Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 March 1931 — Page 2

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Mancie. Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The •sly Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

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229 North Elm ^Weet—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher. Geo. R. Dale, Editor.

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, March 20, 1931

itsself under the compulsion of bamboozle the American farmers into believing 1 that a G- O. P. tariff wall benefits them.”

Another League?

First it was the Unity League. Now it is the Delaware County Republican Voters’ League. But it’s stilla League—and as the cross word puzzle fans would say, “What’s a Five Word Name”, that still means old Republican gang politicians? Dressed up in a new title and with a declaration of principles that would brings tears to the eyes of stalwarts of the G. O. P. this new political leopard stalks in our

midst.

Take a look at what the old standpat gang of political tricksters and exploiters have made out of thhe Republican party in Delaware County: Delaware County Republican Voters’ League Applicant should read carefully, to be sure he, or she, understands the aims and purposes of the Delaware County Republican Voters’ League, what this organization stands for, and why? 1st. The League was organized for the purpose of promoting clean politics, with strictly clean and honorable men as candidates, only. 2nd. To promote clean, capable candidates, and stand firmly behind their candidacy. 3rd. To promote an organization that will faithfully strive to promote the best interests of their community and the State of Indiana. 4th. To cast their votes for the best men on the ticket, and men that are candidates through the efforts of the Delaware County Republican Voters’ League. 5th. To elect precinct Committeemen, clean, and honorable, and who will cast their votes for a clean and honorable County Chairman. 6th. The membership pledges itself never to vote for a candidate who has been a democrat and turned to the republican party, especially for the office of Committeeman. 7th. The membership pledges itself to never to vote for any candidate, whose record shows that he has not supported the common people and the laboring people of this State. 8th. The members of the Delaware County Republican Voters’ League pledge themselves to the support of all Republican principles, but are not bound to support any candidate that cannot qualify as a good citizen with good morals and Republican principles. 9th. The membership of the Delaware County Republican Voters’ League pledges itself to help direct the Republican party and all of its various organizations in an honorable and dignified way. 10th. The membership further pledges itself not to support any candidate, who is connected with, or who has any relationship with any concern, or corporation, or person, opposed to the increase of the common people’s wages, or in any way opposed to the advancement and betterment of the wage-earner. > In changing the name from Unity League to Delaware County Republican Voters’ League they have lengthened the wheel base and added a couple of shock absorbers l but the old gang does the driving just the same. —oNo Hope for the Erring Brother The consititution and by-laws of the newly formed “The Delaware County Republican Voters League,” commented upon elsewhere in this issue, pledges the membership not to vote for any democrat for any office who joins r the republican party. This is certainly a clear enough warning that democrats joining the republican party in Delaware county have nothing to look forward to except the privilege of voting ; for republicans who have always been republicans. Offhand we would say that this pronouncement is the most hide-bound, hard boiled dictum ever laid down to the 1 voters of Delaware county. . The democratic party in Delaware county does not feel that way about republicans. Unlike the So-and-So-forth republican league it welcomes to its midst the erring brothers and sisters who have ; wandered aimlessly in the republican wilderness and seek more progressive enviroments. The editor of the Post-Democrat holds that any man or woman has a right to change his or her politics over • night. If a democrat or a republican concludes that he has - been following false political idols and ideals, he has a per- ; feet right to join the opposite party, and who is there big enough to tell him that he will merely be limited to tlfe

Figure This Out! Senator Watson, Republican leader of Senate: “It is quite true that we are in the midst of a financial depression produced by manifest causes that I shall not here discuss. . . . But I here and now predict, and I ask my fellow Senators to recall this prediction in the days to come, that if this bill (Hafley-Smoot Tariff Bill) is passed, this nation will be on the upgrade financially, economically and commercially within thirty days, and that within a year from this time we shall have regained the peak of prosperity.” —From Congressional Record, June 13, 1930, page 11085. Representative Tilson, Republican leader of House: “No sensible person ever claimed that in spite of world conditions the laying pf an additional tariff duty would prevent economic depression or restore domestic prosperity.” —From Congressional Record, March 11, 1931, page 7395.

RED CROSS GETS

$10,000,000 Chairman Payne

Society’s Goal Reached

For Drought Relief.

1930.

Scott was sentenced upon eonjviction on a charge of murdering Isham Hampton, Negro, last July Judge Orlo R. Deahl pronounced the death sentence in St. Joseph | Circuit court—the first in the coun-

ity for 40 years.

| Edwin Sommer, pauper attorSayS ney who defended Scott, was with out funds with which to perfect an appeal, and none was filed. In this respect the case likewise parallels

that of Britt.

' j Scott will apparently he the first

Washington. March O.-The Red I 1 "?" \° »“««' under the death penCross campaign to raise JiO.OOo.- ? Uy 1,1 lnd,alul m l931 - as thBre

000 for drought relief yesterday reached its goal. John Barton Payne, chairman, an nounced 0,005,828 had been contributed and that the organization’s record of never failing in a campaign had been kept intact. It took three months and five days, however, to raise the money which Chairman Payne told a congressional committte should be obtained in two weeks. Complained About Senate. During the bitter drought relief controversy in Congress, Red Cross officials complained the organization was seriously embarrassed by Senate proposals that Congress ap propriate and give money to the. Red Cross. , Refusing to accept a government appropriation, the, I^ed Cross continued its appeal to the public. Expressing appreciation for contributions, Judge Payne said in a statement today: “It is a matter of deep gratitude to me as chairman and to all ot my thousands of associate members in this organization, that the response of our citizens, as always* lias been generous. PRISONERS ARE STILL IN CELLS Six Hundred Guards on Duty at Illinois

Prison.

is^ no further recourse excepting through gubernatorial clemency. No official request for clemency for Scott has been received at the governor’s office, Gaylord Morton, his secretary, said. He said he would try to get in touch with the governor, if one is received. Sommer said after the trial that j She would seek a commutation of sentence for Scott, and that he has prepared a petition for relatives,! according to advices from South j

Bend Wednesday.

There were 213 murders in Indiana in 1929 and the same number in 1930, but only one execution in the two years, records at the

statehouse disclose.

TO. SEARCH FOR WRECK VICTIMS

Noted Pilot is Ready for Flight ot Horse Head Island, N. Y.

Boston, March 19.—(UP)—Bernt Balchen’s projected flight to Horse Island, Newfoundland, to aid the starving survivors of the sealer Viking disaster was delayed temporarily today. Balchen announced he would not be able to take off in the huge twomotored Sikorsky amphibian which awaited him here until its fuel capacity had been greatly increased. At 7:09 a. m.. Pilot R. J. Barbin took off from Boston airport in a Fairchild plane, bound at top high for Farmingdale, L. I., to obtain additional fuel tanks for the amphibian. He expected to be back here within four hours. As soon as Barbin returns with three 60-gallon wing tanks these will be installed in the big amphibian, increasing its fuel capacity from 240 to 420 gallons, unless a substitute plane is located in the meantime. Shortly after 10 a. m. Barbin notified the local airport by long distance telephone from Farmingdale that he had arranged to get the additional tanks but that he probably would not be able to start hack to Boston before 4 p. m.

STATE POULTRY RAISERS UNITE

Indian^ Farm Bureau Will Sponsor New System.

*3 vote and excluded from the rights and privileges accorded to any member of the pary with which he affiliates?

The theory of the What-you-may-call-it-league is that of six bf the seven buildings

a democrat is a lost soul—a pariah dog without hope of redemption, who must vote as he is bidden, if he joins the republican party, but must keep his feet from under the pie

counter, world without end. It must be awful to feel that way.

Joliet, 111., March (9. —(UP) — An ominous silence hung over the riot-tprn Statesville prison today while more than 600 guards patrolled the \valls and trio,ties fought the last of seven fires which the prisoners themselves had started. Every prisoner remained locked in his cell in the “pill box" cellhouses. Orders from Warden Henry C. Hill were (hat (hey he kept there, deprived of all privi leges, isolated from (he outside world, and shorn of all puerits. Four companies of national guardsmen, city, state and county police patrolled the prison inside and out, to prevent a recurrence of yesterday’s riot which resulted in the shooting of three prisoners and destruction by fire qf almost $500,000 worth of state property. One of the wounded prisoners, Ray Arney, died early today in the (Stateville hospital. He was shot in the stomach at the height of the rioting yesterday when guards rushed the dining hall. Arney was from Chicago and serving a term for robbery. Both prisons were quiet at dawn but the 600 guards remained on

duty.

Only the burned ruins remained ■ - .... The seventh, the machine shop, still blazed. Trusties aided firemen in preventing the flames from spread-

ing.

GRAIN GROWERS TO HOLD MEET

Federal Board Has Been in Force For Nearly

One Year.

The first year of grain marketing in Indiana under the Federal Farm Board plan is drawing lo p close. The second annual meeting of the Central States Grain association will he held in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Indianapolis, April 13. This farmer-owned and fannercontrolled association is a stockholder in (he Farmers National Grain Corporation of Chicago which was set up under the supervision of the Federal Farm Board. The Central States Grain association. acquired approximately 12, 000 members during the first year of its existence, according to B. B. Benner, secretary-treasurer. An unexpected volume of grain was handled consisting mainly of wheat, corn and oats, and a much larger volume is anticipated for the coming year, based on the increased number of elevator connections made since the first of the year, according to the official. The election of ten directors will take place at the meeting, The new directors will meet immediately following the stockholders meeting and elect officers. The present officers are Frank Arn, Montezuma, president; Oliver Little, Terre Haute, vice-president; B. B. Benner, Mays, secretary-treas-urer, and W. H. Settle, Indianapolis, general manager. Edmond C. Foust in charge of organization, reports a campaign for memberships in progress at this time wherein 275 to 300 members are being secured each .week.

Adhering to the Federal Farm Board plan of cooperative marketing, farmers of Indiana meeting in Indianapolis, Monday, March 16, established a statewide organization for the marketing of poultry

products.

Upwards of 400 poultrymen from all parts of the state met at the call of the Indiana Farm Bureau and adopted articles of incorporation and by-laws. The association will be known as the Indiana Poultry Cooperative, Inc. It will be incorporated this week in Indianapolis with $200,000 capital stock, not for profit. It conforms strictly to state and national cooperative marketing laws wherein all profits earned, less a reasonable amount j for reserves, will be returned ap-f nually to patrons in ratio of their j

patronage.

The purpose of the new coopera-j tiye is to encourage the production! of better poultry products and dis-| tribution by grade and creating better prices and more profits for producers. It will also serve to dis courage duplication of effort among local cooperatives over the state The principal office of business will be in Indianapolis and a manager selected by eleven directors will be in charge of marketing all the products of the stockholders. Any producer of poultry products in the state may become a stockliolder. As figures of the recent census show that more than 169,000 Indiana farms produce poultry, | it is expected that the number of i sto'ikholders in the organization i will reach many thousand in a I short time. Several points of con- I centration » will be maintained i throughout the state. There are ! now various local cooperatives j hauling poultry products which, as stockholders, will constitute collecting agenoljs. W. H. Settle, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, presided at the Indianapolis meeting. James K. Mason, Milton, was chairman of the organization committee, composed of poultry representrlives from the ten different farm bureau districts of the state.

Donald Dudley Is Believed Robber

witnesses of the holdup were to

view Dudlye today.

John Hitch, 23, and William Lejcar, Chicago, are the other ! two suspects. Both have been

, | identified by bank employes, po^idianapolis, March 1>.— (UP) I lice said. —An Indianapolis youth, Donald 1 • Dudley, 21, was held here suspect-1 The only convincing explanation ed of being the third member of! of his winter’s mildness is that the a bandit trio that robbed the I wind is tempered to the shorn Scircleville, lud., bank of $1,400! lamb.

and | CHAPLIN ON FERRIS WHEEL

BALKS VIENNA MOVIE MOB

Vienna, Austria, March i;i. - Charlie Chaplin had a half-hour of comparative peace Monday night but he earned it. When a crowd of movie fans mobbed him at Prater amusement park he climbed into the gondola of a Ferris wheel an :; rode around in it for thirty minutes.

GOVERNOR WILL BE OUT OF STATE

Legge’s Mess

Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board, who has just retired, left agriculture and the Federal Government in worse shape than he found them, in the opinion of the Baltimore Sun. That paper thinks the time and the Hoover farm relief plan forced on Congress are partly to blame. “But by no honest estimate can Mr. Legge be acquitted entirely of responsibility for the unhappy scene he leaves behind him,” it says. “He has thrashed about, throwing challenges helter-skelter, plunging the Federal Government into reckless undertakings in the commodity market, repenting his folly only to promptly forget and making the

same blunders over again.

“How the Government can find a way out of the mess into which Mr. Legge has led it is a matter which should engage the best minds of Washington, if such there be.” Acknowledging that Mr. Legge contributed perhaps as much as any man to the mechanical revolution with its everincreasing production of farm products, the Sun declares that “called upon to direct this greatly increased production to the benefit of the farmers instead of their destruc-

tion, Mr. Legge was a dismal failure.”

In the opinion of the Sun, “the farm difficulties of their destruction, Mr. Legge was a dismal failure.” In the opinion of the Sun, “the farm difficulties of this country are not going to be easily solved and they are

never going to be solved by any administration that feels'man electrocuted in Indiana" in

Second Time Chief Executive Absent During

an Execution,

Indianapolis, March 19.—(UP) — For the second time within a year, it appeared yesterday that Governor Harry G. Leslie would be ah sent from the state during lastminute appeals for the commutation of sentence for a Negro sen-

tenced to death.

Frank Scott. South Bend Negro, awaits execution at the Indiana State prison in Michigan City on March 26. Governor Leslie on that date will still be on his yachting vacation off the Florida coast, where he went after adjournment of the Legislature. A year ago a coincidental situation developed, while efforts were being made to obtain a reprieve for James Britt, Gary Negro. Britt was the only

Delegation Asks For Unusual Road

Indianapolis, March 13.—(UP) — Delegations from northern Indiana were in Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon to plead with the state highway commission for a 200-foot “Chicago World’s Fair highway" along Lake Michigan, to he ready for World Fair traffic in 1933. The proposed highway would follow Lake Michigan's shores through Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. A. P. Melton, Democrat, Gary, member of the highway commission, has announced tliat he favors the project. South Bend, Mishawaka, Hammond, East Chicago and all tlie Calumet district would be covered by the route.

Girl Is Kidnaped, Burned, Then Freed

Los Angeles, Cal., March 19.— Lured to an expected tryst with her sweetheart by a forged note, 22-year-old Florence Chavez was abducted by three men, disrobed, tortured with a cigar lighter and then released. After the girl staggered into a polic substation early today and told of her harrowing experience, which climaxed a series of threatening letters, detectives began a search for a man jealous of her love for Jacob Solomon.

Wise-Cracking N. Y. Mayor Now Silent

^ New York, March 19.—(UP)—j For the first time iu Mayor James | J. Walker’s two terms in city hap there was an abrupt ending today! of the “wise-cracks” and ready wit! which made him famous. Immediately after publication; yesterday by Governor Roosevelti of the six general and ten specific! accusations of incompetence, lax-! ity and misfeasance in office { brought against the mayor by the; City Affairs committee, Tamm.auyj Hall leaders put through a frantic telephone call to Walker, who is vacationing in Palm Springs, Calif. They told Jijm, according to re: ports, that the time for wise-crack-ing was past. A . summary of the charges was read to him over the telephone, and he was urged to maintain complete silence concerning them.

BOV DIES FROM EFFECTS OF ROLLER SKATE FALL 1— • Columbus, Ind., March 19.— Floyd Stark, age nine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stark, colored, was killed Monday when he fell to the pavement while skating on roll er skates. He went into his home and told his mother he had fallen and hurt himself. He lay down and was dead in fifteen minutes. o

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