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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
REFUSES BEGGAR, SHOT

Reporter Wounded When He De-
clines to Give Price of Bed.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, May 14.-Incensed at
the curt refusal of Joseph Murphy,
33-year-old newspaper reporter, to
give him the price of a bed, beg
gar shot the reporter in the leg
early today. The wound was not
serious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
Four Drown in Texas Flood

RV United Press
LAMONT. Tex. May 14.-Raging
through the bottomlands. Choate
creek spread destruction through
this section today. Scores of
families were forced from their
homes when waters of the stream,
swollen by recent heavy rains,
rushed over the banks.
Four persons are known to have
drowned in the flood and it is
feared other fatalities may have oc-
CURED
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
DRY REPEAL WOULD FILL
MORGUES, SAYS WRIGHT

eff we were to repeal the eight
eenth amendment and our state dry
law today, tomorrow our morgues
and hospitals would be filed with
the, dead and dying"
This gloomy prediction was made
by Frank Wright, Marion county
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
VIOLENCE FLARES ANEW
IN TENNESSEE STRIKE

worker drew knife and slashed the
girl.
A taxi driver bearing workers to
the plant was hit on the head with
8 rock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
.EX-FILM ACTOR IS HELD
Arrested on Charge of Taking
$4,000 From His Wife.

ST. PAUL. MINI, May 14.-Wil-
liam Fabian, 40. Los Angeles, for
ner motion picture actor, was ar
rested as he stepped from a train
here today. on a warrant issued at
the complaint Of his wife in which
she charged that he had taken
SIS, 900 Of her money. The Fabians
we're married April IS.
1t isn't true" Fabian said. "She
gave me the money for medical
treatment"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
NattiIy CARRIED U. S. Mar
shall, Gardenia Adorned,
Moves on Gold Coast
AFFECTS $500 PERSONS
Hundreds of The Families
Must Fight Streeter
'Squatter' Case.
BY EARL J. JOHNSON.
United Press STAFF Cores poudent

CHICAGO, May 14.-John Oros,
United States deputy marshal, ad-
justed a gardenia in his lapel,
tWirled his malacca stick nonchal-
anGly and stepped into the rear seat
of his luxurious limousine in front
of the Chicago federal building to-
day.
up along the Gold Coast, Harry
Oros said to his liveried chauffeur,
Harry Bloom, I'VE have a number
of stops to make, SO drive slowly
and I'll read them to you"
On the immaculate deputy's CALL
ing list were the Potter Palmers,
the Swifts, the McCormicks, the
Benjamin Carpenters, the Lake
Shore Athletic Club and hundreds
of other names and addresses, which
mean wealth and social position in
the exclusive district bordering Lake
Michigan, north of ToWertOwn and
east of the world of furnished rooms.
Involves $500 Persons
Thirty-five hundred persons in
cluding countless social Tegisterites,
Deputy Oros must see personally,
serving on each one a notice that
he must contest a suit which has
ben filed against him in federal
court.
If the suit is won it will mean
the election from their palatial
homes and apartments and places
of business all $500 Of the persons
who now live on the property which
twenty-five heirs OF old Captain
George Wellington Streeter claim
"squatters rights"
It also will mean that the inhabi-
tants of the Gold Coast sector must
pay the heirs $5,000000 in damages.
Way back in the seventies when
the present Gold Coast was a mere
sand waste north Of the river sell
dom invaded by the residents Of
the thriving town Of Chicago, "Pa"
and Ma" Streeter came ashore
from their lake boat and started a
settlement of their own.
Claim "Squatters Rights"
They claimed "squatters rights" to
strip Of land that nobody wanted.
For in those early days no one
could foresee that Chicago in less
than half a century would ex-
peirence a mushroom growth which
would carry it over and far beyond
the dingy novels that comprised
StreetervilIe.
But that is just what happened
and today the twenty-five Streeter
heirs are suing to evict and penalize
the rich and prominent inhabitants
of their ancestral habitat.
Deputy Oros, in his determination
to see every defendant personally,
left the federal building in a Snappy
business suit. In the rear seat with
with the big bundle Of summonses
was a complete outfit Of evening
clothing.
Il don't intend to be stopped at
any door, because I am not dressed
up" said John. If any buffers try
to stop me I will have my star right
under the lapel Of my dinner
jacket"
Socially Elite Affected
Among those who Oros must noti-
fly of the eviction and damage suit
are the owners of the Chicago
Tribune, $50 individuals in the big
furniture mart, four different Nc
Cormicks, three Swifts, Silas H.
Strawn, George w. Dixon and
Adrian G. Palmer, executor Of the
Potter-P Palmer estate.
Oros estimates that the job will
require several weeks and may be
months
J. Hamilton Lewis is attorney for
the Streeter heirs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
ZEP START POSTPONED
DirigibIe Scheduled to Begin Flight
or Wednesday.

BIZ UHited Press
FRIEDERICHSHAFEN, May II.
DIR. Hugo Eckener, commander Of
the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, an
nounced today that the start Of the
Zeppelin on its second westward
voyage across the Atlantic, sched-
uled for Wednesday. morning had
been postponed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
WOMEN SENTENCED
Given Jail Terms and Fines for
ShopIifting.

Shoplifting.
Three Negro women were sent
enced in municipal court today on
charges of shoplifting.
They are: Elizabeth Mcdonald,
%. of 328 North West street; fined
S25 and costs and sentenced to the
county jail for 12O days; Helen Jack
son, 90. same address, fined $25 and
costs and forty-five days, and Elvira
Brown, 20, 724 North Senate avenue,
fined S25 and costs and thirty DAYS.
The women were arrested recentlY
in the basement of Blocks depart
ment store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
GUARDSMAN KILLS BOY
Youth Died in Friendly Scuff1e' for
Rifle. Accused Says.

BU United Press
GENEVA, Ala, May 14.-Private
James E. Ingram Of the Alabama
National Guard detail patrolling the
quarantine line against the Medi-
terTanean fly invasion from Florida,
was in jail on a murder charge to-
day. after the fatal shooting of a
l3-year-old farmer boy.
Ingram said the boy, Lynn Bur-
ket. was killed in a friendly scuf1e,
during which the guardsman's rife
was discharged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
Hoover Jr- Boosts AirpIanes

y y z WIIEU Z TEto
ALBUQUERQUE. N. NJ, May IA.
Herbert Hoover Jr., son of Presi-
dent Hoover, advised everyone who
can afford it to ride airplanes. Hoo
yer installed radio station here for
the Western Air Express ....assxass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
Planes to Guard Rum 'FRONT.'

Bu United Press
DETROIT, May IA squadron
Of fleet airplanes will be used by
federal prohibition men along the
Detroit rum front" this summer,
according to announcement by Sey-
mour Lowman, assistant secretary
Of the treasury. who made a recent
survey AazA ..s.......a....aaA.a.4.s.s.a...
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
FARNUM TO PAY WIFE

Judge Orders S100 Week Until
Divorce Case Is Heard.
Ba Times Special
LOS ANGELES, Cal, May IA
William Farnum, screen actor, must
pay his wife, Olive Ann Farnum,
500 a week between now and the
time Mrs. Farnum's divorce case
comes up, Judge Rey Schauer ruled
here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-14
.EARHART PILOTS PLANE
New Craft Taken on Opening Trip
to Detroit

BIZ z LWITFU TTtfH
CLEVELAND, O., May 14.-The
new passenger plane Miss Cleveland,
piloetd by Miss Amelia Earhart, on
its opening trip, arrived at Detroit
this afternoon, after spending four
and one-haIf hours on the trip.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Govt SCAb NOW
IN MILL STRIKE
Labor Dept Agent in
Southern Village

GREENVILLE, S. c., March 81
Travelling strikebreaker Charles G.
Wood, otherwise known as commits
sioner, Department of Labor, arrived
here yesterday and went into a
lengthy conference with Allen Nc
Nab, on plans for breaking the
strike. Two thousand five hundred
textile workers are out on strike
since Monday morning against the
New England Southern Manufactur-
ing Co. of Pelzer, company village
near here.
Commissioner Wood, notorious
figure in leading the forces that
tried to break the New Bedford
strike Of 10000 textile workers in
New Bedford, has just come here
from his joint achievement" with
A. F. of l.. officials in betraying
the strike of the 5000 rayon work
ers in Happy Valley, Tennessee.
The entire labor force of the big
textile mills here are staunchly de-
termined to stand firm in their de-
mands, which were broadened, ac'
cording to the latest information
available. At first the workers only
demand Vas that the speed up sys-
tenn which caused the strike be abol.
lshed; now they are demanding wage
increases.
From the many hour conference
held between Wood and the employ
ers and Woods announcement thai
he has not as yet even seen any o.
the strikers, it is believed that thu
company is out to fight the strike
In the other two strikes, the bosses
offered and worked for the swiftes
ending to the struggle of the work
ers, offering concessions to that end
No offer has been made here as vet
giving basis to the belief that th'
workers face a bitter struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
SHOP DELEGATE
C0NFAB TONIGHT

The full meeting of the Shop Dele
gates Council of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union will be
held tonight beginning at 6 o'clock
in Webster Hall, 18th st. and Third
Ave.
The meeting, which is the regular
monthly gathering of shop represen-
tatives of the New York needle
trades workers, will hear reports
of the unions work and achieve
ments for the past two months and
will take up for discussion plans for
further activities.
Thorough consideration of the les
sons to be learned from the recent
successful dressmakers' strike is ex-
pected as is also the recent conflicts
with the thug squads sent by the Of
ficials of the scab union to harass
the workers in the cloak industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
DEATH PENALTY
FOR COMMUNISTS
Japanese Diet Forbids
Dangerous Thoughts

TOXIC, Japan, March 27.-A bill
approving the death penalty for all
workers who are convicted of dis
approval of the government has
passed the Japanese Diet without
difficulty.
This bill legalizes the temporary
so-called Ordinance against danger
Gus thoughts" aimed at the Com
munists, many of whom are now in
Jail under it's terms.
The bill makes not only activity,
but the suspicion of thoughts
against the imperial government,
punishable by death.
Leaders of the Gifu peasant out
break and the workers and soldiers
who revolted at the coronation
ceremonies of the emperor, are now
in Jail waiting decisions which the
bill prescribes.
The Diet also defeated a resolu-
ton deploring the use of the words
ain the name of the people" in the
ratification of the Kellogg pact
Ozaki, who offered the resolution
declared the words diminished ths
emperor's absolute authority.
Most of the governments major
bills, which passed the lower legis
lature, have failed to pass the Diet
In consequence the Diet has beer
closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
MINERS, NEEDLE
TRADE WORKERS,
TEXTILERS SIGN
Members Enthusiastic
for Convention Call
from T.U.E.L.
Meeting in Cleveland
Will Aid Organization
Drive Now Under Way

Three new militant unions have
endorsed the call of the National
Executive Committee of the Trade
Union Educational League for a
National Trade Union Unity Con-
vention to meet in Cleveland June
1 and 2.
These latest endorsers of the call
sent out few days ago are the
National Miners Union, the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
and the National Textile Workers
Union.
Will Build Center.
The convention to be held ir
Cleveland is for the purpose o1
creating a new trade union center
for the workers own unions, the
militant unions created during the
last year, to form a co-ordinatine
center for the left wing organiza-
tions fighting bureaucracy and mis-
leadership in the unions belonging
to the American Federation of La
Dor and in similar old unions, to lay
out plans for organizing the rnor
ganized, especially in the heavy basic
industries, steel, mining, rubber
automobiles, food packing, etc, t
fight the war danger, win the Negro
workers to unionism, and other ne
cessary things set forth in the reg
ular call for the convention which
is now being distributed in leafle
form far and wide throughout tht
labor movement.
Signed Endorsement.
1t is this call for the convention
that the three new unions have en-
dorsed, and in copies sent out afte
this date, the signatures of Johl
Watt and Pat Toohey, president an
secretary of the National Miner
Union, signing for the national exc
cutive board of that union will b
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
STRIKE 1ST CAFE
IN union DRIVE
Mass Meet Yesterday
Applauded Campaign

The fight for unionism in the
cafeteria slave shops of New York
has begun!
A strike was declared, and made
almost Immediately effective by the
Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers
Branch of the Amalgamated Union,
against the Fanray Restaurant, 156
w. goth St., when the owner of that
place dismissed three employees for
joining the union.
AS soon as the dismissals occurred
the workers went to report to their
union. at 131 w. 51st st. Imme-
diately a union committee was or
ganized and with Organizer Michael
Obermeier, went down to demand
the reinstatement of the discharged
workers. Refused their demand the
committee called on the workers te
20 out on strike.
Staged Demonstration.
The workers, customers and unior
members present in the cafeteris
thereupon staged demonstration
and the proprietors called the po
lice. In response to the appeal Of
Obermeier, all except two or three
of the workers and most of the Gus
toners walked out, amidst grea
commotion, in which the proprietor'
attempted to throw Obermeier ant
the sympathetic customers out
threatening them with knives.
At mass meeting of all hotel
restaurant and cafeteria worker
last night Obermeier declared tha
this is only the first of series o
many strikes that will be called t.
abolish the 12-hour day, starvation
wages and intolerable working con
ditions prevailing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
ISSUE CALL FOR
MAY FIRST MEET
Conference Will Take
Place April IA

Working class organizations are
invited to send delegates to g
United Front Conference April Ia
at Irving Plaza Hall, for the pur.
pose of arranging for a huge May
First demonstration in New York
City, in a call issued by District 6
of the Communist Party of the
United States yesterday. The cal
follows: ---=,.-
Fellw Workers,
May Day, the International
workers holiday, this year oc-
ours in the midst of ever-growing
preparations on the part of the
American capitalist class to
plunge the workers into a new
world war.
The effort of the big bankers
and trust barons to dominate the
world has caused them to intro
duce new devices of exploitation,
speed-up of the workers, and is
everywhere worsening the condi-
tions of the masses of toilers.
Unemployment, low wages, ter
rible working conditions, is the
common lot of the masses of
workers.
The reformist leaders at the
head of the American Federation
of Labor and the local Central
Trades and Labor Council are do
ing everything to disorganize and
demoralize the masses of work
ers. They have co-operated with
the employers, the capitalist par
ties, the police and hired thugs
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28

WASHINGTON, March 27 (LRA)
Henry L. Stinson, just installed
as Hoover's secretary Of state, was
directly responsible for breaking
big strike Of Filipino dock work
ers shortly before he resigned as
governor-general of the Philippine
Islands. Using the 31st U. S. In
fantry, he gave a free hand to dis
trict and provincial army command
ers to act against 5000 half-starved
stevedores on strike for a bare sub
sistence wage.
Telegraphic reports from the
strike area at Cebu were sent di-
rcctly to Stimson's official residence,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Revolt at First Session OF
Illinois UM WA Convention
Especial to the Daily Worker
By WILLIAM F. KRUSE.

PEORIA, March 26, (By MaiD.-
In spite of the careful stage-setting
arranged by the reactionary Fish
wick-Nesbit machine, already at the
very first session some indication of
the smouldering flames of discon-
tent broke through. 1t was planned
to have everything SO harmonious
especially at the beginning. The
Reverend Father MacGuire blessed
them, and expressed his longing for
a return of the good old craft guild
days, when master and man were
in the same union" and settled all
differences by an arbitration"
which the good father took pains not
to describe with too much historical
accuracy. Then came ''hizzoner the
Mayor" apologizing for the Slight"
offered to the last convention and
assuring the miners that at least the
majority, if not exactly all, of the
! merchants and manufacturers of
Peoria welcomed them. And to cap
these amenities there came the Po-
lice Department Quartette = all
tucked out in brass buttons and re-
fvolver holsters, sweetly warbling
the praises of peoria" and "Illin-
ois."
'Railroading."
Then followed the fireworks. The
hand-picked Credentials Committee
reported. Progressive delegates
from the Peoria sub-district chal-
lenged several machine delegates
and plural votes. The credentials
committee was very unsympathetiC
and turned down the challenges. The
leader of the Peoria insurgents was
on his feet in an instant.
"Some more 'railroading,' eh?" hi
shouted.
President Harry Fishwick stepped
into the breach and shouted back
eyes, and I'll do little railroadint
myself"
Before we get through we'll rail
road you out of office came bacl
the Peoria delegate.
Preparations by ReactiOnaries.
The 32nd Convention of tn
United Mine Workers of America
District II, is marked by all sort
of precautions obviously taken b,
the Fishwick-Nesbit machine il
e order to choke off the revolt tina
e is making itself evident among tn
$ miners from all parts of the district
!, For the last ten days the Resolu
Q tions Committee has been at wor
I under the Craftsmanship of Georg
I Mercer. 1t is significant that thi
most important body of the conver
:. CONTINUED ON Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Stimsom Crushed Steued0ye
Strike BY Use OF Soldiers

Malacanan, Manila. Fearing that the
dock workers ,evolt might spread
to cause general uprising against
American imperialist rule in the
islands, Col. Stimson gave the situa-
tion his personal attention, the dis
patches reported. He expressed
himself as well satisfied with the
manner in which the strike was put
down by military commanders.
Shipping was practically tied up
at the port, until steamship COM
panies, backed by the local Cham
ber of Commerce, used Stilnson's
soldiers at dock entrances, brought
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Mayor and Police in
Court on Charge of
INon-Feasance in Office

OCEAN CITY, N. j., March 81
Mayor Joseph Champion and the
entire police force, numbering 21,
were in court today arrested on a
charge of non-feasance in office.
Former Prosecutor Edmund Gas
kill, of Atlantic City, representing
the mayor, asked for permission to
move to quash the indictment. Per-
mission was granted and mayor and
police force were released in $1,000
bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Get Freiheit Tickets,
Is Party Instruction

Communist Party Units and
Fractions are instructed to get
tickets for the seventh anniver-
sary celebration of the Freiheit,
New York Coliseum, 17Tth St.
and Bronx River, Saturday, April
6, s p. m. Twenty percent dis
count will be given for tickets
paid for in advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Talk About Friendship
with u. S. Does Not
Excite British Officials

LONDON, March 27.-U. S. Am
bassador Houghton made his fare
we'll speech at a dinner here last
night and admitted that peace be-
tween nations depends on mutual in
terests, and war comes from rival
ries.
He then tried in half hearted
fashion to show that the deadly
trade rivalries growing up between
British and American predatory i'm
perialisms were merely "hobgoblirs"
without danger to friendly relations.
The audience of British officialdom
was polite, but unimpressed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
STOLEN. FOUND. RE.BURIED.

HORSE CAVE, Ky.-The body of
Floyd Collins, who died after IT.
hour struggle to save his life when
he was trapped in sand cave in
1926, has been stolen, found again
on the banks of the Green River,
wrapped in a burlap sack, and re-
turned to its casket in Crystal Cave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
ENGLISH WOOL WORKERS
STRIKE

BRADFORD, England, (By MaiD
All operatives in the mills of
Richard Poppleton and Sons, Ltd,
have gone on strike against wage
cut. The firm is woolen firm.
The company first threatened 10
per cent cut, but when the workers
went out, reduced the cut to 5 per
cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Damage to German
Liner Europa" Is
Estimated S3,000,00O

HAMBURG, Germany, March 27.
to the North German
Lloyd liner Europe, burned in the
yards here yesterday, was estimated
at about S3,000,000.
The fire broke out in four places
in the vessel, which was to compete
in the North Atlantic shipping war,
and it is obvious that the fire is the
result Of deliberate inccndiarism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Charge Police Frame-Up.
BENJAMIN Wagner, father

father children sentenced to 80
Sing Sing for robbery yesterday awarded trial
evidence his for which Paroman William
Shanover special frameup Shan
said unamed ped at Wagner and took away from
testify that this really OF shanovers
planted Wagner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
3 Defeat Dry Bill At Albany.

ALBANY N " March 27 (UP)New York state the first to
legislation President Hoover
local enforcing the Voead
definitely out of the dry column tonight
Assembyman Edmund Jenk of the jerks state
fails today recall them to the
the rules committee which they sent
a week and the measures were 1~s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Daily Worker Agents
Will Meet Friday

All New York Daily Worker
agents will meet tomorrow at
8 p. m. at Workers Center, 26-
20 Union Square