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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14

NINETEEN Negroes were at two
~ long, pine tables. The room
smelled of food and perspiration
and manure. A solemn-faced girl
brought plates of black-eyed peas
and chunks of pork, corn bread,
tin spoons and tin cups filled with
water.
The faces at the tables were re-
sentful, sullen. Sometimes they
spoke, in low tones, as though
fearful of their own voices. A Ne
gro facing David ate awkwardly
with his left hand. The right was
bandaged with dirty rag. A city
Negro who had never picked a
boil before. He had been on his
way to Memphis but he was work
ing for Deering now. The dried
leaves, sharp as knives to the in
experienced, had cut his hands
until they were raw.
A WHITE MAN
WITH A PISTOL
When a Negro finished eating he
went out to smoke in the shade
of the building until it was time
to be taken to the field being pick
ed that day
A Ieathery skinned white in put
tees and brown, duck trousers and
a pistol in holster on his hip,
talked to the newcomers when they
went out.
"CharlieIl show you yo're hunks
an fix you up with overalls SOS
you won't tear your close" he said
tersely. "If there's somethin' you
want - underwear, shoes, 'baccy,
you kin git it from the commits
sary. Better change now"
FIFTEEN iron cots with old mat
i tresses and rough, brown blan-
kets, ranged each side of the bar
racks. The windows were covered
with iron netting. In the rear were
three stools and near them. six
faucets emptying into a sink re-
senbling trough.
"Dese heah hunks ain bein'
used now" Charlie suggested,
pointing them out. "Pick yo'se'f
one.
A Negro brought overalls and
threw them on a bunk. When the
change was made Charlie said:
"Y'all git yo' bags in de trucks.
All reck'n Mist Taylah-he's yo'
oyahseeah-'ll talk bit fo' you
go out in de fieps. He gin'rally do!
Bes mine i'm, caise he's hahd,
hahd'n a string O. bahbed wiah."
THE ovERSEER
TALKS
The overseer was waiting for
them near the trucks.
"You new niggers," he began
abruptly, ANY O. you never picked
cotton befo'?"
mo, subj" one said timidly
''That's good. Mr.. Deerin' specks
vail to work an I figgers husky
bucks like you kin do two hunnerd
an fifty poun's a day. Now, you
git the bes' kline O. treatment here.
Good food, an hour an a half TO
dinner an plenty O. water out in
the fieIs. Nobody likes good
niger better'n Mr.. Deerin' or my
se'f."
THE three Negroes with shot
guns mounted their horses.
The overseer glanced at them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14
Mooney De ands Open
Pardon Hearing of Governor
Also Calls for Immediate Trial of Remaining
Indictments; Legal Steps Being Taken

of
dictment against him, has issued by
S l.
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in the morning line. Outside of a
casual nod Limpy did not notice
him.
THE guards and overseer followed
1 the truck on horseback.
One of the newcomers glanced at
the fields and said:
"That's sho lot O. cotton"
"Dey's mon dat" the cooks hus-
band volunteered. "Dey's mo- Dee
rim niggahs bout three miles east"
David looked at the armed guard
following them.
Mighty lax chain gang" he
said guardedly.
"You mex yo' time dey an goes
Free" Limpy grOwled.
1--WE cain go after we wuks out
de advance" David asked, star
tied.
ASK Cooky," Limpy returned.
"Mist' Deerin' gimme ten dol
labs two years ago. 1 ain wukked
hit out yet" the cooks husband
said.
WORK STARTS
Two miles from the stockade the
trucks entered a clearing in full
Towering field. Cane brakes in the
distance marked the end of the
cotton rows The cans of water
were placed beside a weighing ma
chine near which wicker baskets
were piled Each Negro took a bag
and basket and left for the area
assigned him. Two guards rode to
the cane brakes where a path sep
arated them from the cotton field
The other patrolled the road from
the clearing to the highway The
overseer rode the burrows, watch
ing the Negroes and returning to
the clearing to weigh the full has-
kets when they were brought in.
IMPY walked with David.
IL Some niggers try to run away
by gittin' in dem brakes" Linlpy
said.
"Yeah?" said David.
de brakes en- up in big
swamp-miIes an miles long"
yeah"
"Mos'ly new niggers. Doan know
no better. Ain no sense goin' dey."
mo, no sense in dat"
One hundred pounds before sup
per meant fast work and David
picked swiftly and steadily The
sweat under his arms irritated
him Sweat formed on his upper
lio and trickled to the corners of
his mouth leaving salty taste.
A DAYS WORK
An hour before shutdown the
overseer blew his whistle. The
clearing was banked high with cot
ton. In the morning the trucks
would take it to the Deering gin.
1t was almost dark when the
NEGROES returned to the Enclosure
lighted by four lanterns on high
poles, and washed the sweat from
their faces at the common trough.
After supper they gathered about
the worn steps Of the mess hall and
barracks. Few Of them talked ard
these who did, the burden Of their
conversation was women, women
they he'd known and women they
hoped to meet when they got out.
IF yore a good niger an do yo'
weight Mist Deerin' ginrally car
ries you to town some Sat'dee ev' :
min or lets you go wild Mist Tay-
lor," David learned.
"
THE public school for Negroes in
Live Oak had been too far away
for David TO attend, so ne had
never learned to read or write. One
evening, on the return from the
fields, he asked Cooky if he could
write.
"Slo,' he said with a touch Of
pride. "Ah ven to de 10th grade
Il want to write tub my folks"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14
NEGRO SLAVERY TO Day
John L. SbiUak's Stirring Novel
GEORGIA Niger"

Niger is smashing exposure Of the p If N
term respect or Nrw they ne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14
THE CAPITALIST
STARVATION PROGRAM

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt are both against the bo-
nus, although Roosevelt covers his
rejection with a maze Of hazy
promises. Already proposals are be-
fore the United States Congress
10 cut down the disability allow
ences of the veterans by 400 mil
Lion dollars,
Thus it is clear that the pro-
gram Of the capitalist class is
starvation to the workers.
The workers of this country, par
ticularly Of the most industrial
state Of the country, New York,
will refuse to accept this program.
Mass struggle, rising out Of the
hunger of the workers and of their
children, millions of whom are
starving in this country, will be
the answer.
TIE Communist Party put for
ward as the central demand OF
the Election Campaign and Of the
struggle at this time. the demand
Ton adequate unemployment relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14

HE TOO is ENSLAVED-A white
share cropper in Georgia, returning
from the cotton field. The system
of national oppression Of the Negro
people is used by the southern
white ruling class as a means to
lower the living standards of the
white workers ard share troopers
too. Greater and greater numbers
of white toilers are realizing that
they never can be free until they
unite with their Negro brothers in
joint struggles that shall win equal
rights for Negroes and their right
of Standardization in the Black
Belt.
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"They's some niggers that don't
appreciate good handlin," he add
ed. Them guards is TO them who
try to cheat Mr. Deerin' by gittin'
advances an lot o. stuff from
the conmissary an then runnin'
away. Some niggers is like that,
lazyin' on the job an tryin' to
swindle Mr. Deerin
But don't figger y'all's that
kline, so hop in. I speck bout
hunnerd poun's TO supper"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14

A pile OF cotton sacks and a mix
can filled with water wae In the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
insult CRASH
SECRETS TOLD
Inside Story of Failure
Filed in U. S. Court.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 13-An eighty
four-page chapter of the INSIDE
story of the rise and fall of Sam
uel insult was filed in federal dis
trict court today as receivers
auditors report on insult Utilities
Investments, Inc, showing a $780,
510,97681 deficit.
The report, which also included
ten exhibits and covered three sub
sidiary companies, detailed assets
of only $27,473 ,364.80.
It was the first official account
of the involved financial nlaneuver-
ing that preceded the colossal
crash of the insult hierarchy of
utilities and holding companies last
spring. Reports of other receivers
are expected in the next few weeks.
Most of the securities owned by
the insult Utilities Investments, Inc,
we're pledged to banks for loans"
the report, prepared at the direc-
ton of the receivers, Calvin Fen
tress and George A. Cooke, stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Staying is CHARGED
Officers Fail to Find Body of
Man Feared Killed.

Two searches by deputy sheriffs
failed to reveal the body of a man
whom it was feared was slain by
railroad detective Monday.
William Sandercook, %, of Fern
dale, Mich, an unemployed printer,
who left home eight days ago, came
to the sheriff's office on Monday
night with a statement that the
detective had knocked the man
from the box car with blackjack
and threw him down an embank-
ment.
Deputy sheriffs made a search
Monday night and today, but found
no trace of body.
Reports are current that an Off
Ger, decidedly hard boiled" has
been removing men from freight
trains in the vicinity where the
search was made-the Pennsylvania
railroad and Big Eagle creek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Happy as He Boards Train
BY FREDERICK STORM
limited Press STAFF Cnrrexnnndnnf

ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL.
Sept. Ex-Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt, en- route to tour the west,
paused in Cleveland today long
enough to say he was very happy
over the Maine erection results.
Roosevelt boarded his train
twenty minutes before it's departure
from Albany at midnight. q.
Shouting good-naturedly, Cali
fornia, here I come" he posed for
photographers and then conferred
earnestly for a few minutes with
Lieutenant Governor Herbert H.
Lehman, candidate for the nomina-
ton for Governor.
Pointing to the Panama hat he
was wearing, Roosevelt told the
crowd:
Il am bit out of season, but I'll
need it for the California weather"
Mrs. Roosevelt and James, John
and Franklin D Jr.. the six-foot sons
of the Roosevelt family, were with
the Governor when he boarded the
train. James remained with his
wife.
Mrs. Roosevelt will join the party
at Williams, Ariz., on the return
tourney east.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Indiana SAFE,
ROOSEVELT IS
ASSURED HERE
Candidates Train in Brief
Stop on Way to Tour
of West.
WILL SPEAK IN TOPEKA
Democratic Leaders Greet
Standard Bearer and
Cheer Him On.
WILL SPEAK IN TOPEKA

Assurance that Indiana is safe
within the Democratic fold was
given Governor Franklin D. Roose-
welt here today by Indiana party
leaders, as the Democratic nominee
for President paused briefly at union
station, en- route west for a speak
ing tour that will carry him through
twenty-one states.
Governor Roosevelt, smiling and
elated over impending Democratic
victories in Maine, asked eagerly
for latest election returns from that
state as he was greeted by Frederick
Van Mugs, Democratic candidate for
United States senator; Paul V. Nc
Mutt, candidate for Governor;
Frank C.. Daley, party leader and
candidate for Governor in 1928;
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, and R.
Earl Peters, Democratic state chair
man.
Discusses Political Picture
While friends of the Governor
have insisted that the 8,0OO-m mile
junket primarily is for the purpose
of obtaining first-hand knowledge
of the nations economic ills, the
nominee has not heSitated to discuss
the national political picture both
here and en- route.
The Governor indicated he might
have a statement to make on the
controversial bonus question before
ne returns east, as he has been the
target of numerous requests for
Qualification of his stand, the latest
being the appeal of former Cover
nor Alfred E. Smith.
OF Smith, Governor Roosevelt
said he is ''all right" and "a good
Democrat"
Included in the Governors party
on the Roosevelt Special" are Jo-
seph P. Kennedy, Massachusetts,
leader; Arthur Mullens, national
committeeman from Nebraska, and
Breckenridge Long of Missouri.
former assistant secretary of state
in the Wilson administration.
Speaks at Topeka
Governor Roosevelt is scheduled
for the first of four major addresses
Wednesday afternoon at Topeka.
Kan, with his subject based en- agri-
culture and methods for its rehabili-
tation.
He made no talk here, waiting for
his public Indiana appearance until
later in the fall, when 10000 are ex-
pected to attend a statewide rally
at the Playground or Cadle taber-
nacle.
Peters was added here to the
Roosevelt party, going as far as
Terre Haute, where another brief
halt was scheduled.
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The flight was designed to be a
scientific expedition, with the ply
Sician studying the physical reac-
tons of Ulbrich and Miss Newcomer
to fatigue, atmospherical conditions
and the gases from the motor.
The American Nurse carried $50
gallons of gasoline. Ulbrich ex-
pected to average more than 1870
miles an hour with his 420-horse
power Wasp motor. That estimate
would require about thirty-five
hours for the fight.
Favorable Tail Winds
The plane, the same one used by
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon
in their round the-world fight, was
reconditioned.
Ulbrich mapped a course that
would take the. American Nurse out
to sea from Cape Cod. Then, flying
the southern route over ship lanes,
he would head for Cape Finestere,
Spain.
Once over Spain the American
Nurses course would be across the
Mediterranean to Florence, Italy.
There Miss Newcomer planned a
parachute leap to commemorate the
honor Of Florence Nightingale. Miss
Newcomer is a former Broadway
dancer and night club hostess.
Weather charts indicated the fliers
would have favorable tail winds for
two-thirdS of the crossing, when
they would enter a storm area. VI
nrlch hoped to dodge that or fly
above it.
AS a good will omen, DR.. Pesculli
carried woodchuck as mascot. ap-
propriately named "Tailwind."
The larder Of the American nurse
was stocked with three roast
chickens, aviation biscuits, tomatoes.
fruit, chocolate candy and honey
and tea tablets.
Pilot Is Experienced
A water condenser was included
also for use should they be forced to
land at sea.
In the absence of a radio set. the
plane was equipped with life savers.
and dynamo light which is capa-
ole OF being seen twenty-five miles.
Ulbrich, both pilot and navigator.
Is veteran f1ier with $500 hours in
the air. He was born in Copen-
hagen thirty-one years ago. His
home is in Mineola.
DR.. Pesculli, whose home is in
Yonkers, is a gynecologist. He was
born In Italy and came to America
thirty-two years ago.
Miss Newcomer, %, is an under
graduate nurse who holds a limited
commercial pilots license. She has
had about $50 hours in the air and
IN addition has had instructions in
parachute jumping. Her home is
Williamsport, Pa.
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The amphibian airplane in
which eight persons were fly
ing to Europe was forced
down on the open sea at $40
p. m. Sunday.
The discovery of the little band,
huddled ashore after their airplane
had been wrecked, saved them from
likely starvation or death from cold
in a deserted region.
The privations would have been
especially severe on Mrs. Hutchin-
son and her two daughters, Kath-
crime, 8, and Janet Lee, 6.
A f1otilla of craft ranging from
trawlers to Eskimo canoes had
searched the sea since Sunday for
the missing family, while airplanes
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flew over Denmark strait seeking to
spot them.
Aboard the amphibian plane were
Hutchinson, his wife and two daugh-
tiers, and a crew of four; Peter Red
path, navigator; Joseph Ruff, me-
chanic; Gerald Altfilisch, radio OPP
orator, and Norman Alley, camera
man.
The flying family left New York
Aug. % and flew to st. John, N. B.
Hutchinson made the next stages.
to Anticosti island, on to Godthaab,
Greenland, and to Julianehaab,
without incident, except for paying
fine of $1S0 for landing in Green
land without permission.
The plane was lost south of Ang-
magssalik after leaving Julianehaab
and following the south Greenland
coast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Garner to Join Roosevelt

bV NtttU IFt"S
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 13.-Speaker
John N. Garner, Democratic nomi-
nee for the vice-presidency, paused
in Dallas long enough today to pre-
dict a sweeping victory for the DEM
ocratic ticket in November
The Speaker was en- route to Kan
sas City, where he will join Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt. He
will accompany the presidential
candidate to Topeka for confer
ence on campaign plans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
SECRET COP RADIO PLEA
Congress Urged to Pass Law Ban

IIChUp OF TUuCt bTOduCdSLS.
Passage Of bill by congress pro-
hibiting use of receiving sets de-
signed to pick up police radio broad
casts was urged in letter today
to Representative Louis Ludlow by
Charles R. Myers, safety board
president, following a police officers
statement that automobiles believed
owned by Chicago gangsters are be-
ing equipped in Indianapolis with
such sets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
HARTFORD CITY BANK
ROBBERY TRIALS SET

Fleuker Hearing Will Start Nov. IL;
WOman'S on Oct. 10.
By United Press
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. 10.
Trials of two persons charged
with completely in the robbing Of
the Citizens State bank here Oct.
2, 1881, were set during the opening
day of the September term of the
Blackford circuit court.
Trial of Reinholt Fleuker, Bur-
lington, Wis, charged with being
the gunman in the robbery, was set
for Nov II.
Mrs. Irene Gentry, Muncie. ac-
cused of providing a hideout for
the bandit gang, will go on trial
Oct. 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
COFFIN'S 'OLD GUARD
HOLDS SECRET FARLEY
Hint Meeting Is Held to Select G.
o. P. State Senator Candidate.

Hint Meeting Is Held to Select G.
o. P. State Senator Candidate.
1.-THE old guard dies, but never
Surrenders."
Just the opposite of Napoleon'S
crack regiment of dragons is the
Coffin gang which sometimes sur
renders, but never dies.
The Coffin "old guard" gathered
again Monday night at the Inland
Bank building at meeting attend
ed by ward chairmen and guarded
today with the utmost secrecy by
those in attendance.
Although none of those summoned
would be quoted on outcome of the
meeting, it was reported reliably to-
day that the purpose was to select
a Republican candidate for state
senator from Marion county to run
in place of Senator Edgar Perkins,
who resigned to take a place on the
state industrial board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
9 FINED FOR GAMING
City Man Gets Suspended Sentence
for Operating Gambling House.

Penalties were imposed today by
Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron
on nine persons arrested Sept. 5
when police raided the home of
Morris Polasky, 1901 South Capitol
avenue, where they charged gam
bling was in progress.
Polasky was fined $40 and costs
and given thirty-day penal farm
term, the latter suspended, on con-
viction of operating a gaming house.
The other eight persons were con-
victed of visiting a gaming house
and fined SO each. Judgment was
withheld on charges of gaming
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
FEAR DEATH FIGURE
GETS 60-DAY TERM
B. H. RynersOn Is Sentenced on
Child Neglect Charge.

Benjamin H. Rynerson, "a, of
RuShvllle, who was taken into Gus
tody Aug. 8, following the death
from heart disease of Robert Brake,
IS, father of Mrs. Ida Bayne, 1924
College avenue, Rynerson's sweet
heart, was sentenced TO a xty-day
Jail term today by Juvenile Judge
John F. Geckler on child neglect
charge.
No charges were filed against
Rynerson as a result of the aged
mans death.
Mr.. Brake ran from his home, po-
lice were told, when Rynerson
threatened to attack him, and went
to the home of a neighbor, where
he fell dead. In court, Rynerson
denied making any attempt to
strike Brake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Taxicab Driver Is Robbed

Two Negroes robbed Clarence
Huffman, "a, of 1920 West Vermont
street, of his taxicab, ST. and
fountain pen and pencil valued at
81 Monday night, otter he had
driven them from downtown to
pennsylvania and Forty sixth
streets and then to Twenty first and
Harding streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
STORM HEADING
ON GULF COAST
Inbound Ships Are Forced
to Battle Gales.
Rm Tznitod prnna

By United Press
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. ia
tropical disturbance Swooped in to-
ward the Louisiana coast today,
bringing squalls and heavy seas to
the shore line.
The storm apparently was about
100 miles southeast of the tip of the
Mississippi river delta. Inbound
ships battled gales all night.
The tide was two feet above nor
NAL at Gulfport, Miss. An east
wind was blowing. Rains extended
throughout the section.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
Colonel Hutchinson and Party Found Alive
and Well on Barren Greenland Coast;
Plane Is Wrecked in Forced Landing
FACED END BY COLD, STARVATION
Band of Eight, Including Mother and Two
Small Daughters, Discovered by Steam
Trawler in Deserted Region.

ANGMAGSSALIK, Greenland, Sept 49, = Colonel
George R. Hutchinson and his flying family saved
from death the barren Greenland coast today when
they found alive and we'll at Ikersuak Ford Their air.
plane wrecked.
The steam trawer Lord Talbot, first vessel to receive
Hutchinson's signals, found the family early today
Later in the day. the trawer landed the flying family
near AngmagSsalik.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
BEATS WIFE; BLAMES
MEDICINE; FINED SIS
ixty-Day Farm Term Is Suspended;
"SinuS Relief Caused Trouble.

Overdose of a medicine for relief
of sinus trouble caused him to be-
come mentally deranged, was the
defense of Theodore Bowers, 1888
Ashland avenue, when he was ar
raigned today before Municipal
Judge Clifton R. Cameron on a
charge of wife-beating.
Bowers was fined SIS and costs and
give ma sixty-day penal farm term,
the latter being suspended. His
brother-in-law, Stanley Kelley, 1888
Ashland avenue, who engaged in a
fight with him to protect Mrs. Bow
ers, and who also faced an assault
and battery charge, was discharged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
DEMOCRATS ARE
AHEAD IN CLOSE
Maine ELECTION
SIREN Is VILLAGES
NEW CURFEW SIGNAL
All Children Under 1s Must Be In

All Children Under is Must Be In
doors by P. NJ, Law Says.
BIZ United Press
ENGLISH, Ind, Sept. 13.-A
shrieking fire siren has replaced a
tolling bell as curfew signal here,
but the thirty -three-year-ol law
will be enforced as strictly as ever,
according to night marshal Vollie
Smith.
The curfew applies to persons I'M
der 16, and provides a penalty of
$40 for disobedience.
Until Nov. l it will be blown at
p. m. After then, and until May
/, it will sound at 6 o'clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-13
REGISTERING AT PURDUE
100 Freshmen Are Expected to Be
Enrolled at University.

By CHtTed FfeSS
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 13.-
Registration of freshmen at Purdue
university for the 19S2-1e33 term
started today. 1t was expected that
HOO new students would be en-
rolled.
During registration of upperclass-
men Monday, approximately 1900
were enrolled