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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
SHUT L0GANSPORT BANK
First National Is Closed by Direc-
tors After Run.
By United Press

By United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Oct. %. -
The First National bank of Logans-
port, an institution which had been
operating for eighty years, was
closed at noon today by order of
the board of directors. Heavy with
drawalS were blamed.
John F. Brockmeyer was presi-
dent and William A. Denniston
cashier.
Assets were listed as $6,5O0,000
and capitalization 100000.
The First National was the Sec
ond bank to close here in six weeks.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank is the only remaining bank
in Logansport.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
ORDERS PRINTING PROBE
Leslie Acts When Told Draft Bars
Open Competition.

Investigation by the state board
of accounts of specifications for
state printing as drafted by j. Otto
Lee, clerk of the printing board, was
ordered today by Governor Harry
G. Leslie, following conference with
members of the printing board.
The investigation was ordered
after Democratic members of the
printing board charged that Lees
draft prevented free and open
competition" on certain forms used
in state offices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
ADMITS FEE CHARGES

Lawyer Pleads Guilty to MuIeting
War Veterans for Services.
Bernard G. Fitzgerald, Indian
apolis attorney, today pleaded guilty
before Federal Judge Robert c..
BaltzeI to several counts in an in
dictment charging him with charg-
ing excess fees of war veterans
seeking bonus loans. Fitzgerald
previously had pleaded not guilty.
Baltzell deferred disposition of the
case until the May term of court.
Fitzgerald asked for the delay be-
cause Of illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
GOTHAM JOBLESS RIOT
Police Reserves Called Out to QuelI
Demonstration.

bU UNIItu FTtSS
NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-Unem-
ployed crowds stormed city employ
ment bureaus in the Bronx and
Manhattan today and it was neces-
sary to summon police reserves to
restore order.
In the Bronx, a crowd of about
500 unemployed woman, who had
been standing in line since early
morning to register, became dis
orderly when the bureau failed to
open at the scheduled time. They
milled about and several tainted
When police finally restored order,
several women were found to have
been bruised.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
FORMER LIBRARIAN DIES
Miss Leatha McKeen Paddock, SO,
Succumbs; Lived With Sister.

Miss Leatha McKeen Paddock, so,
formerly librarian in Terre Haute,
died Tuesday night.
She resigned as librarian at Terre
Haute about twenty-five years ago
and moved to indianapolis where
she lived with a sister, Mrs. Louise
NJ. Closer at the Spink-Arms. Fu-
neral services have not been COM
4 Jed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
AUTO CRASHES
END TWO LIVES
Man Hit While Crossing
Street in Heavy Traffic.

Hurled to the pavement when
struck by an automobile at Lynd-
hurst drive and the National road
early this morning Joseph Scott,
SO, living at Miller street and Lynd-
hurst drive, was injured fatally to-
day.
Injuries received when truck
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
REScIND PAVING ACTION
Works Board Heeds Pleas Of Prop
erty Owners.

Action to pave Norwood street,
from Russell avenue to Capitol ave-
nue., was reScinded today by the
works board following protests from
practically all property owners
along the proposed route.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
.Ex-CHIEF GOES TO PEN
Former Clinton Officer to Serve
Two Years on Dry Charge.

Two Years on Dry Charge.
Convicted several months ago of
conspiracy to violate prohibition
laws, Wilmot Conner, former Clin-
ton UndO police chief, today was
taken to Leavenworth federal prison
to serve a twe-year sentence. Con-
ner also was fined $1,000.
Among prisoners taken to the
penitentiary was Bruce Campbell,
indianapolis, convicted of violation
Of narcotics laws. He was sentenced
to serve fifteen months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
vote is Sweeping Triumph for Coalition
government and Ramsay Macdonald
Arthur Henderson Defeated.
PREMIER SWEEPS HIS OWN DISTRICT
Repudiated by Party Prime Minister Carries
Seaham Division by 5,771; Lloyd
George Is Reelected.
BY CLIFFORD L. DAY
United Press STAFF Corresnondent

LONDON, Oct 28-Great Britain has repudated the
0ocastLabor party in decided revulsions
OF national sentiment in it's history
returns today from Tuesdays general election gave the
Naona coalition and the Conservative party
an overwhelming vote of confidence proceed with it's pro-
gram for national economic rehabilitation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

Labor was defeated, shat
tered, and Inundated in the
landslide. It's chief, Arthur
Henderson, and all but two or
three of its leaders, lost their
seats in parliament.
The Conservatives, the National
government liberals who turned
from David Lloyd George, and the
few Labor followers of Prime Min
lister j. Ramsay Macdonald swept
constituency after constituency,
taking from Labor the seats it had
won in the 1929 election.
Macdonald Is Victor
Premier Macdonald, leader of the
National government, was re-elect-
ed to the house of commons in the
Seaham division of Durham over
William CoXon, Laborite, and
George Lumley, Communist.
Macdonald polled 28,798 votes
and Coxon 23,027. Lumley polled
only GIT votes and had to forfeit
his so pounds auction deposit.
The national government at
tanned its actual majority of 308
early in the afternoon. With Is
returns yet to come, the govern
ment had 542 against SIS.
Tt more than doubled the
biggest majority of recent years,
that of the conservatives in 1924,
when they had 215 seats. The
standing was:
FOR THE GOVERNMENT (542)
Simon Liberals 49, ......,..... 80
Samuel Liberals ........... 80
National Labor ............ IA
AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT (55)
Lloyd George Liberals ............ 4 ..
Scottish Nationalist ...............
The governments majority on
that basis was 487 and the Con-
sentative majority over all others
331. Votes counted by Sis p. m.
gave the following popular vote:
conservatives .......... IL ,528,0l2
Liberals g branches jointly S,O40,7Si
Others nAC0r ... ....: sss,4fS
The tabulation showed that al
though approximately $4,000 votes
was enought to elect a Conservative
it required $4,000 to elect
Laborite.
Macdonald called the result of
the general election mot only aston
ishing but astounding" in discussing
the situation with reporters.
There are two gratifying things"
Macdonald said. u. H. Thomas
Turn to Page g.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
CYPRIAN REVOLT RACES
Natives Continue Demonstrations
Against British Rule.

LARNACA, Cyprus, Oct. %. -
Demonstrations again British rule
continued in Cyprus today, despite
presence of British sailors and ma
rineS landed from warships and
soldiers brought to the island by
airplane.
The famous forest of Salamis,
near Famagusta, was set on fire by
peasants. 1t burned fiercely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

T " " ONNAO
not make a
good wife
drew a laugh
from Clara
B W, tn e
r e d-haired
"it" girl of
the films.
"You know"
said the &C.
tress, II once
saw a book
e n t i t / e d
What I know
a b gu t wo-
men, It was
8 90 pa G e S
long. E a C h
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
NNN0N CALL DELAYED
aent of Bishop, Secretary
Nstponed to Nov. 2.

.GTON, Oct. 2S.-Ar-
raiginnent of Bishop James Cannon
Jr. and his former secretary, Miss
Ada L. Burroughs, on an indict-
ment charging violation of the fed
eral corrupt practices act has been
postponed, at Cannon's request,
from Oct. 81 to Nov 2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
Ha-Ha Is GiUen
Wise Doctor
by Clara B0w
By United Press

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. o.
The opinion of DR.. Roland A.
Laird of Colgate college that
a girl who is "the life of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
SEEK BORDER AIR GUARD

Labor Department Charges Snug
Cling in of 80 Aliens a Day.
BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Oct. 28.-An aerial
border patrol to prevent smuggling
Of Chinese aliens from Canada into
the United States was recommended
today by Murray w. Garrison. spe-
cial assistant secretary of labor.
Investigations have revealed.
Garrison said, that the ring is flying
an average of thirty aliens across
the. border every day. They are
flooding the midwest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

DIR. Laird should study
women about sixty years long
er and then turn out book
just like that one"
Miss Bow has been "the life
of the party" in almost every
moving picture in which she
has been starred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

CI doIICU 1IVO q
semaphore at
Virginia. avenue
and Alabama
street Sept. 9
proved fatal to-
day to Fred
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
50.

Shaw, 70, of 1902 Dawson street,
who died at city hospital.
Death of the two men brought
the number of auto accident fatali-
ties in Marion county to 1873.
Scott was killed when he be-
came confused in an attempt to
cross the road through heavy morn
ing traffic, and stepped directly into
the path of a car driven by Arthur
Dumas, 40. of Clinton, en- route to
indianapolis.
He sustained a skull fracture
and compound fracture of the left
leg.
Deputy sheriffs said Scott made
one attempt to cross the highway,
but that he heSitated to allow a
car driven by Sam Harris of 1880
North Illinois street, to pass.
Scott then started to cross the
road again and stepped in front of
Dumas car. Deputies did not ar
rest Dumas.
Shaw, a passenger in a truck
driven by Walter Duke, 1902 Daw-
son street, his son-in-law, was
crushed between the semaphore
and the truck when it skidded on
wet pavement in an attempt of
the driver to avoid striking another
car. Duke was arrested at the
time, on a charge of failure to have
drivers license.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

The gOVeTnment'S majority on
that basis was 487 and the Con-
sentative majority over all others
331. Votes counted by Sis p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
SOVIET VOTING
SHOWS GROWING
MASS SUPPORT
StreamInto Communist
Party

MOSCOW.--The Soviet elections
in the great industrial centres, Mos
COW, Leningrad, etc, show clearly
that the activity of the working
masses has increased considerably
and that they are enthusiastic for
the carrying out Of the Five-Year
Plan in four years under the leader
ship of the Communist Party. Last
years poll was large, but this years
poll will be still larger. A feature
of the elections is Che broad stream
of new members into the Communist
Party. The best members of the
shock groups are being elected into
the soviets everywhere. These men
have already proved their capacities
in the factories and understand the
needs Of soviet production. Their
presence in the soviets ensures that
determined struggle will be con-
Quoted against bureaucracy and OPP
portunism.
AhC 4OIClBAi-DOIll WOlhCIO az pIcS-
ent in the Soviet Union have taken
an active part in the soviet elections.
AS workers they have, Of course, both
the active and passive franchise. The
American colony at the Stalingrad
tractor works held its own elections.
Cook, the chairman of the colony,
read the most important provisions
Of the Soviet constitution to the &C.
sembled workers. The American
workers RaSkin and Sheriff were ell
ected members Of the Town Soviet
and the American worker Sarkis was
elected substitute member. The
American workers Hopkins, Hany
and Jackson were elected members of
the district Soviet. The American
workers who were elected declared
that they were determined to give
of their best and work in Corpora
ton with their Russian fellow work
ers to increase production and carry
out the Five Year Plan in four years
In particular they promised to work
for the abolition of all hindrances
Of a bureaucratic nature. Their ideal
would be to work for the production
of the best tractors in the world,
and for the training Of highly-skilled
Russian workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
MY. Red Builders Order 2,1O5
at Jamboree in Neav Quarters;
ManyNeeVC Clubs Being Formed

A total Of 2,105 papers were Or
dered for Monday at the N. Y. Red
Builders News Club Jamboree held
in the new headquarters, 102 w. 14th
ST., last Sunday. Last weeks sales
by 40 members totalled 5,677, averag-
ing about 1000 papers day. With
over 100 attending. the meeting was
one of the most enthusiastic and pro-
iuctive since the inception OF the
Club over three months ago.
Many new unemployed workers
we're drawn into the club and as
sistance in selling the Daily Worker
was promised them by volunteers.
Reports from Stokes and Turner, two
members now serving 6 months pend
ing appeal for selling the Daily"
show that both are in good spirits,
their chief concern being the activity
of the Red Builders. John Ryan,
himself beaten by the police, visited
Stokes and will visit Turner as well.
The Club is now concentrating on
increasing its membership, inten-
styling methods of selling the Daily,
canvassing from house-to-house
and organizing a defense group 60
resist police attacks upon the Red
Builders. The Club will hold
banquet in two weeks to celebrate
the opening of its new hesdqusr-
tiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
British Engineer Disbells
Some Convict Labor Lies

On the very day that Mellon and
Hoover, through the Treasury De-
partment, ordered ban on the i'm
port Of Soviet lumber and pulpwood,
based on white-guard affidavits,
news comes from London disproving
the Convict labor" campaign. j. F.
Stewart, British consulting forest en-
gineer and university lecturer in for
est engineering, who has wide ex-
perience in numbering all over the
world, publishes an article in the
Manchester Guardian on Feb. 10,
giving some facts about the Soviet
lumber industry. --v
He says he does not agree with the
Soviet Government, is not a Com
munist, but that from his personal
investigation of nearly all of the
Soviet lumber camps, he is forced
to say that the white-guard propa-
ganda about convict labor" is a pack
of lies. Stewart goes on to say:
'The camps themselves are quite
good, mostly a deal better than
have built for my men myself in
other countries. They are con-
structed Of heavy logs caulked with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
German ReichStag Forces Trial
Of Deputies; FaSciStS Walk Out;
Socialists Support Bruening Govt
Communist Deputies Expose Fascist Maneuv-
ers and Hit Brutal Limitation of
Rights of Opposition

that the Reichstag was the executive
organ Of the Young Plan. The ma
tionalist fraction made similar dec
tsratfoi1s and left the Reichstag with
the fascists.
The Communist deputy, Stoecker,
made a declaration for the Commu-
mist fraction announcing. despite the
brutal limitation of the rights of the
opposition. the Communists were re-
naming in parliament to continue
the struggle in behalf Of the interests
Of the proletariat. He characterized
the action Of the fascists and nation
elists as comedy, viewing the fact
that both voted down the Commu-
mist proposal recently that the Young
Plan payments Immediately be
stopped. Their action foreshadowed
the unity of the fascists and bour-
geoisie against the Communists. He
declared that the fascist action was
intended to exert pressure on Brue-
ming to secure admission of the fas-
cists into the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
A.F.L. MiSleaderS
Support Thompson,
in Chicago Election
big Bill" Gearing Up
His Machine

CHICAGO. Ill.-Mayor Thompson
is not satisfied with the speed of his
campaign workers and his lieuten-
ants in the A. F. Of L! unions. Ac-
cording to the Herald and Exam
iner," he called n his campaign
workers, and, instead of cheering
them up, he bswled out his ward
leaders as "a bunch of lazies." tell
ing them that unless they stepped
on the gas, they will not be consid-
cred at all when the time comes to
distribute patronage. BY record will
these leaders be judged. 1t will be
very easy to determine who my
friends are when it is over
After the storm of self-criticism
"Big Bully" Thompson threw a
bouquet to the A. F. of L., or, rather.
to some of the misleaders. He told
his lieutenants that the A. F. Of L.
is doing better than ever before. The
Hold Carriers Union, for instance,
instructed its 10000 members to can
vass their precincts for mayor, and
act as watchers, and to secure tens
of thousands of pledge cards. In fact,
Mr.. William j. Balmer, campaign
manager, boosted I'VE are getting the
strongest labor support ever given a
candidate for office anywhere This
statement, together with the support
of Nelson, Fitzpatrick and other fax
ers Of the A. F. Of L., exposes the
leadership of the Chicago labor
movement as the worst fascist trait
ors-by selling out the workers to IN
sull, Thompson, Capone interests.
All the members of the A. F. of L.
must raise this on the floor of their
union meetings and protest against
this rank betrayal and endorse the
only workers candidates--the candi-
dates of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14

for the transformation Of the I'M
perialist war into a civil war is cor
rect. One must be a courageous man
and courageous thinker to express
such an idea at moment when i'm
perialist France is arning for war.
The answer to Roman hollands
courageous declaration will be a
storm Of lies and columny and later
perhaps still harder measures.
We know very well that Roman
ROLAND does not accept everything
which logically follows from the &C
ceptance Of Lenin's slogan, but we
warmly welcome Rolland's declara-
ton and regard it as political SYM
Dol of general historical Importance.
The petty-bourgeois masses did not
grasp the lessons of the world war.
The international bourgeoisie is about
to repeat the lesson. 1t is showing
its bestial face again without the
mask. Those who believed that the
world war was the last war must re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
PITTSBURGH, PA,
PROVES METAL

I'VE are making arrangements for
mass sale of the Daily Worker in
working class neighborhoods because
this will be the only way We will
break through the police terror
against the sale of the Daily on the
streets of Pittsburgh" writes J. M,
Daily Worker representative. eve
have now witnessed the third time
where comrades were arrested for the
sale Of the Daily Worker"
J. M. orders 100 copies for the
striking miners of Edna No. 2 Mine
and Is copies daily to the South
Side Unit, "the beginning of car
rier route in South Side, Pitts
burgh." That's the stuff, Pitts
burgh! Live up to your traditions!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Radek Praises Roman ROLAND for
Agreeing to Civil War in Event of
lmperiaIiSt War; Shows His Faults
Should Summon Sufficient Determination to
Speak to Masses Instead of Literary Circle

MOSCOW.-In article published in the Isvestia" Karl
Radek congratuates Roman ROLAND the aters 65h birth
day The article contains the following: -
The declaration Of the great author in his latest
article that the best the the given by
Lenin in 1917 the instruction Of the European armies
against the warmonges and determination between the sol
ders of the various armies does him great honor
an task at the of 65 throw overheard the old prn
cps of nonvoence and recognize that Lenns great slogan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14

Communist Clubs In each ward, to
collect $4,000 signatures for mayor
and put UP a struggle for the right
Of the Communist Party to be on the
ballot.
A presidium of three we're elected.
Comrade Wangerin, who is the Com
nlunist Party candidate for mayor
was chairman, Wella Clinton, o Ne
gro woman worker. against whom
especially the terror was directed and
whom the board Of election conf
nlissioners ruled off the ballot was
vice chairman and Richard Thomas
aldermanic candidate In ward IS, Sec
rotary. Then resolutions and cred
entails committees were elected and
Comrades Godos the Agitprop Of the
District made the report.
The conference adopted a motion
to greet and support all the class
war prisoners. A motion was also
adopted to participate and support
the International Unemployment Day
on Feb. rs, and the demonstration
on Feb. 10. A resolution OF protest
against the ruling off the ballot of
9 of the IA Communist aldermanic
candidates was carried as well as .
general political and organizational
resolution. A conlmittee Of 7 was
elected to 20 to the board of election
commissioners to protest the ruling
off of our candidates also to 60 to
the chief Of police, Alcock, to protest
against the mass terror. A large city
election campaign committee Of 26
was elected and with the singing
Of the 1nts'ratiep@ TIE 0oqilEspce
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
TO ONLY REFER"
JOBLESS DEMANDS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

jobless workers starve or die?
Senator Hamilton F. Kean an
swered: Dear Mr.. Wagenknecht, I
have your letter Of the It'll relative
to the payment of Adjusted Compen-
sation Certificates. am very glad
to have an expression OF opinion
from you regarding this matter"
Just that and nothing more.
And Representative Mccormack of
Massachusetts, answered: Dear Sir,
I desire to acknowledge the receipt
of your recent letter and you may
rest assured that its contents will re-
ceive my consideration" Just that
and nothing more.
Sent Statement, Too.
On Feb. 9 the full statement the
delegation intended to make to con-
gress, together with its proposals for
unemployment insurance, was mailed
TO every senator and representative.
None of them answered.
On Feb. 10, the delegation went to
the capitol building and was refused
opportunity even to see Speaker
Longworth, to say nothing of being
hustled by throngs of detectives and
police, and menaced by machine
guns, pistols, clubs and poison gas.
But they left the copy Of the Work.
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
and their statement to congress.
On the same day, Speaker Long
worth answered by mail to Alfred
wagenknecht, chairman Of the dele
CATION. This is what Longworth's
letter said:
my Dear Sir: I have for ac-
knowledgement the petition you
left In my office this morning pro-
posing a workers unemployment
insurance bill. 1t shall be prop
erly referred. Very truly yours
tsigned) Nicholas Longwarth."
Nothing more.
"Iow does he mean 'referred?"
asked Wagenknecht. Referred to
the waste basket?"
1t is apparent that congress has no
intention of saving the lives Of any
Of the starving millions. 1t wants
all that money to kill them with in
the war towards which the ruling
class of the United States is driving
with full speed.
The jobless demonstrated all over
the country on Feb. 10 for their in
srrance bill. Now on Feb. IS, they
will be out In an international DEM
onstration, every city Of the capital
LIST world will see the masses in mo-
ton. demanding the right to eat, or
ganizing to fight wage-cuts, demand
ing immediate relief and insurance.