The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1929, Page 1

' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. V., No. 329 Published dnily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. "SUBSCRIPT out NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1929 MEXICAN LABOR ROUSED AT THE » MELLA MURDER Committee Organizing | New Trade Union Center Acts Says U. S. Responsible Machado a Mussolini of Latin America MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12 (By Mail) —wWith the Mexican masses trem- bling with rage at the assassination of Julio A. Mella, Cuban Commu- ist leader shot down in the streets of the Mexican capital the night of | January 11, the Committee of Pro- letarian Defense, which has been or- ganizing the trade unions and peas- atts for a national unity congress to be held January 25, has issued a call to all labor organizations to unite in effective protest against the niur-| der of Mella by the agents of Yan- kee imperialism acting as the gov- ernment of Cuba. The Committee’s declaration reads as follows: “Julio Antonio Mella, valiant fight- er for the proletariat known through- out the entire world, has fallen, as- sassinated in a criminal ambush pre- pared by agents of the most bestial tyranny that shames the earth, Hired agents of Gerado Machado, president of the Republic of Cuba, have taken the life of the brave, young fighter, , “The gunmen who have sown ter- ror and desolation in the ranks of labor in the unhappy Cuban repub- lic, exported to Mexico, think to silence the class conscious workers Imperialists to Build 15 More Warships Like This This is the warship Utah, on which Hoover returned from his imperialist cruise to’ Latin-America. The 15-cruiser bill, which is now before Congress and will shortly be passed, provides for the construc- tion of 15 more high-power battleships. will shortly proceed to bear more “good-will” to Latin-America. The whole fleet is now in maneuvers in the Canal Zone and FINAL CITY EDITION ~ Price 3 Cents GROVER WHALEN TAXI RULES CUT | DRIVERS? WAGES Hackmen Not Allowed to Get Into Theatre Zone Forced Down 9th Ave. \Chaffeurs’ Union Protest Statement | | | in Hundreds of taxi-drivers with re- jturn calls were unable to get into |the theatre zone last night. The) 1,9 ages rccime of tenement first results of Police Commissioner | "0 died were Lou-s Blake, 60; Whalen’s loudly touted man to| @-law, Mrs. Mary Blake, who wer 3 three were killed ard others in t |“‘speed traffic in the theatre zone”) //70 | was the loss of thousands of dollars | _‘"® /"7nace- HARLEM REVELS Pay Tribute to Lenin at Man Vy HERE TONIGHT ict Meets Workers of All Races| A : MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Jan, 21.— to Show Solidarity |Country-wide meetings in commem- ny Z 7 | oration of the fifth anniversary of Tonight at the Renaissance Casino, | the death of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin, 138th St. and Seventh Ave., dancing | i a feet will twinkle a merry message Fed beleae ss of the Bolshevik Party end solidarity and fraternity as thou-| sands of workers of all races join in| the gigantic solidarity labor demon- h stration dance and concert: of the|"° tion, were begun today. is intimately known to ‘WORKER SLOGANS: FLOOD SHANGHAI \Imperialists, Military, | FearCommunistsGrow SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 21 | Foreign imperialist and native mili- p day " | government are alike badly worried stead of being allowed to go down | Pictures of Vladimir Illyitch, as | over the powerful recuperative pow-|to Fosty-fourth, he was forced to| the ers of the Chinese labor movement go to \to hard working taxi drivers. Private cars could enter the theatre zone, the richest class of customers was taken care of. But taxis could not get into the author- ized public hack stands even, in the theatre zone to hack, tho the ban | was theoretically applied to cruis- jing cabs only, | One taxi driver, interviewed by the Daily Worker, reported that he took a fare from Fiftieth and Park the leader of the Russian Revolu- |tarist officials of the Kuomintang | Ave. to a theatre on Forty-fifth. In- inth Ave., down Ninth to American Negro Labor Congress and | ™A88es) have been erected in the |and the growth of the Communist | Thirty-eighth, on it to Sixth Ave. up the Negro Champion. | principal Soviet buildings and labor Large blocks of tickets have been | "ion centers in every city and vil- purchased by many Negro organiza- |lage in the Soviet Union, Tomorrow tions and a record turnout is ex-| the Moscow proletariat will com- pected. Of the thirty boxes in the |™memorate the death of their great hall, twenty-eight were sold when leader on the Red Syiiare before this edition went to press. Organi-,the Jenin Mausoleum, where their zations which have purchased boxes | Present leaders will speak. and will have their banners and slo- The anniversary is by no means Party in China. They gather in their offices and literature and posting of Communist | sections of the city. executions without trial of “sus- | Sixth to Fortieth St, and then forced over to Fifth Ave. Alto- \clubs and plan futilely to stop the | gether miles out of his way, and in| |enormous distribution of Communist | money lost, at least two short fares. | gent-elect Hoover left today for Arrests were expected, later on in |greater, and the police more un- loitation were buried Sunday. Those is wife, Yetta, and their daughter- ¢ overcome by coal gas fumes, The he house made ill by fumes from NEEDLE WORKERS WILL BUILD STRIKE MACHINE, HOOVER ORDERS — MORROW TO COME May Replace Kellogg; Suggest Stimson, Too WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Presi- Miami, to make his headquarters in |placards in all the working class | the evening, when the pressure grew the palace and great estate of J. C. Penny, millionaire chain store owner. There are daily raids, arrests and | reasonable. Whalen himself directed Orders went out by wire to Dwight his Czarist maneuver from “Booth W, Morrow to meet him there. Mor- Active members of the new indus- trial union of needle workers in this city will assemble tonight in Web- ster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., in order to establish the strike ap- paratus for the general strike in the dressmaking industry, in which the workers will,go on the offensive in a struggle for both the organiza- tion of the trade and the establish- ment of union conditions. The meet- ing will be composed of cloakmakers, dressmakers and furrier The meeting tonight, constituting | the most conscious elements of al fighting organization, after discus- | sing the preparations made, will con. stitute themselves into a huge rank. and-file organization committee for SENATE SECRET VOTEPUTS WEST IN THE CABINET Insull’s Power Trust Agent Is Secretary of the Interior In Two Graft Scandals Wife Has Edison Stock; Aided Land Grab WASHINGTON, 21—The ‘nomination of Roy O. West, an agent of the Insull power trust, selected by President Coolidge to fill out a Jan. term in the administration as sec- retary of the interior, firmed today by the se three days of secret y a vote which is said on good author- ity to have been 54 to 27. After the vote a motion was made e public the roll call, but this as defeated and the senate became involved in a row over procedure. Opponents of the nomination con- tended the vote should be published by the secretary of the senate. Defeated in their first motion, the ;opponents then moved that the vote by which their motion was defeated be made public. This was also lost. The vote on confirmation was taken in closed executive session at 2:30 p. m., in accordance with an agreement adopted Saturday. Holds Power Stock. West admitted before the senate land committee that the Chicago law firm, of which he is a member, had taken heavy fees from Insull as late jas last year, and for some time be- the strike ahead, |fore had been on their payroll, also Continued on Page Three Electi Call, Klection ail. gans on display are: a purely commemorative one. ce (Continued on Page Five) ;13” at Broadway and Seventh Ave. yow is American ambassador to The Haitian Patriotic Union; Ne- gro Workers’ Relief Committee; American-West Indian Benevolent |Society; All-American Anti-Imperial- list League; Architectural Bronze and Iron Workers’ Union; Chinese SHIELD FULLER |the mass meetings and memorial ex- ercises will offer the opportunity to | further mobi! the Soviet masses |to the construction of Socialism in |the path of Lenin and to the defense | \of the Soviet Union against the im- POLICE CHARGE The business interests of the city, | Mexico, and partner in the House of jand many of the theatre owners, |Morgan until he went thru the form | | profess themselves satisfied with the jof resigning his Morgan affiliations |situation. But the taxi drivers,|to represent the Morgan crowd in | beaten out of their regular earnings | Mexico. by the needs for front page space | Morrow Secy. of State. i INLIBEL CASE Tiial of Harry Cantor Starts Today (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Jan. 21—In a move to protect ex-Governor Fuller and pre- vent him from being put on the stand and grilled on his part in the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, Chief Justice Walter Perley Hall, of the Superior Court, here today denied a motion for continuance made by the defense in the trial of Harry J. Can- tor on a charge of criminal libel. Cantor, who was Workers (Com- | munist) Party candidate for secre- Workers’ Alliance; District Negro Committee; The Freiheit; The Daily Worker; Harlem Educational Forum; Harlem Tenants League; Institute | for Social Study; International La- bor Defense; Japanese Workers’ As- sociation; Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; New Masses; New} York Federation of Working Wom-| en; Office Workers’ Union; Proletcos | Co-operative; Spanish Workers’ | Club; Students’ Literary Association; | Trade Union Educational League; | Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, | will include thousands of speeches |episode in the class struggle. On) Local 8; Women’s Day Workers devoted to the ideals of Lenin. Fac- |January 13, a mass meeting, called| |League; Workers Party, District 2; | tories, clubs and theatrcs will be the |py the National Miners’ Union, and Workers Party, Section 4, District | 2; Workers’ International Relief; | |Workers School; Young Workers | (Communist) League. | An excellent program has been perialist powers, eke ed | “(United Press) | MOSCOW, Jan. 21.—The Soviet | government started today a wide | campaign to advance and reinforce | the policies of Vladimir llyitch | Lenin. The campaign, launched on | the fifth anniversary of Lenin’s | death, will continue for severa! days. | The brief but vigorous campaign | scenes of meetings and the entire | radio system will be turned over to | propagating Communist policies, Newspapers have prepared to de- PITTSTON RALLY New Mine Union Meet Broken Up PITTSTON, Pa.,, Jan. 21.—The scene of the murders of Alex Camp- |bell, Thomas Lillis, Pete Reilly, new rules as being aimed exclusive Frank Bonita, and Jacob Loyack, was again the background for a’ in attended by several thousand, was broken up by the police. | The Armory Hall, on South Main [ts Work Street, was rented, and the money which Police Commissioner Grover | The visit revives rumors that Mor- | Whalen feels he must have for polit- yow will be appointed secretary of \ical purposes, are not satisfied at state-py.Hoover. “Nervous Nellie” jae: i . |Kellogg cannot be fired without com- | A meeting last week of the Taxi promising the Coolidge administra- Chauffeurs Union of Greater New |tion, but his many mistakes in office + York has issued the following state- “ang the general lack of respect for | ment: : : jhim which diplomats feel makes it | “Since other vehicles will not be advisable to get rid of him. The ae change of administration provides a ©’Y |favorable opportunity. at them and the forerunner of like “Another set of rumors connects (Continued on Page Two) ' Henry Stimson with the job. ae Stimson is now Governor General o: =| the Philippines, and was s Negro Labor Congress ji yor in Tatts cabinet ; ‘Organizer Stimulates American foreign policy leads . straight to war, he is considered in Seattle | very available for the post of secre- = tary of state. His former law part- much affected, cab-men view vote many columns of space to the |paid to the owner, George J. Rut- tary of state, was arrested with |@tranged for the occasion, including 20 other workers during an election ne alegre Os agit cera i ; Nov. 3. ‘Johnson’s Negro . campelyn, Gomeucenen On, NOY {conducted by Hall Johnson himself; While the others were charged with | campaign and to discussions of Len- ledge. The speakers announced were inism, summarizing the trend of |Anthony Minerich, National Miners events in Russia during the last five | organizer in this district, Carlo Tres- jyears. The Central Committee of ja, editor of Il Martello, Mike Zaldo- SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 21.—The |ner, Elihu Root, had breakfast with entrance of Otto Hall, field organ-| Hoover a few days ago, and the ap- \izer of American Negro Labor Con- | pointment of Stimson was discussed. |gress into the Seattle district Work with Hoover. A call to general participation in the elections was issued by the United Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union r urging the wor! yate their confiden union of the needle t wo) /nd in thé general strike"W wilt Pall in the dress industry, the tochnical instructions are announced. All furriers are told to cast their votes in the Furriers Joint Board Building, 22 E, 22nd St. All ladies garment workers polling will be done at either the union headquar- te at 16 W. 21st St. or in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. Vot- ing will take place between the hours of & a, m. and 7 p, m. | At these elections, officers and 1 other functionaries of the United vint Board and of all locals will be elected. In calling the meeting of the shop delegates conference, which is to be held the day of the elections, im- mediately after work, the union also issued instructions to the workers on | kers to dein- sauntering and loitering, an addi- tional charge of criminal libel was | brought against Cantor, based on the fact that he carried a sign: “Gov. Fuller Is the Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti.” The International Labor Defense, which is defending Cantor, plans to reopen the entire Sacco-Vanzetti case and to make a national issue of this attempt to victimize a mili- tant worker. William Thompson, for several years chief attorney for Sacco and Vanzetti, and other im- portant witnesses, many of whom were originally not permitted to tes- tify, will be called by the defense in an effort to prove that Governor Fuller, acting as the agent of the capitalist class, was the murderer of the two Italian workers. Want Fuller on Stand. The defense also decided to sub- poena Fuller as a material witness and for this purpose asked that the trial be postponed. Tho such a re- quest is nearly always granted in ordinary cases, Chief Justice Hail hastened to shield Fuller by denying it at once. Thej justice, to show his “impar- tiality,” gave the defense time to prepare a new affidavit this after- noon, The trial will open tomorrow morning. The International Labor Defense is calling on all class-cons- cious workers and workers’ organ- izations to back its fight to save Cantor. Should he be convicted, he may be sentenced to ten years’ im- prisonment. . INDICT BANK HEADS. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 21 (UP).— Paul A. Perus, former treasurer of the St. Paul Federal Land Bank and _ ,Thomas 0. Ofsthun, his assistant, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government. Defal- cations were said to amount to more than $1,000,000. TAMPA, Fla, (By Mail).—Police- man J. E. Barrington resigned to- day to avoid questioning on violation of the lhquor law cases, The cases will be dropped for lack of evidence. Paul and Thelma Meeres, tango dan- cers of Connie’s Inn Revue; Doris | . % ; Rheubottom, songbird of the Alham- ted see niah aes fs spread ar bra; Elizabeth Welsh, one of the most | popular members of “Blackbirds,” | and one or two numbers from the ex- cellent revue of Club Harlem. 8:30. After the program there will | will be urged to use modern farm | be more dancing. Jazz of the weird- methods to increase production and est, most irresistible sort will be dis- to co-operate closely with the city pensed by the Vernon Andrade Ren- | populations. aissance Orchestra, which means the | jazz N Harl furnish. ee pov elkorn of ail races are urged to Workers Int'l Relief to Show Film of Big show their solidarity a eer workers by attending the Harlem) % : x Mine Strike in Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—The local Revels Solidarity Demonstration | Workers’ International Relief is pre- Dance tonight. 2 WORKERS KILLED. _ Re es gae eee aah tata paring to present the remarkable employes of the Schultze Baking film of the great miners’ struggle, Company, were killed on he hard |The Miners’ Strike!” This picture, road two miles north of Peoria, when Made on the field of struggle, pro- the truck in which they were riding jvides a living record of the heroic | fight of thousands of coal miners kidd ten-foot | ee inaies Pre a vanstool against the bosses, the police and ‘the union betrayers, | MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (By Mail) | The mine explosion at Mather, Pa., —Four Negroes will die here on the;mass picketing in violation of the) prison farms in the electric chair.|injunction, the senate “investiga-| They are all convicted of murder tion,” leaders of the National Miners’ fense, and Guido Serio, of the Anti- Fascist Alliance. When the speakers attempt to hold the meeting there was made, the cops broke it up. Big Mella Protest Meeting Friday in New Harlem Casino The workers of New York will voice a mighty protest at the mur- der of Julio Mella, Cuban Commu- nist, by agents of the Wall Street- controlled Machado regime at a big mass meeting Friday evening at 8 at New Harlem Casino, 11€th St. and Lenox Ave. The speakers will include Robert |Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, Norman Tallentire, assistant national secretary of the International Labor Defense, Clarence A. Hathaway, edi- tor of Labor Unity, Cecili, Mella, and the sentences were given after a hasty trial with inadequate evi- dence. Union are all shown in this picture. The time and place of its showing will be announced in the near future. DEPORTING MEXICANS Hundreds Expelled on 24 Hours’ Notice MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21.—An in- dication of what the wonderful new “friendship” between the imperialist government of the United States and the Mexican government of Portes Gil means for the Mexican people, is seen in news arriving here from border towns of Texas, telling of hundreds of Mexican workers and their families being victimized by Yankee authorities, Not only are the usual brutalities of race-prejudiced Americans in- flicted on Mexican workers along the border, but as a result of the encouragement given the United States government by the recent at- tac’: of the convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor on Mexi- can immigrants, and with further passivity toward American im- erialism by the new Mexican ad- ministration, the Yankee immigra- tion officials are rounding up hun- dreds of Mexican working class Continued on Page Three TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! “HARLEM brother of Julio Mella. Ruiz Slavin, of the Spanish Bureau, Workers (Communist) Party, Luis Martinez, of the Spanish section, N. Y. branch \of the All-America Anti-Imperi: League, and ilaniet Silverman, sec- \tetary of the N. Y. branch of the Anti-Imperialist League. Albert Mo- \reau, secretary of the Latin Amvr- ican section of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, will be chairinan. The meeting will be held under the Y. branch of the All-America Anti- ers (Communist) Party. GARFIELD PASSENGERS LAND. NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 21 from the steamer President Garfield, standed off the Florida coast, were ‘landed at Nassau at noon today, ac- cording to wireless reports reaching | ist | auspices of the Spanish section, N.| Imperialist League, the N. Y. branch | of the League and District 2, Work- | (UP).—The 83 passengers taken! |the Communist Party has outlined |kas, of the International Labor De-|o¢ the American Negro Labor Con-| Work accom igiven great stimulus to the activities) Former Secretary of Interior Choosing their representatives for es Hoover on this conference. Besides taking up gress work here. special train South. Work is chair-|Vatious phases of their tasks in the On Saturday, Hall addressed a Speakers at factory gatherings |#trived, the hall door was locked and | meeting of more than 1,000 Negro mittee. He is will emphasize the necessity of re- |the owner refused to let. them 22; workers. Pointing ,to the conditions ducing cperating expenses and elim- referring them to the labor-hating now existing in the United States of Oklahoma Ci The program will begin at eleven | inating waste of time in the struggle |Mayor Gillespie. The thousands of segregation, lynching, Jim Crowism Attorney G a rgent D o'clock, but dancing will start at|against bureaucracy. The peasants | Workers who congregated outside a5 applied to Negroes and other op-|a grand jury investigation which ; the hall and were refused admittance, pressed races, Hall contrasted this | w: then marched in a body to City Park condition with the position of Negro Former Secretary of Interior Fall on Broad Street. As soon a8 an workers and other minority races and| complicity in Indian land frauds. nationalities in the Soviet Union, \‘where to be a worker means free- ‘dom.” On Sunday evening, Hall addressed lan overflow crowd of workers at the Seattle Workers’ Forum, on “Progress in the Soviet Union.” |Many workers had to be turned away for lack of room. Monday evening, lata meeting held on the “Skidroad” lin Seattle, Hall addressed another large meeting. ‘Many Workers Seeing Duncan Dance Troupe The performances of the Isadora |Dunean Dancers at Wallack’s Thea- | tre, 42d St., west of Broadway, con- tinue to arouse great interest. Hun- dreds of workers are seeing them two, three and even more times, finding the art of these youthful! Soviet dancers an inexhaustible | source of delight. | Irma Duncan, adopted daughter | and favorite pupil of the great Isa- | dora, is herself leading this troupe | of prize pupils of the, famous Isa-| dora Duncan School in Moscow, The | programs this week consist of the troupe’s best numbers, including the | remarkable “Impressions of Revo-_ lutionary Russia.” Matinee per- formances will be given Thursday, | Saturday and Sunday. The Sun-| day afternoon appearance will be the last, after which the dancers will |leave for a tour of the country. FUMES KILL TWO. MECHANICSBURG, Pa., Jan. 21 |(UP).—Fumes escaping from a gas \heater in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Home here killed Carl H.| Eckels, 40, war veteran, and John |Barker, 64, a farmer, today. strike mobilization, the conference is to elect one-third of the entire Joint Selby, of | Board delegation, This is in con- ring with formity with the intentions of the 1 Sargent to block NeW union to build the organization on the shop delegate system. The one-third quota is decided on as a transition stage of the Joint Board composition. The instructions tell the workers to hold shop meetings and choose their regularly accredited delegates to this conference. The conference n national com- used by U. S. man of the republics stant attorn leading to the indictment of ‘Chicago Police Chief | Apes Whalen; Arrests 3,394 in a SinSle Day | CHICAGO, Jan. 21—Police Com- missioner Russell, worried over the \front page fame of “Gorgeous Grov- ‘er” Whalen, head of the Tammany police in New York, has resorted to similar publicity stunts. After a grandiose interview, in which he stated, “The Chicago police will block the crime wave” his men ar- | rested 3,394 men yesterday. Today | | they are to pass in review before | 5,000 policemen, who have been told | to detect the criminals among them. | Chicago is crime ridden, but the real criminals are members of poli- tical gangs which loot the city treas- that his wife owned a large number of shares of power company stock. West will be in position to grant Cumberland Falls, and any other big power sites, to Insull that he may~ (Continued on Page Five) ‘OKLA, GOVERNOR NOW SUSPENDED Senate Orders Him to Await Graft Trial OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Jan. 21 (U.P)—By a vote of 38 to 5 the Okla- homa senate today suspended Goy- ernor Henry S. Johnston, pending trial, before a senate court on charges of official corruption, in- competency and moral turpitude. Lieut. Gov. W. J. Holloway, auto- matically became governor. With this development, Johnston and his confidential secretary, Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, will cease ope tions of state, at least tempor Johnston will live in the executive mansion pending. trial. * * Mrs, Hammond has been consid- eved the real directing agent of + governor’s deals with contracto’ which, rivals say, involved the pay- ment of graft. She is head of a secret religious organization which believes in black and white magic, and used to advise the governor how the supernatural powers wanted the office run. The spooks seemed to like some business men intent on getting fat contracts from the state better than others, and the others are now virtuousiy exposing the governor and Mrs. Hammone. One charge against the governor is that when a previous legislature was about to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, he called out the militia and dispersed it. U. 8. Copper Mine Imperils Lives of Workers in Peru CERRO DE PASCO, Peru, Jan. 21 ury and take bribes in a respectable manner, erative beer graft. or who conduct the remun- | USSR HISTORIANS MEET | oe caused by the under- | ground operations of the Cerro de | Pasco Copper Company, an Ameri- can corporation, threated to demol- ish the whole city. The cracks have appeared in the streets and squares and are due to insufficient propping of the mines. The situation is one of extreme 420 Delegates Attend First Conference saae: and despite the repeated ef- (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Four hundred twenty delegates from uni- versities and higher schools from all parts of the Soviet Union took part in the first conference of Marxist historians which opened re- cently at the Communist Academy. Professor Pokrovsky in the open- ing speech referred among other things to the public appearance of ‘Soviet historians in Europe, “The fact that during the course | of 1928 Soviet historians appeared publicly on two occasions abroad, in Oslo and in Berlin, is not due to the fact that there is any special love for us abroad, but to the fact that at the present time there is a great wave of interest in western Europe for our country and its instruction. This interest is strongly reminiscent of the interest of the decadents in the second century for the Teutons.” “Professor Pokrovsky then dealt Continued on Page Three | | orts of the inhabitants the Amer- ican’ company has refused to strengthen the underpinning of the mines and proceeded with excava- tions at the foundations of the city. INDICTED FOR MURDER. WATERTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 21 | (UP).—Frank Ferrante Provio, to- day was indicted by the grand jury here on a charge of first degree mur- der. Provio is accused of killing his common law wife, Josephine Lanni, of Rochester, last December. REVELS” AT RENAISSANCE (CASINO, 138TH ST. A