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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20

BY he Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo, May
20-PuShlng a peanut OF Pixies Peak
with the probOSClS sounds like perilouS
proposition of perseverance. Yet Bill
Williams OF Rio Hondo. Tex. plans to
take to his all fours" at 10 am. to-
day. on he winding uphill grind to the
mountains summit, $4,000 feet above
sea level.
williams came into prominence as
2 aocber pusher when he lost an cleo
ton bet on Al Smith last wear and pro-
pelled a goober more than dozen
Iaxas miles from Rio tHonao to a neigh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20
TEXAS PLANE REFUELED.
Fort Worth Attempts to Better Question
Marks Record.

Marks Record.
FORT WORTH, Tex, May 20 (P.-
The first refueling of the monoplane
Fort Worth, piloted by r. L. Robbins
and James Kelley. in AN attempt to
break the refueling endurance record.
established by the Question Marx. was
completed at $50 O'Clock this morning.
One hundred and ten gallons uf saSo-
line. four and u half gallons Of Oil anu
food for the pilots were transferred to
The fight ship by the retuelins plane
at all altitude of ! 800 feet. w. w.
Hoffman and II. F.. Jones were aboard
the refueling plane.
The Fort Worth had been alOft ~
hours when it was refueled.
To break the record, the ship must
remain in the air an hour longer than
the Question Mark or until 7:l3:l5
o'clock Saturday night.
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Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, S4,297,-
eo4 81
Treasury balance. sl42.otAS4a
Neu York clearing house exchange.
s5e1 600 GOO
New York clearing house balance,
S1l1aon 600.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20
APPEAL MOVE REPORTED.

CHICAGO May 20 GP).-An activity
that may be afoot to free Al Capone
from the Pennsylvania Jail where he is
serving a year sentence for carrying
Continued on Page 5, Column A.
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Nebraskan Tells Senate Re-
suits of Inquiry Show At
tempts at Control.
SAYS NEWSPAPERS GET
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
Government Presupposes They
Shall Not Be Subsidized by Par
ticular Interests" He Ayers.

BY the Associated Press.
An attempt by the power trust" 10
buy The press Of the Nation was charged
in the Senate today by Senator Norris.
Republican, OF Nebraska. in reviewing
testimony in the Federal Trade Com
mission inquiry into newspaper invest
mentS by the International Paper a.
Power Co
Norris. who suggested the inquiry de-
clared the results showed not only an
attempt by the power trust to pur-
chase with money the avenues of pub
liclty. but to carry out a world wide at
tempt to control national resources"
NO Reason for Ownership"
There is no more reason" he de-
clared. why the power companies
should own newspapers than men en-
gagged in making shoes or sewing ma
chimes should have newspapers.
Newspapers get special privileges
from the Government, which preSup-
poses that these papers shall not be
subsidized or printed in behalf OF par
ticular interests.
Both the newspapers and the power
trust profit by particular subsidies or
rights and privileges given by the laws
OF the country. 1t follows, therefore,
that the power companies which har-
ness our streams for power should treat
the people who own the resources with
honesty and justice"
-x,-x .- 800,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20
WEATHER.

tu. :. weather bureau ForecestJ
Cloudy. probably rain tonight and TO-
morrow: continued cool; slowly rising
temperature tomorrow.
Tempers lures: Highest. 66 at 2 pm.
Yesterday: lowest. Al at $50 am. today
Full report on page 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20
'sFrom Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is deliyered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
Stars ON the Field of Blue

representing state Of the Union How many
previous organization; what dates did
they Union? Which two OF them independent
time they entered the Union? How many state
flowers know? How
nameP How OF them of1claly
Which ones? How have no
What's the Governors salary in each state?
What's the principal and the
principal What's the principal industry in each
population the the population OF the state
capital and principal city?
Washington bureaus latest bulletin on THE STATES OF
condensed under each state name all
information of this bulletin fill out the
mail directed:
COUPON HERE
STATE EDITOR, Washington bureau,
Indianapolis Times
York Washington, D. c.
a oil bulletin THE STATES OF THE UNION,
loose uncanceed United
postage to postage and handling costs
NAME
STREET
am a reader of Indianapolis Times Code Mo-
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YOUTH BURNED
ALIVE, CHARGE
AGAINST FIVE
CHASTITY Murder Alleged in
Arkansas; Sweetheart
MiStreated.
Press

E0 nifed PTess
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark, Nov. Is.
Five men were under arrest today
on first degree murder charges,
after indictments accusing them of
torturing, mutilating and then burn
ing alive farm boy and attacking
his sweetheart, were returned by the
Stone county grand jury.
The grand jury report brought to
light for the first time the story Of
the disappearance of Connie Frank
lin, 20, last March, and the attack
ing of his companion, Miss Tillie
RUNNER, IT.
Herman Greenway and Bill C..
Younger, held in Batesville (Ark)
Jail. Hubert Hester and Joe White,
held in Newport Jail, and Alex
Fulks, held in Stone county jail
here, are the five held. In addition
to the murder charges, Greenway
and Hester are charged with Grim
inal assault, a capital OffenSe in
Arkansas.
Miss RUNNER was at the home of
Sheriff Sam johnson here today, to
remain until the trial. Fear of re-
prisals which kept the girl from
reporting the Staying of Franklin
make it necessary to protect her.
According to the story told the
grand jury by Miss RUNNER, she
and Franklin were walking along a
road, fourteen miles east of here,
last March. when the five men,
whom she identified as those held
Sprang upon them and beat Frank
lin.
He tainted, she said, and the men,
believing him dead, built fire and
placed the body on it. Franklin re-
vived and rolled off. The men then
dubbed him on the head and placed
the body back on the fire, she said.
They later picked the body up in
a sack and threw it in a nearby
stream, Miss RUNNER said. Hugh
Williamson, district prosecutor, later
visited the scene and picked up
eight bones, which have been iden-
tilted as human bones, he said.
Miss RUNNERS testimony is in
part substantiated by that of deaf
mute boy, who claims in a written
statement to have witnessed the
Staying from a distance, William
son said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
Don't ask
me why!"

Excuses man seems never to I'M
derstand; explanations that are en-
barraSSing. Women who have learned
of Midol avoid these unpleasant ex-
periences!
Midol is not a narcotic, but it does
Danish the suffering which too often
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ly, on the organs affected Safe,
but swift; complete comfort com
in five to seven minutes. You W;
get this relief regardless of how har |
time you've always had. These
wonderful tablets do nothing to hin
der the normal, natural process, so
its only common sense to use them.
If you would spare yourself all
suffering at this time, get Midol in
trim little case of aluminium for
purse or pocket. Fifty cents at any
drug re.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
GANG CUNPLAY
TAKES ONE LIFE
Boyhood Pals Duel While
Club Crowd Watches.

Blu United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. Is. - Murder,
gangland fashion, with an exclusive
night club as the setting and sixty
merrymakers as onlookerS, today
had added another victim to Chi
Cages homicide record, placed a
labor union gunman in Jail as the
killer and darkened the Club Ar
lington.
Jealousy between two boyhood
friends, Edward Tracy, 81, and
Melville Purves, IS, was said by po-
lice to have progressed from bomb
ingS to the gunplay in the night
club early Sunday that ended with
Tracy lying on the floor, four bull
let wounds in his head, and Purves
making a futile attempt to flee in
a taXicab.
Tracy had been made bus mess
agent of the Sign Hangers Union
after members ousted PurveS. Pur-
YES blamed his old-time friend.
The orchestra was playing a med
ley of college songs when PurveS
and his brother william entered.
Purves whipped out a revolver
and fired a bullet into his rivals
head.
The Purves brothers slipped to
the door and started down the steps.
A waiter tripped them.
A detective saw them leap into
a taxicab and captured them at an
intersection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
Wife BATTLES
RELATIVES FOR
RICH HUSBAND
Millionaire McCormicks in
Bitter Court Fight Over
Guardianship.

BIZ United Press
SANTA BARBARA, Cal. Nov. IS.
The hearing by which Mrs. Cath
crime Mccormick hopes to become
sole guardian off, her husband,
Stanley Mccormick, incompetent
son of the late Cyrus Mccormick,
the harvesting machine inventor,
resumed as a family circle" today.
Testimony of medical experts
concerning the disputed treatment
of Mccormick was heard by many
relatives.
In the courtroom were his wife
and his brother and sister, Harold
Mccormick and Mrs. Anita Blaine
Mccormick. The wife seeks re-
moval of the brother and sister as
coguardians.
Also present were Harold Nc
Cormick's youngest daughter, Ma
thilde, and Max Oser,, the Swiss
riding master with whom she eloped
a few years ago and caused an in
terantionaI sensation. They will be
here for a few days before going to
Florida to spend Christmas with
Mrs. Oser's grandfather, John D.
Rockefeller.
The principal Testimony to date
has been that of DR.. William H.
White, superintendent of psychiatry
at ST. Elizabeth's government hos
pital, Washington, D. c.
The wife contends that treat
ment provided by the brother and
sister has been costly and of no
benefit. DR.. White testified that
McCormick's condition, since DR..
Edward j. Kemp began employing
methods bordering on feudism, had
improved, but admitted that the
mUltimillionaire's chara t eriStic
traits remained,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25

French Postal Official Dies
PARIS, Nov. IS. - Ernest De
Letete, secretary general of the
of posts, telegraphs and
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Normal weight of a child at birth
is eight pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
ENDS LIFE WITH GUN
Rifle Used by Beech Grove
Man for Suicide.

With a half pint bottle of whisky
broken at his side, Walter F. Sheri-
dan, Al, 1902 Albany street. Beech
Grove, was found fatally wounded
in the kitchen of his home Saturday
night by his house eeper, Miss Al
ema Delehanty.
He had shot himself with a o.
calibre rifle, which was at his side.
He died en- route to st. Francis
hospital.
His wife died July 9. this year. No
motive for his suicide has been
found. He leaves four children,
Walter, 16; Robert, IA; Sherman,
IL; and Marjorie, 8.
Bermuda Denies Suffrage
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 25.-
BY vote of % to 8, the colonial
house of assembly again has rejected
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the proposition to give the vote to
the women of Bermuda. This was
the fourth attempt of the Bermuda
Suffrage Society to secure the right
of franchise.
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telephones and long connected with
French postal services. died TODAY.
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Corn Growing Champion

BIZ Times Special
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Nov. 25--Leo
Cain today has a silver cup en-
blematic of winning the corn grow
ing championship of Jasper county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-25
CITY EMPL0YE DIES
John Gebhardt Passes After Short
Illness. Burial Wednesday.

Funeral services for John Geb-
hardt, SO, of 41O West Forty-third
street, city engineering department
inspector, will be held Wednesday
at 10 a. m. at Sacred Heart Cath
Ollie church. Burial will be in Holy
Cross cemetery.
Mr.. Gebhardt died Sunday after
ten days Illness. He was born in
Germany came to indianapolis
forty-t1ve 8 ago. The WldoW,
three sons three daughters sur
yive him.
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PAGE 8
Boy Hurt at Play

Ry Times Special
ANDERSON. Ind, Nov. 25.--
James Griffin, 9. is in serious con-
dition due to a skull fracture suffered
when he was struck by a wagon
tongue while at play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29

Workers Party periodicals and leaf
lets in the house. The sentence was
five years in prison, and $500 fine
for each.
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 2S.-A meet
ing of 125 workers of Atlanta Red
mems Wigwam took place yesterday
afternoon to protest the vicious sem
tences given their fellow workers
convicted in the Gastonia case by
the bosses court at Charlotte, N. C.
Many of the workers in the audi
ence were Negroes, fact without
parallel in the history of the At
lanta labor movement; white and
Negro workers came together to
voice their protest at the verdict
of the mill bosses and their govern
ment in the. southern state.
Bill Dunno was the principal
speaker of the afternoon. He struck
the keynote of the meeting when he
stated: The elementary rights of
the whole labor movement are at
stake. All workers, regardless of
their opinions on the right to revo-
luton or on Communism or other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
BIG BANKS FAIL.
TO STOP PANIC
IN WALL Street
Five Billion Dollars
Evaporate as Morgan
H. Don't Help
Rocks Financial World
Choice Stocks Fade in
Record Collapse
Rocks Financial World

Five billion dollars in "values"
were evaporated yesterday when the
New York Stock Exchange rocked
finance the world around as the sec
ond selling wave hit Wall Street be-
low the belt within a week. 1t was
the greatest collapse of all time, all
past time-since the future must yet
be reckoned.
Nor was it the '1ittle fellows" of
tn. petty bourgeoisie who yesterday
saw millions and tens of millions
and hundreds of millions-disap-
pearing invisibly out of the great
vaults in the bowels of monumental
banks of stone and steel, but the big
traders who gamble in the most ex-
pensive and reliable" stocks who
went wild and dumped great blocks
in a losing market.
Nor can anyone construe it as just
one of the many past little games of
the kings of finance who have num-
berless times sheared the petty bour-
geois sheep at willard stopped
shearing at will Yesterday the
great break took place despite the
additional support thrown in by a
group of big bankers, organized by
Morgan.
The realitiese of capitalist econo-
mic laws defeated even the greatest
of bankers who last Thursday halted
the selling wave by demonstrative
intervention. The demonstration
was repeated yesterday, but it did
no. register.
Charles E. Mitchell and other
bankers played vainly on the stage
when they demonstratively made a
visit to the offices of j. P. Morgan,
gesture which when used last week
did the trick, but which yesterday
fell flat, after slight halt. Then
U. S. Steel and other ace-high stocks
went down in a plunge and word
went out that the big bankers had
failed.
Bank stocks themselves broke as
much as 300 points, the heaviest loss
being sustained by the First Nation
al Bank. Steel, which led the great
"boom" a few weeks ago, led the
decline with utilities; wheat lost in
spite of farm board support; cot
ton fell; rubber declined, all felt the
blow, while the coffee market col
lapsed to such point that the Cof-
fee Exchange in Rio de Janeiro, Bra
I'll. was forced to close.
At Amsterdam, Holland. one of
Europe's chief finance centers, the
traditionally sedate banking houses
unloaded stocks in a flood. Royal
Dutch stock fell, and in Throgmorton
street in London, the panic mirrored
Wall Street across the Atlantic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
EXPLAIN TERROR
At COM MU MIST
CAMPAIGN RALLY
Candidates to Speak at
Bryant Hall Tonight

The terror against the working
class now sweeping the land, bury
ing militant workers in prison as at
Gastonia, at Woodlawn, Pa, at Los
Angeles, will be explained in the
light of the class struggle at the
Communist election rally at Bryant
Hall, 42nd st. and Sixth Ave, to-
night (Tuesday) at s p. m.
w. w. Weinstone, Communist can
didate for mayor of New York, Otto
Hall, candidate for comptroller and
Harry w. Wicks, candidate for
president of the board of aldermen,
will be among the speakers.
The we'll known leaders in the
struggles of the New York needle
trade workers, Ben Gold, running for
candidate in the 29th aldermanic
district; Rose Wortis, in the third
aldermanic district, Bronx, and Jo-
seph Boruchowitz, general manager
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, will also speak.
Word was received yesterday,
proving that the terror had reached
every part of the land, that three
workers of Woodlawn will serve five
Continued on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
pL AN New union
OF OIL WORKERS

At meeting of the chauffeurs,
oil truck drivers, pumpmen, garage
and filling station workers, held in
Irving Plaza Hall last Thursday, a
provisional organization committee
of MEN was elected, the first step
towar dthe formation of militant
union embracing all workers in the
oil industry.
Many of the delegates present had
taken part in the gasoline truck
mems strike, which like the recent
strike of the produce truck drivers,
was betrayed by the A. F. L. takers
of the Teamsters' International.
They denounced bitterly the sabo-
tagging tactics used by the union
officials to prevent sympathetic or
ganizations from joining the walk
out, otherwise aiding the bosses and
their political henchmen to smash
the struggl-.
Five delegates from Elizabeth,
representing thousands of New
ersey oil workers, were in the hall.
A report on the conditions in the in
dustry was given and plans for a
broad rank and file organization dis
cussed with great enthusiasm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
5000 Greet USSR
PLANE IN Detroit
FIELD RECEPTION
10000 Toilers Jam Hall
in Chicago Welcome;
Crowds Turned Away
Arrive N.Y.W ednesday
Chicago Raises $4,000
for Trucks Tractors

Especial to the Daily Worker.J
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 2S. - The
boundless enthusiasm of 5000 work
ers who waited for hours to greet
the Land of the Soviets literally
swept the four fliers off their feet
on their arrival at the Dearborn
field at 1880 this morning.
Sweeping aside the Gordon of
guards, the crowd streamed for the
great glittering monoplane. The
airmen were hoisted to the shoulders
of the crowd and carried in triumph
to waiting cars.
The interest aroused in Detroit
workers by the achievement of the
Soviet representative is so great
that the reception committee is hav-
ing difficulties in securing hall
large enough to accommodate all
Continued on Page TaOo)
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lid STARTS HUGE
drive AS Terror
is UNLEkSHED
$4,000 New Members,
$4,000 by Jan. Is

With hundreds of years of prison
terms facing workers. in every part
of the land, from Gastonia to the
San Bernardino Valley on the West
Coast, for striking and organizing,
the International Labor Defense has
launched campaign to raise $4,000
an dto gain $4,000 new members by
the time of teh appeal of the Gas
tonia strikers, Jan. Is, 1880.
eve must raise so tremendous a
mass movement on behalf of the
Gastonia seven, to save them from
living death in North Carolina pris-
ons, that this mass protest will halt
the wave of capitalist oppression
spreading over the land, 81. Louis
| Engdahl, national sec tary of the
1. L. D. stated yesterday.
"-'ho need to appeal the Gastonia
case, the general spread of the White
Terror throughout the United States,
makes it ecessary to concentrate on
Va huge defense campaign which is to
continue until Jan. 1. The Gastonia
Joint Defense and Relief Committee
has been dissolved and all funds for
defense are to be sent from now on
to the International Labor Defense,
| 80 East 18th St., Room 402, New
York, New York." Engdahl an
nounced.
Liberate the GastOnia Prisoners.
"Our slogans must be "Liberate
the Gastonia prisoners! Free them
from living death! Defend the
workers in their struggles to organ
ize class struggle trade unions! De-
fend their right to defend them
selves from the attacks of the bosses
police! Down with the syndalist and
sedition wars" he declared.
$4,000 New Members.
eve must absolutely have $4,000
new members by January 1, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
fight ou rcases in all the courts, y
he stated. He charged the capital
lists of the nation with instituting a
drive through governmental agencies
upon workers in an attempt to stifle
the growing labor movement.
Engdahl enumerated briefly the
cases the l. L. D. is defending.
"The appeal of the Gastonia case
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
SUPREME COURT REJECTS
WOODLAWN SEDlTION CASE
APPEAL; IN TERROR DRIVE
Federal Government Strikes Blow for Bosses
Attempt to Crush Communist Party
World Protest Grows; Mass Meeting in Atlanta
Votes Denunciation Of Gastonia Verdict
BULLETIN.

BOSTON, 2S-In defiance the police order
revokng permit assembled
the call the Communist Party held
verdict
employers different places
militant labor organization Police
did not the meeting.
The United States government yesterday again took
direct hand in the reign of terror against militant labor and
did the campaign by which the employing class is
trying suppress the Communist Party The u S. Supreme
Court according report the national office of the Inter
rational Labor Defense so East m St. refused to consider
appeals of three Communists convicted under the Penns
vania State sedtion what usually known the Wood
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
Southern Coal Miners, ". Va.
and Ienm., Call for the Daily

The mliancy of the Illinois bred disgust
the United Mine Worker takers quarng spreading
to the miners of the South
While entire Illinois are being
converted by the rank and file into locals of the militant
Miners Union the coal dgger the southern calling
for the n. M. u.
Sold out in by the machine
and left unorganed by the UMWA mseaders
the southern miners for fight the
fight the leadership
And like their fellow workers of textile mill toie
they must have the Daily Worker and they beginning
bundles of the Daily be rushed to their
From miners in southern aes Virginia
have appeals that the Daily o them
miner OF Soddy Tennessee has written
Worker be sent to Soddy.
miner of Morgantown, West Virginia. in word of the
shameful betrayal of the his
AS result of the selut of the West Virginia dgge
Continued Page Three
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the workers on the job.
The Pacific coast conference is
one of several, starting with the
Atlantic Coast Conference August
17-iS, leading up to the formation
by the marine workers themselves
of new industrial union.
The call Tor the conference says:
"The Marine Workers League
hereby calls for the election of dele
gates to constitute the Pacific Coast
Conference Of the Marine Workers
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-29
Negro, White Workers to
Celebrate el2"AMulUersQyv

Negro workers of New York are
preparing to join with their white
fellow workers in celebrating the
18th Anniversary of the Russian
Revolution and demonstrating for
the Communist election program at
the huge mass rally in Madison
Square Garden this Sunday at 2
o'clock. They will rally round the
slogan: "Vote for the Party that
Fights for the Defense of the Soviet
Union"
To the Negro workers, doubly op-
pressed because they ae workers
and because of their race, Sundays
rally is of peculiar significance.