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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
MAN DIES ON DUTY
Grandchildren Find Body
in WatChman'S Shack.

When Louis Irwin, So, failed to
return to his home, 1885 Brooks St.,
this morning from his duties as
night watchman at the gravel pit,
Twelfth St. and Fall Greek, his wife
Gertrude, grew alarmed.
She sent her grandchildren,
Charles Gibson, 5, Of 1876 Brooks
St., and Nellie jackson, 8. Of 1929
Brooks ST., to search for the grand
father.
Entering the shack at the gravel
pit they found Irwin dead in his
chair. Police and coroner were
called by Mrs. Irwin and the body
removed to the morgue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
REED lJ0Gs, SMITH
Wires Senator, Asking Him
When He Wants Trial.

RN United Press
Senate primary investigating COM
mittee asked Senator Elect Frank
L. Smith, Republican, Illinois, in a
telegram today, when he wanted to
appear for ''the fair trial" Of his
campaign expenditures case.
The telegram was sent by Chair
man James A. Reed because Smith
left for home with the apparent in
tention of ignoring the committee,
following action of the Senate in
denying him the oath of Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
AND MORE
RAIN is FORECAST

normal. Although this is an un-
usually high mark for this time
of year, it was not a record, as
temperatures in the 70s have been
recorded here in December, Arming-
ton said.
The heavy rain which began fall
ing at a. m. today. brought two
thirds Of an inch rainfall by $50
70. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
LABOR BEHIND REEVES

City Leaders Want Change on
United States Vocational Board.
Indiana labor organizations have
requested Senator'S Watson and
Robinson to recommend Perry W..
Reeves, indianapolis, as successor to
Harry L. Fidler, indianapolis, on
the Federal board for vocational ed
ucation. Fidler's term expires in
June. He has been serving recess
appointment.
Fidler's nomination has not
reached the Senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
Thousands to Greet Indy

BH United Press
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.-Ten
thousand persons will see Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh arrive from
the United States, the war Office
has announced.
Grandstands will be erected at
Vallbuena military field to handle
the crowd. Special passes will be
issued and only authorized persons
will be allowed to witness the land
ing.
A Gordon of troops will surround
the field, prohibiting the entrance Of
all others, the war Office said.
Squadrons of Mexican planes will
escort the American fiier to the
landing field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
'coMMoNER's' KIN DIES

Major Owen, Son-in-Law Of Bryan,
Victim of War Illness.
BN United Press
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 13.-Major Reg
inald Owen, son-in-law Of the late
william Jennings Bryan, died here
last night. Death was caused by
nephritis, contracted while he was
in the trenches in France as a Bri-
tiSh officer.
Mrs. owen is active in Florida
politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
CAPITOL AVE. SITE SOLD

Former City Resident DiSpOses of
Property for $4,000.
Sale of property at 815 N. Capitol
Ave. by former Indianapolis resi-
dent, James L. Hill of EStacion
Maricon, Guatemala, to Mrs. Berlie
E. Lovett, formerly of Anderson,
Ind, and now of st. Petersburg, Fla,
for $1,000 cash, was announced to-
day by Charles S. Maxwell Of the
Fletcher Savings and Trust Com
pany. Mrs. Lovett announced she
would hold the property as an in
yeStment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
Indy STARTS
MEXICO CITY
NONSTOP HOP
we Leaves Muddy Boiling
Field as Great Crowd
Cheers Airman.
CAREFUL IN TAKEoFF
Hopes to Reach Southern
Capital at Daylight
Hour Wednesday.

BOILING FIELD, WASHING
TON, Dec. 13.-Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh took of on flight today with
Mexico City as his goal. He hoped
of at 1928 p. m.
He jumped off from Boiling field
in his "we," the Spirit of st. Louis,
which had carried him from New
York to Paris and to many centers
Of the States.
He sailed slowly until about seven
feet above the ground and then he
shot up to about fifty feet. He took
it slowly, not attempting his famous
straight upShoot.
He was out Of sight within Ia
minutes.
Three navy escort planes followed
Immediately behind him. They were
followed in turn by commerce de-
partment plane, and three army
planes drumming into the fog over
the Potomac.
Picks Straight Line
Lindbergh expected to fly In a
straight line to Galveston, thence
over the mountains of the Mexican
border to Mexico City, which he
hoped to reach in daylight hours to-
morrow. He faced headwinds and
possible showers most of the way,
but despite this hoped for a speed
Of between 80 and 95 miles an hour.
He planned to fly over no large
expanse of water en- route, but
pointed out pridefully that the
cushions of his plane could float If
he fell crossing a river. He had no
life preserver and carried no para
chute.
He had q weeks rations Of hard
bread, soup tablets and chocolates
and two quarts Of water. He car
ried a rifle to shoot game If forced
down on the desert.
Besides his flying kit over his
regular suit he wore moccasins to
shield him from the cold.
Sets on NOnchalantly
Lindbergh set off on his 1000
mile proposed nonstop fight with
as much nonchalance as he had
shown when he jumped for Paris
from New York.
Only about an hour and a half
before taking of, he notified the
War Department to advise the press
of his impending fight. Meantime,
he tuned up his motor and while
army officers whispered that the
field was terrible for such heavy
load as he carried, he had the
machine dragged onto the field and
started of.
IN taking of, he TAXED down the
field slowly, appearing to hesitate.
He drove his plane squarely between
the white flags which he had set
up a short time before, and avoided
the dangerous puddles which might
have brought disaster at the start.
Takes OFF Carefully
When his wheels left the ground
it was not with the customary
Lindbergh style. He was apparently
taking no chances with heavy load
and bad ground.
A large crowd got word Of Lind
bergh's plan to fly, despite the short
notice given Of his departure. Sight
see-s swarmed on the field and had
to be hustled out Of harms way by
military police, as the escort planes
tuned up ready to go.
On Lindbergh's general route were
the cities Of Lynchburg, Va; Knox
vile, Tenn; Birmingham, Ala;
Vicksburg, Miss, and Galveston,
Texas. He might not fly over any
Of these, however. If weather forced
a change in his course, 1t was said.
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Bn United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia fight
over the independent Republican
peace agreement broke in the Sen
ate today, when the plan of giving
the Independents choice committee
assignments was submitted for ac-
ton.
After Senator Pat Harrison
Dem.), Mississippi, had twitted the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1927
HOUSE IMPEACHES
OKLAHOMA'S CHIEF
Hooks Suicide
b United Press

bU UUIItU tTb66
WASHINGTON, Dec, 49,
When Louis Brody, fisherman,
drew in his line from the Po-
tomac River, he found on his
hook Mrs. Minnie Columbus,
who in despair had tried
drowning. She will recover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
Boys Buy Tag, Save Pup

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-When
Trixie, a homeless poodle, was SEN
fenced TO execution for lack of a
license, a group Of small Italian
boys formed a defense committee" I"
collected enough for the license and
saver her life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
KILLS FAMILY OF SIX
Oklahoma Farmer Hangs Self After
Staying Wife, Children.

By United Press
HENNESSEY, Okla, Dec. 49,
Phillip Mills, 35, farmer, killed his
family Of six with an ak today and
then hanged himself.
Mills killed his wife and children
as they lay in bed. The bodies were
found by neighbors hours after the
murders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
NAME PIONEER HEADS

Results Of Election Announced;
Thompson Is President.
Results of election of the Society
Of Indiana Pioneers was announced
today. Charles N. Thompson was re-
elected president; w. H. Insley, vice
president; Miss Katherine Graydon,
registrar; Mrs. Arthur v. Brown,
secretary, and j. K. Lilly, Lee Burns
and Amos w. Butler, board OF gov
ernors. Alrnus G. Ruddell was
elected treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
ARREST TWO FOR DEATH
Auto Driver, Motorman Released on
Own RecOgnizance.

Eunice johnson, 80, Negro, $50 N.
Senate Ave-, driver Of the auto
mobile in which Eleanor Copeland,
81, Negro. 1903 Shepherd St., was
injured fatally when it collided with
a street car at Minerva and Michi-
gan Sts., Nov. 81, and Luther
Briggs, 80, Of 1017 S. Harding ST.,
motorman, were arrested on in
voluntary manslaughter charges to-
day. Both were released on their
own recognizance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
AIR MAIL BAG FILLING

Saturday Is Deadline.
One thousand letters have been
received for the initial fight of the
indianapolis air mail service Satur-
day.
Deadline for first flight mail is 2
p. m. Saturday, Postmaster Robert
H. Bryson announced. An hour
later the first plane will leave Mars
Hill. establishing daily flights be-
tween Chicago and Cincinnati, with
this city as central stopping point.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
CanarY Warns of Fire

BIZ United Press
PORTLAND. Me-, Dec. 13.-A pet
canary, whose excited chirping
yIorned occupants, was the hero Of
fire at the home of Mrs. Ben
IaIni,l F. Knowlton here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13

Bu United Press
BLAKELY, Ca, Dec 13.-Whether
strychnine bought seven years ago
was used to kill vermin which were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
CITY DROPS INSPECTORS

Eleven to Lose Jobs, Due to Halt In
Improvements for Cold.
Eleven street and sewer improve
ment inspectors will be dropped
from the city pay roll Dec. is, City
Engineer A. H. Moore announced
today.
improvements are halted for the
winter and there Is no further need
Of the inspectors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
STATE READY FOR BUY

Bids For Grocery, Laundry Supplies
to Be Received Friday.
Bids on three months laundry
and grocery supplies for twenty
State institutions will be received
Friday by the State, Joint Purchas-
ing Committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
} CHICKENS; ARRESTED
Men Must Explain How Fowls Got
In Automobile.

A trio Of chickens Country style)
landed a trio of men in city prison,
where they will be held until they
ind better stories as to how the
fowls came to be in their car.
William Goolsby, 33, of TIA Bates
ST., Wilbur Thatcher, 81, Of 403 S.
Holmes Ave-, and William Thatcher,
80, Of 436 S. Holmes Ave, were taken
into custody late Monday night at
Senate Ave. and Washington st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Discuss Filipino
independence at the
Chicago Youth Forum

On Sunday, Jan. 2, the Young Work
ers' League, Local Chicago, held it's
second successful open forum. Max
Shachtman spoke on the question of
Filipino Independence and the Com
munist version as to how that in
dependence is to be gotten.
Representatives of the Filipino
youth in Chicago were present, and
in the name of the Filipinos present
a resolution of thanks was presented
to the Young Workers League for
their sincere cooperation and endeav-
ors for Filipino freedom. Gilbert
Greenberg made short appeal for
members to the league.
Then the speaker wove into i'm
perialism and the situation after the
war.
Next Sunday, Jan. 9, Irwin Dunjee,
editor of the Negro Champion, will
speak on Negroes and American La
bor." The admission is free and all
workers are invited to attend at 8
p. m. at 1889 S. Sawyer Ave-, Chicago,
every Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Another Union Takes
the Air on the Radio

READING, Pa, Jan. 6. - (FP) -
Something new in trade union tactics
is being tried by the American Fed
Grafton of Full-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers to "sell" itself to the public,
the union announces, A series of radio
broadcast programs is to be given
from Station WRAW, Reading, Pa,
which uses a wave length of 23S
meters. Choice musical selections will
be presented with short speeches on
modern trade unionism.
James H. Maurer, president Penn
sylvania federation of labor, and Will
liam Smith, secretary-treas. Hosiery
Workers Federation, are featured on
the first program, Jan. 6 between six
and seven thirty in the evening. Six
successive Thursdays of January and
February will find the union broad
casting at the same hour. The union
is making this its feature publicity
event in connection with the organiza-
ton campaign under way in the Read
ing district. The broadcast station
radius of over 200 miles includes with
in range New York, Philadelphia, the
Wilkes-B Barre and Scranton anthracite
region, Washington, D. c. and Balti-
more.
The union believes that the enter
tainment value of the program will at
tract attention Of many hundreds of
people who have never before heard
an adequate presentation of the case
or labor organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Weinstone Lectures
on History of Party
and the international

NEW YORK-Two short courses of
special importance to members of the
Workers Party are being offered by
the Workers School, with William w.
Weinstone as the instructor. One of
them deals with the history of the
Workers (Communist) Party and the
other with the Third (Communist) In
ternational. These courses run for six
sessions only and are therefore half
Of the length of the usual Workers
School courses. They will run on
Wednesday nights, one at and one
at 9:15, so that both can be taken
together.
The course in party history begins
with study of the development of
the left wing in the socialist party
and covers the split in the socialist
party, the foundation of the various
Communist parties, the Workers
Party, and the various issues taken
up in the inner fights of the Commun-
list movement which have led to the
present stage of political unity on the
program of the Workers Party.
This course is of great importance
to those who wish to take an active
part in the party work but are not
fully conversant with its history.
The course in the development of
the Communist International is pro-
per supplement for the party history
course and provides a study not only
of the history of the international, but
of the concrete application of each of
its important decisions and expert
ences to the problems of the Amer
lean party.
Registration is open for period Of
two weeks, after which no more ap-
plicants will be admitted. The fee for
these courses is $1.50 each, with a
combination rate of $3.50 for the two
classes. Registration any afternoon
or evening at the headquarters of the
Workers School, 108 E. 14th St.,
Room 35.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
BY ARNE sWABEcK.

lIJOW condemnation of the aims Of
organized labor emanating from
the sacred" pulpit found their way
over VIGIL was related in the last
Chicago Federation of Labor meet
inng. Many delegates voiced their op'
position to such practice. 1t immedi'
ately became the concern Of all, even
those not blessed with the fortune OF
owning receiving set,
While during the discussion catho-
lie and protestant, believers in their
respective faith, hurried to the de.
Tense Of the church, others began to
perceive the danger OF peddling
church propaganda over the labor ra-
do.
DELEGATE Lichtenstein from
~ Painters Local 275 started this
discussion by making certain yelled
insinuations about the radical ele-
ments of his local having attempted
to recall the local assessment for the
labor radio. This report sounded
rather strange since it is a well-known
fact that progressive workers and rad
ical workers fully appreciate the inn
portance of labor radio, and progress
sive workers who understand the con-
fiict between labor and capital also
fully support the building up Of the
labor radio, that they also want to
guard against the labor radio being
misused for capitalist propaganda is
but natural.
THIS was precisely tine case subse-
4 quently brought out by Delegate
Arnold from the same local. He re-
ported that the local membership had
objected to having church services
broadcasted and more so, to the fact
that a reverend, clad in the holy
robe, had delivered his message OPP
posing the forty-hour working week.
This will easily be recognized as a
justifiable objection and precisely the
thing that labor must guard against.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Porters' Union in
Case Against Bosses

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Resumption
of the railroad mediation boards hear
ings of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters' case comes in mid-Janu-
airy. Edwin P. Morrow of the media
ton board and his assistant heard
representatives of the Porters' Union
in Chicago in December. A thousand
affidayits were presented by the union
to show the coercion and intimidation
practiced on the porters and maids to
compel them to vote for the Pullman
company union plan.
Claims Of the Pullman Co. to the
rail board that $50 of its workers
voted for the employee representation
plan were disputed by the Porters'
Union. The brotherhood contended
that the new rail legislation provides
for recognition Of self-organizations
of workers, not company unions. The
union answered the company state
ment that its employee plan had made
agreements for five to six years
by saying that that action did not
prove its legality or the validity of
the agreements.
Demands of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters besides that for
recognition are for a higher minimum
wage scale than the present $73 to $50
a month, shorter hours, pay for pre-
paratory time, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
New York Labor to Welcome the
Daily Worker at Lenin Memorial
Especial to The Daily worker)

NEW YORK Extensive prepare
tions are being made to welcome the
DAILY WORKER to New York at the
Lenin Memorial Meeting, which will
be held this year at Madison Square
Garden, 50th Street and 8th Avenue,
on Saturday evening, January 22nd,
at s p. m.
The progressive workers Of this
city expect to make this meeting a
tremendous demonstration in support
Of the only English labor daily in the
United States. The recent labor strug-
giles in New York has convinced them
that New York must haye its own
working class newspaper, to carry on
the fight for militant struggle against
the employers, against injunctions,
etc. Especially at this time, when the
enemies of the working class are con-
centrating their forces in an attack
against all progressivism in the labor
movement, the workers OF New York
must have their own daily organ to
answer the vicious attacks Of the cap
italist press and expose it's anti-labor
character.
1t is especially fitting that the Lenin
Memorial Meeting, when the death of
the greatest leader of the working
class is commemorated, should also
be made an occasion to greet the
coming of The DAILY WORKER to
New York. Nicolai Lenin, more than
any other working class leader, I'M
derstood the Importance of working
class newspapers. He called them
collective agitators, collective pro-
pagandists, and collective organizers"
and considered the establishment of
daily organs as the first task of re-
volutionists.
An excellent musical program has
been arranged for the meeting. Artists.
of wide renown will perform, includ-
ing: Mischa Mishakoff, concert master
Of the New York Symphony; Ivan
Velikanoff, chief tenor of the Moscow
Art Theater Musical Studio, remem-
bered in New York for his splendid
performance as Jose" in the Studios
production of "Carmencita and the
Soldier; the Russian master singers,
vocal quartet; the Freiheit Gesangs
Ferein, chorus of 800 voices.
Tickets are Soc, 75c., and s1.00.
They may be obtained in advance at
the office of the Freiheit, 80 Union
Square. Workers Party Headquarters
10s East 14th Street, Jimmie Higgins
Book Shop, 127 University Place, and
at all party papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Labor's Radio Must Not Be Used
by LabOr's Enemies

lid NOCKELS admitted that this
IL was true, that such messages had
been delivered. He also endeaVored
to assure the delegates that it would
be investigated and such statements
guarded against. 9th er delegates,
who usually display their conserva-
tive outlook, seemed to think this was
perfectly in accord with the rules OF
free speech. This, of course, is non
sense.
The VIGIL has been erected as
a labor radio for the expressed
purpose Of bringing labor's message
to the workers and not to peddle
capitalist propaganda. Free speech
can not be interpreted to mean to
turn the facilities of labor over to
it's enemies. Propaganda against
labor can be heard every day over
the dozen or so broadcastlng sta
tions owned by the capitalist class.
The labor radio should be used
primarily to combat the propaganda
Of labor's enemies.
THIS little experience, however,
4 brings home an additional lesson
and precisely the one often empha-
sized by the elements Delegate Lich-
tenstein complained about. Namely,
that the present day society is class
society in which there Is a class
struggle. All the forces not part OF
labor, including the church, are being
utilized by the capitalist class against
labor. The pulpit has become one of
the effective Instruments of propa-
ganda against labor and to give it
use of VIGIL broadcasting station
means to take a chance of negating
the real purpose Of this station.
While all organized labor should
support laboris broadcasting station,
it is also their duty to prevent dts be-
ing used for capitalist propaganda
Free speech over the VIGIL can
only mean free speech for labor which
is now kept from having its voice
heard over any of the other existing
broadcasting stations.