davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13

antagonisms existing between these two pow
ers. The U. S. A., finally, obviously has the
intention of making use of the London Con-
ference for great political action, the chief
weapons Of which are on the one hand the
kellogg Pact and, on the other hand, the de-
mand for freedom Of the seas with the object
of securing the world hegemony Of American
Imperialism.
International imperialism and social fascism
are endeavoring by such conferences to de-
ceive the people. Needless to say that at this
conference no mention will be made of that pro
gram Of real disarmament introduced by Com
rade Litvinow at the meetings of the Prepa-
ratory Disarmament Commission, which the
imperialists lost no time in rejecting. If how
ever, the imperialists ignore this Soviet draft,
the working masses of the whole world do not
forget it and the contrast between the genuine
programme Of the Soviet government and the
hypocritical comedy which is being played in
London will help them to perceive the true
character of the naval conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13
By BILL GEBERT

THE Central Committee of our Party time and
time again demands that the Party Ian
guage press adopt Bolshevik line. Comrade
P. Smith, a few weeks ago in his article in
the Daily Worker showed that some of our
papers are very far from carrying out the
Communist line, and that they deviate much
from the Party line.
| want to deal with the Business Commun-
ism in our language press. The "Trybuna
Robotncza," a Polish weekly carries in two
issues successfully, advertisements of thirteen
bourgeois fascist and Catholic papers published
in Poland. and of five almanacs among them
one published by the Catholic church. This ad-
vertisement is secured from the Peoples Book
Store in Detroit owned by social-fascists. And
in the paper few lines above the advertise
ment, is the following slogan Hundreds of
thousands of Polish workers read the enemies
fascist papers. We must win them to read
our own Party press"
This correct slogan, however, goes together
with the business advertisement to read fascist
papers
In the same issue on the front page, dealing
with the incoming elections in the City of Ham
tramck, Michigan, it informs its readers that
the Communist Party had put up Comrade
George Krystalski as a candidate for mayor
and that DR.. Tenerowicz and DR.. Dysarz who
are candidates for mayor are simply reaction
aries and enemies of the working class. But
on the last page of the same issue there IS
an ad of both these doctors, it is true only as
doctors, but it is customary to support those
who support US Such a policy of business
Communism cannot win the confidence of the
workers, and they cannot look with full con-
fidence on our paper.
The Trybuna Robotnicza is also weak IN
many other respects. In the Lenin Memorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13
That Much Heralded "LOve-
stone Banquet

IN Sat-, Feb. 1, after heralding through the
Revolutionary Age that mass banquet
would be held for the purpose of establishing
the Revolutionary Age as weekly organ the
Lovestoneites of the district and from out of
town-175 in all-gathered at the New Har-
lem Casino, protected by the police and bomb
squad at the entrance, plus gangsters who
were modified for the occasion. Some of Love-
stones own committee were armed with knives
and other weapons for the purpose of assault
ing any Party member who might be present.
The Party for its own good reason had a
few comrades stationed outside the hall. These
= comrades were recognized by the detectives
as workers whom they, the detectives, had as
saulted on the picket line.
This banquet was held after an attempt to
hold meeting at Stuyvesant Casino the night
before. The renegades had to call off this
meeting, however, owing to the fact that they
dare not face the workers to whom they have
to answer for the crimes that they have COM
mitted against the working class.
Unity With Police.
The contacts and connections of these rene
gades from the Communist Party with the pol
ice may be demonstrated in the fact that when
they made contract for the hall, they in
formed the house manager that they expected
trouble and that they would appreciate any
sistance that the house manager could give.
The house manager informed them that he
could mobilize police with police sergeants and
others for the purpose of giving them the ne
cessary protection The Lovestonetes there
upon signed the contract on that basis.
The banquet was held in an atmosphere of
continual fear that the workers might break
in on them and take vengeance for the con-
spiracies they have Matched and carried out
against the movement. The conduct of these
renegades and their attitude showed that they
felt at home with the police protection that
they were receiving Nevertheless they were
very uncomfortable. They had their gangsters
and police stationed on the sidewalks and stair
ways of the budng--one of them, Mike In
TRAITOR, going to the extent of pulling knife
and flashing it on comrades as threat to
force them to leave the streets.
The climax of this comical-diabolical scene
was reached when the brave leaders of this
band of negades--Gitlow, Wolfe, Lovestone,
followed by Becker, and Nemser, who brought
the renegades to the hall-arrived upon the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13
Four Workers in Anthracite
Repudiate LOvestOne

Four miners, members Of the w. Wyoming
unit of the Party, after listending to report
of the line of the Comintern given by Colorado
Candida of the Italian Buro, voted for the
following motions: -s~,e~
l. We accept and endorse the Address Of
the Comintern. We declare the C. rs analy
sis of the situation in the U.S.A. are being
borne out by life itself The deepening econ
omic crisis of American Imperialism, the ever
sharper struggles taking place all over the
world and in the U. S. are proof of the correct
ness of the CHS position.
2. We repudiate the Lovestone renegades,
and endorse their expulsion from the Party.
g. We pledge ourselves to follow loyalty
the line of the &C. Of the Party, and the line
of the Comintern. We will fight against the
renegades We will do everything to help build
the Party and the N.M.U. in the anthracite.
d. We declare that our vote at the sub
district plenum against the Party resolution
was an error. ~ ~,
Out of the five mining comrades present,
four voted for the resolution, and the fifth
declared that he was for it but made demands
and reservations that showed he was still op-
posing the Party. These comrades were under
suspension from the Party because of their OPP
posing the Party line. Now with their vote,
the suspension has been lifted, and all four
have been readmitted into the Party.
This marks still further step in the dis
Indignation of the Lovestone renegades group.
1t marks step in the wiping out of Gallo,
Vrataric's influence in the anthracite. The
action Of these four proletarian comrades in
regulating the Lovestone splitters should be
followed by all other honest proletarians who
were msled by the phrases Of Lovestone and
Gitlow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street.
New York City.
l. the undersigned, want to join the Commu-,
mist Party. Send me more information.
Name .....................
Address ...............~.... city,.
Occupation Observation-Disclosures Age. .....
Party. d3 East 125th St., New York. N Y.
Nail this to the Central Office, Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-13

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hun dred Proletarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!
Evening star., 1930-09-10

and parts Of It were falling away. An
instant later It left entirely. Struts
were ripped out of the top wing, which
crumpled like soft paper.
IT couldn't glimpse further happen
ings, nor did attempt to, realizing that
the ship was wrecked and must jump.
Severe Landing Shock.
my brain was perfectly clear, and ]
thoroughly appreciated what to do. !
had no trouble in throwing OF my safety
belt.
standing up in my seat, we whirled
in q swift left spin. Head first, d1ved
out the left side. 1t was easy to leave.
but I took precaution to jump out as
far as possible.
81 felt no particular sensations other
than the realization that a parachute
lump was necessary, and that must
do three things: UnfaSten my belt;
dive cut as far as possible, and pull the
parachute ring.
I'm jumping, I felt for the ring.
made sure was holding the ring and
not one of the D-buckles.
1T seemed an appreeiable tln1e-al-
though, of course, no more than an
instant-before the chute opened. I
was not aware of any sudden jerk. My
sole realization of the chute's openings
was the sudden transition from feeling
of passing rapidly through the air to
sensation of being suspended.
"Once the dome had mushroomed,
Evening star., 1930-09-10

ship. Unconsciously I kicked, trying
to free myself from the wreckage, which
was only imaginary
MY wrist panied where it had been
burned by the exhaust pipe. / chas-
tised myself for having made a con-
founded mess of everything. hadn't
/ followed my own advice.
when looked up q sudden lump
choked my throat.
THE chute was open!
"I couldn't believe it. Then re-
| called-the supposed whack from the
| tail group had been merely a jerk of
my opening umbrella. How it opened
I didn't know. took no pains about
| it then. I hadn't pulled the ring-it
was still in the pocket. And I was
sitting in my parachute swing, vaguely
curious as to how it had happened.
| Between my knees I watched my
plane sink in a whirlwind of spins. then
crash with a big thud. The motor
buried itself five feet in the ground.
II took my first deep breath since the
collision. ! began to look at the earth.
Removing my goggles, prepared for
| landing.
when I heard Spikes plane crash
and located the wreck was sure had
other pilot, I surmised he had been
unable to get out and had been killed.
Man -Slicing Blades.
"I felt sad, despite my own success In
coming out alive"
Had Maj. Hickam peered through the
vent in the parachute dome, he would
have seen Geiger floating complacently
above him. But an event more startling
commanded his attention. The collision
! had occurred directly above the port.
| About a dozen ships were In flight, while
| three bombers stood on the field with
propeller spinning in readiness for a
| take-off.
Here was" recalled the Caterpillar,
heading directly for those man-killing
| bladesl
IT heard hundreds of throats yelling
and crying at me. I couldn't make out
what they said because I couldn't give
them attention.
"Those propellers terrorized me. How
I hated to side-slip the shrouds My
chute was floating beautifully and
wanted to leave well enough alone. But
I knew 1t was a case of slip shroudS or
be sliced into thousand bits. I tried it
once, gingerly. She responded. I eased
the lines to one side just wee bit more,
and they began waiting me away from
danger. felt delighted. I had dis
turbed the status quo, yet the chute had
stuck with me-
"I remembered instructions had re-
ceived about landing, and calmly pre-
pared to put them into effect, when the
ground welled up, burst into my face,
struck me on the back and knocked me
fiat. I turned over completely. My
heels landed first, and sprained both
ankles equally. Weighing l80 pounds,
I came down a good deal faster than
Spike. The landing shock strained my
clothing. I found a lot of buttons in
my shoes, where they had fallen after
being torn off.
"An enlisted man was standing by,
Evening star., 1930-09-10

of another ship behind, the noise was
deafening.
MY brain snapped into action like an
exploding shell. Its operation was de-
liberate; so cool, in fact, that I be-
came exasperated, and tried to hurry it.
to command faster action from my body.
moved too slowly. The impression of
myself as unbuckled my safety belt
and prepared for the jump was that OF
slow motion film. watched my hands
do things with icy certainty. They
didn't make the least rush.
MY sluggishness caused me much
worry. I kept saying TO myself, Now!
Move! Hurry Don't stall!' Despite this
coaxing, they refused to hurry. Higher
instinct guided them apparently. I
must have lost voluntary control. I just
sat back and watched myself.
Spikes propeller chewed through my
elevators and rudder and then through
the rear end of the fuselage," went on
Hickam. ut was only 4 feet behind
my head when his ship slipped q notch
and sawed into my right lower wing. He
had borne down hard on the stick, and
his ship answered with steep dive.
That was superb maneuvering on
Spikes part.
Now, tell you about mishaps on
the rear end of my plane as II I had
seen these things happen. As q matter
Evening star., 1930-09-10

waiting for me to strike. He immedi-
ately picked me up.
I looked about and was overjoyed
to see Spike swinging overhead, sitting
in the shade of his umprella Up to
that moment I didn't know he was the
other fellow in the collision.
What a welcome they gave usl Both
Jumps. they said, were perfect. On the
ground, they had an excellent view of
the whole collision. When they saw my
chute open, everybody held his breath,
pending the other mans appearance.
They waited in gloom and silence.
When Spikes chute opened, soon after
mine. they burst into a huge cheer.
Coming down, heard lots of yelling.
Spike and were classmates at West
Point. Isn't it odd that we should be
thrown together in the Caterpillar Club?
"A newsreel man on the field said he
forgot himself completely, and we had
grounded before he remembered his
camera. Then he asked whether I
wouldn't go up and do another para
chute jump. He got my diplomatic re-
fusal.
II came down about one third faster
than Spike. The two SE-5s dug crater
lets into the ground about 300 feet apart
never had more hearty laugh than
when he doubled up and rolled back
ward. He looked awfully funny.
Geiger Jared by Impact.
"Up to that time I was a lukewarm
parachute enthusiast-like most Army
flyers. I remember the first time I
wore one in 1922. Maj Herbert Dargue
and / flew up to Mitchell Field. Gen.
Patrick asked us to wear the pack and
we couldn't very well avoid It. AS a
matter Of fact, we considered it huge
nuisance. The harness was too small
didn't fit--and had to be huddled up
in a cockpit, not built to hold para
chutes. Since then We have changed
our minds
Most flyers believed that in case of
a plane breaking into fire, the chute
might be of use. We doubted whether
it would work in case of collision. At
any rate, we thought it better to remain
with any but wrecked ship.
'I believe the Caterpillar order has
done more toward popularizing the
parachute with aviators than any other
agency"
Maj. Geiger is now dead. the victim
of another accident at Middletown, Pa,
on Nay II, 1927. But he left the order
a document which diagnoses the ills of
a Caterpillar.
He did not see Maj Hickman's plane
until the instant before their crash
He was Jared by the impact, but not
enough to upset him for more than a
f1eeting moment.
upon recovering from the shock"
the diary discloses, II glanced left and
saw that the end of the lower left wing
was broken. Before the collision 1 had
noted my altitude, about $500 feet. 1
remembered this, and I knew would
not be hurried in making a jump.
II was able to right the ship. Almost
Immediately she turned two complete
circles.
"The nose shot down, and she dived
in fast spin I saw my lower left
wing was broken in two or more places,
Evening star., 1930-09-10

rolling feet and zoo,n ahead and away
before the ungainly battleship could
maneuver to fire her guns. Spike few
with the sun at his rudder, as every
trained attacker flies. 1t is the best
part of the sky to come out Of, because
the glare blinds observers and masks the
approach of an echelon. His two COM
panions spread behind him, right and
left and Jagged while their leader ini-
tiated battle.
The SEES was a streaking comet as
Maj. Geiger began leveling out at, the
bottom of his dive. His air-speed point
er dangled over lao. He drove his pro-
peller toward the Martins landing gear
axle. In the interim It required to
travel several hundred yards, he first
detected another SEES, sister to his own,
couched beneath the bomber's lowering
wing. The picture startled him; before
the vision was properly sensed, he would
be directly upon 1t.
Fast BrainSlow Body.
In that long drawn second, Geiger
had SO far taken in the situation that
he had already begun a dive beneath
Hickam. But close quarters prevented
any such attempt.
II heard q crash ana sudden jar, :"
continued Mai. Hickam. with the roar
Of bombers, the whirl OF my motor, col
lapse Of wings and fuselage and clash
Evening star., 1930-09-10

/ of fact was perfectly unaware that
Suike had chopped of the tail. Even
when he buzzed into my wing, thought
| that at least my rear end held up. His
I propeller might have bored into my
head and / wouldn't have known it.
His right upper wing hitting my
right lower wing made q tremendous
| iaT and on first glance out of the ship
saw my right wing fold up IKE q piece
Of laundered linen.
"The controls were dead.
at talked to myself: This ship isn't
safe any more Then Ibegan to ad-
wise myself what to do? Don't pull the
ring until you're out was afraid OF
| hitting the tail group, as / didn :
realize it had been sliced on. Heaoing
INV altimeter. I knew I had plenty OF
| time for a safe jump.
"The ship was dead to everything !
could do. She continued ahead on an
even keel. almost without change IN
course. But she couldn't continue n.y.
| ing without tail.
SAt a little less than 5000 feet she
whipstalled-chang course abruptly
and nosed down almost at right angles
| to the ground. That made her COCKPIT
horizontal"
held them flexed, ready to eject ms
body. He had sensed that the only
possibility of leaving the cockpit was TO
dive. Already his upper half leaned
into space. 1t should be easy to drop
of.
Caught by the Chute.
Meanwhile, hundreds of spectators
looked UP, invoking prayers for the
pilots. They were too absorbed to move
or cry out. They heard an explosive
thud, followed by~a rain of white linen
And they saw one plane whipstall.
IT shut my eyes and pushed my toes
against the footboard," went on Maj.
Hickam. "A moment later, coming to,
I was amazed to find myself still in the
cockpit I hadn't budged. The fuse
lage had been crushed and was i'm
prisoned in it.
"The tank spouted gasoline like a
park fountain and made me fear fire.
/ primed myself for second attempt to
get out. With all my might I tried to
spring. Again something gripped me
fast. 1t was the time to take quick
stock. I kept saying to myself, Don't
touch the ring until you. are clear OF
the tail group
all the strength I could collect I
strained and pulled. I spared nothing.
I threw every atom into that effort.
At last! Something gave. Dropping of
after that was simple.
"I found later what had happened.
Some projection had caught my para
chute ripcord housing and imprisoned
me. When I strained it stretched the
cable, which is wound in spiral. My
last heave pulled it out three feet
longer than its ordinary length.
The First Deep Breath.
"Just as I cleared the plane some
thing gave me a terrific jolt. / took
this to be a gentle salute from the tail
group, and / cussed myself roundly for
doing what warned myself not to do.
I thought was going down with my
Evening star., 1930-09-10

was able to analyze what was taking
place. looked for my plane but could
not see It. was greatly exercised for
fear the other pilot had been unable to
save himself from the wreck.
My shoot had opened at about 2,4O0
feet. The descent seemed very long. I
had plenty of leisure to look around.
saw neither plane, but did observe parts
OF wings and tail surfaces falling.
felt of my harness and then ex-
amined my parachute TO see If they
we're in proper condition. I pushed
my goggles high on my forehead, in
preparation for hard landing
About Is feet from the ground,
gust OF wind caught me struck hard
rolled over on my back, and was rather
dazed for minute. I felt the landing
shock more than any other incident ef
the jump"
Drawing from his experience. Maj.
Gelger opposed widely accepted B9tisn
That an emergency Jump requires uru
Sually cool nerves ana seif-pccs.sstop.
Any physically fit person can perform
the necessary operations without COZ
scious effort, he said.
(Copyrisht, ia3o)
(Next-A Caterpillar in High Attitudes
Evening star., 1930-09-10

ACID

Many people, two hours after eat
ing, suffer indigestion as they call it.
1t is usually excess acid. Correct it
with an alkali. The best way, the
quick, harmless and efficient way, is
Phillips Milk of Magnesia. 1t has re-
mained for so years the standard with
physicians. One spoonful in water
neutralizes many times its volume in
stomach acids, and at once. The symp-
toms disappear in five minutes.
s You will never use crude methods
when you know this better method.
And you will never suffer from ex.
cess acid when you prove out this
easy relief. Please do that-for your
own sake-now.
Be sure to get the genuine Phillips
Milk of Magnesia prescribed by ply.
Evening star., 1930-09-10

D4 OOAN OA<fbO0ANAHANa
n n Al. HORACE M. HICKAM of
~ N the War Plans Division, Army
N General Staff, sat back in his
swivel chair, sanguine-faced,
and said with urbanity:
"You want the whole story?"
"All of it." replied.
For a while he smoked in silence. In
blue fumes he saw re-enacted the MEM
orable events that intruded in his LIE
on the afternoon of May 10, 1925, at
the Tactical Training School, Langley
Field, Va.
"That day." he began, I'VE were stag
ing our annual bombing and machine
gun matches and an air parade. About
800 people-General Staff officers, field
personnel and a few civilians-had
come to see us perform.
"The sky was clear blue and flying
weather good.
Mai. Harold Geiger and few sepa-
rate ships in sham battle. Now, the
typical nine-ship formation is made up
of attacks supports and reserves
using an echelon formation, which is
three ships arranged in a triangle.
Playing to the Crowd.
'Spike--that's what we called Maj,
Geiger-led the attack group. I was
No. 2 in the support. We few the old
British pursuit planes, relics Of war
days, powered with 180-horsepower
Wright engines that drove ship ITO
miles per hour.
Each of the three elements was to
fly is miles from the airdrome and re-
assemble over the point of departure.
Spikes echelon intended to make
the first attack. The supports were to
protect his rear until he had fired on
the enemy bombers. We were also to
protect his group when it would turn
tail and attempt to escape.
MY formation hoped off on sched-
ule. We flew out of sight, then headed
back for the airdrome. Coming over the
field, our rendezvous, Spikes echelon
he was late in hopping of and hadn't
arrived yet.
After going through those prelimi-
naries, we thought 1t a bad time to fall
out. A lot of spectators were waiting
anxiously. We decided to continue
without Spike, and accordingly started
to swoop on the Martins, which were
flying at 5000 feet. Capt. George Ken
ney led my echelon.
'T spotted my target, great, lum-
bering bomber.
There's one safe way to attack a
bomber and that's to sit right under
It. I drove my SEES into a convenient
berth beneath my targets fuselage and
was flying along as peacefully as q
dove"
A Streaking Comet.
From a corridor of clouds Spikes
ecllelon burst over the horizon. In
perfect W. the attack element few at
5000 feet and saw the olive Martins
1000 feet below. The leader marked
his objective. He gauged its speed and
calculated how far in advance of its
present position he would have to
swoop in order to arrive under her tail
group at the proper instant. He held
his controls in readiness, then gunned
the motor. The bombers few horizon
tally, flooding space for miles around
with their stentorian breathing. Gel
gers SEES nosed into a meteoric sweep.
gathering momentum. The propeller
whirled in whistling cycles and expelled
o roaring slipstream.
His dive was daring. Only an airman
with steadfast GOODNESS could have
piloted. Aimed like a rifle bullet, he
new unerringly for the bomber's land
ing gear. intending to skim under the