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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
CHINESE WINS
FIGHT TO ELUDE
ELECTRIC CHAIR
Man Who Offered Life in
Scientific Experiment
Wins CIemency.

BIZ Unifcd Press
SANTA FE, N. M, March "a
Woo Oak San, diminutive Chinese.
has won fiye-year fight to escape
the electric chair.
The death sentence of the aged
Woo, who gained national promi-
hence when he volunteered TO un-
dergo NEGOTIATIONS of trachoma
germs to escape death at the hands
Of the state, was committed by
Governor Arthur Seligman.
Woo was convicted of Staying a
Silver City storekeeper.
Numerous appeals to escape the
electric chair we're fruftless, and the
Governors action was his last hope.
He was disappointed greatly
when he was not permitted to be
inoculated with the trachoma
germs.
He said that he would die will
ingly If the incubation proved IA
tai, but that he rather would un-
dergo the treatment than walk to
the electric chair.
Trachoma is disease that af-
fects the eyes, and scientists at the
time we're reported seeking a sub
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

Murat Shrine, and Nettie Ransford
chapter. No. AGA, o. E. S.
Mrs. Seth Klein, 43, of 5722 Car
rolIton avenue. wife Of Seth Klein,
Indianapolis business man, died
Thursday In st. Vincent's hospital.
She had been i'll three months, and
recently underwent an operation.
Funeral services will be held at
1 Sunday in the j. c. Wilson funeral
home, 1880 Prospect street. Burial
will be in Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Surviving are the husband ana
two children, Seth Jr. and Virginia.
Mrs. Mary c. Wolforth, "a, who
had lived all her life in Indiana.
died suddenly Thursday at her
home, 3347 East Michigan street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Ernest BOYD. r. r. 2. BOX $50. Ford
roadster. from in front of Grandy's hard
ware store. Speedway City.
SWitzer Cummings Company. llzo MaSsa-
chuetts avenue Oakland sedan, from 3o21
Ruckle street.
Richard Z. Wilson. 73s MOTH fremont
avenue Chevrolet coupe. 123-095 from 7ss
North fremont avenue.
Nirarn Forman, 234s North Pennsyl-
vania street. Buick coach, i24-745, from
234s North Pennsylvania street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

funeral home. 1888 North Meridian
street. Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery. Calvin w. Prather lodge,
No. TIT, F. g. A. M, of which he
was a member. will have charge of
services at both the funeral and
burial, under direction of George H.
Drechsel Jr., worshipful master, and
assisted by the Rev. Thomas r..
White, chaplain.
Born in Seymour. Mr.. Mann came
to indianapolis when boy. He
was in the typewriter business here
thirty-five years. For the last ten
years, he was connected with the
Typewriter Service Company, which
he organized.
He was a member of Scottish Rite,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
PLEADS FOR IDEALISM
Indiana Central Professor RapS
Trend to Materialism.

Idealism must replace the present
spirit of materialism or America
may go the way of certain other
great nations of history" Professor
]. j. Haramy of Indiana Central
college said in an address Thursday
night at the Capitol Avenue M. E.
church.
THE uniformed masses of Europe
and ASIA" he said, still look upon
the United States as the land OF
liberty and opportunity, but the
country can not maintain its pres
ent position unless we give the rest
of the world reason to look upon
us as a people of idealism."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
KHAKI FOR UNEMPLOYED
Relief Agencies May Buy Army
Supplies from Government.

Applications for purchase of new
army supplies, including mems
clothing, can be obtained by any
recognized relief organization from
Louis r. Markun, 3646 East Fall
Creek boulevard, former state rep
resentative, has announced. He re-
Gently interviewed war department
officials in Washington with a let
ter of introduction from Governor
Harry CT. Leslie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

Jet willing to be inoculated so they
could watch the progress of the
disease and possibly find remedy
Another occupant Of death row
also had his sentence committed to
life imprisonment Thursday. He
was Rafael Hernandez. convicted of
the murder Of deputy sheriff in
Hidalgo county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
BACK HOME AGAIN

stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong to-
owen Knox, 81 South Ninth. street,
Beech Grove, Ind, Dodge coupe, found at
Reona and Washington streets
car sedan, found at Noble and Lockerble
streets. -
Hupmobile touring. 766-35s 1881, found
at 72l East street, Clair street.
Chrysler sedan, 1918 found at Penn
sylvania and Twenty fourth streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
oUAKES TO BE STUDIED
Harvard Plans to Subject Rock to
Pressure, Temperature.
limited Pres,


CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 49,
Harvard university will study the
causes of earthquakes by subjecting
rock formations to the exceedingly
high pressures and high tempera-
lures that affect them in the earth's
interior.
The new research, by which it is
hoped to remove most of the guess
work from the science of seis-
mology, will be made possible
through a 100000 fund, half Of
which will be furnished by the
Rockefeller foundation and the re-
mainder by individuals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
HALT PLOT ON PREMIER

By United Press
LONDON. March 18.-Discovery
of an extremist plot to throw ]. T.
Lang, premier of New South Wales,
into sydney harbor when the new
sydney bridge is opened formally
Saturday, was revealed today by A.
c. Willis, agent-general for New
South Wales here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
MANN FUNERAL
SET SATURDAY
Services at Mortuary for
City Business Man.

Funeral services for Charles A.
Mann, 4s, of 1928 Park avenue, who
died Thursday morning in Metho-
dist hospital, will be held at 2:30
Saturday in the Kregelo & Bailey
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PAGE 10

She was born in Aurora and came
to indianapolis twenty years ago.
Funeral services will be at Mon
day in the home. Burial viii be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
InternQ+i OnQL
Notes
REPORTS so PER CENT INCREASE
IN EUROPEAN UNEMPLOYED

GENEVA, July 4-The number of
unemployed workers in six major in
dustrial countries of Europe in
creased by almost so per cent since
June of last year, the International
Labor Office disclosed.
The report Of the International
Labor Office, which cannot be &C
cused of eXaggerating the number of
unemployed workers, shows also that
whereas in the spring this number
usually decreases, this time it went
even higher than last winter.
This clearly proves that the gem
eral situation has on the whole be-
come worse since the beginning of
the year." the report concludes.
According to this report the num-
Der of unemployed in Germany
jumped from 100000 to 100000 and
in Italy it reached 100000 This
estimate is far below the real num-
Der of unemployed workers in Ger
many as well as in Italy. In six
countries, including the two mem
toned, the total number-the report
indicates-is 11,611,744 against 1885,
698 in June of last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
British Publisher
In Anti-U. S. Move
Asks for Anglo
Canadian Treaty

LONDON, July "A suggestion
for an all-empire currency on the
basis of sterling instead Of gold was
advanced by Viscount Rothermere,
British manufacturer of public opin-
ion," in a long cable dispatch from
Montreal to the Daily Mail" his
leading newspaper.
Rothermere suggests that Canada
should abandon the dollar as the
unit of her currency, to avoid SLOW
assassination of her trade and indus
try" This suggestion reflects the
Anglo American conflict.
AS a basis for agreement at the
Ottawa imperial economic conference,
scheduled to take place this month,
Rothermere further suggests free
dom of trade" between Great Britain
and Canada. In fact, he urges Great
Britain to put an import duty of a
shilling on every bushel of foreign
wheat and flour, while admitting
Canadian and other empire wheat
and flour free of duty.
The Ottawa Imperial Conference
will have as its main purpose that of
strengthening the shaking British
empire by trying to secure more "co-
operation" between Great Britain
and the dominions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
Hopkins Professors
Fear Awakening of
College Students
tBy a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md.-At the recent
commencement exercises of the John
Hopkins University students held at
the Lyric Theatre, it was very evil
dent that the Professors of Hopkins
were skeptical as to whether they
turned out loyal Students
One professor said, "the schools
would lose their aim and purpose if
they merely educated, but failed to
make loyal Americans"
The professor is correct. The Com
munist Party the leader of the work.
ing class points out that the whole
clique of professors in the capitalist
class controlled schools must obey
their. masters to keep their jobs.
The students are now beginning to
see the truth especially after the
Kentucky affair. They now see the
hypocrisy OF the lying professors who
spout out all the time about oppor-
tunity, get rich, be professional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05

further plans for relief, adopted re-
solutions, demanding Cd immediate
release of all arrested for strike &C
tivity and to remove all deputy sher-
ifs and guards from the mines and
to use funds now being used for these
strikebreaking purposes to support the
miners in their struggles; the state
withdraw its militia and other guards
from the mine fields and that the
state turn over to the striking miners
the funds used to keep the soldiers
in the field, to be used for the benefit
of the striking miners in their fight
against wage cuts and starvation; "a
that the State Relief Commission be
asked to donate its relief quota to the
miners to supplement the food and
other relief now being furnished thru
the Workers International Relief and
the Central Relief Committee; 90
that the State Relief Commission be
asked to stop its present sabotage of
relief work by deception and pre-
tense of willingness to serve adequate
relief when it knows the relief offer
it makes is totally inadequate and him
ders further relief solicitation among
the people of Ohio; (4 that the
conference endorses the Hunger
Marches to st. Clarsville and Steu-
benville.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
HUNGER STALKS
IN Mine TOWNS
Kentucky Starvation
Is Publicly Ad-
mitted
BY LABOR RESEARCH ASSN.

That Harlan and Bell county (Ky)
miners and their families are close
to starvation is admitted by local
health officials declares the Labor
Research Association. They recently
told a visiting newspaper man that
undernourishment was widespread
and pellagra, flux and influenza were
prevalent. Their remedy is to in
struct the women in a special diet
which costs 1888 a week for five
people. Along with this they distri-
butte special U. S. Department of
Agriculture leaflet that advises for
pellagra patients plenty of milk
steak, chicken, roast meat, tomatoes,
eggs and leafy vegetables. At least
the leaflet gives the workers attrac-
tive pictures of food! But even the
1888 starvation diet is not much help
for workers averaging S. week, and
villages in which at least one-taird
of the workers are unemployed. All
local relief was stopped on May 81.
But this local relief has been given
only to "loyap miners and not to
those who struck.
One solution" for hunger that is
now popular with the coal opera
tors is the attempt to throw miners
back into agriculture. Actual re-
moval of miners and their families
to farms is talked about in Harlan
county, KY, and in the Pittsburgh
area. Meantime, pressure is being
brought upon the miners to make
gardens and feed their families with
out cash. In southern Illinois the
Red Cross is distributing garden
seeds. In Alabama community cam
ming plants are being set up in the
mining camps. The Alabama Fuel
and Iron Co. is not only furnishing
garden seed but giving lessons in
hog raising. The R. G. Tway Coal
Co. (Harlan county, has assigned a
plot of land to each mine worker. 1t
fires all those who do not make a
garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
Must Make the Daily
Worker Part of the
Election Campaign

New York
Comrade Editor: was a delegate to
the New York City nominating con-
ference, elected from a shop group of
food workers.
When reported back to the shop
group almost the same criticism
which appeared in the Daily Worker
on May %, 1882 was made during the
discussion. But the group brought up
an additional point which the district
secretariat failed to see and that is
is the Daily Worker
We all agree that the campaign
of the Communist Party is not just
another campaign but a campaign
which unified and intensifies all the
other campaigns of the Communist
Party. To the best of our recollec-
ton the nominating conference failed
to mention the Daily Worker during
the conference or even in the opening
speech.
To our surprise, in the program of
action which has distributed to every
delegate present, the Daily Worker
was also left out.
We ask all the comrades who ara
interested to see the election CAM
paign of the Communist Party sue
coed with a large vote next Novem-
Der if this can be possible without the
Daily Worker?
During the discussion in the group
we proposed that the Daily Worker
increase its pages two or four more
than at present for the time of the
election campaign.
We feel that this is possible II we
appeal to the masses through the
mass organizations such as trade
unions and fraternal organizations.
Also we notice that the editorial
staff of our press Language press, etc)
failed to see the Importance of the
conference which means an UNDER
estimation of the parlimentarian ac-
ton, on the part of the leading COM
rades of our press-FoOd Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign

ticket. Here is one of the questions
he asked me-
IF the Communists get elected to
office viii they do like the other poll
ticians; that is take all the graft
they can get and be as crooked as
those now holding public office"
gave him fitting answer. / told
him that the Communist Party doesn't
stand for any crooked or corrupt gov
eminent.
He wouldn't believe me. because he
believes everything is corrupt. This
small businessman has been brought
up under capitalist form of gov
eminent and knows no other. So
comrades, this is only one incident
that we come across Unexpectedly and
we must be prepared to answer them.
Harry Dangler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
Dresser for Foster>Ford
Foremost Writer
Supports Communist
Candid a t e S

The most noted novelist
writing today, Theodore
Dresser, author of the
American Tragedy" "The
Financier," and twenty-five
other novels, books of plays,
travel, and sociology, which
have been translated into
every language, announced
shortly after the close of the
Nominating Convention that
''They (the capitalists) are
think only of protecting
their own profits. j.. their
way out of the crisis is to
bring poverty and misery to
the workers and farmers the
land over. And yet / am
asked why | favor the pro-
gram of the Communist
Party and advocate the cleo
ton of its nominees" Be-
hind him can be seen pictures
of (Top) VIM. 2. Foster and
(Bottom) James w. Ford,
Communist candidate for
president and vice-president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05

tween now and the November cleo
tons. Our aim should be to win over
to our cause hundreds of thousands
of workers with the determination to
elect workers to hold public office in
every state in the union.
Walking down the street the other
day petty bourgeois approached
me and asked me about the coming
elections. This business man had
read in the capitalist press Of those
selected to run on the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
Vote Communist For

l. Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the
state and employers.
2, Against Hoover's wage cutting
policy.
3. Emergency relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by
the government and banks; ex-
emption Of poor farmers from
taxes. and no forced collec-
ton of rents or debts.
4. Equal rights for the Negroes and
sclf-dctermination for the Black
Belt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
HOOVERTOW7N
HEARS FORD
Pledges To Support
Communists
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

another. The workers of the Singer
Sewing Machine got a wage cut of
ten per cent only last week, and they
are working only two days a week
The Crane company used to employ
from 1000 to 5000 workers. But the
plant has been completely closed
since April IS, except for single de-
partment employing about 20 or 80
workers. Nobody here knows what full
time work is, and the great Am
erican wage" never ranges beyond $12
to SIS week.
Relief Jobs Mean Mass Hunger
Bridgeport has system of city re-
lief Jobs. From $500 to 1000 used
to be employed on these jobs. But a
month ago the city fathers decided to
lay off about 1900 foreign born
workers. Immediately a lot of protest
was aroused, and they fired only 500
Relief is paid only to family heads
and this in the form of scrip amount
ing to about $3.50 a week. One OF
these grocery orders contains about 5
pounds of bread, cabbage, turnips and
IS cents of meat or fish, all for one
week.
Bosses Want Socialists
Bridgeport is the stronghold of the
Socialist Party in the state of Con-
necticut. Last November they nearly
elected for mayor "a man who made
socialism respectable" This was
Jasper McLevy, who as the state
leader of the Socialist Party, was
nominated as candidate for governor
at the socialist state convention a
week ago last Sunday.
In 1881 McLevy ran for mayor on
milwaukee" platform. In the So
cialist organ in Connecticut, the
Commonwealth of January, 1882
the Socialist" cities of Wisconsin
were hailed as examples of socialist
construction" while clubbing of job
less and forced labor in these towns
WClC lSllc1SQ.
The socialist program" was sup
ported by the capitalist press Of
Bridgeport, particularly by the SEN
sational Bridgeport Herald. McLevy
was allowed to take up collections in
the shops, while small bankers and
real estate agents helped to finance
his campaign.
Hit Foreign Born
At their state convention a week
ago last Sunday, the socialists took
up fight against their foreign-b born
members. These pay double dues-to
their branch and to the American
branch. The state constitution of the
Socialist Party does not allow foreign
born workers to be regular delegates
| to the convention.
Last year when the local socialists
were forced to admit that the workers
in the Soviet Union were building
socialism under the leadership of the
Communist Party, Senior member OF
the National Executive Committee
wrote a sharp letter warning them
not to stress the achievements of the
Soviet Union. Vienna, never mind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
All Readers of the Daily Worker Are Invited
to Write Their Opinions and Suggestions
About the Communist Party
Election Campaign

when talking to them about our
Party as the Communist Party is
something new to thousands of peo-
pie and one cannot be changed from
q republican, democrat or socialist in
a short time. 1t takes such means
as telling the workers true facts,
Thousands of workers who read the
capitalist press have the capitalist
ideas about Communists. or so-called
bad Reds, as. the capitalist press
prints. We must have patience be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
SOCIALIST GUNS AGAINST
JORLESS

Last December, the Milwaukee
Socialist Sheriff, AL Benson, or
dered lot Of riot guns for his
department. One of the local cap
italist sheets, the Milwaukee Jour-
nal wrote:
milwaukee Socialists thor
oughIy opposed rioting guns and
other major weapons in the
hands of the deputy sheriffs or
the police. Now mark the change
when a Socialist sheriff, Benson
is responsible. He bought the
guns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05

of women and children took part in
the demonstration.
Led March
The workers were arrested when
they led TOO workers in a march to
interview Lambert, chairman of the
so-called relief" committee of Hen
derson county. demanding immediate
aid for rs starving families of the
town. Lambert having refused aid,
the committee went to the commu-
nifty garden where the mayor and
other officials were holding a pow
WOW. The committee found his Honor
in a bad humor due to too much
Kentucky moonshine, and he sullenly
rejected their demands.
Win Victory
The workers then went TO the ball
park for a mass meeting, where they
worked out a further plan of action.
Following the meeting, the mayor.
sheriff and other county officials
rounded up their police, sheriffs and
gun thugs and arrested Watson,
Chandler and Grigsby on framed
charge of "inciting to riot" Two of
the police that arrested the workers
were said to have been so drunk they
could hardly sit in the car.
As a result of the militant fight of
the workers, the committee was not
only freed, but the county officials
have been forced to give some relief
to starving families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
STUDENTS CLASH AT BERLIN
UNIVERSITY

BERLIN, June 4. Revolutionary
students clashed with National So
cialists when the Nazi students at
tempted to ban Jewish students from
the Berlin University.
The rector of the university is
yielding to the demand of the fascist
students that Jews be at least banned
from the main hall. The National
Socialists said that for the time be-
ing they would not insist on action
against Jewish professors, the most
prominent of whom is Einstein.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
Each Member
Must Prepare
For Questions
Long Branch, N. j.

Long Branch, N. j.
Editor.-Comrades and fellow
workers, we must do our own think
ing. No one will do it for us. 1t is
a very poor person that cannot think
for his or her own betterment. AS
the depression gets worse, it means
we must work and think that much
harder. Every day means another
day to spread what our Party stands
for. 1t doesn't cost any money to
talk and that gives us the idle time
to keep driving at our goal.
One thing to always have in mind
Is to be patient with the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
BMT PAYS PROFIT.

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 4.-The
BNIT system including the Brooklyn
and Queens Transit Corp. reports a
net income for II months ended May
81 of $6,523,875 equal to Sc preferred
dividend payment and $500 on COM
mon shares. The BAT recently cut
wages 10 percent on its workers The
dividend is only ga less per share
than last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-05
2 SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOLIVIA
AS SPIES

LA PAz, Bolivia, June 30.-Two
young soldiers of the Bolivian army
were executed today and two more
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
They were accused of being Para
guayan spies.
At summary trial before court
martial they were convicted of hav-
ing plotted to kill some officers of
the army and to deliver an important
post in the disputed Chaco region
over TO the Paraguayan army.
The Chaco region is on the border
line and constitutes the basis of a
long-drawn controversy between Bo-
livia and Paraguay.