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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

rights, and for the freeing of Tom
Mooney, completely ignoring the I'M
foreground sabotage the Socialist
Party is carrying on at the same time
The crowd was so listless that at
one time Mr.. Thomas had to say:
IF you are going to applaud, do it
more heartily, so I'll know you are
not asleep.
And now, Comrade Editor, 1 wish
to say L am a small shopkeeper, a
reader of the Daily Worker and
other Communist literature, and also
of the Socialist press. l heard Com
rade Foster-Ford and Amter speak
but after listening to Waldman and
Thomas, who offered no program of
organization and action, I am con-
weed that my vote shall go to the
Communist Party.
It is time that we shall shopkeep-
ers. who are daily becoming pauper-
lied. and thrown out into the ranks
of the unemployed, realized that our
interests are with the workers and
poor farmers, and the Communist
Party alone represents those inter-
estS. IS, II,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

stating their own, very similar poll
cies. In mentioning the loss of the
workers savings, Roosevelt very care
fully failed to mention the Bank of
U. s. and other banks which crashed
under his administration in New
York, and with his banking depart
ment very much implicated in the
guilt for the loss of the workers
savings.
With all factions of Tammany
present to give support, Roosevelt
took care not to mention the Tam
many injunctions, and wage cut pro-
posals. When he spoke Of hunger,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS
MEET

The New York Worker Correspond
ence Group, group Of workers and
intellectuals interested in the devel-
opment of both worker correspond
ence and newspaper reporting will
meet Monday, November 7, at 8
o'clack, at the P. g.. H. headquarters,
ia West 21st Street. At this meet
ing short talks will be given on vari-
Gus aspects of worker correspondence,
besides making regular reports and
assignments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

are engaged in heroic fights in Eng
land, Japan, Belgium and other coun-
tries.
The workers and peasants of the
Soviet Union and of the whole world
regard you with pride. New victories
await you. Raise higher your banner
the Lenin banner Of the proletarian
world revolution Workers of the
world unite Defend the Soviet I'm
ion, the Chinese Soyiets, the oppressed
colonial peoplesl Rally to victory in
the new world Novemberl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

for the millions
Of jobless, the
ruined farmers,
and the worker
who saved for
a rainy day
and lost hi S
savings.
Roosevelt and
Smith made a
SIdSIll1lS dIOdCh
on the Repub-
lean policies,
but vol e d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
PROTEST LYNCH yERpICTs

ROCK ISLAND, Ill.-Negro and
white workers in a meeting here una
nimously adopted a resolution Of pro-
test against the Scottsboro lynch YER
diets, sentencing seven innocent Ne
gro youths to burn in the electric
chair and holding two others in jail
for new trials"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
ONO STUDENTS HEAR FORD

ELYRIA, Ohio-Jamss w. Ford,
Communist candidate for Vice. Presi-
dent, spoke in the afternoon of Nov.
2nd before a large and interested
audience in Stewards Hall Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio. under the aus
pieces of the Students Liberal Club A
mixed audience of Negroes, Japanese,
students faculty and outside listeners
attended,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
ROOSEVELT HOPE
IN HOOVER EVILS
Silent on His Own
Similar Program

NEW YORK Roosevelt and Al
Smith spoke in Madison Square Gar
den Saturday night, carefully avoid
ing much mention Of their own pro-
gram, and seeking to capitalize on
the notorious failure Of the Repub-
lican administration to do anything
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

Roosevelt never once brought up the
matter Of his own state police club
bing the hunger marchers at albany.
Both speeches were an appeal for
"The protest vote" and steefed clear
of nearly everything but denuncia-
ton, easy to make, of the 7epub-
licans. si
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

Build q workers correspondence
group In your factory, shop or
neighborho0d. Send regular letters
to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
Final Appeal By Worcors
for Huge Communist Vote
Vote Capitalist and Vote
the Shoes Off Your Feet,
Says Southern Negro


accomplish the working accomplish
make this 1882 election history the working The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
Steel Companies
Press Workers to
Vote for Hoover

STEUBBENVILLE, O.--The steel
magnates of the Wheeling Steel and
Weirton Steel are for Hoover. In
the Wheeling Steel Co. the bosses are
calling the workers into the Office
and threatening them that they will
be discharged unless they vote for
Hoover. The same is happening in
the Weirton Steel Co. Any worker
who expresses himself in favor of the
Communist candidates are being dis
charged whenever the conversation
is overheard by the stools Of the bos-
Ses.
The workers here are working only
one or two days week for very low
wages and the exploitation is some
thing horrible. Roosevelt in his
speech here did not mention social
insurance or immediate relief for
the unemployed. This shows that
neither Hoover nor Roosevelt cares
anything about the workers.
EDITORS NOTES.-The workers
should again be warned that no
amount of intimidation should
force them to vote for anyone but
the Communists. A worker can
not lose his job for voting contrary
to his employers wishes, for the
secret ballot makes it impossible
for the employer to know the work
er'S vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
DROUGHT, FREEZES
SLASH WHEAT CROP

Unofficial sources today indicated
the Kansas crop would be even
smaller.
Observation" said three in
vestigators of Kansas State college,
showed prospects have been re-
duced even since the official
estimates.
1t substantially was the same
story in Missouri, Oklahoma,
Nebraska and Iowa. Everywhere,
moisture was needed badly. Texas
prospects we're for sharply reduced
crops. Estimates of damage ranged
up to so per cent.
Crop abandonment was expected
to be three to four times greater
than last year.
1t is the sort of reduction which
the federal farm board urged in
vain last fall.
What the board could not do with
pleadings and warnings, unfavorable
weather has accomplished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14

in respectable neighborhood, the
job was pinned on the Puppies.
1t was the last butchery that
startled Detroit. The Puppies
we're hated as much by the under
world as by the police. Every
body had tried to smash the or
ganization, and it seemed that the
three-way killing would lead to
its destruction.
"ATIGGER JOE" LEBOVITz,
4 lizzie Sutker and Hymie
Paul we're shot to death on the
night of Sept. 16. They had been
holding a conference with four or
five other hoodlums when sudden
ly the others decided to let guns
do their arguing.
AS touch of in1pudence, the
gangsters left alive one of the
friends of the three victims, Solly
Levine. It was a gesture of SUI
preme contempt for law and I'M
derworld combined, an amazing
violation of the age-old code of
gangdom.
Levine turned informer. Three
OF the slayerS were imprisoned,
and Solly Levine took it on the
lam"
But Harry Fleisher, shrewdest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
STEVE HEARING SET
Action Against Warden to
Be Called on April rs.
By United Press

By United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, April IA. -
Hearing of D. c. StephenSon's action
to restrain Warden Walter DAILY of
Indiana state prison from listening
in" on Stephenson's conversations
with counsel will begin in Porter
superior court April IS, it was an
nounced by Judge Mark Rockwell.
Judge Rockwell set the trial date
after telephone conversation with
Deputy Acknowledgement Taylor in
indianapolis. The date is the open
ing day of the April term of court.
Stephenson, former dragon of the
Ku-Klux Khan, serving life term
following conviction on a murder
charge, also charges in his suit that
DAILY is holding documents which
hamper Stephenson's battle for
liberty. He asks that these be sub
mitted to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
FUND DRIVE PLANNED
Million to Be Sought to
House Bible School.

A nation wide campaign to raise
ST, 100000 to house the Indianapolis
Bible Institute will be started with
in sixty days, it was announced at
the annual dinner of the 1882 grad
uation class Wednesday night in the
University Park Christian church.
At the same time it was an
nounced by P. E. Smith, president,
that the institute, which in the past
mas conducted only night classes in
instruction of Sunday school teach
erS, will start a day program with
opening of the fall semester.
The fund campaign will be car
ried on through sale of bricks for
the building at 81 each.
Members of the graduating class
were G. c. Crooks, William Mar
shall, Mrs. Mary Hatton, Miss Ethel
Jay, Mrs. Zeneth Mcdonald and
Mrs. Maude I, Steel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14

referred to the boys as ''off COL
or" and from this the name Pur-
pie was evolved.
There are other and more dra-
matte versions. One of them is
that the members Of the gang all
wear bright colored neckties and
always travel with women who
are dressed to the height of fash
ion, the fashion of their over
dressed world. They take a pc
culiar pride in having the best
dressed ''molls" in town.
Police say that from his child
hood, Fleisher was one of the
toughest members of a mob that
was nurtured in greed and resent
ment. 1t was a gang that was
held together by the desire for
easy riches, automobiles, women.
With their loot, they splashed
the royal purple upon their
''molls" and upon themselves.
They dressed with lavish foppish-
ness. They carried big bank rolls
and big guns.
TN the fifteen years since the
Il purple finger was put upon De-
troit, many of the mobsters have
become rich.
But inevitably when members Of
the gang are sent to prison. they
were found to be broke. Millions
of diverted dollars passed through
their hands, most of it quickly.
But as rapidly as members of
this mob would be imprisoned or
killed, recruits would appear in
their places.
Gangsters came from other
cities as endorsements. Bellhops
were corrupted by the show of
wealth.
School boys followed their deeds
with fascination.
The ranks depleted by death or
capture found willing replace
mentS.
Now new finger has been
pointed at the mob, and new
search started for FleiSher. It
may prove to be the last chapter
in the gangs vicious history.
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ditures probably will amount to
more than $10,O00,0O0 month if
the present rate Of acceleration con-
tinues.
This is one more reason why the
taxpayers are now pouring out a
billion dollars year for veterans
relief, now the most expensive
branch of the federal government.
An indication of the enormous
amount of administrative work III
connection with this pension is the
number of additional employees
taken on by the veterans admins
tration to handle it,
Shortly after the law was passed,
the flood of applications became so
great that 1079 temporary clerks
had to be added, together with the
partial services of 1000 examining
pension surgeons.
Many of those were laid off after
the rush was over, but disability al
lowance has added enormously to
the management problems of the
veterans administration, with a COR
responding addition to expenses.
Rate of increase in this benefit is
best Illustrated by the fact that in
January, 1881, there were 81, 342 men
receiving total of $2,859, 702.54, and
in January. 1882, these had in
creased to 340,294 men and $6,227,-
907.39.
Win Their Cases
Nor has the past generosity of
congress served to prevent the pas
sage of numerous special acts IA
voring specific individuals, ex-sol-
diers and dependents of all wars,
who otherwise would not be able to
get any money at all from the gov
eminent.
About $4,000 persons have had
their names and cases placed before
the legislators and gotten favorable
action since 1927. 1t would be inn
possible to go into these special
cases in detail, but in seventeen of
them, congress reversed the decision
OF military authorities during the
war, and presented these veterans
with honorable discharges.
In other cases, veterans were re-
imbursed by special acts for sums
as low as $50, which they claimed
the government owed them. Other
special acts provided specific bene-
fits after the veterans administers
ton had decided the cases had no
merit.
Nurse Gets Merited Aid
Diligent search uncovered only
one case in which the veterans
administration itself had felt it
necessary to recommend special
legislation. This was to iron out
the difficulties of an army nurse.
She had taken out her first cit-
izenship papers and then gone
overseas, making it impossible for
her to complete her naturalization.
Due to exposure, she contracted
tuberculosis and became destitute,
but because she was not a citizen
she was not entitled to veteran
benefits.
Her case obviously was merf.
torious; the veterans administers
ton had her cared for by special
legislation.
Ito Be COntinued)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
HEROES OF TITANIC
DISASTER HONORED

Monuments honoring those who
persisted will be decorated with
flowers at the Seamen's Church In
stitute here, in Potomac park,
Washington, D. c., and in South
ampton, England. The New York
service will center around the IT,
tanic memorial lighthouse tower, a
beacon visible ten miles at sea.
Vessels of the international ice
patrol, established in northern wa
tiers as a direct consequence Of the
tragedy, will salute the memory Of
the dead.
Loss Of life in the Titanic tragedy
exceeded that in the Lusitania and
Eastland disasters. When the Lusi-
tania was torpedoed by German
submarine in 1915, 1913 lives were
lost. The Eastland sank at its pier
in Chicago in 1915 with, 612 casual
J ties. e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
BY DIR. LEE DE FOREST
Radin Engineer and Inventor

(Copyright. 1882. by Science Seryice)
HOLLYWOOD, CAL, April III
believe the next great invention Cor
group, for several inventions are re-
quired to solve the problem) will be
practical television, first in the the
alter, then in the home, by wire and
radio.
But this is not, in my opinion,
what the world needs most. The
urgent need Of mankind is for I'M
limited sources of power, at costs
so low as to .revolutionize our
method and conditions of working
and living.
Such power lies a few miles be-
meath our feet. The next genera
ton will see man delving and boring,
not for fuel, coal, oil, nor mineral
wealth, but to tap the linitleSs
fountains of heat, by some durable
means which will permit us to send
down water and get back high tenn
perature steam, or some equivalent
energy absorbing and emitting me-
dunn.
Then electric power will be at our
doors for heating, for cooling our
houses, for purifying our air, pro-
polling our vehicles (supposing suit
able storage batteries), doing all
manual work in factory, farm, and
home, speeding an enormously in
creasing vegetable and crop growth,
Illuminating homes, streets and all
country roadways with light like
that of day.
knowledge is power" the sage
has said; but power will bring
knowledge and leisure to acquire it,
and the inmeasurable blessings
which follow in its train.
Next-Elihu Thomson, electrical
pioneer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
BY WILLIAM b. DICKINSON JR
limited Press stan Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April IA
Drought, high winds and late
winter freezes have combined te
slash the wheat crop of the south
west in half.
Official government reports last
week indicated draStically reduced
Yields in every state. Further
damage since then has cut esti-
mates even more deeply, survey
showed today.
AS each day passes without rain
the survey indicated, thousands of
bushels are cut from potential pro-
duction, as wheat, held back by a
bad winter, is blown from loose
dry ground by the wind.
Kansas is suffering most intense
damage. The recent government
report placed the expected kansas
yield at eS SOC, 900 bushels, COM
pared with 100000 bushels a year
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
State Calls on Surprise
Witness in Honor
Murder Case.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Copyright, 1882. by United Press
HONOLULU, April lathe moth
er of Hawaiian honor murder"
victim was summoned to old King
Kamehameha's courthouse as a wit
ness today as prosecutors marshaled
final evidence against four Amer
lean defendants.
With a crushing array of facts al
ready before melting pot' Jury
of whites and browns, Prosecutor
John Kelley tempted an anti-cI-
max by calling small, neatly dressed
Mrs Joe Kahahawai Sr. as his last
witness.
Bitter opposition was expected
from Clarence Darrow, patriarchal
defense chief, in contrast to his
past nonclalance as he waved aside
one territorial witness after an
other. Darrow has expressed him
self against allowing the slain
youths mother to appear.
Mrs. Kahahawai, whose husband
stolidly has chewed gum during the
trial, broke down Wednesday when
witnesses told how fatal bullet
was extracted from her sons
body.
Avoids Mrs. Massie Mention
The bullet, Kelley charged, was
fired with premediated anger by
one of the accused four-Mrs. Gran
vile Roland Fortescue, her
navy officer son-in-law, Lieutenant
Thomas H. Mashsie, and Seaman
Albert Q. Jones and Edward j.
Lord.
The closing hours of Kelley's case
were spent dealing blows at possible
defense Stratagems. He avoided
mention OF an attack on young Mrs.
Thalia Fortescue Massie, the lieu
tenants wife, in which Joe Haha-
hawai- was suspect
A trail of bullets, pistols and
strands of purple rope was out
lined before the jury by Kelley as
evidence the defendants planned to
avenge the attack on Mrs. Massie.
Witnesses identified a little pearl
handled revolver found in Mrs.
ForteScue'S kitchen after the shoot
ing last January, along with bullets
matching the one that killed Kaha-
hawai-. Vasca Rosa, hardware clerk,
sold Mrs. ForteScue the gun and
said another and larger weapon was
bought by Jones ten days before the
native met death.
Identify Bullets
A box of shells which witnesses
said were found in Jones seabag,
were introduced with testimony they
were similar to the fatal bullet.
Cornelius Gibbs said a piece of
rope found around Kahhawai's neck
and a similar piece located in the
Fortescue home were obtainable
only at Pearl Harbor navy yard.
Tochi Adachi, 16-year-old Japa-
neSe maid, testified Mrs. Fortescue
surprised her with days vacation
the morning of the Staying. She
smiled at the society woman as she
spoke and received a stolid stare in
return.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Legislation Gives Allowances for Maladies
Not Connected With Actual
Service Overseas.
BURDEN is HEAVY ON TAXPAYERS
Number of Pensioners Grows Rapidly;
Congress Swings Away From Original
Theory of Compensation
BY TALCOTT POWELL

Congress has veered completely away from the original
wartime theory that only veterans damaged by their World
experience should receive public funds for their sup
port
This departure represented by legislation passed July
1880 had the taxpayers up to the end
of February 1882 The expense is mounting by third of
a million each month
This law has misleading title It is called the disability
allowance act To the casual observer it would to be
connected with disability compensation, which is granted
only to veterans with service-connected maIadies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
POISON LIQUOR is
TAKEN BY THIEVES

alcohol and whisky taken in dry
raids in Rochester and Lake
Manitou in the last eighteen
months, which was to have been
used as evidence in liquor trials.
The liquor was treated with
bichlorite of mercury at the time
it was conhscated, authorities said
If consumed, death to the drinker
would follow within two or three
weeks, according to physicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Detective Plays 'JeweIer
Out for Good Time
and Pulls Coup.
BIZ United Press

By UHttcd Press
NEW YORK, April Joseph
RothStein, a jeweler from Seattle,
Wash, on Broadway for a good
time" turned out to be policeman
Abe Gralla, unasSuming member of
the bureau of investigations, so to-
day 100000 worth of stolen jewels,
two women and three men were in
the hands of police here.
Gralla, picking up the case on in
formation gathered by other New
York detectives who had posed as
hotel bell boys, elevator opera .ors
and doormen, Wednesday captured
the women, leading to the recovery
OF the jewels and the arrest of three
men.
Cops Turn Bellhops
The prisoners, all of whom are
charged with assault and robbery,
are Helen Smith, 26, and Ruby
Golet, A.; Samuel Ippolito, 26, and
Anthony and Joseph Indelicato
brothers, aged 81 and 80 respectively.
The arrests were the elimination
of months of work, following the
robbery of the Harry Glemby home
here last January, in which the
Jewels were rifled from a wall safe
Detective Sergeant John Brennan
and Detectives Fitzgerald, Dryer
Casey, Phillips, Mcclure and Har-
nett for at least three weeks served
as employees in a New York hotel.
For another and shorter period, they
posed as employees in hotel up
state.
Detective Sergeant Brennan was
night manager. The others were
bellhops, elevator operators and
doormen.
When the time was ripe, Gralla
was called upon to play his part.
GraIIa "Playboy JeweIer"
Gralla registered as Joseph
Rothstein of Seattle" Rothsteir
was in New York for a good time
but not averse to mixing business
with pleasure. He met Miss Smith
good-Iooking young woman glad
to help him enjoy New York.
RothStein and Miss Smith did the
night clubs and "hot spots" The
Seattle jeweler seemed a godseno
to a group burdened with more
than 100000 worth of jewelry.
The matter of blending business
with pleasure was suggested tc
Rothstein, and the jewelry was
shown to him. He said he agreed
to pay $4,000 for it.
Wednesday he met Miss Smith and
Miss Golet in a taxicab off Broad
way. Each held a brown paper bag.
The three started off, when horde
of ex-bell hops, ex-elevator starters
and ex-doormen descended.
The paper bags and two women
were taken to headquarters. One
bag contained the jewelry, the other,
cheap cups and saucers. 1t was
thought the women intended to
double-cross the Seattle jeweler by
switching bags after he paid the
money.
Police rounded up the three men
who had been observed previously
as accomplices in the robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
MANUAL AWARDED FLAG
Pupils Essay in d. A. r. Contest
Wins Honor for School.

Manual Training high school to-
day received an American flag in
recognition Of the prize winning es-
say of Clara Alice, a senior in the
recent contest sponsored by the
Caroline Scott Harrison chapter.
D. A. r.
The flag was presented at a spe-
cial school session by Ollie A. Davis,
state adjutant of the American
Legion. Mrs. Maurice Tenant, re-
gent Of the chapter, also spoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14

By United Press
ROCHESTER, Ind, April IA
The persons who stole a huge
quantity of conf1scated liquor from
a vault in the basement of the city
hall are in danger of death if they
drink the liquid, authorities dis
closed today.
The robbery took place Sunday,
but was not revealed until today.
Included in the loot was beer,