Biography
Roscoe Vandeventer was a Columbus Unemployed Council member arrested for collecting funds for the Ohio hunger march. The Daily Worker of May 13, 1931, page 1, citing the Columbus Dispatch’s May 11 account, names Marcus Cohen and Roscoe Vandeventer as charged with begging and lists May 19 as their scheduled trial. The report supplies no exact arrest day, individual jail, conviction, sentence or actual release. The scheduled trial is not a completed proceeding. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n115-NY-may-13-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
