Evening star., 1936-10-21
bROWDER IN FEAR
Of MOBWARN|NC
Red Changes Hotel Room
After Being Showered
With Eggs.
Hy the Associated Press.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, October 2l.-
Earl Browder. Communist candidate
for President. changed rooms in &
hotel here today after receiving a
warning. he said, from Police Chief
James c. Yates that a mob might
attempt to ride him out of town"
Police were stationed about the hotel,
but there was no congregation in the
vicinity. Meanwhile the Communist
candidate inveighed against the crowd
that laid down the rotten-egg and
ripe-tomato barrage last night which
drove him from the radio station
where he was scheduled TO deliver q
party address.
Wearing suit spattered with stains,
Browder, breakfasted in the hotel with
party associates, to whom he said:
Who led the mob which prevented
me from getting into the station to
make my radio address last night?
That is the question.
Recognized Several.
I'VE think we can establish that.
When I tried to get into the doorway
leading to the station ! recognized
several people. I shook hands with
H. C. Collins, secretary of the Vigo
County Law and Order League, and
was he nonplussed?
Il also saw in the crowd B. F. Small,
one OF the attorneys appearing for the
defense in the injunction case which
I had in court here yesterday"
Browder said he planned to remain
in Terre Haute until disposition of the
injunction case in which he asked a
court order to prevent interference by
local authorities with his plan to speak
here. A hearing was held yesterday,
but the case was taken under advise
ment by Judge Albert Owens.
Browder now has pending in the
courts here damage suits for 0.0Oo
against local officials, based on his
arrest three weeks ago on a vagrancy
charge when he came here for a first
attempt to deliver radio address.
Tells What He Meant to Say.
Browder earlier released for publica-
ton the speech he was unable to
make. In it he urged the American
people to stamp out the tyranny
which Hearst, the Liberty League and
the Republican party seeks to estab.
lish," also directing a shaft at Presi.
dent Roosevelt with:
I'VE Communists have repeatedly
told labor leaders, progressives and lib
erals, that they cannot rely upon
Roosevelt to save the country from
Hearstism. The only way to keep him
from making a deal with the Liberty
Leaguers is thrAOgh independent or
ganization and independent action Of
the people against their greatest
enemy, Wall street"
The candidate was to have given
his speech here at IL o'clock last
night, but an hour before the time
for the address the street in front of
the radio station and the stairWays
leading to the studio we're jammed
with citizens.
Meets Barrage.
When Browder arrived in a taxicab,
the shower of eggs and tomatoes start.
ed. When he saw 1t was impossible to
enter the station, he went back to
his hotel.
The injured included Harold Harris
of Louisville. KY. an Associated Press
photographer, struck several times as
he attempted to take picture of the
crowd His camera was knocked from
his hands.
During the disturbance tiny, 5-foot
girl, Miss Sylvia Penner of Indianap-
oils who said she was Communist
party worker" crowded into a hall
leading to the station studio and Of
fered to substitute for Browder.
Station officials turned down her
offer, however, on advice of attorneys.