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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23

Her father choked on his rice
pudding - Nothing of the
SORT" he objected, when he
caught his breath. care you
crazy, Sybil?"
Her mother was quite un-
moved.
"Don It you think, dear" " she
questioned mildly, "that your
poor father and I have enough
to worry about as it ISL"
Mrs. Thorne's eyes were blue and
faded. She knit from morning until
night and denied herself all luxuries.
Tad, the child Of her heart, was at
Toul with Battery A of the 101st,
and there was terrible tidings those
days of slaughtering in Seichprey
and the Somme.
Mrs. Thorne had two records that
= she played over and over on the
phonograph: There's Long, Long
Trail A'Winding, Into the Land Of
MY Dreams" and "Over There" She
thought Tad probably sang them in
France, and it made her feel nearer
to him.
AS she wound the machine and
adjusted the needle, the same
thought was always in her mind
Perhaps this very minute Tad Is
listening to these same words" The
thought saddened and comforted
her immeasurably. after the strange
fashion of women in anguish.
She regarded Sybil mournfully.
Come to Mrs. Wards with me to-
night. dear" she invited. There's
6 new way or making bandages-
not cutting at all-just pulling
threads. A woman from the Metro
!. politan Chapter is coming out to
Show u.s."
Sybil declined with scant grace.
I'm sick of Red Cross soirees,
she said.
Tears flooded her mothers eyes
81 really think" she began trem-
ulously-"I really think, Sybil, you
ought to have a little more con-
sideration-with Tad over there
and everything" She stumbled from
the room and the next moment they
heard her at the phonograph-
"Over There-Over there"
Sybil put her fingers in her ears
"Oh. Lord" she muttered.
"You must remember" her father
told her sternly, that your mothers
nerves are all on edge. Don't let
- me hear any more OF this talk about
going across. It's nonsenSe-utter
nonsense!"
TIE never knew that the next day
Sybil went to Y. M. c. A. head
uuarters and volunteered for over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
CHAPLINS GET DIVORCE

Decree to Be Issued Today to Co
median'S Wife.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 3D.
A final decree of divorce was to be
issued Lita Grey Chaplin from
Charles Chaplin, film comedian,
here today.
The married life of the Chaplins,
filled with sensations, will end and
Mrs. Chaplin is expected to be mar
ried within a year.
She is to start on an extensive
vaudeville tour of the United States
and Europe Immediately.
Roy DARCY, mentioned as the fu-
ture husband of Mrs. Chaplin, also
is to go on a vaudeville tour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
LODGES ARRANGE RITES
Negro Masonic Orders to Hold In
vitation Ceremony Tonight.

Six Indianapolis Negro Masonic
lodges will stage joint initiation
tonight at Trinity Hall, Twenty
First st. and Boulevard Pl., as a
feature of Grand Lodge sessions of
Negro Masonic lodges, Prince Hall
Affiliation, now being held here.
General lodge sessions are being
held at the Masonic Temple at 331
Indiana Ave. officers were to be
elected late this afternoon. John
w. Burden. Marion, is present grand
master.
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HOzO Come?

How come you fell out the
window when they are all
closed ?"
Some such question was
asked by James Gibbons and
Dale Smith. motor police, when
they found Mamie Brown, 21,
Negro, lying in the yard at her
home, 220 Blake St., rear, with
a black eye and a broken right
wrist.
The woman declared she had
fallen from a window, but they
all we're shut. The officers in
vestigated and found a glass
broken from the rear door and
a mans cap on the davenport.
Their report stated:
"It looks like a fight in which
Mamie got the worst Of it,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
YACHT FIRED ON
Owner Protests CoaSi
Guard Action to U. S.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 23.-M
F. Bramley, millionaire Clevelander,
whose yacht was fired on by coast
guardsmen off Edgewater Beach,
Wednesday night, telegraphed a
vigorous protest to Federal author
tiles in Washington today.
Bramley said he was cruising with
party of friends, two miles off,
shore, when coast guard cutter No
1921 loomed out of the darkness,
and without warning, fired across
the yachts bow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
OPEN PAY ROLL QUIZ
Charge Chicago Padding of
Salary List.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Investiga-
ton of alleged padding of the city
pay roll was started by Ferre Wat
kins, assistant attorney general,
here after he had uncovered evi-
dence said to indicate political
workers were being paid after they
hda terminated their actual employ
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
Remembers After 21 Years

BIZ UNifed PrcSS
FIT. WAYNE, Aug. 23.-Ed Dru-
hot, a victim of amnesia, who has
been missing from his home here
twenty-one years, regained his
memory at Fremont, Neb., after
being locked in a box car nine days
without food or drink. His relatives
had regarded him as dead. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23

country. He states clearly and coura-
geously his position on all important
questions.
MRS. EFFIE M. MUELLER, Sec
retary of the Socialist Party of IN
diana-ro our way of thinking.
neither of the nominees of the two
old parties touched upon the main
problem-nonemployment. To our
way of thinking, this would be taken
care of by the Government owning
public Utilities and natural re-
sources thus affording a job to every
man. do not believe that the av-
erage Socialist would want liquor
back, but our policy is hands of on
the liquor question, as on religion.
EsORGE SNIDER, Marion
County Commissioner, Republican
I think the Smith views on prohi-
bition are unwise from a political
viewpoint at the present time. They
will have tremendous effect in the
November election. Furthermore,
Governor Smiths hands are tied so
far as putting in effect, legally, any
Of his desires toward modification.
1t would be silly for one State TO
have intoxicants and another one
not.
A. H. MOORE, City Engineer.
Democrat think it was a Won
derful speech full of good Demo-
cratic doctrine. His prohibition at
titude is in keeping with the Demo-
cratic principle of States rights. Is
was full Of good reasoning and made
me proud I am a Democrat.
ROBERT E. SPRINGSTEEN.
City Councilman, Democrat liked
his attitude on the utility question.
1 think he is right about Govern
ment control Of water power. have
not read the speech in its entirety.
EDWARD w. HARRIS, Council
Finance Chairman, Republican
I'm not interested in AL Smith. I'm
on the other side of the fence.
MEREDITH NICHOLSON, Coun-
cilman-Author, Democratic is a
fine, manly document. I think his
speech meets every issue before the
American people in a straightfor-
ward and constructive way.
HENRY L. DITHNdER, president
of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company
(Democrat) Il think it was a fine
speech. He gave his position plainly
and clearly on every point. He is a
man who will go down the line for
the things he believes best.
r. EARL PETERS, Democratic
State Chairman-It was typical of
Governor Smiths long and brilliant
public career that he should with
out equivocation, take the people of
America completely into his conf
dence with respect to his views on
all public questions. Doubtless his
frankness and courage will be ad-
mired even by those who disagree
with him with respect to controver-
sial topics. Ie believe the American
people will be impressed by the ex-
ample of a candidate for President
substituting for meaningless strad-
ding phrases, definite and unequiv-
ocal commitments to governmental
policies intimately related to the
well-being of all citizens
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Talk of TO10n

What's the matter with
Hoover? He's all right. So
says Bruce Barton. In a bril-
liant article on page II of to-
days Times, he gives the other
side of the argument, Hoover
or Smith. Yesterday, H. L.
Mencken presented the case for
Al. Read the answers of one
of Americas most highly re-
spected writer's to the ques-
tions every citizen is asking
himself today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
ASK JOINT COAL BUYING
Health Board Members Suggest
Departments Pool Purchases.


DR.. Frederick E. Jackson, health
board president, today said the
board suggested the sanitary, park
and other city departments buy coal
together this year to save city
money.
I'VE felt that the other depart
ments could benefit from allowing
the purchasing agent to buy the
entire coal supply together. The
health board buys about 10000 to
10000 tons each year. which en-
ables us to get a better price" Dr.
Jackson said.
It is estimated the health depart
ment will save $1,000 this year from
coal contract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
HOPE FOR PLAY LOT
Park Board Expected to o. X. Key
stone Project Today.

Favorable action on a proposed
playground in the northeast section
in the vicinity of Fifty-Second st.
and Keystone Ave. was expected at
the board meeting this afternoon.
Superintendent Walter Jarvis
headed a committee to investigate
a petition filed two weeks ago by
several hundred residents of the
neighborhood.
THE district is without a play
ground and park facilities and 1
think their request is deserving Of
consideration" Michael E. Foley,
park commissioner, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-23
BURNED BODY
IN BARN RUINS
STIRS COUNTY
Steuben Sheriff Is Missing;
Fremont Authorities
Baffied.
AUTO MAY BE CLEW
Hope to Link Car With
Dead Man; Fear for
Fate of Officer.
BNTimes Special

FREMONT, Ind, Aug. ga
mans charred body, burned barn
and an automobile left in the ga
rage OF the Steuben County sheriff,
who is missing, are the props" for
a tragedy authorities are trying to
reconstruct today.
The barn burned on the farm of
Mrs. Joanna Bricker four miles west
of here early Wednesday. Wilson
Duguid, Don Stoy and Irwin Brick
er found a mans skull and a few
other bones when they searched the
fire ruins a few hours after the
flames died down.
Except for the letter "B" found
on a scrap of the dead mans under
wear, there was no other mark that
might be an aid to establishing his
identity. The body is so badly
burned that Coroner F. B. Hum
phries said an autopsy would be inn
possible.
Fail to Find Auto Owner
The mystery auto carried license
plates issued to E. S. Bliss, Hotel
Roberts, Muncie. But police of that
city said they could find no trace
of a man of that name. In the car
was a set Of Michigan license plates
and card showing they were is
sued to Thomas P. Williams, De-
troit. Steuben County authorities
are investigating in Detroit today.
A pair of blacksmith's pincers
that had never been used and a pair
of spectacles were found in the car.
So far as known no one saw the
car driven into the garage at the
home of Sheriff Charles Zimmer-
man.
No Trace of Sheriff
First reports following finding of
the body were that Sheriff thinner
man was visiting in Portland, but
today no trace of him had been
found. Fears are being expressed
for his safety. Friends and relatives
are of the opinion that the officers
activities against liquor dealers may
have some connection with his dis
appearance.
An employe of an Angola garage
has reported a holdup whicn may
have some connection with the trag-
edy. He said that about midnight
Tuesday, man asked that some
gasoline be put in a can so he could
take it to his car, its supply being
exhausted. The man handed the
employe a bill, but instead of wait
ing for change, followed him into
the garage office and robbed the
till Of $71. He drove away in Ford
car. The employe said the man was
short, about 25, but noted no other
details.
Consider Three Points
Authorities are considering as
clews:
That the "B" on the dead mans
underwear is for Bliss.
That gasoline bought at the ga
rage was used in starting the barn
fire.
That a trace to some person con-
nected with the case may be picked
up from paper wrapper on the
pincers. 1t showed the pincers we're
purchased at Ft. Wayne hardware
store.
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A, H. MOORE, City Engineer.
Democrat think it was a Won
derful speech full of good Demo-
cratic doctrine. His prohibition at
titude is in keeping with the Demo-
cratic principle of States rights. Il
was full of good reasoning and made
me proud I am a Democrat.
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TIE never knew that the next day
II Sybil went to Y. M. c. A. head
louarters and volunteered for over
The daily worker., 1928-05-17

April of this year comrades Vignoc
chi, Spinelli and Parodi were SEN
fenced to So years for having taken
part in an illegal meeting. A few
days before three Communists, Chini,
Grill and Morellato were sentenced
to seven years each for "inciting peo-
pie to revolt"
How Fascism Works.
These few instances, taken from
tens of others, eloquently prove how
fascist courts work and without what
anger and insane brutality they con-
denim those who show the least op-
position to the Mussolini regime.
Even those who speak of Mussolini
must be careful lest they do not go
to Jail as Ricci Timoteo, worker,
who was sentenced to four years and
one month for ''lack of respect in
mentioning. the Duce."
Simply enough, Mussolini tries to
violently suppress the rising voices of
opposition. And he also tries to divert
the attention of the public with chore-
graphical proclamations, with fascist
tours" as the one recently organized
in Milan where 10000 workers were
forced to go to Rome to listen to a
speech of Mussolini under threat OF
being fired from their factories anG
with typical system of provocations.
Any one who is acquainted with the
fascist and their methods knows of
their elaborate artistry as @agent
provocateurs." We recall, a propos,
the case of the agent Quaglia in con-
nection with the Zaniboni "plot";; the
scandal of Ricciotti Garibaldi in
France (where the fascist police had
instructed their agent to organize
pseudo plots) and the murder of the
fascist agent Savorelli in Paris used
in order to compel the French gov
crnment to extradict all anti-fascisti
The daily worker., 1928-05-17
Thousands jailed in New Fascist Terror

brothers, as comrades that makes
these imperative demands.
We also demand that the Milan,
trial be conducted in the open,
that ample opportunity be given toI
the defendants to prove their inno-
cence. We demand that a committee
of liberals be permitted to investigate
the conditions Of the political prison.
ers on the spot.
We can not allow the furtherS
slaughtering of workers!
The American proletariat must join
the international protest against thel
new wave of fascist terror.
Labor Defense Active.
The International Labor DefenseI
has taken up the cry Of the innum-
cradle victims of fascism and has in
structed all its supporters to promoted
protest demonstrations and tel
energetically and actively participates
in this new anti-fascist campaign. As
part of the campaign, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has issued
special stamps with pictures Of Mat
teotti and Sozzi. These stamps must
be largely used and circulated.
In special appeal to the AmericanI
workers, written for the June issue of
the Labor Defender, Henri Barbusse
concludes:
"Only one thing can make them
(the fascisti) reply, one thing alone
can force them to halt and to retreat.
And that thing is the great avenging
voice Of the outraged public opinion
Of mankind"
Let the voices of the world prole-4
tariat ring in the ears of Mussoling
and his henchmen and let them en-
courage our comrades who in spite of
the fascist terror-are still in the
front, fighting for the liberation Of the
Italian workers and peasants.
The daily worker., 1928-05-17
By PAUL NOVICK.
(Continuedl.

The editorial deals with the miners
conference which was held at Pitts
burgh at the beginning of this month
and like a good disciple of Matthew
Woll it raises the cry of "Com-
munism" and Moscow" Let us
quote a few paragraphs.
"The Communist Party of Ameri-
ca---the Forward begins-has sud
denly become busy again. After
the Communist agents had for a
few years been active solely among
the Jewish workers and have for
that period succeeded in destroying
and running a few of the most
beautiful ard progressive Jewish
unions, they now decided to get
busy in the gentle unions. In
Moscow they finally realized that
solely with the Jewish workers OF
New York and Chicago it is i'm
possible to create a Communist
revolution in America; that for a
revolution in America they must
have not only the Jewish tailors,
but also the non-Jewish workers of
the big industries of the country,
and Moscow therefore has ordered
the American Communists to start
organizing the real American work
ers for the Communist revolution"
(Our emphasis).
Progressive" Lewis.
Here the editorial goes on to ex
plain how progressive the miners
union is, and that "among the Off
GERS and active workers of tn,
union there are very man!
progressive trade unionists." Th'
editorial would have readers believ,
that these progressive elements arr
with the Lewis machine. And Lewis
The daily worker., 1928-05-17

ised. For the occasion, the head
quarters of the special fascist tribunal
have been transferred to Milan
One of the arrested for the Milan
bomb was comrade Carlo Riva. After
a week of his arrest, the papers re-
ported that "Carlo Riva had commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in his
cell" in the prison of Genoa. AS
with Sozzi's body, the fascist also re-
fused an autopsy for Riva.
Murdered By Fascists.
No, Sozzi and Riva did not commit
suicide! They, as Communists who
still had faith in the proletariat,
would have never eliminated them
selves from the fight. They were
killed by the fascist after being tor
tured.
Yet these are not isolated cases,
The fate of numerous comrades is
still unknown to us and to their
families. Among these are the stu
dent Martellanz, the former secretary
Of the Chamber of Labor of Treviso
Ghidetti, the school teacher Betti, the
workers Monfrini and Tepasso and
Azzario who was arrested in Panama
in 1927 by order of the fascist gov
ernment and was to be extradicted to
Italy.
Demand Their Release.
Public opinion demands that the
fate Of these workers to be known!
Public opinion demands that the
fascist atrocities be stopped!
Public opinion demands that the
5000 political prisoners among whom
are hundreds of women and children
(12 women have already given birth to
their infants in dark, pestilential
cells, deprived of every medical as
sistance) be released at once!
And not only public opinion: 1t is
our conscience as kers, as
The daily worker., 1928-05-17
FASCISMO
By NICOLA NAPOLI

The Sozzi murder is a definite sign
of the situation of Italian fascism.
1t indicates that the Mussolini
government after six years rule, can
not stand onc it's feet but through
terror and crimes, and that it is still
compelled to murder and strangle
militant workers in Jail.
1t indicates that the opposition to
fascism is still very strong and that,
above all, it is gradually assuming
definite forms, as in the recent tex
tile strikes of Gallarate and Por-
denone-under the leadership of the
most active and revolutionary op-
positional force in Italy: The Com
munist Party.
5000 in Danger.
The lives of 5000 political prisoners,
who are in Jail and in the various de-
portation islands, are in danger. They
are continuously under threat of
sharing the fate of Matteotti, Gobetti
Piccinini, Sozzi, Rivas Ruggeri and
other fascist victims bestially tor
tured and murdered. 1t is impossible
to count them all!
From list recently compiled by
the International Red Aid we note
that from February 1927 to the be-
ginning of April 1928, the special
fascist tribunal has distributed more
than II centuries Of Jail sentences to
hundreds of workers.
1900 Year Sentences.
For the Empoli incident" where
the workers responded with energy to
fascist provocation-97 comrades
were sentenced to 1900 years of jail!
In November 1927, young worker
and his sweetheart were condemned
to SO years of Imprisonment for
having leaflets in their possession. In
The daily worker., 1928-05-17

such men as John Brophy, "Tony"
Minerich, John w. Watt, Pat Toohey,
and Powers Hapgood, whose aim it
is to oust the Lewis leadership "as a
prelude to more extended union ac-
tivity." Does the contributing editor
Of the Nation agree with this article,
or does he think that the activities
of the Save the Union Committee
were ordered from Moscow and that
those miners who are Communists
are "Pinkerton detectives? Has he
any grounds for such serious accusa-
tions? Does he, as well as Maurer,
believe that the Forward was right in
it's statement of April 2 that "a Mex
lean Businessman, a Barber and Jew
Iish Communists Are Delegates to the
Conference of Progressive Miners? I?
If So. how could they represent ma
jority.of the, coal miners?
Forward, Agent of Lewis.
Does not this touch an issue most
vital to. the labor movement? Did
mot the Forward act here as an agent
of the lewis machine and as an
agent -preyoeator both against the
Soviet government and against those
progressive miners who believe in
Communism
= But the decent" socialists do not
mind all this. They gave the For
ward a carte blanche. The S. P. con-
vention indorsed that contemplate
paper unanimously
We could 60 back another week and
quote the editorial Of the Forward Of
Sunday, April /, on "Thc Truth About
the Red Militarism" (this type of edi-
torial seems to be the regular Sun
day sermon of the good socialist pa
peri. That editorial, just as the edi-
torial on the miners situation, sur
passes what the New York Times
could have said on that subject. But,
as we said at the start, it is super
The daily worker., 1928-05-17

fluous to touch upon the stand of the
Forward towards the Soviet Govern
ment. There is no limit to what the
Forward can stoop to here. The pa
per for instance maintains special
agent in Berlin who supplies it with
cables about Moscow" which the
Chicago Tribune, for example, would
always welcome. The Forward also
maintains a special force here ~
gather all news items regarding the
crimes appearing in the Soviet press
A collection of such news is presented
to the reader every Saturday, as
depletion of life i'm the Soviet Union
(imagine how American life would
look if any European paper would
give its readers nothing but the crime
news of any American big city,.
Hypocritical Action.
If the socialist party were either
socialist or party, it would have
denounced the Forward long ago.
This would have been the duty of a
real party towards a yellow, reac-
|tionary and Soviet-baiting paper
which is identifying itself, and is be-
ing identified, with the socialist
cause. But instead of denouncing the
Forward the socialist convention
passed resolution commencing il
for it's "good socialist activity" ac-
cepting it as its organ, and Mr..
Thomas, it's standard bearer, uses ii
a G hic noo,,thpiaea Hero tho socialiats
stand exposed. BY adopting that res
olution they openly declared that the
Forward expresses their opinions and
their policies. By adopting that reso-
luton they have identified themselves
with that paper and have therefore
branded themselves as Soviet-baiters,
as supporters of John L. Lewis and
all that is reactionary in the Amer
Iican labor movement