Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 April 1930 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1030.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT | i Demociatlc weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, j Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. Toe * only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County Entered as second class matter January 15. 1921> at the Postofflee] at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PrTcECENTS—-42.00 A YEAR."

223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 THE DALE COMPANY, Publisher. Geo^ R. Dale, Editor.

Barber Asphalt Company representatives in surrounding and

other counties and they against him.

Daily newspapers for the past four years have failed t keep confidence with their readers and they let the loc d paving trust plunder the citizens to the tune of several hundred thousand'dollars on public contracts. They have’ji

been silent, but no wthey are vitally interested in local af- Sfhcois Arc Inj. red By Teams

'STEM .DERIDES MEWCRSfflP

] It was said the purpose of the I tract for the construction of conference would be to arrive at j said refreshment stand and

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, April 4, 1930.

fairs but yet can’t help from their long established custom

of misrepresenting the facts.

These daily newspapers have failed to state that the specifications under which the William M. Birch Company received contracts for asphalting concrete streets have beeu

Lincoln Bank Failure.

The Post-Democrat has the utmost sympathy for those who may possibly sustain a severe loss by reason of the closing of thd Lincoln Bank and Trust Company.

Being

Used to Boost

Cities.

April 4.—(UP)—A.

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let on .what is known as closed specifications and the Barber JJ un* Ym.’'c’n.r'jY^h^ idette Asphalt Company is the only concern in the United b-.tatesl Vsso.ualio.i; • m momixvs of the that can furnish this particular specification of asphalt au ! 1 ' ,lai >Tuesday, that have furnished it for the past four years. ^ aC ' Now had the specifications been for sheet asphalt which !their basketball warns is a recognized much better street there are at least loir: .to\n iv pm tuitions.

pa? a ding tO 1’OOSt

We do not agree with the local daily newspaper which | material.

large concerns in the United States which can furnish that

blandly dismissed the matter by declaring that^there was no “tragedy” in it, and that it was merely the tendency of the times for the friendly bank, drug store, grocery and meat market to give way to the big banks and the chain store sys-

tem. , j

It certainly was a tragedy to those who lost their savings. It w r as a tragedy to the bank officers. It was a trag-

edy to everybody concerned.

The bank examiners, according to statements credited

Consequently by making specifications that only th Barber Asphalt Company can furnish it is evident that car - petition was destroyed and because of the agreement that, one local representative of that company cannot bid again? t a representative in an adjoining or other community com-

petition was further destroyed.

That’s the opening chapter of the local paving Bun gyping of the property owners from as high as thirty-five: to forty percent overcharge for the past four years and they

to them by local newspapers, say the assets exceed the lia-j have been getting by with it until the mayor and thp Board

bilities by $150,000. ^ If that’s the case the receivers of .the defunct bank should move quickly, collect on notes and pay everybody oil without delay. Receivers are nearly always expensive to creditors in bank failures. It should not be a long-drawn-out

affair.

Why is it that bank exainme^a seem to receive all their information, AFTER banks close instead of BEFORE they close? The system seems to be somewhat at fault. They are good at locking the door after the damage has been done, but outside of that seem to be of little value to the / banks themselves' and the depositors whose money is left behind the closed doors. * .

*‘The priu’tice is not for t‘i? best interest or the boys.” Trester said. ‘High school athletics is a school affair, to be managed oy school ofTeials. .not by laymen. We ar ? glad io have toe support of the laymen, but handling ot f school affairs. ■liouhl be confined to the s .bools

fheinselves.” \ 1

Trester said Hie individuai athlete v.'as boosted to a plane"far abort- tvliiyt. he deserved, to las dotfnnenl as well as the schobA-. '‘Some newspaper fans ‘have made r

heroes of *he yonilis who we) laidiHomxuon

that in later life tie

t.aslc masler and is not a

the

standard practices in the depart-!furnishing of sufficient bond for meats of the several states. (the completion thereof. All bids to Director John J. Brown, of thejfoe accompanied by usual statutory State Highway Department, and;provisions of non-collusion.

Plans and specifications of said refreshment stand can be had and are kept on file at the office of the Board of Park Commissioners^Gity

four others will be appointed to attend the meeting, it was indicated at the Governor’s office today.

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House of Commons Drops Army Deaths London, April 4.—The House of Commons last night passed a bill aboPslrng the army death penalty for desertion. The vote was 219 to

13. r ).

The bill’s acceptance is looked upon as the first step toward abolition of the death penalty throughout England for civil and antisocial crimes, over which there has been much agitation during the last year. o—

the i Hall City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids, all checks or cash deposited by unsuccessful bidders will be returned upon re-

quest of bidders.

BOARD OF PARK COM-

MISSIONERS,'

Florence Manford, Clerk.

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CITY ADVERTISEMENT.

rose, as the tournament eh . ij ion may be Ie>l to believe,” he said. /’Trester said ndiana high school has’, el ball had been kept elean and honorable, explaining why twee as many persons as there were scats fried to get into the Butler Fieklilouse during the recent state tour-

Pclitical Holding Companies. Business long ago turned to the holding company plan of-administrating' far-flung activities; out not until now hai the idea been adopted by politicians. . x It appears now that George Cromer-BJly Williams-Jim Fitch-Lon Thornburg are the holding company for both the Unity League and the new Delaware County Republican Clifb. With both of These organizations under the same guiding heads it Is easy to forecast the outcome of their activities. If the new Delaware County Republican Club has no better success than the Unity League, its Simese twin, the holding company will declare no dividends for the workers. Charles G. Samuels, who was the Unity League candidate for city councilman, and defeated for the office by Clifford V. Smith, told of the new group over the radio the other night, but failed to mention the holding company. ; Samuels lamented sorely the tendency of voters to drift.away from the Unity League last fall and in fact, he cpuldn’t imagine the ingratitude of a former Republican who deserted the genial and pleasurable Mr. Barnes for the candidacy of Mayor Dale. ' It seems strange that-Samuels just now got next to the answer to the drift, and he has skipped over the real one in hjs zeal to defend party regularity. It was very plain that the voters who may have in the past supported Republican nominees were of a different mood in last November and registered that mood emphatically. Perhaps it just dawned on Samuels that the old Unity League and the new Delaware County Republican Club were subsidiaries of the same parent holding. company-Cromer-Williams-Fitch-Thornburg and he took the “air” to reveal the inside of what he termed was an ingratious political complex on the part of former Republicans. It was reported at the radio station that after the discussion by-Samuels he voiced a plea fqr responses to his address to check up how it went. From whj^t we learned three persons called the Mation broadcasting the address to report its reception so it is possible that Samuels did speak to a trio but just think of the cost for so few actually reported listeners.

en any false alarm of fire, means of telegraph box, or telephone box, or by means of any electrical device connected with the fire alarm systep* of the City of Muncie, Indiana, or who shouts a false call of fire, shall upon conviction be lined in any sum not to exceed three hundred dollars, ($300.00), to Which may lie- added imprisonment not exceeding sixty

days (60).

Section 2.—Be it further ordain-1 ed that any section of ordinance I now in force in the City of Muncie I in conflict with this ordinance, is j hereby repealed. This, ordinance _ _ passed by the Common Council of

masked baivlifs held up the Xenia | Muncie, Indiana, this 17th day of

Fi¥E BASED MEN l ROB BANK TODAY Dayton. 6.. April 4.— (UP)—Five

The Real Obstructionist. : It is no doubt observed that the local daily newspapers Itave suddenly decided that it is not,good policy to continue to hammer the mayor on the postoffice question. They now know that Albert Vestal, the four-flushing congressman who appointed Billy Williams and Jim Fitch is the real “dog in the manger.” The mayor has been told number of times that he has “Iqst friends by obstructing the new postoffice.” The two republican newspapers here have added to the hue and cry. Both knew that Congressnfan Vestal was bluffing about the postoffice matter. The crowd that was disastrously defeated in the last city election is promoting the idea that the mayor is the obstructionist. This same crowd has barked at his heels for years but time always vindicated his position. It will in this instance. So sit ready in the boat and watch this think work out. “CONSCIENCE”’ BID OF PAVING

of Public Works in carrying out the campaign pledges turned out the trust from doing business in the City Hall under

their robbing tactics.

To have accepted the Barber Asphalt Company “April Fool” and “orphan” and “conscience” bid would merely have tended to stiffle competition instead of encouraging it. TU company if it had been awarded the bid could have stalled its work from week to week and finally delay the resurfacing until another year even if then, and in the end it would be necessary to take it away from them and awarded it to ; company that would really do the work and not merely get

the bid for a “stall.”

Contrasting the bid under which the resurfacing was let we find that la. t year under the Hampton Board of Public Works the contract for resurfacing Walnut street up to Ninth street was let to the William M. Birch Company at a price of $1.39 a square yard for wearing surface ONLY. Now there is really and truly some big saving in the An drews hills for that part of the improvement at $U.17 per

square yard.

Let’s take another William M. Birch resurfacinfrjid) and see what happened. He.received the contract lor rcAurfacing Walnut street from Wysor street north to Columbus avenue at a price of $1.33 per square yard lor Hock Asphalt emi </( and $9.00 per ton for binder. Now it is known througho; i the paving business that rock asphalt is a cheaperMrdduct than asphaltic concrete or sheet asphalt and the $X90 per ton for binder is most certainly a far higher figure than t

$5.50 in the Andrews bid.

Even on the Walnut street job south of the railroad « > ,

Ninth street where there was no binder used the the Wearing g V i

surface was at a cost of $1.39 per square yard the cm lorn I ary “washboard” defect is already beginning to creep cr of the William H. Birch Company job using the Bitber

phalt Company materials, to boot.

In Circuit Court last Monday afternoon when erwC iiam M. Birch Company applied b°r temporary icjun against the Pershing Drive and East Seventh street j awarded to th£ Andrews Paving Company, after they been rescinded by the present-board of works on Feb. 2e.

Ernest Brewington of the Birch company admitted that a'- ; - • : April i (UP) though he considered sheet asphalt and asphaltic c:.-nerct :t« <; h n iki it Hoover has askcomparable materials the company always bi d 17 cents 1 0(1 Harry u. Leslie to appoint higher on the sheet asphalt. ufSTa “Billy” Birch, who left most of his important data at v g, secretary of com-' the office, did, however, consent to recall that only on four morco i’o r. Lament*in Wash-1 out of more than forty streets did his company use any new > - i .. 27 to 29. crushed stone. On the other jobs macadam Irmu the same I -?•%— — ■——

street or different streets was used instead of buying new-

crushed stone.

Although the hearing on a permanent injunction on these two projects was originally set for April 10, this date was changed to an indefinite one, and on Tuesday after arguments Judge Guthrie awarded a temporary injunction to the Birch company.

Notice of the passage of an ordinance concerning the control of fire alarms in the City of Muncie, Indiana: Providing a penalty for

the violation thereof.

Section 1.—Be it ordained by the

Council Qf the City of

world is a h uVI' M nncie, Indiana, that any person not a ad of. who shall give, or cause to he giv-

le branch of the Union Trust Uomnany, he:y today, forced five bmploy. .. and five customers to lie in the floor, scooped up between ?40.0(;() and $50,600 and escaped in

an automobile.

The robbers, with guns drawn,

oh tercel *’ie bank at 9:15 a. ,m. Sev-

ille employes were countid ta» king the money prepar-

atory to cashmg payroll checks. Others were, serving the customers.

WTli a sharp command to “stick i up” the br/nd;t leader menaced crowd with a pistol, while the hers made (heir way to the cages!

was carried out with

sion and within five minutes the ragmen wilhdrew, leaped -n o a large blade touring car " by a negro chauffeur and

away.

O-—; fernorTo

d Appoint Five Bieo

March, 1930.

Passed by the Common Council under suspension of rules, this 17th day of March, 1930. HUBERT L. PARKINSON, President of the Council. Presented by me to the Mayor, this 24th day of March, 1930. LINTON RIDGEWAY,

City Clerk.

Signed and approved by the mayor this 3rd dav of April. 1930. GEORGE R. DALE,

Mayor.

| Attest: Linton Ridgeway, (Seal) City Clerk.

(Apr 11411)

,—n , notice ^OR BIDS FOR construction OF refreshment stand in heekin

PARK.

Notice is. hereby given, that in Pjynmunee to resolution adopted by the Board of Park Commissioners of the Cby of Muncie, Indiana, the said Board will receive bids until :>:00 o’clock,-p. m, April 22, 1930, for the furnishing of all materials and construction of a refreshment stand in Heekin Park, in the City of Muncie, Indiana. The bidder to file with his bid a certified check or cash, in the amount of $100, as guarantee of full compliance and signing of con-

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educated faucet

T knows a lot of things. Hoiv to give you piping hot water the instant you want it. Flow to turn off the gas—the in-

stant you turn off the water.

How to supply gallons af invigorating, steaming water for Junior’s bath upstairs

while dishes and clothes, are getting theirs downstairs. How to fill grandma’s hot water bottle

at 2 A. JM.

Of course—you’ve guessed it. It’s an automatic gas w ater heater.

Begin y our faucet’s education. Buy an automatic heater.

F.axy terms.

CENJ V RCA L. I NJ tJ I / jras

Prepared throvnh ronrtesu of Ci.ka4i.inr-** tnsTrn:T*.for the American fins Ayaeiunon

(Continued from Pago 1) lisb bis. identity wi'fb the Board of Public Works and it is not known just whose money is behind the cashier’s check. It might turn out tfrqt Weils after getting such a contract and reporting it might iteed for such a break of contract as bidding so low and the Barber Asphalt Company repudiate the entire deal thereby delaying the resurfacing throughout a long court tangle to c^cide just really what the “April Fool” and “orphan” and “coot nee” bid amounted to if anything. Such a left handed gag by the local paving trust could tie up the improvement for weeks and weeks and it is no wonder that the btard rejected such a monstrosity. Now we have devoted considerable space to telling the citizens just what the true situation is because the two daily newspapers have been especially noisy in Trying to misrepresent the bid to the people of Muncie. Wc are taking the jspace to discuss it step by step so that it can readily be seen (hat the methods of the paving trust are so conceived in iniquity and that they have not been giving the people of their own home city a square deal, but robbing them to a degree ‘that is most amazing. \ There is some more to the story. Billy BircILis the local representative of the Barber Asphalt Company and •buys his materials from that concern. As long as he is the nuative he is excluded from bidding against

DEPRESSION HAS HURT CHURCHES

Report Made At M. E. Convention At Hartford City Illustrates Fact.

Hartford City, lad., April 4. —(U U)—Methodist Episcopal churches of Fort Wayne and vicinity have suffered from the financial depression caused by the recent, stock market crash, aucordina to the Rev. J. Thornes Bean, Fort Ways.?, superintendent of the Fort Wayne

FARM RELIEF IS * RUINING FARMER

Says Texas Congressman; He Blames Policy of the Republicans. V

Washington, April ! (Li’) (Mir more season of Republican mi ni relief wil! ruin the Am’erican .-nv.n er, Representative, Garner, .Democrat, Texas, minority House loader^ has charged in surveying work of the Federal farm board \v:-h s-mo'i&U reference ;o wh-ait and ent.to,:. , f “If the tarnuns can find any en-l'

, .couragemcnt in the prices:' JmSsi ,district O' the Methodist EfMCCpal received this yea;

church, in an annual report to the ! wheat and cotton or find any hope North Indiana conference meeting: for the future in the n. ino.-a .-iices in Hartford City. ji'nd promises of the ndo.rK-ira-' Key. Bean said reduction in pus- Hon’ farm relief measure orndfRe, tors’ salaries for the next yea--may then they are indeed opUmW.ie.’V

be the result o'' deficiencies .-mown by some ei the churches in the dis-

trict.

Twenty-two charges in the district reported a gain in membership totalling 465, hut 18 pastorates

Garner said In a statement issued^' last night through the Demcualien

national committee. Charging the farm pursuing a “vaciila Harper said it delayed

its

board v- i Ui ng” pel icy, formaG-m of

Is how a decrease of 525. a lorn of 60 jits wheat stabilization corpoiVctffl member's during the year for the I until Feltifary, or too kite to nen'e-t

district. Fort Wayne churches'lit this year's mop. II"

showed the greatest gains in laein-lhud dropped t ’> Lie 'o . ■ i nre bership, the report revealed. I since the world war, mil. Hie boari^

The report showed pastors of j “^d not yet. formed any cottipa| Hie district have preached 5; 144 | stahilizat :: n groups,

sermons; attended 474 funerals,! “The American farmer,” he said,made 28.605 calls, married 52t|“h»S been relieved to the extent of; couples, witnessed 598 conversions,j more Uiaj. $5 a hale on his r’*trpu received 413 from probation, bap- «’-d approximately 25 cents a : tshellized 197 children and 233 mmlts, j on his whmU, where he nas i odevved;

received 448 by certificate and 1391 tee advice of the boarc, snob

from otiier churches and dismissed | being in the form of a loss \ hich;

375 by certificate. j Hie hoard has seemed powerless.-

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Rev. Bea«vsaid 173 member••’have I h reven f-” j died and 562 have been placed on I ( .— gp

non-resident list during the confer-: Gets Order for Alaskan Plow

ence year i _ _, t . o , East Chicago, Ind., April 4,—

i — (UP)—The O. F. Jordan company

per cent of the Negro at East Chicago, has received

public schools in | order from the U. S.

Nearly 40

enrollment in

North Carolina is in the first-grade'for a combined snow spreaded Imd

The first

ivest of the

served the

two railroads built; plow to be used in Alaska. Alleghenies have ob-j it is said the machine will be lOOtii ann.-versajv of: used on the government-owned rail-E

their louudinns^ road in tiis far north territory.

CGMPAMT \ Shades oS Stocli are new far Sale

Cut out and mail to order stock

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