Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 March 1932 — Page 2
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats ot Muncle, Delaware County, and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.
Entered as seednd class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoflice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1979.
PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE. Publisher Geo. R. Dale, Editor
Muncie, Indiana, Friday, March 11, 1932.
A Marlvr to Hate!
The editor of the Post-Democrat stood Friday morning at the grave, of Nina Parkhurst, one of the dearest, sweetest girls that God ever sent to earth to grace the home of loving kindred. She was the idol of her father’s heart. Her mother, her brothers and her sisters loved her as only mothers, brothers and sisters can. Locked up in jail by a horde of Federal agents for a crime he never committed, Captain Parkhurst was not allowed to see his daughter as the dread hand of death beckoned. An operation that might save her life was to have been held at 1 o’clock last Saturday afternoon. Saturday morning Captain Parkhurst left the hospital to snatch a few hours of sleep at home. His last words as he left the hospital were, “Father will be back at 1 o’clock.” Dragged to jail by the department of “justice” his tryst with Nina was broken. “Why doesn’t father come?” was the cry of the distressed girl. Can you imagine the terrible, anguish of A1 Parkhurst? The editor of the Post-Democrat knows for he was locked in the same cell with the anguished father and no opportunity even was granted to get in communication with the outside world until about 2 o’clock. Then a note was slipped in by a trusty. “Operation deferred on account of rising temperature,” it read. God! What a crime. Is it any wonder that her temperature rose? Where was father, who had never failed her before? Then later in the day she learned, but it was too late to save her life. She was murdered, a martyl^jto the consuming hatds of the very scum of the earth. But she died knowing that father had not deserted her. “Vengeance is mine, saith the'Lord.”
in court as evidence. Case (hrown out. “Illegal search.” Along with the opposition of the city judge to Dale policies ha^ been the antagonism of the city council and some other city ofti ciahs. They were not nominatec as Dale men and simply rode to victory on the tail of the Dale kitf on election day, carried through by his strength with the voters Muncie’s cleanup has come after j: twenty years of gang rule. Under- I? world leaders, long growing bold er, swung into the saddle during the first term of Dr. Rollin Bunch The law became only a scrap o r paper to the saloon barons. Dice clicked on every corner, roulette wheels spun merrily. Brothels op- if; era tod with scandalous freedom. | Bake foot, races und fake prize | fights extracted the cash from the chumps. Those were the days of El me Gentry’s dog and pony show misnomer, for the performers trooped nightly up the stairs to
7 Negotiator?
“Man Who Played God” At the Rivoli Theatre Sunday Loved By Two Women, Adored by Thousands—Some Strange
Quirks of Fate.
George Arliss, star of five of the talking screen's great pictures, arrives aX the Rivoli Theater Sunday in his latest dramatic production. “The Man Who Played God,” a Warner Bros, picture adapted irom the siage play inspired by Governeour Morris' snort story of
the same title.
“The Man Who Played God,” is a story of a musician of international fame, an essentially human /being whose Life and happiness revolves around his music and the pleasue lie brings to countless thousands via the HeaVen-sent gift lie possesses. Pate plhyed strange tricks on him, giving and
the tinny strains of an electr o |(^ 0 ^ Henry Breckinridge (above), 1 taking love, presenting the world
piano, instead of jumping through paper hoops; of the Owl Club, where every form of gambling flourished; Of Gertie SmitIPs place, in the shadow of the courthouse. And Gertie, it rtrav be mentioned in passing, a lady who has dallied with the scarlet trifles of life for a score of vears, was one of the witnesses before the federal grand jury which indicted
Da le.
iattorney for CoL Lltmbergh, is for a plaything and then taking 'said to be ready to act for the everything ra ay. Arliss portrays
family in negotiating for the kid-
naped child’s return.
The late cold snap
done
Vice and crime waxed fat and,some-godd for those citizens whose defiant during the first Bunch ad- children are forced to wade mud ministration and into the second,'to and from school. It froze up
when there cam£ a teinnorory | t [ ie mU( j i 10 i cs
Scuttling to cover. Mayor Bunch
Horace Murphy, unctuous psalm-
singing prosecutor; Elmer Gentry.!^ ^continieif thfc ^k 1 ’on! dire'et^'by" JohiT G.'AdolflTaW’re-
aceount of the cold weather, as sponsible for the direction of Mr.
every step of the drama with nuances and shadings rarely seen on the screen. He is loved by two women, adored by thousands more. He was in love with one, a widow, played by Violet Heming, before she married another. She loves him but keeps her own counsel bec.ause she believes him to he in love with a young and beautiful girl, played by lively Betty Davis, a newcomer.to the screen whose work has been rewarded with a long term con-
tract.
“The Man Who Played God” wae
Gambling at the Y. M. C. A. The police Thursday night made a raid at the Y. M. C. A. and broke up a six handed poker game that was going merrily on in that hallowed building. Sworn statements of three of’those caught in the raid are in the hands of the police. In them they admit that they wey^ playing poker. It is not necessary to name those who were caught. We will leave that to the daily newspapers, if they regard that feature of the affair as important. It will be recalled that the editor of the Post-Democrat was “tuned off” at the local broadcasting station three weeks ago, for the reason, according to the management, that charges had been made to the federal radio commission that the mayor had been slandering the Y. M. C. A. Since it has now been proved that the Y. M. C. A. is now a common gambling house is there any reason why it should not be padlocked as a common nuisance? Federal agents and such filthy stool pigeons as Fred Bohlinger, Red Rose and Clell Maple, who assemble in the Y. M. C. A. to concoct perjured evidence and put out filthy slanders against honest public officials are bad enough, but it doesn’t seem right that Plug Walburn, Art Stout, Billy Robertson and Pete Michaels should have been put out of business, now that they have been supplanted by the Y. M.
C. A.
If perjurers and gamblers are given the run of the building decent people will soon quit going there. Wasn’t it a shame that the mayor slandered the Y. M. C. A.? The management says it is not responsible for what goes on in the building, or at least that’s what the mayor was told when he protested against the slanderous statements that were concocted by perjurers who made the build-
ing the rendezvous.
We hope Elmer Gentry will be as successful in washing his hands of the gentlemen who assembled at his coun-
try estate to make plans for robbing banks.
The Press seems to think the arrests were framed.
How funny ?
Even Y. M. C. A. officials like to use that old dodge by saying they were “framed” when three of the six admitted their guilt after being caught with the cards, checks
and money.
The Prohibition Department (The Indianapolis Times) Before any congressman, especially a Democratic congressman, from Indiana votes more money to the prohibition department a serious effort should be made to discover how far that unit is being used to persecute rather than
prosecute.
Mayor George Dale is vehement in his declaration of his own innocence and charges that he is being “framed”
by agents of the government.
The charge is much more serious than the incidents cited against Dale in the indictment for conspiracy to violate the liquor law, the validity of which will be demonstrated
at the trial of Dale.
If his charge be true, then some curb should be placed
upon prohibition agents who owe their jobs to political influence and who are shifted apparently at the whim and to
suit the purpose of high governmental officials. Politicians have attempted to use the federal courts in
the past to protect themselves from exposure and to punish those who have dared to challenge corruption in high places.
One such case is now written into the records of the su-
preme court of this state in an affirmation of the conviction
of one Klinck, once the bodyguard of D. C. Stephenson. When Duval was mayor of this city and not a prisoner
in the county jail, before a Governor had been indicted and pleaded the statute of limitations, an effort was made to procure the indictment of the editor uf The Times and Thomas Adams, now dead, a valiant and courageous editor
of Vincennes, on what was alleged to be an affidavit. The plan was to indict upon the “affidavit” in order to
discredit the crusades for good government then being made
by Adams and The Times.
The signature to the purported affidavit was a forgery. Yet it was handed to the then Federal prosecutor by the political boss of this county, George V. Coffin, and the indict-
ment requested.
The local prosecutor, William Remy, convicted Klinck for procuring the illegal jurat of a notary and Klinck is under sentence to prison, and now a, fugitive from justice. He was in the pay of very high politicians. So it may be well to examine the charges of Dale be-
TORMENT
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fore they are dismissed as the plea of a man who has been
caught.
If Dale is guilty, he should be punished. If his charges
are true, something should happen to the prohibition unit. | program of matching state dollars
' Lwith federal dollars. It would ap-
Arizona women are fighting for a bill providing for fjo.ojo.wo a year tosupeasier divorce. What they really want is easier alimony. st ates The federal' appropria-
|tion grants to the pensioning state
underworld kingpin, and one
two of the small try went to At- y ]e g ar | m <r e could not lie gotten
lanta federal prison. 0U (_ 0 £ ^ le cans But the lull was shortdived. The: ■
J blessing of prohibition now was on i ^ j as ^ ^] ie council give their | the land, and Muncie observed it consent to sell the horse at the to the limit. Bootleggers harvest- c j|y fo&rfig. Had they given their ed as never before, with vice and consent a month ago the city gambling rampant. treasury would have been fifty “Doc” Quick, a reformer of tin* dollars better off, for at that time year’s best, first water, bad been elected there were two horses to sell, but j mayor, but the gang rode him 0 kl man death got one of thOm.
down. Then the machine, with a
Dry rot costs lumbermen millions, says a scientist. But just think how r much it costs the United States government.
Since the depression, America has become a land of law and no orders.
Nearly 2.000 deer were killed by accidents in 1931, th<i ! uaUonai legislative body. U \t
Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates. Getting to be 1 nearly as dangerous for the deer as for the hunters.
ghastly sense of humor, elected an amiable and estimable undertaker, John Hampton, as bis successor.
Some of the boys got their fingers and ears frost-bitten during the first real taste of winter we
lid was have had this year.
For four more years the
6ff.
Then along came Dale.
Pledged to clean up, be cleaned animals has had quite a busy time
up.
Arliss’ last’ two sucesses, “The Millionaire” and “Alexander Hamilton.” The large cast includes Ivan Simpson, Louise Glosser Hale, Oscar Apfel, Donald Cook, Raymond Milland, Murray Kinnell, and many others. The production has been heralded as one of the
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A COLORFUL COUPLE
“How about those newlyweds next, door to you. Do their lives
blend well?”
“Very well, indeed. She has the grey matter and he has the Ion.; The man who picks up the dead!green.”
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Washington’s Rules of Civility
I Of it since the first of March. Some lovers of dogs just can’t see their way clear to pay dog taxes, so have kicked their pets out in the I streets io become Victims of autos.
From the weather we have been having in the past few days, it doesn’t appear likely that any potatoes will be
planted on Good Friday. We know of a man—of course, , he’s dead now—-who planted his potatoes on Good Friday ', sule of llfe than 18 motieru if the snow on the giound was six inches deep. And he al-1 oid age jjelisions are forging ways had plenty of potatoes in the fall. ]ahead in many States. The idea is
(being promoted by organizations
one dollar to each two dollars, spent for that purpose by the state. There is liltle likelihood of the bill getting through the national body. Although this is the crudest age of old people in the history of the world the idea is too revolu-
ol Shift not yourself in the Sight,p' Everett McMichaels, city barn
.. , P , n< i of others nor Gnaw your nails. [mechanic, came to work the other ,me m the annals ot recorded sl)ake nol F „et or da, woarln* a broad smile. The i'beTcrap'l,ear" ,, '.ages "rto 50. Lew, row! not^ .he-Byw. ha ^eUreooon for the smile is Dorothy
with no provision for keeping the breath of life within their bodies. In many respects human slavery was more kindly to people on the
one eyebrow higher than the other^Earline,
wry not the mouth, and bedew noj ...onr. lirifV, TMIU’ SittlC, bOV-
you Speak.
Herman Jones and Neal Vanars-
dal are on the sick list.
new girl.
mans
appr . . . r him
Kill no Vermin as Fleas, lice ticks &c in the Sight of Others, if you See any filth or thick Spittle put your foot Doxteriously upon it. if it be upon the Cloths of your Companions. Put it off privaytely, and if it be upon your own Globs return thanks to him
who puts it off.
Turn not. your Back to others especially in Speaking. Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any-
one
Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clenn.
NOTICE OF public HEAR!NO' aSf ‘ I’disions had belter be fonnu-'ygt without Shewing any great ONAMENDMENT OF ZON ^ Couccrn for them.
Police in Joliet, III., were shivering with cold the other M T.
mght. They received a call that some one had broken into a hardware store and stolen some electric fans. Now wouldn’t that make any policeman shiver and shudder too?
cruel practices of modern civilization. The progress made thus far, however, is little more than a subjslitute for the obsolete pdorhouse. j Present tendencies along Ibis line , ipromise, in time, to become an
il would be illegal for them to an- assured old-aae competence
gage in any other business.’’. j^hoje Confess and
0 (others who dislike the idea of old
ING ORDINANCE.
Question: “What kind of men, in your opinion, should be elected to fiil the various public offices?
_Mrs. Sophia Haymaker, Hoyt Notice is hereby given to the avenue, upstairs. In selecting citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that
candidates for the several public , .
offices we should be careful to P ubhc faring on an amendment pick out the best men in the com-1 to the Zoning Ordinance, which munity and if I had piy way about !j\ s now 7 pending before the Comit I would select ex-cashiers, e-vj nion Council of the City of Man . ...
bankers for all the.offices, even ifjeie, Indiana, will be held in the )!ltc p it becomes I hau to go to Michigan City, -1<?; ,.nnncil chamber in the citv i
get them.”
to j city council chamber in the city .) hall at 7:30 p. m., on the 4th day
.. .... .. -v . . (of April, 1932, at which time and Mrs. Midge Chatter, NorUi Maul ^ ; ny ob j octlo „ 9
street, this state. “MUpcie Iras many women who would make admirable candidates and I t can see no reason why they .should noj be given the preference. I believe women, as a rule, are. more honest and efficient than men, and as
to such will bo
any
amendirnent or change
heard.
The proposed amendment or change to be made is as folloivs: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of
better
i the problem with which
.pensions cope.
I At, one time In our economic history when we were all. Or nearly all farmers, the farm was the old folks’ pension. Present day statistics now reveals that two-thirds of us live in cities and towns. The aged no longer can eke out a livelihood from a cow and a garden
a question of
whether we shall let them starve. If not old age pensions, Avliat will we do about this problem?
FAIR AND
they wear but few clothes, there'said City of Muncie, so as to transwould be less danger of them usingller to the business district, to the
as much of the public funds, to clothes themselves, as would Ire the case if men were elected.”,
Mr. B. S. Spreader, 4906 Twelfth avenue. “I believe w’e should by all means, select good, honest Republicans, if we can find them, for the reason, that When a Democrat goes bad, be invariably takes only a part of what he can get held of, while a good Republican will alAvaya take everything in sight. 1 believe that if a thing, is worth taking, one ought to take all of it.”
(Continued From Page One) to Avliat he Avould do if the federal agents attempted to arrest him. He threatened to place them in jail If they came to Muncie with
six hundred (600) square foot areaiwarrants for him. They came, but district and. to the eighty (SO) fooL^ AVHS Dale w ho Aveilt to height disrtict. the following de-|j a jj instead of a roaring lion they scribed territoiy in said City of found the mayor to be a lamb. He Muncie, Indiana’. to-Avit: x j said nothing, be did nothing. PerLot numbered thirty-five (35) in (haps tire mayor led tlie authorities
Calvert Place First addition to
-the Town of Normal City, Indiana.
Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinonce has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said City of Muncie and has l>$en considered, and said City Plan omtuission has made its
Mr. Hilarious Jester, Ridge Hoad find Port street. “We have had some very honest and efficient ptib-
into a course of action lie thought 'would arouse public sympathy in
his favor.
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report disapproving the same: j 1ms n6ver bad two dimes to rub Information concerning such pro- against each other for the last
posed amendment or change is j twenty years.
now on file in the office of said' Gambling, liquor and yfee have
lie officers during the /pa-lt fm’ty fcity Plan 'commission, for public j been deal t a body blow 7 , despite
years and as evidence'of ■.thjs > Ave point 'with pride to the ffffct... thivt during all these years no-'oiie.'-'eVer stole the court house. While it istrue thfit some of them, ha at tried to steal Center township, the Yl M. C. A. building and the public schools, yet, it is a fact, the court house Stlil remains;, and Avhat is most important, is the fact, that during most of this period, all of the officials Avere Republican. So. Sir! The court house still re-
mains.”
Mr. Dan Bunkist, Little New York. Cbicagb, is 111. “I think we should elect, two sets of candidates for each office So that 'one set could Avatch the other. I am also of the opinion that the salaried, of all public officials should be reduced to teu dollars per; year, and the law should be amended so that
examination. . ] the niosit savage opposition, but . Said hearing will be continued j police ■declare that que great dif from time . to time as may bej fictilt'y they encounter in I hei found necessary. ! clean-up s-mash is Hie altil'tftte of
In witness Avhereof 1 have hero- the oily cburK
unto set my hand and affixed the They cite baseball pool pinches Seal of the City of Muncie, Indiana, as an cXampU of the trouble they
(Seal) LINTON RIDGEWAY, jhad in “making cases.” City Clerk and Clerk of the Coni-! u—
mon ’Council of the City of Muncie, A buy is made, from a pool this 10th day of March, 1932. agent. The wholesaler is raided o I But the particular book from
[ which the buy lias been made lias been sold, Avas gorte When the raid
for some
Gawler—I’m looking obe to lend me $10.
; Funk—Well, it’s a nice day for
it.
SO HE CONTINUED TO LOOK was made, and naturally can not be produced in eburt. So all the other boolcs mean nothing and the
suspect goes free.
^ A blind tiger is being watched.
i A customer comes out. sees the
The tip is with us yet, but how! police, flings down q, pint bottle its’ a nickel instead of a way tb(of hooch. It falls in the snow and
get rich easy.
But why do people who speak their minds always have
(does not break. Police produce it'nasty minds?
LOCAL CONCERN GETS CONTRACT
The A. G. Handley Trucking Company, local trucking concern, has be mi awarded the contract for providing pick up and delivery service fbr Coordinated Transport, Tile., freight forAvarding Company Operating in conjunction Avith the Indiana Railroad System, Mancel Roy, local traffic representative for the railroad announced tbday. The Handley Trucking <'oinpany has been in business in Muncie for 45 years and is well known locally. The firm operates a fleet of six motor trucks, with offices at 112 West Second strebt. Coordinated Transort, Inc., offers a Complete pick up and delivery service in Muncie on nil shipments rated fourth class or higher, and moving over the rails of tire Indiana Railroad System. In addition the same service is rendered at Indian;fuilis and 13 other important points on the Indiana Railroad System. Blaus call for the early extension of pick up and delivery serAiee to al main points on the Indiana Railroad System, and installation of service to additional points will be made as rapidly as increased tonnage warrants. • —o ACQUIT THOvS. M. FARLEY OF GRAND LARCENY CHARGE
Trester Passes Up Washington Protest Indianapolis, March 11.—A. L. Trester, commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. said yesterday afternoon that Irvin Springer Of EvaTisville, AAOitld officiate at the Washington-Vin-cennes basketball gome at Sullivan Saturday as originally scheduled. The. VYashlngtbii TTTgTt ScltboT had protested against Springer’s appointment to work the game, which eUl be played as a part of the e'ii: 1 ’nation series for the state championship. The protest. Avas based on the Charge that Springer’s officiating in previous games had bebn unsatisfactory. The high School athletic association took the Stand that only one school had protested against Springer and that others apparently had found his Officiating satis-
factory.
Hoodoo Number May Win for Huntington Huntington. March IL—While Huntington high school ‘ basket ball players are not relying on a “hoodoo number” to put them over in their games in the regional tournament at. Fort Wayne Saturday, students of figures have made some interesting calculations. Tiie Vikings Avon thirteen games and lost thirteen games this season. They won the sectional tourney, the thirteenth annual, held hei'e last, week-mid. The seebnd team Avon thirteen games during
I'the season, too.
i If you study the stars and can make figures do queer stunts, per- ! haps you can figure out something i f-Tin this The person avUo gaVe The Herald-Bress this eombinai ir ' - i | of thirteen says that all signs point | to Huntington winning the reg-
lional.
New York, March Hi.— (UP) — Thomas M. Barley, whose famous "in box” led to ills buster from the sheriff’s office by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Avas freed of grand larceny charges in general sessions
.cb'irt Wednesday.
Judge John J. Freschi granted a. niotibn of the defense for dismissal of the remaining count in the indictment on Avliich the Tammany leader had been on trial since Feb. 29, and directed the jury to acquit him. He aars accused of diverting public funds to bis own ac-
counts.
()pposing Leaders at Shanghai!
Here arc the two principals who will light out the Sino Jap difference of opinion at Shanghai to a finish. At the left is General Tsai Tinekai, commander of the 19th Chinese Route Army, whose defense of the Chapei-Woosung line has carved for him an immortal niche in the eyes of his countrymen. Right is General Yoshinori Shirakawa, former Japanese Minister of War, who has supplanted General Uyeda as commander of the Jap forces in Shanghai. General Shirakawa 5 - regarded as the outstanding military genius of Japan and his assignsuch the front is seen as a subtle compliment to the fighting quaN’
ities of the Chinese.