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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

nearby and during those hours gave
forty ounces of blood to sustain the
man The entire operation was
done with only local anesthetics.
None of the witnessing doctors left
the room until the operation was
complete. Expressions of admira-
ton burst from them as Lucas was
wheeled away.
Thursday night the patient was
regaining his sight. lost a month
ago. He will recover completely, it
was said at the hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
DOCTOR AMAzES
WITH OPERATION
Restores Sight by Removal
or Brain Tumor.

BU Tnted Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. %. -
Twenty surgeons thronged around
DR.. z. r. Carpenter of Dallas, Tex,
Thursday as with deft strokes he
performed what was described as
one of the most precarious brain
operations ever attempted.
For six hours, DR.. Carpenter
worked over Steven L. Lucas. SO,
who had lost his eyesight because
of a brain tumor which slowly was
taking his life ~ section Of the
skull. two by three inches, was re-
moved. The tumor was as large as
child's fist.
Two relatives of the patient were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

nothing more than the experience
of having played with or in the
same room with Wilbur c. White
head. Mr.. and Mrs. Ely Culbert-
son of New York. Sir Derrick
Wehrner of England; Baron Wal
demar Won Seltwitz of Austria,
P. H. Simms and others whose
names figure in "post-mortems'
at neighborhood bridge tables.
The other 400 will receive loving
cups or pins.
No cheer leaders dance up and
down the sidelines, nor is there
any organized roofing for favor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
BODIES OF FIVE
ARE RECOVERED
IN STORE RUINS
ELAINE Boiler Safety Valve
for Blast lniuring
80 Persons.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 22-Five
persons were dead today and more
than thirty others injured, three
critically. as result of the boiler
explosion which wrecked the front
Of McCrory five-and-ten cent store
here Thursday.
The blast. coming at the height of
the afternoon shopping period,
hurled men and women in all direc-
tons and carried many 10 the base
ment of the store when the side
walk in front of the building
collapsed.
An investigation by the district
building inspectors office showed the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

Nine hundred of the most ex-
pert players who ever made a
grand slam gather twice daily IN
the main dining room the rest of
this week. Saturday night at the
end of more rubbers than any one
has taken time to compute, six
teams will be crowned champions
of America and take their place
in the hall of fame beside Grange
and Britton. Ruth and Gehrig
and Tilden and Hunter.
Before the end of the tourna-
ment, the management hopes to
have 1,400 players In that case,
1000 players will go home with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
DANCE FLOOR MOVABLE

LONDON. Nov. pa portable
dance floor has been introduced here
which will offer a perfect dance floor
TO any one desiring one to move
from place to place.
1t is made up of strips OF wood
firmly attached to a strong canvas
backing. 1t can be rolled up like a
carpet and costs about as much per
yard as a good rug.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
AIS Not Gold

BIZ uifod Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-She
Struggled in his arms and asked
how he made his money.
Copper answered Police
man Virgil R. Williamson.
She thought he meant cop
per stock. of course. and so
they were married. When her
husband appeared in uniform,
carrying a night stick, Mrs.
Lovina Williamson asked him
what it meant.
Copper" he answered.
She left in a huff and now
he wants divorce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
POINCARE STILL ABED
French Statesman's Condition Pre-
vents His Rising.

BB LHitcd Press
PARIS. Nov. 22.-Raymond Pom
care had not improved sufficiently
today to leave his bed although his
physicians had planned to permit
him to rise this morning.
The former premier was informed
that he must remain in bed until
Monday, because he had insisted
upon dressing fully if permitted to
sit up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

explosion was caused by failure Of a
safety valve to function.
Rescue squads, police, firemen and
soldiers joined in searching the
wreckage for victims and it was
nearly two hours before they were
sure the last persons had been re-
moved.
The ded included three women. a
2-year-old child and a man, all from
Washington.
Queen Anne, who reigned over
England from 1902 to TIA, gave
birth to seventeen children, not one
of whom survived her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

ties as at a football game. but
the same tense air Of excitement
hangs over the tournament room.
Duplicate boards are used, so
arranged that each couple con-
tending for a certain prize will
play identical hands.
The 25,000.00O candle-power light
at the lighthouse in New York bay
may be seen so miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
ANNUAL HYSTERIA
BRIDGE Meet DrazCS Hundreds

PA few cocnskin couple of cheer
" Bridge
the Drake hotel the equal of nerSectona
game point OF numbers and excitement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
SAILOR KILLED
ON U. S. VESSEL
Officers Neglect Is
Cause of Death

PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 22.-
Due to the fault of the ships Off
GERS on the President Harding, who
though knowing in advance by bar
ometer readings that a gale was
coming but who postponed flashing
the lifeboats fast until the gale was
at its height, John Sterling, sail
or, is dead and four more injured.
When the crew was finally sent
to work to make fast the boats,
high waves were breaking over the
side, and one, striking Sterling,
flung him across the deck, fractur-
ing his skull and breaking his neck.
The other sailors were injured in
the same way.
1t is the infrequent practice of
ships officers to delay such work
as lashing the lifeboats until night
when the sailors are supposed to be
off duty, in order to save their
daily work time for other tasks. The
sailors must respond to such night
calls as they are made on the ex-
cuse Of safety of the ship"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Baldwin, the ILGW,
and "ClvlI Liberties"

Judge has handed out severe punish
ment (pickets have been finger
printed, a procedure never before
known in such cases) to the dress
makers who are fighting against
the sweat shop. 1t is evident that
Schlesinger works hand in hand with
the bosses in desperate but futile
effort at strike breaking.
But Roger Baldwin, director of
the Civil Liberties Union, champion
CT democracy, has nothing to say
about all this, except that he "is not
concerned with union policies or
union rivairies." He is engaged in
the mere important task of super
vising Schlesinger's elections, in the
great cause of fairness and honesty.
I He guarantees by his signature that
the elections were perfectly honest.
By this action and by his state
ment to the press Baldwin gives
tacit approval to the ILGWU pol
icies of expulsion and betrayal. He
gives aid to these traitors who are
guilty Of the most outrageous and
shameful deeds. In statement
printed in the "Day" and in that
yellow organ, the Forward" the
Impartial committee" takes the
responsibility of guaranteeing an
honest election. They further state
that eve understand that accusa-
tions have been made in the past OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Hundreds Visit WircO
Store; Clothes, Food
Needed for the Miners

Hundreds of workers are daily
visiting the Wirco Store, 2311
Second Ave, conducted by the Work
ers International Relief as cloth
ing exchange. The purpose of the
store is to furnish clothing to needy
workers who are jobless, and to
those who are working at very low
wages. All kinds of clothing are
sold at very low prices, the profits
being used to aid the unemployed
workers throughout the country. At
the present time, when the w. I.
R. is starting a nationwide cam
paign for the coal miners, the money
raised through the store will be used
to buy food for the miners and their
families.
The store is under the manage
ment of Louis A. Baum, and is open
daily from $3.50 a. m. to s p. m.
On Saturdays the store is open I'M
til II p. m.
Workers who have clothing that
can be used in the store are urged
to notify the Workers International
Relief. Mems clothing is especially
needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Gen. LIE Roud b1aAa War USSR Commands Dang Arsenal

irregularities during elections. We
are appointed to avoid the repeti-
ton of such charges. The policies of
your union are of no concern of
ours. We recognize your right to
expel from membership or take
away the right to vote from any
body"
How little interested were the
members of the company union in
these elections is seen clearly by the
fact that they admitted that only
1000 took part. If they claimed
1000 we can be sure the actual
number was close to 1000. Further,
it was impossible for the impartial
committee" to be sure that there
was no fraud. The whole election
machinery was in the hands of the
Schlesinger gang, and there were
a great many ballot boxes and only
three in the impartial committee"
Perhaps Baldwin did not realize
the significance of his action. If so,
he should Immediately and openly
denounce the policies of the ILGWU
explosions, company unionism, CO.
operating with the bosses and police
as a breaking agency, etc.
Whenever someone is denied the
right to speak, or some other civil
liberty, Baldwin is there to raise
his eloquent voice in indignant pro-
test against such oppression. But
when the lLGWU expels tens Of
thousands of progressive workers
from the union, depriving them,
since this was a closed shop indus
try, Of the very right to work, when
Schlesinger tries to break strike
against intolerable sweat shop con-
ditions, he has nothing to say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
PLEDGE FIGHT ON
FASCIST TERROR
Vital Conference Is
Held Here

Continued from Page One)
to the congress office, Room GOA,
One Union Square. At the same
time, to send their suggestion as to
whom they desire to be a delegate.
Baldwin pointed out that many
liberals have attempted Is compare
the Soviet Union to the fascist die
tatorship in Italy. "The fascist gov
ernment," he said, ais controlled by
a small group who do not want
things to go forward, while the So
Wet government is for the masses
and believes in going forward" He
denied the charge that there is any
comparison between the fascist capt.
talist dictatorship and the workers
rule in the Soviet Union.
De Fazio charged Herbert Hoover
with being responsible to a great
extent for the present Horthy fas-
cist government in Hungary. Also,
that in Italy, Hoover conferred with
Italian bankers, short time before
the march on Rome and prepared for
the taking over of power by Musso-
lini.
/. L. d. Pledges Aid.
Wagenknecht pointed out that the
international Labor Defense has al
ways fought against fascism, and
will continue to do so in the future.
Tallentire pledged the Workers
(Communist) Party support to the
anti-fascist campaign.
Besides the organizations already
mentioned, those represented at the
conference included the Workers
international Relief, the American
Negro Labor Congress, the National
Textile Workers Union, the Needle
Trades Workers International Re-
lief, the American Negro Labor Con-
gress, the National Textile Workers
Union, the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, Iron Workers
Union, Paper and Bag Makers
Union, Painters Union, Cook S
Union, Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union, International Seamens
Club and the Lettish Anti Fascist
Alliance with a membership of 72,-
900 workers.
When the executive committee was
elected, it was decided that II addi-
tional members are to be added later
by affiliated organizations, recon-
merdations to be sent to the exec
utive committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
BONFILS OFFERS
COOLIDGE A JOB
Received $3.50, 900 Hush
Money in Oil Scandal

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 22.--Cool-
idge was today offered a salary of
$4,000 a year to become editor-in-
chief of the Denver Post after re-
firing from the presidency. Fred
G. Bonfils, owner of the paper and
one of the chief actors in the Tea
pot Dome scandal, telegraphed
Coolidge the offer, he announced.
Bonfils is an old friend of Cool
idge. Together with Leo Stack, a
Denver politician, he had a million
dollar contract with Harry Sinclair,
lessee of Teapot Dome, under which
he admitted receiving $250,000.
This neat little blackmail sum was
for the purpose of mimicking his
friend "Silent CAL" and stopping a
newspaper attack upon Sinclair.
Coolidge will make fitting mast
head for this paper.
Bonfils had been attacking the
Teapot Dome leases in editorials
and front page headlines as "a cor
rupt, crooked DEAL" ETC., when sud
denly along came the bride of a
quarter of a million dollars in cash
and a three-quarter million dollar
interest in Teapot Dome. He had
sent a reporter to New Mexico to
expose the sudden increase in wealth
of Fall, but after the blackmail
worked, this story, as well as the
attacks upon Sinclair suddenly died
of affluent anemia.
In testifying at the time before
the Senate Investigating Commit
tee, Bonfils stated that half the
million dollars had been received by
Sinclair from the Standard Oil
owned Midwest Oil Co. These two
groups, together with Doheny, were
working together to divide up the
naval oil reserves.
The capitalist press generally did
yeoman service in this business.
We need only mention a few pub
fishers: Harding, who sold out his
Marion Star for over $3.50, 900, when
it was worth far less than that
sum; Fall, who paid 100000 for the
insignificant Albuquerque Journal;
Mclean, publisher of the Washing
ton Post, and inside-job man fol
Harding and Coolidge, etc.
Bonfils is the same individual who
defended the Ludlow massacre, and
whose premises were mobbed and
wrecked by Denver workers in q
car strike few years ago. He is
a principal owner of the street rail-
ways in Denver.
As the Inauguration of Hoover
nears, the old gang is beginning to
feel around for soft berth for its
faithful servant during the last ad-
ministration of Wall Street.
The president has not yet made
any statement on Bonfil's proposal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
BRITAIN AGREES
TO APPOINTMENT
OF NC Imam
Dantzig Is Port for
Huge Arms Shipments

DANTZIG, (By MaiD.-The no.
torious French general, lie Rond,
who recently became celebrated by
his trips through the Balkans on the
imperialist mission for the French
government, has been placed at the
head of the huge Dantzig arsenals.
The Dantzig arsenals, which be-
fore and during the war belonged to
Germany, became internationalized.
Their capital represents an English
participation of 40 per cent, French
of 90 per cent, Poland 10 per cent
and the city of Dantzig 10 per cent.
LIE Rond is known to be the or
ganizer-in-chief of the imperialist
war plans against the Soviet Union.
His business is to prepare the buff
fer states for armed invasion when
ever the government of the powers
give the signal for the onslaught to
begin.
For a long time LIE Rond made his
headquarters at Bucharest where he
interviewed Pilsudski during the
Tolish dictator's excursion to Ru-
mania. The plans concocted at this
conference, in which officials Of the
Rumanian government also partic-
pated, are believed to have elabor-
ated details for a campaign against
the Soviet Ukraine. The conference
was followed Immediately by ire
mendous order for arms for the
Rumanian government placed with
the Skoda Munitions Works Czecho-
Slovakian branch.
The arms order was followed in
turn by a huge loan floated by an
international consortium of bankers,
prominent among the participants
being Blair and Co., the Chase Sc
curities Co., and Dillon, Read and
Co., for the United States, the Swe-
Gish Match Monopoly for Swedish
capitalism, the Disconto Gesellschaft
and the immensely powerful |
Deutsche Bank for Germany, while
the sBanque de Paris ct Bruxelles
looked after the interests of joint
French and Belgian finance.
Shortly afterwards LIE Rond was
known to be lowering in Poland, ap-
parently extending his plans of
campaign to the more northern Sec
tor of invasion.
The Dantzig arsenals are the feed
ing tube with which arms and am
munition are crammed into the buff
fer states. Thru the Polish corridor
go the arms which French and other
foreign capitalists are making
profits on thru sales to the buffer
governments. s
LIE Rond could not have been ap-
pointed to this key post without
the express connivance of the Brit
ish government also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Coal Gas OvercOmes Z
in Tenement Building

Seven were overcome in two
apartments in tenement at sc St.
Nicholas Ave. yesterday by coal
gas rising through a dumbwaiter
shaft. Rescue crews, summoned i'm
mediately after THE gas was dis
covered, worked for more than an
hour on several of the overcome
workers before they were resusci-
tated.
A short investigation showed that
the gas had come from a furnace in
the basement Of the five-story tene-
ment building. With the indicator
broken and allowed to remain un-
repaired by the building owners, no
gauge of the heat was possible. All
of those overcome lived in the
second floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
ANDRE MARTYRS LETTER
Said "Ihe Time OF GQlli1et Is PaSt"I

few dozen thousand, old fighters
for Russia and of the Black Sea,
who will redouble our efforts to
arouse the workers and the peas
ants, the soldiers and the sailors,
against the war which you are pre-
pairing by orders of the French capt.
talists and of their government of
National Union.
From the day when you wish to
perpetuate the crime Of 1919, we
will do everything in our power,
with the support Of the entire Com
munist Party, to make the soldiers
and sailors not merely content with
refusing to march, but to put their
arms at the service of the workers
and peasants to defeat your capt.
talist regime of war and Of blood
by the social revolution"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
DRESS STRIKERS
TO MASS PICKET
AGAIN MONDAY
Furriers Defend Selves
Against Armed Thugs

Continued from Page Oae)
armed slugPers till large squadron
of police from the 30th st. police
station came to the rescue of the
thugs, their assailants.
In spite of the fact that the strik-
ers were defending themselves bare
handed against the knife-wielding
underworld men, several of whom
are known to have long criminal
records, six of the strikers were ar
rested. Only two of the thugs were
taken into custody, one being Willie
Yacker. Irving Potash, chairman Of
the organization department of the
Industrial Union was one of the six
jailed. The other five are: Max
Bloom, John Demelos, George
Liakos, ]. Stein and B. Goldberg.
who is facing a charge of felonious
assault.
At jefferson Market Court later
it was learned that the right wing
attorneys and agents are planning
to frame up Irving Potash, who was
held on disorderly conduct charges,
despite attempts of the lawyer of
the sluggers to change the charge
to one of assault. 1t is believed
that an attempt will be made to
"get" the organization department
leader thru some other means,
All dressmakers, especially those
working in settled shops are called
to a membership meeting of their
union Monday night in Webster
Hall, 18th st. and Third Ave-, i'm
mediately after work. The meeting
will have as its object, among others,
the putting into execution of spread
ing the strike to other shops in the
buildings where shops have settled
with the union.
All members of the General Pick
ct Committee are to meet this af-
ternoon in Manhattan Lyceum, 66
E. 4th St., at l o'clock. Leaders of
the General Strike Committee will
take up some important aspects of
the strike with the committee.
This afternoon at 1 o'clock the
organization committee of the
fuckers, Pleaters' and Hemstitch-
ers' Union, Local Al, are also to
meet. They are to begin to organ
ize themselves for strike utility.
This union, whose membership works
in auxiliary trades to that of dress
making, are to go out on strike
in few days. Irving Potash and
Koretz, of the Picket Committee
will be there to assist in the forma-
ton of the strike machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Plenum of French C. P.
in Session, Discusses
Problems Facing Party
(Wneless BIZ "Tnprecorr')

w boeooo ~ fHpcCOJf u
PARIS, Feb. 22.-The Plenum of
the Communist Party of France,
now in session, is discussing the ma
tional and international problems
facing the working class and the
Party. Thorez, discussing the Sixth
World Congress of the Communist
International, showed that events
since the congress justified COM
pletely its analysis, and show the
existence of the Right wing danger.
Doriot maintained his opposition
to the action of the Central Com
mittee of the Party, although de-
claring that he would subordinate
himself to the Party Congress.
Semard analysed the economic
and political situation in France.
Monmousseau spoke on the Trade
Union situation, strikes, errors in
trade union work, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23

PARIS, by MailD Andre Marty,
recently elected by the workers of
Puteaux as Communist deputy, but
kept in jail by the French chamber
in The face of working class pro-
test, was condemned last December
to four more years in Jail (he was
already imprisoned for his activity
against the French wars in Moroc-
co, Syria and China) for having
written to Marshal Foch letter
which ends thus:
Mr.. Marshal, the time Of Gal
liffet, whose laurels you are jealous
Of, is passed.
'And when you threaten the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
with the menace of undisguised
Frepch militarism, which you repre-.
,onk SO well, know that we are q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-23
Communists in Vienna
to Hold Comfortably
Against the Fascists
wireless Bp Imprecorv)

VIENNA, Feb. 22.-The fascist
are holding their demonstration
Sunday in Meidling, the workers
quarter in Vienna. The social demo-
cratic Republican Defense League"
will demonstrate elsewhere.
The social democratic officials
have held a conference and decided
to advise the workers not to attend
the social democratic demonstration
because of the cold, altho a thaw has
been announced.
The Communist Party of Austria
appeals to workers to demonstrate
in the streets of Meidling against
the fascists.
The Rote Fahne, the Communist
Party newspaper, was confirmed to-
day for articles against the fascists.
A legal case has been begun against
the whole central committee Of the
Communist Party.