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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-13
Explosion which, Wrecked
Gun Turret of U, S, S,
Mississippi Called Navy's
Greatest Peace Time
Horror
.DREADNAUGHT FLEET
AT TARGET PRACTICE
Crew Was Trapped in Steel
Chamber When TINT
Compound in Breech of
14-Inch Gun Let Co.
Cause Is Mystery,
By United Press

By United Press
SAN PEDRO, June 13.-Riding
calmly at anchor the L. S. S. Mssis-
sippi rested quietly in 'battleship
row" today giving little evidence Of
the tragedy aboard her with a few
hours ago killed forty-eight officers
and men.
Close by stood the hospital ship
Relief, turned into morgue to re-
ceive the bodies of those who died
in the Navy's greatest peace-ttme
horror and to treat the burns Of the
suffering men. many Of whom
prayed for death TO end their agony.
Late today g, secret board Of in
quiry was to convene. ! Capt. Yatea
Sterling, commanding officer of L. S.
S. New Mexico. viii be in charge of
the investigation seeking to deter
mine the cause of the explosion
Thursday in the forward turret Of
the Mississippi while the dread
naught was in battle practice off San
Clemente Island. fiftX miles at sea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-13
Forecast

ID ROBABLY overcast tonight
l and Saturday. Probable
local thunderstorms. Not much
change in temperature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06
PACKERS SEE X
VACAT|0N0F
DECREE
"BIg Five" Declare Consent
Ruling VoidJurlsdictIon
involved

Declaring that the District
Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction
in the matter. and that the decree
violates the antitrust law. the
Armour and Swift groups of the
big five packing houses have
asked the District Supreme Court
to vacate the consent decree made
February ~. 1920 by which the
packing concerns and allied cor.
porations agreed with the Depart
ment Of Justice to divorce the
packing business from unallied in
dustries.
The packers declare that the
decree is void on account Of lack
Of jurisdiction on the part Of the
District Supreme Court to make
such an order, there being no
adjudicated facts before the court
upon which to act, and further that
the decree was beyond the courts
jurisdiction as violating the fifth
amendment Of the Constitution and
that there was no controversy be-
fore the court In the meaning Of
the Constitution.
Under the decree, the companies
were given two years to sell their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06
PARKING BAN ON
ST reef GRADE
URGED
Columbia Heights Citizens Ask
Traffic Bureau to Take
Safety Measure

The traffic bureau, win be asked
today to discontinue parking on
the Thirteenth street grade be-
tween Florida avenue and Clifton
street northwest as a safety meas.
ure. The request will be made BY
representatives OF the Columbia
flights Citizens Association which
passed resolution on the sub.
Ject at a meeting last night in ST.
Stephens Hall. No. SOFT Fourteenth
street northwest.
J. Clinton Hiatt, chairman Of
the committee on pubic safety.
said: I'm addition to the traffic
dangers that are ordinarily appar.
ent on an incline such as Thirteenth
street is the fact that Central High
School pupils in large numbers
traverse the street continually dur.
ing the day"
Doctor e. G. Kimball, supervis.
Ing principal of the Third division
schools, recommended additional
schools for the Columbia Heights
section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06

interests in wholesale groceries,
stock yards, railroads ana other
concerns not connected with the
meat business. The time for com.
plying to this decree has repeatedly
been extended.
The California Cooperative Can.
neTies recently asked permission OF
the court to intervene, which was
denied by the District Supreme
Court. On appeals the Court Of Ap.
peals permitted the filing Of the
petition. The appellate court at
that time strongly intimated that IL
the question Of the validity Of the
consent decree was before it. q rul.
ing adverse to the Government
might be made, and declared that IL
the packers wished to attack that
decree they must take affirmative
action in the District Supreme
Court. Following this suggestion,
Attorneys Charles A. Douglass and
Conrad H. Syme, for the packing
concerns. yesterday filed the motions
to vacate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06
WHY BE OFFENSIVE
WITH BAD BREATH?
Take Carter's Little Liver pills
Take Carter's Little Liver Pills

Mr.. J. Perry. Of 7s2 DeKalb Ave
nue.. Brooklyn, N. r, writes:
II awakened each morning with
an unpleasant taste and was often
reminded by my wife that my
breath was disagreeable.
II tried perfumed tablets, mouth
washes and other camouflages
which gave only temporary relief.
After consulting my dentist ana
finding my teeth in good condition.
! confided in a friend, who sug-
gested that possibly my trouble was
constipation faulty intestinal elm
nation. After taking a few doses
Of Carter's Little Liver Pills, my
stomach and bowels were relieved,
foul and impure gases eliminated.
Il now enjoy a wholesome breath
az well as improved health. Carriers
Little Liver Pills are small, easy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06

propeller shafting and thrust block,
thus saving frictionali lclses IN
speed.
An engine.dr blower in the
forepart OF the boat forces air
through tubing running under the
bottom OF the boat on each side
Of the keel, the air passing through
thousands Of holes In the tubing
In the after part Of the bolt, dFiv-
ing the boat ahead.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06
CONCERN

BY the untted States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra At Stanley Hall
at e:46 O'Clock.
John 8. y. Zimmermann,
Bandmaster.
March, Liberty Day. Zamecnik
Overture, Fra DiavaIo's >. Auber
Entr' acte-
Ia IAN Evening Song i. Wood
(b) Londonderry Arr fyery
old irish air) .O,Connor
Grand fantasia, Songs Of Scot
tAhu Lampe
Fox trot. Give Me One Rose
TO Remember Grew
Walts suite, Dreams Of Happi-
Finale. go Long, Mule. creane e
The Star-spangled Banner"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-06
BOAT DRIVER BY AIR
UNDER WATER LINE

LONDON, NWf. 6.-The propul.
nion Of 3 boat by cir beneath the
waterline, recently demonstrated in
London, viii revolutionize marine
engineering, Il is believed.
The invav dion OF an Australian
engineer, the device does away with
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01
Lenin-The Leader Of The World Revolution Is Dead y

audacityY Marx called DantOn the greatest SraVego'
of revolutionary tactics Lenin is the greatest feS'
the coolest anayzer of facts but the basis OF his strategy
at the same time was always the slogan OF DanCoh'
"Audacity more audacity, always audacty!"
Lenin always had the mental courage and detelmna-
tion to advance or to retreat in given moment On
November 1917 Lenn had the audacity to seize power
for the working class capitalist universe laughed at
the Bolshevki, and even his party wavered; the
best and oldest revolutOnares, ZinOviev and hamehe
recoled from the terrible responsibility But Lenm
stood like rock of iron and led the Russian workers to
power and to lasting victory.
Then later came the question of the peace OF Brest
Iitovsk The whole of international Menshevlsm ac-
cused the Boshevh of berayng the revolution IN con-
Guiding peace with German imperiaist KaiserdOm And
even the party of the Boshevd again wavered. Such
keen-mnded Marxsts as Radek and Bucharin could not
understand the necessity of the retreat But Lenn did
not waver for moment He led his Party with an iron
hand to Brest Ltovsk in order to gain breathing spell
for the revolution. And Lenn again right: German
Kaiserdom collapsed miserably year later.
Then the third great turn in the history Of the revo-
luton the New Economic Policy The capitalists pro-
claimed with great JOY the rule of Communism in Rus
STA is at an end. international Menshevsm again &C
cused the Boshev Of betrayng the workers in favor
Of the peasants And the party of the BOshevd itself
wavered more mighty opposition lifted its head
within the Party But Lenn did not Waver he convinced
the Party that concessions must be given to the farmers
in order to the rule Of the working Glass; and they
must be given Immediately and without delay KrOnstadt
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

House to conquer Mexico. The United States supports
Oegon and supports Huera in order thereby to render
any government impossible in Mexico American capital
lists want to invade Mexico The Chicago Daily Tribune
has betrayed the plans of the mperiasts Says the Chi
cago Daily Tribune which represents that tendency of
American Imperialism which does not want to have any
thing to do with Europe but wants to Latin
America:
eve have guarded and backed the right man. but if he
is friendly and wants to develop peaceful Mexico it is
highly moral to give him and ammunition. If that
method will not succeed the United States eventually will
be driven to direct intervention it has been
driven in Haiti and elsewhere
"In that the wise thing for America to do would
be to enlist and direct the rurles well paid Mexcans to
keep the country in ORDER just the Filipino constabu
larry does in the islands That naturally would
uproar but it would be justified It may be avoided by
supporting a Mexican administration in the way
government is DOING
1t is duty to the workers and farmers of
the whole country, to expose the plans of American i'm
perialism to fight against the The workers
and farmers must that step will follow the other
First the sale of arms The second step the
sending of warships The third step will be the landing
of troops The fourth step will be the complete mObli
zaton of army and navy. And then it will end with the
the conscripOn of the man-pOwer of the nation.
And there is a possibility that the Mexican War will
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

centralized government new and ever new burdens upon
the working population.
This is the most cunning and INSCRIPTIONS game
played by American Imperialism United States i'm
periasm first forced the ObregOn government recog
nized all the prerogatives and privileges Of American
capitalists in Mexico after Obregon the representatives
of young Mexican capitalism had not only betrayed the
interests of Mexican native capital but had begun to OPP
press the workers and dsam the peasants who had sup
ported him until then.
The United States government recognized the ObregOn
government after ObregOn had capituated, but the
0bregon government is still too radical for the United
States and American Imperialism, at the moment
that it recognized Obregon stirring up counter
revolution in Mexico against Oregon Behind the
AdolfO De la Huerta cOunter-revOuton stand not only
the big landowners who had to give up part of their
land to the armed poems, not only dissatisfied army Off
GERS but also powerful American oil interests.
Wall Street recognized Obregon, and Coolidge sells
him weapons while at the time the De la Huerta
cOunter-revoluton is financed by Wall Street, and stimuli
taneousy with that Coolidge sends warshps to break the
sea blockade made by the De la Huerta government.
1t all seems nothing but contradictions 1t appears to
be madness But there is frightfu and bloody method
and logic this madness This method and logic is the
logic and method of Imperialism.
The seemingly contradictory acts of the United States
explained by the plans of Wall Street and the White
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

Greedy American imperialism is preparing new cru
sale 1t wants to conquer Mexico.
The United States government first sold arms to the
Obregon government and it has sent warshps to
TampicO
The Coolidge administration declared at first that it
is selling weapons to Obregon because that is the con
stitutional' government in Mexico, and because the
United States is interested in the maintaining of order
and peace in Mexico
The Coolidge government declares that it must
send warshps to break the blockade established by the
government of AdOfO De La Huerta at Vera Cruz "tO
prevent interference with legitimate American
merce"
We must arouse the workers and farmers of
try. The greatest menace is facing The United
States, the youngest greedes and mightes mperalst
country of the world aims openly to conquer MeX
co. after it had undermined it economically. But the
conquest of Mexico is not only the greatest danger for
the workers and farmers of Mexico but is the greatest
to the workers and farmers of the United States
well. The cost of the great world were paid in
blood money and sweat by the workers and farmers of
the United States The workers still pay through the
increased cost of living The farmers still pay through
the frightfu bankruptcy of living The farmers still
pay through the frghtful bankruptcy of millions and
millions of tOlers of the SOIL against Mexico
would the sharpening of the world crisis it would
mean the increase of the army and navy the growth Of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

lectuas who did not want to accept the underground dis
cplne of the illegal party. Lenn formulated for the
first time the conception that the leaders of the working
class must be professional revolutionaries
Lenin for the first time discovered the central role of
state power The MARKHAM decadents of the Second In
tematonal have simply forgotten the state power for
decades
Lenn for the first time clearly the revolutionary
significance of the general strike There fomsts of the
Second international declared General strike is gen
eral idiocy"
Lenin the first who recognized the necessity of
turning the general strike into armed uprising. At
ter the defeat of the first Russian revolution in 1905
Pechanov declared: ct mistake to take up arms
But Lenin drew different, and great lesson from the
defeat: "The revolution must be thoroughly organized
Lenin the first who discovered how fundamentally
Opportunistic the Second international was, and he
founded the Third International Lenn replaced inter
national phrase by international action.
Lenin once said that every leader makes mistakes but
good leader makes no big mistake and quickly cOrrects
his little mistakes Every who knows the history of
the Russian revolution must recognize that Lenin did
not make a single big mistake. He was not only
liable adviser but calculating and successful adviser of
the working class. The secret which enabled Lenin to
avoid making too great mistakes not because he
too cautious On the contrary, Lenin made big mis-
takes because he analysed the facts correctly and be-
cause he had the revolutionary courage to act with
dacty in the decisive moment DantOn the leader of
the French Revolution said that three things
sary in a revolution "Audacity, audacity, always
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

not remain isolated Already there is a conflict ht
United States and British oil interests in Mexico 7
the United States sends warships to protect e5rnt
American commerce" Tomorrow Great Britain will sa
warships to protect Legitimate British commerce
In the imperialist period of capitalism there is sn
the possibility and even the probability that no local
remains isolated and localized. In 1914 the nsgni
local conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia g
the explosion of the world war. Who can guarantee M
the local conflict between the United States and las
in 1924 cannot bring on a new world confagratol NJ
must realize that war danger and war is not an ac
In the period of imperialism but that it follows with m
inevitabity from the very nature and inner structure
this period of imperialism What is being done TO-DAY
the United States government in Mexico was ALREADY
planned theoretically on November 8, 1928 in the q
of Hoover, Secretary of commerce. before the Amaa
Marine Congress:
ut seems worth repeating at times that our intern
tiOnal trade is one of the very foundations Of our stand
ards of living; that our whole fabric of living and COD
fort are dependent upon the import Of commodities V
we do not and can not ourselves produce-tn nna
coffee, sugar. and score of others; further in the n
the amount of these commodities we can import VIII =
pend upon the volume we export. Moreover we ne
constant expansion of our export markets to give y
bility to our internal production by wider range u
TONER'S"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

Esch- Cummins act had destroyed all
"the rights and remedies of the Hep
burn law for shippers to have rates
made according to judgment" of the
interstate commerce. commission and
had substituted an arbitrary statutory
rule instead to produce a certain reve-
nue. whether the shippers suffered or
not
Shipper Has Suffered.
Limitations and prObition on that
judgment" he asserted, destroys the
law and deprives the shipper and pub
lie of as adequate remedy. That is
what has happened. AS undubitable
proof of that, the railroads, the trust
companies, the bankers connected with
that interest, manufactures who add
freight fer you to pay, producers and
sellers of railroad materials and sup
plies, and those of boards of trades,
commercial associations, under the
domination of the railroads and these
big interests misinfOrmed or misled
representatives Of some farm and live
stock organizations, stand up and voice
the sentiment and fill the press and
magazines with propaganda, Hands off
the transportation act"
A matter of great Importance pend
ing before congress, the speaker said,
''is a suggestion Of valuation to be
used for purpose of rate making.
Certainly it is impossible for the
railroads, if their accounts are cor
rect, to make the aggregate sum of
money provided for in section 15A.
based upon the percentage upon a
valuation closely approximating their
book value. These valuations, of
course, include uearned increment in
enhanced value of real estate, termi-
nails and right of way and certainly a
limitation will be necessary to be
placed upon these valuations, else the
day of regulation in the way of rate
making so as to reduce the rates to
what is reasonable to the agricultural
business of the country, is at an end. .
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

The world revolution marches Lenin discOv-
cred the inner laws of the world crisis and the world
revolution He gave to the working class the revolution
airy strategy and mapped out for the working class the
revolutionary tactics in the fna the mperalst period
of capitalism Marian, applied to present epoch, be
came Lennism. Marx transformed world; he de
velOped Socialism from science to action.
Our greatest leader is dead. But the international
working class has learned Leninism The vanguard of
the working Glass; the world party Of the Communists,
has learned from Lenin that it's historic mission is to
make the revolution and has learned from Lenin the
methods, the strategy and tactics Of the revolution
Marx said The philosophers have interpreted the
world but the question is to reshape the world. Lenn
has carried out completely the MarXist program We
can say that since Napoleon the sword and will of the
great French bourgeois revolution other single man
has thoroughly transformed the world Lenin the
brains and will of the great Russian proletaran revou
ton
Marx discovered in historical materaIsm the laws Of
development of human history. In the surplus value
theory Marx discovered the special laws of development
of capitalism Marx saw clearly for the first time that
the revolution the dictatorship of the prOetara, follows
as iron inevtabty from the inner contradictions Of
capitalist society itself.
But Lenin was the first who forged the steel weapon
of the revolution the centralized Communist Party the
conscious minority which sezes the initiative but
loses contact with the Lenin coined the his
torica parallel Bolshevik is nothing else than Jacob
in who mites with the working class Lenin the
first who took UP the fight against the Menshevik intel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

The great working masses of Ger
many. due to their many disappoint-
ments and the many betrayals by the
SOcial-DemOcrats and the trade union
leaders, have lost faith in these or
CARNATIONS. Tens of thousands of
workers have left them and joined
the Communist Party because of their
bitter experiences during the period
of struggle against reaction in Ger
many.
Today in Germany the Social-De-
mocracy and the Trade Union Blu
reaucracy are the bulwark of the
military dictatorship thru which the
great capitalists of Germany are
compelling the workers of that coun-
try to submit to the bitter suffering
and starvation which they are sub
ject to.
Contributions made for the official
German Trade Union movement
mean contributions for the counter
revolution in Germany.
The hope of the German workers
lies in the Communist Party of Ger
many. It is the Communist Party
which has dared to conduct an open
fight against the reactionary counter
revolutionary generals and the big
capitalists eff Germany. It is the
Communist Party which has refused
to betray the suffering masses of
Germany and which is preparing for
the time when it can strike the blow
which will destroy the military die
tatOrship and establish a Workers
Government in Germany.
The Friends of Soviet Russia, which
rendered great aid to the Russian
workers and peasants in their time
of need and struggle against co,un-
ter-revolution has undertaken the
task of raising funds for support of
the German workers. The funds
raised by the Friends of Soviet Rus
STA who are also the Friends of
Workers Germany, will 90 to the
working masses who are suffering be-
cause of their betrayal by the Soial
Democrats and the Trade Union Blu
.reaucracy.
The Workers Party of America
therefore, calls upon all workers who
are opposed to reaction and counter
revolution and military dictatorship
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-01

Is III uuClly' ailu AdlIOoV is atame with - FFH
ings. And Lenin was again right. ''' peasant mr.
Leninism is Marxism applied to tho
period OF capitalism Lenin's most basic oas the
found thought was his understanding and ana most p
revolution as uniform process Ienin 'o wing h
who saw clearly that the revolution o "aS the IN
achievement OF single class, but that i be S
but only if on the one hand, not onlv Tho la Su
but all other nOn-capitast strata are ro,,a d
if on the other hand the capitalist class
er in position to rule Against the oniJ ~ @e
the Second International which represented alsa
row class interests Of the industrial NO., 1Iy ae&
capitalist society, Lenin emphasized the oon .S WITH
ests Of the working class as the class Of 'la na
Lenin recognized that to reject the dao of leOut1
with the farmers is not revolutionary rao ~ aIaae
but an oppOrtunism which is afraid Of vcfo,r
not only recognize that an isolated Commnn; -a d
without the labOring masses cannot be vio+o: 'a1
he also recognized that the working class oIo9
the farmers as allies can neither be victoio,1 0Iu
tain permanent victory
And Lenin recognized that the proetaron
in the highly developed capitalist countries
an alliance with the oppressed small nations and a
enormous masses of the exploited colonies ao.Dt
imperialism.
Lenin knew that only the working class %, l..
about it's own salvation. But he also knew r5a \
Second International did not know, that bo ra,
class cannot bring about its own salvation if # d.
become the leader Of all the oppressed and avno43
the earth.