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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21

DUT in 1888 when Mr. Hoover's
- term came to an end the pur-
chasing power of the dollar had
risen. If you had borrowed SlO0
in 1929 and had to pay it back in
1888 YOU would have had to pay
back in dollars which were worth
1856 compared with the dollars of
1929. Now that was not fair to
the people who borrowed money.
Mr.. Hoover is right in CRITICS.
ing the change in the value of the
dollar under Mr. Roosevelt which
worked against lenders. But why
is he so little disturbed about the
change in the value of dollars UNI
der his own administration which
worked against the borrowers?
1t would be an excellent idea.
therefore, for the people to weigh
we'll the interested announcements
OF these politicianS-Democratic
and Repubican-and do their
thinking in terms of their own in
tereStS.
CCopyrsht, 1885 NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21
NeU York Curb
Money ard Exchange
by Abbott, Proctor Il Pain

INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
Clearings Observation-Disclosures. So $50 900
Debts NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5,91e 900
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21

OUT If that is true, one thing is
IF also true. If it is unjust 10
manage affairs so that the man
who lends 500 today will find later
that the dollars he lent are
worth only $50, it is equally true
that it is grave injustice to the
man who borroWs $3.50 to manage
matters so that when the debt is
due the dollars he will have TO pay
back are worth in fact not 500 but
$40.
The value OF dollars is rather
confusing thing. The dollar has a
value in the International exchange
market. It's value is determined
there first by the amount of gold in
1t and the ability of the govern
ment to back that gold value. But
in the domestic market its value is
determined first by the manner in
which the governments credit is
respected and secondly by the gen.
eral price level.
In 1929 when Mr.. Hoover took of
flee the purchasing power of the
dollar was clearly determined by
the amount of goods it would pur-
chase. Let lis describe that pur-
chasing power by the figure 100. If
YOU borrowed 500 then you would
be obligated to pay back Sl00 with
Q purchasing power of 100 per dol
lar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21

W gold in the country In each
dollar was 25.8 grains Of gold. The
government proclaimed that there
after the dollar should consist Of
Is 5-2l grains Of gold After that
we have SO per cent more gold dol
lars although the amount of gold in
the country did not change.
This is true. Then Mr.. Hoover
drew some conclusions from this.
He said, very pithily, that you can
never make our dollars ring true so
long as they have the alloy of
politics in them. so long AS the
dollar has that alloy in it people
can not invest 500 today with full
confidence as to what it will be
worth in old age"
This means, quite simply, that it
is a manifest injustice to arrange
matters so that man who invests
his hard-earned savings today will
discover a few years from now that
the 500 he invested is actually
worth only $50. l do not see how
any one can quarrel with the
Houndness of that,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21

lar is a measure Of value just as
the yard is a measure of length. If
YOU have a bolt Of clothing con-
tanning 100 yards you know that
that means 100 yards Of SO inches
each. Now suppose the govern
ment proclaims that hereafter the
yard sh5H be only % inches. Then
YOU VIII De able to say that y2u
have in the same bolt 1886 yards
instead of 100. But you will not
have the same amount Of cloth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21
SHEEP AND LAMBS
pa;nAs INN

Lambs, 80 lbs down, good and
choice Observation-Disclosures. $40 .25611 90
Medium Observation-Disclosures. 8.50@l0.25
Ewes.
t90-125) Good and choice -. 1000 500
All weights, common and me-
dunn .'.-..'...-.. 35o6 45b
l20-150l Good and choice 300@ 400
Evening star., 1935-11-01

Province may be revealed to be only
1000 competent rifles for desert
warfare, reinforced by horde of
warriors awaiting their turn to use
modern firearms. This presents q grave
problem for the Italians because 1t is
impossible to ascertain which forces
are really effective and worth slaugh-
tering.
Tribes Are Weakening.
The tribes are weakening under
steady bombing from the air. The
Italians are also bringing up artil-
lery, enabling their patrols to recon-
noiter beneath the guns protecting
fire. Thus the Ethiopians are power
less to prevent the invader from OBJ
tanning complete intelligence as to
the disposition Of the native forces.
When the Gorahai Radio Station was
struck by a bomb, the Ethiopian
commanders were completely in the
dark for IL hours while Gen. Graz
iani carried out important troop
movements.
The Italians, operating on interior
lines in the south, are availing them
selves Of parallel motor transports and
thus driving the Ethiopians to ex-
haustion in their efforts to combat
the speedy dispositions Of the in
vader.
French and English observers here
believe that Harar Is fated to fall into
Italian hands within three weeks. Con-
Evening star., 1935-11-01

The stalwart Gallas and simple
Somalis are dying rather than change
masters. The Amharas, the ruling
caste, are striken dumb by the dis
aster facing them and are rapidly
changing their attitude. toward the
neutral whites.
French marines in Diredawa are
doubling guards and stringing barbed
wire in defiance Of Ethiopian orders,
awaiting the backwash Of the Guerilla
lighters streaming from the war zone.
Your correspondent believes these pre-
cautions are not needed. because the
mountaineers regard the center Of the
country as desertlike and will take a
route to the upland plateaus, where
they will be able to despoil the m
habitants en- route.
Despite formal adherence to mod
ern conventions such as bulletins,
Evening star., 1935-11-01

of1icial announcements. etc, Ethiopia
is becoming chaotic under the pres
sure Of transporting hundreds Of
thousands Of warriors to the battle
fronts.
There Is little chance OF white
correspondents reaching the scene Of
action because they would surel- be
despoiled Of their belonging and prob
ably lose their lives-a probability that
Emperor Halle Selassie wisely breads.
However, any one within the Harar
area Is destined to witness warfare
sooner or later, for 1t Is impossible for
Evening star., 1935-11-01

sidered opinion gives Ethiopia only a
short time to hold out at the present
rate of the Italians advance.
In the north, the Italians are pur-
suing their plan Of campaign with
steady vigor. Pressure from Rome ap-
peals for bulletins of victory, but the
Italian commanders are cautious lest
their extended flank in the Makale
region invite disaster.
The Ethiopians showed surprising
smartness in extricating themselves
from difficult positions in the north
where cannon fodder is inexhaustible
and hatred Of the whites unquench-
able. European-trained native troops
have not yet been permitted to engage
in combat, as they are chiefly as
signed to guarding the Amharic over
lords. Meanwhile. nameless peasants
are offering battle to the Italians.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
PRICE LEVEL DRIVE
is SHORT OF GOAL
Labor Department Index
Reveals Increase From
! 7O.8 to sos Per Cent.

BY the Associated Press.
The administrators tWo-year-olo
drive to raise the price level was still
far short today of the original goal
the 1925 level.
: Two years ago President Roosevelt
inaugurated his move to depreciate the
dollar by purchasing gold through the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. The
Labor Departments wholesale COM
modify index was then 708 per cent
Of the 1926 level 1t Is now 80,3.
In August, 1893, before the Presi-
dent announced his monetary plans.
the 1926 dollar would buy Sl44 worth
Of wholesale commodities. Today, de-
spite the depreciation moves and talk
If imitation, it will still buy ST "a worth
Of goods.
Man on Street Benefits.
For the man on the street that
means that he can today get "a per
cent more goods at wholesale for his
money than he could in 1926 The
same Is substantially true of the re-
tail purchasing power of the dollar,
though not exactly
Before the President started out on
the monetary program, however, the
1926 dollar would buy almost a dollar
and a half's worth of wholesale COM
modities.
There have been no recent ad-
ninistration statements to indicate
whether the campaign to raise the
price level will continue. When Sec
retary Morgenthau recently returned
from Europe. however, he told news
paper men America was ready to dc
its part" in stabilizing world cur
rencies when other nations were dis
posed to do theirs"
Food Prices Higher.
As a matter Of fact. except for the
exceptional rise in the price of farm
commodities and foods. there has beer
little change in the general price leve
during the past year.
: A year ago the wholesale commod-
fly index was 1852, or 5.4 per cent les'
than today, but all commodities Other
than farm products and foods hac
an index of IS as compared with tht
present figure of 1874.
Z During the past month the whole
sale index has been dropping slightly
instead Of rising, due to declines il
the prices of foods. A month ago i
was 81, the highest it had reached fol-
years. Now it is 8O3
4. Commissioner Lubin of the Burea,
Of Labor Statistics in reporting tn,
80.3 index for the week ended o.
tober rs said it was BAT per CEN
above the depression low, early Ii
1888. but 15,7 below the average fol
1929.
2 Here is the variation in the inde,
for 1929 and subsequent years: 1929
95.3; 1880, 86.4; 1881, 10; 1892, 64
1888. IS; 1884, "a.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

| TODAY.
Bineo party, Potomac Council, Sons
and Daughters of Liberty, 1921 Eighth
street northeast, $50 pm.
Bingo party, Northeast Masonic
Temple. Eighth and F streets north
east, 8 pm.
Meeting, Shepherds Of Bethlehem.
935 G place. 8 pm.
Dance, Chevy Chase Community
Center, Ben Murch School Auditorium,
Thirty-sixth and Ellicott streets, 8
pm.
Dance, Langley Community Center,
First and T streets northeast, 9 pm.
Dance, Fairland Fox Hunting Club,
Broadmoor Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting, Kit Carson Women's Relief
Corps, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Hall, 8 pm.
- TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Harvard Club, University
Club, lis pm.
Meeting, Washington Radio Club,
Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution, Golfers Inn, Eight
eenth street and Columbia road, pm.
Meeting and dance, Texas State So
ciety, Mayflower Hotel, 9 pm.
Dinner dance, Washington Radio
Club, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Meeting, League for the Larger Life,
1414 Sixteenth street, pm.
Dance, Potomac Boat Club, 10 pm.
Dance, Procurement Division Treas
ury Department. Shoreham Hotel, 10
pm.
Meeting. Washington Story League.
Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets,
p!
Meeting, Biological Society of Wash
ington, Cosmos Club, 7:30 pm.
Dance, Young Democrats Club,
Wardman Park Hotel. 10 pm.
Dance, Socialist Labor party, Musi-
clans Hall, 1l05 Sixteenth street, 8
pm.
Dance. Sanico Bakery employees,
Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Dance. George Washington Univer-
sity, Willard Hotel. 10 pm.
Dance, Service Division, P. w. A.,
La Tlyette Hotel, 10 pm.
, Dinner. Federal Schoolmens Club,
Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Bingo party and bazaar. Ladies
Auxiliary, Lambkins Club, Northeast
Masonic Temple. Eighth and F streets
northeast, $50 pm.
Dance. Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority,
Broadmoor Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
ETHIOPIA R0USED
BY ENEMY PUSH
0verIords Distrustful .oi
Each 0ther-StronghoIds
Seized First.
BY LAURENCE STALLINGS.
D.. n lie 70 rrhn Etar

BY Radio to The Star.
HARAR, Ethiopia. November l.
Indications are plain now that the
Italian advance into Ethiopia is de-
signed TO follow British and French
methods in dealing with subject ma
tions-namely, to seize the strong
points, announce that the country has
been conquered, and then spend years
in subjugating the die-hards in the
interior.
Only England's interference can pre-
vent the conquest of Ethiopia by Mus
solini. The Ethiopian overlords are
becoming suspicious of each other,
wondering who will sell out first when
the Italians triumph.
The native forces defending Ogaden
Evening star., 1935-11-01
MILLIONAIRES' END SEEN
DR.. D. S. Freeman, Richmond Ed.

1tor, cites historical Changes,
NEW YORK, November OP).-Dr.
Douglas Southall Freeman. editor Of
the Richmond (Va) News Leader and
Pulitzer prize winning historian, as
serted last night "the downfall of the
American millionaire has been
sounded"
Comparing present changes with
those which followed the American
revolution and the War Between the
States, DR.. Freeman said: "Once
again it appears that the wealthy
classes are to be destroyed.
Great fortunes will be thrown to the
proletarian wolf"
He spoke as president Of the board
Of trustees Of the University of Rich
mond, Va, at a testimonial dinner
given by New York alumni of the in
stitution to DR.. Samuel Chiles Mitch
ell. head Of the history department.
Evening star., 1935-11-01

the Ethiopians to withstand the full
onslaught OF a modern Western ma
ton.
soopyrlsnt; 1898; BY the North American
NeWspaper Alliance, Inc, and Fox
Movietone EeWsJ
Evening star., 1935-11-01

Dance. Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority,
Broadmoor Hotel, 10 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
NAzI TERROR ENCULFS SAAR
The Saar Decision

MAXI terror in the saar the pebte out
II is rampant riding high and wide The heroic
Socialists
Catholic priests slated the hell Of the concentration
torture death.
the to safe
guard" the democratic carrying through of the pebsite refused to
anascsts who threatened
with beangs and repsls they did not vote for return to Fascist
Germany
fact foreign time
leaving the field to Nazi
capitalist throughout the world awing its from the
poison propaganda machine pebscite
approval fascist rule Germany.
This scuou lie The population who for Is had
from their brothers and sisters Germany votednot
for fasm for the bloody henou rule of the Na butchersbut
thousands
with relentless bitterness loved
still the desire to Join their brothers Germany Tens Of thou
knowing that they would then to
cary vi Ce mus oioV ussl1s' az si t eS |
who have brought Germany economic catastrophe to bsbar and
the brink Of mperiast
Germany with the
potent forces continuing sharper forms under
dons the battle for the overthrow of ssc throughout all
Germany
The issue of the return Germany in the saar now showed into
the Hitler against the avalanche
fascist violence brutality and murder becomes the dominant burning
question in the is throughout all of Germany.
will be confronted each
acutely only
fascist rule in the shops IN the factories mines ana IN the trade unions
the will be forced Over
10000 slated for forced labor An equal number marked
for the concentration camps All Of the trade union rights won by the
struggle will be crupled and ampled
with the entry of the Nazi hordes
brings still alarming of the out
the leaders Social
leader; Communist fighters against the
the threatened with death
In the United States must than energetcay
the defense of the Socialists
Catholics despite threats
Hitler his death
immediate the
United States against it?
going precious critical go by
immediate unified ranks against the Na rushing
LIE nti-fascit
fighters in
Let Immediately joint meetings
hnds: Hands off the heroic antifascis in the Saar!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
Communists Call for Support
OF ScOttsbOrO March Saturday

The. CITY, wide Scottsboro parade
and demonstration to be held in
Harlem this Saturday noon, at the
call Of the National Scottsboro-
Herndon Action Committee, was en-
dorsed yesterday by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Com
munist Party.
The action is called to celebrate
the tremendous partial victory
achieved by the worldwide mass
fight in forcing the United States
Supreme Court to agree to review,
for the second time, the death YER
diets against Haywood Patterson
and Clarence Norris.
All members of the Communist
Party, all synnpathizers, all friends
of the Negro people, were urged to
mass at pm. on Saturday at 126tn
Street and Lenox Avenue, in a
call issued by the New York Dis
trict Committee of the Communist
Party in support of the demonstra-
ton. The call directs sections and
units to mobilize their entire men,
bership and all sympathetic organ
izations in tkc.- territory for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16

NEW YORK.-Plans for an inter-
national strike of students to take
place April 5 will be discussed to-
night at the New York School of
Education auditorium by members
of the student delegation which has
just returned from student con-
g-ess held in Brussels.
The strike plan will be embodied
in the general report which the
delegation will deliver on the Bel
gian conference which was at
tended by 500 students from thirty
eight countries, including anti
fascists from Germany, Austria and
Italy, as we'll as a large group from
the Soviet Union.
Serril Gerber, National Student
League delegate from California,
and Morris Milgrim expelled from
City College and delegate from the
League For Industrial Democracy,
will deliver the main report. San
ford Salender official delegate from
New York University, James Nor
genthau of Columbia, Lionel
Florant, Negro delegate from
Howard University, Thomas Russell
of North Carolina University, and
George Edison of New Hampshire
who comprised the American dele
cation. will also speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
u. S. linked.
WITH RACINE
TERROR DRIVE
Co ernm ent Agent
Drove Car for Kid
napers of Communist

RACINE, Wis, Jan. 15-Terorist
attacks on workers and their or
CARNATIONS here during the past
two months have been linked by
sensational exposure TO the Racine
Association of Commerce, American
Legion leaders and an agent of the
United States Department Of JUS
tice.
As result of these revelations,
Nick Bins, "A, Racine gangster
and strong arm man, was arrest
ed in WaukeSha in connection
with the kidnapping of Sam Her
man, Communist organizer. Her
man was seized in broad daylight
on Dec. Ii in a crowded street in
the downtown business section.
His kidnappers flung him into a
car and took him for a ride, with
the announced intention of killing
him and dumping his body in the
river. They demanded to know the
whereabouts of John Sekat, another
Communist organizer, saying "Sekat
is in for the same thing you are
going to get" Sekat was recently
railroaded to Jail on trumped-up
charge.
The linking of the Association of
Commerce and other business
groups to the reign of terror against
the working class. is the dramatic
climax to a skillful investigation
conducted by members of the Mil
waukee branch of the American
League Against War and Fascism,
an enterprising newspaper reporter,
and several liberals.
Bins, the arrested gangster, was
trapped into an admission that he
had been hired by members of the
Association of Commerce to do
(Taaaf;A,,nd nm pdop 01
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16

demonstration. Advance mobilizs-
tions are to be carried out in the
sections, followed by mass march
to the central demonstration in
Harlem.
The District Office of the Inter-
national Labor Defense has also
called on all its branches and af-
f1liated organizations to rally to the
demonstration.
Our partial victory in gaining
new hearings for HAYWOOD Patter-
son and Clarence Norris in the
United States Supreme Court" the
I. L. D. states, SIS only the begin
ming of a real drive to complete
victory. Saturdays demonstration
is the first step"
international Labor Defense
branches and affiliates are urged to
turn out with their banners and
placards. and to approach all or
CARNATIONS in their territory to
unite in this gigantic city-wide &C.
ton for the lives and freedom of
the Scottsboro boys, for the rights
and liberation of the oppressed
Negro Masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
City Hall Plays Football
With the Unemployed
At Relief Investigation

The unemployed of New York
City were again kicked around yes
terday as the Aldermanic commit
tee Investigating relief, punting
deep into Mayor LaGuardia's terri
tory, voted to turn over their find
ings on Precinct 7 of the Home Re-
lief Bureau to the Fire Department,
Department of Sanitation, Tene-
ment House Department and Health
Department.
The bureau, located at q Sheriff
Street in the lower East Side, was
found to be IAN absolute fire
hazard" by testimony revealed at
Mondays session of the committee.
A paint factory, on the third floor of
the building, added to the fire
danger. Turpentine and other in
fiammable liquids soaked through
the floor into the relief office, it was
disclosed The second floor of the
building, built to maintain twenty
five persons has in excess of 800
working on it daily.
The same recommendation was
also made about Precinct 80, at 179
West 135th Street, Harlem. Photo
graphs were introduced into the
testimony Monday showing plaster
(CO1tinued nm Pn0e 2l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
Relief Heads Issue
Order To Starve Out
Southern Marine Men


NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. IS
In order to starve the unemployed
seamen, who are on strike against
the dollar week forced labor on
the relief projects here, has been
issued by the Louisiana Relief Adj
ministration according to reports
which reached here today.
The State administration has is
sued instructions that any one fail
ing to report to work is to be
denied all relief benefits. Strikers
are to be docked for time of and
anyone abosent for three days is to
be refused relief, as well as work
relief, thereafter.
A coastwide strike against forced
labor is being organized by the sea-
men who have carried their protests
to the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
LENIN RALLY
TO Be HELD
AT GARDEN
Earl BrOwder To Speak
On Life and Work
Of Great Leader

What is the revolutionary way out
of the crisis Of unemployment,
poverty and hunger into which de-
csying capitalism has driven the
toiling Negro and white masses?
What is the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat?
These and other fundamental
questions in the teachings of Lenin,
the great leader of the Russian
revolution and teacher of the world
working class, will be fully ex-
planned at the Lenin Memorial
Meeting at Madison Square Garden,
next Monday evening, under the
auspices of the New York District
Of the Communist Party.
The entire program of the meet
ing has been arranged as tribute
to the life and work of Lenin, as
we'll as an answer by New York
workers to the recent attacks on the
Communist Party and the distortion
Of the statements of Lenin by the
Hearst press. and the attempts of
imperialist- Unsupported terrorist bands
against the lives of Soviet leaders,
as dramatically shown in the cow
ardly assassination of Sergei Kirov,
beloved Bolshevik leader.
Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party, who was
in the Soviet Union at the time Of
the Kirov assassination, will give
his first hand observation on the
terrorist plot, as we'll as discuss the
perspectives of struggle for the
American working class. James w,
Ford, Harlem Section Organizer Of
the Communist Party, will speak on
"Lenin and the Negro" Charles
ITu..Is.J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16
Strike Impends at Mill
OF Avondale Company

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Jan. l5.-In
order to prevent an impending
strike in the Avondale Cotton Mill
Donald Conner, the owner, is trying
to form a company union.
The workers i'll this mill now have
less pay and more speedup follow
ing the sell-out by German Of the
general textile strike, and the SEN
timent for strike is strong.
Men who scabbed during the gen
eral strike have joined the company
union, which has in all about sixty
five members.