Biography
L. A. De Santes was an executive-committee member of the Workers Cultural Federation and John Reed Club arrested in the Brooklyn Communist election-meeting case. The November 23 issue says he was tried November 13 for not having a flag of the proper size, with decision reserved, and would face another hearing for disorderly conduct and two other charges including inciting to riot. The threatened six-month-to-three-year penalty is not a sentence imposed. The source does not expand his initials or give physical confinement endpoints. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n281-NY-nov-23-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The Daily Worker of October 31, 1931 reports seven arrests when police broke up a Communist election meeting at 50th Street and Fifth Avenue in South Brooklyn, and says all seven were released on parole the previous day. Its Thursday arrest and yesterday release references normalize to October 29 and October 30, 1931 from the Saturday masthead; those day numbers are calendar interpretations, not printed numerical dates. The report prints only the surnames Caroll, Scherer and DeSantis. They are linked collectively to Esther Carroll, Hannah Scherer and L. A. De Santes through the November 23 account of the same seven-person Brooklyn election-meeting prosecution and its November 13 proceedings, rather than by a surname alone. This supplements the earlier account, which did not supply custody dates. The release was on parole, not an acquittal; no exact jail-admission date or measured total time served is established.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1931, page 2; Daily Worker, November 23, 1931, page 2.
