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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Ieaping LOUe
It'll Be Woman's Turn to
Pop That Query; viii
Men lump at 1t?

NEW YEARS eve will have a
IN double significance this year.
Not only will it be a time for
revelry to welcome a new year,
but 1t will lead to season of
amorouS leadership on the part
Of women. Leap year is at hand!
For four years it officially has
been the duty of man to be the
aggreSSor in affairs Of the heart.
Now with leap year in the offing,
the girl with a bashful sutton and
yen for propriety has the chance
of every fourth year to propose
the altar trip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Donald shafer Heads Juniors

Donald Shafer was elected to the
presidency of the Junior class at
Shortridge high school Tuesday. He
was named over five other candi-
dates for the Office. Other officers
chosen are Lucy Ann Balch, vice
president; Mary Louise Merrell, sec
rotary; Alex Clark, treasurer, and
David Thompson, junior vaudeville
chairman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
DIESEL ON FIFTH DAY
Oil Burning Truck Passes oath Hour
of Continuous Travel.

c. l.. CumminS' Diesel-engined
automobile truck passed its ninety
fourth hour of continuous travel at
noon today at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, where it is on
nonstop endurance run.
A. A. A. officials, in charge of the
test, reported that with clear driv-
ing weather all night the giant
truck maintained a 50-mile an hour
speed throughout the night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
FINED IN GIRLS DEATH
John b. Julian's Term Suspended
in Drinking Party Case.

John B. Julian, 2020 North Illi-
nois street, who was charged with
contributing to delinquency as a re-
suit of the death of Catherine Ma
huran, 10, after an alleged drink
ing party Thanksgiving eve, was
fined 500 and costs and sentenced
to ninety days on the state farm
today by Juvenile Judge John
Geckler. The farm sentence was
suspended on plea of Julian's wife.
The coroner's report in the death
stated that Miss Mahuran died of
palpitation Of the heart, resulting
from alcoholism
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16

have the evidence by Wednesday on
which he will base his plea for
Best's freedom. The plea will be
made Friday before Ray o. Brund-
age, pardon and parole commits
sioner. 1t will involve two men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
ARMS FIRMS ASSETS
SOLD FOR Cash, STOCK

Western Cartridge Fakes Over De-
funct Winchester Company.
By United Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 16.-
The assets Of the Winchester Re-
peating Arms Company, which COL
lapsed after war time expansion,
were held today by the bond and
debenture holders committee, which
bought them at public auction in
the plant yard Tuesday.
The committee will turn the assets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Playing Card Firm Head Dies
BIZ United Press

BIZ UHlfed Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-Benjamin o.
Hawkes., Sc, president of the United
States Playing Card Company, Gin
cinnati, died early today in Presby-
terrain hospital. He had undergone
an abdomonal operation Saturday.
Death was said to have been due to
peritonitis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Burns Kill Child

TANIPICO, Ind, Dec. 16.-Louise,
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marion Garriott, died here at mid
night of burns suffered when fire
with which she was playing ignited
her clothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
LINK COAST TO ISLANDS
Radio Telephony to Hawaii to Be
Inaugurated Dec. %.

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-Ra-
dio telephony will be inaugurated
between the Hawaiian islands and
the Pacific coast Dec. %.
Equipment for the neew service
recently was installed at a cost Of
$450,0 900. and will permit connection
with Honolulu from San Francisco
Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Sc
attic and Washington, D. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
COAL FOR NEEDY
LesIie'S Committee Reports Poor
Families in Pocket" to Be Aided.

Free coal for the needy in the
mining district is the latest relief
brought about by the Governors
committee in charge of DR.. John H.
Hewitt.
Hewitt announced today that
John Templeton, Terre Haute, has
opened the Glendora mine at Sui
Ivan and miners will take out the
coal without pay to distribute to the
poor at Sullivan, Jasonville, Linton
and Bicknell.
Arrangements were being made to
truck $500 tons Hewitt said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
~ CLASS ENDS WORK
Luncheon Marks Close of First Part
of Self Expression Course.

A luncheon Tuesday at the Y. w.
C. A. marked the close of the first
semester of the self-expression class
conducted by Mrs. Leo K. FesSler.
Mrs. c. H. Kuhn presided.
Toasts we're presented by Mes
danes r. w. Cook, w. r. Rayle, r..
e. lansing, Dora Reese, Oscar Smith,
G. j. Renard and Miss Elma Hub
bard. A play, Spreading the News, ="
was given by the following members
of the Tuesday morning class:
Mesdames Ben Stone, william J..
TeeterS, F.. ]. Trusty, ]. B. Cum
mings, Edward H. Davis, Charles
Herrlick. Arthur Dewy, c. F. Helm.
Mark M. Covert and Miss Helen
Becker. Glasses will begin again
early in January.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
INSULT DEFIES BOARD
Utilities Still Using Therm Basis
State Commission Learns.


State Commission Learns.
insult utilities still are using the
therm basis for billing gas custom
erS, despite a public service commits
sion order banning its use.
Admission of this commission de-
f1ance was made at a hearing con-
Quoted by Commissioner Howell
Ellis today by Maurice Dell Plain,
president of the Northern Indiana
Public Service Company.
The company, with other insult
concerns, is petitioning for retention
OF the therm, although its use was
ordered discontinued forthwith after
a commission hearing several weeks
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Former Resident Dies

GOSHEN, Ind, Dec. l6.-Mrs. N,
Funeral services for and burial OF
Mrs. Ethel Voss, So. wife of Walker
VoSs, who died at Muncie, occurred
here. She was former Greenwood
resident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
FIGHT TO FREE MARINE
JAILED II YEARS AGO
Friends Gather Evidence for Plea
to End Life Term.

BIZ United Press
PONTIAC, Mich, Dec. 16.-The
fight to free Arson Best, 81. World
war marine, who has served eleven
years of a life sentence for a crime
many persons here now believe he
never committed, rapidly APP
preached a climax today.
Frank Springsteen, supervisor of
the township in which Best's aged
mother lives, announced he will
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
INETERED HX|S
ARE OPPOSED

A resolution opposing the COM
pusory meter system for taxicabs,
as recently ordered by the Public
Utilities Commission, was adopted
last night by the South Wash
ington Citizens Association after
an address by Richmond B.
Keech, peoples counsel.
The association protested the
order on the ground that many
taxi drivers are doing this work
only temporarily. and that none
of them are making much money,
and buying meters would be q
serious financial outlay. The
coming system is just as salts
factory it was argued.
Another resolution favored the
immediate expansion Of the play
ground for the Greenlesf School,
while a third urges that the Dis
trict establish a bathing beach in
the Southwest section.
A report from the Treasury De-
partment, listing the Southwest
sites on which Government build
ings will be erected in the near
future was read. Several new
members were added.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19

are the Mongol army and the
Russians.
Now that the capture Of Tsit-
sihar permits the Japanese to
face in this direction, the situa-
tion has reversed itself. This be-
cause they can now attack, If
Russia comes in and with every
advantage on their side.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
lJAP ARMY COUP CRUCIAL
Tsitsihar c a ptur,e e
Means Menace
to Russia
BY BRIG. GEN. HENRY J.
REILLY

BY BRIG. OEN. nENn1 y.
REILLY
Noted Authority on Far East
ern Affairs)
The capture of Tsitsihar by
the japanese puts them in strate-
Rical control of all Of Manchuria.
This means two things. The
first Is that the Japanese are
now in a splendid position for
any further military operations
which may result from Chinese
or Russian or combined Chinese.
Russian attacks to drive them
back into their own treaty zone
of influence in South Manchuria
as a whole.
The second Is that they are
now in an excellent position to
face west to attack toward Man
chouli, in the north, and inner
Mongolia (that 200 to 300-mile
strip from Manchouli in the north
to Kalgan in the south, which
separates Manchuria from outer
Mongolia).
In their advance north to the
capture Of Tsitsihar the Japanese
have feared a heavy flank and
rear attack from this direction.
Here are most of the Chinese
troops driven out Of Manchuria
by the japanese in the past two
months. West of these Chinese
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Equal Nationality
LGIOS in 4 Republics

Four Of the American Repub-
lies have equal nationality laws
for men and women, Mile. Fanny
Bunand Sevastos, executive secre-
tary Of the Inter-American Com
mission Of Women, told a round
table on international affairs at
a dinner at the National Wo-
mans party headquarters last
night.
The United States nationality
law, while nearly equal, does not
yet give the mother an equal
right with the father to transmit
nationality to a child at birth.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Chinese Refugees
Flee in Zero Blasts
Copyright 1881. by international
News ServIce)

Copyright. 1881, by international
News Servlce)
MUKDEN. Nov. 10, 4:10 P. M.
uN.S0.-With its rear guard still
engaged with the remnant OF
Gen. Ma Chan-Shan's Chinese
cavalry on Manchuria's corpse
strewn battlefields, the main body
of the japanese army in Man.
churia swarmed into the walled
city of Tsitsihar today.
Chinese refugees, wrapped in
heavy clothing against the rigorS
of sub-zero weather, streamed
through the north gates Of the city
toward the Mongolian and Sibe-
rian borders as japanese troops
completed the occupation, which
began yesterday with seizure Of
TSitSihar station.
japanese military headquarters
here announced at 4 p. m. that
the occupation had been COM
pleted at 10 o'clock this morning.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
u, S. GIRL WEDs JAPANESE

~. Mr.. Terasaki had been con-
nected with the Japanese En-
bassy here four years.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Cold facts on
a key principle

High quality in restaurants
food is one thing-sustained high
quality is what really does it,"
Frank H. White, Of New York's
celebrated ,Whyte's Restaurants,
told us, explaining how Whyte's
holds special clientele Of impor-
tant business men from all the big
cities of the East. And since
Whytes has long been customers
of ours, he added. "Insistence on
purity-purity in everything that
goes onto the tablets one of the
key principles of policy Of sus-
tained high quality. The four-times
filtered ice you make is right in
line with that principle"
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
SOVIET WARNED
BY JAPAN To
KEEP OUT
(continusd From First Pass)

(cOnfinusd From, First Pass)
United States might be willing
to 90 In backing up the League
in the event the latter inv0keS
articles Of the covenant entailing
diplomatic boycott. economic
sanctions. or other measures Of
punishment.
The council Is split into two
factions, moderates and radicals.
The first advocate dispatch Of
neutral observers" into Man.
churia, while the radicals demand
immediate invocation Of articles
XIV and XVI Of the covenant,
which provide for boycott and
sanctions.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Benefit Card Party
To Be Held TUESDAY

A bridge party and sale Of can.
dies, cakes, toys and other articles
for the benefit of children Of the
unemployed will be held by pupils
and teachers of the Maret School.
2118 Kaloralna Rd. N. W., Tues
day, at Q p. m. Parents and other
friends of the school will con-
tribute garm -nts to be distributed
to needy children.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Junior Accountants
Meet Here Tonight

A group of young men and
women engaged in the study and
practice of accountancy, will hold
an open meeting tonight for the
purpose of organizing the Ameri.
can Institute of Junior Account
ants of Washington.
The meeting is to be held at the
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ SITS. N. W., at 8 p. m.
Dean Bosworth, of Benjamin
Franklin University, will speak.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19

When Hidenari Terasaki, at
tache to the japanese Embassy
and secretary to the japanese
Ambassador, was ordered to re-
turn to Tokyo, Saturday, his
plans to marry Miss Gwendolen
Elizabeth Harold, Of johnson
City, Tenn, had to be speeded up.
Miss Harold and Mr.. Terasakl
were married at the home OF the
brides uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene E. Collister, 14OO
Ingraham st. N. w., by the Rev.
Christian Young.
They left Immediately for New
York and will sail from San
Francisco for Japan November
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Experts to Exhibit
LiQkti11Q Features

Needs for improvement in home
lighting and development in this
field will be demonstrated by
j. F. OBrien and D. w. Atwater
Of the Westinghouse Lamp Co.,
at a conference in the auditorium
of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., today at 8 p. m. The
demonstration is sponsored by the
Lighting Committee, Electric
League Of Washington.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
FARMERS HAUL WATER

CHEsTERTowN, Md, Nov. 10.
Many wells have gone dr. in the
drought this year and large
number of Kent county farmers
are hauling water for their stock
and homes. The drought in this
section is worse than that of
1880.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
Britain to Oppose
"AqqreSSiVe Action"

LONDON, Nov. 10 G.N.S0.
Great Britain will under no cir
cumstances support ANY Tag
gressive action against Japan"
BY the League Of Nations
in the Manchurian crisis, it vas
flatly stated in authoritative off,
cial circles here today.
The next big Sino-JapaneSe
battle in Manchuria may result
from a Chinese attempt to iso-
1atet the Japanese expeditionary
force which advanced to Tsitsi-
har, according to a dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph today.
It was reported from Mukden
that troops of Marshal Chang
Hsueh-Liang, now concentrated
at Chinchow, in southern Man
churia, were planning an attack
upon japanese at Chengchiatun
with the strategic purpose OF
cutting the railroad line to pre-
vent further japanese troop
movements to the north.
PEIPING, Nov. 10 G.N.S0.-De-
spite the defeat of Ma Chan
Shan's Heilungkiang army by the
japanese, the headquarters of
Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang here
still maintained communication
today with the Chinese radio
station at TSitSihar.
General Ma has established
temporary field headquarters 10
miles northeast of Tsitsihar, near
the KoShan Railway line, accord
ing to word received here tonight.
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
YULE FUND is S185,ooo

ANNOPOL1S, Md, Nov. 10.
Annapolis banks are preparing
to diStribuate $185, 900 among
their depoSitors December /, in
the form Of Christmas savings
funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Imperidlist War and May Day

| defeat and downfall Of their own"
Czarist government and ensured
also the downfall of the German
Kaiser.
The revolutionary workers, under
the leadership Of the Communist
Party, will work for the defeat of
our Town" capitalist dictatorship
and the transformation of the I'M
periaiist war into revolutionary
civil war for the liberation OF the
American people from capitalist
slavery-for the overthrow Of the
war-makers and the ending Of all
war by the establishing the dicta-
torship Of the American workers
and farmers In place Of the dicta-
torship Of the Wall Street war
makers.
In the war that is now being
prepared by the imperialist gov
ernments against the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics, the work
ers and "dirt" farmers of all cap
italist countries must see that the
Red Army Of the Workers Soviet
Republics Is not an imperiaIist
army, fighting for the benefit of
parasite class Of capitalists and
landlords-but Is an army Of free
workers who have thrown off the
rule Of their "own" parasites and
are the best friends of the Amer
lean workers and Of the workers
and farmers Of the whole world.
The conscripted soldiers In Am
erican uniforms will come to see
this, and must en- masse go ever
TO the side Of the Red Army
must transform their own ranks
into an American Red Army.
In this way we can end all wars
and build a world Of free workers,
enjoying the fun fruits OF civiliza-
ton In peace-without parasites.
Imperialist war Is coming.
Workers, build strong cur own
revolutionary party and unions for
the struggle against tmperiaIist
war;
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Continued from page AZ
herding the masses into the con-
script army - those who wish to
put an end forever to all warfare
will not refuse to accept the arms
that are thrust into their hands
Revolutionary workers, when con-
scripted, will march together with
the masses Of conscripted fellow
workers and farmers, firmly resol-
we'd to transform the war between
nations into war between the clas-
ses-war against their Gown" inn
perialist rulers.
Fraternixation with our fellow
workers Of the enemy" nation
who are equally victims OF their
own" hnperialist governments
must become the order of the day
as soon as the masses Of our fell
low-soldiers can be brought to
open their eyes in establishment.
This viii come. It will come to
American soldiers.
American workers In uniform
must be made to learn both before
and during the actual fighting in
the trenches, the meaning Of the
imperialist war into which they
are forced or cajoled. They can
and must be made to SEE that the
interest Of themselves and Of the
American masses can be served
only by the defeat of owr "own"
imperialist government!
There are those who soy Gas
Trotzky said, against Lenin, In
1914-15) that to work for the de-
feat Of ones '.own" imperialist
government would only mean TO
work for the victory Of the opposite
imperialist government. But those
who talk that way, overlook one
"little" thing-the revolution! When
the Russian Bolsheyiks, In the last
world war, worked for the defeat
OF their "own" Czarist and capital
list government, this did not help
The Kaiser. but brought about the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

yHE origin Of May Day Is indis-
Il soluhly bound up with the strug-
gle for the shorter workday-a de-
mand of major political significance
for the working class. This struggle
is manifest almost from the begin
ming of the factory system in the
United States.
The 8-hour day movement which
directly gave birth to May Day,
must, however, be traced to the gen.
eral movement initiated in the
United States in 1884. However, q
gene~atl@s1 before national labor
organization, which at first gave a
great promise of developing into g.
militant organizing center Of the
American working class, took up the
question OF q shorter workday and
proposed to organize broad move
n1ent in its behalf.
Marx on the Eight-Hom Movement.
In the chapter on s'The Working
Day In the first vclume Of Capital,
published In 1867, Marx calls atten-
ton to the Inauguration OF the g.
hour movement by the National La
Fber Union. In the passage famous
especially because It contains Marks
telling reference to the solidarity of
class interests between the Negro
and white workers, he wrote:
In the United States of America,
any sort of independent labor
movement was paralyzed 50 Long
Us slavery disfgured part OF the
republic. Labor with white skin
cannot emancipate itself where
labor with black skin is branded.
But out of the death Of slavery o
new. vigorous life sprang. The
first fruit Of the Civil War was am
agitation for the 8-heur movement
which ran with express speed from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from
New England to California.
May Day Becomes International
On July ID, 1880, the hundredth
/ anniversary Of the fall of the Bas-
tile, there assembled in Paris lead
ers from organized revolutionary
proletarian movements of many
lands, to form once more an in
ternational organization Of workers,
patterned after the one formed Is
years earlier by their great teacher,
Karl Marx. Those assembled at the
foundation meeting Of what was to
become the Second International
heard from the American delegates
about the struggle In America for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG

rying out of other decisions of the
Paris Congress. Since similar
demonstration has already been
decided upon for May 1, 1890, by
the American Federation of Labor
at it's Convention In St. Louis, De-
cernber, 1888, this day Is accepted
for the International denaOnstra-
ton according to conditions pre-
vailing I'm each country.
Lenin on May Day.
Early in his activity in the Rus
sian revolutionary movement, Lenin
contributed to making May Day
known to the Russian workers as a
day of demonstration and struggle.
While in prison, in 1896, Lenin wrote
q May Day leaflet for the st. Pet
ersburg Union of Struggle for the
Liberation of the Working Glass, one
OF the first Marxist political groups
in Russia. The leat1et was SNUG
gled out of prison and 1000 mime
ographed copies distributed among
workers in 40 factories. It was very
short and written In Lenin's char
acter1stically simple and direct style,
so that the least developed among
tbs workers could understand 1t.
The betrayal by the social-pa-
triots during the war appeared In
bold relief on May Day, 1915. This
was q logical outgrowth Of the class
peace they made with the imper-
ialist governments in August, 1914.
The German ocial-Democracy
called upon the workers to remain
at work; the French Socialists In a
special manifesto assured the au-
thorities that they need not fear
May First, and the workers were
importuned to work for the defense
Of their" country. The same atti-
tude could be found among the So
cialist majorities of the other war
ring countries. Only the Bolsheviks
of Russia and the revolutionary
ninorities In other countries re-
manned true to Socialism and inter-
nationalisnl. The voices of Lenin,
Gutenberg, and Liebknecht we're
raised against the bacchanale of
social-chauVinism. Partial strikes
and open skirnlishes in the streets
on May Day, 1916, showed that the
workers In all warning countries
were freeing themselves from the
poisonous influence Of their trail
torous leaders. For Lenin, as for
all revolutionlsts, "the collapse Of
opportunism (the collapse of the
Second 1nternational-A. IT, Is