Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 March 1930 — Page 1
THE POST-IDEM
VOLUME X—NUMBER 7.
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930.
DALE TO GIVE JUDGE
UNITY LEAGUERS IN NEW ROLE OF CENSUS TAKING
First announcement of census which will soon step out and find enumerators by J. Monroe Fitch, ('how many noses there are in Mun-
Pennsylvan' > ' d lobbyist who is su_ pervisor f :h > district indicates that in Delaware county the census will be taken by the Unity Leaue. Edward E. Quirk, renegade Democrat, ex-police officer and tool of the Unity League in their attempt to deflect Democrats to the Barnes mayorality candidacy, was the first appointment announced by the supervisor. Quirk’s appointment after having passed the “strenuous” tests from Washington, D. C., was recently made public by Fitch and is taken as an indication of the use of the Unity League roster for the important census operations. It will be Quirk’s duty to handle the census of manufacturers and business in the county and indeed, a astounding program Jiconfronts the former ‘ beeg boy” of the police department. There are 150 different classification and scores of important facts and figures to he obtained by the business and manufacturing enumerators. It will be recalled that Quirk was one of the “visitors” to Judge Anderson’s Federal court during the famous Bunch administration fiasco and the “beeg boy” was ’admdjiished by the judge to sever his connections with the police department as he was quite the type that found it too easty t readapt police work to get results not intended by
law.
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They are also going to find out about the unemployment and this imposing list of questions is asked.
Here is the group:
1. How many weeks since he (or she) has worked on his present
job?
2. Why was he not at work yesterday, or in case yesterday was not ^ regular working day, why did he not work on the last regular working day? 3. Did he lose a day’s pay by not being at work? 4. How many days did he work last week? 5. How many days in a full time week? The following questions will be asked about a person usually employed but having no - job of any kind at the time the census is taken: 1. Is he able to work? 2. Is he looking for a job. 3. For how many weeks has he been without a job? • 4. Reason for being out of a job or for losing his last job? Enum'erators are going to find out the ratio of men to women, and how many farms and a large number of oth,er points that are considered important in the conduct of our government. A reader of the Post-Democrat after reading the editorial on the $700 report of Frank Barclay urged placing Frank on the list of enumerators and in no time the city would be among those" with a million or so population Barclay, an
ex-councilman and Unity League r- faVQsitl* compiled a rejport of the i- activities of the Wlayne M. Davis
anapolis and graduated to the Court building inspection department last of Appeals at Chicago. Then he year and brought forth the illumroa'ppeared on the Hampton police inating facts that 79,234 “inspecforce and went “Unity League” Itions” had been made. Important data of a confidential j Now this is at the rate of one nature must now be obtained by inspection each one minute and the “beeg boy” and the 175 manu-j forty-nine seconds and to boot, facturers in the county will soon j there were only 4,572 permits issufind him at their door seeking theied during the year, all-important facts. j Unity Leaguers among the cenJust how many other Unity |sus Corps will have to be careful Leaugers will be on the roster of j or they will be including a political the census operations has not been :poll along with their other duties, discosed at this time. Supervisor i for its in their hood and these leauFitch is busy listing the corps gers have their weak moments. SUNDAYCLOSING OF POOLROOMS IN NEW ORDINANCE
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Prte* 6 Centg—$2.00 a Year
FRIENDS OF CITY
HIS CHANGE OF ATTITUDE TOWARD POLICE AND CLEANUP IN PLEA TO MAYOR-TO FILE CASES THERE TODAY
ourt judge cites PRIMARY RACES
WAX WARM WITH SCORES ENTERED
Mayor Dale last night decided to give Judge Mann of Mann and myself, I have merely kept my word that I made
Aspirants for the Democratic can machine its leaders last year
City Court another chance and withdrew his order banning! in the primary and later in the election and Mann has proven j^' 1 '^'X^calldld'udes 0 with"' 1
filing of police dases in that court. ’ If an 0 l Js t a <"l e -
Decision of the ntayor followed conferences with Chief! t'heXfof Mav^r I'VoL^let I rank Massey during the day and the intersession of friends up Muncie. I am doing this, but Mann seems to be doing of the city court judge with a plea that Judge Mann be given | everything to thwart me and my plans, so I chose the al-
another chance.
ternative of filing the cases in other courts. During the
Has Judge Mann changed in his attitude on the police ! campaign I learned that Mann contributed nothing to the
campaign fund and in fact was sitting back letting me and my followers do all the work. This situation was brought to his attention and it was suggested that as he was not a conscientious Democrat and office seeker he should remove his name from the ticket in favor of someone who would really
be a worthy candidate.
“The reply received to that suggestion was the most insulting letter I have ever received. After reading it, I tore it up, thinking the writer would never want it to be shown to anyone else. In this letter Judge Mann informed me that he was running on the ticket for city judge not because he wasted the office as he didn’t care whether or not he was elected, in fact, he expected to be beaten, but he wanted to cause my defeat and have the satisfaction of sitting back and laughing at my humiliation when I also was defeated. Mann proved to be the ‘tail on my kite’ and was carried through the election through the efforts of my followers and
cleanup campaign,” was the first question the mayor asked
Chief Massey as the two went into conference. For more than two hours the mayor and chief were in
conference and Chief Massey submitted a report to the mayor showing that he believed Judge Mann had changed
his attitude and wanted to do the right thing, “Well, Chief, let’s give Judge Mann another chance, so
beginning tomorrow file the police cases in City Court,”
Mayor Dale declared at the conclusion of the conference. Friends of Judge Mann in interceding for him pointed
out that in the past three weeks the Judge had sent three times as many liquor violators to jail as in the seven previous weeks of the cleanup activities. This fact, they pleaded, indicated that the judge was changing his attitude and would be willing to cooperate with the police rather than publicly and constantly deride their activities in cleaning
up the city.
nominations for the various county
fil-
ling, their candidacies with the eouty clerk throughout the week. Candidates have until April 5 to file their candidacy and then ten days are allotted to withdrawals. Primary races are wrong warm and the interest increasing daily. Anna A. Walterhouse, 402 West Charles street, is the first to file for the Democratic nomination for
recorder.
Five aspirants for precinct committeemen filed during the week augmenting that list to nearly a score. Chief among the new candidates was that of Court Asher, banned against wholesale bond signing and other professional
Mayor Dale returned from his three weeks trip to the! myself and the landslide when I was chosen mayor.
South on Thursday and at that time issued a statement that pointed out Judge Mann as an obstacle to fulfillment of campaign pledges to the voters to clean up Muncie. “Although I haven’t had a chance to confer with Chief of Police Frank Massey since my return and completely -acquaint myself with existing circumstances regarding the filing of police cases in City Court, I haven’t in the changed my mind from the day when I left,” the state
read.
After I was installed in office, I immediately chose my officers, men of reputable character, and instructed them to rigidly enforce the law, as we were going to clean up Muncie. From the first Mann was antagonistic, but after he had dismissed cases from his court, acquitting the men in fact of testimony from my officers, I reached the decision of ordering Chief Massey not to file any police cases in City Court until Mann assumed the rightful attitude for the
organized the Unity League. Merely changing the name of the political manipulators failed to change their tactics and pernicious desire to raid the county and township governments to fill their own pockets. Already many of the leaguers are deserting the fold and
seeking new alliances
Prominent on the Unity League slate is Albert Vestal for return to congress, Paul Leffler for prosecuting attorney Wilbur G. Vaijs Arsdol for county clerk, Ralph Bryan for sheriff, W. Max Shafer for re-election as auditor, Merritt Heath to add foru more years to his dozen on the public payroll by returning him to the recorder’s office, and Edward G. Hayler, library board Mussolini, for Center
“I have The feeling thafl amngM arid' Wiffsf'ick (omy convictions until I am shown that Judge Mann has changed his attitude. There is no controversy between City Judge
good of Muncie.
Three weeks ago Mayor Dale ordered the chief and police department to file no cases in Judge Mann’s court be-
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COUNCIL PLAN TO DIVERT $22,000 GAS TAX TO PAVE NICHOL AVENUE HELD ILLEGAL USE OF REFUND MONEY
bondsmen activities. He seeks the | township assessor,
committeeship in the Fourteenth | Elmer Richey, 326 East Centenorecinct. Asher, whose fanciful op-1 nial Avenue, has filed for the Reerations in politics rivals the most i publican nomination for county Gluring fiction, lives at 814 West assessor. Richey, it will be reniemMemorial Drive. | bered was one of three to hold a Willard Hays, 200 1-2 South Wal- • “carbon copy” promise to the innit street, is seeking the commit-' spectorship of weights and measteeship in the Fourth precinct and ; ures and apparently deciding the Eugene Early, 1204 East Fifth St., ] powers that be are too careless in filed for the Nineteentth precinct. ;their promises is seeking to get Atlee Rinker, R. R. No. 1, Dale- himself a place on the ticket so /ille, is a candidate for committee- that he won’t hae to' depend upon man from the Twenty-fifth ipre- “mass promises” if he wants to
ainct and Frank C. Alles, 426 East'get ahead in the world.
Second street, desires the post in Pearl C. Hopkins, present assesthe Sixteenth precinct. ! sor, is seeking renomination and In Harrison township, B. Frank Isaac Reed of Cammack, is also in
Tuttle, R. R. 4, Muncie, seeks the [the race for that office.
Democratic nomination as trustee; 'Ralph A. Jaclqson, 1320 West
Eleventh street, has bobbed up to oppose the nomination of Auditor Shafer, much to the consternation
I of the Unity League.
; Tbr^e^are* opposing "PreferenJ tial Ralph Bryan,” the Unity slated candidate for sheriff’s nomination. They are Otis P. Snodgrass, 518 Marsh street: Troy P. Smith, 207 Ashland aenue, and Edward S. Randall of 508 East Jackson street. Wilbur G. Vns Arsdol, the Unity favorite for county clerk, has four opponents, Dell C. Sipe, R. R. No. 3, Muncie: Mable B. Ringo, 519 Rex street: Herbert Sheets, 503
ind Zenas Pond of Gaston, is also
n the race for that nomination.
Arthur Franklin, R. R. 2, Dajeville, has filed for assessor of SaMnsMah ir>:‘‘ •* as ****^—^'»* - For Delaware township trustee, Lewis A. Sevits of Albany, has fi.ed his candidacy and for assessor in he same township, Roscoe Wingate, R. R. 2, Albany, is in the race. Frank Lafferty, 900 E. Fifth itreet, ex-police officer, has enter'd the race for the nomination as
rustee of Center township.
In Union, township the trustee-
baugh, of R. R. 3, Eaton, and the 1 Marsh street, and Ray G. Hickok issessor office has Lloyd D. Lar- 801 West Main street.
Despite the fact that the lawtof streets or bridges with prefer-
Closing of poolrooms on Sunday and midnight during the week is provided in an ordinance now before the city council. It was introduced afi. last Monday’s session and referred to committee for consideration. In addition, the ordinance proides for a license fee of $10 and 50 cents for each pool or billiard table. Revocation of the license by the .mayor is made 'possible upon violation of the ordinance by a pool-
room.
Backed by Police. The board of public safety had the ordinance drawn and presented to the council with the view toward better regulation of the poolrooms. It is realized that poolrooms are often tho place where desperate criminals plan their depredations. Harry Brown, chief of detectives, reports that seven young men confessed to the planning of holdups while they were loitering in the Pete Barlow-Plug Walburn poolrooms on South Walnut street. In six weeks time the police arrested seven holdup lads and in each case they had planned the holdups while loafing in the Bar-low-Wialbhrn poolrooms. Four of these young men received reformatory sentences, while three of them who were first offenders received suspended sentences. Confessions of the lads in-
new administrations’ entry, into office has been a big step in reducing crime and poverty in the city. This card playing practice cost the players several thousands of dollars each week, and now that money is being spent in paying of bills and in legitimate trade channels. With this new ordinance in effect the police believe they will have a better opportunity to reduce crime and vigrous enforcement of it is planned when it is passed by the council.
specifies that the gasoline tax refund to the city shall be used for “maintenance and repairs of streets or bridges” the city council at its recent meeting took its first step toward diverting the $22,000 refund for paving of Nichols avenue from the Yorktov/n Pike to Godman
avenue. \
This initial raid on the street repair fund came in the introduction of an ordinance directing that the tax money be spent only
ence given those connecting with
the main state highways.” Act Raids Repair Fund
Raid of the council on the refund as planned will he strenuously fought as such action would leave only $2,500 in the street repair fund for the year. The Hampton council early in its history passed an ordinance turning over the annual refund to the board of public works for use in the street repair program for the various years. With this situation established the council last year in making the budget placed only $2,500 in the
at the direction and supervision street repair fund, and at thd same
Another Outbreak of Strange Disease
Cincinnati, March 21.— Cincinnati physicians are concerned over the appearance of a strange form of paralysis which has been increasing in this vicinity within the past three days. There are 50 cases reported here and 14 in Ripley near here. Physicians at General hospital where ten persons are confined are puzzled in solving the nature of the disease which so far has attacked persons more than 38 years old. The cases are being treated in the same manner as in-
fantile paralysis. The victims lose
dicated that loafing in the poolroom control of their legs and in some
led them to start their plotting to
hold up merchants. Plan Crimes There.
Poolrboms have long been felt to be breeding places for crime, and their strict regulation is believed
to be one source for slowing up era i victims crime. Under the ordinance the ' teachers. police would be able to give strict- j
er regulation with a view toward i
reducing the chances of plotting! Two and a quarter million Amercrime in them. 1 icans are expected to pass through Closing up trade check card Montreal and Quebec to nnd from garmbling immediately upon the Europe this year.
instances the hands.
The physicians stated that several patients at General hospital do not indulge in intoxicants, and declared drinking of alcoholics could hardly be responsible. Sev-
are women school
of the city council. This is to be followed, it was reported, by an ordinance directing the board of public works to pave Nichols avenue.
Legal Action Expected
Thus the city council expects to go the state legislature one better and put the $22,000 gas tax refund to work paving the designated avenue instead of permitting its use by the board of public works in “maintenance and repairing of streets and bridges.” It is expected that should the council take its next anticipated step some action will be filed against the spending of the $22,000 for the Nichols ave-l
nue improvement.
There have been many ups and' downs to the proposition of paving j Nichols Ave., but usually just as some plan is brought up, it is soon brought down. The avenue wouldl be an important route to reach city off Yorktown pike and such will in all probabilty be im-
proved within a few years.
An attempt t opave it under the three-mile road law was thwarted hy legal action of taxpayers and attempts to have it improved by previous boards of works have failed owning to the fact that the only improvement along the unpaved part of the avenue is the Moore Manufacturing Company. Abutting property is not of sufficient value to warrant its improve ment under the regular proceedure
for such improvements.
The council’s happy thought of
time budgeted the coming gasoline tax to the board of public works. With the council diverting the
council can take the refund money year $18,000 was spent on the grad from the budget as it has jng and graveling of the roadway, been received and placed to the j the new construction work were credit of the board of public works. | , , , . , , , , After the expiration of the present i t0 )e un dertaken d would lie done budget there is a possibility that at a time when the fill had not en the council might act on the com-jjirely settled and in a year or two ing refund, but not on the one al-; it might be found that the paveready received. (ment wouldl he broken by further
Under any circumstances those I settling of the fill,
studying the situation declare the j Most of the $18,000 spent last council would be exceeding itsiiyear would be wasted,, for to per authority in diverting the taxjmU new pavement, a great part
money to new Construction work for it was not the intention of the legislature to permit the use of the money for anything but “maintenance or repairs.” Since the part of the avenue-under consideration is now graded and graveled, the money spent on it could only
$22,000 intended for the street re- be for its maintenance in similar
jair fund it may be readily seen that the activities of the board of works this year on its street repair program would be critically
handicapped.
There is serious doubt if the
material and not for new cement construction as anticipated. Spent $18,000 Grading Another unusual situation arises in the proposed improvement of Nichols avenue in that only last
-owe of Eaton in the race.
Clyde D. Byerly of Yorktown, ras filed for trustee of Mt. Pleasmt township, and Jacob H. Camp)ell, R. R. 2, Yorktown, seeks the
issessor’s nomination.
Unitey League slate on the Remblican primary contests is rapidly being filled so that by closing af the time for filing the league expects to have a complete list for he voters. Sensing that the vot
Hayler’s opposition includes George W. Pfeifer, present assessor; Carl E. Ross, 401 Wheeling avenue and Robert W. Maggs, 311
University evenue.
John Burns, 603 North Elm St., is opposite Merritt Heath, the Unity League caddy, for the record-
ership.
Several other candidates are expected to be filed before the expiration of the filing period on April
irs were tired of the old Republi- 5th.
KNIGHT “CANS” HIMSELF AFTER POLICE TUSSLE Oscar Knight, who until last right to the jaw and the affair
Monday morning was a tree trimmer in the park department, “canned” himself from the city payroll after a tussle with the police at a dance in a North Walnut street hall on last Saturday night. Knight attended the dance and was said to have become ( over enthusiastic at the affair much to, the annoyance of the patrons of I
was ended right where it began. On Monday morning, however, Knight failed to show up at the tree trimming job and the Rev. Dewey Hole, superintendent of parks, learned that the employe had no intentions of facing the situation.
of the fill must be removed to provide room for the base. In addition, a switch track and main line of the Nickle Plate railroad must be crossed by the improvement. There have been many discussions seeking the elevation of these two tracks, but nothing has been ac
complished.
If the pavement were laid before the elevation work was completed there is a possibility that the two projects constructed at separate times would not harmonize and in the end double work would be necessary to satisfactorily join the two projects. Viewing the avenue a t present time indicates that both projects should be done at the same time, and not in piecemeal. Same Level As River Egineers of the Nickle Plate railroad at previous discussions have pointed out that a subway at the point of the main and switch track would be about the same level as the river in normal flow and rising waters would likely back up in the subway and render it useless at different periods of the year. Complete elevation of the two tracks would be costly and the city’s share alone for this work woulld be considerable more than the paving project advanced
by the council.
If the council desires to utterly waste the gasoline tax refund of $22,000 and raid the street repair fund to such an extend to seriously cripple this phase of the board of work’s program it certainly has chosen an effective plan. It will be called upon to defend the legal-
TABOO RAW MILK UNDER PROPOSED CITY ORDINANCE
Two brothers who had not seen
the dance. I pon the calling of a other for fifty-nine years were
police officer to handle Knight, reim ited at Duke, Okla., recently.! ity of the proposed expeuditui’e, the tree trimmer thought the Joshua, seventy-four, and John, i the useless waste and the desire
diverting the $22,000 gasoline tax| square dance was a “squared seven ty. s i x , believed each other j to deprive other parts of the city|ago. Further conferences resulted refund is not a solution for the! ring” and started into “trim” the d eaf i When Joshua Winters was [ of fluhds needed for repair of in opinions that^the compromise
Distribution of raw milk in Mun:i is tabooed under an ordinance being drawn for presentation to the city council by the state board of health. This new move requiring all milk be pasteurized followed withdrawal of an ordinance introduced in the council two weeks ago It provided for both raw and pasteurized milk and viewed as a compromise avorable to both classes of dairy-
men.
Raw'Milk Sold.
More than half the milk sold is now pasteurized, but still there were nearly a dozen dairymen selling raw milk to customers in the city. Campaign for complete pasteurization is being sponsored throughout the state by the Indiana Board of Health and a representative of that board was in the city several days drafting the mod-
el ordinance.
First action for a milk ordinance
came following the announcement by Dr. H. D. Fair city health offcer, that after March 15 there would be strict enforcement of the milk ordinance. Investigation showed that the present miljt ordinance was not a very effective means of regulating the distribu-
tion of milk in the city. \ Several conferences between
dairymen and health officials from Indianapolis and the local board resulted in the compromise ordi-
nance that was introduced on b
half of the dairymen two weeks
law governing spending the money does not provide for new construc-
police officer. visiting a sister in Texas he learn-1 streets contemplated by the legis-ordinance did not satisfactorily In return for the attempt to hit ed that brother John was living in lature in passing the tax refynd cover the subject and at a sugges-
tion, only “maintenance or repairs i the officer, Knight received a a nearby Oklahoma county.
law.
tion of the state board of health
the 'ordinance was withdrawn. Model Ordinance Drafted. Drafting of the model ordinance brought to light that it will provide for pasteurization of all milk sold in the city. This is in line with the state board of health’s fight against undulent fever that is causing mufch discussion in health circles in the state. Dr. William F. King, state commissioner of health, points out that undulent fever is a comparatively new disease, cases of Which have been identified in South Bend, Richmond, Valparaiso, Fort Wayne and Michigan ity. The expedience with the disease indicates that its spread is closely related to raw milk. It is expected the ordinance will be ready for presentation at the next council meeting on April 7. —, o
MEAL
UNPREPARED, TRIES TO KILL WIFE
Indianapolis, March 21.—Arriving home shortly after noon yesterday, Neil Wright, 59 years old. 1023' South West street, became angiy because his midday meal was not prepared and attempted to kill his wife with a double-barreled shotgun. He pulled the trigger once but the shell failed to fire and Mrs, Irene Wright, 58 years old, his wife, fled from the house to the home of Lewis Williams, 1031 South West street, a neighbor.
An immense aerial survey c f almost 100,000 miles of unmapped territory is to be made in Rhadesia and the Sudan.