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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
WHO'S Who TO
WATCH M'NUTT
INAUGURAL OATH
Huge Crowd Is Expected to
See Governor Elect
Take Oath.

Who's Who in Hoosier political
life will be demonstrated Monday
at the Inauguration of Governor
Elect Paul V. McNutt, preparations
for which were being completed to-
day.
The inaugural ceremony will be
out of doors for the first time in
fifty years.
A triple-tiered platform has been
erected at the west entrance to the
statehouse. Admission to the
platform and seats in the street
will be by ticket.
Meredith Nicholson, famed au-
thor and lifelong Democrat, is chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments. He has received some 5000
requests for the 500 platform seats.
Assembly to Recess
Retiring Governor Harry G. Les
lie, Governor McNutt, their wives,
members of the inaugural party,
and state officials will occupy the
lower stand.
Seated behind them will be
members of the Democratic county
and district organizations and
members of the general assembly.
Legislators are scheduled to con-
vene at 10 a. M, and recess for the
inaugural ceremony at noon.
With bunting, flags and uni
formed American Legionnaires pro-
viding martial music, the Inaugural
ton is expected to be the most
colorful in recent state history.
Already "SwOrn In"
A huge crowd is expected in ad-
dition to those who will have seats
on the platform and the street i'm
mediately in front of the platform.
Although McNutt will take the
oath formally at the ceremony he
already has been "sworn in"
Receiving his commission from
Governor Leslie while at Bloom
ington Friday, the Governor ELECT
noticed that form was to be filled
in by a county clerk.
He went to the Bloomington
court house and was sworn in by
Samuel Hinkle, Monroe county
clerk. This was a mere technical
ity, it was pointed out. Chief
Justice Walter E. Treanor of the
supreme court will administer the
formal oath at the Inauguration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
-FOUR ARE HELD IN
POLK co. ROBBERY
VagranCy Charges Placed
Against 5 Men and Woman.

-Four suspects in the $4,000 rob-
berry Of the Polk Sanitary Milk
Company are held by police today
on vagrapcy charges.
The Polk company Office at 100
East Fifteenth street was robbed
late Wednesday afternoon by a
bandit gang believed the same
which few hours earlier obtained
$4,150 in loot in the Office of F. Hill
gemeier & Bro packing concern at
519 West Raymond street.
Those in custody are Willard
Kelly, 30, and his wife, Helen, 81, of
1910 Bosart avenue, and Charles
StrasSer, 25, and Robert johnson,
Is, of Chicago. Arrests were made
Friday night at the Kelly home.
The day after the Polk and Hill
gemeier robberies, Kelly bought a
tuxedo suit and his wife an evening
gown, and they made the rounds OF
night clubs, police state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Five Heads of Failed
Firm Get 20 Year Terms

fences we're: Henry F. Norcott,
president; w. Scott Carroll, comp
troller; Harold E. Bennett, exec
utive president; Charles P
Packer Jr., treasurer, and Leslie A.
Needham, general counsel.
Marshall w. George, secretary
and David A. Coleman, president of
the Stone Investment Company, a
subsidiary, were each sentenced to
two years in prison and fined S5,000
All were remanded to custody of
the United States marshal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
SORORITY COUNCIL
TO HOLD BANQUET

The quarterly meeting and
banquet of the central council of
Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority to be
held at $50 Tuesday at the Wash
ington, will be sponsored by the
Alpha chapter.
Miss Grace A. Van Camp is chair
man of the program. Reservations
may be made with Miss Rosemary
Kirkhof.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
BARROW WILL
PLEAD TO SAVE
'ICCY The BAD
Appearance Is Planned Be-
fore Supreme Court
of Illinois.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-Clarence OAR
row, noted criminal attorney, is pre-
pairing to appear before the state
supreme court in behalf of James
Gggy) Varecha, 17-year-old killer.
Il am interested in this boy as
I am interested in all unfortunate
boys who fall into the hands of the
court through some act of their own
or otherwise" he said.
Darrow recently won from the SUI
preme court a third trial for Russell
McWilliams, who at II killed a
Rockford street car motorman in
an attempted holdlp, after McWil-
liams twice had been sentenced TO
death. Varecha, who killed Frank
Jordan in a holdup, also faces the
death penalty.
Judge John PrytalSki allowed
thirty days for an appeal Thursday
after reaffirming Varecha'S sem
tence which Darrow attacked on
the ground the youth is a 'defec-
tive, a moron and eble-minded."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
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a
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. Federal Judge
Charles E. woodward sentenced five
officials of the failed H. o. Stone &
Co. real estate firm Friday TO
twenty years in prison and fined
each $4,000.
1.-The officials were convicted of
using the mails to defraud on
charges growing out of the $4,000
900 collapse of the company two
years ago.
Those receiving twenty-year SEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

Above-It was here that Chi
nese and japanese forces recently
staged a thrilling engagement,
with the Chinese garrison of
Shanhaikwan for hours repelling
the steady fire Of the japanese
guns. The japanese finally occu-
pied the city as they did last
year when this picture was taken
showing Japanese troops parading
across the Great Wall, during
their invasion of Shanhaikwan.
Right-The city of Shanhaik-
wan, gateway to North China, re-
portedly was in ruins after the
Chinese and Japanese engaged
in bitter fight for control of the
city with the Japanese finally sue
cessful in occupation. This view
shows the archway under the old
tower which is exactly in the CEN
ter of the garrison city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

Woolly-fnger grass, brought from
South Africa, is being tested by
government scientists as a pasture
plant for hilly lands of Alabama,
Georgia and Florida.
A new instrument for measuring
hairs and checking up on their
growth has peen devised, for the aid
of anthropologists who are studying
characteristics of hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

The history of money is traced to
time when skins of animals were a
standard" payment; later, small
,odd-shaped bits of the skins we're
clipped off and passed as token of
possession, for the owner of the
skins could prove his ownership by
fitting the pieces to the skins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
POISONING is DOUBTED
Women Rushed to Hospital; Police
Believe No Tablets Were Taken.

D0HeFt mo IaDIeIS Wtre IakeH.
Mrs. Helen Henley, 421 East
Ninth street, was sent to city hos
pital by police Friday night after
she had told her husband she had
taken poison.
The husband, Wilson Henley.
Seminole hotel, told police his wife
came to his room with bottle of
poison tablets in her hand, declar-
ing she had taken some.
Label on the bottle stated con-
tents to be twenty-five tablets.
When counted by police, there were
exactly twenty-five tablets in the
bottle, they said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Harrington Skits Will Be
Heard on Air Network
Hoosier Author Writes for Programs to Be
Presented for Nations Children.

Harrington novelist and his friends admirers
child
Bill" National Broadcasng
of the broadcast made Friday by TarkngOn
publishers. Doubleday-Doran &
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

The Chinese practice of foot
binding for girl children is said
by some to have started about 100
B c., when China had club-footed
empress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

Tea was introduced into western
Europe in the latter part of the six
teenth century, or early seventeenth,
and sud for as much os $40 a
pound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Tells History
of Famed Gems
for Alliance

Events IN the history of several
famous diamonds in the world
we're described by Edward E. Petri,
president of the Alliance Franchise,
at it's meeting Thursday night in
the Washington. His subject was
Historical Diamonds"
Part of tire meeting was devoted
to the study Of Rostand's play,
"Cyrano de Bergerac." Miss Mary
Norman, contralto, sang a group
of songs, accompanied by Donald
Carter.
Mr.. Petri announced that the club
would stage a mock trial in the
manner of the French courts at the
meeting TO be held on Jan. 10.
1t has been stated that so per
cent of the blind persons encoun-
tered in the bazars of India lost
their sight from smallpox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

Remains of an Indian village, in
Guiding pottery, have been found
in the Bronx section of New York
CITY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
The City
i'm Brief
Mrs. Florence Weber, 1918 North

Mrs. Florence Weber, 1918 North
Jefferson avenue, reported to police
early Friday night that stockily-
built man seized her purse contain
ing $40 in cash and $40 check as
she was walking on Jefferson ave-
nue. after leaving a street car.
Three Negroes are held today on
burglary and larceny charges fol-
lowing theft from basement locker
of 500 worth of dishes, property of
Mrs. Belle Rhude, 1927 Central ave-
nue.. Those held are John Willis,
&C. apartment house custodian, his
wife. Dorothy, and Morris Great
house, all of 513 East Fourteenth
street.
Valuable papers and jewelry
valued at $45 were reported stolen
from the home of Carl c. Berry,
3645 College avenue, early Friday
night. Entrance was gained by
breaking the glass in window.
All men who have served in the
United States navy have been in
vited to attend meeting OF the
United States Naval Veterans at 8
D. m. Monday in the D. A. V. hall,
1O8 North Delaware street. Richard
G. Froendhof, state vice"com-
mander, will preside.
Cooperation of the railroads,
trucks and bus systems of the state
in order to meet the public desire
for more and better transportation
was urged by Sam c. Hadden, for
mer secretary of the Indiana High
way and Motor Association, in an
address before the Exchange Club
Thursday.
Members of the Indianapolis
Dental Society and their wives will
hear Professor George w. Starr, di-
rector of business research of the
Indiana university school of COM
merce and finance when he adj
dresses the society Monday night at
the Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29

the attempt to set the Berlin Palace
on fire because he had picture post
card of the palace in his possession
Prosecution Forced to Drop Three
The court had no choice but tc
drop the charge against the -four
lCommunist defendants of having
committed three arson attempts be-
for the Reichstag fire.
Supreme Court Judge Vogt, notori-
Gus examining magistrate in Com
munist cases, was then put on the
stand. He is the main hope OF the
prosecution, which depends on Vogt
to save the indictment from collaps-
ing by maintaining that the whole
fabric of lies really originated with
van der Lubbe and not with the Fas-
cist stage-managers of the trial.
Vogt declared that van der Lubbe
when examined, gave clear answers
carefully thought out. He added that
van der Lubbe had a splendid mem
DRY.
Vogt advances the fantastic theory
that the bridge" between van del
Lube and the Central Committee OF
the Communist Party of Germany
was the alleged conversations he hao
with unemployed workers in the
streets of Neukoelln, Berlin working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29

tried to make me talk, but I was
silent. No matter what I would say
these hoodlulns would go thru with
their plans.
Beating and still More Beating
THE whipping began = one, two,
three, perhaps dozen or more
lashes. I groaned from the pain. My
skin was raw and bloody. They turn
ed me over on my side. Are you
going to talk7"
The whipping was resumed. Every
time they struck, it cut right through
The pain was tortuous,
"At last they made ready to leave
rubbed against the car slnearing it
with the paint on my head, making
an identifying mark I tried further
to mark the car by ripping open the
cushion, ! had to be careful. l did
not succeed in this.
BY Freight to Seattle
"An hour later I was piled on the
train behind the engine, and herded
for Seattle. / was shivering most
of the time at a high fever, travelling
through tunnels, and breathing SCOT
and impure air. About seven O'Clock
the train pulled in Seattle. I jumped
off and reported at once to comrades
at the LID. The Seattle papers were
notified and asked to take pictures
of me and write up the story This
they refused to do. Later the rep
resentative of the Seattle Post-Intel-
ligencer explained it had no sex APP
peal.
"A photographer was secured by
the LID. Pictures were taken and
a doctor was sent sor. I was taker
to the home of a comrade and giver
a bath, cleaned and fed, and giver
a comfortable bed to rest.
II wish to thank everyone who hal
helped me to get we'll and wish t.
state again that I am ready as 6
new man to take up the class strug'
gle and fight for the rights of thu
workers and small farmers, now, to-
morrow, and always"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29

"By now the crowd was over 100
strong. Automobiles were drawing UP
to this corner from all four sides for
several hours, and several arrests
were made. Had the National Guard
stayed away, no trouble would have
been developed as the crowd was or
derby and interested.
Saturday we learned that delegates
were beaten up and sent back home
1--WE we're under arrest.
There we're, I think, three cars.
At the sheriff's office 1 counted fifteen
of us. I was the first to be called
and Questioned. There were three
policemen. l don't remember If the
sheriff was in the room, but there
were lots of policemen in other rooms.
Il was Immediately beaten up. I
felt dizzy. They yelled Are you
satisfied? Are you going to talk
now?"
"'I1l tell It to the Judge"
again was beaten. Are you go
ing to talk now?"
81 did not answer. Again a beating
The blood was flowing from my face
and nose. The booking officer said,
That's enough; we'll keep him for
investigation"
IT was ordered to take off my coat,
shirt, shoes and finally was stripped.
I thought they would give me beat
ing on my naked back. Every stitch
Of clothing was examined.
1.-TWO fellows standing outside In
the dark followed me when a car
came speeding up. Fellows from two
sides came towards me. The car
stopped and I was ordered by mask
ed band to get in that car, big
sedan. At once my hands we're
grasped. They bound my feet and
hands. They rammed my head down
on the cushion, and they sat on it.
They told me to be quiet If I didn't
want to be dubbed.
when was thrown into the car
1 noticed an N.R.A. Blue Vulture sign
pasted on the rear window.
TN rough place the car stopped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29
Chinese Red Army
SEXES Munitions
in Fukien Raid
100000 Mobilized by
Marking for Ninth
Anti-Red Drive

SHANGHAI, Sept. 28.-The Chinese
Red Armies captured huge quantities
of munitions, food, salt, and other
needed supplies in their raid into
Western Fukien Province and made
their escape successfully, according
to dispatches received here today.
General Chang Kai-Shek, Nam
king dictator, Is concentrating
troops for his ninth giant anti
Communist drive, all the preceding
eight having ended in dismal fail
ure, with thousands of Marking SOL
diers deserving to the Reds with
artillery and other valuable NUM-
tions.
Over 100000 soldiers of Chiang's
own forces are now modified in
Kiangsi Province for the impending
campaign, Marking keeping its hands
off North China and allowing it to
become a virtual Japanese protec-
torate in return for assistance from
Japan in his anti Communist wars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29

class section, in addition to other
convincing circumstantial evidence"
Dimitroff Skaters vogt's Composure
Dinitorff. leading the cross-exam-
nation of Judge Vogt, who furnished
most of the evidence" on which the
prosecutions shaky case rests, fired
a barrage OF, skillful questions at the
examining magistrate, trapping him
into making damaging admissions,
contradictions and evasions.
The Bulgarian Communist leader
forced Vogt to admit that on April
/, long before he had even ques-
toned Dimitroff, Popoff or Taneff,
he had issued a press statement i'm
plicating the Bulgarian Communists
with van der Lubbe in the Reich
stag fire plot.
Vogt tried to evade the question at
first, and the indignant Bulgarian
Communist shouted at him: AN
swer Yes or MOI" Presiding Judge
Buenger tried to shield Vogt, saying:
This court is not the place to cross
examine judge" He then asked
Dimitroff what the object of his
QUESTION was, and the Bulgarian lead
er coolly answered:
ut it my purpose to show that
Vogt's examination was prejudiced."
Buenger shouted: "Dimitroff, shut
upl" but he was compelled to put
Dimitroff's question to Vogt himself.
and the latter, his face reddening,
admitted Dinitroff's charge.
Vogt was also forced to admit that
he had Threatened the Bulgarian de-
PENDANTS with deportation to Bull
garia, where death sentences await
them for Communist activity. in or
der to make them talk.
Dimitroff then asked whether Vogt
hadn't sent statement to the press
that the three Bulgarian defendants
were the ones who had burned the
Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1925.
Vogt admitted that such notice had
been issued but claimed that it hadn't
come from him.
Dimitroff's further protests were
stopped by a policeman seizing him
and forcing him down into his seat.
A general tumult spread through the
courtroom, and the five red-robed
judges, totally unable to silence Di-
nitroff's accusations, filed out of the
courtroom
Vogts testimony, instead of boil
steering the Nazi case, resulted in
damaging blows to the prosecution as
result of Dimitroff's brilliant cross
L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29
Subnerge Nazi
|Consulates in
Protest Flood!

The workers of America must
back up the heroic fight that Torg-
Ter, Dimitroff, and their comrades
are waging against Fascism in the
Leipzig courtroom with immediate
mass action in support of the work.
ing -class leaders on trial for their
lives.
1. Flood all German Consulates
with resolutions demanding the re-
lease of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff
and Taneff.
2. Demand that the defendants
have the right to defend them
selves.
3. Notify the Consulates that the
Nazi court will be held responsible
for the defendants safety.
4. Protest against the Hitherto
terror in Germany.
5. All meetings of workers or
CARNATIONS: unions, clubs, fraternal
orders, should pass protest resolu-
tions and forward them at once
to the nearest German Consulate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29
Hitler FaSCiSm
Linked to War
Peril in Appeal
Committee A g in st
Fascism to Coordinate
With Anti-War Forces

NEW YORK.-Hitler's proclama-
ton that Germany must win back
It's place in the sun by the VIC
torious sword and the growing
wish of French military circles to
declare war on Germany at once
"to save the expense of beating it
later when it was well-armed'
were called Outstanding signs of
the approaching world war" by the
National Committee to Aid the
Victims of German Fascism, in a
statement issued today.
The National Committee adds
that "The United States Congress
Against War, which will convene
in New York, Sept, 80 to Oct. l,
constitutes an event of worldwide
Importance; it will give to all who
Want to fight war an understand
irg of the imminence of war.
'The city united front commit
tees in Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleve-
land, New York and other centers
have coorlinated the struggle
against war and have called for
the election of delegates to the
anti-war congress from all organ
izations and groups connected with
the movement against the outrages
of the Hitler fascist regime"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29
Anti-F aSCiStS
Score Milwaukee
Police Attack
Ask Socialist Mayor If
Free Speech Has
Been Abolished?

NEW YORK.-The National Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German Fas-
cism protested today against ''the at
tack made by the Milwaukee police
force upon the workers and other
supporters of our movement who
peacefully gathered at the Milwaukee
Club Wednesday to voice their OPP
position to the atrocities of the Hit
Ter fascist regime" in telegram to
Daniel Hoan, Socialist Mayor of Mil
waukee.
The telegram asks whether the
right of free speech and assemblage
has been abrogated in Milwaukee,
whether our movement for aid to the
victims of the Nazi government has
been outlawed, and whether the Mil
waukee police are in Filters service"
The National Committee, with an
affiliated membership of over 400, 900
and supported by such we1l-known
persons as Lord Marley of the Brit
ish Labor Party, Roman ROLAND,
Sylvia Pankhurst, and Count Karolyi,
and in this country by Lincoln Stef-
fens, Prof. Robert Morss Lovett, Gran
vile Hicks, william T. Foster and
others, calls upon all it's affiliated To-
cal committees to write and wire
Mayor Hoan in protest against this
unwarranted police attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-29
Nazi Minister Calls
Off Jewish Boycott
Fears Disturbance in
Economic Recovery"

BERLIN, Sept. 28.-Acting at the
behest of big business, the Nazi gov
eminent beat disordered retreat
from its boycott policy against jew
ish business yesterday, when Econ
omics Minister Schmitt issued an or
der forbidding the boycotting of Jew
ish concerns as it would unquestion-
ably cause serious disturbances in the
progress of business recovery"
This, decree, issued Gin complete
agreement with Propag anda Minister
Goebbels," confirms the charge adj
vanced by anti-Fascists that the
Hitler regimes anti-Semitism is con-
fined to Jewish workers and intel
lectuals, but that Jewish capitalists
receive the protection due them from
government that is the agent of the
capitalist class
This decree will undoubtedly lead to
futher unrest among Hitler's rink
and file adherents, who were led tc
believe that Nazi anti-Jewish per-
secutions we're more than blind te
capture misled millions for the ca
pitalist Hitler dictatorship,