Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

MAY 28. 1932.

COMMUNISTS OF FARMS, SLUMS ATTEND PARLEY: Moving Stories of Human Distress Are Heard at National Convention. BY RAY BLACK l nited rrru M*ff Corrripondrnt CHICAGO. May 28 —Men and women from factory and forest, farm and slum, talked the creed of Communism today in close-packed People's auditorium, at the national conrention of the Communist party j Che dingy hall on the ground floor j of a three-story building in the west j side's “Little Poland - ' filled early j with some 300 Communists, and at least three times as many more malcontents without party designa- ; tion. It was a strange gathering, a medley of races, of tongues, of beliefs i and of objectives. Can't Make a Living Fiery party leaders stood in groups made up of shoe factory hands from Massachusetts, needle trade workers from New York and Jersey, coal miners from Pennsylvania, cotton g r owcrs from the south, farmer:; from the midwest, lumberjacks irem the north, waitresses, grocery clerks, truck drivers and college professors. There was Fred Hise, 43. a gaunt, bald man with kindly blue eyes. “I used to be a plastering contractor down in Florida,” he said. "The depression came and I lost everything. I took my wife and boy to a twenty-acre farm just outside Davie. Fla., and started raising cow:; and ducks. We can’t make a living. I m not a Communist; I belong to the International Labor Defease. Believes in ( nmmunism ‘ But I believe in communism. I'm ready for any change. I couldn t bo worse of! than I am. If I'd lost my money drinking or gambling, I wouldn't care. But I’ve always worked hard. I have voted Republican and Democratic in the past, but not any more." Claude Patterson. 45, Negro steel , worker from Chattancoga, Tenn., came to the convention because he is the father of Hcywood Patterson, one of the youths under death sentence in the Scottsboro <Ala.) case. My boy would have been exec ted before now if the Communists hadn't protected the weak against the strong.” he said. “My people realize that now. We know who looks out for justice." Patterson works in a steel mill. He gets two days work a week at $2.20 a day. He hitch-hiked to Chicago. Arrives in Truck Julia Sherman. 29, came to the United States from Finland when she was 14. She has been working part time as a waitress in Rock Springs, Wyo. She rode to the convention in an open truck in which fourteen other delegates cam c. “I belong to the International Labor party,” she said. *We believe the only way left for as poor people to get along is to support the policies that the Communist party 1 suggests.'' Bill Marquardt, 27, is a grocery clerk in Oakland. Cal. He has a wife and one child. He came to Chicago on freight trains. “It took me a week to get here,” he related, “because I was kicked off once In California, twice in Nevada, and once in lowa. “I've been % Communist seven months. I used to be a Republican. I changed because I do not believe in the oppression to foreigners and Negroes that the Republican party tolerates. - ’ Sometimes S2O a Day James A. Murphy, 31, Seattle. Wash., was a lumberjack in the northwest forests. He used to make as much as S2O a day. He has beer, out of work two yeais. “Wages up there ?.re down to $1 a day now.” he said. ‘‘There used to be 400.000 of us in the woods. There are 40.000 now. The old line parties brought this on. The Communists can change the system.” From a 300-aere farm in Greeley county, Oklahoma, came Charles J. McDonald, 51, whose four grown rhildrcn live on the farm and help him raise cotton and corn. He has been a farmer in that state twentynine years. 'For every $1 wc get for our produce now. the production cost is 52. - ' he said. ‘T lived better ar.d worried less rwcnty-iivc years ago w hen all I had was a span of mules and a double shovel plow. “I have voted the Democratic and the Socialist tickets. Now I'm lor the Communists. At least half the farmers in my neighborhood believe the same wav. They sent me up here and when money is as scarce as it is now, you can bet a man oelieved in what he spends it for.” R. 0. T. C. HOLDS OVER De Tauw I'nit Will Hold Assembly cn Alumni Day. Uy Time* Special GREEN CASTLE. Ind., May 28 De Pauw university alumni, returning to the campus for commencement this year, will have opportunity of seeing the R. O. T. C. unit in its final retreat assembly Alumni day, Saturday, June 4. This will be the first time that the final formation ever has been held late in the semester. The unit, in the past, always has been disbanded before the commencement crowd arrives in June. THREE HELD IN ATTACK Woman Charges Group Kidnaped and Then Robbed Her. Three Negroes accused by Mrs. Ann Bostick. 908 East Fifteenth street, are held by police today on charges of criminal attack and robbery. They are Douglas Morris, 23, of 234 West St. Clair street; George Neal. 31. of 1841 Harlan place, and Nehcmiah Farrell, 38. of 522 West Michigan street. She told police the men kidnaped her in au automobile Friday and after attacking her, took a purse containing $2.50. Here's all you have to do to win as much as SIOO in th TIMES SALES SLIP Contest: 1. Save your sales slip. 2. Write 25 words. S. Mail them to as.

Lad, Cussed Out of War, Now Is Guarding Pals on Final March

Willie Cooper Was 15 When Sent Home, But He Came Back. BY ARCH STEINEL The boy who got cussed out of the army in 1861—for being too youngnow guards that army on its Last March. And as he sits white-haired beside a window in Fort Friendly, 512 North Illinois street, and watches the street pass by, he sees, too, in phantom, the 115 graves in the last three years of men of the G. A. R. that he has honored with the ritual of the dead. The boy was ‘‘Willie” Cooper, 15. The man is Will H. Cooper, 87, of 329 North Ritter, commander of the George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, of the G. A. R. and candidate for department commander of Indiana at the department's convention in Richmond, Ind., in June. His job of reading last rites of the Grand Army of the Republic for Marion county’s Civil war veterans has softened his soldierly face. ‘Going Fast Now’ He took that job when time, feeble limbs, ennui at the increasing number of funerals, kept his comrades from accompanying their brothers-m-arms to the last tenting ground. ‘ We couldn’t get enough veterans to attend the funerals. You sec there're only about sixty-five or seventy of the boys left in the county. So three years ago the Grand Army League gave me the job of handling the funerals for the various posts. I’ve read the rituals at about 115 so far. They're going fast now,” his eyes fastened on the parade of street traffic and maybe on another parade, too. “My first cussing let me out of the army in 1861. Colonel Cruff of Terre Haute sent me home because I was too young. He was the first person that ever gave me a cussing. But a year later, with some more kids, I joined the Fifty-fifth Indiana and wound up the war as orderly sergeant for Company H of the old Forty-third. He was with a group of “kids,” as he calls them, that tried to catch the Morgan raiders. He was on the Red river expedition in the southwest. and at the Battle of Pine Bluff in Arkansas. Occupation of the southwest was not without its humor. Only Two Left “One woman,” he related, “while we were foraging for food, seemed surprised at our appearance and physique. She said, 'Why I thought the Yanks had tails like monkeys.’ But they treated us nice for the most part when we sought food. They had to.” Cooper’s stepfather, the Rev. J. R. Sinclair, was captain of the underground railway that smuggled slaves out of the south. He says there are only two of his company left at encampment roll calls. “Most of them are buried in Indiana or far out in the southwest,” he said. An old muzzle-loader that he salvaged from his “Rid - ’ days in the war is one of Cooper's prized possessions. It's “heft” fits the shoulder of the man better than it did the softer I bones of the boy who was cussed out of the army but wouldn't let it keep him from war. Usefulness Is Ended Its usefulness is at an end and only the G. A. R. book of rituals and a Bible feel the fingering of the hand that once drew a bead with it. “Yes, Just about sixty-five of us left in the county and I'm one of them this Memorial day,” and the boy of '6l became a man and walked stalwartly out of the fort's room to help a daughter of one of his “comrades” find someone In the building who ate out of the same mess-tin with her dead father—a father with whom Cooper had walked on the Last March. FORM NEW DRY GROUP The Saracens Sponsored by Stagg, Chicago U. Grid Coach. By United Prct* CHICAGO, May 28.—Sponsored by Alonzo A. Stagg. football coach of the University of Chicago, The Saracens, anew dry organization organized to combat the militant wet Crusaders has been formed, and will seek a national membership.

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Booze Charges Are Placed Against Trio After Road Crash. Traffic accidents Friday night re- ] suited in injury to eight persons, three of whom were arrested on booze charges, police said today. Ray Oliver, 26. of 1861 North j Dexter avenue, is held at Methodist j hospital on charges of drunkenness 1 and driving while dmnk after the auto he was driving crashed headon into another driven by Walter Huber, 40, of Knightstown, in the 400 block North Rural street. William Williams, 30, of 1027 North Rural street, and Miss Opal Ford, 28, of 1258 College avenue, passengers in Oliver’s car were cut and bruised severely and also are being held at Methodist hospital for being drunk. Oliver is said to have admitted that the party had been to a roadhouse beer party. Walks Into Auto A fractured ankle was incurred by Howard Sample, 24, of 1262 West Thirty-fifth street, when he walked into the side of an auto driven byPhilip Rueff, 25, of 330 North Addison street, at Harding street and Burdsal parkway, late Friday night. Harold Hadley, 8. of 815 North Grant street, was injured slightly when he was struck by a car driven by Grover Hamilton, 710 North Bradley avenue, near his home. Bruises on the legs and knees were suffered by Mary Hall, 27, of 1008 j Cornell avenue, when she was struck by a car driven by Owen Green, 1010 Congress avenue, at Tenth street and Massachusetts avenue. Hurled Thirty Feet Struck by the machine of motorcycle patrolman Carl F. Johnson as the officer was chasing a speeder Friday night on Michigan street near Belmont avenue, Mrs. Mary ; Hood, Negro, 38, of 535 West Michigan street, was hurled thirty feet, but incurred only minor bruises. The speeder escaped. Mrs. A. Comer, 3528 North Illinois street, is in Methodist hospital today suffering from head cuts incurred Friday night in a collision at , Twenty-second street and Capitol | avenue. INFIRMARY IS CLOSED D Pauw Will Use Putnam County Hospital for Students. By Timet Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 28. De Pauw university has abolished its infirmary for students and in the future will use the facilities of the Putnam County hospital. The old infirmary building will be remodeled j and made into a residence for students and used as a dormitory annex. The growing need for immediate and better cars of students who become ill or were injured was given as the reason for the change. Cost of upkeep and equipping a college infirmary was greater than for the university to pay a part of the hospital bill for students in need o medical care. Under the new plan, the university will be furnished with a graduate nurse for school purposes with regular hours at the dormitories. She will be under supervision of the county hospital. Win Safety Pennant Kingan & Cos. has been awarded a safey pennant by the Institute of American Meat Packers for a record of no lost-time accidents, it was announced today. Twenty-five other participating members of the institute also were recipients of pennants.

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PRIZE AWARDED FOR LETTER ON CONCERT Gray Burdin Wins $lO for Review of "Nutcracker Suite.” The $lO first prize for the best letter on the free concert of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, May 5, has been awarded Gray Burdin, 605 West Twenty-ninth street, it has been announced by symphony officials. Burdin s letter was centered on Tchaikowsky’s * ‘Nutcracker Suite.” First honorable mention in the prize letter contest went to Miss Elizabeth Carlyle, 330 West Forty-fourth street, for her letter on Wagner’s “Introduction to the Third Act of Meistersinger.” Second honorable mention was awarded Miss Margaret Biltz, 2063 South Meridian street, for her letter on Mozart’s “Hurdy Gurdy.” Many entries were received by symphony officials and they hope to make the contest an annual event. Representatives from each of the local newspapers were Judges in the contest. MINERS TO ASSEMBLE 15,000 Expected at Session in Clinton, Ind., Tuesday. t!;i United l‘rc*x TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 28. Nearly. 15,000 union miners in Illinois and Indiana were expected to attend the mass meeting to be held at Clinton, Ind., Tuesday, according to word received at union headquarters here today. In a telegram sent to all union locals in the two states John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, urged that the men make the meeting a “constructive contribution toward stability of the mine union.” He also asked the men to demand dissolution of an injunction secured by District 12 leaders in Illinois preventing the Illinois miners from combining with the Indiana organization in seeking wage contracts. T. J. LEEHEY IS DEAD Former Local Resident Succumbs After Long Illness. Timothy J. (Ted) Leehey, 70, died in Greencastle Friday after a long illness. Burial will take place there Monday morning. He was a resident of Indianapolis many years before moving to Greencastle about a year ago and was &c----tfVe In the real estate business. Leehey was best known over the state as a salesman In the old “drummer” days. The widow survives him. Child Killed by Auto FT. WAYNE. Ind., May 28.—Patricia Luegring, 7, was killed late Friday by an automobile which struck her as she attempted to run across the st-eet near her home. It was the eighth automobile fatality in Ft. Wayne this year.

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DALE IS GIVEN RIGHT TO QUIZ U. S. PRISONER Perjury Confession Sought From Negro Held Here on Federal Charge. By United Prct* WASHINGTON, May 28.—District Attorney George Jeffrey, in Indianapolis, was advised by wire Friday from the office of Assistant-Attor-ney General G. A. Youngquist that the department of justice “sees no objection” to permitting an interview of Thomas Duncan by defense counsel in the Muncie alleged conspiracy case. George R. Dale, mayor Muncie, who was found guilty, together with Police Chief Frank Massey and eight others in Indianapolis federal court last week, today was on his way back home by auto with Massey and W. A. McClellan, Muncie attorney. Perjury Is Charged Dale and McClellan told justice department officials Friday that they had good reason to believe that Duncan was ready “to confess his perjury” as a government witness in the conspiracy trial and “make a clean breast of his part in the frame-up.” They said that they wanted to procure a statement from Duncan, who is held on a prohibition charge as a federal prisoner in Indianapolis. They said that they had been denied their legal right to question Duncan, except under circumstances that constituted intimidation of the prisoner by the government. They said they had asked to interview Duncan in the presence of representatives of the government, but that Jeffrey had insisted that the prohibition agents and deputy marshals who took part in the prosecution be permitted to remain in the room. Bullying Is Alleged They said that these agents and deputies had "bullied and threatened” Duncan to the extent that the prisoner was afraid to speak the truth in their presence. Upon Dale’s request, Jeffrey was wired that the department “sees no objection” to the interview of Duncan without presence of any prohibition agents or deputy marshals Gates and Holmes. And then it was added that the matter, however, was within Jeffrey’s discretion. Dale wants to secure from Duncan a confession of perjury to use as a basis for a motion for anew trial. PUBLIC ENEMY ASKS DETECTIVE’S ARREST Charges Sleuth’s Men Always Are Seizing Gangsters; IMea Denied. By United Pres* CHICAGO, May 28.—Chief of Detectives William Schocmaker is going to be allowed his liberty for a while longer, even if his men do go about arresting gangsters. This was assured when Judge Thomas A. Green refused to issue a warrant for Schoemaker’s arrest on the complaint of Lawrence (Dago) Mangano, public enemy and Capone gangster. Counsel for Mangano said Schoemaker’s men always were arresting the gangster, but never filed any charge against him, and wanted the chief of detectives jailed for false imprisonment. Experiments are being made to protect smokers against nicotine by producing a tobacco plant containing very little of the poison.

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Among graduates of Crawfordsville high school who received diplomas Thursday night was Lloyd Armstrong, who is nearly blind when he removes his glasses, but who, without them, played in thirty-six footbill games during his high school career. He plans to attend Purdue university and hopes to make the football team. He has completed his grade and high school courses in eleven years. While a freshman in Washington high school here, Armstrong, now 17, and weighing 210 pounds, wanted to play football. The coach said that because of poor sight, it couldn’t be done. But Armstrong did. He became a resident of Crawfordsville three years ago and has since been a student in the high school of that city and a member of the football team. Armstrong’s eyes have been weak since early childhood. Doctors say his ailment is Incurable, but the condition will not change —he will see neither better nor worse.

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LARGEST LINER TAKES TO SEA Manhattan Makes Its Trial Run Off Capes. By United Pee** PHILADELPHIA. May 28 The largest ship ever launched in this country, the liner Manhattan, moved down the Delaware river toI day, bound for the Delaware bay i ;apes, in her “shakedown" cruir.\ Launched Dec. 5 at tt*e yard- of 1 the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, N. J„ when it was christened by Mrs. Edith Kei - mit Roosevelt, widow of the former President, the Manhattan will ho placed in trans-Atlantic passenger service about Aug. 1 by the United States Lines. The liner will return to the Philadelphia navy yard for final conditioning after today's trial run. Captain George Gelser, hero of i many a thrilling north Atlantic resj cue, has been put in command of | ihe ship. He had a crew of 400 on I today's cruise. The Manhattan cost $10,000,000. 1 is 705 feet long, has 34.500 short horse power, displacement of 32,000 tons and a speed of twenty knots. She will, accommodate 1,300 passengers. Formrr Postmaster Dead By United Pet** VINCENNES. Ind., May 28 -J. W. Emison, 68, active for many years in Republican politics, died here of injuries he suffered May 9 in an automobile accident. He was postmaster here for eight years and was a trustee of De Pauw university.