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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
MRS. VAN DER WEIR
WILL BE HOSTESS

Mrs. F. p. Van Der Veer, 1924
Central avenue. entertained mem
bers of the To-Kalon Club at teS
Tuesday afternoon, in honor u Mrs.
Harriette K. Sparks of Frankfort.
A program of music and lecture
on the opera were on the program.
The tea table was decorated with
a center plateau of spring flowers
and green tapers. Mrs. G. w.
Bruenger and Mrs. James H. Horn
stei inquired, with Mesdames F. G.
schmidt, Frank Hunter and William
j. Kopp assisting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
Mrs. Richards Honored

Mrs. Harry Snodgrass, 1929 South
Pennsylvania street, entertained
Tuesday night in honor of Mrs.
Bruce Richards. The hostess was
assisted by Miss Mona Hayes. Other
guests were Misses Mary Moriarty,
Margaret Clifford, May Schnotz. and
Marie FrantZred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
PARTY TO BE HELD
BY AVALON CHR

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl c. Hervey and
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. MacDon-
aid viii be hosts for the Avalon
Country Club dinner bridge Satur-
day night at the Columbia Club.
The architects drawings of the
proposed clubhouse will be on dis
play. Reservations may be made
at the clue Is downtown Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
Crime TnLk Planned

William C. Ella, former postof1ce
inspector, will speak on 1.-THE Life
and Capture Of Gerald Chapman"
at a dinner meeting It $3.50 Friday
at the Fairview Presbyterian church,
for societies of the church. This is
a continuation of a series of studies
of criminology. Mrs. Mae Mingle
will sing. Reservations may be
made with Mrs. John w. Ritter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
LUNCHEON IS HELD
BY MRS. GANSBERG

Mrs. William F. Gansberg, 2468
North Meridian street. entertained
with luncheon bridge today at
her home.
Valentine favors were used IN
decoration. The luncheon table
was centered with Q bowl Of deep
red roses and Lighter by red tapers.
Guests included:
Mesdames Robert =. Rryson. David Nun
70. Marcia Monitt. SHmuel D. Plerson,
Frank T. Gaines Rozfe Wantz. Robert
Ahern and Mss Jennie Aunro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
Bush to Speak at Tea

Indiana Women's Republican Club
will entertain with a Mckinley tea
at 2 Thursday at the Columbia Club,
instead Of the luncheon that previ-
ously was announced. Lieutenant
Governor Edgar D. Bush will speak
on what Is Best for the Repub-
ucan Party?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
Luncheon to Be Held

Zeta chapter. Sigma Alpha Iota.
national musical sorority. viii hold
q monthly luncheon at the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory at noon Mon
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
Miss FLoiq Hostess

Beta Tau sorority will meet at 8
tonight at the home of Miss Mary
wilma FLAG, 1887 North Sherman
drive.
Evening star., 1931-12-15
Actual Money Paid Counts

The committee cannot agree with that
contention There are in the District
institutions maintained from revenues
derived from either Federal or District
taxation similar in character to insti-
tutions that are maintained by county
or State governments. The District
has its courts, similar to county
and State courts. Other functions In
many respects similar to functions ex-
ercised by State and county govern
ments elsewhere are performed in the
District either by the District or Fed
eral Government. The District govern
ment does practically everything that
the various units of government do out
side In the States, and the people Of the
District receive from the Federal Gov
eynment the various benefits and serv-
Evening star., 1931-12-15


lumbia has been imposing an excise
tax Of 2 cents gallon on gasoline
There was derived during the last fis-
cal year from this tax approximately
81 100000. There are only four States
that impose as low tax as 2 cents a
gallon on gasoline, namely, Connecticut,
Missouri, New York, and Rhode Island
In the other States the tax ranges
from cents a gallon to 7 cents a
gallon.
The average tax for all the States,
excluding the District Of Columbia. is
fraction over 1 cents a gallon. In
the States in close proximity to the
District OF Columbia, Delaware levies a
tax OF cents a gallon, Maryland levies
q tax OF 4 cents gallon, North and
South Carolina levy a tax OF cents
a gallon, Pennsylvania levies a tax of 3
cents gallon. Virginia levies a tax of
cents gallon, and West Virginia
levies tax of cents a gallon, so that
80 lar as the tax on gasoline Is con-
cerned the owners of motor vehicles in
the District are in favored class.
The claim is made that it is hardly
fair to compare the gasoline tax in the
District with the tax in the States for
the reason that the revenue derived
from such tax in the States Is used
for improving public roads and not pub
lie streets, as is the case In the District
OF Columbia. It does not seem to the
committee that there is much weight
in that argument, for the reason that
motorists from the District Of Columbia
use these roa6s, especially roads located
in States bordering the District Citi-
zens of other cities pay the same gas
tax as their fellow citizens of the State
in which they live are required to pay.
1t is also claimed by those opposed
to an increase in the tax on gasoline
that the District is now receiving suffi-
cient revenue to take care of the entire
expense of street improvements and
maintenance. The facts, the committee
flnds. disprove that contention. Mai.
Donovan, the District auditor, In his
appearance before the committee stated
The amount of the gas tax fund is
not sufiicient to take care Of the entire
street expense. About 100000 will
be paid in 1882 from the gasoline tax
fund, but In addition to that about
$l,2o0.000 more will have to be provided
Evening star., 1931-12-15

Present Form Adopted in 1878.
The Joint Select Committee of Con-
: gress. of which Senator Morrill,, Of
Maine, was the chairman, reported in
1874: THE committee recommends as
best calculated to avoid repetition
Of the errors and short -comings of the
past, and to promote the interests Of
alf who are or may be in any way
ccnnected or associated with the ma
tibdlal capital in the future. that Con-
gfess exercise that exclusive legisla-
tipn over the District with which it is
invested by the Constitution. and pro-
vide for the general superintendent
Of its affairs and the enforcement of
the laws through officers and agents
directly amenable to the supreme ex-
ecHtive authority Of the United States ="
Whatever one may think of the wis
dom of the provision of the Copstitu-
tion referred to, there is no doubt
about the fact that it imposes upon
Congress the duty and responsibility of
providing for the government of the
District.
In 1873 the present form Of govern
Ment for the District was adopted, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

The furriers market yesterday at
noon time witnessed a record break
ing crowd to hear I. Amter, Commu-
mist candidate for Borough President
of Manhattan, who spoke to the
workers at the corner of 10Th ST. and
18th Ave. Five thousand workers
were massed around the platform and
the microphone carried the ComInu-
mist campaign issues to at least an
other 5000 assembled on opposite
street corners.
Arrangements are also being made
to hold a similar meeting in the
Needle Market on Thursday, Oct. Is,
at IL noon sharp at Both st. and 9th
Ave, at which Comrade Amter will
also speak.
The Election Campaign meetings
this week are stressing the issues OF
wage cutting and the organization of
workers to resist Wall Streets pro-
gram of hunger and war. The de-
mand of the Communist Party for
immediate relief for the starving
families and the challenge to the
workers to organize now to carry
through the Hunger March to Wash
ington on December 7th must be
broadcast throughout the election
campaign.
Workers who have previously sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Plaza Hotel Cuts Wages Again!


Workers in the Plaza Hotel, 59th st.
and Central Park Ave, we're informed
of another wage cut to take effect
soon. Although we are on starva-
ton wages and anotheN wage cut will
make it impossible to even pay our
house rent. The food they serve us
workers is so rotten that we are
afraid to eat it lest we get sick. Even
the smell from the dining hall where
we are forced to eat turns our
stomachS.
Our only relief from these miser-
able conditions, fellow workers, is by
organizing with the Food Workers
Industrial Union and fighting the
bosses for decent living wages and
conditions. A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
REVOLT IN AFL
DRIVERS UNION
Rosensweig Smashes a
Brownsville Meeting

NEW YORK.-Organizer Rosen-
sweig of the A. F. L. laundry drivers
local in Brownsville, who was once
expelled by the members for graft,
but reinstated by the Transfers IN
ternational is again in fight. His
local, 810 has lost all but seven shops
in Brownsville. When some mem
bers were fired in fight against
wage cuts, the officials went to court
instead of calling a strike. The So
ciahst lawyer, Waldman, had their
case. The courts, after long time,
decided that the men stay fired,
though the wages should not be cut.
The local then held a meeting,
wednesday, in which the members
urged strike to reinstate the dis
charged men, and Rosensweig had
his machine beat up the members
and smash the meteing. Several on
both sides we're arrested after the
fight. Rosensweig's plan was no
strike but S. tax on each member
to support the II men who were
fired"
The executive committee agrees to
pay court expenses of those who OPP
pose Rosensweig. The whole thing is
simmering down into endless litiga-
ton, and the Teamsters' Interna-
tional office will support Rosensweig
again.
The Laundry Workers Union,
which was organized in a fight
against union grafters and racketeers,
urges the laundry workers In Brook
Ign to take matters into their own
hands, and organize and fight for
better conditions on the job. The
Laundry Workers Union meets every
Thursday at Ambassador Hall, Third
Ave. and Claremont Parkway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Is Carloads of Mine
Relief Food Tied Up:
Waiting for Freight

NEW YORK hundred and
twenty thousand pounds of food con-
tributed by the farmers of Mime
sofa and Michigan for the starving
miners will rot in railroad cars if
workers throughout the country will
not Immediately send in funds to
pay the freight charges, it was an
nounced today by the Workers In
ternational Relief.
While thousands of struggling min
ers are actually starving and many
more thousands of miners are on the
verge of starvation, sixteen carloads
of food-flour and potatoes-Wait in
freight yards. The food was con-
tributed by poor farmers who want
to express their solidarity with the
miners and their families who are
so heroically fighting against starva-
ton Workers throughout the coun-
try must immediately match this fine
show Of solidarity by paying for the
freight charges. Freight is about
5000 car Send funds to the Work
ers International Relief, 799 Broad
way, N. Y.
AS soon as the money to pay the
freight comes in, the potatoes and
flour will be shipped to Westmore-
land County, to the Scots Run sec
ton of West Virginia and to Ken
lucky. where the struggles are most
intense and starvation desperate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
ANOTHER STRIKE
AT DUNCAN SHOP
Trimmers Resist Boss
Scab Union"

NEW YORK.-The trimmers of
James s. Duncan, formerly Cohen &
Kaplan, who recently won strike
against a wage cut and won sub
stantial increase in their prices are
once more on strike.
Trying to get away from the In
dustrial Union, which forced him to
grant union conditions, Duncan
opened a new shop under the name
of "Robinhood Hat" refusing to en-
ploy any of the workers unless they
Joined the new scab agency. 1.-THE
Amalgamated Millinery Workers
Union"
This scab agency was organized by
group of bosses and clques spring.
ing out of the bureaucratic ma
chimes OF Local "a and AZ.
Now the operators and blockers are
faced with ultimatum from the
bosses, like the trinmers, members
of the Industrial Union, they must
join the "Amalgamated" 1t is not
clear what the blockers and oper-
ators are going to do because of their
union officials who are not ready to
make decision.
The Industrial Union, however, has
called its members on strike and will
Immediately commence to fight for
their jobs.
All millinery workers and needle
trades workers are asked to come to
the picket lpe, 65 West 39th St,
where the James S. Duncan (Robin-
hood Hat is located.
An active members meeting of
millinery workers will take place on
Thursday, october Is, at the office
Of the Industrial Union, right after
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
FURRIERS HEAR AMTER SPEAK
ON ELECTION ISSUES IN MARKET

ported the reactionary parties are
waking up to the fact that they are
rotten to the core, that they are
nothing more than the bosses agents
and tools. The latest admission that
43 per cent of those who were sup
posed to receive relief from the Tam
many Prosser Commute are still
jobless and starving is an admission
that even the emergency unemployed
committee was forced into making
public its new campaign to raise an
9th r twelve million dollars. The
task of all Communist Party agita-
tors in the election campaign is to
definitely convince the workers on
the basis of actual facts, that this
twelve million dollar relief fund will
go into the pockets of the racketeers
and gangsters, the same as the eight
million previously raised. The Elec-
ton Campaign must be used as a
mobilization of the working class to
fight for immediate relief in New
York for the starving workers and
their families and to organize the Ma
tional Hunger March to Washington
on December 7th to carry the strug-
gle right into the halls of the Wall
Street imperiaists.
Build the election Campaign Com
mittees in the shops. Build Vote
Communist Clubs in the neighbor-
hoods. Win the workers to cast at
least 100000 votes for the Commu-
mist Party on November Bird.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
CITY-WIDE MEETINGS TO BUILD
RESISTANCE TO PAY CUT DRIVE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEp

pect, Longwood and Prospect, 156th,
154th, 152d, 149th and Prospect, Daw-
son, Kelly, Beck and Leggett AYES.
These meetings will prepare the great
indoor meeting that will be held at
500 Prospect Ave. at pm.
Robert Minor, member of the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party and one of the leaders of the
March unemployed demonstration,
who served six months for leading
the unemployed workers of New York
for a struggle to get unemployment
relief and insurance fran the CAPT
talist authorities, will be the main
speaker
The meeting is held to organize the
workers against the wage cutting
campaign of the bosses and fight
against evictionS.
All workers are urged to be pres
ent to night at pm. at $50 Prospect
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
What's On
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
Workers Cultural Federation
All workers dramatic groups are
asked to send delegates to the Work
ers Dramatic Council at IS E. 18th
st. in preparation for celebration of
the Russian Revolution, November Z.
%, Alfred Levy Brnnch
viii have a special election meet
ing al 524 Vermont St, Brooklyn, at
$50 pm.
J. ID, Nat urper Branch
Will hold an indoor meeting at 1880
pm, at 149 w. l36th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Election Campaign
Conference for
Speakers

Election Campaign speakers
conference this Saturday, October
II, at 4:30 pm. sharp, Workers
Center, Room No. 207 All speakers
for the Election Campaign and
candidates attend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
GGarlin to Speak In
Carteret, n. j., and
Ossining. New York

Continuing his successful lecture
tour, Sender Garlin, co-editor of the
Labor Defender, will on Friday, Oc-
tober Is, at pm. show the workers
Of Carteret, N. j., the difference be-
tween the Soviet Five-Year Plan and
the Five-Year Plan of Hoover and
the American capitalists.
On Saturday, october II, at pm,
Garlin will speak in Ossining, N. Y,
at 20 Brookville Ave. He is speaking
under the auspices of the LID
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
General Motors Puts Over Wage Cut.
by a Worker CorrespOndentl

ny "OAhCA SOAANSPOhASheJ
The service department of General
Motors, 224 w. 61st ST., fired 63 work
ers and cut the pay Of the rest of
the workers 10 per cent This is in
line with the program of the bosses
to make the workers bear the whole
burden of the depression.
AS contrast to this program for
the workers, just look at HooverS
plan to help the poor bankers. A
$5OO,OO0,0oO pool is created to save
these damn parasites while us work
ers get wage cuts.
Wake up, workers. Fight this rot
ten system. Organize and fight!
That's the only way we can defeat
the bosses plan to pauperize us.
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Speak at Morse Drydock.

The call to struggle against wage
cuts was carried to hundreds Of
Morse drydock workers who gathered
at the meeting held at 57th st. and
First Ave, on the Brooklyn water
front, yesterday noon, addressed by
j. Louis Engdahl, Communist candi-
date for congress in the Seventh
Brooklyn District, and others.
The Nord-Deutcher Lloyd piers and
the huge freight terminal of the
Long Island terminal also center at
this point.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

Women's Bloom
ers, S t ep L n S,
Vests, Panties!
Of run-resistant
r a Y o n. w e | |
made.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

A special value for Jubilee
Week! Of white-back blue dem
im-mill shrunk. Big pockets,
triple-stitched seams, rust-proof
buttons. High and low back
styles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

Frocks in gay summary prints.
Flare and pleated skirts.
Sleeveless or short sleevs. Siz-
es 16 to so. Buy now and save!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

Jubilee Week finds the new
Windsor priced at a saving OF
from $50 to $50. 6 to 8 sheet
capacity -. Lowell Wringer -.
Tri-Vane Agitator. Only a linn
tied number! Hurry for yours!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-01
Motions in
 Superior Court Counsel Asks for Extension of Time to Appeal for
 Prisoners

Motions for a further extension of time for the filing of appeals in the
 cases of Amerigo Distefano and
 Baron J. Torkomian were filed with the clerk of the superior court late
 Friday afternoon. The motions were
 directed to Judge Alfred c. Baldwin who found Torkomian and Distefano guilty of statutory charges and sen- fenced each to long terms in the state prison.
 The motion filed in behalf of Dis tefano was drawn by Attorney John r. Tobin who recently came into the case. In the case of Torkomian the motion was filed by Attorney Fred
 eric c. Bauby. Attorney Bauby stated day that Judge Baldwin has agreed
 to grant the further extension. This is the second time for the granting of
 a time extension, the first one having expired last Friday.
 Attorney Bauby and Attorney Tobin reached Judge Baldwin by phone last Friday and requested for the further continuance. He agreed, and instructed the two lawyers to file their written requests with the clerk of the local superior court. In the meantime, Attorneys Tobin and Bauby are preparing the appeals which are expected to be filed short ly There will be no appeal taken in the case of James Sullivan, also sen- fenced with Torkomian and Dis- tefano.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-01
Jack Delaney's Camp
 Gains Publicity By
 Death Of His Guest
Middletown Man of Prominence Lost in the Lake-F0
 Play Tinted at as Officers Seek Body

occurred soon after Arrjsoni, his fiancee, Miss Catherine Hance of Red Bank, N. J., a former beauty prize winner; George Billings, New York boxer, and Mrs Billings had set out from the Meredith Neck camp of Jack Delaney, former world light heavyweight champion, where they had paid visit.
 Billings, who reported the sup posed accident to Officer George Lavertue at the Weirs, had blood stains on the front of his shirt and the officer also reported finding traces of blood in the bow of the mo- tor launch.
 According to Officer Lavertue, Bill ings explained that just before the party set out from Delaney's camp the former champion accidentally broke the motorboats windshield, cutting his hand. It was blood from this wound which spotted both the boat and his shirt, Billings said.
 Miss Hance told police she and Arrigoni were chatting in the stern of the launch when she stepped for ward to speak to Billings, who was in the front cockpit. Returning to her seat few moments later she recounted, she noted that her com panion had disappeared. They searched the surrounding waters for some time without result. she said.
 None of the former state senator's companions was held but Laconia police stated all might be requested if and when the body was recov- cred.
 Meredith police, cooperating with Laconia and Belnap county author ities, claimed to have evidence that members of the motorboat party had been drinking liquor prior to Arrl- goni's disappearance.
 In discussing the possibility or foul play, Laconia authorities point ed out that Arrigoni, an able swim mer, should have been able to reach safety at Horse Island, scant mile away.
 Reports that Delaney also was aboard the launch at the time or Arrigoni's disappearance were de- scribed by Laconia police as ground less. They said they had established that Delaney remained at his Uere- dith neck camp when his four guests started across the lake.
 Franklin Arrigoni, brother Of the missing man, was expected to reacn here this afternoon to cooperate with authorities in the investigation.
 Chelso Arrigoni was general man ager and vice-president of Frank A. Arigoni. Incorporated, MiddletoWn road builders.