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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13
ELEVATION WILL OPEN

Operation of Trains on Bluff Road
Overhead to Start Thursday.
Operation of trains over the new
overhead crossing at Bluff road
south Of Meridian street is Sched-
uled to start Thursday, it has been
announced by M. N. Bebee, city
track elevation engineer.
Celebration Of the opening of the
crossing has been postponed by
residents in the vicinity until the
overhead bridge has been completed
entirely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13
Z ARE KILLED,
MANY INJURED
over WEEKEND
County Traffic Toll Raised
TO SO by Death of
Woman and Boy.

Marion countys traffic fatality
toll stood at lightweight today, with
addition of deaths Of woman and
a young boy this week lend from in
Juries suffered in automobile mis-
haps.
Mrs. Lena Mckinney. IS, Of 801
South Roena avenue, died Sunday
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Mr.. Fixit

Write your troubles to Mr.. Fixit. he
is The Times representative at the
city hall and will be glad to present
your case to the proper city officials.
Write him in care Of The Times,
signing your full name and address.
Name viii not be published.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13
Body Found in River

By Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 13-Au-
thorities are endeavoring to learn
the identity Of man about so years
old, whose body was removed from
the Wabash river here.
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Mr.. Fixit-Please help us get some
oil in the 400 block West Henry
street. We can not keep our doors
or windows open because OF the
dust. MRS. S.
This request already is on file in the
office of Street Commissioner w. Il.
Wlnship and will be complied with in
turn after previous complaints have been
remedied. he advised.
Mr.. Fixit--St. Clair street between
keystone avenue and Beville street
Is heavily cindered and every time
car passes or the wind blows from
the west, the dust is very bad. OIL
ing would improve the situation
wonderfully. MRS. j. c.. F.
Street Commissioner w. a. Winship
already has this street olIing request on
file and will attend to it as soon rs
conditions permit. he said.
Mr.. Fixt-Why hasn't the 400
block North Randolph street been
oiled this summer? 1t is so dusty
we have to keep the doors shut.
MRS. A. M. T.
Street Commissioner w. H. Winship
has promised to attend to this complaint
as soon as conditions will permit.
Mr.. Fixit-I wish to cal your at
tention to the condition of the rail-
road and traction crossing on West
Tenth street in Olinville.
City Engineer A. H. Moore advises the
railroad has promised to repair this
and several other crossings soon. How
ever, he said, the traction line has been
sold fsr junk by the receiver and prob
ably will be removed later and it Is i'm
possible to force the owner to make any
repairs at this time.
Mr.. FiXit-The lot Just south of
1911 North Drexel avenue is over
grown with weeds and contains
some unSightly trash. Also, on the
east side of Drexel avenue between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets is a
vacant lot where the bank has
caved in, almost covering the &C.
ment walk. There also is a bad
condition on the east side of DreXeI
avenue between Tenth and Eleventh
streets where weeds and bushes are
high, affording hiding place for
providers.
MIR. and MRS. w. S. G.
Investigation Of this complaint has
been promised by Street Commissioners
W. Fl. Winship.
Mr.. Fixit-Why Is water in Uni
versity park fountain turned of at
4 p. m? 1t is after dark that the
park is full Of tired people seeking
relief from torrid weather. The
park is not receiving proper care.
L. G. T.
This has been referred to the park
department for investigation. Operation
of the fountain until D. m. probably
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13

Street Cars Abolished
WABASH, Ind. July I3.-Bus
service viii replace street cars here
Aug. /.
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Quiz Injured

About the same time a motorist
picked up J. o. ONeal, Cincinnati,
with slight injuries, in front of the
cemetery. He said a car driven by
Clarke Terrier of Culver, crashed
into the rear Of his machine.
A telephone call to Culver re-
vealed that the car was driven by
Terriers son, and that Charles
Prayer of Culver was with him.
Both were injured, it was said, al
though neither appeared for treat
ment at local hospital.
Also injured in weekend acct
dents we're:
Carl Yoh. 81. zionsville. struck by hit
and-run motorist at Sixteenth and Me-
ridian streets Saturday night.
Miss Charlotte Wilson. 81. of s44 North
Capitol avenue, victim Of hit-and-run
motoTist in collision $500 block North
Meridian street Saturday night.
Mrs. Mollie Morris. Charlottesville cut on
head in collision Thirtieth and Meridian
streets Sunday.
Eldon Dynes. 1912 North Meridian
street. and Mrs. La Vergne Gallagher, 1915
North Talbot street. minor injuries in col
hsion on Charlottesville road Sunday.
Mrs. Grace Horger. 80. Of 731 South
East street, broken ankle and skull frac-
ture. collision English avenue and Pine
street.
Earl L. Kootz. Acton. and Miss Beulah
Potter. 90. OF $500 North Capitol avenue
IN interurban-suto collision at Thirty
eighth street and Keystone avenue Sa-
urday night
Albert Abraham. IS, soldier on furlough
from Washington. D. c.. walked into side
of car in 1000 block Madison avenue Sun
day night.
Joan Kopp. 4. OF 2e37 Macpherson
street. collar bone broken when struck
by car nfront OF home, Sunday night.
Miss Viola Rogers. g. OF S3i North
Capitol avenue. and Miss Della Athaway,
IT. Of 1924 North Chester avenue. in COL
Ision. Thirtieith and Dearborn streets;
Robert Patton, 1929 North Butler avenue.
charged with drunken driving.
E. s. Garrett. II. Of 474 South Meridian
street. struck by auto at Market and
Pennsylvania streets. Saturday night.
Doris Marie Farley. 3. OF 1914 Schoheld
avenue. hit by truck Sunday. In front of
home.
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in Methodist hospital
from injuries received
when struck by a car
car Saturday night.
Harry L. Green,
IA, Of Nora, sue
cunbed in city hos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13
Dorn eood-yoU'II say!

Everybody wants mild cigarette. And when
you find one that is milder and tastes better too
you've got smoke!
Chesterfelds are SO much milder that you
can smoke as many as you like. They're made
to smoke milder. And you know they taste better
the moment you light up They're made to do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-13

"A, Of Nora, sue
cumbed in city hos
pital Saturday to injuries incurred
when truck on which he was rid
ing overturned north Of the city
July 3.
Crossing Washington street at
Roena avenue Saturday night, Mrs.
mckinney turned in the middle and
started back, stepping into the path
OF an automobile driven by Mrs.
Lettie Vetas, 511 South La Clede
street. Mrs. Vetas was not held by
police.
Funeral services will be held at
the home at 2:30 Tuesday after
noon, with burial in Crown Hill
cemetery. Besides the husband.
George L. Mckinney, she is sur
vived by four children, Virgil, Mar
Gus, Ralph, and John Mckinney;
her mother Mrs. Tilley j. Wright,
and sisetr, Mrs. Ona Wilfong.
Cemetery Crash Mystery
Funeral for the Green youth will
be at 2 this afternoon, in Union
Chapel church. The parents, four
sisters, two brothers, and two
grandparents survive him.
Deputy sheriffs sought to fathom
obscure facts in an accident, or two
accidents near Memorial park
cemetery on the National road east
of the city early today, in which
at least five persons were injured.
Charles Howett, Los Angeles, and
Miss Peggy johnson, Cincinnati, in
city hospital with minor injuries,
told them their auto was struck in
the rear by another machine. How
EFT said James johnson was with
them, but he was not located. They
left for Cincinnati after treatment
at the hospital.
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MIR. and MRS. w. S. G.
Investigation of this complaint has
been promised by Street Commissioners
W. II. Winship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
COUNCIL AGAIN
WIN IN EVICTION

NEW YORK-The Downtown IN
employed Councils has added an
other eviction case victory to their
scores of victories. w. Siniuk of
169 West Al Street, a window cleaner,
unemployed for a year had his fur
niture put back with the aid of the
council when he was evicted yes
terday.
The workers in the section that
the council covers have seen the
repeated victories of the council,
through their organized might and
now the Downtown Unemployed
Council together with the East Side
Council are modifying the workers
for a demonstration, to be held
September 10 at 7 p. m. in the neigh
borhood of 7th Street and Avenue B.
The purpose of the demonstration is
to bring in the workers of this
neighborhood into the council, show
ing them from their successful evic-
ton fights what working class Or
ganization can do in getting imme-
date relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
SHOE WORKERS
MEET ON TUES.
Biedenkapp to Report
On Situation In Trade

On Tuesday September Is the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial I'm
ion calls mass meeting of al shoe
and slipper workers at Lorraine Hail.
100 Broadway, Brooklyn.
In the cal for the mass meeting
the Union points out the slavery
conditions in the industry-Wage
cuts ranging from 40 to 60 per cent,
long hours of work, starvation for
thousands of unemployed shoe work
ers, discharge discrimination and all
kinds of abuses.
An energetic organization drive is
now on the way. This mass meeting
will hear a report of the entire situ-
alton in the industry and measures
will be taken to intensity the strug-
giles against all the evils prevailing
in the shoe industry.
Also a report of the Philadelphia
shoe strike will be given by Lippa,
organizer of the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union of Phila-
delphia.
Comrade Biedenkapp will ad-
dress the meeting and report about
the general situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
JERSEY WORKERS
TO AID MINERS
Will Rally For Tag
Days In 3 Cities

NEWARK. N. j., Sept. 13.-After
holding successful tag days in Eliz-
abeth and Perth Arnboy, the Penn
sylvania- Ohio Miners Relief Com
mittee Of New Jersey is arranging a
tag day in Linden, Roselle and Ro-
selle Park on Saturday September 1s,
Permits have been obtained for all
cities which lay together.
A large force of workers will be
needed to cover these three cities at
the same time. The Pennsylvania
Ohio Relief Committee calls upon all
workers from fraternal organizations,
union and sick and death benefit
societies to participate in the collec-
ton of funds for the striking miners
and their families.
All workers are to report at the tag
day stations. 612 iegler Ave, Linden,
Saturday morning.
Workers from Newark will get
transportation by truck and cars
from 80 Ferry St, in Elizabeth from
106 E. Jersey ST., from Perth Amboy
at 3o8 Elm ST., and New Brunswick
at II Plum st. ........
The Pennsylvania Ohio MinePS
Relief Committee of New Jersey has
applied for a permit to hold tag
day in Carteret Saturday September
26.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
HOLD SECOND
SCOTTSBORO
CONFER. IN N Y
Send Greetings to 9
Boys, Tom Mooney,
Harlan Miners

NEW YORK.-The second United
Front Scottsboro Defense Conference
to be held in this city convened yes
terday at the Finnish Workers Hall
with Negro and white delegates pre-
sent from 10 workers organizations,
such as trade unions, lodges, the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
the International Labor Defense, the
Communist Party, etc.
The conference adopted resolutions
endorsing the vigorous mass defense
policy of the LID, and sent mes
sages Of solidarity to the nine Scots
boro boys, to Tom Mooney, to the
Harlan mine strikers on trial on a
framed-up murder charge and to
August Yoknen, now on Ellis Island
facing deportation for his defense of
the Negro masses. The conference
also endorsed the Communist cleo
ton campaign and elected dele
cation of to attend the Ratification
Congress of the Communist Party on
Sept. 10.
The Conference while marked with
the greatest enthusiasm by the dele
gates present plainly showed dan
gerous shortcomings arising out of
the failure of the committee in
charge to properly prepare the con-
ference and to send out publicity tc
the working class press. AS a result
the number of organizations repre-
sented by delegates was much small
Ter than in the first conference held
some months ago 1t was also evil
dent that since the first conference
very little work has been done in the
building of block and neighborhood
defense committees in this district
In an effort to overcome these short
comings, the Conference voted tt
prepare an enlarged United Front
Scottsboro Defense Conference for
october 5, and to tie up the Scots
boro campaign with the defense
campaigns for the Harlan miners
Tom Mooney and other politica
prisoners.
A number Of workers were added
to the United Front Scottsboro De-
Tense Committee and the Committee
instructed to work out plans for the
visiting of organizations to spread
the united front and secure delegates
for the october conference. Ir
this respect, not enough emphasis
was given to the building of block
and neighborhood committees anc
the establishing of the united front
from below.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Worker Delegates
Protest Robbery
By Electric Trust

At a so-called public hearing on
the increased electric light and gas
rates held yesterday, Friday, Sep
TENDER II, at 80 Center ST., the edele-
cation represent the Communist
Party, the Tenants League and the
Unemployed Councils was forced to
listen to legalistic argument as to
why the electric light rates should
not be reduced. The cowardly atti-
tude of the lawyer who was spokes-
man for the Washington Heights
Taxpayers Association, bosses out
fit, was revealed when the chair
man, Commissioner Maltbie Of the
Public Service Commission asked him
what he meant by discrimination
against the small consumer" He at
tempted the impossible when he
tried to speak against the small con-
sumner" He attempted the impossible
when he tried to speak both for the
poor" as he called them in WASH
ington Heights, which everyone
knows is a petty bourgeois neigh
borhood, and the robber Edison Co.,
finch, with the Gas Co., is jointly
plundering the workers. The mini
mum rate of 81 a month for gas and
electricity is the latest steal of the
robber utility trust.
The whole proceeding was carried
on under star chamber methods, I'M
til Comrade Harriet Silverman,
spokesman for the Communist Party,
New York District, demanded that
the workers should be heard instead
of the legalistic arguments of the
favored few in Washington Heights.
Pointing out that the delegation was
present not to plead with the utility
robbers of the electric light and gas
corporation, which plundered the
workers of New York last year to the
extent of $7l,000,000 profits for the
Edison Company, an increase of six
million dollars over 1929, while the
Gass Co. got away with 1921, 100000,
but to emphatically protest against
the further robbing Of the workers of
New York, 100000 of whom are job
less, while 100000 heads of families
have no means of livelihood, and
children are dying of starvation, and
to demand that the voice of these
workers be heard. Only few work
ers were present, among them a wo-
man from the Bronx who has re-
fused to pay her electric bill for two
months because of the increased
charges, and has refused to allow
the meterman in as he would shut
off the gas. This tactic should be
followed by all workers. This wo-
man protested vigorously to the
workers delegation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
WORKERS SCHOOL
OFFERS ENGLISH

NEW YORK.-Among the many
improvements of the Workers School
this fall term is the reorganization of
the English Department. The de-
partment has been so recognized as
to allow opportunities for the study
Of the English language to all grades
Of students from very beginners to
advanced students.
There are nine grades in the fol-
lowing manner: Elementary English
in grades A, B, and G; intermediate
English, A, B, and c; Advanced Eng
lish, A, B, and c. the following sub
jects are taught: Reading, writing,
oral English conversation, spelling,
vocabulary, grammar, phonics, pub
lie speaking, etc. All the material
used is of the greatest interest to the
revolutionary workers, consideration
being given to the proletarian ide-
ology of the students as we'll as to the
educational value of the subject mat
ter.
Besides group instruction, great
deal Of individual attention will be
given in order to advance those stu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Garlin to Speak On
Soviet Union Monday

The day-today life of the workers
in the Soviet Union will be described
by Sender Garlin, cn-editor of the
Labor Defender, when he speaks on
What I Saw in the USSR" at the
Labor Temple, 18th st. and Second
Ave, this Monday evening, Sept. IA,
at 8 o'clock. The meeting is being
arranged by the Friends of the So
Wet Union, and precedes a nation
wide tour which Garlin will make for
The Labor Defender.
Latest photos of the Five Year
Plan, collectivization, cities and
villages and Soviet institutions-pro-
jected on a screen-will be used to
illustrate the talk. The speaker has
just returned from an extensive tour
of the Soviet Union where he spoke
in numerous cities, describing the
frame-up of the Scottsboro boys.
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kcoNrINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

teS represents the I. w. w member
ship at its height last spring. Since
then, the most militant miners have
turned in their I. w. w. cards and
are active in the N. M. U.
Jesse Wakefield. organizer Of the
International Labor Defense, was
taken out Of the field yesterday
under instruction. from the I. L. D.,
since the mine operators had planned
to remove her and Arnold johnson,
Civil Liberties representative, to jails
in separate hackwoods counties out
Of touch with the miners and where
they could be easily lynched by the
tools Of the operators. Jesse Wake
field and johnson were released on
the understanding that they leave
Harlan County. Jesse Wakefield
was to have been sent 27 miles from
the railroad, with the only transpor-
tation over a mountain trail and
with no mail service. This plan Of
isolating Wakefield and Johnson is
rumored to have been suggested by
Governor Sampson during his visit
to Harlan last week. The I. L. D.
agreed that she should be with
drawn from the field, and has
selected other organizers to take her
place. The I. L. D. will continue its
vigorous efforts for the defense of
the Negro and white striking miners
facing the death sentence on framed
lip charges.
Nine of the defendants have been
transferred to Winchester, Clark
County, and are to be put on trial
tomorrow on three counts Of murder.
-Four of the nine are Negroes: Henry
Oliver, E. Philips, Ganzie Banks and
Andrew Hinch. The five white work
ers are: Ebert Shadrick, Chester
Poore, Will Hudson, Roscoe Cameron
and Pies Thomas. A postponement
until December is expected. The 1.
L. D. attorneys in the case are Gold
man of N. Y. and Reynolds of Mt.
Sterling, Kentucky.
The King Harlan Coal Company is
offering jobless miners any job in the
mine in exchange for perjury testi-
r1ony which would help to justify the
death sentences the bosses plan
against these militant workers.
The terror is spreading into the
entire Kentucky coal field. The
Belle County Kiwanis Club of Pine
vile. after hearing a speech on the
growth Of the N. M. U. by Straight
creek coal operator, was told by the
Solicitor that any miner even sus-
pected of possession of copy of the
Southern Worker, the Daily Worker
or N. NJ. U. literature would be
thrown into Jail under a peace bond.
Al cases charging banding and con-
decorating have been thrown out, but
arrests continue with scores of mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
N. Y. Committee for
Protection of Foreign
Born Meets Wednesday

NEW YORK.-The secretary of the
New York City Committee for the
Protection of the Foreign Born stated
last night that the entire committee,
consisting of rs affiliated organiza-
tons, and other working class bo-
dies, will be called to an extra meet
ing on Wednesday, September 16, 8
p. M, at the Manhattan Lyceum. Sc
East 4th Street.
This meeting will discuss plans for
an intensified campaign for affilia-
ton of new organizations to the New
York Committee. All those who have
tickets from the excursion of Sep
TENDER 9Th should be ready to re-
turn tickets or money at this
meeting.
Every workers organization, if they
are affiliated or not, are asked to
send representatives to this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

tant miners picked up on the slight
est pretense.
The families of the men in Jail are
suffering great privation. Several
are down with sickness arising out
Of starvation. Vincent Billottis' wife
was down with flu and new has
typhoid.
NEW YORK. - Preparations are
being rushed in many districts for
nationwide demonstrations for the
defense of the Harlan mine strikers,
and for the demand for amnesty for
Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro Negro
boys and all class-war prisoners. The
following cities have announced de-
monStrations for the following dates:
New York City, Sept. %; Min
neapolis, Sept. %; st. Paul, MINI,
Sept. %; Superior, Wis, Sept. d;
Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 81; Bemidji,
Mimi, Sept. 81; Chishold, Mimi,
Sept. %; Ely, Mimi, Sept. %; Mar
quette, Mich, Sept. %; Hancock,
Mich, Sept. %; Detroit, Mich, Sep
TENDER 80.
United Front Harlan-Mooney con-
ferences, drawing in Scottsboro, will
be held in the Minnesota district on
October 80, in Philadelphia october
9, in New York on October II. In
addition to a series of preliminary
demonstrations in New York on Sep
TENDER % there will be a demon
stration on Union Square on Oct. 8.
The LID points out that "only
mass protests will save the "a Ken
lucky miners and the Scottsboro
boys from the electric chair and Tom
Mooney from a living death in st.
Quentin"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
DONALD BRIAN IN THE MERRY
WIDOW"

Donald Brian has one more week
in Lehar's THE Merry Widow" at
changers Theatre, and will give
way, on Monday, September 81, to
the Oscar Strauss operetta, THE
Chocolate Soldier" in which Charles
Purcell will be featured. Vivian
Segal has been signed by the Civic
Light Opera Company for its revival
of 1.-THE Chocolate Soldier" Others
in the cast will include Roy Chopper,
Hal Forde, Vivian Hart, Detmar Pop
pin and Ann Carey.
Mae Vests new melodrama, THE
Constant Sinner" will open this eve
ming at the Royale Theatre. The
play is based on Miss Vests novel of
the same name.
Waterloo Bridge" screen version
of Robert E. Sherwood's drama of the
same name, is now showing at the
Cameo Theatre with Mae Clark in
the leading role.