United |American bankers on pauperized| States, Great Britain, Japan Santo Domingo thru the acceptance | other world sit around the confer- of the Dawes budget plan by the|ence table at Geneva or elsewhere | puppet Dominican government. This to discuss naval disarmament, the plan provides that practically all|rulers of France will have a word customs and internal revenue shall to say. The 10,000-ton cruiser Foch, | go to pay interest and sinking fund | just launched, is not her last. remark. |charges on the now outstanding loan. Having built up the fastest fleet of twenty million dollars to Lee, of cruisers and destroyers in any | Higginson & Co. navy afloat, French imperialism in- | This means that the previously tends to keen that domination adopted plans for local public im- light craft unl Britain and A 5 provements must be dropped, Also ica make great sacrifices to win hie the loans which President Vasquez) away from her speedy warships, ac- and! Kk. | crops in their district. | “Soviet Peasants Discuss Their Probleras | s group of Russian Southern Peaais Adnit Violation of “Labor’’ Laws | .. FENG TRIES TO RIDE WAVE OF RAGE AT CHIANG Nanking "War Lord's? Men Deserting PEKING, China, April 25.—Mem- bers of the diplomatic corps have unanimously agreed to cancel the 1919 agreement prohibiting the ex- porting of arms and munitions to China. The cancellation will be ef- fective Friday, it was officially ané nounced today, and will assist Chi- ang in his fight against Commun- ism, also against his rivals Feng and the Wuhan armies. oe TSING-TAO, April .—Chiang Kai-shek continues* to “lose face,” even with his staunchest supporters, because of his inability to hold the ” excuse given was that all limita- desired to procure in Europe. cording to authoritative sources. | oS ae Kuomintang together. The latest tion figures should be left to the The population of 1,000,000 star May Increase Quota. GREENVILLE, S. C. (L.R.A.) |the Jaws, Its record of violations | deserter from his eamp is General general conference. The present jing tobacco and sugar cane growers{ Under the Washington agree-|(p. Mail)—What workers have |teads: |Fang Chen-wu, formerly dictator in conference contented itself with the | will have to pay all “that the traf-| ment the quotas were Britain and|jon¢ known and declared—that stat re Shoals ‘the Peking area, who was sent by harmless task of deciding how to fic can béar” for many decades be-)the United States five each; Japan|jahor Jaws are continually v : is Aprils 6, Chiang Kai-shek with 40,000 men to { measure the fighting power of air- |fore they will make any dent in the! three and France and Italy 1.6 each.! White the bosse responsible for the without permits; Oc guard the Shantung ar against ' planes and dirigibles. loan outstanding to the middle-| “The determination of the | violation get o tt free—is now plaint cvertime, investigation proper | Possible attempts of Feng Yu- ae ee western house of Morgan financiers.| Strength of a fleet should be hased revealed even by a state legislative notices not posted covering em-) As soon as he was safely MEXICO CITY, April 25.—The Photo shows: working women of the Soviet Union in » a There is growing opposition to} on ee oe Pte aha ated of | committee. |ployes working at 6:15’a. m., start- ntrenched in this new area he “rebels” have retreated from Mas-| members of the proletarian militia (which co onds to police in | the acceptance of the terms of the|Svery nation, Ml. Georges lueygues,| Violations of the South ing time 7 a. m.; April “28, 1928,|# message to Feng offering sup { Dawes budget plan, not only from| French Minister of Marine, said to- jaca, Sonora, without offering re-| capitaliet. countries). Working women in the Soviet Union have . ane labor law in at ieast 76 of the complaint overtime, investigation, | aeainst the Nanking Sue: : sistance to the advancing govern-| sur to defend the workers’ and peasants’ republic, and many enroll the masses of oilers, but even|day. © | na textile mills are reported by a|found guilty, excused; Jan. 21, 1927, | hese generals, in the best tradi ment troops, Gen. Lazaro Cardenas| in the protective services. from the former supporters of Vas-| in Deane ae ©) special committee investigating for complaint overti investigation, tions of the war lords, are trying to messaged the government today. The rebels fled towards Navojoa, Cardenas said. The rebel retreat from Masiaca, where the insurgent forces had in- trenched and were expected to make a definite stand, began last night and the federal troops entered the| town this morning, Cardenas added. It is estimated that half the “rebel” effectives had been dis- persed. Federal airplanes found! bridges to the north of Navojoa burned. Federal planes attacked rebels at Bacavacni with bombs and machine guns. * * * EL PASO, Tex., April 25 (UP). —Mrs. Henry Mohr, wife of an El Paso hardware dealer, was found sguilty today by a jury in federal court of violating the presidential | arms embargo to Mexico. Judge C A. Boynton deferred sentence. Mrs. Mohr was charged with at- tempting to smuggle 3,000 rounds of ammunition to the clericals while they occupied Juarez, Mexico. On May Day—raily to the struggle against imperialist war! All to the defense of the Soviet Union! “Comrades, Onward Conquer”, s Greeting of Lucy Parson Lucy E. Parsons, widow of one of the Haymarket Martyrs, who will always be remembered by the workingclass in connection with In- ternational May Day, sends her May Day Greetings to the Daily Worker, It is as follows: Dine. See “To The Daily Worker: “Comrades: “You carry the oriflame, the Red Flag, typifying labor’s united front thruout the world. This international anniversary on which labor, awakening from the long dreary winter, marches forth in uncounted lions in every land and upon the ocean’s crest, singing its inspiring hymn, The Battle Cry of Freedom, the “International,” and renewing its deter- mination to abolish class domination and wage slavery. “My mind wanders backward acress 43 years to May 1, 1886, when our Chicago martyrs, unfurled the Red Flag, defied the capitalists, called the tens of thousands of wage slaves from the factories, closed the doors and inaugurated the 8-hour day which was the cleavage between the long and the short hour day in America. “These, our Martyrs, paid for their great service to the working- | class with their lives, but the great cause for which they lived and died still lives. “The Daily Worker takes up the struggle and is leading the toiling masses to victory! “Hail the Daily Worker! | “Hail the social revolution! “Comrades, onward, march, action, conquer! —“LUCY E. PARSONS.” quez who realize that even those small crumbs which they have up till now received will be taken away. Propaganda has already been be- gun by the Dawes Commission to netend Vasquez by intervention iwhen the peasants rise against him. Secretary LowmanSays) Usual to Shoot at Ship! WASHINGTON, April 25 (U.P).— A protest against the coast guard cutter Seneca’s firing on the collier T.A.D. Jones was received today} by the treasury, Assistant Secretary Seymour Lowman announced. Lowman said there was nothing | unusual about the action of the Seneca in firing upon and board a collier. EARTHQUAKE IN BOLOGNA. BOLOGNA, Italy, April 25 (UP). —Bologna, which has been kept in a constant state of alarm by 30 earthquakes in the last two weeks, was visited by another tremor dur- ing the night. It was slight, how- | ever. On May Day—tong live the al- liance of the working class and the poor farmers! LEN The time is the Civil War period when the Soviet Govern- ment is fighting desperately against the internal counter- revolution aided and financed by the imperialist powers. Lenin is repeatedly called by telephone International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 IN j what to one side of them sat a girl] peasants . . with bobbed hair, in a blue dress and blue pinee-nez—Nesmelinskaya. At a distance, gigling for some rea- son, there clung to each other two/ ster.” | blondes, almost little girls, workers;/ “Then Tzic is a parliament,” re- both wore ‘soft slippers cut out of | torted the Lett. “Sovnarcom (council of people’s commissars) is, of curse, nothing else but the proletarian cabinet of mini- A Story of the Civil Wars in the U.S.S.R. By A. A. AROSEV + Do you understand?” usual, with one eye. ‘I. did,’ says he. And again he leans backward and talks of other things. And not a word about the letter. ‘Just wait!’| think I, and again I choose a mo- ment, and ask cautiously: ‘And... hem... did you read it?’ And jnese naval author of tonnage from category to cat gory is a blow at Britain, but is wel- comed by France because it lets her build all the submarines-she wishes. Coke s Silent. 1 25.—Japa-| y nothing whatever about naval disarmament. They let the newspapers issue long jeditorials of praise for the Gibson| | plan of shifting categories. It !for them a welcome change as it di tracts public attention from the pro-| posals of delegates of the Union of | Socialist Soviet Republics for reduc- tion of all categories of fighting | | ships Japanese Militari: TOKIO, Japan, 4 On May y—long live the Communist International! Join the ranks of the Communist Party! Hail the world revolution. ‘The Labor Athlete By SOL FISHER. The revolutionary working class | ¢ of Europe has long realized that one of the best means of organizing the working youth is through sports ac- tivities. The result is that in many European countries we find power- ful labor sports organizations with tens of thousands of members. The worker athletes are the fighting vanguard of the labor movement and are always ready to defend the la nbor organizations from attack of [fascist yeactiona’ gangs, Here in America the labor sports movement is still in its infancy. Al- though it is being rapidly developed, the great masses of the young work- crs are still entangled in the paws of the bourgeois and bosses’ sports | organizations, where they are| |taught to serve capitalism and are trained for the coming imperialist war. Unfortunately many of the} |the house of »epr In more than two yea’ have been pros: entatives, 's only 5 mills ted for violation: and the highest fine was only $50, |paid by the Ware Shoals Mfg. Co., in 1927, | “Found guilty, ed,” reads the record opposite the names of many mills reported as ‘employing | jeuldcen under age, running over- time, or keeping toilets “in bad con- dition.” This cautious description cf toilets which are disgustingly filthy and disease-carrying is typical lot state reports, but workers know | what these mild words mean in re- elity. Over Ten Hours Daily. “Running overtime” means, of course, running more than the 60 | ho a week allowed for both men and women workers in textile mills. A 10-hour day, 55-hour week law for South Carolina textile factories really ellows 60 hours a week if permission is secured from the state sioner. only two field inspectors for no one factory can be in- spected and investigated more than 3 times a ycar, the legislative com- mittee declared. “The textile cor- poration can, with some degree of certainty, calculate almost the ex- act day on which the inspector will arrive at its plant. be observed on the day when the jinspector is present, and for four | months thereafter the laws can be ¢isregarded without being detected, junder the present system.” Courts Don’t Help. “At most of the factories: where strikes have occurred there have | been flagrant violations of the labor |laws that have not been brought to any court for redress, in fact have | not been brought any further then jto the attention of the commis- |sioner.” The Ware Shoals Mfg. Co. Jat Ware Shoals, where workers won The laws can | found guilty, pr cases in court; Oct, 29, 1927, complaint child labor, investigatoin, no evidence.” Cheat Farmers. Poor farmers in country districts were cheated by the state commis- ioner, also head of the department of agriculture, who “was derelict” in this respect, the report reveals. | Adulterated commercial feed-stuffs were sold to farmers with the com- missioner’s knowledge. Feed oats were sold as seed oats. Other grains were sold to plant for seed-sow- ing though they have been dried by steam heat and had thereby lost jtheir germinating properties. Women workers in stores are also at the mercy of labor law violators, | the report shows. spectors who inspect cotton mills are also required to inspect the stores. The inspectors are too busy in try- ing to inspect the cotton mills to have the proper time to learn whether or at night, and to see to it that the stores have ample seating capacity or the number of seats required by law.” Always Ready to “Excuse.” Only in one r missioner been ful,” the investigators conclude. “He has been always ready to suppress and excuse practically every viola- tion. of the labor laws, to ignore all (diserepancies as to weights and measures, to pass over all violations {of the Pure Li upon the mere (collection of the inspection fee, and to re-allot the working in his department in utter disregard of the appropriation bill.” This revelation of a state violat- jing even the weakest and most in- ‘adequate iabor laws makes more than ever clear to workers that no state Iégislation under “The two field in- | not ladies are being} forced to work later than 10 @elock | salaries of those | capitalism | ride with Feng the popular wave of discontent with Chiang and the Nanking clique which has steadily. risen since Chiang’s war on the Left elements after the seizure of Shang- hai by the Northern exnedition. The dissatisfaction being intensified by Chiang’s turn to Tokio for help in his internal struggle for power. Feng has not openly begun war on Chiang only for the reason that h2 knows that Nanking is losing strength daily and is waiting for a better moment to strike. is Workers Inter-racial League of Cleveland Hails T.U.E.L. Meet CLEVELAND, (By Mail). — The Trade Union Educational League and the congress to be held June 1st in Cleveland was the subject for |discussion at the last meeting of the Workers Inter-racial League of Cleveland. Great interest was shown in the subject and Negro workers who know the reactionary anti-Negro policies of the A. F. of L. fron bitter experience hailed with enthusiasm the advent of the congress as the ect has the com- | beginning of a militant labor move- ‘active and watch-| ment in this country of all races. ‘Steinach ‘Rejuvenator’ Objects to Criticism Dr. Harry Benjamin, surgeon, has brought suit for $250,000 against Dr, Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Journal, and Horace Liveright, Inc., publishers, alleging libel in Dr. Fishbein’s book “New Medical Follies,” it was learned yesterday. The complaint was served on Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for — to speak to the workers and Red an old skirt and tied up with strings.' “A parliament, and not a parlia- again he squints with one eye and |zctive militant workers have as yet, ctrike last month agai str j1i- |the publishers. p ! : h sand not a p i act ” ‘ gainst_ the |can take the place of a strong, mili- : soldiers gathered outside Mos- || Babaev was pacing the middle of | ment; one must think dialectically.| flashes with the other. ‘I did,” says|failed to see the importance of our |¢pced-up “minute system,” is a tant, revolutionary union in demand. | 2% the fourth and fifth chapters ie Is so cow Soviet building. busy that he is unable to go im- the room; he wore a black shirt, one | We, the Marxians. .. . |hand was stuck into his belt, the RM ania | work. The radical press does little to propagate labor sports. he, and again talks of other things. | ain t |typical example of a mill violating |ing ‘and securing better conditions. |! “New, Medical Follies,” published | Well, nothing is to be done, appar- | by Liveright, Dr. Fishbein is alleged mediately. Andronnikov, a Red Army officer, is sent after him. Their automobiles meet and An- dronnikoy and Lenin ride to- gether to the latter eagérly in- quiring about the spirit of the workers and soldiers. Lenin ad- dresses the gathering from the balcony of the building while Andronnikoy stands as if hypno- tised by the power of his simple straightforward words. ae oat (Conclusion.) ENIN had finished long ago. Someone from the regiment was now speaking, and the words kept | whirling in Andronnikov’s head: | addféssing the host, the printer. | “We are invincible; we, we, we are invincible.” Meanwhile, on the Square, the | order had already been given to form | ranks and march. somewhat agitated, touched, en- Andronnikoy, | other in the depths of his shaggy hair. At a distance from the gable, nearer to the window, Bertenyev was struggling silently and absor- bedly; he was endeavoring to un-)| earth from the corner piled high with old books, boots, rifles, and straps, the piano that was buried there. Cee ater THEN Andronnikov entered, Ba- baev was saying: “All that is|linskaya, who was seated on the| things I shall be glad. Your letters true, but why this red tape again ++. A-ah! Mikhail Ivanovich. How jare you? We’re going together, it | Seems?” Babaev, turned as he saw Andronnikoy. “No, brother,” resumed Babaev, “The point is that the muzhik is not | a fool, and he has understood who stood the Bolsheviks.” “One can see that he has under- | stood them well,” retorted the pale! i) ee Bertenyev, Andron- nikov, and also Reznikov, who had joined them, dragged the piano from under its load of junk, and dusted it, so that the two girls cling- ing to each other sneezed in turn. “I put my faith in Ilyich alone! After the Brest-Litovsk peace I ac- quired a great faith in him,” said the | girl in the blue pince-nez, Nesme-! arm of the sofa. “Tlyich? Nobody argues about that,” remarked Andronnikov. | “And you cannot find a warmer |champion of the peasants than he is,” put in Babaev. | “That's just it,” assented Nesme-| linskaya. | “But he champions them in a pecu- is against him, and he has under-| liar way; he approaches them as \began to play. The whole room lit workers,” remarked Andronnikov, who was panting on all fours, re-| pairing the piano-pedal. | PERTENYEV, tried the keys of the ently—he does not want to talk.| How ean the labor sports move- Then he started saying good-by. And|ment gain recognition and more ‘all the time ‘Comrade Babaev’ and |support of the left wing moyement “Comrade Babaev.’ One could see |and its pre: Simply by proving he wants to say something more.|that we are a part of the labor |But I keep quiet. I already had my |movement, that kicking of a ball is i hand on the doorknob, about to open |not our main object. the door. He takes my hand. ‘You|deed show that our aim is to or- know, Comrade Babaev,’ says he, ‘if|ganize the young workers, to edu- you feel like writing to me about/cate and develop them physically to fight for their own class. And to convince the miiitant labor move- ment that we are sincere in our aims, we must take part in the everyday struggle of the workers We must be with them on the picket iines, march in the front line of la- bor demonstrations, guard the lives cf our labor leaders from gangsters, hired by the bosses and their lack- cys, pretect labor meetings from the attacks of thugs and hold mass sports exhibitions at working class will be given to me direct. Be sure to write.’ We parted in a real | friendly way. That’s the kind of man |he is. And I knew he understood that what I was writing to him was good sense.” * piano with a skilled hand, and up at once, as if with a double light. ““To govern’ means ‘hand in hand’; one common thought,” re- We must in- Demonstrate your solidarity with the striking miners, textile, | food and shoe workers on May Day, and against the treacherous socialist party and the capitalist flunkeys of the A. F. of L. Ten shipwrecked men who were | | tessed about helplessly in the: At- Hlantic for nine days were safe aboard the yacht Amida last night, |and on the way back to port after an almost miraculous rescue. With them was the body of an eleventh, who was unable to liv through the storms and gales of the past week. He died of exposure just as help was in sight. The rescued men were the crew Crew of Ten: Rescued | |After Adrift 10 Days;) and mentally so that they are fit| \One Dead of Exposure | | had been slain by gangsters. Labora- | \ChicagoGangs UseAcid | Burn Political Rival CHICAGO, April 2 use Gangland’s of chemicals to destroy the ies of its “ride” victims was re- vealed today by examination of a man’s skeletcn found near a south- |side draimage canal, Police said builet. holes skull in the and ribs indicated the man |tory technicians said the murder probably occurred a year or more |ago and that the body had been de- |composed by acids. The Chicago gangs are henchmen of city politi- ns and often kidnap or kill their rivals for office or rival's political | workers, Small-pox Epidemic tu have criticized the plaintiff’s ad- vocacy of the so-called Steinach methods of rejuvenation. AAAADAMAAAMALMLM Your Chance to See SOVEET RUWSSEA tered his automobile. | printer, “since he comes with his| ‘And that’s the right way... . flected Andronnikov, to the sounds |#therings. “Comrade,” the chauffeur asked | tim, “and how is Vladimir Ilyich? Vhat kind of man is he?” » “Just like any other—an ordinary | man.” “He isn’t.” “Why not?” “Just because he isn’t!” In the evening his friends ar- ranged a farewell party for Andron- nikov. Not more than eight persons in all gathered about a tarnished copper samovar that stood puffing between o card-tables shoved together. There was Golubin, a plain Russian | workman; there was the host, a pyinter, hunched and pale, with tufts of hair in spots on his emancipated | ‘ace; and his wife, a pale woman) with eyes black as coal, that were uways laughing and teasing. Rez- 1ikov, too, sat here. Two men were eclining on the sofa: one of non- lescript age, of Jewish type, some- vhat cross-eyed, somewhat dirty, ontinually pulling up his trousers vith both elbows; and at his side Lett, with sad eyes, and regular, ommonplace features, like large avement stones. The first, the lightly unkempt one, held the Lett y two buttons of his coat and seem- | d to be abcut to dive into his bosom bags to Soukharevka market, for|Here is what I can tell you, boys | illegal trading; and what type of}. ase Babaev for some reason | | muzhik, at that? The poorest class.” tightened his belt, smoothed his | | “That's not the point. That comes shaggy beard with his fingers, once, from need and not from the soul. more scratched his. head, and In his soul he is with us; in the} hemmed.... “M-m-yes! « Once! question of need we ourselves are|I wrote a letter to Lenin, Not this not with him and we did not know is the way to approach the peasant how to approach him.” \t wrote. And so I put down every- “Always ‘did not know how.’ In| thing, so to say, in order. This and 1917 we wrote tearful appeals to | that, this and that, and so on. him: ‘Bring bread to the stations;|You’re a bit wrong, Ilyich, and so, we're dying’; and he turned his back} on, and so on. A long time passed. on us. ‘Did not know how,’ you'll! Just before leaving for the front 1 say. Then began the requisitions—| went to Lenin. So much more that he hides away his bread; again ‘did! I had a responsible task in connec- not know how,’ I suppose. What-| tion with Colonel Muraviev. ever you do with them, all will be; M-m-yes! So I came to him. He ‘not knowing how.’’” The pale-faced | talks of this and that, but does not printer waved his hand, not wishing mention the letter. ‘What is the to argue any further ‘mere to excite| matter?’ I think. And I even have} himself.’ From his early youth he his signed receipt. Could it be that had been in the city, in his printing | he had not read it? Probably not; shop. The printer, therefore, did not have much affection for the peasants. But Babeav, a homeless tramp, had many times come in con- tact. with the muzhiks in the course of his life, and found ‘in them re- sponse and a brotherly attitude; so he flared up: “You’re talking nonsense. You reason like a bourzhui or a landlord. Js such reasoaing Communisti wr greater convincingness, Sunic- You and I ave nothing without the he has forgotten, he’s busy. I feel rather put out. So much more that I wrote there in great detail about | the question of food supplies. I chose a moment and asked him: ‘Did you get my letter, Vladimir Ilyich?’ | He sits in the middle of the table, and I somewhat to the side. He at once turned to me with his whole body, his fists resting on his thighs and approached his face to me n near, and squinied, you know, as of the music that excited him. “‘Higher and higher,’” he kept on repeating to himself, not knowing what his own thoughts were. And the sounds flowed on, as if) “rejoicing at their resurrection from | chaos. “More and more bravely,’” An- dronnikov kept repeating to himself, without knowing why. And behind the window, which was covered with curtains, the quiet, black Moscow street was crouching. Quiet, black, like a malignant traitress. “Trrrrr, Trrr. . . .” the telephone bell burst in madly, ringing in their ears. Andronnikov sat near the tele- phone. “Hello!” he said. “Where? At the Basmanny?” he starting and turning pale. “Ah-a At Zamoskvorechye, at Michelson’s?... I’m coming at once.” The sound of music, the sound of words broke off. Thoughts and feel- ings broke off, Andronnikov, slapping his cap on his head, only had time to say in his hurry: “An attempt... . lifel” asked, -up on Lenin’s siailitn. (he End.) . With the active support and co- operation of the militant labor movement we will succeed in build- ing up an army of worker athletes | that will be a pride, the living spirit ‘of the Red Guard of the working class. Senate Resolution Will Enshrine Beer Bottle |Thrown at Sen. Heflin WASHINGTON, April 25 (U.P).—! Rep. Black, Dem., N. ¥., today in-| troduced a resolution attacking Sen- ator Heflin for his criticism of Brockton, Mass., and its citizenship for greeting his recent speech there by throwing a bottle. « The resolution stated that the beer bottle should rest in Smithsonian Institute between the shot heard round the world and the face on the bar room floor, as a memento to congressmen who as paid states- men vote dry and in other capaci- ties are “gargantuan wets.” Demonstrate on May Day your selidarity with the oppressed Ne- gro race. Long live political, so- cial and racial equality for the No- gto masses. of the American schooner James E. | Coburn, a four-masted vessel of 898 tons, which foundered and sank 250 miles north of Bermuda, April 7, Fort de France, in Martinque. sea, the vessel was abandoned, the crew taking to one life boat at the Command of Captain Jose J. Per- ' yeira, At first they tried rowing towards | land, but they were helpless against the gigantic waves, and finally gave up all efforts to save themselves, realizing that their only chance lay | in the possibility they would be) sighted by a passing ship. After drifting several days the water gave out. ered schooner, posure. The yacht Amida probably while sailing from Baltimore for | Caught in a furiously churning | Then W. Sargent, | of Baltimore, the cook on the found- | succumbed to ex-| Forces Authorities to Try Clean Up MIDDLEBORO, Mass., April 25. |—Fearing the spread of small pox epidemic in which more than 15 jeases have been discovered in the poorer sections of the town, local authorities were today forced to em- |bark on a program aiming at the | surther spread of the epidemic. Forty patients believed afflicted re repcrted. Dr. MacNight, New Bedford District Health Officer, de- \clares that 80 to 100 cases shouta |be expected next week. me? 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